新版新视野大学英语读写教程第四册unit8答案

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Unit 8

Section A

Comprehension o f the text

I.

1. They hid behind their curtains and peered at the travelers cautiously.

2. It means that the small town was a stage where the different travelers who passed by were actors

revealing themselves to the audience-the villagers.

3. Probably there were different ways of greetings between them, so there might be some

misunderstandings or inappropriate responses.

4. Because she wanted to sing and dance so much that she thought the money was given as a

discouragement rather than an encouragement.

5. When she left her hometown of Eatonville for Jacksonville at thirteen, she experienced a huge

change and she was aware that she was black.

6. It means that she was not emotionally disturbed by the fact that she was a descendent of slaves. She

felt good about herself.

7. The writer compared herself to a brown bag of mixed items propped up against a wall with other

bags.

8. As is described, the contents revealed are nothing but common objects. It suggests that for ordinary

people, no matter whether they are white or black, they share something in common. Vocabulary

III.

1. cautiously

2. bribing

3. disapprove(d)

4. tendency

5. permanent

6. depression

7. fragrance

8. guarantee

9. exclusively 10. generously

IV. .

1. peering at

2. be broken off

3. disapproved of

4. prop up

5. In the main

6. in company with

7. in that

8. pay the price

9. belong to 10. more or less

V

1. L

2.O

3. H

4. D

5.1

6. E

7. N

8. K

9. G 10. B

Collocation

VI.

1 ．plans 2. lifestyle 3. fact 4. policies 5. rules

6. concentration

7. world

8. voice

9. inheritance 10. content

Word Building

VII.

1. devalued

2. demobilized

3. deregulated

4. decentralized

5. destabilizing

6. depersonalized

7. de-emphasize

8. decoded

VIII.

1. retirees

2. interviewees

3. trainee

4. employees

5. escapees

6. addressee

7. devotee

8. divorcee

sentence structure

IX

1. I know she isn't really interested in window-shopping, but she doesn't mind waiting while I have a

look.

2. If people don't mind my not having a degree, I could give a few music lessons!

3. People don't mind paying a lot more for good software because they can see the benefits of using it.

4.1 don't mind if people perceive me as arrogant. You need certain degree of it to succeed.

5. We don't mind if it takes time for people to express their hopes, goals, fears, and needs in their

lives.

X.

1. No friends came to see her; she shut herself off, in the old familiar world of bedroom and drawing

room.

2. No cigarette end could give us any clue to or sign of anyone having ever been there.

3. No gas, no water and no electricity in the hospital! How could you expect the children to survive

this?

4. No other information is given about the book itself, although there is a brief biographical, note about

the writer.

5. No effort has been made to investigate the "disappearances" that have occurred over the past three

years.

Translation

XI.

1. 1 don't mind his staying out so late as long as he behaves himself.

2. 1 prefer his plan to others in that I think no plan is more practical than his.

3. They broke off business relations with that company as it suffered huge losses in the last fiscal year

and went bankrupt.

4. Now that you don't like him, why did you invite him to your birthday party in the first place?

5. Though we knew our chances to win were slim, we were more or less depressed when we lost in the

game.