综合英语3课后练习.doc

Unit 1
Q1: How did Evelyn feel on her arrival at the college campus? What did she do?
A1: She felt first-gradish, a mixture of happiness, self-consciousness and a lack of confidence.
Q2: Where did Evelyn choose to sit in her first class? Why?
A2: She sat in the front row and to the side, because the freshman manual suggesting sitting there to show that she was enthusiastic and intelligent.
Q3: How does she feel when she slipped in the cafeteria and all the students cheered?
A3: She felt embossed and ashamed.
Q4: What was the footballer’s response to the students’ cheers and claps when he fell on the cafeteria floor? What did that tell Evelyn?
A4: He held his hands high. He took it light-hearted and just laughed it off. It shows that accidents are quite common in campus and we should learn to take it easy.
Q5: How have the accidents of her first days at college enlightened Evelyn? How has she behaved herself after college?
A5: He should not be afraid of mistakes as it’s only through tries and errors that one can find his/her true self. She still made mistakes but found her true self.
E1: My plan was to keep my ears open and my mouth shut and hopes no one would notice I was a freshman.
A1: I planed to be observant and silent so that nobody would notice that I was a new comer of college.
E2: For three days, I dined alone on nothing more than humiliation, shame and an assortment of junk food from a machine strategically placed outside my room.
A2: For three days, I ate a mixture of junk food by myself. I got the food from a machine placed outside my dorm as if to meet my needs.
E3: Popularity was not so important; running with the crowd was no longer a law of survival.
A3: It didn’t matter whether or not you were widely accepted or admired. You didn’t have to behave to the liking of everyone else.
Unit 2
Q1: Why does the author repeat the fact that Phil “worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning”?
A1: By repeating that Phil died of work to highlight the peculiarity of the time which proves the tragic nature of his death.
Q2: Why were his neighbors embarrassed when his son asked them what Phil was like?
A2: The fact reviews the relationship between Phil and his son and that between Phil and his neighbors. Neither knew much about him. It’s perhaps that he has so dedicated to his work that he could spare no time for the people around him.
Q3: What do you think is the relationship like between Phil and his family?
A3: His wife has given up of herself and had missed him for all those years. His eldest son has asked neighbors about him. His daughter had nothing to say with him. And his youngest son said he only boarded at home.
Q4: What is the implication of the ending?
A4: The implication is that another tragedy is on the way. There’s a culture in the company that drives people to work themselves to death.
Q5: Do you think it’s a sheer waste of life to die so young for working so hard? What can you learn from the death of Phil?
A5: Dying so young and working so hard is not worth doing. We should keep the balance between work and entertainment.
E1: He had no outside “extracurricular interests,” unless of course, you think about a monthly golf game that way.
A1: He had dedicated all his time to work and had no hobby at all except that he played a golf game once a month, which can’t be taken as a hobby anyway.
E2: She had, according to her daughter, given up trying to compete with his work years ago, when the children were small.
A2: Their daughter said that when they were still small, his father had become a company man and her mother had given up every attempt to keep him at home.

Q1: How do people in the small town take the author’s habit of walking around for his business?
A1: They find it odd to see the author walking for his business and they feel guilty for leaving the author on the sidewalk without driving him to the place he is going to.
Q2: Why do the people consider his preference for walking at times a bit eccentric?
A2: Ordinary Americans, even in this agreeable and easy place, on foot have virtually never done so. In the US, people have got accustomed to using cars for everything,
Q3: To what extent have the American people come to depend on cars?
A3: The American people have depended on cars for almost everything to such a extent that they’ve forgotten about what they can do with their legs. Sometimes, they would take great and ridiculous trouble with driving rather than take an easy walk.
Q4: What’s the problem with urban planning of American cities? What does that have to do with the dependence of the American people on cars?
A4: The US government has spent less than one per cent of the transportation budge on facilities for pedestrians.
Q5: What do you think makes the author sad at the end of the passage?
A5: He’s sad because he has come to realize from the case of Laconia that people don’t walk anywhere anymore in the country.
