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1. My schedule is quite adaptable — I could arrange to meet with you any day next week. 2. That sort of extreme diet is not capable of continuing over a long period.
3. As the pressures for more service grow and the eagerness to provide it declines, the questions about effectiveness of care will intensify.
4. However, the government has taken a more reasonable approach lately which has broadened insurance companies’ investment options.
5. When an elderly relative falls ill, you should not have to shoulder the load alone. 6. The key to a successful modern economy is a well-educated and inspired workforce. 7. The government is unlikely to agree to the rebels’ firm requests for independence. 8. Due to the serious crisis, normal solutions for underperforming companies look unlikely.
IV. Complete the following sentences with the help of the first letter. Fill in each
blank with one word only.
1. New tax incentives will be introduced in the hope of stimulating future i________. 2. Ever since our secretary walked out, the office has been in a state of total c________.
3. As the bundling-sale has an a________ impact on the social welfare, it is not always desirable to forbid it.
4. The r________ performance of the banking sector promoted the economic development. 5. The enemy may i________ our messenger which will undoubtedly lead to great trouble for us.
6. With the funds provided by the government, e________ into new areas of research is possible.
7. The attackers beat a member of the production c________ and the driver of the vehicle transporting the team.
8. Changing weather conditions are usually the result of v________ in air pressure. 9. Those were the years of private e________, when lots of small businesses were started. 10. I can see that she’s burning with c________ — you must tell her at once who’s won! II.
1. making headway 2. compelled 3. composed 4. deploy 5. scenario 6. urgency 7. prior 8. turbulent 9. phase 10. giants 11. passed off 12. stretched III.
1. flexible 2. sustainable 3. enthusiasm 4. rational 5. carry the burden 6. motivated 7. demands 8. remedies IV.
1. investments 2. chaos 3. ambiguous 4. robust 5. intercept 6. expansion 7. crew 8. variation 9. enterprise 10. curiosity
Unit 5 Section A
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Vocabulary
III. Complete the following explanations or definitions with an appropriate word or
phrase from the box. Change the form where necessary.
species token
1. If something is ________, it is certain to happen and cannot be prevented or avoided. 2. If you describe the amount or level of something as ________, you disapprove of it because it is more or higher than is necessary.
3. A(n) __________ is a class of plants or animals whose members have the same main characteristics and are able to breed with each other.
4. If someone or something ________ something, they completely destroy or ruin it. 5. You use ________ to indicate that something bad or undesirable is great or intense.
6. If a tax or investment ________ an amount of money or profit, this money or profit is obtained from it.
7. You use ______ to describe things or actions which are small and insignificant but are meant to show particular intensions or feelings, which may or may not be sincere.
8. If you do something ________ an ideal or an abstract thing, you do it in order to preserve or promote that thing.
9. Someone’s ________ for something is their strong desire for it.
10. If something ________a violent or unpleasant reaction to a situation, it causes it.
provoke severe excessive inevitable wreck appetite yield in the name of IV. Fill in each of the blanks in the following sentences with a word or phrase from the box. Change the form where necessary.
stiff install in hand commercial revenue bring…on line enormous neutral set aside restore construct shift destructive
1. When the meeting finished at 3:30 we had still almost an hour ________before our train left. 2. He earns a(n) ________ salary, but he is still not satisfied and feels unhappy every day.
3. Chairman Mao made the decision in the 1950s to ________ a railroad from neighboring Qinghai Province into Tibet.
4. Thanks to a tremendous amount of team work, the project has made great progress since it was first ________ in March 2007.
5. A proposal to build a special high school for gifted students in New York State continues to face ________ opposition.
6. Each week he tried to ________ a few dollars of his salary to buy some delicious food for some poor orphans.
7. The impact of the _________ world on children is an issue we have been concerned about for some time.
8. Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday said it would stop making its own line of digital cameras in
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order to ________ more resources toward its printing business.
9. Once ________, the building will be a museum and community center for special events, such as weddings, funerals and community meetings.
10. This rocket has sufficient ________ power to blow a battle ship to pieces.
11. Do you know who was the first president to have electric lights ________ in the White House?
12. The government’s ________ dropped 11.4 percent in the first two months, a result of the
recent tax cuts. 13. Because I was ________ in the conflict I was a welcome visitor.
V. Study the following words in the box. Then complete the sentences below.
Verbs resist deprive engage Nouns resistance deprivation engagement Participles resisting deprived engaging engaged 1. resist, resistance, resisting
1) When a great amount of water is forced to pass through a small opening, it produces a ________ force.
2) They had the capacity to ________ the absolute authority their owners exercised in the past.
3) Was there a lot of ________ to this attempt to give more power to women in your society? 2. deprive, deprivation, deprived
1) Everybody is busy all the time because of the pressure in the society, which ________ them of a casual way of life.
2) The authorities propose the “Hope Project”, which mainly depends on the contributions of the urban people and overseas Chinese, to donate money to those children who lived in ________ areas.
3) He was beginning to show symptoms of sleep ________ after he was sent back from the police station.
3. engage, engagement, engaging, engaged
1) You want to speak to your audience in an ________ manner, so you must be sure that you are communicating to them in familiar terms.
2) I shall want you to take some notes at the meeting, Miss Smith, if you have no other ________.
3) With the support from the government, he is currently ________ in a study of the international trade.
4) If you ________ in local politics, you cannot expect to have much time for your family.
III.
1. inevitable 6. yields
2. excessive 7. token
3. species
8. in the name of
4. wrecks 9. appetite
5. severe 10. provokes
IV.
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1. in hand 6. set aside 11. installed
2. enormous 7. commercial 12. revenue 3. construct 8. shift 13. neutral 4.brought on line 9. restored 5.stiff
10. destructive
V.
1. 1) resisting 2) resist 3) resistance
2. 1) deprives 2) deprived 3) deprivation
3. 1) engaging 2) engagement 3) engaged 4) engage
XI.
1. Making use of some cloth and cotton, Mother made a lovely doll for her daughter as a birthday gift.
2. As the matter in hand was urgent we dealt with it at once.
3. I think what appeals to me about his painting is the colors he uses. 4. I tried to go into the parking lot, but there was a big truck in the way.
5. This novel was written 30 years ago, but till today it still packs an emotional punch on the readers.
6. The way with which the company trained him doomed him to failure. 7. It looks simple enough on paper, but I doubt if it will actually work.
8. The business each day, be it selling goods or shipping them, went smoothly.
Section B
Vocabulary
II. Fill in each of the blanks in the following sentences with a word or phrase chosen from the box. Change the form where necessary. toss dump thrill functional maintenance prime the pump chop barrier pay off comprise rigid disposable stuff 1. We were ________ to hear the wonderful news that you had got the offer from Yale.
2. Do you think you can afford to ________ the meat into pieces as desired by the customers? 3. Large amounts of fish waste are ________ from fishing boats into the ocean, but this waste is relatively quickly eaten by birds or sea animals.
4. I have been playing around lately with an old ________ camera that I found lying around in my room.
5. ________ her coat onto the chair, Jane walked over to the window and pulled back the curtains.
6. European governments and banks are ________ worldwide looking for alternative energy. 7. I was disappointed because all the good ________ was gone when I got to the store at about 1 P.M..
8. Jack also carries a glass greenhouse with a ________ frame that can be installed without a foundation.
9. Immigrants and their children ________ nearly 45% of our state’s population and are expected
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