3. Greg’s parents are worried about his exposure to the kind of people they don’t approve of while he’s at college.
4. The opposition parties are calling for the minister’s resignation over the scandal.
5. The administration is in the process of drawing up a peace plan.
6. She’ll end up penniless if she keeps spending as much as that.
7. She lays bare her three unhappy marriages in her autobiography.
8. Hoping that he might be able to shed light on the problem, I asked Paul to look at the engine.
9. The outside influences have no bearing on what you can do for your basketball team.
10. Thank you; I’ll store that piece of ness away for a time when I might need it.
Exercises on Web course only:
11. “Make no mistake about it,” he said, “this is the most serious threat our educational system has ever seen.”
12. They worked much harder when they learned that they were in line for a wage increase.
13. For a time, they argued over which TV program to watch.
14. A car was stolen last nigh right under the nose of a security guard. V.
1. N 2. G 3. I 4. J 5. E 6. M 7. D 8. K 9. C
10. B
Collocation VI.
1. institutions 2. security 3. independence 4. rewards 5. markets
6. crisis 7. situation 8. aid 9. position 10. damages
Word Building
VII.
1. a tradition perfected by the Elizabethans
2. an exhibition of fine Victorian furniture
3. dance music with African roots
4. lots of shops run by Asians
5. make the British feel more European
6. contemporary Italian literature
7. some films of Hollywoodian style
8. some novels of Jamesian style
VIII.
1. Premarital 2. premature 3. pre-game 4. preplanned
5. pre-school 6. preexist 7. presuppose 8. prehistoric
Sentence Structure IX.
1. He listens to the radio while driving to work.
2. He works in an American company while giving lectures on economics at a college in the evening.
3. In some societies professional women are treated as equals on the job while being treated as servants at home.
4. We should be pupils while serving as teachers.
5. The two professors will exchange their views while attending a meeting in Paris. X.
1. Not even once did this thought come to her mind.
2. No sooner were they released by order of the court than they were rearrested by the police.
3. By no means is it easy to pass the test when you are not spending enough time preparing.
4. Seldom did the couple go to the theater together during their stay in the USA.
5. Not until we understand the person who has the disease can we understand the disease.
Translation XI.
1. Word came yesterday that they were killed while trying to reach the summit.
2. Under no circumstances shall I mention to anyone that I have turned down the invitation to her wedding.
3. It made the headlines that the president’s wife threatened her husband with public exposure.
4. That wealthy lady’s repeated demand for a premarital agreement greatly harmed her prospective husband’s self-esteem and ended up in his refusal to get married.
5. Make no mistake about it, some women would insist on the right to get a divorce if their husbands did not earn as much as they expected.
6. The casual discovery of the fingerprint shed some light on the murder he had been looking into.
XII.
1. 现如今太多的人似乎都是边看电视边吃东西，几乎没注意自己吃的是什么、吃了多少。
2. 我怎么也没有料到没有我你会生活得这么惬意。
3. 他在支票上伪造他哥哥的签名，以不正当手段得到了这笔钱，这件事后来被媒体曝了光。
4. 他举了个典型的例子来说明警官是出于自卫朝那人开的枪，因为那人先朝他开枪。
5. 专家普遍认为包含对人的健康有很重要的影响。
6. 在中国婚前协议的例子不多，这说明婚前协议尚不为众人接受，尽管离婚会涉及财产分配问题。
Cloze
XIII.
1. B 2.C 3. A 4. D 5. B 6. A 7. B 8. D
9. C 10. D 11. C 12. C 13. A 14. D 15. B 16. B
17. D 18. B 19. A 20. C
Section B
Reading Skills I.
1. Yes. In the sense that “the structure of family life is undergoing extreme changes”.
2. They are about marriages, parents, unmarried mothers and children in single-parent households.