高级英语 1 答案 (外研社;第三版;张汉熙主编)(11)

答案(课后练习)

I also held them in contempt.

5. Just imagine how I have changed now. Here I stand, sentimental and sensitive, like an old unmarried woman painting a water-color picture of the sunset.

6. I want to enjoy beauty to my heart’s content before I die.

7. At this moment I am not the middle-aged journalist that people believe me to be, spending a holiday on an ocean-going liner. I have now become a liberated person, bathed in magic waters, and I feel I am like Endymion, a young and strong youth who has a god for his father and gifted with the power to see the world inspired by the gods at Olympus.

8. I feel that I am weightless and totally absorbed by the night and feel at peace with the night.

9. I imagine devoted religions people must feel as clean and pure as I do now when they leave the solemn confessional after gaining pardon for their sins.

10. In the same way I let myself freely imagine what the innermost part of Laura

s character presents. She looks so severe outwardly, but inwardly she is full of tenderness---tenderness like delicate flowers waiting for the daring to discover them.

11. We human beings ought to learn from the wise bird,