新编英语教程（李观仪）Unit4练习答案.doc

新编英语教程（李观仪）Unit4练习答案.doc

Unit 4

Vocabulary

I. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.

1. provided = as long as need never be out of touch = can never fail to be reached

2. regardless of = no matter

3. overlook at one’s peril = fail to notice at great risk

4. hovers somewhere in and around all those words = may be described by these words to varying

degrees

5. hit the problem of untranslatability head-on = were directly confronted with the problem that

something in one language cannot be rendered into another II. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.

1. stepping stone

2. at their peril

3. serve

4. mentality

5. staple

6. facilitating

7. messaging

8. hybrid

III. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.

1. economy

2. accessible

3. fundamentally

4. homesick

5. negotiable

6. adjusted

7. remoteness

8. complacently

IV. Choose the word or phrase.

1. D

2. C

3. A

4. D

5. B

6. A

7. B

8. C

V. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.

1. Synonym: time, era, epoch

2. Synonym: meetings

3. Synonym: basic, fundamental

4. Antonym: misshape

5.Synonym: unavoidably

6.Synonym: worry, concern, anxiety, apprehension

7. Synonym: therefore, so, thus

8. Antonym: hide, conceal

VI Write in each space one word that has the same prefix as underlined in the given word.

1. unreliable unbelievable 5. maltreat malfunction

2. impatient imperfect 6.enrich enable

3. disapproval disagreement 7. surmount surpass

4. mistake misplace 8.subordinate submarine

Grammar

I. Complete the following sentences with the correct verb forms.

1. helps

2. hope, are enjoying, sunbathe, go, are going

3. is being

4. is typing

5. am not eating

6. am reading

7. are always leaving

8. go, belongs, wants, is using

9. is boiling 10. is putting 11. is rewiring, is building

II. Correct the errors.

Key:

1. passes, shoots

2. correct

3. are, crying

4. correct

5. know

6. gather

7. am working

8. are, sneezing

III. Complete the following letter.

1. thank,

2. are dispatching,

3. regret,

4. have,

5. are contacting,

6. hear,