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V
. Key to Exercises
V
ocabulary
[1].
Become familiar with the rules of word formation.
1. Make compound adjectives following
the given example.
1. blood-soaked
2. hand-made
3. sugar-coated
5. church-controlled
4.
enemy-occupied
2. Translate the
following expressions into Chinese paying
attention to
the different use of
the
prefix
l
解开拴狗的铁链
7
打开门锁
2
解开外套扣子
8
解开绳子
3
脱去婴
儿的衣服
9
卸掉船上的货
4
把鸟从笼子里放出去
10
揭露秘密
5
拉开短上衣的拉链
11
打开包裹
6
拔开瓶塞
12
展开卷着的地圈
3 Decide whether the adjectives in the
brackets can he used as verbs ~r should be turned
into verbs
by adding the verb suffix
1.
thickened
6. widened, deepened
2.
thinning
7.
narrow
3. emptied
8. wetted, cleared
4. cool
9. weakened
5. warmed
10. slow, quicken
[2] Translate the following phrases
into English.
1,
keep a dog, keep a car, keep horses, keep fish,
raise children
2. gain
strength, gain weight, gain speed, gain profits,
gain experience
3. upset the basket, upset a person,
upset a plan, upset the balance
4. make a fire, set fire, light a fire,
catch fire, put out fire
5. raise the rifle/gun, lift one's
head, poke one's head, tower one's head. rinse
one's voice.
lower one's voice
6. lay/set the table, lay
the foundation, lay a trap, sit on eggs
7. fog the mind, confused
the readers, complicate the matter
8. fill the pipe, fill the box, fill
the gap, store/gather food, store information
store nuclear
waste
[3]
Complete the following sentences by translating
the Chinese in the brackets
according to the sentence patterns in
bold.
1.
that the time bomb exploded
2, that the terrible earthquake took
place in Tangshan
3.
until it was too late
4. until after
he died
5. before I
came to realize my mistake
6.
before man began to know that they could not try
to conquer nature day and night
7, before 1 remembered that I bad
forgotten to tell her something important
8. before he lost his wife
in a car accident
9,
Not that my husband was the most clever or the
most handsome
10. Not that she doesn't
have her share of serious problems
l
1. when we bad to worry where our next meal might
be
12. when we did not have to be afraid
that there would not be enough clean air and water
13. , who gave us great joy
14.
which changed every aspect of our life
I5.
shivering with cold
16. with his
clothes soaked with blood
17. described
as one of the most forgetful persons in the world
ever
18. the most upright person
in the world ever
19. only to
drop it on his own toes
20. only to
find the man a police officer
[4]
Rewrite the following sentences replacing the
parts in bold type with the correct
form of the words and expressions
listed below. Some answers may be used more
than once.
1. Fan the fire back to life
6. in search of, has been
left unchanged
2.
in search of
7.
caused (to fall), eventually
3. all the
best for him, for life
8.
sailed, demanding
4. work his way through
9.
demanded, taken its toll on
5. not that, serve
10. come into focus
[5] Fill
in the blanks with the correct prepositions or
adverbs.
1.
across, for, out
6. to
2. by, over
7. up, for,
into
3.
across/upon, out, from
8. through, into
4. for, to
9. at, with,
in, to
5.
upon, with
[6]
Translate the following sentences using words and
phrases taken from the text.
l. I am quite curious how
you came to decide to study English.
2. It wasn't until the
reform and opening-up started when people began to
realize that the
market was not a bad thing.
3. None of those generals,
officials and scholars knew how to weigh the
elephant, but
young child
suddenly came up with a brilliant idea.
4. The biggest
difficulty we came across/up against was lack of
food. Therefore it never
came to our mind that one day we might
have to live on a diet.
5. I have never heard of this
expression. Where did you come across it?
6, The paint of
that old temple is coming off It needs repainting.
7. The water
here was not deep. It only came to an ordinary
man's chest. So they conic
easily come across the river here.
8.
The
door
opened
suddenly
and
out
jumped
a
dog.
It
started
barking
at
me
and
didn't
quiet
down until its master came out.
9. Gone was the beautiful
meadow, and in its place stood a big hotel.
10. Our most urgent need is
to protect the life of those Chinese who were
kidnapped by the
terrorists.