英语泛读教程2答案

【篇一：英语泛读教程2参(1-10)】

txt>comprehension points 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

exercises

i. true or false

1. f 2. f 3. t 4. f 5. t 6. f 7. t 8. t 9. t 10. f ii.

1. 略。

2. four stages. childhood, manhood, old age, and the last stage.

3. the very hottest ones are blue. those not quite so hot are white, and those less hot than the white ones are yellow and red.

4. 略。

5. they help sailors to find their way and they help us to tell time.

comprehension points

1. it means to function properly.

3. it means to bring out of the water on to the land. 4. to lay a cable under the atlantic. 5. to become weaker.

6. 第一个it指的是the telegraph failed，第二个it指的是it ever worked，第三个it指的是the cable.

7. because a big ship can’t carry the end of the cable on to the shore, it will get stranded.

8. to honor him even more highly. 9. an operator.

10. probably in late 20th century. exercises i.

1. a 2. b 3. a 4. c 5. c 6. a 7. b 8. a ii.

1. because the only form of communication between countries separated by sea was still by ship and it was very slow.

2. the success of wheatstone’s experiment and the discovery of gutta percha by faraday.

3. first the niagara’s cable caught in the machinery and was damaged. then when niagara ran

into rough sea, the men broke the cable again when they tried to stop the machine. by the time they reached home to start again, it was nearly winter and the weather was getting bad. so they had to wait for the next year.

4. first agamemnon ran into one of the worst atlantic storms in history, and the ship nearly sank.

then when the two ships met and started to lay the cables, faults of different kinds developed and they failed for three times. after that they returned to valencia for more cable, food and coal and made another attempt. this time agamemnon ran into another severe storm and again nearly lost her cable. finally, after unyielding efforts, on aug. 5th, the cable was laid. 5. the company collected another large amount of money, used a very much stronger cable,

hired a ship large enough to carry the whole of their cable, and loaded the ship with enough food supplies.

6. all five continents were connected. two more atlantic cables have been laid between europe

and usa, and 22 telephone cables between britain and europe. comprehension points

1. it means the shaking ship made many people fall off balance.

2. to follow the movements. 3. space.

4. the british government asked watson-watt to do something which he did not consider

possible, so he developed radar instead.

5. because radio waves, which are basis of radar, were known to scientists all over the world.

there was therefore a danger that scientists in other countries might also start to experiment with radar. the government was afraid that the clever german scientists, whom they respected greatly, might develop radar before the british scientists.

6. no. he actually wanted her to tell that “secret” to everyone in the village so that they would stop asking questions. 7. gradually.

8. a very small one weighing only a few pounds to fit into an aeroplane. 9. 1937.

10. the british shores. 11. aeroplanes. exercises i.

1. b 2. b 3. c 4. c 5. a 6. b 7. b 8. b ii.

1. p 29, paragraph 8.

2. p 33, the last paragraph.

3. modern ships of all nations carry radar to help them to sail safely in bad weather. radar helps

to guide aeroplances across the world. in many countries police use radar to control the speed of cars on roads where there is a speed limit. radar is also used to forecast the weather, and to study moon and stars. comprehension points 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. because the clerks worked very hard during the rush of

christmas business. the scene described in the fist paragraph. spending a quiet afternoon leisurely with her husband without the festival excitement very likely. very close to the street. because in their view, a house is not really old until it has lasted 150 years.

我是新英格兰地区的人。在我们那儿，这样的房子可算不上老。 7. since she bends down and straightens up so many times when tidying up the house, which

equals to much waist exercise, she should have the smallest waist in town. but she hasn’t. 8. they each drove a car.

9. always scattered around untidily 11. bread and eggs.

12. not as heavily as in the afternoon.

13. no. but he would rather drink tea with his wife than having coffee by himself.

14. regret not drinking coffee.

15. 今早的报纸上说，今年除雪的花费将会高于去年。 16. coming inside and warming up afterwards. exercises (chapter 1) i.

1. b 2. c 3. c 4. b 5. a 6. a ii．

1. probably in their thirties.

2. mary often thought how nice it would be to have a house with a yard where ann could play

safely out of doors without having to leave home.

3. because the schools are very good, jim can get to his office in twenty minutes, mary will be

close to several good shopping areas, and there’s plenty of room for children. 4. 略。

(chapter 2) i.

1. b 2. c 3. c 4. c 5. a 6. c ii.

1. because she did so much waist exercise bending down and straightening up when she tidied up the house.

