高级英语下册巫漪云 复旦 课后练习答案

3. So far, progress of a greater or lesser degree has been made in the research on superconductors in various countries.

4. We must inculcate in people respect for knowledge and for people of talent.

5. After the outbreak of the French Revolution, many members of the nobility shorn of their wealth fled abroad. 6. A special envoy has been sent to find out how things stand in that country tormented by a civil war.

7. The social status of women in China today has been enhanced, (as) witness the vast number of women holding leading positions.

8. A note of desperation in her voice gave her away.

9. It is not an exaggeration (by much) to say that the quality of the color TV sets made by this factory is better than that of 3 years ago.

10. With the improvement in management and administration, the labor productivity of that factory is higher than it has ever been since China?s adoption of the reform and opening policy.

11. Such research as these doctors are doing will have far-reaching significance in the field of medicine.

12. They have learnt a lot from the lesson of the past, if not their own then that of some other people of the same trade.

13. To dump nuclear waste at sea will seriously affect environment, and not merely marine life alone. 14. At first, he was reluctant to undertake the task, but when he started, he went at it with a will.

15. He went against the traffic lights when riding his bicycle. He explained to the policeman at length as if the change of the lights from green to red were to blame for his violation of traffic regulations. 16. The rewards of their design turned out to be worthy of the time and funds they had spent.

17. The fact that Green mismanaged the factory is sufficient cause for not appointing him director again. 18. The power John wielded in that department made Jim refrain from suggesting his own different solution.

Lesson Eight

QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS Ⅰ. A. 1—4 B A D C 5—8 B D B C VERBAL PRACTICE Ⅲ. A. 1. retract 2. potential 3. goaded 4. disobliging 5. agonies 6. deprecating 7. grudgingly 8.repulsive

9. forestalled 10.strident 11. unflinching 12. was bogged (down) in 13. accessible 14. invariably 15.pass muster 16. prowess 17. something of a rarity 18. wore off 19. intransigence 20. was divested of

B. 1. Her many years of laborious efforts culminated in a successful exhibition of her paintings in Hangzhou last year.

2. Known as a child wonder when he was a kid, for he could write beautiful poems at seven, he did not grow to be a poet or a scholar and his literary talent proved only a flash-in-the-pan.

3. It suddenly dawned on me that Lant was on the verge of bankruptcy. There had been reports that the finance of his business was in a deplorable tangle.

4. Wholesale indulgence of the only child in the family actually does no good but a lot of harm to its growth. 5. When we old friends met, we would talk about our careers and families. Susan told me that her brother Stephen, now on the bright side of thirty, is a successful lawyer in a southern city. And I learnt that Teddy, on the shady side of forty, recently married a Thai girl.

6. An occasional prod is good for children, but too many prods can only produce negative, if not disastrous, effect.

7. She can hardly believe that the expensive dress she bought last year has already gone out of fashion.

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8. A Sino-British Exploration Team was being organized to cross the vast expanse of the Taklimakan Desert When he learned the news, the young reporter could not resist entering for the expedition. 9. Jim?s intransigence has proved a handicap to his relations with his colleagues.

10 .Every Saturday those kind-hearted people will go to the Children Welfare Institute and each will bring a child home, and the handicapped child, showered with love, will spend a happy weekend in his new home where he is made to feel to be a member of the family.

11. I could visualize my childhood friend, now a rising film, star, surrounded by fans, smiling and nodding to everyone who was trying to accost her.

12. I am all too familiar with Harry type. He will invariably make a fuss over a trivial matter.

13. The son played the game both ways successfully, which culminated in a harmonious relationship between his mother and his wife.

14. Somerset Maugham may rightly be referred to as a versatile writer, whose novels, plays, short stories and other works are still extremely popular and are widely read today.

15. In the four-star hotel lobby the Chinese artist was accosted by two overseas Chinese who later hosted a dinner party in his honor.

16. Because Jack had a facility for figures he took to accounting like a duck (takes) to water.

17. In the dusk of the evening the young girl became a little scared when she found she was the only person on the country road with a car bogged down.

