Day 25

英文重现

Despite their depictions of Black people,I often found something in these writers that I could appreciate.Sometimes they accurately captured sounds that I knew well:a dog barking in the heat of hunting,a train moving in the distance,a worker calling to another across the road or field.

——SAT 2009年5月题，Section 5

解析

1.“despite”是介词，不是连词，只能接名词性的成分，与“in spite of”同义，都表示“尽管”、“虽然”、“不顾”之意，表示让步，不能用来引导句子。若其后要跟“that”从句，需加上“the fact”，构成“despite the fact that…”的句式，其中“that”引导的从句作“the fact”的同位语。

2.“that I could appreciate”是“that”引导的定语从句修饰前面的“something”，“that”指代“something”，作“appreciate”的宾语。

3.第二个句子中的“they”指代的是前面提到的“writers”。“that I knew well”为定语从句修饰“sounds”。冒号后面的内容都是对“sounds”的举例，三个例子中的现在分词都是作后置定语，分别各自修饰前面的名词。

词意辨析

参考翻译

除去那些对黑人的刻画描写（欠妥），在这些作家的作品中我倒也经常能找到一些值得我赞赏的东西。有时他们能够准确刻画那些我熟知的声音：正在奋力追捕猎物的犬吠声、远处火车开动的隆隆声以及工人隔着道路或田地跟别人喊话的声音。

实战演练

Despite their depictions of Black people,I often found something in these writers that I could appreciate.Sometimes they accurately captured sounds that I knew well:a dog barking in the heat of hunting,a train moving in the distance,a worker calling to another across the road or field.A Russian novelist once said that Southern writers wrote well about the earth and the sun;in their works,you could see,better than if you were actually there,the red dust in Georgia or the black mud of Mississippi.

It can be inferred that the author regarded the sounds he refers to in lines“a dog…field”as____.

(A)nostalgic but ultimately unsatisfying images

(B)brief impressions of an unfamiliar time and place

(C)everyday language rejected by Russian writers

(D)faithful representations of life in the South

(E)noteworthy examples of prose by Black authors

答案：D

答案解析

题目问的是作者提到“正在奋力追捕猎物的犬吠声、远处火车开动的隆隆声以及工人隔着道路或田地跟别人喊话的声音”是为什么。这些声音前面有一个冒号，也就是说这些声音是对前面的“Sometimes they accurately captured sounds that I knew well”（有时他们能够准确刻画那些我熟知的声音）的解释说明，即这些声音是这些“sounds”的例子，而这些声音的特点就是“我”熟知的。我们来看选项：选项A的意思是“怀旧却完全不让人满意的画面”，“不满意”与开头的“I could appreciate”相反，所以不正确；选项B“对一个陌生的时间地点的简单印象”，跟原文说的“熟知”不符，所以也不正确；选项C说“俄罗斯作家拒绝的日常用语”也是与“I could appreciate”相反；选项D“南方生活的忠实描绘”，这些例子来自于生活，所以非常熟悉，因此选项D正确，而选项E说“黑人作家重要的散文例子”，这个说法没有根据。