大学英专综合英语教程-第六册-课后练习答案(全)
Key to the Exercises--- An Integrated English Course - Book 6
Unit 1 Technology in Reverse
●Text Comprehension
I. C
II. 1. F. Not all technology makes things complicated and wasteful; it is only retarded technology that makes things complicated and wasteful. Refer to Paragraph 1.
2. T. Refer to Paragraph 5.
3. F. It is true that the author acknowledges the great changes brought about by new technology, but he believes these
advantageous changes are often offset by a lot of technology-related waste. Refer to Paragraph 7.
4. T. Refer to Paragraph 7.
5. F. The author expresses his doubt in a sarcastic tone that cellular phones could really improve marriages and save “family
values”. Refer to Paragraph 9.
●Language Work
I. Explain the italicized part in each sentence in your own words.
1. highly regarded, intricate, attractive
2. a sudden increase
3. an event that will make you feel upset for a long time
4. can supposedly help, at the same time
5. need to be able to use
6. we receive so many press releases that we find it difficult to deal with them
7. an age where hi-tech has brought us noticeably great changes
8. supposed, get away from us/be unattainable
9. consequence, people who know nothing about technology, impeding
10. usually, insignificant
II. Fill in the banks with the appropriate forms of the given words.
1. customized
2. traumatized
3. promotional
4. paradoxical
5. frivolity
6. subscribers
7. successors
8. inanities
9. institutionalized
10. subsidy
III. Fill in each of the blanks with a word or phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.
1. are clogged with
2. purports to
3. a vista of
4. bombarded…with
5. exulted over
6. scribbled all over
7. find… alluring
8. make a comeback
9. call up
10. tossed … into
11. was eliminated
12. compress… into
IV. Explain the meaning of the underlined word or phrase in each sentence.
1. weak
2. entrance to
3. full of
4. be compensated for by having the same amount deducted from his tax
5. shows all the signs of
6. excitement and danger
7. spent the afternoon discussing
8. increase her confidence
9. very often
10. quick dive
V. Correct the errors in the following passage.
VI. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE appropriate word.
1. millionaires
2. computer
3. breed
4. programs
5. companies
6. generation
7. popularity
8. provide
9. sales
10. times
11. valuable
12. life
●Translation
1.The program offers long-term care for the mentally retarded.
2.He’s got a cumbersome, bulky, old computer—it’s slow and complicated to use.
3. He tried not to look conspicuous and moved slowly along the back of the room.
4. It would cause a tremendous upheaval to install a different computer system.
5. The gold medal continues to elude her.
6. Yo u’d be a fool not to embrace an opportunity as good as that.
7. Her salary will go up by a hefty 10%.
8. I scrawled a quick note to Hilary and put it under her door.
9. There’s a smashing view from her office.
10 The trip out there was swell, but the hotel was a bit crummy.
II. Translate the following passage into Chinese.
在我成长的房子里有一间屋子,我们把它称作图书馆。当然,那不是真正的图书馆,它仅仅是由电视机占据了主要位置的一间书斋。但是它四面墙上全部装修了嵌入式书架,上面摆了数百本书籍—那些精装本的书籍呈现着各种颜色,它们在那间屋里把我们团团围住。这些书是我父母和祖父母花了毕生的精力收集来的,它们成为我童年的一部分。
我这一代人—即20世纪50和60年代成年的人—可能是了解这种心情的最后一代人了,那种被上百万文字环绕着的感觉,那些文字是历代知名的和默默无闻的作家们的产品。当前,在20世纪70年代中期,我们正目睹一个不易觉察却毫无疑问存在的慢慢背离书籍这类事物的倾向。恐怕美国的家庭很快就不会再留出房间做图书馆了。精装的图书—那思想永驻的象征,那从一个时代向下一个时代传留的智慧—可能会添加到我们即将灭绝的物种名单上去。
●Listening exercises
B. We are now living in an era of technology revolution. With the help of digital technologies and powerful networks, we are able to satisfy our thirst for information. But what will we do with all the information? Once we can plug into any information imaginable and become instant experts on any subject, humans may discover an increase in suicides, brain tumors and schizophrenia!
Many problems concerning technology occur.
Firstly, all the information is machine-readable only. This means that we must preserve all hardware, software and up-dates to these machines, the operating manuals and the skill to diagnose hardware and software problems, in order to preserve machine-readable formats.
Secondly, more and more information will be stored on smaller and smaller devices. But capturing original material in machine-readable form is as labor intensive, and therefore as expensive, as preparing material for microfilming.
