1-Unit7-When-Lightening-Struck答案综合教程一.doc

Unit 7 When Lightning Struck
Key to the Exercises

Text comprehension
I. Decide which of the following best states the author’s purpose of writing.
D

II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.
1. F 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F

IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences.
1. I tried to comfort her by saying that we would manage to tide it over.
2. After experiencing such an incident, the girl's visit to London would seem much less exciting in comparison.
3. The young woman, who was as confident as that businessman, must have noticed my fear.
4. The young businessman was sorry that he had not got a chance to buy his two little girls a present.
5. I am very grateful to my fellow passengers.

Vocabulary
I. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.
1. having the seat belt fastened on
2. catch another flight to continue the journey
3. he had completed his task (announcement)
4. controlled my feelings and began behaving calmly again
5. land successfully and safely
6. am very grateful to do something nice in return

II. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.

5

1. witnessed
2. figured
3. lightning
4. lunged
5. confided
6. blessed
7. indiscriminate
8. terra firma
9. sure
10. creature

III. Choose a word or phrase that best completes each of the following sentences.
1-4 BACB 5-8 DDCB

IV. Fill in each blank with one of the two words from each pair in its appropriate form and note the difference in meaning between them.
1. a. somehow b. somewhat c. Somewhat d. Somehow
2. a. feared b. panic c. feared d. panicked
3. a. hope b. hope c. anticipating d. anticipate
4. a. surviving b. survive c. live d. live

V. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.
1. open (unlock, unlatch, unchain)
2. hopelessly (unconfidently, despairingly)
3. think (believe, imagine)
4. unafraid (brave, bold, fearless, dauntless)
5. unselective (uncritical, random)
6. enjoyable (comfortable, agreeable, pleasant)
7. grumble
8. lightly (barely, hardly, scarcely)

VI. Fill in the blank in each sentence with an appropriate form of the given capitalized word in brackets.

1. ungrateful
2. shortage
3. unfortunately
4. invaluable
5. lengthen
6. destruction
7. timely
8. rustless

Grammar
I. Identify the different infinitive forms after the modal auxiliaries.
When a modal auxiliary takes the predictive meaning, the infinitive after it may appear in the perfect form to denote "past time" and in the progressive form to denote "future time." When the modal auxiliary takes the non-predictive meaning, the infinitive after it usually appears in its base form as in sentences 6 and 7.

II. Rewrite the following sentences, using “modal auxiliary + the correct form of the infinitive”.
1. He may know the answer.
2. It must have been difficult.
3. He couldn't have forgotten his appointment.
4. She must be coming tomorrow.
5. We ought to help people in need.
6. May/Can I say something?
7. He may have gone to the museum.
8. You ought to have apologized.

III. Rewrite the following sentences, using be going to.

1. When are you going to start?
2. I'm sure it is going to rain.
3. I'm going to take a few days' holiday.
4. When are you going to sell it?
5. I'm sure there is going to be trouble.
6. We are going to have dinner out.
7. I'm going to watch the news.
8. We're going to be late for the party.

IV. Decide which of the underlined parts is correct.
1. I'm going
2. I'll carry
3. I won't tell
4. I'm going to be
5. are you meeting
6. It's going to rain
7. I'll post it
8. is going to take

V. Fill in the blanks with the proper form of the verbs in brackets.

1. had listened
2. could
3. knew
4. had
5. were / was
6. didn't have
7. knew
8. had meant

Translation
I. Translate the following sentences into Chinese.
1. 我踉踉跄跄向座位冲过去时，乘客们抬起头来望着我，满脸惊恐，似乎感到死期已到。
2. 我快昏过去了，但是一看见身旁女孩的脸，我稳住了自己的情绪。
3. 在那痛苦难熬的20分钟里，我脑海里思绪万千，但其中不乏自豪之情——为飞机上所有人都表现得那么出色而感到自豪。
4. 我想起在那次生死攸关却又万分侥幸的飞行中结识的乘客们，希望能够为自己亲眼所见、有幸承受的友好行为向他们表示感谢。

II. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and phrases given in brackets.
1. I scrambled up the cliff for a good view of the sea.
2. He lunged at the burglar and wrestled with him for the weapon.
3. I figure that our national economy will continue to develop rapidly.
4. The chairman made an effort to reassure the shareholders that the company's bad results would not be repeated.
5. Stop acting like a baby. Pull yourself together!
6. Being very much a private man, he does not confide in anyone.
7. We all hate the terrorists' indiscriminate violence against ordinary people.
8. Many people in this country are alarmed by the dramatic increase in violent crimes.
9. We anticipated that the enemy would try to cross the river. That was why we destroyed the bridge.
10. I am indebted to all the people who worked so hard to make the party a great success.

Integrated skills
I. Dictation
Our boat floated on, / between walls of forest. / Nowhere did we find a place / where we could have landed. / In any case, / what would we have got by landing? / The country was full of snakes / and other dangerous animals, / and the forest was so thick / that one would be able to advance only slowly, / cutting one's way with knives the whole day. / We live on fish, / caught with a homemade net of string, / and any fruit and nuts / we could pick up out of the water. / As we had no fire, / we had to eat everything uncooked, / including the fish. / As for water, / there was a choice: / we could drink the muddy river water, / or die of thirst. /

II. Fill in each blank in the passage below with ONE word you think appropriate.

1. different
2. mind
3. policeman
4. jam
5. third
6. cross
7. what
8. how
9. experiments
10. results

Writing
Revise the following choppy sentences.
1. If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; if you teach him how to catch fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
2. We can lose a pint of blood without feeling anything, but if we lose a great deal of blood, we feel weak and cold.
3. Don't pretend to know what you don't and don't pretend not to know what you really know.
4. If you want someone on your side, if you want to persuade someone to see your point of view, one of the best ways is to approach him with sincere kindness and caring.
5. Successful people are on a permanent vacation, not because they don't work hard but because they love what they do.
6. Don't keep things which do not belong to you; don't love the person who does not care about you.
7. Helen took dance classes, but she had no natural grace or sense of rhythm, so eventually gave up the idea of becoming a dancer.
8. When bears emerge from hibernation in the spring, they wander through wetlands and feed mainly on grasses.
9. Exhausted, I stared at the page, unable to comprehend a single word.
10. The five-year-old boy asked his father a question about death.

Listening
Flying Your Own Plane
B. Listen to the passage. Give brief introduction of the interesting /worrying trips they have.
1. California (starting point) -- Phoenix (for lunch and oxygen) -- St. Louis (spend the night) -- Lexington (for lunch) -- Princeton (visit daughter)
2. Between a lake and a mountain
The windsock was worn out.
3. They got caught up in snow.
They called on Edwards Airforce Base for help.
4. The landing gear light lit up to indicate that the landing gear had failed to work.
A Sunday night

C. Listen again. Answer the following questions.
1. As a present for Father's Day.
2. The plane didn't need to stop, but they needed a break.
3. She is suggesting that things don't always work properly, or as you expect.
4. She was worried about the possibility of hitting the mountains, as the visibility was poor.
5. She was not too worried about it, and she seemed to accept it as normal.