学霸的高英第二册 1-7课 测试版.doc

Lesson 1 Face to Face with Hurricane Camille Paraphrase We are elevated 23 feet. (Para 3)2) The place has been there since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it. (Para3)3) We can batten down and ride it out. (Para 4)4) The generator was doused, and the lights went out. (Para 9)5). Everybody out the back door to the cars! (Para 10)6). The electrical systems had been killed by water. (Para 11)7). John watched the water lap at the steps, and felt a crushing guilt.(Para17)8). Get us through this mess, will you?(Para 17) . She carried on alone for a few bars; then her voice trailed away. (Para21) 10). Ianis had just one delayed reaction. (para34)Explain words1. since the water mains might be damaged (Para 5) : sit out the storm with the Koshaks (Para 6): 3. another neighbor came by on his way inland (Para 6): 4. the French doors in an upstairs room blew in (Para 8) : 5. the generator was doused (Para 9): The electrical systems had been killed by water (Para 11)： It devastated everything in it swath (Para 19)： She carried on a few bars (Para21 )： 9. make it 1ean—to against the wind (Para 25): 10. and he pitched in with Seabees in the worst volunteer work of all (Para33)： Lesson 2 Marrakech Paraphrase The burying--ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. (para 2) 2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact. (Para 3) 3. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard. (Para 3) 4. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lighting speed. (Para 9) 5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews. (Para 10) 6.every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.(para 10)7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous. (Para 16) 8. In a tropical landscape one’s eye takes in everything except the human