新视野大学英语（第二版）第二册Unit 3答案
Unit 3
Section A
Comprehension of the Text
1. The writer is a black man who is not an American citizen.
2. According to him, during their two years together they had experienced the usual ups and downs of a couple learning to know, understand, and respect each other. In addition he thought they had honestly confronted the weaknesses and strengths of each other’s characters.
3. They learned a great deal about tolerance, compromise, and being open with each other.
4. As with many couples, they got married for the wrong reasons and found out many years later that they were incompatible. They didn’t take enough time to know each other.
5. Her mother, counseled Gail to be really sure she was doing the right thing.
6. He immediately suspected that Mark was marrying his daughter in order to remain in the United States.
7. He quoted statistics showing that mixed couples had a higher divorce rate than couples of the same race and gave examples of mixed couples he had counseled who were having marital difficulties.
8. People can be very cruel toward children from mixed marriages.
Vocabulary
III.
1. mutual 2. illusion 3. canceled 4. overlooked 5. proceeded 6. resolve 7. prejudice 8. compromise 9. confirm 10. subsequently
IV.
1. having nothing to do with 2. taking care of 3. met with 4. on the surface 5. work out 6. incompatible with 7. ups and downs 8. learned of 9. indication of 10. all along
V.
1.M 2.L 3.F 4.D 5.H 6.O 7.A 8.C 9.I 10.K
Word Building
VI.
1. shopping 2. feeling 3. storage 4. cooking 5. ending 6. beginning 7. gathering 8. removal 9. arrival 10. passage 11. writing 12. marriage
VII.
1. relationship 2. citizenship 3. leadership 4. membership 5. boyhood 6. livelihood 7. brotherhood 8. authorship 9. adulthood 10. neighborhood 11. wisdom 12. ownership
Sentence structure
VIII.
1. It is never too bad(for us) to do something about the situation.
2. One is never too old to learn.
3. It is never too late (for you) to put a stop to this madness.
4. It is never too late (for you) to mend your ways.
5. His income was never too small to support his family.
IX.
1. My best friend, Anna, was here last night.
2. The company manager, Mr. Madison, gathered his staff and announced the decision.
3. You should have seen an ophthalmologist, an eye doctor.
4. He sent for the accountant, the most experienced person in accounting.
5."Leave it to me," said David, the man on night duty.
Translation
X.
1. You are never too experienced to learn new techniques.
2. There remains one problem, namely, who should be sent to head the research there.
3. Their relationship did meet with some difficulty at the beginning because of cultural differences.
4. Though he has had ups and downs, I believed all along that he would succeed someday.
5. I have some reservations about the truth of your claim.
6. She isn't particularly tall, but her slim figure gives an illusion of height.
XI.
1. 应尽早告知年轻人：必须认真对待法律。
2. 他现在面临一个重要决定，这个决定可能会影响他的整个前程。
3. 即使在情况最糟糕的时候，你也必须保持镇静和信心。
4. 人际关系的成功与否与双方相处是否融洽以及交流是否顺畅有很大关系。
5. 他受到袭击，身受重伤，随后不治而亡。
6. 他的举止至少在表面上像个正常人。
Cloze
XII.
1.A 2.C 3.B 4.B 5.C 6.B 7.C 8.D 9.C 10.D
11.B 12.A 13.D 14.C 15.D
Structured Writing
XIV.
Many people place so much emphasis on success that they think any failure is bad. Failure is never pleasant because it hurts people. But in fact it can make positive contribution to our life once we learn how to make the best of it. We can learn from a disastrous party how to give a good one. And we can learn from an ill-chosen first house what to look for in a second. Even a total failure can give us fresh ideas or a change of direction. Repeated failures lead to success and prove to be beneficial to us as we experiment every day to find out the right way of doing things.
Section B
Reading skills
I.
1. F 2.F 3.O 4.F 5.O 6.O 7.O 8.F 9.O 10.F
Comprehension of the Text
II.
1.C 2.A 3.D 4.C 5.B 6.B 7.A 8.D
Vocabulary
III.
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IV.
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