Unit 6 The Diary of the Unknown Soldier答案综合教程二.doc

Unit 6 The Diary of the Unknown Soldier Key to the Exercises Text comprehension I. B. II. 1. T; 2. F; 3. F; 4. T; 5. F. III. 1. Because he felt that all of them had been somewhat fooled. They were totally unprepared for the cruelty of the war and the immensity of its killing power. “They all came here with an air of confidence and eagerness, ready to win,” but what awaited them was “a one-way ticket to death.” 2. He wrote his first entry when his regiment was in London to protect the city from Nazi’s air raids; his second one when his group of soldiers had journeyed to a small European town untouched by warfare; and the last one when their secret location was discovered by Nazi troops and he faced approaching death. 3. It was his wish to come home alive to see his family. This is mentioned in all the three entries: “I must go on living this nightmare, if not for myself or my country, then for my family back home. I want my children to have a father.” “… wondering yet again if I would ever see my family. I would give anything to see them, even if it was for five minutes!” “I wish, with all my soul, that I could be home now… I am thinking of my daughters’ faces… I will always remember their faces…” 4. He would tell them that those soldiers died bravely in an effort to save their countries from turmoil and make the children feel that their fathers made a difference. 5. He felt disgusted at the cruelty of the war, questioned the judgment of human beings who started the war and felt enraged at killing innocent lives and destroying whole countries. IV. 1. Although my stories about their fathers’ death might not relieve their sadness, they will enable the children to see the extraordinary significance of their fathers’ contribution. 2. I suddenly recalled a saying I once heard that made me very painful, “We can’t afford to fight even one war.” Structural analysis of the text Diary writing follows the flow of the writer’s thoughts. It is usually “structured” by the autho