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UNIT 2 The Virtues of Growing
Older
Key to the Exercises
Text Comprehension
I.
Decide which of the following best
states the author’s purpose of writing.
C
II. Judge,
according to the text, whether the following
statements are true or false.
1-5 F F F
T T
IV. Explain in your own
words the following sentences.
1.
I
am
embarrassed
to
admit
that
women
are
less
capable
than
men
of
resisting
the
temptation of fashion.
2. It
means that you make friends with different people
in order to find a new identity for
yourself.
Structural analysis of the text
1. see III. 2.
2. Paragraph
3:
the
last
sentence;
Paragraph
4:
the
second
sentence;
Paragraph
5:
the
first
sentence.
Vocabulary
I. Explain the underlined part in each
sentence in your own words.
1. be apt
to: be likely to
易于
< br>……
，有
……
的倾向
2. fall apart: break up,
disintegrate
3. in general: as a whole
通常，大体上；总的来说，从总体上看
4. at the mercy of: powerless against;
completely controlled by
对<
/p>
……
无能为力；任
……
< br>处
置，任由
……
摆布
5. no wonder: not surprising /
only too natural
不足为奇，并不奇怪
II.
Fill
in
the
blank
in
each
sentence
with
a
word
or
phrase
taken
from
the
box
in
its
appropriate form.
1. delay
2. Feverishly
3.
fa?
ade
4. confronted
5. premise
6. dreaded
7.
automatically
8. awaiting
III. Fill in the blanks
with the appropriate forms of the given words.
1. obsessive
2. moodiness
3. tolerable
4. beneficial
5. satisfying
6. hidden
7.
preference
8.
criticisms
IV.
Choose the word or phrase that can replace the
underlined part in each sentence.
1-4
CDAA
5-8 BDCB
V. Give a synonym or an
antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in
the sense it
is
used.
1. Synonym: conceal, disguise
2. Antonym: narrow
3.
Synonym: satisfaction, happiness, joy
4. Synonym: merits, advantages
5. Synonym: fat, plump
6.
Synonym: well-built
7. Antonym: old-
fashioned, outdated
8. Synonym:
clearly, evidently
VI.
Write
in
each
space
one word
that
has
the
same
prefix as
underlined
in each given
word.
1. preface
prepare
5.
periphery
perimeter
2.
prologue
progress
6. dialogue
diameter
3. foresight
foresee
7.
semifinal
semiconductor
4.
paralysis
parallel
8. devaluate
decelerate
Grammar
I. Complete the following
sentences with the appropriate forms of the nouns
given.
1. agony
2. agonies
3.
experience
4. experiences
5.
youth
6. a
youth
7. a great help
8. a good knowledge
9. a gray hair
10. work
II. Complete the following sentences
with quantifiers & determiners.
1. A
2. B
3. D
4. C
5. A
6. B
7. B
8. C
III. Complete
the reading.
a lot of, a
little, some, a few, A, some, some, a lot of, x,
many, x, a lot of
IV.
Complete the following with
every,
each, everyone, every one, all.
1. all, every one
2. each
3. every
4. each
5. everyone
6. each
7.
everyone, everyone
8. each
V.
Correct errors in the following sentences.
1. you must take care
2. Though he received the
document late at night; it
3. When you
fell
4. When you read
5. I
became clear about what he meant
6. We
saw the first star shining in the sky
7. who were eating
8. he was
cleaning
Translation