Unit 3 A Hanging 练习答案

英语八年级上人教版Unit 3 Section A练习（含答案）Ⅰ.根据句意及首字母提示完成单词1．Jim has two daughters.They are b__oth__ students now.2．Jack was more h__ardworking__ than me，so he got better grades. 3．Alice is an o__utgoing__ girl.She likes staying with her friends and enjoys talking.4．Bob is younger than Fred but t__aller__ than Fred.5．Tom jumped h__igher__ than me in the school sports meeting.6．He walks into the bedroom q__uietly__ because his daughter is sleeping. 7．When you have dinner with foreigners，don't speak l__oudly__ with food in your mouth.Ⅱ.用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空1．Lucy and Lily are twin sisters.But they look quite __different__(difference)．2．Tina sings __more__loudly__(loudly)than Tara.3．I think this story is __more__interesting__(interesting)than that one. 4．Which do you like __better__(well)，green tea or orange juice?5．This quilt is very __expensive__(expensive)．I can't buy it. 6．—Tom is lazy.He sometimes gets up at 7：00.—But I think Jim is __lazier__(lazy)because he's always late.7．You should practice __more__(much)，then you can do it better.8．Tina works as __hard__(hard)as Tara.Ⅲ.语法填空阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空白处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

U n i t3A H a n g i n g课文翻译Unit 3A HangingA HANGINGGeorge Orwell1. It was in Burma, a sodden morning of the rains. We were waiting outside the condemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages. Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot for drinking water. In some of them brown silent men were squatting at the inner bars, with their blankets draped round them. These were the condemned men, due to be hanged within the next week or two.Detailed Reading2. One prisoner had been brought out of his cell. He was a Hindu, a puny wisp of a man, with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes. Six tall Indian warders were guarding him and getting him ready for the gallows. Two of them stood by with rifles and fixed bayonets, while the others handcuffed him, passed a chain through his handcuffs and fixed it to their belts, and lashed his arms tightly to his sides. They crowded very close about him, with their hands always on him in a careful, caressing grip, as though all the while feeling him to make sure he was there. But he stood quite unresisting, yielding his arms limply to the ropes, as though he hardly noticed what was happening.3. Eight o'clock struck and a bugle call floated from the distant barracks. The superintendent of the jail, who was standing apart from the rest of us, moodily prodding the gravel with his stick, raised his head at the sound. "For God's sake hurry up, Francis," he said irritably. "The man ought to have been dead by this time. Aren't you ready yet?"4. Francis, the head jailer, a fat Dravidian in a white drill suit and gold spectacles, waved his black hand. "Yes sir, yes sir," he bubbled. "All is satisfactorily prepared. The hangman is waiting. We shall proceed."5. "Well, quick march, then. The prisoners can't get their breakfast till this job's over."6. We set out for the gallows. Two warders marched on either side of the prisoner, with their rifles at the slope; two others marched close against him, gripping him by arm and shoulder, as though at once pushing and supporting him. The rest of us, magistrates and the like, followed behind.7. It was about forty yards to the gallows. I watched the bare brown back of the prisoner marching in front of me. He walked clumsily with his bound arms, but quite steadily. At each step his muscles slid neatly into place, the lock of hair on his scalp danced up and down, his feet printed themselves on the wet gravel. And once, in spite of the men who gripped him by each shoulder, he stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path.8. It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we are alive. All the organs of his body were working -- bowels digesting food, skin renewing itself, nails growing, tissues forming -- all toiling away in solemn foolery. His nails would still be growing when he stood on the drop, when he was falling through the air with a tenth of a second to live. His eyes saw the yellow gravel and the gray walls, and his brain still remembered, foresaw, reasoned -- reasoned even about puddles. He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone -- one mind less, one world less.9. The gallows stood in a small yard. The hangman, a gray-haired convict in the white uniform of the prison, was waiting beside his machine. He greeted us with a servile crouch as we entered. At a word from Francis the two warders, gripping the prisoner more closely than ever, half led half pushed him to the