Other possible verbs: consider, feel, find, think One possibility of the sentences;
1) what Robert has decided to do with his money
when Robert is going to build a library in his town with his own money how Robert is going to spend his money next year
where Robert is going to build a library with his own money 2) why/how the two leaders finally became rivals 3) why they preached their ideas persistently 4) where we agreed to meet yesterday
5) when I've helped sb. out of difficulty/when I feel really useful/when I feel myself
needed and wanted/when I am respected and loved/when I have the power and money to do sth. worthwhile, etc.
6) feel it necessary to stay with my grandmother and take care of her
7) has made it possible for the central and western parts of China to develop at a much faster speed 8) have found it profitable to invest big money in recycling industrial wastes
9) think it essential to have a highly developed culture if we want to modernize our society 10) consider it important to see our limitations as well as our strengths 8. Put in the missing words.
(1) looked (2) home (3) at (4) a (5) furniture (6) always (7) later (8) tied (9) the (10) Other
(11) police (12) Carrying (13) line (14) wonder (15) did (16) as (17) led (18) stopped (19) help (20) puzzled (21) down (22) staring (23) It's (24) else (25) me (26) at (27) drove III. Grammar
1.Combine each pair of the sentences after the model using the words and expressions below. 1) The boy fell off his bike and broke his leg.
2) It rained all day yesterday, so we got nothing done in the fields.
3) The man was so tired that he could hardly put one foot before the other.
4) The old man walked 50 fast that his children found it hard to keep up with him. 5) The man was so badly injured that they took him straight to the hospital. Or: The man was badly injured and was taken straight to the hospital.
6) I don't think he is so stupid as to give up his present position when jobs are hard to obtain. 7) The professor spoke very fast, 50 (that) none of the students could take complete notes. Or: The professor spoke so fast that none of the students could take complete notes.
8) We found so much to talk about that it was late at night when we remembered the time. 9) Mr. Hu repeated his remarks in English and French, so that nobody misunderstood what he said.
10) The man went to meet a girlfriend he had got to know on the Web, but only to find she was his own wife.
11) As it's something urgent, the sooner you finish it, the better. Or: As it's something urgent, please finish it as soon as possible.
12) The medical team must set out immediately, because the sooner they arrive, the more victims they will be able to save.
2. Rewrite the sentences as shown in the examples. 1) Using \
(1) Adults love Hans Christian Andersen's stories as much as children (do).
(2) In China, New Concept English is almost as popular as Professor Xu's textbook English.
(3) Sometimes a journalist's job is as dangerous as that of a policeman.
(4) A society needs farmers and factory workers as much as it needs scientists and economists.
(5) At 60, he is as eager to learn as he was 40 years ago when he was a college student. (6) The film wasn't as good as we expected. It was just so-so. (7) He is not doing as well as his parents want him to.
(8) The boys find life at college is not as exciting as they used to think.
(9) The guard spoke as politely as if the boy were a welcome guest.
(10) In old age, a man's life is as calm and peaceful as a river running through a vast plain. 2) Using \
(1) Prices have been rising faster than incomes.
(2) Relations between the two countries are better than they were 10 years ago.
(3) Since the end of World War II, the world has been changing faster than before the war.
(4) Today a high school student knows more about the personal computer than scientists did 50 years ago. (5) The world has become more crowded than it was 50 years ago.
(6) On the whole, people are living a better life than they did 30 years ago. (7) The sooner you learn from your mistakes, the more you will improve. (8) The more you learn, the better you will see how little you knew before. 4.Learn to use the passive voice correctly.
1) The sentences tell us about the changes that have taken place in your hometown in the last twenty years or so. Turn each of them into the passive form and write it down in the space below. (1) Most slums have been pulled down.
(2) Quite a lot of decent economical houses have been built for low-income families. (3) The main streets have been widened, and three superhighways have been constructed. (4) The service industry has been steadily developed.
(5) Over the years, thousands of jobs have been created in the service industry for the residents. (6) A lot has been done to improve the environment.
(7) Quite a number of factories have been moved out of the city. (8) A lot of money has been spent on education and medical care.
(9) More than 40,000 young people have been enrolled in the universities in the last three years.
(10) The facilities of our major hospitals have been upgraded.
