新视野大学英语(第二版)读写教程第二册课后练习答案

save a large amount of money for their children to study abroad. Apart from the international flight, they have to pay for their daily expense, such as food, shelter, entertainment, long-distance telephone calls, and clothing. In addition, the children should have some money ready to cover unexpected expenses.
Section B:
Reading skills
I.
1. I am almost dead.
2. I am moving across the landscape.
3. I have achieved a modest amount of prosperity.
4. A friend convinces me to go on a blind date with a lady friend of his.
5. Roma gets a faraway look in her eyes.
Comprehension of the Text
II.
1.D 2.A 3.C 4.A 5.B 6.B 7.C 8.A
Vocabulary
III.
1. insurance 2. descended 3. precision 4. trace 5. stain
6. specify 7. accustomed 8. embraced 9. knelt 10. prosperity
IV.
1. The Rockefeller family achieved a huge amount of prosperity in the oil business.
2. What all workers have in common is expecting better working conditions.
3. You don't know what his feelings will be, as they change from day to day.
4. This is generally a warm place, but we do get freezing weather on occasion.
5. Every year at Christmas drunk driving takes its toll on the joyful atmosphere.
6. Many people still cling to the hope that one day there will be peace between the two countries.
7. He was so angry that he lost control.
8. The climate in Alaska is a far cry from that of Florida.
9. How on earth did she manage to pass the test?
10. His career as a teacher came to an end when he broke his leg, but he continued to write textbooks for students.

新视野大学英语（第二版）第二册Unit 5答案
Unit 5
Section A:
Comprehension of the Text
I.
1. She feels terrible. She wants to weep and she does weep a little.
2. He smoked Prince Albert tobacco in cigarettes he rolled himself.
3. He father was hooked by cigarettes. Though he smoked Prince Albert tobacco, he never looked as fashionable as Prince Albert; he continued to look like a poor, overweight, hard-working colored man with too large a family.
4. By that time, her father’s health had become poor. His breathing was difficult; he had to rest very often when he was climbing stairs. It was not unusual for him to cough for an hour.
5. Money that should be spent for food goes instead to the tobacco companies. As a result, over time, people starve themselves of both food and air, effectively weakening and hooking their children, and eventually killing themselves.
6. Cigarette ends are so poisonous that if a baby swallows one, it is likely to die. Also, the boiled water from a hunch of cigarette ends makes an effective insecticide.
7. she still remembers how carefully she ate when she was pregnant, and how patiently she taught her daughter how to cross a street safely, but now her daughter smokes, which amounts to killing herse
lf by taking poison, as her father did.
8. Smoking is a form of self-battering that also batters others who must sit by.
Vocabulary
III.
1.