大学英语精读第5册第8单元

Unit8
Ⅲ. Vocabulary Activities
1.
1. guilty of
2. flames
3. equality
4. reminds of
5. was stripped of
6. justice
7. destiny
8. poverty
9. despair 10. discrimination 11. architect 12. pledges
13. degenerated 14. horror 15. threshold 16. crippled
2.
1. fallen heir to
2. obligation
3. legitimate
4. fatigue
5. fatal
6. thirst
7. transforms
8. bankrupt
9. In a sense
10. defaulted on 11. speeding up 12. sacred 13. tied up with 14. horror 15. underestimate 16. cool off
3.
1. The man confessed he had been guilty of theft.
2. David felt despair as he read the exam questions.
3. We are on the threshold of a new era in genetic engineering.
4. He was stripped of his knighthood after he was found guilty.
5. A taste of power left him with a thirst for more power.
6. A series of strikes have crippled some of the basic industries of that
country.
4.
1. The increasing prosperity of the country was in a large measure attributable
to the governm ent’s pursuit of a policy of economic reform.
2. The black leader took it as his sacred obligation to fight hard all his life to
achieve racial equality.
3. The year 1976 saw the deaths of Premier Zhou En-lai, Marshal Zhu De and
Chairman Mao Ze-dong, the three leading ar chitects of the People’s Republic.
4. On more than one occasion I reminded the principal of his promise to stand
up for the legitimate interests of retired teachers.
5. The theme of the story is that a person’s destiny is closely tied up wit h that
of the whole nation.
6. The large fortune the young man fell heir to enabled him to live out his
dreams.
5.
1. stood up for
2. stand up
3. stand up for
4. stood for
5. stand by
6. stand up to
7. stood out
8. stand for
9. sit in 10. sat on 11. sit down 12. will sit for/sat for
13. sit up for 14. sitting in 15. sits up
Ⅳ. Cloze
1. from
2. free
3. colonial
4. nonviolent
5. unjust
6. live
7. to
8. could
9. of 10. segregation 11. conditions 12. already 13. came 14. returning 15. when 16. on
17. not 18. spread 19. attend 20. decided
21. lasted 22. effective 23. laws 24. victory 25. come
Ⅴ. Error Correction
1. solve-solve it
2. done-made
3. Yet-For
4. difficult-easy
5. historical
6. and-but
7. appear-disappear
8. dissatisfied-satisfied
9. true-truth 10. was-were
Reading Activity
Exercise A
1. a
2. c
3. d
4. d
5. d
6. b
7. c
8. d
ExerciseB
1. e
2. a
3. h
4. l
5. f
6. d
7. b 8. i 9. k 10. g 11. c 12.j
1. accommodations
2. illiterate
3. bans
4. submissive
5. participate
6. specify
7. status
8. Tension
9. persists 10. accumulate 11. kidnapped 12. eliminated。