1-Unit2 The Fun They Had标准答案

Unit 2 The Fun They Had

Key to the Exercises

Text Comprehension

I. Decide which of the following best states the author’s purpose of writing.

A

II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.

1. T

2. F

3. T

4. F

5. T

IV

. Explain in your own words the following sentences.

1. Her mother asked the County Inspector to come over.

2. The mechanical teacher worked out the mark very quickly.

3.

Tommy

looked

at

Margie

with

an

air

which

suggested

he

knew

far

better

about

school

than

others.

4. A teacher has to make necessary changes about what to teach and how to teach so as to meet the

needs of different pupils.

Vocabulary

I. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.

1. have finished reading

2. by looking from behind his shoulder

3. is capable of providing

4. asked the Country Inspector to come over

5. disassembled the machine / mechanic teacher

6. didn

’

t like / want to

II. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box in its appropriate

form.

1. in no time

2. crinkly

3. scornful

4.

neighbourhood

5. awfully

6. adjusting

7. tuck

8. nonchalantly

9. punched

10.

fit

III. Choose a word or phrase that best completes each of the following sentences.

1. D

2. A

3. B

4. B

5. A

6. C

7. C

8. B

IV

. Fill in each blank with one of the two words from each pair in its appropriate form and note

the difference in meaning between them.

1. a. funny

b. interesting

c. interesting

d. funny

2.

a. silent b. silent c. still d. still

3.

a. dispute b. arguing c. disputing d. arguing

4.

a. usual b. usual c. Regular d. regular

V

. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in thesense it is used.

1. Synonym: actual, genuine, true

2. Antonym: moving, movable, mobile, restless

3. Synonym: rough, coarse, uneven

4. Antonym: like, love, enjoy

5. Synonym: disdainful, contemptuous

6. Antonym: inferior, subordinate, secondary

7. Synonym: indifferently, coldly, coolly, casually, offhandedly

8. Antonym: irregular, uncertain, random

VI. Fill in the blank in each sentence with an appropriate form of the given capitalized word in

brackets.

1. pointless

2. reproduction

3. unreliable

4. generosity

5. apologetic

6. disobedience

7. employer, employees

8. encouragement

Grammar

I. Put in

a / an

or

the

where necessary.

1. the, the

2.

a

3.

a, a, /

4.

a

5.

the

6.

/, the

7. The, the, /

8. the, the

9. a, a, a

10. a, a, a

II. Put in

the

where necessary.

1.

/, /, /

2.

/

3.

the, /

4.

the, /

5.

/, /

6.

The

7.

the

8.

the, the

9. the, /

10. /

III. Choose the correct noun or noun phrase from the underlined parts of the following sentence.

1. light 2. a noise 3. very good weather 4. bad luck

5. president 6. The vegetables 7. war 8. All the books

9. coffee 10. poetry

IV

. Complete the sentences with

the

if necessary.

1. /

2. the

3. /

4. the

5. the

6. /

7. /

8. the

V

. Rewrite the newspaper headlines using articles where necessary.

1. A Briton falls to his death on the Matterhorn.

2. An Olympic silver medalist dies in a crash.

3. Callaghan recalls the British Ambassador from Chile.

4. The army ends the chaos in the capital.

5. A college student wins the first prize.

Translation

I. Translate the following sentences into Chinese.

1.

玛吉的爷爷曾经说过，小 时候他的爷爷告诉他，过去故事都是印刷在纸上的。

2. < /p>

他们翻阅那些旧得发黄、皱巴巴的书页。阅读那些一动不动的单词真是好玩极了，那些

词并没用像我们平时看到的那样在屏幕上滚动。

3.

这个机器老师一直在接二连三地让她做地理测验，但她越 做越糟糕。结果她的母亲伤心

地摇摇头，请来了县视察员。

4.

玛吉希望他无法将机器重新组装起来，但他还是成功了。 过了个把小时，机器又好了，

硕大的黑色机器，奇丑无比，有个大大的屏幕，所有的课程 和问题全都显示在上面。

II. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and phrases given in brackets.

1.

Yesterday a government delegation headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs arrived in South