大学英语董亚芬编精读四册课后题答案全解

大学英语精读第三版第四册Book4 Unit1答案上海外语教育出版社董亚芬主编

1) thoughtful

2) might as well/may as well/could as well

3) draw your attention to

4) marvelous

5) settle for

6) done with

7) Competitive competitive

8) pains/pained

9) bonus

10) shrink

11) delivery

12) overheard

13) sour

14) for rent

15) stack

16) reproduce

1) inquired

2) informed

3) awful

4) settle for

5) trash

6) claimed

7) Normally

8) a piece of cake

9) be done with

10) enable

11) am entitled

12) quite a while

1) ask for

2) was set up/has been set up

3) pulled up

4) gives off

5) was held up

6) keep up

7) ran over

8) made up

9) be left out

10) cut off

1) It pained Jenny to learn of Jim's refusal to help her with the translation.

2) The extra work to be assigned to you will greatly cut into your spare time.

3) We'd been at the job for hours, but we hardly made a dent in it.

4) You have no business saying those nasty things about Dick.

5) We might as well listen to the radio program since there isn't anything interesting on television.

1) standee

2) payee

3) grantee

4) addressee

5) a person who is absent

6) a person who is being trained

7) a divorced person

8) a person who is appointed

1) output

2) breakdown

3) setup

4) Takeoff

5) drawbacks

6) breakthrough

7) cutback

8) takeover

1) paper, store, shop, case, cream

2) making, keeping, bathing, conditioning, walking

3) market, way, stop, board/smith, ground

4) pill, water, material, point, machine

5) pour, look/put/come, come,

6) out, back/up, through/down/out

1) a dozen years

2) dozens of times

3) two dozen passengers

4) dozens of phone calls

5) three dozen boxes

6) a dozen bottles/a dozen bottles of wine

1) a great deal of pain "has been caused by evils which have never happened"

2) the elderly lady Miss Morris quarrelled with was none other than her future mother-in-law

3) this essay is well-written except for a few grammatical mistakes

4) I just caught the train in time

5) You can't eat your cake and have it too

1) You ought to know better than to go swimming straight after a meal.

2) Uncle Rob should have known better than to trust that treacherous son of his.

3) Sally is old enough to know better than to spend all her money on fancy goods.

4) Miss Miller certainly knows better than to explore the desert all alone.

5) His college sons should have known better than to try to get the best out of their employees by threatening them with bodily harm.

6) You ought to know better than to go out in this freezing weather in those thin clothes. You'll get frozen.

1) delivery

2) a piece of cake

3) inquire

4) pulling up

5) stacks

6) deadline

7) marvelous

8) enable

9) cut into

10) settle for

11) settled our accounts

12) minimum

13) known better than

1) advertisement/ad

2) read

3) No

4) like

5) words

6) towards

7) which

8) sizes

9) sitting

10) water

11) bottle

12) one

13) started

14) passed

15) run/pass

16) into

17) coming

18) if

19) quit

20) hour

21) wrote

翻译

1) 我们接到通知，财政部长将于次日接见我们。

We were informed that the Minister of Finance was to give us an audience /receive us the next day.

2) 我觉得很奇怪，他似乎不记得自己的生日。

I thought it odd that he didn't seem to remember his own birthday.

3) 学期论文最迟应在下星期二交来，可是至今大部分学生却几无进展。

Next Tuesday is the deadline for handing in the term papers, but most students have hardly made a dent in the work so far.

4) 看到学生人数不断减少，校长心里很难受。(pain)

It pained the headmaster to find the number of students shrinking.

5) 在那个国家一般用现金付账，但支票变得普遍起来了，不久会代替现金作为人们结账的一种方式。

Cash is commonly used in paying bills in that country, but checks are becoming more popular and will, in a short while, replace cash as a way for people to settle their accounts.

6) 该公司声称，这条河流的污染不是它造成的。

The company claims that it is not responsible for the pollution in the river.

