教材试题 Unit 4 Discovering Useful Words and Expressions

Unit 4 Learning efficientlyLearning about LanguageDiscovering useful words and expressions1 Complete the following texts with words below in the correct form.centigrade competent allocate booklet recipein detail slow down frequent consult caption1 Sally was so excited that Mary couldnt understand what she was saying. Mary told her to _ and tell her again. Then Sally told her she had been _ an apartment close to the university. Mary congratulated her and said she knew those apartments well because her best friend lived there and she was a _ visitor. She told Mary about them _ and Sally became even more excited about living there.2 I consider myself a _ cook so I usually dont _ a recipe book. I just remember what I did last time. One day my daughter brought home from school a small _ with easy recipes in it and asked me to help her cook something. There were pictures of each step in the recipe with _ underneath to tell you what to do, so I let her follow the _ on her own. When she had finished, she proudly put her cake into the oven to cook. About ten minutes later we smelt burning. I opened the oven to find my daughters cake on fire, and it was all my fault. I had heated the oven to 250_ instead of 150!2 Practise working out the meaning of words using the context. Read the sentencesand work out the meaning of the words printed in bold.1 Bob was very poor and his clothes were shabby because he had had them a long time.2 It rained all morning, then the sun suddenly appeared from behind the clouds and we saw a beautiful rainbow in the distance.3 The brewery in Oldtown makes better beer than the one in our town.4 His hearing is so acute that he can even hear a pin drop.5 My glasses are bent because I left them on my bed and then sat on them.6 I had so much luggage to carry that I had to catch a cab from the airport to my hotel.7 I went to the bank to change my RMB into American currency.8 The Lotus Blossom restaurant offers both Chinese and French cuisine.9 Some three hundred educators attended a seminar on second language acquisition.3 Play a game in pairs. One defines a word and the other guesses it.EXAMPLE:S1: It can be a noun or a verb. As a verb, it means to see something in advance.S2: Is it “preview”?S1: Youre right. Now its your turn.Here are some possible words. Remember to give the part of speech first.efficient manual adopt diameter digest assess beneathAnswer Key for Exercise 1：1 slow down；allocated；frequent；in detail2 competent；consult；booklet；captions；recipe；centigradeSuggested answers to Exercise 2：1 shabby：looking old and worn out, not in good condition2 rainbow：a many-coloured arch that appears in sunlight after rain has fallen3 brewery：a factory where beer is made4 acute：very good, accurate5 bent：forced out of shape6 cab：another name for a taxi (used mainly in the US and Australia) . 7 currency：money that is used in a particular country8 cuisine：a style of cooking9 educator