work at home rather than go to the office.
3. Some people say that the pupils' achievements this term will be measured by a formal test rather than their teacher's assessment.
4. They argued that their products should be developed on the basis of need rather than profit.
5. During weekends the businessmen may spend time establishing friendship and mutual trust rather
than discussing any particular item of business. X.
1. Petrol now is twice as expensive as it was a few years ago. 2. Theirs is about three times as big as ours.
3. Latin American customers talk two to four times as long on the phone as people in North America.
4. the fee for cell phones is typically twice as much as for calls made over fixed lines 5. can transmit 250,000 times as much data as a standard telephone wire Translation XI.
1. Rather than invest in my education, my parents spent their money on a new house.
2. Today, people are spending twice as much on entertainment and relaxation as they did in the past.
3. In order to be successful, a business must keep pace with developments in the marketplace. 4. Her fluency in English gave her an advantage over other girls for the job.
5. For students, nowhere is better than the library, where all the books are at their disposal.
6. We should make full use of the platform to strengthen communication, expand cooperation in more
areas and seek further development through joint efforts. XII.
1，发展中国家认为信息技术是促进经济发展的途径，但一些国家在估算成本与选择技术方面缺乏经验。
2.据说地球拥有的地下水量大约是其拥有的河流和湖泊水量的三千倍，而且地下水要干净得多。
3.任何人都能照出好照片—问题只是你是否在合适的时间和地点。
4.通过在他们的学校和图书馆安装计算机，这些社区的领导们表明他们决心不在技术上落后。
5.当他开始创办这家公司时，他想他将能在市场上与那些顶级公司并驾齐驱，可是他现在失望
了，因为他没有成功。
6.佛罗里达的一对夫妇在建造一座他们称之为未来之家的房子，它既能抵御咫风，又与周围环
境十分协调。 Cloze XIII.
1 ．C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. B 6. C 7. D 8. B 9. C 10. D 11．A 12.C 13.B 14.D 15.C 16.D 17.B 18.A 19.C 20.C Structured Writing
XV.
Compare the new welfare system with the old one and you would find a world of difference between
the two. Under the new welfare system, the law encourages welfare clients to work on their own for a
gradual shift away from welfare, and this is not the case in the past. Welfare clients now can develop
their talents to make money. In the past, they often cheated to bleed the system for a few extra dollars.
Now caseworkers will gladly help their clients find appropriate jobs rather than act like detectives to
try to seek out any unreported properties. Today many welfare clients have made a choice to live a life
of complete honesty and they tell the truth to caseworkers and declare any extra income they make.
In cases like this, caseworkers will feel greatly relieved because they don't need to search for any cheating as in the past.
Unit 5 Section A
Comprehension o f the text I.
1. Because 22 million people live alone, which suggests that it is an overwhelming phenomenon in the
United States.
2. Because they can find inspiration in solitude.
3. The more positive one is toward oneself, the less the need for staying with others.
4. It depends. If they live with their friends, the friends' temporary leaving will be received as a welcome change. However, if they live alone, the temporary absence of friends may leave them with a feeling of emptiness.
5. Because the need to talk is the most basic need of a solitary person.
6. They may call friends to tell them important things, or talk to themselves, their pets, the television,
or even to strangers.
7. To stay rational, settle down in a comfortable way and find pleasure from the current life,. wait for
anything happy that may happen.
8. The writer thinks that as ordinary people's solitary life differs from that of great minds (like poets
and philosophers), they should cherish the thought that \it
and make the best of it\Vocabulary III.
1. humble 2. slippery 3. tame 4. inspiration 5. crept
6. apology 7. observation 8. dictate 9. inadequate 10. solitary Exercises on Web course only:
1l. choked 12. waterproof 13. poetry 14. commodity IV
1. cast out 2. all by himself 3. stay up late 4. was fond of 5. at one sitting
6. filled up with 7. speaks highly of 8. set forth 9. at length 10. for the time being V.
1.K 2.H 3.M 4.B 5.A 6.0 7.J 8.D 9.F 10.1 Collocation VI.
1. efficiency 2. status 3. performance 4. standard 5. coordination 6. sense 7. career 8. quality 9. supply 10. accuracy Word Cjuifdin8 VIl.
1. underestimated 2. underpaid 3. overslept 4. Underdeveloped 5. overestimated 6. overcharged 7. underweight 8. overloaded VIll.
1. simplified 2. electrician 3. recovery 4. childlike 5. autobiography 6. underline 7. terrorist 8. overreact sentence structure IX.
1. The distance between them is not so great as to be unbridgeable. 2. The unity of the masses with the party is never so strong as it is now.
