The Answers to Unit 5
Enhance Your Language Awareness
(I) Working with Words and Expressions
2. (1) senior (2) defined (3) occur (4) options
(5) disturbed (6) soak (7) tossed (8) navigate
(9) matters (10) depressed
3. (1) became well acquainted with (2) took us by surprise (3) gather our thoughts (4) turned out (5) hang up (6) in reality (7) In spite of
(8) lit up (9) hemmed and hawed (10) turned into
(II) Increasing Your Word Power
1. (1) a (2) e (3) c (4) e
(5) b (6) d (7) d (8) b
2. (1) covered (2) fears (3) covers (4) attack (5) fears (6) attacks
(7) visits; visited (8) touched (9) chat (10) touch (11)match
(12) chats (13) match
3. (1) astonishment (2) accomplishments (3) have improved (4) appointment
(5) excitement (6) advertisements (7) developments (8) argue
(9) enjoyed (10) encouragement
(III) Grammar
Task 2:
1) I saw the door open 2) the office had been broken into
3) quite a few things had been stolen 4) had already come back to the office
5) the 200 dollars he had locked in his drawer was gone 6) had just bought
7) A few computers in the office had been stolen
(IV) Cloze
(1) recent (2) surprise (3) sad (4) keeping (5) disturbing
(6) inquiries (7) admitted (8) occurred (9) surgery (10) options
(11) tightly (12) soaking (13) scent (14) gatherings
(V) Translation
1. Translate the sentences
1) We are good friends; however, he kept such an important matter from me, which took me by surprise.
2) It doesn’t matter if you can not get full marks for the exam; what matters is not to lose confidence in yourself.
3) He chatted with me last night and assured me that the disease was not hard to cure and that nobody had ever died of it.
4) She was determined to overcome all the obstacles in her life with a will of iron.
5) It turned out that he had already received my money, but did not acknowledge the receipt of it on purpose. This really drove me crazy.
6) He is a shy and silent boy. Before he went onto the stage to share his experiences, he sat quietly in a corner of the auditorium, gathering his thoughts.
7) He admitted on the spot that he would go overseas for further study as he believed overseas education would open the door to his future research.
8) Mary’s uncle’s face lit up when he saw his neice had turned into a pretty young lady in just a few years.
2. Translate the paragraph
我回去看我外婆的時(shí)候， 她非常高興地看到我已長(zhǎng)成一個(gè)健壯的小伙子。 我們一起聊天，回憶我小時(shí)候的一些事情。談到一半的時(shí)候，外婆突然嘆了一口氣說(shuō)，“大概以后再也見(jiàn)不到你了。” 她的話使我震驚得拱起了眉頭，不明白她為什么說(shuō)出這么令人不安的話來(lái)。我們靜靜地坐了一會(huì)，外婆的眼里噙滿淚水，她終于告訴我說(shuō)，醫(yī)生診斷出她得了嚴(yán)重的心臟病，已經(jīng)發(fā)作了好幾次，也一直在治療，但情況一點(diǎn)也沒(méi)有進(jìn)展。我怪外婆一直把這壞消息瞞著我，并告訴她一定會(huì)有辦法醫(yī)治的，她卻搖頭否認(rèn)。我伸出雙臂抱著外婆，多么希望我們能在一起度過(guò)更多的時(shí)間。
