Language Sense Enhancement
Language Focus Vocabulary I.
1. the fierce resistance 2. the long march 3. the devastating
1. 1) alliance 2)at the cost of 3) stroke 4)limp 5)minus 6) r3. 1) head to the conquest of cancer in the near future 3) will/should never get in the way of her career 4) caught the foreign minister off guard
4. 1) Being faced with/the occupation of/regions
2. 1) is faced with 2)get bogged down 3) is pressing on/pres
2) has been brought to a halt by the delayed arrival of raw
5) of the electronic calculator has rendered the slide rule o
2) crucial to/efficient/to reckon with/weaken/be brought to
II. More Synonyms in the Context
3) a heroic/the decisive/turned the tide/siege/by launching
1) During the First World War, battles occurred here and the
2) Elizabeth make careful preparations for the interview and
3) I spent hours trying to talk him into accepting the settlem
III. Usage
Comprehensive Exercises I.
4) Pneumonia had severely weakened her body, and I wond
1) fall ill 2) lay dead from a heart attack 3) dropped dead fro
1. 1) invasion 2) stand in the way 3) catching…off his guar II.
2. 1) allow 2) reckoned 3) highly 4) forecasts 5) rapidly 6
1. 1) Mr. Doherty and his family are currently engaged in ge
2) We must not underestimate the enemy. They are equipp
3) Having been out of a job for 3 months, Phil is increasin
4) Sam, as the project manager is decisive, efficient and a
5) Since the chemical plant was identified as a source of p
2. The offensive had lasted three days, but we had not gaine
a surprise attack. To do this we have to cross a marshlan
kily enough, thanks to the severely cold weather which ha
s had turned the tide of the battle. The enemy, caught off
Text B
Comprehension Check 1. d d b a b d
Translation
1. 6月5日被选为进攻日，是因为要留下一个安全量，以防万一
2. 然而，当年春夏之交大风暴异乎寻常地多，在这个时候会出现
3. 要是在原定地区登陆的话，德军海岸炮群无疑会拼命抵抗并给
Language Practice 1. d h b a f e c g
4. 尽管困难重重，艾森豪威尔在与恶劣天气的赌博中赢得了胜利
2. 1) boast 2) obstacles 3) was concerned 4) call…off 5) pUnit 2 Text A
Language Sense Enhancement
Language Focus Vocabulary
7) contesting 8) prior to 9) hold out 10) objective 11) res
1. care 2. impact 3. orbiting satellites 4. warn of 5. locatio
I.
4. 1) expansion 2) automated 3) vapor 4)take control of 5)6. 1) incorporates all the latest safety features 2) two trees ten feet apart
3) awarding lucrative contracts to his construction firm 5) are correlated in all racial groups 2) that vibrate/can detect/frequency 3) lanes/are mounted in/alert a /hazard
II. Word Formation
5. 1) send out 2) stand up for 3) pass for 4) were closing in
4) the prototype of a new model before they set up a facto
4. 1) the application/ has turned into a reality/ are poised to
Clipped Words: kilogram/memorandum/gymnasium/liberati
III. Usage
Comprehensive Exercises I.
Blends: medical care/electronic mail/communications satel
1) swimming pool 2) drawing board 3) enriched Middle Eng
3. 1) computerized 2) start up 3) be poised to 4) alert 5) haz
ct 16) vapor II.
4. 1) generates 2) related 3)revolutionized 4) enable 5) op
3. 1) There was an unusual quietness in the air, except for t
2) The expansion of urban areas in some African countrieglobal temperatures
3) The research shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide le
4) The frequency of the bus service has been improved fro
ially highway fatalities. However, today the application of
5) The diver stood on the edge of the diving board, poised
4. Automobiles have, since their invention, revolutionized tr
fic accidents. For example, electronic sensors mounted in
Text B
Comprehension Check 2. a c c d b b
Translation
iving radio signals sent out from orbiting satellites and gr
5. 这类系统易受气候变化的影响， 提供的数据不够精确，但他们