2) Change the infinitive phrase into suggestions, using the pattern \suggest (that) something be done\
(1) TV violence should be strictly controlled.
(2) The police force should be provided with better equipment and training.
(3) Criminals/crimes should be punished more severely when crimes/they are on the increase.
(4) Those who help the police fight crime should be awarded.
(5) Emphasis should be put on rehabilitation instead of on punishment.
(6) Efforts should be made to turn criminals into useful members of society. (7) Wrongdoers should be given opportunities to start life afresh.
(8) Lawbreakers who are willing to turn over a new leaf shoul4 not be looked down upon.
(9) As long as they behave themselves? released prisoners should no longer be treated as criminals. IV Written Work
Answer the question in about 130 words.
Do you agree with the author that severe punishment is not the answer to the problem of crime? Sample:
I don't think that severe punishment is the answer to the problem of crime. But I look at the matter from a different point of view. The author simply believes harsh punishment isn't feasible because it costs too
much. My view is that punishment, including harsh measures; is necessary but punishment alone won't help much. It is effective only when governments make effort to wipe out what gives rise to crimes, for example, poverty, inequality, racial hatred, money worship, TV violence, etc. , in short, to remove barriers for less fortunate members of society to better themselves. Punishment can produce good results only when it is combined with effective correctional measures to make law-abiding citizens out of criminals. This is a difficult but worthwhile job. (124 words)
Lesson Four The Nightingale and the Rose
I. Oral Work
1. Discuss the following:
1) The characters‘ different attitudes towards love: (1) The Student‘s
(2) The Lizard‘s, the Butterfly‘s and the Daisy‘s (3) The Nightingale‘s
2) Is love better than life, as the Nightingale believed? Interview other students. Be prepared to summarize their ideas. II. Vocabulary
1. Practice using the rules of word formation.
1) Examine how the compound nouns from the text are formed. Work out their meanings. Add more words that are formed in the same way.
sunbeam (para. 9) grass-plot (para.14) rose-tree (para. 14) sun-dial (para. 16)
moonlight (para. 26) life-blood (para. 27) oak-tree (para. 31) bridegroom(para.39) 339) These compound nouns are formed by ____________+___________.
2) Examine how the word \help of a dictionary.
sincerity: ______+ _______
3) Turn the following adjectives into nouns ending with \words to the list. Adjective Noun
able ________________________ active ________________________ available ________________________ certain ________________________ cruel ________________________ curious ________________________ relative ________________________ ________________________ stupidity ________________________ capability ________________________ creativity ________________________ humanity ________________________ responsibility ________________________ originality ________________________ possibility ________________________ probability ________________________ specialty ________________________ visibility
________________________ ________________________
4) Complete the sentences with the words in the brackets in their noun forms. (1) The road to success is always under______________(construct) .
(2) ______(creative) is finding new things or expressing old ideas in new ways. (3) High__________ (motivate) will always beat mere talent.
(4) Winning organizations will be those that give individuals the chance to make a ________ (differ). (5) Hard work is the best ________ (invest) a man can make.
(6) Learn to take risks and stretch beyond what you think your __________(capable). (7) Progress is the __________(active) of today and the assurance of tomorrow. (8) The Nazi war criminals were condemned for crimes against________(human). (9) _________(poor) is the root of all evils.
(10) The more a man learns, the more he sees his _________ (ignorant). (11) Misfortune tests the ________ (sincere } of friends.
(12) ___________(polite) costs nothing and gains everything.
(13) ____________(curious) keeps us moving forward, exploring new ways and opening new doors.
(14) Often those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain about its ___________(short).
2. Give words or expressions with similar meanings.
10) to pluck 11) precisely 12) real 13) silly
14) to supervise 15) to tremble 16) to weep 17) wretched 1) to chill
2) dear (said of life)
3) delicate (said of color) 4) faint (said of voice) 5) to fling 6) great 7) to nip 8) pang
9) plot (said of land)
3. Complete the sentences with the expressions listed below in their proper forms. for want of in return something of a
to be blind., (.blue, drunk ...) wjth to be fond of to press agaist to be compared to to linger on
1) The boy stumbled out of the room, ______________________sleep.
2) She _________her face ____________the window and saw that it had started to snow outside. 3)_________ something better to do, he decided to try gardening.
4) The government should respect people's citizen rights. And the people _______ should give the government their support.
