Unit 5 key to exercises

Unit 5

Preview

1. Listen to the recording of the textand then fill in the blanks in

the following sentences.

1. More and more impatient; happen; hurry

2.fast; fast food; fast photos; entertainment; news; seek; quick fix; do it now; get it over and done with 3. saving; spending; save more time 4. better; balance; put the brakes; slow down

Vocabulary

4. Give the adjective forms of the following nouns and verbs.

1) attentive6) true, truthful11) massive 2) personal7) impatient12) moved, moving 3) convenient8) weighty13) medical, medicinal 4) symbolic9) informative14) pervasive 5) favorable, favorite10) devoted15) musical

3.Rewrite the sentences below using the expressions given in the brackets.

1)We have decided to slow down in our economic growth so as to devote ourselves more to the improvement of people’s living standard. 2) Lucy is good at swimming. More often than not she can win a prize in a contest. 3) My sister said that she wanted to be on her own instead of working for that company any longer, but she had not saved up enough for capital. She wondered if I could help her out. 4) Thanks to government policy that the unemployment rate has dropped. It was reduced to less than four percent for the first half of the year. 5) Joe was crazy about the raw fish and he stuffed himself with it. That night, the fish didn’t agree with him, and he had a terrible stomachache. Finally he had to go to the hospital for quick relief. 6) I am getting sick and tired of this unpleasant job. We have been lingering over it for almost a week. Let’s finish it today somehow to get it over and done with. 7)The new president ordered professors to double their publications in three years hoping that that would make the school more famous. Well, he sped out of control.. Teaching suffered because the professors did not have enough time to devote to it. The quality of their publications also suffered and so did the professor’s health

55.rTranslate the following sentences into English.

1) The government will have to decide when and how to put brakes on the economy before it speeds out of control. 2) Why waste money building an airport in the middle of nowhere? We must not ignore the fact that what people here need most is clean water and clean air. 3) They thought they might take a different route on their return trip so as to explore the great canyon in Tibet.

4) She traveled around the world and came back home quite a changed person, educated and greatly revitalized. 5)There is no easy fix for our social problems. We should explore all possibilities and move one step at a time. 6) All old traditions die a slow and lingering death. Customs and habits that have taken so long to form can’t be expected to disappear overnight. 7) Madam Chang was considered a pioneer who advocated combining classic Chinese music with Western music. 8)I was so stunned when I heard the news, that for quite some time I didn’t know what to say. 9) The soldiers are learning how to survive in the wilderness. 10)I’ll go there with you if you insist. But really I won’t be much help to you. Grammar

1. Practice using the gerund and the to-infinitive.

2. Translate, choosing between the gerund and the to-infinitive.

1) Remember to bring your ID with you when you go to the airport. 2) I remember feeling greatly disappointed after my first job interview. 3) Finally they decided to apologize to the passengers for what had happened. at the airport. 4)I’m sorry that I clean forgot to passthe message to Big Li. 5)At midday we stop to have lunch in a fast food restaurant. 6)I stopped listening about the disaster on the radio, but I 4. Learn to recognize and use various forms of attributive

5. modifiers (定语).as too shocked to move out of the chair. 2. Translate the Chinese in brackets using the grammatical

forms as shown in the above six sentences.

1)something important to say 2) known as a nation on wheels 3)as well-informed about Beijing opera as Anna 4) called the sixth generation of Chinese directors 5) living and working overseas/abroad/in foreign countries 6)with a big nose and big hands 7) sitting in the corner 8) to play center forward (AmE) /central forward (BrE)on the university team 9) anything particular to do 10)all the things mentioned above

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