蒋静仪 阅读教程2 课后习题答案(含quotations)资料

蒋静仪 阅读教程2 课后习题答案（含quotations）

Unit One Human Relationship

1. Interpretation of the quotations

① No man can be separated from the society and disconnected with other people as an island is isolated from the mankind. The inherent(内在的) oneness of mankind is just like a whole mass land. ②. when you deal with issues about yourself, try to be calm, reasonable and intelligent; but when you deal with issues about other people, you need to be affectionate, sincere and sympathetic. ③ Here is an easy-to-follow, buy established and uncontroversial model for getting along with other people successfully. You just face and accept any serious misfortune or failure peacefully, as if it were something of litter significance or value; but never treat some ordinary, commonplace things as if they were extremely serious. Reference answers to the exercises Reading One:

Check your comprehension 1-5 ADCCB

Check your vocabulary

1. Fisher and Ury’s theory is based on the belief that the “win or lose” model does not work

when two sides try to reach an agreement.

2. Use positive statements surrounding ideas that are negative.

3. You can often successfully resolve differences if you try this collaborative approach. Reading Two

Check your vocabulary

Resisted; frustration; fluttered; jerked; restless; haltingly; gratefully; thoughtless Reading Three

Check your comprehension 1-7 FTFFTFT

Check your vocabulary

Administrative; meekly; hysterical; requisition; deposit; severe Confronted; spluttered; irate; bogus; purchase Reading four

Check your comprehension 1-6 FTTTFT

Check your comprehension

1. How often does this seriously affect people’s communication and make them fail in building

good relationships?

2. Every time parents and children disagree with each other, specialists often explain that

“generation gap” is the reason.

3. We are not sure whether the term is an acceptable explanation because the word “generation”

is used, but the other word “gap” can be applied when analyzing people’s different opinions. 4. Specialists in communication immediately challenge this belief and view it in a different way. 5. A speaker may not speak as fast as the listener can think.

6. Because they have free time to spend by themselves, the listeners probably think of other

things and no longer concentrate.

7. As people’s interests vary, when the topic does not attract them, the listeners stop listening. 8. If the speaker does not give a good impression because of his looks or other matters, the

listener would probably refuse to follow what the speaker says. Check your vocabulary A 1. give rise to 2. arise from 3. imply 4. facilitate 5. sound

6. carry away 7. gesture 8. exercise 9. tune in

Check your vocabulary B

disposal; distractions; facilitate; resort; skip; contributes; deserted; solution Post-reading

A. Through several incidents in childhood, Mary learned from her father how to listen to other’s

criticisms, hear the truth in the criticisms, and respect her own opinion. When she grew up, she did her Daddy advised and made achievements in her career. B. 1-5 DBDAB

Unit Two

1. Interpretation of the quotations

① Little children, headache; big children, heartache.(Italian Proverb)

In terms of problems that children give to their parents, big children are far troublesome than little children.

② Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers. (William Galvin) Mother Nature has designed everything for us. She gives us twelve years to establish a close and affectionate parent-child bond before they become troublesome teenagers who keep giving us headaches.

③. Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. ~Virginia Satir, The New Peoplemaking, 1988 Adolescents are not frightening creatures. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are properly not so sure themselves. (Virginia Satir)

Reference answers to the exercises Reading One

Check your compression A 1-6 TFTTFF

Check your comprehension B

1. to be independent/ independence/ freedom/ their own lives 2. primitive/ simple/ tribal way 3. become adults

4. frustrated, rebellious, restless 5. became/ were furious 6. the house key

Check your vocabulary

shelter; sit up; rein; adapt; primitive; puberty; lenient; worked out

Reading two

Check your comprehension B 1-6 FFTTFT

Check your vocabulary 1-5 ACAAC

Reading Three

Check your comprehension A 1-5 TFTFT

Check your comprehension B

1. One child sits in a chair and sticks out his/her leg so that another one running by is launched

like a space shuttle.

2. Several children run to the same door, grab the same handle, and beat each other up, ignoring

the fact that there are other doors available.

3. In restaurants, small children cast their bread on the water in the glasses the waiter has just

brought.