2. it was a very shady yard with some handsome big trees, bushes and green and weeded lawn.

3. the whole family was usually home on weekends. jim often did repairs. in summer he and

tom often washed and polished the car, and weeded the lawn. the children might go to the movie, or go to parties. the family might go bowling, or together to a movie, or play tennis, or walk the dog, or watch tv. the couple sometimes were invited out to dinner, or invited friends to dinner at home. (chapter 3) i.

1. a 2. a 3. c 4. c 5. c ii.

1. because a snowstorm is coming soon.

2. no. because mary was glad the snow tires were on the car when she drove back from the

supermarket, and it took jim two hours to drive back home and he saw lots of buses and cars stuck in the snow on his way back.

3. the hot chocolate and cookies.

4. no. because the paperboy’s footprints could be seen going from their front door across the

smooth snow to the hopkin’s front steps next door. unit five

comprehension points 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. new cups and saucers. because she wanted jim and their children to know how significant their gifts were to her. the food stores all have big advertisements…for the suggested dishes. unexplored, uncultivated 他们清理了树木和灌木丛间的小道，并做了路标……(在树皮上刻上记号) the boys really want to go camping as often as they can, but it’s not so easy to make it happen, especially during the winter.

7. jim had probably taken it for granted that mr. robinson’s children must be boys since he

seemed so greatly interested in boy scout activities. 8. family name.

9. the old lady living next to mrs. payne.

10. the two women that i worked for have been the most difficult ones in my life to get along

with and satisfy.

11. it’s fine to me./ i think that’s a good idea. 12. a is the first letter of her family name. 13. 我们没必要每一份人情都要还。

14. you are the one to make the final decision.

15. in the past few days the only thing in my mind has been the food, so i don’t want to talk about it any more now. exercises

(chapters 5-6)

i. choose the best answer 1. c 2. b 3. b4. a 5. a

ii. answer the questions:

1. lincoln’s birthday, valentine’s day, washington’s birthday 2. both her birthday and their wedding anniversary were in february.

3. page 55, paragraph 6: “he enjoyed getting away from…”

4. page 56. building fires, cooking food, boiling water, making coffee, etc.

(chapters 7-8)

1. c 2.c 3. b 4. c 5. b

ii. answer the questions: 1. 略

2. there’re many things that always should be done on saturdays.

3. page 59. chapter 8, paragraph 2 -4. the house has gone very old and needs paint badly.

4. a cheerful talkative young man. (chapters9-10)

1. c 2.b 3. b 4. a 5. a

ii. answer the questions: 1. 略

2. it’s much easier to find the good new murder mysteries at rental libraries.

3. it’s a courtesy to return the favor if your neighbors have invited you to their party. besides,

they haven’t seen them for a long time.

4. jim didn’t like the idea. (to jim mr. johnson was really a bore.) unit six

comprehension points

1. swimming

2. oak hill also has an independence parade.

3. 一支花炮突然冲入空中，爆炸后的焰火星星点点般在夜空中逗留片刻后又像雨点般洒落 下来。

4. she made sudden loud noises while cows were being milked, which upset them and caused the milk production to drop.

5. probably not, since jack seemed to be such a wonderful person.

6. turning the farm over to jack. / jack’s parents.

【篇二：英语泛读教程2 课后答案】

retest

1c 2a 3b 4 c 5 b 6 a 7 c 8 c

reading comprehension 1-8 c a a c c b vocabulary building word search

1 intangible2. crave3 ego 4 attributable 5 stall 7 at stake 8. cram 9. forfeit 10. corny use of english

by the time i opened the can its contents had gone off. i’ll go over how it works before you try it yourself.

i was told it would be repaired free of charge, but the man in the shop has gone back on his promise. the book was so popular that there weren’t enough copies to go round. his

shop has gone out of business after making heavy losses. the trade has gone from bad to worse and staff are being laid off. stems 1-6badaac

synonyms1-5 gracefulspontaneouslyopposeusualclient cloze staffmaximizeobjectivesparticipatepotentialskills easier appointedspecific commitment section b acbft 6-10 facdb11-15 cbtft section c 1-5 ftftf 6-10tftft

unit 6 the african-americans section a word pretest 1. c2. a3. c4. a

5. b6. a 7. c 8. c

reading comprehension 1. f

2t3t4f5t6f7t8t

vocabulary building word search 1. destined 2. relief 3. segregation4. boycott 5. sit-in 6. legacy

