【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 7. He is a living legend, an encyclopedia of Quebec traditional songs and has a major in_______ on the new generation of young singers. 5. changes 6. advantage 7. influence 8. These proposals will have a major ef____ upon the university, since several medical school departments as well as a number of related research groups will have to move to a new location. 9. It has been made clear that the major ob_______ of the new government is to change public opinion, not least about the role of government itself. 10. Hurricane damage through high winds and tidal surges causes an immense amount of destruction and poses a major th____ to many coastal munities in the US. Collocation 8. effect 9. objective 10. threat World Building VII. The suffix cy can be added to adjectives and occasionally nouns to form nouns with the meaning of “the state or quality of being…”. Note that the final “t” or “te” of adjectives is in most cases, replaced by “cy”. For example: pregnant —— pregnancy: the state of being pregnant accurate —— accuracy: the quality of being accurate Study the words given below(P162) and plete the following sentences with them. Word Building 1. The idea of keeping personal information on the Inter immediately raises concerns about _______. 2. Though they are well apart, there is a sense of ________ between them. 3. The _________ of terrorist attacks seems to have increased recently. 4. One of the requirements of the job is _______ in two or more languages. consistency fluency dependency frequency intimacy privacy urgency secrecy 1. privacy 2. intimacy 3. frequency 4. fluency Word Building 5. The prisoners were held in total _______, without any contact at all with the outside world. 6. The scientist believes that it is a matter of _______ to weaken conventional notions of race that cause racial prejudice. 7. It’s not preferable to do a lot of work one day and none the next—we need some __________. 8. Increasing disability with age means a growing __________ on others, as made clear in the article. consistency fluency dependency frequency intimacy privacy urgency secrecy 5. secrecy 6. urgency 7. consistency 8. dependency World Building VIII. The suffix ology and ics occur in nouns with the meaning of “the study or science of …”. For example: biology ——the study of living things such as plants and animals methodology —— a system of methods or principles for doing a particular thing physics —— the scientific study of physical objects and substances, and of natural forces politics —— the study of political power and systems of government Study the words given below(162) and plete the following sentences with them. World Building 17 1. She was very radical in her viewpoints and was banned from _______ between 1980 and 1990, and spent 10 years under house arrest. 2. She was extremely acplished in the __________, speaking both Greek and Latin fluently. 3. Indeed, there is very little in the real world of _________ which doesn’t involve digital techniques and puting. 4. European governments stressed the currency was about more than just _________. biology technology methodology psychology politics economics electronics classics 1. politics 2. classics 3. electronics 4. economics 5. He was interested in the study of the way the human mind works and how it influences behavior, so he decided to major in __________ when he entered university. 6. Unlike the natural sciences, where discussion often starts with the resul