新世纪大学英语综合教程5课后题答案

一单元:

Working with words and expressions

?1) beloved, 2) classics 3) survivor 4) workaholic 5) manufacturing 6) odd 7) finances 8) boarded 9) replacement 10) natural

?1) asking around 2) straighten out 3) pick out 4) grabbed at 5)look…in the eye 6) and all that

Increasing your word power

Board

2. 2) board: n. the cost of meals

I pay $30 a week for board and lodging.

3) board: n. a committee of the directors of a company, which is responsible for the management of the company

Every decision has to be passed by the board of directors.

4) board: v. get of supply meals and lodging for payment

She arranged to board some students from the universities.

5) board: v. get into (a ship or public vehicle)

Before boarding the plane, Jenny tried once more to call home.

6)on board: in or on (a ship or public vehicle)

Waving goodbye to everyone, she got on board the train.

Odd

?Odd: a. different from what is ordinary or expected

Timber? That’s kind of an odd name for a kid.

?odd: a. separated from its pair or set

He’s got a whole drawer full of odd socks.

?odd: a. (of a number) that cannot be divided by two

The houses on this side of the street have all got odd numbers, and on the other side they’ve got even numbers.

?odd: a. not regular; occasional

She does some odd jobs but nothing permanent.

?Odd: a. (after numbers) rather more than the stated number

She looked younger than her 50-odd years.

Cloze

?until 2)interests 3)sandwiches 4)overweight 5)beloved 6)boarded 7)workaholic

8)compete 9)finally 10)precisely 11)coronary 12)acquaintances 13)survived

14)inquiring 15)deceased

Translation

He died. He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, on his day off.

his friends and acquaintances not really surprised. To them, He was a perfect Type A, a workaholic, a classic.

He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night, during a time when his own company had begun the four-day week for everyone but the executives. He played a golf game every month but it was work. Other than this, he had no outside

“extracurricular interests”.

His survivors included his wife Helen and three children. Helen, forty-eight years old had given up trying to compete with his work years ago. Among his “beloved” children, the eldest son didn’t know him well, and the daughter had no shared topics with him. Only the youngest son who was twenty, tried to grab at his father and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home.

At the funeral, deceased had meant much to the company and would be missed. The sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-year-old widow that the fifty-one-year-old and would be hard to replace.By 5:00 p.m. the afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun to make inquiries about his replacement.

二单元:

1) ill-fitting2) stain3) devoured4) rotting5) cracked6) chronic

7) dripping8) sore9) enslaved10) corrective2. 1) wears away/eats away2) come off3) help out4) eats away5) going up6) at best

7) off and on

Increasing Your Word Power

1. 1) What tortured me was that I could do nothing but see people die in flames helplessly.

2) After spilling the whole shame of failure, the little girl cried bitterly into her mother’s arms.

3) Finally I was able to see that it was my distrust that destroyed my marriage.

4) The train had left when I arrived at the station, and there were even no g00dbyes between us.

5) More than 30 of those arrested were released from jail for lack of evidence, hut the rest remained behind the bars of their prison.

6) Some teenagers are likely to turn to the freedom of alcohol or drugs when they are not properly cared for.

7) The thought of having to beg for her forgiveness ate away his last bit of pride.

8) 1 have come out of my despair, ready to win the next game.

Cloze

1)smell 2) marriage 3) chronic 4) smelly 5) unemployment 6) mattress 7)

cornbread 8)malnutrition 9) cracked 10) luxuries 11) insects 12) diapers 13)

future 14) alcohol 15) bars

TRANSLATION

What is poverty? Read the story of a single mother of three, and you will understand what it means.

She was married once, but later her husband lost his job and life became increasingly difficult. After giving birth to the last baby, her marriage came to an end.

In order to save her children from suffering, she summoned up her courage and went to ask for help.

She got seventy-eight dollars a month for the four of them. After the rent, most of the rest went for food. There was no money left to get the refrigerator fixed and the milk went sour; no money for hot water, and even in winter she had to do washing in icy cold water. She had chronic anemia caused from poor diet, a bad case of worms, and needed a corrective operation, but there was no money for iron pills, or better food, or worm medicine, to say nothing of having an operation. She had no money for

grannies; no money for paper handkerchiefs and her children were seen with runny noses all the time. She tried her best to use only the minimum electricity. She stayed up all night on cold nights. because she had to watch the fire, for fear that one spark on the newspaper covering the walls would cause a fire and the sleeping children would die in flames.

