大二上学期练习册答案

Unit1ⅠAssess-evaluate or estimate the nature or quality of Benefit-welfarePotential-possiblePrestige-statusDampen-reduce, subdueBe exempt from-not be affected or bound by, be excused fromCompensatory-related to the payment of compensationⅡMy First JobWhileI was waiting to university, I saw in a local newspaper a teaching post advertised at a school in a suburb of London about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of money and wanting to do something useful, I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with on experience of teaching my chances of landing the job were slim.However, three days later a letter arrived,summon ing me to Croydon for an interview. It proved an awkward journey: a train to Croydon station; a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk at least a quarter of a mile. As a result, I arrived on a hot June morning too depressed to nervous.The school was a dreary, gabled Victorian house of red brick and with big staring sash-windows.The front garden wasa gravel square; four evergreen shrubs stood at each corner, where they struggled to survive the dust and fumes from a busy main road.It was clearly the headmaster himself that opened the door. He was short and rotund. He had a sandy-colored moustache, a freckled forehead and hardly any hair. He was wearing a tweed suit-one felt somehow he had always worn it-and across his ample stomach was looped a silver watch-chain.He looked at me with an air of surprised disapproval, as an colonel might look at a private whose bootlaces were undone. ”Ah, yes”he grunted. ”You’d better come inside.”The narrow sunless hall smelled unpleasantly of stale cabbage; the cream-printed walls had gone a dingy margarine color except where theywere scarred with ink marks; it was all silent. His study, including by the crumbs on the carpet, was also his dining room. On the mantelpiece there was a salt cellar and pepper-pot. “You’d better sit down,” he said, and proceeded to ask me a number of questions：what subject had I taken in my General School Certificate; how old was I; what games did I play; then fixing me suddenly with his bloodshot eyes, he asked me whether I thought games were a vital part of a boy’s education. I mumbled something about not attaching too much importance to them. He grunted. I had said the wrong thing. The headmaster and I obviously had singularly little in common.The school, he said, consisted of one class of twenty-four boys, ranging in age from seven to thirteen.I should have to teach all subjects except art, which he taught himself. Football and cricket were played in the Park, a mile away on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.The teaching set-up appalled me. I should have to split the class up into three groups and teaching them in turn at three different levels; and I wasdismayed at the thought of teaching algebra and geometry-two subjects at which I had been completely incompetent at school.Worse perhaps was the idea of Saturday afternoon cricket. It was not so much having to tramp a mile along the dusty streets of Croydon, followed by a crocodile of small boys that I minded, but the fact that most of my friends would be enjoying leisure at that time.Isaid diffidently,”What would my salary be?”“Twelve pounds a week plus lunch.”B efore I could protest he got to his feet.” Now,” he said,” You’d better meet my wife. She’s the one who really runs this school.”This was the last straw. I was very young: the prospect of working under a woman constituted the ultimate indignity.Add: ceiling, girth, waist, distasteful, parade, admiralⅢ1.他们都认为他成功的可能性很小。

They all believed that he had a slim chance of success.2.我不知道她为何总带有一种闷闷不乐的神情。

I don’t know why she has an air ofsadness all the time.3.等到所有的同学都就座后，学生会主席才开始宣布野营的日程安排。

It was after all the students had taken their seats that the president of the students ’union proceeded to announce the camping itinerary. 4.胃是人体至关重要的器官，请善待之。

The stomach is a vital organ of the human body; please take good care of it.5.他认为总经理如此重视那些日常琐事是荒唐的。

He considered it ridiculous for the general manager to attach so much importance to those routine trifles.6.她的研究涉及多种语言和文化，富有挑战性。

Her study, which ranged over many languages and cultures, was full of challenge.7.根据安排，全体工作人员轮流值晚班。

As is scheduled, all members of staff take turns to do late duty.8.想到要远离父母独立生活，她深感不安。

She was greatly upset at the thought of leaving her parents and living on her own in a remote area.9.对于她是否胜任这项工作我们不甚担心，我们更担心她的健康问题。