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Unit 6 Vocabulary

1. Translate the following expressions. Into Chinese

1.吸毒者;瘾君子

2.毒瘾

3.令人上瘾的药物

4.滥用毒品

5.毒品交易

6.毒品贩子

7.与毒品有关的犯罪和死亡

8.既得利益

9.麻醉药品管理局

10.黑社会

11.去掉犯罪的污名

12.禁果的诱惑

13.治疗中心

14.令人讨厌的大漏洞

15.执法

16.废除一条法律

17.合法化的赞成者和反对者

18.使吸毒失去魅力

19.发动一场毫不手软的禁烟运动

Into English

1. kick drug addiction

2. disprove the theory

3. start / launch a crime wave

4. get hooked on alcohols

5. push drugs

6. further criminalize drug-taking

7. legalize gambling

8. pump funds into education

9. bail out the ocean with a teaspoon

10. eliminate drug addiction

11. repeal the law

12. miss the boat

13. underestimate the seriousness of the consequence

14. confiscate property

15. dwarf the previous achievements

16. undercut the price

17. deglamorize cigarettes

18. project a new image

19. ban TV ads

20. take more repressive measures

2. Supply words that can form a collocation with the word in bold type.

1. take / abuse / push / inject / legalize / glamorize / prohibit / ban /

carry / fight / confiscate / get hooked on / declare war on / stamp out / crack down on

2. make / pass / repeal / enforce / violate / break / obey / change / enact / revise / observe / respect

3. the prohibition / a finger / his head / her eyes / the sanctions

4. a campaign / a frontal attack / an expedition / the steps / a horse

5. a ban / a sanction / an embargo / a sales tax / a heavy fine / a heavy burden / one's will / one's values / one's ideas

6. a cultural impression / the process / the verdict / the role / the trend / the chair / the car / the normal order

3. Translate the following sentences into English.

1 .We all know that cocaine is addictive. So is heroin. But actually power and money are addictive too. Those who get addicted to them are really very sick people.

2. Scientists have been advocating returning reclaimed land to rivers, lakes, marshes and meadows.

3. According to many economists, it is not always a good idea for the government to bail out financially insolvent companies. Sometimes, a company on the verge of bankruptcy is better allowed to go bankrupt.

4. He has been caught red-handed. There is indisputable evidence that

a whole chapter of his book was bodily lifted from a book written by another professor.

5. Their government long since passed a law to ban the import and export of rare species of birds and animals. But the law is not easy to enforce.

6. It is hard to make young people believe nowadays that there was a time when Chinese women were banned from wearing skirts. Jeans, foreign movies and Western music were all forbidden.

7. In the darkness our ship hit a hidden rock, which left a gaping hole in the bottom. We all tried desperately to bail out the water, but the boat was sinking fast. Luckily a fishing boat was nearby and saved us from drowning.

8. The demonstrators demanded that economic sanctions be lifted immediately because they usually only hurt ordinary, innocent people.

9. At the meeting, both the advocates and opponents gave strong arguments, but most participants favored having further reforms placed on the agenda immediately.

4. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.

1 .in, around

2. down, from, in

3. out, of, from, away

4. into, for

5. for, out, on, on

6. after, on

7. from, on, from

8. for, in

9. off/out, up

10. out, in

5. Replace the italicized parts with appropriate words and expressions from the text.

1. proponents : advocates / supporters

starting : launching

play down: minimize/underestimate

disastrous: catastrophic/ruinous/devastating

2. gave rise to: led to

3. give people the impression that he was: project the image of being

get: go after

4. viewed as: regarded as/considered

admission: confession/recognition

harsh: repressive

5. persistent: relentless

forbid: ban/prohibit/outlaw

6. transportation: traffic

far surpass: dwarf/exceed

7. approval to: permission for

met with: encountered/drew

8. say: maintain

9. become easily addicted to : get seasily hooked on

10. finally became : ended up being

11. sacred task : divine mission

Wipe out : crack down on

6. Study the following sentences and point out where, if anywhere, the satire or irony lies.

1. Will Rogers is being sarcastic about the American government which is providing endless raw materials for humorists by the silly things they say and do, thus making the job of humorists perfectly easy.

2. This is also a satirical remark directed at government, which calls its

use of violence as law although it is not always justifiable.

3. This is a satirical remark about the fact that most people are guilty of plagiarism without being discovered.

4. Irene Peter is obviously unhappy about the situation today. He uses "confused" and "thinking clearly" ironically.

5. This is an ironical way of saying that it is useless trying to convince an ignorant man. Ignorant people usually have neither meaningful arguments nor the ability to understand other people's arguments. Therefore in an ironical sense, they are "invincible."

6. This is a satirical remark about political or religious fanatics who easily become mobs

Grammar

1.Study and learn ways of enumeration (listing items).

1.Note ways of enumeration and point out the type of enumeration used.

1.Precedence (descending order of importance)

there 2.Precedence (ascending order of importance, using three phrases of

be instead of ordinal numbers)

3.Equal importance

2.Put in the blanks suitable expressions of enumeration.

1.The next best, the very worst

2.For one(thing), For the other, Finally / First, Second, Finally / In the first place, Then, Finally

3.First, Second, Third / Firstly, Secondly, Third (Note:Some native speaker consider -ly poor style)

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/943821472.html,plete the sentence by translating the Chinese in brackets using either of the structures below.

1.It looked as though a compromise had reached

2.when actually it had never proved effective on humans

3.such was the advice that he gave his only son

4.he didn’t sound as though he was ready to lend a helping hand

5.when in fact in order to raise money for his father’s operation he had quit college and was working at a restaurant

6.my mother felt as though h er life also ended

7.it seems as though the rain would never stop

8.when in fact is a policewoman whose job is to protect VIPs in times of emergency

9.which made me feel as though I was a swan rather than an ugly duckling

10.such was the depth of the feelings between them

3.Study the grammatical structure of these involved

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