She saw no bright future. Sooner or later, the boys would end up behind the bars of their prison or turn to the freedom of alcohol or drugs and find themselves enslaved.

And what awaited the daughter was, at best, a life like that of the mother.

Indeed, poverty is an acid that drips on pride until all pride is worn away. Poverty is a chisel that chips on honor until honor is worn away.

WRITING

Sample Essay:

My Reflections a fter Reading “What Is Poverty?”

In defining poverty, Jo Goodwin Parker creates a vivid picture of the miserable life poverty-stricken people live. I was very much touched by her harsh, direct and angry tone. Her definition of poverty has set me thinking a lot.

First of all, what Parker says about poverty in the United States reminds me of what my Grandfather once said about his miserable life in China in the 1940’s. Indeed, poor people everywhere suffer in more or less the same way. I do have great

sympathy with them and sincerely hope that the world will say goodbye to poverty soon.

Secondly, I have come to see more clearly that we must cherish what we have today.

Indeed, the decent and comfortable life we young people enjoy today comes from the hard work of many generations. However, we tend to take today’s happy life for granted, and sometimes we even complain about the slightest discomfort in life. This is a harmful attitude because it makes us forget the past. We should remember that what we have now was never even dreamed of by the older generation. Content

makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Lastly, we should have a right attitude towards poverty. In the face of poverty, it’s no use complaining or just making emotional appeals for help. Instead, we must rely on our courage, talent, and persistence and get rid of poverty with our own effort.

Diligence and hard work is the only way out. We may be poor materially but we should not make ourselves poor spiritually.

三单元:

1.1) pray 2) escorted 3) swirled 4) grin 5) deceived 6) punctuated 7) wail 8) rejoicing 9) moans 10) serenely

2.1) by leaps and bounds 2) a sea of 3) holding out 4) take his name in vain 5) held up 6) am ashamed of

Increasing Your Word Power

1. 1) In 1915, Piaget received his bachelor’s degree from the university when he was going on 18.

2) The rescue site rocked with prayer and song upon news of his survival.

3) The team broke into a sea of shouting when they finally topped the peak after two days’ climbing.

4) Waves of rejoicing swept the theatre when the stars appeared on stage one by one.

5) The girls held hands and leaped in the air when they met again after two years of separation.

6) She knelt down and prayed that her little son would be blessed in the name of God.

7) The joyous singing filled the room, where a children’s birthday party was held.

8) 1 was so disappointed that I buried my head under the quilts and cried myself to sleep that night.

2. 1) coded 2) wooded 3) gifted 4) coloured 5) gloved 6) moneyed 7) curved 8) diseased

SAVE

2) s a v e: v. m a k e(something) safe from destruction

We tried to save our marriage, but in the end we decided we couldn’t live together.

3) save: v. keep and add to an amount of money for later use

She planned to work until she had saved enough money to at tend a nursing school.

4) save: v. prevent or avoid the waste of (time)

We can save a lot of time by taking the expressway.

5) save: v. keep for future use

Don’t throw the wrapping paper away

I am going to save it and use it again.

6) save: v. make unnecessary for

If you lend me a pound, it will save mc from having to go to the bank.

Cloze

1) congregation 2) souls 3) escorted 4) revival 5) sinners 6) sermon 7) rocking 8) altar 9) surrounded 10) whisper 11) serenely 12) ashamed 13) namc 14) burst 15) rejoiced

TRANSLATION

When Hughes was going on thirteen, his aunt took him to the church for a revival meeting, hoping that his soul would be saved by Jesus Christ. His aunt told him that when he was saved, he would see a light, and something would happen to him inside! She also said he could see and hear and feel Jesus in his soul. Young Hughes believed in the literal meaningthe hot, crowded church, waiting for Jesus to come to him. After the sermon by the preacher, all the children went to the altar one after another. This meant that they were saved. But Hughes kept sitting there. He was still waiting for Jesus to

come, wanting something to happen to him. Now the whole congregation was praying for him alone. The pressure on him was increasing and he began to feel ashamed of himself, holding everything up so long. In order to avoid further trouble, Hughes decided to lie and say that Jesus had come. So he got up and was saved finally. That night, lying in bed, Hughes cried in agony. He felt guilty because he had lied in public and he didn抰believe

in Jesus any more.

WRITING

Sample Essay:

My First Experience as a Teacher

It was a Sunday morning. I got up early and dressed myself in my Sunday best. It was my first day as a part-time teacher of English. It won’t be a difficult job teaching a group of child ren some basic English,?

