I  Vocabulary

1.

1.     industrial

2.     idle

3.     is functioning

4.     intellectual

5.     scared

6.     handful

7.     luxury

8.     private

9.     work up

10.  slice

11.  miracle

12.  was jammed

2.

1.  to be seriously affected by the rise in gas prices。

2.  is a matter of total indifference to me.

3.  drove home the point that they needed extra people

4.  was found after they searched for it for a long time

5.  had run out of water by the time they got to the camp

3.

1. manual    and complex     its financial

2. was very upset     make a living by     swore    was/became much better off

3. handful   ignorant of       paintings/ works summed up

II

1.     The young man made $5 an hour in his summer job.

2.     What made you change your mind?

3.     I’m sure Jason will make a good lawyer.

4.     The vet put something down the dog’s throat to make it vomit.

5.     The story makes interesting reading.

6.     Five and five make ten.

7.     On foot they can only make about 20 miles a day.

8.     I don’t think she’ll ever really make it to the top

III

1 

(1) developing

(2) develop

(3) development

(4) develop

(5) developing  developed

2

(1) amazed

(2) amazes

(3) amazingly

(4) amazing

(5) amazement

Comprehensive exercise

I.                  CLOZE

1. TEXT-RELATED

(1) complex

(2) idle

(3) make a living by

(4) accumulated

(5) affect

(6) function

(7) faculties

(8) ignorant

(9) wake up

2. THEME-RELATED

(1) dormitory

(2) passing

(3) leaping

(4) department

(5) burned

(6) destroyed

(7) seriously

(8) marriages

(9) report

(10) perspective

II TRANSLATION

1)    Without his personal file, an applicant can hardly expect to get/ be employed as a teacher.

2)    With enough ice, we would be able to chill the drinks.

3)    In my humble opinion, reading us the most pleasant way to spend one’s leisure.

4)    Some people said it was simply a miracle that the American athlete Michael Phelps won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

5)    The washing machine has broken down, so we have to wash our clothes by hand.

This morning I heard an interesting piece of news over my portable radio: a man of 36 and his son of 10 attend the same class competing with each other for high marks. The story goes/ It’s like this:

The man, Li Wei by name, was too idle to learn anything when young. With little education, with no useful skills, he could hardly earn an adequate living wage. His life experiences drove home to him the point that he had to acquire knowledge before he was able to accumulate wealth. So Li Wei swore that he would go to school with his son, determined to learn.