【良心出品】Unit-8-Love-and-Resentment-练习答案.doc

Unit 8 Love and ResentmentConsolidation ActivitiesI. Text Comprehension 1. The author harbors all the following feelings towards her sick daughter EXCEPT ________. A. love and care B. occasional resentment and fear C. self-reproach and guilt D. contemptKey: [ D ]2. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.1). I moved up against the bathroom window in the hope of catching what my daughter was exactly saying so as to know her better though I was sometimes frightened by her wild outbursts. [ T ]2). I bought the house on the island three years ago for the sake of my sick daughter. [ F ]3). Although she has attacked me only three times during the 24 years of her illness, they struck me to the quick. [ T ]4). I am kept awake tonight by the thought of the terrifying illusions which normal people experience only briefly in their worst dreams, but plague my daughter nearly all the time. [ T ]5). Kathy began to feel the mental changes when she graduated from high school. [ F ]4. Explain in your own words the following sentences taken from the text.1) The screams were so faint and unclear that I could hardly hear them.2) As my voice was getting quieter, hers grew gradually and continuously louder.3) Everyone has deep inside an instinctive fear of madness however familiar with the illness he may be.4) She doesn't know how to take care of her own health as a normal person does.5) I'll do my utmost for my sick daughter, who is the most difficult problem I have to cope with.II. Writing StrategiesThis text is a piece of lively, concrete and vivid narration. The writer describes her daughter's illness and behavior as well as the mixed feelings she has for her. Her traumatic experiences are presented through some typical events and examples, flashbacks, muffled mutterings, infuriated utterances, and dialogues. The writer's inner thoughts are also revealed, sometimes through utterances she seems to be making to herself. Moreover, in order to make her narration more vivid and impressive, the writer employs various rhetorical devises, particularly metaphor.The following three questions are worth discussing:(1) In which paragraphs can we find the flashbacks?Paragraphs 15-18 present the flashbacks. (2) Can you find those sentences that seem to be spoken by the author to herself to disclose the agonizing state of her mind?Below are the inaudible utterances made by the author to reveal her conflicting mind: "Damn it yourself, I said to myself. Why did I bring her up here? Why, why, why?" "Surely, I can live for two weeks with the tension and outbursts. Her life is so limited and mine is so full. A short span of days, really, for me to take care of her; to give her some joy. I have so many days, just for me, after she goes back to the city."But I can't. I resent the tension. I lose patience. Sometimes I hate her. What is wrong with me? I am strong and healthy; she is vulnerable and ill. It is always my choice to have her here. But I count the days until she is gone and there are moments when I think, no, not another summer. Why do this to myself? Most of the time I know that these weeks are too important to her; I cannot take them away." (3) Point out some typical examples of metaphor or metaphorical expressions used in the narration.The following are some typical examples from the text that involve metaphor or metaphorical expressions: 1) "The flushing toilet drowned out the rest. I moved away quickly, shaken once again by her wild outbursts." 2) "She had hurled accusation after accusation at me." 3) "I shook away that memory and rose laboriously." 4) "This is the fourth year I have had this tiny treasure of a house." 5) "She has been plagued and humiliated by accidents in public." 6) "I lie awake, my throat tight and aching as I remember the years ?in our worst, most searing nightmares." 7) "My stomach is empty and gnawing and uneasy as if anything could fall in and break the superstructure I hold up with all my force." 8) The daughter I would have had — were it not for this evil illness — exists in embryo in the daughter I do have. After an outburst, she will come and tell me quietly: "I am sorry, mother. I don't want to fight with you." 9) "To admit the truth, sometimes I trigger her outburst." 10) "Like my daughter, like all other human beings, I am not spun of one thread." III. Language Work1. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.1). I moved cautiously…straining to catch the exact words.à trying very hard 2). The flushing toilet drowned out the rest.à made so much noise as to deaden 3). I shook away that memory and rose laboriously.à managed to get rid of 4). I couldn't bring myself to tell him that I am afraid to be deep in sleep while she is awake.à couldn't bear 5). Something inside me is going thru this funny, alien state, a sense o。