I thought to myself as I was walking towards a private kindergarten. The manager, a friend of mine, had informed me that this Sunday English Learning Program was initiated at the request of the parents, who wished to expose their pre-school children to some English.

We don’t have textbooks and you may plan your teaching as you see fit,? the manager had assured mc.

As I entered the kindergarten, I heard a mighty wail of shouts and cries coming out a classroom. That must be the classroom,? I said to myself andquickened my steps. I was shocked to see some 20 naughty and noisy kids talking and laughing. Some were chasing after each other while others were standing on their chairs singing. Strangely, when they saw me, they all quieted down and returned to their seats. In a hushed silence, punctuated by a few giggles from some girls, I introduced myself. Then I asked them in Chinese what they would like to learn and they all said that they wanted to learn an English song.

I did not prepare for that, but I still remembered the “ABC Song”? that I learned when I was a kid. ? sang the song from memory and the expressions on their faces told mc that they liked it a lot. So ? wrote the 26 English letters on the blackboard and we started learning and singing together. it was fun, indeed.

Then, I thought I’d better teach some sentences as I had planned. So I wrote on the blackboard HOW ARE YOU? and HOW OLD ARE YOU? making a point that they got to know the Chinese meaning of each word separately. By reading after me they were learning fast.

Suddenly, a little boy rose to his feet and accused me of teaching them the wrong thing. Pointing his finger at the blackboard, he translated the sentences word for word into Chinese:

zenme shi ni? zenme lao shi ni??

The whole room then broke into a sea of shouting and waves of rejoicing swept over everyone’s face.

My first teaching experience was a success and I learned a lesson, too: It is no easy job to teach.

四单元:

INCREASE YOUR

LANGUAGE_PROFICIENCY

Working with Words and Ex

pressio ns

1. 1) grin

2) browse

3) shivered

4) hearty

5) nerves

6) courtship

7) pinching

B) napping

9) blinking

10) bragging

2. 1) live off 2) cut loose 3) shot out 4) were weighed down 5) stopped short of 6) washing them down with 7) shake ... out 8) come up to 9) hosing down

Increasing Your Word Power

1. 1) He seems to be rather slow witted and often laughs a delayed laugh at a simple joke.

2) His friends finally found him in a liquor store where he was shaking out his nerve-s bcfore the shooting contest.

3) When the professor was lecturing on Shakespeare, my mind kept turning to whom the Little Prince would meet on the next planet.

4) People in the disaster area have to live off the cheap blessings of rice and noodles donated by charity organizations.

5) It's a basic skill for a fashion model to walk gracefully to the rhythm of the music on the

catwalk.

6) A curtain of bubbles shot out of the bottle as they opened the champagne in celebration of

their baseball game win.

7) I just wanted to call and say a hearty hello and find out how you are doing.

2

a 1) smile 2) laugh 3) grin 4) chuckle 5) giggle 6) roar

3.

LOOSE

2) loose: a. not tied or packed together, e.g. with string or in a box; not packaged

Her long brown hair was loose about her shoulders.

3) loose: a. (of clothes) notfittingtightly

In hot weather, loose cotton clothes are niore comfortable.

4) loose: a. not exact or controlled

Just give me a loose translation of what the article is about.

5) loose: a. careless or irresponsible, esp. in what one says

We sat out on the porch until late at night, just having some loose talk. SHOOT

1) shoot: v. hit, wound, or kill with a bullet, etc.

A tourist was shot dead by robbers at the train station last night.

2) shoot: v. hunt or kill (birds or animals) as a sport

lie has a liccnsc to shoot pheasants (J.,on the farmer's land.

3) shoot: v. ask (a lot of questions) quickly

He shot questions at me so quickly that I didn't even have time to

think of the answers.

4) shoot: v. move very quickly or suddenly

He shot out of the offcee a minute ago ? I think he was late for a meeting or something.

5) shoot: t? make (a photograph or film)

The first half of the film was shot on lo cation in Southern India.

4

1) cracking 2) living 3) refrigerator 4) quart 5) change 6) porch 7) race 8) cleaning 9) casually 10) hearty 11) Eventually 12) saw 13) browsing 14) scared 15) courtship

TRANSLATION

Life is full of miracles. Sometimes, a chance meeting ca lead to a happy marriage.

When he was twenty, he was college poor. One day, he went to buy some beer and on his way back he saw his neighbor, a Japanese woman, cracking walnuts on her front porch. He walked slowly and she looked up, smiling. He smiled back and said hello, and returned with the beer to his apartment, his heart still with the girl.

