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4. What are the symptoms shared by people who live a virtual life?

They are separated from the real world and don’t like to communicate with people face to face.

5. What is the Net critics’ worst nightmare?

The situation in which people who are hooked on the net find themselves feeling an aversion to outside forms of socializing.

6. How does the author behave when she is suddenly confronted with real live humans?

She gets overexcited and speaks too much and interrupts.

7. How does the author behave on line? Why?

She is bad-tempered and easily angered and finds herself attacking everyone in sight.

8. How does virtual life affect her relationship with her boyfriends?

She often misinterprets his boy friend’s intensions because of the lack of emotional cues given by their typed dialogue, which leads to a quarrel.

9. According to the author, why are co-workers important to a human being?

Because a human being relied on co-workers for company.

10. What does the author do to restore balance to her life?

She forced herself back to the world: she arranges anything to get her out of the house and connected with others.

11. Does the author feel happy when she returns to the real world? Why or why not?

No, because she finds being face to face sometimes unbearable.

12. What does she do then?

She returned to the virtual world.

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Unit5

1. Because the pole was set at 17 feet which was three inches higher than

his personal best.

2. Because pole-vaulting combines the grace of a gymnast with the strength of a body builder.

3. His childhood dream was to fly. His mother read him numerous stories about flying when he was growing up.

4. Because he believed in hard work and sweat. His motto: If you want something, work for it!

5. Michael's mother wished he could relax a bit more and be that \talk to him and his father about this, but his dad quickly interrupted, smiled and said, \it!\

6. He began a very careful training program.

7. He seemed unaware of the fact that he had just beaten his personal best by three inches. He was very calm.

8. He began to feel nervous when the bar was set at nine inches higher than his personal best.

9. What his mother had taught him about how to deal with tension or anxiety helped him overcome his nervousness.

10. The singing of some distant birds in flight made him associate his final jump with his childhood dream. 11. He could imagine the smile on his mother’s face. He thought his father was probably smiling too, even laughing. However, in fact, his father hugged

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his wife and cried like a baby in her arms.

12. Because he was blind.

Unit6

1.

They liked girly toys such as a miniature kitchen, and Barbies.

2. To convert a gas-guzzling SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle.

3. Because she didn’t know anything about cars and was afraid of being

cheated by the mechanic.

4. She was craving independence and wanted to live away from home for some time.

5. It helped her earn six engineering credits, which of course made it

easier for her to become an engineering major.

6. Five years.

7. In her view, if you find a subject is difficult to learn, it does not mean

you’re not good at it. It just means you have to set your mind and work

harder to get good at it.

8. Because he had confidence in her abilities believing she could have

done better if she had studied more.

9. No, she wasn’t always confident. She had moments of panic, worried

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that as a woman she would be unable to understand thermodynamics.

10. She considers it wrong because it is based on a faulty premise.

11. It is flexible and more powerful than we imagine.

12. What she means is not to accept others’ opinions blindly but to use

one’s own judgment.

Unit 7

1. It has borrowed and is still borrowing massively from other languages.

Today it has an estimated vocabulary of over one million words.

2. They don’t like borrowing foreign words. They try to ban words from English.

3. Old English or Anglo-Saxon English.

4. The Germanic tribes brought it to the British Isles in the 5th century.

5. They are usually short and direct.

6. They use words derived from Old English.

7. An English judge in India noticed that several words in Sanskrit closely

resembled some words in Greek and Latin. A systematic study later

revealed the Indo-European parent language.

8. Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, English, etc.

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9. There were three languages competing for use in England.

10. Words from Greek and Roman classics came into the English

language.

11. The great principles of freedom and rights of man were born in

England, then the Americans carried them forward.

12. No. English is and has always been the tongue of the common people.

There should not be any fence around it to protect its so-called purity.

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