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Exercise 1: Correct Understanding of Word’s Meaning（理解）
1 .a)Just as the athletes try to top past performances,host cities try to outdo
one another.Nowhere is this clearer than in the opening ceremony. b)Welcoming speeches by official are topped off by musical performances and other entertainment.
c) He is one of the top students in my class. 2.a)Like knows like.
b)He likes skiing more than skating.
c)Like other Plague,SARS can spread very quickly. d) Like charges repel;unlike charges attract. f)like they say ”What goes around comes around”
3. a)He was badly wounded in the head. b)You should use your head a bit. c)He has a good head for Chemistry. d)The party cost us 100 yuan per head.
e)Present at the conference were the heads of the 10 real estate companies. 4 .a)He often turns a deaf ear to our advices. b)She has an ear for music.
5 a) The full name of the UK is… is a complicated name for what is in many ways a complicated countries.
b)Which is the nearest way to the nearest post office?
c)I am afraid I haven’t got any other way to solve this problem?
6 a)The civil war which brought the roundheads to power in the 17th century was
rooted in a dispute over the power of the king viv-a-vis parliament. b)Knowledge is power.
C)Assume that the input voltage of the power supply remains constant. 7a)打铁b) 打家具c)打球d)打井e)打字f)打酒g) 打鱼h）打的i）打水
Exercise 2:
Expression of word’s Meaning（表达）
1．America’s love affair with the credit card began in 1949 ,when businessman Frank X McNamara finished a meal in a New York restaurant and then discovered he had no cash. In those days, gasoline and store charge cards were common, but cash was standard for almost everything.
2. French is Greek to me./The last World Chanpion was his waterloo. 3. To be an Negro in America is to hope against hope.(Martin Luthur king) 4. His selfishness sent him into isolation
5. The car in front of me stalled and I missed the green. 6. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. 7. Life is a battle from cradle to grave.
8. Although the president promised that the finance would not go into the red,the public didn’t believe him.
9. There is a mixture of the tiger and the ape in the character of the imperialists. 10. His parent are dead against his marriage.
11. Music has been meat and drink to him for years./They have their smiles and tears.
12. Every dog has its day 13. ---How much do you want?
---10,000 yuan..
---10,000 yuan.? That a peanut.Here they are.
14. You are quite wrong in supposing that we can’t do without you.You have never been more than a bubble to us.
15. Application of gene tcechnology is still in its infancy 16. In this case, the operation of this plan will be impossible.
.Exercise 3: Expansion of word’s Meaning(ctd)
A1.Hangzhou is famous for its beautiful scenery. B1.He is a notorious smuggler.
A2.Developed countries should do their part in helping the underdeveloped ones out of difficlty.
B2.These people are very snobbish. 1.—What happened to him then ? ---He was shot by his soldiers. ---He deserves it.
2.He can’t have a good future./Having been admitted into such a excellent senior high school,that hadr-working beautiful girl will have a bright future.
3.The young farmer is quite ambitious.He is determined to help the villagers out of poverty./Their ambition to overthrow the government sent them into prison. 4．This doctor enjoys a good reputation in this area for giving the poor free treatment.
5.His habitual theft earns him a reputation.
6.As luck would have it,he was not in that house when the fire broke out. 7.As luck would have it,the bridge collapsed when he was driving cross it.
8. The agreesive young man took the opportunity that came to him and soon become distinguished in that field. /Japan is an aggreesive people.
Exercise 4:Conversion
1).N/Prep/ Adj→v
1. The classification of civilizations as the Stone age,Bronze Age,and Iron Age depends principally on the kind of tools used.
2. Years ago,she was told by doctors that she had no chance to be a mother,but now she is pregnant.The improbable pregnancy is really a big news to both her doctors and her family.
3. They fell into love at the first sight and devorced at the first quarrel. 4. This kind of gas is not recyclable.
5. Short of money,they had to rent a small house to live in. 6. He likes to keep all the door and windows open to let the air in. 7. Antibiotics is usually used against infection.
8. Translation can be defined as the representation of both the meaning and the style of the ST in another language. 2).V/ adj /adv→n
1.A very elegant lady,who looks and talks like a Japanese, is coming up to us. 2.Boiling point is defined as the temperature at which the vapor pressure is equal to that of the atmosphere.
3.The contract will be good/valid for 50 years. 4.This method is characterized with high efficiency.
5.It was officially acknowledged that the reform is a failure. 6.Our son should be strong both physically and mentally.