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Book4 课后习题及答案

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精读Ⅳ课后题及答案

Unit 1 Never Give In，Never，Never，Never

I. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.

1. ... I came down here at your Head Master's kind invitation in order to cheer myself...

2. ... can anyone sitting here this afternoon ... not feel deeply thankful for what

has happened in the time that has passed and for the very great improvement in the position of our country and our home?

3. We had the unmeasured menace of the enemy and their air attack still beating upon us...

4. ... They do not always expect that each day will bring up some noble chance of war...

5. There was no flinching and no thought of giving in...

6. I want to do so last year, but I did not venture to...

Key:

1.encourage

2.situation, circumstance

3.threat

4.good

5.a sudden small movement because of pain or fear

6.dare to express at the risk of denial

Ⅱ.Fill in the blanks with appropriate forms of the given words.

1. By the end of 2002, the corporation had to sell all products cheaply, price had fallen _____(catastrophe),

as advanced economies had under gone a profound transition.

2. Johnson isn't tired of Tokyo, it seems, but appearance can be _____(deceive).

3. Although a step forward had been taken, their religious _____(convict) prevented them from taking up

arms.

4. Many young man are not allowed to go out, _____(apparent) because of fears that they may join the

army in exile.

5. The ability of _____(persevere) despite of obstacles and setbacks is the quality people most admire in

others.

6. Now these are people who have lived with war for no more than two decades, and nobody____(flinch)

when when they hear gunfire unless it's very close.

7. Few Europeans who____(venture) beyond the Himalayas have returned to tell the tale.

8. Whoever this woman is, she made of____(stern) than a man is when facing unpredictable hardships. Key:

1.catastrophically

2.deceptive

3.convictions

4.apparently

5.perseverance

6.flinches

7.ventured

8.sterner

1. She wouldn't want to ____ them ____ the suffering of a huge ceremony.

2. The famous orator ____ the public to his newly-published book which could add to his reputation.

3. At that period, South Africa ____ a period of unchangeable events as the Black were fighting for

equality.

4. _____ 1978, we should not be surprised about some of Mrs. Thatcher's comments, bearing in mind the

party she belong 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 Key:

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.misfortune

Ⅳ Explain the meaning of the underlined word or phrase in each sentence.

1. After a molecule has lost an electron, it has a positive charge

2. It has not until almost the end of the nineteenth century that a virus was proven to be the cause of a

disease.

3. Pure feldspar is a colorless transparent mineral, but impuritiescommonly make it opaque and colorful.

4. I've been a bit down this week, especially after our team lost in game.

5. Because you have not found the summer job yet, you have to step up your efforts.

6. She is a good student and absorbs new idea quickly.

Key:

1.current

2.shown

3.frequently

4.depressed

5.try harder

6.takes in

Grammar exercise

Ⅱ. Improve the following sentence.

1. Skateboarding is both exciting and there is danger in it too.

2. The school teaches shorthand, bookkeeping and to use business machines.

3. The nurse wrote down my name, my address, and how old I was.

4. The sentence is difficult to understand not because of the technical vocabulary but because the syntax

faulty.

5. Marian could not decide wether she should start college right after high school or to get job first,

6. The Allies decide to invade Italy and then that they would launch a massive assault on the Normandy

coast.

7. The actor was not only stunned by the noise of booting but also by the sight of flying tomatoes.

8. Smoking cigarettes can be as dangerous as to play Russian roulette.

Key:

1. Skatebording is both exciting and dangerous.

2. The school teaches short hand, bookkeeping and the use of business machines.

3. The nurse wrote down my name, address and age.

4. The sentence is difficult to understand not because of the technical vocabulary but because of the faulty

syntax.

5. Marian could not decide wether to start college right after high school or to get a job first.

6. The Allies decide to invade Italy and then to launch a massive assault

Ⅲ. Combine the sentence in each of the following sets into a compound sentence, using parallel construction if possible.