So he raced his heart downstairs, but stopped short of her house, becausehe didn't know what to say. After a while, with studied casualness he walked past the girl who was cleaning up the shells, but he only came up with a hearty hello and walked away. He was troubled by his ow indecision. Then, he returned, walking past her again. They smiled to each other, but again nothing was said before he returned to his apartment.

Later, they began to talk, sit together on the porch, and snack on the sweet bread she baked personally. Then they held hands. Eventually, he married the woman he found cracking walnuts on an afternoon.

Had he not gone for the beer, or had he met someone else instead of her, his life would have been totally different.

WRITING ________

Sample Essay:

My Views on Love at First Sight

We often hea r people talk about “love at first sight”? Some accept the idea and may cite such and such examples to prove that it works. Others consider it just as a case of romance but would not take it as a golden rule for a happy marriage. My opinion is that for those who wish to develop serious and lasting relationships, love at first sight? is a dangerous game to play.

First of all, love at first sight may tempt one to jump on the bandwagon of love with too much haste. One needs to figure out what one really wants from a love relationship before declaring that he or she is in love. Love takes time to blossom and it takes a lot of mutual understanding, caring, sharing and affection. If you are not ready to take the responsibility of loving and being loved, then do not make haste, for haste makes waste.

Secondly, love at first sight is often prompted by physical attraction, but true love is grounded not just on mutual attraction but rather on mental compatibilities. In developing a lifetime relationship, inner charm, personality traits, character and values arc the most important factors to be considered.

I believe in three old sayings: “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”? but “beauty is only skin deep”? and “beauty comes from within”? It is true that love is a feeling that cannot be rationally explained, but true love is different from puppy love or innocent crushes. So, if you have fallen in love at first sight, be sober and wise. Don't make a hasty decision on a matter of lifetime significance.

五单元:

Increase your language proficiency

1) delight 2) ducked 3) thrust 4) strained 5) resentful 6) distressed

7) alarmed 8) contradicting 9) intent 10) hovered 11) perched 12) wrestling 2.

l) went out for 2) pin him down 3) hold back 4) now and then 5) throwing a glance 6) scrambled to my feet 7) There’S no point in 8) bent down

Increasing Your Word Power

1. 1) The giraffe was bending down from its great height to browse the tender leaves on the lower branches.

2) I was shocked to see a strong air current sweep him into the air.

3) The company has launched some new projects to meet the challenge of a more fierce market in the coming year.

4) The boxers wrestled with each other, both trying to seek an advantage to beat down the other side.

5) All my roommates were asleep when T went back, so I tiptoed to my bedside, trying not to make a sound.

6) With a great effort, the 70-year-old Japanese climber reached the top of Mount Qomolangma.

7) As he read through the students? machine-made translations, a look of boredom came into his eyes.

GIVE

2) give: v. set aside (time, thought, strength, etc.) for purpose

I’ll give the matter Some thought and let you know my decision next week.

3) give: v. pay in order to buy; pay in exchange (for something)

how much will you give for this sliver teapot?

4) give: ii. bend or under pressure

The branch he was stretch sitting on began to give under his weight.

5) give: punish in the stated way, esp. to time send to prison for the stated time

If you don’t pay on time, you could be for g iven a fine of up to $1,000.

STRAIN

11) strain: v. injure a muscle or part of one’s body by using it too much or making it work too hard

James strained his right arm playing racquetball

2) strain: v. make (too) great efforts

There was so much noise around that I had to strain to hear what he was saying.

3) strain: v. press oneself closely

The wretched bird strained against the bars of the cage, trying to get out.

4) strain: n, a state in which one is greatly troubled by anxieties and difficulties

With his divorce and his problems at work he’s been under a lot of strain recently.

5) strain: n. damage to a part of the body caused by too great effort and often stretching of muscles

He was taken off the field suffering from a knee strain.

CLOZE

1) master 2) case 3) burn 4) bewilderment 5) baffled 6) swept 7) gasping 8) perched

9) grinned 10) give 11) prostrate 12) queer 13) lurked 14) pounce 15) cub TRANSLATI ON

When he was little, his father would bend down from his great height to sweep him into the a ir. But he was never afraid, not with his father’s hands holding him. To him, no one in the world was as strong, or as wise, as his father.

As he grew, he would lurk behind the kitchen door when it was time for his father to conic home at night. Lie would leap out when his father asked about him.

After he went to school, they would wrestle on the floor together. Every time, his father would master him with ease, leaving him half resentful and half mirthful.

In high school he was surprised to find that there was so much more of him, and he could look down on his mother. But when it came to wrestling, he was still no equal of his father.

