全新版大学英语(第二版)综合教程3习题答案(4-8)

全新版大学英语（第二版）综合教程3习题答案（4-8）

Unit 5 Giving Thanks

Text A

Content Questions

1. He wrote them on a ship on the way to the island of Tulagi in the South Pacific on Thanksgiving Day, 1943.

2. Preparing a traditional Thanksgiving dinner featuring roast turkey made the writer extremely busy.

3. The writer was thinking about Thanksgiving.

4. He decided to write letters to show gratitude to those who had helped him in his life.

5. He had always accepted what they had done for him, but never expressed to any of them a simple “Thank you.”

6. He decided to write to his father, his grandmother, and the Rev. Lonual Nelson, his grammar school principal.

7. His father had impressed upon him from boyhood a love of books and reading.

8. He remembered that each morning Nelson would open the school with a prayer over his assembled students.

9. He recalled how his grandmother had taught him to tell the truth, to share, and to be forgiving and considerate of others. And he thanked her for her delicious food and for all the wonderful things she had done for him.

10. His reading of their letters left him not only astonished but also more humbled than before, because they all thanked him rather than saying they would forgive him for not having previously thanked them.

11. The writer learned that one should learn to express appreciation for others’ efforts.

12. The writer wished for all people the common sense to achieve world peace, and find the good and praise it.

Text Organization

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Parts Paragraphs Main Ideas

Part One P aras. 1-9 On Thanksgiving Day 1943, as a young coastguardsman at sea, the writer came up with the idea of expressing his gratitude to people who had helped him before.

Part Two P aras. 10-16 The writer wrote three thank-you letters to his father, the Rev. Nelson and his grandmother.

Part Three Paras.17-23 The writer got three letters in reply.

Part Four Paras. 24-26 The writer wishes everyone to find the good and praise it.

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Correspondents Letters Sent Letters Received

Father Thanks him for teaching the writer from boyhood to love books and reading. Tells the writer how he, as a teacher and a father as well, felt content with his own son.

The Rev. Nelson Thanks him for his morning

school prayers.

i Tells the writer about his retirement coupled with self-doubt, and the re¬assurance brought to him by the writer's letter.

Grandmother T hanks her for teaching the writer how to tell the truth, to share and to be forgiving, and for