gallows and helped him clumsily up the ladder. Then the hangman climbed up and fixed the rope around the prisoner's neck.10. We stood waiting, five yards away. The warders had formed a rough circle round the gallows. And then, when the noose was fixed, the prisoner began crying out to his god. It was a high, reiterated cry of "Ram! Ram! Ram! Ram!" not urgent and fearful like a prayer or a cry for help, but steady, rhythmical, almost like the tolling of a bell.11. The hangman climbed down and stood ready, holding the lever. Minutes seemed to pass. The steady crying from the prisoner went on and on, "Ram! Ram! Ram!" never faltering for an instant. The superintendent, his head on his chest, was slowly poking the ground with his stick; perhaps he was counting the cries, allowing the prisoner a fixed number -- fifty, perhaps, or a hundred. Everyone had changed color. The Indians had gone gray like bad coffee, and one or two of the bayonets were wavering.12. Suddenly the superintendent made up his mind. Throwing up his head he made a swift motion with his stick. "Chalo!" he shouted almost fiercely.13. There was a clanking noise, and then dead silence. The prisoner had vanished, and the rope was twisting on itself. We went round the gallows to inspect the prisoner's body. He was dangling with his toes pointing straight downward. Very slowly revolving, as dead as a stone.14. The superintendent reached out with his stick and poked the bare brown body; it oscillated slightly. "He's all right," said the superintendent. He backed out from under the gallows, and blew out a deep breath. The moody look had gone out of his face quite suddenly. He glanced at his wrist watch. "Eight minutes past eight. Well, that's all for this morning, thank God."15. The warders unfixed bayonets and marched away. We walked out of the gallows yard, past the condemned cells with their waiting prisoners, into the big central yard of the prison. The convicts were already receiving their breakfast. They squatted in long rows, each man holding a tin pannikin, while two warders with buckets march round ladling out rice; it seemed quite a homely, jolly scene, after the hanging. An enormous relief had come upon us now that the job was done. One felt an impulse to sing, to break into a run, to snigger. All at once everyone began chattering gaily.16. The Eurasian boy walking beside me nodded toward the way we had come, with a knowing smile, "Do you know sir, our friend (he meant the dead man) when he heard his appeal had been dismissed, he pissed on the floor of his cell. From fright. Kindly take one of my cigarettes, sir. Do you not admire my new silver case, sir? Classy European style."17. Several people laughed -- at what, nobody seemed certain.18. Francis was walking by the superintendent, talking garrulously, "Well, sir, all has passed off with the utmost satisfactoriness. It was all finished -- flick! Like that. It is not always so -- oah no! I have known cases where the doctor was obliged to go beneath the gallows and pull the prisoner's legs to ensure decease. Most disagreeable."19. "Wriggling about, eh? That's bad," said the superintendent.20. "Ach, sir, it is worse when they become refractory! One man, I recall, clung to the bars of his cage when we went to take him out. You will scarcely credit, sir, that it took six warders to dislodge him, three pulling at each leg."21. I found that I was laughing quite loudly. Everyone was laughing. Even the superintendent grinned in a tolerant way. "You'd better all come and have a drink," he said quite genially. "I've got a bottle of whiskey in the car. We could do with it."22. We went through the big double gates of the prison into the road. "Pulling at his legs!" exclaimed a Burmese magistrate suddenly, and burst into a loud chuckling. We all began laughing again. At that moment Francis'anecdote seemed extraordinarily funny. We all had a drink together, native and European alike, quite amicably. The dead man was a hundred yards away.1. 那是发生在缅甸的事情。

10.You should learn to think while reading. Usually, behind the linesthe
writer’s true meaning.
A. lieB. lies
C. haveD. Has
【答案】B
【解析】
【分析】
【详解】
试题分析：句意：当你阅读事，你应该学会思考。通常线后面是作者的真实意义。此题考查动词释义，A位于；B位于；C有；D有。根据句子，本句话是倒装结构，behind the lines作地点状语，主语在句尾，句子缺少谓语动词，且为表达“位于”的不及物，即动词用lie，主语为单数，故选B。
A.hangedB.hangingC.hangsD.being hung
【答案】B
【解析】
【详解】句意：挂在墙上的那幅画是我的奶奶画的。
考查现在分词作后置定语。hang意为“悬挂”。“The picture”与hang之间是被动关系，此处用hang的现在分词形式与“on the wall”一起构成后置定语。hanging 是主动形式表被动，并表示持续静止的状态。故选B。
【答案】A
【解析】
【详解】句意：小心点，否则你可能最终会受伤。
考查形容词辨析。A. careful小心的；B. polite礼貌的；C. sure确定的；D. friendly友好的。根据题干中“or you may end up getting hurt”可知应该是提醒别人小心点。故选A。
7.This movie wasn’t __________. He fell asleep half way through it.
