全新版大学英语第二册第5与第6单元课后练习答案

第5单元课后练习答案

P137

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 is: If you want something, work for it!

5. Michael’s mother wished he could rela x 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 Michael’s father 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.

P138

Text Organization

1. Michael faced the most challenging competition in his pole-vaulting career.

Michael’s childhood was marked with dreams and tough traini ng.

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 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.

P139

(1) startled (2) bale of hay (3) off (4) intensify (5) shaking the tension (6) tense (7) description (8) out of nowhere (9) pictured (10) scared

P142

Vocabulary

1. 1) startled 2) mere 3) motion 4) sweating 5) stretched out 6) vain 7) On one occasion 8) anxiety 9) emotions

10) ashamed of 11) In my mind’s eye 12) recurring

P143

2. 1) coincides with her husband’s 2) sends the pric es 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 intensify passion for

P144

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.

P145/146

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.

P146/147

Comprehensive Exercises

I. Close

1.1) In my mind’s eye 2) groan 3) competitor 4) intensify 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) numerous 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

P147

II. Translation

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.

P148

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.”

P152

Comprehension Check

1. b

2. c

3. b

4. b

5. c

6. a

P153

1.我觉得如果有一天我无法再抬起一只脚迈上一个台阶，再痛苦地拖起另一只脚——将这个

过程重复14遍，直到精疲力竭爬上去——到那时我就会服输并躺下死去。

2.我认为在这整个世界里，就我一个人被选中去受苦受难。

3.刹那间，时间凝固了，我感到万分的羞愧和震惊。我从来没有这么难受过。

4.我意识到我的自艾自怜、自私，以及对他人需求的冷漠，已到了无可复加的地步。

P153/154

Language Practice

1.1) a 2) e 3) d 4) c 5) b 6) h 7) f 8) g

2.1) aid 2) inclined 3) in good health 4) shortcomings 5) penetrated 6) dismiss 7) has

suffered from

8) progressive 9) optimistic 10) to a degree 11) hold on to 12) install

第6单元课后练习答案

P164

1. They liked girly toys such as a miniature kitchen, ponies, 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.

P165

1. Main ideas

The author describes how she stumbled into engineering.

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

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

worked harder at it

that she should study more

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

P166

1. 1) limit 2) denying 3) favor 4) others 5) relevant 6) translating 7) hard and fast conclusions 8) focus 9) incredibly flexible 10) consider the possibility

P168/169

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

P170

3. 1) will not panic/feel panic ’ll be at a disadvantage 2) hybrid transmissions 3) crave

One indication to distinguish

P171

1. also

2. as well/too

3. too

4. also

5. as well/too

6. too

7. also

8. Also

P172

1. I’ve had enough

2. When I was old enough to work and earn money

3. can’t get 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

P173/174

1. 1) stumbled into 2) not know the first thing about 3) mechanical 4) when it comes to 5)

hybrid 6)gritted her teeth 7) premise 8) at a advantage 9) panic 10) cultural 11) flexible 12) imply

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

P174

Translation

1) He is a man of few words, but when it comes to playing computer games, he is far too clever for his classmate.

2) Children who don't know any better may think these animals are pretty cute and start playing with them.

3) There is no wav 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.

P175

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 q disadvantage in institutions 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.

P179

1. b

2. a

3. d

4. b

5. d

6. c

7.a

Translation

1.每当我想起给别人回电话、打字，看到我出的主意和见解却变成了别人的功劳时，常常

整个星期都会闷闷不乐。

2.这样的生活我能维持多久？肯定不会到我退休之时。

3.我下定决心往前走，这条路将使我更好地了解自己，更好地认清自己生活的目的。

4.此外，给我带来新的生活的，与其说是自己努力取得的结果（虽然这也很重要），不如说

是由于意识到自己具有潜在的能力可以做自己想做的事。

P180

1.1) b 2) d 3) a 4) e 5) g 6) c 7) f 8) h

2.1) crisis 2) weighed down 3) supportive 4) takes all the credit 5) pleaded 6) in control

of 7) party 8) expense 9) lives for 10)semester 11) at every opportunity 12)stir