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Text A 课后习题答案

Unit 5 Giving Thanks

P.144Content Questions

1.         He wrote them on a ship on the way to the island of Tulagi in the South Pacific on Thanksgiving Day,1943.

2.         Preparing a traditional Thanksgiving dinner featuring roast turkey made the writer extremely busy.

3.         The writer was thinking about Thanksgiving.

4.         He decided to write letters to show gratitude to those who had helped him in his life.

5.         He had always accepted what they had done for him, but never expressed to any of them a simple “Thank you.”

6.         He decided to write to his father, his grandmother, and the Rev. Lonual Nelson, his grammar school principal.

7.         His father had impressed upon him from boyhood a love of books and reading.

8.         He remembered that each morning Nelson would open the school with a prayer over his assembled students.

9.         He recalled how his grandmother had taught him to tell the truth, to share, and to be forgiving and considerate of others. And he thanked her for her delicious food and for all the wonderful things she had done for him.

10.     His reading of their letters left him not only astonished but also more humbled than before, because they all thanked him rather than saying they would forgive him for not having previously thanked them.

11.     The writer learned that one should learn to express appreciation for others’ efforts.

12.     The writer wished for all people the common sense to achieve world peace, and find the good and praise it.

P.149-151Vocabulary

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)    sprinkled

2)    in turn

in turn

1. one after the other in a particular order 依次，轮流，逐个

e.g. 孩子们逐个自报(call out )姓名。The children called out their names in turn.

2. as a result of sth in a series of events 相应地，转而

e.g. 增加生产继而增加利润。 Increased production will, in turn, lead to increased profits.

3)    reversed

4)    repay

5)    at sea

6)    traditional

dismiss sb/sth (as sth) consider sb/sth not worth thinking or talking about 对某人[某事物]不予理会或不屑一提: She was dismissed as a dreamer. 人们认为她是个空想家而不予理睬.

lightly adv. without serious consideration 轻率地; 不严肃地: Marriage is not something to be undertaken lightly. 婚姻大事不可掉以轻心.

7)    statement

8)    longed for

9)    in secret

10)  unloaded

11)   weep

12)  underway

2. Phrasal verb 动词短语

1)        stretch out

2)        make out

3)        hope for

4)        turns over

5)        put away

6)        brings back

7)        got to

8)        go about

go about

1. (=go around) to often be in a particular state or behave in a particular way (常处于某状态或以某种方式行动)习惯于

e.g. It’s unprofessional to go about criticizing your colleagues.总是指则同事，这不符合职业道德。

2. to continue to do sth; to keep busy with sth 继续做；忙于做

3. to start working on sth 着手做，开始做 (=tackle)

e.g. 我该如何着手找工作呢？How should I go about finding a job?

e.g. You’re not going about the job in the right way. 你做这事的方法不对。

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)        my sincere; considerate of; with gratitude

2)        assembled; amid; in quest of

3)        was marvelous; had undergone, swift; and the rest

P.153Comprehensive 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.148 Words and Phrases to Drill框里的词义的基础之上完成此练习。

Alex Haley was at sea (1) when he started thinking how best he could mark Thanksgiving. Turning over (2) the meaning of the holiday in his mind, he came to reverse (3) the order of the words and got to (4) thinking about giving thanks. How, he wondered, could he repay (5) those who had been so helpful to him in the past? It seemed to him that the best way he could express his gratitude (6) would be to write to them. For too long he had gone about without troubling to tell them how much he appreciated all that they had done for him. Before long he had assembled (7) pen and paper and was immersed in (8) writing. Not long after the ship reached port, unloading  (9) its cargo together with his letters. The replies were not swift (10) in arriving, but when they did, he found them deeply moving.