1. A. Heidi Ross was rich. B. Heidi Ross was powerful.

2. A. Most of the floggings and lynching occur at harvest time.

B. At harvest time, fruit hangs heavy and ripe.

C. At harvest time, the leaves red and gold.

D. At harvest time, nuts fall from the trees.

E. At harvest time, the earth offers best.

3. A. I have nothing to offer. B. I can offer blood.

C. I can offer toil.

D. I can offer tears.

E. I can offer sweat.

4. A. Black people in America have been neglected for years.

B. Black people in America have been underestimated for many years.

C. Their recent accomplishments in variety of fields have made "black power" a reality.

D. Their recent accomplishments in a variety of fields have made black pride possible.

Key

1. Heidi Ross was both rich and powerful.

2. Most of the floggings and lynchings occur at harvest time, when fruit hangs heavy and ripe, when the

leaves are red and gold, when nuts fall from the trees, when the earth offers its best.

3. I have nothing to offer but blood, tears, and sweat.

4. Black people in America have been neglected and underestimated for many years, but their recent

accomplishments in a variety of fields have made "black power "real and black pride possible.

Ⅳ. Put the following into the negative.

1. Don't let us speak of dark days.

2. Don't miss your appointment without letting the doctor know in advance.

3. Don't use more water than necessary.

4. Don't let the children go swimming alone.

5. Don't cross the street without looking carefully.

6. Don't drive your car without a license.

Key

1. Let us speak of the darker days.

2. Miss your appointment without letting the doctor know in advance.

3. Use more water than necessary.

4. Let the children go swimming alone.

5. Cross the street without looking carefully.

6. Drive your car without a license.

Ⅴ. Make sentences of your own after the sentences given below, keeping the underlined structures in your sentences.

1. ...to many countries it seemed that our account was closed, we were finished.

2. ...and by what seemed almost a miracle to those outside these island, though we ourselves never

doubted it, we now find ourselves in a position where I say we can be sure that we have only to persevere to conquer.

Key

1. It seemed that nobody knew what had happened.

It seems to me that I have been neglecting my duty.

2. She seems an unusually clever girl.

It seems to me a marvelous book.

Translation

Ⅰ. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words or phrase given in the bracket.

1.我安排他们在小酒吧见面，但那小伙子一直都没有来。（turn up）

2.你无法仅凭表象判断形势是否变得对我们不利。（tell from appearance)

3.那个士兵每次打仗都冲锋在前，从而赢得了最高荣誉。（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 down)

6.这次演讲我说明两个问题。(address oneself to)

7.我们正在筹划为你举办一次盛大的圣诞聚会。(in somebody's honour)

8.听到那个曲子，我回想起了而同时代。(throw one's mind back)

Key

1. I had arranged for them to meet each other at the pub but the young man never turned up.

2. You cannot tell merely from appearance whether things will turn out unfavourable to us or not.

3. The soldier, who stood in the gap in every battle, gained the highest honors if the country.

4. The chairman spoke so forcefully that the rest of the committee yielded to his opinion.

5. 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 this lecture.

7. We are planning a big Christmas party in your honor.

8. Hearing that tune threw my mind back to my childhood.

Ⅱ. Translate the following sentence into Chinese.

They tell us that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be

strong? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy caused of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. The battle is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave,. Sir, we have no selection. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! The war is inevitable ---and let it come! I repeat, sir, let it come! Key

他们告诉我们，我们很弱小，无法对付如此强大的敌人。但是，我们什么时候才能够强大一些呢？

是下个星期吗？是明年吗？还是我们完全被解除武装之时吗？犹豫不决、无所作为就能使我们积聚力量吗？难道只有仰面而卧，心存幻想，直至让敌人捆住我们的手脚，我们才能找到有效的抵御办法吗？先生们，假如我们适当的运用造物主赋予我们的力量，我们就不弱小。我们拥有300万为争取神圣自由而武装起来的人民，我们拥有这样的国家，这是敌人可能派遣来的任何军队都无法战胜的。战争的胜利不仅仅是属于强者，胜利还属于警觉的人、主动的人、无畏的人。先生们，我们已别无选择。即使我们卑躬屈膝，指望从战争中脱身，也为时已晚。除了屈服、沦为奴隶，我们没有退路！战争已迫在眉睫———让它到来吧！先生们，请允许我重复一遍：让它到来吧！

Unit 2Space Invaders

Vocabulary exercises

Ⅰ. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.

