大学英语之基础英语综合教程第二册unit2KeytoExercises

⼤学英语之基础英语综合教程第⼆册unit2KeytoExercises

Unit 2The Virtues of Growing Older

Key to exercises:

V ocabulary exercises:

I. Explain the italicized part in each sentence in your own words.

1. are likely to

2. break up / disintegrate

3. as a whole

4. powerless against / completely controlled by

5. not surprising / only too natural

II. F ill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.

1. delay

2. Feverishly

3. facade

4. confronted

5. premise

6. dreaded

7. automatically

8. awaiting

III. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.

1. obsessive

2. moodiness

3. tolerable

4. beneficial

5. satisfying

6. hidden

7. preference

8. criticisms

IV. C hoose a word or phrase that can replace the underlined part in each sentence without changing its original meaning.

1. C

2. D

3. A

4. A

5. B

6. D7. C

8. B

V. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.

1. Synonym: conceal, disguise

2. Antonym: narrow

3. Synonym: satisfaction, happiness, joy

4. Synonym: merits, advantages

5. Synonym: fat, plump

6. Synonym: well-built

7. Antonym: old-fashioned, outdated

8. Synonym: clearly, evidently

VI. Write in each space one word that has the same prefix as underlined in each given word.

1. prepare

2. progress

3. foresee

4. parallel

5. perimeter 教师⽤书中下划为per前缀，应为peri前缀

6. diameter

7. semiconductor

8. decelerate

Grammar exercises:

I. Complete the following sentences with the appropriate forms of the nouns given.

1. agony

2. agonies

3. experience

4. experiences

5. youth

6. a youth

7. a great help

8. a good knowledge

9. a gray hair

10.work

II. Complete each sentence with the most appropriate of the four choices given.

1. A

2. B3. D

4. C

5. A

6. B

7. B

8. C

III. Complete the reading. Choose the correct words in parentheses. Choose X if no word is needed.

a lot of / a little / some / a few / A / some / some / a lot of / X / many / X / a lot of

IV. Complete the following with every, each, everyone, every one or all.

1.all, Every one, Every

2.each

3.Every

4.each

5.Everyone

6.Each

7.everyone, everyone

8.Each

V. Correct the errors, where found, in the following sentences.

1. When planting these flowers, care must be taken not to damage the roots.

you must take care

2. Though received late at night, he started to work on the document immediately.

Though he received the document late at night it

3. Falling from such a height, we thought he would never survive.

When he fell

4. Reading the letter a second time, the meaning becomes clearer.

When you read

5. Reading the instructions repeatedly, what he meant became clear to me.

I became clear about what he meant

6. Shining in the sky we saw the first star.

We saw the first star shining in the sky.

7. The teacher walked behind the kids eating their lunches.

who were eating

8. While cleaning his gun, it went off unexpectedly.

he was cleaning

V. Make sentences of your own after the sentence given below, keeping the parts in italics in your sentences.1. e.g. We don’t go out much —as long as we can go for a drink once a week,

we’re satisfied.

As long as you have your health and your sanity, money isn’t really important.

2. e.g. Obviously, the discomfort of the job is not enough to prevent this young man

from his goal —making money for his education.

Obviously, if you want to lose weight very quickly, you should do two things at the same time: eat less and exercise more!

3. e.g. Food is a real need, but what about the sugarcoated breakfast food advertised

on television? It’s neither necessary nor nutritious.

The customer neither needs nor plans to buy candies and chewing gums, which are attractively displayed.

Translation exercises:

I. Translate the following sentences into Chinese.

1. 许多中年⼈去健⾝房锻炼，到街上跑步，为的是延缓衰⽼。

2. 青年⼈最不稳定的因素是，他们对价值观、⼈⽣⽬标和梦想还犹豫不定。

3. 镇上开会我可以⼤胆发⾔，在商店⾥购物我也敢投诉，因为我不再害怕⼈们会笑我，也不再渴望⼈⼈都喜欢我。

4. 我不再因为⾃⼰个性⽅⾯的缺陷责怪⽗母，也不会对他们在养育我的过程中所犯的种种过失耿耿于怀。

II. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and phrases given in brackets.

1.Many vain young people are obsessed with fancy cars despite the fact that they are

not yet rich enough to afford them.

2.Their marriage finally fell apart when his affair with another woman was found

out by his wife.

3.For artistic inspiration, the artist lived in the country for three years, where he

denied himself many comforts of life.

4.I’m not sure if we can have the excursion to Chongming Island tomorrow. It is at

the mercy of the weather.

5.When he was young he went to Japan to learn medicine, but after he returned to

China he changed his mind and pursued a career as a writer all his life.

6.She’s taken up with a man old enough to be her father, which is a disgrace to her

parents.

7.Since 1978, our economy has witnessed a rapid development; in contrast that of

some developed countries has declined.

8.The earthquake isolated this city from other areas. I’m afraid their food supplies

will not hold out through the winter.