新编英语教程第3册（李观仪主编）第二单元课后练习答案 -

练习册第二单元参考答案 Text 1

A. True (T) or False (F)?

1. Simone drank some champagne with her bridesmaids to overcome her nervousness before the wedding. F

Simone didn’t feel nervous at all. On the contrary, when drinking champagne, she thought about all that had gone into getting to the wedding day.

2. Simone regarded her wedding as the most important occasion in her life. T

3.Simone’s father loved her so much that he was willing to spend as much money as he could. F

Maybe Simone’s father was willing to spend money for her, but it seemed that he could not afford what his daughter had spent for her wedding.

4. Alice had succeeded in teaching Simone to be a reasonable and responsible consumer. F

It was true that Alice always told Simone to be financially responsible, but she failed to make her a reasonable and responsible consumer, especially when she was preparing for her wedding.

5. Simone didn’t follow Alice’s advice because Simone thought all the money she spent belonged to her father. T

6. Alice called to ask Simone about her future plan because she wanted to humiliate her. F

Alice called to ask Simone about her future plan because she wanted to remind her of her financial problem after the wedding.

7. Simone lost control of her emotions later because Alice sent a letter to inform her that she had divorced her father. F

Simone lost control of her emotions later because Alice sent a letter to inform her that the wedding had been cancelled. Since her father’s company had already gone bankrupt, her father couldn’t pay her wedding expenditure.

8. Since Tom decided not to marry Simone after knowing the facts, the wedding was cancelled. T

B. Explain the following in your own words.

1. … Simone could not help but think about all that had gone into getting to today. could not stop from thinking about.

2. Her wedding day was going to be the biggest, most lavish event of the social

calendar to date.

the most important and extravagant event

3. … Simone was Daddy’s little girl, she was named after him. her name was derived from her father’s name, Simon.

4. … as if Daddy wouldn’t be around to bail her out when she got in over her head. when she was in a very difficult situation

5. Simone continued telling them how Alice had been a good sport from then on, … had behaved in a cheerful way

6. … so you may have to cut back on your expenses, … reduce your costs

7. Inside they found Simone in a heap on the floor screaming and ranting; … crumpled.

8. …, he decided he couldn’t in good faith, marry you.

he made up his mind that he could not marry you with perfect sincerity (“in good faith” is intended ironically here, mocking his greed and lack of sincere love)

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Comprehension

1.F (The family portrait taken on Christmas,1977 was the best one of its kind for the family, but it was not because my family was much smaller at that time.)

2.F (It was true that my mother valued and enjoyed taking a family portrait every year, but it was not so enjoyable to my other family members) 3.T

4.F (Although every family member got well prepared for the family portrait in 1991,we didn’t take a better one than that of 1977, for the photographer lost the negatives, which saddened my mother greatly.)

5.F (We had many opportunities to take a perfect family portrait after 1991,but the difficulty of getting the perfect picture increased.) 6.T Text Ⅲ

Comprehension

1. Caribbean 2. supply ship, was lost in 1918

3. Antia, Norwegian freighter ,was lost in 1973 4. Rosalie, French sailing vessel, was lost in 1840 5. U.S. Cabin Cruiser,1967 6. southwest south Guided writing

Sentence combination

Columbus made four voyages to the west between 1492 and 1504 in his vain search

for a sea route to Asia. The mystery of why he failed to find it haunted him and filled him with sadness.

Wherever he went-to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, South Africa, Panama, down the coast of Central America-it was always the same story. Instead of golden palaces, there were grass huts and palm-leaf tents. Instead of silk-robed merchant princes, he found〝Indians〞who did not even have shirts on their backs.