One night, he suddenly found that his father didn’t look nearly as tall as he used to. He could even look his father straight in the eyes now. He challenged his father once more

and this time, it was his father who said, give? His mother helped his father to rise, and there was baffled pain in her eyes.

His father spoke of a next time, and his mother did not contradict, because the three of them knew that there would never be a next time. He ran through the kitchen door, stood on the steps and let tears burn his eyes and run down his cheeks.

Writing

Sample Essay:

My Father and I

When I was a small girl, I had an indescribable fear of my father, who looked so huge and strong and always spoke in a loud and harsh voice. He was a factory worker and seldom stayed home with me by day. In my memory, he never said anything like “I love you” to me, and I always saw him as being a str ict disciplinarian who rarely cracked a smile. I still remember how I used to break into fits of temper and how I played a pampered child in the presence of my mother. But never did I dare to do so when my father was around. The only occasion when I could feel his affection was our occasional Sun day trips to the park -- My father would lift me tip and perch me upon his broad shoulders and I would hold lily head high like a princess.

When I started school, I noticed a big change in my father. Tie became so gentle and caring toward me. I could always see sparks of affection in his eyes. Every day, he would get up earlier and walk me to school. It was then that we started to have heart-to-heart talks. He always inquired about my schoolwork and when I did not get a good grade, lie would give me a broad smile and say: never mind. You’ll do better next time”. And for years, my birthday present from him was invariably stationery. I knew that he wanted me to get a college education and make good, for lie did not have one owing to historical reasons.

I’m a sophomore and living on campus flow. I seldom see my parents, but we make it a rule to talk on the phone once a week. Unlike my mother who usually asks me to take care of myself, Father always talks about how to be a good person. My fear of him has long incited away and we both feel closer to each other now. Last night as we were about to end our phone conversation, he said in a shaky voice, “daddy loves you!” And before I could say “I love you, too” he hung up.

六单元:

Increase your language proficiency

1

1.rusted

2.dwarfs

3.dwell

4.possessions

5.intensity

6.assembled

7.alert

8.probed

9.fingering

10.awkwardly

2

1.spy on

2.watching for

3.presented itself

4.came loose

5.drew back

6.out of the reach

7.making his rounds

8.by accident

9.No wonder

10.empty of

Increasing your word power

1.

1） The black suit he is wearing for the interview gives him the appearance of being smart and capable.

2) She looked deeply tanned and fit after returning from her trip to Santa Barbara Beach.

3) Her showy dress, with layers of complicated lace and a mixture of bright colors, gives her the look of a richly decorated Christmas tree.

4) Stepping out of the operating room, the surgeon shook his head and said to the waiting relatives, “I'm sorry, there is nothing mor e I can do.”

5) It is a pity to see acres of big trees cut down on the mountain, leaving only the stumps rising in the air.

6) “Of course Michael won't be late; you know how punctual he always is,” she said without the least irony.

7) The coach asked them to play with the ball in whatever way they liked, just to get the feel of it first.

8) Mr. White's eyes narrowed and his mouth tightened at the sight of the pupil fingering his mobile phone in class.

2.

CAST

2) v. throw off, remove, get rid of e.g. The children cast off their shoes and ran happily along the beach.

3) v. turn or direct e.g. Would you just cast an eye over this letter before I put it in the post?

4) v. make a vote in an election e.g. All the votes in the election have been cast and the counting has begun.

5) n. the actors in a play, film, etc. e.g. After the final performance, the director threw a party for the cast.

CRACK

1.v. cause to break open e.g. He cracked three eggs into a bowl

and mixed them together.

2.V. (of a person's voice) change suddenly in level, loudness, etc.

e.g. Her voice cracked with emotion as she told us how she lived through the Second World War.

3) v. lose control or effectiveness, esp. as a result of difficulties or pressure

e.g. Some young executives crack under the strain of having to meet tough sales targets every month.

4) n. a very thin mark or opening

5) n. a loud sharp sound

e.g. there was a sharp crack as the branch broke off the tree.

