综英第四册unit3答案

Unit 3

Vocabulary exercises

Ⅰ. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.

1. It is my personal belief that human potential can only be realize by the

globalization of ideas.

2. ...the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society

by alienating its individual users.

3. ...he said he was "addicted," and has "forced" himself to go off-line.

4. Automobile ownership because commonplace and suburbs were created."Progress"

was their mantra.

5. However, based on my personal experience I can understand how, as they surf

the web some folks might be confronted with cognitive overload.

6. Some would argue that virtual existences created by some users who debate, shop,

travel and have romance on line are in fact not real.

KEY

1. ability to develop, achieve or succeed

2. causing to feel very distant from or not welcome to others

3. liked it very much and wanted to spend as much time doing it as possible

4. a word or phrase which is often repeated to express a belief

5. more information than one can cope with

6. a set of images and sounds produced by a computer which seems so real that for

most purposes it can be regarded as real

Ⅱ. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part in each sentence without changing its original meaning.

1. The president warned, "America must get rid of the hangover we all have because

of economic binge we just went through," referring to the long period of inflated stock prices that sent Americans streaming into the market.

A. indulgence

B. speculation

C. habit

2. There is a small difference in meaning between the two words.

A. mild

B. s light

C. moderate

D. minimal

3. Crab connoisseurs need not lament because king crab legs are still available

at the festival, along with plenty of other seafood.

A. mourn

B. fell regret

C. depress

D.

dissatisfy

4.There's always intense media coverage of airplane crash and that can really

play into people's fears and skew their perceptions of how safe it is to fly.

A. misconceive

B. change

C. distort

D.

preoccupy

5. The creature survive in a thin atmosphere of hydrogen and carbon and dioxide

and in a special brew of volcanic ash altered to simulate the properties of

Martian soil, including its density, grain size and magnetic properties.

A. pretend to be

B. imitate

C. reproduce

D. unify

6. This budget place short-term, political partisan gratification ahead of the

nation's needs.

A. satisfaction

B. pleasure

C. nomination

D. bonus

7. She gradually perceived that her parent had been right.

A.noticed

B.knew

C.sccepted

D.realized

8. Reputation is important and a big international bank just can't afford to

alienate client in countries around the world.

A separate B. give up C. discord D. distance KEY.

1. A

2. B

3. B

4. C

5. B

6. A

7. D

8. D

Ⅲ. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.

1. John's mind is always full of fantasies. He dreams of changing the

world________.

2. Edward Stuart became a brilliant scholar, but only at__________ his health.

3. The corporation was determined to push forward the policy of reform, but the

new system _________great difficulty at the start.

4. In order to gain the utmost amount of benefit, this corporation ________the

exceptional opportunities open in exports.

5. It present in satirical terms point made _________by catholic writers, which

proved to be a success.

6. Two tennis courts and a swimming pool _______the regular members of the club,

but the season tickets are only valid for three month.

7. According to the Federal Bureau of inspection, a man seen hanging around the

area _____the shooting could have been involved in the assassination of the President.

8. An opposition statement said he hoped the agreement ________them ________about

the futility of violence.

KEY

1. for the better

2. at the expense of

3. was confronted with

4. took advantage of

5. in earnest

6. are available for

7. prior to 8. would give ... pause to think

Ⅳ. Explain meaning of the underlined word or phrase in each sentence.

1. Large deposit of limestone and clay can be found in the northern reaches of

the state of Washington.

2. Several colleges and universities in the United States are now requiring that

their students purchase personal computers.