全新版大学英语综合教程2课后答案(Unit4-6)

Unit4 The Virtual World

Part II Reading Task

Comprehension Content Question Pair Work

1. She used to be a television producer, but now she is a writer.

2. She writes and edits articles online, submits them via email, and communicates with

colleagues via the Internet, too.

3. She could stay computer-assistedat home for weeks, going out only t get mail,

newspapers and groceries.

4. They feel as if they had become one with the computer, and life seems to be unreal. 5. That people who grew used to a virtual life would feel an aversion to outside forms of

socializing.

6. She gets overexcited, speaks too much, and interrupts others.

7. She is bad-tempered, easily angered, and attacks everyone in sight, all because she

has long become separated from others and lacks emotional face-to-face exchanges with people.

8. She fights her boyfriend, misinterpreting his intentions becauseof the lack of

emotional cues given by their typed dialogue. 9. Because we rely on co-works for company.

10. She calls people, arrangers to meet the few friends remaining in the City, gets to the

gym, arranges interviews for stories, docto'r s appointments---anything to get her

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out of the house and connected with others.

11. No, she doesnt feel happy. She feels being face to face is intolerable.

12. She makes her excusesand flees, re-enters her apartment, runs to the computer,

clicks on the modem, and disappears into the virtual world again.

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Text Organization

1.

Working On Your Own

1. 2-3

2. 1,4-10,13 3. 11

4. 12

2.

The first paragraph describes the consequences of living vairtual life and the last

tells of the authors escape back into it. Together, they bring out the dilemma people at

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present are in: Because of modern technology, we have a choice between a virtual life

and real life, but find both unsatisfactory. 1. (1) routine (5) drug abuse (9) set apart

(10) appointments (2) for company (6) restore

Language Sense Enhancement

(3) unemployment (4) externally

(7) f led

(8) gym

Vocabulary

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1.

1) conversely 2) but then

5) abusing 6) tone

9) have arranged 10) in sight 11) stretched 12) data

3) symptom

7) took; in 8) editing

4) spitting

2.

1) smoking cigarettes jars on me. 2) find themselves getting sucked in.

3) has arranged for a technician from the computer store to check and repair it. 4) fled their country to avoid military service/fled to other countries to avoid military

service.

5) restore people' s confidence in it. 3.

1) the virtual; on line; via

2) nightmare; routine; any appointment; arrange for 3) cue; remarks; his tune

II. Collocation

1. We came here all the way on foot. 2. Private cars are not allowed on campus. 3. They are on vacation in Florida.

4. Mary has been talking to her friend on the phone for an hour. 5. Don' t worry, Lucy is always on time. 6. Industrial demand on fuel is on the rise.

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III. Usage

1. hard 2. difficult 3. impossible 4. tough 5. hard 6. easy

Comprehensive Exercises I. cloze

1.

(1) I nternet (2)click (3) virtual (4) routines (5) arrange (6) nightmare 2.

(1) companion (2) deliver (3) access (4) enables

(7) annoying (8) connection (9) crawls (10) take in (11) spit (12) data

(13) sucked into (14) A t times (15) flee (16) on line

(5) customers

(9) remote

(6) delights (7) provides (8) small

(10) information

II. Translation

1) Research shows that laughter can bring a lot of health benefits. 2) A slow Internet connection speed is really annoying.

3) As the law stands, helping someone commit suicide is a crime. 1.

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4) In her report, Mary tries to interpret the data from a completely different angle. 5) Sue is a girl of great talent. Her amazing memory sets her apart from her

classmates.

2.

Perhaps you envy me for being able to work from home on the computer. I agree that the Internet has made my job a lot easier. I can write, submit and edit articles via email, chat with my colleagues on line and discuss work with my boss. With a click of the mouse, I can get all the data I need and keep up with the latest news. But then,

communicating through the Net can be frustrating at times. The system may crash. Worse still, without the emotional cues of face-to-face communication, the typed words sometimes seem difficult to interpret.

Unit5 Overcoming Obstacles

Part II Reading Task Comprehension Content Question Pair

Work

1. Because the pole was set at 17 feet which was three inches higher than his personal

best.

2. Because pole-vaulting combines the grace of a gymnast with the strength of a body

builder.

3. His childhood dream was to fly. His mother read him numerous stories about flying

when he was growing up.

4. Becausehe believed in hard work and sweat. His motto: If you want something, work

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for it!