Thirdly, in order to preserve the means to access and to read machine-readable data, we will need substantial amounts of space, to house and maintain the machines and organizations necessary to key access and prevent them from becoming redundant and unreadable.
Finally, the information preserved in digital formats is supposed to last forever, but, in fact, as systems are replaced by newer ones, previous digital formats need to be transferred to the new forms. If you fail to re-format, the information will no longer be readable by the machine. But it is the enormous amount and cost of re-formatting that will finally defeat us.
Unit 2 A Class Act
Text comprehension
I. B (A and C are only part of the whole incident that highlights the theme.)
II.
1. T. Refer to Paragraph
2.
2. T. Refer to Paragraph 4.
3. F. The author did not want her mother to come to school to speak for her, because that would make two of them unhappy and indignant. Refer to Paragraph 7.
4. F. The author was excited because her imagination was fuelled by glamorous shots of the popular Hollywood temptresses. But she did not want to take the risk of being picked out by wearing her cherished dress that was different from the blue school uniform. Refer to Paragraphs 9 and 10.
5. T. Refer to Paragraph 17.
●Language work
●I. Explain the italicized part in each sentence in your own words.
1. hold back, schoolmates
2. endure the punishment, the embarrassment I had to go through every day ( the routine embarrassment)
3. so angry and likely to argue with my teachers in order to protect me
4. I was so excited that I was almost out of control, fired (or stimulated) by
5. the dress that I liked very much
6. walked slowly and reluctantly to the stage without being asked to do so
7. unsympathetic, overlook
8. I cheered myself up with the idea, get absorbed in the story of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and not think about anything else, calm down and get back my self-control
9. said expectedly, agreeable, vicious
10. was in high spirits, feeling happier and more confident due to
●II. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate
forms of the given words.
1. ingenious
2. prescription
3. relaxation
4. assembly
6. mortification
7. trimmed
8. consolation
9. composure
10. dejected
●III. Fill in each of the blanks with a word or phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.
1. rife with
2. rational out
3. in place
4. comply with
5. see… through
6. spoken up for
7. on the warpath
8. beside himself
9. drag…into
10. trudging through
11. of her own accord
12. singled out
●IV. Explain the meaning of the underlined
word of phrase in each sentence.
1. demanded
2. loosened his hold
3. all the people gathered there
4. stood in front of me and prevented me from getting past
5. to protect me or to defend me
6. made the controversy more fierce
7. kept worrying me
8. watching closely
9. get warm
10. in a cheerful mood
●V. Correct the errors in the following passage.
●VI. Fill in each blank in the passage
below with ONE appropriate word.
1.teach
2. confronted
3. questions
4. tail
5. plural
6. computers
7. thought
8. time
9. sure
10. check
11. answer
12. possible
13. guess
14. down
15. victory
16. rewarded
18. end
●Translation
1. The company was started by a couple of enterprising young men.
2. He’s a former heavyweight champion and is expected to win the bout easily.
3. Many hours of meticulous preparation have gone into writing the book.
4. She was attired from head to foot in black.
5. I’ve been scrimping and saving all the year to pay for our holiday.
6. I know he’s well-meaning, but I wish he’d leave us alone.
7. He became very indignant when it was suggested he had made a mistake.
8. For the umpteenth time, Anthony, knives and forks go in the middle drawer!
9. I’m afraid sewing isn’t one of my fortes.
10. She was buoyed by the warm reception her audience gave her.
●II. Translate the following passage into English.
The foreign students at New York University come from more than 130 countries. Fifty percent are from Asia, especially South Korea, Japan and China. Foreign students are studying in all fourteen schools within the university. These include arts and sciences, law, business and education. Seventy-five percent of the foreign students are in graduate school. About twenty-five percent are in four-year programs that lead to a bachelor’s degree.
The cost of attending New York University is different in each of its schools. For example, one year of study at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service costs about $19,000. Some other schools within NYU cost more. Some cost less. The housing cost is about $9,000 a year.
Bachelor’s degree students at NYU can borrow money from financial institutions to help pay for their studies. Foreign students in graduate school at NYU can get teaching or research jobs at the university. They can also get loans from financial institutions.
●Listening exercises
● B.
1. Because it is something that he can identify with and which he might like to make a part of his own life.
2. It is two hundred years since the first Europeans landed.
3. Swimming out to sea, and blowing up the ship.
4. Because non-violence is part of his culture, and if he became violent he would lose his sense of identity as an Aborigine.
