【正文】 ead when it es to biotechnology. 11. The photo didn?t ________ her ________ — she was really beautiful. 12. He had published nothing except ________ essays and reviews. 13. Many people have been ________ the prime minister?s petence in the handling of this crisis. 14. He was heavily ________ for suggesting that some of the team did not work hard enough. 15. The visitors can walk along these bustling streets during the holidays and just ________ the atmosphere. V. Study the following words in the box. Then plete the sentences below. Verb Noun Adjective Adverb pensate pensation pensatory criticize criticism critical critically 1. pensate, pensation, pensatory 1) Her daughter was disappointed that their visit had to be cancelled, so to , he promised her to a camping trip. 2) At its best, daydreaming was considered a substitute for the real things in life. 3) I have to spend three months of the year away from home, but there are like extra free time and the chance to meet new people. 2. criticize, criticism, critical, critically 1) No one we interviewed spoke of the princess or her brother. 2) How can I have any selfconfidence when you are so of me? 3) Social services were widely for not taking more action to protect children at risk. 4) It is said that plans for the new road have drawn fierce from local people. Word Building VI. An acronym is a pronounceable word formed from the initial letter or letters of the constituent words, such as NATO, and an initialism is an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately, such as CEO. Study the examples below. Acronym Initialism AIDS = Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome CEO = Chief Executive Officer SALT = Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ATM = Automated Teller Machine NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization VOA = Voice of America Guess the meaning of the following abbreviations and fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the words below. Change the form where necessary. 13 GDP = radar = VIP = COO = FBI = OPEC= 1. The ________ is an agency of the American Department of justice that investigates crime in which a national law is broken or in which the country?s security is threatened. 2. If the ________ continues to shrink, the country will be in a recession sooner or later. 3. ________ satellites are used to track targets through clouds and at night. 4. It is said that several ________ are arriving for the ceremony. 5. A(n)________ is a corporate officer responsible for managing the daytoday activities of the corporation and for operations management. 6. ________ has maintained its headquarters in Vienna since 1965, and hosts regular meetings among the oil ministers of its Member Countries. Usage sensitive / sensible / sensational Sensitive, sensible and sensational are all used as adjectives. We use sensitive to describe the emotional way in which we react to things and how easily we react to things and how much we are aware of things or other people. For example, He has always been a sensitive child. / I didn’t realize she was so sensitive about her work. Sensible refers to our ability to make good judgments. We use sensible to describe the reasonable way in which we think about things or do things. For example, It wouldn’t be sensible to start all over again now. / There seems a sensible way of dealing with the problem. A sensational way of describing something makes it seem more exciting or shocking than it really is, for example, The newspapers carried sensational reports of shark attack. Note that when sensitive is plemented by a prepositional phrase, the preposition is often to or about. For example, He is somewhat sensitive to criticism. When sensible is used with of, it indicates knowing or recognizing something. For example, He was sensible of the trouble he had caused. VII. Complete the following sentences by translating the Chinese in the brackets into English. 1. _____________ (是一篇聳人聽聞的報道 ) that did considerable damage to his reputation. 2. _____________ (不是很明智 ) to go out on your own so late at night. 3. If I had known _____________ (她這么容易生氣 ), I wouldn?t have teased her. 4. He _____________ (對自己外表丑陋過分敏感 ), so don?t mention it. 5. Some engineers take the view that since so much effort has been put into making this system work, _____________ (短期內(nèi)明智的做法是將這項工作繼續(xù)下去 ) rather than start afresh. VIII. Fill in each of the blanks in the following sentences with “sensible”, “sensitive”, or “sensational”. 1. Why don?t you do something ________ in your spare time? 2. A ________ person is one who is easily hurt or offended by things that people do or say. 3. It would be ________ to consult everybody first before we make up our mind. 14 4. Children are ________ to disapproval and adjust their behavior accordingly. 5. The most ________ rumor was that more than million people were killed after the peaceful liberation of Tibet. Structure IX. Complete the following sentences by translating the Chinese into English, using an “infinitive” phrase as the subject of the sentence. 1. ___________ （讀而不思） is like eating without digesting. 2. ___________ （沒有正確的政治觀點） is like having no soul. 3. It is of vital importance ___________ （適當(dāng)?shù)刈鲆恍┯洃浘毩?xí)） in the study of a foreign language. 4. Every child should be clearly informed that ___________ （把頭伸出窗外） is dangerous. 5. ___________ （ 萬事皆通 ） is to know nothing. X. Study the model and then rewrite each of the following sentences with a “rather than” structure. Model: Its tentacles don?t sprout from design. They sprout from need, opportunity, and passion. Its tentacles sprout from need, opportunity, and passion rather than design. 1. It would be nice to make a decision no