发布时间 : 星期六 文章unit 1 think for yourself更新完毕开始阅读c7d6ab8d783e0912a3162aed
neither + inversion
3 Look at the sentences. ○
Hardly anyone has been encouraged to think for themselves, and their teachers and parents and bosses weren’t either. And the same is true of theirs. We can rewrite them like this:
Hardly anyone has been encouraged to think for themselves, and their teachers and parents and bosses weren’t either. And neither were theirs.
Now complete the sentences with your own ideas using neither + inversion. 1 My friends weren’t told about the change of the timetable, and _____________. 2 Xiao Ming doesn’t feel ready to do the work yet, and ____________. 3 They don’t understand how to solve the problem, and ____________. 4 Josh won’t be able to get there early, and ________________________.
5 Melanie never really spoke to me about the course, and _______________________. 6 I don’t feel like doing anything more tonight, and _______________________.
much 4 Match the sentences with the uses of much. ○
1 I don’t think much of that …
2 I much prefer people do as they’re told.
3 Hardly anyone has been encouraged, much less trained, to think for themselves … (a) used to say that something is even less true (b) used after “I don’t think” to indicate an opinion (c) used before a verb expressing a preference
5 Rewrite the sentences using not think much of. ○
Rewrite the sentences using not think much of. 1 I didn’t think that lesson was very good.
2 None of us like the timetable we’ve been given for this term. 3 I’m afraid I’ve got a lot of doubts about what he’s written. 4 Our professor is always criticizing this book. 5 I don’t like the theme of this week’s essay.
6 Complete the sentences with your own ideas using much prefer. ○
1 I _____________________________ than in my room.
2 Lily ______________________ her friend than go there on her own. 3 Personally I ____________________ to playing basketball.
4 Some people ______________________________ than spend a lot of time reading. 5 I ____________ teachers _______________________ than send me an email.
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7 Rewrite the sentences using much less. ○
1 I can’t even say two words of Chinese, so I definitely can’t speak the language. 2 Basic study skills are not taught here, and certainly not practised. 3 Nobody has even started the essay, let alone finished it.
4 Nobody even heard what the lecturer said, and so of course they didn’t understand him. 5 I haven’t even got a PC in my room, so I obviously haven’t got an Internet connection.
Translation
8Translate the sentences into Chinese. ○
1 But in most circles, particularly in places that shape our lives – families, schools and most workplaces – thinking for yourself is regarded with suspicion.
2 Hardly anyone has been encouraged, much less trained, to think for themselves, and their teachers and parents and bosses weren’t either.
3 I saw the girl across the aisle from me lean forward and peer over the shoulder of the boy in front of her who was scribbling something.
4 I was too scared around that teacher for the rest of my young life to think very well in her presence.
5 Had she affirmed our intelligence first and spoken about the joy of thinking for ourselves, had she not fanned our fear of her, we would all have learned even more powerfully what it meant to do our thinking.
9 Translate the sentences into English. ○
1 独立思考能力是大学生必备的素质之一。(think for yourself; quality)
2 虽然大家对这部电影好评如潮，我却不怎么喜欢这部电影。(despite; not think much of) 2 虽然大家对这部电影好评如潮，我却不怎么喜欢这部电影。(despite; not think much of) 4 正要离开书店时，他发现了自己一直在寻找的一本书。(be about to do sth.) 5 会上，大家对如何提高学生的阅读技能进行了更详细的探讨。(at length)
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