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Unit
4
Growing
up:
Keys
to
the
execise
s
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.
4) Please let us know if you can
attend
the meeting scheduled
(
事先安排
)
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
)
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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.
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
(
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.
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
证明
…
正当；证明
…
无罪
modern
modernize
使现代化
popular
popularize
使大众化；普及，推广
pure
purify
使纯净；提纯
simple
-
ize/
-
ify
simplify
简化；使简易
symbol
symbolize
作为
…
的象征，标志
test
testify
作证，证明；表明
theory
theorize
使理论化；从理论上说明