大学英语新视野2第三版Unit1课后练习答案.doc

Section A

Critical Thinking

1. Motivation; Family support; peer pressure; financial status; future career goals.

2. English grammar helps a lot in the following:

a) Order sentences properly; b) use words properly; c) talk with other English speakers confidently.

English grammar is of little help:

a) Only gives rules that are hard to remember; b) is not helpful in a real-life setting due to the limited time to think and recall the rules; c) not always applicable to the real language, especially idioms.

3. Use more communicative ways; encourage a lot of interactions; put sentences in meaningful contexts.

4. Read more English from online sources; watch English TV/listen to English radio/watch English online videos; talk often with English speakers; listen carefully and extensively; use dictionaries to look up unfamiliar words; use new words as often as possible.

5. Read English newspapers, magazines, and books; write English as often as possible; write emails in English

Language focus

Words in use

3.

1 condense

2 exceed

3 deficit

4 exposure

5 asset

6 adequate

7 competent

8 adjusting

9 precisely 10 beneficial

Word building

4.

Manager----managerial; editor----editorial; substantial----substance; survive----survival; traditional----tradition; marginal----margin; consistent----consistency; accurate----accuracy; efficiency----efficient; recover----recovery; minister----ministry; assemble---assembly

5.

1 editorial

2 recovery

3 accuracy

4 substance

5 managerial

6 margin

7 assembly

8 Ministry

9 survival 10 tradition 11 consistency 12 efficient

Banked cloze

6

1 L; 2C; 3L; 4A; 5I; 6O; 7N; 8E; 9H; 10F

Expressions in use

7

1.feel obliged to;

2. be serious about;

3. run into;

4. distinguish between;

5.thrust upon;

6.was

allergic to;7.get lost; 8.be attracted to; 9.make sense; 10.looked upon as

Structure analysis and writing

Some bookworms in my dormitory often spend hours reading their “Bible”, Practical English Grammar, and do a lot of exercises in that book, but I don’t care about it at all. My assumption is since I have never learned Chinese grammar, what’s the sense of learning English grammar? In fact, English grammar has always been a big headache to me.

English grammar is very complicated because, unlike Chinese, there are many verb tenses. Even stranger than verb tenses, English grammar also contains something very confusing. For example,