5) In spite of the medicine, the pain _____ .
6) Our exports have increased by 20% ______ the same period of last year.
7) This young man __________ fixing things. He could fix almost everything. He was ____________jack-of-all-trades
8) _______ other industrial cities, this one is the least polluted. 9) ____________a better word, let's call this \
10) Lin Lin is more hardworking __________ many other officials.
11) Her face ___________ cold when she came back through the snowstorm.
4. Put the following into English. 1) 举行舞会 8）按下门铃 2）举行晚会 9）牺牲性命
3）举行记者招待会 10）掐去花蕾 4）埋葬宝物 11）穿透心脏 5）以手遮面 12）否认事实 6）摘下花朵 13）否认指控 7）付出代价 14）装满瓶子
5. Complete the sentences with the following phrasal verbs of ―go‖ in their proper forms.
to go b) to go on with to go up to go ahead to go on to go together go into n go over to go o to go through 1 ) Don't wait for me. You just ______________.
2) This time, we shouldn't let the chance_____________.
3) The light suddenly____________ when I was working on the computer the other day.
4) The visitors were surprised to see so many buildings___________ at the same time. 5) There is a grand opening ceremony ____________in the Workers' Stadium. 6) In spite of the opposition, he __________the plan. 7) I've ______ her paper. It is full of new ideas.
8) We didn't expect that the time taken for____________ the customs would be so long. 9) It is a long story. But I won't___________ the history of the matter.
10) The color of your hat should___________ that of your coat. This hat is brown, and your coat is red. These two colors just don't_______________.
6. Give the meanings of the underlined parts in the sentences below. Note how the meanings are different in different contexts.
1) The speaker cleared his throat before he started to talk.
2) Suddenly the rain stopped and the sky cleared. We were all overjoyed. 3) Why don't you go out for a walk to clear your head?
4) I'd like to clear my debts as quickly as possible. I don't like owing people money. 5) I'm still not quite clear about the cause of international terrorism. 6) Each prisoner was locked in a small cell.
7) Human brains have more than 100 million cells per cubic centimetre (每立方厘米). 8) Attention, please. Passengers for Shanghai are now boarding on Platform 5. 9) Mary is Party B's representative on the Board of Directors. 10) I pay $350 a month for board and lodging. 11) The boards on the floor are in need of repair.
7. Give the sentence patterns of the underlined parts in the sentences below, and then using the patterns, rewrite the sentences that follow.
\Nightingale, \ Sentence patterns:
1) If you read Lu Xun, your mind will include a piece of Lu Xun's.
2) If you drink tomato juice for some time, you will not be afraid of seeing blood. 3) If you rest for a while, your headache will be gone.
4) If you give Jimmy too much money, he will develop some bad habit.
5) If you don't improve the quality of your product, you will lose your market.
6) If you don't punish these people severely, illegal trade in wild life will never stop. 7) If you don't take this opportunity, you will live to regret it.
8) If we don‘t stop polluting our rivers and lakes immediately, we will be in deep trouble. 8. Put in the missing words.
Music has traditionally been a recreational activity. It has recently become part of our everyday (1) __________ , including our work.
It is not easily (2)__________ but it is everywhere. Its influence is very small (3) _______ measurable. Whether in restaurants, shopping centers (4) ________
assembly lines—even farms—background or mood music can be (5) _______ almost
anywhere in the United States from hushed executive offices (6) _________ noisy loading yard. One hand tool manufacturing (7) ____________ found that efficiency increased (8 )__________4. 5 % with the introduction of background music. A California fanner
discovered that such music (9) ________ nervous cattle and prevented stampedes (马群或牛群受惊奔跑) that (10) ________ to cause thousands of (11) __________ in
damage. The type of music (12) to have an impact. Department stores play (13)_______ music during the week to encourage (14) ? ____ but speed up the beat on (15)______ when the crowds are heavier. \music is basically designed not to (16)_______ listened to,\(17)_______ a favorable mood or build a tempo to work (18) ________. \
III. Grammar
1. Combine each pair of the sentences as shown in the example.
Example: The Teahouse is a good play. I've never seen a better Chinese play before. — The Teahouse is the best Chinese play I've ever seen. 1 ) Xiao Fang is a smart girl. I've never known a smarter girl.