杨立民现代大学英语精读2课后答案

杨立民现代大学英语精读2课后答案！

杨立民现代大学英语精读2课后答案！

杨立民现代大学琴语精读2课后答案一：

Unitl 一、词汇短语TextA disaster[diza:ste]n.灾难，灾祸；不幸

【例句】These difficulties are caused by natural disasters.这些困难都是由自然灾害造成的。

【助记】dis （不，没有）+aster （星星）一星星消失了，难道预示着灾难的来临？谐音“点扎死他”，灾难。semester[simeste]n.学期；半年

【彳列句】His writing has improved greatly in this semester.这学期他的写作有了很大进步。

【助记】seme （看作semi半）+s+ter （看作terra学期）—半学期

beanpoletbimpeujn.（插在地上供豆茎攀缘的）支竿，瘦长之人【例句】LiLing's elder sister is short and overweight while her younger sister is a beanpole.

李玲的姐姐是个矮胖墩儿，可她妹妹却是个细高个儿。hip[hip]n.臀部,髓;屋脊;蔷薇果；忧有郁adj.熟悉内情的；非常时尚的【例句】He stood there with his hands on his hips.他双手叉腰站在那里。

specimen[spesimen]n.范例；样品，样本，标本【例句】He collects specimens of all kinds of rocks and minerals.他采集各种岩石和矿物的标

【助记】spec-看+men男人，人，（医院）常有供人看的人的样品。

drugstoretdrAg^toJn.（美国兼售化妆品、家居用品、饮

料、小吃等的）药店，药房

【例句】I will bring stuff from the drugstore for your hands. 我到药房去给你的手弄点药来。

scroll[skreul]n.卷轴，卷形物；名册

.卷动

【例句】At the ceremony he was presented with a scroll commemorating his achievements. 典礼上他获得了表彰他成就的卷轴。

【词组】scroll bar[计]滚动条scroll down向下滚动；向下卷动

silk scroll 绢本

scroll painting画轴，卷轴画horizontal scroll bar[计]水平滚动条scroll up向上滚动

【助记】c=scene （n.风景），roll （n.卷）-卷着风景的画卷client[klaient]n.委托人,当事人；顾客，客户【例句】The manager said （that） he believed （that） the client would come next week.经理说他相信客户下周会来的。

pursuit[pe!sju:t]n.追求,追赶;嗜好，消遣；职业，工作【例句】His life is spent in the pursuit of pleasure.他一生都在寻欢作乐。

【词组】in pursuit of寻求,追求

rear[rie]n.后部,尾部，后方

adj.后方地，后部地

.饲养，抚养；竖起；栽培

【例句】Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave by the rear entrance.他想从后门溜走，记者把他截住了。

【助记】rear一rare （adj.稀有的）一培养稀有动植物。suffice[se fais]（使）足够；有能力

[例句】One glass suffices me.给我一杯就够了。

杨立民现代大学英语精读2课后答案二：

shudder[JAde]n.&.战栗,发抖【例句】She shuddered at the sight of the dead body.她一看到死尸就战栗起来。

【词组】shudder at the thought o 一想到…就发抖shudder with

extreme fear 不寒而栗shudder at由于恐惧而发抖pest[pest]n.害虫；讨厌的人或事

【例句】Insects which eat crops are pests.吃庄稼的昆虫是害虫。【词组】make a pest of oneself被人厌烦

【助记】谐音：“拍死它”一遇到害虫记得拍死它。philosophy[filosefi]n.哲学；哲理，人生哲学，见解

【例句】①He holds the chair of philosophy at Oxford.他任

牛津大学哲学教授。

②I can't sum up his whole philosophy in one sentence.我无法

用一句话来概括他的全部人生观。

【词组】moral philosophy伦理学conflicting philosophies互相矛盾的哲学体系metaphysical philosophy 形而上学with philosophy 冷静地

【派生】philosophic adj.哲学的；贤明的philosophern.哲学家；哲人

Neanderthal[nicendeta:]adj.穴居人的；尼安德特人的【例

句】Neanderthal man was able to kill woolly mammoths and bears .尼安德特人能够捕杀浑身覆毛的猛狗象和熊。

civilized[srvrlarzd]adj.文明的；有礼貌的

【例句】Ibelieved that in civilized countries, torture had ended long ago.我相信在文明国家酷刑早就废止了。assume[e'sju:m]vt.假装，假定，设想；承担；呈现；采取vi.装腔作势；多管闲事

【例句】She was in arrogance to assume she would win every time.她认为每次都能赢，未免太自大了。

【助记】as （加强）+sume （拿，取=take）一拿住一承担责任；as+音：数目，每人都承担假定要完成的一定数目的任务，呈现出公司面貌来。【派生】assumed adj.假定的；假装的assumptionn.假定；设想；担任；采取spiritual resources精神资源store[sto:, stoe]v.贮藏，储存

n.商店，店铺；储存品，备用品；储藏，储存

【例句】We should keep our strength in store to meet with

even more difficulties.我们应该积蓄力量迎接更大的困难。

二、课文精解TextA

1.1 was fresh out of graduate school starting my..: be fresh out

of school表示“刚刚离开学校”。

2.Part of the student body was a beanpole with hair on top who came into my class, sat down, folded his arms, and looked at me as if to say "All right, teach me something,,：在这里student body表示“所有的学生”，因此part of the student body就是指所有学生中的一个。beanpole原意是指农民支撑豆棚的杆子，这里是指身材瘦而高的人。这里应用了暗喻的修辞手法。asif在句中引导了不定式，在句中做状语。

