蒋静仪阅读教程2课后习题

蒋静仪 阅读教程 2 课后习题答案（含 quotations）

Unit One Human Relationship

1. Interpretation of the quotations

① No man can be separated from the society and disconnected with other people as an island

is isolated

from the mankind. The inherent(

内在的 ) oneness of mankind is

just like a whole mass land.

② . when you deal with issues about yourself, try to be calm, affectionate, sincere and sympathetic. ③ Here is an easy-to-follow,

reasonable and

intelligent; but when you deal with issues about other people, you need to be

buy established and uncontroversial model for getting

misfortune or value; but

along with other people successfully.

You just face and accept any serious

or failure peacefully, as if it were something of litter significance never treat some ordinary, commonplace things as if they were extremely serious. Reference answers to the exercises Reading One:

Check your comprehension 1-5 ADCCB

Check your vocabulary

1. Fisher and Ury ’ s theory is based on the belief that the

does not work when two sides try to reach an agreement. 2. Use positive statements surrounding ideas that are negative. 3. You can often successfully resolve differences if you try this

collaborative approach. Reading Two

Check your vocabulary Resisted; thoughtless Reading Three

Check your comprehension 1-7 FTFFTFT

Check your vocabulary

Administrative; meekly; hysterical; requisition; deposit; severe Confronted; spluttered; irate; bogus; purchase Reading four

Check your comprehension

frustration;

fluttered;

jerked;

restless;

haltingly;

“ win or lose ” model

gratefully;

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1-6 FTTTFT

Check your comprehension

1. How often does this seriously affect people ’ s communication and make them fail in building

good relationships

2. Every time parents and children disagree with each other, specialists often

explain that

“ generation gap ” is the reason.

3. We are not sure whether the term is an acceptable explanation because the word

“generation ” is used, but the other word “gap” can be applied when analyzing people ’ s different opinions.

4. Specialists in communication immediately challenge this belief and view it in

a different way.

5. A speaker may not speak as fast as the listener can think. 6. Because they have free

time to spend by themselves, vary, when the topic does not

the listeners

probably think the listeners

of other things and no longer concentrate. 7. As people ’s interests

stop listening.

attract them,

8. If the speaker does not give a good impression because of his looks or other

matters, the listener would probably refuse to follow what the speaker says.

1. give rise to 2. arise from 3. imply 4. facilitate 5. sound 6. carry away 7. gesture 8. exercise 9. tune in

Check your vocabulary B

disposal; distractions; facilitate; resort; skip; contributes; deserted; solution Post-reading A.

Through several incidents in childhood, Mary learned from her father how to listen to other’ s criticisms, hear the truth in the criticisms, and respect

her own opinion. When she grew up, she did her Daddy advised and made achievements in her career. B.

1-5 DBDAB

Unit Two

1. Interpretation of the quotations

① Little children, headache; big children, heartache.(Italian Proverb) In terms of problems that children give to their parents, big children are far troublesome than little children.

② Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for

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our children before turning them into teenagers. (William Galvin) Mother Nature has designed a close and affectionate

who keep giving us headaches.

③ . Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, Satir, The New Peoplemaking, 1988 Adolescents are not frightening (Virginia Satir)

Reference answers to the exercises Reading One

Check your compression A 1-6 TFTTFF

Check your comprehension B

1. to be independent/ independence/ freedom/ their own lives 2. primitive/ simple/ tribal way 3. become adults

4. frustrated, rebellious, restless 5. became/ were furious 6. the house key Check your vocabulary

shelter; sit up; rein; adapt; primitive; puberty; lenient; worked out Reading two

Check your comprehension B 1-6 FFTTFT

Check your vocabulary 1-5 ACAAC Reading Three 1-5 TFTFT

everything for us. She gives us twelve years to establish bond before they become troublesome teenagers

parent-child

who are probably not so sure themselves. creatures.

They are just

people trying

~Virginia

to learn how

to make it among the adults in the world, who are properly not so sure themselves.

Check your comprehension A

Check your comprehension B 1. One child

sits in a chair and sticks

out his/her

leg so that another one running

by is launched like a space shuttle.

2. Several children

run to the same door, grab the small children cast

same handle, and beat each other

up, ignoring the fact that there are other doors available.

their

3. In restaurants,

bread on the water in the glasses the

waiter has just brought.