At times Clumbus became reconciled to the truth that his new land was not China, not Japan, not the spice Islands. He seemed to accept it as a part of the earth that the geographers of Europe had never heard of before. It was another world-and he called it exactly that-but Columbus also insisted until he died that the land he had reached was an unknown part of Asia. Precis writing

Simone’s wedding would be the most lavish event since she was born, although her stepmother Alice often lectured her about being financially responsible. When she was preparing for her wedding, Alice always tried to stop her from spending too much money. But Simone firmly believed that her father would pay for all the costs due to his deep love for her. That being so, Simone did not take Alice’s advice and was rude to her. Unfortunately, a special delivery arrived not long after. It was a letter from Alice. In the letter, Alice told Simone that she had bought her father’s bankrupt company when she fell in love with him. Now, however, her father was both fired and divorced. As a result, Simone was broke. Even worse, her wedding was cancelled because her fiance decided not to marry her after knowing the fact. Comprehensive exercises Ⅰ.Spelling

1. champagne 2.lavish 3.interfere 4.commonsense 5. financially 6.gloat 7.disguise 8.bridesmaid 9.penthouse 10.misbehaving 11.frown 12.attic Ⅱ.Dictation

It seems that marriage and money don’t mix, because marriage is a sexy rose-colored event that seems as wonderful as a cake without calories. Money, on the other hand, is the oil that greases the wheel. Money means bussiness and it’s unsually the last topic you want to discuss when you announce your engagement.

Beyond the expenses that you will incur with your wedding and honeymoon, money may provide most of the contention with your marriage. While discussions about money might seem unromantic at this moment, it’s best to talk about the future now before that marriage makes you legally bound to each other. Once you’ve said,〝I do,〞some things can’t be undone. ⅢListening comprehension

1.C 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.B

The Strange Story of Lady Be Good

It was a hot afternoon in September 1963. A small party of engineers in a truck were exploring, looking for oil in the southeastern desert of Libya. They were about four hundred miles south of the Libyan coast. The desert was hot, dry, flat and empty. The air was very clear.

The men suddenly noticed a strange shape on the horizon, far away. It was a mirage, they thought. Heat and light often played tricks on their eyes. The shape looked rather like an aeroplane on the ground. But the nearest landing ground, they knew, was at their own camp, a hundred and twenty miles to the north. As they drove slowly towards it, the shape grew clearer. It really did look like an aeroplane and seemed less than twenty miles away.

Two hours later the party stood beside a wartime bomber. Her name, Lady Be Good, was painted in white letters below the cockpit. She was shining in the evening sunlight, and in some ways she looked almost new.

The bomber had lost her wheels, and her propellers were bent. She lay flat on the sand, but her body and wings were undamaged. The men opened a door — it opened easily — and went inside. The plane was shining inside, too. The controls, the radio, the instruments — all seemed perfect. In the small kitchen there were biscuits, tins of soup, and even some water in an airtight tank. Maps were lying on a table nearby. There were instructions to the crew and several radio reports, with dates. The dates were all in 1942.

The visitors understood the tragedy of Lady Be Good. She had lost her way home, one night in 1942. She used up all her petrol and had come down in the desert. And there she had stayed for twenty-one years.

She is still there. The dry, hot winds keep her clean. No rain ever falls on her in that desert. She may still be bright and shining in a hundred years’ time.

But what happened to her crew? The bones of five men were later found between thirty and sixty miles north of the bomber. The remains, including the remains of four parachutes, were widely separated. The men’s names were written on small metal plates that hung down from the neck-bones.

The story was clear. In case of a bad landing, the pilot had ordered his crew to jump by parachute. He himself had remained at the controls. The men had begun to walk to the north. But the desert had very quickly brought death to all of them. ⅣTranslation

A. Translate the sentences

1.When looking at some children’s toys I played with during my childhood, I can’t help but wonder why I liked them so much then.

2.Some officials point out that the lavish bonuses to bank executives show the need for certain financial reforms.

3.The president of the society briefly stated the bussiness in hand ,namely to choose a secretary or treasurer.

4.Instead of getting all riled up about this, we should figure out what to do.

5.What if we fall in love with a girl who is already attached with a boy friend? Will you tell her that you like her?

6.He likes to gloat over all her prizes he has won, which she keeps in a glass case. 7.For the sake of all our children, please keep this in mind and vote sensibly on election day.

8.Last month we cut back on amount we were eating out, so we saved a lot of money. 9.It never occurred to me to try Facebbok as a way of connecting with old friends, but