新世纪大学英语综合教程4第二版UNIT1课后习题答案

新世纪大学英语综合教程第4( 课后习题答案)UNIT1二版．

Unit One

Man and Nature

Enhance Your Language Awareness

Words in Action

▆ Working with Words and Expressions

1. In the boxes below are some of

the words you have

learned in this unit. Complete the

following sentences

with the words given. Change the

form where

necessary.

▆ Answers:

1) spark

2) compelled

3) bare

4) scrape

5) destruction

6) output

7) retreat

8) tipped

9) miracle

10) eternal

11) pile

12) transfer

13) mass

14) thereby

15) have emerged

16) trigger

17) threaten

18) consumed

19) hollow

2. In the boxes below are some of

the expressions you

have learned in this unit.

Complete the sentences with

them. Change the form where

necessary.

▆ Answers:

1) show signs of

2) cope with

3) lives in fear of

4) tough it out

5) cut down

6) from head to foot

7) searched out

8) nothing short of

9) As yet

10) settle in

11) take heart

▆ Increasing Your Word Power

1. You will read six pairs of

words which are similar in meaning

but are different in usage.

Reflect on the differences in

usage between the words in each

group and fill in each blank with

a proper one. Change the

form if necessary.

▆ Answers:

1) temptation

2) attraction

3) chance

4) opportunity

5) states

6) country

7) warned

8) threatened / threatens

9) refuse

10) reject

11) total

12) gross 2. A blend is a word

produced by combining parts of

other words, such as “comsat”

from “communications” and

“satellite”. Try to find out what

words the following blends are

formed from. You may consult a

dictionary if necessary. ▆

Answers:

Blend Formation Meaning

smog smoke + fog 烟雾

blog web + log 博客

brunch breakfast

+ 早午餐 （早餐和午lunch

餐合为一餐）

automobile +

autocide

撞车自杀 suicide

chunnel channel +

海峡隧tunnel

motor + hotelmotel汽车旅net +

citizen

netizen网+sci-fi

science科幻小fiction

+workaholicwork工作alcoholic

+

wi-fiwireless无线网fidelity

in an adjective Column B with 3.

Fill in the blanks in in opposite

adjective must be Text A. The

target a form and must Column to

the one in A meaning correct

collocation with the noun in

Column C.

Answers:

▆ 1) individual

2) contradictory

3) destructive

4) rational

5) primitive

6) synthetic

7) distant

8) pessimistic

9) irreplaceable

10) enormous Grammar in Context

point

B from following Study 1. the

sentences Text and

out the grammatical function of

each of the present

participles used as an adverbial.

▆ Answers:

1) an adverbial of accompanying

circumstances

2) an adverbial of accompanying

circumstances

3) an adverbial of result

4) an adverbial of result

5) an adverbial of manner;

accompanying

circumstances

6) an adverbial of result

7) an adverbial of time

2. Complete the following

sentences by translating the

Chinese in the brackets into

English, using a present

participle as an adverbial.

▆ Answers:

1) killing thousands upon

thousands of people

2) raising the average yield by 15

percent

3) trying to deduce its operating

principle

4) Seeing that everyone was

bending over his / her book

5) Not having heard from his

parents for a long time

6) leaving the project unfinished

7) Turning to the right

8) Not wanting to make the patient

nervous

Cloze

Complete the following passage

with words chosen

▆

from this unit. The initial letter

of each is given.

▆ Answers:

(1) realm

(2) elemental

(3) obtain

(4) stubbornly

(5) transferred

(6) transformed

(7) subdued

(8) expansion

(9) irreplaceable

(10) extinct

(11) dynamic

(12) verge

(13) moderate

(14) ecological

(15) rational

Translation1. Translate the

following sentences into English,