3. The punishment was harsh because Maggie would lose her position, but it was not so bad as losing her pay.
4. I've heard the terrible noise once or twice before, but never so loud as this one. 5. Men are never so peaceful, so graceful with each other as they are now. X.
1. You might as well go there to see whether there is the information you need. 2. We might as well call it freedom.
3.You might as well ring and tell them you're going to visit them. 4. We might as well walk home.
5. We might as well find an easier one to read. Translation XI.
1. This little man is not so innocent as he appears.
2. There's nothing I can do about the problem, so you might as well turn to Professor Wang for help.
3. Both sides speak highly of the fruits in their cooperation in different areas, and hope that the cooperation can be furthered.
4. On the one hand, an image of being close to the people can get a new policy more easily accepted.
On the other hand, it will \suggestions\
5. His sense of loneliness rose and fell and he sometimes would talk at length to himself and his pets
and the television.
6. After all, money is not everything. The richest people are not necessarily the happiest. XII
1.新的机制并不像他们预期的那样有效，因为数月过去了，但管理效率并没有明显改进。 2.我不想不必要地吓唬你，可你最好还是面对事实，看看一些数字吧。
3.孤独的特点是一种与世隔绝感，而独居则是独自一人却不感到寂寞的状态，它能引发自我 意识。
4.孤独是一种消极的状态，你会感到失去了某种东西。你可能与别人在一起仍然感到孤独— 这也许是孤独最痛苦的形式。
5.独居是一种与自我相约的积极的状态。独居是值得向往的，是独自一人、享受自我愉快而又
充实的陪伴的一种状态。
6.梭罗说，一个人即使身处同伴之中，如果不对他们敞开心扉，仍会感到孤独。 Cloze XIII.
1 ．B 2.D 3.A 4.B 5．C 6.C 7．D 8．D 9. B 10. A
11 ．C 12. B 13．A 14.C 15.D 16.B 17.C 18.A 19.D 20.C Structured Writing
XV. Some people prefer to live alone whereas some others have to live alone for one reason or another.
Those people believing in inspirational solitude argue that no companion is more companionable than
solitude. Literary giants such as William Wordsworth, John Milton and Henry Thoreau enjoyed living
alone on purpose. Hunters or explorers enjoy themselves as they venture out to tame the great wild areas. On the other hand, there are some other people who have to live alone due to various reasons:
being divorced, widowed or never married. Many of them feel bitter to live in solitude. They have no
one to talk to and as a result they talk at length to themselves and to their pets and to the television. Unit 6
Section A vocabulary III.
1. Substantial 2. concerning 3. negotiation 4. exaggerate 5. withdrawn 6. commissions 7. financed 8. secure 9. impose 10. donation IV
1. by 2. in 3. of 4. to 5. up
6. on/upon 7. with 8. in 9. in 10. between V
1.O 2.E 3.G 4.1 5.J 6.B 7.K 8.N 9.M 10.D Collocation
VI.
1. approaches 2. reward 3. protection 4. honor 5. advice
6. access 7. advantages 8. help 9. sympathy 10. understanding Word Building VII.
1. foresight 2. forewarned 3. foreground 4. postgraduate 5. post-race 6. foresaw 7. post-Christmas 8. post-election VIII.
1. e-shopper 2. e-merchant 3. e-journal 4. e-classroom 5. e-commerce 6. e-mail 7. e-dictionaries 8. e-cash sentence structure IX.
1. It's pointless to go there next Monday-there's a public holiday.
2. It is easy to talk about having high moral standards, but, in practice, what would one really do in
such a situation?
3. It is interesting to see different cultures and ways of life. 4. It is really astonishing that she refuses to talk to you.
5. It is important that she come straight to me when she arrives. X.
1. Suppose you object to carrying out a particular managem_ent order and you are afraid of the manager, what would you do?
2. Suppose you have just got married and you are about to work abroad for three years, how would you explain it to your newly-married wife?
3. Suppose someone couldn't understand why you didn't arrest Harry, would you explain to remove the doubts?
4. Suppose your tenant fails to pay the rent in time, would you throw him out?
5. Suppose you are a very heavy smoker and are anxious to break the habit, where could you get help?
Translation XI.
1. Suppose you found out that your colleague takes bribes, would you just ignore it? 2. We've given up on him because he is so stubborn. It is pointless to argue with him.
3. He hit upon a good method to speed up the progress of the experiment, but opinions differed among
members of the group on it.
4. Today I'm able to square my profession with my interest, which I wasn't able to do before. 5. The ability to visually distinguish between red and green is essential to becoming a driver.
6. The team consisted of seven people who met on a regular basis to share their information with each