中国人民大学 知乎-和颜悦色造句
Unit 1 Social Customs
Task
1
A.
1.
She wanted to see St. Paul’s Cathedral.
2. She was so
surprised because she saw so many Englishmen who
looked alike.
3.
They
were
all
wearing
dark
suits
and
bowler
hats,
carrying
umbrellas
and
newspapers.
4.
Because
she
had
often
read
about
them
and
seen
photographs
of
them,
who
all
looked as if they were wearing a
uniform.
5. No, he didn’t.
6.
He
used
the
English
saying
“It
takes
all
kinds
to
make
a
world”
to
prove
his
opinion.
B.
If all the seas
were one sea, what a great sea it would be! And if
all the trees were one
tree, what a
great tree it would be! And if this tree were to
fall in the sea, what a great
splash
there would be!
Task
2
A.
1. people were much busier
2. colder than England, minus thirty
degrees, last longer
3. much
more mountainous, much higher and much more
rocky
, more beautiful
4.
tend to be more crowded
5. the houses,
smaller
B
．
1) T
2) T
3) F
4) F
5) F
Task
3
A.
1)
In the
US, people
usually dance just to enjoy themselves, they don’t
invite other
people
to watch them.
2)
Usually eight people dance together.
3)
Because people
form a
square
in dancing
with a
man and a
woman on each side
of the square.
4)
He usually makes it into a song.
5)
They wear old- fashioned clothes.
B.
1) F
2) T
3) F
4) F
5) T
C.
1)
eight people form a square, on each side of the square.
2)
What they should do, makes it into a song, sings it.
3)
don’t have much time to think
4)
old- fashioned clothes, pretty to watch.
Task
4
1)
It was a time to celebrate the end of winter and the beginning of spring.
2)
They burned the picture of their kitchen god to bring good luck.
3)
The custom s
aid the brides must wear “something old, something new, something
borrowed, and
something blue” to bring good luck.
4)
Because they could not eat meat, eggs or dairy products during Lent, so they tried
to use up these things
before Lent began.
5)
It was a straw man made by children in Czech, it was a figure of death.
6)
People
brought
their
animals
to
church.
And
before
the
animals
went
into
the
church people dressed them up in
flowers and ribbons.
Task
5
A.
1) F
2) T
3) F
4) T
5) F
6) T
7) T
B.
Advantages
Disadvantages
Lots of
servants to do the work
Terrible life for servants
Beautiful clothes to wear
V
ery uncomfortable clothes
Lots of tea parties
Boring and formal tea parties
—
often no men being
invited
Life being
slower
Much more illness
Plenty
of
time
to
talk
to
each
Children left with servants all day
other
V
ery poor education
No freedom for women
Task
6
A.
1) b
2) a
3) c
4) a
B.
1)
family
unit, process, change, used to be, the extended , the
nuclear
2)
job
patterns,
progressed,
agricultural,
industrial,
forced,
job
opportunities, split
up
3)
traditio
nal,
缺
，
family, other living arrangements
C.
1)
mother,
father, children, and some other
relatives such as
grandparents,
living
in
the same house
or nearby.
2)
only the parents and the children.
3)
previously
married
men and
women
marry again and combine the
children
from
former
marriages into a new family.
Task
7
A.
Men
Wo
men
Both
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
√
B.
1) c
2) c
3) a
4) b
5) c
6) c
7) c
Task
8
A.
1) a
2) c
3) b
4) c
5) c
6) b
7) c
8) b
B.
1) T
2) T
3) F
4) F
5) T
6) F
7) F
8) F
9) T
10
) F
Task
9
Social
custo
ms
and
ways
of
behaving
change.
But
they
do
not
necessarily
always
change
for
the
better.
Things
which
were
considered
impo
lite
many
years
ago
are
no
w
acceptable.
Just
a
few
years
ago,
it
was
considered
impo
lite behavio
ur
for a
ma
n to smoke o
n the street. No man
who thought o
f
himself
as
being
a
gentleman
wo
uld
make
a
foo
l
o
f
himself
by
smok
ing
when a lad
y was in the roo
m.
The
important
thing
to
remember
about
social
custo
ms
is
not
to
do
anything
that
might
make
other
people
feel
unco
mfortab
le
—
e specially
if
they
are
yo
ur
guests.
