新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程5 Unit 1课后答案

大学英语综合5 Unit1课后习题答案

Unit1

The Keys of exercises

Working with words and expressions

1. 1) beloved,

2) classics

3) survivor

4) workaholic

5) manufacturing

6) odd

7) finances

8) boarded

9) replacement

10) natural

2. 1) asking around

2) straighten out

3) pick out

4) grabbed at

5)look…in the eye

6) and all that

Increasing your word power

Board

2. 2) board: n. the cost of meals

大学英语综合5 Unit1课后习题答案

I pay $30 a week for board and lodging.

3) board: n. a committee of the directors of a company, which is

responsible for the management of the company

Every decision has to be passed by the board of directors.

4) board: v. get of supply meals and lodging for payment

She arranged to board some students from the universities.

5) board: v. get into (a ship or public vehicle)

Before boarding the plane, Jenny tried once more to call home.

6)on board: in or on (a ship or public vehicle)

Waving goodbye to everyone, she got on board the train.

Odd

1) Odd: a. different from what is ordinary or expected

Timber? That’s kind of an odd name for a kid.

2) odd: a. separated from its pair or set

He’s got a whole drawer full of odd socks.

3) odd: a. (of a number) that cannot be pided by two

The houses on this side of the street have all got odd numbers, and on the other side they’ve got even numbers.

4) odd: a. not regular; occasional

She does some odd jobs but nothing permanent.

5) Odd: a. (after numbers) rather more than the stated number

She looked younger than her 50-odd years.

大学英语综合5 Unit1课后习题答案

Cloze

1) until

2) interests

3) sandwiches

4) overweight

5) beloved

6) boarded

7) workaholic

8) compete

9) finally

10) precisely

11) coronary

12) acquaintances

13) survived

14) inquiring

15) deceased

Translation

He died. He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning, on his day off.

His friends and acquaintances not really surprised. To them, He was a perfect Type A, a workaholic, a classic.

He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night,

大学英语综合5 Unit1课后习题答案

during a time when his own company had begun the four-day week for everyone but the executives. He played a golf game every month but it was work. Other than this, he had no outside “extracurricular interests”.

His survivors included his wife Helen and three children. Helen, forty-eight years old had given up trying to compete with his work years ago. Among his “beloved” children, the eldest son didn’t know him well, and the daughter had no shared topics with him. Only the youngest son, who was twenty, tried to grab at his father and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home.

At the funeral, deceased had meant much to the company and would be missed. The sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-year-old widow that the fifty-one-year-old and would be hard to replace. By 5:00 p.m. the afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun to make inquiries about his replacement.