现代大学英语精读课后答案夜莺与玫瑰

现代大学英语精读课后答

案 Lesson Four The Nightingale and the Rose Lesson Four The Nightingale and the Rose

I. Oral Work

1. Discuss the following:

1) The characters’ different attitudes towards love:

(1) The Student’s

(2) The Lizard’s, the Butterfly’s and the Daisy’s

(3) The Nightingale’s

2) Is love better than life, as the Nightingale believed? Interview other students. Be prepared to summarize their ideas.

II. Vocabulary

1. Practice using the rules of word formation.

1) Examine how the compound nouns from the text are formed. Work out their meanings. Add more words that are formed in the same way.

sunbeam (para. 9) grass-plot (para.14) rose-tree (para. 14) sun-dial (para. 16)

moonlight (para. 26) life-blood (para. 27) oak-tree (para. 31) bridegroom(para.39) 339)

These compound nouns are formed by ____________+___________.

2) Examine how the word " sincerity" is formed. Find out the meaning of the noun suffix "-ty " with the help of a dictionary.

sincerity: ______+ _______

3) Turn the following adjectives into nouns ending with " -ty" or " -ity" and then vice versa. Add more words to the list.

Adjective Noun

able ________________________

active ________________________

available ________________________

certain ________________________

cruel ________________________

curious ________________________

relative ________________________

________________________ stupidity

________________________ capability

________________________ creativity

________________________ humanity

________________________ responsibility

________________________ originality

________________________ possibility

________________________ probability

________________________ specialty

________________________ visibility

________________________ ________________________

4) Complete the sentences with the words in the brackets in their noun forms.

(1) The road to success is always under______________(construct) .

(2) ______(creative) is finding new things or expressing old ideas in new ways.

(3) High__________ (motivate) will always beat mere talent.

(4) Winning organizations will be those that give individuals the chance to make a ________ (differ).

(5) Hard work is the best ________ (invest) a man can make.

(6) Learn to take risks and stretch beyond what you think your __________(capable).

(7) Progress is the __________(active) of today and the assurance of tomorrow.

(8) The Nazi war criminals were condemned for crimes

against________(human).

(9) _________(poor) is the root of all evils.

(10) The more a man learns, the more he sees his _________ (ignorant).

(11) Misfortune tests the ________ (sincere } of friends.

(12) ___________(polite) costs nothing and gains everything.

(13) ____________(curious) keeps us moving forward, exploring new ways and opening new doors.

(14) Often those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain about its ___________(short).

2. Give words or expressions with similar meanings.

10) to pluck

11) precisely

12) real

13) silly

14) to supervise

15) to tremble

16) to weep

17) wretched

1) to chill

2) dear (said of life)

3) delicate (said of color)

4) faint (said of voice)

5) to fling

6) great

7) to nip

8) pang

9) plot (said of land)

3. Complete the sentences with the expressions listed below in their proper forms.

for want of in return something of a

to be blind., (.blue, drunk ...) wjth to be fond of to press agaist to be compared to to linger on

1) The boy stumbled out of the room, ______________________sleep.

2) She _________her face ____________the window and saw that it had started to snow outside.

3)_________ something better to do, he decided to try gardening.

4) The government should respect people's citizen rights. And the people _______ should give the government their support.

5) In spite of the medicine, the pain _____ .

6) Our exports have increased by 20% ______ the same period of last year.

7) This young man __________ fixing things. He could fix almost everything. He was

____________jack-of-all-trades

8) _______ other industrial cities, this one is the least polluted.

9) ____________a better word, let's call this "backdoorism".

10) Lin Lin is more hardworking __________ many other officials.

11) Her face ___________ cold when she came back through the snowstorm.

4. Put the following into English.

1) 举行舞会 8）按下门铃

2）举行晚会 9）牺牲性命

3）举行记者招待会 10）掐去花蕾

4）埋葬宝物 11）穿透心脏

5）以手遮面 12）否认事实

6）摘下花朵 13）否认指控

7）付出代价 14）装满瓶子

5. Complete the sentences with the following phrasal verbs of “go” in their proper forms.

to go b) to go on with to go up to go ahead to go on to go together go into n go over to go o to go through

1 ) Don't wait for me. You just ______________.

2) This time, we shouldn't let the chance_____________.

3) The light suddenly____________ when I was working on the computer the other day.

4) The visitors were surprised to see so many buildings___________ at the same time.

5) There is a grand opening ceremony ____________in the Workers' Stadium.

6) In spite of the opposition, he __________the plan.

7) I've ______ her paper. It is full of new ideas.

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