蒋静仪阅读教程2课后习题答案含quotations

蒋静仪阅读教程2 课后习题答案（含quotations）

Unit One Human Relationship

1. Interpretation of the quotations

①No man can be separated from the society and disconnected with other people as an island is isolated from the mankind. The inherent(内在的) oneness of mankind is just like a whole mass land.

②. when you deal with issues about yourself, try to be calm, reasonable and intelligent; but when you deal with issues about other people, you need to be affectionate, sincere and sympathetic.

③Here is an easy-to-follow, buy established and uncontroversial model for getting along with other people successfully. You just face and accept any serious misfortune or failure peacefully, as if it were something of litter significance or value; but never treat some ordinary, commonplace things as if they were extremely serious.

Reference answers to the exercises

Reading One:

Check your comprehension

1-5 ADCCB

Check your vocabulary

1.Fisher and Ury’s theory is based on the belief that the “win or lose”model does not work

when two sides try to reach an agreement.

e positive statements surrounding ideas that are negative.

3.You can often successfully resolve differences if you try this collaborative approach. Reading Two

Check your vocabulary

Resisted; frustration; fluttered; jerked; restless; haltingly; gratefully; thoughtless

Reading Three

Check your comprehension

1-7 FTFFTFT

Check your vocabulary

Administrative; meekly; hysterical; requisition; deposit; severe

Confronted; spluttered; irate; bogus; purchase

Reading four

Check your comprehension

1-6 FTTTFT

Check your comprehension

1.How often does this seriously affect people’s communication and make them fail in building

good relationships?

2.Every time parents and children disagree with each other, specialists often explain that

“generation gap” is the reason.

3.We are not sure whether the term is an acceptable explanation because the word “generation”

is used, but the other word “gap” can be applied when analyzing people’s different opinions.

4.Specialists in communication immediately challenge this belief and view it in a different way.

5. A speaker may not speak as fast as the listener can think.

6.Because they have free time to spend by themselves, the listeners probably think of other

things and no longer concentrate.

7.As people’s interests vary, when the topic does not attract them, the listeners stop listening.

8.If the speaker does not give a good impression because of his looks or other matters, the

listener would probably refuse to follow what the speaker says.

Check your vocabulary A

1.give rise to

2.arise from

3.imply

4.facilitate

5.sound

6.carry away

7.gesture

8.exercise

9.tune in

Check your vocabulary B

disposal; distractions; facilitate; resort; skip; contributes; deserted; solution

Post-reading

A.Through several incidents in childhood, Mary learned from her father how to listen to other’s

criticisms, hear the truth in the criticisms, and respect her own opinion. When she grew up, she did her Daddy advised and made achievements in her career.

B.1-5 DBDAB

Unit Two

1. Interpretation of the quotations

①Little children, headache; big children, heartache.(Italian Proverb)

In terms of problems that children give to their parents, big children are far troublesome than little children.

②Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers. (William Galvin)

Mother Nature has designed everything for us. She gives us twelve years to establish a close and affectionate parent-child bond before they become troublesome teenagers who keep giving us headaches.

③. Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. ~Virginia Satir, The New Peoplemaking, 1988