Pre-class Work II 1. Paraphrase.
1) No. 12: He came back to get back the knife. After all, leaving ~he knife sticking out of the body is nota pleasant scene.
No. 7: Especially when the person is one of his relatives. No. 4: That's not funny at all. Don't make any joke about it.
2) No. 3: ... I've seen all kinds of cheating, lying and other dirty tricks in my life, but this little
demonstration is the worst I have ever seen.
3) No. 7: ... How do you think about him (Juror No. 11)? He came to America to escape persecution,
but now before he can take a deep breath, almost immediately, he is telling us Americans how to do
everything. I'm really amazed why he should be so conceited and rude.
4) No. 9: Your eyeglasses made two deep marks beside your nose. I haven't noticed it before. I guessit
must be very annoying. No. 4: Yes, it is annoying.
No. 9: I don't know what you feel about that, since my eyesight is perfect and I've never worn glasses.
5) No. 3: You've showed unreasonable sympathy for those people. How terrible you all are. Are you going
to frighten me not to vote him guilty? You can't. I have the right to h01d my own point.
2, Learn to use reference books.
Find the correct definition of the following in the text. 1) figure: to think; to guess
2) beat: to arrive at the very spot 3) bear: to prove
4) stamp: to keep lifting each foot and bringing it down again very hard to make a noise 5) room: chance
6) term: a word or expression that has a particular meaning 7) bridge: a card game for four players who play in pairs 8) feature: a film being shown at a cinema
9) tie: the result of a game, competition, or election in which two or more people get the same number of
points, votes, etc. 10) impressions: marks
3. Find the synonyms of the following in a thesaurus. 1) crazy: insane, mad, unbalanced
2) to bother : to annoy, to trouble, to dismay, to worry, to disquiet, to disturb, to upset, to plague, to try 4. Word-building.
I) Give the corresponding nouns of the following.
(1) vote (2) assumption (3) dependence (4) risk (5) objection (6) recreation (7) declaratl\ (8) obscurity (9) plunge (10) description (11) annoyance (12) intimidation 2) Give the corresponding verbs of the following.
(1)to detect (2) to relate (3) to doubt (4) to differ
(5) to display (6) to execute (7) to stress (8) to breathe (9) to disgust (10) to narrate (11) to switch
3) Translate the following using your acquired rules of word-building and point out which \
form denotes a gerund and which a present participle.
Participles: (2), (4), (6), (8), (11), (12), (13), (15), (16), (17), (18), (20), (21), (22), (23), (24), (25), (26), (27),
(28), (30), (31), (32), (34), (39), (40), (42), (44), (45), (46), (47), (49), (50) Gerunds: all the rest
4) Study how these words are formed and make your own discoveries of rules of word building.
(4) Give the noun forms of the following.
resistance brilliance fragrance competence existence evidence violence dependence confidence reluctance persistence intelligence More Work on the Text II. vocabulary 1.Translate
1) into English.
(1) to risk being criticized (2) to present the evidence (3) to capture the tiger (4) to twist the fact
(5) to cover one's blunder (6) to recreate the scene
(7) to stamp one's feet (8) to skip through one's fingers (9) to put oneself in sb.'s place (10) to run for one's life (11) to break the tie (12) to give a demonstration (13) to obscure the truth (14) to take a deep breath (15) to run the country 2) into Chinese.
(1)铁证 (2)合理的怀疑
(3)重施脂粉;浓妆艳抹 (4)精神压力
(5)陪审团意见分歧,无法做出决定 (6)刑事(民事)法庭 (7)近(远)亲 (8)最终判决 (9)旧货店 (10)辩护律师 (11)潜在威胁(12)滋生地
2.Give synonyms and antonyms of the following. 1)Give synonyms. (1)sure,certain
(2)to catch,to arrest,to seize,to take prisoner
(3)to calculate,to think,to believe,to presume,to guess (4)common,usual,ordinary,familiar
(5)to join,to attach,tO combine,to unite,to link (6)drawing,map,plan,chart (7)show,demonstration,exhibition (8)beautiful,attractive,good-looking (9)terror,horror,great fear,fright,scare (10)mistake,error
(11)to thrust,to attack,to hit at,to strike at,to charge (12)fuss,excitement,uproar,disturbance (13)strain,tension,pressure,burden
(14)bad,awful,terrible,nasty,unpleasant
(1 5)to terrify,to frighten,to make afraid,to bully 2)Give antonyms.
(1)near-sighted,short—sighted,myopic (2)illogical,irrational,inconsistent
(3)old,ancient,outmoded,old—fashioned (4)valueless,worthless(Not:invaluable) (5)to reveal,to show,to clarify
(6)tO approve,to agree,to accept,to welcome (7)peaceful
(8)unconvinced,doubtful,uncertain (9)upward
(10)expensive,costly,dear (11) dishonesty
(12) educated, knowledgeable, well-informed (13) inconspicuous, unnoticeable, invisible (14) destructive 3. Translate.
1) More and more young people now favor the idea of spending their holidays traveling.
2) I am still in favor of having my parents live with us in their old age.
3) No facts have ever borne out the claim that with some methods one can learn a foreign language in
weeks or months.
4) Today all state-owned enterprises must bear their responsibilities for their losses. 5) He must be out of his mind to do that. How can you bear such an insult?
6) I have been to many interesting places in the world in my day. But now that I'm old, I still feel that \
and West, Home is Best\
7) If you stick to these bad habits, you will risk losing your health. 8) I'm sick and tired of being told what to do with my personal life. 9) If I should fail, am I entitled to a makeup exam?
10) Under those pressures he still had the courage to stick to his theory.
11) There was a nail sticking out of that chair. It tore my favorite pants. 12) We must not run the risk of violating intellectual property rights.
13) We can't bear seeing all this garbage around. So we have decided to clean it up ourselves.
14) Stick this motto on the wall where we can all see.
15) One of the issues that remain in question in the conflict between Israel and Palestine is the issue of Jerusalem.
16) It remained me of how we all tried to make steel in our backyard stoves in 1958. 17) He may have forgotten. I should have reminded him to attend this meeting, 18) Please remind everybody that tomorrow's volleyball match has been put off. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word.
1) in 2) off 3) down on 4) out 5) into 6) out 7) aside
8) apart 9) up 10) into 11) out, at 12) in 13) in, on 14) in, in
Give verbs that can form collocations with the following nouns.
1) to make, to see, to get, to gain, to score, to give, to prove, to lose, to win, to come to, to get to (a/the point)
2) to make, to pass, to obey, to break, to enforce, to respect, to revise, to lay down (a/the law)
3) to take, to change, to count, to have, to cast, to win, to get, to call for, to put to (a/the/one's vote)
7. Choose the right words in their proper forms.
1) (1) incredible (2) incredulously (3) incredible (4) incredulous
2) (1) announced (2) declared (3) announced (4) declared
(5) declare (6) announced
3) (1) arrested (2) caught (3) captured (4) captured
4) (1) annoyed (2) bother/disturb/annoy (3) disturb/bother (4) disturbed
(5) troubling (6) trouble
8. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets.
(1) within (2) why (3) heavy (4) edge
(5) lay (6) dark old (7) something (8) though
(9) which (10) had fallen (11) on the front of (12) until
(13) asking (14) mind (15) about IlL Grammar
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