IV Key to the Exercises of Lesson Four
Pre-class
II.
Listen to the recording of the text, read it through, and then fill in the
blanks in the following sentences to see whether you have grasped the main
ideas of the article.
1. fairy tale; Oscar Wilde; Irish; nightingale; reddest rose; life-blood
2. a red rose; his love would not dance with him; it was winter; desperate
3. help the student; would not have any red rose; agree to sing to it by
moonlight with her breast
against a thorn; it pierced her heart; her heart’s blood 4. true love was
better even than life; sacrifice her life 5. died; his love; had agreed to
dance; red jewels 6. stupid; practical; to his books
山西财政厅More Work on the Text II Vocabulary
1. Practice using the rules of word formation
1) Examine how the compound nouns from the text are formed. Work out their
meanings. Add more words that are formed in the same way. These compound nouns
are formed by noun +noun
2) Examine how the word “sincerity ” is formed. Find out the meaning of
the noun suffix “-ty ” with the help of a dictionary. sincerity: sincere + -ty
The suffix “-ty ”, from French, is used to form abstract nouns that
refer to the state of having a
particular quality or sth. that has that quality. e.g. certain+ -ty中国邮政远程教育培训网
certainty
Note: “-ity ” is an variant form of “-ty ”
3) Turn the following adjectives into nouns ending with “-ty ” or “-
克格勃绝密档案ity ” and then
vice versa. Add more words to the list. Adjective able available certain cruel curious relative
Noun ability
Adjective absurd capable human responsible original possible probalbe special
Noun absurdity capability humanity responsibility originality possibility probability specialty
availability certainty cruelty curiousity relativity
visible visibility
4) Complete the sentence with the words in the brackets in their noun froms.
(1) construction (2) Creativity (3) motivation (4) difference
(5) investment (6) capabilities (7) activity (8) humanity
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(10) ignorance (13) Curiosity (11) sincerity (14) shortness
2. Give words or expressions with similar meanings.
1) to freeze 2) precious 3) soft
4) low/soft/weak 5) to throw/ to toss/to cast
6) big/gigantic/huge/large
7) to cut/to cut short/to cut off/to destroy 8) ache/plain
9) area/field/patch/space/section/lot 10) to pick/to pull off
11) exactly
12) true/genuine/actual
13) foolish/stupid/unwise/dumb/brainless 14) to watch over/to look after/to control/to preside over/to manage/to direct/to guide
15) to shake/to shiver/to quiver
16) to sob/to cry
17) miserable/unhappy/pitiful/unfortunate
/sorrowful/broken-hearted
3. List words from the text that are related to flowers, trees, wild life
and precious stones.
Words related to flowers and trees: petal, bud, rose, daisy, grass, meadow, grove, oak, thron, daffodil, spray, bloom
Words related to wild lofe: butterfly, dove, lizard, nightingale, nest, mermaiden Words related to precious stones: coral, crystal, emerald, opal, ruby
4. Complete the sentences with the expressions listed below in their proper form.
To look out to sail acorss/through a place (a garden) for want of sth. to
fly over to a place Night after night to build sth. out of sth.
to sing of sb./sth to give a ball
to hold sb,. in one’s arms to lean upon
to dance to the sound of music to fling oneself down to flutter about something of a (cynic) to soar into the air
to pass through a place
to set sb. against sb. else/sth. to lean down
to ebb away
to press close against sth. to shoot through sb./(said of pain)
5. Comoplete the sentences with the expressions listed below in their proper forms.
1) of his own wil 4) For want of 7) compared to
l2) blind with 3) pressed, against 5) in return 6) lingered on 8) was fond of, something of 9) Compared to
to stain sth. with sth. else to be dear to sb. to be compared to to sweep
over a place to ask of sb. in return to look up to be fond of to lie down of
one’s own will a burst of music to linger on
to go with (said of color) upon one’s words
10) For want of 11) compared to 12) blue with
6. Put the following into Enghlish
1) to give/hold/have a ball
2) to give/hold/have/throw a party 3) to give a press conference
4) to bury the treasures
5) to bury/cover one;s face in one’s hands 6) to pluck/pick the flowers 7)
to pay the price 1) go ahead 5) going on
2) go by 6) went on with
8) to press the doorbell
9) to sacrifice/give/lay down one’s life 10) to nip the buds 11) to
pierce the heart 12) to deny the fact 13) to deny the charge 14) to fill up
the bottle 3) went off 7) gone over
4) going up
8) going through
7. Complete the sentences with the following phrasal verbs of “go ” in their proper forms.
9) gon into 10) go with, go together 8. Give the figures in English.
1) ten thousand
2) twenty-three thousand
3) one hundred thousand
4) one hundred and eighty thousand 5) five hundred thousand/half a million
6) two hundred and fifty thousand/a quarter of a million
and a half million 9) fifteen million
10) seventy million
11) three hundred million
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12) one billion and three hundred million/one point three billion 13)
thirty-two billion
7) two million 14) five hundred billion/half a billion 8) three million
and five hundred 15) seven trillion thousand/three point five milliion/three
9. Give the meaning of the underlined parts in the senteices below. Note
how the meaning
are different in a different context. (1) 清了清（嗓子） (2) 放晴了
(3) 清醒清醒（头脑） (4) 还清（债务） (5) 清楚的 (6) 牢房 (7) 细胞
(8) 登机
(9) 董事（委员）会 (10) 伙食 (11) 木板 10. Examine the uses of “see ” and “go ” in the sentences below . List possible uses of these
words and then make sentences after the models.
Other posible uses of “see ” and “go ”
see: to see sb./sth. + adj.
to see sb. do sth. to see sb.doing sth. to see sth.done
to see + why/if/that-clause to see to sth.
to see to it + that-clasue go: to go + adj/adv.
to go + present participle (phrase)
11. Give the sentence patterns of the underlined part in the sentences
below, and then using
the patterns, rewrite the sentences that follow. Sentence pattern:
imperative +and + clause Imperative + or +clause One possibility of the
sentences:
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