Book 2 Unit 1 Section A

Vocabulary

III. Complete the following explanations or definitions with an appropriate word from the box. Change the form where necessary. surgery evolution erect sign skyline fade detect seal headline monitor 1. If there is a(n) ________ of something, there is something which shows that it exists or is happening.

2. To ________ something means to find or discover that it is present somewhere by using equipment or making an investigation.

3. If you ________ a container or an opening, you cover it with something in order to prevent air, liquid, or other material getting in or out.

4. ________ is medical treatment in which someone’s body is cut open so that a doctor can repair or remove a diseased or damaged part.

5. If you ________ something, you regularly check its development or progress, and sometimes comment on it.

6. If someone or something ________, for example, into background, they become hardly noticeable or very unimportant.

7. ________ is a process of gradual development in a particular situation or thing over a period of time.

8. If people ________ something such as a building, a bridge, or a barrier, they build it or create it.

9. A(n) ________ is the title of a newspaper story, printed in large letters at the top of the story, especially on the front page.

10. The ________ is the line or shape that is formed where the sky meets buildings or the land.

IV. Fill in each of the blanks in the following sentences with a word or phrase from the box. Change the form where necessary. break down build into keep an eye on work on incorporate deliver Integrate cooperate typical emerge transcend innovation exceed 1. Is there a(an) ________ career path for a person in this position?

2. In the mid-13th century, Tibet was officially ________ into the territory of China’s Yuan Dynasty.

3. These programs can ________ not only basic training, but also planning and cross-training to all employees.

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4. In the year of 2008, more new workers were recruited and the department was ________ into sections.

5. As a security guard, you must ________ the stranger who is looking back and forth all the time.

6. Using computers, students are able to ________ text with graphics.

7. If the television was ________ the ceiling, you could lie there while watching your favorite program.

8. We can allow a 2% discount on all orders of $600 in value and over; orders ________ $2,000 are subject to a 3% discount.

9. The ________ of air travel during this century has made the world seem smaller.

10. This book tries to improve individual’s abilities to understand and ________ with foreigners. 11. In the next several years there can be 10 different research groups ________ the project. 12. Only when function and style combine perfectly does a great classic ________.

13. What brings us together is that we have common interests which ________ those differences.

V. Fill in each of the blanks in the following sentences with an appropriate preposition or adverb.

1. We shall try to incorporate some of your ideas ________ our future plans.

2. ________ the help of a ladder, neighbors were able to rescue the children from the blaze. 3. Cash shall include but not be limited ________ banknote, coin, bank deposit, bank draft and traveler’ check.

4. The building was designed by William Kent, ________ the personal direction of Henry Richardson.

5. The new residential blocks were skillfully integrated ________ the rest of the College to form a pleasing, self-contained whole.

6. The boss was so angry over Ned’s mistake that he fired him _______ the spot.

7. The workers found that it was not easy to move the pipes because they were built ________ the concrete.

8. I must say I have never run a joint venture company before, but I’d like to cooperate ________ you.

III.

1. sign 2. detect 3. seal 4. Surgery 5. monitor 6. fades 7. Evolution 8. erect 9. headline 10. skyline

IV.

1. typical 2. incorporated 3. deliver 4. broken down 5. keep an eye on 6.integrate 7. built into 8. exceeding

9. innovation 10. cooperate 11. working on 12. emerge 13. transcend

V.

1. into 2. With 3. to 4. under 5. with 6. on 7. into 8. with

XI.

1. It is also important to note that past performance alone will not help predict future

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performance.

2. If we keep clear heads, we shall not commit big mistakes, and when problems emerge, they can be easily put right.

3. It is therefore vital for a company to have the quickest possible information on what the customer is asking for.

4. Although I would like to do some work during the rest of my life, I wish to fade from the political scene.

5. He was found guilty on three charges of exceeding the speed limit

他被指控三次超速，并被判罪。（exceed）

6. He reached this logical conclusion after carefully thinking about all the information. 7. After I wrote a book of short biographies I began to work on my next novel.

8. It is hoped that Chinese education will be able to integrate with the international educational community soon.

Section B

Vocabulary

II. Fill in each of the blanks in the following sentences with a word or phrase chosen from the box. Change the form where necessary.

switch on overwhelm superior purchase out of date neglect have a go embrace applicable enable on one’s behalf carry out demonstrate capacity undertake

1. This problem ________ by this government in spite of the great urgency

2. He ________ the floodlights and what had been impenetrable darkness became suddenly as clear as day.

3. It doesn’t matter if you make it or break it as long as you ________.

4. This island ________ by the local government with an eye to carrying out some dangerous experiments on human beings.

5. When the chairman is unable to perform his duties, the vice-chairman designated by the chairman performs his duties ________. 6. Scientific and technical training should be ________ for women to improve their ability to wipe out poverty.

7. We are now engaged in a great and most glorious cause, never ________ by our forefathers. 8. It remains to be seen whether the industry will ________ the products resulting from this technology.

9. The technical achievement of Renaissance Europe was ________ to those achieved by any other civilization.

10. Chemical engineers have considerable background that is ________ to water pollution

problems.

11. Possessing a car gives a much greater degree of mobility, ________ the driver to move around freely.

12. Faber had known the timetable would be ________, but he had needed to establish whether

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the trains went to London.

13. You may be a great man, but if Fortune give you no chance to ________ your merit, how am I to know your greatness?

14. During the financial crisis, these countries ________ with heavy debts.

15. The human mind has a truly amazing ________ to learn and remember large numbers of idioms quickly and easily.

III. Replace each of the underlined parts in the following sentences with a word or

phrase from the text. Change the form where necessary.

1. He has no bad habits like smoking or drinking, and he doesn’t even know how to play chess or ball games. In his spare time he just takes walks or chats with people. 2. Ideal personality refers to high level of personal integrity, excellent interpersonal, good command of communication skills, team player and work under pressure. 3. He is deliberately disregarding his studies in spite of criticism 4. What they long for is “access”, the power to open doors and gain a hearing that the Clinton name will provide.

5. After some minutes he appeared to have come to a decision, and entering the shop he bought a baby’s rattle for four pence half-penny.

6. I predict some big names in the town will have mud on them before all this is over. 7. Presently, a fairly complete modern education system is being operated in the Tibet Autonomous Region, and education is being spread to wider areas in the Region.

8. Before we reached home, Catherine’s displeasure softened, into a mixed feeling of pity and regret.

IV. Complete the following sentences with the help of the first letter. Fill in each blank with one word only.

1. Some species of animals have become extinct because they could not a________ to a changing

environment.

2. While upper-class European intellectuals generally looked down upon business, most Americans e________ the idea of moneymaking with enthusiasm.

3. American officials and the public are debating if the United States should take m________

actions against Iraq.

4. Xinhua News Agency q________ the local informed personnel that many cities have become disaster areas and the total population affected is about 3.5 million.

5. Almost all the recent criticism from the mass media is directed at the ever increasing rate of u________.

6. She wrote n________ articles in German, some for academic journals, primarily on Indian history and on women.

7. Some feel that, by merely coming to New York, fortune is about to smile on them, that the streets are p________ with gold.

8. This is a specific area of the field of a________ intelligence applied to the industrial use of robots doing repetitive tasks.

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