Unit 16

Word derivation
1. The spokeswoman's ________ (elaborate) were even more confusing than the initial statements.
2. It is of crucial importance to __________ (popularity) education of the girls in China's less developed rural areas.
3. There were as many as 126 _________ (contest) in this year's English Speaking Competition.
4. Jimmy Potter was _________ (represent) of a generation of young people who were rebellious, disillusioned and hysterically mad at social injustice in postwar Britain.
5. The shop assistant was fired partly due to her habitual ________ (sense) to the needs of the customers.
6. Seeing her twin sister's cheerfulness, Cynthia wished she were the ________ (address) of the love letters.
7. The statue stands ________ (signal) in the very heart of the schoolyard.
8. The train service is ________ (continue) for the time being because of the heavy snowfall.
9. The ________ (miracle) effect of the traditional medicine of the Chinese minorities has raised some conservative eyebrows.
10. The murder of the pregnant woman has received massive ________ (public).

Phrasal verbs
1. In preparation for the college entrance examination, the students feel _______ all the fun. (cut)
2. Her family ________ great hopes ________ her. (place)
3. Nothing but contempt is due to those people who ask us to ________ unmerited oppression. (submit)
4. Computer in itself is neither good nor bad; it is the uses which it is _______ that determine its value to society. (put)
5. Seeing no hope of recovery, the cancer patient killed himself, for he was unable to find nothing to _______. (live)
6. I am more than shocked to learn that they should have __________ such a constructive act. (vote)
7. It suddenly ________ him that he could hire a secretary to answer all the enquiry letters. (occur)
8. The new recruit _________ to be the most eloquent speaker in the debating team. (turn)

Choice of words
1. Professor Higgs is going to ________ a lecture next Thursday. (represent, deliver, address)
2. Nobody had expected that the quiet boy would ________ as an orator when he grew up. (excel, exceed, surpass)
3. Little is known about where and how the former president spent the __________ of his life. (recollection, reminder, remainder)
4. His father gave him a good beating for ______ all over the wall. (crawling , screwing, scrawling)
5. The children ________ up to each other in the cold. (snuggled, giggled, hugged)
6. Doctors cannot be too careful when ________ medicine to patients. (managing, governing, administering)

Cloze
Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE word you think appropriate.
　　There are varying opinions as to the origin of Valentine's Day. Some experts state that it (1) ________ from St. Valentine, a Roman who was martyred for refusing to give up Christianity. He died on (2) ________ 14, 269 A.D., the same day that had been devoted to love lotteries. Legend also says that St. Valentine left a farewell note for the jailer's daughter, (3) _______ had become his friend, and signed it "From Your Valentine". Other aspects of the story say that Saint Valentine served as a priest at the temple during the (4) ________ of Emperor Claudius. Claudius then had Valentine jailed for defying (5) ________. In 496 A.D. Pope Gelasius set aside February 14 to honour St. Valentine.

　　Gradually, February 14 became the date for exchanging love messages and St. Valentine became the patron saint of (6) ________. The date was marked by sending poems and simple gifts (7) ________ as flowers. There was often a social gathering or a ball.

　　In the United States, Miss Esther Howland is given credit (8) ________ sending the first valentine cards. Commercial valentines were (9) ________ in the 1800's and now the date is very commercialised. The town of Loveland, Colorado, does a large post office business around February 14. The spirit of good continues as (10) ________ are sent out with sentimental verses and children exchange valentine cards at school.

Translation
1. 有些男孩理科不行,但在语言方面却很出众。(shine)
2. 十月革命开创了人类历史的新纪元。(usher)
3. 早在20年前，电脑就取代了打字机。(give way to)
4. 双方象征性地握握手,算是打了招呼。(perfunctory)
5. 他被降职为副市长后从市政府辞职了。(relegate)
6. 这些青年男女深信不疑,一场猛烈的革命风暴即将来临。(positive)
7. 重要的不是数量,而是质量。(count)
8. 她是一位资深演员,应该知道如何演好这个新角色。 (veteran)

Key for unit 16
Word derivation
1. elaborations 2. popularize 3. contestants 4. representative 5. insensitivity
6. addressee 7. signally 8. discontinued9. miraculous 10. publicity

Phrasal verbs
1. cut out of 2. places…on/in 3. submit to 4. put to
5. live for 6. voted against 7. occurred to8. turned out

Choice of words
1. deliver 2. excel 3. remainder 4. scrawling 5. snuggled 6. administering

Cloze
1. originated2. February3. who 4. reign 5. him
6. lovers 7. such 8. for 9. introduced 10. valentines

Translation
1. Some boys are hopeless at science, but they shine at languages.
2. The October Revolution ushered in a new era in the history of mankind.
3. The typewriter gave way to the computer as early as twenty years ago.
4. The two parties greeted each other with a perfunctory handshake.
5. He resigned from the municipal government when he was relegated to the role of deputy mayor.
6. The young men and women were positive of the approach of a violent revolutionary storm.
7. It is not the quantity but the quality that counts.
8. As a veteran actress, she should know how to play the new part.