世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材综合教程3课后答案

Unit 1 Fresh Start

1. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.

I had just the feeling of a newcomer to college without the strength only an experienced student

might possess.

My apparent confidence

Some food to appease my hunger

Going with the tide of the majority was no longer crucial to your success in college Restraints

Foolish and glaring mistakes

2. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word taken from the box in the proper form.

Distress; clutched; pose; sneaked; preoccupation; shackles

3.Fill in the blank in each sentence with an appropriate phrasal verb or collocation taken from the text.

Lived up to; headed for; seek out; has broken out; grope for; trying …on

4. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.

Assure; discretion; relaxation; humiliation; strategy; embarrassment

5. Explain the underlined phrasal verbs in your own words.

Became popular; respect; keep up; lead to; understand; found

Grammar exercise

2. CDBFAE

4. even if, whereas/while, even, while/whereas, even though, despite

Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

It distressed me a great deal to hear the news that he had suffered repeated failures. He assumed an air of cheerfulness, even though he lost favor with his boss. Gulliver met with extraordinary adventures and saw a strange assortment of people. He will be furious with you if you repeat the same mistake.

We were all greatly drawn by his frank views, humorous words and genial manner. After the thunderous applause die down, the Nobel Prize winner began his speech. Fill in each blank in the passage below with one word you think appropriate. to, on, survey; primary; money; with; that; attended/ entered; into; to; attracting; majors;

population; decreased

Unit two Tyranny of the Urgent

1. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.

a series of; more demanding; affected me; earnest call for instant attention; in view of; been

dominated by

2. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word taken from the box in the proper form.

prominent; rebuked; breach; priority; haunt; tyranny; imperious; misgiving

3.Fill in the blank in each sentence with an appropriate phrasal verb or collocation taken from the

text.

crowded out; catch up; called for; involved in; pushing aside; wish for

4. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.

tyrants; urgency; relieved; undoubtedly; irresistibly; deceive

5. Explain the underlined phrasal verbs in your own words.

affects; catching up with; been involved in; doing, conducting; tell; rejected Grammar exercise

2. not only.. but also; Either…or; and; or; so; and; neither…nor; but

3. The recorded history of mankind is only 6,000 or 7,000 years, but within that short period of

time many civilizations have risen and fallen. The people of the Nile Valley created a high

culture, and so did the people of the Tigirs-Euphrates Valley, but both of these cultures

disappeared. They were absorbed into the Greco-Roman culture that dominated the Mediterranean world, but this civilization also disintegrated in time. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

Memories of his childhood haunted him.

More volunteers are needed to finish the exacting work.

Housing ranks first on my list of priorities.

Father rebuked his son for being lazy.

In his “ The Way to Wealth”, Franklin gave reader many maxims on how to achieve earthly

success.

His imperious manner was more than I could bear.

The fire devoured the forests.

The newspaper won’t accept any deceptive advertisement.

Fill in each blank in the passage below with one word you think appropriate. however; out; defined; difficult; First; for; yourself; which/that; to; involves; accomplish; are; to;

don’t; hour

Unit Three Chinese Food

Comprehension

1. C

2. T F T T

3. Food to us Chinese is one of the greatest joys in life: it is thought about before being

prepared; it is treated with lots of love and care while being prepared; and when it is ready, it

is enjoyed with excessive amount of time.