大学英语精读第三版第四册Book4 Unit2答案上海外语教育出版社董亚芬主编

1) bull

2) horse

3) dog

4) dog

5) tiger

6) tiger

7) lioness

8) goose

9) fowl

10) cock

11) duck

1) practical

2) scarcity

3) external

4) raise

5) rise

6) waste

7) deficiency

8) minimum

9) draw

10) insufficient

11) reduce

12) freeze

1) fundamental

2) deposited

3) in the form of

4) in good condition/in condition

5) currencies

6) resources

7) lowering

8) conceived

9) Rhythm

10) reserve

11) romantic

12) productivity

13) dependent

14) internal

1) mature

2) reserve

3) deposit/deposit enough money

4) currency

5) ample

6) fundamental

7) given birth to

8) somewhat

9) an excess

10) expended

11) safeguard

12) conceive

1) drew on/draws on

2) depend on

3) slowing down

4) put on

5) turn down

1) The country is trying to be/become less dependent on foreign aid.

2) It amused us to see the actor's beard fall off.

3) The rhythm of life is made up of a cycle of birth, youth, maturity, and death.

4) Conservation of our mineral resources is highly important because they can never be replenished.

5) Parking spaces in this city are scarce on Saturdays.

1) man-eating

2) earth-shaking

3) body-building

4) labor-saving

5) fact-finding

6) record-breaking

7) tone-setting

8) paper-cutting

1) biochemistry: the science that deals with the chemical processes of living animals and plants; biological chemistry

2) biocide: any substance poisonous to life

3) bioconversion: the conversion of biological waste, garbage, and plant material into energy, fertilizer, and other useful products

4) biophysics: the branch of biology which applies the laws of physics to explain the phenomena of biology

5) ecoactivity: any project or undertaking to combat pollution or improve the quality of the environment

6) ecocatastrophe: a large-scale or world-wide disaster resulting from uncontrolled use of pollutants

7) ecocide: the destruction of the earth's environment or ecology through the uncontrolled use of pollutants

8) ecospecies: a group of organisms only somewhat fertile with organisms of related groups, usually considered equivalent to a species

1) All children in that country are

2) all her life/her whole life

3) Whole Indian tribes in the region were killed off.

4) the whole staff/all the staff

5) all the time/the whole time

6) this whole business/all this business

1) in the case of Tom: he was ill.

2) A case in point is Dujiangyan, which was built about 2000 years ago.

3) in the case of my two college sons, they try to live on their parents as long as possible.

4) A case in point is the successful launching of space shuttles.

5) A case in point is the chimp, who can learn to paint like a small child.

1) He does not lend his books to everybody.

2) She is not always so cooperative.

3) Not all his stories make interesting reading.

4) This plant is not to be found everywhere.

5) The exhibits are not all of them worth looking at.

1) go round

2) romantic

3) fundamental

4) dependent

5) resources

6) abundant

7) deposited

8) scarce

9) slowing down

10) pull through

11) draw on

12) in good condition

13) give birth to

1) with

2) on

3) future

4) as

5) to

6) cycles

7) rhythms

8) from

9) body

10) other

11) studying

12) over

13) that

14) effects

15) direction

16) take

17) one

翻译

1) 比尔已是个成熟的小伙子，不再依赖父母替他做主。

Bill is a mature young man who is no longer dependent on his parents for decisions.

2) 这个地区有大量肉类供应，但新鲜果蔬奇缺。

There are abundant supplies of meat in this region, but fresh fruit and vegetables are scarce.

3) 工程师们依靠工人们的智慧发明了一种新的生产方法，使生产率得以提高。

Drawing on the wisdom of the workers, the engineers invented a new production method that led to increased productivity.

4) 他花了许多时间准备数学考试，因此当他获知自己只得了个B时感到有点失望。

He spent a lot of time preparing for his math exam. Hence he was somewhat disappointed to learn that he got only a B.

5) 我们有充裕的时间从从容容吃顿午饭。

We have ample time for a leisurely lunch.

6) 地方政府不得不动用储备粮并采取其他紧急措施，以渡过粮食危机。

The local government had to draw on its grain reserves and take other emergency measures so as to pull through the food crisis.

