大一英语口语考试(课后问答)

课后问答Unit 11.In India. Shortly before the First World War. It may not be a true story.2.A colonial official and his wife. Officers and their wives, and a visiting Americannaturalist.3.Their spacious dinning room has a bare marble floor, open rafters and wide glass doorsopening onto a veranda.4.Whether women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era.5.The American does not join in the argument but watches the other guests. He sees astrange expression come over the face of the hostess. Because a cobra was crawling across her foot, she felt nervous.6.Because in india, milk in a bowl means only one thing – bait for a snake. He realizesthere must be a cobra in the room.7.His first impulse is to jump back and warn the others. He says he will count threehundred – that is five minutes – and not one of you is to move a muscle. Those who move will forfeit 50 rupees. Yes he is successful.8.Five minutes later, the cobra emerged and made for the bowl of milk. . The cobra didnot strike because the 20 people sat like stone images.9.He has just shown us an example of perfect self-control.10.B ecause the cobra has left the room and the people are all safe. She felt delighted. Herself-control proved that women had outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era.Unit 21.Because he wrote the Declaration of Independence.2.In the work. When his colleagues sat and studied papers on the subject, Jefferson gotinto a canoe and made on-the-spot observations..3.He was kind to the humble origins and he went out of his way to talk with gardeners,servants, and waiters.4.Because he felt that the people “may safely be trusted to hear everything ture and false,and to form a correct judgement5.There are two sides to every question. If you take one side with decision and act on itwith effect, those who take the other side will of course resent your actions.6.In agriculture, archeology, and medicine.7.Because he was above all a good and tireless writer. His complete works, now beingpublished for the first time, will fill more than fifty volumes.8.Becauce he left his countrymen a rich legacy of ideas and examples and he believedthat only a nation of educated people could remain free.Unit 31.Being very short of money and wanting to do someing useful.2.My chances of getting the job were slim, becauce I had no degree and no experiencein teaching .3.He felt too depressed to feel nervous because it proved an awkward journey: a train toCroydon station; a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter of a mile.4.The school is old, shabby and has a very bad environment.5.He was short and fat. And he had a sandy-coloured moustache, a wrinkled foreheadand hardly any hair.6.No, he did not. No, he did not agree with the author.7.The school consisted of one class of twenty-four boys, ranging in age from seven tothirteen.8.He should have to devide the class into three groups and teach them in turn at threedifferent levels;9.He was dismayed at the thought of teaching algebra and geometry. The teaching setup filled him with fear.10.N o, he didn’t, because most of his friends would be enjoying leisure at that time.11.B ecause she is the one who really runs this school.12.I do not think so. Because he said the prospect of working under a woman constitutedthe ultimate indignity.Unit 41.He wanted to make the young visitor feel at ease.2.Because he knew there were answers beyond his intellectual reach, but this did notfrustrate him.3.Although he corresponded with many of the world’s most important people, hisstationery carried only a watermark—w—for woolworth’s.4.No, material things meant nothing to him. He never had any use for money and nevercarry money.5.He was beaming with the pleasure, because he said“it doesn’t pull the beard, it feelwonderful.”6.He won the nobel prize for his photoelectric theory, he considered it relatively minorin importance. His theory made TV possible.7.He feel confused.8.As a men, he never show jealousy, vanity, bitterness, anger, resentment, or personalambition. He seemed immune to these emotions. He was beyond any pretension. As a scientist, he was a purely and exclusively a theorist. He didn’t have the slightest interest in the practical application of his ideas and theories.9.I like the title,because it told me something about Einstein’s personality and lifestyle,just like a story. The sentence is not hard to understand, the title is interesting.Unit 51.the carbon dioxide2.Carbon dioxide can keep us comfortably warm, but too much carbon dioxide in theatmosphere may threaten to warm up our planet to a dangerous extent.3.Where there are low- lying coastal areas, the water will advance steadily, forcingpeople to retreat inland.4.Sunlight, striking the top of the atmosphere, travels right through miles of it to warmthe Earth’s surface.5.Without the small quantity of that gas present, the earth would be distinctly cooler,perhaps uncomfortably cool.6.6. In 1958, carbon dioxide made up only 0.0316 percent of the atmosphere. Each yearsince, the concentration has crept upward and it now stands at 0.0340 percent. It isestimated that by 2020 the concentration will be nearly twice what it is now.7.If these ice caps begin to melt, the sea level will rise.8.The carbon contained in these fuels, is now being burned to carbon dioxide and pouredinto the atmosphere at a rate of many tons per day. And To make matters worse, earth’s forests have been disappearing quite rapidly.9.First ,we must save our forests,and even replant them. Second,we must have newsources of fule that do not involve the production of carbon dioxide.。