lesson 5 课外补充练习
I. Words explanation:
1. fallacy
A. religious belief
B. false belief
C. bankruptcy
D. dropping
2. incredulous
A. unbelieving
B. increasing
C. industrious
D. unimproved
3.scalpel
A. a carpet
B. a piece of bread
C. a small, light knife
D. a rising market
4.perspicacious
A. determinate
B. flagitious
C. prestigious
D. discerning
5.trauma
A. emotional shock
B. mental work
C. the state of not having enough
D. a reinforced structure for observers
6.shed
A. take shelter
B. prevert from
C. lose hair
D. keep company with
7.pedantic
A. of a person who likes music
B. of a person who pays attention to unimportant news
C. of a person who stresses on sports
D. of a person who emphasizes trivial points of learning
8.desist
A. insist on
B. cease
C. heckle
D. castrate
9.proportions
A. property
B. portions
C. massages
D. dimensions
10.waif
A. homeless child
B. wandering musician
C. countryman
D. smuggler
11.perspiration
A. convincing
B. encouraging
C. pledging
D. sweating
12. blubber
A. speak quickly
B. talk repeatedly
C. say with sobs
D. say with hiccups
13. modulate
A. make achange in the tone
B. cause to do or believe sth
C. make or become soft
D. change the place or position
14.infamy
A. being famous for
B. being shameful
C. being honest
D. being refused
15.contrite
A. sad
B. honest
C. penitent
D. overjoyed
16.wax
A. grow bigger or greater
B. become less or smaller
C. drop heavily
D. cover with thick coating
17.acme
A. large group of plants
B. highest point
C. sharp crisis
D. highest mountain peak
18.veer
A. move forward
B. look sideways
C. change directions
D. pour out
19.exultant
A. triumphant
B. foreign
C. exhausted
D. overflowing
20.unsightly
A. invisible
B. ugly
C. precipitate
D. provisional
21.testy
A. examining
B. proving
C. impatient
D. judging
22.fracture
A. break
B. combine
C. disagree
D. repeat
23.tug
A. pull
B. push
C. place
D. fix
24.covet
A. surround
B. cover
C. avoid
D. desire
25.grulling
A. complaining
B. moaning
C. tiring
D. unwilling
26.mince
A. decrease
B. minimize
C. increase
D. euphemize
27.clap
A. strike
B. walk
C. fall down
D. climb up
28.wince
A. push forward
B. draw back
C. incise up
D. draw out
29.qualify
A. equal
B. propose
C. restrict
D. count
30.chink
A. a precise piece
B. a small piece
C. a big valley
D. a narrow opening
31.shamble
A. walk in an awkward way
B. tremble terribly
C. close in mild way
D. shine brightly
32.contrite
A. permitting easily
B. seeing clearly
C. feeling regret
D. looking worried
33.chirp
A. a long loud sound
B. a short low-pitched sound
C. a low murmuring sound
D. a short,high-pitched sound
34.contradict
A. take out
B. be contrary to
C. withdraw
D. be relevant to
35.immovable
A. permanent
B. quick
C. immediate
D. cold
36.penetrate
A. spread
B. pierce
C. take part
D. formulate
37.specification
A. a blank or empty area
B. a detailed, exact statement of particulars
C. a partial excuse
D. the evolutionary formation of new biological species
38.scrap
A. special place
B. particular area
C. small piece
D. unseen item
39.tremendous
A. unique
B. genuine
C. unexpected
D. enormous
40.clutch
A. grasp tightly
B. hang loosely
C. touch softly
D. hold lightly
II. Complete the word according to the definition, the first letter of which is given:
2.juice which comes from meat while it is cooking
3.to determine the nature of (esp. a disease) from
4.flat part of either side of the head between the
5..medicine causing the bowels to empty themselves
6.appointment between lovers to meet at a secret
10.deformed and mentally undeveloped person
11.without denial a
12.small piece of burning wood or coal in a dying
15.art of placing or moving fighting forces for or
16.one, such as a person or an object, that is bulky,
18.a bowl-shaped depression at the mouth of a
20.showing initiative and willingness to undertake
22.to set free or keep free from restrictions or bonds
23.a business enterprise involving some risk in
https://www.doczj.com/doc/154585978.html,cking strength or firmness; weak or spiritless
26.suitable for a particular person, condition,
27.a specifically defined division in a system of
29.keenly perceptive or discerning; penetrating:
30.having or showing shrewdness and discernment,
31.something taken to be true for the purpose of
32.to engage in a formal discussion or argument
33.a massive variety of the mineral uraninite
34.anger aroused by something unjust, mean, or
36.a surface layer of earth containing a dense
37.to make known (something concealed or secret)
38.having the flavor or odor of game, especially
39.to thrust or throw forcefully into a substance or
40.the skin of an animal with the fur or hair still on
43.gilled with a specified element or elements
44.a quality, an ability, or an accomplishment that makes a person suitable for a particular position or task
III. Point out some American colloquial expression from the text:
a month of Sundays dumb
a casual kick fire away
a deal will-heeled
laughs pin-up
keen kid nothing upstairs
go steady get to
date terrific
mad Nuts
Yummy guy
dreamy knock me out
darn knot-head jitterbug
IV. Comment on the rhetorical devices of the following statements:
1.There is a limit for what flesh and blood can
2.The first man has poisoned the well before anybody could drink from it. He has .hamstrung his
opponent before he could even start.
