Keys
Unit 8
Part I Pre-reading
Section B Listening Practice 1. secure
2. surest
3. rating
4. tuition
5. innovations
6. approaches 7. responsibly 8. reach out 9. popular with 10. luxury
Part II Active Reading：Education
Task One
1. A 2. C
3. D
4. D
5. B
Part III Language Focus
Task One
1. tremble 2. enchanted 3.yield
4. proceed
5. creep 10. plagued
6. correspond 7. casualties 8. invoking 9. rendered
Task Two
1. Sonnets are written in traditional meters and rhyme schemes.
2. The judge invoked some rules from The Law Yearbook of China to support his
argument.
3. Having lost passion for online games, he soon savored the pleasure in reading. 4. Mary burst into tears when she knew her husband was one of the casualties in this
accident.
5. The old woman suddenly began to tremble, staggered backwards, and then
swooned.
6. When he is quite nervous, he always whistles a merry tune to relax.
Part IV Chinese & Foreign Culture Introduction
Task One
Mencius was born in Zou State (present Zhoucheng of Shangdong Province) during the Warring States Period. His father died when he was quite young, so he lived with his mother. Living close to a cemetery when he was a kid, Mencius often imitated the rites which he saw in funeral processions or burial services for amusement. Seeing about this, Mother Meng decided that the place was no good for her son’s education, so they moved their house.
Later, they moved to a place neighboring a boisterous street. Mencius, seeing the merchants and vendors hawking their goods, began to imitate their behavior. \not the right place to raise my son either,\
In the end, they moved next to a school. Inspired by what he saw and heard, Mencius naturally started to imitate the courtesy behavior and study habits of the students. Observing the change of Mencius, Mother Meng decided not to move again and settled down there.
Task Two
要想生活得朝气蓬勃，其中一条法则就是拥有好奇心。如果你能燃起孩子内心好奇的火花，他们往往都可以主动学习，而无需外援。孩子们天生就会学习。激发或是扼杀这种天赋，会对孩子产生巨大的影响。好奇心是取得成就的能动力。因为当前的文化，影响了教师的专业化程度。无论是世界范围的教育体系，还是国家内部的教育机构，都不如教师重要。教师是学校能否取得成功的命脉，教学是需要创造力的职业教学。教学的真正内涵在于，它不是单纯的输出。教师的工作不仅仅是传递所接收到的信息。优秀的教师的确要这样做，但同时他们还会指导学生的学习，激发学生的兴趣，挑起学生的热情，赢得学生的关注。归根结底，教育讲的就是学习。如果没有学习，就谈不上教育。人们花了大量时间去谈教育问题，却从来不讲学习。教育的主旨就是引导人们去学习。
Part V Academic Reading: International Trade
Task One
1. greater competition; cheaper products 2. goods; services 3. assets; natural resources
4. opportunity cost; maximizes; greater supply
5. foreign currency; expertise; employment levels; gross domestic product
Task Two
1. 国际贸易拓宽了国内市场，否则我们也许无法享受到更多的商品和服务。
2. 这种贸易催生了世界经济，使得价格、供求关系会受到国际事件的影响，反之亦然。 3. 进出口造成了一个国家当前的国际收支差额。
4. 国际贸易分工降低了他们的机会成本，因此最大化了他们获得所需产品的效率。 5. 国际贸易不仅能提高效率，也允许各国参与全球经济，为对外直接投资提供了机会。
Part VI Academic Writing: Revising the Rough Draft
Task
This introduction has too many themes: Women are victimized by men; women should stand up to men; women’s roles are still affected by the inequality of the past; to get along in the world, women must show a willingness to accommodate men. The student was advised to focus her research on, and develop one point.
Here’s the rewritten introduction:
Today our society enforces femininity by certain unspoken threats, and if a woman tests the limits of her gender beyond a certain point, she will lose the approval of women as well as men. For example, if she is viewed as pushy, assertive, aggressive, and selfish, she may lose her job, her boyfriend, and alienate her family. Moreover, a woman who dares to oppose this patriarchal system risks being perceived as both unfeminine and undesirable. That is why some women have resigned themselves to playing a narrowly prescribed role in this male-dominated drama. But this
unacknowledged principle of surrender to masculinity has become too costly for women of this generation to continue engaging in it.
With the thesis now plainly stated in the last sentence, the introduction is clear and sharp.
Part VII Developing Skills: Argumentation Writing (IV)
Task
Environmental challenges, ranging from smog in cities to toxic groundwater to the Antarctic ozone hole have been presented to us. I believe that many of these challenges should be met with collaboration across national boundaries. Environmental concerns should be dealt with through joint efforts from countries for two main reasons.
The first one is now problems such as oil spills and dust storms are so widespread that they can hardly be confined to one single country or region. Thus, it is crucial that these problems be solved with international efforts. What is meant by this is each country and person should be made aware of their unique role in environmental protection. The second reason why joint effort is essential is that each country has its own weaknesses in environmental protection. For instance, even though the industrialized countries possess advanced technology and the financial resources for environmental preservation, many of them cannot solve the serious problem of emission induced by climate change because reducing this problem may slow down their industrial production and lower their people’s comfort and convenience.
Accordingly, nations and international organizations have their roles to play in ensuring that the rich countries fulfill their environmental obligations.
新融合大学英语综合教程3-Unit 8 答案-正式版
