蒋静仪 阅读教程2 课后习题答案(含quotations)资料

蒋静仪

阅读教程

2

课后习题答案（含

quotations

）

Unit One

Human Relationship

1. Interpretation of the quotations

①

No man can be separated from the society and disconnected with other people as an island is

isolated from the mankind. The inherent(

内在的

) oneness of mankind is just like a whole mass

land.

②

. when you deal with issues about yourself, try to be calm, reasonable and intelligent; but when

you deal with issues about other people, you need to be affectionate, sincere and sympathetic.

③

Here is an easy-to-follow, buy established and uncontroversial

model for getting along with

other people successfully. You just face and accept any serious misfortune or failure peacefully, as

if it were something of litter significance or value; but never treat some ordinary, commonplace

things as if they were extremely serious.

Reference answers to the exercises

Reading One:

Check your comprehension

1-5 ADCCB

Check your vocabulary

1.

Fisher

and

Ury

’

s

theory

is

based

on

the

belief

that

the

“

win

or

lose

”

model

does

not

work

when two sides try to reach an agreement.

2.

Use positive statements surrounding ideas that are negative.

3.

You can often successfully resolve differences if you try this collaborative approach.

Reading Two

Check your vocabulary

Resisted; frustration; fluttered; jerked; restless; haltingly; gratefully; thoughtless

Reading Three

Check your comprehension

1-7 FTFFTFT

Check your vocabulary

Administrative; meekly; hysterical; requisition; deposit; severe

Confronted; spluttered; irate; bogus; purchase

Reading four

Check your comprehension

1-6 FTTTFT

Check your comprehension

1.

How often does this seriously affect

people’

s communication and make them fail in building

good relationships?

2.

Every

time

parents

and

children

disagree

with

each

other,

specialists

often

explain

that

“

generation gap

”

is the reason.

3.

We are not sure whether the term is an acceptable explanation because the word

“

generation

”

is used, but the other word

“

gap

”

can be applied when analyzing people

’

s different opinions.

4.

Specialists in communication immediately challenge this belief and view it in a different way.

5.

A speaker may not speak as fast as the listener can think.

6.

Because

they

have

free

time

to

spend

by

themselves,

the

listeners

probably

think

of

other

things and no longer concentrate.

7.

As people

’

s interests vary, when the topic does not attract them, the listeners stop listening.

8.

If

the

speaker

does

not

give

a

good

impression

because

of

his

looks

or

other

matters,

the

listener would probably refuse to follow what the speaker says.

Check your vocabulary A

1.

give rise to

2.

arise from

3.

imply

4.

facilitate

5.

sound

6.

carry away

7.

gesture

8.

exercise

9.

tune in

Check your vocabulary B

disposal; distractions; facilitate; resort; skip; contributes; deserted; solution

Post-reading

A.

Through several incidents in childhood, Mary learned from her father how to listen to other

’

s

criticisms, hear the truth in the criticisms, and respect her own opinion. When she grew up,

she did her Daddy advised and made achievements in her career.

B.

1-5 DBDAB

Unit Two

1. Interpretation of the quotations

①

Little children, headache; big children, heartache.(Italian Proverb)

In terms of problems that children give to their parents, big children are far troublesome than little

children.

②

Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve

years to develop a love for

our children

before turning them into teenagers. (William Galvin)

Mother Nature has designed everything for us. She gives us twelve years to establish a close and

affectionate

parent-child

bond

before

they

become

troublesome

teenagers

who

keep

giving

us

headaches.

③

. Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the

adults

in

the

world,

who

are

probably

not

so

sure

themselves.

~Virginia

Satir,

The

New

Peoplemaking, 1988

Adolescents

are

not

frightening

creatures.

They

are

just

people

trying

to

learn

how

to

make

it

among the adults in the world, who are properly not so sure themselves. (Virginia Satir)

Reference answers to the exercises

Reading One

Check your compression A

1-6 TFTTFF

Check your comprehension B

1.

to be independent/ independence/ freedom/ their own lives

2.

primitive/ simple/ tribal way

3.

become adults

4.

frustrated, rebellious, restless

5.

became/ were furious

6.

the house key

Check your vocabulary

shelter; sit up; rein; adapt; primitive; puberty; lenient; worked out

Reading two

Check your comprehension B

1-6 FFTTFT

Check your vocabulary

1-5 ACAAC

Reading Three

Check your comprehension A

1-5 TFTFT

Check your comprehension B

1.

One child sits in a chair and sticks out his/her leg so that another one running by is launched

like a space shuttle.

2.

Several children run to the same door, grab the same handle, and beat each other up, ignoring

the fact that there are other doors available.

3.

In restaurants, small children cast their bread on the water in the glasses the waiter has just

brought.

4.

A child uses a chair to slip to the floor.

5.

They yell at each other with one sticking his/her foot inside the door and waving it around,

and the other being disgusted but refusing to close the door.

Check your vocabulary A

1.

You have decided to give up the joys of producing copies of some great art pieces at your own

ease

in

order

to

instead

produce

copies

of

yourselves,

who

keep

you

on

the

edge

of

desperation.

2.

< /p>

“

Well,

”

I said, searching deep inside myself to give a paternal suggestion,

“

The best way is to

close your door.

”

]

3.

And we decided to have children not for the reason of making my wife look older.

