第八单元课后习题答案

新编大学英语1课本答案

Unit 8

Part Two

Post-reading

Reading Comprehension

1. Understanding the Structure of the Passage

para.1 One of the famous love stories in history.

para.2-3 Their lives before they knew each other.

para.4-6 How they met and fell in love with each other.

para.7 Their life together.

2. Understanding Specific Information

1）TFFTF 2）TTF

Vocabulary

1. Section A

1）add/added up to 2）criticize 3）fell/fall in love 4）take place

5）miracle 6）arranged 7）by name 8）primarily

9）face to face 10）By the age of 11）A great deal 12）ceremony

2. Section A

1）IAJFD 6）HBCGE

Section B

1）common 2）childhood 3）compatible 4）correspondence 5）diminished 6）eccentric 7）miracle 8）impersonal 9）passion 10）popular

Translation

1. World War II took place in 1945.

2. My grandfather drinks a great deal.

3. He was still working by the age of 65.

4. The teacher knows all his students by name.

5. The police have finally succeeded in solving the mystery.

6. He likes all kinds of sports, but most of all, basketball.

7. Talking on the phone is different from talking face to face.

8. They fell in love with each other because they had common interests.

Part Three

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT

1 Grammar Review

1）Right in front of our house was a wide river.

2）From the room came the sound of children singing.

3）Beneath the streets of a modern city exists a network of pipes.

4）Amused by the joke, he couldn't help laughing loudly.

5）Interested in music, she spends all her pocket money on records.

6）Absorbed in his experiment, he didn't notice my entering the laboratory.

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