英语专业综合教程(四)

UNIT1

1.I had arranged for them to meet each other at the pub but the young man never turned up.

2.You cannot tell merely from appearance whether things will turn out unfavorable to us or not.

3.The soldier, who stood in the gap in every battle, gained the highest honors of the country.

4.The chairman spoke so forcefully that the rest of the committee yielded to his opinion.

5.They are well-to-do now, but along the way they had their ups and downs.

6.There are two questions to which I will address myself in this lecture.

7.We are planning a big Christmas party in your honor.

8.Hearing that tune threw my mind back to my childhood.

UNIT2

1.The pigeon was wedged in the fork of a branch but fell off after a while.

2.The payment that the motorist will have to make will be propotional to the amount of damage he has done to the other person’s car.

3.You can only enter the cave by inching through a narrow tunnel on your stomach.

4.She stammered some apology as she sidled towards the door.

5.He took pains to explain to me that I was being dismissed not because I didn’t do my work well but because the company could not pay my wages.

6.The enlistment of young soldiers infused new hope and morale into the army.

7.Once the older boys stake a claim to the lawn, no other boys dare go on it.

8.The man following her uneasy and she couldn’t help quickening her steps.

UNIT3

1.For the past 15 years, doctors have tried to treat this disease with anticancer drugs,equivalent of a hammar, to beat down the body’s defense forces.

2.There’s no denying that smoking is addictive. And once you are addicted, it’s very difficult to get rid of the habit.

3.In a Japanese–made video game, players can simulate the experience of AIDS from HIV infection until death.

4.I am sure he was in earnest when he said that you could use this money to continue your study of music.

5.We can only increase production at the expense of quality, which could ruin the company’s reputation.

6.The explorers were confronted with an insurmountable valley.

7.A teacher of foreign language should possess at the very least a graduate degree from a certified education school or institute if he is to teach high school.

8.I soon perceived that I couldn’t make him change his mind

UNIT41.

Their cattle were branded with the letter C

2.In this season Brooks has really come into his own as a goal scorer.

3.An economic crisis is hanging over that country.

4.He is the man who really gives the order, but he always remains in the background.

5.After dispatching the passenger, what is left for us to do is nothing but wait.

6.You just have to call and he’s here in a flash.

7.They have lived in the shadow of war fpr totally 17 years.

8.These are the last seven Northeast Tigers in existence. If human beings failed to protect them, the tigers of this species would face extinction.

Unit5

1.Your remarks border on rudeness.

2.Any unemployed person counts as deserving government help.

3.On the whole I am quite satisfied with the experiment.

4.A person’s appearance makes a difference in how others ju dge him.

5.Advertising tends to portray women in very traditional roles.

6.Having inherited a considerable wealth, the twin sisters were eager to show off their jewelry.

7.Public interest has once again shifted focus to the changes in the urban environment.

8.In contrast, even the most modern aircraft look clumsy and show.

Unit6

1.The hall resonated with the notes of the trumpet solo.

2.I saw, in my mind’s eye, the pale face of the mother when she heard the news of her son’s death.

3.His walk reminds me of the way his father used to walk.

4.I mixed the dates up and arrivedon a wrong day.

5.Her heart swelled with pride when she learned that her daughter was accepted by Oxford University.

6.Theoretically speaking, the whole population should have direct access to information withou waiting for being filtered by the government or the media.

7.The Democrats have launched a campaign to win women voters over in this presidential election.

8.After he inherited his father’s estate, he was immersed in all kinds of ple asure.

Unit7

1.The tape recorder secretly installed in the office of the Secretary of Treasury brought the government down in no more than 3 months.

2.Any action that is detrimental to the cause of peace will be condemned by the world.

3.The decisions made by the two ministers to resign are departures from the hard-nosed, fight-to-the-finish tradition of

politics.

4.The negotiations with the workers got bogged down for the third time on the question of working hours.

5.Louisa Clarke is a very pleasant girl, yet sometimes her judgment is clouded by her hot temper and jealousy.

6.He had to work harder or to be sent away from school. In this circumstance, what alternatives were left to him? He had to choose the former.

7.Richard is too much at home here to need the host’s invitation for lengthening his visit.

8.She was badly taken in by his honest-looking appearance.

Unit 8

1.For the sake of your family, you should look you leap and not take so many risks.

2.I felt a bit out of sorts after last night’s heavy dri nk.

3.His father pulled endless wires and got him a position in an inflated government department.

4.If you read his letter carefully, you can find hie real intention between the lines.

5.I knew I was down right rude to him, but I find excuses for myself.

6.Many of the outstanding figures of the past were exceptionally versatile. Leonardo da Vinci, for instance, rolled a painter and an inventor into one.

7.He finally killed himself after being under the torment of insomnia for many years.

8.He was struck dumb with amazement

Unit 9

1.Search light fingered across the dark water.

2.Since a robbery happened in this building, the night watchman became more careful and made his rounds once every hour.

3.He sticked to his plan, though there was nothing left to prop him up.

4.He is paid by the police to spy on the activities of the terrorists.

5.In time they will come to accept the harsh reality.

6.That man’s behavior was very suspicious. He was pretending to sleep, but now and then he stole a furtive glance at the passers-by.

7.The social and economic changes that have taken place in this country are so sweeping that it has dwartfed all its

neighbors.

7.In the dim light of the daybreak, I saw a dark shape looming athwart the door.