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课后习题答案

Unit 6 Women, Half the Sky

Text A

A Woman Can Learn Anything a Man Can

P.164 Content Questions

1.         They liked girly toys such as a miniature kitchen, and Barbies.

2.         To convert a gas-guzzling SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle.

3.         Because she didn’t know anything about cars and was afraid of being cheated by the mechanic.

4.         She was craving independence and wanted to live away from home for some time.

5.         It helped her earn six engineering credits, which of course made it easier for her to become an engineering major.

6.         Five years.

7.         In her view, if you find a subject is difficult to learn, it does not mean you’re not good at it. It just means you have to set your mind and work harder to get good at it.

8.         Because he had confidence in her abilities believing she could have done better if she had studied more.

9.         No, she wasn’t always confident. She had moments of panic, worried that as a woman she would be unable to understand thermodynamics.

10.     She considers it wrong because it is based on a faulty premise.

11.     It is flexible and more powerful than we imagine.

12.     What she means is not to accept others’ opinions blindly but to use one’s own judgment.

 

P.166 Language Sense Enhancement

1)        limit

2)        denying

3)        favor

4)        others

5)        relevant

6)        translating

7)        hard and fast conclusions

8)        focus

9)        incredibly flexible

10)     consider the possibility

 

P.168-170Vocabulary

I.

1.Tips:做这类题要知道所给出的单词和题目的意思、区分所给出单词的词性，填空时应注意时态和形式的变化。

1)        cultural/culture

2)        indication

3)        miniature

4)        ironic

5)        stumbled into (注意时态一致)

6)        decent (此处decent可理解为“good enough”)

7)        buzzing

8)        abnormal

9)        mechanical

10)     Shuddering (此句谓语动词是hoped，因此shudder变为shuddering作状语)

11)     implied (注意时态一致)

12)     leap

详解：

1. decent adj
a. (especially spoken) of a good enough standard or quality:

a decent meal / job / place to live 一顿相当不错的饭/一个好工作/一个满意的住处

I need a decent night's sleep.我需要好好地睡上一晚。

b. (of people or behavior) honest and fair; treating people with respect:

a decent, hard-working person 一个正直勤奋地人

c. acceptable to people in a particular situation:

That dress isn't decent. 那件连衣裙不够体面.     ——《牛津高阶英语词典》

decent: of a good enough standard or quality:

Five years later I had a degree and three decent job offers.

五年后我获得学位，并得到三个不错的/相当好的/满意的工作机会。

I’ll buy whichever decent car model that comes first for a good price.

哪种型号（质量）好、价格满意/合适/优惠，我就买哪种车型。

2. leap: vigorous jump 跳; 跳跃

Bob knows little about European art and he is a prudent (谨慎的) guy. I don’t think he is going to take a leap in the dark.

a leap in the dark: an action or a risk that you take without knowing anything about the activity or what the result will be. ——《牛津高阶英语词典》

e.g. I didn't know what the new job would be like-I just took a leap in the dark.

我不知道新的工作会是如何，我只是冒险为之（“黑暗中一跃“）。

(a leap in the dark 可理解为“冒险的行动；轻举妄动”)

Bob不了解欧洲艺术，他是个谨慎人，我想他不会轻举妄动。

 

P.173 Comprehensive Exercises

I. Cloze

1. Text-related 

Tips: 这是与课文内容相关的完型填空题，需要学生在了解课文大意并熟悉P.168 Words and Phrases to Drill框里的词义的基础之上完成此练习。

Isn't it strange how chance can play such a large part in what we become? If Carolyn hadn't stumbled into (1) that engineering course, she would never have become an engineer. At the time she did not know the first thing about (2) anything mechanical (3). But when it comes to (4) hard work, she is no slacker. She threw herself into study and joined in the project to make a hybrid  (5) vehicle. She admits that she often found studying math difficult, but she gritted her teeth (6) and got on with it, working on the premise (7) that math is a hard subject for most people. Girls, she argues, are no more at a disadvantage (8) in this respect than boys. Nonetheless, she still had moments of panic (9) when she found making progress particularly difficult.

Carolyn concludes that we should not allow cultural (10) expectations to limit our horizons, for we are far more flexible (11) in what we can achieve than they would imply (12).

详解：

“cultural expectations”与课文中的“cultural cues”相似，“they would imply”中的they就是指“cultural expectations”。最后一句话的意思是“我们不要让文化期待局现了我们的视野，因为我们在做成事情的灵活性（适应能力）方面比文化期待所暗示的强大多了”。

注：文化期待(Culture Expectations)是指基于某种民族的或社会群体的文化圈而形成的，对事物或传播信息的某种预先的认识倾向或态度。

参见http://wiki.mbalib.com/wiki/Culture_expectations