高级英语Lesson 15 No Signposts in the Sea 课后练习及答案

No Signposts in the Sea一、In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men, Laura sits some way off with a married couple and their daughter. I can observe her without her knowing and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures,①whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or②turns with a remark to one of her neighbors or takes a cigarette from her casewith those slender fingers（loose sentense松散句）.I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shinyin the tropical heat; in the evening, she wears soft rich colors（metonymy借代）, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said. I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.PS：①soft：ADJ Something that is soft is very gentle and has no force. For example, a soft sound or voice is quiet and not harsh. A soft light or colour is pleasant to look at because it is not bright. (声音、光线或色彩) 柔和的；②rich:Rich smells are strong and very pleasant. Rich colours and sounds are deep and very pleasant. 浓郁的(气味); 浓厚的(色彩)因此soft和rich这里的修辞手法是：oxymoron n. （修词中的）矛盾修饰法在餐厅里我同另外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妇及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。

国际关系学院学报1997年4期No Signposts in t he Sea教学笔记冯幼民 摘　要　N o S ignposts i n the Sea(《海上无航标》)是大三精读课中的难点。

课文使用日记体手法,细腻地描述了一位著名记者在生命走向尽头时的心路历程。

文中众多的对比、比喻、象征手法,以及跳跃性的叙述方式,对历届学生都是挑战。

为了使学生能够较好地理解课文所表达的深刻涵义,必须进行多个层次的仔细全面分析,其中包括解析课文深层内涵,分析和挖掘对比、比喻、象征手段的作用,讨论课文、特别是主人公思想逻辑的发展,探求课文题目的的含义等,最终达到使学生在领略优美的,理解主人公巨大的思想变化,以及他对人生和大自然的眷恋,对真善美的永恒追求。

关键词　英语教学　课文解析　对比和比喻　思想逻辑引言N o S ignposts i n the Sea(《海上无航标》) (《高级英语》第1册第15课)是大三精读课中比较有难度和深度的课文之一。

日记体的课文从头到尾是主人公在自言自语,既不像小说,也不是说理,有思维的跳跃,却缺少各部分的连接和连续的故事情节。

学生在预习中,往往只能读出一丝忧愁几多浪漫,对课文所要表达的真实意义却不知所云。

标题是什么意思?众多的对比、比喻和象征有什么内涵?面对梦呓般的课文和非常有限的背景材料,学生的茫然是可想而知的。

怎样让学生理解这篇流畅美丽的文章所表达的对自然美和人生美的热爱和追求?怎样让学生对主人公的命运和思想变化有深刻理解?结合几年的教学经验,本文对课文从含义、对比、比喻和思想逻辑等方面进行一些探讨。

