Exercises of Unit 4
Vocabulary 1. Fill in the gaps with words or phrases given in the box. Change the form where necessary. 1) advantageous 2) let alone 3) witnessing, vanishing 4) landmark 5) entitled 6) displace 7) Establishment 8) patriotic, strengthen 9) contradictions 10) aspires 11) divorced 12) pendulums
2. Use the verb in brackets to form an appropriate phrasal verb you have learned and complete the sentence with it. 1) come to 2) dozed off 3) believed in 4) was set apart 5) take in 6) sucks in 7) clean up 8) turn away
3. Rewrite each sentence with the word or phrase in brackets, keeping the same meaning. The first part has been written for you. 1) For me, it makes no / little difference whether we go there by train or by bus. 2) Toyota has overtaken General Motors as the world’s biggest car maker
3) Shortly after their marriage, Mr. Chambers was at odds with his wife over money matters. 4) Henry has been at the forefront of nanotechnology research. 5) She doesn’t even know how to boil potatoes, let alone cook a meal
4. Complete the sentences, using the words or phrases in brackets. Make additions or changes where necessary. 1) is increasingly, to accelerate, their investment 2) economy, make an earnest, domestic, strike a balance between 3) a handful of, be endorsed by, on a large scale
III. Usage 1) An unusual present, a book on ethnics, 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 I. Cloze 1. Text-related 1) academics 2) networking 3) a variety of 4) growth 5) vanish 6) facilitate 7) endorsing 8) outlook 9) sweeping aside 10) patriotic 11) erasing 12) strike a balance
2. Theme-related 1) aided 2) effects 3) distances 4) connected 5) invested 6) features 7) prevailing 8) qualitatively 9) volume 10) Distinguishing