新标准大学英语综合练习book 2 Unit2 答案

Vocabulary I

1.

1) abrupt 2) emotional 3) bless 4) wear tear

and

5) dated 6) consequences 7) seemingly 8) in contrast to 9) Curiosity

10) genuine 11) primarily 12) sentiments

2.

1) confronted with more than one problem, try to solve the easiest one first. 2) vital to the existence of all forms of life.

3) some confusion among the students about what to do after class to follow up on the

subject.

4) nothing more than a job and an apartment to be happy. 5) tickled him to think that she’d come to ask his advice 3.

1) a lingering; fabricating; sentiments 2) fill out; every item; vital; consequences 3) be denied; tangible; cherish; attain

II

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

It is a long trip and will take us five hours by bus. She arrived early and took a front row seat. Don’t take me for a fool.

It takes a lot of imagination to fabricate such a story.

My uncle will take me (along on his trip) to the Arctic this summer. He took the dinner plate I passed to him.

Kevin took second prize in the weight-lifting competition. If you don’t take my advice, you will regret it.

III

1. hanging 2. to give 3. to return

4. being praised

5. not having written 6. to say

7. to open

8. being helped

Comprehensive Exercises

I. cloze

1.

(1) well-off/affluent (2) dated

(3) falling into (4) bracket 2.

(1) consume (2) fueled (3) annual (4) plain

(5) physically (6) security (7) indicates (8) equally (9) traditional (10) follows

(5) (6) (7) (8)

deny tangible pursuit cherishes

(9) out of place (10) abrupt (11) focus (12) donations

III. Translation

1.

1) The company denied that its donations had a commercial purpose. 2) Whenever he was angry, he would begin to stammer slightly.

3) Education is the most cherished tradition in our family. That’s why my

parents never took me to dinner at expensive restaurants, but sent me to the best private school.

4) Shortly after he recovered from the surgery, he lost his job and thus had

to go through another difficult phase of his life.

5) In contrast to our affluent neighbors, my parents are rather poor, but

they have always tried to meet our minimal needs. 2.

With more and more donations coming in, our university will be much better off financially next year. We will thus be able to focus on the most important task that we, educators, must take on: to encourage students to attain their scholarly/academic goals, to train them to be dependable and responsible individuals, to prepare them for the life ahead, and to guide them in their pursuit of spiritual as well as material satisfaction.