2021年蒋静仪阅读教程2课后习题答案(含quotations)
蒋静仪阅读教程2 课后习题答案
（含quotations）
欧阳光明（2021.03.07）
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.
③Here 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.
https://www.sodocs.net/doc/2b16232322.html,e 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.
②Mother 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.
②There 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.
②A 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.
②Early 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.Previousstudies 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 about;
9. slashed; 10. stoically; 11. clunked Check your vocabulary C
1.So I never said anything to show my unwillingness of going to the
boarding school, though all my senses could feel the reluctance of such a trip.
2.I got to know later that the school’s counselor had asked my mother