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Unit 4 computer facts

I.词性转换

1) aware (adj) 意识到，察觉-- awareness ( n. ) –unaware (adj.) 没有意识到，未察觉--- unawareness (n.)

2) real (adj.) 真的---- realize （v）实现; 意识到--- really (adv.) 真正地; 确实地;

3) rare (adj.)稀少的，稀罕的--- rarely (adv.) 罕有，很少

4) type (v.) -- typist (n.) 打字员--- typewriter (n.) 打字机

5) print (v.) --- printer (n.) 打印机--- printing (n.)印刷

6) depend (v.)依靠--- dependant (adj.) 依靠的，依赖的-- independent (反义) 独立的

7) important (adj.)– importantly (adv.) -- importance (n.)

8) operate (v.) 动手术，操控– operation (n.) 手术，操作

9) electron (n.) 电子--- electronic (adj.) 电子的

10) electricity (n.) 电--- electric (adj.) 电的，用电的--- electrical (adj.) 与电有关的

11) calculate (v.) 计算--- calculator (n.)计算器--- calculation (n.) 计算-- calculating (adj.)计算用的

12) mean (meant, meant) V. –meaning (n.) –meaningful (adj.) 意味深长的--- meaningless (adj.) 毫无意义的

13) true (adj)– truly (adv.) 真实地，真正地— truth (n.) 事实，真相

II. 词组

1) seem to do sth. 似乎做某事

2) be short of 短缺

3) pocket money 零花钱

4) an ATM machine 自动取款机

5) CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive 光驱

6) flash disc U盘

7) main unit 主机

8) in the 1940s 在一九四几年

9) in one’s forties在某人四十几岁时

10) in the nineteenth century 在19世纪

11) since then 自从那时起，（用于现在完成时）

12) from then on 从那以后，用于一般过去式

13) become smaller and smaller 变得越来越小

14) a desktop computer 台式电脑

15) a laptop 手提电脑

16) a palmtop computer 掌上电脑

17) the size of……的大小

18) be unaware of --- not knowing about 没有意识到，未察觉

19) be aware of 意识到，察觉

20) depend on = rely on 依靠，依赖

21) realize one’s dream 实现某人的梦想

22) give wrong answers 给出错误的答案

23) more importantly 更重要的是

24) most importantly 最重要的是

25) operate railways 控制地铁

26) fly aeroplanes and spaceships 操控飞机和宇宙飞船

27) for these reasons 出于这些原因

28) electronic brains 电脑

29) the answer to this question 这个问题的答案

30) the key to the door 门的钥匙

31) the solution to the problem 问题的解决办法

32) for the time being = at present 暂时，眼下, 目前现在

33) create new ideas 创造新的想法

34) a human brain 人脑

35) be good at…--- be better at…擅长于（比较级）

36) raise some questions 提出一些问题

37) spend one’s life / lives 过日子

38) buy a program 买一个程序

39) recognize one’s voice辨认出某人的嗓音

40) give commands to sb. 给……发出指令

41) obey one’s commands服从某人的命令

42) hold millions pages of writing 容纳几百万页文字

43) read about…阅读……的相关资料

44) a famous person from history 一个历史名人

45) listen to …doing sth. 听某人做某事

46) order some office products 订一些办公用品

47) reference number 编号

48) grand total 合计

49) blank DVD 空白的DVD

50) high-back chair 高背椅

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1. 她连水都不愿喝一口，更别提留下来吃饭了。(much less) 2. 他认为我在对他说谎，但实际上我讲的是实话。(whereas) 3. 这个星期你每天都迟到，对此你怎么解释？(account for) 4. 他们利润增长的部分原因是采用了新的市场策略。(due to) 5. 这样的措施很可能会带来工作效率的提高。(result in) 5. 这样的措施很可能会带来工作效率的提高。(result in) 6. 我们已经在这个项目上投入了大量时间和精力，所以我们只能继续。(pour into) Unit2 1. 尽管她是家里的独生女，她父母也从不溺爱她。(despite) 2. 迈克没来参加昨晚的聚会，也没给我打电话作任何解释。(nor) 3. 坐在他旁边的那个人确实发表过一些小说，但决不是什么大作家。(next to; by no means) 4. 他对足球不感兴趣，也从不关心谁输谁赢。(be indifferent to) 5. 经理需要一个可以信赖的助手，在他外出时，由助手负责处理问题。(count on) 6. 这是他第一次当着那么多观众演讲。(in the presence of sb.) Unit3 1. 你再怎么有经验，也得学习新技术。(never too... to...) 2. 还存在一个问题，那就是派谁去带领那里的研究工作。(Use an appositional structure) 3. 由于文化的不同，他们的关系在开始确实遇到了一些困难。(meet with) 4. 虽然他历经沉浮，但我始终相信他总有一天会成功的。(ups and downs; all along) 5. 我对你的说法的真实性有些保留看法。(have reservations about) 6. 