作者、写作背景与主人公课文节选自英国现代多产的诗人和小说家维多利亚・玛丽・萨克维尔-韦斯特(1892 -1962)的同名小说。

这是她写于1961年的最后作品。

作家在创作这部小说时,已经身患绝症,所以从某种意义上说,它是作家对生命、爱情、工作等人生最重要内容的总结。

作者借主人公埃得蒙・卡的日记,叙述人生最后阶段的种种感受与体验。

高级英语Lesson-15--No-Signposts-in-the-Sea-课后练习及答案EXERCISES 15Ⅰ. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:1) What pleasure does Edmund Carr get by observing Laura without her knowing it? What compliment does he pay her?2) Does Carr appreciate natural beauty? Was he always like that?3) What effect does the moon and the cool water of the swimming pool have on him?4) What kind of coastline does he like? Why?5) Who is in charge of the lighthouse? Does he like his job?6) Why does Edmund Carr like islands?7) Why does he say: "God, is there no escape from suffering and sin? "8) What is the 'green flash'?Ⅱ. Paraphrase:1) The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs2) Or maybe Laura's unwitting influence has called it out.3) Dismissive as a Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane.4) And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water-colours of sunsets!5) I want my fill of beauty before I go.6) Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leaving the confessional after the solemnity of absolution.7) there is a touch of rough poetry about him8) I like also the out-of-the-way information which he imparts from time to time without insistence9) I suspect also that there is quite a lot of lore stored away in the Colonel's otherwise not very interesting mind.10) This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.Ⅲ.Translate the following into Chinese:1) What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them, full of possibilities, peaks to be scaled only by the most daring. What plants of the high alti tudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura's character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, forthe discovery of the venturesome.2) In all this serenity of ocean it is seldom that we espy so much as another ship; the jolly dolphins and the scratchy little flying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves, 'the Flying Fish, who has a part with the birds, ' and doubtless are glad to see the last of the monster which bears us into and out of sight. Our wake closes up and we might never have been. But it does happen from time to time that an island appears on the horizon, nameless to us and full of mystery, the peak of a submarine mountain range , lonely, unblemished, re mote. Does one like islands because one unconsciously appropriates them, a small manageable domain in a large unmanageable world? I cannot tell why it should give me suck a queer sensation to reflect that that island has always been there (unless indeed it be no more than the work of the patient coral) and will be there still, should I return to find it waiting for me.IV. Look up the dictionary for the following loan words. Tryto find out from what languages they are borrowed and then put them into Chinese.Model: creme de menthe-- (法) 薄荷酒1) ad hoe 2) blitzkrieg3) skoal 4) charg6 d'affairs5) concerto 6) coup d'dtat7) d6eor 8) detente9) hors d oeurves 10) intermezzo11) kimono 12) kowtow13) kulak 14) macho15) smorgasbord 16) status quo17) fiesta 18) rajah19) emir 20)eurekaⅤ.Make sentences with the following words using the parts of speech indicated in the brackets:1) fill (v. n. ) 6) range (n. v. )2) ripple (n. v. ) 7) beach (n. v. )3) marble (n. v. ) 8) catch (v. n. )4 ) pile (n. v. ) 9) hump (n. v. )5) touch (v. n. ) 10) obscure (adj. v. )Ⅵ.pick out from the text all the words and phrases describing colours.