读写教程 Unit 3 练习答案

III Post-reading Activities B. Language work

1.2 Translate the following phrases into proper English.

1.3 Word study

Translate the following sentences into English.

1) The meeting will be attended by finance ministers from many countries. 2) There are more pressing matters to be attended to today. 3) Don’t forget to count your change. 4) I count it a great honor to serve you.

5) He is young and inexperienced, but please do not count that against him. 6) You had better not count on an increase in your salary this year. 7) Did he offer any explanation for his strange behavior?

8) They are offering money prizes to the first three runners. / They are offering the first three runners money prizes.

9) We want to start (up) another chess club for the children who are better players. 10) Apparently the new manager has made a good start.

1.4 Word discrimination

Choose the right word and put it in the proper form.

1.5 Fill in the blanks with the words or expressions given below. Change the form where necessary.

2. Grammar study

2.2 The conditional sentence with ‘unless’

Combine each pair of the following sentences, using ‘unless’ as the examples show. 1) I won’t take my umbrella unless it rains.

2) Man cannot travel to another planet unless the government provides the money.

3) You cannot get to the railway station on time unless you leave home before 3 o’clock.

4) Getting real expertise in an area of interest cannot lead to success unless the specialty ends up being a dead end or you’re not good at it.

5) You cannot walk out of the door on your own unless you get permission from your parents. 6) I don’t understand what you said unless you tell me the truth.

7) He goes for a walk everyday unless the weather is extremely bad.

2.3 ‘what/ how/ who/ where/when/whether + infinitive’ structure Complete the following sentences according to the given Chinese. 1) whether to answer his letter 2) where to put the car 3) when to pay

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4) what to buy

5) as if to say something

2.4 Articles: Golden rules

3. Writing device: Achieving emphasis

Read the following paragraph and point out the emphatic ways used in it. 1) Emphatic words and phrases

without a day’s delay, give whatever help we can, 2) Parallel constructions

We shall fight him by land; we shall fight him by sea; we shall fight him in the air, until....

Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe.... 3) Sentence fragment Nothing. 4) Repetition

We have but one aim and one single irrevocable purpose.

We will never parley; we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. That is our policy and that is our declaration. 5) Rhetorical question

Can you doubt what our policy will be?

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