Keys
Unit 2
Part I Pre-reading
Section B Listening Practice 1. piled up 2. advancing 3. dawned upon 4. unendurable 5. sharpened 6. annoyance
Part II Active Reading：Inspiration
Task One 1. B
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. C
Part III Language Focus
Task One 1. entrepreneur 5. fall out
2. encounter
3. convinced
4. heaviness 7. intuition 10. devastating
6. embarrassment 9. diagnose
8. screws up
Task Two
1. His opinions always diverge from others, but this time he will side with those who want to abolish teacher tenure.
2. It gradually dawned on him that he let his wife down when he failed to take the responsibility of caring for their family.
3. I am curious about how much you are able to laugh things off, when life hits you in the head with a brick.
4. As the years roll on, Emily has learned not to let the external disturbance drown out her inner thought.
5. Owing to the urbanization and rural surplus labor force, farmers are no longer trapped by their land, and they begin to flood into cities to look for new jobs. 6. If you find things that you really like to do, for instance, a new hobby, these non-essentials just tend to fall away from your life.
Part IV Chinese & Foreign Culture Introduction
Task One
Once upon a time, the youngest daughter of Yandi (Emperor Yan), the legendary ruler of primitive China, went sailing on the East China Sea. While she was enjoying herself, a strong wind rose and her boat capsized. Just before she was engulfed by the surging waves, her spirit turned into a beautiful bird. Flying over the roaring sea, it cried sadly with the sound “jingwei, jingwei.” Thus, people called it “Jingwei.” The bird lived on a mountain near the sea. It hated the sea so much that it decided to fill it up. Every day, it flew to and fro between the mountain and the sea, carrying a twig or a pebble from the mountain and dropping it into the sea.
One day, the roaring sea said to Jingwei, “Poor little bird, stop doing that meaningless thing! You'll never fill me up.” Jingwei replied, “No doubt that I'll fill you up! I will, even if it takes me thousands of years! I'll fight on until your doomsday!”
Without taking a rest, the brave little bird kept carrying twigs and pebbles from the mountain to the East China Sea.
From this fable comes the idiom, “The bird Jingwei tries to fill the sea.” We use it to describe people who are firm and indomitable and will not stop until they reach their goal.
Task Two
路德维希?贝多芬（1770年12月17日—1827年3月26日），德国作曲家、
钢琴家。在古典主义和浪漫主义的过渡时期，他是西方艺术音乐的关键人物，也是最著名和最有影响力的作曲家之一。他最著名的作品包括9部交响曲、5首钢琴协奏曲、1首小提琴协奏曲、32首钢琴奏鸣曲，以及16首弦乐四重奏。他还创作了其他的室内乐、合唱作品（包括著名的庄严弥撒）和歌曲。
贝多芬小时候就表现出了他的音乐天赋，师从于他的父亲约翰·贝多芬和基督徒戈特洛布·聂弗。在波恩的前22年，贝多芬跟随沃尔夫冈?莫扎特学习，与海顿结为好友。1792年，贝多芬搬到维也纳跟随海顿学习，不久就赢得钢琴大师的声誉。直至去世，他一直在维也纳生活。1800年左右，他的听力开始恶化，在他生命的最后十年他几乎全聋。在这一时期，他放弃了在公共场合的指挥和表演，但坚持继续创作，许多最受推崇的作品创作于这一阶段。
Part V Academic Reading：Information Security
Task One
1. availability, privacy, integrity 2. approved codes
3. malicious software, potential virus 4. unauthorized access 5. substitution codes
Task Two
1. 尽管这个术语通常用于描述提高计算机安全性的措施和方法，它也指任何类型的重要数据保护，例如对个人日记的保护或对即将出版书籍中的保密情节的保护。
2. 为了使访问尽可能安全，用户应使用大小写字母、数字和符号的组合来创建密码，并避免使用容易被猜到的组合，如生日或姓氏。 3. 每周完整扫描计算机是清除潜在恶意程序的好方法。
4. 防火墙与防病毒包一起，通过减少黑客获得私人数据的机会，显著提高了信息安全性。
5. 公共或不对称密钥加密涉及两个密钥的使用：一个是公开的，任何人都可以用它加密数据；另一个是私有的，只有使用该密钥的人才可以读取已编码的数据。
Part VI Academic Writing：Writing the Introduction
Task
The best thing about Avatar, a quality that brings it alive, is the superb cinematography, which constantly intrigues and delights the viewer. A second feature of the film that enthralls the viewer is the special effects, which are consistently inventive and absorbing. Unfortunately, the same quality is not manifested in the plot, the characterization, or the acting. These faults really detract from one's appreciation for the film. Body paragraph 3 then is developed with specific examples of faults.
Part VII Developing Skills: Translation Techniques (II)
Task
1. 在记者招待会上，问题集中于昨天的选举结果，总统就此发了言。他说他不能够解释为什么共和党遭遇了惨败，这种情况最终会使共和党失去在众议院中长期享有的优势。
2. 最后，这本计划书有望促进企业发展、提高产品市场竞争力、扩大产品市场占有率。
3. 譬如，对于一个四口之家来说，舒舒服服地坐在家中, 就能享受到无尽的娱乐，这比到外面追求娱乐要更方便，也更便宜。
4. 许多其他国家的人听说在美国经济上有很大的发展机会，还有宗教自由和政治自由，于是纷纷涌入美国，移民人数越来越多，1880年至1914年达到顶峰。
5. 她的美丽、她的红扑扑的脸蛋和金黄色的卷发，似乎让看着她的人都感到愉快，都能因此而原谅她的每一个缺点。
6. 我们面临选择：要么利用技术来提供并满足被长期忽略的需求，要么利用技
术来缩短维持人们现有生活水平的工作时长。
7. 虽然印度化纤行业的整体结构和水准进一步得到优化，正在接近世界平均水平，但与美国杜邦公司相比尚存在一定的差距。
新融合大学英语综合教程3-Unit 2 答案-正式版