E1: In the United States we have become so habituated to using the cars for everything that it doesn’t occur to us to unfurl our legs and see what those lower limbs can do.
A1: People in the USA tend to drive to everywhere so much so that they have forgotten that they still have legs and about what their legs can do.
E2: I confess it had not occurred to me how thoughtlessly deficient nature is in this regard.
A2: I admitted that I have never realized how poorly equipped our bodies are in this aspect.
E3: …but afterward I realized that I was possibly the only person ever to have entertained the notion of negotiating that intersection on foot.
A3: …maybe I was the only one who had ever attempted to cross the intersection on foot.
Unit 4
Q1: What’s the popular concept of fun, according to Jordan?
A1: Most people believe that fun is and should be reality available whenever they wanted. If there is not fun, they would make fun. If something is not fun, they would make it fun. In a word, they deserve fun, which is within their reach.
Q2: How does advertising help to cultivate our fun-seeking appetite?
A2: Ads or TV commercials help to develop the modern fun fetish by setting examples and showing how much fun we should have got from consuming all the items being advertised.
Q3: How old was Jordan when she had an especially good time with her friend Pam? Describe in your own words why she had such a wonderful time that day.
A3: 12. Jordan had a fun night to look forward to. She had lots of candies and her friend had imitating a sailor’s posture of words. All these were simple forms of fun appealing to a girl. More importantly, she was a simple innocent girl without insatiable appetite for fun. That’s why she could feel fun of simple joy.
Q4: What is fun according to Jordan?
A4: Fun is in simple pleasures in life, which lies in work and fulfillment of one’s duty.
Q5: Do you agree with Jordan’s view about the modern fun fetish? Why or why not?
A5: Fun is everywhere. We can find fun in simple joy of life, so there’s no need to step up the level of danger.
Unit 5
Q1: What does Professor Bella DePaul’s study indicate about lying? What do most people think about lying?
A1: Lying is a common phenomenon and most of lies are small and insignificant. Meanwhile, it is common that people take lies lightly, because their lies have caused little preoccupation or regret.
Q2: Why do people tell lies or white lies?
A2: According to passage, the purpose of telling lies or white lies varies. Women tell a lie according to the principle of caring or spare other’s feelings. Men tell lies basically for utilitarian self-promotion purpose.
Q3: What does the example of tom tell? And what does Josephson’s reply to tom suggest?
A3: The story of tom supports the argument that little white lies are ubiquitous and people have taken these lies for granted, believing that they are well-intended. Josephson’s reply is very negative. His mother-in-law may feel hurt when she discovers the deceit someday or even worse. In short, such white lies may produce distrust among people.
Q4: What, according to the author, are the consequences of lying?
A4: The consequences of lying are three fold, the deceived may feel cheated and won’t trust the liar any more; the liar will lose trust and get intangled in the lies he weaves. And if lies proliferate endlessly, society as a whole would falter and collapse as trust is damaged or destroyed.
Q5: Are all white lies unacceptable? What is the yardstick of acceptable lies?
A5: Not all white lies are unacceptable. Some white lies like setting somebody up for a surprise party or telling children about tooth fairy can be justified. However, you have to consider the attitude of the deceived towards lying. I.e. whether your act will undermine his trust in you.
E1: What a tangled web we weave, when first we learn to deceive.
A1: When we start to tell a lie, we have entered a very intricate situation as a lie often requires other lies until the whole structure of the lies become so complex, it tracks the liar.
E2: “Psychological barriers wear down; the ability to make more distinctions can coarsen; the liar’s perception of his chances of being caught may warp.”
A2: One is less inhibited in lying, his ability to make moral judgement is dulled and he may become less cautious against being caught.
E3: The most understandable and forgivable lies are an exchange of what ethicists refer to as the principle of trust for the principle of caring.
A3: The most understandable and acceptable are those which are told for the sake of love and care at the expense of trust according to the ethicists.
Unit6
Q1: What is the problem with poetry, according to the author? And what does he suggest as the solution?
A1: The problem in the poetry is that people find it difficult to write a poem, so they don’t even try. What is worse is that they have virtually given up reading poems. The author believes that people can be encouraged to write a poem easily, even if it’s really rotten.
