现代大学英语精读3 unit 3课后答案

Pre-class Work II

1. Paraphrase.

1) And when he was 29 now, he has found the power of another idea that has enabled him to grow from a teenager and become a rich and powerful person in computer industry.

2) ... he thought it might be a good idea to finish his high school education as quickly as possible.

3) He believed that the newly married people are the most likely customers.

4) He also knew that it was expensive to keep more products than necessary. So he bought these products of the dealer's at the price they had bought them.

5) Dell put advertisements in the local media and was ready to sell specially designed and made computers at a price which was 15 percent lower than the market price.

6) It was time for him to seriously deal with the size of the computer business he had created.

7) Dell still sold IBM personal computers to which he had added special properties required by people.

2. Learn to use reference books.

1) Find the proper definition of the following in the text.

(1) stock: a supply of a particular type of thing that a shop has available to sell

(2) firm: a business or company

(3) break: a short holiday

(4) feature: something important, interesting or typical of a place or thing

(5) order: a request for a product to be made for you or delivered to you

(6) overhead: money spent regularly on rent, insurance, electricity, and other things that are needed to

keep a business operating

(7) accounting: the work of accountants or the methods they use

(8) edge: sth. that gives you an advantage over others

2) Find the synonyms of the following in a thesaurus.

(1) cast: throw, toss, fling, hurl, pitch, chuck, thrust, heave

(2) flabbergasted: surprised, shocked, amazed

3. Word-building.

1) Give the corresponding nouns of the following.

(1) plunge (2) contact (3) advertisement/advertising

(4) enrollment (5) requirement (6) inquiry

(7) replacement (8) marketing/market (9) failure

(10) incorporation (11) guarantee (12) specialization 2) Give the corresponding verbs of the following.

(1) to subscribe (2) to perform (3) to deliver

(4) to donate (5) to consume (6) to entitle

(7) to manufacture (8) to compute

3) Translate the following based on what you know about rules of word-building.

(1)现在的问题不是生产过剩，而是消费不足。

(2)他们说在计算机硬件方面中国正在赶超他们。

(3)必须有高度集中的领导机制。

(4)这些人当中有的不仅没有工作，而且还不适合工作。

(5)我们外交关系的正常化发生在1973年。

(6)我们的银行业正在实现计算机管理。

(7)这些都是国家级的无价之宝。

(8)我们的教学应该有利于开发学生的独创能力和创造力。

(9)我的大儿子在学营销，d,JL子在学表演。

4) Observe how these words are formed and make your own discoveries of rules of word—building．

(1)一cy，-ry，一ty均是构成抽象名词的后缀，如：intimacy(亲密)、prophecy(预言)；bravery(勇敢)、rivalry(竞争；敌对)；cruelty(残忍)、loyalty(忠贞)。

(2)-ee是构成表示“被……的人”的名词后缀，与．er意思相反或相对，如：examinee(应试者)、trainee(接受培训者)。

(3)sur-是前缀super一的一个变体，意思是“在……之上；超过”，如：surmount(战胜；克服)、surround(包围；围绕)。

(4)“名词+形容词”构成复合形容词，如：trigger-happy(乱开枪的；好战的)、snow-white (雪白的)。

More Work on the Text

II Vocabulary

1. Translate

1) into English.

(1) to call it a day (2) to cast a line

(3) to head a corporation (4) to make profit

(5) to pay (in) cash (6) to improve performance

(7) to quit school (8) to make a deal

(9) to start again with a vengeance (10) to risk all the savings

(11) to incorporate a company (12) to assemble a car

(13) to gross (top, net) 10 million dollars (14) to develop products

(15) to market products (16) to lead a normal life

(17) to own subsidiaries (18) to draw a lesson from it

(19) to realize a dream (20) to enter into the computer

(21) to donate money (22) to fool around

2) into Chinese.

(1)石油大王(2)经济前景

(3)商务订单(4)竞争优势