新世纪大学英语第二版综合教程课后习题答案完整版UNIT.docx

1、新世纪大学英语第二版综合教程课后习题答案完整版UNITListen and Respond Task One Focusing on the Main Ideas Choose the best answer to complete each of the following statements according to the information contained in the listening passage. 1) Online learning is good in that _. B) it is convenient and flexibleA) it is easy t

2、o conduct C) it provides more degrees D) it teaches more skills 2) Before you start online learning, you should know the following EXCEPT _. A) what skills you need B) where to find a course or program C) when the course starts and who will teach you D) what type of course delivery format will work

3、best for you 3) You are ready to start online learning once you feel confident about your _. A) course delivery methods B) reading comprehension D) technical skillsC) writing techniques 4) You can search for course providers on the Internet by _. A) using search engines B) typing your questions C) e

4、ntering the right password D) making Internet phone calls 5) The passage is mainly about _. A) the benefits of online learning B) the importance of online learning C) the ways of conducting online learning D) the reasons why online learning is convenient Task Two Zooming In on the Details Listen to

5、the recording again and fill in the blanks according to what you have heard. master new skills earn your degree .1) Online learning is a new way to or minimum , you should 2) You must have the basic computer skills. At the very receive send email comfortably, search the Internet, and type and be abl

6、e to accurately fast .reasonably and 3) Perhaps the best way to find the right online course format is to consider learning style education needs .and your the search engines the key words and you can easily get what you 4) Type into will be flying and your online learning want. Before you know it,

7、your fingers adventure will have begun. Read and Explore Task One Discovering the Main Ideas 1 Answer the following questions with the information contained in Text A. 1) What disaster did the author encounter earlier in his career? He encountered a student who challenged the curriculum which requir

8、ed a pharmacy student to study literature. 2) What are the differences between the certificate that reads Qualified Pill-Grinding Technician and the one that reads Bachelor of Science? The former means that the graduate has completed the training of professional skills in pharmacy while the latter,

9、besides professional training, also involves education in the ideas mankind has generated within its history. 3) How did the author communicate the significance of studying the literal arts in college to the pharmacy student? He explained to the student that the time of a persons life could be divid

10、ed into three parts: one is for sleep, the second is for work which involves professional skills, and the third part is for life after work in which education in liberal arts philosophy, arts, music, literature, history, etc. plays a vital part. 4) What is the business of college education according

11、 to the author? The business of college education is not merely to train students, but to civilize them with the best human thoughts in history. In other words the author draws a clear distinction between training and education. The former provides one with skills for a job or career while the latte

12、r enables one to become a civilized person by coming into contact with the best minds in history. 5) How can a person become civilized according to the text? A person has to enter the past and familiarize himself/herself with both the technical and spiritual resources created by mankind, so that he/

13、she could become civilized and play his/her role in civilization. 6) What does the author think of the mission undertaken by the faculties of a university? How can they accomplish this mission? The faculties of liberal arts colleges as well as of specialized schools are entrusted with the mission to

14、 put students in close contact with the best human minds in history. They should turn themselves into some sort of storehouse of human experience and try their best to communicate that experience to their students, so that their students will become civilized humans instead of savages who only know

15、how to operate machines or push buttons. 2 Text A can be divided into three parts with the paragraph number(s) of each part provided as follows. Write down the main idea of each part. Part Paragraph(s) Main Idea 7 In response to the challenge posed by a particular student who merely 1One intends to

16、pursue skills at college and takes no interest in literature, the author draws a distinction between professional training and college education. The former can only provide students with professional skills while the latter enables students to become civilized humans. Hence the importance of libera

17、l arts education at college. 10 College education must enable students to come into contact with 8Two the best minds in history, so that they can become civilized and useful human beings instead of new species of savages who only know how to operate 11 College education must target at enabling machi

18、nes or push buttons. Three students to become both specialists and civilized humans. All college teachers must make themselves some sort of storehouse of human experience and try their best to communicate that experience to their students. Task Two Reading Between the Lines Read the following senten

19、ces carefully and discuss in pairs what the author intends to say by the italicised parts. Will there be a book in the house? Will there be a painting a 1) reasonably sensitive man can look at without shuddering? (Para. 5) Do you have a cultivated mind to know what books your family should read? And

20、 do you know what kind of paintings you should put up on the wall that would not offend a cultured eye? because youre going to be 2) “I hope you make a lot of it,” I told him, “badly stuck for something to do when youre not signing checks.” (Para. 7) I hope you will make a lot of money, but Im sure

21、youll be at a loss what to do when you are not signing checks. In other words, you can have a lot of money, but you may not live a meaningful and fulfilling life. You are on the way to being new species of mechanized savage, 3) the Pushbutton Neanderthal. (Para. 8) Not getting in touch with what the

22、 best human minds have thought, you are going to be uncivilized humans or a new type of savages who can only operate machines by pushing buttons. 4) Our colleges inevitably graduate a number of such life forms, but it cannot rather, the college went through them be said that they went to college; wi

23、thout making contact. (Para. 8) A number of our college graduates have indeed turned out to be “new species of mechanized savage”. This only means that they have not received a college education though they have spent some time there, for they have failed to make contact with the best human minds in

24、 history. 5) If you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your own limitations, to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the minds of and right down the scale and down the Sophocles, of Aristotle, of Chaucer then you may be ages to Yeats, Einstein, E.B. White, and Ogden Nash

25、 protected by the laws governing manslaughter, and you may be a voting entity, but you are neither a developed human being nor a useful citizen of a democracy. (Para. 10) Even if you are too busy or feel complacent and, therefore, refuse to come into contact with the best human minds within history,

26、 you can still be protected by law and enjoy the right to democratic voting. But you can never be considered as an educated, civilized person; nor can you be accepted by society as a useful citizen in a democratic nation. Checking Your Vocabulary Word Detective 1 Put down the right word from Text B

27、in the space provided according to the given definition. The first letter of each word is already given. lobal: of or concerning the whole worldgExample: ombine: join together; unite1) c mplement: carry out or put into practice2) i llusion: a false idea, esp. about oneself3) i ndispensable: too impo

28、rtant or too useful to be without4) i ntelligence: (good) ability to learn, reason, and understand5) i mphasis: special force or attention given to sth. to show that it is 6) eparticularly important econcile: find agreement between (two ideas, situations, etc., that seem to 7) rbe in opposition) ego

29、tiate: talk with another person or group in order to try to come to an 8) nagreement or settle an argument 2 Fill in each blank with a word or phrase from Text B. Both the explanation and the number of the paragraph in which the target word or phrase appears are given in brackets. Be sure to use the

30、 proper form. is crying out for rain The whole region it has been dry for three Example: months. (be in great need of; demand urgently: Para. 2) in store for Paul when he got to his office: he got 1) There was a big surprise promoted! (about to happen: Para. 1) to this end for 2) He wants to buy a D

31、VD player, and has been saving money these two months. (to help achieve this aim or purpose: Para. 2) in accordance with her will (遗嘱), she 3) His grandma died last month. And was buried in France. (in a way that fulfils or agrees with: Para. 2) in depth elsewhere in this book.4) The details of this programme are dealt with (done with great thoroughness: Para. 5) access to the village was by boat. 5) Before this road was built, the only (means or right of using, reaching, or obtaining: Para. 8) phase hes going through.6) Dont worry about your sons shyness; its just a (a stage of developm