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Unit Four Sports
Enhance Your Language Awareness
Words in Action
▇ Working with Words and Expressions
1. In the boxes 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) narrowly 2) proceeded 3) features 4) crawl 5) spun 6) flashed 7) qualify 8) Despite 9) congratulate 10) consultant 11) compete 12) disciplined 13) confessed 14) tripped
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) kind of 2) are in for 3) came in
4) rose to their feet 5) brought up
6) made … a fool of herself 7) under wraps
8) get hot under the collar 9) looked the part 10) in an emergency 11) has had her eye on 12) is … taking shape 13) bring out
14) put in/ squeeze in 15) win … hands down
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▇ Increasing Your Word Power
1. Choose two verbs from Column B for each noun in Column A, paying attention to the v.+ n. collocation. Write down the verbs in the space provided before the corresponding noun. The first item has been done for you.
▆ Answers:
Column A Column B
1) break / set the record applaud form 2）embody / represent an idea award hold 3）award / win a medal break host 4）hold/ host the Olympic Games congratulate reach 5）applaud / congratulate an Olympic cross represent champion
6) form/ forge a friendship embody set 7) cross/ reach the finish line forge win
Now fill in each blank in the following sentences with a verb in Column B. Change the verb form where necessary.
▆ Answers: 1) applaud
2) embodies/represents 3) forged/formed 4) congratulated 5) broken 6) awarded
7) crossed/reached 8) host 2. The suffix “–cy” can be added to some adjectives, nouns or verbs to form nouns, meaning “the state or quality of…”, or “the status or position of…”. Now form new words after the example and give their meanings in Chinese. Consult a dictionary if necessary.
▇ Answers: 1) accurate → accuracy 精确，准确(度) 2) adequate → adequacy 适当；充分 3) consistent → consistency 一致性；连贯性 4) delicate → delicacy 细致;精致 5) efficient → efficiency 效能，效率 6) intimate → intimacy 亲密，密切 7) president → presidency 总统等的职位 8) private → privacy 隐私；独处 9) secret → secrecy 保密；保密能力 10) → self-sufficiency 自给自足 self-sufficient
Now fill in the blanks in the following sentences by choosing the proper words you have just formed. 学习参考
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▇Answers: 1) secrecy 2) presidency 3) consistency 4) efficiency 5) privacy 6) intimacy 7) accuracy
8) self-sufficiency 9) adequacy 10) delicacy
Grammar in Context
1. Study the following sentences, each of which contains either an “appositive phrase” or an “appositive clause”, and then do the following task.
Now translate the following sentences into English, using either an “appositive phrase” or an “appositive clause” .
▇ Answers for reference:
1) Football, his only hobby in life, has brought him many friends.
2) The President of the company, Mrs Jones, held a press conference after the board meeting.
3) The question whether to confess or not has been troubling little Tom.
4) You should not have any doubt about the fact that the criminal has been arrested. 5) The news was immediately spread far and wide that Beijing had won the bid for the 2008 Olympic Games.
2. Study the following sentences from this unit, paying special attention to the constructions “not… but…” and “not only/simply…but (also)…”, and then do the following task. Now answer the questions with the help of the hints given in brackets, using the constructions “not… but…” and “not only/simply…but (also)…”.
▇ Answers for reference:
1) No, he didn’t come to help, but to hinder us.
2) It is not the players, but the supporters that are responsible for football hooliganism.
3) No, their intent is not to catch all speeders but to catch enough to give them a warning.
4) I’m not only willing, but (also) eager to join the volunteer team for the World Cup.
5) No. He translates into English not only from French, but (also) from Polish. 6) Because its appeal lies not only in its story but also in the ethical issues it raises.
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