Unit1
choked frantic divine drastic resuscitated unconscious manual surgical
intervention grateful broke into taken over flashed back 1. She almost choked to death in the thick fumes. 2. The woman hurried to the bank, only to find that she had left her bankbook at home. She became frantic .
3. The situation for the flood victims was quite dangerous.______ drastic __________ action had to be taken at once.
4. Fortunately, the drowned boy was resuscitated by first aid.
5. The old lady tripped over a stairway and became unconscious . She was rushed to hospital. 6. Many people can have their vision restored by undergoing a ___ surgical ___________ operation.
7. Because of government intervention in the mortgage market, interest rates remain near their lowest levels in decades.
8. Last night two burglars broke into my office and stole one of the computers.
9. They have taken over our firm by buying up our shares. 10. Will there be any difference between the mental and the ______ manual ___________ labor in the future?
Put the following sentences from the text into Chinese. Pay special attention to the italicized expressions.
1. After a hectic week treating patients with sore throats and ear infections at his family practice, the 52-year-old physician was ready for a night of home cooking and fellowship at his church’s annual fund-raising dinner.
这位52岁的内科医生在他的家庭诊所忙碌了整整一个星期，治疗那些患有咽喉疼痛或耳朵感染的病人，这时正准备在他所属教会的年度筹款晚宴上享受一些家常烹饪，并和教友相聚。
2. They’d simply heard about the good food and were willing to pay $10 to heap their plates and help pay for the church’s new community center. 许多人甚至不是这个教会的会员，他们只是听说这里有美食，愿意花上10美元饱餐一顿，同时为教会的新活动中心做点贡献。
3. He was relieved to see that his wife had found a clean paring knife. 当他看到妻子给他找到了一把干净的水果刀才放了心
4. Fortunately, her family never went anywhere without an emergency kit containing a manual resuscitator bag, just in case Shaun had trouble breathing 庆幸的是，她的家人出门总是带着急救箱，里面有手动苏醒气囊，这是以防肖恩出现呼吸困难而准备的。
5. We are so thankful that in this age of lawsuits, Dr. Boll was willing to put himself on the line.
在这个容易惹上官司的时代，博尔医生敢于冒这样的风险，挺身而出，实在是太让人感激了。
1. Luck does not always __come into play___________ (起作用) in examinations. It is your hard work that matters.
2. With the treatment, _the color returned______________ (面色恢复) to the woman’s cheeks.
3. He got a nice dictionary ___out of nowhere___________ (不知从哪里). It was really a great help.
4. My car ___wouldn’t start________ (怎么也发动不起来) this morning. 5. The patient recovered from the surgery with __no signs of infection________________ (没有感染的迹象). 背诵部分
Now that her grateful mother-in-law is back at home, with no signs of infection from the switchblade surgery, Colleen says, “We are so thankful that in this age of lawsuits, Dr. Boll was willing to put himself on the line. He just stepped up and did what had to be done.”
Unit2
vastly slender heron scratching feather haunted hush vaguely
whispering admiration whistled pine waned mate unsuspecting 1. The splendid parade on the 60th National Day filled the Chinese people with great admiration .
2. The unsuspecting giraffe (长颈鹿) was so frightened by the attacking lion that it fell in the water and was drowned. 3. No sooner had Zorro whistled than his black horse appeared and carried him away.
4. Their dialects are vastly different and that’s why they can hardly communicate.
5. The officer punished two of his soldiers for whispering while he was speaking at the meeting.
6. After the accident and a major operation on her wounded head, she could
only vaguely remember her family members. 7. Her slender figure seemed to prove her workouts had been fruitful.
8. Tom Sawyer was too nervous to feel the rough wall scratching at his face when he was trying to get out of the cave in the dark. 9. The local people claim to have seen manifestations of dead people in the haunted castle.
10. The mother was trying to hush the crying baby to sleep
1. It was already eight o’clock and Sylvia wondered if her grandmother would be angry with her for being so late
已经是晚上八点了，西尔维娅想，这么晚回家，外婆会不会生气呢？ 2. The child hurried the cow through the dark forest, toward her grandmother’s home.
