现代大学英语精读1第二版课后练习答案(2)

3. ---他这些日子里似乎情绪很低落，不知道为什么。

He looks to be in a low spirits. I wonder why.

---我觉得那是因为他似乎学习上没有多少进步。他怕被同学瞧不起。

I think it is because he doesn’t seem to be making much progress in his studies. He is afraid of being looked upon by his classmates.

4. ---你在找什么，迪克？W

What are you looking for, Dick?

---我好像把钥匙丢了。真烦人。

I seem to have lost my key. How annoying!

5. 如果你发现一个字在中间说不通，你就该查查字典。这是掌握意思的唯一办法。

If you find a word that doesn’t seem to make any sense in a sentence, you should look it up in the dictionary. That is the only way to learn to use a word.

6. 他们继续争吵了几个钟头，两人似乎谁也不愿听对方的话。我突然想起有人说过：“讨论是知识的交流，而争吵是无知的交换。”

They went on arguing for hours. Neither was willing to listen to the other. I suddenly remembered someone saying: “Discussion is an exchange of knowledge while argument is an exchange of ignorance.”

7. 那里的形式似乎非常复杂，政府已答应进行认真调查。

The situation there seems quite complicated. The government has promised to look into it.

8. 我爷爷似乎正在好起来，但是他任然需要有人照顾。

My grandpa seems to be getting better and better, but he still needs somebody to look after him.

9. 经济学家已经得出结论：危机似乎很快就要结束了，世界经济正在好转。 Economists have come to the conclusion that the crisis seems to be coming to an end. World economy is looking up.

10.这次病后，我看了看我的银行账本。使我伤心的是，账上的余额几乎是零。我前三年存在银行的钱全花完了。

When I got well I looked at my bank account. To my sadness, I found my balance was almost zero. All my sayings in the past three years were gone.

7. fill in each blank with the correct form of the appropriate word in the brackets. Ago and before:

1. 和过去式连用，不能和现在完成式连用

2. 说“现在的多长时间以前”用ago; 说“过去某时的多长时间以前”用before。所以通常ago 用于过去式，before用于过去完成式中。

Eg. Two years ago, I left the company, which I had joined two years before.

Grammar

3. Fill in each blank of the passage with ONE suitable word

1 type/ kind 2 lending 3 for 4 is 5 pay 6 opening

7 balance 8 store/keep/save/put 9 changes 10 withdraw

4 Translate the following sentence using one of the patterns listed in Grammar exercise 1-2

1. 你还是试一试别的方法吧。

You ought to try a different method.

2. 要不你再去和写作老师谈一谈？

I think you ought to talk with our writing teacher about it.

3. 我们还是立即向警方报告这次失窃吧。

We ought to report the theft to the police immediately.

4. 你的父母身体不好，你多去看看他们吧。

You ought to see your parents more often now that they are not in good health.

5. 你不该对长辈那样大声嚷嚷。

You shouldn’t have shouted at the elders like that.

6. 这么重要的会议你是不该迟到的。

You shouldn’t have been late for such an important meeting.

7. 难道吉姆不是你的朋友吗？他提出要帮你，你是不该拒绝的。

Isn’t Jim your friend? You shouldn’t have turned down/ rejected his offer of help.

8. 作为一个大学生，你是不该把业余时间都花在网络游戏上。

As a college student, you shouldn’t have spent all your free time playing computer games.

9. 万一我这次失败了，我还会再试第二次的。

If I failed this time, I would try for the second time.

10. 要是地球继续变暖，这些岛屿将不复存在。

If the global warming continued, these islands would disappear.

11. 我要是现在有一百万元，我一定会给父母买一套房子。

If I had a million yuan, I would buy my parents an apartment.

12. 要是我当选为学生会主席，我没准会组织一次钢琴比赛。

If I were elected president of the students’ union, I might organize a piano competition.

5 Identify and correct the mistakes

1. No one knew what had happened/was happening there. / No one knows what is happening /has happened there.

2. My parents had a good reason to be angry with me. I shouldn’t have lied to them in the first place.

3. The new Prime Minister is well aware that his government is faced with a lot of problems. / The new Prime Minister is well aware of the problems his government is face with.

4. If you won the prize, what would you do you the money?

5. The guest was greeted with a bunch of flowers at the airport.

6. The teller was arguing with a young customer about something when the narrator entered the

bank.

7. The narrator thought the bank’s policy was ridiculous.

8. It was understandable for her to be angry with me. / She had a good reason to be angry with me.

9. I shouldn’t have lied to her in the first place.

10. He had no choice but to do what he was told to.

Vocabulary

1.

4. Complete the sentences by translating the Chinese in the brackets.

1. represent, represented

2. employer, unemployed, employees, reemployed

3. well-informed, information

4. informer, inform, authorities

5. complaints, complain, unemployment

6. insult

7. insulting, insult

8. representative

9. be insulted

2 Complete the following verb + noun collocations or expressions

1 mind (his own business)

2 plant / grow / harvest / reap (the rice)

3 dig / sink (a well)

4. (catch) fish / birds / crabs / mice/ a thief / a cold / the meaning / the disease

5 till / improve / conserve (the soil)

6 plough (the field)

7 (condemn) the enemy / the killings

8 (attract) attention / interest / criticism

9 (gather) flowers/ nuts / information /troops

4. Fill in the blanks with correct prepositions and adverbs

(1) in, of, with, at, with, about/of, to, of, on, to

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