Unit 3 – Section A
●Language Focus – Words in U
1. Ernest Hemingway's keen insight into his society, ardent love for people and perceptive abilities helped him to form his own (peculiar) characteristic of writing.
2. The project is on the point of collap, and unless something very (radical) is done to repair the damage there will be no hope for the project.
3. It's not unusual for teenagers to go through a(n) (pha) when they feel ashamed of their parents, afraid that they might not live up to their friends' standards.
4. It is (nsible) for every family to make earthquake emergency plans and know how to leave the area during the chaos following an earthquake.
5. Economists are interested in all the factors that can help to (predict) the extent to which a price change will affect supply and demand in the market.
6. Starting Monday, all foods (labeled) "organic" must be up to the strict national standards that the government decided to put into effect now.
7. There is more to a woman than her looks, so I (rent) the fact that after a woman grows old and los her looks people stop paying attention to her.
8. Apart from technological development, the 20th century (witnesd) an enormous worldwide political, economic and cultural transformation.
9. Unlike the practice in China, if you're at a hotel restaurant in the United States, expect a 15-20 percent rvice charge or add the (equivalent) amount yourlf.
10. The change in smoking habits (parallels) a change in the incidence of lung cancer. The more people smoke, the more chances of occurrence for lung cancer.
●Word Building
1.chaos
2.drama
3.academic
4.depress
5.detect
6.erode
7.classify
8.confusion
9.cooperation
10.dictation
11.right
12.journalist
1.chaotic
2.dramatic
3.academy
4.depression
5.detection
6.erosion
7.classification
8.confu
9.cooperate
10.dictate
11.rightist
12.journal
1. One thing that helps you to listen to your thoughts is to keep a(n) (journal) becau it helps to record various insights you gain when doing daily activities.
2. The country went through a(n) (chaotic) period of social and economic transformation: a boom in banking, engineering, scientific rearch and political thinking.
3. After the disaster many people began to suggest that government offices that help with storm preparations (cooperate) with offices that monitor wild animals.
4. Even though people didn't expect much, the president's speech did little to prevent the (erosion) of people's confidence in the government.
5. New Zealand's economy has probably been going through a more (dramatic) revolution recently than that of any other Western countries.
6. The language teacher gave the students a short list of words that are in common u in the UK but would either (confu) or even offend Americans.
7. My middle daughter received three scholarships to attend a summer military (academy) . Later she became our city's first international foreign-exchange student.
8. Systematic sampling (系统抽样) of West German voters carried out in 1979-1980 indicated that 13 percent of all voters in the Federal Republic were (rightists) in their political views.
9. People who spend more time on the Internet experienced more (depression) and loneliness than tho who spend less time on the Net.
10. Though he did not (dictate) his speech to the audience, he went at a pace slow enough for the listeners to take down a lot of what he said.
11. Speaking of clone, most of the physical differences between originals and copies are so minor that (detection) of them would require a sophisticated laboratory.
12. The up-to-date (classification) of books in the newly-built school library helps you to find the books you want more quickly than before.
