Unit One
Man and Nature
Enhance Your Language Awareness
Words in Action
▆ Working with Words and Expressions
In the boxes below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the
1.following ntences with the words given. Change the form where necessary.
▆ Answers:
1) spark
2) compelled
3) bare
4) scrape
5) destruction
6) output
7) retreat
light infection
8) tipped
9) miracle
10) eternal
11) pile
12) transfer
13) mass
14) thereby 星期的拼音
15) have emerged
16) trigger
17) threaten
18) consumed
19) hollow
heal the world
In the boxes below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit.
2.Complete the ntences with them. Change the form where necessary.
▆ Answers:
1) show signs of
2) cope with
3) lives in fear of
4) tough it out
5) cut down
6) from head to foot
7) arched out
内向英文
8) nothing short of
9) As yet
rko什么意思10) ttle in
11) take heart
▆ Increasing Your Word Power
You will read six pairs of words which are similar in meaning but are different in
1.usage. Reflect on the differences in usage between the words in each group and fill
in each blank with a proper one. Change the form if necessary.
▆ Answers:
1) temptation
2) attraction
3) chance
4) opportunity
5) states
6) country
7) warned
8) threatened / threatens never grow old
9) refu
10) reject
11) total
12) gross
A blend is a word produced by combining parts of other words, such as “comsat” 2.from “communications” and “satellite”. Try to find out what words the following
blends are formed from. You may consult a dictionary if necessary.
sound是什么意思
▆ Answers:
Blend Formation Meaning
烟雾 smog smoke + fog博客web + log blog
早午餐 breakfast + lunchbrunch （早餐和午餐合为一餐）
撞车自杀 autocideautomobile + suicide海峡隧道 channel + tunnelchunnel
汽车旅馆motor + hotel motel网民 net + citizen netizen科幻小说 好想告诉你电影版science + fiction sci-fi工作狂 workaholicwork + alcoholic无线网络 wi-fiwireless + fidelity
Fill in the blanks in Column B with an adjective in Text A. The target adjective must
3.be opposite in meaning to the one in Column A and must form a correct collocation
with the noun in Column C.
▆ Answers:
1) individual
2) contradictory
3) destructive
4) rational
5) primitive
6) synthetic
7) distant
8) pessimistic
9) irreplaceable
10) enormous
Grammar in Context
Study the following ntences from Text B and point out the grammatical function of
1.each of the prent participles ud as an adverbial.
▆ Answers:
1) an adverbial of accompanying circumstances
2) an adverbial of accompanying circumstances
3) an adverbial of result
4) an adverbial of result
5) an adverbial of manner; accompanying circumstances
法语铃声
6) an adverbial of result
7) an adverbial of time
Complete the following ntences by translating the Chine in the brackets into
2.
English, usingprent participle as an adverbial. a
▆ Answers:
1) killing thousands upon thousands of people
2) raising the average yield by 15 percent
3) trying to deduce its operating principle
4) Seeing that everyone was bending over his / her book
5) Not having heard from his parents for a long time
6) leaving the project unfinished
7) Turning to the right
8) Not wanting to make the patient nervous
Cloze
▆Complete the following passage with words chon from this unit. The initial letter
of each is given.
▆ Answers:
(1) realm
(2) elemental
(3) obtain
(4) stubbornly
(5) transferred
(6) transformed
(7) subdued
(8) expansion
(9) irreplaceable
(10) extinct
(11) dynamic
(12) verge
(13) moderate
(14) ecological
(15) rational
Translation
Translate the following ntences into English, using the words and expressions given 1.
in brackets.
▆ Answers for Reference:
1) The village is so clo to the border that the villagers lived in constant fear of
attacks from the enemy.
2) In only twenty years the country was transformed into an advanced industrial power.
and much time who had invested so Seeing 3) the project successfully completed, tho
energy in it felt very proud.
be dollar will that the US the current financial situation, it is inevitable Given 4) formulate
further devalued.
