现代大学英语精读1Lesson2课后答案

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Pre-class Work

II

Choose the statement that best explains your understanding of the text..

1.C 2.d 3.d 4.b 5.b 6.b 7.a

More Work on the Text

1.Word Formation

1)Change the verbs to their corresponding nouns and vice versa.Add more words to the list.

Verb Noun

Enjoy enjoyment

Engage engagement

Develop development

Improve improvement

Astonish astonishment

Move movement

Require requirement

Judge judgement(or:judgment)

Argue argument(Note:“e”is dropped)

Announce announcement

Appiont appiontment

Excite excitement

Punish punishment

Employ empoyment

Achieve achievement

Depart department

Equip equipment

Agree agreement

The suffix-ment,from French and Latin,is added to verbs to form nouns to refer to the

act,cause,means or result of doing sth.

2)Change the nouns to their corresponding adjectives and vice versa.Add more words to the list

Noun Adjecctive

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Snow snowy

Rain Rainy

Blood bloody

Smoke smoky(Note the drop of the final “e’’)

ice icy(Note the drop of the final”e”)

Rock rocky

Sleep sleepy

Worth worthy

Mist misty

noise noisy(Note the droop of the final”e’’)

Cloud cloudy

Dust dusty

Dirt dirty

Anger angry

hunger hungry(Note the drop of the ”e’’in “-er”)

Luck lucky

Thirst thirsty

Health healthy

The suffix-y,from Old English,is added to nouns to form adjectives meaning”full of;coverd

with;tending to do sth.;like/typical of sth.”.

3)Complete the sentences with the translation of what is given in the bracket in tne proper form.

(1)healthy (2)sleepy (3)disappiont (4)announcement (5)punishment (6)sunny (7)achieveme

nt (8)thirsty (9)arrangement (10)argument

2.Pick out idiomatic expressions in the text.

To get on a bus to be away from

In front of to forget about sb/sth

To be (un)aware of to come through(said of a document)

To be dress in to take sb back

In silence used to do sth

To pull into a place(said of a bus) to tie sth to some place

Deep into the night to come into a place

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To get off a bus to be caught up in sth

To run away from sb to tighten one’s face into

To engage sb in stn(conversation) to fortify oneself against sth

As if (doing sth .) to be out of some place

To retreat into silence in triumph / exaltation

After a while on the right side

To chatter about to rise from one’s seat

To write to sb. To be covered with sth .

To be married to sb to make one’s way to a place

3. Complete the sentences , using the expressions listed below .

1) pulling into 2) caught up in 3) dreamed of 4) engage , in

5) covered with 6) was aware of 7) wonder about 8) make our way

9) are unaware of 10) used to

4. Complete the sentences, using the phrasal verbs of “get” listed below .

1)get to 2) got up 3) got on , got off 4) had got through (with)

5) getting on / along with 6) getting in 7) got down 8) got through

9) got into

5. Tick the nouns that may follow the verbs .

1) take a bus , a train ,a plane , a ship , a taxi ,

A seat , a picture , a photograph , a look , a glance

Coffee , a meal , a drink ,

A bath , a shower , a swim , a walk , a step , an action , a nap ,

A trip , a journey , a chance , an opportunity

2) have a seat , a look , a glance ,

A cigarette , a drink , coffee , a meal ,

A nap , a dream , an illness , a cold , a sleep

A bath , a shower , a swim ,

A walk , a trip ,

A chance , an opportunity ,

A dance , a party ,

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A chat , a talk , a discussion , a conversation , a quarrel ,

6) Choose the right word or expression and put it in its proper form .

1) reach 2) arrived 3) reached , arrived 4) arrived , found 5) found

6) find out 7) find out 8) raised 9) rise 10) risen

11) cross , found 12) across 13) cross 14) attended 15) joined

16) take part in 17) attend , take part in

7.. Examine the meaning and use of “keep” in the sentences below . List other ways of using the

word , and then make up sentences after the models .

Other uses of “keep” : e. g .

1) to keep +n./pron . 2) to keep +adj .