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1、新世纪大学英语综合教程3课后习题答案完整unitListen and Respond Listen to a short passage entitled “An Invitation”. Task One Focusing on the Main Ideas Choose the best answer to each of the following questions according to the information contained in the listening passage. 1) Where did the woman see the three old men?
2、A) In front of her store. B) In her front yard. C) In her dream. D) In her doorway. 2) Who were the three old men respectively? A) Success, Hope and Wealth. B) Faith, Hope, and Love. C) Wealth, Faith and Success. D) Love, Success and Wealth. 3) Whom did the family invite in? A) Wealth. B) Love. C) S
3、uccess. D) All of the above. 4) How many of the old men would like to go into the house? A) One. B) Two. C) Three. D) Four. 5) What is the main idea of the passage? A) Where there is love, there is wealth and success. B) One cannot live without wealth, love and success. C) Love is as important as we
4、alth and success. D) Wealth and success are what people pursue most eagerly. Task Two Zooming In on the Details Listen to the passage again and fill in each of the blanks according to what you have heard. 1. The women thought that the three old men must be hungry , so she invited them to come in and
5、 have something to eat . 2. The old men said that they did not go into a house together . 3. The husband wished to invite Wealth , but the woman did not agree and wished to have Success , while their daughter suggested: “ Wouldnt it be better to invite Love ?” 4. The woman came out and asked: “Which
6、 one of you is Love ? Please come in and be our guest .” 5. The other two old men also got up and followed, which surprised the woman. 6. One old man told the woman: “If you had invited Wealth or Success , the other two of us would have stayed out .” Read and Explore Task One Discovering the Main Id
7、eas 1 Answer the following questions with the information contained in Text A. 1) Is “love” easy to define? Why or why not? No. It is because love is a feeling that can only be felt but cannot be clearly described. 2) How does the author describe “puppy loves”? “Puppy loves” are brief, silly, advent
8、urous but harmless. 3) What does it take for love to develop into maturity? Love takes time to blossom and it takes a lot of understanding, caring, sharing and affection to develop into maturity. 4) What helped preserve the holiness of love in the authors parents generation? It was the distance betw
9、een men and women that helped preserve the holiness of love in the authors parents generation. 5) What negative roles do the media play in forming the younger generations view of love? The media have exposed the younger generation to things that have fast paced their sensibilities so much that takin
10、g things slow requires effort. 6) What do young people today tend to value in relationships? What does the author think they should value? They tend to value physical beauty, closeness, passion and acquiring. The author thinks that they should value inner charm, intimacy, emotion and sharing. 2 Text
11、 A can be divided into four parts with the paragraph number(s) of each part provided as follows. Write down the main idea of each part. Part Paragraph(s) Main Idea One 12 Love is hard to define because it can only be felt but not described. Two 37 The author discusses love of different depths from h
12、er own experiences. Three 812 The two generations handle love and relationships differently. The younger generation tends to be more hasty and selfish in building relationships. Four 1314 The author advises young people to learn the essence of love and find ways to develop relationships into lifelon
13、g bonds. Task Two Reading Between the Lines Read the following sentences carefully and discuss in pairs what the author intends to say by the italicised parts. 1. Given the busy nature of our lives, its to be appreciated that we even find the time to indulge in matters of the heart. (Para. 3) Love i
14、s still indispensable to us, even though we are so busy pursuing material things for our everyday life. For this we should feel grateful. 2. The long skirts, the quiet and unpretentious looks, the curled long hair, the calmness, the shy glance these are all so frequently remindful of a bygone era. (
15、Para. 8) These often remind us of those days when people of our parents generation were courting. It was an era of constraints, restraints, respect, admiration, and plenty of romance. But such an era is gone for ever, for young people today tend to behave differently. 3. There is more of acquiring a
16、nd less of sharing. (Para.12) The younger generation is more selfish: they care too much about what they can get instead of what they can share. 4. Theres much more to being someones lover than gifting them red roses and fifty-cent cards. (Para. 13) People in a relationship need to do much more than
17、 just sending gifts to their lovers. More importantly, they should devote themselves, heart and soul, to each other. 5. And we should not have become so tired by our frivolous acts that when it comes we arent able to receive it with open arms. (Para. 14) After repeatedly experiencing hasty, casual a
18、nd insensible relationships, we have become emotionally tired and confused, so when true love comes, we are unable to respond to it with due enthusiasm, passion and devotion. Checking Your Vocabulary Word Detective 1 Put down the right word from Text B in the space provided according to the given de
19、finition. The first letter of each word is already given. Example: icy: extremely cold; covered with ice 1) engaged: having agreed to marry 2) grief: great sorrow or feelings of suffering 3) manipulate: work with skilful use of the hands 4) agonizing: causing great pain or anxiety 5) maximum: the la
20、rgest number, amount, etc. 6) fascinate: attract and hold the interest or attention of 7) complaint: a statement of dissatisfaction, unhappiness, pain, etc. 8) grace: a fine and attractive quality in movement or form, esp. when this seems effortless and natural 2 Fill in each blank with a word or ph
21、rase from Text B. Both the explanation and the number of the paragraph in which the target word or phrase appears are given in brackets. Be sure to use the proper form. Example: To gain more profit, they reduced the costs of the building to the minimum . (the smallest amount: Para. 7) 1) “Lip Ice”,
22、a relief for dry lips, is applied to keep lips moist . (slightly wet: Para. 1) 2) Only three people could fit into the lift; its really too small. (have sufficient space in: Para. 5) 3) In the course of their investigation, they discovered various forms of political corruption (腐败). (during: Para. 6
