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新世纪研究生

公共英语教材

听说学生用书（下）答案

Unit 1

Part A

1~5： DCCAB 6~10：AACCD 11~15：CBCAD

Part B

Passage I

I

1~5： DBBBA

II

1：there were probably 10 million people.

2：it is expected to be 10 billion.

3：if the resources could be distributed more equally around the world, there would be enough for everyone.

4：only 10 percent.

5：it is how to limit population growth.

Passage II

I

1~5：CDCBA

II

1)10000 2)5500 3)4000 4)more than 2800

5)Egypt 6)460 7)less than 260

Part D

1)award 2)glory 3)profit 4)trust 5)dedication

6)significance 7)moment 8)anguish 9)physical 10)spirit

11)conflict 12)alone 13)worth 14)room 15)heart 16)honor 17)compassion 18)curse 19)lust 20)value

Unit 2

Part A

Dbddc cbccb ccbca

Part B

Passage I

Acdbd

Crime analysis officer

Top restaurants

An empty chair

To take it

In pairs

Some kind of disturbance

Snatching purses

Never be placed

On the coat hook

In the next stall

Enough time to escape

Passage II

Bcaca

TTFTF

Unit 3

Part A

Bddca bddbc accab

Part B

Passage I

Abadd

Utility

Utilize

Available

The state of art = cutting- edged

Deliver information = pass on information

Facility

Facilitate = help = make sth easier

Adapt their methods to incorporate (add) this new media into their teaching Make fundamental impact on

Competitive advantage

Purchase

Justify its purchase by applying it to routine administrative tasks. Attendance records

Grading

Keep the students interested and productive

Engage sth in distance education

Conference – conferencing

Via = through

Desktop / laptop

Passage II

Adada

A means for commerce

Popularity

Transaction

Distribute information

Expedite

Funds can be diverted into marketing or advertizing

Cyber space knows no national boundaries.

Neighborhood

Transmission

Establish the links

source

Privacy

Security

Destination

Credit card

Transferred

Feel safe

Guarantee

Safer than

Paying for

Unit 5

Part A

Abdcc bdabc cacab

Sketch out

Pull everything together

Toaster

Burn toast

Slices

Scrape off the burnt part

Credit

Pretty busy = very busy

Part B

Cbcba

Steering wheel

Take turns with you at the wheel Patrotic scotsman

Exaggerated

On arriving

Readily agree

Windy hilly mountainous

“L och” in the neighborhood

Copious “high tea” take the place of sth

Brunch: breakfast and lunch

It consists of one substantial course

Light (heavy) supper

Continential breakfast –light meal which consists of bread, juice, mill and jam.

Twists and turns (twist and bends)

Dips and climbs (ups and downs)

Hazard

Active and impudent

A herd of long-haired cattle

Savage

Run paralell with the sea

Along the coastline fringed with

Which is made ragged with rocky bays and inlets

From England to Scotland

Changes of scenery

Fairly long journey

At the Wheel

Travelling with

Going to see the finest scenery

On arriving

Indeed magnificent

United kingdom which is abbreviated as UK consists of three parts known as Britian, scotland and Wales.

Part C

Cabca

Slope fertile

Rich pasture

Mineral rescources

Coal seams

Mining villages grew into towns around iron and steel foundries, chemical work and oil refineries.

Seaside resorts

Energetic

Be Ideal for

Choir

Eisteddfod = arts festival

National costume

Contribute to the gaiety of the festival

Bustle with

Celtic

Part D

State

The will

Imagination

Freshness

Courage over timidity

Deserting

Wrinkle the skin

Enthusiasm

Soul

Heart

Spirit

Wonders

What’s next

Game of living

Beauty

Infinite

Down

Pessimism

Optimism

young

Unit 6

Part A

A aadb ddbda adabc

I had a hard time getting through this novel = find sth difficult Wind up going to the second show = end up doing sth

(are you) sorry you decided to take it?

Travel agent

It’s all set.

Head for a destination

Academic calendar

Grade (grade sth: V)

Broad claims that were not supported enough

Has got some sort of conflicts in her schedule

convince

in the minority

hocky finals

she would be available as backup

make do with what we’ve got

Part B

CACDD

Critics

Costly

Ethnic group

African and Hispanic

Non-profit institution

analogy

1.in 1926

2.They can take costly preparation classes

3.African-Americans and Hispanics

4.About thirty minutes.

5.In March, 2005

Passage 2

Bdacb

Four years of attendance

Learn science intensively

Prescribe medicine

Resident

Length of residency depends on

Gain entrance to it = enter it

Work under guidance of an experience doctor (internship) Treatment

Practice medicine

1.In class

2.the body

3.chemistry and medicines

4. How to recognize

Ready to use

Helping sick people

Under the guidance

Examine

Advice

Enter a medical training program

Unit 7

Part A

Cabcd ccdda caddd

Part B

Passage1

Ddcad

Aim at doing sth = aim to do sth

Divident

Revenue

Output / imput

Set the price

Imput-mix (optimize / maximize )

Combination

Raw-materials

Objective = object

Automatic machinery (assembly line)

Ingredient

Weight-gaining

Weight-losing

sources

Managers make

Keep production costs

Automatic machinery

The same task

Instead of buying

Its goods or services

Without reducing quality

Passage 2

Ddacb

Make sth known – a means of making known

Increase awareness and arouse interest (advertisement commercial informercial )

Inform and persuade

Mass - media (medium)

Reach certain section of the market

Exhibition in trade fairs

Direct mail advertising

Striking feature

Liquor

Large-scale

Shrinking

Be convinced of sth

Exhibitions, trade fairs, and direct mail advertising, etc.

