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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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