23、) 4) Helen was overjoyed to hear that she had got the job. (extremely pleased: Para. 9) 5) I often clip pictures of tourist spots from the magazine Travel Weekly. (cut: Para. 10) 6) Doctors tried in vain to save him; he passed away at dawn. (without a successful result: Para. 12) 7) During the war,
24、they were forced to yield some of their farmland to the local farmers. (give up ones control of: Para. 12) 8) The twins resemble each other in appearance but their personalities are quite different. (look like or be similar to sb. or sth.: Para. 13) Checking Your Comprehension 1 Answer the following
25、 questions with the information contained in Text B. 1) What happened to the writers husband? He was dying in bed of a serious disease. 2) What did her husbands hands look like? They were long and large. His fingers were long and square, laced with fine veins all the way to the tips. His nails squar
26、ed 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) What could she feel when her husband clasped her hands during the last four years when he was confined to the hospital bed? She could fe
27、el pure and honest expressions of his love. 4) How did he treat his children when they were young? He took very good care of them. 5) In what special moments did her husband hold her hands in the hospital? Her husband held her hands in the most frightening moments of his illnesses and in the deepest
28、, darkest moment of his life. 6) What did she discover in her husbands dresser months after he died? She discovered an opened pack of emery boards. 7) How did she react to the discovery? At the sight of the emery boards, she could not control her grief any longer and broke into tears. 8) Who was Ste
29、phen? He was her youngest son, who resembled her husband very much. 9) How did she feel when Stephen clasped her hand? 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) And whe
30、never those hands sought mine in the final days of his life, he pressed them both together around one of my hands. (Para. 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) It was during that time, as I sat by his bed, that I
31、tried to memorize his hands. (Para. 2) I tried to bear in mind what his hands were like because I knew he would soon leave us forever. 3) Those hands clasped mine in the most frightening moments of his illnesses. (Para. 8) When death was drawing near, he clasped my hands to seek comfort and support
32、from me and to express his pure and deep love for me. 4) Months later, I opened the top drawer of Pauls dresser one Sunday and reached in for one of his clean, pressed handkerchiefs I liked to use them now. (Para. 11) Since my husband had been using them before he died, I like to use them now so tha
33、t I could find myself mentally closer to him. 5) It was as though his fathers long, graceful hands clasped mine once again. Still reassuring me. (Para. 13) 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 t
34、o me. Optional Classroom Activities Rhetorical devices such as simile (明喻) and metaphor (隐喻) are used in both Text A and Text B. Listed below are some examples. Discuss with your partner how and why the writers use such rhetorical devices. The explanation of the first one is provided. 1) Harmless pu
35、ppy loves that are as brief as soap bubbles. (Para. 3, Text A) Simile: “Soap bubbles” is used to emphasize the brief period of time that puppy loves last. 2) Love was a magnificent building I built on the foundation of friendship. It took time to blossom. (Para. 7, Text A) Metaphor: “Magnificent bui
36、lding” 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 gro
37、w. 3) Our parents generation was fed lavishly with ideals. (Para. 8, Text A) 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 th
38、eir mental needs much as food does the body. 4) I am sorry to learn about the kind of emotional baggage school kids are carrying in what are purely unemotional relationships. (Para. 10, Text A) Metaphor: “Baggage” is used to indicate the heavy burden that school children have to shoulder when they p
39、ursue “purely unemotional relationships.” 5) What about giving ourselves, and others, time and space to forge relationships? (Para. 12, Text A) Metaphor: “To forge” implies that relationships are like iron and require plenty of tempering before they become as solid and strong as steel. 6) For seven-
40、and-a-half months, my grief for my husband had been frozen within me like an icy presence that would not yield. (Para. 12, Text B) 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 hu
41、sband deep down in her heart as if it had turned into something like ice. 7) Then, this last Sunday of February, I was undone by the simple presence of emery boards. (Para. 12, Text B) Metaphor: “Was undone” emphasizes the sudden release or outbreak of her grief, as if a knot came loose or untied un
42、expectedly. Enhance Your Language Awareness Words in Action Working with Words and Expressions 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. Text A acquire affection curl defy given haste interac
43、t preserve restraint Text B clip fascinate grief manipulate minimum presence yield 1) I dont like my straight hair so Im going to have it curled . 2) This price is her minimum ; she refuses to lower it any further. 3) I often clip recipes out of newspapers and magazines but never use them when I coo
44、k. 4) She yielded to temptation and had another chocolate even though she was going on a diet. 5) Given the fact that she loves children, I am sure teaching is the right career for her. 6) They try to preserve their interesting old customs against the impacts of the modern world. 7) Philip was fasci
45、nated to see how the old woman wove (编织) cloth with such simple tools. 8) Among all his relatives, he has an especially deep affection for his aunt who cares for him most. 9) Teaching is not a one-way activity; teachers and students should interact with each other in class. 10) After his wife died,
46、he remarried with much haste , which caused a lot of gossip (闲话) among his acquaintances. 11) Without your love and support, he would have been weighed down (颓丧) with grief after his daughter died of a car crash. 12) I have never seen a house like that its untidiness defies description; I think she
47、ought to learn how to keep a house. 13) These days more and more pregnant (怀孕的) women want the presence of their husbands at the birth of their children. 14) It is quite possible for a student to master English grammar and acquire a large vocabulary without the help of a teacher. 15) She watched him
48、 manipulate all the handles and gears (汽车上的)排挡 in his automobile until she thought she could run it herself. 16) Lack of money and lack of machinery are the two major restraints on the growth of this factory; thats why it remains the same as it was ten years ago. 2 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
