Unit 4
Vocabulary
I. 1.advantageous; let alone; witnessing…vanishing; landmark; entitled; displace;
Established; patriotic…strengthen; contradictions; aspires; divorced; pendulums
2.come to; dozed off; belived in; was set apart; take in; sucks in; clean up; turn away
3. 1) makes no/little difference whether we go there by train or by bus
2) overtaken General Motors as the world’s biggest car maker
3) at odds with his wife over money matters
4) been at the forefront of nanotechnology research
5) let alone cook a meal
4. a) is increasingly…to accelerate…their investment
b) economy…make an earnest…domestic…strike a balance between
c) a handful of…be endorsed by…on a large scale
II. Word Formation
WTO 世界贸易组织
GDP 国内生产总值
自动出纳机
增值税
Computer-aided design
Information technology 信息技术
International direct dialing
Music television 音乐电视
International Olympic Committee
Very importment person 贵宾,大人物
激光
CPU
III. Usage
1) An unusual present, a book on ethics, was given to Henry for his birthday.
2) The reason (he gave) that he didn’t notice the car till too late was unsatisfactory.
3) Football, his only interest in life, has brought him many friends.
4) Cloning had been raised as a possibility decades ago, then dismissed, something that serious scientists thought was simply not going to happen anytime soon.
Comprehensive Exercises
Cloze
academics…networking…a varity of…growth
vanish…facilitate…endorsing…outlook…sweeping aside…patriotic…erasing…strike a balance
aided…effects
distances…connected…invested…features…prevailing
qualitatively…volume…Distinguishing
Translation
1. 1)Due to his pessimistic outlook on the European economy, John has moved his assets from Europe to elsewhere.
2) I like hiring young people. They are earnest learners and committed to work.
3) Unlike her girl friends who center their lives on their children, Mary cares more about her personal growth.
4) Why is it that a considerable numbe