Key to the Exercises
(Book Two)
Lesson One
QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
1. A. 1—6 D D B B A B 7—12 B A D A C C VERBAL PRACTICE
III. A. 1. journey 2.staring, soundproof
3. accidentally/by accident 4.enlightened, psychological 5 import 6.out of the blue 7. in point of fact 8.adopted 9. contemporaries 10.slipups 11.specious 12.pees 13.obsessive 14.impelled 15.identified
B. 1. This picture brings back many pleasant memories of her Spanish holiday. 2．News and weather forecasts reports are staples of radio programs.
3. By mere accident Tom met in a bar his long-lost brother who was thought to have been killed in action during the war.
4. Bill intuited the something criminal in their plan.
5. They think that obsessive tidiness in the factory is a bad sign.
6. Yesterday his mother sold several years? worth of papers and magazines. 7. His heartening speech impelled us to (work with) greater efforts. 8. Those who enjoy pulling off a miracle often fail.
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9. As language students we should have a sense of the nuances of plain words and expressions.
10. The rude behavior of Mrs. Taylor?s adopted son is driving her into a nervous breakdown.
11. I like to see films in general, and American Westerns and horrors in particular. 12. In some sense Mary saw in her aunt a surrogate of her mother.
13. My father never equivocated, and he always gave some brief but poignant/pertinant opinions.
14. Though he is disabled, he never tires of helping people.
15. In any country, those who are remiss in their duty must be severely punished. 16. Awareness of the fact that the child was in danger impelled the policeman to action. Translation
我不知道什么叫透过人的“心灵之窗”——眼睛去熟悉一个朋友的内心，我只能通过指尖的触摸“看到”一个人的脸部轮廓，我能察觉出一个人的欢笑、悲哀和许多别的明显的感情。我通过触摸朋友们的脸庞了解他们，但我不能通过触摸真正想象出他们的个性。当然，我可以通过别的途径——通过他们向我表露的思想，通过他们的行动向我揭示的一切去了解他们的个性。然而我无法对他们有更深刻的了解，不过我相信如果能亲眼看到他们，观察到他们对所听到的言论和所遇到的事情的反应，注意到他们的眼睛和面部表情所表露出来的瞬息反应，我是可以获得这种了解的。
我对亲近的朋友十分了解，因为长年累月的接触使我在各方面都对他们很熟悉。但是对偶然遇到的朋友我的印象就很不全面，我只能从与他们握手中得
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到印象，从根据我的指尖在他们的嘴唇上触摸到的，或是他们在我的掌心轻轻地敲击而告诉我的话语中得到印象。
Lesson Two
QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
I. 1—6 A D B D B B 7—12 B A A C D D VERBAL PRACTICE
III.A. 1. interfered with 9. illusion
2. remunerative 10. epitome 3. giants 11. available 4. characterizes 12. save 5. happenstance 13. alibi
6.eliminating and sifting process 14.brought into full play 7. overlook 15. waived aside 8. downtown 16.available
B. 1. A. The chances are that they will be held up by traffic on their way to the
airport.
B. The plane takes off at 6:35. It would be a pity if they couldn?t make it. 2. Another popular notion which is in fact a misconception is that expensive clothes invariably raise one?s status.
3. Can you imagine what kind of life a man has lived who aspires to excellence and abhors mediocrity?
4. A copy of our latest product catalogue will be sent free of charge if you will fill
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up the form on the reverse of this card and post it.
5. It will be an absurdity, if not a catastrophe, if half of the population of this city abandons their posts and goes in for business.
6. Because they want their kids to be somebody, some well-intentioned parents exercise enormous pressure on their children and the results all too often prove the reverse.
7. The revered professor predicted that these brilliant young people would surely make their way in the scientific-technical realm in a few years.
8. Many writers have quit writing short stories because, as they say ?there is no market for them.? Yet Lessing sticks and she would go on even if there really wasn?t any home for them but a private drawer.
9. Satire under his pen is only a means to an end, a form to expose social evils. 10. It seemed nobody at the party, not even the reporters, made special note of the general?s absence which might have aroused the suspicion of his rivals.
11. During their first months in the strange land, the new arrivals had to take menial jobs refused by the natives and work like slaves to make a living. Later, having saved enough money, most of them set up small businesses.
12. Intellectual sluggards may get rich but they can never make good in the academic field.
13. Schools should make prodigious effort to inculcate the students with a sense of justice and the love of truth.
14. Yesterday she received a telegram from her cousin in Sian/Xi?an to the effect that the latter would arrive today by the night train instead of the morning train
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