4.it is not often that one so young has such a giant
5.I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein, and my
6.“Holy Toledo!” he repeated fifteen or twenty
times.
7.Logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is
a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and
trauma.
8.Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. .Maybe somehow I
9.but I was not one to let my heart rule my head.
10.My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into
V. Translation:
1. 一旦三峡工程竣工，其本身便成为世界上的一大创举，大坝坐落在长江上游“载断巫山云雨”坐落在大坝上的巨大船闸能让万吨船舶顺利而过，如同宫殿一样使人眼花缭乱的水利发电站通过广延的高压电网输送强大的电流。
2.香港回归祖国，标志着“一国两制”构想的巨大成功，标志着中国人民在完成祖国统一大业的道路上迈出了重要一步。香港回归后，“一国两制”，“港人治港”，高度自治的方针得到切实贯彻执行，保持了繁荣
稳定的局面。事实必将证明，香港特别行政区政府和香港同胞一定能够依照香港特别行政区基本法治理好香港。
中考英语作文专项训练 一、考点分析： 在中考中，写作占20分，分值所占比例大，而写作考察学生的英文综合运用能力，因此非常关键。 【中考英语作文的评分标准】 比较为学生所熟悉的就是“8+8+4”结构，即： （一）内容： 7-8分：内容切题，意思连贯，表达清楚、完整。 5-6分：内容基本切题，意思大致连贯，表达基本清楚、但不够完整。 2-4分：内容不够切题，意思不够连贯，表达不够清楚、有些离题。 0-1分：文不对题，表达不清。 （二）语言： ①词数：每少5个字扣0.5分，以此类推。只写出个别单词、词不成句不给分。 ②拼写：每错扣0.5分，同一错误不重复计数。 ③语法：同② ④标点符号、大小写：每两处错误扣0.5分，但扣分总和不超过1分。 （三）组织结构： ①内容充实、上下文连贯、用语规范、表达准确、无语法错误；词汇和句型句式运用恰当，多 见好句型和习惯表达用语者，可给3-4分。 ②内容充实、不写废话；上下文连贯、用语规范、表达准确、无或少见语法错误；词汇和句型 句式运用恰当，多见好句型和习惯表达用语者，可给2分。 ③一般情况下，内容和语言累计得分在15分以上者（含），方可得到1-2分组织结构分。 ④内容和语言在15分以下者，如文中有值得肯定的好句型和表达，可酌情考虑给1分组织结 构分。 ⑤通篇句型、句式单一、词汇贫乏者，即使无语法错误，一般也不予给组织结构分。 二、写作中常见问题：
①内容空洞，没有清晰的思路，表达能力不强，表达生硬呆板，甚至中式英语翻译思维。 ②议论过多，描写不足。大多数情况下，把议论当成的作文的重点，常常跑题。 ③句式单一，都是简单句，缺少复合句。 ④结构散漫，思维跳跃，文章缺乏条理性。 ⑤连词的使用较少，并且使用单一，句子之间的连接很生硬。 ⑥文章平淡，无亮点短语和句型，连接词等。 三、写作技巧分析： 【高分作文的必备元素】 1. 书写工整，书面整洁，很少有涂改痕迹。 2. 不出现语法，拼写，标点，大小写等错误。 3. 文章字数最好控制在80-100字之间，切记过长或者过短，8-10句即可。 4. 要点齐全。为了避免遗漏要点，可以将题目中给出的要点标注出来。 5. 开头言简意赅，不啰嗦，不偏题，迅速引入主题。 6. 连接词使用恰当，不重复，上下文有连贯性，使之自然成一体。 7. 应用词汇: 高级词汇的合理使用、同义词的变化使用、短语的恰当使用。 8. 多用亮点短语，并且使短语多样性，尽可能使用多种表达方式。 比如：同一个意思“帮助”，假如你就用一个动词“help”，显得词汇贫乏。如果能在作文中不断 地变换方式，用help、give sb. a hand、do sb. a favor、be in need of 等以表达“帮助”，表达更灵 活生动。 9.句式多样性，可适当使用陈述句，疑问句，祈使句及感叹句，强调句，倒装句，定语从句， 状语从句，宾语从句等。 10. 能够恰当使用谚语、格言、名言等给文章添彩。 11. 语法结构多样性,主动被动交叉用，原级比较级灵活用，非谓语动词恰当用。 12.灵活使用万能句型，增添文章亮点。 四、中考经典范文解读： VII. Writing (作文) （共20分） 94. Write at least 60 words on the topic “I want to invent_____” (以“我想要发明________”为题，写一篇不少于60个词的短文，标点符号不占格)
“Hiroshima! Everybody off!” That must be what the man in the Japanese stationmaster's uniform shouted, as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop in Hiroshima Station. I did not understand what he was saying. First of all, because he was shouting in Japanese. And secondly, because I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything a Nippon railways official might say. The very act of stepping on this soil, in breathing this air of Hiroshima, was for me a far greater adventure than any trip or any reportorial assignment I'd previously taken. Was I not at the scene of the crime? The Japanese crowd did not appear to have the same preoccupations that I had. From the sidewalk outside the station, things seemed much the same as in other Japanese cities. Little girls and elderly ladies in kimonos rubbed shoulders with teenagers and women in western dress. Serious looking men spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them, and bobbed up and down re-heatedly in little bows, as they exchanged the ritual formula of gratitude and respect: "Tomo aligato gozayimas." Others were using little red telephones that hung on the facades of grocery stores and tobacco shops. "Hi! Hi!" said the cab driver, whose door popped open at the very sight of a traveler. "Hi", or something that sounds very much like it, means "yes". "Can you take me to City Hall?" He grinned at me in the rear-view mirror and repeated "Hi!" "Hi! ’ We set off at top speed throug h the narrow streets of Hiroshima. The tall buildings of the martyred city flashed by as we lurched from side to side in response to the driver's sharp twists of