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-assisted at 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 because of 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, doctor’s appointments---anything to get her out of the house and connected with others.

11. No, she doesn’t feel happy. She feels being face to face is intolerable.

12. She makes her excuses and flees, re-enters her apartment, runs to the

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

Text Organization

Working On Your Own

1.

1. 2-3

2. 1,4-10,13

3. 11

4. 12

2.

The first paragraph describes the consequences of living a virtual life and

the last tells of the author’s escape back into it. Together, they bring out the

dilemma people at present are in: Because of modern technology, we have a

choice between a virtual life and real life, but find both unsatisfactory.

Language Sense Enhancement

1.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

routine

for company

unemployment

externally

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

drug abuse

restore

fled

gym

(9) set apart

(10) appointments

Vocabulary

I

1.

1)

2)

3)

4)

2.

1)

2)

3)

conversely

but then

symptom

spitting

5)

6)

7)

8)

abusing

tone

took; in

editing

9) have arranged

10) in sight

11) stretched

12) data

smoking cigarettes jars on me.

find themselves getting sucked in.

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.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

We came here all the way on foot.

Private cars are not allowed on campus.

They are on vacation in Florida.

Mary has been talking to her friend on the phone for an hour.

Don’t worry, Lucy is always on time.

Industrial demand on fuel is on the rise.

III. Usage

1.

2.

3.

4.

hard

difficult

impossible

tough

5. hard

6. easy

Comprehensive Exercises

I. cloze

Internet

click

virtual

routines

arrange

nightmare

companion

deliver

access

enables

(7) annoying

(8) connection

(9) crawls

(10) take in

(11) spit

(12) data

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

customers

delights

provides

small

(13) sucked into

(14) At times

(15) flee

(16) on line

1.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

2.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(9) remote

(10) information

II. Translation

1.

1)

2)

3)

4)

Research shows that laughter can bring a lot of health benefits.

A slow Internet connection speed is really annoying.

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

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. Because he believed in hard work and sweat. His motto: If you want

something, work for it!

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

dreaming" little boy. On one occasion she attempted to talk to him and his

father about this, but his dad quickly interrupted, smiled and said, "You

want something, work for it!"

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

Working On Your Own

1.

Part One: Michael faced the most challenging competition in his pole-vaulting

career.

Part Two: Michael’s childhood was marked with dreams and tough training.

Part Three: Michael topped his personal best, 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)

(2)

(3)

(4)

startled

bale of hay

off

intensity

(5) shaking the

tension

(6) tense

(7) description

(8) out of nowhere

(9) pictured

(10) scared

Vocabulary

I

1.

1)

2)

3)

4)

5)

2.

1)

2)

3)

4)

startled

mere

motion

sweating

stretched out

6) vain

7) On the occasion

8) anxiety

9) emotions

10) ashamed of

11) In my mind’s

eye

12) recurring

coincides with her husband’s.

sends the prices soaring/results in the soaring of prices.

of alternate sunshine and rain.

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.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

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

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

The wounded man worked his way across the field on his hands and knees.

The safe load for a truck of this type works out at about twenty-five tons.

It is difficult to understand how human minds work.

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

In my mind’s eye

groan

competitor

intensity

anxiety

tense

sweat

tension

engineer

forget

convinced

how

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

build

accident

thought

only

(9) soaring

(10) recurring

(11) brought me back to earth

(12) fantasy

(13) sweat

(14) congratulate

(15) number

(16) media

(9) sharp

(10) touched

(11) instructions

(12) finally

1.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

2.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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.”

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 didn’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 always confident. 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.

12. What she means is not to accept others’ 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

1.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

limit

denying

favor

others

relevant

(6) translating

(7) hard and fast conclusions

(8) focus

(9) incredibly flexible

(10) consider the possibility

Vocabulary

I

1.

1)

2)

3)

4)

2.

1)

2)

3)

cultural/culture

indication

miniature

ironic

5)

6)

7)

8)

stumbled into

decent

buzzing

abnormal

9) mechanical

10) Shuddering

11) implied

12) leap

4)

5)

3.

1) will not panic/feel panic; ’ll be at a disadvantage

2) hybrid; transmissions

convert RMB into US dollars in the foreign exchange office at the

airport.

didn’t know the first thing about cooking as she looked puzzled as to

how to cook rice with the rice cooker.

their faulty equipment the team had accomplished some very useful

work.

allowing me to work flexible hours as long as I work eight hours a day.

couldn’t help thinking the book must be quite fascinating.

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

III. Usage

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

I’ve had enough

When I was old enough to work and earn money

can’t got enough sleep at night

has so far collected enough of them

have strong enough arms

have just enough money to live on

Comprehensive Exercises

I. cloze

(7) premise

(8) at a disadvantage

(9) panic

(10) cultural

(11) flexible

(12) imply

1.

(1) stumbled into

(2) not know the first thing about

(3) mechanical

(4) when it comes to

(5) hybrid

(6) gritted her teeth

2.

(1) chair

(2) force

(3) secrets

(4) painstaking

(5) recognized

(6) steered

(7) essentially

(8) observations

(9) women

(10) tutor

(11) inspired

(12) unless

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 equipment, I’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, she could 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 request for 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.