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12. much ----- a good/great deal

------ untold / infinite

13. most of us ---- the (vast) majority of people

14. more than ------ well/ far /little more than

15. more and more ----- increasingly more/less

16. the most

? If it is not, and you are likely to get sea-sick, no form of transport could be worse. ? But nothing can match them for speed and comfort.

? Nothing can be compared, he maintains, with the first cock crow, the twittering of

birds at dawn, the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures.

? Few things could be more impressive than the peace that descends on deserted city

streets at week-ends

? No creature has received more praise and abuse than the common garden snail. 17. sth is very important------ sth is significant ------ sth is of great importance /significance 18. very ------ extraordinarily exceptionally ? remarkably particularly ? extremely/infinitely/endlessly ------- quite/fairly

rather

pretty/perfectly

19. 时间频率副词 never

seldom/rarely/hardly/barely/scarcely sometimes---- occasionally often ---- frequently usually ---- continually always---- invariably

20. Adv 的替换

a) Below, the captain realized that the Titanic was sinking rapidly. b) The teacher went through my bag.

c) The teacher pounced on the piece of paper full of words. d) The teacher questioned me.

e) The Officer went through the case carefully. All the things I had packed so carefullywere soon in a dreadful mess. To my dismay, I felt sure I would never be able to close the case again. Suddenly, He had spotted a tiny bottle at the bottom of my case and he pounced on it delightedly.

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参考答案:The Officer went through the case with great care. All the things I had packed so carefully were soon in a dreadful mess. To my dismay, I felt sure I would never be able to close the case again. Suddenly, He had spotted a tiny bottle at the bottom of my case and he pounced on it with delight.

[Verb]

21. Want to ------ tend to /wish to [good]

intend to manage to get round to

22. try to do ------ exert oneself to do

try one‘s best to do------ exert one‘s utmost to do

exert every possible effort to do

23. I think that ----- I hold the view that…

I‘m convinced that…

Sb think that----- sb under the delusion/illusion that… form an unrealistic picture of … Sb. claim /assume that… It‘s had been said that…. 24. dislike ---- sth never appeal to me

---- despise

25. happy---- go/run/fly/burst into raptures 26. influence---- benefit ? ----- affect ?

26. have ----- have ---- boast/enjoy ? ---- suffer from ? ---- bear [feeling/view] ---- cherish [wish] ---- exert [influence] -----possess[ talent /gift]

二. 词汇的多样化 (一) 经典例子分析

1. We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well

enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. you are on the phone, the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. , the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner. L33

2. You can stretch your legs on the spacious decks, play games, swim, meet interesting

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people and enjoy good food--always assuming, of course, that the sea is calm. If it is not, and you are likely to get sea-sick, no form of transport could be worse. Even if you travel , sea journeys take a long time.

3. Shops cater for the do-it-yourself craze not only by special advisory

services for novices, but by consumers bits and pieces which they can assemble at home. Such things an excellent outlet for pent-up creative energy, but unfortunately not all of us are born handymen.

4. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The

woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and her car. This made the driver following her . His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry-driver who was alongside the car all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic behind.

5. Though it may be possible to measure the value of material goods in terms of money, it

is extremely difficult to the true value of the services which people perform for us.

6. The great ship, Titanic, sailed for New York from Southampton on April 10th, 1912. She was carrying 1316 passengers and a crew of 89l. Even by modern standards, the 46,000 ton Titanic was a colossal ship. At that time, however, she was not only the largest ship that had ever been built, but was regarded as unsinkable, for she had sixteen water- tight compartments.

7. Children always appreciate small gifts of money. Father, of course, provides a regular

supply of pocket-money, but uncles and aunts are always a source of extra income.

8. If you can do without the few pastoral pleasures of the country, you will find the city can

provide you with the best that life can offer.

9. Robert was to see me and equally with my little gift.

10. He is forever the friendly people, the clean atmosphere, the closeness

to nature and the gentle pace of living. Nothing can be compared, he with the first cock crow, the twittering of birds at dawn, the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures. My friend the long and friendless winter evenings which are interrupted only by an occasional visit to the local cinema-virtually the only form of entertainment. He the poor selection of goods in the shops, or about those unfortunate people who have to travel from the country to the city every day to get to work.

