新世纪大学英语综合教程3课后答案Unit1

Unit One

People Around Us

Enhance Your Language Awareness

Words in Action

▆ Working with Words and Expressions

1.In the box below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the following sentences

with them. Change the form where necessary.

▆ Answers:

1) crease

2) hint

3) assured

4) awaiting

5) hovering

6) scrawled

7) glistening

8) frail

9) sole

10) visible

11) engaged

12) biased

13) dreading

14) grinning

2.In the boxes below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do you know how to use

them in the proper context? Now check for yourself by doing the blank-filling exercise. Change the form where necessary.

▆ Answers:

1) for fear of

2) pulled up

3) except for

4) get by

5) make a living

6) every so often

7) in the background

8) Shut off

9) each and every

10) as it is

11) wraps … around her little finger

12) caught us …unawares

▆Increasing Y our Word Power

1.Choose the definition from Column B that best matches each phrasal verb in Column A, paying

attention to the V+ Prep./Ad. collocation.

▆ Answers:

1) f

2) c

3) d

4) e

5) b

6) g

7) h

8) a

Fill in each blank in the following sentences with a proper phrasal verb. Change the verb form where necessary.

▆ Answers:

1) let out

2) clean … up

3) come through

4) waiting on

5) picked up

6) ended up

7) headed for

8) ran through

2. The prefixes ex-, fore-, pre- mean “former, before, or in advance” while the prefix post- means “after

or later than”. Study the following examples a nd form words by adding ex-, fore-, pre-, post- to the words given in the table and then complete each of the following sentences with a proper word you have just formed. Change the verb form where necessary.

▆ Answers:

1) foretell

2) preview

3) forerunner

4) postscript

5) postgraduate

6) precondition

7) ex-husband

Grammar in Context

Task 1: Combine the given sentences into one by using attributive clauses.

▇Answers for reference:

1)I encountered many people whose lives amazed me. (See Para. 3, Text B)

2)We drove in silence to the address (that/which)she had given me. (See Para. 21, Text B)

3)He pushed through the doors and headed for the back room where his apron and busing cart were

waiting. (See Para. 16, Text A)

4)I had seen too many people trapped in a life of poverty who depended on the cab as their only means of

transportation. (See Para. 6, Text B)

5)Their social worker, who stopped to check on Stevie every so often, admitted Stevie and his mother had

fallen between the cracks. (See Para. 6, Text A)

Task 2: Complete the following sentences by translating the Chinese in the brackets into English. Be sure to use present particles or past particles to modify nouns.