精读4unit2课后练习答案

精读4 Unit 2 课后练习答案

Vocabulary

1. Into English

1. assert one’s manhood 6. rub his eyes

2. cross one’s mind 7. munch her bead and butter

3. measure the ground 8. overpower that feeling of dread

4. secure one’s food 9. carry a long way

5. scatter the darkness 10. bend their backs

Into Chinese

1. 燃烧着的煤 6. 一家之主

2. 他那长满雀斑的脸 7. 一颗怦怦直跳的心

3. 淡淡的八字须 8. 一组山间小屋

4. （不好的）事情迫在眉睫 9. 一块狭长的地

5. 一位精明的妇女 10. 一副凶猛严厉的表情

3.

1. Zhuge Liang pretended to be very calm and succeed in hiding the fact from Sima Yi that the city was really ungrounded. He proved himself worthy of the admiration he had received.

2. He knew that a bloody battle was imminent and his army was terribly outnumbered. So he pretended to be retreating quickly to the rear. Actually he was laying a trap for the enemy troops.

3. Social Darwinists asserted that we can compare human society to the animal world. It did not cross their minds that human beings could be different from other animals. They relied on their brain rather than their instinct.

4. These mass-produced chickens can not compare with the chickens we used to raise at home. Chicken farms may have increased the output, but they have robbed the chickens of their good taste.

5. The financial bubbles finally burst, causing a serious crisis that swept over the whole world.

6. Thanks to our price edge, our exports to that region increased by 30% compared with the same period the previous year.

7. The reporters were all bursting with questions. But the government spokesman/spokesperson said that all she knew was that people were watching a play when some thirty armed terrorists burst into the theater.

8. When the prisoners burst out singing, the prison warden was frightened.

9. The area is dotted with factories. It also has holiday inns dotted around the whole island. But there are already signs that many local people

will rebel against this trend.

10. He declared that all the rebels would be pardoned if they laid down their arms.

6.

1. clearly/evidently/obviously whole-heartedly/heartily/greedily/hungrily

2. fiercely/furiously/feverishly

3. gruffly/sharply/rudely/roughly

4. doubtlessly/undoubtedly/unquestionably/undeniably/ indisputably

proudly/arrogantly/boastfully

5.

cruelly/brutally/heartlessly/mercilessly/pitilessly/remorselessly/sav agely/ruthlessly

6. oddly/strangly

7. coolly/calmly/evenly/placidly

8. convincingly/persuasively/rationally completely/entirely/wholly/thoroughly

9. greatly/ dramatically/considerably/enormously/immensely

Grammar

2. 2.

1. As the saying goes, there’s no smoke without fire.

2. There’s no denying that the film has no equal in cinema history.

3. I warned him about the danger involved, but he paid no heed to my warning.

4. There’s no generally accepted definition of happiness.

5. These are no ordinary students; they are going to be trained as astronauts.

6. There are no easy or painless solutions to the company’s financial problems.

7. Away from home for the first time, college students have to do day-day chores themselves. It’s no bad thing.

8. The two sides are so far apart on key issues that there’s no telling how long the talks could drag on.

9. That’s the kind of holiday I dream of — no telephone, no TV and no worries.

10. Some of the nation’s top economists say that they see no sign of economic recovery in the country.

4

此时此刻西里尔博吉斯先生装扮成一位身着袍服的牧师，除此之外，倒也

看不出他有什么邪恶阴险之处。他的职业是古董家具经销商，在伦敦切尔西区国

王大道有自己的店铺和展示厅。他的卖场不大，通常生意做得也不大，不过由于