1. ... I was standing in a line snaking around some tired velvet ropes...

2. The phrase "personal space"has a quaint, seventies ring to it...

3. Or perhaps the proliferation of coffee bars in Manhattan ... is infusing so much caffeine into the already

jiangling locals....

4. "Don't tread on me" could have been coined only by someone with a spread.

5. ...anything less than a hug may come across as chilliness.

6. I've also noticed an increase in the ranks of what I think of as space invaders...

Key

1. loose

2. tone

3. the already

4. invented

5. unfriendliness

6. the people who belong to a group

Ⅱ. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part in each sentence without changing its original meaning.

1. The drawbacks here are that the customer has to deposit a minimum of $100 monthly.

A. invest

B. reserve

C. lay down

D. place for safekeeping

2. Some of the ideas are very complicated and sound intuitivelyplausible.

A. instinctively

B. directly

C. frankly

D. Reasonably

3. Expertly he zigzagged his way across the grassland, avoiding the deeper gullies and making good time.

A. tramped

B. trod

C. traveled

D. piloted.

4. Relentless in his pursuit of quality, his technical skill was remarkable.

A. pitiless

B. merciless

C. ruthless

D. unrelenting

5. Why are the contents the next person's shopping trolley always more alluring than one's own.

A. dissuasive C. allusive C. attractive D. seductive

6. I believe that people should live in houses that allow them toshrink from the harsh realities of life.

A. wither

B. retreat

C. hide

D. avoid

Key

1. D

2. A

3. B

4. D

5. C

6. B

Ⅲ. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a 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 rend 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

banlance.

Key

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. breathing down their necks

Ⅳ. Explain the meaning of the underlined word or phrase in each sentence.

1. The National Research Council, initiated during World WarⅠ,was continued after the war for

the encouragement of research in the natural sciences.

2. In the tropics, bumblebee last for many years, but in temperate regions the workers and the drones die in

the fall.

3. Sakajawa, a Snosneone Indian woman, readily agreed to act as interpreter and guide for the Lewis and

Clark expeditions across the North America continent.

4. The hockey match was off because of the heavy rain.

5. He doesn't have much money, but that's not the point.

6. The constant sunshine and mild climate of southern California made it an ideal site for shooting motion

pictures.

Key

1. promotion

2. endure

3. willingly

4. canceled

5. the most important thing

6. warmer than usual

Grammar exercise

Ⅰ. Note the use of can, could may in the following sentence.

1. Like the twelve - mile limit around our national shores, personal space is our individual border motion

beyond which no stranger can penetrate without making us uneasy..

2. T - shirt weather can make proximity more alluring.

3. Or perhaps the proliferation of coffee bars in Manhattan -----the number seems to double every three

months ---- is infusing so much caffeine into the already jangling locals that people can no longer keep to themselves.

4. " Don't tread on me " could have been coined only by someone with a spread.

5. To an Englishman, a handshake can seem like trespassing, whereas to a Brazilian, anything less than a

hug may come across as chilliness.

6. In the same way that the breeze from a butterfly's wings in Janpan may eventually produce a tidal wave

in California, I have decided to expand the contracting boundaries of personal space.

Key

1. is able to

2. possibly

3. are able to

4. possibly

5. (logically) possibly, possibly

6. is possible to

Ⅱ. Rewrite the following sentences, using can, could, may or might.

1. He is in poor health. It is possible for him to fall ill at any time.

2. John looks pale today. It is possible that he is ill.

3. John was able to swim then he was five.

4. Visitors were to allowed to take photos of the castle.

5. Am I allowed to borrow your phone?

6. Nobody knows where he is. Maybe is in the library, or maybe he is in the lab.

7. It is possible that John has read Hamlet.

8. I looked everywhere but I failed to find my dictionary.

Key

1.… He can fall ill at any time.

2.… He may be ill.

