英语散文课后练习问题详解

Unit 1

Text A Hit the Nail on the Head

Comprehension

1. B.

II. CCCA

II. Paraphrase

1. A writer who is particular about the exactness of an expression in English will never feel happy with a word which fails to express an idea accurately.

2. To a certain extent, the process of finding the right words to use is a process of perfection where you try to search for words that may most accurately express your thoughts and feelings, and words that may most effectively make your listeners and readers understand your thoughts and feeling.

3. Finding the most suitable word to use is in no sense easy. But there is nothing like the delight we shall experience when such a word is located.

4. Once we are able to use language accurately, we are in a position to fully understand the subject matter.

III. Choices

1-5 Unskillful, skillful, vague, tricky, accurate,

6-10: Alteration, ambiguous, conscientious, want of knowledge, drawbacks

11-15: developing, erroneous, trivial, dim, adaptable,

16-20: subtle, emotional, quintessence, compulsion, absorbing

Text B Things: the Throw-away Society

Comprehension

1.C

II. FTFFT TFF

II. Paraphrase

1. The reason why Barbie is deeply loved so much by little girls is that she looks just like a real person in real life who can be dressed up in the way they wish.

2. Moreover Mattel made public that, for the first time, all girls who want to buy a new Barbie from its company were to be given the right of turning in their old dolls in exchange for new models at a reduced price.

3. But more and more, man-made products form a very important part in the lives of people.

4. Technologically produced things come to be accepted by people and are beginning to shape their mentality. His mind is filled with and influenced by artificial/man-made things.

5. The number of man-made things is growing at full speed. This is true both when the number itself alone is considered and when it is compared to the growth of the objects in the natural environment.

6. This difference seems most noticeable between the modern throw-away-oriented girls who, on the one hand, are delighted in replacing their out-of-date Barbie for up-to-date ones, and the traditional girls, on the other hand, who like their mothers and grandmothers, are unwilling to throw away their dear little dolls until they are so old as to become broken/until they fall apart.

7. The practice whereby people use a product and then quickly discard it may readily be rejected by those accustomed by scarcity to holding on to their old possessions.

III. Choices

1-5: BCDBD 6-10: CBDBC

IV. Choices

1-5 ACDAA 6-9 CBCB

Unit 2

Text A Grouping the Gifted, Pro

Comprehension

I. C

II. TTFTT

II. Paraphrase

1. In my opinion, gifted children are children who are specially endowed with natural abilities which rank high on testing scales.