Unit 8 exercise answers

V ocabulary exercisesI. Explain the italicized part in each sentence in your own words.1. regarded him as2. brought back to mind a series of experiences, both happy and unhappy, one after another3. aroused your strong emotion and made you cry4. were gradually replaced by5. to a greater degreeII. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.1. legible2. timed3. surpassing4. sensed5. relegated6. signaled7. perfunctory8. generosity9. teasing 10. markIII. Choose a word or phrase that best completes each of the following sentences.1. C2. D3. B4. B5. A6. B7. A8. DIV. Fill in each blank with one of the two words from each pair and note the difference of meaning between them.1. a. formed b. shaping c. formed d. shapedForm basically carries the suggestion of giving outline to something previously lesswell-defined and of putting the finishing touch on a product. Shape suggests the bringing about of a far-reaching change, or an impersonal cause-and-effect relationship.2. a. contest b. competition c. competition d. contestContest is a game in which people try to win, or it refers to a struggle to win power or control. Competition is an activity involving firms, in which each firm tries to get people to buy its own goods in preference to the other firms’ goods, suggesting an effort to get something that not everyone can have.3. a. memories b. memory c. recollection d. recollectionMemory basically refers to remember things, but it is also used as something one remembers from the past, or to refer to ceremonies by which someone who has died is remembered. Recollection emphasizes the act of casting one’s mind back over past events in a ruminative manner, whether silently to oneself or verbally to others, suggesting the active process of piecing together half-forgotten details4. a. cheap b. cheap c. inexpensive d. inexpensiveBoth words can refer to things that cost little, but inexpensive suggests that the product is of acceptable or even good quality, and is not being misrepresented to the purchaser, while cheap is used to describe something that is very low-priced because it is plentiful, easy to produce, and useful. Besides, cheap can be applied to inferior, shoddy goods, which to the inexperienced person, resemble those of better quality and cost much more than they are worth.V. Give synonyms or antonyms of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.1. Synonyms: rich, well-prepared, complicated, complex2. Antonyms: unpleasant, displeasing, disagreeable, bitter, nasty3. Synonym: slacken, decelerate4. Antonyms: coldly, bitterly, hatefully, spitefully5. Synonyms: lovely, lovable, attractive6. Antonyms: shame, disgrace, humiliation7. Synonyms: indifferent, half-hearted, thoughtless8. Antonyms: selfishness, greediness, meannessV. Rephrase each of the following sentences with the word given in brackets.1.We insist on having your answer tonight at the latest.2.My father is going to let me borrow his car tonight.3.We look upon it as a wonderful opportunity.4.You surely don’t want a fifth ice cream, do you?5.There is hardly anything in the house to eat tonight.6.This block of flats now belongs to the bank.7.Should we really freeze this sort of food?8.Don’t bother to telephone me when you arrive.Grammar ExercisesII. Match the conditions with the results and make up conditional sentences1. If you lower the temperature of water to 0º C, it freezes2. If you fly west, you gain time.3. If it rains, I stay at home4. If water boils, it vaporizes5. If your documents are in order, you may leave at once.6. If there is a shortage of any product, the price of that product goes up7. If you heat ice, it turns to water.8. If you are waiting for a bus, you’d better join the queue.III Put the verbs into the correct form1. pour2. will be3. will pick4. will/shall go5. is to be done6. had7. is to win8. rained9. cries 10. wasIV. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense1. wouldn’t have printed2. had read3. will happen4. will fall5. comes6. gets7. wouldn’t buy8. hadV. Highlight the underlined parts in the following sentences using “it + be + … + that.”1.It is that special place in your heart that makes them beautiful2.It was on the day my first son was born that I put them into the soil.3.It was by train that we reached Istanbul.4.It was the headmaster who gave us leave to go to the concert.5.It is because he’s been working too hard that he’s feeling un well.6.It is his grandfather’s skills that he has inherited7.It was in 1960 that he first achieved his fame as a writer.8.It was at Waterloo that Napoleon was finally defeated.VI. Make sentences of your own after the sentence given below, using never/ nor followed by S-V inversion.e.g. The spokesman said, “Never will China be the first country to use nuclear weapons under any circumstances.”Translation exercisesI. Translate the following sentences into Chinese.1.然而，情人节是爸爸向在他的生活中具有特殊意义的人表达爱的日子。