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I. Spell out the words according to the definitions given. The initial letters are given as a clue.

1. a ______to understand or realize that sth. is true

2. c ______ a feeling of worry esp. one that is shared by many people

3. c ______ thoughtful of the rights or feelings of others

4. c ______ to get a person or an animal into a place or situation from which they can’t escape

5. d ______ to discuss sth. formally, before making a decision or finding a solution

6. d ______ to show clearly

7.g ______ covered with oil or fat

8.h ______ pretending to have moral standards or opinions that they do not actually have

9.i ______ to suggest that sth. is true without saying this directly

10.i ______ lack of interest or concern

11.p ______to press tightly between finger and thumb

12.p ______ to beat quickly and loudly

13.r ______ a person who believes that people of his own race are better than others

14.r ______ to turn things over and look into all the corners while trying to find sth.

15.s ______ to say angrily; to move suddenly

16.s ______ to press firmly inward or from the opposite side

17.s ______ a collection of information shown in numbers

18.t ______ very large, very great

19.t ______ completely

20.u ______ not married or engaged; still single

Keys: 1. appreciate 2. concern 3. considerate 4. corner 5. debate

6. demonstrate

7. greasy

8. hypocritical

9. imply 10. indifference

11. pinch 12. pound 13. racist 14. rummage 15. snap

16. squeeze 17. statistics 18. terrific 19. thoroughly 20. unattached

II. Complete the sentences, using the proper forms of the expressions chosen among the ones

1.Unlike most men he knew, he really _____ on the housework.

2.They talked about different things and somehow ____ of whether white people should marry

black people.

3.Oh boy, he thought. He said, “Don’t _____ . Look at the statistics. Most of those marriages

break up.

4.“Yes, different,” he snapped, angry with her for _____ this trick of repeating his words so that

they sounded hypocritical.

5.When he came back down she was ______ the refrigerator with her eyes closed, still holding

her hand.

6.He took her hand and _________ her thumb with the cotton. The bleeding had stopped.

7.He hoped that she appreciated how quickly he had ________ .

8.He’d acted _______ concern for her, he thought it would be a nice gesture on her part not to

start up that conversation again, as he was tired of it.

9.He knew that she was too angry to be actually reading it, but she didn’t _____ the way he

would have done.

10.While he was at it, he decided, he _______ mop the floor.

11.The night was clear and he could see a few stars to the west, where the lights of the town

didn’t ____________.

12.He felt ashamed that he had let his wife _______. In another thirty years or so they would

both be dead.

13.“Ann, I’m really sorry,” he said. I’ll _______. I promise.”

14.He knew that he had to _______ the right answer.

15.He _______ and pulled the chain on the bedside lamp. The room was dark.

Keys: 1. pitched in 2. got onto the subject 3. take my word for it

4. resorting to

5. leaning against

6. dabbed at

7. come to her aid 8. out of 9. snap through the pages

10. might as well 11. blur them out 12. get him into a fight

13. make it up to you 14. come up with 15. reached over

III. Translation:

1. 我年轻时，人们就是这样生活的。

2. 那人双手掩面坐在椅子上。

3. 那个农民的妻子不喜欢某些年轻人对待父母的态度。

4. 白菜的价格飙升，他们决定增加进口。

5. 在海关人员用手提扫描仪搜身时，他站着，双手伸开。

Keys:

1.That was the way people lived their lives in my day.

2. The man was sitting in his armchair, with his face buried in his hands.

3. The farmer’s wife doesn’t like the way some young people treat their parents.

4. With the price of cabbages soaring, they decided to increase imports from other countries.

5. He stood with his arms stretched out, as a customs officer searched him with a portable scanner.

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