the wheel. Just as I was beginning to find the ride long, the taxi screeched to a halt, and the driver got out and went over to a policeman to ask the way. As in Tokyo, taxi drivers in Hiroshima often know little of their city, but to avoid loss of face before foreigners, will not admit their ignorance, and will accept any destination without concern for how long it may take them to find it. At last this intermezzo came to an end, and I found myself in front of the gigantic City Hall. The usher bowed deeply and heaved a long, almost musical sigh, when I showed him the invitation which the mayor had sent me in response to my request for an interview. "That is not here, sir," he said in English. "The mayor expects you tonight for dinner with other foreigners or, the restaurant boat. See? This is where it is.” He sketched a little map for me on the back of my invitation. Thanks to his map, I was able to find a taxi driver who could take me straight to the canal
2019高考英语：写作综合练习集(2)（参考范文） 写作话题议论篇 诚信是处世之本。但是在中学生当中，考试作弊、抄袭作业、欺骗家长和老师等现象屡见不鲜。请你对以上种种现象作简要描述，并以Howtoguaranteehonesty为题，从三个方面，谈谈如何保证学生做到诚信。 注意： 1、词数：120左右； 2、开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。 Howtoguaranteehonesty Asweallknow,honestyisalwaysanessentialprincipleofliving.Muchtoourregret,however ,… _______________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Honestyisthebestpolicy,whichiswhatweshouldkeepinmindallthetime. 【参考范文】------Onepossibleversion: Asweallknow,honestyisalwaysanessentialprincipleofliving.Muchtoourregret,how ever,itisnothingnewthatsomemiddleschoolstudentscheatinexams,copyothers’homeworkandfooltheirteachersandparents.Therefore,howtoguaranteehonestyshouldcom etoourattention. Personally,Ithinkhonestyeducationisnecessary.Forinstance,coursesonhonestyca nbeofferedtostudents;activitieslikestory-tellingandlecturesarealsoworthytrying. Withtheconceptof“beinghonest”rootedintheirminds,honestycanbereflectedintheirdailylifeandstudy.Besides,relate drulesandregulationsshouldbelaiddown.Detailedcriteriashouldbeappliedtoevaluates tudentsinaspectssuchashomework,tests,relationshipwithteachersandparents.Then,st rictmeasuresshouldbecarriedouttopunishthosewhocheat,andconsequently,theymustass umeresponsibilityfortheirbadbehavior,thusconsiderablyreducingchancesofcheatingn exttime. Honestyisthebestpolicy,whichiswhatweshouldkeepinmindallthetime. 本文是一篇开放式的作文，只提出了一个话题“Howtoguaranteehonesty”,话题非常切合学生实际生活，让每个学生都有话可写。此题留给学生了一定的想象空间，有利于优生的发挥。文章的人称以【一】三人称为主；时态为一般现在时；本文可用三段成文形式成文。内容要点：1.学生中存在的作弊现象；2.解决这一现象的方法；3.总结要点。 *******************************************************结束 请你根据右面表格中的内容写一篇英语短文，介绍2017年上海世博会的情况。 注意： 1、短文需包括表格中的全部内容，可适当增加细节，使行文连贯； 2、词数：100左右。 参考词汇： 世博会theWorldExpo；遗产heritage；促进promote
THE LOONS 课后习题答案/answer I . 1)The Tonnerres were poor The basis of their dwelling was a small square cabin made of poles and mud, which had been built some fifty years before. As the Tonnerres had increased in number, their settlement had been added, until thc clearing at the foot of the town hill was a chaos of lean-tos, wooden packing cases, warped lumber, discarded car tyres, ramshackle chicken coops, tangled strands of barbed wire and rusty tin cans. 2)Sometimes, one of them would get involved in a fight on Main Street and be put for the night in the barred cell underneath the Court House. 3)Because she had had tuberculosis of the bone, and should have a couple of months rest to get better. 4)Her mother first objected to take Piquette along because she was afraid that the girl would spread the disease to her children and she believed that the girl was not hygienic. She then agreed to do so because she preferred Piquette to the narrator's grandmother, who promised not to go along with the family and decided to stay in the city if the girl was taken along. 