V Key to Exercis
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2 Do the following exercis.
1 Paraphra the ntences below.
1.Although you told me all about them, I am still just as ignorant as before.
2.But now, as he spoke, that memory became weaker and weaker. His memory, the memory of the wonderful time they had at Kew Gardens, was the truer.
3.He was no longer indecisive or immature as he ud to be.
4.Now he looked like a man who knew what he wanted to do in life, who had found a
gainful career that suited him. He was no longer a young dreamer.
5. As she felt that her lifelong dream of traveling around the world, which had been lying at the back of her mind all the years becau her health conditions had not allowed her to do that,
now began to wake up. It was just like a strange beast waking up with longing and hungry eyes for tho wonderful places.
2 Obrve how the words are formed.
1. impress: to press in
2. oppress: to press against
3. depress: to press down
4. compress: to press together
5. repress: to press back
6. express: to press out
3 Put in each blank the right form or derivative of the words in brackets.
1. decoration, traditional
2. functional, decorative
3. managerial/management, management
4. rolling, delightful
5. Occasionally, creativity
6. forgetful, troublesome
7. respected, admiration, impressive
8. Proportionately/Proportionally, surprisingly
9. impul, Impulsive
10. Skydiving, exhilarating
4 Give possible verbs or nouns that form common collocations.
Give nouns
1. an issue / young people / a large audience
2 smoking/gambling/drinking/bankruptcy/abortion
3. an orange / a potato
4. one’s head / the bottom of the barrel
5. the matter/dispute/differences
6. sheep/price/money/quality / one’s veil/hands/glass/voice
Give verbs
2. u/impo/support/lift
3. breathe/say/speak/utter
4. give/utter
5. make/give
6. give/manage/force
7. rai/lifl/lower
8. strike
9. take
10. button/unbutton
1 Translate the following expressions.
1. decorate a room
2.be my haunting memory
3. take a deep breath
4. give a hint
5 stretch one's neck
6. drift on the river
7. let it go at that
8. prick up its ears
9 ripple in the breeze
10 hover over the trees
11 a bond between brothers
12 a carpet for you to walk on
13 snap the door to
14 be rious out of proportion to the occasion
15 go for a picnic
16 put one’s arms round her
2 Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.
1 unreasonable/irrational/unacceptable
2. unttled
3. learned/well-educated
4. unfolded
5. sad/tragic/pathetic
6 vague
7 melancholy
8 discontented
9 crafty
10 wrapped up in her own affairs / lf-engrosd
3 Put in the blanks appropriate prepositions or adverbs.
2. Of, out, of
3. into, at, up, to
4. for, to
5. For, at
6. out, for
7. for
8. up, on
9. out, to
10. out, up
4 Think of words or expressions we might u in the following situations.
1.I ; I am
2.I dislike/hate/; I am sick and
3. It is huge/massive/gigantic/colossal.
It is monstrous (big and ugly).
It is a white elephant (big and uless).
4. He/She is terrific/excellent/superb/outstanding/unique.
5.I am delighted/overjoyed/shocked/stunned/astonished/astounded/flabbergasted/heartb roken.
I am struck speechless / scared to death / thrown into a panic.
6. The place is spectacular/heavenly.
The place is exceedingly beautiful / absolutely out of this world/ a paradi on earth.
7. In affirmative terms:
He/She is kind/compassionate/generous/upright/frank/honest/broad-minded/lively.
He/She is aspiring/resolute/brave/modest/humorous/independent.
He/She is smart/learned/knowledgeable/gifted/talented/creative/original.
He/She is a person with a heart of gold / a person of integrity / a man of mission. In negative terms:
He/She is weak/dumb/idiotic/narrow-minded/stubborn/indecisive/cowardly/shallow.
He/She is inconsiderate/cold/cruel/mean/lfish/lf-centered/dishonest/arrogant/manipula tive.
He/She is vain/conceited/money-gubbing/power-hungry/mirly/crafty.
