综合英语教程第六册Unit 13 课后练习答案

Unit 13 课后练习答案

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Answer the following questions:

1.Because September embodies all the features representative of autumn——the weather,

maturity of the year, harvest season on farms, food hoarding by creatures, migration of birds.

2.The following are the features of some of the rarest days of the year: the cool and comfortable

weather, the clear and clean sky, crisp air, the wind free of dust, the smell of hay, the sweet smell of cut grass, and the abundance of flowers.

3.The author comments that the miracle of spring lies in the persistence of life with opening

buds and new leaves, while the miracle of September lies in annual fruition and preparation for another year, another generation.

4.The crisp, cool nights of September are invigorating to warm-blooded creatures. But

cold-blooded insects are deprived of their energy and vitality and are at the mercy of the sun.

5.The last contribution of September to nature is its preparation (mulch, humus, root, bulb, seed,

and egg, etc.) for the renewal of life in the next year.

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Explain in your own words

1.September—coming as scheduled and in its unhurried pace—begins to reap what summer

has yielded.

2.The plant entrusts its future to the seed and the root. The insect produces the egg and the

pupa in which its future is stored.

3.By the end of September, the autumn season has gathered in an overwhelming abundance of

wealth.

P236页Explain the italicized part

1.steadies itself and strengthens its hold on what has been achieved

es in without being noticed, completely disappears.

3.moves so ftly, making …red

4.so plentiful/existing in such large amounts

5.The period of fast growth and renewal, calm down/slow down

6.The best period in a year when all the plants are green and full of energy

7.dependent on the sun, their lives are coming to an end

8.have formed large flocks(or, so to speak, tribes and communities), and they have time to

communicate and play with each other.

9.has come to a natural end

10.cover the ground completely with a thick layer like a blanket.

P236页

Fill the banks with the appropriate forms of the given word

hasty abundance migration commitment shimmering bountiful urgent consolidation diminution resolution

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Translation

1.We rushed out of the shop in hot pursuit, but the thief had vanished into thin air.

2.If you want to be an actor you have to really commit yourself to it.

3.He waited until his daughter was asleep, and then tiptoed quietly out of the room

4.I can feel the blood pulsing through my veins.

5.Middle age can be the prime of life if you have the right attitude.

6.Discarded food containers and bottles littered the streets.

7.In many people’s eyes, what he did has seriously diminished his reputation.

8.Emma is a gregarious, outgoing sort of person.

9.Because people expected prices to rise rapidly, they started to hoard growth.

10.The changes are seen as a preclude to wide-ranging reform.

P239页翻译

一片空寥。昨夜的一场雪后，大地铺上了一层雪被，洁白如白桦树皮，一望无垠，单单留下我的一串足迹。没有飞掠枝头的身影，没有飘落天空的鸟语。

一年中此时的太阳发出微弱的光线，懒洋洋地透过薄薄的云层，没有一丝暖意。我不禁打了个寒战，使劲地跺脚取暖，然后重又聆听是否有生命复苏的动静。唯一的声音是光秃秃的枝头相互拍打，发出像牙齿打战似的嗒嗒声。

乍一看，大自然似乎还没有让生命重回这个晚冬季节。森林就像一幅粗糙的蚀刻版画——荒凉、苍茫、不见生息。周围的景色不乏淡雅之美——松树的枝头蒙上了一层晶莹的白雪，月光洒在雪地上泛出淡蓝色的光辉。但在这晚冬时分，你的目光搜寻的，与其说是美丽的景色，不如说是春天尚未被遗忘的迹象。

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