课后练习答案Unit_2_the_company_man.doc

Unit 2 the company man Vocabulary 1. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words. (1) died from self-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 memories of his father. (5) a person vulnerable to heart attacks. 2. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word taken from the box in the proper form. (1)survived; (2) grabs; (3) discreetly; (4) deceased, obituary; (5)conceivably; (6)board; (7) classics; (8) executives; 3. 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 4. Fill in the blank in each sentence 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 5. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used. (1) exactly; (2) immediately; (3) slacker(idler, loafer) ; (4) outlive; (5)disconcerted(abashed); (6) departed; (7) underweight(slim); (8) successor 6. Explain the underlined phrasal verbs in your own words. (1) disappointed; (2)wait; (3) required; (4)read; (5)meant; (6) entered cheerfully; (7) intensifies gradually; (8) became extinct; Grammar. Put the verbs in brackets… have been playing/have played (2) has been putting/has put (3) have pulled; haven’t touched (4) have been waiting; have waited (5) have picked; have grown/have been growing; have never had (6) has been getting/has got; has been rising/has risen; has come (7) has been; has been looking; hasn’t found ; (8) has failed; has got 2. Choose “a” or “b” to end each sentence. (1)a ; (2) b; (3) b; (4) b; (5) a; (6) a; (7) b; (8) a. 3. Complete the following dialogue with the proper fo