呵叻皇家大学-美文片段
Pre-class Work II
1. Paraphrase.
1) No. 12: He came back to get back the knife. After all, leaving
his knife sticking out of the
body is not a pleasant scene.
No. 7: Especially when the person is one of his relatives.
No. 4: That's not funny at all. Don't make any joke about it.
2) No. 3: ... I've seen all kinds of cheating, lying and other dirty
tricks in my life, but this little
demonstration is the worst I have ever seen.
3)
No.
7: ...
How
do
you
think
about
him
(Juror
No.
11)?
He
came to America to escape persecution,
but
now
before
he
can
take
a
deep
breath,
almost
immediately, he is telling us Americans
how to do
everything.
I'm
really
amazed
why
he
should
be
so
conceited and rude.
4)
No.
9:
Your eyeglasses
made
two
deep
marks
beside
your
nose. I haven't noticed it before. I
guess it
must be very annoying.
No. 4: Yes, it is annoying.
No.
9:
I
don't
know
what
you
feel
about
that,
since
my
eyesight is perfect and I've never worn
glasses.
5)
No.
3:
You've
showed
unreasonable
sympathy
for
those
people. How terrible you
all are. Are you going
to frighten me not to vote him guilty? You can't. I have the
right to h01d my own point.
2, Learn to use reference books.
Find the correct definition of the following in the text.
1) figure: to think; to guess
2) beat: to arrive at the very spot
3) bear: to prove
4)
stamp:
to
keep
lifting
each
foot
and
bringing
it
down
again
very hard to make a noise
5) room: chance
6) term: a word or expression that has a particular meaning
7) bridge: a card game for four players who play in pairs
8) feature: a film being shown at a cinema
9) tie: the result of a game, competition, or election in which two
or more people get the same number of
points, votes, etc.
10) impressions: marks
3. Find the synonyms of the
following in a thesaurus.
1) crazy: insane, mad, unbalanced
2) to bother : to annoy, to trouble, to dismay, to worry, to disquiet,
to disturb, to upset, to plague, to try
4. Word-building.
I) Give the corresponding nouns of the following.
(1)
vote
(2)
assumption
(3)
dependence
(4) risk
(5)
objection
(6)
recreation
(7)
declaration
(8) obscurity
(9)
plunge
(10)
description
(11)
annoyance
(12) intimidation
2) Give the corresponding verbs of the following.
(1)to detect
(2) to relate
(3) to doubt
(4)
to differ
(5)
to
display
(6)
to
execute
(7)
to
stress
(8) to
breathe
(9) to disgust
(10) to narrate
(11) to switch
3)
Translate
the
following
using
your
acquired
rules
of
word-building and point out which
form denotes a gerund and which a present participle.
Participles: (2), (4), (6), (8), (11), (12), (13), (15), (16), (17), (18),
(20), (21), (22), (23), (24), (25),
(26), (27),
(28),
(30),
(31),
(32),
(34),
(39),
(40),
(42),
(44),
(45),
(46),
(47),
(49), (50)
Gerunds: all the rest
4)
Study
how
these
words
are
formed
and
make
your
own
discoveries of
rules of word building.
(4) Give the noun forms of the following.
resistance
brilliance
fragrance
competence
existence
evidence
dependence
confidence
reluctance
intelligence
More Work on the Text
II. vocabulary
ate
1) into English.
(1) to risk being criticized
the evidence
(3) to capture the tiger
fact
(5)
to
cover
one's
blunder
recreate the scene
(7)
to
stamp
one's
feet
through
one's fingers
(9) to put oneself in sb.'s place
violence
persistence
(2) to present
(4) to twist the
(6)
to
(8)
to
skip
(10) to run for
one's life
(11)
to
break
the
tie
(12)
to
give
a
demonstration
(13)
to
obscure
the
truth
(14)
to
take
a
deep
breath
(15) to run the country
2) into Chinese.
(1)
铁证
(2)
合理的怀疑
(3)
重施脂粉；浓妆艳抹
(4)
精神压力
(5)
陪审团意见分歧，无法做出决定
(6)
刑事
(
民事
)
法庭
(7)
近< /p>
(
远
)
亲
(8)
最终判决
(9)
旧货店
(10)
辩护律师
(
11)
潜在威胁
(12)
滋生地
2
．
Give synonyms and antonyms of the following
．
1)Give synonyms
．
(1)sure
，
certain
(2)to catch
，
to arrest
，
to seize
，
to take prisoner
(3)to calculate
，
to think
，
to believe
，
to presume
，
to guess
( 4)common
，
usual
，
ordinar y
，
familiar
(5)to join
，
to attach
，
tO combine
，
to unite
，
to link
(6)drawing
，
ma p
，
plan
，
chart
(7)show ,demonstration
，
exhibition
(8)beau tiful
，
attractive
，
good- looking
(9)terror,horror
，
great fear
，
fright
，
scare
(10)mistake
，
error
(11)to thrust
，
to attack
，
to hit at
，
to strike at
，
to charge
(12)fuss
，
excitement
，
up roar
，
disturbance
(13)strain
，
te nsion
，
pressure
，
burden
(14)bad
，
awful
，
terrible
，
nasty
，
unpleasant
(1 5)to terrify
，
to frighten
，
to make afraid
，
to bully
2)Give antonyms
．
(1)near-sighted
，
short
—
sighted
，
myopi c
(2)il logical
，
irrational
，
inc onsistent
(3)old
，
ancient
，
outm oded
，
old
—
fashioned
(4)valu eless
，
worthless(Not
：
in valuable)
(5)to reveal
，
to show,to clarify
(6)tO approve
，
to agree
，
to accept
，
to welcome
(7)peaceful
(8)unconvinced
，
doubtf ul
，
uncertain
(9)upward
(10)expensive
，
costly
，
dear
(11) dishonesty
(12) educated, knowledgeable, well- informed
(13) inconspicuous, unnoticeable, invisible
(14) destructive
3.
Translate.
1) More and more young people now favor the idea of spending
their holidays traveling.
2) I am still in favor of having my parents live with us in their old
age.
3)
No
facts
have
ever
borne
out
the
claim
that
with
some
methods one can learn a
foreign language in
weeks or months.
4)
Today
all
state-owned
enterprises
must
bear
their
responsibilities for their losses.
5) He must be out of his mind to do that. How can you bear such
an insult?
6) I have been to many interesting places in the world in my day.
But now that
I'm old, I still feel that
and West, Home is Best
7)
If
you
stick
to
these
bad
habits,
you
will
risk
losing
your
health.
8) I'm sick and tired of being told what to do with my personal
life.
9) If I should fail, am I entitled to a makeup exam?
10) Under those pressures he still had the courage to stick to his