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Unit 4 Growing up: Keys to the
execises
Enhance Your
Language Awareness
Words in
Action
Working with Words
and Expressions
1 Listed in the boxes below are some of
the words that you need to be very
familiar with. Now work in pairs and
make sentences with each of them to
see
if
you
have
really
mastered
their
usages.
You
are
encouraged
to
consult
a
dictionary
if
you
are
still
not
quite
sure
about
their
meanings
and
usages.
1) When the father learned about his
son’s school performance, he
beamed
with
satisfaction.
2)
How do people
celebrate
New
Year’s Day in your country?
3) What are you
complaining
about? You have already got everything
you want.
4) There were 24
people
enrolled
in the
French class.
5) The
children
panicked
when they
saw the serious look on
the teacher’s
face.
6) When I turned off
the TV, all my three kids
protested
.
7) He is too
stubborn
to admit that he was wrong.
8) George is very
ambitious
about his future though he is just a
teenager.
9) My son is very
good at
figures
, and he
plans to take up Mathematics as his
major.
10) He got very
frustrated
when he learned
that he had failed the exam again.
11)
Being
a
very
possessive
father,
he
felt
very
unhappy
when
he
learned
his
daughter
was going to get
married.
12) How can you
keep your children at home for the whole week? Of
course, they will
get
restless
.
2 In the box below are some of the
words you have learned in this unit.
Complete
the
following
sentences
with
them.
Change
the
form
where
necessary.
1)
She
finds
herself
in
conflict
with
her
parents
over
her
future
career.
2) The
two parties finally
overcame
their differences on the matter of
interest rate
(
利率
)
.
3)
Some strange customs
have survived
from earlier times.
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4) Please let us know if you can
attend
the meeting scheduled
排
)
(
事先安
for the
coming Thursday.
5) She
frowned
with displeasure as
she was reading her son’s school
report.
6)
Students are likely to let their minds
wander
if the teacher’s
lectures are dull and
boring.
7)
I
always
feel
so
guilty
about
not
visiting
my
parents
more
often,
but
I do
have lots of things to cope with every
day.
8) The local farmers
sustained
heavy losses
during the flood season.
9)
The next morning we all went out to
survey
the damage caused by
the
fire.
10) The
sudden appearance of a tiger from the woods
terrified
us all.
11) International students are
required
to carry medical
insurance
as
a
condition of enrollment
(
注册
)
.
12)
Adapting
to a
new culture is no easy task because there are lots
of
cultural differences to
overcome.
3 In the boxes
below are some of the expressions you have learned
in this
unit. Do you understand their
meanings? Do you know how to use them in the
proper
context?
Now
check
for
yourself
by
doing
the
blank-filling
exercises.
Change the form
where necessary.
1) The old
man
was sick of
having
arguments all the time with his wife.
2) “You really can’t imagine what I
have gone through,” Mary
said,
choking back
her
tears.
3)
Compared
with
growing
up
in
primitive
societies,
growing
up
in
today’s
world is in some
ways harder.
4) When I first
settled into
teaching in
this small town, I felt very
awkward,
for my neighbors wanted to know everything about
me.
5) The boys
would give anything / the world
to meet that football star.
6) Tom rushed into the room when Jane
and I were
in the midst
of
a
conversation.
7)
It’s
true
that
his
father
is
a
world
-famous
movie
star,
but
Jack
became
famous
in his own right
.
8) We didn’t
plan it like that but it
worked out
very
well.
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9) At first he found it extremely hard
to
fit in with
his
colleagues at
the new
company.
10) When I was
in
my teens, I
gradually
grew apart
from my
parents, only
to realize how wrong I was in my later
years.
11) I’m sorry to hear
that you’re suffering from a severe
cold.
No
wonder
you did not turn up at the party
yesterday.
12) It is not a
healthy habit
staying up
too
late.
13) I
was
annoyed with
my mother’s tight control
over me and ended up
shouting at her
one day.
14) The boy
was scared of
his mother
because she would always scold
(
< br>责
怪
)
him if he
did anything wrong.
15)
Because
of
my
carelessness,
I
soon
found
myself
in
trouble
again
and
then I realized that
what my mother had said was right.
16)
He
is
not
a
very
responsible
person.
For
instance
,
he
promised
to
come to our meeting, but
never even responded when we invited
him.
● Increasing Your Word
Power
1 The words listed in
the following box can be used to describe either a
teenager or
a
parent.
Go
over
each
word
carefully and
then choose
the
right
word to
complete each sentence.
1)
He
is
a
very
possessive
father.
He
says
“no”
to
all
his
daughter’s
boyfriends.
2)
A(n)
over-protective
parent
usually weakens his / her
child’s
belief
in his / her ability to solve
his / her own problems.
3)
Are you a(n)
frustrated
parent whose teenager always makes
angry
scenes when you try to get him or
her to “just DO something”?
4) His
possessive
mother wants him to ring her 3 times a
day at least to
keep her informed of
what he does at school.
5)
It is often the case that in a family one parent
is usually
slightly
lenient
/ strict
and the other is slightly
strict / lenient
.
6) Teenagers
are rather
rebellious
as
they often prefer to be on their
own
and refuse to listen to their parents.
7) Don’t blame him: he’s just
a(n)
frustrated
teenager who feels that
he
is unable to find his position in life.
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8) Don’t blame him for not wanting to
stay at home. He is just
a
restless
teenager longing
for adventure.
9) She used
to be a(n)
stubborn
teenager
who thought that whatever she
believed
was correct.
2 Match the
verbs in the box with the nouns below so that they
form correct
collocations. If you are
in doubt, consult a dictionary. Put the verbs in
the space provided and each verb is to
be used only once. Then write down
six
sentences of your own using the
collocations.
1)
survey
the damage 2)
sustain
dents
3)
attend
a
meeting 4)
terrify
somebody
5)
wrap
presents 6)
recall
an event
Write down your own sentences
here.
1)
After
surveying the damage, we concluded that it was
caused by animals.
2)
His car sustained dents when it hit the
road block.
3)
The teachers will attend our meeting
this afternoon.
4)
The stern expression on his face
terrified me.
5)
Please wrap the presents
carefully.
6)
When he recalled what happened ten
years ago, he still couldn’t
help feeling
sorry.
3 Did you
notice the suffixes -ize, -ify in words such as
realize, terrify
in this unit? The
suffixes -ize, -ify can be added to nouns or
adjectives
to form verbs. Now form
verbs by adding -ize or -ify to the words given in
the table and write down the Chinese
meaning for each verb.
Nouns
/ Adjectives
SuffixesVerbsChinese
Meanings
beauty
beautify
使美起来；美化
just
justify
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/p>
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正当；证明
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无罪
modern
modernize
使
现代化
popular
popularize
使大众化；普及，推广
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