Unit4 Cultural Encounters答案综合教程二

Unit 4 Cultural Encounters

Key to the Exercises

Text comprehension

I.

B

II.

1. T;

2. F;

3. T;

4. T;

5. T.

III.

1.

“snail mail”.

2. “an essential stepping stone on the road to success”.

3.

“the

profound

relationship

between

language

and

cultur

e

that

lies

at

the

heart

of society”.

4. “the means to shape our views of the world”.

5.

“to

negotiate

the

boundaries

between

languages

and

to

compromise

in

translation”.

6.

“to

use

linguistic

skills,

to

think

differently,

to

enter

into

another

culture’s

m

entality and to shape language accordingly”.

IV.

1. The age we are living provides us with convenient ways to reach any part of the

world.

2. It seems that everyone is able to always get in touch with anyone else if he or

she can afford to.

3. is the most important to society.

4.

This

is

a

fundamental

skill

in

today’s

world,

where

different

cultures

interact.

5. Lots of people are finding ways to interrelate different cultures.

Structural analysis of the text

1. The last sentence of the 3rd paragraph: “Mo

st fundamental is the profound

relationship

between

language

and

culture

that

lies

at

the

heart

of

society

and

one

that we overlook at our peril.”

2.

Paragraph

4:

The

lack

of

an

exact

counterpart

of

the

English

word

“homesickness”

in other languages such as Italian, Portuguese, and German.

Paragraph 5: The problem of untranslatability which the early Bible translators

encountered.

Paragraph

6:

English

and

Welsh

speakers

make

adjustments

regarding

the

color

spectrum in the grey / green / blue / brown range;

The word “democracy” means

completely

different

things

in

different

contexts;

the

flat

breads

of

Central

Asia

are

a

long

way

away

from

Mother’s

Pride

white

sliced

toasties,

yet

the

word

“bread”

has to serve for both.

Vocabulary

I. Phrase practice

1. provided =as long as

假如，倘若

need never be out of touch =can never fail to be reached

从不会失去联系

2. regardless of =no matter

不管，不顾

3. overlook at our peril =fail to notice at great risk

忽视……的危险或风险

4. hovers somewhere in and around all those words =may be described by these words

to

varying degrees

5.

hit

the

problem

of

untranslatability

head-on

=

were

directly

confronted

with

the

problem that something in one language cannot be rendered into another

II.

1. stepping stone; 2. at their peril; 3. serve; 4. mentality;

5. staple; 6. facilitating; 7. messaging; 8. hybrid.

III. Word derivation

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.

1. economy 2. accessible 3. fundamentally 4. homesick

5. negotiable 6. adjusted 7. remoteness 8. complacently

IV.

1. D;

2. C;

3. A;

4. D;

5. B;

6. A;

7. B;

8. C.

V.

Synonym / Antonym

Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense

it is used.

1. Synonym: time, era, epoch

2. Synonym: meetings

3. Synonym: basic, fundamental

4. Antonym: misshape

5. Synonym: unavoidably

6. Synonym: worry, concern, anxiety

7. Antonym: hide, conceal

VI. Prefix

Write in each space one word that has the same prefix as underlined in the given

word.

1.

unbelievable

2.

imperfect

3.

disagreement

4.

misplace

5. malfunction

6. enable

7. surpass

8. submarine

Grammar

I. Complete the following sentences with the correct verb forms.

1. helps

2. hope; are enjoying; sunbathe; go; are going.

3. is being.

4. is typing

5. am not eating.

6. am reading

7. are always leaving.

8. go; belongs; wants; is using.

9. is boiling.

10. is putting; is rewiring; is building.

II. Correct the errors.

1. is passing

→

passes; is shooting

→

shoots.

2. OK.

3. are crying.

4. OK.

5. am knowing

→

know.

6. am gathering

→

gather.

7. work

→

am working.

8. do

→

are; sneeze

→

sneezing.

III.

thank;

are

dispatching;

regret;

have;

are

contacting;

hear;

enclose/are

enclosing;

decide; have; are listed; regret; hope; enclose/are enclosing.

IV.

1. a. The speaker is complaining; b. The speaker gives a fact.

2. a. am considering; b. have the opinion.

3. a. It suggests a permanent nature; b. It suggests a temporary behaviour.

4. a. is taking care of; b. have no objection to.

5. a. am waiting for; b. believe.

6. a. am waiting for; b. believe.

V. Position of adjectives

Rewrite the following descriptions putting the adjectives in the correct order.

1. a large pair of red woolen socks

2.

a powerful new white German car