大学英语创意阅读2答案.docx

大学英语创意阅读2答案大学英语创意阅读2答案 Unit 1 Words to note: aroundà 2; acreà 10; blastedà 6; brochureà 13; cavernà 3; deluxeà 4; droughtà 7; exoticà 17; handcraftedà 16; independentà 8; nestledà 14; paddling poolà 1; paradiseà 5; perchedà 12; scuba diverà 11; sharkà 9; situatedà 18; typhoonà 15 Understanding the text: Part A 1. A major purpose of advertising is to inform us of new products or good bargains/ help producers sell their products. It is possible that advertising is becoming less effective because we are exposed to too much advertising now and so much of it is misleading. 2. The more adventurous members of the family can visit some of the attractions of the island, including a trip to an ancient cavern/ study the fascinating sea creatures of that area. The less adventurous members can use the hotel swimming pool/ paddling pool or play on the mini-golf course or visit the less adventurous places of interest. Ghosts are often seen around Lake Tali. Wood has been used to make the accommodation units. The holiday is cheap because the resort is new and the owners claim to be more interested in making the guests happy than making money. 3. Bantu island is really only a small, bear, exposed rock in the middle of the ocean. Swimming around the island would be dangerous because of the many sharks. The swimming pool isnt in use because there is no water in it. The author doesnt believe the stories because it is too small and too shallow for the stories to be true. The only reason your money goes further is that Bantu Island is a long way away so the money will be traveling further. 4. The advice the author gives in the last two paragraphs is to be very careful when reading advertisements and always try to check the information from an independent source before you buy whatever is advertised. Part B 1 2 3 4 5 6 The Brochure resort a shallow bay/ island paradise fascinating sea creatures deluxe air-conditioned transport individual, handcrafted units ancient and mysterious lake The Newspaper Article building site beachless bay/ bare rack hungry sharks open-backed jeep wooden huts dirty pond Part C 1. Advertising is often misleading and in some cases, legalized lying. The advertising brochure for Bantu is obvious very misleadingalthough nothing it says is actually a lie, it does not present the truth. 2. Once they got to the island and saw what it was like, they would not want to go on any tours. 3. No, it was very carefully worded so that it would be difficult to prove it told any liessimply did not tell the whole truth or misled the reader in different ways. 4. We should look carefully at things that seem attractive and cheap. There is often a problem that is not obvious. Developing your skills: Which of the following could be used to describe the tone of the newspaper article? Humorous, aggressive, sarcastic Brochure Newspaper Layout A Once in a Lifetime Holiday A Never-To-Be-Repeated Holiday A Holiday for All the family A Holiday for Nobody Choice of sea creatures sharks Information brand-new half-built cooled blasted rare they dont exist Punctuation exclamation mark quotation marks Expending your vocabulary: Antonyms: brand-new nestled shallow paradise ancient perched deep nightmare give-away price refreshing Scales of meaning: Frequency ·constantly/ always ·regularly/ repeatedly ·often/ frequently ·sometimes/ occasionally ·not always ·rarely/ seldom/ intermittently ·hardly ever never expensive bitter Degree ·perfectly/ absolutely/ totally ·extremely/ enormously/ particularly/ exceedingly/ exceptionally ·very ·slightly/ a little/ to some extent ·in no way ·not in the slightest/ not at all Quantity ·all/ every ·a vast number ·most/ the majority of/ generally ·many/ a lot of/ numerous ·much/ a great deal ·a couple/ a few ·none Unit 2 Understanding the text Part A: 1.F 2.F 3.T 4.T 5.T 6.T 7.F 8.F Part B: 1. These exams decide their futures and the penalties for failure are final. Also look at speech paragraph 6 the threat of being a failure for life is perhaps even worse than a death sentence. 2. The labor market does not urgently need newly qualified people. There is no hurry; the situation is not critical. 