-臭大姐
Unit 12 The Importance of Moral
Intelligence in Children
Key to the
Exercises
Text
comprehension
I.
C.
II.
1. T;
2. F;
3. F;
4. T;
5. T.
IV.
1.
Every
day
we
read
an
increasing
number
of
news
reports
on
tragedies
and
statistics
about American
children, which have shocked us, made us deeply
worried and compelled
us to look for
solutions.
2. Howard Gardner
drastically changed (or: subverted) our
traditional understanding of
children's
mental capability with his view that a child's
intelligence should involve several
dimensions,
just
as
Daniel
Goleman
changed
our
understanding
of
intelligence
in
the
emotional dimension.
Vocabulary
I.
Phrase
1. alone: by itself
独自，单独
2. comparably aged youths: young people
of similar ages
3. for fear of: in case
of; because of anxiety about
以免，生怕
4.
authority figures: officials and experts
权威人物
5. summit meetings: meetings between
top leaders
峰会
II.
1. warrant;
2. legitimate;
3. survey;
4.
called for;
5.
juvenile;
6. self-esteem;
7. revolutionizing;
8. crisis.
III. Word derivation
Fill in
the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given
words.
1. tragic
2. statistical
3. (potential)
4. distressing
5. reaction
6.
prosecution
7.
implementation
8.
transformation
IV.
1. C;
2. C;
3. D;
4. B;
5. C;
6. D;
7. C;
8. D.
V. Synonym / Antonym
Give a
synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in
each sentence in the sense it is
used.
1. Synonym:
urgent
Synonym: treasured,
valued
2. Antonym: comedies
3. Synonym: decrease, drop
4. Synonym: worrying, upsetting
5. Antonym: respect, esteem, reverence
6. Antonym: surpluses, sufficiency
7. Synonym: faulty, imperfect
VI. Prefix
Write
in each space one word that has the same prefix as
underlined in each given word.
1.
television
telegram
2. archenemy
archbishop
3. pseudoscientific
pseudoclassical
4. sympathy
symphony
5. miniskirt
minibus
6. return
reply
7. cooperate
coordinate
8. automatic
autonomous
Grammar Exercises
I. Put the
following nouns into plural.
1.
diagnoses;
2. data;
3. shelves;
4. stimuli;
5.
oxen;
6.
formulae;
7. focuses /
foci;
8. pianos;
9. grouse;
10. indexes / indices;
11. tempi;
12. radios;
13.
phenomenon;
14. appendixes
/ appendices;
15. errata;
16. women
doctors;
17. babysitters;
18. hypothese;
19. man-eaters;
20. antennas /
antennae.
II.
1. We
2. They, take, gardens
3.
Dilettanti, are,
4. Menservants, are,
luxuries
5. no plural
6.
Buses, leave, termini, those, are, ones
7. are, bases, beliefs
8. no
plural
9. those, them
10.
criteria, these, men
III.
Use the proper form of the verbs given to complete
the sentences.
1. requires
2. is
3. want
4. ranks
5. was
6. have
7. is
8. is
9. is
10. are
11. is
12. is
IV. Complete
the sentences, using the proper forms of the
adjectives in brackets.
1. foolish
2.
lovely; lovelier; lovelist
3. most
considerate; considerate; more considerate
4. busy; busier; busiest
5. far; farther; farthest
6.
pretty; prettier
7. The hottest
8. the
flattest.
V.
1.
go.
2. visit.
3. return.
4. Toronto;
when.
5. Canada; you.
6. right.
7. right.
8.
they don’t.
Translation exercises
I.
1.
每天新闻里发生在美国儿童身上的惨剧和相关数据有增无减，令人
震惊，让人揪心，促使
人们苦苦寻觅应对之策。
2.
其它令人不安的事包括：小孩子滥用毒品、亵渎师长、无视权威、行为不
端、举止庸俗、
撒谎欺骗等等，这一切都已司空见惯，并日益严重。
3.
孩子们最需要的是道德的力量，
去规范他们在这个常常充满了道德毒素的世界里的行为举
止。
4.
我们最大的希望在于提高孩子们的道德智慧，
把他们引导到正道上来，
这样他们就能有正
确的
思想和行为。
II.
1. His father died when he was only
nine years old, leaving the whole family
helplessly at
the mercy of others.
2.
Her
story
stirred
many
beautiful
memories
of
my
childhood,
which
I
have
always
cherished in my
heart.
3. The two countries held
several rounds of negotiation to settle their
differences.
4. More and more students
are opting for his course because of his humor and
energy as
well as his effective way of
teaching.
5. In his speech the premier
vowed to address the serious problem of
unemployment and
to boost the income of
the common people.
6. The former Nazi
officer who was arrested last year in Argentina
was prosecuted for the
crimes that he
had committed during the Second World War.