现代大学英语 第二版第二册 Unit 2 Say Yes 课后答案

现代大学英语 第二版第二册第二单元Say Yes 课后答案,供参考。

Contemporary College English (Second Edition)

Book II

Unit 2 Say Yes Keys

Preview

1. Listen to the recording of the text and fill in the blanks in the following sentences.

1) racial equality

2) civil rights; linger on

3) husband; quite a good husband/very considerate; liberal; racial

4) considered; unprepared

5) give his wife; had admitted

6) found out; pressing

7) look; argued about such serious matters

8) perfectly normal; tolerate

9) are different culturally

10) culturally and socially; racial segregation

11) white; married; a perfect stranger

2. Read the text for better comprehension and answer the questions.

1) “pitch in” means ―to join with other people in doing a job. In the expression “to pitch abaseball”, the word “pitch” means “to throw”. “to pitch a tent” means “to put up a tent”（支帐篷）. “pitch dark” means “as dark as pitch”（ 漆黑）“pitch ” means 沥青。

“housework” means the work you do to keep your house clean and tidy; “homework”means the work a teacher gives to a student to do out of class.

2) After thinking of all aspects of the matter carefully.

We can assume that he would have considered the difficulties and problems he believed it would bring to his life if he married a black wife.

3) He knew there would be an unpleasant quarrel, and that it was wiser for him just to keep

his mouth shut. This shows that they have had previous serious disagreements. This was not the first time. It shows that the man has seldom taken his wife seriously.

4) “you coming along…and implying…” is the complex object of “need”.

If he weren t a racist, he would not say no, since his wife is exactly the same person except for her skin color.

5) No. It is clear that the wife is using an ironical tone.

No. The man is using a common excuse of white racists who try to justify their prejudice

based on different skin color by using a seemingly more neutral and respectable term “cultural differences”.

6) To show that he found the situation very annoying.

Normally it means “what I say is absolutely true”, but here he means “It is true no

现代大学英语 第二版第二册第二单元Say Yes 课后答案,供参考。

t because I am saying it. I have statistics to prove this.”

7) She said it contemptuously. She was getting angry.

8) Because his wife keeps mimicking him, showing that she thinks what he said was ridiculous and hypocritical.

9) Like “Oh boy” or “My God”, it is to show his Anger, as if saying “Don t start on that again. I m fed up.”

10) Still unmarried.

11) His wife remained angry.

12) to recognize sth as a result of knowledge, Experience or evidence.（看得出来） She saw clearly that her husband hesitated before he answered the question, and he hesitated because he was trying to get out of this embarrassing situation.

13) She wanted him to give her his true answer.

14) It shows his reluctance to give this answer.

15)Her indifference implies contempt. It would naturally hurt her husband.

16）to be at it” here means doing something else that follows from doing the primary thing. (While he was doing the dishes, doing housework stuff, and he couldn t think of anything else to do, he would mop the floor)

No, he was embarrassed and angry too. He continued the housework to cover up his anger and show his indifference in return.

17) He is ashamed of being made to lose his temper. He thinks it was foolish of him to take his wife so seriously. He obviously does not view his wife as his intellectual equal.

18) He is going to change his answer.

No, he just wants to humor his wife, and he does not think the issue that important anyway.

19) He was hoping that now that he had said he would marry her even if she were black, she would forgive him. When his wife asked him to turn off the light, he

expected her to join him. So he said “All right” meaning “I ve turned off the light as you asked me to. Come on.”

20) It shows that this was not the first time since they had married that he had felt his wife was a stranger to him.

Vocabulary

1. Do the following exercises on word formation rules.

1) Identify suffixes through comparing the following words.

(1) Suffix “-ware”, meaning objects made of a particular material

(2) Suffix “-ics”, meaning the science or art of.

(3) Suffixes “-c” and “-ical”, meaning of, characteristic of, or belonging to.

2) Turn the following into their opposite by adding “in-” or “un-”

1. unjust 2. injustice 3. unequal 4. inequality 5. unable 6. inability 7. invisible

8. uncountable

9. unavoidable 10. unbelievable 11. invaluable 12. insignificant 13. inseparable 14. un

现代大学英语 第二版第二册第二单元Say Yes 课后答案,供参考。

balanced 15. uncomfortable 16. uncommon 17. informal

18. unconditional 19. inedible 20. uneatable 21. unconscious 22. unaware

23. inaudible 24. unavailable 25. inefficient 26. unfair 27. unfamiliar 28. unfriendly

29. indirect 30. unfortunate 31. ungrateful 32. inconsiderate 33. unhappy 34. unimportant 35. incompetent 36. unlucky 37. unlimited 38. incomplete 39. incapable 40. unnecessary 41. unreasonable 42. inappropriate 43. unpleasant 44. unofficial 45. unpopular

46. inadequate

3）Give derivatives of the following words.

(1) economy: economist; economic; economical; economically; economize (2) critical: critic; critically; criticize criticism

(3) consider: considerate, inconsiderate, considerable, considerably, consideration, considering

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