新编英语教程6练习与答案.doc

高级英语（二）教与学指南 Practice Tests for Advanced English(2) 主编 张华鸿 前言 编写本书的目的： 目前英语专业三年级所使用的由上海外国语大学李观仪教授主编的〈新编英语教程〉第五、六册 本书的主要特点： 紧扣精读课文编写练习，实用性、针对性强。 对于同义词辨析的练习配以详尽的解释和相应的例句，旨在帮助学生真正弄懂并掌握这些词的用法。 设计了旨在提高学生语言运用熟练程度的系列练习，分别为： 英语释义 英语句型转换 汉译英 完形填空 成段改错 练习均配有参考答案。 本书由张华鸿主编。高华老师负责编写同义词辨析部分；郑艳丽老师负责编写句型转换部分；张华鸿老师负责编写英语释义、汉译英、完形填空和成段改错四部分，以及全书的编排、设计、整合与审编定稿等工作。 本书承华南师范大学外国语言文化学院领导的大力支持，以及英语系高年级教研室全体同仁的热心帮助，编者在此表示衷心的感谢。 编 者 2003年1月 于华南师范大学外文学院 Contents Unit One: VESUVIUS ERUPTS 3 Unit Two: THE FINE ART OF PUTTING THINGS OFF 16 Unit Three: WALLS AND BARRIERS 28 Unit Four: THE LADY， OR THE TIGER？ 40 Unit Five: THE LADY， OR THE TIGER？ 53 Unit Six: DULL WORK 65 Unit Seven: BEAUTY 74 Unit Eight: APPETITE 84 Unit Nine: A RED LIGHT FOR SCOFFLAWS 98 Unit Ten: STRAIGHT-A ILLITERACY 114 Unit Eleven: ON CONSIGNING MANUSCRIPTS TO FLOPPY DISCS AND ARCHIVES TO OBLIVION 131 Unit Twelve: GRANT AND LEE 147 Unit Thirteen: EUPHEMISM 163 Unit Fourteen: THAT ASTOUNDING CREATORNATURE 175 Unit Fifteen: TEACHING AS MOUNTAINEERING 191 Unit One TEXT I VESUVIUS ERUPTS I. Paraphrase the parts underlined in the following: So the letter which you asked me to write on my uncle’s death has made you eager to hear about the terrors and also the hazards I had to face 1when left at Misenum, for I 2broke off at the beginning of this part of my story. I took a bath, dined, and then dozed 3fitfully for a while. For several days past there had been earth 4tremors which were not particularly alarming because they are frequent in Campania: but that night the shocks were so violent that everything fell as if it were not only shaken but overturned. I don’t know whether I should call this courage or 5folly on my part (I was only seventeen at the time) but I 6called for a volume of Livy and went on reading as if I had nothing else to do. Up came a friend of my uncle’s who had just come from Spa