3.John could swim when he was five.

4.Visitors could take photos of the castle.

5.Could/Can/Might/May I use your phone.

6.… He can be in the library or in the lab.

7.John may have read Hamlet.

8.I looked everywhere but I couldn’t find my dictionary.

Ⅲ. Complete the sentences with so, do, one or not.

1. A: Are you going to have a test tomorrow?

B: I think _______.

2. A: Will your flight be cancelled because of the bad weather．

B: I hope ______.

3. A: You don't like dishonesty, do you?

B: Of course not. Actually, nobody _____.

4. A: Are cats colour ----blind?

B: I believe ______.

5. A: What about going there in your car?

B: My car is too small. Let's rent a bigger ________.

6. A: Is the nearest post office on King's Road?

B: I don't think _______.

7. A: I always forget to lock the door.

B: So _____I.

8. A: They started learning English in primary school.

B: We _______，too.

Key

1. so

2. not/so

3. does

4. so

5. one

6. so

7. do

8. Did

Ⅳ. Combine the too sentences into one, using so or such.

1. It is a surprise. I can't get over it.

2. It was horrible weather. We spent the whole day indoors.

3. Poor Suan had a bad headache. She couldn't get to sleep.

4. Jack was out of breath. He couldn't speak at first.

5. The music was loud. You could hear it from miles away.

6. The shirt became stiff. He couldn't put them on.

Key

1.It is such a surprise that I can’t get over it.

2.It was such horrible weather that we spent the all day indoors.

3.Poor Susan had such a bad headache that she couldn’t get to sleep.

4.Jack was so out of breathe that he couldn’t speak at first.

5.The music was so loud that you could hear it from miles away.

6.The shirt became so stiff that he couldn’t put them on.

Ⅴ. Make sentences of your own after the sentences given below, keeping the underlined structures in your sentences.

1. To an Englishman, a handshake can seem like trespassing, whereas to a Brazilian, anything less than a

hug may come across as chilliness.

2. In the same way that the breeze from a butterfly's wings in Japan may eventually produce a tidal wave

in California, I have decided to expand the contracting boundaries of personal space.

Key

1.He thought I was lying, whereas I was telling the truth.

My children want to live in town, whereas I myself would rather live in the country.

2.In the same way that every baby’s face is different from every other’s, every baby’s pattern of

development is different from every other’s.

In the same way that the heart is the important organ for sustaining life, engine plays an irreplaceable.

Translation

Ⅰ. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words or phrase given in the bracket.

1. 那只鸽子被卡在树杈里，不一会儿就跌落下来。（wedge sth. /sb. in）

2. 驾车人该付多少钱要根据他对别人车子造成的损坏程度而定。（be proportional to）

3. 你只有伏在地上慢慢爬过一条狭长的地道才能走出山洞。（inch）

4. 她一边结结巴巴地说着道歉的话，一面羞怯的朝门口走去。（sidle）

5. 他尽力向我们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们声称草坪属于他们，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

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 pe rson’s car.

3.You can only enter the cave by inching through a narrow tunnel on you 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 h er made her uneasy and she couldn’t help quickening her steps.

Ⅱ. Translate the following passage into Chinese.

In some culture a significant aspect of spatial perception is shown by the amount of "personal space"

people need between themselves and others to feel comfortable and not crowed. North Americans, for instance, seem to require about four feet of space between themselves and the people near them to feel

comfortable. On the other hand, people from Arab countries and Latin America feel comfortable when they are close to each other. People from different cultures, therefore, may unconsciously infringe on each other's sense of space. Thus just as different perception of time may create cultural conflicts, so too may different perceptions of space.

Key

在某些文化中，空间感觉的一个重要的体现于人们所需要的彼此感觉舒适却又不觉得拥挤的“私人空间”。例如，北美人彼此感觉舒适所需要的空间距离大约是4英尺。而阿拉伯人和拉美人反而是彼此靠近才会感觉舒服。因此，不同文化的人可能会无意间侵犯别人的空间感。正如不同的时间观可能会造成文化冲突，不同的空间观也可能引发同样的问题。

Unit 3 Alienation and the Internet

Vocabulary exercises

Ⅰ. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.

