Unit1 Reading More Key to Exercises
Task 1
１）nonmonetary 2) recognizing 6) self-affirmation 7) impede 11) serve 12) ceremonies
3) due
8) thirst 13) a part
4) adhere 9) discharging 14) commit
5) considered 10) rendering 15) attend
Vocabulary in Action
Task 1
1. A. observed (v. to see and notice something)
B. observed (v. to say or write what you have noticed about a situation)
C. observing (v. to do what you are supposed to do according to a law or agreement)
2. A. Labels (n. a piece of paper or other material that is attached to something and gives
information about it)
B. labeled (v. to attach a label onto something or write information on something)
C. labeled (v. to use a word or phrase to describe someone or something, but often unfairly or correctly) 3. A. engage (v. to be doing or to become involved in an activity) B. was engaged (v. to employ someone to do a particular job)
C. engaged (v. having agreed to marry)
D. engaging (adj. pleasant and attractive)
4. A. attributed (v. to believe or say that a situation or event is caused by something)
B. attributes (n. a quality or feature, especially one that is considered to be good or useful)
C. attributed (v. to believe or say that someone was responsible for saying or writing something, i.e. painting a famous picture, etc.)
5. A. Driving (v. to make a car, truck, bus, etc. move along in a desired path)
B. drive (n. an effort to achieve something, especially an effort by an organization for a
particular purpose)
C. drive (n. determination and energy to succeed) 6. A. exercise (n. physical activities that you do in order to stay healthy and become stronger) B. exercises (n. a set of questions in a book that test a student's knowledge or skill)
C. exercise (v. to use a power, right, or quality that you have)
7. A. term (n. a fixed period of time during which someone does something or something happens)
B. term (n. one of the periods of time that the school or university year is divided into)
C. termed (v. to give a name to or describe something with a particular expression)
8. A. discharged (v. to officially allow someone to leave somewhere, especially the hospital or the
army, navy, etc., or to tell them that they must leave)
B. discharge (v. to do or pay what you have a duty to do or pay)
C. discharges (n. something coming from with another type of substance)
9. A. minor (adj. small and not very important or serious, especially compared with other things)
B. minored/minors (v. to study a second main subject as part of university degree)
C. minors (n. someone who is below the age at which they become legally responsible for their actions)
10. A. stage (n. a particular time or state that something reaches as it grows or develops)
B. stage (n. the raised area in a theatre which actors or singers stand on when they perform)
C. stage (v. to organize a public event)
11. A. fostering (v. to take someone else's child into your family for a period of time but without
becoming their legal parent)
B. fosters (v. to help a skill, feeling, idea, etc. develop over a period of time)
C. foster (adj. related by or concerned with fostering)
12. A. firm (n. a business or company, especially a small one)
B. firm (adj. strongly fixed in position, and not likely to move)
C. firm (adj. behaving in a way showing that they are not going to change their mind, or that
they are the person taking control)
Task 2
1. due to you as a bonus 2. in recognition of his contributions to psychology 3. serves a purpose
4. attended to in due course 5. takes precedence over all the others 6. calls for a celebration
7. thirsted for a few new books
8. with reference to the job opening in your department 9. Mary has a great diversity of interests 10. committed themselves to boosting profits
PRACTICAL TRANSLATION
Paragraph One
“一年 365 天，一周 7 天，一天 24 小时，生意始终在进行，那意味着一年 365 天，7 天，一天 24 小时，竞争也同样在进行，”豪特说，“公司取胜的方法之一就是要更快地到达?目 的地?!这就是说，你不仅要把所有能支持公司快速运转的功能都调动起来，而且还得知道如何决定?目的地?是哪里。这样，不仅对那些行动快速的人们，也对那些思维敏捷，并有勇气按自己的想法行事的人们都提出了要求。这需要全公司各部门的运作，而不仅仅是管理部门的工作。”
Paragraph Two
最后，职业地位包含对职业标准的遵守。很多律师通过在行业内外把自己塑造成一个具有良好职业道德的典范来找到自我价值。对那些在所有职业行为中都表现出极度正直和谦逊有礼的律师们来说，当管理阶层对他们理应受到的特别尊重表示肯定时，便又获得了另一种形式的精神报酬。
Unit2
Reading more: A cuisine crisis Key to exercises
Text exploration
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About French cuisine
A. As for raw materials, there are: herbs, fruits and vegetables piled high in greengrocers? creative geometrics; seafood, e.g. oyster; wild game, e.g. hare, venison, boar; and sausages and cheeses laid out to smell and savor.
?B. Nothing has stood for France?s sense of exceptionalism more famously than its cooking. ?
e.g. Water has many different and marketable tastes and the
taste of
olive oils can be nutty, fruity and impudent.
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C. If French cuisine has prestige, that?s because
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a. French has chefs who are interested in good products.
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b. French still has peasant agriculture as well as factory farms. ??Text exploration Task1
About French cuisine
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Many factors caused the decline of French cuisine ?
A. Globalization
Many fruits and vegetables on the outdoor market are imported from foreign countries. Gallic talent, taste and technique have been exported all over the world and at the same time, what is mediocre, cheep and popular has been imported. B. Government tax and economic policies a. more and more restaurateurs have to cope with red tape, not to mention edicts from Brussels that affect everything from sales taxes to the bacteria in the brie.
b. The “harmonized” value-added taxes benefit fast-food chains while penalizing sit-down restaurants. c. Strict labor laws restrict hiring, firing and temp-work.
d. Government regulations, for example, CAP, favor quantity over quality. Reading more/ Vocabulary in action ?
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Task 1
1.A 6.B Task2
2.A 7.C 3.D 4.B 8.A 9.A 5. A 10.B
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1. pleasant
2. understand 5. unified
7.cherish
3. an event in which people or businesses show or sell their products
4. cheeky
6. modest or unpretentious 9.have
10.unwillingness
8.causepain or suffer; annoy/trouble
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