Unit Two
Optimism and Positive Thinking
Enhance Your Language Awareness
Words in Action
▆ Working with Words and Expressions
1. In the box below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the following sentences
with them. Change the form where necessary.
▆Answers: 1) positive 2) startled 3) perspective 4) harden 5) shape 6) address 7) crises 8) curse 9) incredible 10) conversely 11) issue 12) response 13) prior 14) rare
15) accomplish
2. In the box below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do you understand their
meanings? Do you know how to use them in the proper context? Now check for yourself by doing the blank-filling exercise. Change the form where necessary.
▆Answers:
1) get the hang of 2) have lived through 3) makes a difference 4) have no idea 5) concerned with 6) slipped over 7) ran into 8) in reverse 9) mull over
▆ Increasing Your Word Power
1. Decide whether “do”, “make” or “take” is needed to complete each of thefollowing sentences. Change
the verb form where necessary.
▆Answers:
1) does 2) make 3) take 4) do 5) make 6) Take 7) done 8) taken 9) making 10) took
2. In each of the following sentences you are given two confusable words orexpressions in brackets.
Choose the appropriate one to fill in the blank. Youmay consult a dictionary if necessary.
▆Answers:
1) concerned 2) Concerning 3) reject 4) declined 5) unconscious 6) subconscious 7) former 8) preceding 9) raise 10) rise
3. Now match each of the English word in Column A with its Chinese equivalentin Column B. You may
consult a dictionary if necessary.
▆Answers:
1) d 2) j 3) k 4) a 5) b 6) h 7) c 8) f 9) l 10) e 11) g 12) i
GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT
Task 1: When it is used as a conjunction, “as” can mean “when / while”, “though / although”, “since /
because”, “in the way / manner that”,etc., and it can also be used in a comparative structure. Studythe following sentences and explain the meaning of “as” in eachsentence.
▆ Answers for reference:
1) in the way /manner that
2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8)
though / although when since
used in a comparison though while
in the way that
Task 2: Complete the following sentences after the example by translating theChinese into English, using “as”
as a relative pronoun.
▆ Answers for reference:
1) as you describe / have described / described 2) as concern every one ofus 3) As is well known 4) As we all can see
5) as you show / as you have shownfor your teacher 6) As is reported / announced in today’s papers
Cloze
Complete the following passage with words chosen from this unit. The initial letter of each is given.
▆ Answers: 1) perspective 2) despair 3) necessity 4) perform 5) Conversely 6) prophecy 7) where 8) as
9) achieve 10) recognize 11) dealt with 12) attitude 13) channels 14) concerned
Translation
Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and expressions given in brackets.
▆ Answers for reference:
1) Only those who have lived through a similar experience can fully appreciate this. /The only people who can
fully appreciate this are those who have lived through asimilar experience.
2) Scientists have been hard pressed to figure out how these particles form/ areformed and interact (with one
another).
3) Those who have got the hang of Rubik’s Cube (Magic Cube) can return each face toconsisting of one colour in