新世纪大学英语（第二版）综合教程3课后习题答案完整版UNIT 6(5)

1 Find the preposition from Column B that best matches each adjective in Column A, paying attention to the be+adj.+prep. collocation. Some of the prepositions can be used more than once. Column A Column B 1) be fearful of a. for 2) be free from/of b. from 3) be honest with c. in 4) be hungry for d. of 5) be intent on/upon e. on 6) be keen on f. to

7) be overwhelmed with g. upon 8) be remindful of h. with 9) be rich in 10) be envious of

Now fill in each blank in the following sentences with a proper collocation you?ve just formed. The verb “be” has already been filled in for you.

1) I’m so envious of you getting an extra day’s holiday!

2) He was so intent upon/on his work that he didn’t notice the night had fallen.

3) The country is quite rich in oil but rather short of water.

4) My roommates want to have a party for my birthday, but I’m not keen on the idea.

5) After two years of hard work, the family was finally free from/of debts.

6) Being fearful of running into that mad man, Emily didn’t take her usual way to the company.

7) To be honest with you, I don’t like his casual style of speaking. It was not appropriate for the occasion.

8) After reading the advertisement, she immediately logged on to the e-store to order the product she had been hungry for .

9) He has kept the broken typewriter on his desk for years, because it is

remindful of the days when he was striving to have his first novel published.

10) When I started my office job, I was completely overwhelmed with the paperwork: filling in forms, writing emails, minutes (会议记录) and reports for the department. What a load!

2 The suffixes -ee, -eer, -ese and -ess are used to form nouns. Study the box below and form words by adding -ee, -eer, -ese and -ess to the words given.

-ee

someone who is being treated in a particular way e.g.

payee 收款人，领款人

someone who is in a particular state or who is doing something e.g.

absentee 缺席者 escapee 逃跑者，逃犯

-eer

someone who does or makes a particular thing e.g.

auctioneer 拍卖商，拍卖人

-ese

the people or language of a particular country or place e.g.

Chinese 中国人；汉语

Viennese 维也纳(市)的；维也纳(市)的人

-ess a female e.g. lioness 母狮子

Now do the following exercise according to the example given below. Consult a dictionary if necessary. Example: employ → employee 雇员

1) act → actress 女演员

2) mountain → mountaineer 登山运动员 3) profit → profiteer 牟取暴利者，投机商人 4) refuge → refugee 避难者，难民 5) Vietnam → Vietnamese 越南人；越南语 6) train → trainee 受训者，实习生 7) address → addressee 收件人，收信人

Now complete each of the following sentences with a proper word you have just formed, using the plural form where necessary.

1) No one at the office could figure out the addressee of the letter, because of the illegible (难以辨认的) handwriting.

2) The mountaineer had a leg broken while climbing a cliff and was hospitalized for a month.

3) To their greatest amazement, the best film award went to a film featuring (由…主演) an unknown actress .

4) In the field work (实习), the trainees will learn skills that are most valued in our company, such as teamwork and communication skills.

5) When we saw him in the hospital, the old man could not recognize us and spoke to us in Vietnamese , his mother tongue that none of us understood.

6) When the war broke out, refugees came streaming across the border and settled down in the camps the local government had built for them.

7) In the court, he denied the charge of being a war profiteer . He claimed that he had been making money by wisdom and diligence.

Grammar in Context

1 In Text A, you read the following sentence containing neither … nor:

… when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you’re looking for, no matter how much of them you have. (Para. 11)

Here “neither … nor” is used to link two paralleled elements (平行的成分): “money” and “power”. Two other phrases, namely, “either … or”, “both … and” have the same function. …… 此处隐藏：1929字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……