2. Your impression on other people depends, __________, on whether you are consistent in all situations.
3. He doesn’t want to change jobs; he _________________ what he is doing now. 4. At first, she didn’t feel comfortable in her new job, but now she is beginning to ___________________.
5. His only problem with his work is not _______________ confidence but of experience.
6. He said he had nothing further to say _______________ the matter.
7. The new company director should ______________________ the principal officers from whom he can gain a lot of information and help.
8. If you sing the song several times, your daughter will begin to ________the words. 9. Understanding a person’s gestures or body language can help you to _______________________ a lot about him.
10. This book gives us ________________________ information about the people and culture of the country. Unit 8 Section A
Vocabulary
Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Change the form where necessary. exemplify reasonable combination existence fling explosion certainty surge source stable process observe creation occupy compose 1. Scientists have recently turned their attention to natural ________ of energy; the sun, the sea, the wind, and hot springs.
2. If present directions continue, the world in the years ahead will be more crowded, more polluted, and less _____ _ ecologically than the world we live in now. 3. Coal was formed out of dead forests by a long slow _______ of chemical change. 4. The children will now play some pieces of music that they _________themselves. 5. The boy is interested in ________ the behavior of birds.
6. On their own they work well, but in _____________ they’re a disaster.
7. The population __________ in the past two decades accounts for the lack of food and health care in many parts of the world.
8. The United Nations came into ___________ in 1945.
9. I had forgotten all about it because I had been so _________ with other things. 10. The government is considering a job ________ program to help young people get employed.
Fill in each of the blanks with a suitable preposition or adverb.
1. It’s important to understand the powerful economic and social forces ____ work behind our actions.
2. This law has been ___ existence since the end of the 1950s.
3. How long a suit like this should last depends ____ how often you wear it.
4. Bad workmanship and inferior materials are responsible ____ the collapse of the bridge on the river.
5. We’ll have to sleep ___ your invitation until we know whether we will be free on Monday night.
6. The book presents a very interesting contrast __________ life now and life a hundred years ago.
7. Scientists are still searching ____ an effective and inexpensive cure to the common cold.
8. The general manager has no time to see you at the moment; he is occupied _____ solving some urgent problems.
9. After three weeks of observation, we arrived ____ the conclusion that Shelly is capable of conducting the experiment.
10. Are your opinions representative _____ those of the other students in your class?
Translation
Translate the following sentences into English. 1.这个城市有20所大学，其中有的是世界著名知名大学。(Use an attributive clause) 2.他越想这件事，就越生气。(Use “ the more…,the more…” structure)
3. 她对那些无辜的受害者充满了同情。( fill with )
4.他全身心忙于公务，根本没有时间考虑。( be occupied with )
5. 这个国家的经济在一定程度上依赖于原材料的进口。( depend on )
6.经过委员们的讨论，新的行动方案初见端倪。( take shape )
Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1. The taxi company has taken on 50 new drivers, some of whom have just got their driving licenses.
2. The less wit a man has ,the less he wants it.
3. There’s no need to take any action at all for the time being ,Sleep on it ,and tell me what you think in the morning.
4. The economic situation has been worsening in the past few years ; the number of needy Americans seeking emergency food and shelter increased by 7% last year . 5. Our source informed us that there was a possibility of another attack the following week, possibly in the central area of the city.
6. In the medical; systems, payments to individual physicians are adjusted depending on their costs that month.
Section B Vocabulary
Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Change the form where necessary. claim advantage remark recall enquiry fertile convince impulse enhance applaud
transfer concrete productive potential
1. Her fluency in English gives her a(n) ___________ over other girls for the job. 2. The parents _________ to the children that they should not buy anything they didn’t need.
3. She ________ that they had been in love, but I sensed that she was only saying this to save face.
4. He failed to _________the directors that his proposal would work, so he was quite disappointed and considered quitting his job.
5. Thanks to the effective taxation policies newly adopted by the government, both agriculture and industry are becoming more ___________.
6. After months of close _______ the police finally discovered the truth about the incident and arrested the wrong-doer.
7. She’s a young tennis player with great ________ but she needs to practice much harder.
8. The company has decided to _______ its main office from New York to Chicago. 9. Her face was very familiar to me but I could not ________ who she was.
10. Good computer skills and high English proficiency should _______ your chances of getting a job with high pay.
Fill in each of the blanks with a suitable preposition or adverb.
1. That conference was an opportunity to bring ________ people who are interested in the economic future.
2.____ impulse, she told the driver to turn and go east, further away from her home. 3. It is simply important to take advantage _____ the opportunities coming your way. 4. The program had lost the man responsible ____ setting it in motion. 5. You are getting too old for football. You’d better take ____ tennis instead.
6. All the things written on this list are urgent and have to be dealt with right _________.
7. If you had acted _____ my advice, you would not have gone bankrupt. 8.He invented a photography which could take pictures of people and animals ________ motion.
9. A bad cold can sometimes lead ____ pneumonia.
10. We finally convinced the police ____ our innocence and were allowed to go home.