5. He says if you respond or act in a way which is also angry or violent, then you don’t stand for anything except for the violence.
●Unit 3 Bards of the Internet
●Text Comprehension
●I. A
●II.
1. T. Refer to Paragraph
2.
2. F. Much of online writing is very bad indeed: sloppy, meandering, puerile, ungrammatical, poorly spelled, badly structured and at times virtually content free. Refer to Paragraph 4.
3. T. Refer to Paragraph 6.
4. F. Polished prose by professional writers often seems long-winded and phony. Unless they adjust to the new medium, professional writers can come across as self-important blowhards in debates with more nimble networkers. Refer to Paragraph 10.
5. T. Refer to Paragraph 11.
●Language work
1. surprising
2. out of date, development
3. compares…to
4. careless, winding/pointless, childish/silly
5. become known as, the most important/superior
7. respected and admired…as
8. make a strong, immediate impression
9. give an impression as, quick-witted
10. has… given the right to, have been engaged in
●II.
1.scribblers
2. obsolescence
3. rudimentary
4. mockery
5. reverence
6. vigorous
7. collaborative
8. democratized
9. enthusiast
10. trivial
●III.
1press release
2. harking back
3. dashed…off
4. weed out
5. comes across
6. blew…away
7. side effects
8. made… an impression
9. lace up
10. inherent in
11. likened to
12. confronted with
●IV. Explain the meaning of the underlined word or phrase in each sentence.
1.is developing very fast
2. excitement
3. She became unhappy
4. We have no hope
5. clever or pleasing remark
6. overcome/defeat/triumph over
7. cause the reformers to act
8. being created
9. based on the wishes of most people
10. continued
●V. Correct the errors in the following passage.
●VI. Fill in each blank in the passage below ONE appropriate word.
1.entitled
2. writing
3. difference
4. describes
5. content
6. better
7. class
8. audience
9. part
10 Net
11. rules
12. writers
13. anyplace
14. awful
15. point
16. living
17. understand
18. place
19. technology
20. mixing
●Translation
1. She kept trying to reinvent herself as an actress.
2. The director’s latest film harks back to the early years of cinema.
3. I find his sense of humor rather puerile.
4. Leave me alone. I still have reams of work to do.
5. The anti-smoking campaign made quite an impact on young people.
6. Her newspaper articles are terse and to the point.
7. The incident sparked a diplomatic controversy between the two countries.
8. The competition entries were of such a high caliber that judging them was very difficult.
9. All salespeople seem to have the same phony smile.
10. Have you ever thought of taking up engineering?
●II. Translate the following passage into Chinese.
十五年前,计算机专家们扩展了因特网系统。这个扩展后的系统被叫做万维网。万维网使计算机用户通过比以往的因特网系统快得多的速度来寻求并交换书面材料和图片。
对大多数能够使用计算机的人来说,因特网和万维网已经成为快速交换信息的工具。因特网上有许多很有价值的信息。作为一种研究的工具,没有什么能比得上因特网。
通过因特网几乎可以找到任何种类的信息。网上有专门刊登鬼怪故事、诗歌或儿童故事的电子杂志。在这个电子世界里有供你玩游戏的地方,也有讨论政治、科学、历史、农耕或者任何你感兴趣的话题的地方。你可以浏览或者搜集哈勃太空望远镜拍摄到的精美彩色图片。你可以看到音乐家表演他们的最新歌曲。你甚至可以加入一个小组,通过电子手段和他们聚会并讨论他们最喜爱的摇滚乐队。
●Listening exercises
● A.
1. Information
2. To communicate and to share
3. A telephone and post office
4. Through a computer bulletin board
5. San Francisco Net
6. Since about 1991
7. 15 minutes
8. Strangers
9. Yes
10. You can talk without prejudice
11. After 8 p.m.
12. You are not handsome
● B.
●The Internet is a computer network. It is the greatest and most significant achievement in the history of mankind.
Its beauty and utility lie in the information it contains. The Internet allows millions of people all over the world to communicate and to share. You communicate by either sending and receiving electronic mail, or by establishing a
connection to someone else’s computer and typing messages back and forth. You share by participating in discussion groups and by using the many programs and information sources that are available for free. The techno-chat programs on the Internet allow you to talk to people whom you normally wouldn’t talk to, and let you talk about
●
cities of simulation as postmodern utopias
●I. A
●II.
1. T. Refer to Paragraph 1.
2. T. Refer to Paragraph
3.