3. To compare the large number of lessons with the tiny result and also to say that 40-minute pieces of learning and little pieces of geography or history or biology do not really add up to any substantial body of knowledge. Perhaps, too, the writer wants to show that mere statistics do not really prove that the results are good. 4. The word suggests an unpleasant experience. The writer was, when a child, the subject and the education system was the boss. The results of the childs subjection were not good. Also look at speech paragraph 8 again: the system can never be called efficient; it simply helps the administrators and the bureaucrats. Developing your skills Part A 1.c) 2.b) 3.c) 4.a) Extending your vocabulary Part A.1. carefree 2.intolerable 3.receptive pulsory 5.severe 6.motivated 7.applled 8.frantically Part B. 1.regardless of 2.how much 3.certainly 4.must 5.help or win 6.frequently 7.result Unit 3 Words to note: Bullets7 compensate11 contentedly-14 disaster-9 drifted-6 glowing10 instantly-5 insured-15 pounds12 retire-16 shadows-1 streaming-4 tempt-13 terrified-3 wafted-17 wandered-18 wardrobe2 wearily8 Understanding the text Part A notes 1: they were sitting round a coffee table. Thomas was wearing his police uniform Snow was blowing against burning. notes2: only the man and his wife were in the kitchen there was a garden and a garden gate outside. The man at the garden gate was wearing police uniform The man at the garden gate was very tall. note3: The man was sitting next to the fire Thomas had a blood stain on his chest The grandmother was also standing behind Thomas Part B 1. the curse was that the bag and its evil contents gave the grandfather power. The power enabled him to get anything he wanted in life. The price was the life of his own wife. 2. he bought the house with the help of the power he had been given by the bag. But he forgot the warning-there was a price to pay for his power. 3. his first wish was for 100, 000 pounds. He would have received this money because of the Life insurance-his son Thomas was insured. When Thomas was killed, the Insurance Company paid him this money. 4. Arthurs second wish was I want all my family to be together again. This wish came true but not in the way he had intended. Developing your skills Part A 1. similarly on the night that Arthur asked for 100,000 pounds, his son Thomas died. 2. both Arthur and his father paid the price for the help they asked for. They both knew the bag was evil-but they both used it to get what they thought they wanted. 3. Arthur has already learned why his father thought so. But he tries to put the warning from his father out of his mind. And his son later pays the price-the first price. 4. his wife definitely is right. Very soon the son Thomas is killed. 5. this is because he was a premonition. He knows what has happened and he probably feels, as his father had left, that he is responsible. He feels guilty. Extending your vocabulary Part A 1. terror 2. temptation 3. retirement 4. compensation 5. weary 6. drifter 7. insurance 8. disaster Part B 1. stream 2. retiring 3. terrific 4. pounded 5. contents 6. shadowing Unit 4 For each of the following ,decide which option best completes the statement according to the text. Circle your answer. 1.b) 2.d) 3.b) 4.c) 5.d) Part B: Summarizing the information in a text Situation Actions taken Sit as far a way from the other person as possible 1. Pretend the other people arent there 2. Ignore them 3. Avert your eyes from them 4. Keep your face as expressionless as possible 5. Create physical barriers e.g. clasp hands 1. One might move forward ;the other might back away 2. Finally one might try to escape by moving away 1. build barriers 2. screen ones eyes from neighbors 3. avoid /prevent any contact Spread out your belongings reasons for Actions close, nervousness, far away, insulting Pretend you are concentrating on something important eg.the panel indicating the floor number .Send out signals that you do not want your personal space to be invaded. 1. standing very close makes some people very uncomfortable. 2. standing where you have enough personal space makes people comfortable 1. to help concentration 2. to keep other people outside of their space 3. to pretend they are alone Try to give the impression that the seats next to you are taken Part C : interpreting the text 1. Its the area where people feel safe, secure, comfortable, unthreatened. This area surrounds us ,like a protective blanket. 2. In order to protect ourselves and to discourage any strangers from invading our personal space by attempting to make contact with us. 3. Because we need to feel that this area is our own; it belongs to us ;its part of our own self . 4. When people from different cultural or geographical backgrounds are together.（because the size of the space needed within different cultures differs; some cultures can easily accept closer contact-and therefore less personal space than others.) 