1. It is my personal belief that human potential can only be realize by the globalization of ideas.

2. ...the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual

users.

3. ...he said he was "addicted," and has "forced" himself to go off-line.

4. Automobile ownership because commonplace and suburbs were created."Progress" was their mantra.

5. However, based on my personal experience I can understand how, as they surf the web some folks

might be confronted with cognitiveoverload.

6. Some would argue that virtual existences created by some users who debate, shop, travel and have

romance on line are in fact not real.

Key

1. ability to develop, achieve or succeed

2. causing to feel very distant from or not welcome to others

3. liked it very much and wanted to spend as much time doing it as possible

4. a word or phrase which is often repeated to express a belief

5. more information than one can cope with

6. a set of images and sounds produced by a computer which seems so real that for most purposes it can be

regarded as real

Ⅱ. Choose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part in each sentence without changing its original meaning.

1. The president warned, "America must get rid of the hangover we all have because of economic binge we

just went through," referring to the long period of inflated stock prices that sent Americans streaming into the market.

A. indulgence

B. speculation

C. habit

D.inflation

2. There is a small difference in meaning between the two words.

A. mild

B. s light

C. moderate

D. minimal

3. Crab connoisseurs need not lament because king crab legs are still available at the festival, along with

plenty of other seafood.

A. mourn

B. fell regret

C. depress

D. dissatisfy

4.There's always intense media coverage of airplane crash and that can really play into people's fears

and skew their perceptions of how safe it is to fly.

A. misconceive

B. change

C. distort

D.preoccupy

5. The creature survive in a thin atmosphere of hydrogen and carbon and dioxide and in a special brew of

volcanic ash altered to simulatethe properties of Martian soil, including its density, grain size and magnetic properties.

A. pretend to be

B. imitate

C. reproduce

D. unify

6. This budget place short-term, political partisan gratification ahead of the nation's needs.

A. satisfaction

B. pleasure

C. nomination

D. bonus

7. She gradually perceived that her parent had been right.

A. noticed

B. knew

C. sccepted

D. realized

8. Reputation is important and a big international bank just can't afford to alienate client in countries

around the world.

A separate B. give up C. discord D. distance

Key

1. A

2. B

3. B

4. C

5. B

6. A

7. D

8. D

1. John's mind is always full of fantasies. He dreams of changing the world________.

2. Edward Stuart became a brilliant scholar, but only at__________ his health.

3. The corporation was determined to push forward the policy of reform, but the new system

_________great difficulty at the start.

4. In order to gain the utmost amount of benefit, this corporation ________the exceptional opportunities

open in exports.

5. It present in satirical terms point made _________by catholic writers, which proved to be a success.

6. Two tennis courts and a swimming pool _______the regular members of the club, but the season tickets

are only valid for three month.

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 statement said he hoped the agreement ________them ________about the futility of

violence.

Key

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

Ⅳ. Explain meaning of the underlined word or phrase in each sentence.

1. Large deposit of limestone and clay can be found in the northernreaches of the state of Washington.

2. Several colleges and universities in the United States are nowrequiring that their students purchase

personal computers.

3. The use of mechanical refrigerators became widespread in United States in the 1920's.

4. Could we go out tomorrow night instead? I'd rather have a quiet evening in tonight.

5. Becky will fill you in on what happened at the last meeting.

6. You can lose yourself in a sea of identical hairstyles and thought styles.

Key

1. expanses

2. thinking it necessary

3. commonplace

4. at home

5. tell you

6. large number

Grammar exercise

Ⅰ. Put the following into indirect speech.

1. " I've been in London for a month, but so far I haven't had time to visit the tower," said Robert.

2. " I was intending to do it tomorrow," he said, "but now I don't think I'll be able to."

3. "Why are so many people interested in on-line shopping?" asked the boy.

4. "Don't make mountains out of molehills, Mary," John said.

5. "When the bell rings take the meant out of the even," my mother said.

6. "Let's surf the Internet ," said Ann.

