现代大学英语精读1课后练习答案

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不得用于商业用途 Lesson One Half a Day

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1. Oral Work

1) What did his father say to give him courage? How did the boy feel when he

arrived at the school gate with his father?

2) What did the boy learn in school? Can you name some of the things he

learned?

2．Vocabulary test

1) choose the right word and put in the proper form:

(1) had received

(2) affects

(3)Admission

(4)awake

(5) beneath

(6) on

2) Put in the missing words.

good-natured; hunt; drank; queer;

asleep; woke; occurred; absence;

portrait; replace.

3．Grammar Work

Put in the blanks with correct verb forms.

(1) was surfing; was cut;

(2) will have planted;

(3) was; had not been;

(4) has been married;

(5) is; will be;

(6) is; must have rained

4．Written Work 仅供个人参考

不得用于商业用途 Write what you’ve learnt from the text about the little boy’s life in school in

about 100 words.

5． Translation

(1)也许所有教育最有价值的结果就是培养你有具有让你完成你不得不做的任何该做的事,不管你愿不愿意做.

(2)教育就是能让我们不断地发现我们的无知.

Lesson Two Going Home

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1. Oral work

(1) What do you know about these young people?

(2) How did the young people feel when they heard the story ?

2. Vocabulary test

1) choose the right word and put in the proper form:

(1) across

(2) rise

(3) attend/ take part in

(4) reach

(5) since

(6) above/ below

2) Put in the missing words.

screaming; clenched; triumph; exaltation; except; stunned; misty;

covered; ribbons; banner

3.Grammar work

Translation.

(1) Nobody could tell where the treasure was hidden.

(2) The traffic will be very heavy on the road during the rush hour everyday.

(3) He may have given her advice, but I doubt if it does her any good.

(4) What she learned at university proved useful in her research . 仅供个人参考

不得用于商业用途 (5) If he had waited for the traffic lights to change, he would not have been

killed.

(6) If not I had seen him at the party yesterday evening !

4. Written Work

略.

5. Translation

(1)多给人原谅比多去谴责

(2)如果我们想要去爱,我们必须学会如何去原谅.

Lesson Three Massage of the Land

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1. Oral work (answers omitted)

2. Vocabulary test

1)

(1) unfaithful (2) take out

(3) talk over (4) send for

(5) sent away (6) send up

2) Put the missing words

(1) sick / ill (2) alone (3) out (4) phone (5) on

(6) until (7) church (8) only (9) answered (10) needed

(11) clever (12) save (13) bit (14) now

3) Write the numbers in words.

(1) Two hundred and eight

(2) One thousand five hundred / fifteen hundred

(3) Seven thousand, one hundred and twenty-eight.

(4) two dollars six-five / two dollars and sixty-five cents.

(5) fourth

(6) twenty-first 仅供个人参考

不得用于商业用途 (7) thirtieth

(8) one half, three quarters, four fifths

3.Grammar work (answers omitted)

4. Written Work

One possible version:

My parents were born, brought up and married on this land. They have been

living there through their life. They got up at sunrise and retired with their

chickens. They planted and reaped rice and raised a few goats, cows and

chickens which could provide what they needed in their daily life.. However,

the piece of lands was no longer fertile, bleeding year after year, like them,

getting old and exhausted. The soil was not difficult to till when there was a lot

of rain, but in a bad year, it was not only the ploughs that broke but their hearts,

too. The farmer life is hard but my parents are enjoying it. They cherish their

land and never want to leave it.

5. Translation.

1) 家再贫寒，也没有任何地方能和它比。

2）家庭生活中标最重要的不仅是成员之间的心领神会，还需要心领神犀一点通。

3）我的丈夫对此却比我安心多了。他总是不闻不问、不紧不慢，沉默寡言，自个儿过日

Lesson Four The Boy and the Bank Officer

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1. Oral work (answers omitted)

2. Vocabulary test

1) Choose the right word and put it in the proper form.

(1) take (2) bring (3) possibly (4) probably

(5) probably (6) each (7) every

2) Put in the missing words.

(1) relied (2) time (3) still (4) when

(5) to (6) a (7) finally (8) started 仅供个人参考

不得用于商业用途 (9)As (10) trying (11) attention (12) tickets

(13) then (14) back

3． Grammar work.

Put in a, an, the, or “/” in the blankets

(1) a, /,/ (2) the (3) /,the (4) /,a

(5) /, / (6) the, the (7) the, an

4．Written work

One possible version:

I was forced again by the bully to go to the bank for money. I handed over my

own savings-account book to the bank officer, but unfortunately, he refused by

saying that I was too young to withdraw money. I couldn’t believe it. When did

this tiresome rule come out? A warn-hearted man argued with him that this

so-called policy was ridiculous. But the officer insisted his opinion, I became

hopeless. Suddenly, the kind man said to the officer that why you let the boy