UNIT 2 Text A课后练习答案

UNIT 2 Text A

A Life Full of Riches

Content Question

Pair Work

1.The Salvation Army is a religious charitable organization. A Salvation Army

bell ringer is a volunteer who help it collect donations.

2.The boy asked him: Are you poor? He did it simply out of confusion and

curiosity. Obviously he knew nothing about the Salvation Army bell ringer.

3.He said, “I have more than some people, but not as much as others.”This

means that he was neither poor nor rich.

4.The boy’s mother scolded him because the question was social inappropriate,

especially to a person who looked poor.

5.Yes, economically he is poor. He lives in a small basement apartment. He

doesn’t even have a color TV. He falls into the lowest income category. And so on.

6.No, the writer does not feel poor. This is because he has enjoyed good health

and creativity which he thinks are much more important than material goods.

7.He feels out of place among people who are primarily interested in material

things.

8.She told him that she was interested in what’s on the inside. but after he took

her to his poorly furnished apartment, she changed her mind completely. 9.It only shows that to her the most important thing was still material goods

rather than what she had claimed before.

http://www.77cn.com.cnmercial can put people under pressure to purchase more than is really

necessary.

11.Because December is the time for to work for the Salvation Army as a bell

ringer, which gives him a genuine sense of belonging and brings him happiness in helping others.

12.The boy’s question has helped the writer realize that, despite his lack of

expensive possessions, he is rich in many other ways and should be thankful for that.

Text Organization

Working On Your Own

1.

1) a.√

2)the essay is meant to explain something that is, the author’s view of life.

3)That one can live a life full of riches without being rich financially.

2.

Part One: The writer’s encounter with a boy who raised the question “are you poor?”

Part Two: In search of an answer the writer finds that not having expensive possessions doesn’t make him feel poor mainly because he enjoys life

in many other ways.

Part Three: In conclusion, the writer thinks he’s grown to understand more about himself because of the boy’s question.

I. Vocabulary

1. Fill in the gaps with words or phrases…

1) abrupt 2) emotional 3) bless 4) wear and tear

5) dated 6) consequences 7) seemingly 8) in contrast to

9) Curiosity 10) genuine 11) primarily 12) sentiments

2. Rewrite each sentence…

1) confronted with more than one problem, try to solve the easiest one first

2) vital to the existence of all forms of life

3) some confusion among the students about what to do after class to follow up on the subject

4) nothing more than a job and an apartment to be happy

5) tickled him to think that she’d come to ask his advice

3. Complete the sentences

1) a lingering, fabricating, sentiments

2) fill out, every item, vital, consequences

3) be denied, tangible, cherish, attain

II. Words with Multiple Meanings

1. It is a long trip and will take us five hours by bus.

2. She arrived early and took a front row seat.

3. Don’t take me for a fool.

4. It takes a lot of imagination to fabricate such a story.

5. My uncle will take me (alone on his trip) to the Arctic this summer.

6. He took the dinner plate I passed to him.

7. Kevin took second prize in the weight-lifting competition.

8. If you don’t take my advice, you will regret it.

III. Usage

1. hanging

2. to give

3. to return

4. being praised

5. not having

6. to say

7. to open

8. being helped

Comprehensive Exercises

I. Cloze

1. Text-related

1) well-off/affluent 2) dated 3) falling into 4) bracket 5) deny 6) tangible

7) pursuit 8) cherishes 9) out of place 10) abrupt 11) focus 12) donations

2. Theme-related

1) consume 2) fueled 3) annual 4) plain 5)

physically

6) security 7) indicates 8) equally 9) traditional 10)

follows

II. Translation

1. Translate the Sentences

1) The company denied that its donations had a commercial purpose.

2) Whenever he was angry, he would begin to stammer slightly.

3) Education is the most cherished tradition in our family. That’s why

my parents never took me to dinner at expensive restaurants, but sent

me to the best private school.

4) Shortly after he recovered from the surgery, he lost his job and thus

had to go through another difficult phase of his life.

5) In contrast to our affluent neighbors, my parents are rather poor, but

they have always tried hard to meet our minimal needs.

2. Translate the passage

With more and more donations coming in, our university will be much better off financially next year. We will thus be able to focus on the most important task that we, educators, must take on: to encourage students to attain their scholarly/academic goals, to train them to be dependable and responsible inpiduals, to prepare them for the life ahead, and to guide them in their pursuit of spiritual as well as material satisfaction.