Unit One
Lifestyles
Enhance Your Language Awareness
Words in Action
▆ Working with Words and Expressions
1. Listed in the boxes below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the following ntences with the words given. Change the form where necessary.
▆ Answers:
1) furnish
2) resolve
3) maintaining
4) discarded
5) sanction
6) rai
7) strip
8) bare
9) bargain
10) simplified
11) trade
12) downsize
13) numerous
14) fraction
15) plain
16) tackle
17) rolling
2. Listed in the boxes below are some expressions that you have learned in this unit. Complete the ntences with each of them. Change the form where necessary.
▆ Answers:
1) keeps track of
2) It turned out that
3) strip down to
4) take an interest in
5) in return
6) is all of a piece
7) write out
8) eat out
9) look back
10) cut out
▆ Increasing Your Word Power
1. You will read four groups of words and phras which are similar in meaning. Reflect on the differences in usage between the words and phras in each group and fill in each blank with a proper one. Change the form if necessary.
▇ Answers:
1) take part in
2) join
3) joined in
4) consist of
5) is compod of&nbs中华民族大团结
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6) is made up of
7) live off
8) live on
9) live by
10) occurred
11) take place
12) happen
2. Study the following uful prefixes and then write out the words in the left column of the following table according to the hints given in the right. The initial letter of the target word is given.
auto- = of or by onelf con-/ com- = with, together
counter- = the opposite of inter- = between, among
ex-/ e- = out of, from extra- = outside, beyond
re- = again, back trans- = across
▆ Answers:
1) autobiography
2) combine
3) counterattack
4) exclude
5) extracurricular
6) interact
7) interrelate
8) recycle
9) refresh
10) transform
3. Both acronyms (首字母缩拼词) and initialisms (首字母缩略词) are formed from the first letters of a ries of words to reprent names of organizations or are ud as scientific t
erminologies (术语). An acronym is different from an initialism in that the former is pronounced as one word while the latter is pronounced letter by letter. For example, UNESCO is an acronym for “United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization” (联合国教育、科学及文化组织); NPC is an initialism for the National People’s Congress.
Now work in pairs and turn the following acronyms and initialisms into their original forms and give the Chine translations. Consult a dictionary if necessary.
▆ Answers:
Acronyms | Original Words |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization 北大西洋公约组织 |
BASIC | Beginner’s All-purpo Symbolic Instruction Code 初学者通用符号指令码 |
OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries石油输出国组织、欧佩克 |
RADAR | Radio Detecting and Ranging 雷达 |
TOEFL | Test of English as a Foreign Language 托福 (英语考试） |
IELTS | International English Language Test System 雅思英语考试 |
PETS | Public English Test System 全国公共英语等级考试 |
IBF | International Monetary Fund 国际货币基金组织 |
WHO | World Health Organization 世界卫生组织 |
APEC | Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 亚洲太平洋经济合作组织 |
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Grammar in Context
1. Write hypothetical ntences bad on the given facts.
▇ Answers:
1) If they hadn’t broken away from the out-of-date regulation, they wouldn’t have made great advances in their work.
2) If they hadn’t taken proper care of her, she wouldn’t have recovered so rapidly.
3) The conference wouldn’t have been so successful if we hadn’t made adequate preparations.
4) We would have had a hard time if we hadn’t followed the right instructions.
5) The flood would have caud great damage to our property if we hadn’t built so many rervoirs.
6) They would have succeeded in the experiment if they had followed the right procedure.
2. Change the following non-hypothetical statements to hypothetical conditionals.
▇ Answers:
1) If English hadn’t become a language of international business after World War II, most developing countries wouldn’t have required students to study it at school.
2) If William hadn’t invaded England in 1066, the English language wouldn’t have had many words of French origin.
3) If modern English hadn’t developed from veral different languages, the grammar and spelling rules wouldn’t have been so irregular.
4) If England hadn’t been conquered by the Normans in 1066, French wouldn’t have become the main language of the ruling class at that time.