4. A child uses a chair to slip to the floor.

5. They yell at each other with one sticking his/her foot inside the door and waving

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it around, and the other being disgusted but refusing to close the door. Check your vocabulary A

1. You have decided to give up the joys of producing copies of some great art pieces

at your own ease in order to instead on the edge of desperation.

2. “Well, ” I said, searching deep inside myself to give a paternal suggestion,

produce copies of yourselves, who keep you

“The best way is to close your door. 3. And we decided to have children

” ]

not for the reason

of making my wife look older. after enjoying a comfortable

4. Wedid not plan to lose the days when we went shopping

brunch together on fine Saturdays. Check your vocabulary B

intimate; confess; make up; ceaseless; yell; paternal; rewarding Reading Four

Check your comprehension A 1-4 DADB

Check your comprehension B 1-6 TTTFFT

Check your vocabulary A

manipulative; thrives; squeaked; sabotaged; penetrated; suffocating; juggle; persona

Check your vocabulary B.

nasty; sting; addiction; sneak; lease; rigid tactics; unconditional; verge; encounter; frankly Post Reading B. 1-8 TTTF FTFT

Unit Three

1. Interpretation of the quotations

① Beauty more than bitterness makes the heart break.(Sara Teasdale Beauty is good and of value. But the pursuit of beauty at the cost of other things may cause even bigger trouble than what pain and hardship will bring about. ②

There is

no excellent

beauty

that

hath not

some strangeness

in

proportion.(Francis Bacon) Any beautiful

thing is not perfectly

proportional.

Somedeviation

from standard

the is

not only allowed but also necessary for beauty to show its characteristics. ③ . If you get simple is beauty and nought else, you get about the best ting God invents.(Robert Browning)

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Simple beauty is the best thing that you can be awarded of all the things in the

world.

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 18) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

Reference answers to the exercises Reading one

Check your comprehension 1-7 TTFTTFF

Check your vocabulary

1. Some people prefer black hair, but other people like brown hair more. 2. You have been so greatly influenced by the environment you

to look at beauty that way.

3. Women’ s magazines, advertisements and the media all focus their topics on

appearance and looks, and they keep warning you about the harm and risk of bad breath, sweat, being too fat or too thin.

4. The image you form about yourself may be very inaccurate.

5. Good looks shouldn ’ t exactly follow the model of any particular individual. Reading two

Check your comprehension A

1. They were 202 primary school students, most of them aged eight and nine. 2. Children as young as seven were unhappy with their bodies and nearly

are in that you tend

one-in-three

girls and boys wanted to thinner. attitudes,

” and that there are

3. It was “ worrying that a number of the children

have these sorts of beliefs

and

more children with early-onset anorexia, which to treat and usually a lot

“is usually a lot more difficult more severe, ” though

only a minority would go on to develop an eating disorder. 4. Ms. Thomas said children needed to learn

they should be proud of their body.

that any body shape was acceptable

and

5. He felt sad and guilty as a professional Check your comprehension B 1-5 TFTFT

Check your vocabulary

on the eating disorder research program.

indictment; predisposes; purge; specialist; dietary; nominated; onset Reading three

Check your comprehension A 1-5 CCDAC

Check your comprehension B 1-5 FFFTT

Check your vocabulary

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perused; previous; desperately; convince; belittle; complimented; elated; addicted

Reading Four

Check your comprehension A 1-6 FTFFTF

Check your vocabulary A

peck away; stand out; mould; advance; release...from; normality; hailed Post-reading B. 1-5 CACCD

Unit four

① Sleep is better than medicine.(Proverb) Good health relies more on a good night

’s sleep than on medicine.

② A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you advertisement)

’ re fast sleep.(Disney World

A dream reflects what you really feel in your subconscious world. ③. A light supper, a good night ’ s sleep,

and a fine morning

have often made a hero

of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.(Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author) When one refrains

from having a big supper, morning, he/she will feel

enjoys a good night ’s sleep, like a hero. But if

and wakes

up to a beautiful the same person eats

too much in the evening, not sleeping well throughout the night, and wakes up to rainy morning, he/she may suffer from a lack of confidence.

Reference answers to the exercises Reading One

Check your comprehension

1. By sleeping in total darkness during the day and working under bright lights

that simulate sunlight, rather than conventional indoor lighting.

2. It relaxes muscles and stimulates the release of endorphins — chemicals that act as natural

pain relieves. 3. No.

