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Unit 3 A Hanging 课文翻译教学教材
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。
冀教版英语九年级_【课时检测】Unit_3_Lesson_13(解析版)
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 3 A HANGING Teaching Plan 教案
Unit 3A HangingTeaching PlanEstimated Time of Lesson: 270 minutes, 6 sessionsLearning Objectives1) Basic features of English descriptive narration2) Words and expressions3) George Orwell and his main works4) Writing strategies: dynamic description, first-person narration5) Discussion on theme of Text II “Shooting an Elephant”Pre-class Activity: Greeting, Course Rhythm and Task Description Relationship to Current Unit: narrative writing descriptive narration Materials: Teacher’s Book (5), English-English Dictionary, Blackboard, PPTTime Allocation:S 1-21.Pre-reading: Picture Activation, Pre-questions 10min2.Global Reading: Text Introduction, Culture Notes, Author, Structure15 min3.Detailed Reading (a): Text I: Paragraphs 1-7 65minS 3-44.Detailed Reading (b): Text I: Paragraphs 8-2290 minS 5-65.Consolidation Activities (a): Text Comprehension; Writing Strategies20 min6.Consolidation Activities (b): Language work; Oral Activities; Writing70 min7.Further Enhancement (Optional): Text II / Other Comprehensive PracticesLearning Objectives●Basic features of English descriptive narration●Key language & grammar points●George Orwell and his works●Writing strategies: dynamic description, first-person narration●Discussion on "Shooting an Elephant"Section One Pre-reading ActivitiesI. Picture ActivationHow much do you know about our nation’s criminal law? Does it contain capital punishment?Do you think the death penalty should be abolished in a civilized society?Open for discussion.II. Pre-questionsDo you think the death penalty should be abolished in a civilized society?Open for discussion.Section Two Global ReadingI. Text IntroductionThe text, which is a descriptive narration, relates a true story about the execution of a condemned prisoner in Burma. It describes experience of his watching a criminal being hanged while the author served in the British Imperial Police in Burma. The whole story is full of dynamic, gruesome, and miserable narrative descriptions that are impressive and unforgettable.II. Culture Notes1. Hindu(paragraph 2): a person who believes in and practices Hinduism, a religious tradition of Indian origin2. Dravidian达罗毗荼族人(paragraph 4) the term applied to a linguistically related group of people in India composed mainly of the traditionally lower caste members of Indian society such as the Tamil and more isolated highland tribes such as the Ghats and the Todas3. Ram (paragraph 10): Ram is the 7th incarnation of Vishnu and the central figure of the Ramayana epic. The Ramayan is the very soul of India. It is a complete guide to God-realization, the path to which lies in righteousness. The ideals of man are beautifully portrayed in it. Everyone should emulate those ideals and grow into ideal human beings and ideal citizens.III. AuthorGeorge Orwell乔治·奥威尔, Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense, revolutionary opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism.Orwell’s major worksNovelsBurmese Days (1934)Coming Up for Air (1939)Animal Farm (1945)Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)EssaysShooting an Elephant (1936)Inside the Whale (1940)Boys' Weeklies (1940)Famous quotes“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”“Minds are like parachutes--they only function when open”“Four legs good, two legs bad.”His InfluenceOrwell's influence on popular and political culture remains apparent, with numerous ofhis literary concepts, and the term "Orwellian" entering the popular vernacular.IV. Structural AnalysisPart 1(P1) the introductory part, which presents the background knowledgePart 2(P2-14) constitute the body of the storyPart 3(P15-22) form the denouement of the story, where thought-provoking descriptions are provided and some tragic anecdotes insertedSection Three Detailed ReadingA HANGINGGeorge OrwellI. Analysis1. Paragraph 1 AnalysisThe first part of the narrative story, introduces the setting and the characters of the story and briefly describes the bad living conditions of the condemned men, who lived in small cells,each of which measured about ten feet by ten and were quite bare within.2. Paragraphs 2-7 AnalysisThese paragraphs describe how a condemned prisoner was prepared for the gallows, how he was escorted on his way to the gallows and how he reacted, behaved, and marched.Detailed Reading3. Paragraph 8 AnalysisThis paragraph describes the writer's thoughts and feelings when he saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle on the path. He realized what it meant to destroy a healthy, conscious man. He saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide.Detailed Reading4. Paragraphs 9-14 AnalysisThis part makes up the climax of the narrative story---the most shocking part of the tragic story.In this part, there is a detailed description of the terrible scene: When the hangman fixed the rope around the prisoner's neck and fastened the noose, the prisoner began crying out to his god. He kept crying steadily until he was hanged. Everyone had changed color. Also, there is a gruesome account of an inspection of the dead body, which was slowly revolving, as dead as a stone.5. Paragraphs 15-22 AnalysisThese paragraphs form the denouement or conclusion of the story, where thought-provoking descriptions are provided and some disagreeable anecdotes inserted.II. Questions for ParagraphsParagraph 1: questions1. Where and when did the story take place?The story took place in Burma on a sodden morning of the rains.2. Provide a general description of the condemned cells.The condemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, were like small animal cages. Each cell was about ten feet long and ten feet wide and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot for drinking water. In some of the cells brown silent men were squatting at the inner bars, with their blankets draped round them.3. Try to understand the different uses of “condemned” in Paragraph 1.“the condemned cells”“the condemned men”The core word of the former is inanimate, while the latter animate.Paragraph 2: questions1. How many warders were guarding the convicted man and preparing him for the gallows? How were the warders guarding the man?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 bound his arms tightly to his sides. They crowded very close about him, their hands gripping him carefully all the while, as if feeling him to make sure he was there.2. How did the man react while the warders were getting him ready?The condemned prisoner stood without trying to put up any resistance. He quite willingly let his limp arms be tied up with the ropes, as though he paid no attention to what was happening.Paragraph 6: questionHow was the condemned man escorted to 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.Paragraph 7: questionHow did the prisoner walk?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 moved rhythmically up and down, and his feet left footmarks on the wet gravel which formed the surface of the path. And once, in spite of the men who gripped him by each shoulder, he stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path.Paragraph 8: question1. What is the main idea of this paragraph?This paragraph conveys the message that the writer saw the unspeakable wrongness of putting a life to an end when it is in full tide. In other words, he realized that it was terribly wrong to hang a healthy, conscious man.2. How do you understand the sentence “his eyes saw the yellow gravel and the grey walls”?It paints a picture of the monotonous splashes of colors at the prison, or perhaps the image may relate to grave (which is a symbol of death).This emphasizes the fact that the prisoner is doomed, and providing a touch of depression or death by making use the dull colors.Paragraph 8: activityQuestion for discussionWhat does the author imply by repeating “the prisoner stepped aside to avoid the puddle”? (Para s. 7-8)On one hand it shows that he is mentally and physically healthy and vigilant; on the other hand the puddle may foreshadow his doomed fate of being executed, and that hisvain attempts to avoid the puddles will not be able to help him to escape from it.Paragraph 9: questionWhat does Paragraph 9 tell us?This paragraph first tells us something about the hangman, then it states the fact that the prisoner was half led and half pushed to the gallows, and finally the hangman fixed the rope around the prisoner's neck.Paragraph 10: question1. What do Paragraphs 10 and 11 describe?They describe the most shocking scene: When the noose was fixed, the prisoner began crying out to his god. It was a high, reiterated cry of "Ram! Ram! Ram! Ram!" It was a steady, rhythmical cry, almost like the tolling of a bell. Minutes seemed to pass. The steady crying from the prisoner continued, "Ram! Ram! Ram!" never faltering for an instant. The superintendent perhaps was counting the cries. Everyone was feeling sad, frightened and shocked.2. How do you understand the prisoner’s persistent crying of “Ram! Ram! Ram!” here?Fear?Belief?Protesting?Paragraph 12: questionWho issued the order to hang