【正文】 Unit One Answer Key Comprehension A 1. D 2. It contrasts the attitudes of the French and the Englishspeaking people toward keeping their mother tongue pure. 3. The author does not appreciate the French attitude. He believes that they have gone to the extreme, because he says that 39。the mind boggles at what the world might face. That means the French are so sensitive that it is difficult to imagine what they will do to keep French pure in the future. 4. B 5. It refers to the differences between British and American English with regard to pronunciation and spelling of English. The author seems to agree with the Americans39。 viewpoint. 6. C 7. The King39。s English refers to English in its most proper and formal use. However, as it is used in foreign places, it is often used improperly. Here lingo mocks the formality of English that no longer exists in these foreign Usages 8. Foreign varieties of English are very different from the original standard British English, sometimes they are barely recognizable. 9. B 10. The author thinks that munication is more important than the purification of the English language. B 1. fast delivery (of the product)/rapid killing (of the customer) 2. Please hang your own coat and hat here/die by hanging yourself 3. revolutionary ideas are being sold/disgusting new ideas are being sold 4. best bakers/idle, lazy persons 5. the latest rhod/a Christian denomination 6. a doctor for women39。s diseases/regard women as a disease or womanizer (vulgar meaning) 7. press the button of the lift to move it/inefficiency of the lift 8. how to get service/open the door and call out the words “Room service”. (rude) 9. in an European atmosphere/a car that rushes a person to the hospital 10. serve the best wine/our wine is very bad。 hopeless 11. from 12~ 14 o39。clock chamber maids are not busy/treat chambermaids unfairly (with possible sexual meaning) 12. the pictures were painted in the last ten years/the painters were put to death 13. leave your laundry/be naked or take off your clothes 14. dancing is going on/very vulgar language (a reference to male sex ans) 15. moral requirement for who can share the same room/implies that men and women must marry in order to live together Vocabulary and Structure A 1b 2d 3f 4—j 5—I 6h B 1. sensitive 2. list 3. prevalent 4. deficiency 5. withheld 6. certainty 7. functional 8. confronte 9. courtesy 10. spared 11. stroke 12. ambitious 13. purified 14. highlights 15. novelty C 1. A. sensitive B. sense C. sensitivity 2. A. pulsory B. pulsion C. pulsory 3. A. Lease B. lease C. leasing 4. A. deviate B. deviantly C. deviation 5. A. prevalence B. prevalent C. prevalent 6. A. deficient B. deficiency 7. A. extracts B. extracting C. extracted 8. A, confronted B. confrontation C. confronted 9. A, spare B. spare C. spare 10. A. stroke B. stroking C. stroke D 1. C. make alternative 2. B. of taking advantage 3. C. of a head injury 4. D. remains 5. A. accepted 6. A. as much energy as 7. C. would end up 8. C. has been 9. B. or 10. D. with which E 1. language 2. associates 3. inlaws 4. total 5. responds 6. swell 7. Hardly 8. lives 9. dreams 10. aloud 11. ourselves 12. so 13. distinguishes 14. humanity 15. makes 16. expressed 17. source 18. newborn 19. act 20. tradition Speaking (Open) Translation and Writing 在過去，當探險者或商人們走出家園到外面的世界去尋找新的領地、市場或原材料資源時，他們通常與跟他們打交道的當?shù)厝苏f的不是同一種語言。遇到這種情況時，他們一般采取以下三種方法之一來對付，呂口： (1)外來人學習說當?shù)刂魅说恼Z言 (或反之 )， (2)他們使用當?shù)刈鳛橘Q(mào)易用的第三種語言，或 (3)產(chǎn)生一種新的語言 —— 這種語言是由使用者的不同母語的一些成分合成的。在說不同語言的人群中用來作為他們共同的交際工具的語言叫混合語 (交際語 )。這個 名稱是由在地中海地區(qū)使用的中世紀時的貿(mào)易語言派生而來的。這種貿(mào)易語言主要基于日耳曼語 (意大利語、法語和西班牙語 )，但也包括了一些希臘語、阿拉伯語和土耳其 語的成分。在當今世界，將英語稱為最主要的交際語是合適的，因為英語是大部分說不同語言的人的交際工具。 B 1. One theory refers to the sensitivity to the target language as being one of the most important factors in language learning. 2. In order to help students in their study of English, the library has decided to lease English films in the original to them. 3. On weekends, if one shop puts up discount notices, other shops, big or small, will e up with it by putting up more discount notices. 4. When ungrammatical expressions of a language bee prevalent in socie they will gradually be~ by the public. 5. The closing of the pany was not caused by a shortage of capital but by management deficiency. 6. Advertisements usually highlight the product or service they advertise to attract customers. 7. It is argued that we should withhold the speed of language change。 otherwise we may have to learn a new language every twenty years. 8. I feel gratitude to him because every time I encountered difficulties in my study he would help me. 9. It will take great pains to improve/change the financial situation of the factory. who advocate the purity of a language protect the language for the sake of their culture. Reading Practice 3. F 7. F Unit Two Answer Key Comprehension A 1. i People have different opinions about lies but they don39。t differ much in defining what truth is. ii Lying is usually regarded as evil but in reality many people lie. This is worthy of our attention. 2. i Lies are intentionally told untruths/an unintentionally told untruth is not a l