【正文】 snow in the air. 4) The unemployed man wanted a job rather than welfare. Or: The unemployed man wanted to find a job rather than to apply for welfare. 5) Crawling down a mountain is sometimes harder than climbing up. 6) The essay is difficult to understand not because there are a lot of technical terms but because there are quite a few involved sentences. Or: The essay is difficult to understand not because of the technical terms 10 it but because of the involved sentences. 7) For further information, you can either consult an encyclopaedia or surf the Inter. 8) Not only China but also the rest of the world will benefit from her WTO entry. It is a winwin event. Or: As a winwin event, China39。 give me deathtwo imperative clauses (choice) (11) is written without effort。 asking myself what all the fuss was abouttwo present participle phrases (as object plements, listing) (6) prejudices are called loyalties。 as honest as most politicians39。 by an invisible and irresistible spring in his necktwo prepositional phrases (contrast) (2) unconscious prejudice。s hand 2. 1) Synonyms. (1) to spring (to jump, to leap) (2) lest (for fear that) (3) utterly (pletely) (4) to symbolize (to represent) (5) to sink one39。 Key to the Exercises 3. 15) out of sight 16) in this instance 17) to think well/ill of sb 18) to confront sb with sth 19) to lag behind 20) to confer sth on sb 21) for my money 22) to be too much for sb 23) to make for 24) to set out to do sth 25) few and far between 26) to aspire to 27) at the best of times 28) all over again 29) to do away with 30) to stand to lose your vacabulary with the help of the rules of wordbuilding 1) Find the most useful derivatives of the following. satisfy: satisfied, satisfying, satisfactory, satisfaction, unsatisfied, dissatisfied resist: resistance, resistant, irresistible just: unjust, justice, injustice, justify, justified, justification, justifiable cohere: coherent, coherence, incoherent, incoherence center ( v): center (n. ), central, centralize, centralization, decentralize, decentralization visit: visitor, visitation, revisit (The following words are also related to visit: visible, invisible, visibility, vision, visual, television, supervise) integrate: integration, integrated, integral, disintegrate, disintegration, integrity More Work on theText Vocabulary 1. 1) into Chinese. 1) into Chinese. (1)浴巾 (2) (美 )小學(xué) (3)永恒的真理 (4)文件柜 (5)純屬無(wú)稽之談 (6)違規(guī)行為 (7)?？? (8)新鮮空氣 (9)格調(diào)很高的獨(dú)自 (一個(gè) 人唱高調(diào) ) (10)一種固定的觀點(diǎn) (11)時(shí)事 (當(dāng)前國(guó)內(nèi)外大事 ) (12)身體障礙 (13)可怕嚇人的風(fēng) (14)令人厭惡的景象 (15)言語(yǔ)障礙 (16)使人興奮沖動(dòng)的愛(ài)國(guó)激情 (17)無(wú)情的人侵者 (18)首相 (19)國(guó)際聯(lián)盟 (國(guó)聯(lián) ) (20)思維過(guò)程 (思想方式 ) (21)條理清楚的文章 (22)一個(gè)完整的體系 (23)一位口譯好手 (24)一種不可阻擋的趨向 (25)爛蘋果 (26)根據(jù)事實(shí) (啟示〉寫(xiě)成的 (27)一位點(diǎn)頭之交 2) into English. (1) to sink one39。s ego (13) to give sb the third degree (14) to devise a teaching method (15) to slide a gun into sb39。s right to disagree is also respected. These two basic rules are of equal importance. 11) A nation cannot be strong unless it is wellintegrated economically, politically and culturally as well as geographically. 13) The party was boring, so she slipped out of the room and went home. 14) The road was muddy. He slipped and fell into the river. 15) One day I was drowning my sorrows in a restaurant because I was broke when he came and slipped a roll of money into my hand. 16) The Court of Florida ruled that it was necessary to recount the votes. 17) The idea that the sun moves round the earth ruled ancient scholars for more than a thousand years. 18) The hutongs are an integral part of old Beijing. 19) Days slipped by and I still had not made much progress. 20) He weighed every word carefully lest he should make a mistake. 21) Her health was such that she would not go out in the sun even in winter lest she got sunstroke. 4. 1)c. 2) A. 3) D. 4) A. 5) B. 6) B. 7) C. 8) B. 9) A. 10) C. 11)D 12) A. 13) A. 14) B. 5. 1) (1) sexy (2) sexual (3) sexy (4) sexist (5) sexual 2) (1) uninterested (2) disinterested (3) disinterested (4) disinterested, uninterested 3) (1) Literary (2) literally (3) literate (4) literal (5) literary 4) (1) bulging (2) sticking out of (3) bulging (4) bulging (5) sticking out of ( 6) protruding, protruding 5) (1) slid (2) slip (3) slipped (4) sliding (5) slip 6) (1) prestige (2) reputation (3) reputation (4) prestige 6 1) decisive 2) sang beautifully 3) robust 4) soft 5) democratic 6) eloquent 7) have lost his appetite. 8) The slice of meat was so thick that it was quite (transparent). 9) His room was surprisingly clean and tidy. It was almost as clean as (pigsty). 10) Many people are just as original as (parrots