A 将下列两栏相关的内容连线。
B 选择划线单词的正确用法。
❶ (a) She gathered a scarlet letter on her breast.
(b) The townspeople gathered outside the prison.
❷ (a) The baby ushered when it saw the sunlight.
(b) With his hand, he tried to usher out a young woman.
❸ (a) That fact is the puzzling question that remains for everyone.
(b) The old man was puzzling a look in her eye.
C 根据故事内容回答下列问题。
❶ What did the scarlet A on Hester Prynne's bosom stand for?
(a) Alphabet.
(b) Adulterer.
(c) Admirable.
❷ What fact did Roger Chillingworth make Hester Prynne swear to conceal?
(a) That he was not a real doctor.
(b) That he was the father of her baby.
(c) That he was her husband.
D 用所给词语完成句子。
fanciful merciful sermon spikes misbegotten
❶ Her mark will serve as a living _________________ against sin.
❷ Then the prison door, covered in iron _________________, flew open.
❸ The design was artistic and _________________.
❹ The penalty for this crime is normally death, but the magistrates were _________________.
❺ I would not harm this poor, _________________ baby.
答案
A ❶–ⓔ
❷–ⓒ
❸–ⓐ
❹–ⓑ
❺–ⓓ
B ❶ (b)
❷ (b)
❸ (a)
C ❶ (b)
❷ (c)
D ❶ sermon
❷ spikes
❸ fanciful
❹ merciful
❺ misbegotten