New Horizon College English Book Ⅱ

Key to Unit Three

Section A

Section B

Marriage Across Nations

Rich Meeting His Future Mother-in-law

Contents Section A

1. Vocabulary

3. Sentence Structure

4. Translation

2. Word Building

Vocabulary

mutual harbor proceed prejudice compromise confirm overlook cancel subsequently hesitate resolve quote suspect illusion

1. I firmly believe that this agreement will be for our _________ benefit.

2. People have bought these houses under the ______________ that their value would just keep on rising.

3. The project has been ________ by the local government for lack of public resources.

4. The clerk must have _____________ your name, because he said you weren’t here.

5. The speaker said something about the actors and then_________ to talk about the film.

III. Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Change the form where necessary.

mutual

illusion

canceled

overlooked

proceeded

Vocabulary

mutual harbor proceed prejudice compromise confirm overlook cancel subsequently hesitate resolve quote suspect illusion

6. Differences of opinion are often the most difficult problem to ____________.

7. When he looked for a job, John strongly felt that there was a widespread __________ against men over forty.

8. Children should be encouraged to reach a(n) ___________ between what they want and what others want.

9. The discovery seems to _________ that people lived here over 10,000 years ago.

10. The book was first published in 1994 and was ___________ translated into fifteen languages.

resolve

prejudice

compromise

confirm

subsequently

Vocabulary

IV. Fill in the blanks with the expressions given below. Change the form where necessary.

1. Mind your own business. My affairs ______________________ you.

2. Having worked in the company for two years, Mr. Smith is now ___________________marketing and public relations.

3. The farmer __________________ bad luck: His crops were destroyed by a storm.

4. The old gardener seems cold and unfriendly ________________, but he’s really a warm-hearted person.

5. They had hoped to be able to move into their new house at the end of the month, but things did not ________________as they had expected.

have nothing to do with

taking care of

met with

on the surface

work out

ups and downs meet with have nothing to do with supportive of work out all along on the surface take care of for a time incompatible with compromise between indication of learn of

Vocabulary

6. Such violent attacks are _________________ a civilized society.

7. There have been _______________ in the old man’s life, but on the whole his fortunes have grown.

8. The mother only ______________ her son’s marriage long after the event.

9. Rising sales can give a good _________________ how this product is received in the market.

10. The Chinese government has _______________ been combating drug trafficking.

incompatible with

ups and downs

learned of

indication of

all along

ups and downs meet with have nothing to do with supportive of work out all along on the surface take care of for a time incompatible with compromise between indication of learn of

Vocabulary

V. Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank. You may not use any of the words more than once.

Word Bank A) overcome B) deny C) defy D) conclude E) accomplish F) attend G) related H) appropriate I) realistic J) efficient K) amazing L) hostile M) protests N) distrust O) reservations

At first, my dad was not in favor of me marrying Will because Will is black. I guess my dad was a bit of a racist. Unfortunately, no arguments could counter Dad’s beliefs. Despite his 1 , though, Will and I decided to go through with our wedding. On a marvelous June day we were married in the park. The wedding went off without any 2__________ words or embarrassing exchanges. It was actually quite beautiful. There was just one problem. Many of our friends and relatives didn’t 3__________________our wedding. I had to 4_______________ that my dad was not the only prejudiced person we knew. Other than my father, no one had come out to speak against my relationship with Will.

M (protests)

L (hostile)

F (attend)D (conclude)

It did not seem 5 _________________ for them to show their resistance to our marriage in this way. My dad had strong 6 about my marriage to Will, but at least he was there. Will and I decided to 7 this burden by showing everyone how wrong they were. We wanted not only to love one another, but also to 8 racial hatred by loving one another. We probably weren’t being all that 9 , but we did succeed with one person. My dad and Will have developed a (n) 10 friendship. My dad says he has forgotten why he ever had any doubts about our marriage.

Vocabulary

H (appropriate)O (reservations)

A (overcome)

C (defy)I (realistic)

K (amazing)

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Word Bank A) overcome B) deny C) defy D) conclude E) accomplish F) attend G) related H) appropriate I) realistic J) efficient K) amazing L) hostile M) protests N) distrust O) reservations

Verb Suffix Noun

refuse -al refusal build -ing building waste -age wastage

VI. The suffixes -al, -ing, and -age can be added to verbs to form nouns. Study the examples below.

• Give the corresponding nouns for the words given below. Change the spelling where necessary.

1.shop ____________________ 2. feel_______________________

3.store ____________________ 4. cook _____________________

5.end _____________________ 6.begin_____________________

7.gather ____________________8.remove __________________

9. arrive___________________ 10.pass _____________________

11. write ___________________ 12.marry ____________________

shopping feeling

storage cooking

ending beginning

gathering removal

arrival passage

writing marriage

• VII The suffix -hood, -ship and -dom can be added to nouns or occasionally to adjectives to form abstract nouns. Study the examples below.

Noun or Adjective Suffix Noun

child n. -hood childhood false a. -hood falsehood friend n. -ship friendship hard a. -ship hardship king n. -dom kingdom

free a. -dom freedom

• Give the noun form of the following words by adding suffix to them. Make changes in spelling where necessary.

