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第四课
时间：2005/4/26 14:35:59 作者：ginger 点击：

 

 
D.     Substitute a specific or more expressive verb for a general one in each of the following sentences.
  1. spoke so loudly ----- was shouting at
  2. went into ----- pour into, swung, flocked
  3. break ------ snap off
  4. put ----- flung
  5. stepped on ------ crunched
  6. went away ------ bypassed
  7. struck ------- slapped
  8. hurriedly entered ----- plunged into, rush into
  9. fell ----- flopped
  10. removing ----- slapping/ eliminating/ brushing off
F. Fill in each blank with an appropriate word or expression from the text.
  1. have been ruined/ are entranced
  2. will play fair
  3. imminent
  4. sensible
  5. myriads of
  6. have overlooked
  7. exasperated
  8. yield
  9. Ruinous
  10. stray
G. Translate the following into English.
  1. When the foot step came nearer, she roused herself, taking a book from the shelf and pretending to be reading.
  2. During the two-hour performance, the audiences there were totally entranced. When the curtains fell, thunderous applaud burst out.
  3. At mid-night, the Japanese travelers stood in the hall of the temple, listening to the ringing of the bell/ding of the bell reverberating in the valley.
  4. If you walk along Nanjing Road after supper, you will see numerous dazzling lights, making the road as bright as day.
  5. The next morning, when she drew the curtain and opened the window, she found the heavy fog covered the landscape---- mountains, lakes and all became invisible.
  6. The company went bankrupt because of improper management and slack trade.
  7. Prostitution is a plague, and should be eliminated immediately.
  8. Interesting talk is drowned in the clamour of firecrackers.
  9. Flourishing trees are so green in the mountain, she felt so enraptured as she roamed.
  10. The sofa is occupied by a fat man who is as heavy as 120 kilogram and therefore it sank in under the constant weight.
  11. The manufactures who neglect the quality of products are bound to fail in the competition.
  12. As you disapprove the plan, why did you vote for it?
  13. Because he has been busy recently, he didn’t attend the regular meeting occasionally, which should be understood by others.
  14. If you find one cockroach at home, then there must be 5 hundred of them at least, because they multiply very fast.