大学英语精读第三版第四册Book4 Unit3答案上海外语教育出版社董亚芬主编

1) cited

2) as for

3) exaggerate

4) Statements

5) preface

6) justified

7) horizon

8) authority

9) follow up

10) advanced

11) and so forth

12) threw light on/shed light on

13) pressing

14) burden

1) refuted

2) swallowed

3) predict

4) outlined

5) proof

6) For the sake of

7) advanced

8) cited

9) In a way

10) cast

11) promptly

12) appealed to

1) rested on

2) fall back on

3) appeal to

4) followed

5) up

6) was straying from

7) aimed at

8) bring out

1) If the door was not opened by force, it follows that the burglar had

a key

2) Children tend to be credulous because they have not had much experience in the real world.

3) The information the police had just obtained threw light on the mystery of the stolen antiques.

4) The three-month military training may well work a change in his living habits.

5) If this is the case, he is fully justified in blaming her.

1) a band worn around the ankle

2) a little brook

3) a little star

4) a little stream

1) forecasts

2) forefathers

3) foresight

4) foregoing

5) forerunner

6) forecast/foretell

1) sun solar

2) dental

3)mental

4) paternal maternal

5) moon lunar

6)annual

7)night nocturnal

8)aural

9)fraternal

10)eye ocular

1) John won't like it but Jack will.

2) She was poor but honest.

3) I've explained more than once and I'm not going to again.

4) Is it a color or black and white film?

5) Having washed and changed, Linda went out on to the verandah.

6) His aunt and uncle had to work long hours to keep body and soul together.

7) Do you want to buy seats in the orchestra or the balcony?

8) I should have lent her the money and helped her out of the difficulty.

9) Joe hid his face behind his newspaper lest he should have to speak to acquaintances and expose his uneasiness.

10) When Sarah was finally reunited with her children at the airport they kissed and hugged each other.

1) Because he is good, it doesn't follow that he is bright.

2) Just because she failed the exam, it doesn't follow that she has no brains.

3) Joan has been to France many a time, but it doesn't follow that she has obtained a good command of French.

4) It's true that Ben's got a better job, but it doesn't follow that he'll be paid more.

1) I'm sure Jim will come if asked.

2) No artistic creation can achieve greatness if divorced from life.

3) This hotel, if not well managed, will yield little profit.

4) Joe was shocked to learn that his illness could result in total blindness if left untreated.

1) To her horror, Mrs. Pride saw her neighbour killed in broad daylight.

2) To our amazement, we heard the 70-year-old man had beaten the young athlete in the match.

3) To his surprise, Ted found that his learned cousin knew very little about the subject.

4) To her great relief, Mrs. Dane found her husband unhurt in the traffic accident.

5) To my deep regret, I won't be able to attend the ceremony.

6) To their dismay, the travellers found that the bridge had been washed away.

1) starts off

2) superstitious

3) promptly

4) exaggerates

5) fall back on

6) authorities

7) aim at

8) outlines

9) throwing light on

10) rests on

11) credulous

12) burden

1) where

2) by

3) you

4) don't

5) come

6) That's

7) change

8) over

9) even

10) reason

11) understate

12) someone

13) task/thing

14) way

15) no

16) much

17) no

18) position

19) those

20) can

21) an

22) little

23) on

24) hope

翻译

1) 萧伯纳在他一个剧本的前言中提出这样的看法：今天人们比在中世纪时更加迷信。

In the preface to one of his plays, Bernard Shaw advances the idea that people are more superstitious today than they were in the Middle Ages.

2) 丈夫死后，她只好独自挑起抚养五个孩子的经济重担。

After her husband died, she had to bear the severe financial burden of raising five children by herself.

3) 证明或驳斥某个论点的最好办法之一是从亲身经历中举出例子。

One of the best ways to prove or refute a point is to cite examples from your own experience.

4) 亨特说贝蒂老是夸大他的缺点，这话很可能会引起一场争吵。

Hunt's statement that Betty always exaggerates his faults may well lead to a quarrel.

5) 我当时对她绝对信任，无论她告诉我什么，我都会相信。

I trusted her so much that I would have swallowed any story she told me.

6) 一家人聚拢来讨论经济问题时，父亲一开头就说，每月存点钱是绝对必要的，遇到紧急情况，我们可以依靠积蓄。

When the family gathered to discuss matters of finance, Father started off by saying that it was absolutely necessary to set aside some money each month, for in an emergency we could fall back on our savings.

大学英语精读第三版第四册Book4 Unit4答案上海外语教育出版社董亚芬主编

1) herd

2) treading