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2. the fat that she never seemed to stop knitting
3. how he has been touring the world to give lectures for money
4. how all food is removed or destroyed leaving nothing for the enemy 5. his poor shooting 6. his chronic tardiness 7. his dumbness
8. the strong smell of the cheese
9. his eagerness to please powerful people
10. his complete absence of moral considerations in his attempt to grab money 11. my hunger
12. difficulties in life 13. the number of people 14. the amount of medicine 15. the heavy pompous word
7. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets. 1. While 2. average 3. under 4. being 5. mutual 6. favorable 7. account 8. status 9. relate 10. stay 11. On 12. actual 13. friendly 14. nervousness 15. in
More work on the Text 1. Grammar in context 1.
1) In the circumstances: explanatory 2) approximately: explanatory 3) as you know: afterthought
4) and Mr. Houghton was ruined, there was no doubt about that: afterthought 5) he explained: afterthought
6) the trick of interrupting here: explanatory 7) in fact: transitional
8) I’ve often wondered: afterthought 9) for his part: transitional
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10)it’s true: afterthought
11) if anyone should ask my opinion: afterthought
12) ‘for its part’ and ‘on the other hand’: both transitional
2. Study and summarize ways of making suggestions. Using a question: 1) Shouldn’t… 2) Shall we…
5) Why don’t you/we
Using an imperative sentence: 6) Suppose we… 7) Let’s…
Using ‘suggest/propose’’ 3)I propose… 4) I suggested…
2. Insert the appropriate parenthetical expression into the sentences from the list below. 1. In fact
2. Especially at an advanced level 3. It was that long, I am sure 4. Of course 5. However
6. On the other hand 7. I suppose
8. Forty-five years ago 9. Whether invited or not 10. For example
11. Voluntarily orinvoluntarily 12. It had been tested only once
3. Complete the senteces below by translating the Chinese in the brackets. 1. I suggest/propose we break up for two weeks. 2. Shouldn’t we get a lawyer
3. Why don’t you go and have a look in 4. Suppose we take/ Let’s take
5. Why don’t we just stay home/ Let’s just stay home 6. Take a shortcut through the sports-ground
7. We propsoe that the UN security Council meet at the earliest possible time 8. Shouldn’t they be informed of 9. Let’s/ why don’t we draw lots 10. Shall we set a limit
4. Translate
1. It seems the patient has no relatives in this city.
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2. It’s easy to make friends but difficult to keep them. 3. He can always understand what his friends are thinking and worrying about.
4. Perhaps it wasn’t Xiao Jiang at all who had left the tap running all night.
5. The boy had no idea how he had become an old man in half a day. 6. I wonder how Wang Ning has been doing in London. I havent heard from him for almost a year.
7. It doesn’t matter what family you were born into. The real test is how far you can go from where you started.
8. She simply couldn’t believe what she saw. It was only yesterday that the twin towers were standing there. 9. Juror No. 8 pointed out that it might have been someone else who had stabbed the boy’s father to death. 10.
In the market economy, it is primarily by idividuals and
firms rather tha by government agencies that decisions about what to produce, how much to produce are made.
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1. are making, were considered, are, are being used, don’t compact, have, starting, do 2. will work, is, are , reproduces, deplete, is, are fueled, add 3. can move, don’t tear, skin, will never take, are 6.
1-5 C D B C A 6-10 D C A B B 11-16 D A D C A B
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1. Translate
2）into English
1) into Chinese
(1) to gain new insights
(1) 专业的历史工作者
(2) to revise one’s ideas
(2) 基于常识的反应
(3) to trace the cause
(3) 事物的这种状况
(4) to begin from this premise
(4) 意见不一的历史学家
(5) to open fire on/at
(5) 已经准备好了的现成的东西
(6) to give equal weight to sth
(6) 一个个人喜好不同的问题
(7) to support a certain view
(7) 截然不同的观点
(8) to influence the government
(8) 民间故事
(9) to destroy the balance of power
(9) 书面文件
(10) to form an alliance
(10) 过去的遗留物
(11) to repay the loans
(11) 人的动机和行为
(12) to contemplate war
(12) 复杂和精细
(13) to fill in the gaps
(13) 商船
(14) to conclude the quest
(14) 一旦发生潜艇战
(15) to view sth from a certain perspective
(15) 一个粗糙的理论
(16) to benefit from the comparison
(16) 好战的行为；战争行为
(17) to eliminate from the comparison
(17) 宣传机器
(18) to dig into the problem
(18) 德国外交部长
(19) to be immersed in a vast sea
(19) 实力平衡
(20) to stem from a different point of view
(20) （事物的）因果
(21) to be destined to do sth
(21) 海岸炮兵
(22) to ignore the fact
(22) 终极关怀
(23) to make an assumption
(23) （事物的）近因
(24) to defeat the enemy
(24) 人们常说的一句话
(25) to win back one’s lost territory
(25) 不会出错的解释
(26) to sink a boat
(26) 绝对有效的模式
(27) to intercept the secret message
(27) 永不停止的探索
(28) to piece together evidence
(28) 一个难以达到但又十分诱人的目标
(29) to approximate the truth
(30) to master new techniques
2. Give synonyms and antonyms of the following.
1) synonyms
(1) elusive : puzzling, baffling (2) intriguing: fascinating
(3) evident: clear, plain, obvious, noticeable (4) ultimate: final, last
(5) to revise: to correct, to change, to alter, to modify, to rewrite (6) to probe: to dig into, to investigate, to look into (7) belligerent: warlike, warring, aggressive, hostile (8) in addition to: besides, apart from, plus
(9) in the event of: in the case of, should sth occur (10) nonetheless: nevertheless, in spite of that, just the same
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(11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) to conclude ( the quest) : to end (the search / probing) to denote: to refer to persuasively: convincingly
more or less: on the whole, generally speaking
moreover: in addition, besides, apart from that, what’s more by way of: through
2) antonyms
(1) to be faulted: to be praised (2) exhilarating: depressing (3) unquestioned: doubtful
(4) validity: unsoundness, weakness (5) premise: conclusion (6) motivation: effect
(7) proportionate: disproportionate (8) pro-British: anti-British
(9) to take into account: to ignore (10) crude (theory): a well-developed (theory), a sophisticated (theory) (11) confused: clear, clear-minded (12) professional: non-professional, amateurish
3. Replace the words in bold type with words and phrases you know that convey more or less
the same meaning.
1) simple/primitive; told; thick
2) pondering/thinking about; future/fate; insignificant 3) completely/entirely; different/opposite
4) consider/regard; look at; angles/points of view 5) knows very well; growing/increasing; complaints
6) besides/apart from; easy; in the case of/if there is 7) purposely paid no attention to
8) generally/on the whole; however/but; come from/originate from 9) absolutely reliable; wipe out/get rid of; bound to
4. Translate
1) The cause of the aircraft crash is so far unknown.
2) The cause of global warming is still hotly debated among scientists. 3) He devoted all his life to the cause of environmental protection. 4) The river has caused us a lot of trouble in history.
5) What do you think caused the upsurge in international terrorism? 6) We must try and unite with those who have opposed us. 7) There is always opposition to any progress and reform. 8) Some people are always opposed to new things.
9) A lot of those loans were never repaid. That high ratio of bad debts finally led to
the financial crisis in this second economic power in the world.
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现代大学英语精读4 - lesson1 - lesson8课后答案