4. We need to keep a meal schedule to get a good sleep.

5. We should refrain from a) eating too late in the evening; b) eating heavy or

spicy food in the evening; and c) snacking in the middle of the night. 6. The side effects of taking sleeping pills are: a) feeling groggy; b) insomnia

getting worse; c) developing a tolerance for sleeping pills: and d) a potentially fatal blood disorder with some sleeping pills.

7. Alcohol suppresses restorative dream sleep, causes numerous short awakenings

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and may but unrepressed toward morning.

8. We can read a book, listen to quiet music, take a hot bath or try

relaxation techniques, such as meditation or yoga.

9. Lights absorbed through the eyes can reset our biological clocks and make our

sleep problems worse.

10. We should stay in bed because we would still get some rest that way. Check your vocabulary

1. Because exercise can relax

to overcome stress.

muscles and increase

the release of

endorphins, which

are chemicals that are natural agents to reduce or get rid of pain, it helps

foods to help you sleep,

2. There are no special

but you can have a regular

timetable

for your meals, just like a regular sleep timetable. A regular timetable for your meals helps keep your body clock running smoothly.

3. Your body can also become used to the pills, and after a while

effective and you need larger doses or stronger drugs.

they are no longer

4. Alcohol reduces refreshing dream sleep, causes numerous short awakenings and,

once its calming effects have disappeared, may leave you wide awake but unrepressed toward mooring.

5. The researches used bright light which is as strong as natural sunlight just

after dawn (at least 100 times stronger than ordinary room light), which reset

subjects ’ body clocks by as much as 12 hours

and made them as alert at midnight

as they would ordinarily be at noon.

Reading Two FTFFFTT

Check your comprehension

Check your vocabulary 1. spontaneous; illusion; 8. revert Reading Three

2. provoke;

3. integrity;

4. thrives;

5. inflict;

6. universal;

7.

; 2. d; 3. b; 4. c; 5. c

Check your vocabulary 1.

aggression;

2.

symbolic;

3. disguise; guilt;

4. fulfillment;

10. illuminate;

5. represent;

6.

reconstruct;

7. anxious; 8. 9. therapist; 11. random; 12.

spare

Reading Four

Check your comprehension A TFTTTFT

Check your vocabulary A

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1. image; 2. mood; 3. up-bringing; 4. inanimate; 5. folkloric; 6. depressed; 7. acknowledge; 8 in combination with; 9. relieve

Check your vocabulary B

1. indifferent; 2. revolve; 3. monochrome; 4. passionate; 5. decipher; 6. inspired; 7. allusion; 8. correlated

Post-reading

A. Getting to sleep at night and waking up in the morning are two perennial

problems for human beings, who do not always regard sleep as very important. The importance we attach to sleep is correlated with what kind of beds we use for sleep and how highly we rate beds in our life. B. 1. b; 2. c; 3. d; 4. a; 5. a

Unit Five

1. Interpretation of the quotations ① The physical

dimension involves caring

effectively

for our physical

body—eating

the right kinds of foods, getting sufficient rest and relaxation, and exercising on a regular basis. (Stephen R. Covey)

The measurement of the elements relating to our body and keeping

to our body involves

paying close attention

it in a healthy state by eating the right kind of food, getting

enough rest and relaxation, and exercising regularly. ② Early

in life,

people give up their

health to gain

wealth ⋯In later

life,

people ⋯ When

give up some of their wealth to regain health! (Ken Blanchard) they get old, they spend money in order to restore their health.

When people are still young, they earn money at the expense of their health

③ . Remind yourself of the exorbitant price you can pay for worry in terms of your health. Those who do not know how to fight worry die young. (Dale Carnegie)

Rememberthat worrying beyond a reasonable limit can affect your health adversely. Those who do not know how to control worry die at an early age.

Reference answers to the exercises Reading One

Check your comprehension A TFTFTFT

Check your vocabulary

1. While many people in China and Chinatowns in other

parts of the world have already

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known a lot about Tai Chi, the western researchers are just coming up from behind to reach the

level of knowledge about Tai Chi from different perspectives.

2. You can learn Tai Chi by following an instruction book or attending a Tai Chi

class. Either way the aim is to practice it in accordance with your physical health.

3. Tai Chi is a mixture of

relaxation Tai Chi for

and safety. If pains several months before

is experienced,

it means

you are overdoing it and getting nothing. 4. You may need to practice

it may bring. But when you start enjoying the effects, you on your way to a new lifestyle.

you can feel the effects

’ ll find yourself

5. For older people, Tai Chi will not be the solution to all health problems. 6. Though young people might prefer athletic activities that are more physically

demanding, they can also benefit from practicing Tai Chi as it helps to reduce stress.

