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in each blank the right form or derivative of the words in 一，put

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1, The interior decoration(decorate) of this hotel will be in traditional (tradition) Chinese style.

2. The building is functional (function). There is nothing very decorative decorate) in it.

3, We need someone like her with managerial (manage) skills. She studied hotel management (manage) in Hong Kong.

4, Those gentle rolling (roll) hills are a delightful (delight) sight.

5, Occasionally (occasion), he would show remarkable creativity (create). 6, He looks all right. But he is rather forgetful(forget) these days. It is quite troublesome (trouble).

7, His father is a highly respected(respect) professor who has won admiration (admire) for his impressive (impress) academic achievement. 8, Proportionately (proportion), female students still surprising (surprise) outnumber male students in our university.

9, Never act on impulse (impulse). Impulsive (impulse) people always do things they will regret later.

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10, Skydiving (skydive) must be an exhilarating (exhilarate) experience.二，translate the following sentences into English

1,他们都伸长脖子想看个究竟，就好像被一跟无形的绳子牵着。They all stretched their necks to see what was happening, as if pulled by

an invisible string.

2，我们下车去伸伸胳膊和腿。我们前面是一片美丽的开阔地。

We got out of the car to stretch a little. In front of us was a beautiful stretch of open land.

3，他们连续谈判了好几个小时，但是仍然没有解决他们之间的分歧。They talked for hours at a stretch , but they still failed to settle their differences.

4，尽管有温暖的天气，新鲜的空气和美味的佳肴，她的健康仍然没有恢复。

For all the warm weather, fresh air and delicious food, her health still did not recover.

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5，他瞟了那辆车一眼就知道它没法修了。他望者前面，只见一眼望不到头的沙漠，荒芜人烟。他知道他陷入了困境。

One glance at the car, he knew that it was beyond repair, he liked ahead and found the desert.

6，武松奋力举起哨棒向老虎打去。但是哨棒“啪”的一声断了，而老虎毫发未伤。他一急打到附近树上去了。

Wu song swung his stick at the tiger with all his strength. But the stick snapped and the tiger was unharmed. In his panic, he had hit the tree nearby.

7，我非常喜欢你在俄罗斯拍的那些照片，尤其是那张上面有个马车夫坐在黑海边，膝盖上放者一块布，布上放着他晚餐的照片。

I am terribly fond of the pictures you snapped in Russia, especially the one showing Russian coachman sitting by the Black Sea with his supper in a cloth on his knees.

10，海啸来的时候，他正站在小山上的家门口，离码头大约只有一百米远。

He was standing in front of his house on a hill, only about a hundred meters away from the wharf when the tsunami came.

8----“you cannot just let it go at that.” I tried to plead with him.

----“it is none of your business.” He snapped.

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9, He snapped his briefcase, stood up and said, “Then, it is all settled.”Vocabulary (69)

1

1, decorate a room 9, ripple in the breeze

2, be my haunting memory 10, hover over the trees

3, take a deep breath 11, a bond between brothers

4, give a hint 12, a carpet for you to walk on

5, stretch one’s neck 13, snap the door to

6, drift on the river 14, be serious out of proportion to the occasion 7, let it go at that 15, go for a picnic

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8, prick up its cars 16,put one’s arms round her

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1, unreasonable\irrational 2, unsettled

3, learned\ well-educated 4, unfolded

5, sad\ tragic\ pathetic 6, vague

7, melancholy 8, discontented

9, crafty 10, wrapped up in her own affairs\ self-engrossed 3

1, of , at 2, of , out, of

3, into, at, up, to, 4, for, to

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5, For, at 6, out, for

7, for 8, up, on

9, out, to 10, out, up

Grammar

1(p72)

1, What a worthless fellow (he is)!

2, How clever Vera hid her feelings!

3, What a stroke of luck!

4, What an amazing center forward!

5, How I wish I could manage alone!

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6, What a pleasant surprise!

7, What a wonderful evening we’ve had!

8, How I envy your energy!

9, What a nice group of students you have here!

10, How nice it is to be back at home!

2

1, Why Has n’t she been preparing for it all the time

2, Don’t you believe

3, Aren’t they lovely

4,What Haven’t you finished it yet

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5, Don’t you know he’s been admitted to Fudan University

6, Isn’t he in his office He was there five minutes ago

7, What’s there to worry about We’ve left no stone unturned

8, Can’t you see I am busy

9, How can she say such things to her father

10,Haven’t you heard of the worldfamous tenor Luciano Pavarotti

2(74)

1, The hungry boy wolfed down the leftover corn bread as though it was his favourite king prawns.

2,What remains in his mind of his high school days is nothing but endless rounds of tests and exams.

3, He doesn’t think the resolution is in a accord with the purpose of the organization. That is why I voted as I did.

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4, He doesn’t understand what it is that makes his grandson so crazy

about microblogging.

5, I still remember the details about the incident as though it was yesterday.

6, What remained of her home after the tornado was the land the house was built on.

7, That’s why he behaved as he did when he witnessed the car crash this morning.

8, They are trying to figure out what it was that turned one of the twin brothers into a criminal, the other an excellent policeman.

9, When he found a particularly strong rice plant he was happy as though he had discovered a gold mine.

10, Now that he’s quite well-off, he has decided to get in touch with what remains of his family.

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