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全新版大学英语(第二版)综合教程4

Unit 4 Globalization

Text A In Search of Davos Man课后习题答案

P.106-107Vocabulary

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)    advantageous （提示：advantageous locations/positions 有利位置，最佳地点）

2)    let alone（提示：reach the pedals与drive the car相对，pedal n. 油门踏板）

3)    witnessing, vanishing（提示：文章中多次出现“国际化”让“国界消失national boundaries are vanishing”或“扫除国界sweep aside national borders”之意）

4)    landmark（提示：at the turn of the century意思是 the time when a new century starts世纪的新旧交替时期，世纪之初）

5)    entitled（提示：entitled 过去分词作后置定语，修饰book, essay, article之类的词）

6)    displace（提示：threaten to do 预示…发生）

7)    Establishment

8)    patriotic, strengthen（提示：strengthen national unity 加强民族团结）

9)    contradictions（提示：strong and confident与old and frail相对，表示话剧人物性格充满矛盾，frail脆弱）

10)  aspires（提示：aspire to do，virtual adj.虚拟的）

11)   divorced（提示：be divorced from sth 使…分开，此句意指“Ann所提倡的恰好表明了她变得多么脱离现实”）

12)  pendulums（提示：Galileo伽利略）

P.111Comprehensive 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.150 Words and Phrases to Drill框里的词义的基础之上完成此练习。

Davos is a small Alpine city in eastern Switzerland which began making itself known in the 1990s for hosting the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of politicians, financiers and 1) academics. Each year, those taking part spend five days there 2) networking and discussing 3) a variety of issues such as the global supply of oil, world economic 4) growth and environmental problems.

Davos Men share the belief that globalization is both welcome and unstoppable. They would like to see national boundaries 5) vanish so as to 6) facilitate their global operations. Some people say that this international perspective is a minority elitist position not shared by the majority of people. Others, however, argue that 7) endorsing a global 8) outlook does not mean 9) sweeping aside one’s 10) patriotic feelings or 11) erasing one’s national identity. The question, perhaps, is whether it is possible to 12) strike a balance between being global and being local.