全新版大学英语综合教程5(第二版)unit1-8课后解答

UNIT1 Vocabulary I.

1. allot 2. go through fire and water 3. reside 4. sobbed 5. made no mention of 6. sacrifice 7. came upon 8. rhythm 9. volume 10. something of a II.

1. I stayed on as an assistant professor.

2. I hold it to my ear because I want to hear time tick away. 3. The salary is not wonderful, but the duties are light. 4. The moral of the lesson is not to talk to strangers. 5. Yes, but it cannot hold a candle to Huangshan. III.

1. The nasty smell from the kitchen made her stomach churn.

2. When she sank into drunkenness, she was able to forget her sorrow. 3. In the 1500 meters, Martin and Parker came first and third respectively.

4. The two hills Shunner Fell from the north and Lovely Seat from the south flank the famous Butter Tubs Pass.

5. Levi, in gratitude to Joshua, gave a party for him.

Iv. 1. ambition-----ambition-----regardless of 2. discourse---by way of 3. is engraved---inward V. 1. have come upon/across 2. had come out 3. come on/up 4. came across 5. comes down to 6. came around/to 7. comes to 8. came through 9. came up with 10. comes up Usage

1. the Wilsons 2. Mark Twain 3. Annie Johnsons 4. another Winston Churchill 5. a Mrs. Burton 6. a Budweiser 7. A Monet 8. an old Ford Comprehensive Exercises

I. Cloze 1. Text-related 1. go through fire and water 2. salary 3. give---no peace 4. sink into 5. ambition 6. By way of 7. expressive 8. churned 9. engraved 10. not hold a candle to 11. inward 2. Theme-related

1. Success 2. literacy 3. significantly 4. promoting 5. appropriate 6. too 7. later 8. repetition 9. invented 10. less II. Translation

Although my grandmother was illiterate, she had a good stock of myths and legends. When I was young I gave her no peace, constantly asking her to tell me stories. After she had finished her housework, she would lift me onto her lap and tell stories, all the while rocking me in rhythm. Having noticed my interest in stories, my parents lost no time in initiating me into reading. They bought many storybooks with illustrations, and whenever free, they would read these stories to me over and over again. By and by I had a vocabulary large enough to read on my own.

UNIT2 Vocabulary I. 1.

1) appetite 2) destructive 3) agency 4) processed 5) saturated 6) utter 7) hoisted 8) referring to 9) retrieve 10) Unfortunately 2.

1) Peter was chasing the dog and Tom was riding the wooden horse in the garden. 2) They all looked on except one young man. He took her to the hospital instantly. 3) I laid charges against the company and won the case.

4) If we want to stay competitive, first of all we need to modernize our factory. 5) They got irrigation water from the dammed rivers. 3.

1) Except in the oases the desert is almost devoid of vegetation, although some

stunted, thorny shrubs grow in the western Sahara. 2) The fruits growing wild in the coastal forest are edible.

3) The national security agency made recommendations for improving safety

standards in airplanes / to improve safety standards in airplanes.

4) The Beatles enjoyed success on a scale unparalleled by any previous pop group. 5) The emergence of language was a defining factor in the evolution of modern

humans. 4.

1) Excluding other factors such as quality and price, products which are attractively packaged are bound to attract more consumers, particularly children and young people. Packaging has become an important way to boost / of boosting the sales of products.

2) In the eyes of some businessmen, consumers' health comes second to profits.

They sell chicken infected with salmonella and crabs with traces of antibiotics. 3) It can be hard to go vegetarian. The important thing is to make changes you feel comfortable with, at your own pace. While stopping consuming any products for which animals are bred and slaughtered may be ideal, even a slight reduction in meat consumption is a step in the right direction. 5.

1) get over 2) got to 3) get through 4) get over 5) get by 6) get away