1.母亲故意忽略她不喜欢的、不能改变的东西。2.从6月到7月底，学校暑假停课。3.在文学上，由于夏天耀眼的阳光和眼睛的缺陷，作家无法睁开眼睛。形象地说，所有美国公民据称都有权享有的自由、平等和民主在作者眼中只是扭曲的形象。母亲是聪明的，父亲是棕色的，我们三个女孩代表着从聪明到棕色的等级。在布雷耶家里，苏打水喷泉很暗，空气很冷，我眼睛里的疼痛大大减轻了。6.我强烈的问题没有得到我家人的回应；他们保持沉默，好像他们做错了什么事，走进布雷耶家是可耻的。7.我的愤怒不会得到同样愤怒的家人的回应。IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences taken from the text. 1 Mother meant to deliberately overlook whatever she did not like and could not change. 2 From June to the end of July school closed for the summer vacation. 3 Literarily, the writer was unable to open wide her eyes due to the dazzling summer sunlight as well as her eye defect. Figuratively, the freedom, equality and democracy all American citizens were allegedly entitled to were simply distorted images in the author’s eye. 4 Mother was bright and father brown, and the three of us girls represented gradations from bright to brown. 5 Inside the Breyer’s, the soda fountain was so dim and the air so cool that the pain in my eyes was wonderfully lessened. 6 My forceful question got no response from my family; they remained silent as if they had done something wrong and shameful walking into Breyer’s. 7 My anger was not going to be echoed by my family members who were similarly angry, though.