Ⅶ.Replace t he italicized words with simple, everyday words or expressions"1) and thus beguile ourselves for an hour or so after dinner ( )2) prefacing his remarks by 'Of course it's not for me to suggest to you' ( )3) I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived ona less practical plane. ( )4) I once flattered myself that I was an adult man. ( )5) or a low-lying arid stretch with miles of white sandy beach ( )6) So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s character, so austere in the foreground ( )7) Darkness falls, and there is nothing but the intermittent gleam of a lighthouse on a solitary promontory. ( )8) which he imparts from time to time without insistence ( )9) and it is not a sensation I could expect anyone save Laura to understand ( )10) We gazed, as the ship slid by and the humps receded into darkness and even the lights were obscured by the shoulder of a hill ( ) ( )11) ‘ Vicious viridian’ I say, not to be outdone. ( )12) I would never have believed in the simplde bliss of being, day after day, at sea. ( )Ⅷ. Replac e the italicized words or phrases with specific words that appear in the text:1) The teacher tends to fill us with too many facts. ( )2) As the policemen approached on horseback, the demonstrators went away quickly in different directions. ( )3) The thief moved stealthily along the corridor. ( )4) The detective inspected the room and wrote something hastily in his notebook. ( )5) Prices went up rapidly when the war broke out. ( )6) There is more and more work for me. ( )7.)Some idlers were standing about in a lazy way at the street corner. ( )8) After the tide went back, the kids began to pick shells on the shore. ( )9) On hearing the shot, he quickly put out his hand and took the gun lying on the table. ( )10) She struck him on the face with the palm of her hand. ( )Ⅸ.Point out the metaphors, similes and alliterations used in the text.Ⅹ.Point out the figures of speech used in the following sentences:1) in the evening she wears soft rich colours ( )2) he says he used to read me ( )3) I want my fill of beauty before I go. ( )4) The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin. ( )5) and the cool support of the water ( )6) I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be one of the loneliest, most forbidding spots on earth. ( )7) and the sky a tender palette of pink and blue ( )8) I had no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South ( )9) And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray. ( )10) but above all I love these long purposeless days in whichI shed all that I have ever been. ( )Ⅺ. Choose the right word from the list given b elow for each blank. Pay attention to the correct combinations of adverbs and adjectives. disappointed simple beautifulconscious close highobvious inadequate beatenignorant impartial confidentinterested clear jealousexaggerated1) A referee should always try to be strictly __2) The answer is laughably __ when you think it over.3) The rate of income-tax in this country is astronomically4) He was insanely __ of his brother's success. 5) The children played on, blissfully __ of their parents' death. 6) Our host made it painfully __ that we should leave.7) The casualties in the war have been grossly __8) The team played badly and were soundly __9) It was abundantly __ to everyone that he had something on his mind.10) Just before the exam, he appeared to be supremely __ of Success.11) He was bitterly __ when he heard the result.12)The roads are woefully __ and simply can’t meet today’s requirements?13)The bullet passed uncomfortably __ to his head.14)Jim is keenly__ in collecting stamp。