5. If attempts to preserve our personal space are ignored by others ,and if we therefore feel a heightened sense of discomfort, threat of even danger, we might use force-e.g. a loud voice, or actual physical force ,to make it very clear that we are defending our territory. Developing your skills Part A Word /expression from Help found in passage passage Valuable(para 1) expensive as far away as possible from the first person packed(para 4) barriers(para 6) strategies personal makers(para 7) territory (para 7) elbows(para 6) type of help synonym definition synonymous expression examples example Part B : Deducing meaning barren; nothing would grow or the island; attempts; in vain; never caught a single fish; crustaceans; crabs, shrimps and ,on one occasion, a lobster ; almost starved; look like a skeleton; bones were sticking through his skin; emaciated; sadness and anxiety; immediately changed; elation barren empty, unproductive, sterile, nothing can grow in vain crustaceans emaciated elation unsuccessful, without results, wasted and producing no benefit crabs, shrimps and lobsters very, very thin, having almost no flesh on the body extreme happiness, the opposite of sadness and anxiety Extending your vocabulary Part A: synonyms and antonyms Synonyms offend slowly spread guarded grip shows undemonstrative Words to note Antonyms compliment suddenly clustered harmed release hides expressive Part B: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Cloze sentences expressive indicates/shows clustered compliment gradually/slowly release Unit 5 Words to note Applicant2 Benefits7 Cater8 Contributors10 Dismay 3 Encouragement 12 Facilities 11 Hop 5 Impose6 Kerb1 Pretend13 Significantly4 Statistics14 Wheelchair 9 Understanding the text Part A: Background of writer Letter 1 Seriously injured in a traffic accident. Overcame despair with the help of family and friends. Letter 2 Also disabled; but lives in a much more caring environment Letter 3 Letter 4 Also disabled; Not specified. chairman of Disabled Taxi Drivers Association. To give information about his organization. To stress the safety record of disabled drivers in his organization. to stress that disabled people can fulfill almost all duties. To emphasize the range of opportunities available to disabled peopleeven in sports. Purpose(s) of To highlight Writing difficulties faced in everyday life by paraplegics. To encourage Mr. 1. Thomas because times and attitudes are changing. 2. 3. Particular Frustration caused by Facilities in her Close and frequent Not specified. Experience(s) thoughtlessness. hometown help contact with other of Writer her to live more disabled people. freely and fully. Main Message(s) Its good to be 1. Dont To encourage 1. Regard optimistic and despair disabled people to your cheerful - but 2. If your make contact. disability disabled people need hometown in a new help. does not light. improve its 2. Try to be facilities and as its attitudes, independcome to live ent as in mine! possible. Part B: Interpreting the text Examples of optimism Letter 1: I now look forward to wanting to live life to the full Letter 2: your own environment is sure to change soon. perhaps we could share the benefits Letter 3: give hope (and a possible future) There are no reasons why disabled people cannot fulfill Letter 4: there are ever increasing social and professional opportunities he says he may even had an advantage Examples of objectivity Letter 1: paraplegics still have to plan each trip kerbs at the edges of the roads Letter 2: extra-wide elevators not a single step in the whole centre. Letter 3: suitably converted vehicles. not one single member has ever had an accident of any kind! Letter 4: sports facilities designed for disabled persons. World Summer Olympic Games for disabled athletes since 1960 Unit 6 Understanding the text Part A: comprehending the text Robert Burns Profile Nationality Childhood Marital Status Scottish One of seven children; lived and worked on farm Married Number of children Famous works Interests Poems Auld Lang Syne Jean Themes twelve Auld Lang Syne; Jean; My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose; John Anderson, My Jo Reading, drinking, singing, telling stories, women Pleasant memories of friendship and of time past. Loveespecially for the girl I love the best, Jean. Everything beautiful reminds him of Jean. My love is like a Again, loveand the eternal and compelling and all-embracing force of love. red, red rose John Anderson, Life-long friendship and loyalty; sharing things and trusting somebody; the My Jo enduring quality of friendshipthe friend John is now old and frail, but still the friendship is strong and unchanged. Part B: Interpreting the text 1. Poems Auld Lang Syne Jean Metaphors Drink a cup of kindness Actual Meanings Share kindness between good friends I see her in the morning Everything beautiful reminds him of flowers Jean I hear her in the tuneful birds He means he will love her for eve