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Unit 9
Key to Exercise Vocabulary
Grammar
1 Translate the Chinese
1. no matter what / whatever happens
2. no matter how old/young they are, whatever their age (is) 3. No matter what/ Whatever you say 4. no matter how much it costs
5. No matter where/ Wherever his business took him 6. No matter how / However we tried to reassure her 7. no matter where/ wherever you are in the world
8. no matter how/ however difficult your workmates/ colleagues are 9. no matter how/ however difficult that is
10. no matter what /whatever will happen to them
2 Complete the response to each of the remarks using the wish + that-clause pattern as shown in the examples.
1. I had realized this 2. I could help 3. I had a brother 4. I had his courage
5. We could do more than we did 6. I lived 7. I had better news 8. we could be 9. she had listened to 10. I had been taught
4 Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
1. since 2. has 3. popular 4. idea/ practice 5. relationships 6. ways 7. tradition 8. among/ with 9. longer 10. text
5 Identify and correct the mistakes in each of the sentences
1. This free copy is yours no matter whether/ if you buy any of our books. / This free copy is yours whether you buy any of our books or not. 2. Wherever the people want us to go, we’d go there. 3. In some ways we whish we could turn the clock back.
4. On parting, the three of them decided to meet again at the same place in ten years. 5. I wish my parents were as understanding as yours.
6. The hotel treats its guests equally, no matter where they are from.
7. His family and friends are all worried about him, for they haven’t heard from him for six weeks. / As his family and friends haven’t heard from him for six weeks, they are all worried about him.
8. All these years, I have kept track of the progress of the project.
9. Toward 10 pm, the man in the doorway became anxious; he was not sure whether his friend would come. / Toward 10 pm, the man in the doorway became anxious, for he was not sure whether his friend would come.
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10. I wish the earthquake had never happened.
Unit 10
Key to exercise Vocabulary
2 Complete the following verb+noun collocations or expressions 1. have / get / show / produce/ achieve the results
2. have / take / accept / show / bear / assume responsibility 3. discuss / debate / raise/ settle/ confuse / avoid issues 4. pursue / have / develop hobbies 5. have / make / lose / avoid contact
6. save face / lives / time / money/ trouble
7. remove roots / chairs/ hats / gloves / shoes / bandages / make-up/ doubts 8. cultivate land / field / roses/
9. eliminate enemies / rivals / opponents / suspects / errors 10. produce oil / cars / cotton / results / a movie
11. lack care / time / money / experience / patience / courage 12. bury the dead / treasure / past / head
13 nourish the plants / children / animals / relationship
14. arrange meeting / appointments / time / place / flowers / business affairs
Grammar
4 Fill in the blank of the passage with ONE suitable word.
1. comes 2. different 3. Anybody 4. as 5. longer 6. burdens 7. them 8. who 9. life 10. days
5 Identify and correct the mistakes in each of the sentences.
1. When Mandela no longer had to do manual labour, he started a garden in the yard. 2. Medals enjoyed working in his garden because gardening offered him a sense of satisfaction in prison.
3. He wants to pursue a career in journalism after graduation from college. 4. They refused to discuss the matter in public.
5. Neither his parents nor his friends thought he would become a writer.
6. When he learned that he had been admitted by Tsinghua University, he could hardly wait to tell his family the news.
7. We can meet either on campus or at my place.
8. I was so absorbed in the story that I did not realize it was getting dark. 9. I haven’t finished the book I’d borrowed from the library yet.
10. Is it possible to arrange for me to work as a volunteer for the Landon Olympics?
Unit 11
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Key to the exercise Vocabulary
5 Fill in the blanks with the correct prepositions or adverbs.
1 across, for, out 2. in search of 3. across/upon, out, from 4. for, to 5. upon, with 6. to 7. up, for, into 8. through, into 9. at, with, in, to
Grammar
2 Rewrite the sentence by inverting the subject and main verb. 1. Along a wall of the study stood three floor-length bookcases.
2. It was midnight, but now and then, from the distance, came bangs of firecrackers. 3. In a corner of the park lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
4. Present at his 90th birthday party were people from all walks of life, along with over a hundred former students.
5. Gone are the days when the big powers could order other countries about.
4 Fill each blank of the passage with ONE suitable word.
1. social 2. typical 3. have 4 depending 5. life 6. cubs 7. that 8. trained 9. on 10 such
5 Identify and correct the mistakes in each of the sentences. 1. The miners demanded that the accident be looked into.
2. I was reading China Daily on the Internet when the light went out.
3. We hurried to the stadium only to be told (that) the football game had been cancelled.
4. It might be years before you can work your way up to the head of the department. 5. The passengers had just fastened their seat belt when the plane began dipping wildly.
