Key to the Exercises 3.
15) out of sight
16) in this instance
17) to think well/ill of sb
18) to confront sb with sth
19) to lag behind
20) to confer sth on sb
21) for my money
22) to be too much for sb
23) to make for
24) to set out to do sth
25) few and far between
26) to aspire to
27) at the best of times
28) all over again
29) to do away with
30) to stand to lose
4.Increase your vacabulary with the help of the rules of word-building 1) Find the most useful derivatives
of the following.
satisfy: satisfied, satisfying, satisfactory, satisfaction, unsatisfied, dissatisfied
resist: resistance, resistant, irresistible
just: unjust, justice, injustice, justify, justified, justification, justifiable cohere: coherent, coherence, incoherent, incoherence
center ( v): center (n. ), central, centralize, centralization,
decentralize, decentralization
visit: visitor, visitation, revisit (The following words are also related to visit: visible,
invisible, visibility, vision, visual, television, supervise)
integrate: integration, integrated, integral, disintegrate, disintegration, integrity
More Work on theText
Vocabulary
1.
1) into Chinese.
1) into Chinese.
(1)浴巾
(2) (美)小学
(3)永恒的真理(4)文件柜
(5)纯属无稽之谈
(6)违规行为
(7)常客
(8)新鲜空气
(9)格调很高的独自(一个人唱高调)
(10)一种固定的观点
(11)时事(当前国内外大事)
(12)身体障碍
(13)可怕吓人的风
(14)令人厌恶的景象
(15)言语障碍
(16)使人兴奋冲动的爱国激情
(17)无情的人侵者
(18)首相
(19)国际联盟(国联)
(20)思维过程(思想方式)
(21)条理清楚的文章
(22)一个完整的体系
(23)一位口译好手
(24)一种不可阻挡的趋向
(25)烂苹果
(26)根据事实(启示〉写成的
(27)一位点头之交
2) into English.
(1) to sink one's head
(2) to sink the ship
(3) to contemplate the meaning of life
(4) to catch the light
(5) to ruin one's health
(6) to ruin the country
(7) to bang the desk
(8) to playa prominent role
(9) to hold a prominent position
(10) a pious Buddhist
(11) to gain a reputation
(12) to satisfy one's ego
(13) to give sb the third degree
(14) to devise a teaching method
(15) to slide a gun into sb's hand
2.
1) Synonyms.
(1) to spring (to jump, to leap)
(2) lest (for fear that)
(3) utterly (completely)
(4) to symbolize (to represent)
(5) to sink one's head (to lower ... )
(6) to contemplate (to think/ponder)
(7) spectacles (glasses)
(8) impediment (barrier, obstacle)
(9) to collapse (to fall/to tumble down)
(10) to ruin (to destroy)
(11) to vanish (to disappear)
(12) oddly (strangely)
(13) to aspire to (to desire/to aim for)
(14) to do away with (to eliminate)
(15) to stop/give up (smoking) (to quit)
(16) deficiency (weakness, fault, shortcoming)
(17) folly (stupidity)
2) Antonyms.
(1) coherent (incoherent)
(2) mental (physical)
