Unit Two
Attitudes to Life
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. 1.Complete the following sentences with them.Change the form where necessary. ▆Answers: commonplace 1) enduring 2)dim 3)command 4)imperfection 5)intensive 6)abandon 7)finite
8)dynamic 9)weaving 10)additional 11)aspirations
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12)gratitude 13)integrity 14)faithful 15)committed
16)in you have learned of the box below are some the expressions In 2.this unit.Do you understand their meanings?Do you know how to use
the doing yourself Now check for by context?them in the proper blank-filling exercise. Change the form where necessary.▆Answers:
live on 1)
dawned upon 2) live by 3)
is invested with 4)
hold fast to 5) All too 6) step aside 7)
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set out 8) to and fro 9) work at 10)
▆ Increasing Your Word Power
Study the following usage notes about the words in the box.They 1.are all associated with the meaning of “change”.▆Answers: change 1)transform 2)alter 3)convert 4)revise 5)modify 6)vary 7)transcribe
8) You will read three groups of words which are similar in meaning but 2.different in usage. Reflect on the differences in usage between the words in each group and fill in each blank with a proper one.Change the form if necessary. Answers:▆tour 1)trip
2)travelling 3)journey 4)select 5)choose 6)pick 7)elect 8)ordinary 9)regular 10)average 11)normal 12)Write out the corresponding verb forms of the following adjectives.
3.▆Answers: add
1)beautify 2)contradict 3)deafen 4)differ 5)intensify 6)minimize 7)oppose 8)please
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prosper 10)radiate 11)relent 12)respect 13)sparkle 14)wonder 15)wither 16)GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT
Write hypothetical sentences based on the given facts.Task 1:▆Answers for reference:
My mother would not be worried about me if she knew what my life 1)was like. They would probably allow you to do the job if you were in better 2)health. They wouldn't work with such enthusiasm if they didn't know what 3)they were working for.
I would have to look it up in the dictionary if I didn't know the 4)meaning of the word.
She would understand what we say if she knew Chinese.
5)I would be quite satisfied if you spoke with greater accuracy.6)Make
hypothetical sentences with the given words.Task 2: Answers for reference:▆If we knew where he was,we would try to get in touch with him.1)If it were not for the expense involved, we would go there by 2)plane.
If we were to miss the train,we would have to wait another four 3)hours. If we pooled all our resources, we would have enough money to buy 4)the equipment.
If he didn't have a strong love for the handicapped children,he 5)wouldn't be working so tirelessly for them.Cloze
Complete the following passage with words chosen from this unit.The initial letter of each is given. ▆Answers:
wither 1)sense 2)faithful 3)commit
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4)aspirations 5)gratitude 6)dawns 7)．
accumulated 8)nourishment 9)preoccupied 10)flowers 11)tendered 12)weave 13)elevate 14)Translation
Translate the following sentences into English,using the words and 1.expressions given in brackets.
▆Answers for reference:
1)The ambassador to the U.N. was invested with full authority to deal with all the foreign affairs concerning his country on behalf of his government. 2)All the way on the train I had been preoccupied with the result of the term examination until the conductor reminded me of the arrival of my destination.
3)Although her husband's name did not appear on the list of the people who got killed in the traffic accident, she kept walking to and fro, anxious to see him back home sooner.
4)I was setting out to translate the contract into English when it dawned upon me that both parties involved were Chinese companies.5)At the party, people sang and danced with abandon, totally forgetting the troubles in their lives. 6)With the great aspirations to become an astronaut, Jackson committed himself to the 2-year strenuous constitution training.7)His paintings,drawing on timeless fairy stories,exemplified the Europeans' taste of that period.
8)The bus driver didn't want to take any responsibility for the accident and so he took every means to put the blame on the passengers on board.
9)He not only risked his own life to save the old man from the burning house but made some room in his own house for him to settle down.
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