Television

The growth in advertising

The customers will pay less

When the market is growing, advertising helps to increase demand. When the market is shrinking, advertising may prevent a bigger fall in sales than would occur without its support.

Part D

From here

Secret

Enough

Your heart

Hate me

Don’t you

These things

Marry

Hurt

Means

Help

Different

“yes” or “no”

Believe

Hate

Started

Gentleman

Good enough

How dare you?

Unit 8

Part A

A a b a a

C d b a a

B d b a c

Lines

Be in the mood for

Play-offs

You can have it for what it cost me. Pore over

Indoors

Artificial lighting

Lose track of

Foreshortening

Perspective

Part B

Passage 1

D a b d b

Purchase n.

Percentage

Revenues

Set its own percentage

Considerably

Federal government

Needy

Income tax is graduated

Community services

Alcoholic beverages

1.small additional percentage

2.buy something

3.all the money earned

4.owns land or a house

5.purchase certain things

6.inherits the wealth and property

passage 2

b a b

c a

the first amendment to the Constitution

respecting = regarding

establishment

prohibit the free exercise thereof

protestants outnumber

preclude

give no subsidy to any faith

Part D

1. October

2. Candy

3. customer

4. toy

5. superman

6. eighty-four percent

7. disguise

8. Ordinary life

9. change 10. average 11. favorite 12. 400 13. weekends 14. popularity 15. decorate 16. quarter 17. eight 18. sure thing 19. point of view 20. grow out of it

Unit 10

Part A

D a b c a

B d b b a

Ba b c a

3.

Ticket counter (box office)

Turn in lost and found items

8. dig into my savings

9. fit it in (it indicates lunch)

Stomach is rumbling

10. drop out of (he is a college drop-out.)

Marching band (in a parade float )

My grades are really starting to slip. (academic reasons, he has great academic performance. )

14. put the finishing touches on sth

Part B

Passage 1

D c c c a

Dowry decimum

Desertion

Withhold consent to all the transactions that her husband made

None being offered, she succeeded in

Be obliged to do sth

Context

Passage 2

A b c d b

Governor constituent state legislatures

Undertake (fulfill) their traditional responsilities for house making and child rearing.

1.120, 7, 9

2.23, 2 993

3.54, 50, 60

Unit 11

Part A

Ccaab cabbb accab

2. turn down the job

Convenient

Make ends meet

4. memorize

6. energetic

Study group session

7. throw a red T-shirt by accident

Run the clothes through with bleach

8. transfer to …

Not if I can talk him out of it. (talk sb into sth)

Believe me, I am trying.

9. enroll in the free seminar

Savings account

Eligible

10. dip

11. exhibit is a real bore.

12. someone really organized

You can count me out.

15. snap at sb

It’s just end-of-semester pressure

He will be his old self next week.

Part B

Passage 1

B c a d a

administration

democratic

lowest unemployment in modern times.

The lowest inflation in 30 years

Highest home ownership in the country’s history

Dropping crime rates

Reduced welfare rolls

Balanced budget

Achieve a budget surplus

Millennium

Call for a great national initiative to end racial discrimination

Sought (seek) legislation

To upgrade education

To protect the jobs of certain parents

To restrict handgun sales

To strengthen environmental rules

Wed

Excel as a student and as a saxophone player

Professional musician

This encounter led him to enter a life of public service

For personal indiscretion

A young White House intern

Impeach

The House of Representatives

He was tried in the Senate (trial)

Be found not guilty of the charges

Have unprecedented popular approval ratings

1. was born

2. 1950

3. Oxford University

4. a law degree

5. Yale University

6. 1976

7. the governorship

8. regained office

9. the presidential race 10. the House of Representatives

Passage 2

C a a b d

1. he left school his departure for London

2. set foot on the road to fame

3. one of the three leading members

4. continued writing eleven of his plays

5. Shakespeare died

Part D

1.very high-priced software

2.low cost software

3.the Microsoft dream

4.The vast majority

5. a uniform platform

6.grow up

7.hardware companies

8.the PC business

9.publishing

10.the printing press

11.the PC

12.new versions of the software

13.for software

14.digital future

15.take a photo

16.planning

17.the phone and the camera

18.go digital

19.music

20.without digital

Unit 12

Part A

Cdaad caacb cadaa

Part B

Passage 1

Adcba

TFTTF

Passage 2

Accba

TFTFT

Part D

1.enter politics

2. a vision

3.attractive

4.our sense of shame

5.appalled

6.violent crime

7.reestablish

8. a sense of family

9.African-American soldier

10.Are you afraid?

11.with my family

12.take care of

13.touch me

14.as a nation

15.as a family

16.sharing with each other

17.the can-do attitude

18.risk failing

19.who has received so much

20.our American journey

Unit 14

Part A

Acaac ccdca bbcca

Part B

Passage 1

Bddad

1.On July 28th, 2002

2.Thirty

3.He was the first American to win the Tour de France and won three races with

a European team.

4.He suffered from cancer of the reproductive organs.

5.In 1999.

Passage 2

Bcbad

1.At Wimbledon, England.

2.Twenty.

3.In 2000 and 2001

4.In a poor area of Los Angeles, California.

5.In the 1950s.

Part D

1.in 1964

2.Canada

3.set up

4.Two European

5.third time

6.improve

7.the other

8.host

9.in 1924

10.sport and culture

11.in 2008

12.a great Games

13.prove to be

14.proud of

15.awarded

16.in joy tonight

17.in cheers

18.dream

19.the 29th Olympic Games

20.realized

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