Unit 3 Out of Step
Key to the Exercis
Text comprehension
I. Decide which of the following best states the author's purpo of writing.
A
2017世乒赛>蓝牙英语(The author brings the attention of Americans to the fact that they walk too little by citing many of his personal experiences as well as others'. He does not write out any solution to the problem; he simply "sounds the siren" as the last ntence of the passage shows: "And if that isn't sad, I don't know what is.")
II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or fal.
1. T (Refer to Paragraph 1. The author and his wife wanted to live in a small, compact, and date town where they can go about their business on foot when they moved back to the United States. As a result, they ttled down in Hanover, a typical New England town.)
2. T (Refer to Paragraph 6. Though it was convenient to go about one's business on foot in the town, the author could hardly find anyone el who did so. His acquaintances in the early days would "depart reluctantly, even guiltily" when failing to persuade the author to accept a ride as if they escaped the scene of an accident without giving their names.)
3. F (People like the man who drove his car to do the chores and the woman who complained about the difficulty of parking outside the gymnasium make a clear distinction between exerci and walking for business. They "jog extravagant distances" or walk on the treadmill, but they never take walking on the sidewalk as a form of exerci.)
4. T (Refer to Paragraphs 18 and 19. The pedestrian mall constructed in the early 1970s in Laconia proved to be a commercial disaster simply becau people had to walk one whole block to the mall from the nearest parking place. When the shopping mall was reconstructed so that people could park their cars immediately before the stores, downtown Laconia thrived again. That suggests how reliant Americans are on their cars.)
III. A nswer the following questions.
1. Refer to Paragraphs 3 to 6. They find it odd to e the author walking around for his business and
they even feel slightly guilty for leaving the author on the sidewalk without
driving him to the place he is going to.
2. Refer to Paragraphs 2, 3 and 7. Ordinary Americans, even in this agreeable and easy place to go about on foot, have virtually never done so. In fact, in the U.S., people have got accustomed to using the car for everything.
3. Refer to Paragraphs 7 to 9. The American people have come to depend on cars for almost everything to the extent that they have forgotten about what they can do with their legs. Sometimes, they would take great and ridiculous trouble with driving rather than take an easy walk.
4. Refer to Paragraph 14. According to an editorial in The Boston Globe, the U.S. has spent less than one percent of its transportation budget on facilities for pedestrians. The government, in this n, has basically ignored the need for pedestrians, which has caud some trouble for the author and discouraged people from going about on their business on foot.
5. Refer to Paragraphs 16 and 17. He is sad becau he has come to realize, from the ca of Laconia, N.H., that people don't walk anywhere anymore in the country.
IV. Explain in your own words the following ntences.
1. People in the United States tend to drive for every purpo, so much so that they have forgotten that they still have legs and about what their legs can do.
2. I admit that I had never realized how poorly equipped our bodies are in this respect.
3. … Maybe I was the only person who had ever attempted to cross that interction on foot.
Structural analysis of the text
The author develops his ideas by means of examples. He cites factual and verifiable examples: the man he obrved outside the post office, his conversation with an acquaintance of his who would drive to the gym to do exercis, his own effort to walk across the street and the commercial failure of the pedestrian mall in Laconia. The examples have made his idea more effective and convincing.
Rhetorical features of the text
1. "I confess it had not occurred to me how thoughtlessly deficient nature is in the regard." (Paragraph 13) (for lf-debament)
2. "An acquaintance of ours was complaining the other day about the difficulty of finding a place to park outside the local gymnasium. She goes there veral times a week to walk on a treadmill. The gymnasium is, at most, a six-minute walk from her front
door." (Paragraph 10) (for satire on some ridiculous contradiction in a particular act)
Vocabulary exercis
I. Explain the underlined part in each ntence in your own words.
1. pleasant/comfortable, practically
2. very long, (places of) physical exercis
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4. decided not to have coffee and instead to go (to the bookstore)
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5. held in mind
II. Fill in the blank in each ntence with a word taken from the box in its appropriate form.
1. negotiated
2. debonair
3. dodging
4. notion
5. compact
6. contortion
7. thrive 8. undertaking
III. F ill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.
1. disagreeable
2. eccentricity
3. acquainted
4. ridicule
5. triumphal
6. deficiencies
7. woefully 8. contorted
IV. Fill in the blank in each ntence with an appropriate phrasal verb or collocation taken from the text.乡村旅游规划方案设计
1. going about
2. going through
3. pops out
4. pace off
5. pulled up
6. dug out
7. stroll up to 8. habituated to
V. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each ntence in the n it is ud.
1. Antonym: bustling (exciting)
2. Synonym: old (time-honored)
3. Antonym: depresd (downhearted, low-spirited)
4. Synonym: absurd (ridiculous)
5. Antonym: indifferent (unconcerned)
6. Synonym: infuriating (irritating)
7. Antonym: failure (defeat)
8. Synonym: again
VI. Explain the underlined phrasal verbs in your own words.
1. encountered
2. cau
3. agreed to
4. limited to
5. idling about
6. relied on
7. tolerate 8. derted/abandoned
Grammar exercis
I. Complete the ntences with the past perfect or the past perfect progressive of the verbs in brackets.
1. had been talking
2. had been working
3. had worked
4. had been applying
5. had broken
6. had been standing
7. had swallowed
8. had been
II. Complete the following ntences according to the given situation.
1. has been empty
2. had been working for the company
3. had been waiting for me for half an hour
4. had had lunch
5. had left
6. has been living
7. had repaired the engine
8. had told
III. P ut the verbs in brackets into the correct ten.
had en returned didn't have didn't have
had done was didn't have did
left had was
decided picked went slammed
felt had reminded had arched found
remembered were
IV. Complete the following ntences with shall, should, will or would.
1. will
2. shall
3. Should (Should ministers decide = If ministers should decide)
4. would
5. will (Will express strong intention.)
6. shall (When shall is ud with the third person, it suggests strong determination.)
7. should
8. should
9. would (Here, we u would not to say that Mary is unwilling to or refus to listen to the doctor.)
10. would (Stresd would is ud to criticize. It means "it is typical of you… )
V. Fill in each blank with a word or phra taken from the box.
1. nowadays
2. ages ago
3. lately, just
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4. soon, after a long time
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6. once
7. recently
8. for weeks
VI. Make ntences of your own after the ntences given below, keeping the italicized parts in your ntences.
1. After standing in the queue for hours, we got good ats.
I always feel better after talking to you.
2. You look as if you knew each other.
He lay still, as if shot.
Translation exercis
诸葛亮故事I. Translate the following ntences into Chine.
1. 我几乎每天都步行到邮局、图书馆或书店，心情特别不错的时候，路过罗斯·杰可斯咖啡店还会进去喝上一杯卡布奇诺。
2. 为了省力不走路，我们宁可大费周折。
3. 我肯定，他天天长跑，会打壁球，还会进行各种各样有益健康的运动，但我同样也肯定，