5)The cottage was called Macleod, their family name. The scenery there was quite beautiful with all kinds of plants and animals at the lakeside. 6)The narrator knew that maybe Piquette was an Indian descendant who knew the woods quite well, so she tried to ask Piquette to go and play in the wood and tell her stories about woods. 7)Because Piquette thought the narrator was scorning and showing contempt for her Indian ancestors, which was just opposite to her original intention. 8)Because the narrator felt somewhat guilty. Piquette stayed most of the time in the cottage and hardly played with the narrator. At the same time, she felt there was in Piquette something strange and unknown and unfathomable. 9)That was the very rare chance she was unguarded and unmasked, so that the author could perceive her inner world. 10)Her full name is Vanessa Macleod. 11)Just as the narrator's father predicted, the loons would go away when more cottages were built at the lake with more people moving in. The loons disappeared as nature was ruined by civilization. In a similar way, Piquette and her people failed to find their position in modern society. Ⅱ. 1)who looked deadly serious, never laughed 2)Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get involved in a rough, noisy quarrel or fight on a Saturday night after much drinking of liquor. 3)She often missed her classes and had little interest in schoolwork. 4)I only knew her as a person who would make other people feel ill at ease. 5)She lived and moved somewhere within my range of sight (Although I saw her, I paid little attention to her). 6)If my mother had to make a choice between Grandmother Macleod and
Synthesis Writing On the research of Fluorine Harm and the Countermeasures Against Fluorine Pollution in China Great achievements have been achieved in the research of Fluorine Harm and the Countermeasures Against Fluorine Pollution in China. In his article entitled Fluorine Harm and Control, published in Chinese Journal of Ecology in 2000, Professor Jiao You states his research results. He analyzes that the F harm on plants, soil microbes and human health, and introduces the geographic distribution of the areas with high F water and the statas of F epidemic areas. Finally, he presents the methods of controlling F harm and testing F in soil. In her article entitled Research Progress of Migration and Transformation Laws of Fluorine in Groundwater-soil-plant System, published in Safety and Environmental Engineering in 2013, Professor Yi Chunyao thinks that Fluoride is distributed universally throughout soils, water, living beings and air in our planet and can be transported and accumulated through the link of water-soil-plant-air-animal system to cause a series of problems of environmental pollution and human health. She focuses on the source-speciation characteristics and influencing factors of fluoride in soil, proposes the future research directions in the migration and transformation laws of fluorine in water-soil-plant system are to provide a new way for the further study. Furthermore, Professor Zhang Qiangguo summarizes the harm of overfluorine to human body, atomosphere, soil and animals and plants, which entitled The Countermeasures against Fluorine Harm and Fluorine Pollution, published in Journal of chongqing university of science and technology natural science edition in 2005, he describes the status quo of fluorine pollution in Chongqing, and sums up the solutions and measures for various fluorine pollution home and abroad, and puts forward some effective solutions to this problem. From the above, we can see that although the research on Fluorine Harm and the Countermeasures Against Fluorine Pollution has achieved great achievements, there are still some challenges to overcome, so we should work hard to further this research. Reference [1] Jiao You, Yang Zhanping. Fluorine Harm and Control[J]. Chinese Journal of Ecology, 2000, 19(5): 67-70. [2] Yi Chunyao, Wang Bingguo, Jin Menggui. Research Progress of Migration and Transformation Laws of Fluoride in Groundwater-soil-plant System[J]. Safety and Environmental Engineering,