7. chronicle 8. assault 9. plight

10. vigilance

semantic variations 1c2a3c4a5b6c stems 6 tool up

1. evolution: 2. ascend: 3. devolve:

the theory that groups of organisms change with passage of time, mainly as a result of natural to go or move upward

selection, so that descendants differ morphologically and physiologically from their ancestors to pass on or delegate to another

4. migrate: to change location periodically, especially by moving seasonally from one region to another 5. export: to send or transport (a commodity, for example) abroad, especially for trade or sale 6. condescend: antonyms 1. observe 2. admit 3. dismiss 4. eulogize 5. advance

to descend to the level of one considered inferior; to lower oneself

cloze nominated raised immigrated earned assignment position army

autobiography section b 1t 2t 3f 4c 5b 6d

7d 11f 12f 13t 14t

section c 1a 2d 3d

4c 5c 6b

7d keys to reading course 2 unit 7 greek stories section a word pretest

1.c2.b 3.d4.d5.a6.b7.b8.a 9.c 10.c reading comprehension 1.b 2.c3.c4.c5. c6.d7.c8.d

vocabulary building word match ripple

a little wave on the surface of water mischiefnaughty behavior by children hospitality welcoming behavior billowa large sea wave spelldelightful influence

nymph a goddess of nature band a group of musician

suitora man wishing to marry a particular woman mortal a human being warrior a soldier crafty cunning hostile unfriendly merry cheerful tame not wild

content satisfied rose

speaker 8d 9t 8c 10f

resume to take again gloomdarkness despise to look down on with contempt

dismay a strong feeling of fear, anxiety and hopelessness dusk the time just before night

semantic variations 1-6caaaac stems

tendency:movement or prevailing movement in a given direction

2. conservative:favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change 3. preserve: to keep in perfect or unaltered condition; tending to oppose change valuable: of great importance

available:present and ready for use; at hand; accessible prevail: to be most common or frequent; to be predominant antonyms

1. forbid 2. clarify3.sorrow 4.remain5.conceal cloze

name place arrows wandered power

mischiefwonneglectedcelebrate expedition section b 1-5 ccacd 6-10ttfff 11-15 ttbbc section c 1-5 cadba 6-8dcc

unit 8 attitude towards life section a word pretest: bacba

reading comprehension: cabbc vocabulary building

word match astonishing considerate preach arena strenuous surprising

thoughtful of other persons’ wishes, needs or feelings

to advise or urge others to accept (sth. one believes in) taking or needing great effort or strength

an enclosed area for sports, public entertainments, etc. bbb bca

adversity bad fortune, trouble

batterto damage, break, or cause to lose shape reverse

the opposite, the other way round penetrate to see into or through

self-esteem one’s good opinion of one’s own worth doom to cause to suffer sth unavoidable and terrible

emergeto come out or appear from inside or from being hidden

blessinga gift from god or anything that brings happiness and good fortune mess up

to get into disorder; to spoil, etc. devastating completely destructive

common denominator a quality or belief shared by all the members of a group oddsthe probabilities that sth will or will not happen stack

to arrange dishonestly so as to give oneself an unfair advantage motive

to provide with a strong reason for doing sth. falter lose strength or effectiveness; weaken

semantic variations: cbbacb stems 1 prescribe to advise the use of a medicine 2 description an account of a person in words

3 terrain

a stretch of land, with regard to its natural features

4 subscribe to pay regularly in order to receive a magazine, newspaper, etc. 5 territorial of a country’s territory 6 extraterrestrial of or from outside the earth or its atmosphere

antonyms appear ready hide s skillful careless

cloze intelligent activities workout attitude off

reducing seem aside

section b ccccc tftft ttfft

section c ftftf tfttt

unit 9 first aid section a word pretest 1.b. 2.a. 3.c 4.b. 5.b. 6.b. 7.b. 8.a.

reading comprehension 9.c. 10.b

1.b. 2. c. word search 1.ambulance 6.vein use of english

1.the government has come in for a lot of criticism.

2. it’s hard to come to terms with the government’s defense policy.

3. after retiring in 1980 he has decided to make a comeback to the political scene.