3. T. Refer to Paragraph 5.
4. F. Refer to Paragraph 8, in which the author asserts that Disney is one of those main difference is that it is only seemingly brought to life with simulation.
5. T. Refer to Paragraph 9.
●Language work
1. refuse to obey, act against
2. taking part in, are expelled
3. we go beyond our uninteresting everyday world
4. works against/reverses the effect of, present day
5. lead/bring in, prosperity
6. serves as/disguise itself as/appears to be, ends with
7. presented in, made more real and exciting
8. go back to, remove
9. intrinsic, cheated/deceived
10. depend on
●II.
1.fictionalized
2. Containment
3. violation
4. perpetually
5. transcend
6. weightless
7. disenchantment
8. affluence
9. Constraints
10. falsified
●III.
1. of the essence
2. revolved around
3. conform to
4. floated out through
5. concealing from
6. usher in
7. masquerading as
8. culminated in
9. brought… to life
10. inherent in
11 magic wand
12. revealing about
●IV. Explain the meaning of the underlined word or phrase in each sentence.
1. a model of a problem or course of events made by computer
2. is not changed by/is withstanding
3. were sent out from
4. gradual
5. celebrate
6. remove
7. Don’t expect to find me here
8. a person with great admiration for himself
9. reaches/meets
10. spreading around/circulating among people
●V. Correct the errors in the following passage.
●VI. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE appropriate word.
1.knew
2. reality
3. interests
4. joined
5. covered
6. returned
7. career
8. start
9. success
10. with
11. production
12. won
13. released
14. technique
15. cost
16. considered
17. motion
18. 20th
19. past
20. never
●Translation
1. Mundane matters such as going to the market to buy food do not interest her.
2. I still remember my carefree student days.
3. it’s very difficult to undo the damage caused by inadequate parenting in a child’s early years.
4. The audience was clearly enchanted by her performance.
5. The Venice Film Festival has always been the showcase of the Italian cinema.
6. She suffered brain damage from a car accident and regressed to the mental age of a five-year-old.
7. Be careful or he’ll take you for a ride.
8. Her story is a cautionary tale for women traveling alone.
9. She left her home and traveled across the sea in search of a utopia, but she never found it.
10. The essence of his argument was that education should continue throughout our lives.
●II. Translate the following into English
Movie experts say Walt Disney was responsible for the development of the art of animation. Disney’s artists tried to put life into every drawing. That meant they had to feel all the emotions of the cartoon creatures: happiness, sadness, anger, fear. The artists looked at themselves in a mirror and expressed each emotion: a smile, tears, a red face, wide-open eyes. Then they drew that look on the face of each cartoon creature.
Disney’s art of animation reached its highest point in 1940 with the movie Pinocchio. The story is about a wooden toy that comes to life as a little boy. Disney’s artists drew two-and-a-half-million pictures to make Pinocchio. The
artists drew flat pictures. Yet they created a look of space and solid objects. Pinocchio was a imaginary world, yet it looked very real.
●Listening exercises
● A.
● a. To give a guided tour to the village of Ditchling on cassette.
● b. Tourists, visitors to Ditchling.
● c. The Village Hall.
● d. Ditchling offers: a village hall, a printing works, shops, a church, pubs, inns, village green, a pond, a school, historic
buildings, delightful views and walks.
● B.
●During the first pause:
Antique Shop: 16-century house
The Jointure: a famous artist lived there
The White Horse Inn
Church: steps
●During the third pause:
Wings Place: 17 th-century house
School: on the pond bank
●During the fourth pause:
Lodge Hill: ancient burial mound on top
Gate: a wide view
●During the fifth pause:
The Old Mill: last used in 1918
●During the sixth pause:
Saddler’s Shop: iron ring for tying horses, piece of wood sticking out for holding a saddle
Ditchling Beacon: highest point, Queen Elizabeth 1, bonfire, warning, Spanish Armada sailing up the English Channel
Bull Inn
●
●Text comprehension
●I. C
●II.
1. T. Refer to Paragraph 1.
2. F. Such a vision has the same appeal to both old and young people, because these differences only make them more inclined to cherish the dream. Refer to Paragraph
3.
3. T. Refer to Paragraph 6.
4. F. Churches cannot solve the problem of American values, because they themselves seem to be uncertain about right and wrong. Refer to Paragraph 9.
5. T. Refer to Paragraphs 10 and 11.
●Language work
●I. Explain the italicized part in each sentence in your own words.