―Hiroshima! Everybody off!‖ That must be what the man in the Japanese stationmaster's uniform shouted, as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop in Hiroshima Station. I did not understand what he was saying. First of all, because he was shouting in Japanese. And secondly, because I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything a Nippon railways official might say. The very act of stepping on this soil, in breathing this air of Hiroshima, was for me a far greater adventure than any trip or any reportorial assignment I'd previously taken. Was I not at the scene of the crime? The Japanese crowd did not appear to have the same preoccupations that I had. From the sidewalk outside the station, things seemed much the same as in other Japanese cities. Little girls and elderly ladies in kimonos rubbed shoulders with teenagers and women in western dress. Serious looking men spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them, and bobbed up and down re-heatedly in little bows, as they exchanged the ritual formula of gratitude and respect: "Tomo aligato gozayimas." Others were using little red telephones that hung on the facades of grocery stores and tobacco shops. "Hi! Hi!" said the cab driver, whose door popped open at the very sight of a traveler. "Hi", or something that sounds very much like it, means "yes". "Can you take me to City Hall?" He grinned at me in the rear-view mirror and repeated "Hi!" "Hi! ’ We se t off at top speed through the narrow streets of Hiroshima. The tall buildings of the martyred city flashed by as we lurched from side to side in response to the driver's sharp twists of the wheel. Just as I was beginning to find the ride long, the taxi screeched to a halt, and the driver got out and went over to a policeman to ask the way. As in Tokyo, taxi drivers in Hiroshima often know little of their city, but to avoid loss of face before foreigners, will not admit their ignorance, and will accept any destination without concern for how long it may take them to find it. At last this intermezzo came to an end, and I found myself in front of the gigantic City Hall. The usher bowed deeply and heaved a long, almost musical sigh, when I showed him the invitation which the mayor had sent me in response to my request for an interview. "That is not here, sir," he said in English. "The mayor expects you tonight for dinner with other foreigners or, the restaurant boat. See? This is where it is.‖ He sketched a little map for me on the back of my invitation. Thanks to his map, I was able to find a taxi driver who could take me straight to the canal
2014届高考英语一轮写作综合训练9 第一节完成句子 阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。 1. The situation of unemployment has not been so serious ___________________________ (所期待的). (expect) 2. Tom has been playing basketball on the playground, ___________________________ (脸上全是汗水). (cover) 3. ___________________________ (余下要做的) is an accurate description of the long process of the experiment. (leave) 4. It’s widely accepted that never in history ___________________________ (有过) a more successful opening ceremony than that of the Beijing Olympics. (there) 5. During my last trip my cellphone was left in a hotel accidentally, ______________________ (再也找不到) . (find) 6. He told us that he was very happy ___________________________ (他现在的处境) . (be) 7. Qian Xuesen went to California from 1935 to 1955, ___________________________ (在 那时期) he concentrated on the research into jet planes. (period) 8. I have no idea whether the machine can be used again but it __________________________ (在维修) in the morning. (repair) 9. Did you know ___________________________ (到底怎么) the nuclear explosion occurred in Japan? (it) 10. The air hostess required that___________________________ (我们坐着) until the plane had come to a complete stop. (remain) （在写作中活用谚语的技巧）（2） 二、套用谚语的技巧 套用谚语就是直接将谚语套用在自己的句子中，使之成为自己句子的一个组成部分。下面略举几例，同学们可以从中学习如何在自己的句子中套用谚语。
