Exercise

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Unit 8

• Exercise

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Word Detective (Ex. 1)

• 1) charge
• A. The shop doesnt charge for delivery.
• B. They charge a heavy tax on imported wine.

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Peer

• A. The opinions of his peers are more important
  to him than his parents ideas.
• B. Children tend to be influenced by peer
  pressure.

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Come to

• A. The two brothers quickly came to blows during
  their quarrel.
• B. All this sex and violence on the TV---what is
  the world coming to?

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loan

• A. How soon do you have to pay off the loan?
• B. Jim took out a loan to pay for his car.

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Sum

• A. I had to spend a large sum of money to have my
  damaged car repaired.
• B. The company was sold for an undisclosed sum.

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truly

• A. They have done a truly magnificent job.
• B. He felt truly torn between the two
  alternatives open to him.

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obligate

• A. He felt obligated to visit his parents every
  weekend.
• B. Do you feel obligated to see your teacher who
  is now in the hospital?

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Word Detective (Ex. 2) P258

• 2.1) b
• 2) e
• 3) a
• 4) c
• 5) d
• 6) f

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Word Detective (Ex. 3) P258

• 1) studying French as the chief subject majoring
  in
• 2) became successful and profitable paid off
• 3)combined put together
• 4) draw your attention to the fact point out

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Words In Action(Ex.2 P262)

• 1) compromise
• 2) scheduled
• 3) steered
• 4) frame
• 5) demonstrated
• 6) employ

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• 7) promote
• 8) impressed
• 9) confirmed
• 10) deliberately
• 11) financial
• 12) economic

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Words In Action(Ex.3 P262-263)

• 1) makes a point of
• 2) make the most of
• 3) lead to
• 4) at hand
• 5) to begin with
• 6) Last but not least

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• 7) tookdown
• 8) In addition to
• 9) takes pains to
• 10) came to
• 11) pointed out
• 12) paid off

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Words In Action(Ex.4 P263)

• Across
• 1) scored
• 2) scheduled
• 3) assigned
• 4) motivate
• 5) crucial
• 6) promote
• 7) performed
• 8) debate

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• Down
• 9) scanned
• 10)devised
• 11) advocated
• 12) clarify
• 13) priorities
• 14) compromised
• 15) context
• 16) undertook

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Increasing Your Word Power (Ex.1 P265)

• 1) principal/major
• 2) top
• 3) major
• 4) top
• 5) principal
• 6) major
• 7) schedule

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• 8) advocate/have advocated
• 9) top
• 10) approach
• 11) blame
• 12) major/principal
• 13) advocate
• 14) schedule
• 15) blame
• 16) approaching

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Increasing Your Word Power (Ex.2 P266)

• Words Similar in meaning
• Reveal---disclose
• Tentative---possible
• Achieve---attain
• Super-achiever---straight-A student
• Steer toward---point toward
• Be taught---be trapped

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Words Opposite in Meaning

• Joyless---cheerful
• Give---undertake
• Part-time---full time
• General---specific
• Problem---solution
• Recreation---work

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Increasing Your Word Power (Ex.3 P266)

• Examples
• 1) Who is going to set the questions for the exam
  this time?
• 2) She forgot to set her alarm clock last night
  that was why she overslept.
• 3) Her heroic behavior sets a good example for us
  to follow.

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• 4) We had to compromise and finally the price was
  set at 1,000.
• 5) We were all pleased to know that Liuxiang had
  set a world-record in the 110-mater hurdles.
• 6) The government has set strict limits on pay
  increases.

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Increasing Your Word Power (Ex.4 P267)

• 1) edition
• 2) revisions
• 3) addition
• 4) anticipation
• 5) frustration
• 6) recreations
• 7) association
• 8) expectations

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Cloze (P269)

• 1) academic
• 2) priorities
• 3) conducted
• 4) principles
• 5) begin
• 6) priority
• 7) compromised

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• 8) addition
• 9) filling
• 10) speaking
• 11) formula
• 12) participation
• 13) based
• 14) least
• 15) way
• 16) pressures

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Translation (Ex.1)

• 1) The judge asked the reporters not to disclose
  the name of the victim.

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• 2)The teacher took pains to make sure that we all
  understood what he said.

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• 3)Recently the school conducted a survey among
  those students who have attained academic
  excellence.

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• 4) He said he would accept the job, so we have
  asked him to confirm his acceptance by writing us
  a letter.

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• 5) George studies very hard. He wants to make the
  most of his chance to learn.

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• 6) We cant go. To begin with, its too cold.
  Besides, were busy.

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• 7) Its about time that someone spoke up for
  these basic truths/facts.

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• 8) Dont say it is profitless to do this. The
  effort will pay off in the long run.

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Translation (Ex.2)

• 1) ????????????,????????????????????????

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• 2) ???????????????????,????????????????????

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• 3) ??,??????????????
• 4) ?????????,???????????
• 5) ?????????????

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• 6)??????????????????????????

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• Thank You!