4. the situation has come to the boil now that the government has to face a vote of confidence. 5. the tax cuts announced in the budget do not come into effect until next year. 6. the

miners came out on strike against the government’s

privatization plans. stems solo: series: isolate: desert: exert: a composition or passage for an individual voice or instrument, with or without accompaniment a number of objects or events arranged or coming one after the other in succession to set apart or cut off from others

to withdraw from, especially in spite of a responsibility or duty; to forsake to put to use or effect; to put forth

to prevent the passage of heat, electricity or sound into or out of somewhere, especially by to put or set into, between or among

3. antiseptic

4. block signals 5. penetrate

2.urgent7.artery

3.emergency 8.fracture 4.massage

5.yell 10.tetanus 9.blister 3. d.

4. b/d/a/c. 5.c. 6.c. 7.a.

8.c/a/b/d

vocabulary building

peninsula: a piece of land that projects into a body of water and is connected with the mainland by an isthmus

insulate:insert: synonyms givecloze pedestrianssection b 1.c 8.a section c 1.f 2.t 3.f 4.t 5.f 6.f 7.f 8.f 9.f 10.t

keys to reading course 2 unit 10 marriage section aword pretest

1.c2.c 3.c4.c5.a6.a7.a8.c reading comprehension

1.a 2.b3.c4.c5. b6.c7.a8.a vocabulary building word match quotation artificialanguish

a sentence or passage taken from a book not natural very great pain or suffering, esp. of the mind 2.b 9.t 3.b 10.f 4.d 11.f 5.a 12.f 6.c 13.t 7.b 14.t adults

declining avoid

case impaired fatalities 2. stop

surrounding with a non-conducting materials

anniversarya day which is an exact year or number of years after something has happened

【篇三：英语泛读教程2_王守仁_答案】

unit 1 reading section a

word pretest

1.b 2.a 3.b 4.a 5.b 6.c 7.b 8.c reading comprehension 1.b 2.a 3.b 4.b 5.c 6.c vocabulary building word search

1. assignment 2. irony 3. reverse 4. accomplish 5. assemble 6. squeeze 7. sensual 8. fragment 9. narcotic 10. adolescence use of english

? bob agreed to take on the leadership of the expedition.

? the world was taken in by his fantastic story of having got to the pole alone. ? he took up his story after a pause for questions and refreshments.

? that takes me back to the time i climbed to the top of mount fuji.

? the members of the party took it in turns to steer the boat.

? they took it for granted that someone would pick up their signals and come to their aid. stems

? proclaim: to announce officially and publicly; to declare ? percentage: a proportion or share in relation to a whole; a part

? confirm: to support or establish the certainty or validity of; to verify

?? affirm: to declare positively or firmly; to maintain to be true ?? centigram: a metric unit of mass equal to one hundredth of a gram

?? exclaim: to express or utter(something) suddenly or vehemently synonyms

1. adaptability 2. purpose 3.strained 4.hold 5.defeat cloze

important second france student bilingual monolingual serious means use difficult section b

1.f 2.t 3.t 4.c 5.a 6.b 7.b 8.b 9.b 10.t 11.t 12.f 13.f 14.t 15.t section c

1.f 2.t 3.t 4.f 5.t 6.f 7.f 8.f 9.f 10.f unit 2 music section a

word pretest

1. b 2. c 3. b 4. c 5. b 6. b reading comprehension

1. t 2. f 3. t 4. t 5. t 6. t 7. t 8. f vocabulary building word search

1. folk 2. capacity 3. sensuous 4. qualified 5. abuse 6. stuff 7. mood 8. clarity 9. strive semantic variations

1. b 2. b 3. b 4. b 5. a 6.b stems

?? compose: to make up the constituent parts of; to constitute or form

?? contract: to reduce in size by drawing together, to shrink ?? dispose of: to get rid of, to throw out

?? impose: to obtrude or force( oneself, for example) on another or others ?? subtract: to make away, to deduct ?? deposit: to put (money) in a bank or financial account synonyms

1. discriminating 2. widespread 3. compatibility 4. clearness 5. association cloze

music form south dance

interest instruments voice roots section b

1. f 2. t 3. f 4. f 5. f 6.t 7 t 8. f 9 f 10. f 11. f 12. t 13. t 14. f 15 t section c

1. d 2. a 3. d 4. d 5.d 6. d 7. d 8. a unit 3 generation section a

word pretest

1. c 2. c 3. b 4. c 5. b 6. c 7. c 8. a reading comprehension

1. d 2. c 3. c 4. a 5. b 6. c 7. a 8. b vocabulary building word search

1. lull 2. associate 3. client 4. utterly 5. certificate

6. rags 7. jerk 8. foreman 9. demanding 10. sentimental semantic variations

1. c 2. c 3. b 4. a 5. b 6. c stems

?? transmit: to send from one person, thing, or place to another; to convey

?? deduce: to reach (a conclusion) by reasoning ?? eject: to throw out forcefully; to expel ?? compel: to force, drive, or constrain ?? project: to thrust outward or forward ?? conduct: to lead or guide antonyms

