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Book 4
Unit 1
I. Fill in the blank in each sentence
with a word or phrase taken from the box in its
appropriate form.
1. She
wouldn’t
want to ______ them _____ the
suffering of a huge ceremony.
2. The
famous orator ________ the public to promote his
newly-published book which could
add to
his reputation.
3. At that period,
South Africa _____ a period of unchangeable events
as the Blacks were
fighting for
quality.
4. ______, we should not be
surprised about some of Mrs. Thatcher’s comments,
bearing in
mind the party she belonged
to.
5. Parley ______ general pressure
from the society and bitterly took the child to a
specialist.
6. The world is changing
rapidly, our plans must change accordingly.
Otherwise, we
should
_______ with the harsh market economy.
7. Martin’s upbringing shaped his whole
life, with so many _______ every now and
then.
8. Julia has been made
to undergo physical and psychological _______ for
her inability in
having children.
II. Translation exercises
1.
我安排他们在小酒吧见面，但那个小伙一直都没有来。<
/p>
(turn up)
2.
你无法仅凭表象判断形势是否会变得对我们不利。
(tell
from appearance)
3.
那个士兵每次打仗
都冲锋在前，从而赢得了国家最高的荣誉。
(stand in the gap)
4.
主席讲话很有说服力，委员会其他成员都听从他的意见。
(yield to)
5.
他们现在生活富裕了，但也曾经历坎坷。
(ups and
downs)
6.
这次演讲我将说明两个问题。
(address
oneself to)
7.
我们正筹划为你举办一次盛大的圣诞聚会。
(in
somebody’s honor)
8.
听到那个曲子，我回想起了儿童时代。
(throw
one’s mind back)
Key:
I.
1.
put…through
2.
addressed himself to
3.
was going through
4.
Throwing our minds back to
5.
yielded to
6.
close an account
7.
ups and downs
8.
misfortunes
1.
2.
I had
arranged for them to meet each other at the pub
but the young man never turned
up.
3.
You cannot tell merely
from appearance whether things will turn out
unfavorable to us
or not.
4.
The soldier, who stood in the gap in
every battle, gained the highest honors of the
country.
5.
The
chairman spoke so frequently that the rest of the
committee yielded to his opinion.
6.
They are well-to-do now, but along the
way they had their ups and downs.
6.
There are two questions
to which I will address myself in the lecture.
7.
We are
planning a big Christmas party in your honor.
8.
Hearing the
tune threw my mind back to my childhood.
Unit 2
I. Fill in
the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase
taken from the box in its
appropriate
form.
1.
As I was about to leave
the restaurant, a young man ______ to me and said,
“May I help
you?”
2. Not satisfied with the present
position in the company, he is trying to ______ a
much greater
role for himself.
3. Women tend to __________ their
success ____ external causes such as assistance
from
friends.
4. Ronald’s
success ________for his place in
Germany’s
world championship team.
5. My job is to challenge, but not
threaten them. So I must be careful not_______
their toes.
6. A young lady and her
little son were seriously injured when a car
_______ them on a
crossing.
7. Loss of weight ________ directly
_________ the rate at which the disease is
progressing.
8. In contemporary
society, most farmers have bank managers _________
in order to secure
their financial
balance.
II. Translation
exercises
1.
那只鸽子被夹在树叉里，不一会儿就跌落下来。
(wedge
sth/)
2.
驾车人该付多少钱需要根据他对别人车
子造成损坏的程度而定。
(be proportional to)
3.
你只有伏在地上慢慢爬过一条狭长的通道才能进入山洞。
(inch)
4.
他一面结结巴巴
地说着道歉的话，一面羞怯地朝门口走去。
(sidle)
5.
他尽力向我解释说不是因为我工作不好而解雇我
,
而是因为公司支付不了我的工资。
(take
pains to)
6.
年轻士兵
的入伍给军队带来了新的希望并鼓舞了士气。
(infuse into)
7.
一旦大一些的男孩子声称草坪属于他们
,
别的孩子就不敢去玩了。
(stake a claim to)
8.
跟在她身后的人让她心神不安
,
她不由得加快了脚步。
(make sb. uneasy)
Key:
I.
1.
sidled up
2.
carve out
3.
attribute…to
4.
staked a claim
5.
to tread on
6.
plowed into
7.
is…proportional to
8.
breading down their
necks
II.
1. The
pigeon was wedged in the fork of a branch but fell
off after a while.
2. The payment that
the motorist will have to make will be
proportional to the amount of
damage
he has done to the other person’s
car.
3. You can only enter
the cave by inching through a narrow tunnel on
your stomach.
4. She stammered some
apology as she sidled towards the door.
5. He took pains to explain to me that
I was being dismissed not because I didn’t do my
work
well but because the company could
not pay my wages.
6. The enlistment of
young soldiers infused new hope and morale into
the army.
7. Once the older boys stake
a claim to the lawn, no other boys dare go on it.
8. The man following her made her
uneasy and she couldn’t help quickening her
steps.
Unit 3
I. Fill in the blank in each sentence
with a word taken from the box in the proper
form.
1. John’s mind if always full of
fantasies. He dreams of changing the
world__________.
2. Edward
Stuart became a brilliant scholar, but
only_____________ his health.
corporation was determined to push forward the
policy of reform, but the new system
____________ great difficulties at the
start.
