完整版新视角研究生英语读说写1第二单元课后答案PPT.ppt

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Unit 2: Reading comprehension
8. What feelings did the author express in the last 3 paragraphs?
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The author was proud of his children for their achievement, and he was grateful to his mother’s encouragement — the root of his ambition.
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The author’s mother did so for several reasons. Firstly she saw in him the gift of writing; secondly writing was a
way of making a living and an opportunity to make success in those days; and finally her family had a tradition to take writing as a career.
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4. Why was Edwin James, the mother’s cousin mentioned in paragraph 14?
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Edwin was regarded as a success and a good example for the author to follow.
The differences lies in that people of his mother’s generation tended to take money and position as the symbol of success, while people in the new age exalted love, self-gratification, and enjoyment of the reality.
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7. What were the differences between the values the author’s mother preached and those the new age exalted?
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Reference Ex. I, p.22
Yes. Because the mother pushed him to keep on working hard whenever he wanted to relax.
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2. How did the author respond to his mother’s push according to paragraph 4?
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At the beginning the author silently protested it, but he gradually accepted it.
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3. Why did the author’s mother begin to nudge him toward working with words according to paragraphs 11 and 12?
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People began to attack on the values that the old generation adhered and they regarded materialists as
idiots wasting their lives pursuing material prosperity.
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He realized that it was right for his mother to size him up and steer him toward literature.
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6. What changes began to take place in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s according to paragraph 27?
Unit 2: Exercises
• Exercises
➢ Reading Comprehension ➢ Structure of the Text ➢ Vocabulary ➢ Cloze ➢ Translation
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1. Did the mother play a crucial role in the author’s boyhood according to the text? If ”yes”, in what way?
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5. How did the author feel when his childhood fantasy about becoming a journalist with the New York Times came true?
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Unit 2: Structure of the text
Text Outline
1. Introduction (Paras. 1–7)
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2. Ex. II, Body (Paras. 8–33) pp.22-23
3. Conclusion (Paras. 34–35)
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Unit 2: Structure of the text