Cloze

1frosted 2missing 3rotting 4intensity 5cast 6sickroom 7cards

8impressive 9ordered 10instead 11palm 12threw 13discus 14laugh 15 ay

Translation

The patient in Room 542 was unusual. He had the look of vigor and good health, but he was blind, legless, and his deteriorating body was like a rotting log. His life was like a candle in the wind, about to be blown out at any moment. His body was not whole, but he was still impressive. He had been suffering physical pain beyond imagination, but he was always quiet. He always ordered scrambled eggs for breakfast but he never ate them. Instead, he would throw the breakfast plate against the wall earnestly as if it were a discus. He had no feet but he repeatedly asked the doctor to bring him a pair of shoes. The room he dwelled in was empty of all possessions—no get-well cards, flowers, slippers, none of the usual kickshaws of the sickroom. He seemed to have been cast upon a wild island. Finally, he left the world quietly, with no one beside him. Lying in his bed, his face was relaxed, grave and dignified. Upon his death, was he remembering a time when he was whole? Did he dream of the feet he used to have? Writing

sample essay

My Favorite Teacher

Mr. Ma Gang is my favorite teacher. He is a short and heavily built

man in his late fifties, with close-cropped white hair and a neat mustache. You can easily pick him out from a lineup. He usually wears a grim expression on his face and seldom speaks to others unless spoken to. A year ago when he was introduced to us as our teacher of English, I said to myself, “Gosh, here comes a stern and harsh old

man!” indeed, he did look like a Japanese officer in the movies that I had seen.

My first impression of him totally changed after we had the first lesson with him. He was all smiles when talking to us. I still remember how

he began his first class: You guys have studied English for quite a number of years. Do you still need me to teach you English grammar and pronunciation? Definitely not. So from now on don't call me “Teacher Ma”; call “Coach Ma” instead, for I am not a sage on the stage; I am a guide on the side.

In class Coach Ma always shoots us thought-provoking questions. Whenever a student gives the right answer, he will stick out his thumb and chuckled out a musical “OK”; when he hears an unsatisfactory answer, he will shake his head while blinking his eyelids, as if to say, “Think hard!” in class we do most of the talking either in pairs or in groups while Coach Ma just paces around, listening and observing. He is the conductor while we are all performers in an orchestra.

I like his teaching style a lot and often ask him for English books to read. Last Wednesday, before class began, Coach Ma came over and placed a package on my desk.

“Happy birthday to you !” he whispered.

I was surprise to find that it was a brand new English-English dictionary.

“Use this one instead of your pocket English-Chinese dictionary.”“But how did you know it is my birthday today, Sir?”

“I discovered the secret from one of the compositions you wrote,”

I looked into his face. He wore the same grim expression as usual.

七单元:

Key for the Exercises in Unit Seven in Book Five

Working with Words and Expressions

1.

1) craned; 2) striking; 3) grand; 4) dense; 5) assume; 6)roar; 7) clutch; 8) shattering; 9) fluttering; 10) brisk

2.

1) struggling with2) pay your respects3) has come up with 4) lining up 5) backed up 6) has in mind 7) in line 8) fill up 9) it never occurred to 10) took effect

Cloze

1)thousands

2)financial

3)respects

4)lost

5)nothing

6)adjusted

7)visible

8)around

9)come

10)images

11)devastation

12)imagined

1)motivated

2)grief

3)emptiness

Translation:

Talking about the disaster at the World Trade Centre, people usually have in mind images from television and newspaper pictures: the collapsing buildings, the running office workers, and the black plume of smoke against a bright blue sky. However, when one goes around what used to be the World Trade Centre, there is nothing to see, except the wide emptiness.

Then, when the eyes have adjusted to what they are looking at, one begins to notice what is around.

Suddenly there are the firefighters, the waiting ambulance on the other side of the pit, the police on every corner. Suddenly there is the enormous cross made of two rusted girders. Suddenly there is the little cemetery attached to a nearby chapel. The fence is a welter of wreaths, poems and photographs, and American flags everywhere.

So, what is not there becomes visible and absence begins to assume a material form. So, emptiness becomes meaningful and expressive. What seems to be nothing actually says everything.

Writing:

Sample essay:

Our Library

Our library is a two-storey reddish building, resembling very much a traditional Chinese palace. Situated by the side of a huge lake in the north, the library faces south with a spacious square in front of it, in the center of which stands a facsimile of August Rodin’s sculpture The Thinker. To its east and west are well-trimmed gardens full of various kinds of plants and flowers with wooden benches amidst them. One would naturally associate the site with the Summer Palace in Beijing. In fact, among us students we do call the area “the Little Summer Palace”.

The library provides a good environment for teaching and research. It has a stock of over 2.5 million volumes, ranking among the top ones of all the universities in our province. In addition, there is a collection of more than 20, 000 eBooks in different languages, covering arts, business and management, economics, education, history, literature, healthcare, philosophy, psychology, religion, and other subjects. They are all stored on the ground floor.

