新视野大学英语读写第四册九、十单元SectionB答案

九单元SectionB

Reading Skills

1 Denotation: do something

Connotation(s): operate; work

2 Denotation: strike; come against someone or something with force Connotation(s): meet; experience

3 Denotation: come to; reach

Connotation(s): be equal to; be the same as

4 Denotation: small points or facts about something

Connotation(s): unimportant small matters

5 Denotation: organize or control the work of an organization, company, etc. Connotation(s): use something in a sensible way

Comprehension Task

B A B A A B A B

Vocabulary Task 1

1 adjustments

2 acceptance

3 acknowledged

4 sustained

5 Preliminary

6 excessive

7 variation

8 temporary

9 anticipate 10 confront 11 superior 12 recommendation 13 elaborate 14 reversal

Vocabulary Task 2

1 According to the survey, students and children accounted for more than 50% of the visitors to Euro Disneyland last year.

2 These employees thought banning moustaches and beards amounted to violating their individual rights.

3 Most of the student guides work for the theme park on a voluntary basis.

4 The theme park is gearing up for the invasion of tourists in the coming summer vacation period.

5 Uncertainty again hangs over the company's current financial conditions and many stockholders are selling its shares.

6 Manufacturing companies spend millions of pounds trying to convince customers that their products are superior to those of other companies.

7 The union representative argued that the practices of banning moustaches, excess weight and short skirts were not in line with French labor law.

8 The stock prices of the company are too high now, but they are going to be all right in the long term.

9 He wrote to warn me against going to the east coast because it was so full of tourists.

10 Success doesn't only depend on what you do. What you don't do is equally important.

十单元SectionB

Reading Skills

1 Those four-year-olds who had enough self-control to hold out for the second piece of candy generally grew up to be better adjusted, more popular, adventurous, confident and dependable teenagers.

2 The ability to delay reward.

3 When it comes to predicting people's success, brain capacity as measured by IQ may actually matter less than the qualities of mind once thought of as “character”.

4 About 20%.

Comprehension Task

B A A

C C A B B

Vocabulary Task 1

1 handle

2 interact

3 restore

4 frustrated

5 enhanced

6 adjust

7 virtually

8 ingredient

9 temptation 10 blessed 11 dependable 12 notion 13 dimmed 14 implication

Vocabulary Task 2

1 shy away from

2 counts for

3 are blessed with

4 substituting for

5 gave in to

6 When it comes to

7 on sight

8 held out for

9 interact with 10 show up 11 In short 12 end up