精读课程 Unit 5 Exercise keys精读课程 Unit 5 Exercise keys.doc

Unit 5 Text Comprehension B F T F T F 1. (Para. 2) The second half of his first life when he got married, had a good job, enjoyed excellent health and had two lovely daughters. 2. (Para. 4) He was most afraid of the day when he was unable to climb the 14 steps, and that would be the day of his defeat and the end of his life. 3. (Paras. 4 and 5) He viewed the 14 steps as his “challenge to continue living” and something miserable that he had to accept and cope with in order to hold on to his sanity, his wife, his home and his job. 4. (Para. 7) He didn抰 feel uncomfortable, though he first felt a bit sorry for them. However, this uneasiness was soon relieved by the thoulght that he would pay for their work. 5. (Para. 9) Because he learned that the old man was blind and disabled like himself, and he himself, as a disabled man, had taken for granted that he deserved other people抯 help but never thought of helping others. 6. (Para. 10) He learned that he shuould always be ready to help others while struggling against his own adversity. 1. Here walked a sad man with little hope for his future, and everything he possessed at that time (his wife, his home, his job and his normal life) depended on his painful effort to climb these 14 steps. 2. In the next few seconds I was filled with such great shame and horror that I was speechless. I had never been so sick about what I had done before Vocabulary I. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words. 1. a disease that gradually became more and more serious 2. with the help of 3. looking very carefully and hard at 4. are ready 5. not caring about II. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form. 1. tilted 2. led up to 3. hold on to it 4. care for 5. is inclined to 6. making a living 7. follow, example 8. to a degree III. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words. 1. inclination 2. indifferent