新标准大学英语第二册综合教程练习答案
1. rebel 2. era 3. destruction 4. gender 5. assert 6. philosophy 7. industrial
4. Complete the conversation with the correct form of the words in Activity 3.
1. rebel 2. assert 3. era 4. Industrial 5. philosophy 6. gender 7. destruction
5. Answer the questions about the words and expressions.
1. a 2. a 3. a 4. a 5. b 6. a 7. b 8. b
Reading and interpreting
6. Decide whether the sentences are critical or approving of today’s students.
1. critical 2. critical 3. critical 4. approving or critical
5. critical or approving 6. approving
7. Look at the sentences from the passage and choose the best way to complete the sentences.
1. b In the context, students’ parents rebelled a lot and that generation is nostalgic about this. They expect the younger generation to rebel, too. This younger generation rebels by not rebelling, that is, they rebel against the expectation that they should rebel. This can be interpreted as rebelling in a different way.
2. b The writer says it is difficult to see what postmodernism is, because it is against everything that came before it. From Paragraph 2 of the passage we can find that the writer says “almost by definition it can’t be defined” to mean it is hard to give a definition to postmodernism because different people use it to mean different things.
8. Work in pairs and discuss the questions.
(Examples for your reference)
1. Compare the two passages in the unit. Decide which ideas they have in common, and which passage is more critical of today’s students.
·They are both about student life and experience. Both passages mention events of the 1960s or later and say something about revolution or protest. They both include nostalgia for the past (from the writer or from students’ parents) and both find something exciting about being a student (freedom and stimulation or the ideas of postmodernism).
·Both the passages have critical points about today’s students. In Passage 1, the writer says students do not rebel or feel passion; they see study only as a means to an end. In Passage 2, the writer points out that students are cool and sleepy, not radical or rebelling. The second passage mitigates the criticism by the softening comment at the end that today’s students are writing the revolution in technology, whereas the first passage ends by lamenting that today’s students don’t feel the excitement of change. On balance, the first passage is more critical.
2. Say what you think today’s students in China have in common with the American students described in the passage. What can you find to criticize about students