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Unit 5 Knowing Yourself: Keys to the exercises
Enhance Your Language Awareness
Words in Action
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Working with Words and Expressions
1 In the boxes below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the following sentences with them. Change the form where necessary.
1) The film reveals the complicated social relations during the 1970’s. 2) His mother criticized him for behaving badly towards the guest. 3) He is a competent doctor and can handle his patients very efficiently. 4) His teachings have influenced the lives of millions. 5) OK, I’ve done everything you asked. Now are you satisfied? 6) Though small in size, this press
(出版社)
produces
many entertaining and educational books for children every year. 7) If he dies without making a will will inherit the house.
8) Whatever you say will not affect my decision; so it’s no use arguing with me.
9) The whole world is now confronted with the problem of terrorism
怖主义).
(恐
(遗嘱), his closest relative
10）The escaped criminal offered no resistance when the police caught up with him.
11）Being an introvert, I felt quite isolated during the first few weeks of college life.
12) Since we have only two professors of psychology, we have to restrict the number of students on this course.
13) Though she answered all the questions, she was not optimistic about the result of the exam.
14) Don’t be so selfish ; let us share your books.
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15) Don’t mention that she has put on weight; she is rather sensitive about it.
2 In the boxes below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do you understand their meanings? Do you know how to use them in the proper context? Now check for yourself by doing the blank-filling exercise. Change the form where necessary.
1) The chairman of the Science Club summed up the meeting by repeating the main points discussed.
2) We hope that our research will have an impact on the environment, especially the quality of air in cities.
3) I know you are still angry with John but please be polite when you respond his questions.
4) Reading books and travelling across the country can surely expand your
horizons.
5) My lecture today falls into three sections.
6) Listen to her voice, you can hear her professional training at work. 7) During the examination period, I would like to shut myself off from everything and just focus on my studies.
8) I did so badly in my last two tests that I feel I am no longer in control
of
my studies.
9) I want to live a happy life, free from problems and worries, but it is just so difficult.
10) Unless you are in good shape physically, you will not be able to climb the Great Wall.
3 The underlined words in the short text below are incorrectly used. Read thetext carefully and replace each of them with a word given in the box. The firstcorrect answer is already given.
Kathy is a 1) combination. Not only is she good in her studies, she is also a top swimmer and someone who plays the piano well. The 2) growth of her talents, in study and in sports, makes her a popular student in school. Although she is already so good, she still tries to 3) vary ways to improve herself. One 4) individual example is that she reads all kinds of books and does not 5) dominateherself to only one type.
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The topics of her books 6) spread from social subjects such as health, education, and environment to science and technology. Kathy thinks that reading can 7) restrict her knowledge and help her a lot in her 8) opportunity as a good individual. She is persistent and never gets tired of learning.
In terms of personality, Kathy is kind and helpful. She is not proud at all; nor does she isolate herself. In fact, she likes the 9) element of her friends and often goes out with them
to watch a movie or just to be with them. When talking to her friends, Kathy does not 10) seek the conversation. Instead, everyone has an equal 11) availability to speak. When any of her friends has a problem, whether it is academic or emotional, she will definitely help them. In short, Kathy is a pleasant and positive person. 1) high-achiever 2) combination 3) seek 4) specific 5) restrict 6) vary 7) expand 8) growth 9) company 10) dominate 11) opportunity
Increasing Your Word Power
1 Select from among the adjectives in the box and produce as many appropriatecollocations as you can with the target nouns in the following sentences. Someof the adjectives may be used more than once.
1) When a person is angry, he / she may speak
using aggressive / sarcastic / harsh / negative words.
2) If you are standing on top of a mountain, what you see could be described as a(n) magical / mystical view.
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3) Because my mother does not like my boyfriend, she has a(n) negative / critical opinion of him. 4) Mary is such a nice girl. She has
a(n) magical / outgoing / optimistic personality. 5) Professor White has been described as a
highly intellectual scholar who has published a lot in his field.
2 Complete the following sentences by choosing a most suitable adverb fromamong those given in the box.
1) He is always sleeping in class. Evidently , he is not interested in this subject.
2) This is not a group activity. Therefore, you will have to do the exercise individually .
3) If you are not absolutely sure of what happened, you should not say that you know everything about the accident.
4) My good friend is consistently /evidently / absolutely good in his work. For the past ten years, he has never made a single mistake.
5) I spent most of the money that my father gave me in the first few weeks at the university. Consequently, I had very little towards the end of the semester and had to borrow from friends.
6) Throwing a party is tiring both mentally / physically and physically /
mentally
; the host / hostess has to think of what to prepare, make the
necessary preparations, and make sure that everybody feels welcome. 7) As far as I know, Dr Zhou is probably / absolutely the best heart doctor in this province.
8) Xiaohui is one of the most motivated students I know. She does everything eagerly and enthusiastically.
9) A strong person will not be easily influenced by the environment. 10) Normally, he is very quiet and mild but today he is so aggressive and violent.
3 Did you notice the suffixes -ity/ty, -ic/ical in words such as loyalty, reality,optimistic, mythical in this unit? The suffixes -ity/ty can be added to manyadjectives to form nouns, and -ic/ical can be put after many nouns
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to formadjectives. Change the words given in brackets into nouns or adjectives, andthen fill them into the blanks.
1) This job requires a person to have the following personality (personal) traits: sensitivity (sensitive) and loyalty(loyal).
2) His mysterious disappearance added to the complexity (complex) of the incident.
3) Mutuality (Mutual) of respect is vital in sustaining a lifetime friendship.
4) It was obvious that the project leader’s stupidity (stupid) was the cause of failure.
5) The robbers were able to plan their robbery of him due to the regularity (regular) of his visits to the same bank.
6) The readability (readable) of your writing relies on avoiding common spelling and grammatical (grammar) errors.
7) Generally, romantic (romance) poems depend on subjective imagination, while realistic (reality) poems focus on objective portrayal. 8) Too much stress may lead to biological (biology) and psychological (psychology) disorders. 9) The social phenomenon can be analyzed
from historical (history), economic (economy) and political (politics) points of view.
10) The paper conducts a systematic (system) and logical (logic) research on how to enhance college students’ language competence. Grammar in Context
Study the following sentences that appear in this unit and reflect on the gradableadjectives or adverbs in comparative forms. And then do the following two tasks.
Task 2: Talk in pairs about the following themes by way of making comparisons,using as many adjectives / adverbs as you can think of in their comparativeand superlative degrees.
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Cities (Hints: Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, etc.)
It is much colder in winter in Beijing than in Shanghai. It is colder in winter in Shanghai than in Guangzhou. Of all the three cities, Beijing is the coldest city in winter.
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