Unit 2 Friendship

I. Vocabulary

1. Fill in the gaps with words or phrases given in the box.

1) absolutely   

2) available   

3) every now and then

4) are urging/ urged

5) destination

6) mostly

7) hangs out

8) right away

9) reunion

10) or something

11) estimate

12) going ahead

2. Rewriting

1) It seemed that his failure in the examination was still on his mind.

2) He was completely choked up by the sight of his team losing in the final minutes of the game.

3) She was so lost in study that she forgot to have dinner.

4) Something has come up and I am afraid I won’t be able to accomplish the project on time.

5) The cost of equipping the new hospital was estimated at $2 million.

3. Complete the sentences.

1) were postponed          the awful          is estimated

2) reference              not available         an kind of

3) not much of a teacher        skips            go ahead

II. Collocation

1.     to

2.     for

3.     at

4.     from

5.     in

6.     to   on

7.     on

8.     with

III. Usage

1.     more or less

2.     kind of/ sort of

3.     something

4.     kind of/ sort of

5.     more or less

6.     or something

Comprehensive exercises

I. Cloze

1.     text-related

1)    choked up

2)    awful

3)    practically

4)    neighborhood

5)    correspondence

6)    available

7)    destination

8)    reunion

9)    Mostly

10)          postponing

11)          absolutely

2.     Theme-related

1)    how

2)    savings

3)    embarrassment

4)    phone

5)    interrupted

6)    touch

7)    envelop

8)    signed

9)    message

10)          needed

II. Translation

1.     Translate the sentences.

1) Half an hour had gone by, but the last bus hadn’t come yet. We had to walk home.

2) Mary seems to be very worried about the Chinese exam because she hasn’t learned the texts by heart.

3) Since the basketball match has been postponed, we might as well visit the museum.

4) He stayed in Australia with his parents all the way through WWⅡ.

5) Since I graduated from Nanjing University in 1985, I have kind of  lost touch with my classmates.

2.     Translate the passage.

It is not easy to keep in touch with friends far away. This is true in my case.

It has been a couple of years since I left my old neighborhood and all the friends there. I have been meaning to write to them but things come up and I just don’t seem to find the time. They are always on my mind, however, and I think I will certainly make an effort to keep up correspondence with them in the future.