the prisoner? And how was it given?It was the superintendent who gave the order to execute the prisoner on the gallows. He suddenly made up his mind and issued the order by shouting fiercely.Paragraph 13: questionWhat does Paragraph 13 describe?This paragraph presents a description like this: A clanking noise was followed by dead silence. The prisoner had vanished instantly. An inspection was made of the dead body, which was dangling with his toes pointing straight downward.Paragraph 14: question1. How did the superintendent make sure that the prisoner was dead?The superintendent reached out with his stick and poked the bare brown body; it oscillated slightly. Thus, he made sure that the prisoner was absolutely dead.2. What can be inferred from "Eight minutes past eight. Well, that's all for this morning,thank God." uttered by the superintendent?These two sentences uttered by the superintendent imply that the hanging of the condemned man was about eight minutes late, that the prisoner was the only one who was intended to be hanged that morning, that it was a difficult task to have the prisoner killed, and that hanging condemned prisoners was a daily routine for the superintendent, warders, magistrates, etc. Now that the job was done, the superintendent felt relieved.Paragraph 15: questions1. Describe the scene that the convicts were receiving their breakfast.When the convicts were 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.2. How did the judicial officers feel after the Hindu was hanged?The judicial officers were feeling enormously relieved 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. Anecdotes were narrated and enjoyed.Paragraph 16: questionWhat anecdote did the Eurasian boy tell the writer?The boy told the writer that his friend (he meant the dead man) had urinated on the floor of his cell from fright when he heard his appeal had been dismissed.Paragraph 18: question1. What did Francis think of the hanging of the Hindu?Francis was satisfied that the Hindu had been hanged most effectively and most satisfactorily because shortly afterwards the dead convict was dangling with his toes pointing straight downwards. Francis had known most disagreeable cases where the doctor was obliged to go beneath the gallows and pull the prisoner's legs to ensure death/decease.2. Why did Francis mention other cases?Because he wanted to make a contrast to emphasize that the death of the Hindu was instant whereas in other difficult cases the doctor was obliged to go beneath the gallows and pull the prisoner's legs to finish the prisoner off.Paragraphs 20-21: questionRetell the head jailer's anecdote which seemed extraordinarily funny to the writer. Is it really funny to you?I don’t think it funny at all. In fact, it was most tragic. It was worse when convictsbecame difficult to control! One man, Francis recalled, clung to the bars in his cage when he and others went to take him out. It was scarcely believable that it took six warders to dislodge him, three pulling at each leg.Obviously, the man's death was a most miserable tragedy; it was absolutely not "exceptionally funny."Paragraphs 21-22: questions1. What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?We can infer that in the writer's eyes, the judicial officers, even including the writer, the head jailer, and the superintendent, were all cold-blooded, unfeeling and inhuman. The reasons were quite clear. When the anecdotes were told, the judicial officers thought of them as extremely funny, and laughed or grinned, or chuckled loudly; they all had a drink together quite amicably, though the dead man was just a hundred yards away.2. What is the writer's purpose of narrating this story?By reading the narrative story we can infer the writer's purpose. On the one hand, he intended to tell the readers how badly those convicts in Burma were treated and how tragically they were put to death; on the other hand, the narrator wanted to inform the public how cruel, inhuman and unsympathetic those judicial officers in Burma were becoming. More importantly, the writer purported to assert his stand as an abolitionist.III. Language Work of ParagraphsParagraph 1“It was in Burma, a sodden morning of the rains.”Paraphrase:The story took place in Burma on a very wet morning during the rainy season.the condemned cells: the very small rooms in a prison where prisoners, who had been sentenced to death and who were due to be hanged within a week or two, were being kept“a row of sheds fronted with double bars”Explanation:a line of one-story buildings whose front was strengthened with both inner and outer bars“Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot