Unit 2
Text Comprehension I. A
II. TFTFT III.
1. Refer to Paragraphs 2 and 3. a “real book” is a very old book in which stories are printed on
yellow and crinkly pages.
2. Refer to Paragraphs 3 and 4. They must be using telebooks, as is mentioned in the text.
3. Refer to Paragraph 11. She hates school because she has been doing worse and worse in her
tests of geography.
4. Refer to Paragraph 13. She was disappointed because she had been hoping they would take
the teacher away altogether.
5. Refer to Paragraph 32. It gave Margie an arithmetic lesson on the addition of proper fractions. 6. Refer to the whole text. The schools in Margie’s day give classes by computer, assigning
homework by computer software programs while students in the old days went to school to attend their lessons given by human teachers, experiencing interaction, friendliness and team spirit instead of taking lessons alone at home as Tommy and Margie do. IV.
1. Her mother asked the County Inspector to come over.
2. The mechanical teacher worked out the mark very quickly.
3. Tommy looked at Margie with an air which suggested he knew far better about school than
others.
4. A teacher has to make necessary changes about what to teacher and how to teacher so as to
meet the different needs of different pupils.
Vocabulary I
1. have finished reading 2. by looking from behind his shoulder 3. is capable of providing 4. sent a message asking for the assistance of 5. disassembled the machine/computer teacher 6. didn’t like/want to II
1. in no time 2. crinkly 3. scornful 4. neighborhood 5. awfully 6. adjusting 7. tuck 8. nonchalantly 9, punched 10. fit III\\
DABBACCB IV
1. funny, interesting, interesting, funny 2. silent, silent, still, still
3. dispute, arguing, disputing, arguing 4. usual, usual, regular, regular V.
1. actual, genuine, true
2. moving, movable, mobile, restless 3. rough, coarse, uneven
4, like, love, enjoy
5. disdainful, contemptuous
6. inferior, subordinate, secondary
7. indifferently, coldly, coolly, casually, offhandedly 8. irregular, uncertain, random VI.
1. pointless 2. reproduction, 3. unreliable 4. generosity 5. apologetic 6. disobedience 7. employer, employees 8. encouragement
Grammar I
1. the, the 2. a 3. a, a , /, 4. a 5. the 6. /, the 7, The, the, / 8. the, the 9. a, a, a 10. a, a II
1. /,/,/ 2. / 3. the, / 4. the, / 5. /,/ 6. The 7. the 8. the, the 9. the, / 10, / III
1. light, 2 a noise, 3. very good weather, 4. bad luck, 5. president, 6. The vegetables, 7. war,
8, all the books, 9. coffee, 10. poetry
IV 1. / 2. the 3. / 4. the 5. the 6. / 7. / 8. the V
1. A Briton falls to his death on the Matterhorn. 2. An Olympic silver medalist dies in a crash.
3. Callaghan recalls the British Ambassador form Chile. 4. The army ends the chaos in the capital. 5. A college student wins the first prize. VI
It is pretty difficult for you to live in a foreign country if you do not speak and understand the local language.
Translation I.
1. 玛吉的爷爷曾经说过，小时候他的爷爷告诉他，过去故事都是印刷爱纸上的。
2. 他们翻阅那些旧得发黄、皱巴巴的书页。阅读哪些一动不动的单词真是好玩极了，哪些此并没有像我们平时看到的那样在屏幕上滚动。
3. 这个机器老师一直在接二连三地让她做地理测试，但她越做越糟糕。结果她的母亲伤心地摇摇头，请来了县视察员。
4. 玛吉希望他无法将机器重新组装起来，但他还是成功了。过了个把小时，机器又好了，硕大的黑色机器，奇丑无比，有个大大的屏幕，所有的课程和问题全都显示在上面。 II
1. Yesterday a government delegation headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs arrived in South
Africa and began a three-day friendly visit to the country.
2. It is awfully funny to look at these caricatures which satirize social ills.
3. Computers are one of the most useful teaching aids, for all your lessons as well as all the
questions asked and all the answers provided can be shown on a screen.
4. Zhang Li’s mother fell ill suddenly the day before yesterday ; he sent for a doctor
immediately.
5. He failed in the college entrance examination last year, but he did not feel disappointed.
Instead, he continued to study hard, passed the examination successfully and became a student in a famous university this year.
6. There are many English words that this middle school student cannot pronounce correctly. 7. In this era of information explosion, we have to make constant efforts to renew our
knowledge,. Only thus can we become adjusted to the requirement of our work.
8. With his shirt tucked into the top of his trousers and a leather bag tucked under his arm, the
boy looked just like a boss.
9. Although she is only eight years old, the little girl is already very good at calculating fractions.
No wonder her parents feel proud of her.
10. All the neighborhood have heard of the news, but you haven’t. don’t you think it is strange?
Exercises for integrated skills I.
Children learn almost nothing from television, and the more they watch, the less they remember. They regard television purely as entertainment, resent programs that make demands on them and are surprised that anybody should take the medium seriously. For from being over-excited by programs, they are mildly bored with the whole thing. These are the main conclusions form a new study of children and television. Its author confirms that the modern child is a dedicated viewer. The study suggests that there is little point in the television company’s attempts to isolate adult viewing in the later hours. More than a third of the children regularly watched their programs after 9 p.m. all 11-year-olds had watched programs after midnight. II
1. fun, 2. game, 3. watch, 4, millions, 5. popular, 6. who, 7, at, 8, radio. 9. value. 10. amusement
Listening I
so fortunate as, in front of, playing a game, of home entertainment, the most enjoyment, learn new information, test our skills, bring us together, all the time, skills and knowledge, the remote controls, Executive Couch Potato, the kitchen table, I’m a millionaire, the high stakes, a glass tube, it’s more exciting, real and interesting II.
best sources of information, the kind of information that you want or need Commercials, a passive spectator, Game show, Getting the family together to watch a show on television, for the whole family
a variety of information, geography, vocabulary, or financial investment; want to learn; what you learn; test your skills and knowledge; a particular outcome; ideas and strategies; Chess; gives you
the chance to learn; about the subject; about each other
大学英语综合教程1 Unit 2习题答案
