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Preclass Work II1. Paraphrase.1) And when he was 29 now, he has found the power of another idea that has enabled him to grow from a teenager and bee a rich and powerful person in puter industry. 2) ... he thought it might be a good idea to finish his high school education as quickly as possible. 3) He believed that the newly married people are the most likely customers.4) He also knew that it was expensive to keep more products than necessary. So he bought these products of the dealer39。s at the price they had bought them. 5) Dell put advertisements in the local media and was ready to sell specially designed and made puters at a price which was 15 percent lower than the market price. 6) It was time for him to seriously deal with the size of the puter business he had created. 7) Dell still sold IBM personal puters to which he had added special properties required by people.2. Learn to use reference books.1) Find the proper definition of the following in the text. (1) stock: a supply of a particular type of thing that a shop has available to sell (2) firm: a business or pany (3) break: a short holiday (4) feature: something important, interesting or typical of a place or thing (5) order: a request for a product to be made for you or delivered to you (6) overhead: money spent regularly on rent, insurance, electricity, and other things that are needed to keep a business operating (7) accounting: the work of accountants or the methods they use (8) edge: sth. that gives you an advantage over others2) Find the synonyms of the following in a thesaurus. (1) cast: throw, toss, fling, hurl, pitch, chuck, thrust, heave (2) flabbergasted: surprised, shocked, amazed3. Wordbuilding.1) Give the corresponding nouns of the following. (1) plunge (2) contact (3) advertisement/advertising (4) enrollment (5) requirement (6) inquiry (7) replacement (8) marketing/market (9) failure (10) incorporation (11) guarantee (12) specialization2) Give the corresponding verbs of the following. (1) to subscribe (2) to perform (3) to deliver (4) to donate (5) to consume (6) to entitle (7) to manufacture (8) to equip (9)to pute3) Translate the following based on what you know about rules of wordbuilding.(1)現(xiàn)在的問題不是生產(chǎn)過剩,而是消費不足。(2)他們說在計算機硬件方面中國正在趕超他們。(3)必須有高度集中的領導機制。(4)這些人當中有的不僅沒有工作,而且還不適合工作。(5)我們外交關系的正常化發(fā)生在1973年。(6)我們的銀行業(yè)正在實現(xiàn)計算機管理。(7)這些都是國家級的無價之寶。(8)我們的教學應該有利于開發(fā)學生的獨創(chuàng)能力和創(chuàng)造力。(9)我的大兒子在學營銷,d,JL子在學表演。4) Observe how these words are formed and make your own discoveries of rules of word—building. (1)一cy,ry,一ty均是構成抽象名詞的后綴,如:intimacy(親密)、prophecy(預言);bravery(勇敢)、rivalry(競爭;敵對);cruelty(殘忍)、loyalty(忠貞)。 (2)ee是構成表示“被……的人”的名詞后綴,與.er意思相反或相對,如:examinee(應試者)、trainee(接受培訓者)。(3)sur是前綴super一的一個變體,意思是“在……之上;超過”,如:surmount(戰(zhàn)勝;克服)、surround(包圍;圍繞)。 (4)“名詞+形容詞”構成復合形容詞,如:triggerhappy(亂開槍的;好戰(zhàn)的)、snowwhite (雪白的)。 More Work on the TextII Vocabulary1. Translate1) into English. (1