综合教程3Unit4 的练习答案key to exercises

Text comprehension

IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences.

1.Nowadays, people believe that they can have fun whenever they want it, and that they should have fun; otherwise they would be leading a dull and bitter life as a puritan.

2.We have long assumed that fun was easy to have, but now we are paying a price for that shallow-mindedness, i.e., our party is hardly as much fun as it is expected to be.

Vocabulary exercises

I. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.

1. we would be morally too strict with

ourselves to enjoy life

2. that made all other questions less significant

3. counting fun as the most important quality of life

4. the best example of having fun

5. like something negative that you can hardly get rid of but might undermine the happiness of life//by nothing more than simple exposure

Ⅱ. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word taken from the box in its appropriate form.

1. overshadows

2. traipse

3. fetish

4. flunked

5. swilling

6. flicked

7. epitome 8. licentiousness

Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.

1. insured

2. undeserved

3. generosity

4. benefits

5. regrettable

6. mirthful

7. blasphemy 8. reverence

Ⅳ.Fill in the blank(s) in each sentence with an appropriate phrasal verb or

collocation taken from the text.

1. turn into

2. occurred to

3. end up

4. step up

5. pay…back

6. look forward to

7. look for

8. managed to

V. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.

1. excursion(jaunt)

2. failing

3.irreverently(disrespectfully, contemptuously)

4. advertisements

5. quintessence(embodiment)

6. grief(sadness, melancholy)

7. profane(revile) 8. examine(scrutinize)

VI.Explain the underlined phrasal verbs in your own words.

1. showed//drew attention to

2.represents

3. fully explain

4.challenged by

5. support

6. unhappy//bored

7. be well understood

8. visited

Translation exercises

I.Translate the following sentences into

Chinese.

1.“有趣吗？”这一问题使所有其他问题黯然失色，比如：“道德吗？”“仁慈吗？”“诚实吗？”“有益吗？”“慷慨吗？”“有必要吗？”和（我最喜欢的）“无私吗？”等一些有意义的问题。

2. 当乐趣成为生活中的主要内容时，随之而来必定是对乐趣的迷恋崇拜。

3. 在坐待乐趣来临的时候，我发现其实并没有多少乐趣可言，我得告诉你们这一点，免得你们还担心自己无力消受。

4. 由于我们多年来总以为乐趣无处不在，快乐之神用拒绝光临我们聚会的方式来对我们实施报复。

II. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and phrases

given in brackets.

1. It goes without saying that Shakespeare overshadows all the other playwrights throughout the ages.

2.The Great Gatsby is commonly deemed as the epitome of the Jazz Age of the last century in America.

3. It is advisable for you not to put a damper on his enthusiasm to further his studies at Harvard.

4. Young people tend to make a fetish of glamorous stars in sports and entertainment circles.

5. They traipsed all the way to the downtown area to watch the National Day fireworks