大学英语精读4第一单元课后习题ppt

4. Harry has a vivid imagination; he can make up __ marvelous __ stories. 哈利具有丰富的想象力，他能编出奇特的故事 。 5. Although Margie was swimming so well, she failed to win the first prize and had to _ settle for (无可奈何 的满足于…) __ the second. 尽管玛吉游泳游的很棒，但他未能获得第一，而 只能屈居第二 。 6. I’m quite determined to have the thing finished and _ done with __ before leaving the office. 我坚决完成此事并且要在下班前做完 。
翻译答案 • 1). 我们接到通知，财政部长将于次日接见我们。 We were informed that the Minister of Finance was to give us an audience /receive us the next day. • 2) 我觉得很奇怪，他似乎不记得自己的生日。 I thought it odd that he didn't seem to remember his own birthday. • 3)学期论文最迟应在下星期二交来，可是至今大部分学生 却几无进展。 Next Tuesday is the deadline for handing in the term papers, but most students have hardly made a dent in the work so far.
• 7. _ Competitive _sports are recommended to young adults to prepare them for the _ competitive __world of college and business. 年轻人应该多进行一些竞技性的体育运动以适应充 满竞争的大学生活和商业活动。 • 8. It _ pains/pained _ to admit that I was such a fool as to repeat the mistake. 承认我是个重复犯同样错误的傻瓜，这使我感到痛 苦。 • 9. My boss paid me and added a _ bonus_ for the new customers I had signed up. 老板付给我工资并发了奖金奖励我签了新客户。
• 12. My wife was rather embarrassed when she _ overheard __some of our guests say they didn’t like the meal she’d cooked for them. 当我的妻子无意中听到一些客人说他们不喜欢她做 的菜，她相当尴尬 。 • 13. People in my hometown tend to eat more _ sour _food on hot summer days presumably because it could help quench [kwentʃ] their thirst. 在我的家乡，炎热的夏天人们好吃酸的食物，因 为酸的食物有助于解渴 。
1. A _thoughtful____ person thinks before speaking and considers the feelings of others. 一个考虑周到的人总是先思考再说话，而且总是 考虑到别人的感受。 2. The library is closing. We __ might as well/may as well/could as well __ go home. 图书馆关门了，我们最好还是回家。 3. I’d like to _ draw your attention to_ the fact that there is some sense after all in the speaker’s nonsense. 我想让你注意到这样一个事实，在演讲者的胡言 乱语中总有一定的意义。
• 10. A soldier should never _ shrink _ from the duty of defending his country even in the face of certain death. 即使面对死亡，一名战士也不应该逃避保卫祖国 的职责 。 • 11. Due to exceptionally bad weather, the ship arrived late and the _delivery__ of goods was not on time. 由于天气突变，船到晚了，货物无法准时送到。
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1) Inquired 2) Informed 3) Awful 4) Settle for 5) Trash 6) Claimed 7) Normally 8) A piece of cake 9) Be done with 10) Enable 11) Am entitled 12) Quite a while
• 14. In the United States it is quite easy to find a place _ for rent _but the high cost keeps many young people away. 在美国，找到一个地方居住很容易，但高昂的价 格使许多年轻人止步不前 。 • 15. The professor was reluctant to stop grading the _ stack _ of papers on her desk, but she was really too tired to read on. 教授不情愿停止批改桌上的试卷，但她实在太累 了，无法再继续看下去。 • 16. Bacteria _ reproduce _themselves by splitting into two. 细菌靠自己分裂成俩个进行繁殖 。
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• 4) 看到学生人数不断减少，校长心里很难受。 It pained the headmaster to find the number of students shrinking. • 5) 在那个国家一般用现金付账，但支票变得普遍起来了， 不久会代替现金作为人们结账的一种方式。 Cash is commonly used in paying bills in that country, but checks are becoming more popular and will, in a short while, replace cash as a way for people to settle their accounts. • 6) 该公司声称，这条河流的污染不是它造成的。 The company claims that it is not responsible for the pollution in the river.