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1. Refer to Para.2.
2. Refer to Para.3.
3. Refer to Para.4 and 5.
4. Refer to Para.6.
5. Refer to Para.6.


IV.
1. With shy, bitter smiles on her face, she tolerated the farm folks’ mocking, yet kind laughter as they looked at her yellow, curling hair and blue eyes. To them, she understood, she looked exotically strange.
2. Her parents were so busy that they hardly had any time to attend to her.
3. She was too short to get hold of the dusty, blue books on the high shelf.
4. She read from page to page an old edition of the novels, printed in small letters, and found the friends she could play with.
5. Her untiring parents were still working very hard while all the rest people at home were asleep.

Structural analysis of the text
1. The first-person narration allows the writer to bring her personal experiences, to express her feelings or insert her own opinions easily, which are more likely to involve and affect readers. The third-person narration reminds readers to recognize the events as memories in the remote past so as to arouse a sense of aging.
2. The first paragraph states that Charles Dickens rendered an inestimable service to the writer while the last paragraph states that his influence cannot be lost and became a part of the writer, echoing that in the first paragraph.

Part I. Vocabulary Analysis

I. Phrase
1. long= for a long time
2. longed = wanted / desired / be eager (to do) 渴望做
3. picture = imagine
4. in great peril = in great danger 处于危险之中
5. pious mouthing of unctuous words = allegiant words with fake sincerity
6. saw everything black and white = saw / viewed / interpreted all things as either right or wrong 认为什么事情都是非对即错

II.
1. alien; 2. beyond the reach of; 3. winding; 4. voracious; 5. dip into; 6. obligation; 7. in peril; 8. heed; 9. indecision; 10. zest.

III. Word comparison
1.
gratitude / thanking / thank
2.
solitary = lonely / lone / isolated; alone—only one, happy or unhappy
3.
burst into + n. / burst out + v.ing / burst in: to interrupt something, to enter / burst forth
4.
linger: 逗留 / wander: 漫游 / haunt: 鬼魂出没 / loaf: 游手好闲
5.
dip into: 浏览 / dig into: 钻研 / probe into: 探究 / explore (into)
6.
resolve: 决心，决定 / solve: 解决 / involve: 涉及/ revolve: 旋转
7.
make off: 跑开/ make at：扑向 / make away: 逃走（后面一般不带短语into…）拿走（make away with…） / make out: 辨明，弄懂
8. on hand: 在手头，在手边（等着做） / out of hand：立刻，失去控制，不合时宜 / in hand: 在手中（正在做），落入某人手里 / by hand: 用手做成的，人工完成 /

IV.
1: a. foreign; b. foreign; c. alien; d. alien.
2: a. decline; b. descended; c. descended; d. declining.
3: a. people; b. folk; c. Folk; d. peoples.
4: a households; b. households; c. homes; d. home.

V. Give synonyms or antonyms of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.
1. My debt is to an Englishman, who long ago in China rendered an inestimable service to a small American child.
Synonyms: invaluable, matchless, precious

2. You must picture to yourself that child, living quite solitary in a remote Chinese countryside.
Antonyms: sociable, accompanied, collective

3. In the near distance wound that deep, treacherous, golden river, the Yangtse.
Synonyms: unreliable, untrustworthy

4. She loved to see out of that flood come perhaps again and again an empty net, but sometimes great flashing, twisting silver bodies of fish.
Antonyms: full, plenty, abundant

5. They were too busy to pay much heed to her.
Synonyms: attention, notice, regard

6. She took Oliver Twist out of his place and in great peril descended.
Antonyms: ascend, rise, arise

7. She lingered beside villages of boat folk, and saw them live.
Synonyms: stay, remain

8. She was, she knew, very alien.
Antonyms: native, familiar, local

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