There
is
a
story
about
a
rich
nob
leman
who
had
a
very
formal
dinner
party.
When
the
food
was
served,
one
of
the
guests
started
to
eat
his
peas
with
a
knife.
Other
guests
were
amused
or
shocked,
but
the
nob
le
man
calmly
p
icked
up
his
knife
and
began
eating
in
the
same
way.
It
wo
uld
have
been bad
manners to
make his
guest feel
foolish or unco
mfortab
le.
Unit 2
Weather
Task
1
1) b
2) a
3) d
Task
2
A.
1) T
2) F
3) F
B.
1) d
2) c
3) c
C.
Climate,
reputatio
n,
extraord
inary,
unreliab
le,
dry,
wet,
clear,
dull,
hot,
cold,
bad,
mild
Task
3
I.
the co
untry
Trees, grass, lakes and
steams
II. A. 1. concrete,
iro
n, steel
2. take in the
heat during the day and thro
w o
f heat into the air at night
B. Warmer
winters
Car engines , electrical
app
liance
III. A. air
pollutio
n
may stop sunlight fro
m reaching the earth
B. 1. Ice near the North and South
po
les to melt
2.
to
be
slo
wly
fo
lded
and
peop
le
living
in
these
cities
to
mo
ve
to
higher
land.
Task
4
A.
1) b
2) c
B.
night,
delight, morning, warning, gray, way, red,
head
C.
1) F
2) T
3 )F
Task
5
1) c
2) b
3) d
4) c
5) c
Task
6
A.
1) F
2) T
3) F
4) T
5) F
6) T
B.
incred
ib
le,
one
minute,
kilo
meter,
destroyed,
lifted
up,
carried
away,
killed,
injured
Task
7
A.
1) b
2) a
3) b
B.
1) It has been nice
weather during the day, but
it is
going to change at night.
2) Fine
weather in southern Europe and not so nice in Northern
Europe.
C.
For today
Southeast
England
Maximu
m
temperatures
of
around
21
degrees
Southern Scotland
26 degrees Celsius b
y
mid
-afternoo
n
Brighto
n
23 degrees Celsius by early afternoo
n
Mid
lands
Light showers aro
und
midday
Northwest of Scotland
15 ho
urs of
lo
vely sunshine
For the
weekend
Spain
Clo
ud
y
b
ut
mainly
dry
with
sunny
periods,
23 degrees Celsius
Greece
Heavy rain, 17 degrees Celsius
France
Cloud
y
with
rain,
maximu
m
temperatures
o
f
22 degrees
Northern Ireland
34 degrees Celsius
Most of
England
32 degrees Celsius
Task
8
Fall
The
dust
particles
begin
to
settle
to
the
gro
und
in
thinner
air
and
the air clears.
Fall
Instead
of
traveling
up
ward and
outward
into
the
atmosp
here
they
are bent back to the earth and their
range extended.
Rise
The
methane
is trapped in the botto
m o
f the swamp because of the
thick
air.
Rise
Birds
prefer
to
fly
where
t
he
air
is
the
densest
and
they
can
get
greater lift
with their wings.
Rise
S
moke rises
with thicker air.
Fall
The gas
in our bodies expands in lo
wer air pressure.
Task
9
A.
1)
ⅹ
2)
ⅹ
3)√
4)
ⅹ
5)
ⅹ
6)√
7)√
B.
[f]→[c]→[a]→[d]→[b]→[e]
C.
1) F
2) T
3) F
4) F
D.
1) d
2) b
Task
10
Undo
ubted
ly,
Tibet
is
one
o
f
the
harshest
places
for
human
existence.
It
is
cool
in
summer
but
freezing
co
ld
in
winter.
In
Lhasa,
the
mildest
city
in
Tibet,
temperatures
may
exceed
29
degrees
Celsius
in
summer
while
plummeting
to
-16
degrees
Celsius
in
winter!
Sun
radiatio
n
is
extremely
strong
in
Tibet.
The
sunlight
in
Lhasa
is
so
intense
that
the
city
is
called
Sunlight
City.
The
thin
air
can
neither
block
off
nor
retain
heat
so
that
there