1. hopeless 2. disobedient 3. weighty 4. agree 5. clear cloze

active girls skirts move raised force show fly hesitated plane sections b

1. b 2. c 3. c 4. b 5. c 6. c 7. c 8. c 9. a 10.c 11. c 12. c 13. a 14. c 15. c

section c

1. f 2. t 3. t 4. t 5. f 6. f 7. t 8. f 9. t 10. t reading course 2 unit 4 section a

word pretest

1.d 2.a 3.a 4.b 5.a 6.c 7.a 8.b 9.d 10. c reading comprehension 1.b 2.b 3.b 4.b 5.c 6.a 7.b vocabulary building word search

1. slanting 2. equator 3. amplifier 4. vapor 5. desert

6. latitude 7. atlitude 8. monsoon 9. drain 10. precaution semantic variations 1.a 2.b 3.c 4.a 5.c 6.a stems

1. division: one of the parts, sections or groups into which something is divided

2. evident: easily see or understood; obvious

3. individual: a single human being considered apart from a society or community

4. sustain: to support from below; to keep from falling or sinking; to prop

5. visible: possible to see; perceptible to the eye

6. obtain: to succeed in gaining possession of as the result of planning or endeavor; to acquire synonyms

1. mixture 2. eternal 3.impact 4.humidity 5.remote cloze

radio incorrect predict misunderstanding unexplained happen up right section b

1.b 2.c 3.a 4.f 5.t 6.f 7.f 8.f 9.t 10.c 11.c 12.b 13.t 14.f 15.t section c

1.t 2.t 3.f 4.t 5.f 6.t 7.f 8.t 9.t 10.t unit 5 work section a

word pretest

1c 2a 3b 4 c 5 b 6 a 7 c 8 c reading comprehension 1-6 c a a c c b

vocabulary building word search

1 intangible 2. crave 3 ego 4 attributable 5 stall 6 tool up 7 at stake 8. cram 9. forfeit 10. corny use of english

1. by the time i opened the can its contents had gone off. 2. i’ll go over how it works before you try it yourself.

3. i was told it would be repaired free of charge, but the man in the shop has gone

back on his promise.

4. the book was so popular that there weren’t enough copies to go round.

5. his shop has gone out of business after making heavy losses.

6. the trade has gone from bad to worse and staff are being laid off.

stems1-6 badaac

synonyms 1-5 graceful spontaneously oppose usual client cloze

staff maximize objectives participate potential skills easier appointed specific commitment section b

1-5 acbft 6-10 facdb 11-15 cbtft section c

1-5 ftftf 6-10 tftft

unit 6 the african-americans section a

word pretest

1. c 2. a 3. c 4. a 5. b 6. a 7. c 8. c reading comprehension 1. f 2t 3t 4f 5t 6f 7t 8t vocabulary building word search

1. destined 2. relief 3. segregation 4. boycott 5. sit-in 6. legacy 7. chronicle 8. assault 9. plight 10. vigilance semantic variations

1c 2a 3c 4a 5b 6c stems

1. evolution: the theory that groups of organisms change with passage of time, mainly as a result of natural selection, so that descendants differ morphologically and physiologically from their ancestors

2. ascend: to go or move upward

3. devolve: to pass on or delegate to another

4. migrate: to change location periodically, especially by moving seasonally from one region to another

5. export: to send or transport (a commodity, for example) abroad, especially for trade or sale

6. condescend: to descend to the level of one considered inferior; to lower oneself antonyms

1. observe 2. admit 3. dismiss 4. eulogize 5. advance cloze

nominated raised immigrated earned rose

assignment position army autobiography speaker section b

1t 2t 3f 4c 5b 6d 7d 8d 9t 10f 11f 12f 13t 14t section c

1a 2d 3d 4c 5c 6b 7d 8c keys to reading course 2 unit 7 greek stories section a

word pretest

1.c 2.b 3.d 4.d 5.a 6.b 7.b 8.a 9.c 10.c reading comprehension

1.b 2.c 3.c 4.c 5. c 6.d 7.c 8.d vocabulary building word match

ripple a little wave on the surface of water mischief naughty behavior by children hospitality welcoming behavior billow a large sea wave