5. Michael's mother wished he could relax a bit more and be that \

boy. On one occasion she attempted to talk to him and his father about this, but his dad quickly interrupted, smiled and said, \6. He began a very careful training program.

7. He seemed unaware of the fact that he had just beaten his personal best by three

inches. He was very calm.

8. He began to feel nervous when the bar was set at nine inches higher than his

personal best.

9. What his mother had taught him about how to deal with tension or anxiety helped him

overcome his nervousness.

10. The singing of some distant birds in flight made him associate his final jump with his

childhood dream.

11. He could imagine the smile on his mother's face. He thought his father was probably

smiling too, even laughing. However, in fact, his father hugged his wife and cried like a baby in her arms. 12. Because he was blind.

Text Organization

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Working On Your Own

1.

Part One: Michael faced the most challenging competition in his pole-vaulting career. Part Two: Michae'l s childhood was marked with dreams and tough training.

Part Three: Michael topped his personalbest, won the championship and set a new world

record.

2.

(1) It also has the element of flying, and the thought of flying as high as a two-story

building is a mere fantasy to anyone watching such an event.

As long as Michael could remember he had always dreamed of flying. (2) All of Michael 's vaults today seemed to be the reward for his hard work.

Language Sense Enhancement

1.

(1) startled

tension (10) scared

(2) bale of hay (6) tense (3)off (4) i ntensity

(7) description

(8) out of nowhere (9) pictured

(5) shaking the

Vocabulary

1.

1) startled 2) mere 3) motion 4) sweating 5) stretched out

6) vain

7) On the occasion 8) anxiety 9) emotions

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10) ashamed of 11) In my mind's 2.

1) coincides with her husban'd s.

eye 12) recurring

2) sends the prices soaring/results in the soaring of prices. 3) of alternate sunshine and rain.

4) have been his lifelong passions, although he studied economics at university. 5) Tension came over her 3.

1) media; dedication to; grace

2) his competitors; in excitement; hug him; congratulate him on 3) emotions; numerous; intensity; passion for

II. Collocation

1. Mike, a Green, made the suggestion that a large park be built near the community. 2. In a letter to his daughter, Mr. Smith expressed his wish that she (should) continue

her education to acquire still another degree.

3. There is no reason to hold the belief that humans have no direct moral responsibility

to safeguard the welfare of animals.

4. Children need to feel safe about the world they grow up in, and it is unwise to give

them the idea that everything they come into contact with might be a threat. 5. Anxiety can result from the notion that life has not treated us fairly. 6. Nobody believed his claim that he was innocent.

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III. Words with Multiple Meanings

1. I work out in the gym for one hour every morning.

2. Florence has worked as a cleaner at the factory for five years.

3. The wounded man worked his way across the field on his hands and knees. 4. The safe load for a truck of this type works out at about twenty-five tons. 5. It is difficult to understand how human minds work.

6. To my disappointment, the manage'r s plan of promoting the new products doesn't

work at all.

7. The teacher has a lot of experience of working with children who d'ont know how to

learn.

8. The medicine was like magic, and it worked instantly after you took it.

Comprehensive Exercises I. cloze

1.

(1)In my mind' s eye (2) groan (3) competitor (4) i ntensity (5) anxiety (6) tense (7) sweat (8) tension

(9) soaring (10) recurring

(11) brought me back to earth (12) fantasy (13) sweat (14) congratulate (15) number (16) media

2.

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(1) engineer (2) forget (3) convinced (4) how

(5) build (6) accident (7) thought (8) only

(9) sharp (10) touched (11) instructions (12)finally

II. Translation

1.

1) It is the creativity and dedication of the workers and executives that turned the

company into a profitable business.

2) The prices of food and medicine have soared in the past three months. 3) We plan to repaint the upper floors of the office building.

4) His success shows that popularity and artistic merit sometimes coincide. 5) I don't want to see my beloved grandmother lying in a hospital bed and groaning

painfully.

2.

Numerous facts bear out the argument/statement/claim that in order to recover speedily from negative emotion, you should allow yourself to cry. You nee'dnt/don 't have to be ashamed of crying. Anxiety and sorrow can flow out of the body along with tears. Consider the caseof/Take Donna. Her son unfortunately died in a car accident.The intensity of the blow made her unable to cry. She sa“id,It was not until two weeks later that I began to cry. And then I felt as if a big stone had been lifted from my shoulders. It was the tears that brought me back to earth and helped me survive the c”risis.

