大学英语综合教程第二版(上海外语教育出版社)unit10-the idiocy of urban life 课后练习答案.doc

Unit 10 The Idiocy of Urban Life Text comprehension B Judge F F T T F T III. IV. Explain Rats make city life courteous and refined when they dominate the city deep at night. City dwellers create all kinds of city vogues in the country, for they will not live without these fashionable things. These windows are disgraceful because they put the lives of office workers in danger if a fire should occur. A lawn in the backyard and a few spindle-shaped trees struggling for life are not enough to give the dweller any true sense of the season changes. Vocabulary I. 1. doing propaganda work \ printing lies on paper 2. fierce competition among people 3. foolishness \ stupidity 4. senseless turmoil 5. something disgraceful 6. people with bent shoulders II. knowledge simulation insolence urban scurry congregation compensate rat race III. idiotic urbanity solitary exerted insolent grieved lunatic habitat IV. B C C A B A A B V. 1. bearing \ stance 2. impolite \ rude, ill-mannered 3. friendly \ social \sociable 4. modestly \ timidly \ gently 5. smelly \ stinking \foul \malodorous 6. thin \ lanky 7. accept \respect 8. strangely VI. somewhere away from a studio, office, library or laboratory where practical work is done or data is collected support seemingly unconscious very happy ask for Vocabulary I. 1. It was Harry who told the police 2. It was I who told him the news. 3. It was Susan who would like to read some detective stories. It was some detective stories that Susan would like to read. 4.It is only when one is ill that one realizes the value of health. 5. It was John who painted a lovely picture. It was a lovely picture that John painted. 6. It was Galileo who invented the telescope. It was the Telescope that Galileo invented. 7.It was Tom’s mother who threw an egg at the minister yesterday. It was an egg that Tom’s mother threw at the minister yesterday. It was at the minister that Tom’s mother threw an egg yesterday. I