1. what those political critics are saying with one voice
2. respond rudely to their parents
3. with nothing to worry about
4. made up
5. attracted to
6. finished serving a prison sentence
7. ought to/has the right to
8. meaningless and pointless
9. job to totally get rid of the source of something
10. which we idealize blindly
●II.
1. fantasized
2. nostalgic
3. exotica
4. compassionate
5. articulation
6. decadent
7. pornographic
8. ethical
9. abdicated
10. haze
●III.
1. participates in
2. fall into the trap of
3. turn on the charm
4. demonstrate
5. insecurities
6. are… tolerant of
7. read his lips
8. a chorus of
9. hold a referendum
10. to nurture
●IV. Explain the meaning of the underlined word or phrase in each sentence.
1. perfect in appearance or quality/ as beautiful as a picture
2. long period free of change
3. time period
4. left his job early
5. reach
6. do not have sufficient
7. remembered
8. occurrences
9. held her arms and legs close to her body because of fear
10. unharmed/in one piece
●V. Correct the errors in the following passage.
●VI. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE appropriate word.
1.held
2. passed
3. discussion
4. number
5. creative
6. comprise
7. outnumber
8. accounts
9. rise
10. changed
11. longer
12. standard
13. living
14. trade
15. for
16. lower
●Translation
●I.
1. Few people exude such confidence as Sam.
2. He has twice been convicted of arson.
3. After tracking down the drug baron for more than three years, they finally arrested him last week.
4. They were deprived of a normal childhood by the war.
5. The bank is planning to give its 1930s’ building a complete face-lift.
6. The concept of thrift is foreign to me.
7. Children who talk back are regarded as cheeky and disrespectful.
8. It’s not always easy to find a job after you’ve done time.
9. She has abdicated all responsibility for the project.
10. How am I expected to conjure up a meal for six of his friends with almost nothing in the fridge?
●II. Translate the following passage into Chinese.
20世纪,美国梦遇到了挑战。大萧条使得二、三十年代的生活到处都很艰难,对那些直接受到影响的人们来说,现实与美国梦几乎正好相反。种族间的不安定依然存在,在国内的一些地方,种族暴力时有发生。
自从二战结束后,年轻的美国家庭开始追求相对舒适和稳定的生活,他们选择居住在大城市周边的市郊住宅区。因此50年代是一个相对保守的年代,当时,“完美家庭”是很多人心目中的美国梦的一部分,或者就是美国梦的结果本身。但这种保守的生活方式很快就被新一代人所鄙弃,60年代的年轻人用嬉皮士的价值观取代了包括美国梦在内的传统价值观。虽说对于美国梦的追求在那些年中有所减弱,但美国梦从来就没有彻底地消亡过。
●Listening exercises
●I. The American Dream is misleading.
A: It is not possible for everyone to become prosperous through determination and hard work alone.
B: The poor will feel that it is their fault that they are not successful and poverty is seen as “proof” of their laziness.
C: Less effort will be made to help the poor.
●II. The American Dream ignores other factors of success.
A: Family and wealth one is born into.
B: Inheritable traits, e.g. intelligence.
●III. The American Dream is superficial or meaningless.
A: Money doesn’t buy happiness.
B: Not everyone’s dream should be to achieve great monetary gain.
●Unit 6 Matriculation Fixation
●Text comprehension
●I. B
●II.
1. T. Refer to Paragraph
2.
2. F. The author had graduated from a second-echelon Philadelphia university, but he had managed to carve out a nice little niche for himself. Refer to Paragraph 4.
3. T. Refer to Paragraph 7.
4. T. Refer to Paragraph 9.
5. F. These parents had once dreamed of their children going to some top-flight universities when their children were born. Refer to Paragraph 11.
6. F. The campus tour did not change the author’s attitude about college selection. Instead, it confirmed his view “ I was never MIT material.” Refer to Paragraph 15.
●Language work
●I. Explain the italicized part in each sentence in your own words.
1. Not having much money, children who are going to go to college
2. regret not having studied in the first-class university
3. find a job which was very suitable
4. will go to college too
5. are going to be poor, living on welfare, without a job or a place to live, and often drinking too much alcohol
6. measure up to a certain standard
7. are… causing suffering
8. making jokes about, a place where boring personalities are fostered
9. On one occasion
10. the process of reducing a large number of universities to a much smaller number, with regard to panini
●II.
1. illumination
2. inspiration
3. biographical
4. devastated
5. neurotic
6. infuriating
7. obsessive
8. fixation
9. obligatory
10. interjections
●III.
