1-Unit8 My Forever Valentine答案综合教程一
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1 Unit 8 My Forever Valentine
Key to the Exercises
Text comprehension
I. Decide which of the following best states the author‟s purpose of writing.
B
II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.
1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. F
IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences.
1. The festival that really delighted him was Valentine's Day.
2. My first memory of the joy Dad brought to me on Valentine‟s Day goes back to the year when I
was six.
3. That box and its contents led to a series of memories which were a mixture of the sweet ones
and the bitter ones.
4. As I was getting older, the gifts were replaced by heart-shaped boxes.
Vocabulary
I. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.
1. regarded him as
2. brought back to mind a series of experiences, both happy and unhappy, one after another
3. aroused your strong emotion and made you cry
4. were gradually replaced by
5. to a greater degree
II. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box in its appropriate
form.
1. legible
2. timed
3. surpassing
4. sensed
5. relegated 6. signaled
7. perfunctory
8. generosity
9. teasing
10. mark
III. Choose a word or phrase that best completes each of the following sentences.
1-4 CDBB 5-8 ABAD
IV. Fill in each blank with one of the two words from each pair in its appropriate form and note
the difference in meaning between them.1. a. formed b. shaping c. formed d. shaped
2. a. contest b. competition c. competition d. contest
3. a. memories b. memory c. recollection d. recollection
4. a. cheap b. cheap c. inexpensive d. inexpensive
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V. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.
1. rich (well-prepared, complicated, complex)
2. unpleasant (displeasing, disagreeable, bitter, nasty)
3. slacken (decelerate)
4. coldly (bitterly, hatefully, spitefully)
5. lovely (lovable, attractive)
6. shame (disgrace, humiliation)
7. indifferent (half-hearted, thoughtless)
8. selfishness (greediness, meanness)
VI. Rephrase each of the following sentences with the word given in brackets.
1. We insist on having your answer tonight at the latest.
2. My father is going to let me borrow his car tonight.
3. We look upon it as a wonderful opportunity.
4. You surely don't want a fifth ice cream, do you?
5. There is hardly anything in the house to eat tonight.
6. This block of flats now belongs to the bank.
7. Should we really freeze this sort of food?
8. Don't bother to telephone me when you arrive.
Grammar
II. Match the conditions with the results and make up conditional sentences.1. If you lower the temperature of water to 0℃, it freezes.
2. If you fly west, you gain time.
3. If it rains, I stay at home.
4. If water boils, it vapourizes.
5. If your documents are in order, you may leave at once.
6. If there is a shortage of any product, the price of that product goes up.
7. If you heat ice, it turns to water.
8. If you are waiting for a bus, you'd better join the queue.
III. Put the verbs into the correct form.1. pour
2. will be
3. will pick
4. will/shall go
5. is to be done 6. had
7. is to win
8. rained
9. cries
10. was
IV. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense.
1. wouldn't have printed
2. had read
3. will happen
4. will fall 5. comes
6. gets
7. wouldn't buy
8. had
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V. Highlight the underlined parts in the following sentences using „it + be +….+ that‟
1. It is that special place in your heart that makes them beautiful.
2. It was on the day my first son was born that I put them into the soil.
3. It was by train that we reached Istanbul.
4. It was the headmaster who gave us leave to go to the concert.
5. It is because he's been working too hard that he's feeling unwell.
6. It is his grandfather's skills that he has inherited.
7. It was in 1960 that he first achieved his fame as a writer.
8. It was at Waterloo that Napoleon was finally defeated.
Translation
I. Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1. 然而，情人节是爸爸向在他的生活中具有特殊意义的人表达爱的日子。
2. 那个盒子以及里面的东西激起一连串既苦涩又甜美的回忆，令我想起自己是如何涉入到在同学中争宠的竞赛中去，以收到的情人卡的数量来表现自己的人气；令我想起男女同学间关于男女朋友的相互调侃以及我对班上最酷的男孩送给我的卡片的钟情。
3. 我慢慢长大了，装满我喜欢吃的巧克力的心形盒子取代了那些小礼品，而且总有一张特殊的卡片，上面写着“爱你的爸爸”。
4. 那张卡令我想起当父亲是多么特别，我的父亲以他慷慨大度的精神、善解人意的简朴举止以及对与他一生相关的人们表达幸福的能力延续了关爱的传统，那张卡令我想起自己有这样一位父亲在过去的岁月里对我意味着什么。
II. Translate the following sentences into English.
1. At Christmas people enjoy themselves very much; they visit one another and present each
other with Christmas cards and presents.