In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men; Laura sits some way oft with a married couple and their daughter. I can observe her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures, whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or turns with a remark to one of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from her case with those slender fingers. I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression that Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shiny in the tropical heat; in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.在餐厅里，我同另外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妇及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。

Lesson Fifteen:No Signposts in the Sea___By V. Sackville -westI. Additional Background Knowledge1. About the author:( 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962 )Victoria MarySackville-west was anEnglish poet and novelist.She was born in KnoleHouse, Kent, UK. She wasa descendant of LordTreasurer ThomasSackville, who is the cousinof Queen Elizabeth I.In 1913 she married diplomat Harold Nicolson (1886-1968), and they traveled extensively during his years in the foreign office. In London she was a member of the Bloomsbury group of literary and artistic friends including Virginia Woolf. Lytton Strachey, E.M. Foster and others.In the 1920s Sackville-West became romantically involved with the writer, Virginia Woolf, who celebrated this love affair in the novel Orlando(1928). Dedicated to Sackville-West, the book traces the history of the youthful, beautiful, and aristocratic Orlando, and explores the themes of sexual ambiguity. This was followed by her novels, The Edwardians(1930), All Passion Spent(1931) and The Dark Island(1934).She was famous for herexuberant aristocratic life,her strong marriage, andher passionate affair with novelist Virginia Woolf. Sackville-West's first published works were a collection of poems, Powers of West and East(1917). Her long poem The Land won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She also wrote the novel Heritage (1919)Personal life, marriage and bisexuality (Bit of profligacy )In 1913, Sackville-West married Harold Nicolson, and the couple moved to Cospoli, Constantinople(君士但丁堡of Turkey). Nicolson was at different times a diplomat, journalist, broadcaster, Member of Parliament, author of biographies and novels and also bisexual in what would now be called an open marriage. Both Sackville-West and her husband had consecutive same-sex relations.(gay, lesbian)These were no impediment(obstacle) to a true closeness between Sackville-West and Nicolson, as is seen from their nearly daily correspondence (published after their deaths by their son Nigel), and from an interview they gave for BBC radio after World War II. Nicolson gave up his diplomatic career partly so that he couldlive with Sackville-West in England, uninterrupted by long solitary postings to missions abroad.They returned to England in 1914 and bought Long Barn, in Kent.The couple had two children:Nigel, also a politician and writer; and Benedict, an art historian. In the 1930s, the family acquired and moved to Sissinghurst Castle, near Cranbrook, in Kent.Her main writings(Prolific Writer)1) The land(1926): It‟s a long poem,which was praised as one of themost beautiful bucolic/idyllic inEnglish literature ant wonHawthorndon prize.2) The Garden(1946), won theHeinemann prize3) The Edwardians (1930), a novel.