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- 1 - Lesson Four EXERCISES I. Paraphrase 1. I spent most of my time roaming the woods and fields alone, playing Robin Hood, daydreaming, collecting bugs and bird-watching. 2. Keeping to myself was of not forming attachments that I would have to abandon the next time we moved. 3. But one day I became attached through no design of my own. 4. I started hiking….to an almost impenetrable stand of trees called Bear Wood. 5. Yes, they are wary. But then, gamekeepers have been shooting them ever since they got here. They’re introduced, you know, not native. 6. I gazed…. at the glass fronted cases containing figures of ivory and carved stone … trays of pinned butterflies and … a dozen or so stuffed birds . 7. It is a wisdom tutored by nature , about the seen and unseen , about things that change and things that are changeless , and about the fact that no matter how seemingly different two souls may be , they possess the potential for that most precious , rare thing — an enduring and rewarding friendship .
II. Word-building 1. Give corresponding nouns of the following verbs. 1) to possess — possession 2) to penetrate — penetration 3) to explore — exploration 4) to form —formation 5) to incline — inclination 6) to fascinate — fascination 7) to encounter — encounter 8) to endure — endurance 9) to retire — retirement 10) to abandon — abandonment 11) to recover — recovery 12) to warn — warning 13) to proceed — proceeding 14) to glimpse — glimpse 2. Give corresponding nouns of the following adjectives 1) anxious — anxiety 2) miserable — misery 3) dense — density 4) instinctive — instinct 5) familiar — familiarity 6) essential — essence 7) immense — immensity 8) stupid — stupidity - 2 -
9) sudden — suddenness 10) invisible — invisibility 11) generous — generosity 12) productive — productivity 13) equivalent — equivalency 14) fond — fondness
III. Translate 1. into Chinese 1) powerful binoculars 2) retired workers 3) a familiar-looking house 4) potential buyers 5) softly-carpeted floor 6) stuffed birds 7) figures of carved stone 8) ancient castles 9) seemingly different 10) glass-fronted cases 11) clumsy movement 12) dried leaves 13) a rare animal 14) dense laurels 15) a paradise on earth 16) a barbed-wire fence 17) odds and ends 18) a rewarding experience 2. into English 1) 收集事实 2) 拥有财产 3) 积累经验 4) 给予批准 5) 悬空摆动他的脚 6) 伸出他的手 7) 包围敌人 8) 怀疑有个阴谋 9) 忍受痛苦和折磨 10) 设计新的款式 11) 形成一个有力的班子 12) 放弃希望 13) 倒吸一口冷气 14) 在田野里漫游 15) 要求公开道歉 16) 引进这种羊 17) 赢得每个人的赞扬 - 3 -
18) 探索自然的秘密 IV. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate expression below.
to slip through to fill up with to burst with/ through to keep to oneself to care to do sth. to wrench oneself away from to brim over as it were to go ( come) by to be warned against to verge against / on thanks to odds and ends at ease with a will
1) I found that I had fallen in love with that place and it was hard to _____. 2) Would you _____ take a look at this paining. This might be what you are looking for. 3) She is not very sociable .She is in the habit of _____. 4) _____The beautiful weather there, he felt that he had become a new person, _____. 5) There was nothing important in the drawer, just a few _____. 6) At first, I felt a bit awkward. But as time _____, I felt more _____. These people seemed just like my own folks. 7) From that time on I began to train myself _____, and I found my _____ effort very rewarding. 8) For a time people’s income did increase. But the whole place soon _____ with garbage. 9) At first we were all a little nervous. But then he began to joke about his own strong southern accent. That immediately put us _____. 10) The waiter was fascinated by what was happening and therefore did not notice that the glass was beginning to _____. 11) They were _____ curiosity and just had to open the box they had taken so much trouble carrying out of that jungle. 12) The commander ordered him to make sure that nothing _____ their line, not even a bird. 13) The situation of that country _____ a civil war. 14) During holidays, she liked to go on a hike up to the mountain and the wood that _____ their cottage. 15) She was _____ going out alone after dark. She was like a piece of _____ carefully hidden away, _____, in a jewel –box.
V. Choose the right word in the given context. * alone * lonely 1) He shared the apartment with five other young students. But he still felt very _____ at times. 2) Sometimes she just wanted to be _____. 3) She is _____. He husband died a few years ago and her children have all grown up and gone. I guess she is _____ too. 4) Tough laws _____ cannot stop drug-taking. *to suspect * to doubt 1) The bank robbers seemed to know everything about the bank. This made the police _____ that it might be an inside job. 2) We have never _____ for a moment that we’ll be able to feed our people. 3) I _____ it might rain tomorrow. Just look at the dark clouds. 4) I _____ that he will be able to attend the meeting. He still looked awful this morning when I
