大学英语读写教程1答案（Unit7）

大学英语读写教程1答案（Unit7）
Key to exercises （Unit 7）
Text A
A.Main Idea
PC has brought a lot of convenience to college students. Just staying in their dorm room instead of going to the classroom, students can enroll for classes; do the exercises assigned by the teacher or review lessons with comfort. They can also send e-mails to friends who are far away from them or book a ticket for a trip. Pc has really become a regular/necessary. Par t of students’ life.
B.Detailed Understanding
I A C D B C
II
1.the work and life
2.in their comfortable rooms
3.sending e-mails
4.download
5.adapt to
C.V ocabulary practice
Nervous
Forever
Necessary
Personal
Cost
Comfort
Regular
Mistake
Increasingly
II.
1.struggling
2. necessary
3.technology 4endure 5increasingly
6.clothing
7.online
8.plug into 9campus 10.rebiew
III.
1.cost
2. major
3. freshmen
4. arrangement
5. turned out
6. nervous
7.budget
8.adapt to
9.speech 10.forever
Text B
A.main Idea
At a recent technology show, Bill gates showed off a device called Mira. Though it is as small as a tablet it can help people operate/control the computer without using keyboards. Being portable, Mira goes everywhere in the house and can serve as a game player. Besides Mira,
Microsoft plans to produce some other software programs to link the PC to other home devices..
B. Detailed Understanding
1. C D C D A
II.
Things about the computer as mentioned in the text
Parts of a computer; keyboard; screen
Software; windows XP operating system; freestyle; spreadsheet
Things people can do with the help of a computer:
1.play video games;
2.Receive e-mail;
3.Send Internet information
4.Work with a spreadsheet;
5listen to music; 6Check the weather
7.Play home video.
D. Vocabulary practice
I.
1.chairman, manager, engineer
2.living-room,bedroom, kitchen
3.handheld,spreadsheet,anywhere, keyboard, chairman, living-room, bedroom
4.keyboard, touch-screen
5.receive e-mail, work on a spreadsheet listen to music check the weather
II.
1.a.serve to use or control a machine or make is work
b. link to be suitable for a particular use
c. operate to examine in order to find out
d. check to join or connect
2.a. founder a piece of equipment
b. device a person who starts an organization, et
c.
c .consumer a group of relate
d parts which work together
d. system a person who buys and uses goods and services
3.a.portable between 13 and 19 years old
B .teenage far away
C .remote connected with or involving two ro more countries
d. international easy to carry or to move
III.
1.1)realized 2)reality 3)really 4)real 5) realization
2.1)entertainment 2)entertain 3)entertaining 4)entertained
3.1)produces 2)production 3)product 4)productive 5)ptoducer
4.1)founded 2)founder 3)foundation
5.1)cleat 2clarify 3)unclear clearly
Writing practice
I.
1.The National Art Museum of China house China’ s largest collection of modern art.
2.We are trying out a new supplier at the moment. The old one was too expensive.
3 Swimming provides exercise for more muscle groups than any other sports.
4.When we got to the station the train had just left, so we missed our connection.
5.Joan could not understand why her computer crashed; it had been working perfectly for as
long as she could remember
6.My family has lived in this town for over 50 tears.
7.Dan Brown wrote some of the most successful stories in modern time.
8.It is the worst sports program I have ever seen
9.Many people consider Kennedy to be the greatest President the United States has had.
10.We can start the interview now, since all the candidates have arrived
11.During the training, I learned a lot less than my wife
12.My brother applied for a bias there times before he got one.
13.We were wondering whether you would like to join us.
14.It used to take mo over an hour and a half to get to work
15.She is getting used to the new technology
II.
1 1)-b 2)-a
2 1)-b 2)-a
3 1)-b 2)-a
4 1)-a 2)-b
5 1)-b 2)-a
III Arnold Schwarzenegger ha been a major American film star for over 20 years. He (was) one of the most highly paid Hollywood actors. He(was)bom in Austria in 1947. He (started) bodybuilding at the age of fourteen 1968, he(moved) to the U.S. He (got) a role in the play Hercules Goes to New York in 1970. His first hit film Terminator (was produced) in 1984 and he (has made) more than 20 movies and many of them (have been) commercial success. He (was) elected governor of California in October 2003. Now he (lives) with his wife and four children.
IV.
1.Text sentence:Have you wondered if it will ever be possible to play video games and
receive e-mails without sitting at a keyboard?
Your sentence: Have you wondered if it is possible to sit in a car driven byarobot?
2.Text sentence: It turned out to be the first big mistake of
her college life
Your sentence: the “girl” turned out to b e a man of 40 years old.
3.Text sentence: He played a video tape showing how a family could use such a device.
Your sentence He gave us an example showing how the new word is used in a sentence. 4. Text sentence: Perhaps best of all, she works on papers and other assignments in the
Comfort of her room instead of having to go to a university lab.
Your sentence: In holidays, I often visit ma parents instead of having on campus.
4.Text sentence: But the question that made her very nervous was almost as new as a
freshman is on campus, or It’ s just become as regular a part of our lives as our alarm clock, our pen and pa per books, our libraries and even the phones.
Your sentence: Learning to use the computer is not as difficult as you think.
V.
1 You are not as clever as you think you are.
2 It’ s necessary for students to know how to operate the computer
3. We found much information about the university from the Web.
4.These days many people go abroad in search of opportunities.
5.He left without telling me.
6. The extra money will allow us to buy a car.
7.This kind of TV is now on sale in many shops.
8.The taste is a cross between coffee and chocolate.。