新标准大学英语 综合教程1 答案Unit1-4(15)

5 最好的办法就是把学生分成若干小组，让他们针对具体的问题进行讨论。(break up into ; focus on)

The best approach is to break the students up into several groups so that theycan focus their discussion on specific problems.

Unit 4

Active reading 1

Dealing with unfamiliar words

4 Answer the questions about the words fortelephoning.

1 What do subscribers pay for?

Subscribers pay for line rental so that they will be able to make phonecalls. In other contexts, they may pay for newspapers, magazines or being amember of a club or professional association.

2 What part of the phone is the handset?

The handset is the part that you hold in your hand.

3 What can you do if you’re in range of a mobile signal?

If you’re in range of a mobile signal, you can make and receive calls. 4 What kind of phone is a house phone?

A house phone is a landline phone (a fixed phone for the whole house). 5 If you can use a mobile anywhere, where can you use a landline?

You can use a landline only where there is a wire connection (thetelephone signals are carried by a line).

6 What has happened if you receive voicemail?

If you receive voicemail, it means that someone has left a spoken messagewhich has been recorded on your phone so that you can listen to it later.

5 Replace the underlined words with thecorrect form of the words and expressions in the box. You may need to makeother changes.

1 The businessman uses his mobile in his free time, while he mostly useshis landline at work. (whereas)

2 The businessman and the working mother don’t consider their mobilephones to be a basic and

important part of their lives. (essential)

The businessman and the working mother don’t consider their mobile phonesto be an essential.

3 When she didn’t have her mobile, she became confident and not afraid ofpeople. (bold)

4 Nothing usually gets in the way of my social life, but on this occasion,not having a mobile phone meant I spent three days alone. (interfereswith)

5 The passage describes the strong effect of mobile phones on their lives.(impact) 6 Soon the mobile signal will be increased to cover the whole of London. (extended) 6 Complete the paragraph with the correctform of the words in the box.

Information technology in general and mobile phones in particular havebeen important in bringing