for drinking water.”Paraphrase: Each condemned cell was about ten feet long and ten feet wide, in each of which there was only a plank bed and a pot for drinking water.squat vi. a. sit on one's heels or on the ground with the knees drawn up under or close to the body; b. occupy an empty building or settle on unoccupied land, etc. without permissione.g. The old man was squatting down by the fire, smoking a tobacco pipe.Some homeless people were squatting in that deserted house.drape sth. round/over sth. else: hang (cloth, curtains, a cloak, etc.) loosely on sth. elsee.g. A fur coat was draped round her shoulders.Dustsheets were draped over the furniture in the house.Paragraphs 2-7warder n. a jailer, a person who works as a guard in a prisone.g. The POWs (prisoners of war) clubbed their warder to death and escaped from the concentration camp.handcuff n. a pair of lockable linked metal rings for securing a prisoner's wrists vt. put handcuffs one.g. The detective took out his handcuffs and put it on the man's wrist.The policeman pounced upon the terrorist and had him handcuffed before he could make an attempt to resist.lash vt. fasten things together securely with ropes, etc.; tie sth. securely in position with ropes, etc.e.g. The slave trader lashed the slaves tightly to rings on the board.The captain lashed down the cargo on the deck.“But he stood quite unresisting, yielding his arms limply to the ropes, as though he hardly noticed what was happening.”Paraphrase: But he stood, without putting up any resistance. He let the warders bind up his limp arms with the ropes, as if he were not aware of what was happening.float vi. move in air, water or gas; drift slowlye.g. Look! A red and yellow balloon is floating across the blue sky.The aroma of the brewed coffee floated from the kitchen.“Eight o'clock struck and a bugle call floated from the distant barracks.”Paraphrase:The clock struck eight o'clock and a bugle call drifted 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.”Paraphrase: The head of the jail, who was standing at a distance from the rest of us,feeling so gloomy and sullen that he was poking the gravel with his stick.prod vi. to poke sth. with one's finger or sth. pointede.g.The boy is prodding the sandy beach with a stick, enjoying it very much.For God's sake: This phrase is used when you want to make a request or ask a question or when you are annoyed, surprised, impatient, etc.Variations:For (heaven's/Christ's/goodness'/Pete's) sake"Yes sir, yes sir," he bubbled.Paraphrase: "Yes sir, yes sir," he uttered in a lively manner.quick march :a military command to tell the soldiers to walk or march fast in an orderly, neat and regular manner“gripping him by arm and shoulder”Explanation: holding him firmly by arm and shoulderbare brown backNote: two rhetorical devices are applied here, namely, alliteration (头韵) and metonymy(借代)slide v. (cause to) move smoothly along an even, polished or slippery surface; (cause to) move quietly so as not to be noticede.g. We are to slide the box by exerting a force on it.The thief slid out while nobody was looking.“the lock of hair on his scalp danced up and down, his feet printed themselves on the wet gravel”Paraphrase: the cluster of hair on top of his head moved rhythmically up and down, and his feet left prints on the wet grainy stones that formed the surface of the path. puddle n. a small pool of water, esp. of rain water on a path or roadParagraph 8“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.”Paraphrase: When I watched the prisoner walk aside to evade the pool of rain water on the path, I realized how awfully wrong it was to hang an active, healthy and conscious man.unspeakable adj. (usu. derogatory) indescribable; that can not be expressed in wordse.g. I was shocked by the unspeakable cruelty of the terrorists who killed so many innocent people.The writer of this narrative piece laid bare the unspeakable corruption of the government.“all toiling away in solemn foolery.“Paraphrase: All the organs of his body were playing their normal functions, all were working very hard and solemnly, but they were doing something useless because they would be destroyed in a few minutes.on the drop: on the trapdoor on the gallowswith a sudden snap: with a sudden sharp noise; with a sudden sharp crackParagraphs 9-14convict n. a person who has been convicted of crime and who is being punished, esp. by imprisonmente.g. All the convicts in the prison were due to be hanged in a couple of weeks. servile a. too ready to obey others; lacking independencee.g. I strongly dislike his servile flattery and his servile manner.crouch vi. lower the body by bending the knees, e.g. in fear or to hiden. in a crouching positione.g. The cat crouched, ready to leap.The little boy crouched behind the sofa.The children all dropped down into a crouch before the meeting began.noose n. a loop with a running knot, tightening as the rope is pullede.g. When the noose was fixed, the prisoner was blindfolded.The convicted man is facing the hangman's noose.reiterate vt. say or do sth. again or repeatedlye.g. The professor reiterated his proposal so that everybody might consider it carefully.toll vt. ring a bell with slow, regular strokes, esp. for a death or funerale.g. The bell is being tolled for the death of terrorism.