大英第一单元.doc

第一单元(1) Answer: special qualities (2) Answer: a tight budget (3) Answer: entertain (4) Answer: anyway (5) Answer: involved (6) Answer: requirement (7) Answer: on a small scale (8) Answer: temptation (9) Answer: Instead (10) Answer: machinery 1) My job varies between the extremely tedious and the annoyingly busy. I think Im happier during the really busy times; no time to think about how bored I am.Answer: On balance 2) It is the nature of the wise to pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.Answer: resist 3) I figure out a good team of dogs, hitched to a light sled, can 1,000 pounds of goods.Answer: haul 4) In the story, the little girl has a stepmother, who makes her life a misery.Answer: wicked 5) Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has it.Answer: illustrated 6) Nowadays almost all libraries are finding it increasingly difficult to remain within their.Answer: budget 7) You can increase a tyres grip in winter by slightly its pressure.Answer: lowering 8) Lakes Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario are shared by the United States and Canada, and form part of the between the two countries.Answer: boundary 9) The police are investigating the three men allegedly in organizing and carrying out the bank robbery.Answer: involved 10) I do not doubt in the least that inflation leads to decline.Answer: economic 11) A blizzard was great drifts of snow across the lake.Answer: blasting 12) Tim says everybody will be affected by the tax increases, but Im sure hes exaggerating.Answer: just about 1) In an effort to feel better, I started to make small changes in my life and from 20 cigarettes a day to a mere three or four. (cut)Answer: cut back / cut down 2) If I wasted electricity as you do at home, my dad would make me the bill. (pick)Answer: pick up 3) We can with four computers at the moment, but well need a couple more when the new staff arrive. (get)Answer: get by 4) It is impossible to this course just by working hard around exam times. (get)Answer: get through 5) Unless they quickly their mistakes, they will miss a unique opportunity to settle the problem once and for all. (face)Answer: face up to 6) The students were instructed to do the experiment carefully and to their reports at the beginning of next week. (turn)Answer: turn in 7) I didnt travel much when I was younger, but Im certainly lost time now. (make)Answer: making up for 8) Successful people are the ones who things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. (think)Answer: think up 1) Benneker continued steadily with his mathematical studies and taught himself astronomy when he was still a farmer.While farming, Benneker. (pursue)Answer: pursued his mathematical studies and taught himself astronomy 2) Misleading thoughts are often caused by words that are misused.Misused words. (generate)Answer: often generate misleading thoughts 3) Great importance is attached to a combination of theory and practice in our work.We (combine)Answer: attach great importance to combining theory with practice in our work 4) People tend to believe that a person who thinks money will do everything may do everything for money.A person who thinks that money will do everything may well t. (suspect)Answer: be suspected of doing everything for money 5) Before one comes to the end of life, there are surely a good many bitter disappointments that he has to face.A person surely has to face a good many bitter disappointments. (get through)Answer: before he gets through life 1) Seeing that more and more people are concerned about the quality of environment, John is considering starting an interior decoration business. It seems certain to earn, but he does not yet have enough money it. (profit, invest, indoor)(1) Answer: their indoor (2) Answer: a profit (3) Answer: to invest in 2) This is primarily used for of the sound quality of electronic media. It was invented in the US, but now it is used. (improvement, global scale, device)(1) Answer: device (2) Answer: the improvement (3) Answer: on a global scale 3) When the first settlers came to America, their principal household utensils (器皿) consisted of a few pots, pans and some bowls in one corner of the house. There wasnt much material around them. They in a restaurant as we often do nowadays. (temptation, dine out, stack)(1) Answer: stacked, (2) Answer: temptation (3) Answer: never dined out . home, house, family, household(1) I live in my as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful and more attractive skins, but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.(2) is the place where we are treated the best, but complain the most.(3) The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at in the bosom of my.(4) The number of cars owned by each in the local area averaged 1.5 in 2001.(1) Answer: house (2) Answer: Home (3) Answer: home (4) Answer: family (5) Answer: household 2. suspect, doubt(1) Mary has been told by her boss to finish two reports within 24 hours. I if she can finish the work in time.(2) My neighbor was arrested this morning because the police him of carrying out two bomb attacks.(3) People never his sincerity as a public servant; for he had long devoted himself to the struggle for the independence of his nation.(4) I considered Roy my friend and never that he was just taking advantage of me to obtain his selfish goals.(5) Dont employ anyone you, nor suspect anyone you employ.(1) Answer: doubt (2) Answer: suspected (3) Answer: doubted (4) Answer: suspected (5) Answer: suspect 1) For the past two decades there has been a in the number of single-parent families because of the ever-rising divorce rate in the country.Answer: rise 2) As one of the best football teams in the country, our team got all the way to the before being beaten.Answer: final 3) My father is a in that restaurant, and all of the waiters know him.Answer: regular 4) Most hotels allow their own guests to their checks for small amounts, but guests have to go to the banks for larger ones.Answer: cash 5) To protect our environment, it is important to let everybody know the and of recycling.(1) Answer: hows (2) Answer: whys 6) Inflation has the price of everything from food to industrial products.Answer: upped 7) Professor Smith is reading an old book, the pages of which are somewhat from age.Answer: yellowed 8) This wine was produced in France, but it was imported in large containers and in China before it was sold.Answer: bottled 9) He needed money but would not himself to picking up coins on the street.Answer: lower 10) Life is a for the true self and there is no easy access to that kind of truth.Answer: search (1) Answer: gets by (2) Answer: temptation (3) Answer: get through (4) Answer: improvements (5) Answer: aside from (6) Answer: suspect (7) Answer: supplement (8) Answer: profit (9) Answer: stacking (1) Answer: replaced (2) Answer: consider (3) Answer: quit (4) Answer: world (5) Answer: tough (6) Answer: fuels (7) Answer: provide (8) Answer: luxuries (9) Answer: balance (10) Answer: ideal Keys1) We have a problem with the computer system, but I think its fairly minor.2) My father died when I was too young to live on my own. The people of my hometown took over (responsibility for) my upbringing at that point.3) The toys have to meet strict/tough safety requirements before they can be sold to children.4) Radio and television have supplementedrather than replaced the