全新版大学英语(第二版)综合教程2

Text A 课后习题答案

Unit 7 Learning about English

P.192 Content Questions

1.         It has borrowed and is still borrowing massively from other languages. Today it has an estimated vocabulary of over one million words.

2.         They don’t like borrowing foreign words. They try to ban words from English.

3.         Old English or Anglo-Saxon English.

4.         The Germanic tribes brought it to the British Isles in the 5^th century.

5.         They are usually short and direct.

6.         They use words derived from Old English.

7.         An English judge in India noticed that several words in Sanskrit closely resembled some words in Greek and Latin. A systematic study later revealed the Indo-European parent language.

8.         Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, English, etc.

9.         There were three languages competing for use in England.

10.     Words from Greek and Roman classics came into the English language.

11.     The great principles of freedom and rights of man were born in England, then the Americans carried them forward.

12.     No. English is and has always been the tongue of the common people. There should not be any fence around it to protect its so-called purity

P.196-198Vocabulary

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)    Strictly speaking

2)    drifted/drift

3)    resembles

4)    invaded

5)    is conquered

6)    fascinating

7)    snack

8)    put; into practice

9)    source

10)  climate

11)   surrendered

12)  were; aroused

3. Tips: 这样的题是一种同时训练单词语义和写作语法意识的题，难度较大。做此练习不求完全正确，做了练习就有收获。

1)        systematic; have invented; to a very real extent; mysteries

2)        to establish; to be modified/modifying

3)        tolerance towards/to; strike out; enrich

P.199-200 III Usage

1.  Indeed

2. though

3. Frankly

4. Moreover

5. To my knowledge

6. however

7. nevertheless

8. Yet

9. instead

10. in other words

P.200 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.196 Words and Phrases to Drill框里的词义的基础之上完成此练习。

A fascinating (1) feature of the English language is its tolerance (2) of new words and phrases, either borrowed or invented (3). There exists no authority to examine each new addition (4) to the language, to determine what is acceptable and to ban (5) what is not. True, some people do think that borrowed words corrupt (6) the language. They think the language is running out of control (7). At one time, influenced (8) by the intellectual elite (9) in France, some people came up with (10) the idea of establishing (11) an academy to maintain the purity of the language. Fortunately the idea never took hold. Massive (12) borrowing from a rich variety of sources (13) was, as a result, left free to greatly enrich (14) the language.