大学英语阅读教程第二册答案
大学英语阅读教程第二册(通用本)答案
Unit 1
Passage 1
Key to the exercises
I 1 C 2 A 3 B 4 B 5 D
II .1.对于太多的人来说,学习似乎是自己的意愿屈服于外界的指引,是一种奴役。
2.然而,只要幸运,有决心,指导得法,人的精神不仅经得起贫困而且经得起富裕的考验。
3.对一个人来说,形成完整和协调的人格与保持自身的卫生,健康以及经济上的自立是同样必要的,那些从来没有认识到这一点的人已经吃尽苦头。
Key to the Reading-Skill exercises
1. The high school students have improved their SAT scores.
2. Teenagers planned patrols.
3. TV programs are less through than newspapers.
4. Welcome to Our City treats the Amercian south and its people.
5. The films show little children fascinated at the world.
6. One can communicate with the writer as one reads a book.
Passage 2
Key to the exercises
I. 1 C 2 D 3 C 4 B A 5 C
II .1. F 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. T
III. 1.朱莉让我们如此为难,我的确感到生气。难道圣诞老人不存在的事
实不是从同学那里得知的吗?
2. 我给她讲述了事情的经过,尽量使它听起来滑稽有趣,希望她不要注意到我和杰里在处理我开始认为的“圣诞老人问题”上是如此拙劣。
3. 我可以看出,他正努力在想一种办法,用来解释我们的行为,使其听起来不太像事实那样具有欺骗性,那样错误和愚蠢。
4.事情就这样结束了。对圣诞老人不存在的事实悲伤了片刻之后,生活又恢复了正常。
Passage 3
Key to the exercises
I. 1. C 2. A 3. B 4. B 5. C 6. D
II. 1.他一去世,我自以为会长生不老的幻觉立刻就破灭了。
2.以后的岁月里,每当我默默期盼父亲的信任支持时,总会不出预料遇到一副怀疑的表情。
3.现在回想起来,他是故意不让我们知道,免得扫了大家的兴。
4.拎起沉重的盒子,我猛然醒悟到,不管父亲说的话听上去多么消极泄气,也抹杀不了他在我离开后用一张张剪报填满盒子的实际行动。
Unit 2
Passage 4
Key to the exercises
I. 1. A 2. B 3. C 4. D 5. D 6. D
II. 1. collect herself —If you collect yourself or your thought, you make an effort to calm yourself or prepare yourself mentally.
2. flash that big smile —If you flash a look or a smile at someone, you suddenly look at them or smile at them.(脸上)露出笑容
3. make deals with the rats与老鼠做交易
4.stand for welfare cheaters容易骗取福利的人
5. rest her mind感到宽慰
6. poke around the house —If you poke around for something, you search for it, usually by moving lots of objects around.四处搜索
III. 1。贫穷是人们无法摆脱的一种心境,而没钱只是一种暂时的状况。
2.她教导我们说,人们有两种摆脱生活困境的办法—笑或者哭。笑带来更多的希望。
3.我们会站在后门廊里分发事物给邻居,仿佛我们在负责救济穷苦人,然后我们也会收下他们带来作为交换的食物。
4.当时的情景仍历历在目,那个社会福利工作者在屋子里四处搜索,冰冷的亚麻油毡地毯上的煤灰使她不由得皱起鼻子,而看到小虫在洗涤槽的脏盘子里爬来爬去的时候她就禁不住摇了摇头。