（爱德华时代的人）4) All passion spent (1931), a novel(激情耗尽)5) The Eagle and the Dove (1943)6) Another World than This (1945)(an anthology)7) No Signposts in the Sea (1961)2. Styles and Influence:1) Sackville–west’s novels are more widely known, yet her poetry may prove to be more enduring: there is a depth of feeling and perception in the best of her poems, a quality at once stately and moving. Her prose is of consistently in high quality, supple clear, and craftsman-like, viewed as one of Britain‟s p romising young writers in the 1920‟s. She is now regarded famous for her personality as much as for her writing.She is a prolific writer, the author of 15 novels, as well as biographies and travel books.2) About the novel:“No Signposts in the Sea”(1) The novel with144-pages is in theform of a journal kept by a man calledEdmund Carr, 50 years old, aninfluential political columnist and abachelor. He learns that he has alimited time to live___ a few weeks, amonth or two at most. How will hespend them? In this dilemma/(quandary, predicament), he met awidow_ Ms. Laura by chance,whohas booked on a cruise / trip to theFar East. Laura, the widow‟s warmth,and intelligence struck him. Therefore,he decided to board the ship.(2) While sailing at sea, Carr was full ofemotions, such as: the undercurrentsadness, the idyllic feelings, therelease from pressure, the dullrhythms of ship life, the enticing /(luring) scenery. Later he fell in lovewith the Window Laura.(3) Edmund Carr grows love for Laurathough he knows it is impossible toget her. Simultaneously, a handsomecolonel also shows great interest inLaura, which makes Carr feel jealous,despairing, and an outburst ofdisappointment against his “rival”.3) Styles: This story (a short novel) showsa romantic love affair. The cruise onthe sea is full of imagination, lyric,and idyllic.(1) Attitudes: __ more critical than praise/commendation;__ more pessimistic than optimistic. (2) Diary __ prose.3. Rhetorical Devices:1. transferred epithet;2. personification3. simile4. Pre-reading Questions1) What pleasure does Edmund Carr getby observing Laura without her knowing it?2) Does Carr appreciate natural beauty?3) Why does Carr like islands?4) What kind of coastline does he like?II. : Detailed study of the text1. She wears soft rich colours.__ It means her dress is in deep, intense colors such as dark red, olive green. Rich: = banquet (luxurious, sumptuous ) ~ wine (full of strength & flavor )~ odors (very fragrant;Cf: flagrant =notorious)~ soil (fertile , yielding in abundance ) 2. The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire-builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs.___The Colonel, an Empire-builder who is not too disgustingly aggressive,sometimes tries to talk to me aboutpublic affairs.3.He says he used to read me(metonymy), and is ……charming deferential= to read my writings /articles metonymy: I like Shakespeare(his works ).__I find Saul Bellow very difficult tounderstand.= ( a U.S novelist. 1915- )4. (1) ill-informedeg. ill-bred, (considered, defined , mannered , treated,)(2) and just about ……anybody could go--- just about as conservative as anybody could be . (极端保守)5. I observe with amusement how totally the concerns of the world, which once absorbed me to the exclusion of all else …to the extent of a bored distaste. __I was once so completely absorbed in the important affairs of the world, anddevoted all my attention to it so that I only have one rest by reading poetry and listening to music. But now, I found amusingly that the world affaires are just some boring distaste.To the exclusion of=To do sth. only; without concerningother things.Eg: __ He plays golf to the exclusion of all other sports.__ Never concentrate all your attention on one or two problem, to theexclusion of others.Trans:我有趣的发现，自己过去偶尔借诗歌或音乐消遣放松一下，一心专注的世界大事现在不仅索然无味，而且到了令人厌烦的地步。

In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men; Laura sits some way oft with a married couple and their daughter. I can observe her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures, whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or turns with a remark to one of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from her case with those slender fingers. I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression that Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shiny in the tropical heat; in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.在餐厅里，我同另外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妇及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。