小女孩赶着牛，匆匆穿过阴暗的树林，向外婆家走去。
3. She felt her heart tremble every time he shot an unsuspecting bird as it was singing in the trees.
每当他把一只毫无戒心正在唱歌的小鸟从枝头打落时，她的心都颤抖不已。 4. The white heron smoothed its feathers and called to its mate, sitting on their nest in a nearby tree.
这只白鹭理了理羽毛，对停在附近一棵树上的鸟巢里的同伴叫了一声。
5. Many a night Sylvia heard the echo of his whistle haunting the forest. 很多个夜晚，西尔维娅仿佛又听见他的口哨声在树林里回荡。
1. He picked up his bag and hurried off along the platform (急急忙忙 地沿着站台走了). 2.He was shaking with fright as if he had seen a ghost (就像见了鬼似的).
3.If you had told me earlier, I wouldn’t have signed the contract (不会签合同)
4. The fireman gave a long sigh as he caught another flash of red (又看倒一道红光)
5.The businessman spoke so carefully in order not to give his plan away (泄漏他的计划)
☆17 Sylvia would have liked him vastly better without his gun; but as the day waned, Sylvia still watched the young man with loving admiration; the woman’s heart, asleep in the child, was vaguely thrilled by a dream of love. They stopped to listen to a bird’s song; they pressed forward again eagerly — speaking to each other rarely and in whispers; Sylvia followed the young man, fascinated, a few steps behind, with her gray eyes dark with excitement.
Unit3
preferably genuine intention initiated eliminate confusion expectation weed out rush into brush?aside for that matter sign up for
1. If this offer is genuine , I will gladly accept it. 2. To eliminat the error message, we must first reduce the possibility of users making errors.
3. It is my intention to remain in my position until a successor is elected.
4.Omissions in my recent article must have caused confusion
5. Perhaps you shouldn’t brush the idea aside
too hastily.
6. We have to weed out unqualified applicants. 7. The trip was initiated by the manager of the community centre.
8. He doesn’t trust his partner. for that matter , I can’t blame him.
9. We must not rush into anything without careful planning.
10. Do something creative or take exercise, preferably in the fresh air.
1. Everyday I am excited to talk to him via an instant messenger program on the computer, and we talk for about two hours a night.
我每天都非常兴奋地通过一个计算机内的即时消息程序和他聊天，每个晚上要谈上大概两个小时。
2. You might as well get certain things out in the open sooner rather than later, before you invest a great deal of time and energy into that relationship.
不妨把话都摊开来说，宜早不宜迟，然后再投入大量的时间和精力来建立这种关系。
3. I find girls, as well as guys, are open books on these online dating sites.
我发现无论女性还是男性，在这些交友网站上都是极坦率的人。
4. I would start a relationship with the first available guy who happened to walk into my life at a certain moment.
如果碰巧在某一时刻有个男的走进我的生活，我会开始和他交往。
5. I am very excited to cast out my fishing line every day on the online dating website and see what I reel in.
我每天很兴奋地在交友网站抛出钓鱼线，然后收线看我钓到什么。
1.I didn’t have to rush into finding the name of the place(我不必着急去找地名) I had all day
2.I find it difficult to hold back my anger(我觉得很难抑制住我的愤怒) when he starts arguing in favor of racial segregation 3. It is much better to get things out in the open right from the start(从最初便把事情公开). 4. That sounds fantasticwheredo I go to sign up for that tour(我到哪里去报名参加那次旅游呢？) 5. We were sitting on the bridge trying to click with afew girls (试图结识几位姑娘)
No — I am going to do some exploring now. I am going fishing, and I am very excited to cast out my fishing line every day on the online dating website and see what I reel in. Some, I know I will have to throw back in the water, and some, I will put in a little pool for safe-keeping as I continue to get to know them slowly, friends first. I have been having