全新版大学英语Unit 2 Answers

Vocabulary 

1.  

1)  absolutely    2) available   3) every now and then   

4)  are urging/ urged  5) destination   6) mostly  7) hangs out  

8)  right away       9) reunion   10) or something   11) estimate    

12) going ahead  

2.   

1)  It seemed that his failure in the examination was still on his mind. 

2)  He was completely choked up by the sight of his team losing in the final minutes of the game. 

3)  She was so lost in study that she forgot to have dinner. 

4)  Something has come up and I am afraid I won’t be able to accomplish the project on time. 

5)  The cost of equipping the new hospital was estimated at $2 million.  

3.  Complete the sentences. 

1)  were postponed          the awful          is estimated  

2)  reference              not available         an kind of 

3)  not much of a teacher        skips            go ahead

  

Collocation 

1. to  2.for  3.at  4.from   5.in    6.to on    7.on  8.with

  

Usage 

1. more or less  2. kind of/ sort of  3. something  4. kind of/ sort of  

5. more or less   6. or something  7. Comprehensive exercises

   

Cloze 

1.  text-related 

1. choked up  2.awful  3.practically  4.neighborhood  5.correspondence 6.available  7.destination  8.reunion  9.Mostly  10.postponing  11.absolutely  

2.  Theme-related 

1. how  2.savings  3.embarrassment  4.phone  5.interrupted  6.touch  

7.envelop  8.signed  9.message  10.needed

  

Translation

1.  Translate the sentences. 

1)  Half an hour had gone by, but the last bus hadn’t come yet. We had to walk home.

2)  Mary seems to be very worried about the Chinese exam because she 

hasn’t learned the texts by heart. 

3)  Since the basketball match has been postponed, we might as well visit the museum.

4) He stayed in Australia with his parents all the way through World WarⅡ. 

5) Since I graduated from Nanjing University in 1985, I have kind of  lost touch with my classmates.  

2. Translate the passage.  

It is not easy to keep in touch with friends far away. This is true in my case. It has been a couple of years since I left my old neighborhood and all the 

friends I had there. I have been meaning to write to them but things come up and I just don’t seem to find the time. They are always on my mind, however, 

I think I will certainly make an effort to keep up correspondence with 

them in the future.