全新版大学英语综合教程2答案
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.
五、Unit5 Overcoming Obstacles
Vocabulary
I 1. 1) startled 2) mere 3) motion 4) sweating 5) stretched out 6) vain 7) On the occasion 8) anxiety 9) emotions 10) ashamed of 11) In my mind’s eye 12) recurring
2. 1) coincides with her husband’s. 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.
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 manager’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 don’t 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) intensity (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.(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 needn’t/don’t have to be ashamed of crying. Anxiety and sorrow can flow out of the body along with tears. Consider the case of/Take Donna. Her son unfortunately died in a car accident. The intensity of the blow made her unable to cry. She said, “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 crisis.”
六、Unit6 Women, Half the Sky
Vocabulary I
1. 1) cultural/culture 2) indication 3) miniature 4) ironic 5) stumbled into 6) decent 7) buzzing 8) abnormal 9) mechanical 10) Shuddering 11) implied 12) leap
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
II. Synonyms in Context
1. also 2. as well/too 3. too 4. also 5. as well/too 6. too 7. also 8. Also