新交际英语阅读教程1课后练习答案.pdf
1新交际英语阅读教程1课后练习参考答案Unit 1Part BReading Comprehension11.The purpose is to tell readers that first impression is very important so they wouldlike to follow the suggestions given by the author in the following text.2.The answer may vary.Yes.I think the first impression does have the lasting influence and it is hard tochange peoples first impression because such is human nature.No.I dont believe the first impression will have a lasting influence because timereveals a mans true character.We should not judge people we meet at the firsttime.21C 2A 3C 4A 5C3The answer may vary.The result would be also applicable in China.People tend to believe their firstimpression and judge other people by their first impressions,which is humannature in spite of different cultures.Language Focus11.kernel2.charismatic3.filtering4.impeccable5.perception6.acquaintanceship7.primitive8.demeanor9.implication10.inconsequential11.subdued12.rapport21.send.down the right path2.dated back to3.win half of the battle4,a step further5.a key to6.jump to conclusion7.on the basis of8.in his favor9.in an instantlO.tip the scales31.intelligence2.orientation3.animated4.sophisticated5.attired6.depiction27.suspension8.intimacy41.i nitial:1)happening at the beginning of a process,or when you first see or hearsomething2)the first letter of someones name2.fair:1)used for emphasizing that an amount,size,number,etc.is large2)reasonable3.thrive:l)being prosperous or successful2)to become successful or happy in a particular situation4.clue:1)an object or fact that someone discovers that helps them solve a crime ormystery2)to provide someone with information about someone or pliment:1)something nice that you say to praise someone2)used to greeting someone,or giving them your good wishes51.First impressions are made in a moment but they are the most lasting.2.Today in the complex business world,people still depend on their primitiveinstincts to communicate with each other.3.A handshake made people get closer to each other temporarily.4.The knights were carefully touch each others clasp to make sure there were noweapons hidden the sleeves.5.Offering a compliment about something one wears could express your kindnessand thus make you more easygoing.Reading Skills&StrategiesPartC课文边栏1 American4 New England,50,Atlantic,New York,QuebecReading Comprehension1.It was effective that he had given the author the first impression of arrogance andrudeness.2.He didnt feel pleased since they were seated so near that their knees almosttouched.When people first meet theyd better keep at arms length to feel safety andcomfortable.3.No.The authors description tells us that he seemed not to like Lapham who hadgiven him a bad first impression.34.C5.D6.C7.C8.CTranslation1.It is a very unwise cause fbr John to undertake.2.Every afternoon,he would take a half-an-hour nap in his swivel chair.3.Since he stood in the wrong line,his waiting time was greatly prolonged.4.The hotel owned by the couple is comfortable and unpretentious.5.We needed to reskill our workforce to cope with massive technologicalchange.6.Republican leaders called him a disgrace to the party.7.Millions more suffer from serious sleep deprivation caused by long workhours.8.George had an ambition to serve his country even when he was veryyoung.4Unit 2Part BReading Comprehension11.The house and living room are very clean and quite.The tranquility in appearanceis in contrast to the disorder of the family members in reality.2.It indicates that Julia has been very careful to the details and spent much time indoing the housework.3.They were usually calm,lovely and friendly to each other.Today they were in amess.4.She was too busy to be patient.She might not love him any more so she neglectedhis story.5.Her husband was not grateful to her work and insensitive to her feelings.Shethought that her youth,beauty,and wit had been lost in everyday house chores.6.The change of tense implies something of an irony.The past tense in Englishindicates the remote fact,that is,it makes the situation described more remote fromthe situation of utterance,so the tranquility of the house in the heros eyes is a remotefact,not so factual as the disorder described in present tense which generally ties thesituation closely to the situation of utterance.Other possible answersPast tenses are normally used in the narratives in novels and short stories.However,many writers like to use present tenses to give the readers a sense of reality,lettingthem experience what is described in the work as is happening at the moment,orsomething that happens recursively.2In the 1950s,the United States underwent dramatic economic development.Becauseof the GI Bills that had enabled many veterans from the Second World War to be5enrolled at colleges,there was a huge increase in the number of middle-class families.Apart from the sharp increase of the income of these families,a suburbanmiddle-class culture was also formed,in which the wives were supposed to hold