other. XII.
1.假设有人向你行贿，要换取一种承诺，你会怎么做？是接受呢，还是坚持自己的原则？ 2.现在人们不会忍受那些糟糕的境况，可是在那些日子里却只能接受那样的现实。
3.大学校园里形形色色的作弊现象越来越多，我已不记得这学期有多少学生因作弊而被捉住孔
4.当艾奇先生被披露曾受贿时，他不得不退出州长职位的竞争。
5.虽然他原先完全支持改革政策，可后来却开始抨击这场改革运动了。 6.这位教授肯定不会同意翻译基本是在词典里查生词的观点。 Cloze XIII.
1 ．A 2. D 3．C 4.B 5．B 6. D 7．A 8.C 9.C 10.A
11 ．B 12.D 13.B 14.A 15．C 16.D 17.B 18.C 19.D 20.B XV
Typically there are two kinds of people who choose to live alone on purpose. The first group of people
is artists. They believe in the inspiration in solitude. One of my friends is a writer. He enjoys the time
when he is alone because he can stay up late to read and, above all, concentrate on his writing without
fear of being interrupted by others. On his wall he posts a quotation from Thoreau: \the companion that was so companionable as solitude.\are disappointed with their marriage or family life. A woman I know has been living alone since her
husband left her five years ago. She is not waiting for his return but she is just disappointed with life. Unit7
Section A Vocabulary III.
1. discounted 2. biased 3. variation 4. potential 5. Confronted 6. migrate 7. descended 8. distinct 9. superficial 10. extensive IV
1. to date 2. in effect 3. nothing less than 4. As of
5. in combination with 6. In addition to 7. shed new light on 8. is... confined to 9. serve as 10. adapt to V.
1.K 2.0 3.C 4.F 5.J 6.1 7.G 8.A 9.M 10.E Collocation
VI.
1. awards 2. challenges 3. component 4. advances 5. changes 6. advantage 7. influence 8. effect 9. objective 10. threat Word Building VII.
1. privacy 2. intimacy 3. frequency 4. fluency
5. secrecy 6. urgency 7. consistency 8. dependency VIII.
1. politics 2. classics 3. electronics 4. economics
5. psychology 6. methodology 7. technology 8. biology sentence structure IX.
1. Being healthy is more than a question of not being ill.
2. I was more than a little upset at not being invited to the wedding. 3. This story is more than interesting; it is educational as well.
4. Hepworth is more than a filmmaker; he had learnt to find stories that would have genuine popular appeal.
5. Compared our achievements today with what we started out to be, it is more than a miracle brought
about by years of exceptionally hard work. X.
1. What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution.
2. This is nothing less than a call to restore the vitality of the American Dream.
3. Their dream was nothing less than a revolutionary project to bring computers and ordinary people together. ,
4. The experience of sightseeing in the wonderful island is nothing less than exciting and I am moved to tears.
5. He was very concerned that she should not be tired or bored; he wanted to make sure that the holiday would be nothing less than perfect for her. Translation XI.
1. In the process of creating the genetic map, these scientists realized that cooperation was more than
an attractive option; it was a responsibility.
2. Their research findings were nothing less than a miracle. As a result of their findings, new light has
been shed on the history of human genes.
3. In fact, only hard work in combination with proper methods will give you an advantage over others.
4. The judge said the punishment would serve as a warning to others.
5. The risk of infection is confined to those who have close contact with the patients.
6. From such an analysis we are in a better position to understand what has happened and what to do
about it. X11.
1．作为一个负责的生产厂家，我们不仅仅关注环境；我们还积极参与环境保护。
2.当然，她最后还是离开，去结婚了，但我敢肯定的是：她对工作尽职尽责，从不允许自己的
职业重点受到影响。
3.除了学业上的成绩，你迄今为止最大的成就是什么？ 4.观察和实验的目的是为了验证或阐明某些理论，只有那些被视为与任务相关的观察才应该被
记录下来。
5.不管现在身处何地，黑人都是非洲人的后裔，但是数百年来，由于种种原因，他们的遗传基
因已经变得多样化且非常复杂。
6.实际上，他们都同意这种观点：法律的变化引起了社会本质的变化以及社会中人与人之间关
系的变化。 Cloze XIII.
1 ．A 2. B 3. C 4. D 5．D 6.C 7．B 8．A 9. D 10. C 11，B 12.A 13.A 14.B 15．D 16.C 17.D 18.B 19.A 20.B
Unit8
Section A
Comprehension o f the text I.