11. Suddenly they came to a waterfall which dropped into an underground lake at the

bottom of the cave. They plunged into the lake, and after loading their gear on an

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inflatable rubber dinghy, let the current carry them to the other side. To protect themselves from the icy water, they had to wear special rubber suits. At the far end of the lake, they came to huge piles of rubble which had been washed up by the water. In this part of the cave, they could hear an insistent booming sound which they found was caused by a small water-spout shooting down into a pool from the roof of the cave.

12. The story of a family that acquired fame and fortune overnight,

dramatically illustrates the power of the press. The family lived in Aberdeen, a small

town of 23,000 inhabitants in South Dakota. As the parents had five children, life was They were expecting their sixth child and . If they had only had one more child, the fact would have passed unnoticed. They would have

continued to and would have But they suddenly became the parents of quintuplets, four girls and a boy, an event which radically changed their lives. The day after the birth of the five children, an aeroplane arrived in Aberdeen bringing sixty reporters and photographers.

13. Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to

prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch…. Who has not stood in awe at the sight of a spider pouncing on a fly, or a column of ants triumphantly bearing home an enormous dead beetle ? …Last summer I spent days in the garden watching thousands of ants crawling up the trunk of my prize peach tree. … During the summer, I noticed that the leaves of the tree were beginning to wither. Clusters of tiny insects called aphides were to be found on the underside of the leaves. They were visited by a colony of ants which obtained a sort of honey from them.

参考答案:

1. We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well

enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner. L33

2. You can stretch your legs on the spacious decks, play games, swim, meet interesting

people and enjoy good food--always assuming, of course, that the sea is calm. If it is not, and you are likely to get sea-sick, no form of transport could be worse. Even if you travel in ideal weather, sea journeys take a long time.

3. Shops cater for the do-it-yourself craze not only by running special advisory services for

novices, but by offering consumers bits and pieces which they can assemble at home. Such things provide an excellent outlet for pent-up creative energy, but unfortunately not all of us are born handymen.

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4. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The

woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry-driver who was drawing up alongside the car pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind.

5. Though it may be possible to measure the value of material goods in terms of money, it

is extremely difficult to estimate the true value of the services which people perform for us.

6. The great ship, Titanic, sailed for New York from Southampton on April 10th, 1912. She

was carrying 1316 passengers and a crew of 89l. Even by modern standards, the 46,000 ton Titanic was a colossal ship. At that time, however, she was not only the largest ship that had ever been built, but was regarded as unsinkable, for she had sixteen water- tight compartments.

7. Children always appreciate small gifts of money. Father, of course, provides a regular

supply of pocket-money, but uncles and aunts are always a source of extra income.

8. If you can do without the few pastoral pleasures of the country, you will find the city can

provide you with the best that life can offer. 9. Robert was delighted to see me and equally pleased with my little gift.

10. He is forever talking about the friendly people, the clean atmosphere, the closeness to nature and the gentle pace of living. Nothing can be compared, he maintains, with the first cock crow, the twittering of birds at dawn, the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures. My friend fails to mention the long and friendless winter evenings which are interrupted only by an occasional visit to the local cinema-virtually the only form of entertainment. He says nothing about the poor selection of goods in the shops, or about those unfortunate people who have to travel from the country to the city every day to get to work.

11. Suddenly they came to a waterfall which dropped into an underground lake at the

bottom of the cave. They plunged into the lake, and after loading their gear on an inflatable rubber dinghy, let the current carry them to the other side. To protect themselves from the icy water, they had to wear special rubber suits. At the far end of the lake, they came to huge piles of rubble which had been washed up by the water. In this part of the cave, they could hear an insistent booming sound which they found was caused by a small water-spout shooting down into a pool from the roof of the cave.

12. The story of a poor family that acquired fame and fortune overnight, dramatically

illustrates the power of the press. The family lived in Aberdeen, a small town of 23,000 inhabitants in South Dakota. As the parents had five children, life was a perpetual struggle against poverty. They were expecting their sixth child and faced with even

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