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

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