4. A child uses a chair to slip to the floor.

5. They yell at each other with one sticking his/her foot inside the door and waving it around,

and the other being disgusted but refusing to close the door.

Check your vocabulary A

1. You have decided to give up the joys of producing copies of some great art pieces at your own

ease in order to instead produce copies of yourselves, who keep you on the edge of desperation.

2. “Well,” I said, searching deep inside myself to give a paternal suggestion, “The best way is to

close your door.”]

3. And we decided to have children not for the reason of making my wife look older.

4. We did not plan to lose the days when we went shopping after enjoying a comfortable brunch

together on fine Saturdays. Check your vocabulary B

intimate; confess; make up; ceaseless; yell; paternal; rewarding

Reading Four

Check your comprehension A 1-4 DADB

Check your comprehension B 1-6 TTTFFT

Check your vocabulary A

manipulative; thrives; squeaked; sabotaged; penetrated; suffocating; juggle; persona

Check your vocabulary B.

nasty; sting; addiction; sneak; lease; rigid

tactics; unconditional; verge; encounter; frankly

Post Reading

B. 1-8 TTTF FTFT

Unit Three

1. Interpretation of the quotations

① Beauty more than bitterness makes the heart break.(Sara Teasdale

Beauty is good and of value. But the pursuit of beauty at the cost of other things may cause even bigger trouble than what pain and hardship will bring about.

② There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.(Francis Bacon) Any beautiful thing is not perfectly proportional. Some deviation from standard is not only allowed but also necessary for beauty to show its characteristics.

③. If you get simple is beauty and nought else, you get about the best ting God invents.(Robert Browning) Simple beauty is the best thing that you can be awarded of all the things in the world.

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

Reference answers to the exercises Reading one

Check your comprehension 1-7 TTFTTFF

Check your vocabulary

1. Some people prefer black hair, but other people like brown hair more.

2. You have been so greatly influenced by the environment you are in that you tend to look at

beauty that way.

3. Women’s magazines, advertisements and the media all focus their topics on appearance and

looks, and they keep warning you about the harm and risk of bad breath, sweat, being too fat or too thin.

4. The image you form about yourself may be very inaccurate.

5. Good looks shouldn’t exactly follow the model of any particular individual.

Reading two

Check your comprehension A

1. They were 202 primary school students, most of them aged eight and nine.

2. Children as young as seven were unhappy with their bodies and nearly one-in-three girls and

boys wanted to thinner.

3. It was “worrying that a number of the children have these sorts of beliefs and attitudes,” and

that there are more children with early-onset anorexia, which “is usually a lot more difficult to treat and usually a lot more severe,” though only a minority would go on to develop an eating disorder.

4. Ms. Thomas said children needed to learn that any body shape was acceptable and they should

be proud of their body.

5. He felt sad and guilty as a professional on the eating disorder research program.

Check your comprehension B 1-5 TFTFT

Check your vocabulary

indictment; predisposes; purge; specialist; dietary; nominated; onset

Reading three

Check your comprehension A 1-5 CCDAC

Check your comprehension B 1-5 FFFTT

Check your vocabulary

perused; previous; desperately; convince; belittle; complimented; elated; addicted

Reading Four

Check your comprehension A 1-6 FTFFTF

Check your vocabulary A

peck away; stand out; mould; advance; release...from; normality; hailed

Post-reading B. 1-5 CACCD

Unit four

① Sleep is better than medicine.(Proverb)

Good health relies more on a good night’s sleep than on medicine.

② A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you’re fast sleep.(Disney World advertisement) A dream reflects what you really feel in your subconscious world.

③. A light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.(Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author) When one refrains from having a big supper, enjoys a good night’s sleep, and wakes up to a beautiful morning, he/she will feel like a hero. But if the same person eats too much in the evening, not sleeping well throughout the night, and wakes up to rainy morning, he/she may suffer from a lack of confidence.

Reference answers to the exercises Reading One

Check your comprehension

1. By sleeping in total darkness during the day and working under bright lights that simulate

sunlight, rather than conventional indoor lighting.

2. It relaxes muscles and stimulates the release of endorphins—chemicals that act as natural pain

relieves. 3. No.

