现代大学英语精读1第二版课后练习答案(4)

4. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate phrase in the brackets. Change the form if necessary.

1. springing up/ going up (两者均可。前者更生动些)

2. go about/ go over（两者均可，但前者指开始某项工作，后者指该计划本身要仔细审阅一下，意思有所不同）

3. went out 4 going on 5 went off 6 goes with, go to

7 go under, go for 8 go into

9 going, go to, go for, go along with, went crazy

10 go with, go together

5 Translate the following sentences into English

1. 这是个难得的机会。你要是让它从身边溜掉就太傻了。

This is a wonderful opportunity. You would be foolish to let it slip by.

2. 我们的出口和去年相比增加了百分之二十。

Compared with last year, our exports have increased by 20%. (or …are up by 20% / …have gone up by 20%)

3. 因为没有更好的词，我们姑且称之为“走后门主义吧”吧。

For want of s better word, let’s call it “backdoorism”.

4. 这个年轻人喜欢修理摆弄东西。他可以说是个万金油。（什么都会一点的人）。 This young man is fond of fixing things. He is something of Jack of all trades.

5. 和他们父母一代相比，今天的年轻人认为他们是比较现实的一代。

Compared to their parents’ generation, young people today consider them to be a more practical generation.

6. 他气得脸色发青，决定将这场抗议运动扼杀在萌芽状态。

His face turned/ went blue with anger. He was determined to nip the mass protest in the bud.

7. 这说来话长， 但是今天我不想去研究这件事的历史了。

It is a long story, but I won’t go into the history today.

8.我们花了比我们想象多得多的时间才过了海关。

It took us much more time than we had expected to go through the customs.

9. 灯光突然全灭了。全城一下陷入完全黑暗中。

The power went out suddenly, and the whole city was thrown into complete darkness.

10.别等我了，你先走。我要先把这份文件看完。

Don’t wait for me. You go ahead. I must go over this document.

11. 我们无法否认这样的事实：我们为经济发展付出高昂的学费。

We cannot deny the fact that we have paid dearly for our economic development.

12. 消防队员要是晚到一会儿，火就会蔓延到附近的油罐。

Had the firemen arrived a bit later, the fire would have spread to the nearby oil tanks.

Grammar

1 Combine each pair of sentences following the pattern below.

1. The narrator was as helpless as the boy at the bank.

2. In a bad year the soil is as hard as stone.

3. Luckily, the final exam isn’t as difficult as the mid-term.

4. At the moment, your health is more important than anything else.

5. To his mind, the two cultures are as different as chalk and cheese.

6. Xiao Fang is the most creative student I’ve ever known.

7. This is the most fantastic story I’ve ever heard.

8. Five thousand yuan is the lowest price we can offer for the PC.

9. Jack says that Avatar is the best science fiction film he’s seen in the last three years.

10. The snowstorm last week was the worst my grandmother can remember.

11. I think Dialogue on CCTV News is one of the most thought provoking talk shows CCTV offers.

12. The Bird’s Nest, the Olympic Stadium in Beijing, is the most magnificent stadium I’ve ever been to.

2. Compete the sentences by translating the Chinese in the brackets, using one of the patterns given.

1. The doctor did all (that) they could

2. everything he says

3. anything the ask for/demand

4. all he got from a week of hard work

5. All that is written in his wife’s letter

6. Nothing the doctors said

7. anything you suggest

8. Something he read in a popular magazine

9. All that can be done is /has been done

10. Anything the artist painted

11. something that never existed before

12. nothing the doctors could do

3 Fill in the blanks with the correct prepositions or adverbs

1 through 2. over 3. like 4 As, like

5 through 6 Over/ In/ During 7 through 8 over

9 from, without, around/ in, As, with, with, to/with

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

1 much 2 kind 3 doing 4 called 5 fought

6 become 7 good 8 other 9 himself 10 then

Vocabulary

5 Fill in the blanks with correct forms of the appropriate words listed below.

1 acceptance 2 occurrence 3 astonishing, unrecognizable

4 appreciative, expectation 5 identical, identify, identifications

2. Give corresponding synonyms and antonyms for the following words.

3 Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the appropriate phrases and expressions listed below. Note that some of them may be used more than once.

1. After all, regarded as

2. regarded as/ in a sense, consists of

3. for ages, at once

4. were astonished at, After all

5. calls for, on their part/ in turn

6. dawned on, in case, melt into

7. reflect on, in relation to, calls for

8. cut, in, on their part/ in turn, work out

4. Fill in the blanks with the correct prepositions or adverbs.

1 off/ out 2 off 3 out/through 4 through 5 to, through

6 to 7 with 8 on 9 to 10 with

5. Translate the following sentences into English using the words and expressions listed below.

1. 当我们到达目的地时，我们发现这块地上已经没有任何建筑，只有一些石头散落在地上。没有人能认出这是一段可以追溯到千年以前的城墙。

When we reached our destination, we found nothing standing on the ground except some rocks scattered here and there. Nobody would be able to recognize it as part of the city wall a thousand years ago.

2. 今天，大多数人看问题都有了新的角度，他们不再认为主要是国内生产总值标志一个国家的幸福了。

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