第二版新世纪大学英语综合教程3课后习题答案

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Unit One

People Around Us

Enhance Your Language Awareness

Words in Action

▆ Working with Words and Expressions

In the box below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete

the following sentences with them. Change the form where necessary.

▆ Answers:

1) crease

2) hint

3) assured

4) awaiting

5) hovering

6) scrawled

7) glistening

8) frail

9) sole

10) visible

11) engaged

12) biased

13) dreading

14) grinning

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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.

▆ Answers:

1) for fear of

2) pulled up

3) except for

4) get by

5) make a living

6) every so often

7) in the background

8) Shut off

9) each and every

10) as it is

11) wraps … around her little finger

12) caught us …unawares

▆ Increasing Your Word Power

Choose the definition from Column B that best matches each phrasal verb in

Column A, paying attention to the V+ Prep./Ad. collocation.

▆ Answers:

1) f

2) c

3) d

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4) e

5) b

6) g

7) h

8) a

Fill in each blank in the following sentences with a proper phrasal verb. Change

the verb form where necessary.

▆ Answers:

1) let out

2) clean … up

4) waiting on

5) picked up

6) ended up

7) headed for

8) ran through

▆ Answers:

1) foretell

2) preview

3)

4) postscript

5) postgraduate

6) precondition

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7) ex-husband

Grammar in Context

Task 1: Combine the given sentences into one by using attributive clauses.

▇ Answers for reference:

I encountered many people whose lives amazed me. (See Para. 3, Text B)

We drove in silence to the address (that/which) she had given me. (See Para. 21,

Text B)

He pushed through the doors and headed for the back room where his apron

and busing cart were waiting. (See Para. 16, Text A)

I had seen too many people trapped in a life of poverty who depended on the

cab as their only means of transportation. (See Para. 6, Text B)

Their social worker, who stopped to check on Stevie every so often, admitted

Stevie and his mother had fallen between the cracks. (See Para. 6, Text A)

Task 2: Complete the following sentences by translating the Chinese in the

brackets into English. Be sure to use present particles or past particles to modify

nouns.

▇ Answers for reference:

well-considered decision, folded paper, written notice, laptop storing my annual

report, a postman delivering express mail

Cloze

▆ Complete the following passage with words chosen from Text A. The initial

letter of each is given.

▆ Answers:

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reliable

syndrome

adopted

got done with

gloomy

or something

chance

barely

in good shape

booth

mess

scrawled

peeking

in

Translation

1. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and

expressions given in brackets.

▆ Answers for reference:

What I didn’t count on was that over time I would sincerely take pride in being a

social worker.

Shooting a quick look at the clock on the wall, Grandma let out a cry, “Oh, My

dear /My goodness/My gracious, we’re going to miss the train!”

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At the kindergarten entrance, I always see some kids/children holding firmly on

to their parents. Should young parents be sterner towards their kids/children and

leave immediately under these circumstances?

In the dim street light stood a weeping little girl/ a girl weeping.

When making donations, rich people should be as considerate as possible in

order not to put the recipient in an embarrassing situation.

2. Translate the following paragraph into English using the words and

expressions in the box below.

▆ Answer for reference:

Theme-Related Writing

▆ Do one of the following writing tasks after class.

Suppose you were Frannie, the head waitress, in Text A. Write a short story

about Stevie from your perspective.

Read the following newspaper clipping and write a short essay on the question:

Should We Offer Seats to Elderly People on the Bus during Rush Hours?

▆Sample Essay for Task 1:

We all knew Stevie was mentally handicapped, so everyone, especially our boss

himself, doubted whether he would be a capable busboy in the truck-stop restaurant

where I worked as the head waitress. However, our worries were gradually removed

one week later. Smiling and hard-working, Stevie won over all our trucker regulars as

well as us employees.

Later we learnt that Stevie badly needed the job because the money he earned

made it possible for his mother and him to live together; otherwise he would be sent

to a group home. So you can imagine how worried Stevie was when he had to take