高级英语L e s s o n-15--N o-S i g n p o s t s-i n-t h e-S e a-课后练习及答案EXERCISES 15Ⅰ. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:1) What pleasure does Edmund Carr get by observing Laura without her knowing it? What compliment does he pay her?2) Does Carr appreciate natural beauty? Was he always like that?3) What effect does the moon and the cool water of the swimming pool have on him?4) What kind of coastline does he like? Why?5) Who is in charge of the lighthouse? Does he like his job?6) Why does Edmund Carr like islands?7) Why does he say: "God, is there no escape from suffering and sin? "8) What is the 'green flash'?Ⅱ. Paraphrase:1) The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs2) Or maybe Laura's unwitting influence has called it out.3) Dismissive as a Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane.4) And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water-colours of sunsets!5) I want my fill of beauty before I go.6) Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leavingthe confessional after the solemnity of absolution.7) there is a touch of rough poetry about him8) I like also the out-of-the-way information which he imparts from time to time without insistence9) I suspect also that there is quite a lot of lore stored away in the Colonel's otherwise not very interesting mind.10) This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.Ⅲ.Translate the following into Chinese:1) What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them, full of possibilities, peaks to be scaled only by the most daring. What plants of the high alti tudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura's character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome.2) In all this serenity of ocean it is seldom that we espy so much as another ship; the jolly dolphins and the scratchy little flying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves, 'the Flying Fish, who has a part with the birds, ' and doubtless are glad to see the last of the monster which bears us into and out of sight. Our wake closes up and we might never have been. But it does happen from time to time that an island appears on the horizon, nameless to us and full of mystery, the peak of a submarine mountain range , lonely, unblemished, re mote. Does one like islands because one unconsciously appropriates them, a small manageable domain in a large unmanageable world? I cannot tell why it should give me suck a queer sensation to reflect that that island has always been there (unless indeed it be no more than the work of the patient coral) and will be there still, should I return to find it waiting for me.IV. Look up the dictionary for the following loan words. Try to find out from what languages they are borrowed and then put theminto Chinese.Model: creme de menthe-- (法) 薄荷酒1) ad hoe 2) blitzkrieg3) skoal 4) charg6 d'affairs5) concerto 6) coup d'dtat7) d6eor 8) detente9) hors d oeurves 10) intermezzo11) kimono 12) kowtow13) kulak 14) macho15) smorgasbord 16) status quo17) fiesta 18) rajah19) emir 20)eurekaⅤ.Make sentences with the following words using the parts of speech indicated in the brackets:1) fill (v. n. ) 6) range (n. v. )2) ripple (n. v. ) 7) beach (n. v. )3) marble (n. v. ) 8) catch (v. n. )4 ) pile (n. v. ) 9) hump (n. v. )5) touch (v. n. ) 10) obscure (adj. v. )Ⅵ.pick out from the text all th e words and phrases describing colours.Ⅶ.Replace the italicized words with simple, everyday words or expressions"1) and thus beguile ourselves for an hour or so after dinner ( )2) prefacing his remarks by 'Of course it's not for me to suggest to you' ( )3) I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane. ( )4) I once flattered myself that I was an adult man. ( )5) or a low-lying arid stretch with miles of white sandy beach ( )6) So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s character, so austere in the foreground ( )7) Darkness falls, and there is nothing but the intermittent gleam of a lighthouse on a solitary promontory. ( )8) which he imparts from time to time without insistence ( )9) and it is not a sensation I could expect anyone save Laura to understand ( )10) We gazed, as the ship slid by and the humps receded into darkness and even the lights were obscured by the shoulder of a hill ( ) ( )11) ‘ Vicious viridian’ I say, not to be outdone. ( )12) I would never have believed in the simplde bliss of being, day after day, at sea. ( )Ⅷ. Replace the italicized words or phrases with specific words that appear in the text:1) The teacher tends to fill us with too many facts. ( )2) As the policemen approached on horseback, the demonstratorswent away quickly in different directions. ( )3) The thief moved stealthily along the corridor. ( )4) The detective inspected the room and wrote somethinghastily in his notebook. ( )5) Prices went up rapidly when the war broke out. ( )6) There is more and more work for me. ( )7.)Some idlers were standing about in a lazy way at the street corner. ( )8) After the tide went back, the kids began to pick shells on the shore. ( )9) On hearing the shot, he quickly put out his hand and took the gun lying on the table. ( )10) She struck him on the face with the palm of her hand. ( )Ⅸ.Point out the metaphors, similes and alliterations used in the text.Ⅹ.Point out the f igures of speech used in the following sentences:1) in the evening she wears soft rich colours ( )2) he says he used to read me ( )3) I want my fill of beauty before I go. ( )4) The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin. ( )5) and the cool support of the water ( )6) I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be oneof the loneliest, most forbidding spots on earth. ( )7) and the sky a tender palette of pink and blue ( )8) I had no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South ( )9) And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray. ( )10) but above all I love these long purposeless days in whichI shed all that I have ever been. ( )Ⅺ. Choose the right word from the list given below for each blank. Pay attention to the correct combinations of adverbs and adjectives.disappointed simple beautifulconscious close highobvious inadequate beatenignorant impartial confidentinterested clear jealousexaggerated1) A referee should always try to be strictly __2) The answer is laughably __ when you think it over.3) The rate of income-tax in this country is astronomically4) He was insanely __ of his brother's success. 5) Thechildren played on, blissfully __ of their parents' death. 6) Our host made it painfully __ that we should leave.7) The casualties in the war have been grossly __8) The team played badly and were soundly __9) It was abundantly __ to everyone that he had something on his mind.10) Just before the exam, he appeared to be supremely __ of Success.11) He was bitterly __ when he heard the result.12)The roads are woefully __ and simply can’t meet today’s requirements?13)The bullet passed uncomfortably __ to his head.14)Jim is keenly__ in collecting stamp。

