《高级英语》（第三版）重排版（第一册）
Lesson 11 The Way to Rainy Mountain
Key to Exercises
III. Paraphrase
1. The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.
2. The Kiowa often fought just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra lands or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving. And they could not understand why the U.S. Cavalry never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle.
3. Luckily, my grandmother did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a closure for holding animals, for she was born eight or ten years after the event.
4. They moved toward the east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning of
a new culture, which led to the greatest moment of their history.
5. Now they got horses. Riding on horseback, instead of walking on foot, gave them this new freedom of movement, thus completely liberating their ancient nomadic spirit.
6. The earth unfolds and the limit of the land is far in the distance, where there are clusters of trees and animals eating grass. This landscape makes it possible to see far into the distance and in all directions.
7. I was not sure that I had any right to overhear her praying, which did not follow any customary way of praying, and which I guess she did not want anyone else to hear.
8. In this way she was completely moved to another state in the dancing light among the shadows of her room, and she seemed to be timeless (what she represented would last for ever).
9. On these special occasions, women might make loud and elaborate jokes and talk among themselves. Their gossip revealed their position as servants of men and was also a reward for their servitude.
IV. Practice with Words and Expressions
A.
1. knoll: a hillock
2. anvil: an iron or steel block on which metal objects are hammered into shape
3. writhe: to twist and turn the body as in agony
4. infirm: weak or ill especially because one is old
5. headwaters: the beginning of a large stream or river
6. fork: the point where a river is divided into two or more branches, or where branches join to form a river
7. pilgrimage: a journey made by a pilgrim, especially to a shrine or holy place; any long journey to a place of historical interest
8. engender: to bring into being, bring about, produce
9. consummate: to make complete, perfect
10. beadwork: decorative work in beads