8. It goes up and down / ris and falls / increas and declines / rockets and skydives / takes off
and comes to a standstill/ thrives and faces a downturn.
5 Translate the following ntences into English.
1. They all stretched their necks to e what was happening, a S if pulled by an invisible string.
2. We got out of the car to stretch a little. In front of us was a beautiful stretch of open land.
3. They talked for hours at a stretch, but they still failed to ttle their differences.
4. For all the warm weather, fresh air and delicious food, her health still did not recover.
5. One glance at the car, and he knew that it was beyond repair. He looked ahead and found the dert stretching as far as the eye could e without a soul in sight. He knew he was in a terrible fix.
6. Wu Song swung his stick at the tiger with all his strength. But the stick snapped and the tiger was unharmed. In his panic, he had hit the tree nearby.
7.I am terribly fond of the pictures you snapped in Russia, especially the one showing the Russian coachman sitting by the Black Sea with his supper in a cloth on his knees.
8. —"You can’t just let it go at that,” I tried to plead with him.
—“It is none of your business," he snapped.
9. He snapped his briefca to, stood up and said, "Then it's all ttled.”
10. He was standing in front of his hou on a hill,only about a hundred meters apart/away from the wharf when the tsunami came.
6 Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word/words.
1. B
2. B/D
3. A
4. B
5. B
6. C
7. A
1 Learn to u exclamatory ntences.
1 Turn the statements or the underlined parts into exclamatory ntences.
1. What a worthless fellow (he is)!
2. How cleverly Vera hid her feelings!
3. What a stroke of luck (it was)!
4. What an amazing player (he was then)!
5. How I wish I could manage alone!
6. What a pleasant surpri (it was)!
7. What a wonderful evening we’ve had!
8. How I envy your energy!
9. What a nice group of students you have here!
10. How nice it is to be back at home again!
2 Supply respons to the remarks by translating the Chine in brackets, using
either type of rhetorical question listed below.
1. Why? Hasn't she been preparing for it all the time?
2. Don’t you believe?
3. Aren’t they lovely?
4. What? Haven’t you finished it yet?
5. Don’t you know he，s been admitted to Fudan University?
6. Isn’t he in his office? He was ther e five minutes ago.
7. What’s there to worry about? We’ve left no stone unturned.
8. Can't you e I，m busy?
9. How can she say such things to her father?
10. Haven’t you heard of the world-famous tenor Luciano Pavarotti?
2 Translate the ntences using the structures indicated in bold type.
1. The hungry boy wolfed down the leftover corn bread as though it was his favorite king prawns.
2. What remains in his mind of his high school days is nothing but endless rounds of tests and exams.
3.I don’t think the resolution is in accord with the purpo of the organization. That’s why I voted as I did.
4. He doesn’t understand what it is that makes his grandson so crazy about microblogging.
5.I remember the details about the incident as though it was yesterday.
6. What remained of her home after the tornado was the land the hou was built on.
7. That’s why he behaved as he did when he witnesd the car crash this morning.
8. They are trying to figure out what it was that turned one of the twin brothers into a criminal, the other an excellent policeman.
9. When he found a particularly strong rice plant he was very happy as though he had discovered a gold mine.
10. Now that he’s quite well-off, he has decided to get in touch with what remains of his family.
3 Study the grammatical structure of the involved ntences.
1. There is no predicate verb in the ntence. It consists of 2 absolute constructions and 2 prent participle phras and 1 adjective phra. Absolute construction 1: a great many people taking tea in a Chine pagoda Absolute construction 2: he behaving like a maniac about the wasps Participle phra 1: waving them away Participle phra 2: flapping at them with his straw hat
The two phras describe how the man “behavi ng like a maniac about the wasps.”
Adjective phra: rious and infuriated out of all proportion to the occasion 2. This is a complex ntence. The basic ntence structure is subject + link verb + predicative.
Subject: it
Link verb: was
Predicative: that we for anybody el