Key to the Reading-Skills exercises
1. The view of New York from the bridge was beautiful.
2. When I was an adolescent, I never had the best jobs; neither did I have the worst jobs.
3. Marijuana use is associated with abnormal behavior.
Passage 5
Key to the exercises
I. 1. D 2. B 3. C 4. B 5. B
II. 1.气象学家杜鲁门斯和他的同行皮埃尔 埃克特确信,我们可以使气球按逆时针方向飞行,也就是朝南飞经法国和西班牙,这样就可以沿着地中海上空形成的低气压的边缘飞行。
2.白天,太阳照射是氦升温膨胀,气球上升。晚上我们则靠燃烧丙烷来维持气球的飘浮高度。
3.更让人担心的是,我们以为我们用了太多的丙烷来维持飞行高度。
4. 当我们打开舱门爬出来时,发现气囊的边缘悬挂着十英尺长的冰柱。
Passage 6
Key to the exercises
I. 1. C 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. B
II. 1。我们像一根离弦的箭,风驰电掣般地飞越了1300英里长的狭窄航道,从没偏离26度纬度线30英里以上。
2.地上的人员开始给医生打电话,紧张万分地寻找线索,想弄清事故的原因。
3.气象员把我们引导进入喷气流中,我们速度大增,箭一般地飞越大西洋上空。
4.第二天早晨,我们在埃及的沙漠着陆,这是一次有史以来无动力气球所作的距离最长、历时最久的飞行。
Unit 3
Passage 7
Key to the exercises
I. 1. A 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. C 6. D
II. 1.T 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. T 7. T
III. 1.母亲的遗体还没下葬,我就已经领会了她的去世所隐含的全部意义。
2.直到我乘火车离开斯科特堡去北方的那一天,我随时可能被枪打死或被殴打致死。
3.在那些日子里,我整天幻想,想着我帮组他逃脱白刃暴徒的追打。
4.然而,当胡扯飞速行驶,电线杆向着我们呼啸而来有呼啸而过时,我觉得自己正在逃离一种厄运,而我那些留在家乡的亲戚朋友已经深陷其中。
Key to the Reading-Skills exercises
1. Galileo’s use of the telescope helped to develop modern astronomy.
2. B
3. through the use of a telescope
4. 16
5. D
Passage 8
Key to the exercises
I. 1. B 2. C 3. C 4. D 5. A 6. A
II. 1.威利在拨动盘子里的食物,企图把其中一部分藏在餐刀下面,把其余的分散开,以便使盘子看上去是空的,但事实上他一口也没有吃。
2.“看着我,儿子。你以为你父亲是什么样的人?你认为我会让你七岁就出去打工,然后拿你挣的钱花?”
3.“你要替那些流血甚至牺牲的人想想,他们之所以这样做,就是为了不让其他人只把你看成黑人剧团演出的一个杂耍而已。”
4.“你不认为一个男人比你更了解应该怎样对他的儿子说话吗?你不认为我能让他像我一样成为一个真正的男子汉吗?”
Passage 9
Key to the exercises
I. 1. C 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. C 6. B 7. D
II. 1. T 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. F 6. T 7. T 8. F
III. 1。我没有向导他会涉猎毒品。
2.成年人的危险标准与他们的不同,他们也知道这一点。因此他们总是对我们所说的话半信半疑。
3.这就是一种最基本的:代沟:父母最害怕自己的孩子发生不测,而孩子却总是极力摆脱父母的保护。
4.或许我对基酰鞍的重新出现所表现出来的真正警惕会给他留下印象。
大学英语阅读教程第二册(通用本)答案
Unit 4
Passage 10
Key to the exercises
I. 1.C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. D 6. D 7. C
II. 1。但是,这种改变决非顺利。专家们不断地推动这一变化,说互联网将会像电的发明和自来水的使用一样改变我们的生活。
2.互联网仍然处在一个混乱的全球建设阶段, 人们可以将其与一个实际前发达国家的电气化进程相比。
3.我们正在通往数字化仙境的路上,在那里,互联网将神奇地变成无所不能的私人助理。
4.戴维 库博斯坦语言,建设一个稳定的计算基础设施将会使互联网在2005年变成为一种成熟的信息公用事业。
Key to the Reading-Skills exercises
1. F 2. O 3. O 4. F 5. O 6. F 7. F 8. O 9. F 10. O
Passage 11
Key to the exercises
I. 1. D 2. B 3. B 4。。C 5 A
II. 1.那不和谐的声音更像市民波段电台的广播,充满了街头、骚扰和匿名恐吓。
2.学生们通过精心剪辑的软件可以愉快地跟着动画人物学习。
3.即使通过互联网有可靠的寄钱方法(现在还没有),互联网也缺少推销员这一资本主义最基本的组成部分。
4.当互联网发出迷人的召唤,诱人地闪烁出知识就是力量的图象时,这个不存在的地方诱惑我们放弃了在人间的时光。
Passage 12
Key to the exercises
I. 1. F 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. F 7. T
II. 1. The wireless technology is now used in: a. broadband network, b. satellite-connected cars, c. mobile phone or two-way pagers.
