Unit 10 The Idiocy of Urban Life
Text comprehension
I. B
II. Judge
1. F
2. F
3. T
4. T
5. F
6. T
III.
IV. Explain
1. Rats make city life courteous and refined when they dominate the city deep at night.
2. City dwellers create all kinds of city vogues in the country, for they will not live without the fashionable things.
3. The windows are disgraceful becau they put the lives of office workers in danger if a fire should occur.
4. 习作这儿真美A lawn in the backyard and a few spindle-shaped trees struggling for life are not enough to give the dweller any true n of the ason changes.
Vocabulary
I.
1. doing propaganda work \ printing lies on paper
2. fierce competition among people
3. foolishness \ stupidity
4. nless turmoil
5. something disgraceful
6. people with bent shoulders
II.
1. knowledge
2. simulation
3. insolence下奶食物
4. urban
5. scurry
6. congregation
7. compensate
8. rat race
III.
1. 功夫熊猫手抄报idiotic
2. urbanity
3. solitary
4. exerted
5. insolent
6. grieved
7. lunatic
8. habitat
IV.
1. B
2. C
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. A
7. A
8. B宠爱歌曲
V.
1. bearing \ stance
2. impolite \ rude, ill-mannered
3. friendly \ social \sociable
4. modestly \ timidly \ gently
5. smelly \ stinking \foul \malodorous
6. thin \ lanky
7. accept \respect
8. strangely
VI.
1. somewhere away from a studio, office, library or laboratory where practical work is done or data is collected
2. support
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3. emingly
4. unconscious
5. very happy
6. ask for
Vocabulary
I.
1. It was Harry who told the police
2. It was I who told him the news.
3. It was Susan who would like to read some detective stories.
It was some detective stories that Susan would like to read.
4.It is only when one is ill that one realizes the value of health.
5. It was John who painted a lovely picture.
It was a lovely picture that John painted.
6. It was Galileo who invented the telescope.
It was the Telescope that Galileo invented.
7.It was Tom’s mother who threw an egg at the minister yesterday.
It was an egg that Tom’s mother threw at the minister yesterday.
杨心龙It was at the minister that Tom’s mother threw an egg yesterday.
It was yesterday that Tom’s mother threw an egg at the minister.
8.It was Bill who relead the chairman’s illness to the reporters at the party last night.
It was the chairman’s illness that Bill relead to the reporters at the party last night.
It was at the party that Bill relead the chairman’s illness to the reporters last night.
It was last night that Bill relead the chairman’s illness to the reporters at the party.
II.
1.Do be civil this time.
2.Even the victims themlves can’t explain how the accident occurred.
3.John I can comprehend; but the others speak gibberish..
4.Ambitious she must have been, or she wouldn’t have come.
5.His face not many admired, while his character still fewer could prai.
6.They have promid to finish the work, and finish it they will.
7.Hidden in the cellar were veral barrels of wine. \ It was veral barrels of wine that were hidden in the cellar.
8.What he was doing was making a plan.
III.
1.No, what I said was that I wanted you to fill the boxes with the books.
2.No, what I did was to invite her to my hou instead.
3.No, what I thought was that he was going on his own.
4.No, what I did was to repair the old one.
5.No, what I did was to phone the managing director directly.
6.No, what I’d like you to work on is Exerci Two.
7.No, what I meant was that I will text-message you when I get there.
8.No, what I did was to nd them some home-made cakes.
IV.
1. People say that Byron lived on vinegar and potatoes.
2. They were towing the damaged ship into harbour when the towline broke.
3. They are lengthening the runways at all the main airports.
工作意愿4. Experts have proved that this scientific theory is fal.
5. Get a builder to put in a lift and then you won’t have to climb up all the stairs.
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6. Our opponents must have started this rumour.
7. The authorities put this sip into quarantine and forbade pasngers and crew to land.
8. People say that early Egyptian and Greek soldiers ud carrier pigeons.
V..
1. The door won’t lock.
2. the door hasn’t been locked.
3. His new novel lls well.
4. the girl doesn’t photograph well.
5. he has not been photographed well.
6. this material doesn’t dye well.
7. The flat is to let.
