新编英语语法教程(第6版)练习参考答案

新编英语语法教程（第6版）第21讲练习参考答案

Ex. 21A

1.I was sorry to learn…

2.You will be sad to hear…

3.They would be very surprised to receive…

4.She is happy to have found…

5.I was afraid to go…

6.Bob was pleased to hear…

7.I am very anxious to meet you.

8.We were delighted to receive your telegram.

9.You were sensible to stay indoors.

10.The clerk was prompt to answer the call.

11.This rule is easy to remember.

12.We are reluctant to leave this neighbourhood.

13.Our house is difficult to heat.

14.Are you ready to leave?

15.You would be foolish to go out in this weather.

16.John is quick to see the point.

17.He is very keen to get on.

18.We are proud to have him as a friend.

19.I was rude not to answer your letter.

20.We are happy to have you with us this evening.

Ex. 21B

1.His decision to resign surprised all of us.

2.He showed no inclination to leave.

3.Her resolution never to marry baffled all offers of love.

4.The City Council approved the proposal to build a new dam on the river.

5.Their readiness to accept the peace arrangement really surprised the diplomatic

world.

6.He refused the invitation to write another article on the subject.

7.The people of a country should have the freedom to choose their own social

system.

8.There is no need for you to start so early.

9.I am not under the obligation to render him any financial support.

10.They have the ability to wage biological warfare.

11.He is not a man to be frightened by the threat of war.

12.There are plans to be made at once.

13.This is a day never to be forgotten.

14.Give me the names of the people to contact.

15.The next train to arrive is from Edinburgh.

16.The last problem to be considered at our next meeting is how to invest the money.

17.Was Cortes the first European ever to see the Pacific Ocean?

18.The best man to see for your eye trouble is the professor of ophthalmology.

19.The way to get into the building is to slip in through the kitchen.

20.The first man to fly non-stop across the Atlantic was John Alcock.

Ex. 21C

1.Environmental pollution is a hard problem to be coped with.

2.There is no time to lose. We must start at once.

3.This is an infectious disease to be wiped out in a few years.

4.There was no sound to be heard.

5.I’ve spent two days here. There is nothing to see.

6.This is a good book in which there is much to be learnt.

7.This is an item of information not to say to any other people.

8.This is a difficult question to answer.

9.At the sound of footsteps outside the window, I stole out of the room, but there

was nothing to be seen.

10.He is a man to be reckoned with.

11.She was firm in her refusal to accept his offer of marriage.

12.I have accepted the invitation to go to their school for an exchange of experience.

13.I need a box to hold the chessmen.

14.What is there to be proud of?

15.He always thinks that the bed is a good place to read detective stories.

16.Every day I have a lot of question to consider.

17.The only way to deal with her is not to give an inch.

18.She is not a woman to be trifled with.

19.My brother was the third person to be interviewed.

20.You have left me very little to say.

Ex. 21D

1.…supposed her to be a widow.

2.…felt the plan to be unwise.

3.…admit him to be a genius.

4.…declared the book to be obscene.

5.…found the overhead projector to be invaluable as a teaching aid.

6.…thought the film to be highly original.

7.…considered the speaker to have overstated his case.

8.…showed the man’s alibi to be a complete fabrication.

9.…assumed the construction of such a building to be impracticable

whereas…belie ved it to be perfectly feasible.

10.…revealed himself to be a master of the keyboard.

11.…knew him to be a man of integrity.

12.…discovered ￡20,000 worth of precious stones to be missing.

13.…thought it to be impossible…

14.…understands it to be impossible…

15.…acknowledge many of their predictions to have been over-optimistic.