大学英语专业精度2 精读答案unit5
Vocabulary
1 1. The prefix\\super-\\ above, over . The prefix:\\pre-\\
before . The prefix micro- means small . The prefix bi- means two . The prefix inter- means between . 2.
1. 超人 6.工业化前的；微生物学；显微镜 2. 超级明星； 超自然的 7. 学前的； 史前的 3. 洲际的高速公路 8.预先确定的 4. 预计；芯片/集成电路；超级计算机 9.过早的； 先决条件 5. 双/半月刊；预先安排好的 10.互相关联的； 互动 4.
1.attentive 9.informative 2.personal 10.devoted 3.convenient 11.massive 4.symbolic 12.moved,moving 5.favorable, favorite 13. medical,medicinal 6.true,truthful 14.pervasive 7.impatient 15.musical 8.weighty
2 1.fast food 15.antique cars
2.best seller 16.factory outlets 3.home-made bread 17.quality time 4.musical excerpts 18.deferred gratification 5.express mail 19.a credit card 6.life style 20.ready-made clothes 7.personal relationship 21.an Automatic Teller Machine 8.a mass movement 22.a convenience store 9.subtle changes 23.Polaroid camera 10.pastoral scenery 24.current affairs 11.a rear-view mirror 25.news briefings 12.an exit sign 26.the Fifth Symphony 13.a Civil War battlefield 27.classic novels 14.horse carriages 3
1. We have decided to slow down our economic growth so as to devote ourselves more to the improvement of people's living standard.
2. Lucy is good at swimming. More often than not she can win a prize in a contest.
3. My sister said that she wanted to be on her own instead of working for that company any longer,but she had not saved up enough captiral. She wondered if I could help her out.
4. Thanks to government policy the unemployment rate has dropped. It was reduced to less than four percent for the first half of the year.
5. Joe was crazy about the raw fish and he stuffed hinself with it. The fish didn't agree with him,and that night he had a terrible
stomachache.Finally he had to go to the hospital for quick relief. 6. I am getting sick and tried of this unpleasant job. We have been lingering over it for almost a week. Let's finish it today somehow to get it over and done with. 7. The new president ordered professors to double their publications in three years hoping that that would make the school more famous, Well,he sped out of control.Teaching suffered because the professors did not have enough time to devote to it. The quality of their publications also suffered and so did the professors' health..
4 1.up; out 6.with; off
2,down;at 7.in;out 3.for;up 8.in;of;on
4.aside/away;out of;with 9.into; around; at 5. On ;with 10.out ; in
5 1. The government will have to decide when and how to put brakes on the economy before it speeds out of control.
2. Why waste money building an airport in the middle of nowhere? We must not ignore the fact that what people here need most is clean water and clean air.
3. They thought they might take a different route on their return trip so as to explore the great canyon in Tibet.
4. She traveled around the world and came back home quite a changed person,educated and greatly revitalized.
5. There is no easy fix for our social problems. We should explore all possibilities and move one step at a time.
6. All old traditions die a slow and lingering death. Customs and habits that have taken so long to form can't be expected to disappear overnight. 7. Madam Chang was considered a pioneer who advocated combining classic Chinese music with Western music.
8. I was so stunned when I heard the news,that for quite some time I didn't know what to say.
9. The soldiers are learning how to survive in the wilderness. 10. I'll go there with you if you insist.But really I won't be much help to you .
Grammar 1 1.try doing sth :to do sth to see if it works or will be
successful 2.try to do sth :to make an effort or take action to do sth that you may not be able to do
3.like doing sth :to enjoy doing sth,referring to a general preference 4.like to do sth :to want or prefer to do sth,referring a particular case 5.begin to do sth: very little difference 6.begin doing sth: very little difference
Note: A number of verbs can have either a gerund or a to-infinitive as object with little difference in
meaning.They include:
attempt.begin,bother,continue,fear,hate,love,prefer,start,etc.However, when these verbs are used in a continuous tense, they take a to-infinitive as object,e.g.
I'm beginning to like the food here.
Some township enterprises are continuing to expand. Verbs that
大学英语专业精度2 精读答案unit5
