阅读教程 2 Unit 3 答案

新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版）

Unit 3

Part I

Exercises

I. Reading for information 。

A. Reading to find main ideas

1. D

2. C

B. Reading to find major details

3 . D 4. B

C. Reading to find relevant facts

5. A

6. C

II. Translation

Translate the following sentences into Chinese.

1. Obsessions drive people to do all sorts of strange things. Harriet Magnis’s obsession drove her to commit one of the strangest crimes in history.

痴迷往往会使人们做出各种各样奇怪的事情。哈丽雅特?玛格妮丝的痴迷驱使她犯下了有史以来最荒唐的罪行。

2. Even though he was at sea for two or three years at a stretch, and was home for only a few days at

a time, Harriet loved him deeply and her tragic failure to provide him with a child haunted her.

尽管他在海上一待就是两三年，每次回家也只能待上几天，哈丽雅特还是深爱着他。不幸没能为他生下一男半女，她心里非常不安。

3. She had succeeded in deceiving him for three years, but now she knew that she either had to produce a three-year-old boy who looked like Richard, or had to spill the whole truth to him.

她成功地骗了他三年，可是现在她明白，她要么得找出一个长相像理查德的三岁男孩，要么就得向他彻底坦白。

4. But after he left , Harriet became panicky, especially when the neighbors began to ask questions about the sudden appearance of her “child” and even more so when the wanted notices appeared in the local post office.

可是丈夫走后，哈丽雅特便恐慌起来，特别是当邻居们开始问她怎么突然有了个孩子的时候。而当通缉令出现在当地邮局时，她更是惶惶不可终日。

5. In due t ime the letter was delivered to Richard’s ship, but not to him. In his anxiety to see his little son again, Richard had jumped ship and gone AWOL.

信如期送到了理查德服役的船上，但没有到他手里。理查德因为急于再次见到自己的儿子而离船开了小差。

III. Summary

Complete the following statements with words and expressions from the box. Use their proper forms.

1 Harriet loved her husband deeply, but she was troubled by the fact that she was unable to provide him with a child . Her obsession with having a child drove her to commit a crime .

2 In order to make her husband happy, she told him that she was pregnant. And she succeeded in deceiving her husband for three years. But her lies got her into deep water . When her husband grew suspicious, she decided to steal a child .

3 Harriet went to London looking for a boy of the right age. Finally, she found Thomas and kidnapped him. Her husband was in ecstasy when she took the boy to meet him.

4 Filled with fear and remorse, Harriet took Thomas back to London. She also wrote a letter to her husband, telling him the truth, which was delivered to the captain of the ship for her husband had gone AWOL .

5 At last, Harriet was arrested and held for trial. But she was discharged because the judge decided that the court had no jurisdiction over the case.

Part II Reading for Pleasure

Exercise

Answer the following questions.

1 What did the two strangers argue about?

They pretended to argue about whether it would be easy to stand in front of the clock for one hour without moving and say “Here it comes, there it goes” as the clock’s pendulum swung back and forth. Actually they were just trying to deceive the hotel owner.

2 How did the two strangers make the hotel owner join them in a bet?

They made him believe that it was very easy to win the bet and win a hundred dollars.

3 What was the hotel owner thinking about when he stood in front of theclock?

He thanked God for his old clock, which might help him get money for his son’s education. Besides, he was thinking about buying a new coat for his wife and a walking stick for himself.

4 What did people think of the hotel owner when they saw him talking to the clock?

People thought that he must have been crazy when they saw him talking to the clock.

5 What did the hotel owner find when he finished the bet?

He found that the two men had already gone with his money.