CET6高分班写作与翻译(补充材料)

英文写作用词练习

一、用词准确化

1．Choose the more precise of the two words in brackets and fill in the blank with your choice:

1) The President spoke on radio to the 2) Is that gentleman sitting on the bench your father? (old, elderly)

in religious services. (respectable, respectful) 3) Your niece impressed me as sweet and 4) People are serious and 5) She to have lunch with her friend, saying that she wasn’t feeling well.

(refused, declined)

2．Complete the following sentences, using words given below in their proper forms:

1) Meat soon bad in hot weather.

grey, though he is only thirty. wise as he grows old. dry because it had not rained for months. 2) His hair is beginning to 3) The streams 5) You’ll 4) 6) His dream wet if you go out in the rain without an umbrella. true at last. He became a very famous surgeon.

tired of playing the same game all day long.

wrong .

7) 9) Leaves green. 8) The recorder isn’t working properly. Something must have yellow in autumn. But when spring comes, they 10) When she heard of her daughter’s sudden death, the poor old woman 11) Last night he ill and ran a high fever.

二、用词多样化

Replace the italicized parts with words or phrases of the same or similar meaning and usage.

1) There have been big increases in the price of houses in the past three years.

2) Developing countries have made big progress in their people’s medical conditions.

3) The soup tastes good.

4) I think it’s a good idea to go to Hainan during the Spring Festival.

5) The industrial engineer made a lot of very helpful suggestions in an oral report to the

manager.

6) More and more people begin to keep pets.

7) The proud artist seemed unwilling to accept other people’s criticism.

8) Don’t worry about my illness; what I need is only a few day’s rest.

9) Although Bill didn’t like the job, he was not going to give it up.