高级英语L e s s o n-15--N o-S i g n p o s t s-i n-t h e-S e a-课后练习及答案EXERCISES 15Ⅰ. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible:1) What pleasure does Edmund Carr get by observing Laura without her knowing it? What compliment does he pay her?2) Does Carr appreciate natural beauty? Was he always like that?3) What effect does the moon and the cool water of the swimming pool have on him?4) What kind of coastline does he like? Why?5) Who is in charge of the lighthouse? Does he like his job?6) Why does Edmund Carr like islands?7) Why does he say: "God, is there no escape from suffering and sin? "8) What is the 'green flash'?Ⅱ. Paraphrase:1) The Colonel, who is not too offensively an Empire builder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs2) Or maybe Laura's unwitting influence has called it out.3) Dismissive as a Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane.4) And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water-colours of sunsets!5) I want my fill of beauty before I go.6) Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leavingthe confessional after the solemnity of absolution.7) there is a touch of rough poetry about him8) I like also the out-of-the-way information which he imparts from time to time without insistence9) I suspect also that there is quite a lot of lore stored away in the Colonel's otherwise not very interesting mind.10) This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.Ⅲ.Translate the following into Chinese:1) What I like best are the stern cliffs, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them, full of possibilities, peaks to be scaled only by the most daring. What plants of the high alti tudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura's character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome.2) In all this serenity of ocean it is seldom that we espy so much as another ship; the jolly dolphins and the scratchy little flying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves, 'the Flying Fish, who has a part with the birds, ' and doubtless are glad to see the last of the monster which bears us into and out of sight. Our wake closes up and we might never have been. But it does happen from time to time that an island appears on the horizon, nameless to us and full of mystery, the peak of a submarine mountain range , lonely, unblemished, re mote. Does one like islands because one unconsciously appropriates them, a small manageable domain in a large unmanageable world? I cannot tell why it should give me suck a queer sensation to reflect that that island has always been there (unless indeed it be no more than the work of the patient coral) and will be there still, should I return to find it waiting for me.IV. Look up the dictionary for the following loan words. Try to find out from what languages they are borrowed and then put theminto Chinese.Model: creme de menthe-- (法) 薄荷酒1) ad hoe 2) blitzkrieg3) skoal 4) charg6 d'affairs5) concerto 6) coup d'dtat7) d6eor 8) detente9) hors d oeurves 10) intermezzo11) kimono 12) kowtow13) kulak 14) macho15) smorgasbord 16) status quo17) fiesta 18) rajah19) emir 20)eurekaⅤ.Make sentences with the following words using the parts of speech indicated in the brackets:1) fill (v. n. ) 6) range (n. v. )2) ripple (n. v. ) 7) beach (n. v. )3) marble (n. v. ) 8) catch (v. n. )4 ) pile (n. v. ) 9) hump (n. v. )5) touch (v. n. ) 10) obscure (adj. v. )Ⅵ.pick out from the text all th e words and phrases describing colours.Ⅶ.Replace the italicized words with simple, everyday words or expressions"1) and thus beguile ourselves for an hour or so after dinner ( )2) prefacing his remarks by 'Of course it's not for me to suggest to you' ( )3) I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane. ( )4) I once flattered myself that I was an adult man. ( )5) or a low-lying arid stretch with miles of white sandy beach ( )6) So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s character, so austere in the foreground ( )7) Darkness falls, and there is nothing but the intermittent gleam of a lighthouse on a solitary promontory. ( )8) which he imparts from time to time without insistence ( )9) and it is not a sensation I could expect anyone save Laura to understand ( )10) We gazed, as the ship slid by and the humps receded into darkness and even the lights were obscured by the shoulder of a hill ( ) ( )11) ‘ Vicious viridian’ I say, not to be outdone. ( )12) I would never have believed in the simplde bliss of being, day after day, at sea. ( )Ⅷ. Replace the italicized words or phrases with specific words that appear in the text:1) The teacher tends to fill us with too many facts. ( )2) As the policemen approached on horseback, the demonstratorswent away quickly in different directions. ( )3) The thief moved stealthily along the corridor. ( )4) The detective inspected the room and wrote somethinghastily in his notebook. ( )5) Prices went up rapidly when the war broke out. ( )6) There is more and more work for me. ( )7.)Some idlers were standing about in a lazy way at the street corner. ( )8) After the tide went back, the kids began to pick shells on the shore. ( )9) On hearing the shot, he quickly put out his hand and took the gun lying on the table. ( )10) She struck him on the face with the palm of her hand. ( )Ⅸ.Point out the metaphors, similes and alliterations used in the text.Ⅹ.Point out the f igures of speech used in the following sentences:1) in the evening she wears soft rich colours ( )2) he says he used to read me ( )3) I want my fill of beauty before I go. ( )4) The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin. ( )5) and the cool support of the water ( )6) I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be oneof the loneliest, most forbidding spots on earth. ( )7) and the sky a tender palette of pink and blue ( )8) I had no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South ( )9) And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray. ( )10) but above all I love these long purposeless days in whichI shed all that I have ever been. ( )Ⅺ. Choose the right word from the list given below for each blank. Pay attention to the correct combinations of adverbs and adjectives.disappointed simple beautifulconscious close highobvious inadequate beatenignorant impartial confidentinterested clear jealousexaggerated1) A referee should always try to be strictly __2) The answer is laughably __ when you think it over.3) The rate of income-tax in this country is astronomically4) He was insanely __ of his brother's success. 5) Thechildren played on, blissfully __ of their parents' death. 6) Our host made it painfully __ that we should leave.7) The casualties in the war have been grossly __8) The team played badly and were soundly __9) It was abundantly __ to everyone that he had something on his mind.10) Just before the exam, he appeared to be supremely __ of Success.11) He was bitterly __ when he heard the result.12)The roads are woefully __ and simply can’t meet today’s requirements?13)The bullet passed uncomfortably __ to his head.14)Jim is keenly__ in collecting stamp。