4.

We did not plan to lose the days when we went shopping after enjoying a comfortable brunch

together on fine Saturdays.

Check your vocabulary B

intimate; confess; make up; ceaseless; yell; paternal; rewarding

Reading Four

Check your comprehension A

1-4 DADB

Check your comprehension B

1-6 TTTFFT

Check your vocabulary A

manipulative; thrives; squeaked; sabotaged; penetrated; suffocating; juggle; persona

Check your vocabulary B.

nasty; sting; addiction; sneak; lease; rigid

tactics; unconditional; verge; encounter; frankly

Post Reading

B. 1-8 TTTF FTFT

Unit Three

1. Interpretation of the quotations

①

Beauty more than bitterness makes the heart break.(Sara Teasdale

Beauty is good and of value. But the pursuit of beauty at the cost of other things may cause even

bigger trouble than what pain and hardship will bring about.

②

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.(Francis Bacon)

Any

beautiful

thing

is

not

perfectly

proportional.

Some

deviation

from

standard

is

not

only

allowed but also necessary for beauty to show its characteristics.

③

. If you get simple is beauty and nought else, you get about the best ting God invents.(Robert

Browning)

Simple beauty is the best thing that you can be awarded of all the things in the world.

Robert Browning (7 May 1812

–

12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose

mastery

of

dramatic

verse,

especially

dramatic

monologues,

made

him

one

of

the

foremost

Victorian poets.

Reference answers to the exercises

Reading one

Check your comprehension

1-7 TTFTTFF

Check your vocabulary

1.

Some people prefer black hair, but other people like brown hair more.

2.

You have been so greatly influenced by the environment you are in that you tend to look at

beauty that way.

3.

Women

’

s magazines, advertisements and the media all focus their topics on appearance and

looks, and they keep warning you about the harm and risk of bad breath, sweat, being too fat

or too thin.

4.

The image you form about yourself may be very inaccurate.

5.

Good looks shouldn

’

t exactly follow the model of any particular individual.

Reading two

Check your comprehension A

1.

They were 202 primary school students, most of them aged eight and nine.

2.

Children as young as seven were unhappy with their bodies and nearly one-in-three girls and

boys wanted to thinner.

3.

It was

“

worrying that a number of the children have these sorts of beliefs and attitudes,

”

and

that there are more children with early-onset anorexia, which

“

is usually a lot more difficult to

treat and usually a lot more severe,

”

though only a minority would go on to develop an eating

disorder.

4.

Ms. Thomas said children needed to learn that any body shape was acceptable and they should

be proud of their body.

5.

He felt sad and guilty as a professional on the eating disorder research program.

Check your comprehension B

1-5 TFTFT

Check your vocabulary

indictment; predisposes; purge; specialist; dietary; nominated; onset

Reading three

Check your comprehension A

1-5 CCDAC

Check your comprehension B

1-5 FFFTT

Check your vocabulary

perused; previous; desperately; convince; belittle; complimented; elated; addicted

Reading Four

Check your comprehension A

1-6 FTFFTF

Check your vocabulary A

peck away; stand out; mould; advance; release...from; normality; hailed

Post-reading

B. 1-5 CACCD

Unit four

①

Sleep is better than medicine.(Proverb)

Good health relies more on a good night

’

s sleep than on medicine.

②

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you

’

re fast sleep.(Disney World advertisement)

A dream reflects what you really feel in your subconscious world.

③

. A light supper, a good night

’

s sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same

man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.(Lord

Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author)

When

one

refrains

from

having

a

big

supper,

enjoys

a

good

night

’

s

sleep,

and

wakes

up

to

a

beautiful morning, he/she will feel like a hero. But if the same person eats too much in the evening,

not sleeping well throughout the night, and wakes up to rainy morning, he/she may suffer from a

lack of confidence.

Reference answers to the exercises

Reading One

Check your comprehension

1.

By

sleeping

in

total

darkness

during

the

day

and

working

under

bright

lights

that

simulate

sunlight, rather than conventional indoor lighting.

2.

It relaxes muscles and stimulates the release of endorphins

—

chemicals that act as natural pain

relieves.

3.

No.

4.

We need to keep a meal schedule to get a good sleep.

5.

We should refrain from a) eating too late in the evening; b) eating heavy or spicy food in the

evening; and c) snacking in the middle of the night.

6.

The side effects of taking sleeping pills are: a) feeling groggy; b) insomnia getting worse; c)

developing a tolerance for sleeping pills: and d) a potentially fatal blood disorder with some

sleeping pills.

7.

Alcohol suppresses restorative dream sleep, causes numerous short awakenings and may but

unrepressed toward morning.

8.

We can read a book, listen to quiet music, take a hot bath or try relaxation techniques, such as

meditation or yoga.

9.

Lights absorbed through the eyes can reset our biological clocks and make our sleep problems

worse.

10.

We should stay in bed because we would still get some rest that way.

Check your vocabulary

1.

Because

exercise

can

relax

muscles

and

increase

the

release

of

endorphins,

which

are

chemicals that are natural agents to reduce or get rid of pain, it helps to overcome stress.

2.

There are no special foods to help you sleep, but you can have a regular timetable for your

meals, just like a regular sleep timetable. A regular timetable for your meals helps keep your

body clock running smoothly.