新标准大学英语4练习答案和课文译文Unit7.docVIP

Unit7 Active reading (1) Reading and understanding 3 Choose the best summary of the passage. 2 The passage is the story of a home, the people who lived there and how life has changed over the years, as narrated by the house itself. 4 Choose the best answer to the questions. 1 Why does the narrator never see his neighbour face on? (a) Because he can’t really see. (b) Because the neighbour is a long way away. (c) Because the narrator and the neighbour are joined in a line. (d) Because the morning sun shines on the narrator instead of the neighbour. 2 What was the main effect of the arrival of the young woman in the groundsman’s home? (a) She brought companionship, a family and happiness into the home. (b) The children grew older and taller in the home. (c) The groundsman didn’t have to work so much in the manor house gardens. (d) The home became very noisy. 3 Why do you think the couple was holding each other and weeping? (a) Because the couple was growing older. (b) Because the children had grown up and disappeared. (c) Because the daughter had got married. (d) Because the postman had brought bad news about the son. 4 How does the narrator feel generally about the years passing? (a) He regrets the people, the new buildings and the traffic. (b) He thinks the neighbouring houses are ugly. (c) He is nostalgic about the past, although he enjoys some of the benefits of progress. (d) He wishes people would spend more time at home. 5 How do we know the narrator is getting old? (a) No one is looking after the narrator properly. (b) The narrator has lots of golden memories. (c) There are strange sounds and signs of people who have lived there in the past. (d) The neighbourhood isn’t what it used to be. 6 What do you think is going to happen to the house? (a) Another family will come and live there. (b) The traffic around it will get worse. (c) It’s going to be pulled down. (d) The workmen are going to use it as a workplace. Dealing with unfamiliar words 5 Match the words in t