7. "Need I eat it all, mummy?" said the child.

" Yes, dear, you must, " said the mother.

8. "Tom, you shouldn't spend all time chatting on the Internet," Mr Smith said.

Key

1.Robert said he had been in London for a month, but so far he hadn't had time to visit the tower.

2. He said he had been intending to do it the next day, but then he didn't think he would be able to.

3. The boy asked Why so many people were interested in on-line shopping.

4. John told Mary not to make mountains out of molehills.

5. My mother told me to take the meat out of the oven when the bell rang.

6. Ann suggested surfing the Internet.

7. The child asked his mother if he had to/need eat it all and she said that he must/had to.

8. Mr. Smith advised Tom not to spend all his time chatting on the Internet.

Ⅱ. Combine the sentences in each group into one, using at least one absolute construction.

1. a. There had been no rain. b. The ground was dry.

2. a. When I walked in, Grandpa was sitting at the kitchen table.

b. The newspaper was spread before him.

3. a. The boys leaned against the willow tree.

b. Their fishing poles rested on sticks.

c. Their eyes gazed at the bobs floating on the ripples

4. a. Mark went homeward alone.

b. His heart was full of strange emotion.

5. a. The discussion had been completed.

b. The chairman adjourned the meeting for half an hour.

6. a. The cowboy dominates the pages of many magazines.

b. His hair is dark and curly.

c. His broad shoulder are sloping yet powerful.

d. His expression is calm and confident.

Key

1. There having been no rain, the ground was dry.

2. When I walked in, Grandpa was sitting at the kitchen table, the newspaper spread before him.

3. The boys learned against the willow tree, fishing poles resting on sticks, eyes gazing at the bobs floating

on the ripples.

4.Mark went homeward alone, his heart full of strange emotion.

5. The discussion completed, the chairman adjourned the meeting for half an hour.

6. The cowboy dominates the pages of many magazines, his dark and curly, his broad shoulders sloping

yet powerful and his expression calm and confident.

Ⅲ. Fill in the blank with the gerund or the infinitive of the verb given in the brackets.

1. I try to______(pacify) him but he refuse to ______(pacify) and went on _____(grumble)

2. I am looking forward to______(see ) you.

3. I object to _____(be treated) like a child.

4. I don't feel like ___(do) on lined shopping.

5. He hates ______(answer ) the phone, and very often just let it ____(ring)

3. Two whole pages are devoted to ____ (report) yesterday's bomb explosion.

Key

1. pacify, be pacified, grumbling

2. seeing

3. being treated

4. doing

5. answering, ring

6. reporting

Ⅳ. Review the following sentences. Start with the words given.

1. He had hardly arrived when she started complaining.

Hardly ________________________________________________

2. Once Manton gets logged on the Net, he rarely care anything else.

Rarely ________________________________________________

3. You must not touch this switch under any circumstances.

Under no circumstance ___________________________________

4. They have never known such hardships in all their lives.

Never _________________________________________________

5. He worries so much about his financial position that he can't sleep at night.

So much _______________________________________________

6. He spoke not only more correctly but also more convincingly.

Not only _______________________________________________

7. They succeeded only after several trails.

Only __________________________________________________

Key

1. Hardly had he arrived when she stared complaining.

2. Rarely does Maton care about anything else once he gets logged on to the Net.

3. Under no circumstance must you touch this switch.

4. Never in all their lives have they known such hardships.

5. So much does he worry about his financial position that he can't sleep at night.

6. Not only did he speak more correctly but also more convincingly.

7. Only after several trials did they succeed.

Ⅴ. Make sentences of your own after the sentences given below, keeping the underlined structures in your sentences.

1. It is my personal belief that the human potential can only be realized by the globalization of ideas.

2. He said that he felt like an alcoholic, in that moderate use of the Internet was just not possible for him.

3. All of this being said, I believe that the key to realizing the potential of the Internet is in achieving

balance in out lives.

Key

1. It is my hope that you will not give up your effort.

It was my belief that our team will win the game.

2. I am ready to accept your proposal in that I believe it to be the best you can offer.