练习册：We may regard “if only” as indicating the past and “next time” the future, we all know the most important time is “now”, as past things could not be changed and future is based on “now”. I. 1. The old man was an eminent psychiatrist and the author was a client of his. (famous and respected within a particular profession)
2. Refer to para. 1. To him, the session was just like “a flash of insight that leaves him a changed person—not only changed, but changed for the better.”
3. The three speakers on the tape were all unhappy, and the two words they all used frequently in what they said were “if only.” What the old man wanted to point out to the author was that to keep saying “if only” would not change anything; on the contrary, it only kept the person facing the wring way—backward instead of forward. Thus it did more harm than good to the person who kept saying them. (See para. 15)
4. Shift the focus; substitute “next time” for “if only”
5. They point to entirely different mental directions; one is backward and negative, and the other forward and positive.
6. It is instructive and inspirational.
II. 1. The most inspiring and gratifying fact of life is the unexpected spark of enlightenment that makes you different and a better person than before.
2. At last he walked over from the other side of the street, wrapped in his old-fashioned overcoat, his bald head covered by a shapeless felt hat. He looked like a dwarfish old man full of energy rather than a well-known psychiatrist.
3. The next speaker on the tape was a woman who had remained single because she thought she was obliged to take care of her mother who was a widow. She still remembered and told others miserably about all the chances of marriage she had missed.
4. Eventually, if you form a habit of saying “if only”, the phrase can really turn to an obstruction, providing you with an excuse for giving up trying anything at all.
5. …you are always thinking of the past, regretting and lamenting. You did not look forward to what you can do in the future at all.
6. The Old Man said to me trickily, using the phrase “if only” on purpose, “If only we’d got here ten seconds earlier, we’d have caught the cab.” I laughed and understood what he meant. So I followed his advice and said, “Next time I’ll run faster”. III. 1. The whole plan fell through for want of fund.
2. Newton is acknowledged as one of the world’s most eminent scientists. 3. He calculates the cost of production with invariable accuracy.
4. The spokesman of the corporation was berated for his irresponsible words. 5. The young clerk from the commercial bank
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I. 1. C 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. C 6. A 7. D 8. A 9. D 10. B 11. A 12. B 13. C 14. D 15. A 16. B 17. B 18. A 19. A 20. D
III. 1. predominantly, prevailing 2. preferential 3. tremulous 4. inadvisable, shrinkage 5. sensitive, terrorism/terror
6. magnifying 7. unapproachable, fictitious 8. unbecoming/becoming 9. unaccountable 10. disorientation 11. persuasion, entreaties 12. irremediable
IV. 1. blame 2. reproached 3. blamed/reproached 4. reproached
5. rebuke/reprimand 6. reprimanded 7. rebuke/scold/reprimand 8. reprimanded 9. reprimanded 10. scolded 11. reproach 12. scolded
V. 1. on 2. In 3. over 4. in 5. from 6. beneath 7. with 8. in 9. of 10. Since 11. to 12. in 13. with 14. with 15. between 16. with 17. to 18. In 19. on 20. In 21. to 22. on 23. in 24. like
VI. 1. ash 2. outbreaks 3. interval 4. eruption 5. volcanologist 6. which 7. lava 8. cone 9. flood 10. under 11. crater 12. began 13. cauliflower 14. like 15. and