Q2: Why does he suggest writing a rotten poem, instead of a decent poem?
A2: The idea is to make it easy for everyone to write at least one poem in his life.
Q3: Why does he suggest using unusual nouns and conflicting human senses？
A3: That’s a rule of thumb and the fashion of today. Unusual nouns and conflicting senses can create profound images and feelings and poetic atmosphere.
Q4: How does writing a rotten poem help promote poetry reading?
A4: When you have written a poem, it will be an accomplishment, so you feel free to read the works of your fellow poets. You may find some inspiration from their poems and therefore continue writing your poems. In this way, you keep observing the emotion of yourself and others.
E1: Good poets and poems are lost forever simply because there is no market for them, no people who write their own verse and seek out further inspiration from other bards.
A1: good poets have stopped writing poems, because there’re fewer and fewer readers and fellow poets. They can’t depend on poetry writing for a living and there’s no poetic society, from which they can draw inspiration and stimulation.
E2: Observe others’ emotions and experience your own---that’s what poetry is all about.
A2：The point of poetry is to express and recall emotions, so when you read poems, you will observe the emotions of the poet. When you write your own poem, you need to observe and organize your emotions.
Unit 7
Q1: What’s the implied meaning of the old man’s remark, “young people who need a love potion very seldom have five thousand dollars. Otherwise they would not need a love potion”
A1: What the old man means is that a young man who is in love one-sidedly is seldom rich enough to win a girl’s heart. His words imply that money is an important factor for love. If a man is not rich, he can rarely expect to be loved by a girl.
Q2: What are the effects of the love potion?
A2: It has powerful, everlasting effects. To begin with, it may produce sexual desire in the person who takes in. on the spiritual side, it can replace indifference with devotion, and scorn, with adoration. It will make a gay girl want nothing but solitude and her lover’s company. She will feel jealous of him. She will want be to everything of him. Even if he slips a little, she will forgive him though terribly hurt. In a word, she’ll fall in love with him if she drinks the love potion.
Q3: Why is the love potion priced at one dollar while the glove-cleaner is so expensive?
A3: It’s an iron by which the author seems to imply that love is far from being pressures or desirable. It’s easy for a man to fall in love, yet it’s hard for him to stick to it. Should he regret someday, he would pay a much high price to get him out of this. Anyway, for the old, and for his customers, the life-cleaner is more important than the love potion.
Q4: What does the old man’s remark in paragraph 39 “one has to be old enough to indulge in that sort of thing” mean?
A4: This means there’s a wide difference between the young and the old. Young people tend to be over passionate for love. Sometimes, senselessly and irrationally, while the old, just like the old man, who sells the mixtures would take a cool and sensible, sometimes even cynical attitude towards life.
Q5: What does the end of the story indicate?
A5: An urban and polished reply to the young man’s goodbye meaning “until I see you again” indicates the old man’s firm belief that the young man will eventually come back to him for the life-cleaner. This shows his cynical passion about love.
E1: It is only when one is in a position to oblige that one can afford to be so confidential.
A1: just because I’m able to do you a favour, I feel safe to tell you so much about my other medicine.
E2: “For indifference,” said the man, “they substitute devotion. For scorn, adoration.
Unit 8
Q1: What is meant by a sense of proportion?
A1: A sense of proportion could be a seen as the ability to take into full consideration all important factors in an issue and attach due weight to each factor.
Q2: What does the writer try to illustrate by the examples of research in medicine and study of the atom?
A2: In the first place, they’re examples of the idea raised at the very beginning of the text. The problem is partly due to the fact that it’s now more difficult to acquire of a sense of proportion. In consequence, break throughs in science are likely to bring about harms if human kind fails to see the end of science, and consider everything in a comprehensive manner.
Q3: Why is wisdom a necessary quality in people and culture?
A3: According to the author, the vices of the lack of wisdom are obvious ranging from disturbance to public life to unpleasant incidents in private life. Meanwhile, they seem to be an imbalance in the growth of knowledge and wisdom, which is very likely to make things even worse. So wisdom is very necessa