新世纪大学英语系列教程综合教程5unit2课后答案

Unit 2

Working with Words and Expressions:

1.Listed in the box below are some of the words you have learned in

the text. Complete the following sentences with them. Change the form where necessary.

1)ill-fitting

2)stain

3)devoured

4)rotting

5)cracked

6)chronic

7)dripping

8)sore

9)enslaved

10)corrective

2.Listed in the box below are some expressions that you have learned in

the text. Complete the sentences with each of them. Change the form where necessary.

1)Wears away / eats away

2)come off

3)help out

4)eats away

5)going-up

6)at best

7)off and on

Increasing Your Word Power:

1.Word Clusters: make your own sentences using the word cluster in

italicized type in your text book

2.Words or phrases with Multiple Meanings

Devour

1)devour:

2)devour: v. read something quickly and eagerly

3)devour: v. destroy someone or something

4)devour: v. use up all of something

5)devour: v. be filled with a strong feeling that seems to control

someone

Come off

1)come off: become unfastened or disconnected (from)

2)come off: fall off (something)

3)come off: take place, happen

4)come off: succeed, have the intended effect

5)come off: stop taking (a drug) that one has been taking regularly Cloze:

1)smell

2)marriage

3)chronic

4)smelly

5)unemployment

6)mattress

7)cornbread

8)malnutrition

9)cracked

10)luxuries

11)insects

12)diapers

13)future

14)alcohol

15)bars

Translation:

What is poverty Read the story of a single mother of three, and you’ll understand what it means.

She was married once, but later her husband lost his job and life became increasingly difficult. After giving birth to the last baby, her marriage came to an end.

In order to save her children from suffering, she summoned up her courage and went to ask for help.

She got seventy-eight dollars a month for the four of them. After the rent, most of the rest went for food.

There was no money left to get the refrigerator fixed and the milk went sour; no money for hot water, and even in winter she had to do washing in icy cold water. She had chronic anemia caused from poor diet, a bad case of worms, and needed a corrective operation, but there was no money for iron pills, or better food, or worm medicine, to say nothing of having an operation. She had no money for grannies; no money for paper handkerchiefs and her children were seen with runny noses all the time. She tried her best to use only the minimum electricity. She stayed up all night on cold nights, because she had to watch the fire, for fear that one spark on the newspaper covering the walls would cause a fire and the sleeping children would die in flames.

She saw no bright future. Sooner or later, the boys would end up behind the bars of their prison or turn to the freedom of alcohol or drugs and find themselves enslaved. And what awaited the daughter was, at best, a life like that of the mother.

Indeed, poverty is an acid that drips on pride until all pride is worn away. Poverty is a chisel that chips on honor until honor is worn away. Writing:

Sample Essay:

My Reflections After Reading “What Is Poverty”