综英5 Unit7课后练习参考答案

Unit 7

Part I Listening Task

Script for the recording:

You have to be careful with gambling. It can grow into an addiction that can leave you and your family penniless. It is an addiction that can catch people of any age in its grasp, as you can hear from the following story about Joe and Ellen.

Retirement was a bright spot on the horizon for Joe and Ellen until a riverboat casino appeared on the scene.

After Joe turned 65 and wound up with a lot of time on his hands, he accepted a friend's invitation to visit one of the local riverboat casinos. He had never gambled before, but this was entertainment, something to do with his friends.

The men started going fairly often, Ellen recalls, and Joe would sometimes ask her for an extra $50 or $80 to take to the boats.

\he would win and come home with money. Sometimes he would come home and say he lost it all. But I didn't know he was spending $500 or $800,\she said.

By the time he reached his early 70s, Joe had wiped out the entire amount he and Ellen had saved for retirement. But he kept it hidden from his wife.

Ellen found out last April when she asked him how they were going to pay for an upcoming vacation.

\at his money, and I knew something was wrong. I kept after him that whole day, like the FBI. Finally he confessed. He said he spent everything. I was devastated,\she said, her eyes quickly tearing up. \

Ellen eventually let him stay but she demanded Joe go to Gamblers Anonymous, an organization to rehabilitate gamblers, which he did that week and continues to do. Months later, she was still in shock over how his compulsion had ruined their lives. A daughter who lives with them now buys their food. The only other income is their Social Security checks and a meager paycheck Joe earns at a part-time job. Luckily, they had paid off their mortgage before he became a compulsive gambler.

Their story is not so different from those collected in a two-year national gambling study that examined whether any economic benefit it brings is worth the high social cost.

Not everyone who places a bet becomes a compulsive gambler, but millions of people in the U.S. are hooked on gambling, the study revealed. Among them a significant number of individuals turn into pathological, problem or at-risk gamblers, who are distinct from recreation or social gamblers in that they cannot control their impulse to gamble and often bring ruin on themselves and their families.

After Listening

1. the local riverboat casinos

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2. wiped out/gambled away the entire amount 3. rehabilitate gamblers

4. cannot control their impulse to gamble；bring ruin on themselves and their families

Part II Reading task

Comprehension Content Questions

Possible answers to content questions:

1. Rex used to be an editor at Random House. He has been addicted to gambling for a long time.

2. He has lost his marriage, his home, his Cadillac, his clothes, his diamond ring. Not least of all, he has lost his pride. He no longer feels sorry for himself.

3. Because his mind is so jam packed with tidbits about movies, television, baseball and history.

4. Yes, it is. It is legalized to raise revenues.

5. They blew $50.9 billion. The total number is 15.4 million.

6. Compulsive gambling has led to child abuse, domestic violence, embezzlement, bogus insurance claims, bankruptcies, welfare fraud and a host of other social and criminal ills.

7. The advent of Internet gambling could lure new legions into wagering beyond their means.

8. Science has uncovered clues to compulsive gambling-genetic predispositions that involve chemical receptors in the brain, the same pleasure pathways implicated in drug and alcohol addiction. But no amount of knowledge, no amount of enlightenment, makes the illness any less confounding, any less destructive.

9. Gamblers often make such excuses as: It’s in the desk at work; A friend borrowed it; It got spent on family dinners, car repairs, loans to in-laws. Once the secret is uncovered, spouses usually fight the problem alone, bleeding inside.

10. Anybody who is living with a compulsive gambler is totally overwhelmed. They are steeped in anger, resentment, depression, confusion. None of their personal efforts will ever stop a person from their addiction.

11. His study reveals that people in Vegas, Atlantic City and other gambling meccas showed significantly higher suicide rates than people in non-gambling cities.

12. Rex was at a poker table in Gardena. In the small hours he hesitated about whether to leave but finally decided to stay. The episode shows that it’s really hard to quit gambling.

Text Analysis 1.

Parts Paragraphs Main Ideas Part One Paras 1- 4 The authors give a brief account of the life experience of a

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hard-core gambler named Rex Coile.

Part Two Paras 5 -15 The authors expound the problem of gambling addiction, its

causes and its attendant steep social price.

Part Three Paras 16 - 22 Through further discussion of the example of Rex, the authors

reinforce the essay's thesis that the life of compulsive gamblers is a narrow box. Once trapped inside, they will rarely get out.

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Exposition.

3. Paragraphs Examples Paras 1- 4, Paras 16 – 22 Para 9 Also Para 9 Paras 13-14 Rex, a compulsive gambler, is the epitome of his type. A baby girl in South Carolina dies after being left seven hours in a hot car while her mother plays video poker. A Chicago woman, short of money to gamble, desperately suffocates her baby daughter for the life-insurance. A Los Angeles woman is driven crazy by her husband's addiction to gambling. 4.

The essay starts with a sketch of a hard-core gambler named Rex, and ends with a continuation of this particular example. By so doing coherence is achieved and the writing is shaped into a whole.

