综合教程3 Unit13 课后习题答案.docVIP

Unit 13 Text comprehension I. Decide which of the following is not the reason why we need friends. B. friends are good company and inexhaustible source of comfort and encourgement when we are in difficulty;therefore, A,C and D are all correct except B. II. Judge. according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false. 1. F. Refer to paragraph 5 and 8, the author and her friends are a bunch of over-forty classmates who would pick up the slack for their own daughters, so they can’t be the mothers of mature, middle-aged children. 2. T. Refer to paragraph 5.though the author and her friends were not old enough to wear orthopedic shoes, many wore spectacle as they reached middle age when eye-sight starts to fail. 3. F. Refer to paragraph 7,the group thought of the woman in her twenties as brash, angry, and, quite inappropriate. They did not enjoy her company and were relieved when she failed to join their study sessions. 4. T. Refer to paragraph 11. time has taught the author to be more flexible and ready to take whatever happens and be more process-oriented. III. Answer the following questions. 1. They found this woman brash angry and quite inappropriate, but they treated her like their daughter. And they would find themselves in more pleasant situation if this woman was not around because they would always agree, and even their disagreements were somehow smooth and enjoyable. 2. We all know that orthopedic shoes are used to correct leg or spine deformation in children while bifocals are used by the elderly to see things which are near or far off. So this sentence means that they are not young any longer, and they are getting old. 3. They do not do things as they might have been ready to do at twenty. Instead they will do it at a slower pace because they have learned that the world is in no hurry to be changed. The thing that matters for them is not they result any longer but the process. IV. Explain in your own words the following