“never faltering for an instant”Paraphrase: never wavering for a momentfalter vi. (of one's voice) waver; speak hesitatingly; act, move, or walk hesitatingly usu. because of fear, weakness, or indecisione.g. His voice faltered as he tried to speak.Jane walked boldly up to the platform without faltering.The commander faltered for some time before he declared the command.“his head on his chest”: he was lowering/hanging his head“Everyone had changed color.”Paraphrase: Everyone was feeling so horrified that their faces turned paler.dangle v. hang or swing loosely; hold sth. so that it swings looselye.g. I have a bunch of keys dangling at the end of a chain.He dangled his watch in front of the baby.“Very slowly revolving, as dead as a stone.”Paraphrase: His dead body was turning in a circle slowly.revolve v. (of a planet, etc.) move in a circular orbit; (cause to) go round in a circle; rotate; have sb. or sth. as one's chief concern; centre on sb. or sth.e.g. The earth revolves around the sun on its axis.The discussion revolved around the measures to be taken to ease traffic congestion.oscillate v. (cause to) move repeatedly and regularly from one position to another and back again; keep moving backwards and forwards between two extremes of feeling, behavior, opinion, etc.; wavere.g. A pendulum oscillates.Manic depressives oscillate between depression and elation."He's all right," said the superintendent.Paraphrase: "The convicted man is absolutely dead," remarked the chief warder.“He backed out from under the gallows, and blew out a deep breath.” Paraphrase: The superintendent withdrew from under the gallows and sent out a deep breath from his mouth.Paragraphs 15-22ladle vt. serve food with a ladle or in large quantities; distribute sth. (too) lavishlye.g. She ladled cream over her pudding.She isn't one to ladle out praise, but when she says "Good", she means it.homely a. plain and simple; (of a place) making sb. feel comfortablee.g. A homely woman is one who lives a plain and simple life.It is a homely place, which makes one feel comfortable.jolly a. happy and cheerful; lively and pleasant; delightful or enjoyablee.g. A jolly person laughs in a jolly manner.We attended a jolly party last weekend.“An enormous relief had come upon us now that the job was done.”Paraphrase: Now that the Hindu was hanged, we felt tremendously relieved.impulse n. sudden urge to act without thinking about the results; tendency to act in this way; push or thrust; stimulus; impetuse.g. He felt an irresistible impulse to jump.I am not a man of impulse.The government has given an impulse to agricultural development.“One felt an impulse to sing, to break into a run, to snigger.”Paraphrase: One felt a sudden urge to sing songs, to start running and to laugh in a half-suppressed manner.“All at once everyone began chattering gaily.”Paraphrase: All of a sudden, everyone began talking quickly, and cheerfully. Eurasian n. & a. (a person) of mixed European and Asian parentagee.g. He married a Eurasian, who gave birth to a pretty girl.“when he heard his appeal had been dismissed, he pissed on the floor of his cell.”Paraphrase:When he heard his appeal had been rejected, the convicted man was so terribly frightened that he urinated on the floor of his cell.appeal n. act of taking a question to a higher court where it can be heard again and a new decision can be given; earnest request; attractiveness or intereste.g. Everyone has the right of appeal.The poor country made an appeal for help, especially for food.Does jazz hold any appeal for you?