1. They hid behind their curtains and peered at the travelers cautiously.
2. It means that the small town was a stage where the different travelers who passed by were actors
revealing themselves to the audience-the villagers.
3. Probably there were different ways of greetings between them, so there might be some misunderstandings or inappropriate responses.
4. Because she wanted to sing and dance so much that she thought the money was given as a discouragement rather than an encouragement.
5. When she left her hometown of Eatonville for Jacksonville at thirteen, she experienced a huge change and she was aware that she was black.
6. It means that she was not emotionally disturbed by the fact that she was a descendent of slaves. She
felt good about herself.
7. The writer compared herself to a brown bag of mixed items propped up against a wall with other bags.
8. As is described, the contents revealed are nothing but common objects. It suggests that for ordinary
people, no matter whether they are white or black, they share something in common. Vocabulary III.
1. cautiously 2. bribing 3. disapprove(d) 4. tendency 5. permanent 6. depression 7. fragrance 8. guarantee 9. exclusively 10. generously IV. .
1. peering at 2. be broken off 3. disapproved of 4. prop up 5. In the main 6. in company with 7. in that 8. pay the price 9. belong to 10. more or less V
1. L 2.O3. H 4. D 5.1 6. E 7. N 8. K 9. G 10. B Collocation
VI.
1 ．plans 2. lifestyle 3. fact 4. policies 5. rules
6. concentration 7. world 8. voice 9. inheritance 10. content Word Building VII.
1. dued 2. demobilized 3. deregulated 4. decentralized
5. destabilizing 6. depersonalized 7. de-emphasize 8. decoded VIII.
1. retirees 2. interviewees 3. trainee 4. employees 5. escapees 6. addressee 7. devotee 8. divorcee sentence structure IX
1. I know she isn't really interested in window-shopping, but she doesn't mind waiting while I have a look.
2. If people don't mind my not having a degree, I could give a few music lessons!
3. People don't mind paying a lot more for good software because they can see the benefits of using it.
4.1 don't mind if people perceive me as arrogant. You need certain degree of it to succeed.
5. We don't mind if it takes time for people to express their hopes, goals, fears, and needs in their lives. X.
1. No friends came to see her; she shut herself off, in the old familiar world of bedroom and drawing room.
2. No cigarette end could give us any clue to or sign of anyone having ever been there.
3. No gas, no water and no electricity in the hospital! How could you expect the children to survive this?
4. No other information is given about the book itself, although there is a brief biographical, note about the writer.
5. No effort has been made to investigate the \three years.
Translation XI.
1. 1 don't mind his staying out so late as long as he behaves himself.
2. 1 prefer his plan to others in that I think no plan is more practical than his.
3. They broke off business relations with that company as it suffered huge losses in the last fiscal year
and went bankrupt.
4. Now that you don't like him, why did you invite him to your birthday party in the first place? 5. Though we knew our chances to win were slim, we were more or less depressed when we lost in the game.
6. Perhaps this was the price that has to be paid for progress-who knows? XII.
1.我不在乎他们否定我的计划，但在内心深处我仍渴望得到他们的支持。 2.彼得宣布他不想与她们中任何一个女孩一起唱歌或跳舞，他没给任何理由。
3.我们尊敬的是那些奉献时间、友谊和才能的人，而不是那些一心只为自己谋求私利的人。 4.看来我生意遭到一了巨大损失，这是我不听父母忠告所付出的代价。
5.他们只是顺便又提到了这一点：在我去那个国家旅行时，会有一位翻译一直在我身边。 6.即使当父母强烈反对子女的行为方式时，他们拒绝接受的是那种行为方式而不是子女本人，
澄清这一点十分重要。 Cloze XIII.
1 ．B 2.C 3．B 4. D 5．A 6. D 7．A 8.B 9.B 10.C 11 ．A 12.B 13.A 14.B 15.B 16.D 17.C 18.D 19.D 20.A Structured Writing XV
Small in size and light in weight, electronic dictionaries are convenient to use．They are easy to carry and
students can take them anywhere they go. Whenever they come across a new word in reading, they can
find out its meaning wi the help of an electronic dictionary. An electronic dictionary usually contains
the information of several paper dictionaries．When students have one such dictionary, they actually
have more than one dictionary in hand．Meanwhile，electronic dictionaries are time-saving. They save
students from turning pages over to find the word．Instead, they only need to key in the word and the
meaning will appear on the screen. Considering all the above factors，no wonder more and more students
are using electronic dictionaries nowadays