Period 7-8: Exercises
词义辨析：
deficiency/ defect
deficiency: the state of not having, or not having enough of, sth that is essential 缺乏；缺少；不足
近义词：shortage; insufficiency; inadequacy; lack; want
• Vitamin deficiency in the diet can cause illness. 饮食中缺乏维生素可能导致疾病。
• a deficiency of Vitamin B 缺乏维生素
a fault or a weakness in sth/sb that makes it or them less successful 缺点；缺陷
• deficiencies in the computer system 计算机系统的种种缺陷
defect: a fault in sth or in the way it has been made which means that it is not perfect 缺点；缺陷；毛病
• a speech defect 言语缺陷
• a defect in the glass 玻璃杯的缺陷
P12:
3. Translate the following sentences, paying special attentionto the meanings of the words in bold type.
1. 那只是个口误, 却让他丢了政府部门的工作。
2 . 当听到那所大学没有授予儿子博士学位时，她的情绪一下低落了。
3. 照片上我们看到她赛后自豪而满足地挥舞着国旗的样子。
4. 电影遭禁演，因为们声称其中含有令他们们反感的反对他们种族的内容。
5. 他和他的内阁成员讨论的时候，当然不会谈这些小事。
6. 我的小小的建议就写在这一小纸片上，请你见到她时给她。
7. 有些人坚决反对，但大多数特洛伊人都决定要把那木马弄进城里。他们永远没有想到这个怪物里面藏着敌人。
8. 我觉得教师进课堂时应该穿得朴素些，你的这件衣服颜色稍显艳丽了。
P16
2. Replace the parts in bold type in the following sentenceswith words and expressions from the text.
1. The movie completely turned me off. I had never seen so much money wasted on such garbage.
这部电影完全使我倒尽胃口。我从未见过这么多钱浪费在这种垃圾上。
2. She was in the habit of buying all sorts of things just for the fun of it. 她习惯于买各种各样的东西只是为了好玩。
3. I finally saw the stupidity of overeating and decided to diet , but this time I went to the other extreme. I did reduce my food , but I overdid it.我终于意识到暴饮暴食的愚蠢，决定节食，但这一次我走了另一个极端。我确实减少了食量，但我吃得太少了。
4. The news was a terrible blow. Her mind reeled with shock. She staggered back, sank into her sofa and started moaning in great pain. 这消息对她是个沉重的打击。她震惊得头晕目眩。她踉跄后退，倒在沙发上，痛苦地呻吟起来。
5. He tried to defend his development plan saying that it would make the area prosperous, but she argued that it would not. On the contrary , it would destroy the local economy.他试图为自己的发展计划辩护，说这将使该地区繁荣起来，但她辩称不会。相反，它会破坏当地的经济。
6. Money worship will not disappear automatically. We have to fight it and find something positive to replace it in our moral education. 拜金主义不会自动消失。我们必须与之斗争，并找到一些积极的东西来取代它在我们的道德教育中的地位。
7. Even in his last days he still believed that his people would be with him, and he openly insulted and ridiculed those who opposed him. 甚至在他最后的日子里，他仍然相信他的人民会和他在一起，他公开地侮辱和嘲笑那些反对他的人。
8. Most people in their forties would remember the days when to say somebody was fat would be regarded as an unmistaken compliment because it represented wealth and happiness. But today many people are in constant fear that they or their children might be overweight.大多数四十多岁的人都会记得，在那个年代，说某人胖会被视为一种绝对正确的赞美，因为这代表着财富和幸福。但今天，许多人一直担心他们或他们的孩子可能超重。
9. I consider it a crime to teach racial hatred in class. We must not ignore this kind of practice. I remember a man who once made hundreds of students repeat loudly sentences he had prepared including "Kill the... (people of a certain country)." Now if this was allowed to continue and influence our young students, some day Nazism might come again.我认为在课堂上教授种族仇恨是一种犯罪。我们不能忽视这种做法。我记得有一个人曾经让数百名学生大声重复他准备好的句子，包括“Kill the… (某个国家的人)。”现在，如果允许这种情况继续发展下去并影响我们的年轻学生，有朝一日纳粹主义可能会卷土重来。
10 . These endless examinations and tests must be unbearable to the kids who have creative minds, but most of them would not be lucky enough to beat the system. I agree that geniuses are not rare; what are rare are the geniuses to recognize geniuses. 这些没完没了的考试和测验对那些有创造力的孩子来说一定是难以忍受的，但他们中的大多数人都没有足够的运气打败这个体系。我同意，天才并不罕见，难得的是，天才能认出天才（“千里马常有，而伯乐不常有”）。