Reading Two

Check your comprehension 1. d; ; 3. d; 4. a; 5. c; Check your vocabulary A

1. scooped up; 2. prone; 3. inflicted; 4. cut back on; 5. set in; 6. shed; 7. modest; 8. bypass

Check your vocabulary B. 1. I thought

I could not be affected by the gradual weakening of the body that other

people seemed to be afflicted with when getting old.

in very good condition

me will

I hope doctors like

2. Your body is till

considering the fact that you are elderly. walking only two street

blocks

be out of work because old people like you are healthy.

3. Nowas I began to walk the distance painstakingly,

took me an hour. 4. Once again I can compete with younger players.

Reading Three

Check your comprehension B TTFTFF

Check your vocabulary A

1. put an end to ⋯ ; 2. counterproductive; 3. refined; 4. blink; 5. spill over; 6. view ⋯ as; 7. account for; 8. withhold

Check your vocabulary B.

1. in response to; 2. was denounced; 3. elicited; 4. devastating; 5. hold back; 6. welled up; 7 film; 8. bid

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Reading Four

Check your comprehension A FTTFFT

Check your vocabulary A

1. quantify; 2. to date; 3. subsequent; 4. exposure; 5. promptly; 6. conceivable; 7. precaution; 8. preliminary; Check your vocabulary B

1. Previous studies suggested that patients who had been given medial treatment

for nonmelanoma skin cancers ran a greater risk of developing new tumors. But these studies were too limited to lead to authoritative and complete results. 2. It is shown in

the findings that people with

prior skin cancers are at much greater

risk than researchers have thought. 3. The researcher

team followed every

participant

and trailed each case of

new skin

cancer that developed fro a continuation of five years. 4. When exposed to the

of getting another nonmelanoma skin cancer. 5. The older you are,

the more likely

sun, people who easily get sunburned were at

a greater risk

you will

be affected

by skin cancers.

That ’ s

because the amount of damage to health caused by the exposure to the sun is increased year after year.

Post-reading 1-5BCAAD

Unit Six

Part One: Interpretation of the quotations

1. True friendship is like good health. We often do not appreciate its

existence until we lose it.

2. A good wish to make friends may come to our minds easily and quickly, but

establishing a true friendship takes a long time and efforts, in the same way as fruit slowly ripens.

3. If you want to succeed in gaining the support and loyalty of a man with

his dedication to your goal, you have to first prove to him that you are his true friend.

Reference answers to the exercises Reading One

Check your comprehension A. FTTFFT

Check your vocabulary

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1. Friendship does not rely on judgment. You may feel the goodness in a friend,

but the goodness was acknowledged after you had made friends with him.

2. If you only want those who possess good qualities to be your friends because

you have good qualities, you are far from getting true friendship just as you can hardly build up true friendship if you are after friendship out of the motivation of gaining profits.

3. So if one knows what friendship really means, he would never put an end to it

only because his friend happens to be lacking respectability in character.

4. We should remain humble before friendship and love because we are granted this

free gift. We should feel ashamed rather than pleased and happy when we are no longer humble because friendship and love are gone.

5. Our judgments and penalties have to be part of our life as we pay men and dress

them in the court suit and let them be the judges to make judgments on other men.

Reading Two

Check your comprehension A FFFTT

Check your vocabulary A

1. knot; 2. accommodate; 3. slip away; 4. be treated 6. promptly; 7. kiss up to; 8. stretch; 9. halt; 10. keep bottled up Check your vocabulary B

1. ram; 2. dissipate; 3. smashed; 4. were ostracized; 5. rein; 6. briefly; 7. gave way; 8. were going about; 9. slashed; 10. stoically; 11. clunked

like dirt;

5. loosen the rein;

Check your vocabulary C

1. So I never said anything to show my unwillingness of going to the boarding school,

though all my senses could feel the reluctance of such a trip.

2. I got to know later that the school ’ s counselor had asked my mother to leave

unnoticed without saying goodbye to me in order to avoid the outburst of sad

emotions.

3. Not only did we refuse to admit the feeling of missing our dead parents, but

also the fact that they were with us before. And we kept it as secret deep in

our mind.

4. The only thing we can complain about is that Carneys are too good to us and some of you are

making use of their goodness.

5. Everyone thinks you were making up to the Carneys. Many boys are angry at

your act of flattery.