1.relation ____________________ 2. citizen_______________________

3.leader ____________________ 4.member _____________________

5.boy _____________________ 6.lively_____________________

7.brother ____________________ 8.author __________________

9. adult___________________ 10.neighbor _____________________

11. wise ___________________ 12.owner ____________________

relationship citizenship

leadership membership

boyhood livelihood

brotherhood authorship

adulthood neighborhood

wisdom ownership

Sentence Structure

Ⅷ. Rewrite the following sentences after the model by using “never too… to…” structure. Note that this structure is a variant form of “not too … to…”, only it is much more emphatic.

Model:

It’s not so late that you cannot change your mind.

It’s never too late (for you) to change your mind.

1. It is not so bad that we can do nothing about the situation.

It is never too bad (for us) to do something about the situation.

2. No one is so old that he cannot learn.

One is never too old to learn.

3. It is not so late that you cannot put a stop to this madness.

It is never too late (for you) to put a stop to this madness.

4. It is not so late that you cannot mend your ways.

It is never too late (for you) to mend your ways.

5. His income was not so small that he could not support his family.

His income was never too small to support his family.

Sentence Structure

Ⅸ. Rewrite the following sentences after the model by using an appositional structure.

Model:

At first I harbored my reservations about a mixed marriage. You might even call my reservations prejudices.

At first I harbored my reservations about a mixed marriage, prejudices you might even call them.

1. My best friend was here last night. Anna was my best friend.

My best friend, Anna, was here last night.

Sentence Structure

Sentence Structure

3. You should have seen an ophthalmologist. An ophthalmologist is an eye doctor.

You should have seen an ophthalmologist, an eye doctor.

4. He sent for the accountant. The accountant was the most experienced person in accounting.

He sent for the accountant, the most experienced person in accounting.

5. “Leave it to me,” said David. David was the man on night duty.

“Leave it to me,” said David, the man on night duty.

2. The company manager gathered his staff and announced the decision. Mr. Madison was the company manager.

The company manager, Mr. Madison, gathered his staff and announced the decision.

back

never too… to…

Translation

Ⅹ. Translate the following sentences into English.

1. 你再怎么有经验 , 也得学习新技术。

experienced

You are never too experienced to learn new techniques.

Translation

2. 还存在一个问题 , 那就是派谁去带领那里的研究工作。 (Use an appositional structure)

namely

There remains one problem, namely, who should be sent to head the research there.

Translation

3. 由于文化的不同，他们的关系在开始确实遇到了一些困难。

cultural differences

meet with

did

Their relationship did meet with some difficulty at the beginning because of cultural differences.

Translation

4. 虽然他历经沉浮，但我始终相信他总有一天会成功的。

ups and downs

all along

Though he has had ups and downs, I believed all along that he would succeed someday.

Translation

5. 我对你的说法的真实性有些保留看法。

have reservations aboutclaim

I have some reservations about the truth of your claim.

Translation

6. 她长得并不特别高 , 但是她身材瘦，给人一种个子高的错觉。

slim figure

particularly give an illusion of

She isn’t particularly tall, but her slim figure gives an illusion of height.

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Vocabulary Section B

anticipate brilliant ingredient dialect somehow bubble compel diplomatic arrange innocent modest miserable criticism criticize

III. Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Change the form where necessary.

1. If you have a lot of things to do, just make a list and ___________ them in order of importance.

2. The government is facing severe _________ for its slow response to the disaster.

3. Under the criminal law a suspect is taken to be ________ until he or she is found guilty.

4. People are always ___________ the United Nations for failing to act sooner after crisis, but I think they do a good job.

arrange

criticism

innocent

criticizing

Vocabulary

5. I wish this city would do something about the __________condition of the roads.

6. She was a shy, __________ person, never one to push herself forward.

7. She was ___________ by illness to give up her studies at college.

8. I think she is right, but __________ I am not completely sure.

9. We ___________ that we will meet a certain amount of resistance to our plan.

10. To make a man perfectly happy, tell him that he is _________, or noble, or wise, or good.

brilliant

anticipate

somehow

compelled

modest

miserable

anticipate brilliant ingredient dialect somehow bubble compel diplomatic arrange innocent modest miserable criticism criticize

Vocabulary IV. Fill in each of the blanks with a suitable preposition or adverb.

1. These shoes are a little ______________ the large side.

2. The little boy was covered in soap ________ head _____ toe in the bathroom.

3. Fortunately Jones and his new boss hit it ________ with each other from the very beginning.

4. Sitting motionlessly at his desk for quite a while, Robert thought hard but could not come up ________ a solution to the problem.

5. The annual conference is going to be held in December, about six months __________.

on

from

off

with

away

to

Vocabulary

6. This research might provide an important clue ________ how the disease develops.

7. Mother is against the idea, but I’m sure I can win her _________.

8. __________ behalf of everyone here, I’d like to thank our special guest for his interesting speech.

9. _______________ your request, I’m pleased to inform you that payment will be made in due course.

10. The doctor ordered that the child be put _______ bed early that day.

about

over

On

Concerning

to