现代大学英语精度3第二版unit2预习作业.doc

Unit 2 How Reading Changed My Life
1. Glossary
Word list:
1. comprise; 2. curled; 3. discontented; 4. dishearten; 5. flatten;
6. perplexed; 7. plummet; 8. prize; 9. subculture; 10. supplant;
2. Key words: suspect/imagine
3. Phrase, idioms and expressions
Aspire to sth, in the equivalent of, at the end of, in the former/latter half of the century, at the heart of, interfere with, attend to, lead to sth, bang on the door, leave sth for, be a solace to, major in, be couched as/in, make up sth, be out of print, not in the least, be suspicious of sth, over lunch, book after book, pay lip service to sth, bring sb/sth to life, plummet into, commit sth to memory, potray sb as, divide into, prefer doing sth to doing sth else, dream of, save sb from despair, from place to place, search for, have a claim to sth, sit in the glare of the sun, in certain circles suspect sb of, in one’s mind, turn into
4. Word formation:
1) under-; over-;
2) v.- n.; n.- v.
3) whatever; however; whenever; wherever
5. Grammar:
1) four idioms with if: if only; if not; only if; what if
2) a few uses of there as a function word
6. Background Information:
1) Author
2) Litrary Classics:
Middlemarch
A little Princess
Anne Karenina
Gone with the Wind
Rebecca
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
Anne of Green Gables
Heidi
The Great Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice
Robinson Crusoe
Moby-Dick
To Kill a Mockingbird
7. Text structure and the main idea of this passage
8. Preview questions about the text.
1) What do you think is the author trying to tell us? Do you find anything she said in the essay particularly interesting and thought-provoking?
2) Why does she read? Does she read for any special purpose? For advancement or learning?
3) How has reading changed her life? Do you believe that people might love reading for its own sake? What do you think of these people?
4) Do you have any comments to make on the issue of reading? Do you agree that the golden age of book-reading is now gone for ever?
5) Are you familiar with the novels and stories mentioned in the text? Go over the notes carefully and be ready to share with your classmates anything you know about any of these books.
9. Rhetorical device
Alliteration: hale and hearty; safe and sound; pots and pans; bread and butter; vice and virtue; part and parcel
10. Sentence paraphrase
1) One poem committed to memory in grade school survives in my mind. (4)
2) Perhaps restlessness is a necessary corollary of devoted literacy. (5)
3) There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books…(7))
4) Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. (9)
5) I realized that while my satisfaction in the sheer act of reading had not abated in the least, the world was often as hostile, or as blind, to that joy as had been my girlfriends. (10)
6) For many journalists, reading… was most often couched as a series of problems to be addressed…(13)
7) …we are what the world of books is really about. (15)
8) We are the prople who saw to it that Pride and Prejudice never went out of print.(15)
9. It was still in the equivalent of the club chairs that we found one another…(16)

Quiz
1.Give antonyms.
1) interior; 2) superior; 3) explode; 4) major; 5) feminine
6) inclusive; 7) parallel; 8) abate; 9) normal; 10) latter
2. Fill in the blanks with the right form of the bracketed words.
1. People at first could not understand why these bridges ＿so easily. But soon they discovered the reason. (collapse)
2. I still remember to this day how he used to be ＿by books and had to be persuaded to stop reading to eat his meals. (attract)
3. She lay on the grass, ＿the high sky. (contemplate)
4. He was correct in his ＿that the minister had been lying. (assert)
5. A good salesperson has to be ＿in today’s competitive market. (aggression)
6. His nose had been reddened by ＿exposure to the California sun. (accustomed)
7. It should be ＿that this is only one possible explanation. (emphatic)
3. Choose the best answer.
1. ____ their help, we wouldn’t have succeeded.
A. Hadn’t been for  B. Had it not been for
C. It hadn’t been for D. Hadn’t it been for
2. ____ that the sweater is handmade, the price seems reasonable.
A. Since  B. In view  C. Because    D. Considering
3. I am in charge of welcoming the ____.
A. visitors from outside of town  B. outoftown visitors
C. visitors of outoftown  D. outside town visitors
4. I really do not know whether we can succeed, so do not expect ____.
A. too much of us  B. us too much   
C. of us too much  D. us of too much
5. Japan has begun to rival America____.
A. producing automobilesB. to manufacture automobiles 
C. in the production of automobilesD. for automobiles producing
6. He did nothing but ____ letters home all this afternoon.
A. to write  B. writing   C. write   D. wrote
7. ____ left before the deadline, it does not seem likely that Jimmy will accomplish the job.
A. With so short time  B. Although such a short time   
C.With such a short time   D. It is such a short time
8. “Will Tom recover?”   “Right now there is no way ____.”
A. of knowing B. to be known C. for knowing D. to have known
9. No sooner had we started out ____ it began to snow.
A.then     B.when     C. than    D. whenever
10. ____ the consequence, I will be on your side.
A. However B. No matter howC. No matter   D. Whatever
11. When they arrived at the cross roads, they went the wrong ____.
A. direction     B. way     C. path     D. route
12. I can’t stand the summer’s ____ heat.
A. intensive     B. heavy     C. intense    D. high
13. She takes ____ interest in the economic reform in China.
A. considerable  B. conventional  C. considerate  D. conservative
14. When our university library bought this microscope we were given a one year’s ____.
A. proof    B. reservation   C. security   D. guarantee
15. The football player had studied economics in the university for a(n)____ of roughly six years.
A. decade    B. time    C. age   D. period
16. A dictionary of the English language, ____by Dr. Samuel Johnson, was the first real attempt as a systematic written survey of English usage.
A. compiled  B. composed  C. concocted D. collected
17. The volunteer firefighters valiantly tried to put out the ____forest fire.
A. raging  B. rippling     C. rolling    D. roaring
18. Education is ____ for all schoolage children in many a country.
A. universal    B. compulsory    C. requested     D. general
19. The policeman’s ____ mind caught the suspect’s lies.
A. alive  B. alert  C. experienced  D. imaginable
20. Over years, a balance is ____ among the plants and animals in a community and it remains basically stable.
A. worked out B. worked off  C. worked over  D. worked up