Unit 2 综合教程(3)练习答案与讲解.doc

Unit 2LoveChecking Your Vocabulary (P47)1. Put down the right word from Text B in the space provided according to the given definition. The first letter of each word is already given.1) engaged2) grief3) manipulate4) agonizing5) maximum6) fascinate7) silverware8) grace2. Fill in each blank with a word or phrase from Text B. Both the explanation and the number of the paragraph in which the target word or phrase appears are given in the bracket. Be sure to use the proper form.e.g.1) moist.2) fit into 3) In the course of 4) glory.5) overjoyed 6) clip 7) in vain 8) yield Checking Your Comprehension (P48)1. Answer the following questions with the information contained in Text B.1) He was dying in bed of a serious disease.2) They were long and large. His fingers were long and square, laced with fine veins all the way to the tips. His nails squared off the ends of his fingers, with clearly defined white edges. He had always taken great care to keep them neat. They were not tough hands; nor soft, either.3) She could feel pure and honest expressions of his love.4) He took very good care of them.5) Her husband held her hands in the most frightening moments of his illnesses and in the deepest, darkest moment of his life.6) She discovered an opened pack of emery boards.7) At the sight of the emery boards, she could not control her grief any longer and broke into tears.8) He was her youngest son, who resembled her husband very much.9) She felt the clasp was as reassuring as his fathers.2. Read the following sentences carefully and discuss in pairs what the author intends to say by the italicised parts.1) Holding one of my hands tightly, he expressed his pure love for me as well as his wish to be together with me forever.2) I tried to bear in mind what his hands were like because I knew he would soon leave us forever.3) When death was drawing near, he clasped my hands to seek comfort and support from me and to express his pure and deep love for me.4) Since my husband had been using them before he died, I like to use them now so that I could find myself mentally closer to him.5) Even though he had died, my husbands way of expressing love through his handclasp had been passed down to our son, which was a lasting comfort to me.Optional Classroom Activities (P49-P50)1) Harmless puppy loves that are as brief as soap bubbles.Simile : “Soap bubbles” is used to emphasize the brief period of time that puppy loves last.=明喻：“肥皂泡”被用来强调年少时的爱慕之情持续时间的短暂性。2) Love was a magnificent building I built on the foundation of friendship. It took time to blossom.Metaphor: “Magnificent building” is used to imply that love should be developed in the same way as we build or construct a building and that, like a building, love should be based on something. “To blossom” is also a metaphor, which implies that love can be as beautiful as a flower but it takes time to have it develop or grow.=隐喻：“宏伟的大厦”被用来暗示爱的培养犹如大厦的建造，大厦建立在牢固的基础上，爱也应该建立在某种牢固的根基上。“开花”也是隐喻，暗示着爱如同花般美丽，但它需要经过一定的时间才会开花生长。3) Our parents generation was fed lavishly with ideals.Metaphor: Here “be fed with” is used metaphorically, meaning that, people of her parents generation were taught to pursue love and relationships strictly according to the “ideals” of the time, these ideals nourishing their mental needs much as food does the body.=隐喻：“被灌输”是一种隐喻的手法，意思是说作者的父母这一代人严格按照他们那个时代的“理想”去追求爱情和恋爱关系，这些“理想”丰富了他们的精神需求，恰如食物满足了我们的身体需求。4) I am sorry to learn about the kind of emotional baggage school kids are carrying in what are purely unemotional relationships.Metaphor: “Baggage” is used to indicate the heavy burden that school children have to shoulder when they pursue “purely unemotional relationships”.=隐喻：“包袱”被用来暗示学生们在全然没有任何情感的关系中所不得不背负的沉重负担。5) What about giving ourselves, and others, time and space to forge relationships?Metaphor: “To forge” implies that relationships are like iron and require plenty of tempering before they become as solid and strong as steel.=隐喻：“打造”被用来暗示恋爱关系的培养犹如钢铁的冶炼，要想培养牢固而持久的恋爱关系，必须经历足够的锻炼。6) For seven-and-a-half months, my grief for my husband had been frozen within me like an icy presence that would not yield.Simile: “Frozen” and “icy presence” are used to imply that during the seven-and-a-half months after her husband died, the author had managed to bury the grief for her husband deep down in her heart as if it had turned into something like ice.=明喻：“冰冻的”和“冰块”被用来暗示在她丈夫死后的七个半月时间里，作者终于成功地将失去丈夫的巨大悲哀深深地埋葬在心底，就好比那痛苦已转化成某种如冰一样的物体。