Language Sense Enhancement

1. 1) vacation 2) Instead

3) cheap motels 4) comforting 5) wipe away 6) marriage 7) Not least of all 8) pride 9) losing streak 10) agonizes

Vocabulary

I. 1. 1) anonymous 2) piling up

3) advent 4) sober up 5) articulate 6) dwindle 7) not least of all 8) vague 9) busted 10) rotting

2. 1) Its theme was that philosophy has very close links with mathematics and

artificial intelligence.

2) He is illiterate; worse still, he has a criminal record and lives in a world of lies and deceit.

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3) They carried out first aid to save the patient from bleeding to death.

4) They suggested that I go for broke, and be undeterred in pursuit of my dream.

5) He thinks it highly unlikely that such good luck will come his way again.

3. 1) The advent of spring —symbol of renewal — has been a constant theme in

Edward's writings.

2) Why those nasty things were being said of her was just beyond her comprehension, and as for myself I have never heard anything so offensive in all my life.

3) Malcolm Padina, managing director of Informix Software Inc, has called for a new initiative to purge the market of software pirates / software pirates from the market.

4) New evidence implicated Melancia in a financial scandal in February 2008. 5) Pains were tearing at my chest as I was running a two-mile race. I felt my knees sinking lower and lower as if I were running across quicksand.

4. 1) Operating a vehicle while intoxicated is a serious offence in itself, but few

cases hit the headlines unless they involve serious injury.

2) Ten years ago, when Bruce R., a 57-year-old insurance broker from Southern California, was on the verge of suicide after having gambled away the trust of his family and a small remnant of business partners, little help was available. He was, at one point, advised by two doctors that he just needed to get his gambling \control\—which is like telling a drug addict to take drugs more moderately.

3) The company was facing great financial problems due to the devastating effects of nationwide economic depression. Naturally the CEO’s sudden resignation at such a difficult time led to great resentment from the board of directors. The only hope they had was that the banks would keep the firm from bankruptcy by accepting a reorganization plan.

5. 1) fall under 2) fall behind

3) had fallen apart 4) fall back on 5) fall to 6) had left off 7) leave out 8) Leaving aside 9) be left alone 10) left behind

II. Usage

1. a. figurative b. literal 3. a. figurative b. literal 5. a. figurative b. literal

2. a. literal b. figurative 4. a. literal b. figurative 6. a. literal b. figurative

Comprehensive Exercises

I. Cloze

1. 1) legalize

2) philosophy

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3) sober 5) spouses 7) dwindle 9) lured 11) revenue

2. 1) indicate

4) addicts 6) deceit 8) pile up 10) criminal

12) hit the headlines

2) compulsive

3) addictions 4) financial 5) combination 6) blueprint 7) retirees 8) explosion 9) identified 10) trigger

II. Translation

Gamblers’ family members always pay a steep price. They not only have to endure the pain of having their wealth wiped away overnight, but they are also frequently overwhelmed with feelings of depression and hopelessness. A nationwide survey found that over 2 million adults identified a spouse's gambling as a significant factor in a prior divorce. The number of divorces in a county in Mississippi has nearly tripled since the advent of casinos. The county has also witnessed increases in domestic violence since then. A considerable body of evidence showed that the expansion of legally sanctioned gambling destroys individuals, ruins families, increases crime, and ultimately costs society far more than the revenues government collects.

Part III Home Reading Task Text B

Comprehension Check 1. d 2. c 3. d 4. c 5. a 6. b

Translation

洛塞莫尔的两个孩子还在上学，目前他已离婚，正在俄亥俄一家戒赌中心接受治疗。他将于下月初返回印第安纳的监狱等待受审。他可能得花好多年时间做出补偿，而其律师身份却将难保。

Language Practice 1. 1) h 2) f

3) e 4) b 5) g 6) d 7) c 8) a

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2. 1) publicized

2) bore the brunt of

3) has discovered to his cost 4) agent

5) go public 6) documented 7) accusing 8) add up

9) license 10) prosecution 11) had filed 12) wreck

Part IV Comprehensive Language Practice

Model IOU

Sept. 1, 2010 IOU one thousand dollars ($ 1,000),to be paid within six months from this date with interest at ten percent (10％) per annum.

Ellen Baker

To Mr.Michael Brown

Model receipt

Mar.1, 2011 Received from Ms.Ellen Baker one thousand and fifty dollars ($1050) in full payment of the loan lent to her on Sept.1, 2010, plus interest.

Michael Brown

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2. 1) publicized

2) bore the brunt of

3) has discovered to his cost 4) agent

5) go public 6) documented 7) accusing 8) add up

9) license 10) prosecution 11) had filed 12) wreck

Part IV Comprehensive Language Practice

Model IOU

Sept. 1, 2010 IOU one thousand dollars ($ 1,000),to be paid within six months from this date with interest at ten percent (10％) per annum.

Ellen Baker

To Mr.Michael Brown

Model receipt

Mar.1, 2011 Received from Ms.Ellen Baker one thousand and fifty dollars ($1050) in full payment of the loan lent to her on Sept.1, 2010, plus interest.

Michael Brown

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