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An Integrated English Course IVUnit 11Text 1 Mountain Lions Attack!Key to Exercises Text comprehension (pp. 170-171) I. Decide which of the following best states the authors purpose of writing. A II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false. 1. T. Refer to Paragraph 2.2. T. Refer to Paragraph 4.3. F. Refer to Paragraph 15. The narrator watched this happen not because he was too frightened to move but because the wild animal acted so quickly that he had no time to understand what was happening, to say nothing of preventing it.4. F. Refer to Paragraph 17. The man was angry with the mountain lion, who was endangering the life of one of the kids, not with the other counselors, though they were of little help. Actually, in the fight against the animal, he had no time to be angry with them at all.5. F. Refer to Paragraph 17. The narrators attack caught some attention from the animal although it failed to force it to give up the boy. The mans booting and punching enraged the animal and it growled and twisted its body as a result.6. T. Refer to Paragraph 20. III. Answer the following questions.1. Because he loved the outdoors as a life out and he loved kids. Moreover, he did not anticipate the difficulty in the job.2. They did not take his words seriously because they didnt think they would really run across a mountain lion and doubted whether the strategy introduced by the narrator would really work if they did run across one.3. It was a repeated voice from inside that made him take over the rear in the midway up the mountain.4. In the rear the narrator found that some kids were uninterested and slow in climbing up, so he bucked them up by telling them there were better things ahead.5. No, he didnt. Refer to Paragraph 17. The sentence “Fear for the boy wiped out my own terror and I found myself charging at the animal“ tells us that he feared for the safety of the little boy and immediately took measures to fight the animal.6. When the lion backed about 8 feet and crouched for an attack, the scout did not step back and run away; instead he plucked up his courage and charged at it. This action drove the lion away. IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences taken from the text.1. As a life scout I had earned most credits for becoming an eagle scout.2. I dismissed the thought.3 . the trees looking threatening on both sides of us.4. The kids screamed all of a sudden .Structural analysis of the text (p171) The text can be divided into the following three parts: Part I: Paragraph 1; Part Il: Paragraphs 2-20; and Part m: Paragraph 21.The topical sentences are:Part I: It was my idea of the perfect summer job: working as a camp counselor in the Rocky Mountains.Part II: I realized working with the kids could also be a real pain.Part III: It means being prepared to really listen when somebodys giving me divine directions.Rhetorical features of the text (p172) To describe what he did in his attempt to fight the mountain lion, the author of the text uses two kinds of verbs, i.e. verbs expressing verbal actions and those indicating material actions.For the first kind, we can find: screaming (Paragraph 16); yelling at the top of my lungs (Paragraph 17); roared, yelling (Paragraph 18). And for the second kind, we can find: spun around to the others (Paragraph 16); ran towards the lion, charging at the animal, kicking its muscular side as hard as I could, kicked again and again, even punched it with all my might (Paragraph 17); and slammed my foot into the cougars whiskered face, pulled back to boot it again, charged at it (Paragraph 18). The use of these verbs shows effectively that the author did everything he could in his fight against the fierce animal and his attempt to protect the child.Vocabulary exercises (pp172-173) I. Explain the underlined parts in the sentences below. 1. becoming a senior scout 2. reckoned3. annoying 4. becoming unnaturally large5. turned round 6. gave honour to me/praised me II. Choose a word that best completes each of the following sentences.1. B 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. C 6. A III. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.1. buck up 2. at the top of their lungs3. was . wiped out 4. in a fit of rage5. charged at 6. shrug off7. spun around 8. took over IV. Explain the meaning of the underlined word or phrase in each sentence.1. testee 2. serves 3. actually 4. again5. applauded/clapped excitedly 6. causeGrammar exercises (pp173-175) I. Insert to, if necessary, in the following sentences. 1. to2. / 3. /4. to5. /6. /7. to8. to, to II. Combine the two sentences in each pair into one, using one nonfinite clause.1. I found myself charging at the animal, kicking its muscular side
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