蒋静仪阅读教程2课后习题答案

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.

“

We ll,

”

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

—

chemical s

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.

3.

Your

body

can

also

become

used

to

the

pills,

and

after

a

while

they

are

no

longer

effective and you need larger doses or stronger drugs.

4.

Alcohol reduces refreshing dream sleep, causes numerous short awakenings and,

once

its

calming

effects

have

disappeared,

may

leave

you

wide

awake

but

unrepressed toward mooring.

5.

The researches used bright light which is as strong as natural sunlight just

after dawn (at least 100 times stronger than ordinary room light), which reset

subjects

’

body

clocks

by

as

much

as

12

hours

and

made

them

as

alert

at

midnight

as they would ordinarily be at noon.

Reading Two

Check your comprehension

FTFFFTT

Check your vocabulary

1.

spontaneous;

2.

provoke;

3.

integrity;

4.

thrives;

5.

inflict;

6.

universal;

7.

illusion; 8. revert

Reading Three

; 2. d; 3. b; 4. c; 5. c

Check your vocabulary

1.

aggression;

2.

symbolic;

3.

disguise;

4.

fulfillment;

5.

represent;

6.

reconstruct;

7.

anxious; 8.

guilt;

9.

therapist;

10.

illuminate;

11.

random;

12.

spare

Reading Four

Check your comprehension A

TFTTTFT

Check your vocabulary A