4. We need to keep a meal schedule to get a good sleep.

5. We should refrain from a) eating too late in the evening; b) eating heavy or spicy food in the

evening; and c) snacking in the middle of the night.

6. The side effects of taking sleeping pills are: a) feeling groggy; b) insomnia getting worse; c)

developing a tolerance for sleeping pills: and d) a potentially fatal blood disorder with some sleeping pills.

7. Alcohol suppresses restorative dream sleep, causes numerous short awakenings and may but

unrepressed toward morning.

8. We can read a book, listen to quiet music, take a hot bath or try relaxation techniques, such as

meditation or yoga.

9. Lights absorbed through the eyes can reset our biological clocks and make our sleep problems

worse.

10. We should stay in bed because we would still get some rest that way.

Check your vocabulary

1. Because exercise can relax muscles and increase the release of endorphins, which are

chemicals that are natural agents to reduce or get rid of pain, it helps to overcome stress.

2. There are no special foods to help you sleep, but you can have a regular timetable for your

meals, just like a regular sleep timetable. A regular timetable for your meals helps keep your body clock running smoothly.

3. Your body can also become used to the pills, and after a while they are no longer effective and

you need larger doses or stronger drugs.

4. Alcohol reduces refreshing dream sleep, causes numerous short awakenings and, once its

calming effects have disappeared, may leave you wide awake but unrepressed toward mooring.

5. The researches used bright light which is as strong as natural sunlight just after dawn (at least

100 times stronger than ordinary room light), which reset subjects’ body clocks by as much as 12 hours and made them as alert at midnight as they would ordinarily be at noon.

Reading Two

Check your comprehension FTFFFTT

Check your vocabulary

1. spontaneous; 2. provoke; 3. integrity; 4. thrives; 5. inflict; 6. universal; 7. illusion; 8. revert

Reading Three

1.a; 2. d; 3. b; 4. c; 5. c

Check your vocabulary

1. aggression; 2. symbolic; 3. disguise; 4. fulfillment; 5. represent; 6. reconstruct; 7. anxious; 8. guilt; 9. therapist; 10. illuminate; 11. random; 12. spare

Reading Four

Check your comprehension A TFTTTFT

Check your vocabulary A

1. image; 2. mood; 3. up-bringing; 4. inanimate; 5. folkloric; 6. depressed; 7. acknowledge; 8 in combination with; 9. relieve

Check your vocabulary B

1. indifferent; 2. revolve; 3. monochrome; 4. passionate; 5. decipher; 6. inspired; 7. allusion; 8. correlated

Post-reading

A. Getting to sleep at night and waking up in the morning are two perennial problems for

human beings, who do not always regard sleep as very important. The importance we attach to sleep is correlated with what kind of beds we use for sleep and how highly we rate beds in our life. B. 1. b; 2. c; 3. d; 4. a; 5. a

Unit Five

1. Interpretation of the quotations

① The physical dimension involves caring effectively for our physical body—eating the right kinds of foods, getting sufficient rest and relaxation, and exercising on a regular basis. (Stephen R. Covey) The measurement of the elements relating to our body involves paying close attention to our body and keeping it in a healthy state by eating the right kind of food, getting enough rest and relaxation, and exercising regularly.

② Early in life, people give up their health to gain wealth…In later life, people give up some of their wealth to regain health! (Ken Blanchard) When people are still young, they earn money at the expense of their health…When they get old, they spend money in order to restore their health.

③. Remind yourself of the exorbitant price you can pay for worry in terms of your health. Those who do not know how to fight worry die young. (Dale Carnegie) Remember that worrying beyond a reasonable limit can affect your health adversely. Those who do not know how to control worry die at an early age.

Reference answers to the exercises Reading One

Check your comprehension A TFTFTFT

Check your vocabulary

1. While many people in China and Chinatowns in other parts of the world have already known

a lot about Tai Chi, the western researchers are just coming up from behind to reach the level of knowledge about Tai Chi from different perspectives.

2. You can learn Tai Chi by following an instruction book or attending a Tai Chi class. Either

way the aim is to practice it in accordance with your physical health.

