新世纪大学英语综合教程6Unit2答案

Unit Two
Key
Working with words and expressions
1.1) merely; 2) charitable; 3) sentimental; 4) salvage; 5) clippings; 6) Reclining; 7) sloppy;
8) meticulously
2.1) pile up; 2) part with; 3) rinse … off; 4) set up; 5) toyed with; 6) cut down on; 7) finished
with; 8) get … over with; 9) cutting a swath through; 10) at heart
Cloze:
1)meaner; 2) heart; 3) process; 4) vision; 5) immediate; 6) wasteful; 7) economics; 8) ambitious;
9) someday; 10) attitudes; 11) vicious; 12) insensitive; 13) toy; 14) clutter; 15) attention
Translation:
Sloppy people are not really sloppy. It is just that the plan they carry in their mind’s eye is too precise, too stupendous and too perfect to be achieved in this world or the next. They aim too high and wide. They save everything, planning someday to file and order. When they finally set about handling things, sloppy people just can’t bear to part with anything. After hours of work, the place looks exactly the same, so sloppy people never get neat.
Neat people place neatness above everything else. They like results and don’t care about process. They have cavalier attitudes toward possessions. If anything collects dust, it’s got to go they are incredibly wasteful. Anything that is not of immediate use goes into the trash. They are insensitive and there is no sentimental salvaging of birthday cards or the last letter a dying relative ever wrote. Neat people operate on two unvarying principles: Never handle any item twice, and throw everything away. Therefore, the only thing messy in a neat person’s house is the trash can.
Thus, neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people. the distinction between them is moral.
Writing
Sample Essay
Neat Students vs. Sloppy Students
Some students can be described as “sloppy”and some as “neat.”In my opinion, the difference between these two types of students mainly lies in their attitudes towards study.
Sloppy students tend to lack motivation. For them, attending college is but a life experience and they take it for granted. Contented with a “pass”for all the courses they take, they never exert themselves to achieve academic excellence, for what they are after is just that piece of paper called a diploma. However, they never give a thought to what they might do with it after graduation. Neat students are goal-oriented. They know who they are, what they want and how they can, make the best use of their time. They set “little goals” on a daily basis and work their way towards a bigger and loftier goal in life.
Sloppy students are passive and sluggish in class. They normally choose to sit either in the very last row or at the corner beside the door, trying hard to avoid the instructor’s attention. For them, no class is interesting and every instructor is boring. Yet, they are extremely alert to what is
going on outside the classroom. Sometimes they do fix their eyes on the board but their minds are wandering in Never-Never Land, while at other times they just indulge in sleeping in class. Neat students are full of drive in class, for they regard each lecture as a source of knowledge. They have self-discipline and spare no effort to involve themselves in discussions and presentations. For them, learning happens with each lecture they attend.
Sloppy students, as always, turn in sloppy work. Their paper are invariable in a muddle. If the instructor asks them to read forty pages after class, they will probably read fourteen pages at most; if they are asked to write a paper of five hundred words, they will cut the number by half. And they never feel ashamed with a mere “pass”—probably the only “pass”in the whole class—for the course. Neat students stick to their schedule and are enthusiastic about their studies both in and out of class. They give loving attention to every detail when doing homework, from cross-checking a figure to modifying a punctuation mark. Needless to say, they turn in neat work.
We should not judge a person only by his or her appearance just as we cannot judge a book by its cover. A sloppy student may be neatly dressed while a neat student may be a sloppy dresser. That makes them different is their attitudes towards work.。