综合英语教程-第7册答案 unit 1 Neat People Vs sloppy people

Reference Keys to Exercises of Unit 1

iii.Answer the following questions.

1.(Paragraphs 1, 2 and 6) Moral attitude is a decisive factor in how neat people

and sloppy people handle things. According to the author, sloppiness is merely the unfortunate consequence of sloppy people's extreme moral rectitude, while neat people are bums and clods at heart, holding a careless cavalier attitude toward possessions.

2.(Paragraphs 4, and 5) The problem with sloppy people is that they aim too high

and wide, and have never got round to executing their perfect plans. Their noble vision, ambitious plans, loving attention to every detail can be considered their moral virtues in contrast to neat people.

3.(Paragraph 7) The purpose of neat people in getting everything neat and tidy is

frivolous and trivial. For example, they get the whole thing over with so that they can sit down and watch TV programs.

4.(Paragraphs 6, 9 and 12) Cavalier attitudes have turned neat people into bums

and clods, insensitive and unloving. Sentimental attachment and loving care, however, are the very ingredients that make a moral man according to the author.

5.(Paragraph 12) The attitudes of neat people toward things and people form a

continuum that is a manifestation of their moral frivolity and insensitivity, which is why they would rather send their children off to boarding school.

iv.Explain in your own words the following sentences taken from the text.

1.Sloppy people aim at a perfect and Utopian plan that entails such a huge task

and mission that they have consistently failed to accomplish.

2.Sloppy people are preoccupied with unrealistic beliefs and usually place their

hope on someday which will never really come.

3.Neat people hold the same attitudes toward things and people, and are very

likely to dispose of them without care or reserve.

Text appreciation

1.Sloppy people carry in their mind's eye a heavenly vision, a precise plan, that is so

stupendous, so perfect, it can't be achieved in this world or the next. (Paragraph 2) 2.... the surface of the desk is buried under mounds of paper and the unread

magazines threaten to reach the ceiling. (Paragraph 4)

3.No sentimental salvaging of birthday cards or the last letter a dying relative ever

wrote. (Paragraph 9)

4.Neat people cut a clean swath through the organic as well as the inorganic world. (Paragraph 12)

Language work

i.Explain the italicized part in each sentence in your own words.

1.absolute moral righteousness and correctness

2.arrange in alphabetic order

5. are gradually formed and developed

zy and stupid

5.finish quickly what they have to do

6.destroy ruthlessly the main part of

I II.Fill in the blanks with the appropriate phrasal verbs or collocations from the text.

1. passed on to

2. toying with

3. getting over

4. straightened out

5. part with

6. figured out

7. responded ... to

8. gone through V.Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE appropriate word.

1. purposefully

2. rather

3. worthy

4. who

5. contributors

6. developed

7. staff

8. stories

9. described

10. audience / readership

Translation

The author holds that the fundamental difference between neat people and sloppy people is moral. The former place neatness above everything else and work on two unvarying principles: Never handle any item twice; and throw everything away. They are clear-minded and objective, but they are so indifferent that people, animals and things are all one to them. In sharp contrast, the latter fill their minds with all kinds of romantic whims and their ideals are just too perfect to come true in reality. What's more, the latter have a loving heart and seem to show sentimental attachments to everything. In a way, we may conclude that most statesmen and generals fall into the former category while most poets and artists belong to the latter type.