英语专业综合教程4课后题答案

1. I saw nothing of the which had forced open a pit you could break your teeth on. might

2. All that appeared to me was a profound and grace. eerie

3. Mastery is genius . operation afoot

4. The craftsman’s labor is as conscious, as and as practical as that of the bricklayer.

canny

5. in any case, the impressions of childhood and…lie in the memory. lucid

6. Like any seed, the seed of a story has its own principle of growth which employs a process of intelligent selection,drawing from the unconscious mind’s vast treasury of experience that it needs to fulfill its form. inherent

7. You will see that they are not your private . ideas vagaries

8. Rereading tends to errors in writing. condone

9. Self-conscious shows up for what it is. behavior flamboyance

10. What you considered a clever understatement is often revealed as an of something difficult tostate.

evasion

1. The evidence now indicates that within fifty years or so world population will at about eight billion

before starting a fairly rapid decline. its maximum of development peak

2. As long ago as September of 1974, Scientific American published a special issue on population that described what demographers had begun calling the “demographic ”from traditional high rates of birth

and death to the low ones of modern society. transition

3. If the patterns of the past century don’t change , it will head into negative numbers. radicallt

change is too slow and remote for people to feel in their lives—even if the total population were to

double or in only a century. by one half halve

5. This is true in Western and Eastern countries, in Catholic and in secular societies. religious secular

6. Nobody can say whether world population will ever to every low numbers. dwindle

7. Values, not biological imperatives, are the variable in population predictions. unfathomable

8. fertility could someday increase just as quickly as it has declined in recent decades. presumably

the average fertility rate were to take a long time to move from well below to well above replacement

rate and back again, trends in world population could go a long way before they themselves. reversed

1. But many people question whether it’s a good idea for fallible human beings to go____the genes of

other species. with go mucking

about with

2. Its one thing…but something else entirely if it____on your dinner plate. in the end winds

up

3. If the outcry in France indeed____global trouble, it’s by no means clear whether it ought to.

a warming portends

4. Other GM crops have been designed to include a few scraps of DNA from a common bacterium, rendering

the plants____to leaf-chewing insects but not to humans. toxic

5. Even a slight increase in____can mean a good increase in profits. yield

6. The company quickly____the product. scrapped

7. It churned out not just amino acids but also chemicals that can____allergoes in nut-sensitive consumers.

Trigger

8. in recent years, Europeans have become increasingly____about had food---and with good reasons.

jumpy

9. Health officials have grown____about what their citizens consume. fastidious

fussier