On the second floor, the library offers a wide range of journals, newspapers and periodicals, neatly catalogued in 15 reading-rooms. It is here that we students do reading after class. Frequently you see students knitting eyebrows or blinking eyelids over a difficult problem on hand. Frequently you see boys and girls whispering in each other’s ears while making gestures with their hands that can only be understood between them. And frequently you see girls on a diet nibbling at some refreshment for lunch. Whatever they may be doing, it is always a vast quietude. It is in the depth of quietude that we drink in knowledge and enrich our minds.

What impresses me most is how the library presents itself at night when all the lights around it are on and our “Little Summer Palace” is colorfully mirrored by the lake. Yes, I do like our library so much. It is a shrine of knowledge and the harb

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Key for the exercises in Unit 8, Book Five

Working with Words and Expressions:

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1)Pinched; 2) convenience; 3) rage; 4) endured; 5) jointly; 6) marvelous; 7) scary; 8)

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2. 1) beyond (a) doubt; 2) bare their souls; 3) worried sick; 4) keeping score; 5) is in Cloze: 1) Conducted; 2) functions; 3) mutual; 4) maintain; 5) distance; 6) intimate; 7) jointly; 8) varieties; 9) past; 10) revived; 11) part; 12) contexts; 13) generations; 14) defined; 15) medium

Translation:

From a broad point of view, friends come in different types. There is sufficient value to be found in each type of friendship and they can meet our different needs.

Convenience friends can make our lives more convenient and special-interest friends can bring more fun to what we study and when we play. But we would not come too close or tell too much with these two types of friends. Historical friends and crossroads friends represent particular periods in our past lives. We only need to connect occasionally, and the dormant intimacy would be instantly revived. From a friendship that forms across generations the younger person gets the benefit of the other’s experience while the older person gets a youthful perspective. Man-woman friendships can bring to the two parties pleasures different from friendships formed with the same sex.

Of course, what attracts us most are the best of friends, who totally love and support and trust each other, bare to each other the secrets of their souls, run –no questions asked –to help each other, and tell harsh truths to each other when they must be told. Best friends needn’t agree about everything and should be able to tolerate each other’s point of view. Best friends will be there to comfort our sorrows and to celebrate our joys.

Writing:

I tend to believe that by their learning style or behavior, students can be divided into different types: industrious students, happy-go-lucky students and creative students, to mention just a few.

Industrious students are not hard to define. They work hard under any circumstances. My roommate Liu Xiang is a case in point. He spends most of his time either in the classroom or in the library. For a time he was shy to speak English because his English pronunciation had much room to improve. Then, last summer vacation, he did not go home. He practiced hard, and when we met him again, we were amazed to find that he excelled all of us in oral English. “Hard work pays off,” he always says.

Care-free and always with a glowing sense of superiority, happy-go-lucky students are normally from well-to-do families, and they have their future firmly tied to their parents. For them, attending college is but a life experience and they take it for granted. They also do their school work, but just hard enough to earn the diploma. Believe it or not, happy-go-lucky students are generally talented, and they have a wide range of interests and hobbies. Li Ming, a popular

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1)What I didn’t count on was that over time I would sincerely take pride in being a social worker.(我不曾想到，随着时间的流逝，我果真以身为社工而感到自豪） 2)Shooting a quick look at the clock on the wall, Grandma let out a cry, “Oh, My dear /My goodness/My gracious, we’re going to miss the train!”(奶奶迅速瞥了一眼墙上的时钟，发出一声惊呼;天哪，我们要赶不上火车了！) 3)At the kindergarten entrance, I always see some kids/children holding firmly on to their parents. Should young parents be sterner towards their kids/children and leave immediately under these circumstances?(我总在幼儿园门口看到一些孩子抓住父母不让走。请问；在这种情况下，年轻的父母是得对孩子严厉些，赶紧离开？） 4)In the dim street light stood a weeping little girl/ a girl weeping. （昏暗的路灯下站着一个哭泣 的小女孩。） 5)When making donations, rich people should be as considerate as possible in order not to put the recipient in an embarrassing situation. 6)Since last month, my work has been revolving around the routine office duties, so now I am counting the days until the National Day comes, when my friends and I are going hiking in the countryside. 1)In either friendship or love / In both friendship and love, you should never expect to take / receive the maximum while you give the minimum. （无论是友情还是爱情，你都不可能期待自己付出最少而得到最多。） 2)I built all my hopes on his promise(s), only to find that he was not a man of sincerity at all. （我 把全部希望寄托在他的承诺上，结果却发现他根本不是个真诚的人） 3)We took Mother to all the best hospitals we could find, but all our efforts were in vain; she failed to survive the disease. （我们带父母亲去了所有我们能找到的最好的医院，但是一切都是徒劳的，母亲还是没能熬过那次疾病) 4)Valentine’s Day is an annual holiday celebrated on February 14, a perfect dayto express love to the object of your / one’s affection. 5)In the information era, communications with far-away friends via e-mail can be almost / virtually simultaneous. 6)Love needs to be nurtured, and the “eternal / everlasting love”that we all dream to have is not forged until we learn to appreciate and tolerate the other. 1)The gasoline price is now at an all-time high, which has brought about wide public concern. (当下汽油价格达到历史新高，这引发了公众的广泛关注） 2)He found that fish and rice feature the Japanese diet, and he then proceeded to write a report on Japanese cooking culture. （他发现鱼和米方是日本人的饮食特色，随即开始就日本饮食文化撰写一份报道） 3)The spectators expected me to come in first but they were in for a shock. With a tumble, my chances for a gold medal in figure skating evaporated. （观众们以为我会轻而昐举名列第一名，哪知我使他们大吃一惊。因为跌倒，我获得花样滑冰金牌的希望就化为了泡影） 4)He was a beggar but he didn’t look the part at all, because he was clean-shaven, wearing glasses and a brand-new suit.