theroles of the mother,the housekeeper,the entertainer of neighbors and friends,and themanager of a facade of a happy family to impress other people.During that period oftime,the husbands were the main source of family income.And it was rare formiddle-class wives to keep jobs.Therefore,women like Julia Weeds might feeltrapped by their families and the suburbs,and their values and efforts wereunder-rated.The only way out of their daily routine was to go to the parties held bytheir neighbors.Language Focus1l.howl 2.vale 3.romance 4.napkin 5.ferocity 6.battlefield 7.scold8.antagonism 9.absorbed 10.affection21.meant to 2.burst into tears 3.a cutting look 4.slaming the door5.concerned with 6.drift away from 7.spilt all over 8.hit.on batants4.favoritism8.persecution41.v.to throw something using a lot of force;n.the high or low quality of a sound2.艮 to state that something is not allowed;a.a forbidden place is one that mostpeople are not allowed to enter3.n.the light from a burning candle;a.lit only by candles4.a.unhappy,depressing;n.the feeling of being very worried or disappointed5.a.worried;n.a feeling that you care about someone and want them to be happy andwell51.Francis,taking off his hat and putting down his paper,was not consciously happywith whatwas going on among the kids;he could not understand why the children were notbehaving as they normally did.2.This was his environment,and he created it through his hard work,and like anyother creature going back home,he naturally returned to it with a light heart andfull of strength and gladness.3.Francis feels that finally he might have someone who would be willing to listen6to his story and to show her concern,since Helen is the oldest child and withwhom he can communicate easily.4.Julia is already tired and angry.What Francis said just made him the target of heranger.6.Julia quickly made her husband know how her youth,beauty and wit had beenwasted in all the tedious housework she had to do every day.Part C课文边栏3.local Indians5.Maine,New Hampshire8.Greece9.Daniel DefoeReading Comprehension1.The text describes the hard everyday life of American people in the colonial period.2.The cotton cloth and ready-made clothes were not available in that time of periodso they had to make clothes from linen and wool by themselves.3.They mainly ate corn,hearty vegetables,apples,jam and syrup.The food is simpleand humble.4.When being ill,they relied on folk medicine and Indian cures,including herbs,teas,honey,bark,and roots,supplemented with store-bought medicines.5.Infant mortality was high and babies might not grow to the age of two.6.They had attained a standard of living that far surpassed people from elsewhere inthe civilized world around 1774.Translation1.At that time,women wore either hats or kerchiefs on their heads.2.In the hotels in that region,all the beddings were made of linen.3.40 years ago,due to the shortage of grains,cornmeal was the staple food formany people.4.After the treatment of the chiropractor,he felt a lot more comfortable.5.He had a very bad cough and had to go to the hospital.And as it turned out,thedoctor prescribed him some cough syrup.6.At the end of the 19th century,The United States surpassed the European powersto become the world No.1 economic power.77.Many economists anticipated that e-commerce will develop more rapidly in thenext 5 years.8.Chinas economy has attained astonishing achievements in the past 30 years.Unit 3Part BReading Comprehension11.Father was awe-inspiring and his family loved him,respected him and somehowfeared of him.The author told some vivid stories about his fathers objects to createthis image.2.The case of the ring set the scene for the story of Father 9s old trousers.It worked asthe foreground of following events.The ring was more valuable than the old trousers,while both of them seemed to be permanently a part of Father and remainedimpressed with his personality,and thus deserving a special respect from the familymembers.The author seemed to feel more impressed by Father9s old trousers.3.The author mentioned these experiences:climbed Osborn HalPs iron gate wearingthem,lent them to his classmate Jerry Ives to wear in his role of a fat man in a play,dated with a girl Father would disapprove of.Father old trousers were asrespectable as Father himself in the author 9s mind and they were not suitable to wearin some places which were not respectable.21.F2.F 3.T 4.T 5.F 6.F7.F8.F83The answers may vary.Language Focus11.misgivings2.nuisance3.adored4.feat5.reverence6.stimulating7.damp8.ceremony9.acute10.disturbed11.ornate12.preoccupied21.ill at ease2.preying on my mind3.no point in4.what will become of5.by no means6.at any rate7.get out of8.in the back of my mind9.has come over10.dont care much for3prefix+cover:discover,recoverprefix+form:conform,deform,inform,reformprefix+pose:compose,depose,dispose,impose,reposeprefix+press:compress,depress,impress,repressprefix+prove:reprove,improve,disapprove(prove一approvedisapprove)pressed6.deforms7.recovering8.deposed9.repressed10.inform41.We respected all these objects because we thought they deserved it.2.As he grew older,he thought it was less suitable fbr him,and therefore stoppedwearing it.3.Several years later,it was taken out again,and formally handed over to George.4.If you could see the whole trousers,you would find that they looked very loosein the part where I sat.5.In addition,even if we did get over the gate,we still couldnt get into the hall,because the big inside doors were firmly locked.51.