综合教程第一册Unit 4课后练习答案

新世纪综合教程1课后练习答案

Unit  4  

Working with Words and Expressions

1. Listed in the boxes below are some of the words that you need to be very familiar with. Now work in pairs and make sentences with each of them to see if you have really mastered their usages. You are encouraged to consult a dictionary if you are still not quite sure about their meanings and usages.

▇ Answers:

1) When the father learned about his son’s school performance, he beamed with satisfaction.

2) How do people celebrate New Year’s Day in your country?

3) What are you complaining about? You have already got everything you want.

4) There were 24 people enrolled in the French class.

5) The children panicked when they saw the serious look on the teacher’s face.  

6) When I turned off the TV, all my three kids protested.

7) He is too stubborn to admit that he was wrong.

8) George is very ambitious about his future though he is just a teenager.

9) My son is very good at figures, and he plans to take up Mathematics for his major.

10) He got very frustrated when he learned that he had failed the exam again.

11) Being a very possessive father, he felt very unhappy when he learned his daughter was going to get married.

12) How can you keep your children at home for the whole week? Of course, they will get restless.

2. 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.

▇ Answers:

1) conflict

2) overcame

3) have survived

4) attend

5) frowned

6) wander

7) guilty

8) sustained

9) survey

10) terrified.

11) insurance

12) Adapting

3. 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 exercises. Change the form where necessary.

▇ Answers:

1) was sick of

2) choking back

3) Compared with

4) settled into

5) would give anything / the world

6) in the midst of

7) in his own right

8) worked out

9) fit in with

10) grew apart

11) No wonder

12) staying up

13) was annoyed with

14) was scared of

15) in trouble

16) For instance

Increasing Your Word Power

Meanings

1. The words listed in the following box can be used to describe either a teenager or a parent. Go over each word carefully and then choose the right word to complete each sentence.

Answers:

▆ Answers:

1) possessive

2) over-protective

3) frustrated

4) possessive

5) lenient/strict; strict/lenient

6) rebellious

7) frustrated

8) restless

9) stubborn

2. Match the verbs in the box with the nouns below so that they form correct collocations. If you are in doubt, consult a dictionary. Put the verbs in the space provided and each verb is to be used only once. Then write down six sentences of your own using the collocations.

▆ Answers:

1) survey the damage

2) sustain dents

3) attend a meeting

4) terrify somebody

5) wrap presents

6) recall an event

Write down your own sentences here.

▆ Answers:

1) After surveying the damage, we concluded that it was caused by animals.

2) His car sustained dents when it hit the road block.

3) The teachers will attend our meeting this afternoon.

4) The stern expression on his face terrified me.

5) Please wrap the presents carefully.

6) When he recalled what happened ten years ago, he still couldn’t help feeling sorry.

3 Did you notice the suffixes -ize, -ify in words such as realize, terrify in this

unit? The suffixes -ize, -ify can be added to nouns or adjectives to form

verbs. Now form verbs by adding -ize or -ify to the words given in the table

and write down the Chinese meaning for each verb.

Nouns/Adjectives	Suffixes	Verbs	Chinese Meanings
beauty	-ize/-ify	beautify	使美起来；美化
just	justify	证明...正当；证明...无罪
modern	modernize	使现代化
popular	popularize	使大众化；普及，推广
pure	purify	使纯净；提纯
simple	simplify	简化；使简易
symbol	symbolize	作为...的象征，标志
sympathy	sympathize	同情；怜悯
test	testify	作证，证明；表明
theory	theorize	使理论化；从理论上说明

4 Complete each of the following sentences with a proper word you have thus

formed.

1) simplified

2) beautify

3) justify

4) testify

5) theorize

6) popularize

7) purify

8) sympathized

9) symbolizes

10) modernizing

GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT

Task 1: Discuss with a partner and explain whether the highlighted verbs below

have different meanings when used transitively or intransitively.

▆ Answers for reference:

1. a.: vt.; b.: vi., with the same meaning: “did not die”

2. a.: vi. meaning “respond in words”

b.: vt. meaning “write back”

3. a.: vi. meaning “succeed in dealing with sth.”

  b.: vt. meaning “be in control or in charge of”

4. a.: vt. meaning “say or consider that (sb. or sth.) is (sth.)”

b.: vi. meaning “pay a brief visit”

Task 2: Read the sentences below and decide whether each one contains an error in the use of transitive or intransitive verbs. Put a tick (√ ) before the sentence that is correct. Put a cross (×) before the incorrect sentence and make corrections in the space given below.

 1. r(argued with each other)

 2. r (The accident happened …)

 3. r(enjoyed it)

 4. √

5. √

 6. r(shouted at)

 7. √

 8. √

Close

(1) beamed

(2) honorable

(3) awkward

(4) protested

(5) complaints

(6) compliments

(7) stubborn

(8) frowned

(9) recall

(10) panicked

(11) insurance

(12) surveyed

(13) groaning

(14) recognition

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