研究生英语阅读教程基础级课后答案

READING COMPREHENSION TEST I (45 minutes, 25 questions, 4 points each)

Directions: In this test, there are five short passages. Read each passage carefully, and choose the best choice to answer the questions.

Passage One

A study released last week indicates that American students not only have no problem with cheating, but that often, teachers close their eyes to it.

The survey was conducted by Professor Donald L. McCabe of Rutgers University, New Jersey, founder and president of the Center for Academic Integrity. This na

Key to Exercises

Unit 1

Text A

II. Vocabulary A. 1. B. 1. C．

1. is afflicted with 5. abandon themselves

III. Grammar & Structure A.

1. don’t leave; will be; get 2. was drowning; dived; rescued 3. exploded; climbed

4. reached; realized; didn’t know 5. will be; opens 6. will start; return 7. makes; has found

8. was raining; played/were playing; was trying; didn’t get on/wasn’t getting on; kept B. 1.

IV. Translation

1. Research revealed that the bird was on the brink of extinction. It’s every citizen’s

obligation to prot

Lesson 1

II. Translation

Put the following passages into Chinese.

1. For English is a killer. It is English that has killed off Cumbric, Cornish, Norn and Manx. There are still parts of these islands where sizeable communities speak languages that were there before English. Yet English is everywhere in everyday use and understood by all or virtually all, constituting such a threat to the three remaining Celtic languages, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh... that their long-term future must be considered...

READING SELECTION A

Laws (Principle) of Lasting Love

By Paul Pearsail

headmaster: n.; principal (a. n.), president/ dean

[1] During my 25 years as a marital therapist (consultant), I have seen hundreds of people disappointed over (about) unfulfilling (unsuccessful) relationships. I have seen passion turn to (become) poison. I have grieved with patients for the love they lost or never found. (bare infinitive/ Love is blind)

[2] \seemed to love so much (deeply), but now it's gone,\one woman lamented to me. \can't marriage b

Unit One

Task 1

1. provinces b. 2. woke a. 3.haunt b. 4.trouble a. 5.weathers d. 6.wakeb. 7.coined c. 8. trouble b. 9.weather c. 10. province c. 11. coin a. 12. value a.

13. haunts a. 14. has promised a. 15. trouble c. 16. coin b. 17. promise d, 18. values c. 19. refrain b. 20. valued e. Task 2

1. tranquil 2. ultimately 3. aftermath 4. cancel out 5.ordeal 6.drastic 7. legacy 8. deprivations

9. suicidal 10. anticipated 11. preoccupied 12. adversities 13. aspires 14. nostalgia 15, retrospect Task 3

1. a mind-blowing experien

Translation

Unit 1

No doubt everyone has to apologize for his life, sooner or later. When we appear at the Last Judgment and the Recording Angel reads out a list of our sins, we will presumably be given an opportunity to apologize, in the old sense of rebuttal and in the new sense too, by way of confession and plea of repentance. In this life, it is better to apologize (in the new sense), but promptly, voluntarily, fully and sincerely. If the error is a matter of opinion and un-punishable, so much the better – an apology th

World English: A Blessing or a Curse? Universal language

By Tom McArthur

[1] In the year 2000, the language scholar Glanville Price, a Welshman, made the following assertion as editor of the book Languages in Britain and Ireland:

For English is a killer. It is English that has killed off Cumbric, Cornish, Norn and Manx. There are still parts of these islands where sizeable communities speak languages that were there before English. Yet English is everywhere in everyday use and understood by all or virtually(actually) all,

Science and Technology (->technique)

By Judith Raughman (Editor)

[1] (optimistic->)Optimism and empowerment. As the century drew to a close (end), the potential for human invention and understanding appeared (seemed) boundless (limitless). Scientific understanding expanded daily, from the fundamental (basic) building blocks of matter to the source code of all life to the origins, and perhaps the eventual (finally) demise (end), of the universe. The technological advances (progresses) of the 1990s ushered in (led to) what ap

Unit One

Answer Key

Comprehension

A

1. D

2. It contrasts the attitudes of the French and the English-speaking people toward

keeping their mother tongue "pure."

3. The author does not appreciate the French attitude. He believes that they have

gone to the extreme, because he says that 'the mind boggles at what the world might

face. "That means the French are so sensitive that it is difficult to imagine what

they will do to keep French pure in the future.

4. B

5. It refers to the differences between British and American Eng

Unit One

Answer Key

Comprehension

A

1. D

2. It contrasts the attitudes of the French and the English-speaking people toward

keeping their mother tongue "pure."

3. The author does not appreciate the French attitude. He believes that they have

gone to the extreme, because he says that 'the mind boggles at what the world might

face. "That means the French are so sensitive that it is difficult to imagine what

they will do to keep French pure in the future.

4. B

5. It refers to the differences between British and American Eng