6. It was quite some time before the boy could see everything around him clearly. 7. On by training hard can an athlete hope to break a world record.
8. In front of the bookshelves stood a desk on which pens and pieces of paper lay about.
9. Where have you been? I’ve been looking for you the whole morning.
10. In the 21st century, the computer is / computers are playing a more and more important role in our everyday life.
Unit 12
Key to the exercise Vocabulary
4. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the word in the brackets. 1. simplified 2. authorized, organize 3. normalization
4. industrialization, urbanized 5. modernization, classified
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6. legalized, justified, civilized 7. intensify, unification
8. nationalized 9. notified, computerized 10. globalization, idealized
3. Complete the following sentences
1. a. success / luck b. I had more time c. I were ten years younger
2. a. everybody is here b. are college students
c. we have become one of the world’s largest economies 3. a. we put environmental protection before GDP b. gave more attention to critical thinking 4. a. the grammar exercises
b. helping you with c. help us with 5. a. what the book says is always correct
b. take it for granted c. take it for granted
6. a. say b. plan my time c. kiss/ thank, criticize 7. a. like fish b. did go c. did smoke
4. Rewrite the following sentences, replacing the parts in bold type with words and expressions from the text.
1. strange 2. to be bursting with
3. the habit of… clung to him still, slipping into, check
4. can’t take anything for granted, take it for granted that we will be able 5. Come to think of it
6. But come to think of it / But now that I think about it
7. Now that people all seem to have more money than before, I do hate, nowadays 8. manage to (dig), Come to think of it
9. but now that I am, will slip back easily in time
5. Fill in the blanks with the correct prepositions or adverbs. 1. in, in 2. of, of, instead of 3.with, to, as 4. to, as 5. Unlike, for 6. in, off, of/about/with 7. as, to, up 8. in with
7. Fill in the blanks with the correct form or the words given below. 1. worth 2. worthwhile 3. worthy 4. worth 5. now/nowadays 6. now 7. nowadays
8. look 9.gaze 10. staring 11. glanced 12. glanced 13. hay 14. wild herbs to eat 15. grass 16. weeds 17. received, accepted 18. will accept 19. received 20. lovely, beloved/loving 21. beloved 22. loving 23. cry/ weep 24. crying 25. sobbing
Grammar
2. Complete the sentence using the proper conjunction from the box below.
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1. as if/ as though 2. before 3. as long as 4. even though 5. Even if 6. now that 7. as long as 8. as if/ though 9. Even though 10. Now that
4. Fill in each blank of passage with ONE suitable word. 1. smoke 2 what 3 teach 4 control 5 complaints 6 group 7 at 8 could 9 shared 10 more
5. Identify and correct mistakes in each of the sentences 1. At about three o’clock, the boy went to the barn and did the milking all by himself. 2. Up until now there are still people who cling to the idea that men are superior to women.
3. I think I locked the doors and closed the windows, but I’ll just go and make sure of them. ( or: …make sure I did.)
4. It suddenly occurred to me that I had left my bike key in the classroom. 5. Every one of us must arrive before 8 pm without exception.
6. It’s important for young people to learn how to survive in the wild. 7. It’s time our school upgraded its computer program.
8. Robert woke up twenty times for fear that he would oversleep. 9. Upon graduation, he was bursting with gratitude to the university for a first-class education he had received there.
10. The teacher could hardly believe a student who grew up in a mountain village had never seen a computer before he came to college.
Unit 13
Key to the Exercise: Vocabulary:
2 Translate the following phrases into English:
1. uncork the bottle; undress the children; unearth the buried treasure; unpack the books from the box; uncover the dirty plan 2. fulfill one’s wish/aspirations, fulfill one’s plan; fulfill /realize one’s dream; fulfill one’s promise; achieve the result; achieve independence; fulfill one’s demand; fulfill one’s expectations; achieve/ realize one’s purpose/aim/goal 3. make progress; make inventions; make threats
4. obey orders; obey the law; obey the authorities; obey the rules; obey the command; obey the leadership
5. spread germs; spread the news; spread the map; spread the fire; spread the terror 6. demand an explanation; demand a reply; demand an apology
7. threaten life; threaten stability; threaten the economy; threaten the unity 8. dominate/control the world; dominate/control one’s life; dominate the match; dominate the family 9. master a language; master art; master the new technology; masters kills/techniques
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现代大学英语精读1第二版8-16单元课后问题详解
