进阶大学英语第四单元练习答案

Key to Exercises

Opener

1. Winston Churchill led Britain to defeat Germany in WWII. Nelson Mandela ended apartheid in South Africa.

2. The young Winston Churchill was a military officer, a war correspondent and a writer before becoming a Member of Parliament. The young Nelson Mandela was a law student before getting involved in political opposition to white rule in South Africa.

3. When Winston Churchill was forced out of government he learned to paint and lay bricks, wrote tirelessly, gave speeches, and seized opportunities to return to politics. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in jail, suffering inhuman punishment. Yet he never gave up. He even managed to earn a law degree from the University of London and encouraged his fellow prisoners to seek better treatment through nonviolent resistance.

Reading & Interacting

I. Understanding the Text

1. Text Organization

2. Comprehension Check

Focusing on the main ideas

I am an aide to Premier Li Keqiang. This morning, he was scheduled to meet

coverage of this meeting impressed her even more. She later commented that all these

well-being.

Digging into detail

was in disbelief, because she thought Premier Li had too many pressing issues of national and international concern to attend to than to meet her.

present.

meeting would be one-on-one and . reporters were not allowed. The meeting would last 30 minutes. They would discuss science and the economy, not politics. Some topics were off limits for the Premier, being suggested as more appropriate for conversations between her and President Bai Chunli of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

. They are: returning farmland to forest; the value of China’s energy-saving and environmental industries; and clean drinking water for rural Chinese people.

importance of training more brilliant scientists for China, including extending training opportunities to rural students.

show that scientific research is highly respected/has a high status in China. Understanding difficult sentences

1) B

2) A

3) A

4) B

II. Focusing on Language in Context

1. Key Words & Expressions

career as a soldier ended with injury to both eyes.

money flows around the world looking for investments that will yield high returns.

Prime Minister’s speech sent out a signal that his government is ready for peace negotiations.

morning Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a report on his vision for the company’s future.

China has been promoting closer cooperation with other countries for world peace since its founding in 1949.

prices in China now follow global trends.

actress decided to take advantage of her recent fame to launch her own fashion brand.

didn’t attain its 2012 foreign trade goal due to the debt crisis in Europe. the early days of his career, he headed a team to attract overseas Chinese scientists to his university.

you think college graduation, wedding and giving birth to babies are significant events in your life

1) off limits

2) At first