1. dragooned into
2. in question
3. in jeopardy
4. follow suit
5. screwed up
6. taken their toll
7. stemmed from
8. sotto voce
9. fork over
10. Tick off
11. winnowed down
12. flat out
●IV. Explain the meaning of the underlined word or phrase in each sentence.
1. is never a one-hundred-percent pleasant experience
2. his wish to argue with people all the time
3. an embarrassed smile
4. he had $100,000 more than he had in the past
5. secretly listening to
6. Traffic which is traveling north
7. extreme shock and sadness
8. concluding
9. it is not necessary for you to
10. shook violently and stopped
●V. Correct the errors in the following passage.
●VI. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE appropriate word.
1.lifetimes
2. turn
3. times
4. China
5. Greek
6. urban
7. Unlike
8. like
9. government
10. conduct
11. birth
12. apart
13. focused
14. potential
15. did
16. inferior
17. of
18. little
19. considered
20. Both
●Translation
1. Being the eldest son in the family, he was the only one to have gained the undivided attention of his parents.
2. He lacked the requisite skills for the job.
3. The United Nations mediated between the local government and the rebels during the crisis.
4. He has carved out a niche for himself as a leading researcher in his field of study.
5. Everyone feigned surprise when I told them how old I was.
6. The data is validated automatically by the computer after it has been entered.
7. He looked somewhat shamefaced when he realized his mistake.
8. Set in the last century, the novel tells a story about a girl who was disowned by her parents when she married a foreigner.
9. I’ve got to speak to James vis-à-vis the arrangements for Thursday.
10. At this juncture, it is impossible to say whether she will make a full recovery.
●II. Translate the following passage into English.
Summer means internships for thousands of American college students. They work in the kinds of jobs they might want to have some day. Experts say at least one-third of all American college students complete an internship before they graduate. Some students work for large companies. Some work for small organizations. Some work for the United States government.
Many interns do not earn money at their summer jobs. Some college students get an internship to gain experience in the kind of job they want to get after graduation. Others do not yet know what kind of permanent job they want. So they may get internships in several different companies or organizations. In this way, they can find out what kind of job they like best. Why are internships so popular? Students can learn about different kinds of jobs. They can do interesting work. They can learn skills and gain valuable experience. And they can meet important people. Students often describe internships as a chance that happens once in a lifetime.
●Listening exercises
● B.
● 1. She was an English major and was considering going into teaching as a career.
● 2. She thinks that being well-rounded isn’t really possible because it is impossible to develop any one part of oneself
to a great degree; and she obviously f eels that it is important to develop one’s own special talents.
● 3. The kids go to a technical or trade school for part of the week, and come back to their home school for the rest of
the time.
● 4. She feels that because they have been treated as bad students, they have come to believe it, and as a result they
start to act that way.
● 5. She thinks they never try to do anything creative, because they think attempting anything with these kids would be
just regarded as a waste of time.
●Unit 7 A few kind words for superstition
●Text comprehension
●I. B
●II.
1. F. It could be practiced by any group of people, including well-educated ones. Refer to Paragraph
2.
2. T. Refer to Paragraph 5.
3. T. Refer to Paragraph 7.
4. F. Superstition, unbidden and persistent, makes it s appearance very early in people’s life, while religion may lose its appeal to people when its formal teaching declines. Besides, people may have different religious beliefs, while superstition is indifferent to race or creed. Refer to Paragraph 8 and 9.
5. T. Refer to Paragraph 11.
●Language work
1. has an unrecognized control over
2. unquestionably
3. things that are supposed to contain some power to bring good luck
4. offering God too little money
5. get rid of it completely
6. comes into being
7. do away with it
8 have some control in
9. keep a distance from
●II.
1.gravity
2. placatory
3. deplorable
4. manifestation
5. observances
6. absolved
7. submersion
8. divined
9. proliferation
10. neurotic
●III.
1.root out
2. has a … hold on
3. within the bounds
4. made a … appearance
5. the depth of
6. hastened to
7. come by
8. give a damn
9. stood aloof
10. yearning for
●IV. Explain the meaning of the underlined word or phrase in each sentence.
1.do unreasonable things
2. harmed the reputation of
3. sincerely
4. try to persuade
5. god and goddess
6. rebirth
7. been strongly criticized as
8. authority
9. widespread
10. appear automatically
●V. Correct the errors in the following passage.
●VI. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE appropriate word.
1. experience
2. involving
3. image
4. news
5. details
6. memory
7. coincided
8. lives
9. dream
10. nothing
11. happened
12. turned
13. crashed
14. survivors
15. board
●Translation I.
