Unit One
People Around Us
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) crease 2) hint 3) assured 4) awaiting 5) hovering 6) scrawled 7) glistening 8) frail 9) sole 10) visible 11) engaged 12) biased 13) dreading 14) grinning
2. In the boxes below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. 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) for fear of 2) pulled up 3) except for 4) get by
5) make a living 6) every so often 7) in the background 8) Shut off
9) each and every 10) as it is
11) wraps … around her little finger 12) caught us …unawares
▆ Increasing Your Word Power
1. Choose the definition from Column B that best matches each phrasal verb in Column A,
paying attention to the V+ Prep./Ad. collocation.
▆ Answers: 1) f 2) c 3) d 4) e 5) b 6) g 7) h 8) a
Fill in each blank in the following sentences with a proper phrasal verb. Change the verb form where necessary. ▆ Answers:
1) let out
2) clean … up 3) come through 4) waiting on 5) picked up 6) ended up 7) headed for 8) ran through
2. The prefixes ex-, fore-, pre- mean “former, before, or in advance” while the prefix post-
means “after or later than”. Study the following examples and form words by adding ex-, fore-, pre-, post- to the words given in the table and then complete each of the following sentences with a proper word you have just formed. Change the verb form where necessary. ▆ Answers: 1) foretell 2) preview 3) forerunner 4) postscript 5) postgraduate 6) precondition 7) ex-husband
Grammar in Context
Task 1: Combine the given sentences into one by using attributive clauses. ▇ Answers for reference:
1) I encountered many people whose lives amazed me. (See Para. 3, Text B)
2) We drove in silence to the address (that/which) she had given me. (See Para. 21, Text B) 3) He pushed through the doors and headed for the back room where his apron and busing cart were waiting. (See Para. 16, Text A)
4) I had seen too many people trapped in a life of poverty who depended on the cab as their only means of transportation. (See Para. 6, Text B)
5) Their social worker, who stopped to check on Stevie every so often, admitted Stevie and his
mother had fallen between the cracks. (See Para. 6, Text A)
Task 2: Complete the following sentences by translating the Chinese in the brackets into English. Be sure to use present particles or past particles to modify nouns. ▇ Answers for reference:
well-considered decision, folded paper, written notice, laptop storing my annual report, a postman delivering express mail
Cloze
▆ Complete the following passage with words chosen from Text A. The initial letter of each is
given.
▆ Answers: 1) reliable 2) syndrome 3) adopted 4) got done with 5) gloomy 6) or something 7) chance
8) come through 9) barely 10) in good shape 11) booth 12) mess 13) scrawled 14) peeking 15) in
Translation
▆ Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and expressions given in brackets.
▆ Answers for reference:
1) What I didn’t count on was that over time I would sincerely take pride in being a social
worker.