Little House in the Big Woods 1Why did Ma say that Laura was a good girl? 1.What kind of people were Laura\'s parents? 答案：
Laura\'s parents were typical American frontier people who lived in the sparsely populated big west.Pa did some outdoor undertakings such as hunting and trapping animals in the woods while Ma was responsible for housework and other indoor work.They lived almost self-sufficiently
2.Discu the kind of life the family lived in the big woods.
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The family lived in the Big Woods.In winter, Pa usually trapped animals so that they could trade the furs for some daily neceities in the next spring.They lived far from the town.The children in the family had not even seen a store.As natural threats such as a bear\'s breaking in were always around, they had to learn to cope with the harsh surroundings
Fool\'s Paradise
1.Why did Atzel want to kill himself after a few days\' stay in paradise Atzel wanted to kill himself after a few days\' stay in paradise because he found that life there was too monotonous.One could do nothing in paradise except eating the same thing everyday and sleeping 2.What do you think the moral of the story is?
We should treasure the days while we are living and make the best of them.
Cheating
1.What do you think of the boy in the story? Why did he wish he were dead after he had cheated? I think the boy in the story knew what was right and what was wrong even though he did something wrong.After he had cheated, he wished himself dead.It proves that when he did something wrong he had a very strong sense of guilt and uneasine.As is mentioned in the story, the most important thing in the boy\'s family was to tell the truth.Certainly this idea affected the boy to the core.
2.What do you think of cheating in tests? I think cheating in tests is very very bad.If a student gets the habit of cheating in tests, he will depend on cheating to get good marks instead of working hard.Also, cheating will be bad to the student\'s growth of personality.Third, it makes it hard for teachers to know students\' real level of learning, which, as a result, will affect teacher\'s teaching and finally students\' learning.
3.Have you ever let others copy your answers? If yes, why?
No, I have never let others copy my answers in tests.But I know some of my clamates have done that before.They know well it\'s wrong to do so but they just can\'t stop themselves because they have a wrong idea of friendship.They think if they refuse a good friend\'s request for help in a test, they will probably lose their friendship.
Young William Shakespeare
1.Can you find anything in Shakespeare\'s early life in Stratford that might have contributed to his future succe as a playwright? Yes.Shakespeare went to Mr.Jerkin\'s school in Church Street every day except on Sundays.There he read and learned all those Latin writers.After he left school, he still read a lot and even started to write poems himself.In addition, he liked watching plays performed by those different companies that came to Stratford on the summer months and he loved to talk to the actors and listened to their stories of London.
2.His wife was not presented very favorably in the story.How did Shakespeare deal with his family problems?
When he said he was going to London, Shakespeare met strong opposition from his wife.However, Shakespeare insisted on leaving home and going after his dream.But he told his wife that he would come home to see them when he could.
3.Shakespeare was a man eager to learn and determined to succeed.Find examples to illustrate that from the text.When he was still at school, Shakespeare had the ambition to become a writer, a poet.After he left school, he persisted in reading and writing while making shoes and gloves.In London, he was busy day and night learning, acting, writing his own plays, reading books, meeting other writers, making friends, etc.He slept very little.All these examples show that Shakespeare was a man eager to learn and to succeed.
Two Boxes of Gold (I)
1.What was Herbert asked to do when he met Mr.Schwarzmoor? Herbert was asked to take two boxes of gold to Naples.The two boxes contained 25 million pounds in gold.Herbert had to take this to Pagliavicini and Roi, No, 172 Toledo, Naples via Lyons and Marseilles.
2.Herbert had a terrible dream on the train.What did the dream suggest?
The train started from Paris.On the half way Herbert fell asleep on the train.Meanwhile, he had a terrible dream in which he couldn\'t remember the words for opening the letter locks of the boxes.He also dreamed that when he had arrived at his destination, No,172 Toledo, Naples, he was ordered to speak out the words, or to tell the place where the boxes were hidden.Otherwise, he would be executed by shooting.A big earthquake took place in the city and a sea of fire rolled in through the window.Just at this time, Herbert woke up.As we know, dream activity may be provoked by external influences.Sometimes a dream may foretell something about the future.The dream Herbert had on the train might suggest that someone was interested in the two boxes Herbert carried and he would try every means to get the words which would open the letter locks.Because of this, Herbert would meet with various kinds of unexpected troubles and dangers on his way to his destination.
3.Which of the two was more suspicious, Major Baxter or Levison ? Give your reasons.
Personally speaking, I think Levison was more suspicious.The reasons I am going to give are as follows: 1) Levison carried four boxes which looked exactly like Herbert\'s.Levison might use these boxes to exchange with Herbert.Thus he could get the gold he wanted.2) Wherever he went, Herbert seemed to be followed by Levison.It suggested that Herbert was kept watch on in secret by Levison.3) Levison wanted to have some champagne with him.When he ordered another bottle of champagne, Levison didn\'t want to have the waiter open the bottle for him.He did it himself.So he could put some poison in the wine
The Call of the Wild
1.How do you understand the sentence \"Buck was beaten (he knew that) but he was not broken\"? With the words \"beaten\" and \"broken\", which give the effect of alliteration, this sentence contains profound meanings.Buck was fully aware that he was punished for his furious rebellion, clubbed cruelly by the fat man in a red coat.He was beaten up relentlely, with bleeding wounds all over his body, but his spirit was not destructible at all.The wildne in him was still forceful enough to be developed in the northern wilderne.Outwardly Buck was now in a miserable shape and condition, but inwardly he maintained his firmne and steadine. 2.What does the law of club and tooth mean? Here, of course, both club and tooth are used in their metaphoric sense.They are indicative of cutting and hitting, biting and beating, crushing and cracking, fighting and punishing.The law of club and tooth means that the rule in the wild north was that of coldne, toughne, harshne, and fiercene.There was no place for softne, or kindne, or gentlene, or politene.Lenience had to give way to cruelty, friendline to offensivene, affection to indifference, tolerance to jealousy, sympathy to antipathy, love to hatred, generosity to hostility