1. His parents were worried by his increasingly irrational behavior.
2. The film was condemned by some critics for its sexist portrayal of women.
3. Don’t feel under any compulsion to take me with you. I won’t be offended if you don’t.
4. He demonstrated a worrying naiveté about political issues.
5. Whenever they started quarrelling, I would always remain aloof.
6. There’s no need to panic. The police have the situation in hand.
7. A good boss is not so easy to come by.
8. Any sign of remorse was completely absent from her face.
9. You must try to banish all thoughts of revenge from your mind.
10. She has a strong hold on her daughters.
●II. Translate the following passage into Chinese.
迷信是当今英国文化中的一部分。尽管迷信活动在100年前更为活跃,但现在仍有不少相信迷信的人,有老人也有年轻人。
所有的迷信都有其根源,所谓无火不起烟。是谁第一个认为在屋里打伞会带来厄运?是谁第一个走在梯子底下而遭遇不幸?是谁把马蹄铁倒挂?是谁打碎了镜子?是谁洒了盐?是谁把第一个13号星期五看成是最倒霉的日子?
16、17世纪时,人们的生活中充满了碰运气的成分,每天的生活中心都在于揣测未来的祸福。宗教、疾病、火灾也许称得上是迷信的三大最基本的要素。尽管今天我们看事物的角度已经不同,但是迷信作为一种传统仍然流传在我们中间。
●Listening exercises
●The Chaffin Will Affair
●Listen to the story again and decide if these statements are true or false.
● 1. T 2. T 3. T 4. F 5 T 6 F 7 T 8 F
●Reincarnation
●Juliet, Malcolm and Yolanda are discussing reincarnation. Listen to their conversation and answer the following
questions.
● 1. B 2. B 3. C 4. B
●Unit 8 Being There
●Text comprehension
●I. C
●II.
1. T. Refer to Paragraph 1.
2. F. When traveling abroad, our passport can remind us of our ordinary identity. We put on masks (putting on dark glasses and speaking and looking like the natives) only to be what we have always wanted to be. Refer to Paragraphs 4 and 5.
3. F. One of the most common reasons for traveling is to escape father and the familiar, because there is a recurrent desire to drop our lives, to simply walk out of them. Refer to Paragraph 8.
4. T. Refer to Paragraph 1
5.
5. F. Modern travelers get an ecstasy of spoliation only out of their love for awfulness, not the ecstasy from the classical ruins of antiquity. Refer to Paragraph 17.
●Language work
●I.
1. have removed from, for the sake of
2. inhibited, open widely
3. spending sprees/wild shopping
4. beautified
5. cherish/adhere to
6. to find reasons or excuses for
7. For what other reason, disliked
8. proved to be well-grounded
9. way to punish himself for the wrong things he had done
10. leaving the British navy because he was an invalid, started traveling
II.
1. otherness
2. sophistication
3. impulsive
4. recurrent/recurring
5. contradictory
6. nostalgic
7. militancy
8. distinction
9. disillusionment
10. confirmation
●III.
https://www.360docs.net/doc/2117195540.html,st-ditch attempt
2. tempting…by
3. put … aside
4. giving way to
5. in search of
6. edited out
7. disengage…from
8. opposed to
9. clings to
10. stood out
11. crusaded against
12. invalided out
●IV. Explain the meaning of the underlined word or phrase in each sentence.
1.by the right of
2. became available
3. decline (of popularity)
4. Sounding highly ironical
5. pressed her band affectionately
6. Profits
7. opinion of the editors
8. find out the cause of
9. seductively
10. wildly/without control
●V Correct the errors in the following passage.
●VI. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE appropriate word.
1.left
2. majority
3. remain
4. Most
5. not
6. both
7. buildings
8. highest
9. among
10. else
11. make
12. recently
13. display
14. used
15. until
16. which
17. as
18. part
19. sold
20. serves
●Translation
1. In July, wanderlust takes over the whole nation.
2. I am doing research on the contradictions between his private life and his public persona.
3. He felt like an impostor among all those intelligent people, as if he had no right to be there.
4. Funny, profane and fearless, she has become one of America’s biggest television celebrities.
5. A crowd of curious onlookers soon gathered to see what was happening.
6. Hearing that tune again filled him with nostalgia.
7. I detest having to get up when it’s still dark outside.
8. As a penance, she said she would buy them a box of chocolates.
9. The book contains sublime descriptive passages.
10. Perceiving that he wasn’t h appy with the arrangements, I booked a different hotel.
●II. Translate the following passage into English.