6. It was a place where the restraints and the outward aggressive appearance of

being unwilling our behavior.

7. Like the other boys, I also wanted to free

myself of the burden I could

no longer

to compromise gave way to something subtle

that started changing

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carry in mind.

8. But we didn ’ t carry a photo of our dead fathers with us, and we even didn

keep one in our rooms. Photos were generally regarded as something that could too easily remind us of

the happy life we had spent with our

dead parents; much

happier and more normal than the life we had now. Reading Three

Check your comprehension B FFTFT

Check your vocabulary

1. address; 2. shift; 3 prior; 4. circled; 5. stung; 6. weaves; 7. makeup; ; 9. dampened; 10. deserve; 11. faithfully; 12. tinfoil; 13. crushes; 14. glamour

’ t

Reading Four

Check your comprehension TFTTFT

Check your vocabulary 1. collapsed;

; 3. a handful of; 4. clean up; 5. shut off; 6. spark; 7. forecasted;

8. hangs out; 9. rush; 10. in advance Post-reading B.

1-5DCBCBC

Unit seven

culture and customs

Part One; interpretation of the quotations

1. Culture is not only the positive result of meaningful education, but also the

results of people’ s feeling, judgments about things and ways of behaving. 2. Culture is not only reflected

in books and architectures,

but also in our clothing,

gestures as head movements and postures as the way we talk and so on.

3. People are tending to be satisfied with the most ordinary things around them;

they mark few impressions of the beautiful and perfect things in mind, though

they should appreciated those to keep their feelings alive. Therefore, everyone ought to do at least one thing, such as hearing a little song, reading a good

poem, seeing a beautiful picture, or even speaking a few reasonable words. Reference answers to the exercises Check your comprehension B FFTTT

Check our vocabulary

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1. resorted to; 2. aversion; 3. adaptation; 4. deprived of; 5. detrimental; 6. generate; 7. nurture

Reading Two

Check your vocabulary 1. prestige/status; 7. prestige; 8. lateness Reading Three

Check your comprehension A FTFTFT

Check your vocabulary

1. The boy felt apprehensive of the day for him to return home. 2. The student was brought in front of the blackboard 3. Although they are brothers, they have little in common. 4. When he first came to America, he couldn 5. They felt puzzled when they were doing

2. defined;

3. respectively;

4. scheduled;

5. average; 6. status;

to account for his behavior.

’t adapt to the rapid pace of change. the project, because the principles

were

alien to them.

6. Compared with other women of her age, she was indeed luckier. Reading Four

1. She would accompany us across the seven long, hilly blocks and put us before

the serious-looking principal though we were unwilling and crying.

2. Very often I tried to avoid being connected to my annoying, loud grandmother

who followed after me when I was walking around casually supermarket outside Chinatown. 3. He treated

my mother

severely

and unkindly

and very often

criticized

in the nearby American

her

substandard English, which was mixed with Chinese.

4. When he made a mistake in English, he would blame her for it. Check your vocabulary B 1. heritage; 7. corner Post-reading

1. US; 2. J; 3. J; 4. J; 5. US; 6. J; 7. US; 8. J; 9. US; 10. US

2. dissuade; 3. mustiness; 4. outshout;

5. chaotic;

6. be hard on someone;

Unit Eight

About Language

Part One: Interpretation of the quotations

1. The language ability is the only human characteristic that makes a human

being different from other forms of life.

2. If all other things remain equal, every human brain has the same structure

that

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can react to any factors which cause a reaction. This is why a baby can learn

any language because it has the same reaction to the same stimulus as any other baby. 3. Language is not the work of the intellectuals or dictionary-makers. Rather, it

is the product of generations of people

’ s work, needs, relationships, and

happiness and it is broadly and deeply rooted among common people. Reference answers to the exercises Check your vocabulary

1. The international languages for pilots and air traffic controllers, airspeak,

and for for policemen, policespeak, have English as their base.

2. Because of the influence of Hollywood movies and pop music, many new learners

of English have already learned some English.

3. Some countries think that the use of English can damage or call into question

their identity as people or nation.

4. For people with different first language, English, as a second language,

has enabled them to communicate with each other without difficulty.

Reading Two

Check your comprehension B TTFTF

Check your vocabulary 1. origin(s); 2. speculate;

3. predispose;

4. Syntax; 5. contentment;

6. eventuallyReading Three

Check your comprehension A. 1-5 FTTFT; 6-10 TFTFF Check your comprehension B

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