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Unit 3A HangingConsolidation ActivitiesI. Text Comprehension1. Decide which of the following best states the author's purpose BA.To criticize the reaction of the on-lookers during a hanging.B.To present his humanistic view on capital punishment.C.To describe the process of an execution.D.To show sympathy to the man that had been hanged.II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.1). Each cell, ten feet by ten in size, was barely furnished except for a plank bed and a pot for drinking water. [T]2). According to the superintendent, the prisoner should be executed at 8 o'clock. [T]3). A group of prisoners were walking towards the gallows to be hanged. [F]4). When the noose was fixed around the prisoner's neck, he emitted urgent and fearful cries for help. [F]5). As the superintendent was counting the prisoner's cries to a fixed number, all on the spot, including the Indian warders, were terribly upset. [T]6). We went round the gallows to make sure that the hanged prisoner was actually dead. [T]7). From what the Eurasian boy said, the hanged man was an undaunted man. [F]II. Writing StrategiesThis text is a piece of dynamic or descriptive narration, telling us a true story about the hanging of a convict in Burma. The narrative text first presents a general description of the poor, simple living conditions of the condemned men before they were put to death on the gallows. Next, it focuses on a dynamic and specific description of how a condemned man, a Hindu, was guarded and escorted to the gallows and how he was hanged. Then, some anecdotes are presented and some events described, which provide food for thought. Evidently, the events are organized mainly in the order of their occurrence, following the natural time sequence. It is to be noted that Paragraphs 9-14 make up the climax of the story.Also, it is not to be overlooked that the first-person narration is adopted, whichrenders the events described or narrated more vivid, objective and believable, and which makes it possible and convenient for the narrator to put across his own thoughts and feelings in the process of narration. Besides, it is worth our attention that the beginning of this narrative story is well connected with its conclusion.The questions below are to be answered:1. Do you agree that the narrative story is full of dynamic descriptions? If you do, provide examples to support your viewpoint.→Yes, I do. The story is so full of dynamic verbs that more than 90% of the sentences contain one or two, or even more action verbs. Obvious examples are found in Paragraphs 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15.2. Which paragraphs contain flashbacks?→ Flashbacks are found in Paragraphs 16, 18, and 20.3. What do you know about the advantages of the first-person narration?→The employment of the first person narration renders the events described or the plots narrated more vivid, objective and believable, and makes it possible and convenient for the narrator to express or demonstrate his own thoughts or psychological activities in the process of narration.4. How is the beginning of the story associated with its conclusion?→Both the beginning and the conclusion of the narrative story touch on or briefly describe the hard life and tragic fate of the condemned prisoners.III. Language Work1. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.1.These were the condemned men, due to be hanged within the next week or two.→ who were scheduled to be hanged2. He was a Hindu, a puny wisp of a man, with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes.→ who was a small, thin, and weak man3. They crowded very close about him, with their hands always on him in a careful, caressing grip.→ holding him firmly and continuously in a careful manner4. Two warders marched on either side of the prisoner, with their rifles at the slope.→carrying rifles that tilted over their shoulders5. At each step his muscles slid neatly into place.→ his muscles appeared to be functioning normally6. …and in tw o minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone -- one mind less, one world less.we will lose a man who can also think and reason like us, and who is also a unique individual like each of us2. Fill in each blank with one of the two words from each pair in their appropriate forms and note the difference of meaning between them.vibrate oscillate1).More and more people believe that the common stocks oscillate in a predictablycyclical way.2).Half sleeping, she could feel the train vibrate with the monotonous roll of wheelsalong the track.3).He will never forget his first experiences as a total stranger in the big city, those yearswhich oscillated between hope and despair.4).When you play a note on any guitar, you create an overtone series, and those overtoneseries come about through the string vibrating in properly divided lengths.motion movement1).In the