Unit One
People Around Us
Enhance Your Language Awareness
Words in Action
▆ Working with Words and Expressions
1.In the box below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the following ntences with them. Change the form where necessary.
▆ Answers:
宫崎骏十大动画电影1) crea
2) hint
3) assured
4) awaiting
5) hovering
6) scrawled
7) glistening
8) frail
9) sole
10) visible
11) engaged
12) biad
13) dreading
14) grinning
2.In the boxes below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do you know how to u them in the proper context? Now check for yourlf by doing the blank-filling exerci. Change the form where necessary.
▆ Answers:
1) for fear of
2) pulled up
3) 王者荣耀隐身except for
4) get by
5) 管道维修工make a living
6) every so often
7) in the background
8) Shut off
9) each and every
最美的英文10) as it is
11) wraps … around her little finger
12) caught us …unawares
▆ Increasing Your Word Power
1.Choo the definition from Column B that best matches each phrasal verb in Column A, paying attention to the V+ Prep./Ad. collocation.
▆ Answers:
1) f
2) c
3) d
4) e
5) b
6) g
7) h
8) a
Fill in each blank in the following ntences with a proper phrasal verb. Change the verb form where necessary.
▆ Answers:
1) let out
2) clean … 孟子离娄下up
3) come through
4) waiting on
5) picked up
6) ended up
7) headed for
8) ran through
2. The prefixes ex-, fore-, pre- mean “former, before, or in advance” while the prefix post- means “after or later than”. Study the following examples and form words by adding ex-, fore-, pre-, post- to the words given in the table and then complete each of the following ntences with a proper word you have just formed. Change the verb form where necessary.
▆ Answers:
1) foretell
2) preview
3) forerunner
4) postscript
5) postgraduate
6) precondition
7) ex-husband
Grammar in Context
Task 1: Combine the given ntences into one by using attributive claus.
▇ Answers for reference:
1)I encountered many people who lives amazed me. (See Para. 3, Text B)
2)We drove in silence to the address (that/which) she had given me. (See Para. 21, Text B)
3)He pushed through the doors and headed for the back room where his apron and busing cart were waiting. (See Para. 16, Text A)
4)I had en too many people trapped in a life of poverty who depended on the cab as their only means of transportation. (See Para. 6, Text B)
5)Their social worker, who stopped to check on Stevie every so often, admitted Stevie and his mother had fallen between the cracks. (See Para. 6, Text A)
Task 2: Complete the following ntences by translating the Chine in the brackets into English. Be sure to u prent particles or past particles to modify nouns.
▇ Answers for reference:
well-considered decision, folded paper, written notice, laptop storing my annual report, a怎样控制情绪 postman delivering express mail
Cloze
▆ Complete the following passage with words chon from Text A. The initial letter of each is given.
▆ Answers:
1) reliable 2) syndrome 3) adopted
4) got done with 5) gloomy 6) or something
7) chance 8) come through 9) barely
10) in good shape 11) booth 12) mess
13) scrawled 14) peeking 15) in
Translation
▆ Translate the following ntences into English, using the words and expressions given in brackets.
关于节日的英语作文▆ Answers for reference:
1)What I didn’t count on was that over time I would sincerely take pride in being a social worker.