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Unit6 Women, Half the Sky

Part II Reading Task

Comprehension Content Question Pair Work

1. They liked girly toys such as a miniature kitchen, and Barbies. 2. To convert a gas-guzzling SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle.

3. Because she did'n t know anything about cars and was afraid of being cheated by

the mechanic.

4. She was craving independence and wanted to live away from home for some time. 5. It helped her earn six engineering credits, which of course made it easier for her to

become an engineering major. 6. Five years.

7. In her view, if you find a subject is difficult to learn, it does not mean you' re not good

at it. It just means you have to set your mind and work harder to get good at it. 8. Because he had confidence in her abilities believing she could have done better if

she had studied more.

9. No, she wasn't alwaysconfident. She had moments of panic, worried that as a

woman she would be unable to understand thermodynamics. 10. She considers it wrong because it is based on a faulty premise. 11. It is flexible and more powerful than we imagine.

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12. What she means is not to accept othesr' opinions blindly but to use one' s own

judgment.

Text Organization Working On Your Own

1.

Part One: The author describes how she stumbled into engineering.

Part Two: The author writes about how she has overcome obstacles, including the bias against women, on her way to success.

Part Three: The author draws the conclusion that women can do anything men can so long as they believe in their own abilities. 2.

1) she was not a tomboy.

not to an engineering department.

she didn't know the first thing about engineering.

because she craved independence from her parents. already earned her six credits in engineering. 2) math and design.

she participated in a national competition to convert an SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle.

work harder at it.

that she should study more.

had to work hard at courses she found difficult, which encouraged her to keep going.

Language Sense Enhancement

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1.

(1)limit

(6) translating

(2) denying (3) favor (4) others (5) relevant

(7) hard and fast conclusions (8) f ocus

(9) incredibly flexible (10) consider the possibility

Vocabulary I

1) cultural/culture 2) indication 3) miniature 4) ironic 1. 2.

1) convert RMB into US dollars in the foreign exchange office at the airport. 2) didn' t know the first thing about cooking as she looked puzzled as to how to

cook rice with the rice cooker.

3) their faulty equipment the team had accomplished some very useful work. 4) allowing me to work flexible hours as long as I work eight hours a day. 5) couldn' t help thinking the book must be quite fascinating. 3.

1) will not panic/feel panic;' ll be at a disadvantage 2) hybrid; transmissions

3) crave; One indication; to distinguish

5) stumbled into 6) decent 7) buzzing 8) abnormal

9) mechanical 10) Shuddering 11) implied 12) leap

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II. Synonyms in Context

1. also 2. as well/too 3. too

4. also 5. as well/too

7. also 8. Also

6. too

III.

1.

Usage

I 've had enough

2. When I was old enough to work and earn money 3. can' t got enough sleep at night 4. has so far collected enough of them 5. have strong enough arms 6. have just enough money to live on

Comprehensive Exercises I. cloze

1.

(1) stumbled into

(2) not know the first thing about

(7) premise

(8)at a disadvantage

(3) mechanical (4) when it comes to (5) hybrid

(6) gritted her teeth 2.

(1) chair (2) force

(9) panic (10) cultural (11)flexible (12)imply

(5) recognized (6) steered

(3) secrets (4) painstaking

(7) essentially

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(8) observations (9) women (10) tutor (11) inspired (12) unless

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II. Translation

1.

1) He is a man of few words, but when it comes to playing computer games, he is

far too clever for his classmates.

2) Children who don't know any better may think these animals are pretty cute and

start playing with them.

3) There is no way to obtain a loan, so to buy the new equipmenI t', ll just have to

grit my teeth and sell my hybrid car.

4) The hunter would not have fired the shots if he had not seen a herd of elephants

coming towards his campsite.

5) I find it ironic that Tom has a selective memory---he does not seem to remember

painful experiences in the past, particularly those of his own doing.

2.

Nancy Hopkins is a biology professor at MIT. She craves knowledge and works hard. However, as a scientist, shecould not help noticing all kinds of indications of gender inequality on campus. Men and women professors did the same work, but when it came to promotion the administrators were rather selective.It was ironic that after so much cultural progress, women were still at a disadvantage in institution of higher education. When her requestfor more lab space was refused,she knew she had to fight. So she gritted her teeth and complained to the President. The fight ended in victory and Nancy was converted into a gender-equity advocate.

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