Millions of people around the world depend on the National Geographic Society for information. Each year, thousands of vistors tour the soc iety’s Explorers Hall in central Washington, D. C. Exhibits and modern technology in this museum help them learn about the Earth and its environment.
The National Geographic Society produces maps, books, and magazines that are popular around the world. It produces films and television show. It makes computer programs and videos for schools. The society’s Committee for Research and Exploration gives money to scientists working in subjects from archaeology to zoology.
The National Geographic Society supports the teaching of geography—the study of the Earth. It helps train teachers in geography. It offers computer users the latest information about the activities of researchers and explorers on its Internet website.
●Listening exercises
● B.
● 1. She thought it was an overwhelming, chaotic and manic place.
● 2. The main problem was that they moved on too quickly from one place to the next, and it was strange being
“thrown together with random groups of people.”
● 3. Because she hoped she would be able to stay in England for a short time.
● 4. Yes, she thought it was a really nice trip.
●Unit 9 I’d rather be black than female
●I. C
●II.
1. T. Refer to Paragraph 1 and
2.
2. F. The best she can hope for with her tedious and faithful work is an assistant position ( a vice-chairman) and she is supposed to vote the way her male chairman votes. Refer to Paragraphs 5 and 6.
3. T. Refer to Paragraphs 8 and 9.
4. F. Women suffer prejudice in both job recruitment and career development. Refer to Paragraphs 10 and 11.
5. T. Refer to Paragraphs 16 and 17.
●Language work
●I. Explain the italicized part in each sentence in your own words.
1. a successful person
2. express doubt about the truth of what I have said
3. gives… the impression of being
4. unseen
5. obvious
6. meetings kept secret from other people (such as the public)
7. present
8. beat/defeated
9. talented/likely to succeed
10. am sure
●II.
1.incredulity
2. eliminate
3. suppressed
4. evasive
5 predominance
6. empathize
7. ambassador
8. token
9. stereo typical
10. masculinity
●III.
1.reaped the rewards
2. is… content with
3. make a … difference
4. was rewarded …with
5. running for
6. think of …as
7. sit on
8. holding…ranks
9. build up
10. dropped out of
●IV. Explain the meaning of the underlined word or phrase in each sentence.
1. a job with no hope of promotion
2. involvement
3. bear
4. determination
5. made difficult
6. just wait and see what happens
7. an improvement or development
8. in a different light
9. equipment
10. put into effect/put in force
●V. Correct the errors in the following passage.
●VI. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE appropriate word.
1.studying
2. including
3. those
4. able
5. Whether
6. Stands
7. provide
8. colorful
9. females
10. younger
●Translation
1. My report may strike some people as pessimistic, but at least it’s realistic about the problems we face.
2. It was an interesting book, full of fascinating insights into human relationship.
3. I found it quite a handicap not to have a car in the country.
4. The police have eliminated the possibility that it could have been an accident because it was so well timed.
5. She looked at him with undisguised contempt.
6. The characters in the book are just stereoptypes.
7. You will soon reap the various benefits of being fit as long as you keep doing exercise.
8. If you try to evade paying your taxes you run the risk of going to prison.
9. He kept trying to mold me into what he wanted me to be.
10. We don’t have a screen but we can project the slides onto the back wal l.
●II. Translate the following passage into Chinese.
当人们提到女权运动时,通常有两种反应:一种认为,女权运动者不过是一群日子过得不顺心的女人;另一种则认为,女权运动纯粹是白人女性的事,与黑人女性无关。
事实上,黑人女性所受到的剥削远比白人女性要深,所有的黑人女性有必要团结起来,共同奋斗去争取应得的权力,诸如自主权、同工同酬权自由堕胎权和孩子入托权。我们应当看到,黑人女性争取解放的要求是全人类争取自由权利的一部分。
黑种男人错误地以为,白人资本家把一些职位和技术工作交给黑人女性,是为了要羞辱他们。现实情况是,人人就业无法实现,而黑人女性正是低报酬和失业现象的最大受害者。
●Unit 10 Two Truths to Live by
●Text comprehension
●I. A
●II.
1. F. Life is full of wonder and beauty that breaks through every pore of God’s own earth, but we only re cognize this truth too late. Refer to Paragraph
2.
2. T. Refer to Paragraph 4 and 5.
3. F. We cannot always hold fast to life and not let go even with the full force of our passionate being. We must accept our losses, and learn how to let go. Refer to Paragraphs 10 and 11.
4. T. Refer to Paragraph 12.