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1、unit4matriculationfixation练习答案Unit 4 Matriculation FixationConsolidation ActivitiesI. Text Comprehension1. Decide which of the following best states the authors purpose.A. To tell his personal experience in college selection procedures.B. To offer his philosophy about college selection and ones futu

2、re career or success in life.C. To describe the importance of parents role in childrens college education.Key: B 2. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.1). The primary reason for the father to choose a local, second-echelon university for his daughter is

3、based on economic considerations. T2). The authors success as a freelance writer is largely due to his education in a prestigious university. F3). It is implied, though not stated, that all parents (including the author himself) undergo a critical time when their children are going to college. T4).

4、Ensuring that their children enter one of the top universities is the ultimate objective of some parents. T5). The parents who recognize their childrens incapability to make the cut have never expected their children to go to prestigious universities. F6). The campus tour of MIT enabled the author t

5、o change his attitude about college selection. F4. Explain in your own words the following sentences taken from the text.1) Such people believe that if a child succeeds in getting admission to a first-rate university, then he or she will be guaranteed successful future.2) Some parents think more of

6、the fame of a university than the university itself. However, their fame has more weight than the institutions themselves.II. Writing StrategiesWritten in a personal and informal style, this essay has a number of subtopics that are carefully introduced. What are these subtopics The essay begins with

7、 the authors unexpected encounter with a stranger in a hospital, and ends with his tour of MIT campus. How do these two incidents help to connect all the subtopics to the theme of the essayThe essay has the following subtopics as main components:1) the authors own situation and experiences in colleg

8、e education and college selection (Paragraphs 38); 2) his probe into and comments on the two classes of college selection obsessives (Paragraphs 912). The two incidents are respectively related with the first and the second subtopics: the encounter puts the author and the man in a similar situation

9、(both the man and the author have kids who are going to attend college); the campus tour provides support to the authors comments on the matter.The two incidents help to clarify the subtopics by means of full and progressive explanation of the authors attitude towards the matter (the authors college

10、 days, his high school chums, examples of failures and successes, etc.)III. Language Work1. Explain the underlined part(s) in each sentence in your own words.1). Money being tight, with other college-bound children in the family queue, the man had persuaded his daughter to accept the second universi

11、tys offer. Not having much money; children who are going to college2). Now he was worried that she would one day rue this decision regret not having studied in the first-class university3). I . had managed to carve out a nice little niche for myself. find a job which was very suitable4). Three years

12、 later my son will follow suit. go to college too5). Some of those boys and girls most likely to succeed are going to end up on welfare or skid row. are going to be poor, living on welfare, without a job or a place to live, and often drinking too much alcohol6). A second, far more numerous class of

13、obsessives consists of people who suddenly realize that their Brand X children arent going to make the cut. measure up to a certain standard7). Seventeen years of unread textbooks, unvisited museums, and untaken AP courses are now finally taking their toll . having a bad effect 8). During a recent v

14、isit to MIT, I watched the first thirty seconds of an admissions office video poking fun at the universitys reputation as a nerd factory. making jokes about; a place where boring personalities are fostered9). At one juncture, she pointed out a restaurant where students could grab a fast, inexpensive

15、 meal. At one point10). .sedulous monitoring of on-campus restaurant prices should be a vital component of the winnowing procedure, particularly vis-a-vis panini. the process of reducing a large number of universities to a much smaller number; with regard to2. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate

16、 forms of the given words.1). The only illumination (illuminate) was from a skylight.2). The golden autumn light provided the inspiration (inspire) for the painting.3). There was a biographical (biography) note about the author on the back of the book.4). She was utterly devastated (devastate) when

17、her husband died.5). Shes neurotic (neurosis) about her weight she weighs herself three times a day.6). Its infuriating (infuriate) when people keep spelling your name wrong, isnt it7). Hes obsessive (obsess) about punctuality8). Liz has a fixation (fixate) with food.9). The medical examination befo

18、re you start work is obligatory (oblige).10). Her controversial speech was punctuated with noisy interjections (interject) from the audience.3. Fill in the blank(s) in each sentence with a phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.in jeopardy | screw up | in question | flat outtick off | tak

19、e a toll | sotto voce | winnow downdragoon into | follow suit | fork over | stem from1). Ive been dragooned into giving the after-dinner speech.2). I stayed at home on the night in question.3). The lives of thousands of birds are in jeopardy as a result of the oil spillage.4). When one airline reduc

20、es its prices, the rest soon follow suit .5). I screwed up my exams last year.6). The problems of the past few months have taken a toll on her health and there are shadows beneath her eyes.7). Their disagreement stemmed from a misunderstanding.8). The remark was uttered sotto voce.9). We had to fork

21、 over ten bucks to park near the stadium.10). Tick off each item on the list as you complete it.11). A list of 12 candidates has been winnowed down to a shortlist of three.12). She told him flat out that she would not go to the show.4. Explain the meaning of the underlined part in each sentence.1).

22、Spending time with ones family is never an unalloyed pleasure. a one-hundred-percent pleasant experience2). I cant stand his belligerence. his wish to argue with people all the time3). She gave a bashful smile as he complimented her on her work. embarrassed 4). When his parents died, he found himsel

23、f $100,000 better off. had $100, 000 more than he had in the past5). The CIA was monitoring his phone calls. secretly listening to6). Northbound traffic is moving very slowly because of the accident. Traffic which is traveling north7). She had a look of utter devastation on her face. extreme shock a

24、nd sadness8). In his closing remarks, the chairman thanked everyone who had helped. concluding9). If you have not signed a contract, you are under no obligation to pay them any money. it is not necessary for you to10). There was a screech of brakes and the bus shuddered to a halt. shook violently an

25、d stopped5. Correct the errors in the following passage. The passage contains ten errors, one in each indicated line. In each case, only one word is involved. Corrections should be done as follows: Wrong word: underline the wrong word and write the correct word in the blank. Extra word: delete the e

26、xtra word with an “.”Missing word: mark the position of the missing word with a “” and write the missing word in the blank.Ivy Retardation It didnt down on me that there might be a few holes in my education until I was about 35. Id just bought a house, the pipes needed fixing, and the plumber was st

27、anding in my kitchen. There he was, a short, beefy guy with a thick Boston accent, and I suddenly learned that I didnt have the slightest idea what to say to someone like him. So alien was his experience to me, so unguessable his value, so mysterious his very language, that I couldnt succeed in enga

28、ging him in a few minutes of small talk before he got down to work. Fourteen years of higher education and a handful of Ivy League degrees, and there I was, stiff and stupid, struck dumb by my own dumbness. “Ivy retardation,” a friend of mine calls this. I could carry out conversations with people f

29、rom other countries, in other languages, but I couldnt talk to the man who was standing in my own house.Its not surprising that it took me so long to discover the extent of my miseducation, because the latest thing an elite education will teach you is its own inadequacy. The first disadvantage of an

30、 elite education, as I learned in my kitchen that day, is that it makes you incapable of talking to people who dont like you. Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity is almost entirely a matter of ethnicity and race. With respect in class, these schools are largely homo

31、geneous. At the same time, because these schools tend to cultivate liberal attitudes, they leave their students in the paradoxical position of wanting to advocate on behalf of the working class while being unable to hold a simple conversation with anyone in it.The second disadvantage is that an elit

32、e education inculcates a false sense of self-worth. Getting to an elite college, being at an elite college, and going on from an elite college all involve numerical rankings: SAT, GPA, GRE. You learn to think for yourself in terms of those numbers. They come to signify not only your fate, but your identity; not only your identity, but your value. There is nothing wrong with taking pride in ones intell