全新版大学英语综合教程的目的是指导学生全面深入地获取并掌握与各主题有关的语言文化知识及丰富的语料，对学生充分进行语言综合应用能力、特别是听说能力的培养和训练。下面是小编分享的，欢迎大家阅读!

　　Unit 8

　　Pair work

　　1. She was amazed at the author’s ability to do mental calculation.

　　2. Children can’t spell correctly; their knowledge of word history and geography is non-existent

　　3. He didn’t want to compete with the hard-working Asians at U.C.L.A. He preferred a less intellectually challenging life.

　　4. A modern industrial state cannot function with an idle, ignorant labor force.

　　5. To use the media to dramatize and drive home the message to today’s teenagers.

　　6. He is fed up with the book he is forced to red.

　　7. They can’t read or write. They place their hopes on their children.

　　8. He works as a cleaner in a factory owned by the Japanese.

　　9. Because he has no education, no useful skill, and no discipline.

　　10. Americans stop demanding good education foe children. Machines do all the complex work and there is little manual work to be done. America is poorer than Japan and European countries.

　　11. Hard work education, saving and discipline help a nation rise from the ashes.

　　12. He finally comes to realize the importance of study.

　　Work on your own

　　1.

　　Part one paras.1-10

　　Teenagers’ idleness and ignorance will produce serious effects on all concerned and society as a whole.

　　Part two paras.11-24

　　Kevin 1990 comes to realize in his dream how greatly lack of education costs his forebears, himself, his children and the society they live in, and how important it is to study hard.

　　2.

　　Part one

　　Teenagers’ intellectual laziness and ignorance

　　Part two

　　Kevin 1990, his forebears(with the exception of his intellectual father),and his children lead a poor, miserable life.

　　America is on the decline.

　　There is no law and order in the country.

　　America children have no chance to receive a good education.

　　Businesses in America are owned by wealthy Europeans and Asians.

　　Language sense enhancement

　　Indifference (1)

　　Summed up (2)

　　Preferred (3)

　　Financial (4)

　　Accumulated (5)

　　Intellectual (6)

　　Affect (7)

　　Industrial (8)

　　Idle (9)

　　Break down (10)

　　Vocabulary

　　I

　　1.

　　1. industrial

　　2. idle

　　3. is functioning

　　4. intellectual

　　5. scared

　　6. handful

　　7. luxury

　　8. private

　　9. work up

　　10. slice

　　11. miracle

　　12. was jammed

　　2.

　　1. to be seriously affected by the rise in gas prices。

　　2. is a matter of total indifference to me.

　　3. drove home the point that they needed extra people

　　4. was found after they searched for it for a long time

　　5. had run out of water by the time they got to the camp