新标准大学英语2nit 4习题答案.doc

Unit 4 News 24/7 Active Reading (1) Reading and Understanding 3. Choose the best answer to the questions 1.c 2.a 3.c 4.d 5.a 6. a 7.c Dealing with unfamiliar words 4. Answer the questions about the words in the box. 1. No, it is made more exciting in some way. 2. A very long time, centuries. 3. They should follow the guidelines. 4. They should check the source. 5. They live in poverty. 6. It is image. 7. It is element. 5. Match the words in the box with their definitions. 1.chase 2.trainee 3.erode 4.odd 5.horror 6.startle 7.echo 8.reaction 9.frame 6. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in Activity 5. 1.reactions…horror 2.chase 3.echoes 4.startled 5.trainees 6.eroded 7.oddest 8. frame 7. Answer the questions about the words. 1.a 2.b 3.a 4.b 5.b 6.a Reading and interpreting 8. Decide what evidence there is for the following statements. If there is no evidence, decide what the passage really says. 1. This is not the passage. It is noted that bad news is common, but no judgment as to the desirability or otherwise of this is given. 2. Many people, we are told, reacted in the same way to bad news in the case of 9/11 and the assassination of President Kennedy, so such a reaction is normal. 3. Yes, as and example is given of people feeling a need to pass on the bad news they had heard. (See pare 2: Their first instinct was to go and tell someone else about it.) 4. Yes. (See para4: We seek the odd and unexpected.) 5. Not stated – the passage says such issues never seem to have the same impact because the stories are ongoing and not reported in all newspapers on the same day, but bit by bit here and there. 6. Immediacy is part of news so such an item is certainly potentially news, but of course it might be too trivial to really be considered such. 7. Yes, mostly. 8. No. Paragraph 8 says the camera position has an important effect on how viewers understand the story. 9. The passage mentions people talk of the power of