新视野大学英语(第二版)读写教程第二册课后练习答案

Unit 1
Section A
I Comprehension of The Text
1. The attitude is that if one is not moving ahead he is falling behind.
2. Time is treated as if it were something almost real. (People budget it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; they also charge for it.) They do this because time is a precious resource.
3. Everyone is in a rush — often under pressure. City people always appear to be hurrying to get where they are going, restlessly seeking attention in a store or elbowing others as they try to complete their shopping.
4. Don’t take it personally. This is because people value time highly and they resent someone else “wasting” it beyond a certain appropriate point.
5. New arrivals in America will miss opening exchanges, the ritual interaction that goes with a cup of coffee or tea and leisurely chats.
6. Americans produce a steady flow of labor-saving devices. They communicate rapidly through faxes, phone calls or emails rather than through personal contacts.
7. The impersonality of electronic communication has little or no relation to the significance of the matter at hand.
8. It is taken as a sign of skillfulness or being competent to solve a problem or fulfill a job with speed in the U.S.
Vocabulary
III
1. charge 2. convention 3. efficient 4. obtain 5. competent 6. assessing 7. fulfill 8. conducting consequently 10. significance
IV．
1．behind 2. at 3. in 4. out 5. to 6.to 7. in 8. with 9. but 10.for
V.
1. L 2. C 3. D 4. N 5. O 6.A 7.E 8.G 9.I 10.K
Word Building
VI
1. commitment 2. attraction 3. appointment 4. impression
5. civilization 6. composition 7. confusion 8. congratulation
9. consideration 10. explanation 11. acquisition 12. depression
VII.
desirable favorable considerable acceptable
drinkable advisable remarkable preferable
1. advisable 2. desirable 3. favorable 4. considerable 5. remarkable 6. preferable 7. drinkable 8. acceptable
Structure
VIII
1. much less can he write English articles
2. much less can he manage a big company
3. much less could he carry it upstairs
4. much less have I spoken to him
5. much less to read a lot outside of it
IX
1. Having meals at home can cost as little as two or three dollars, whereas eating out at a restaurant is always more expensive.
2. We thought she was rather proud, whereas in fact she was just very shy.
3. We have never done anything for them, whereas they have done so much for us.
4. Natalie prefers to stay for another week, whereas her husband prefers to leave immediately.
5. Some praise him highly, whereas others put him down severely
Translation
X.
1. She wouldn’t take a drink, much less would she stay for dinner.
2. He thought I was lying to him, whereas I was telling the truth.
3. How do you account for the fact that you have been late every day thi
s week?
4. The increase in their profits is due partly to their new market strategy.
5. Such measures are likely to result in the improvement