2-Unt5 Fourteen Steps答案综合教程二.doc

Unit 5 Fourteen Steps Key to the Exercises Text Comprehension I. B.?? II. 1. F;??2. T;??3. F;??4. T;??5. F. ? III. 1. The second half of his first life. 2. The day when he was unable to climb those steps, and was to lie and die. 3. His challenge to continue living, and misery he had to accept and cope with in order to hold on to his sanity, his wife, his home and his job. 4. He first felt a bit sorry for them, but then felt relieved by the thought of paying. 5. The old man is blind but he helped him in the storm; while the writer assumed that a disabled man deserved other people’s help but never helped others. 6. He should always be ready to help others. IV. 1. Here walked a sad man with little hope for his future, and everything depended on him to climb these 14 steps. 2. In the next few minutes I was filled with great shame and horror and became speechless. Structural analysis of the text Part 1: Paragraph 1, 2—1st life; Part 2: Paragraph 3, 4, 5—2nd life; Part 3: Paragraph 6, 7, 8, 9—incident and reflection; Part 4: Paragraph 10—new life, i.e. 3rd life. Vocabulary I. 1.?a slowly progressive disease = a disease that??gradually became more and more serious 2. with the aid of = with the help of?在……的帮助下 3. peering at = looking very carefully and hard at?凝视 4. are all set = are ready?准备就绪，安排妥当 5. indifference to = not caring about?对……漠不关心 II. 1. tilted; 2. led up to; 3. hold on to; 4. care for; 5. is inclined to; 6. make a living; 7. follow, example; 8. to a degree. III.?Word derivation Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words. 1. inclination 2. indifferent 3. penetration 4. frailty 5. affliction 6. excellence 7. progressively 8. disillusionment IV. 1. A;??2. C;??3. B;??4. D;?? 5. B;??6. A;??7. D;??8. B. V. Synonym / Antonym Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used. 1. Antonym: pessimism 2. Synonym: painfully, desperately 3. Antonym: cheerless, unhappy, gloomy 4. Synonym: fort