新世纪综合教程3 何兆熊 unit2 课后答案.doc

Unit 2 练习答案 Text comprehension Decide which of the following best states the author’s tone of writing. B Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false. T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. F Omitted Explain in your own words the following sentences. He had dedicated all his time to his work and had no hobby at all, except that he played a golf game every month which cannot be taken as a hobby anyway. Their daughter said that, when they were still small, her father had become a company man and her mother had given up and attempt to keep him at home. Vocabulary Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words. worked himself to death: died from self-motivated overwork conceivably: most likely the top spot: the presidency of the company; the highest position in the company of no particular marketable skills: with no specific skills wanted by employers researching his father: trying to discover facts about his father; collecting memories of his father a heart-attack natural: a person vulnerable to heart attacks Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word taken from the box in its appropriate form. survived 2. grabs 3. discreetly 4. deceased, obituary conceivably 6. board 7. classics 8. executives Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words. widowed 2. nerves 3. precisionist 4. competitiveness 5. execution 6. presided 7. marital 8. accompanied Fill in the blank in each sentence with an appropriate phrasal verb or collocation taken from the text. died of 2. stay up 3. cares for 4. straightened out 5. picked out 6. given up 7. grabbed at 8. considered for Given a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used. Precisely: Synonym: exactly Instantly: Synonym: immediately Workaholic: antonym: slacker (idler, loafer) Survived: synonym: outlived Embarrassed: synonym: disconcerted (abashed) Deceased: synonym: departed Overweight: antonym: underweight, slim Rep