大学英语精读第三册课后练习答案(Key to Exercises Unit 7)

Unit 7

Study& Practice

. Comprehension of the Text

1. 1) c 2) d 3) a 4) b 5) d 6) d 7) c 8) a

. V ocabulary Activities

1. 1) accommodate 2) aggressive

3) plead 4) shelter

5) had bruised 6) stuff

7) was identified 8) will make a difference

9) in the way of 10) did ... hold it against

11 ) blasting 12) aside

13) pitch 14) or else

15) greedy 16) gesture

17) pooled 18) portable

2. 1) abridge 2) afterwards

3) Have ,.. figured out 4) deserves

5) in the midst of 6) overtake

7) stuff 8) identify

9) broke up 10) underneath

11) departs 12) vehicle

13) meant business 14) or else

3. 1) pick out 2) headed ... for

3) took up 4) piled up

5) broke down 6) call off

7) fit in 8) came up

9) went off 10) goes on

IV. Enriching Your word Power

1. truth ~ true storage ~ store

depth ~ deep breakage ~ break

growth ~ grow marriage ~ marry

length ~- long passage ~ pass

youth ~ young shortage ~ short

2. semiskilled 半熟练工的monoxide 一氧化物

bimonthly 两月一次的；一月两次的semicircle 半圆形

monosyllable 单音节词bilateral 双边的

semiconductor 半导体monolingual 单语的

bilingual 双语的

V. Usage

1. Usually I'd advise you to wait, but in the present situation I think it's best to act

without delay.

2. We need a list of names of all those present at the scene of the accident.

3. It is said that free trade will benefit all concerned.

4. Concerned parents have complained about the dangerous playground.

5. The police arrested the driver responsible for the deaths of two schoolboys in a road

accident.

6. Let's be calm about the situation and try to act like responsible adults.

7. He could not fully understand involved scholarly lectures in English.

8. We never managed tO get anything done, simply because of the large number of people

involved.

9. My parents live in the suburbs, not in Boston proper.

10. We didn't have the proper tools to do the job right.

VI. Structure

1. 1) We won't support them for the reason that they are in the wrong.

2) We now charge more for the reason that prices have kept rising.

3) The maid decided to quit for the reason that she couldn't put up with her mistress

any longer.

4) We want to change the plan for the reason that we have had difficulty in obtaining

materials.

5) She took the name George Eliot for the reason that women of her day were not

supposed to be novelists.

2. 1) He will get it repaired the minute he is free.

2) Please ring me up the minute you get the result of the experiment.

3) He rushed to the spot the minme he heard of the road accident.

4) She knew he wasn't English the minute he began to speak.

5) She ran out to meet him the minute she saw him coming.

VI. Cloze

1. (1) figure out (2) shelter (3) heading for (4) break down

(5) piled up (6) hold ... against (7) born of (8) seared

(9) underneath (10) aggressive (11) greedy

2. (1) what (2) of (3) broadcast (4) be

(5) out (6) with (7) stations (8) were

(9) calls (10) sought (11) what (12) where

(13) students (14) told (15) reported (16) grew

(17) In (18) no (19) which (20) if

(21) from (22) earth (23) but (24) of

(25) fact (26) announcement (27) only

VII Translation

1. As usual, he tuned his radio for the 7 a. m. news broadcast before he began to get

washed.

2. There are a lot of papers to sign, but the only urgent one is this contract.

3. In that city crime born of drug abuse and gambling is on the rise, and the local

government seems unable to figure out a way to cope with it.

4. In those days I would read everything I could get my hands on so/as long as it was written in

English.

5. I bet the building must have been completely destroyed in the air raid.

6. She was so scared by the unexpected blow that she could not speak a word for several

minutes. /Scared by the unexpected blow, she could not speak a word for