3) was urged to divert some of its attention from expanding production and get more involved with issues of market demand.
4) can really eat heavily into your profits when you are selling suits at ￡900 and dresses at ￡2,000.
5) has toiled endlessly over the exercise machine for the last twenty years in order to keep her body in shape.
Vocabulary 4
1) reaction to; discontent; provoked 2) Convention; evading tax; the confines of
3) a burden; are always on the go/ seem forever on the go; to cope
II. Confusable Words
1. 1) nervousness 2) tension 3) stress; stress 4) tension
2. 1) honorary 2) Honorable 3) honorable 4) honorary 5) honorable 6) Honorary
III. Usage P184
1) Dealing with the extinction crisis is no simple matter. Is it
sensible, we may ask, to spend large sums of money to save some species – be it an elephant or an orchid – in a nation in which a large proportion of the population is living below the poverty line?
2) This new technology could be used anywhere large numbers of people need to be quickly screened --- at airports, train stations, bus terminals or border crossings. However, experts suspect, there is also the risk that people will learn to fool the machine the same way they try to fool polygraph readings by controlling their breath or taking drugs to relax themselves. 3) With a high percentage of marriages ending in divorce, often due to financial difficulties, you would say that money is a big factor in making a good marriage. But, believe it or not, it isn’t money that ensures you a happy marriage; it is your philosophy of life that does.
4) Not all the risks on the Internet are sexual, you know. Sites promoting violence are just a click away, and may include instructions for making bombs and other destructive devices.
Cloze (Text-related) P185
1) switch off 2) obliged 3) on the go 4) cope
5) shortage 6) large quantity of 7) pouring in 8) by nature 9) fraction 10) futile
Cloze (Theme-related)
1) advantage 2) wisely 3)faithfully 4)waking 5) includes 6) schedule 7) sticking 8)priorities 9) set 10) respect
Translation P186
1) They are exploring the new frontiers of medical science in an attempt to find remedies for incurable diseases/ cures for diseases that are beyond remedy so far.
2) Her unique teaching methods apart, Ms Wilson, my math teacher, never tried to cram knowledge into my head.
3) The regular weather forecast by the Central TV Station keeps us up with the changes of weather wherever we go on a trip.
4) The appalling explosion started a big fire and caused the partial collapse of the building.
5) In the modern world, there are more ways than ever to waste away time, and all kinds of distractions are eating into our precious time. 2.
Today we are under constant pressure to work longer hours, to produce more, and to possess more. Lots of people hold the wrong perception that happiness lies in working hard and earning well/ good money.
Many women today feel the same stress to work and get ahead and, at the same time, to nurture their offspring and shoulder the burden of domestic responsibilities.
Research shows that workaholism tends to distance us from our immediate families. It forces us to toil longer and longer hours, leaving a minute fraction of our time to be physically and emotionally available to our loved ones. Intimacy among family members is doomed to die in the process.
Unit 7
Vocabulary: 1) appliances 5) prosperity 9) streamline I. 2) comparative 6) decorate 3) multiply 7) famine 4) distribution 8) large quantities of/ a large quantity of 10) fax 11) pointed the 12) bewildered way to Fill in the gaps with words or phrases given in the box. Change the form where necessary.
1) 1. divined 2. nerves 3. solidarity 4. sacred; mourn 5. coated
6. perish 7. hijack 8. grief 9. farewell 10. take revenge on
11. revolves 12. denounced
2) 1. drop? off 2. applied for 3. went off 4. are gaining on
5. bring down 6. blotted out 7. think back on 8. picking at
3) 1. brought down the American housing market in 2008 2. what will happen after his son steps into his shoes? 3. not in the mood to go out
4. long before the market began to show signs of weakness
5. mourn the loss of the tranquil life we had in the countryside 4) 1. in the aftermath of; to blot our; the tragic 2. armed; at dust; accomplices; explosives 3. in the space of; no illusion
II. Collocation:
1. a little of 2. a few; most of // many of 3. much 4. few
5. many 6. many of 7. much of 8. little
9. few of 10. Some
II. Usage:
1. As the boy grew older
2. she sings as beautifully as a nightingale // sings like a nightingale 3. they don’t see themselves as servants of the people