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新世纪综合教程2 第二版 Unit 6 答案

新世纪综合教程2 第二版 Unit 6 答案
新世纪综合教程2 第二版 Unit 6 答案

Keys for Unit 6

Vocabulary

I. 1. only 2. makes me feel painful

3. Further casualties have been caused

4. It is said that...

5. appearing full of, radiating

II. 1. running 2. tucked 3.inspected 4. taken precautions

5. with an air of

6. adventurous

7. enraged

8. panicked

III. 1. stiffened 2. errors 3. invasion 4. assumption

5. innocence

6. assignment

7. explosion

8. description

IV. B, D, C, D, C, B, C, A

V. 1. heaps, stacks 2. love, kindness

3. small, lesser

4. surplus, abundance, plenty

5. reasonable, rational

6. terrible, desperate

7. bold, brave 8. regular, usual

VI. 1.balance 2. defeat

3. catch up and pass

4. emphasize

5. support

6. bear

7. lessen 8. prevent

Grammar

I. 1. How big 2. Who

3. What

4. How often

5. Why

6. What

II. 1. what did you do on Friday 2. What time did you get up

3. Did you have breakfast

4. Who’s Mary

5. Where did you first meet her

6. What’s she like

7. Do you often see her 8. Why did she come to you on Friday morning III. 1. she has gone 2. when she will be back

3. if she went out alone

IV. 1. a. It signals that rain is expected by the speaker.

b. It suggests that the speaker does not expect it to rain.

2. a. It is more emphatic.

b. It is more formal. The speaker is probably losing patience with the listener.

3. a. It is used to express doubt or uncertainty.

b. It is used to seek confirmation from the listener and the speaker expects agreement.

4. a. The speaker expects that the listener has carried out the action.

b. The speaker may be displeased or annoyed that the action was performed.

5. a is more polite than b.

6. a is quite friendly while b conveys a bit irritation.

7. a. With a rising tone, the tag question is used to verify or check information that we think is true or to check information that we aren’t sure is true.

b. When we are trying to be sarcastic, or to make a strong point, we use the tag question with a falling tone.

8. a. The non-polarized tag question is used for special effect, such as sarcasm, disbelief, shock, anger, concern, etc.

b. The polarized tag question is used to verify or check information.

V. ... They had recently sent out their youngest reporter around their local hospitals. He had found that while in some cases the facilities provided for out-patients were extremely good, and waiting rooms were bright and cheerful places, in others, patients were still expected to sit in dreary passages, moving from chair to chair as the queue diminished, no literature was provided, and the canteen, if one existed at all, might be five minutes’ walk away. They felt that far more could be done to obviate such inconvenience, and that some hospitals were not taking full advantage of the various voluntary bodies which offered excellent assistance in the provision of canteens and suchlike.

Translation

1. 我所到之处满目疮痍,楼房夷为瓦砾,活人成了死尸,生命的欢乐已然封存在这一具具死体之内,这一切时时刻刻都在刺痛着我的心。

2. 当然,我也和他们一样,但是自上一个进攻日以后,我的想法改变了。当时我们团的任务是保卫伦敦。

3. 倘若我能回国,我发誓一定要让这些战士英名长存,我要告诉他们的家人:他们为了保卫祖国,使之免遭劫难,英勇地献出了自己的生命。

4. 虽说人非圣贤,都有过错,但是滥杀无辜,毁人国土,实在是天理难容。

1. Our group was assigned to decorate the garden while the others were preparing the food in the kitchen.

2. On the battlefield the young man was delighted to meet a long-lost brother who came out of the blue..

3. Who has used up the milk? There is none to put in my coffee.

4. Rumour has it that this painting is fake and that the original one was stolen three years ago..

5. One person may not be able to change much, but working together we’ll be able to make a great difference to our country.

6. Many burglaries took place because the owners failed to take the precaution of locking their doors and windows.

7. The minister flew to the front to negotiate with the rioters in an effort to prevent a civil war.

8.I assumed you knew each other because I saw you talking with each other at the party.

Dictation

My Berlin diary for December 2 / was limited to four words. / “Only three more days!” / The Foreign Office was still holding up / my passport and exit visa, / which worried me. / I had to get my passport and official permission / to leave on December 5. /

There was one other thing to do. / For weeks I had thought over / how to get my diaries safely out of Berlin. / At some moments / I had thought / I ought to destroy them before leaving. / There was enough in them / to get me hanged. /

The morning I got my passport and exit visa / I realized I had less than twenty-four hours / to f igure out a way / of getting my Berlin diaries out. / I again thought of destroying them, / but I wanted very much to keep them, if I could. / Suddenly, later that morning, / the solution became clear. / It was risky, / but it was worth a try. /

Cloze

The plane did not frighten Kaz. For (1) one thing, Hiroshima had gone almost untouched by the air war. For another, Kaz had been born in California, and although her father had returned to Japan while she was still (2) in diapers, she liked to tell people she was the American in the family. She even felt a kind of distant kinship (3) with the B-29s that flew regularly overhead, bound north (4) for Tokyo and other targets. She waved at the plane. “Hi,angel!” she called.

A white spot appeared in the sky, as small and innocent-looking (5) as a scrap of paper. It was falling away (6) from the plane, drifting down toward them. The journey took 43 seconds.

The air exploded in blinding light and color, the rays shooting outward as in a child’s drawing of the sun, and Kaz was thrown to the ground so violently (7) that her two front teeth broke off; she had sunk (8) into unconsciousness. Kaz’s father had been out back tending the vegetables, in his undershorts. When he came staggering out of the garden, blood was running from his nose and mouth. (9) By the next day, the exposed parts of his body would turn a chocolate brown. What had been the finest house (10) in the neighborhood came crashing down.

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