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Key to the Exercises
Text
comprehension
I.
B
II.
1. T;
2. F;
3. T;
4.
T;
5. T.
III.
1.
“snail mail”.
2.
“an essential stepping stone on the road to
success”.
3. “the profound
relationship between language and culture that
lies at the heart of society”.
4. “the means to shape our views of the
world”.
5. “to negotiate the
boundaries between languages and to compromise in
translation”.
6. “to use
linguistic skills, to think differently, to enter
into another culture’s
mentality and to
shape language accordingly”.
IV.
1. The age we are living
provides us with convenient ways to reach any part
of the world.
2. It seems that everyone
is able to always get in touch with anyone else if
he or she can afford to.
3. is the most
important to society.
4. This is
a fundamental skill in today’s world,
where different cultures interact.
5. Lots of people are finding ways to
interrelate different cultures.
Structural analysis of the text
1.
The
last
sentence
of
the
3rd
paragraph:
“Mos
t
fundamental
is
the
profound
relationship
between
language and culture that lies at the heart of
society and one that we overlook at our
peril.”
2.
Paragraph 4: The lack of an exact counterpart of
the English word “homesickness” in other
languages such as Italian, Portuguese,
and German.
Paragraph 5: The problem of
untranslatability which the early Bible
translators encountered.
Paragraph 6:
English and Welsh speakers make adjustments
regarding the color spectrum in the
grey / green / blue / brown range;
T
he word “democracy” means completely
different things in
different contexts;
the flat breads of Central Asia are a long way
away from Mother’s Pride white
sliced
toasties, yet the word “bread” has to serve for
both.
Vocabulary
I. Phrase practice
1.
provided =as long as
假如，倘若
need never be out of
touch =can never fail to be reached
从不会失去联系
2.
regardless of =no matter
不管，不顾
3. overlook
at our peril =fail to notice at great risk
忽视
……
的危险或风险
4.
hovers
somewhere
in
and
around
all
those
words
=may
be
described
by
these
words
to
varying degrees
5. hit the
problem of untranslatability head-on = were
directly confronted with the problem that
something in one language cannot be
rendered into another
II.
1.
stepping stone; 2. at their peril; 3. serve; 4.
mentality;
5. staple; 6.
facilitating; 7. messaging; 8. hybrid.
III. Word derivation
Fill in
the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given
words.
1. economy
2. accessible
3.
fundamentally
4. homesick
5. negotiable
6. adjusted
7.
remoteness
8. complacently
IV.
1. D;
2. C;
3. A;
4.
D;
5. B;
6. A;
7. B;
8. C.
V.
Synonym / Antonym
Give a synonym or an
antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in
the sense it is used.
1. Synonym: time,
era, epoch
2. Synonym: meetings
3. Synonym: basic, fundamental
4. Antonym: misshape
5.
Synonym: unavoidably
6. Synonym: worry,
concern, anxiety
7. Antonym: hide,
conceal
VI. Prefix
Write in
each space one word that has the same prefix as
underlined in the given word.
1.
unbelievable
2. imperfect
3. disagreement
4. misplace
5. malfunction
6. enable
7. surpass
8. submarine
Grammar
I. Complete the following sentences
with the correct verb forms.
1. helps
2. hope; are enjoying; sunbathe; go;
are going.
3. is being.
4.
is typing
5. am not eating.
6. am reading
7. are always
leaving.
8. go; belongs; wants; is
using.
9. is boiling.
10. is
putting; is rewiring; is building.
II.
Correct the errors.
1. is passing
→
passes; is shooting
→
shoots.
2. OK.
3. are crying.
4. OK.
5. am knowing
→
know.
6. am gathering
→
gather.