Unit 2 The Company Man
Key to the Exercis
Text comprehension
gay japanI. Decide which of the following best states the author’s tone of writing。
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II. Judge， according to the text， whether the following statements are true or fal.
1。 T （Refer to Paragraph 1.）
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2。 T (Refer to Paragraph 3.) google street
3。 F (Refer to Paragraph 4. To Phil, a golf game was work.）
4. F (Refer to Paragraphs 7 and 8。 She had been missing （lost） him all the years, and she must have given up part of herlf which had cared too much for the man。）
5。 F (Refer to Paragraph 15.)
江门学校III。 Answer the following questions。
1。 Refer to Paragraphs 1, 3 and 15。 By repeating that Phil worked himlf to death at precily 3:00 a。m. Sunday morning， the author highlights the peculiarity of the time which proves the tragic nature of his death.
2。 Refer to Paragraph 9。 In the day and a half before the funeral， Phil’s eldest son went around the neighborhood to ask the neighbors what his father was like, which embarrasd his neighbors. The fact reveals the relationship between Phil and his son and that between Phil and his neighbors。 Neither his son nor his neighbors knew much about him。 It is perhaps becau he had been so dedicated to his work that he could spare no time for the people around him。
3。 Refer to Paragraphs 7 to 12. Their relationships can be described as loo and strange。 His wife had given up part of herlf which cared too much for him， and had b
een missing him all the years. His eldest son had to ask his neighbors what he was like。 His daughter had nothing to say to him when she was alone with him. And his youngest son， his favorite， said that his father and him only boarded there at home.
4. Refer to Paragraph 16。 At the end of the essay, or by 5:00 p。m. the afternoon of the funeral， the company president had begun lecting Phil’s replacement, and asked the question: Who’s been working the hardest？ It is strong evidence that Phil was not the only man who had worked or would work himlf to death at a peculiar hour. There is a culture that drives people to work themlves to death.
5。 This is a personal question， and answers will vary。
IV. Explain in your own words the following ntences.preview是什么意思
1。 He had dedicated all his time to his work and had no hobby at all， except that he played a golf game every month which cannot be taken as a hobby anyway.
2。 Their daughter said that, when they were still very young， her father had become
a company man and her mother had given up any attempt to keep him at home。
Structural analysis of the text
Paragraph 13 is a paragraph that bridges the two parts of Phil’s world -- his career and his family. From the attitude of Phil’s wife towards his boss, we can find the reason why Phil attached much more significance to his work than his family and also the cau of his tragedy。 In this n, paragraph 13 is the most important paragraph of the whole piece so far as the structure is concerned.
Rhetorical features of the text
1. In the day and a half before the funeral, he (his "dearly beloved" eldest of the ”dearly beloved" children) went around the neighborhood rearching his father， asking the neighbors what he was like. (Paragraph 9）
2。 She （his cond child） lives near her mother and they are clo， but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car driving somewhere, they had nothing to say to eac
goblinh other。 （Paragraph 10）
3。 He (the youngest） was the one who tried to grab at his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home. (Paragraph 11）
Vocabulary exercis
I。 Explain the underlined part in each ntence in your own words。
1。 died from lf—motivated overwork
2. most likely， the presidency of the company; the highest position in the company
3. with no specific skills wanted by employers
4. trying to discover facts about his father； collecting (the neighbors’) memories of his father日语自学
5。 a person who was born vulnerable to heart attacks.
II. Fill in the blank in each ntence with a word taken from the box in its appropriate form.
1. survived 2. grabs太平斧
3. discreetly 4. decead， obituary
5. conceivably 6. board
layercake7。 classics 8。 executives
2021软科中国大学排名III. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.
1。 widowed 2。 nerves
3。 precisionist 4. competitiveness
5. execution 6。 presided
7. marital 8. accompanied
IV. Fill in the blank in each ntence with an appropriate phrasal verb or collocation taken from the text。
1。 died of 2. stay up
3. cares for 4. straightened out
5。 picked out 6。 given up
7。 grabbed at 8. considered for
V. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each ntence in the n it is ud.