她长得并不特别高，但是她身材瘦，给人一种个子高的错觉。(give an illusion of) Unit4 1. 有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？(Use "it" as the formal subject) 2. 不管黑猫白猫，能抓住老鼠就是好猫。(as long as) 3. 你必须明天上午十点之前把那笔钱还给我。(without fail) 4. 请允许我参加这个项目，我对这个项目非常感兴趣。(more than + adjective) 5. 人人都知道他比较特殊：他来去随意。(be free to do sth.) 6. 看她脸上不悦的神色，我觉得她似乎有什么话想跟我说。(feel as though) Unit5 1. 他说话很自信，给我留下了很深的印象。(Use "which" to refer back to an idea or situation) 2. 我父亲太爱忘事，总是在找钥匙。(Use "so... that..." to emphasize the degree of something) 3. 我十分感激你给我的帮助。(be grateful for) 4. 光线不足，加上地面潮湿，使得驾驶十分困难。(coupled with) 5. 由于缺乏资金，他们不得不取消了创业计划。(starve of) 6. 每当有了麻烦，他们总是依靠我们。(lean on) Unit6 1. 就像机器需要经常运转一样，身体也需要经常锻炼。(as... so...) 2. 在美国学习时，他学会了弹钢琴。(while + V-ing) 3. 令我们失望的是，他拒绝了我们的邀请。(turn down) 4. 真实情况是，不管是好是坏，随着新科技的进步，世界发生了变化。(for better or worse) 5. 我班里的大多数女生在被要求回答问题时都似乎感到不自在。(ill at ease) 6. 当地政府负责运动会的安全。(take charge of)Unit7

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Unit 7 The Monster Deems Taylor 1He was an undersized little man, with a head too big for his body ― a sickly little man. His nerves were bad. He had skin trouble. It was agony for him to wear anything next to his skin coarser than silk. And he had delusions of grandeur. 2He was a monster of conceit. Never for one minute did he look at the world or at people, except in relation to himself. He believed himself to be one of the greatest dramatists in the world, one of the greatest thinkers, and one of the greatest composers. To hear him talk, he was Shakespeare, and Beethoven, and Plato, rolled into one. He was one of the most exhausting conversationalists that ever lived. Sometimes he was brilliant; sometimes he was maddeningly tiresome. But whether he was being brilliant or dull, he had one sole topic of conversation: himself. What he thought and what he did. 3He had a mania for being in the right. The slightest hint of disagreement, from anyone, on the most trivial point, was enough to set him off on a harangue that might last for hours, in which he proved himself right in so many ways, and with such exhausting volubility, that in the end his hearer, stunned and deafened, would agree with him, for the sake of peace. 4It never occurred to him that he and his doing were not of the most intense and fascinating interest to anyone with whom he came in contact. He had theories about almost any subject under the sun, including vegetarianism, the drama, politics, and music; and in support of these theories he wrote pamphlets, letters, books ... thousands upon thousands of words, hundreds and hundreds of pages. He not only wrote these things, and published them ― usually at somebody else’s expense ― but he would sit and read them aloud, for hours, to his friends, and his family. 5He had the emotional stability of a six-year-old child. When he felt out of sorts, he would rave and stamp, or sink into suicidal gloom and talk darkly of going to the East to end his days as a Buddhist monk. Ten minutes later, when something pleased him he would rush out of doors and run around the garden, or jump up and down off the sofa, or stand on his head. He could be grief-stricken over the death of a pet dog, and could be callous and heartless to a degree that would have made a Roman emperor shudder. 6He was almost innocent of any sense of responsibility. He was convinced that