大学英语阅读与写作3课后参考答案第二部分

Unit One Friendship 1)

1. correspond

2. build

3. sensible

4. brilliant

5. grasp

6. appoint

7. hardware

8. gaze

2)

1.cast your eyes / an eye over

2.torn down

3. making a fortune

4. turned up

5. lost track of

6. pass on

7. checking up on

8. was under arrest

1)

1. The story took place in New York.

2. He was on night duty, patrolling the avenues and trying to prevent any possible crimes on his

beat.

3. He came from the western part of the United States, which was still wild and under-developed

at that time.

4. He was waiting by appointment for Jimmy Wells, the best friend of his youth.

5. Twenty years before, Jimmy and Bob had made an appointment that they would meet again in

the same restaurant exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matter what their

conditions might be or from what distance they might have to come.

6. He was arrested by a policeman in plain clothes, because he was wanted by the Chicago police.

7. He was Jimmy Wells, Bob's friend of youth.

8. Yes, they did meet that night, but in a very special way. Jimmy approached Bob as a patrolman,

talking to Bob as if they did not know each other before.

2)

1. He loved New York so much that he preferred to live nowhere else.

2. It was a luxurious watch, handsome and with small diamonds set on its lids. Judging by the

watch, one might think that he had made a fortune in the West.

3. Each of them was eager to know what exactly the other looked like.

4. You are not Jimmy at all, because it is not possible for a man to change the shape of his nose so

thoroughly within a matter of twenty years.

5. The Chicago police informed us that you might have come to New York and they wanted us to

stop and arrest you … It is wise of you not to resist.

6. He could not control his emotions when he found out the truth. His hand was trembling with

fear and shock.

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Unit Two Love

1)

engaged 2. grief 3. manipulate 4. agonizing 5. maximum 6. fascinate 7. silverware

8. grace

2)

1. moist.

2. fit into

3. In the course of

4. glory

5. overjoyed

6. clip

7. in vain

8. yield

1)

1. He was dying in bed of a serious disease.

2. They were long and large. His fingers were long and square, laced with fine veins all the way to

the tips. His nails squared off the ends of his fingers, with clearly defined white edges. He had

always taken great care to keep them neat. They were not tough hands; nor soft, either.

3. She could feel pure and honest expressions of his love.

4. He took very good care of them.

5. Her husband held her hands in the most frightening moments of his illnesses and in the deepest,

darkest moment of his life.

6. She discovered an opened pack of emery boards.

7. At the sight of the emery boards, she could not control her grief any longer and broke into tears.

8. He was her youngest son, who resembled her husband very much.

9. She felt the clasp was as reassuring as his father's.

2)

1. Holding one of my hands tightly, he expressed his pure love for me as well as his wish to be

together with me forever.

2. I tried to bear in mind what his hands were like because I knew he would soon leave us forever.

3.When death was drawing near, he clasped my hands to seek comfort and support from me and to

express his pure and deep love for me.

4. Since my husband had been using them before he died, I like to use them now so that I could

find myself mentally closer to him.

5. Even though he had died, my husband's way of expressing love through his handclasp had been

passed down to our son, which was a lasting comfort to me.

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