新世纪综合英语教程第二版BU答案

Learning a Language

Enhance Your Language Awareness

Words in Action

▆Working with Words and Expressions

1.Listed in the boxes below are some of the words that you need to be very familiar with. Now work in

pairs and make sentences with each of them to see if you have really mastered their usages. You are encouraged to consult a dictionary if you are still not quite sure about their meanings and usages.

▆ Sample sentences for reference:

1) If Jane is not here in 10 minutes, we’ll assume that she is n’t coming and we won’t wait for her any longer.

2) The case was fully argued before an agreement was reached.

3) They claim that they have discovered a cure for the disease, but this has not yet been proved.

4) Some Chinese words have no equivalents in English.

5) The rights of the individual are perhaps the most important rights in society.

6) If you want my personal opinion, I don’t think you should go there.

7) The train leaves at about half past eight — 8:32, to be precise.

8) After years of hard work, she became qualified as a doctor last year.

9) Her new novel is based on her adventures in Africa.

10) The house is too small for a family of five; furthermore, it is in a bad condition.

11) Human beings are much more intelligent than animals.

12) She promised solemnly that she would not say a word about it to anyone.

2.In the box below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the following sentences

with them. Change the form where necessary.

▆ Answers:

1)obtain

2)confident

3)communicate

4)advantage

5)relevant

6)helpful

7)extreme

8)enjoyable

9)means

10)process

11)particularly

12)characters

13)astonished

14)apparently

3.In the box below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do you understand their

meanings? Do you know how to use them in the proper context? Now check for yourself by doing the blank-filling exercise. Change the form where necessary.

▆ Answers:

2)is … related to

3)find out

4)To a certain extent

5)vice versa

6)no doubt

7)rid … of

8)cleared up

9)or else

10)at all costs

11) sure enough

12)let alone

13) In his hurry

14)It’s no use

15) in my view

16) was worth

▆Increasing Your Word Power

plete the multiple choice exercise by choosing the right answer.

▆ Answers:

1) C

2) D

3) B

4) B

5) B

6) D

2.Adverbs are used to modify adjectives. What adverbs listed in the box below can be used to modify the

adjectives in the sentences? Put as many adverbs as you think suitable before each of the adjectives.

1)highly / very

2)quite / very

3)quite / very / increasingly

4)quite / simply / very

3.Did you notice the suffix -er in words such as teacher, grader in this unit? The suffix -er can be put at

the end of verbs or nouns to denote people who perform the action expressed by the stem word. In addition to -er, the suffixes -or, -ist, -ian also fall into this category. Now form nouns by adding -er/-or/-ist/-ian to the words given:

Answers for reference: