大学英语综合教程4第二版(上海外语教育)unit11-thestoryofaneyewitness课后练习答案.docVIP

Unit 11 Text comprehension B TTFFFT IV. Except for some dwelling houses on its outskirts, San Francisco has almost completely disappeared from the world and only remains in people’s memories.’ Nothing could stop the forceful advancement of the flames. The courageous and brave deeds in the firefighting would fill up a library if related in writing and exhaust the Carnegie medal fund if rewarded. Sometimes all members of a family fastened themselves with straps to a carriage or delivery wagon that was heavily loaded with their possessions. Two Untied States soldiers sat astride on their horses and calmly watched the conflagration, their shapes contrasting sharply with the wall of flame behind them. Vocabulary I. 1. moved slowly back and forth 2. ingenious devices and protective measures 3. resisting 4. fill with a supply 5. polite or considerate in manner 6. threat II was weighted down out of gear wipe out burdened with crumbled played out sweep down a flicker of III withdrawal adjust enumerate hysterically courteous devastation disruption vacancy IV CDADBACB V invention, creation, innovation enormous, immense, mammoth economically, thriftily, frugally, sparingly smooth, level, even plod, drudge, labor unsociable, discourteous, ill-mannered plot, patch edge, boundary, margin VI way controlled for example finished be able to deal with it making Grammar I the earthquake/came the suck/was her people/were trunks/were picket lines of soldiers/were flung no fire/was two United States cavalrymen/were the tottering walls of the examiner building, the burned-our Call Building, the smouldering ruins of Grand Hotel, and the gutted, devastated, dynamited Palace Hotel/stood II Under no circumstances will we tolerate that. So absurd was his manner that everybody stared. Only with full agreement of everyone can we hope to succeed. Here is the book you want. Down sprang the cat. Sitting at the kitchen table was the misbehaving child. Hidden in the cellar were several barrels of wine.