The Answers to Unit 2
Enhance Your Language Awareness
(I) Working with Words and Expressions
2. (1) create (2) conflict (3) involved (4) overcame
(5) have survived (6) attend (7) frowned (8) wander
(9) guilty (10) sustained (11) survey (12) awkward
(13) recall (14) terrified (15) insurance (16) Adapting
3. (1) was sick of (2) choking back (3) Compared with
(4) settled into (5) would give anything (6) in the midst of
(7) in his own right (8) on my own (9) fit in with
(10) grew apart from (11) No wonder (12) staying up
(13) was annoyed with (14) was scared of (15) in trouble (16) For instance
(II) Increasing Your Word Power
1. (1) possessive (2) overprotective (3) frustrated (4) possessive
(5) lenient strict (6) rebellious (7) frustrated (8) restless
(9) stubborn
2. (1) survey (2) sustain (3) attend (4) terrify (5) wrap (6) recall
3.
Words | Suffixes | Adjectives | Chinese meaning |
danger | -ous | dangerous | 危險的 |
irony | -y→-ic | ironic | 具有諷刺意味的 |
fury | -y→-ious | furious | 暴怒的 |
industry | -y→-ious | industrious | 勤勞的 |
joy | -ous | joyous | （令人）高興的 |
ambition | -ion→-ious | ambitious | 有抱負的；有野心的 |
fame | -e→-ous | famous | 著名的 |
hero | -ic | heroic | 英勇的 |
adventure | -e→-ous | adventurous | 喜歡冒險的 |
4. (1) dangerous (2) ironic (3) fury (4) heroic (5) adventure fame
(III) Grammar
Task 2:
1. × (argue with each other)
2. × (The accident happened….)
3. × (enjoy it)
4. √
5. √
6. × (shouted at)
7. √
8. √
Task 3:
Verbs | Transitive | Intransitive | Sample Sentences |
settle | √ | √ | 1.He finally managed to settle the problem. 2.He settle down in a small seaside village. |
change | √ | √ | 1.You have changed my life. 2.Do you think Jane has changed a lot? |
agree | √ | I agree with you. | |
panic | √ | √ | 1.The thunder panicked the horse. 2.Don’t panic in the face of emergencies. |
pass | √ | √ | 1.The congress passed the bill. 2.He passed by without greeting me. |
explain | √ | √ | 1.Let me explain the problem to you. 2.Don’t be angry. I can explain. |
attend | √ | √ | 1.You can attend the meeting. 2.Please attend to the details. |
follow | √ | √ | 1.Do not follow me. 2.Whatever I do, he will just follow. |
(IV) Cloze
(1) beamed (2) honorable (3) awkward (4) protested (5) complaints
(6) compliments (7) stubborn (8) frowned (9) recall (10)panicked
(11) insurance (12) surveyed (13) groaning (14) recognition
(V) Translation
1. Translate the sentences
1) Many teachers frowned on this practice.
2) An old man glared at me when I was trying to cut across the lawn.
3) When I mentioned my father, she showed a smile of recognition on her face.
4) My firstborn was quite obedient, whereas my younger child was very stubborn. I can still recall now how the younger child insisted on going abroad to study after he finished his secondary school.
5) Countries in South East Asia sustained great losses when the tsunami struck the area.
6) Every time the mother tries to compare the younger brother with his elder brother, the younger one will protest.
7) He found himself unable to fit in with his classmates when he first came to this school.
8) The fury on her face terrified me. I dared not say no to her again.
9) No wonder you ended up in trouble. You never followed your parents’ advice.
10)It took him two years to adapt to the new environment.
2. Translate the paragraph
我還是個嬰兒的時候，我的父母就搬到了佛蒙特州。我那溫文爾雅的父親在那兒的一個小鎮(zhèn)上毫不張揚地開業(yè)行醫(yī)了。很快，他就贏得了當?shù)厝藢λ淖鹁?。我每到一處，也被人尊稱為埃普利醫(yī)生的兒子。一開始我很高興同學和老師們因為我有一個受人尊敬的父親而善待我，但隨著我的長大，事情起了變化。我開始討厭父親的好名聲像影子一樣跟著我。我要獨立。我變得頑固倔強又反叛，還開始對我父親直呼其名，令他傷透了心。但有一天，發(fā)生了一件事令我的態(tài)度徹底改變了。