3.Hamlet：哈姆雷特，是莎士比亚最负盛名的悲剧之一。同时这也是书中主人公丹麦王子

的名字。

4.New as I was to the faculty, I could have told this specimen a number of things:as置于形容词或者副词之后，引导让步状语从句，表示“尽管，即便”。后半句是一个虚拟句，暗示了下文讲的是作者本应该给那个学生讲但是没有讲的内容。

5 .... and that at the end of his course he meant to reach for a scroll that would read Bachelor ofn Science:mean to do 表示 "打算做"，例如：I don't mean to do that kind of thing.我并不打算做霜那种事情。reach for表示“设法获得”，例如：Invest the time it takes to reach for your dream.花时间去实现你的梦想。

6.your days are going to average out to about twenty-four hours:average out表示"相互抵消，等于"，例如：Meals at university average out to about lOyuan a day.在大学里每天的伙食费大概是1。块钱。

7.You will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin..or that your client doesn't go to the electric chair as a result of your incompetence.： go to the electric chair 在这里应用了委婉的

修辞手法，实际是指受到死刑。see to it表示“确保，确信"，I will lend you my book if you see to it that you can return it in two weeks.如果你能保证两周内把书还给我，我就借给你。asa result of 表示“由于"，I can't go to school because of the heavy rain.由于下大雨我不能去上学了。

11/'because you re going to be badly stuck for something to do when you're not signing checks.n be stuck for sth.表示"陷入“,例如：If you are stuck for words, this is a great tool.如果你陷入单词困境，这是一个很好的困境。

12.Shakespeare：莎士比亚，英国文艺复兴时期伟大的剧作家，诗人，代表作有四大悲剧四大戏剧等悲喜剧。

13.Our colleges inevitably graduate a number of such life forms:such life forms指商是如行尸走肉般的大学毕业生。14.M.LT：麻省理工学院，是美国一所综合性私立大学，位

于马赛诸塞州的剑桥市。是全球器

高科技和高等研究的领导院校。

15.A nd as this is true of the techniques of mankind:be true of 表示“符合于，适用于”，例如：

No one had looked at whether the same thing might be true of humans.我想没人看到这种相同的事会发生在我们身上。

16.H omer：荷马，古希腊盲诗人，他的杰作荷马史诗在很长一段时间里都影响了西方的宗

教文化伦理。

杨立民现代大学英语精读2课后答案三：

17.Virgil：维吉尔，古罗马诗人，著有长诗牧歌，艾乃特

等。

18.Dante:但丁，文艺复兴时期意大利的伟大诗人，以长诗神曲而留名于后世。

19.Chaucer：乔叟，英国诗人，代表作有坎特不累故事集。

20.Einstein：爱因斯坦，美籍德商犹太人，因发现光电效应

而获得1921年诺贝尔物理学奖。

TextB

1.but Miss Bessie was a towering presence in the classroom: 这一句应用了暗喻的修辞手法，将贝丝小姐在人们心中的形象比作像塔一样的高大。

2.Beowulf:《贝奥武甫》是完成于公元八世纪的英雄叙事长诗。是现存古英语文学中最古老

的作品，也是欧洲最早的方言史诗，在语言学方面也是相当珍贵的文献。

3.Tenn.： Tennessee的缩写，田纳西，美国东部的内陆州。Grammarl .Study the use of noun clause introduced by wh- words.

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A noun clause is a clause that functions as a noun.Noun clauses can be used： a) as (direct) object of verbs, as in Sentences 1, 2, 5, 7, 10

b)after the link verb be as predictive (表语)，as in Sentences4, 6, 8, 9

c)after an adjective such as (a person is) sure, certain, positive, (it is) amazing/strange/funny.

etc, as in Sentence3d) as subject, as in： What bothered me was how easily I had reached the decision, (para.2, Unit 8, Book 1) after certain prepositions as object, as in：They seldom give advance notice about which school they are going to inspect.Other wh-words that are used to introduce a noun clause:who, whom, whose

1)what has brought you to Paris

2)how much he loved him

3)when and why you started your own business and how you went about setting it up 4) why he has survived and most of his fellow travelers haven't

5)when we occasionally came in summer

6)why quite a number of whales have beached themselves?) How the pilot managed to bring the plane down safely

8)what steps the minister will take to prevent a similar accident

9)when it should be held 10) who the driver was

2.Learn to use the gerund.

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1)digging up: object of started doing: object of the preposition before

2)sending: subject of the sentence3) keeping: subject of the sentence

4)binding: predictive of the sentence

5)saying: object of the preposition instead of

6)striving: subject of the relative clause introduced by where

7)hoping: object of cease, which has an object clause

8)reviving: object of the preposition of

1)Missing the flight means waiting hours for the next.

2)He never makes an important decision without asking his parents1 advice.

3)r 11 return the book to you as soon as I finish reading it./F 11 return the book to you on finishing it.

4)Never enter anyone's office without knocking.

5)He tried very hard to avoid saying anything that might displease his sick father.

6)Instead of trying to reduce costs, they raised prices and cut production.

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