新标准大学英语3--词汇、句子

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4. Rewrite the sentences using insist that … 1 I met an old friend who refused to let me go before I had a drink with him. I met an old friend, who insisted that I have a drink with him before he let me go. 2 The customs people refused to let me through unless I signed a document they gave me. The customs people insisted that I sign a document they gave me before they let me through.
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2. Rewrite the sentences using might have been / done. 1 It’s possible that the artist and the model became lovers. The artist and the model might have been lovers. 2 It’s possible that Catharina was never jealous of the model. Catharina might never have been jealous of the model.
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3 engage This word can mean to start to employ someone or use their services. (a) If you get engaged to someone, what are you planning to do? You are planning to get married with the person. (b) If government forces have engaged with rebels, what is happening? The government forces are fighting the rebels. (c) If you engage someone in conversation, what do you do? You talk to them and try to interest them in a conversation.

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6 Tracy Chevalier's novel, published in 1999, tells us the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl who needs to start work in order to support her family. She becomes a maid in Vermeer's household, with its five children, grandmother, a long-time servant, and Catharina, Vermeer's volatile wife. While Griet goes about her duties, she attracts the attention not only of a butcher's boy, Pieter, but also of the painter himself. Despite their different backgrounds and class, he invites her into his studio and engages her in his world.
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7 At first Griet merely runs errands and performs tasks for Vermeer. But gradually, his relationship with her changes. Vermeer recognizes Griet as having visual talent and artistic promise, and takes her on as his studio assistant. Griet is wary of her position in the Vermeer household but revels in being encouraged to develop her skills.

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3 What we do as a career isn’t always determined by the marks we get at university. It isn’t always what marks we get at university that determine what we do as a career. 4 How we react to life’s problems is often determined by our childhood experiences. It is often what we experienced in our childhood that determines how we react to life’s problems. 5 When we die is determined by our genetic clock, and the changes we make to it. It’s what our genetic clock is and what changes we make to it that determine when we die.
5 Read the explanations of the words. Answer the questions.
6 Translate the paragraphs into Chinese. 7 Translate the paragraphs into English.
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Find more examples of each use of hyphens in the passage We are all dying . • I’ve double- and triple-checked it. (compound verb) • budding crypt-kickers (compound noun) • a rear-view mirror (compound adjective) • the once-a-year holiday to Florida or Spain (compound adjective) • back-burner stuff (compound adjective) • standing at the corner of the Co-op (compound noun) • a sepia-coloured relative that no one can put a name to (compound adjective)

Unite4我们所谓的激动人心的时代其实很乏味“我们对新奇事物的过度迷恋其实并不新奇”，多米尼克•桑德布鲁克如是说。

我们生活在一个变化的世界里，这种变化前所未有，让人眼花缭乱。

正是因为全球化，国之界限正逐渐瓦解，同时，技术革新正以我们几乎理解不了的方式从根本上重塑着我们的生活。

在21世纪初期，历史的变迁日益加速；这种变迁史无前例，一切都和从前不一样了。

不管怎么说，这就是我们耳熟能详的套话。

可是，我们有这种论调正是缘自我们对新奇事物的过度迷恋，对深层次历史模式的无知，以及我们的狂妄自大。

为了证明相比于先辈们的优越性，我们夸耀说自己生活在一个前所未有的变革期。

但是，有一个很好的例子可以用来证明，实际上我们并没有生活在多么有趣的时代。

就以全球化为例。

其拥护者美国人托马斯•弗里德曼认为，全球化是一个全新的“国际体系”，它影响着“全世界几乎每一个国家的政治、环境、地缘政治以及经济”。

但是，如果把它置于历史的环境中，这个词几乎毫无意义可言。

有哪个社会不曾或多或少地被全球化过呢？例如，罗马帝国完完全全是一个多民族、多文化、跨国界的实体，仅在它的首都就有几十种不同的语言和宗教相互竞存。

古罗马人不但从埃及进口谷物，还向中国和印度购买香料以及器皿，同时，他们出口陶器到其他的国家，甚至卖到了遥远的本地治里。

我们可能会为班加罗尔的呼叫服务中心而兴奋不已，殊不知最先到达那里的还是古罗马人，他们可是常为天下先的。

尽管过去的几十年间生活中方方面面的变化随处可见——比如西方妇女的地位的变化——但我们更应该指出现代生活稳定的一面。

1945年以来西方世界没有发生过大规模的战争，多数国家的国界线半个多世纪以来都保持着原样。

虽然我们总喜欢吹嘘自己的现代性，但是，今天的英国，虽然有美丽的郊野景色和高耸的摩天大楼，对于20世纪四五十年代的人来说，一点都不新奇。

尽管我们对互联网，还有iPod十分热衷，但我们并非生活在一个伟大的技术革新的时代。