7) Then, this last Sunday of February, I was undone by the simple presence of emery boards.Metaphor: “Was undone” emphasizes the sudden release or outbreak of her grief, as if a knot came loose or untied unexpectedly.=隐喻：“被释放”被用来强调她的巨大悲哀突然得以释放或爆发，犹如一个结出乎意料地被解开。Words In Action (P50)1. In the boxes below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the following sentences with them. Change the form where necessary.1) curled.2) minimum3) clip4) yielded 5) Given6) awaiting 7) fascinated8) affection 9) interact10) haste11) harden 12) grief13) defies 14) glance15) presence16) lasting.17) via 18) acquire 19)manipulate20) restraints2.In the boxes below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do you know how to use them in the proper context? Now check for yourself by doing the blank-filling exercise. Change the form where necessary. (P51)1) let loose on2) fit into 3) hold on.4) state of affairs 5) in the course of6) in vain 7) build on 8) In short9) grow used to 10) blame on 11) reached for 12) give and take.Increasing Your Word Power (P52)1.The prefix over- can be added to nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, meaning “above”, “outside”, “across”, or “too much”. Study the words given in the box and choose the proper word to fill in each of the blanks in the following sentences. Change the form where necessary.1) overcoat.2) overhead.3) overjoyed 4) overslept5) overweight6) overdue7) overtime 8) overworking 2.Many words in English can be used both as nouns and as verbs. Listed in the following table are some of these words that you have learned in Unit 1 and Unit 2. Study themcarefully and then complete each of the following sentences with one of them as you see fit. Change the form where necessary .(P53)1) crush2) attributes3) fancy4) bubbled5) grasp6) drizzling7) labeling8) yield 3.Listed in the box below are some idiomatic expressions formed with the word “hand”. Study them carefully and try to make out their meanings. You may consult a dictionary if necessary. Then translate the given sentences into English, using one of them. (P54)Additional:(1) a green hand=生手(2) at hand=在手边(3) give sb. a hand=向某人伸出援手；帮助某人(4) in hand=在手中(5) out of hand=失去控制(6) short of hands=缺少人手(7) hand down=（从上一代往下一代）传沿/传承(8) hand in=上交(9) hand on=传递(10) hand out=分发；散发1) We are short of hands.2) I still have some money in hand.3) Give me a hand with this box, please.4) I often keep a dictionary at hand.5) The football fans were out of hand.6) Hand out the pencils to everyone in the class.7) This ring was handed down to me by my grandmother.8) Times up. Please hand in your test papers.9) Please hand on the magazine to your roommates.10) Im afraid I cant help you. Im a green hand.Grammar Review (P55)1. Now complete the following sentences by translating the Chinese in the bracket into English. Make sure that the sentences are in the inverted order.1) Sitting on the stairs was (Or: On the stairs was sitting)2) Over the wall came / flew3) Round the corner was4) Then finally came5) Under the table was lying6) At / On the top of the hill stood2. In Text A, you read the following sentences containing v. + prep. phrases. Study the sentences, paying special attention to the position of the preposition.1) The beaver chews down trees to get food and material to build its home with.2) Do your parents think Tom is a nice boy to go out with? (Cross out him)3) The goals for which he has fought all his life seem unimportant to him now.4) NONE.5) The essay starts by asking a question, to which the author then gives a positive answer.Cloze (P56)Complete the following passage with words and phrases chosen from Text A. The initial letter of each is given.1) haste2) state of affairs3) distinguished4) meeting of minds5) blossom6) inner charm7) intimacy8) emotion9) acquiring10) ideals11) admiration12) lasting13) affection14) forge15) honor16) overwhelmingTranslation (P56)1. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and expressions given in brackets.1) In both friendship and love, you should never expect to take the maximum while you give the minimum.2) I built all my hopes on his promise(s), only to find that he was not a man of sincerity at all.3) We took Mother to all the best hospitals we could find, but all our efforts were in vain; she failed to survive the disease.4) Valentines Day is an annual holiday celebrated on February 14, a perfect day to express love to the object of ones affection.5) In the information era, communications with far-away friends via e-mail can be almost simultaneous.6) Love takes time, for it is not forged until you have grown used to the others company and