Unit 6
Word derivation
1) The standard of _____ (masculine) seems to go obscure in this age.
2) Say "yes" or "no". I'm tired of your _____ (waver) attitude.
3) The _____ (distinct) between these two synonyms is too subtle to be explained.
4) Athletes must be very careful with their diet so as to be free of ______ (stimulate) trouble.
5) You must learn to balance your time between academic work and _____ (curriculum) activities.
6) I am planning a trip to the
7) Nobody is allowed to shoot the animals in the wildlife _____ (enclose).
8) The fast growing _____ (polar) between the rich and poor will further aggravate the unstable international situations.
9) A trip to the countryside would be something most _____ (desire) to those who have been sick of the noise and traffic jams in the city.
10) I can't see why you are always _____ (envy) of others' successes.
Phrasal verbs
1) The company has announced the plan to ____ ____ (cut) personnel in the next year.
2) The noise from upstairs _____ ______ (interfere) my reflection over the book I was reading.
3) Doctors who have got bad records twice will be _____ _____ (bar) practicing medicine for good.
4) Children from the well-off families never ____ _____ (fret) their tuitions or living expenses.
5) A nightmare to a car owner is to find the oil price going up again when the petrol is ____ ___ (run).
6) He couldn’t quite ____ ____ (make) what that film was all about.
7) The detainees _____ the police _____ (accuse) being rough with them.
8) Some cyber games designers were condemned for ______ ____ (cater) the low tastes of some people.
9) He _____ _____ (toil) his work without any complaint.
10) You should be wise enough to _____ _____ (attend) the emergency first.
Grammar exercises
Fill in the blanks with the words that are opposite in meaning to words in boldface.
1) We take it for granted that this world is sharply divided into masculine and _____.
2) He always wavers instead of pinning himself down to un ______ answer.
3) She hated to be labeled as a ______ girl, so she did everything she could to rebel against the parental authority.
4) I felt confused about her seemingly irrelevant remarks at the beginning. Yet, by and by, I found out all she said was in fact _____ to the point she was trying to drive home to me.
5) His ______ thinking simply drove me mad. He would be the last person to reason things out in a logical manner.
6) The two little twins have nothing in common except their appearance. One is so _____ while the other is so timid.
7) A: Do you like those houses in a _____ style?
B: No. Diversity always works better to make things look more dynamic.
8) I wonder whether this reference room is accessible or _____ to us students.
9) The first sight of this painting may strike you as ______. Yet, if you stay long enough in front of it, you will surely be enlightened by a sense of wholeness.
10) Do you agree that a purely rational man can never understand women’s ______?
Error correction
1) I was slow understanding the deep grievance of women.
2) Women like the men folk, they fretted about money, they scrimped and made do.
3) Women didn't have to support the family and they didn't have to go to war, too.
4) Few of women held jobs outside the home, and those who filled thankless roles as clerks and waitresses.
5) But if I was asked, as a boy, to choose between tending a baby and tending a machine, I think I would have chosen the baby.
6) The female students at college accused me for having cornered the world's pleasures.
7) The women I met at college thought about the joys and privileges of me, they knew nothing about the sort of men I had known in my childhood.
8) Men would feel more ashamed of being laid down than women would.
9) Everybody years for a job worthy his or her ability.
10) You have not the third way. You can only choose to be my enemy or my rival.
Translation
1) 你可以选择遵守违章制度或因违法违章制度而受罚。(conform to)
2) 应该训练3至5岁的孩子提出与他们所读的故事相关的问题。(relevant to)
3) 如果大部分的人都开始怀疑社会准则的合理性了,那么这个国家就应该准备变革了。(norm)
4) 董事会的决定对于整个兼并方案非常关键。(central)
5) 浦东机场正在扩建以适应将来更大的客货运流量。(expansion)
6) 为农村提供免费的义务教育必然要使各级政府花费大量的经费。(entail)
7) 如果天气情况不允许野营者在露天烧饭的话,他们就只能将就吃点方便面了。(make do with)
8) 很多商业大亨的事业都是从在小公司给别人跑腿开始起步的。(run errands)
9) 有一件有趣的事要提一提,很多青少年的流行语常常让他们的父母迷惑不解。(baffle)
10) 向远方看上一会儿是消除工作烦闷的好方法。(tedium)
Key for Unit 6
Word Derivation
1) masculinity 2) wavering 3) distinction 4) stimulant 5) extracurricular
6) Autonomous 7) enclosure 8) polarization 9) desirable 10) envious
Phrasal Verbs
1) cut down 2) interfere with 3) barred from 4) fret about 5) running out
6) make out 7) accused…of 8) catering to 9) toiled at/is toiling at 10) attend to
Grammar exercises
1) feminine 2) unwavering 3) docile 4) relevant 5) illogical
6) bold 7) uniform 8) inaccessible 9) fragmentary 10) sentimentality
Error Correction
1) Correction: I was slow to understand/ in understanding the deep grievance of women.
2) Correction: Like the men folk, women fretted about money, they scrimped and made do.
3) Correction: Women didn't have to support the family and they didn't have to go to war, either./ Women didn't have to support the family nor did they have to go to war.
4) Correction: Few of women held jobs outside the home, and those who did filled thankless roles as clerks and waitresses.
5) Correction: But if I had been asked, as a boy, to choose between tending a baby and tending a machine, I think I would have chosen the baby.
6) Correction: The female students at college accused me of having cornered the world's pleasures.
7) Correction: When the women I met at college thought about the joys and privileges of me, they knew nothing about the sort of men I had known in my childhood./The women I met at college thought about the joys and privileges of me; they knew nothing about the sort of men I had known in my childhood.
8) Correction: Men would feel more ashamed of being laid off than women would.
9) Correction: Everybody years for a job worthy of his or her ability.
10) Correction: You have not the third way. You can only choose to be my enemy or my ally.
Translation
1) You can choose to conform to the rules and regulations or be punished for breaking them.
2) Kids aged from 3 to 5 should be trained to raise questions relevant to the stories they have read.
3) If the majority of the people begin to doubt the reasonableness of the social norms, the country must prepare itself for changes.
4) The decision of the Board of Directors is central to the whole scheme for merging.
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6) Providing free compulsory education in the countryside will surely entail great expenses on the governments at all levels.
7) The campers could only make do with some instant noodles when the weather didn't permit them to cook in the open air.
8) Many business tycoons started their careers with running errands in some small firms.
9) It's an interesting thing to mention that many "jargons" popular with the teenagers often leave their parents baffled.
10) To look into the distance for a while is a good way to break the tedium of job.
