Unit 6 Keys to Exercises

Unit 6

Text Comprehension I. B II. 1. T, 2.F, 3. F, 4. T, 5. F

III. 1. The unknown soldier called himself and his fellow soldiers fools, because he

felt that all of them had been somewhat fooled. They were totally unprepared for the cruelty of the war and the immensity of its killing power, and ‘came here with an air of confidence and eagerness, ready to win’, but what awaited them was ‘a one-way ticket to catch’.

2. The unknown soldier wrote the first entry when his regiment was in London to protect the city from the Nazi’s air raids. He wrote the second entry when his group of soldiers had journeyed to a small European town untouched by warfare. And the last entry was written when their secret location was discovered by Nazi troops and he thought he would soon be dead.

3. What encouraged the unknown soldier to live on was his wish to come home alive to see his family. This is mentioned in all three entries: ‘I must go on living this nightmare, if not for myself or my country, then for my family back home. I want my children to have a father.’ ‘…wondering yet again if I would ever see my family. I wish, with all my soul, that I could be home now… I am thinking of my soul, that I could be home now… I am thinking of my daughters’ faces… I will always remember their faces.

4. Refer to paragraph of the second entry. He would tell their families that those soldiers died bravely in an effort to save their countries from turmoil and make the children feel that their fathers made a difference.

5. He felt disgusted at the cruelty of the war, questioned the judgment of human beings who started the war and felt enraged at killing innocent lives and destroying whole countries.

IV. 1. Although my stories about their fathers’ death could not relieve their sadness,

they will enable the children to see the extraordinary significance of their fathers’ contribution.

2. I suddenly recalled a saying I once heard that made me very painful, ‘we can’t afford to fight even one war.’ Vocabulary I. 1. No more than – only 2. makes me feel painful

3. Further casualties have been caused 4. It is said that

5. appearing full of, radiating

II. 1. running 2. tucked 3. inspected

4. taken precautions 5. with an air of 6. adventurous 7. enraged 8. panicked III. 1. stiffened 2. errors 3. invasion 4. assumption 5. innocence 6. assignment 7. explosion 8. description

IV. 1. B, 2. D, 3. C, 4. D, 5. C, 6. B, 7. C, 8. A. V. 1. heaps, stacks

2. love, kindness 3. small, lesser

4. surplus, abundance, plenty 5. reasonable, rational 6. terrible, desperate 7. bold, brave 8. regular, usual

VI. 1. balance 2. defeat

3. catch up and pass 4. emphasize 5. support 6. bear 7. lessen 8. prevent Focus of the unit I. How big, Who, What, How often, Why, What II. 1. what did you do on Friday? 2. What time did you get up? 3. Did you have breakfast? 4. Who’s Mary?

5. Where did you first meet her? 6. What does she do? 7. Where does she live? 8. What does she like?

9. Do you often see her?

10. Why did she come to you on Friday morning?

III. (1) she has gone

(2) when she will be back (3) if she went out alone

V. they had recently sent out their youngest reporter around their local hospitals.

He had found that while in some cases the facilities provided for out-patients were extremely good, and waiting rooms were bright and cheerful places, in others, patients were still expected to sit in dreary passages, moving from chair to chair as the queue diminished, no literature was provided, and the canteen, if one existed at all, might be five minutes’ walk away. They felt that far more could be done to obviate such inconvenience, and that some hospitals were not taking full advantages of the various voluntary bodies which offered excellent assistance in the provisional of canteens and suchlike.

Translation I. 1. 我所到之处满目疮痍，楼房夷为瓦砾，生命的欢乐已然封存在这一具具尸体之内，这一切时时刻刻都在刺痛着我的心。

2. 当然，我也和他们一样，但是自上一个进攻日以后，我的想法改变了。当时我们团的任务是保卫伦敦。

3. 倘若我能回国，我发誓一定要让这些战士英明长存，我要告诉他们的家人：他们为了保卫祖国，使之免遭劫难，英勇地献出了自己生命。

4. 虽说人非圣贤，都有过错，但是滥杀无辜，毁人国土，实在是天理难容。 II.

1. Our group was assigned to decorate the garden while the others were preparing the food in the kitchen..

2. On the battlefield the young man was delighted to meet a long-lost brother who came out of the blue.

3. Who has used up the milk? There is none to put in my coffee.

4. Rumour has it that this painting is fake and that the original one was stolen three years ago.

5. One person may not be able to change much, but working together we’ll be able to make a great difference to our country.

6. Many burglaries took place because the owners failed to take the precaution of locking their doors and windows.

7. The minister flew to the front to negotiate with the rioters in an effort to prevent a civil war.

8. I assumed you knew each other because I saw you talking with each other at the party.

Dictation My Berlin diary for December 2 / was limited to four words. / ‘Only three more days!’ /The Foreign office was still holding up/ my passport and exit visa, / which worried me. I had to get my passport and official permission / to leave on December 5.

There was on other thing to do. For weeks I had thought over/ how to get my diaries safely out of Berlin. At some moments/ I had thought / I ought to destroy them before leaving. There was enough in them / to get me hanged.

The morning I got my passport and exit visa / I realized I had less than twenty-four hours / to figure out a way/ of getting my Berlin diaries out. I again thought of destroying them, / but I wanted very much to keep them, if I could. Suddenly, later that morning, / the solution became clear. It was risky, / but it was worth a try. II.

1. one 2. in 3. with 4. for 5. as 6. from 7. that 8. into 9. By 10. in Listening B. The fear

1. fear, handle fear, one of them, as scared as, except, think 2. feeling, let yourself down, let your comrades, your unit down

3. fear, training, handle your fear, work to accomplish, supposed to be doing 4. live through the war, starting to ease off, account for it, a gut feeling

The cruelty

1. short of equipment, enough ammunition, down to one round, enough warm

clothes, confidence, higher military authorities, whatever we needed

2. fog, in , drop us, re-supply us, drop supplies, missed us, dropped, the

Germans

3. ridge, tree line, dug in, ridge, Germans, a shellacking

The brotherhood

1. feeling, happening, bonding, depend on each other, a close-knit group

2. real heroes, buried over there, came home to be buried 3. little part, big war, proud, company of heroes

4. ending of the world, in it, remembered, lucky few, band of brothers, sheds

this blood, brother