2019届高考英语一轮写作综合训练6 第一节：完成句子 阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。 1．At Beijing Olympic Opening Chinese families sat in front of TV and watched the ceremony，（感到非常自豪）.(feel) 2．With much （作业要完成），Tony can’t go outing with his frie nds at the weekend.(finish) 3．An Earthquake destroyed his house，（在里面他住了）for twenty years.(live) 4．Over the past sixty year，about 100 Chinese people （登上了）Mount Qomolangma successfully.(climb) 5．The loss of water and soil is （最严重）in this area.(serious) 6．It’s raining so hard now. I （应该带）an umbrella with me when I left home this morning.(bring) 7．When Helen met Tom on the way，she acted （似乎没看见他）.(see) 8．There is but one way of solving the problem---namely，（建起更多的）Hope schools.(set) 9．By no means （她会同意）to move to a new city since she adapts so well to the life here.(agree) 10．Mr. Smith has such a strange way of teaching （没人能适应）it at the beginning of his class.(use) 2019高考英语：作文拿高分不得不备的词汇和短语 1.认为，主张: argue，maintain，hold，believe/考虑:take...into consideration/account，consider，think over，reflect on／upon →think 2.下结论，断定: come to/arrive at/draw the conclusion，conclude，decide，assert， wind up→judge
Face To Face With Hurricane Camille 迎战卡米尔号飓风 约瑟夫.布兰克 1 John Koshak,Jr.,knew Hurricane Camille would be bad.Radio and television warnings had sounded throughout that https://www.doczj.com/doc/154585978.html,st August17,as Camille lashed northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico.It was certain to pummel Gulfport,Miss.,where the Koshaks lived.Along the coasts of Louisiana,Mississippi and Alabama,nearly150,000people fled inland to safer ground.But like thousands of others in the coastal communities,John was reluctant to abandon his home unless the family—his wife,Janis and their seven children,aged3to11—was clearly endangered. 小约翰·柯夏克已料到，卡米尔号飓风来势定然凶猛。就在去年8月17日那个星期天，当卡米尔号飓风越过墨西哥湾向西北进袭之时，收音机和电视里整天不断地播放着飓风警报。柯夏克一家居住的地方——密西西比州的高尔夫港——肯定会遭到这场飓风的猛烈袭击。路易斯安那、密西西比和亚拉巴马三州沿海一带的居民已有将近15万人逃往内陆安全地带。但约翰就像沿海村落中其他成千上万的人一样，不愿舍弃家园，要他下决心弃家外逃，除非等到他的一家人——妻子詹妮丝以及他们那七个年龄从三岁到十一岁的孩子一一眼看着就要灾祸临头。 lash(v.):move quickly or violently猛烈冲击；拍打 pummel(n.):beat or hit with repeated blows，esp．with the fist(尤指用拳头)连续地打 2Trying to reason out the best course of action,he talked with his father and mother,who had moved into the ten-room house with the Koshaks a month earlier from California.He also consulted Charles Hill,a longtime friend,who had driven from Las Vegas for a visit. 为了找出应付这场风灾的最佳对策，他与父母商量过。两位老人是早在一个月前就从加利福尼亚迁到这里来，住进柯夏克一家所住的那幢十个房间的屋子里。他还就此征求过从拉斯韦加斯开车来访的老朋友查理希尔的意见。 course(n.):a way of behaving；mode0f conduct行为；品行；做法 reason out:to find out an explanation or solution to a problem，by thinking of all the possibilities寻找解决途径 例：Let's reason this out instead of quarrelling．让我们不要争吵，商量出事情的解决方案 3John,37—whose business was right there in his home(he designed and developed educational toys and supplies,and all of Magna Products’correspondence,engineering drawings and art work were there on the first floor)—was familiar with the power of a hurricane.Four years earlier Hurricane Betsy had demolished his former home a few miles west of Gulfport (Koshak had moved his family to a motel for the night). But that house had stood only a few feet above sea level. “We’re elevated 23 feet,”he told his father, “and we’re a good 250 yards from the sea. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it. We’ll probably be as safe here as anyplace else.” 约翰的全部产业就在自己家里(他开办的玛格纳制造公司是设计、研制各种教育玩具和教育用品的。公司的一切往来函件、设计图纸和工艺模具全都放在一楼)。37岁的他对飓风