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Globalization is sweeping aside national borders and changing relations between nations. What impact does this have on national identities and loyalties? Are they strengthened or weakened? The author investigates. 全球化正在扫除国界、改变国与国之间的关系。这对国家的认同和对国家的忠诚会带来什么影响呢？它们会得到加强还是削弱？作者对这些问题进行了探讨。 In Search of Davos ManPeter Gumbel 1. William Browder was born in Princeton, New Jersey, grew up in Chicago, and studied at Stanford University in California. But don't call him an American. For the past 16 of his 40 years he has lived outside the ., first in London and then, from 1996, in Moscow, where he runs his own investment firm. Browder now manages $ billion in assets. In 1998 he gave up his American passport to become a British citizen, since his life is now centered in Europe. "National identity makes no difference for me," he says. "I feel completely international. If you have four good friends and you like what you are doing, it doesn't matter where you are. That's globalization." 寻找达沃斯人 彼得·甘贝尔 威廉·布劳德出生于新泽西州的普林斯顿，在芝加哥长大，就读于加利福尼亚州的斯坦福大学。但别叫他美国人。他今年40岁，过去16年来一直生活在美国以外的地方，先是在伦敦，1996年后在莫斯科经营他自己的投资公司。布劳德如今掌管着价值16亿美元的资产。1998年，他放弃美国护照，成为英国公民，因为他现在的生活中心在欧洲。“国家认同对我来说不重要，”他说，“我觉得自己完全是个国际人。如果你有四个朋友，又喜欢你所做的事情，那么你在哪儿无关紧要。这就是全球化。” 2. Alex Mandl is also a fervent believer in globalization, but he views himself very differently. A former president of AT&T, Mandl, 61, was born in Austria and now runs a French technology company, which is doing more and more business in China. He reckons he spends about 90% of his time traveling on business. But despite all that globetrotting, Mandl who has been a . citizen for 45 years still identifies himself as an American. "I see myself as American without any hesitation. The fact that I spend a lot of time in other places doesn't change that," he says. 亚历克斯·曼德尔也是全球化的狂热信徒，但他对自己的看法与布劳德不同。61岁的曼德尔曾任美国电报电话公司总裁。他出生于奥地利，现在经营着一家法国技术公司，该公司在中国的业务与日俱增。他估计自己几乎90%的时间都花在出差上。然而，尽管曼德尔全球到处跑，已经做了45年美国公民的他还是认为自己是个美国人。“我毫不迟疑地把自己当作美国人。我在其他地方度过很多时间，但是这一事实不能改变我是美国人，”他说。 3. Although Browder and Mandl define their nationality differently, both see their identity as a matter of personal choice, not an accident of birth. And not incidentally, both are Davos Men, members of the international business élite who trek each year to the Swiss Alpine town for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, founded in 1971. This week, Browder and Mandl will join more than 2,200 executives, politicians, academics, journalists, writers and a handful of Hollywood stars for five days of networking, parties and endless earnest discussions about everything from post-election Iraq and HIV in Africa to the global supply of oil and the implications of nanotechnology. Yet this year, perhaps more than ever, a hot topic at Davos is Davos itself. Whatever their considerable differences, most Davos Men and