Unit One
People Around Us
Enhance Your Language Awareness Words in Action
▆ Working with Words and Expressions
In the box below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete
the following sentences with them. Change the form where necessary. ▆ Answers: 1) crease 2) hint 3) assured 4) awaiting 5) hovering 6) scrawled 7) glistening 8) frail 9) sole 10) visible 11) engaged 12) biased
13) dreading 14) grinning
1 / 28
In the boxes below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do
you know how to use them in the proper context? Now check for yourself by doing
the blank-filling exercise. Change the form where necessary. ▆ Answers: 1) for fear of 2) pulled up 3) except for 4) get by 5) make a living 6) every so often 7) in the background 8) Shut off 9) each and every 10) as it is
11) wraps … around her little finger 12) caught us …unawares
▆ Increasing Your Word Power
Choose the definition from Column B that best matches each phrasal verb in
Column A, paying attention to the V+ Prep./Ad. collocation. ▆ Answers: 1) f 2) c 3) d
2 / 28
4) e 5) b 6) g 7) h 8) a
Fill in each blank in the following sentences with a proper phrasal verb. Change
the verb form where necessary. ▆ Answers: 1) let out 2) clean … up 4) waiting on
5) picked up 6) ended up 7) headed for 8) ran through ▆ Answers: 1) foretell 2) preview 3)
4) postscript 5) postgraduate 6) precondition
3 / 28
7) ex-husband Grammar in Context
Task 1: Combine the given sentences into one by using attributive clauses.
▇ Answers for reference:
I encountered many people whose lives amazed me. (See Para. 3, Text B) We drove in silence to the address (that/which) she had given me. (See Para. 21, Text B)
He pushed through the doors and headed for the back room where his apron
and busing cart were waiting. (See Para. 16, Text A)
I had seen too many people trapped in a life of poverty who depended on the
cab as their only means of transportation. (See Para. 6, Text B) Their social worker, who stopped to check on Stevie every so often, admitted
Stevie and his mother had fallen between the cracks. (See Para. 6, Text A)
Task 2: Complete the following sentences by translating the Chinese in the
brackets into English. Be sure to use present particles or past particles to modify nouns.
▇ Answers for reference:
well-considered decision, folded paper, written notice, laptop storing my annual
report, a postman delivering express mail Cloze
▆ Complete the following passage with words chosen from Text A. The initial
第二版新世纪大学英语综合教程3课后习题答案