4. In order to gain the utmost
amount of benefit, this corporation __________ the
exceptional
opportunities open in
exports.
5. It presented in satirical
terms points made ____________ by catholic
writers, which proved
to be a great
success.
6. Two tennis courts and a
swimming pool______________ the regular members of
the club,
but the season tickets are
only valid for three months.
7.
According to the Federal Bureau of Inspection, a
man seen hanging around the area
_________the shooting could have been
involved in the assassination of the President.
8. An opposition statesman said he
hoped the agreement __________ them _________
about
the futility of violence.
II. Translation exercises:
1. 15
年来，
医生们一致用抗癌药
治疗这种疾病，
这些药就像大锤一样打垮患者体内的防御力量。
（
equivalent of
）
2.
无可否认，香烟会使人上瘾。而一旦你上了瘾，就很难戒
除这个习惯了。
(addict)
1.
在日本人生产的一种电子游戏中，玩游戏的人可以模仿爱滋病人患者从染上艾滋病毒知
道死亡的经历。
(simulate)
1.
我肯定，他说你可以用这笔钱继续学习音乐时认真的。
(in
earnest)
2.
我们只能以牺牲质量为代价来提高生
产率，
但这可能会损害公司的声誉。
(at the
expense
of )
1.
探险者遇到了几乎难以逾越的峡谷。
(confront
with)
2.
一名外语教师如果要在中学任教，他最起码要持有正规教育院校颁发的穴位证书。（
at
the
very least
）
1.
我
很快觉察到我无法使他改变想法。（
perceive
）
Key:
I.
1.
for the better
2.
at the expense of
3.
was confronted with
4.
took advantage of
5.
in earnest
6.
are
available for
7.
prior to
8.
would give…pause to
think
II.
1. For the past 15 years, doctors have
tried to treat this disease with anticancer drugs,
equivalent of
a hammer, to
beat down the body’s defense forces.
2. There’s no denying that
smoking is
addictive. And
once you are addicted, it’s very
difficult
to get rid of the
habit.
3. In a Japanese-made video
game, players can simulate the experience of AIDS
from HIV
infection until death.
4. I’m sure he was in earnest when he
said that you could use this money to continue
your
study of
music
5. We can
only increase
production at the expense of quality, which could
ruin the company’s
reputation.
6. The explores
were confronted with an insurmountable valley.
7. A teacher of foreign language should
possess at the very least a graduate degree from a
certified
education school
or institute if he is to teach high school.
8. I soon perceived that I couldn’t
make him change his mind.
Unit 4
I. Fill in
the blank in each sentence with a word taken from
the box in the proper form.
1.
John _______
if the firm needs an Information Technology
engineer because he can
encode programs
for the firm.
2. The old man’s face
_________ the lines of pressu
re and
exhaustion that have accumulated
over
the years.
3. The Johnsons thought
this relative had come just for a short visit, but
it seems he is staying
______.
4. The root of all these events
____________ the feudal system that had existed
for thousands
of years.
5.
____________ history seems to be impossible to be
repeating itself. Otherwise, human
beings cannot make any progress at all.
6. The company actually _________ in
1945 in the war-demolished city of London with the
fund of the commonwealth.
7.
This tribe has lingered on the ________ of
civilization for centuries, but slight advances
have yet been made.
8.
The two parties have decided to settle
the economic disputes between
them____________ in case these matters
will influence their further co-operation.
II. Translation exercises
1.
他们的牛都打上了字母
C
的烙印。
（
be
branded with
）
2.
本赛季
Brooks
真正发挥了一个得
分手（
goal
scorer
）的作用。
（
come into one’s
own
）
3.
一场经济危机正在威胁着那个国家。（
hang
over
）
4.
他是真正发号施令的人物，但他总是躲在幕后。（
in the
background
）
5.
派出信使后，我们所能做的就只有等待了。
（
dispatch
）
6.
你只要一叫，他马上就到。（
in a
flash
）
7.
他们在战争的阴霾下整整生活了
17
年。
（
in the shadow of
）
8.
这
些是现存的最后
7
头东北虎，
如果人类
不加以保护的话，
这一种群的老虎将濒临灭亡。
（
in
existence
）
Key:
I.
1.
will come into his own
2.
is branded with
3.
for good
4.
lay
in
5.
In certain respect
6.
came into existence
7.
outskirts
8.
once and for all
II.
1. Their
cattle were branded with the letter C.
2. In this season Brooks has really
come into his own as a goal scorer.
3.
An economic crisis is hanging over that
country.
4. He is the man who really
gives the order, but he always remains in the
background.
5. After dispatching the
messenger, what is left for us t o do is nothing
but to wait.
6.
You just
have to call and he’s here in a flash.
7. They have lived in the shadow of
war for totally seventeen years.
8.
These are the last seven Northeast Tigers in
existence .If human beings failed to protest
them,
the tigers of this
species would face extinction.
Unit
5
I. Fill in the blank in
each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the
box in its
appropriate form.
1.
At the critical moment of presidential
election, the candidate urged his supporters
to
_________.
2. When you have made up your mind,
___________ a particular day when you will not be
under much stress.
3. From
the age of 52 onwards, General Jackson was not
engaged in ________ at all.
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