综合教程4何兆熊版课后习题和答案

Unit 2

Vocabulary exercises

Ⅱ. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.

1. As I was about to leave the restaurant, a young man sidled up to me and said, "May I help you?”

当我正要离开餐馆时，一个男人悄悄走上前来，对我说："有什么能为您服务的吗？"

2. Not satisfied with the present position in the company, he is trying to carve out a much greater role for himself.

有由于不满足在公司的现任职务，他努力为自己谋得一个更重要的角色。

3. Women rend to attribute their success to external causes such as

assistance from friends.

女性往往把自己的成功归功于外部原因，例如朋友的帮助。

4. Ronald's success staked a claim for his place in Germany's world championship team.

到目前为止，南极洲只能被用来进行科学研究，不允许任何国家或地区宣布占有他的任何一部分。

5. My job is to challenge, but not threaten them. So I must be careful not to tread on their toes.

我的工作是盘问他们而不是威胁他们，所以我必须小心，不能得罪他们。

6. A young lady and her little son were seriously injured when a car plowed into them on a crossing.

一位年轻的女士在一个十字路口被一辆小汽车猛撞了一下，伤的很严重。

7. Loss of weight is directly proportional to the rate at which the disease

is progressing.

体重的减轻和疾病的发展速度成比例。

8. In contemporary society, most farmers have bank managers breathing down their necks in order to secure their financial balance.

在当今社会大多数农民为保证他们的财政平衡，都有监督他们的银行经理。

Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.

1. When the accident happened, no one would answer for the consequences, which was very annoying （annoyance）

事故发生时，没有人愿意对后果负责，这令人非常气愤。

2. Years of experience as a soldier has developed great power of intuition

to dangers.（intuitive）

多年的当兵经验培养了对危险的强烈直觉。

3. The minister had decided not to release a statement explaining the

reason of his resignation, but later, he relented and let it out.

（relentless）

部长已经决定，不会发表声明解释他辞职的原因，但随后不久他终于答应透露一下原因。

4. For this chapter the main thread proliferates into a succession of dramatic sub-plots. （proliferation）

从这一章开始，主要线索扩展成一系列戏剧性的次要情节。

5. The government has carried out lamentably few of their promises.

（lament）

十分令人失望的是政府只顾旅行了她很少的诺言。

6. He was in an expansive mood on the night of the party. （expand）在哪晚的聚会中，他的心情非常不错。

7. Every hour, whether the Prime Minister will use the car or not, he checks

under the car for bombs as a matter of routine.（routinely）

不管首相用不用车，他按常规每小时到车底检查是否有炸弹。

8. Synthetic fabrics are less susceptible to shrinkage than natural ones.

（shrink）

合成纤维比天然物质更容易缩水。

ⅣChoose the word or phrase that can replace the underlined part in each sentence without changing its original meaning.

1. The drawbacks here are that the customer has to deposit a minimum of

$100 monthly.

A. invest

B. reserve

C. lay down

D. place for safekeeping 这儿的缺点是顾客每个月都必须至少存入100美元。

2. Some of the ideas are very complicated and sound intuitively plausible.

A. instinctively

B. directly

C. frankly

D. Reasonably

有一些想法非常复杂，但直觉性起来是有道理的。

3. Expertly he zigzagged his way across the grassland, avoiding the deeper

gullies.

A. tramped

B. wound

C. traveled

D. piloted.

他熟练地在草原上曲折前行，避开较深的沟壑。

4. He was relentless in his pursuit of quality, his technical skill was

remarkable.

A. pitiless

B. merciless

C. ruthless

D. unrelenting

在追求质量上他坚持不懈所以他技艺非凡。