现代大学英语第二版精读4 Unit 6 The telephone Key to Exercises

?Unit 6 The Telephone Key to Exercises

?Q Do the following exercises.

?1 Translate, paying attention to the use of the bold type. ?这辆二手车买得很便宜。 ?他的讲话被打断/缩短了。

?在这里建造铁路之前，先要把这里的水抽千。 ?这花瓶擦干净以后看起来就会和新的一样。 ?这房子被刷成了淡绿色。 ?就在那时，门被突然賜开。

?恐怖分子被枪杀，人质都被释放。 ?在日本，鱼往往是生吃的。

?这可怜的孩子生下来就失聪，不久又失明了。

?10.据说在皇陵完工的时候，那些建造皇陵的工人都被活埋在里面。

?2 Give the corresponding adjectives of the following names of countries. ?1. Iraqi ?2. Pakistani ?3. Yemeni ?4. Lebanese ?5. Danish ?6. Hungarian ?7. Belgian ? 8. Argentine ? 9. Swedish ?10. Swiss

?11. Norwegian ?12. Polish

?3 Review how these words are formed.

?These are compound adjectives consisting of a noun plus an adjective with the noun serving as a modifier of the adjective. “Jet-black” for example means “as black as jet (a ?hard black material).”

?Vocabulary

?Q Translate the following expressions. ?Into English

?1. crack the walls ?2. save souls

?3. play hide-and-seek ?4. slow to a trickle ?5. grab sb by the hair ?6. call sb names ?7. rip her shirt

?8.

reveal the secret ?9. resist progress ?10. come into view ?11. gather firewood ?12. talk sb out of doing sth ?13. wriggle one’s way out of the crowd ?14. run errands ?15. deliver sb from suffering ?16. assure a steady supply ?17. take the pressure off sb ?18. keep him out of one’s hair

?Into Chinese ?梯田

?多岩石的群山 ?百日咳 ?周围的村庄 ?林中的一块空地 ?粉尘 ?羊粪

?黏糊糊的双手 ?精瘦强健的妇女 ?旌旗如林

? 第一手资料

?漆黑的头发

? 一位虔诚的天主教徒 ?家务事

?一种让人感到在家般自在的声音 ?手卷香烟

?有利可图/十分挣钱的生意 ?一家肉铺

?它原来模样的空架子 ?一所教会学校

?Q Replace the parts in bold type with appropriate words and expressions from the text. ?1. caved in ?2. charged, lucrative ?3. talk him out of it, resist ?4. an argument, escalating

?5. relayed to/delivered to, assemble/congregate ?6. been reduced to mere skeletons, save/deliver ?7. began to/proceeded to, with utmost gravity ?8. cracked

?9. keep unwanted visitors off your hair ?10. packed with people, wriggle

?K1 Translate the following sentences into English.

?1. Incredible as it may sound, I hear that they charge 40 yuan for a bowl of simple noodles at

the airport.

?2. Sun Quan finally talked everybody into agreeing to put Lu Xun, a young scholar, in charge of/commanding this decisive battle.

?3. He was arrested on the charge of smuggling, but in accordance with the law, no citizen can be arrested without evidence.

?4. She dropped the plate on the ground, but it miraculously did not break, without so much as a crack.

?5. I can assure you that if we dig a well deep enough here, we will strike water. So if you guys have no objection, let’s get started.

?6. She takes delight in shifting the tables and chairs in this room so as to give the room a new look.

?7. The focus of our economic development has shifted from the coastal areas in the east to the central and western areas.

?8. He shifted/changed to the highest gear, thus leaving all the other cars far behind.

?9. I maintained that smoking should be forbidden, but he disagreed because he said that the tobacco industry was an important source of government revenue. ?10. The local people raised a strong objection to installing the cable car over that beautiful mountain.

?Q Choose the right word(s) in their proper forms. ?1. assure ?2. assured ?3. reassuring

?4. insured, ensured ?5. ensure, reassured ?6. reassuringly

?2 1. twisted/turned

?2. twisted ?3. wring ?4. distorted/twisted

?5. twisted

?6. twisted ?7. wringing

?3 1. gathered/assembled ?2. assembling

?3. gather/collect, gathered/collected

?4. gathering, assembled/gathered, collectors ? 5. collect/gather ?6. collect, ?collecting, ?collection

?4 1. crack, break ?2. cracked, tear ?3. tore

?4. split, broke ?5. break, Split ?6. tore/ripped ?7. tom

?5 1. abandoned

?2. abandoned/deserted/forsaken, abandoned/deserted/forsaken

?3. abandon/desert/forsake ?4. desert

?5. forsaken, deserted ?6. abandoned ?1. ignore ?2. neglect ?3. overlook ?4. neglected ?5. ignore ?6. neglecting

?B Point out which of the following sentences contain paradox and which oxymoron. ?1 paradox ?2. paradox ?3. oxymoron ?4. oxymoron ?5. oxymoron

?6. paradox

?7. paradox ?8. paradox ?9. oxymoron ?10. paradox ?11. paradox ?12. paradox ?13. paradox ?14. paradox ?15. oxymoron ?16. paradox

?Grammar

?D Learn to use as and though as concessive conjunctions.

?1 Group the patterns of concessive clauses in the following sentences into the categories listed below.

?Ol，2，3,6 ?4,9 ?5,8 ?7,10

?2 Complete the sentences by translating the Chinese in brackets using the patterns of concessive cl^uscs listed in the previous exercise. ?1 ? Simple as it is

?2. Much as he loves his children ?3. Try as he might ?4. Trash as it is

?5. Happy and contented as they are in retirement

?6. Hard taskmaster though he appeared to be in the lab ?7. Tempting though it was

?8. Perfect talk show host though he is ?9. Much as I respect him

?10. Proud as they are of their father

?B Learn to use It is/was (high) time (that) sb did sth.

?1 Study the use of It is/was (high) time (that) sb did sth in the following sentences and put each into a category listed below.

?The structure “it is/was (high) time (that).\，，is used to convey two meanings. One is “approximately the right time，” the other being “long past the right time.” For example, “It’s ?time you went to bed” can mean either that “You should have gone to bed much earlier” (often stated with emphasis on the word “time”)，or that “Now is the appropriate time for you to go to bed.” The precise meaning of this term depends on the tone of voice and/or the ?context.

?O 1,3, 6, 7 ?2,4,5, 8

?2 Translate the sentences into English using it is/was (high) time (that) sb did sth.

?1. We've been training for the whole morning. It’s time we took a break and had lunch.

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