大学英语交互阅读教程2 答案

大学英语交互阅读教程2 答案

Reading Matters 2

An Interactive Approach to Reading

Answer Key

Unit 1: Habits of a Lifetime

Chapter 1: Where Does the Time Go?

Previewing, pages 16-17

(sample answers)

1. Different suggestions on how to study better, etc.

2. Time management techniques that will help you to study better.

3. College or university students.

Understanding Details, page 18

1.As you read, underline, circle, or otherwise note the suggestions you think you can use.

2.Many people learn best during the daytime … (others) work best after midnight.

3.When you use the same place to study … (the mind and body) become trained. When you arrive at that particular place,

you can focus your attention more quickly.

4.It’s best to work at a desk, or a library.

5.Avoid the telephone, requests, and noise distractions.

Note Taking, page 19

A. Get off the phone

B. Avoid noise distraction

1. has greatest power to interrupt 1. don’t study in front of television

2. call at worst time 2. turn off music

3. unplug the phone 3. silence best

4. get an answering machine 4. ask if study rooms available

5. study at the library 5. go somewhere quiet

Word Form and Meaning, pages 20-21

A.

1. d

2. a

3. b

4. e

5. c

C. (sample answers)

Researchers often conduct interviews to get more information.

It’s a good idea to participate in school activities.

This research will make an important contribution to our knowledge of people’s study skills.

D.

1.began

pared

3.unplugged

4.felt

5.insulted

6.improved

7.involved

8.stuck

9.spent

10.understood

(sample sentences)

She decided to join one of the student organizations in order to meet people.

Where did you decide to go for dinner?

She always asks a lot of questions in class. Why does she ask so many questions?

Vocabulary in Context, pages 7-9

A.

1. d

2.i

3. b

4. c

5. a

6.h

7. e

8.j

9.g

10.f

B.

1.V

2.N

3.N

4.N

5.N

6.N

C. (sample answers)

e a regular study area.

2.Study when you’ll be alert.

3.Get off the phone.

4.Learn to say no.

5.Avoid noise distraction.

True or False?, pages 21-23

1. F

2. F

3. F

4.T

5. F

6.T

Chapter 2: Habits of a Lifetime—Are We Affected?

Predicting, page 27

Answers will vary.

Understanding Details, pages 28-31

P1.

1.In a one-room wood house near the village of Brownbranch, forty miles away from Springfield, Missouri.

2.With a wood stove.

3.She collects rainwater.

4.In 1916.

5. a.She doesn’t have electricity, running water, or indoor plumbing. b. She heats her house and cooks her food on a

wood stove. c. She uses an outhouse. d. She cooks her own food from a few supplies that she buys in the village.

e. She keeps food cold in a special underground cellar next to her house.

P2.

1.Because they heard that there was good land and lots of water available for farming.

2. a. 120 acres b. $800

3.He raised crops, chickens, and cattle.

4.One of Birdle’s sisters died in the flu epidemic of 1918, her brother died in 1926, and her father died in 1936. Her

mother died in 1969, and her sister in 1972.

5.After her mother and sister died, Birdle was left alone and had to manage on her own.

P3.

1.She had gone to college and trained to be a teacher. She taught school in two of the villages near her home. She also

taught Sunday school and wrote local news reports for two area newspapers.

2. A person can’t do everything in life, so do what makes you happy.

3.They worry that at 87 Birdle is too old to be living by herself.

4.She’s not yet ready to leave her house in the woods. She says, “I can still cut my own wood and pump my own water.

In my mind and heart, I don’t feel old.”