新概念英语第三册习题答案及解析Lesson 46

　　Comprehension

　　1 Why did the writer’s wife suggest calling in a man to look at the mower?

　　a. To get her husband to mend it, believing him to be a born carpenter.

　　b. She had forgotten that her husband had promised to mend it.

　　c. She suspected it would otherwise remain unrepaired and the grass uncut.

　　d. Her husband had repeatedly tried mending it already without success.

　　suspected (that )... / doubt whether...

　　remain unrepaired uncut

　　2 The writer decided to dismantle the mower because _____ .

　　a. it was a Saturday and he had the time to spare

　　b. he had discovered the cause of the trouble

　　c. he thought it was a sure way of roving it would not work

　　d. what repairs he had already carried out had not proved adequate

　　dismantle: take apart 拆开

　　adequate: enough

　　背熟：what repairs he had already carried out had not proved adequate

　　3 The writer’s house is now surrounded by a jungle because _____ .

　　a. he lost several pieces of the mower in the process of dismantling it

　　b. by now the lawn mower is too rusty to cut the grass with

　　c. besides not having cut the grass, he has failed to cut down the trees

　　d. his wife was not prepared to let him buy a new lawn mower

　　be prepared to do

　　Structure

　　4 ★★★ ---- that we are _____ dependent on specialized labour as we used to be. (ll.1-2)

　　a. increasingly less b. becoming not so c. not nearly as d. becoming less

　　as...as

　　used to be

　　Eg: He doesn’t work as hard as he used to.

　　5 Whatever it is, a fused light, _____ furniture, a clogged pipe, a broken-down vacuumcleaner, wives automatically assume... (ll.14-15)

　　a. shaked b. a shaken c. a shaky d. shaky

　　平行结构

　　6 ---- my wife said to me: ‘Darling, _____ call someone in to look at the lawn mower?’ (l.18)

　　a. why don’t you b. why you don’t c. would you be kind to d.do you kindly

　　suggest doing sth. ----Why don’t you? Why not?

　　7 ---- which I have promised to get round _____ one day. (l.19)

　　a. to repair it b. to repairing c. repairing d. to repairing it

　　get round to doing / come round to doing

　　Vocabulary

　　8 To plead ignorance of a subject is no longer a _____ , for there are... (ll.2-4)

　　a. wise precauting b. literary discussion c. legitimate excuse d. reasonable allowance

　　precaution: 预防措施 take precautions

　　legitimate: reasonable

　　9 Men, _____ spend hours of their leisure time on do-it-yourself. (ll.6-7)

　　a. mostly b. especially c. rather d. specially

　　particularly, especially

　　10 Some women assume that their husbands will somehow put things _____ (ll.14-15)

　　a. in order b. well c. in straight d. correctly

　　L46-08 end 12’09”

　　L46-09 begin 0’37”

　　11 I was left with bits of metal which did not seem to _____ anywhere. (l.28)

　　a. fasten b. suit c. go d. fix

　　suit 指合乎要求，口味，性格

　　12 _____ , our house is now surrounded by a jungle. (ll.29-30)

　　a. As a matter of fact b. As you can imagine c. As a result d. As a last resort

　　【Key to Multiple choice questions】

　　1. C 2. D 3. D 4. C 5. D 6. A 7. B 8. C 9. B 10. A 11. C 12. B
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