3. Tai Chi is a mixture of relaxation and safety. If pains is experienced, it means you are

overdoing it and getting nothing.

4. You may need to practice Tai Chi for several months before you can feel the effects it may

bring. But when you start enjoying the effects, you’ll find yourself on your way to a new lifestyle.

5. For older people, Tai Chi will not be the solution to all health problems.

6. Though young people might prefer athletic activities that are more physically demanding,

they can also benefit from practicing Tai Chi as it helps to reduce stress.

Reading Two

Check your comprehension 1. d; 2.b; 3. d; 4. a; 5. c; 6.d Check your vocabulary A

1. scooped up; 2. prone; 3. inflicted; 4. cut back on; 5. set in; 6. shed; 7. modest; 8. bypass

Check your vocabulary B.

1. I thought I could not be affected by the gradual weakening of the body that other people

seemed to be afflicted with when getting old.

2. Your body is till in very good condition considering the fact that you are elderly. I hope

doctors like me will be out of work because old people like you are healthy.

3. Now as I began to walk the distance painstakingly, walking only two street blocks took me an

hour.

4. Once again I can compete with younger players.

Reading Three

Check your comprehension B TTFTFF

Check your vocabulary A

1. put an end to…; 2. counterproductive; 3. refined; 4. blink; 5. spill over; 6. view…as; 7. account for; 8. withhold

Check your vocabulary B.

1. in response to; 2. was denounced; 3. elicited; 4. devastating; 5. hold back; 6. welled up; 7 film; 8. bid

Reading Four

Check your comprehension A FTTFFT

Check your vocabulary A

1. quantify; 2. to date; 3. subsequent; 4. exposure; 5. promptly; 6. conceivable; 7. precaution; 8. preliminary; 9.bout

Check your vocabulary B

1. Previous studies suggested that patients who had been given medial treatment for

nonmelanoma skin cancers ran a greater risk of developing new tumors. But these studies were too limited to lead to authoritative and complete results.

2. It is shown in the findings that people with prior skin cancers are at much greater risk than

researchers have thought.

3. The researcher team followed every participant and trailed each case of new skin cancer that

developed fro a continuation of five years.

4. When exposed to the sun, people who easily get sunburned were at a greater risk of getting

another nonmelanoma skin cancer.

5. The older you are, the more likely you will be affected by skin cancers. That’s because the

amount of damage to health caused by the exposure to the sun is increased year after year.

Post-reading 1-5 B C A A D

Unit Six

Part One: Interpretation of the quotations

1. True friendship is like good health. We often do not appreciate its existence until we lose it. 2. A good wish to make friends may come to our minds easily and quickly, but establishing a

true friendship takes a long time and efforts, in the same way as fruit slowly ripens.

3. If you want to succeed in gaining the support and loyalty of a man with his dedication to your

goal, you have to first prove to him that you are his true friend.

Reference answers to the exercises Reading One

Check your comprehension A. FTTFFT

Check your vocabulary

1. Friendship does not rely on judgment. You may feel the goodness in a friend, but the goodness

was acknowledged after you had made friends with him.

2. If you only want those who possess good qualities to be your friends because you have good

qualities, you are far from getting true friendship just as you can hardly build up true friendship if you are after friendship out of the motivation of gaining profits.

3. So if one knows what friendship really means, he would never put an end to it only because

his friend happens to be lacking respectability in character.

4. We should remain humble before friendship and love because we are granted this free gift. We

should feel ashamed rather than pleased and happy when we are no longer humble because friendship and love are gone.

5. Our judgments and penalties have to be part of our life as we pay men and dress them in the

court suit and let them be the judges to make judgments on other men.

Reading Two

Check your comprehension A FFFTT

Check your vocabulary A

1. knot; 2. accommodate; 3. slip away; 4. be treated like dirt; 5. loosen the rein; 6. promptly; 7. kiss up to; 8. stretch; 9. halt; 10. keep bottled up

Check your vocabulary B

1. ram; 2. dissipate; 3. smashed; 4. were ostracized; 5. rein; 6. briefly; 7. gave way; 8. were going

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