No Signposts in the Sea一、In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men, Laura sits some way off with a married couple and their daughter. I can observe her without her knowing and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures,①whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or②turns with a remark to one of her neighbors or takes a cigarette from her casewith those slender fingers（loose sentense松散句）.I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shinyin the tropical heat; in the evening, she wears soft rich colors（metonymy借代）, dark red, olive green, midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said. I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.PS：①soft：ADJ Something that is soft is very gentle and has no force. For example, a soft sound or voice is quiet and not harsh. A soft light or colour is pleasant to look at because it is not bright. (声音、光线或色彩) 柔和的；②rich:Rich smells are strong and very pleasant. Rich colours and sounds are deep and very pleasant. 浓郁的(气味); 浓厚的(色彩)因此soft和rich这里的修辞手法是：oxymoron n. （修词中的）矛盾修饰法在餐厅里我同另外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妇及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。

In the dining-saloon I sit at a table with three other men; Laura sits some way oft with a married couple and their daughter. I can observe her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures, whether she raises a glass of wine to her lips or turns with a remark to one of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from her case with those slender fingers. I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women, but I get the impression that Laura is always in grey and white by day, looking cool when other people are flushed and shiny in the tropical heat; in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green,midnight blue, always of the most supple flowing texture. I ventured to say something of the kind to her, when she laughed at my clumsy compliment and said I had better take to writing fashion articles instead of political leaders.在餐厅里，我同此外三个男人围坐在一张桌子旁，而劳拉同一对夫妻及他们的女儿一块儿坐在离我不远的地方。

N o S i g n p o s t s i n t h e S e aBackground Information1. About the authorVictoria Mary Sackville- West (1892-1962) was an English poet and novelist, a member of the Bloomsbury group【布鲁姆伯利(英国伦敦中北部的居住区, 因在20世纪初期与知识界的人物, 包括弗吉尼亚·沃尔夫、E.M.福斯特及约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯的关系而闻名于世)】, an informal group of literary and artistic friends, a close friend of Virginia Woolf.Her poems include The Land (1926), Solitude (1938), The Garden (1946), All Passion Spent (1931).Her poetry is traditional in form, reminiscent（怀旧的，使人想起的）of the work of the English nature poets of the age of romanticism.A prolific（多产的）writer, Victoria Sackville-West is the author of15 novels, as well as biographies and travel books.2. About the novel No Signposts in the SeaThis novel is writen in the form of a journal kept by a man called Edmund Carr, 50, an influential political columnist and bachelor. He learns that he has a limited time to live--- a few days or weeks, a month or two at most. How shall he spend them? In this quandary（dilemma）, he learns that a widow who he has lately met at random （unplanned/unexpected）social occasions has booked passage on a cruise(漫游) to the Far East. Her qualities, her intelligence and warmth stiffened（strengthened）by a deep reserve（矜持coolness of manner or emotional retraint）, have struck him as uncommon; he decided to be abroad. His contact with Laura, the widow, gives Carr an unfamiliar peace and a profound change in perspective ( particular evaluation of sth. , especially from one person’s point of view). Power, prestige(威望、威信), practicality（state of being practical）--- the former watchwords of his career--- lose their ring （echo）. Illusion, which he had adhered（追随）, and the natural world, uninvaded by civilization, begin to seem transcendent（超然的、超验的independent of the world or beyond the limits of experience）. And a third-some Colonel arouses his all-too-human ignominy(羞辱、屈辱disgrace，dishonor) of jealousy,despair, meanness（自私,吝啬）and outbursts（感情迸发）of disappointment against his “rival”.C h a r a c t e r s•L a u r a E d m u n d C a r r T h e C o l o n e lL a u r a•t h e g r a c e o f h e r g e s t u r e s•s l e n d e r f i n g e r s•a l w a y s i n g r e y a n d w h i t e b y d a y•I n t h e e v e n i n g s h e w e a r s s o f t r i c h c o l o u r s,…a l w a y s o f t h e m o s t s u p p l e f l o w i n g t e x t u r ee l e g a n t,b e a u t if u l,i n t e l l ig e n tN a r r a t o r:E d m u n d C a r r•…a n d s a i d I h a d b e t t e r t a k e t o w r i t i n g f a s h i o n a r t i c l e si n s t e a d o f p o l i t i c a l l e a d e r s.a n i n f l u e n t i a l p o l i t i c a l c o l o m n i s t•I o b s e r v e w i t h a m u s e m e n t h o w t o t a l l y t h e c o n c e r n s o f t h e w o r l d,w h i c h o n c e a b s o r b e d m e t o t h e e x c l u s i o n o f a l l e l s e e x c e 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