刘昱辰大学-大学英语课件
Unit 7
Inter-lesson (I)
Answers to Exercises
1 Put
in the, a/an, or a 0 when no article is needed.
1. A, a
2. a
3. The, the
4. 0,0
5. the, the
6. a
7. 0, the, the, The
8. The, a , 0
9. A, 0
10. The, an, 0,
a, the, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 // 0, 0, The, a, a, 0, a, 0,
0, the, 0, 0, 0
2 Fill in
the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in
the brackets.
1. goes
2. is having, won
’
t be
3. will stay
4. had
5. has just
offered, told, am/was, need/needed
6.
arrived, were
7. has happened, have been trying
8. is, find, are
9.
arrived, had begun
10. were still sleeping, was, were
barking, began
3 Put into
these compound sentences a conjunction (and, but,
or, so) and a comma.
1. I did not know
a single one, and none of them knew me.
2. I clung to my father
’
s hand, but he gently pushed me from him.
3. One of our daughters is working in a
textile factory in Bangkok, and the other has a
jib in a
store.
4. The
harvests were poor at first, but they soon
improved.
5. Send them away, or
I’
ll shoot and take my chances!
6. I opened the account myself, so why
can
’
t I withdraw any money?
7. Our piece of land is small, and it
is no longer fertile.
8. No, we two
haven
’
t changed much, but the village has.
9. But there is no more
rose in my garden, so I shall sit lonely and my
heart will break.
10. I know, times
have changed, but certain things should not
change.
11. Sometimes, they get
bullied, and it is like a knife piercing my heart.
12.
“
Press closer, little Nightingale, or the Day will come before the rose
is
finished”
cried the
Tree.
4
Put into the passage punctuation
marks:
…
.
My sister and I
are three and a half years apart in age, but a
world apart in the way we live our
lives. She is conservative and quiet. I
take too many risks, and the only time
I
’
m really quiet is
when
I
’
m sleep. I
’
ve spent most of my adult life apologizing to my sister and the rest of my family
for being
different, for embarrassing them by something I
wear, something
I do or something
I
say.
5
Paraphrase
these
sentences,
paying
special
attention
to
the
underlined parts.
1. Our path: life at school
Not totally sweet: not just fun
(not) unclouded: (there were) work to do and unpleasant things to face.
Method used for paraphrasing
: replacing abstract words with concrete
ones
Paraphrase:
school
wasn
’
t
just
fun;
there
were
work
to
do
and
unpleasant things to face.
2. suggested: showed
Authority: a person in charge
Paraphrase
: The way the man looked showed he was the man in charge
there.
Metho
d
: finding out the exact meaning of words or phrases in the context
3. it: hearing (that) my
children are badly treated
Is like a knife piercing my heart: gives me great pain
Paraphrase
: Whenever I hear (that) my children are badly treated, I feel
great pain.
Method
: replacing similes or specific words with general words.
4.
fit
the
description
of
any
secret
agent:
was
like
a
secret
agent
(described in spy novels)
Paraphrase
: Ausable wasn
’
t like any secret agent in spy novels Fowler
had read.
Method
:
explaining phrases in everyday language
5. The
occasion: the fact that the villager was serious
about the rock being