最新新核心综合学术英语教程-4-Unit-2-参考答案

Unit 2

•评估母乳喂养的锐减程度

•assess the extent of decline in breast-feeding

•不良改变的诱发因素

•the major factors responsible for the negative change

•就住房和一般生活成本而言

•in terms of housing and general cost of living

•被奶瓶文化所取代

•give way to the “bottle culture”

•补充其他食物

be supplemented with other foods

•对延长母乳喂养产生不利影响

•Militate against prolonged breast-feeding

•宏观经济与社会文化因素的复杂交织

•complex interactions between broad economic and socio-cultural factors

•把负面的变化归因于从发达国家舶来的态度和影响

•attribute the negative change to attitudes and influences imported from the developed world

•不符合母亲的营养意识

•fall short of the mother’s nutritional awareness

•等同于极端的个人及社会贫困

•be synonymous with extreme individual and community poverty

Task 1 (Page 32)

1. D

2. C

3. E

4. A

5. B

6. L

7. K

8. O 9. J 10. N 11. F 12. M 13. M 14. H

Task 2 (Page 33)

1) The report attempts to evaluate current maternal perceptions of infant-feeding

among different ethnic, religious, cultural, and socio-economic groups in Nigeria. The research questions include: What is the current situation of the decline in breast-feeding in Nigeria? What are the major factors responsible for the negative change? How to institute corrective educational measures? (B) 2) The metropolitan Lagos is heterogeneous in its ethnic and socio-economic composition. (B)

3) Most of the earlier reports attributed the negative change to attitudes and

influences imported from the developed world and the preference for bottle-feeding by the urbanized African. (L)

4) For most Nigerians, urban existence means extreme individual and community

poverty. Implicit in this is a great pressure on mothers to spend more time trying to augment the family income at the expense of caring adequately for their children. (M)

5) Childhood malnutrition is more a result of objective conditions of people’s lives

than ignorance on the mother’s part. (N)

Task 3 (Page 42)

1. h

2. j

3. m

4. n

5. q

6. v

7. u

8. a

9. t 10. b 11. s 12. l 13. c 14. d 15. r 16. p 17. e 18. o 19. k 20. i 21. g 22. f 23. w

Task 4

1) The government accorded him the rank of Colonel.

授予，给予 present with, grant, confer, give, render

2) She did not understand the dimension of her plight.

方面 scope, extent

3) Today his company continues to thrive.

兴旺，繁荣 flourish, bloom, prosper, grow rich

4) The discrepancy between press and radio reports is obvious.

差异difference, disparity, divergence, disagreement, dissimilarity, incongruity, contradiction, inconsistency, incongruousness, discordance

5) None of these buildings are noteworthy for their architecture.

值得关注的，重要的，显著的

great, magnitudinous, important, notable, signif icant, exceptional, towering, extraordinary, outstanding, remarkable

6) We will institute some legal proceedings against the company.

开始实行，着手，提起（诉讼）

initiate, introduce, originate, launch, start, begin

7) She keeps extolling his managerial skills.

赞美 acclaim, praise, pay tribute to, glorify, applaud, compliment

8) They attribute their success to external causes such as luck.

归因于 ascribe, assign, credit

9) The heterogeneous society of today should be taken into account.

各种各样的 varied, mixed, diversified, assorted, diverse

10) The great virtue of camping is its cheapness.

优点 plus, strength, advantage, asset, benefit, merit

11) Going grey is not necessarily synonymous with growing old.

等同于 equivalent to, identical to, equal to, the same as, identified with, tantamount to, similar to

12) She felt an overwhelming desire to have another child.

难以抑制的，强烈的 overpowering, strong, compelling, uncontrollable, compulsive, irresistible, forceful, powerful