18. Everyone should try to look on the bright side of life even when misfortune befalls him.

19. You can never imagine what fun the few of us far away from home got out of spinning yarns after work in those days.

20. The Nazis wholesale murder of Jews during World Ⅱ is the most outrageous crime in human history. CLOZE

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Lesson Nine

VERBAL PRACTICE Ⅲ. B. 1. overlook 2.palavering 3.news behind the news 4. off the record 5.acted as a brake 6.masher

7 .rejoicing 8.Melancholia 9.was holding forth 10. a cut above 11.aglow 12.give him his due 13. reeling 14.despondent / in distress 15.goings-on 16. wear off 17.dawned on 18.came on 19. split their sides 20.make sport of

F.1. Because of his backache; the once vigorous scholar can?t walk for more than two hours at a stretch.

2. Before the job interview, nothing could have soothed him as much as the knowing smile on his mother?s face. 3. The young manager is becoming stuffed up with his recent success in turning the bankrupt textile mill into a profit-making enterprise.

4. New laws and regulations should be formulated and passed and passed and passed by the Congress to act as a brake on the rampant corruption among leaders at various levels.

5.The Chairman told the people present at the meeting that futile palavering won?t solve any of the critical issues.

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6. After years of closed-door policies in governing the land, the country suddenly found that other nations were miles ahead of it when it started to adopt a foreign-oriented market economy.

7. That girl student in red is smart and well-bred. She is always a cut above the rest of the class in all courses. 8.1993 was a year of anti-corruption. Movements to expose corrupt officials and crush illegal activities were carried out in various countries around the world.

9. When it dawned on the Dean that the boy had played truant for lucrative dealings, the smile on his face quickly wore off.

10.The young woman bowed reverently to the bishop and whispered, “I?m really sorry for what I?ve done to the church.”

11. The weather beaten peasant woman stormed into the hall, threw herself on her dead mother in the coffin, and began to wail bitterly.

12. Her classmates turned off all the lights and hid in the wardrobes in the corners, or behind the doors, trying to make game of her on this April Fools? Day.

13. At the sight of his burnt-down native village and the charred bodies of his loved ones, a fury began to expand in the guerrilla leader. He stamped his feet, clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, determined to take his revenge on the enemy for their heinous crime.

14. Using a box of chocolates as a bribe, the middle-aged woman coaxed the little boy into taking a message to his father for her.

15. The angry woman said to her husband,“ I think you?re just making a show of agreeing with me in order to get some peace.”

16. He was so ready to fall in with her offers that she scented a trap in the business transaction.

Lesson Ten

VERBAL PRACTICE

Ⅲ. A. 1. fumbled 2. kindled 3. measure off 4.dug-outs 5. turmoil, at the mercy of 6. has come his way

7. darn 8.shimmering 9. varnish 10. reeled in 11.grope 12.Dwarf 13.deluge 14.jocularity 15.daubs

G. 1. The goat is an ancient creature that has done much for man. One of the small services the goat has rendered to man is in the way of language. For example, some men wear goatees, thin whiskers that hang down their chins like the whiskers on a goat.

2. The would-be boss smiled as he came into the reception hall, which put the employees immediately at ease. 3. Some poets want to live in a perpetual lethargy so that their life can proceed with the utmost quiet and freedom and they might compose poems in a semi-somnambulant state.

4. Vultures are hovering over the cliff, below which a fierce battle was fought the night before, and hundreds of dead soldiers are still lying unburied there.

5. The Indians in North America often send news over long distances by beating out a message on a hollow log. 6. The senior journalist sank into his easy chair with great relish and began to indulge in recollection of those battles in the war that he had witnessed at first hand.

7. In that remote and backward mountain, the tribal chieftains often scourged captives with whips and then made them slaves.

8. The well-groomed secretary had to run all the way at the news, and yet he arrived with not a hair out of place. 9. It raining cats and dogs outside! I rather sit by the cozy fire and not venture out in the pouring rain.

10. The upshot of the young man infatuation with his study of butterflies made him so restless with the present

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job that he asked to be relieved of his duties and later went to Africa.

11. At the commencement, everyone was in a fever of excitement. Graduating students shook hands with their beloved professors, embraced their buddies, and threw their caps into the sky.

12. When the war-time hero appeared on the rostrum, the audience gave him a standing ovation and looked at him with admiration and respect.

13．The members of the joint exploration team tried their best to save their slender stock of water for the camels, their ships in the desert.

14. In those difficult years, he was sent to Inner Mongolia, where he rode herd for a collective farm near the border.

15. I should say he is a unique landscape painter, at any rate for someone who is colorblind. 16. Tom was none too happy about the outcome of the election.

17. His aloofness has strengthened the estrangement between him and his colleagues. 18. The President?s advisors tried their best to prevail upon him to cancel the trip.

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