现代大学英语精读5_课后答案(12)

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1. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think,is where Creation was begun.

The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.

2. But warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival, and they never understood the grim,unrelenting advance of the U.S. Cavalry.

The Kiowas often fought just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra lands or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving. And they could not understand why the U.S. Cavalry never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle.

3. My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years. Luckily, my grandmother did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a closure for holding animals, for She was born eight or ten years after the event.

4. It was a long journey toward dawn, and it led to a golden age.

They moved toward the east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning of a new culture, which led to the treatest moment of their history.

5. They acquired horses, and their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground.

Now they got horses. Riding on horseback, instead of walking on football, gave them this new freedom of movement, thus completely liberating their ancient nomadic spirit.

6. From one point of view, their migration was the fruits of an old prophecy, for indeed they emerged from a sunless world.

In a sense, their migration confirmed the ancient myth that they entered the world from a hollow log,for they did emerge from the sunless world of the mountains.

7. The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see, and they were bent and blind in the wilderness.

Their stature was measured by the distance they could see. Yet, because of the dense forests, they could not see very far, and they could hardly stand straight.

8. Clusters of trees and animals grazing far in the distance cause the vision to reach away and wonder to build upon the mind.

The earth unfolds and the limit of the land is far in the distance, where there are clusters of trees and animals eating grass.This landscape makes one see far and broadens one's horizon.

9. Not yet would they veer southward to the caldron of the land that lay below;they must wean their blood from the northern winter and hold the mountains a while longer in their view.

They would not yet change the direction southward to the land lying below which was like a large kettle. First, they must give their bodies some time to get used to the plains. Secondly, they did not wants to lose sight of the mountains so soon.

10. I was never sure that I had the right to hear, so exclusive were they of all merely custom and company.

I was not sure that I had any right to overhear her praying, which did not follow any customary way of praying, add which I guess she did not want anyone else to hear.

11. Transported so in the dancing light among the shadows of her room she seemed beyond the reach of time.But that was illusion; I think I knew then that I should not see her again.

In this way she was entranced in the dancing light among the shadows of her room, and she

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