“What do you think of my new silver cigarette case, sir?”Paraphrase: “Do you not admire my new silver case, sir?”Note: The boy raised this question with the intention to show off his cigarette case and more importantly to change the topic of conversation to drive away the unpleasantness of the hanging.garrulously ad. talking away about unimportant thingse.g. Some people tend to talk garrulously about trifles."Well, sir, all has passed off with the utmost satisfactoriness." Paraphrase: Well, sir, everything has taken place and come to a most satisfactory end"I have known cases where the doctor was obliged to go beneath thegallows and pull the prisoner's legs to ensure decease. Most disagreeable." Paraphrase: "I have known instances where the doctor was obliged to go beneath the gallows and pull the prisoner's legs to make sure that the convict was really dead. This is a most unpleasant thing to do.""You will scarcely credit, sir, that it took six warders to dislodge him, three pulling at each leg."Paraphrase:“You will hardly believe, sir, that it took six warders to remove him from his fixed position, three pulling at each leg."genially ad. kindly; pleasantly; sociablye.g. Our teacher presents his lectures genially.The old lady genially smiled at the lovely children.“We all had a drink together, native and European alike, quite amicably.” Paraphrase:We all had a drink of whiskey together, native and European alike, in a quite cheerful and friendly atmosphere.Section Four Further EnchantmentI. Lead-in QuestionsDo you think it’s brutal to kill a huge living creature, like an elephant? Why?Text IISHOOTING AN ELEPHANTGeorge OrwellII. Notes1) “I first grasped the hollowness, the futility of the white men's dominion in the East.” (Paragraph 2): I first understood the worthlessness and failure of the white men's control over the countries in Asia.2). sahib (Paragraph 2): (in former times) a male European in India, Pakistan or Southeast Asia, especially with some official position or rank3). natives (Paragraph 2): Burmans4). “I should have about as much chance as a toad under a steam-roller.” (Paragraph 4): IfI missed the elephant, I would likely be caught and trampled on by him just as a toad was knocked down and rolled over by a steam-roller.5). “a grinning corpse like that Indian up the hill” (Paragraph 4): The present selection is an extract from Shooting an Elephant. At the beginning of the story, it was reported that an elephant was ravaging the bazaar and had killed a black Dravidian coolie.6). “I did not then know that in shooting an elephant one should cut an imaginary bar running from ear-hole to ear-hole.” (P aragraph 5): I was not, at that time, aware that in shooting an elephant one should imagine a bar going into its head from one ear-hole and coming out from the other.III. Fun Time & Memorable Quotes1. Fun Time2. Memorable QuotesIf you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don’t, you will find an excuse.— Jim Rohn Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.— Eleanor Roosevelt Your life would be very empty if you had nothing to regret.— Vincent van Gogh。
Unit 3 A Hanging 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 whogripped 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。
2020_2021学年新教材高中英语UNIT3新人教版选择性必修第二册
UNIT 3 Period Four题组A 基础练(建议用时：10分钟)Ⅰ．单词拼写1．________ (总体上), this is a very useful book.2．He tried to sound ________ (漫不经心的), but I knew he was worried.3．He has a number of social ________ (约会) next week.4．We interviewed a great many candidates but none of them ________ (使印象深刻) us.5．My daughter ________ (告知) me that she was pregnant.【答案】1．Overall 2．casual 3．engagements4．impressed 5．informedⅡ．短语填空bring down; decide on; pull together; be equal to; manage to do1．He is having a high fever. First ______________ his temperature.2．If we ______________， we can finish it today.3．How do you ______________ keep the place so tidy?4．We need ______________ the date of tomorrow’s meeting. There is little time left.5．In theory, the boss ______________ the staff!【答案】1．bring down 2．pull together 3．manage to4．decide on 5．is equal toⅢ．完成句子1．I ______ ______ ______ gardening, but I don’t have time for it now.我过去喜爱园艺，但现在没时间去弄了。
Unit 3 A Hanging 练习答案
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。
(完整word版)Unit3AHanging练习答案
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）。
综合教程 第五册 unit3 A hunging George Orwell
UNIT3A HangingIt 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 of 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.那是在缅甸，一个泡在雨水中的清晨。
我们侯在死牢外面，这是一排正面安了两重铁栅栏的小房子，象关动物的小笼子。
每间牢房十英尺见方，除了一张光板床和一只饮水罐，里面什么东西也没有。
其中有几间关着肤色棕黑、一声不响的犯人，一律裹着毯子，蹲在里层的栅栏跟前。
这些都是一两周之内就会被送上绞架的死刑犯。
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 gal lows. Two of them stood by with rifles and fixed bayonets, while the others handcuffed him, passed a c hain through his handcuffs and fixed it to their belts, and lashed his arms tight to his sides. They cro wded 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 arm s limply to the ropes, as though he hardly noticed what was happening.一个死囚已经被带出他的牢房。