UNIT1 Vocabulary I.
1. allot 2. go through fire and water 3. reside 4. sobbed 5. made no mention of 6. sacrifice 7. came upon 8. rhythm 9. volume 10. something of a II.
1. I stayed on as an assistant professor.
2. I hold it to my ear because I want to hear time tick away. 3. The salary is not wonderful, but the duties are light. 4. The moral of the lesson is not to talk to strangers. 5. Yes, but it cannot hold a candle to Huangshan. III.
1. The nasty smell from the kitchen made her stomach churn.
2. When she sank into drunkenness, she was able to forget her sorrow. 3. In the 1500 meters, Martin and Parker came first and third respectively. 4. The two hills Shunner Fell from the north and Lovely Seat from the south flank the famous Butter Tubs Pass.
5. Levi, in gratitude to Joshua, gave a party for him.
Iv. 1. ambition-----ambition-----regardless of 2. discourse---by way of 3. is engraved---inward V. 1. have come upon/across 2. had come out 3. come on/up 4. came across 5. comes down to 6. came around/to 7. comes to 8. came through 9. came up with 10. comes up Usage
1. the Wilsons 2. Mark Twain 3. Annie Johnsons 4. another Winston Churchill 5. a Mrs. Burton 6. a Budweiser 7. A Monet 8. an old Ford Comprehensive Exercises
I. Cloze 1. Text-related 1. go through fire and water 2. salary 3. give---no peace 4. sink into 5. ambition 6. By way of 7. expressive 8. churned 9. engraved 10. not hold a candle to 11. inward 2. Theme-related
1. Success 2. literacy 3. significantly 4. promoting 5. appropriate 6. too 7. later 8. repetition 9. invented 10. less II. Translation
Although my grandmother was illiterate, she had a good stock of myths and legends. When I was young I gave her no peace, constantly asking her to tell me stories. After she had finished her housework, she would lift me onto her lap and tell stories, all the while rocking me in rhythm. Having noticed my interest in stories, my parents lost no time in initiating me into reading. They bought many storybooks with illustrations, and whenever free, they would read these stories to me over and over again. By and by I had a vocabulary large enough to read on my own.
UNIT2 Vocabulary I. 1. 1) appetite 3) agency 5) saturated 7) hoisted
2) destructive 4) processed 6) utter 8) referring to
9) retrieve 2.
10) Unfortunately
1) Peter was chasing the dog and Tom was riding the wooden horse in the
garden.
2) They all looked on except one young man. He took her to the hospital
instantly.
3) I laid charges against the company and won the case.
4) If we want to stay competitive, first of all we need to modernize our
factory.
5) They got irrigation water from the dammed rivers. 3.
1) Except in the oases the desert is almost devoid of vegetation, although
some stunted, thorny shrubs grow in the western Sahara. 2) The fruits growing wild in the coastal forest are edible.
3) The national security agency made recommendations for improving
safety standards in airplanes / to improve safety standards in airplanes.
4) The Beatles enjoyed success on a scale unparalleled by any previous
pop group.
5) The emergence of language was a defining factor in the evolution of
modern humans. 4.
1) Excluding other factors such as quality and price, products which are
attractively packaged are bound to attract more consumers, particularly children and young people. Packaging has become an
important way to boost / of boosting the sales of products. 2) In the eyes of some businessmen, consumers' health comes second to
profits. They sell chicken infected with salmonella and crabs with traces of antibiotics.
3) It can be hard to go vegetarian. The important thing is to make changes
you feel comfortable with, at your own pace. While stopping consuming any products for which animals are bred and slaughtered may be ideal, even a slight reduction in meat consumption is a step in the right direction. 5.
1) get over 3) get through 5) get by 7) got in 9) get along
II. Collocation
1. I asked her why she didn't make use of her talent and sing a pop song
on the graduation day.
2. Uncle Tom, the long-suffering slave in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle
Tom's Cabin, died a miserable death.
3. We still have to learn how to live a harmonious life, not only with
other people but also with the environment.
4. Breathing a deep breath, he ran up to take the penalty kick. 5. I dreamed a bad dream last night in which I was running through the
forest, and being chased by a bear.
2) got to 4) get over 6) get away 8) get …out 10) get away with
6. My friend smiled a bitter smile when I asked her whether she'd found
all the money she'd lost.
7. Black people have a hard fight to fight before they win real equality. 8. People with mood disorders often sleep a troubled sleep. They toss
and turn, restlessly occupied with negative thoughts.
Comprehensive Exercises I. Cloze 1. Text-related (1) exclude (3) devoid of (5) potent (7) contaminating (9) infected
2. Theme-related (1) consumption (3) packed (5) population (7) grave (9) criticize
II. Translation
Study after study has uncovered the fact that there is a close correlation between food and a number of chronic diseases. For example, a decreased risk of certain chronic diseases is associated with an increased consumption of plant-based foods. Therefore, in the past decade, the American Dietetic Association has urged Americans to reduce their
(2) between (4) evident (6) encouraging (8) against (10) itself (2) stubborn (4) bow to (6) drawbacks (8) heightened (10) come second to