2.There can be storage problems because of the rapid expansion of the network use.
3. The publc would adopt “telematics ”, i.e. connecting the car to mobile phones, satellite navigation and the Internet.
4. It is a wireless game that doesn’t connect to the Internet, but sends out a short-range signal that looks for another unit. When that happens, a fight will take place between the software “warriors ” programmed by the kids who own the toys.
III. 1. keeps Mom ’s headache at bay —If you keep something or someone
at bay, you prevent them from reaching, attacking, or affecting you.使母亲们不再头痛
2. indelible log of information无法消除的信息记录
3. pin their hopes on —If you pin your hope on something, you sincerely hope that it willproduce the result you desire.把它们的希望寄托在
4. impulse buy冲动购买,即时购买
5. message piped into your car传送到汽车里的信息
6. true weirdness of the wired world —If someone or something is weird, they are strangeand peculiar.联网世界的真正不可思议之处
7. virtually bonded to实际上被连接到
Unit 5
Passage 13
Key to the exercises
I. D C C A B
II. 1.我从来没有想过她用手触摸东西、抚摩我的脸或是我给她看的东西的方式是奇怪的。
2.接着她尖叫起来,迅速把手缩回去,要我立即把鸟带到外面去,同时警告我不要在让她碰这样的东西。
3.凭她那灵敏的双耳和鼻子,她综合起来判断通常总会得出正确答案。
4.当他们把我的宝贝小男孩放在我的手臂上时,我,就如我的母亲一样,可以看到我的孩子并知道他有多漂亮。
Key to the Reading-Skills exercises
Singnal words: immediately, while, „„, and, and, later
Sequence of details in the passage
1.c 2. e 3. h 4. a 5. g 6. d 7. f 8. i 9. b
Passage 14
Key to the exercises
I. B D C D A
II. 1. Because they didn’t want to hurt her. They knew she was gaining weight, but they loved her so much that it wasa out of the question to discuss the topic in front of her.
2. First of all, after she entered adulthood, she began to gain weight natuarlly. Then, marriage and settling down gave her a stable life, and without much worry, she could become fat easily. She just didn ’t care about herself much, and ate and drank a lot all the time. She didn ’t have the determination and motivation to reduce weight.
3. The author was deeply hurt by the boy ’s words. She suddenly realized that she was just plain fat. She made up her mind that no one would ever call her fat again. She would reduce her weight.
4. She was committed to shedding the weight and getting inot shape. She started a rigorous program of running and dieting. She joined a gym and managed to make some friends. She prepared healthy food for the family and exercised regularly.
5. She is feeling energetic, healthy, confident, strong and pretty. She has changed her attitude, her life-style and self-image. She starts caring about hwo she feels rather than how she looks.
Passage 15
Key to the exercises
I. F T T F F T T
II. 1.罗斯知道,在这样的一团漆黑中,在这样的风雨中,加上田德菲尔德四周的4000英尺高的群山,让飞行员降落是很困难的。
2.数分钟后,已经别无选择。一场反常的雨暴吞没了他的飞机—这是一名新飞行员所能碰到的最糟糕的事情。
3.在任何情况下,侧风着陆都是危险的,而现在的危险就是他有可能机头先着陆,使机身颠簸不停。
4.当时一点时间都不能耽误。然而,此时此刻的时间却似乎向前无限延伸,即使在这雨中漆黑的、泥泞的飞机场上。