第1单元
◆alliance ◆campaign ◆casualty ◆conquest ◆crucial ◆decisive ◆declaration ◆efficient ◆engage ◆heroic ◆instruct ◆invasion ◆launch ◆limp ◆minus ◆occupation ◆offensive ◆raw ◆reckon ◆region ◆render ◆retreat ◆siege ◆stroke ◆toll ◆weaken ◆at the cost of ◆be faced with ◆be/get bogged down ◆bring to a halt ◆catch sb. off guard ◆die from/of ◆drag on ◆in the case of ◆press on/ahead ◆stand/get/be in the way ◆take a gamble ◆take its/a toll ◆thanks to ◆turn the tide(against)
1) The Labor Party's electoral (竞选的) strategy, which was based on a tactical
with other smaller parties, has proved successful.
Answer: alliance
2) The New York fire fighters' were celebrated across the country.
Answer: heroic
deeds in rescuing the September 11 victims 3) By a of good luck, Genelle, who had been buried in the rubble (瓦砾) for
more than 26 hours, came out alive.
Answer: stroke
4) My brother wasn't badly hurt, but he injured his leg and had to a few weeks.
Answer: limp
around for 5) The aircraft was subjected to a test of temperatures of and plus 120 degrees.
Answer: minus
65 degrees Celsius
6) Tax incentives will be used to attract companies to the westerncountry away from the east coast.
Answer: regions
of our
7) The opening speeches sounded more like
Answer: declarations
of war than offerings of peace.
8) After a three-day restaurant had to give in.
Answer: siege
by the police, the terrorists who had seized the 9) Once we stepped off the plane and onto the prairie , we were greeted by a gust of
and biting wind.
Answer: raw
10) Attacks by enemy aircraft forced the tanks to
Answer: retreat
from the city.
11) The harassing problems of the past few months are shadows beneath her eyes.
Answer: have taken their toll
on her health and there 12) Workers who have to work on weekends are paid twice the normal wages.
national holidays, they get triple pay.
Answer: In the case of
13) The endless public appearances and shaking of hands are an inevitable part of an election
.
Answer: campaign
14) The government troops recaptured the city from the rebels thousand casualties.
Answer: at the cost of
two 15) Production in many factories to the dock workers' strike.
Answer: has been brought to a halt
by the delayed arrival of raw materials due
1) To raise productivity, many factories have begun to lay off workers. Now the government
the problem of helping create jobs for the large number of unemployed.(face)
Answer: is faced with
2) If you let yourself really important issues. (bog)
Answer: get bogged down
in paper work, you'll never find time to deal with the 3) Despite fierce opposition, the government corruption. (press)
Answer: is pressing on/is pressed on
with its campaign to eliminate 4) \years,\
Answer: drag on
for 5) Susan never took any cookery courses; she learned cooking byfrom TV cookery programs. (pick)
Answer: picking up
useful tips
6) Their marriage was already
Answer: falling apart
even before his wife went abroad. (fall)
7) As the economy shows no signs of picking up, many companies investment. (cut)
Answer: cut back
on capital 8) The manager suddenly fell ill, and I've had to
Answer: take over
. (take)
1) As a result of the rapid advance in gene therapy, cures for cancer may be not far away. The rapid advance in gene therapy may
Answer: lead to the conquest of cancer in the near future
2) Thousands of people were killed or wounded in the border dispute between the two countries.
The border dispute . (casualty)
. (conquest)
Answer: between the two countries resulted in thousands of casualties
3) Knowing that she can't move ahead in her career mainly due to her leisure interests, Sara is determined to make a change.
Sara has made up her mind that her leisure interests
Answer: will/should never get in the way of her career
4) It was obvious that the foreign minister had never thought that the reporter would ask him such a question.
Obviously the reporter's question
Answer: caught the foreign minister off guard
5) Few people use the slide rule (计算尺) since the introduction of the electronic calculator. The introduction of the electronic calculator
Answer: has rendered the slide rule out of date/obsolete
. (render)
. (catch sb. off guard)
. (get in the way of)
1) At that time, the enemy forces were much superior to ours, so we had to give up
big cities and the rural and mountainous to build up our base areas. (retreat, region, occupation)
Answer: the occupation of, retreat to, regions
2) Unity is the this problem will operation of an organization. Failure its strength. In many cases, work may by constant internal struggle in an organization. (crucial, weaken, reckon with, bring to a halt, efficient)