可是过不了多久，我就发现这个戒指是个麻烦要留心不让它丢了，是个辛苦的工作。如果是我自己花钱买的，我想我一定会小心看护，可是因为它是人家一定要给才给了我的，反倒成了一个累赘了。它搅得我日夜不宁。2.也真奇怪，凡是父亲用过的东西，好象永远是他这个人的一部分。不管那个东西的后来的经历怎么样，它始终印着他的人格。在戒指这个东西，我想这种情形倒也常见，可是父亲的东西无一不是如此，连他的旧领带都是这样，尤其是在父亲看来。3.在这些个晚上，当我在寝室里脱衣裳的时候，我常常内疚于心，觉得不应让父亲的裤子过这种新的生活。这种悔恨有时候在别的地方袭来。这种悔恨并不怎么显明或是强烈，可是漂浮在我的心里挥之不去。4.我最充分地认识这个事实的一个晚上，我记得，是在父亲绝不会赞成的一个女孩子坐在我的腿上可是在他的裤子上的时候。父亲是远在八九十里之外，安然地睡在床上的了，可是我恍兮惚兮心神不宁得利害，于是站起身来走了。PartC课文边栏2 General Electric,Fortune Global,AmericanReading Comprehension1.Refer to paragraph 3 for the answer.2.When it rains,he gets water;when its sunny,he gets sunlight.As is mentionedin this paragraph,the solar panels of his system can convert sunlight to electricity,which powers the electrolyzer.The electrolyzer splits the molecules of purifiedtap water into oxygen and hydrogen,which is stored as energy.Thus both waterand sunlight can be used to produce energy.He“can make fuel out of bothsunlight and water.”103.B4.A5.D6.BTranslation1.Our company plans on capturing a larger segment of the market this year.2.The new type of light consumes less electricity.3.Some teachers in this school employ more traditional methods.4.We can harness the power of the wind to generate electricity.5.United Nations observers oversaw the election.6.Their arguments boiled down to a lack of trust in each other.7.I insisted that they break down the bill into the separate charges for parts andlabor.8.Substances consist of small particles called molecules.9.The stocks can be easily converted to cash.10.The government of this country has been unable to keep a lid on inflation.Unit 4Part BReading Comprehension11.The Englishman appears to be cold and unemotional because he is really slow.When an event happens,he may understand it quickly enough with his mind,but hetakes quite awhile to feel it.It acts promptly and feels slowly.An undeveloped heart一not a coldone.Thetrouble is that the English nature is not at all easy to understand.The Englishmansattitudetoward criticism will give us another starting point.2.He thought that the Englishman had an undeveloped heart一not a cold one:theywere notreally cold and unemotional.3.The sea metaphor indicated that it was hard to really understand the Englishman11who was notcold and reserved as he appeared to be.The sea was deep and we couldnt knowclearly aboutwhat was happening in the depth beneath its simple and quiet surface.Just like theflying fishthat helped us realize the beauty and sophistication beneath the surface,the Englishliteraturehelp us know the true character of the Englishman.21)The FrenchmenThe Englishmenat the scenefrantic with terror;screamedand gesticulated and flungthemselves aboutsat calm;forbidden by instinct to throwthemselves about_afterwardsforgot all about the danger;chattered gailybegan to feel it;had a nervous breakdown;was obliged to go to bedin generalresponded at onceresponded in time2)(D)a)Englishmen act and feel slowly.(A)b)Englishmen are brave.(D)c)English prose and poetry are of the first rank in the world.(D)d)The English nature is unpoetical.(D)e)Englishmen have a cold heart.(A)f)The English nature is hard to understand.(D)g)Englishmen are easily annoyed by criticism.(D)h)Englishmen hold a humorous attitude towards criticism.3Here Forster conveyed his disapproval of the idea that the Englishman was cold andslow:there is little vice in him and no real coldness.On the contrary,he thoughtthe Englishman was made so by the society-the machinery.They were not sodifferent from the messages conveyed in the text.They are still significant today12in that it is never easy to understand the real character of a nation whichcomposes of many aspects.We should avoid making haste judgments.Language Focus11.reversed2.obliged3.confront4.tipped over5.drew up6.postponed7.took.to heart8.equip9.encounter10.rests upon2a.1.As many as2.as long as3.as well as4.as much as5.as soon as6.As far asb.1.a case in point2.In case of3.as the case may be4.(just)in case5.In that case6.in any case31.possessive2.impractical3.jealousies4.resentful5.hospitality6.unsympathetic7.obscurity8.non-existence9.annoyance10.metaphorical134Step 31.tittered2.beaming3.smirked4.grinning5.guffawing51.This physical difference between British and French people(in this event)is areflection of the great difference in their character.2.A person who acts promptly but feels slowly is more liable to be brave.3.Although we often fail to find warm sympathy,romance,and imagination in theindividual Englishmen around us,these qualities
