Unit 4 The Midnight Visitor Key to Exercises

Key to Exercises

Unit 4 The Midnight Visitor

Robert Arthur

Vocabulary

◆1

◆1 Give the parts of speech

◆1 a.

◆2 a.

◆3 a.

◆4 adv.

◆5 n

◆6 a.

◆7 n.

◆8 a..

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◆9 a.

◆10 a.

◆11 v.

◆12. a.

◆13. a.

◆14. a.

◆15 a.

◆16. n.

◆17. a.

◆18. a.

◆19. a.

◆20. adv.

2 Guess the meaning of the following words

◆1 不老实的人

◆2 使人极其失望的人或事

◆3 对这个结果不满意

◆4 违抗这一命令

◆5 有严重的不利之处

◆6 透露他们的业务机密

◆7 不同意某人

◆8 一个残疾儿童

◆9 不喜欢这种天气

◆10 中断会议

◆11 不计成本

◆12 解除警卫的武装

◆13 切断电源

◆14 感到泄气

3

◆1 不幸的生活

◆2 不必要的规定

◆3 这不大可能

◆4 这食物没人碰过

◆5 做了的事情，后悔也没用（覆水难收）

◆6 打开酒瓶

◆7 开始脱衣

◆8 揭露某些重要的事实

◆9 打开手提包的拉链

4

◆Tele means “ far” or “over a long distance”

2

◆1 description/lock/theory

◆2 make/receive/have/get/answer

◆3 make/have/arrange//keep/break

◆4 failure/life/health

◆5 health/future/economy/result/decision

◆6 hell/hands/eyes/a finger/voice/glass/wages/prices/hopes/issues

◆7 time/money/trouble/life/face/country

◆8 arms/hand/flags

◆9 do

◆10 one’s lip, one’s nails, one’s tongue

◆11 take, seize, miss, give, have, get

◆12 a table, one’s body, ground, field, anger, nervousness, all expenses

3

◆1 where he claimed to have discovered the dead body/ Where he said he had discovered the dead body

◆2 where they secretly produced drugs

◆3 where they can find business opportunities

◆4 On the sixth floor of the building lived an old man.

◆5 Deep in the forest stood a little hut

◆6 In the front row sat

◆7 Between the two hills runs a little stream/creek

◆8 Had they decided to withdraw (their troops )earlier

◆9 had you gone down the mine

◆10 had they accepted/taken/listened to his advice

4

◆1 into, on, in, For, for

◆2 to, into, with, for

◆3 By, in, against, with, to, before

◆4 as, of, on, for

◆5 in, to, of

◆6 off, over, to

◆7 for, in

◆8 after, in

5

◆1 He did not fit the description of a great scholar. For one thing, he was half naked. Secondly/For another, he slept by the roadside of a busy city, hardly a setting for a philosopher.

◆2 I wish I knew how they learned about this secret missile.

◆3 Her face suggested a ripened apple, and she was otherwise very strong except for the loss of both her legs.

◆4 They made an appointment in a restaurant that evening, where the waiter quickly slipped a note into the spy’s hand concerning the secret message.

◆5 We waited for almost one hour and the food we ordered still did not come. I decided to raise the devil with the management.

◆6 The government has promised that it will not hesitate to punish those who deal in cheating, gambling, black marketeering, and prostitution.

◆7 Had the authorities agreed with the plan, it would have brought a lot of problems. Luckily it was turned down and no harm had been done.

◆8 We must make sure that the nuclear power stations are absolutely safe. We can’t take chances.

◆9 I think we should mind our own business. But I will check on him anyway.

6

◆1 Don’t let them take it fo r granted that we will accept their conditions/terms. We are no/not fools, and we won’t be so easily taken in.

◆2 It took us only three years to double the income of our villagers.