U校园 新视野大学英语4 读写教程答案
Unit 1 Life and logic
Section A
1-2 Text A: Love and logic: The story of a fallacy
Pre-reading activities
Pre-reading activities-1
1) B
2) A
3) A
4) B
5) B
6) A
7) C
8) C
Pre-reading activities-2vaguely
1) Reasoning skills deal with the process of getting from a problem to a solution or a conclusion. By improving your reasoning skills, you can improve your success in doing things. Specifically, strong reasoning skills can help you to:
improve the quality and validity of your own arguments;
improve your ability to assess the quality and validity of others' arguments;
make more logical decisions;
solve problems more efficiently and effectively.
To give a specific example, every day you have to make various decisions, and yet even some simple decisions like deciding what to wear when you're getting dressed in the morning require some reasoning skills. When you decide what to wear, you take many factors into consideration the weather forecast, the current temperature, your plans for the day (where you are going, what you will do, and whom you will meet), your comfort level, and so on. In real life, you need to face decisions that are much more difficult than choosing what to wear. So, it is really important to have strong reasoning skills.
2) The factors below are usually important for a logical conclusion:
critical thinking skills;
facts;
evidence;
sound reasoning process, etc.
Reading comprehension
Reading comprehension-1
1) The deal between them is that the narrator gives Rob his leather jacket, and Rob, in exchange, gives the narrator his girlfriend. They make the deal because they want to get something from each other: Rob is crazy about fashion, and he wants to own the narrator's fashionable leather jacket; the narrator longs to have a beautiful girlfriend, and Rob's girlfriend is beautiful.
2) He thinks a beautiful and well-spoken girlfriend will assist him to land a job and achieve success in an elite law company.
3) The narrator feels this way because he can't stop thinking that his purpose of dating Polly is not for romance but for improving her intelligence, and he can't let Polly know his plan.
4) The narrator decides to teach Polly logic because he believes logic is essential to clear thinking. By teaching Polly logic, he can make her intelligent.
5) When the narrator teaches her logic, Polly responds either shortly with "Cool", "Great", "I like that idea", or simply with nodding or blinking without saying anything. These responses give us an impression that Polly is a nice but rather simple-minded girl.
6) Yes. He is only too successful in teaching Polly logic because in the end when he asks Polly to be his girlfriend, Polly refuses his request by applying all the logical fallacies he has taught her.
7) Because he wants to make one more attempt to win Polly as his girlfriend by asking her to forget what he has taught her.
8) The end of the story is ironic because Polly turns out to be smarter than the narrator. First, she is able to refute all his arguments as logical fallacies. Then, she discloses that she and Rob have played a trick on him. The narrator has been too smart for his own good.

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