《苏格兰玛丽女王》书虫读书习题
甘阳在中山大学博雅学院当院长的时候面试学生，看到很多孩子都有钢琴十级证书，一开始他为这么多家庭都有艺术教育感到很欣喜，可深入了解后，他发现几乎没有一个孩子真的对音乐有兴趣。
从前，老师们认为最好的中学生是课外书读了很多的孩子。现在，绝大多数进入顶级高校的孩子都没有丰富的阅读经验，
“真的读了很多书的，反而考不进来”。
甘阳常常问学生中学的时候读过什么，得到的答案经常是高考有关的，要不就是“四大名著”——“我最不想听到说四大名著，都是概念性的东西，有没有真读过，我一问就知道。”
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Exercises
A Checking your understanding
Chapters 1 and 2 Are these sentences true or false?
1 Mary has a little dog.
//Personal opinion: True
Mary sat with her little dog in her hands and watched it, all day long.
2 Queen Elizabeth is afraid of Mary.
//Personal opinion: True
'Why, Your Majesty? Because Queen Elizabeth is afraid of you.'
3 Bess Curle wrote the story.
//Personal opinion: False
Queen of Scots. She wrote the story
4 Mary says 'I killed James's father.'
//Personal opinion: True
I did not kill him.
5 Mary was a Queen when she was one week old.
//Personal opinion: True
笔记也有: My father died when I was one week old, so I was the Queen of Scots when I was a baby.
6 Mary married when she was sixteen.
//Personal opinion: False
16岁，那是他第一任丈夫死去时的年龄，短命的国王，何况他的公民。
7 Mary is a Catholic and James is a Protestant.
//Personal opinion: True
James, my son, you are a Protestant and I am a Catholic.
8 Most Scottish people are Catholics.
//Personal opinion: False
Scotland is a Protestant country.
9 John Knox wanted to marry Mary.
//Personal opinion: False
He was a famous Protestant churchman…
He hated the Catholic church… 玛丽就是 Catholic
10 Mary didn't go to Knox's church.
//Personal opinion: True
But I did not go to his church.
Chapters 3 and 4 Who said this in the story?
1 Our two countries need to be friends.
//Elizabeth
Elizabeth wrote to me at this time.
2 She wants her lover to be King of Scotland!
//Mary
3 I'm not interested in work like that.
//Henry Darnley
Your father looked unhappy. 'I'm not interested in work like..
4 Riccio is in the Queen's rooms every night.
//Moray's friends
But then, Moray's friends began to talk about me and Riccio. 'David Riccio…
5 Please tell that man to move.
6 He goes out, woman!
//Lord Ruthven
'He goes out, woman!' Lord Ruthven said. 'King Henry, hold your wife, please!'
7 They're going to kill me! Don't—aaaaaargh!
//David Riccio
8 You never talk to me.
//Henry Darnley
Darnley laughed. 'You are my wife, Mary—not David Riccio's!' he said. 'So why are you with him every evening? You never talk to me!'
9 You aren't king—you're a stupid boy!
//Mary
10 Never!
//Mary
Chapters 5, 6 and 7 Who in the story...
1 ... cried in front of Mary?
//Henry Darnley
Darnley came to see me… I said. 'Why are you crying?'
2 ... waited all day in her rooms?
//Mary
'Listen to me, Henry! And try to be a man.
He went, and did it. All day I waited in my rooms.
3 ... rode for five hours in the rain?
//Mary and Bess Curle
But I was pregnant, and it was cold and dark. We rode for five hours in the rain.
4 ... came to help Mary?
//Lord Bothwell
In the morning we arrived at Dunbar Castle. Darnley slept, and I wrote letters to my friends. Next day Lord Bothwell came to help me.
5 ... slept with other women?
//Henry Darnley
But you father did not love me, James. Very often, after you were born, he slept with other women.
//开始毁灭自己
6 ... was ill in Glasgow?
//Henry Darnley
In January your father, Darnley, was ill in Glasgow.
7 ... had something black on his face and hands?
//Bothwell's men
Outside the house, we met one of Bothwell's men. He looked afraid, and there was something black on his face and hands.
8 ... sold horrible stories and pictures of Bothwell?
//People in Edinburgh
People in Edinburgh sold horrible stories and pictures of Bothwell the same day that Darnley died.
9 ... rode from his army to talk to Mary and Bothwell?
//Lord Kirkcaldy
At five o'clock that evening Lord Kirkcaldy rode from his army to talk to us.
10 ... died in a prison in Denmark?
//Bothwell
Bothwell went over the sea, and died in a prison in Denmark.
Chapters 8 and 9 Are these sentences true or false?
1 Moray talked to Elizabeth about Mary.
//Personal opinion: False
//按照 Mary 的书写，他们散播了谣言。
2 Mary was in an English prison for forty-five years.
//Personal opinion: False
Twenty years in English prisons.
3 The English Catholics wanted Mary to be Queen of England.
//Personal opinion: True
The English Catholics want me to be Queen of England, not her.
4 She carried her little dog upstairs.
//Personal opinion: False
Her little dog walked beside her, under the veil, but the Englishmen didn't see that.
5 Mary cried.
//Personal opinion: False
She stood there, in her red petticoat, with a smile on her face.
6 Mary had a red petticoat under her black dress.
//Personal opinion: True
She stood there, in her red petticoat, with a smile on her face.
7 Mary prayed before she died.
//Personal opinion: False
'The Lord my God is my one true friend,' she said. 'I give my life, oh God, into your hands.'
//不过抒发一些感情，并没有祈祷。上帝才是我真正朋友，为了朋友献出我的生命。
8 There wasn't much blood.
//Personal opinion: False
But there was so much blood—
blood on her red petticoat,
blood on her black dress and her white veil,
blood on the executioner's shoes,
blood all over the floor.
Blood, blood everywhere.
//欧阳超：你眼瞎了吗, 非得写六月飞雪才是冤枉吗。
B Working with language
Put together these beginnings and ends of sentences.
1. Mary came back to Scotland when her husband died.
2. The Scots lords hated Riccio so they killed him.
3. Mary asked Darnley to help but he didn't like the work.
4. Mary went away with Bothwell because he had an army.
5. Darnley's body was in the garden after Kirk o'Field blew up.
6. Mary went to England to ask Elizabeth for an army.
7. Elizabeth kept Mary in prison because she couldn't make up her mind.
Use these words to join these sentences together.
because so when after but and before
1 John Knox didn't like Mary because she was a Catholic and a woman.
2 Mary liked Darnley before/when/and she married him.
// liked, +d了，过去喜欢过，如果没有 d，就可以选 so 了。
3 Bothwell met Mary outside Edinburgh and/after he took her to his castle.
4 Mary liked Riccio but Moray and Darnley didn't like him.
5 Darnley was afraid after Mary wasn't with him.
C Activities
1 You are a newspaper reporter. You talk to Mary, Elizabeth, Moray, and Bothwell. Write a story called: 'Who killed Darnley, and why?'
//I think the murder is Moray.
he wants the kingdom of Scotland.
…
2 Imagine you are in Scotland when Bess gives Mary's letter to James. What do they talk about? Write a dialogue and act it out with a partner.
//Bess: Here you are, Your Majesty, I took something for you from your mother.
James: Leave me alone. I do not want to see anything of my mother.
…
3 You are talking to the Earl of Moray, Mary's half-brother. Write down your questions, and his answers. Act your dialogue out with a partner.
//Question: Are you killed Henry Darnley?
Answer: Why you ask this, who are you?
…
//挖好坑，以后跳.
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