大学英语（东北林业大学）第三章测试_智慧树知到答案2021年

第三章 Science and Superstition：In spite of the rapid development of science and technology at the moment, superstition is still widespread. In China, for example, there is a general popularity of 8 and 4, while in most western countries, 13 is considered an unknown symbol, if the 13th of a month coincides with Friday, it will be called Black Friday. To make matters worse, these ideas are often swaying our emotions, dominating our choices, and even messing up our lives unconsciously. Can't science explain the relationship between perceptions of superstition and some interesting coincidence? The articles of this chapter will provide the answer. This chapter consists of five sections: an overview of the first section; reading comprehension of the second section; the language in use of the third section, the culture of the fourth section, and the writing of the fifth section. Finally, through the study of this chapter, hopefully you can build up a rightful interpretation of superstitions.3.1Lead-in:The first section is an overview. Briefly introduce the content of each section and the learning objectives of this chapter.
3.2Structure:The second section interprets the article "can bad luck be explained?" First of all, from a structural point of view, this article is a typical writing model from abstract to concrete; in terms of content, the author first takes the superstitious concept of "bad things into three" as an example to explain why someone is unlucky partly a question of probability and partly a question of psychology. Next, exemplifies the things that everyone will encounter in daily life to prove the previous analysis. Finally, explains a few sentences in the article that are complex in structure and easy to cause misunderstanding.
3.3Vocabulary:Section 3 is language in use which includes the meaning and use of several commonly used words and phrases; a suffix that constitutes an abstract noun and a grammatical structure commonly used when referring to a topic.
3.4Reading Across Culture:This section focuses on superstitions in different cultures, like ordinary numbers representing various superstitions.
3.5Writing:This section introduces the writing modes and methods of compare and contrast composition. First elaborate on the six steps of writing, and then illustrate two writing modes of this kind of composition.

[单选题]By an unfortunate                , their house was burgled on the day he lost his job.
occurrence
coincidence
incidence
答案：coincidence
[单选题]We took four trains, and the                of the journey was 72 hours.
length
interval
duration[单选题]The company has paid off some                  employees.
perplexed
redundant
excessive[单选题]The virus attacks the immune system, leaving your body                 to infections.
damaged
vulnerable
voluntary[单选题]The economic situation has changed              .
considering
considerately
considerably