unit9新标准大学英语综合教程4答案含Unit text

Reading 1 1

Correct answer Your answer illustrate illustrate 1.

2. scarcely scarcely

3. retain retain

4. eliminate eliminate

proficiency proficiency 5.

sufficient sufficient 6.

7. representation representation

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Correct answer Your answer proficiency proficiency (1)

sufficient sufficient (2)

(3) representation representation

eliminate eliminate (4)

illustrate retain (5) scarcely (6) scarcely

(7) illustrate retaining

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One of the most frustrating parts of learning a foreign language is feeling stupid when you 1.

can't understand something. Your replacement:

Your answer Correct answer isolated dumb

I have to admit that English spelling is difficult for foreigners to understand. 2.

Your replacement:

Correct answer Your answer concede concede

3 After I accidentally spilt tea on my painting, the picture was a shape that was difficult to see 3. clearly.

Your replacement:

Correct answer Your answer blurred blurred

I need to read and learn again the vocabulary before the next lesson. 4.

Your replacement:

Correct answerYour answer manipulate revise

I have a hard time with PowerPoint slides sometimes because it's difficult for me to manage to 5.

control and arrange both text and images. Your replacement:

Your answer Correct answer manipulate revise

6. I don't think you stop learning when you leave university. Learning should be a continuous

process throughout your life. Your replacement:

Your answer Correct answer an ongoing ongoing

7. It's difficult to learn listening and speaking as separate skills. To be good at one, you should work on both. Your replacement:

Correct answer Your answer isolated dumb

During my speech, I made a terrible and embarrassing mistake when I mispronounced an 8.

important word. Your replacement:

Your answer Correct answer disgraceful disgraceful

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Reading 2 1

Your answer Correct answer 1. elite elite

infringe infringe 2.

descendant descendant 3.

unity unity 4.

statesman statesman 5.

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1. Winston Churchill was a leading in Britain during the first half of the 20th century. Your answer Correct answer statesman statesman

2. It's understandable to envy the, who seem to have more privileges and opportunities. Your answer Correct answer elite elites

I will leave my house and land to my when I die. 3. Correct answer Your answer descendant descendants

4. It's difficult to maintain amongst such different groups with different goals. Your answer Correct answer unity infringe

Newspaper reporters have to be careful that they don't upon the privacy of the people that 5.

they write about.

Correct answer Your answer unity infringe

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It is difficult to imagine how much slower communication was during the time period of the 1.

telegraph.

Your replacment: Correct answer Your answer epoch epoch

2. He worked hard to argue against my claim, but I knew I had the truth on my side. Your replacment:

Your answer Correct answer refute refute

3. The manager is supposedly responsible for losing nearly eight per cent of this year's profits.

Your replacment:

Your answer Correct answer allegedly allegedly

4. I was proud to have my article accepted for publication in one of the leading scientific monthly publications. Your replacment:

Correct answer Your answer journals journals

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Language use 1

I'm planning to live in South America for the next two years, so I guess there's nothing for it but to learn Spanish.

I failed the exam, and my teacher says that there's nothing for it but to take it again. By the time we got to the theatre, the concert had already started and we couldn't get in, so there was nothing for it but to turn around and go home.

Because I wasn't earning enough money at my job, there was nothing for it but to take a second job on the weekend.

My computer crashed and I lost my essay, so there was nothing for it but to write it again.

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I would drink soda water only if I were dying of thirst in the desert. I could marry you only if you were the last man on earth.

I would jog only if someone ran behind me and beat me with a stick to make me do it. I would watch romantic comedies only if my girlfriend begs me. I would take care of a dog only if someone paid me.

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