全新版大学英语(第二版)综合教程第二册全部课后练习答案

summarize our experience as we go along, for in so doing, we can figure out which way of learning is more effective and will produce the most desirable result. As long as we keep working hard on it, we will in due course accomplish the task of mastering English.

Unit2 Values

Part II Reading Task

Comprehension Content Question Pair Work

1. The Salvation Army is a religious charitable organization. A Salvation Army

bell ringer is a volunteer who help it collect donations.

2. The boy asked him: Are you poor? He did it simply out of confusion and

curiosity. Obviously he knew nothing about the Salvation Army bell ringer. 3. He said, “I have more than some people, but not as much as others.” This

means that he was neither poor nor rich.

4. The boy’s mother scolded him because the question was social inappropriate,

especially to a person who looked poor.

5. Yes, economically he is poor. He lives in a small basement apartment. He

doesn’t even have a color TV. He falls into the lowest income category. And so on.

6. No, the writer does not feel poor. This is because he has enjoyed good health

and creativity which he thinks are much more important than material goods.

7. He feels out of place among people who are primarily interested in material

things.

8. She told him that she was interested in what’s on the inside. but after he took

her to his poorly furnished apartment, she changed her mind completely. 9. It only shows that to her the most important thing was still material goods

rather than what she had claimed before.

10. Commercial can put people under pressure to purchase more than is really

necessary.

11. Because December is the time for to work for the Salvation Army as a bell

ringer, which gives him a genuine sense of belonging and brings him happiness in helping others.

12. The boy’s question has helped the writer realize that, despite his lack of

expensive possessions, he is rich in many other ways and should be thankful for that.

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Text Organization Working On Your Own

1.

1) a.√

2) the essay is meant to explain something that is, the author’s view of life. 3) That one can live a life full of riches without being rich financially. 2.

Part One: The writer’s encounter with a boy who raised the question “are you

poor?”

Part Two: In search of an answer the writer finds that not having expensive

possessions doesn’t make him feel poor mainly because he enjoys life in many other ways.

Part Three: In conclusion, the writer thinks he’s grown to understand more

about himself because of the boy’s question.

Language Sense Enhancement

1.

(1) (2) (3) (4)

attain

wear and tear dependable modest

(5) (6) (7) (8)

primarily minimal

exceptionally illness-free

(9) spirited (10) energizing

Language Focus Vocabulary I

1.

1) 2) 3) 4)

abrupt emotional bless

wear and tear

5) 6) 7) 8)

dated

consequences seemingly in contrast to

9) Curiosity 10) genuine 11) primarily 12) sentiments

2.

1) confronted with more than one problem, try to solve the easiest one first. 2) vital to the existence of all forms of life.

3) some confusion among the students about what to do after class to follow up on the

subject.

4) nothing more than a job and an apartment to be happy. 5) tickled him to think that she’d come to ask his advice 3.

1) a lingering; fabricating; sentiments 2) fill out; every item; vital; consequences

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3) be denied; tangible; cherish; attain

II

1. It is a long trip and will take us five hours by bus. 2. She arrived early and took a front row seat. 3. Don’t take me for a fool.

4. It takes a lot of imagination to fabricate such a story.

5. My uncle will take me (along on his trip) to the Arctic this summer. 6. He took the dinner plate I passed to him.

7. Kevin took second prize in the weight-lifting competition. 8.

If you don’t take my advice, you will regret it.

III

1. hanging 4. being praised

7. to open

2. to give 5. not having written 8. being helped

3. to return

6. to say

Comprehensive Exercises I. cloze

1.

(1) well-off/affluent (5) deny (9) out of place (2) dated

(6) tangible (10) abrupt (3) falling into (7) pursuit (11) focus (4) bracket (8) cherishes (12) donations 2.

(1) consume (5) physically (9) traditional (2) fueled (6) security (10) follow

(3) annual (7) indicates (4)

plain

(8)

equally

III. Translation

1.

1) The company denied that its donations had a commercial purpose. 2) Whenever he was angry, he would begin to stammer slightly.

3) Education is the most cherished tradition in our family. That’s why my

parents never took me to dinner at expensive restaurants, but sent me to the best private school.

4) Shortly after he recovered from the surgery, he lost his job and thus had

to go through another difficult phase of his life.

5) In contrast to our affluent neighbors, my parents are rather poor, but

they have always tried to meet our minimal needs. 2.

With more and more donations coming in, our university will be much better off financially next year. We will thus be able to focus on the most important task that we, educators, must take on: to encourage students to attain

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their scholarly/academic goals, to train them to be dependable and responsible individuals, to prepare them for the life ahead, and to guide them in their pursuit of spiritual as well as material satisfaction.

Unit3 The Generation Gap

Part II Reading Task

Comprehension Content Question Pair Work

1. There are seven characters---Father, Mother, Heidi, Diane, Sean, Restaurant

Manager, and Mrs. Higgins.

2. No. Because what he does usually ends up embarrassing them. 3. To buy a guitar.

4. To check if Sean was going to embarrass him. 5. He knew his father was going to embarrass him. 6. It was unnecessary and embarrassing.

7. He wanted Dan to pressure his son into asking Diane to the senior prom. 8. He would speak to his son and insist that the latter give Diane a call. 9. She felt humiliated.

10. Because the Thompson had just moved.

11. He tried to let her know how exceptionally talented a young woman Heidi

was.

12. Because she couldn’t bear being embarrassed by her father.

Text Organization Working On Your Own

1.

1. A fast-food restaurant

2. The Thompson family dining room 3. An office at a high school 2.

Scene One: Father embarrassed Sean by talking too proudly to the restaurant

manager.

Scene Two: Father embarrassed Diane by persuading a colleague into pressing

his son to ask her to the senior prom.

Scene Three: Father embarrassed Heidi by boating to an official at her new

school about how talented she was.

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