middle of the blaze stands a tall dead pine, which caught a lightening boltduring last night's thunderstorm and set the fire in motion.2).The jury watched the tape dozens of times in slow motion and in freeze frame.3).The movement of the enemy troops in the border area has been closely monitored.4).The labour movement has been assailed by accusations of sexism and demands forchange from feministsinspect examine1).They don't normally give any advance notice about which building they're going toinspect for the annual quality assessment.2).The aim of the course is to examine certain philosophical issues which arise frommodern linguistics.3).If it is our contention that the weapons inspectors have all the authority they neednow to inspect those sites, do you think those sites should be inspected now?4).Here is an opportunity for students to examine the concepts of what it is to be anenvironmentalist, and to examine their own behaviour in this context.dangle suspend1).Once inside the hall, we could see chandeliers suspended on heavy chains from theceiling.2).The belt of her coat dangled in the mud.3).Joan suggested we suspend a rope from the garage roof to secure the door fromfalling.4).A gold bracelet dangled from his left wrist.3. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase from the box, using its appropriate form.1).She thought she was too homely to get a date.2).I could hear the note of appeal in her voice as she asked me to talk things over again.3).In this decade of politics, many more women have become magistrates.4).I hope that we can settle this issue amicably.5).This is a far from solemn book -- it is a rich mix of pleasures and information, and isfull of surprises.6).We rushed out of the shop in hot pursuit, but the thief had vanished into thin air.7).He twisted and turned, trying to free himself from the rope.8).I tried to excuse myself for missing her party but made the attempts very clumsily.4. Make a sentence of your own for each of the given words with meanings other than those used in the text. You may change the part of speech of these words.1) cells→ Those cells divide and form many other different types of cells.2) yield→ Last year 400,000 acres of land yielded a crop worth $1.75 billion in that country.3) lock→ The police beat them up and locked them in a cell.4) stand by→ I think we have to stand by what we believe.5) tick→ A wind-up clock ticked busily from the kitchen counter.6) side→ He calls me twenty times a day and needs me by his side.5. Put the words in the parentheses into their appropriate tenses and aspects.When I (1) opened (open) the door I (2) saw (see) a man on his knees. He clearly (3) had been listening (listen) to our conversation and I (4) wondered (wonder) how much he (5) had heard (hear). When I (6) asked (ask) what he (7) was doing (do), he (8) said (say) that he (9) had dropped (drop) a 50p piece outside the door and (10) had been looking (look) for it. I (11) didn’t see(not see) any sign of the money, but I (12) found (find) a small notebook and pencil which he probably (13) had dropped (drop) when the door (14)opened (open) suddenly. So he (15) had been taking (take) notes of our conversation! The notes (16) were (be) written in a foreign language, so I (17) turned (turn) to the stranger and (18) asked (ask) him to translate. But he (19) pulled (pull) my hat over my eyes and (20) ran (run) off down the corridor. By the time I (21) recovered (recover) from the shock he (22) had disappeared (disappear) round the corner. Curiously enough, when I (23) moved (move) my foot I (24) found (find) that I (25) had been standing (stand) on a 50p piece. Perhaps he (26) had been telling (tell) the truth after all!6. Put a word in each blank that is appropriate for the context.Of the many problems in the world today, none is as widespread, or as old, as crime. Crime, in all its (1) forms, penetrates every layer of society and touches every human being. Whatever you do, wherever you live, you are (2) victim of crime whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not. Crime, (3) especially violent crime, has risen to a point where many people are afraid to walk (4) alone in their own neighborhoods, afraid to open their doors after (5) dark, and even afraid to speak out and voice their own opinions. Some experts have identified several factors that (6) contribute to the crime rate: massive urbanization, unemployment and poverty, and a large immigrant (7) population. The most important problem that remains (8) unsolved is how to stop crime from happening. So far, different types of solutions have been proposed to (9) combat various crimes. Are they all very (10) effective? No, not at all. Therefore, more effective measures and more powerful actions are to be taken against all sorts of crime so that our world may be a better place to live in.IV. Translation1. Translate the following into English.1). 当我女儿听说十二岁以下的儿童不得入场观看那场电影时，她气得双脚直跳。