Task 2 Fill in the blanks with the right words or phrases. Change the form where necessary. exclusive participate adjustment nervous personality figure out depend on adapt to start over make full use of 1. It is generally believed that we shall ____________ the sun's energy someday. 2. He is a man whom you can __________. 3. It is not so easy to make a quick ___________to the new environment. 4. This bathroom is for the President's __________use. 5. Several experts will ___________ in the project as technical advisers. 6. The manager asked experienced workers to help the new comers to __________ the new working environment quickly. 7. He won the election more on __________than on image/eloquence. 8. After the economic crisis, we had to __________ and build our business again from the beginning. 9. No one can __________how the fire started. 10. She felt very __________with so many people looking at her.
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- Task 1 Fill in the blanks with the right words or phrases. Change the form where necessary. occupation take into consideration volunteer base on conduct be comprised of explore narrow down prefer investigate 1. He felt honored to do ___________ work during 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. 2. The company ____________ a survey to find out the needs for their products in the market. 3. A(n) __________ is a vocation by which you make a living. 4. The company _________________ five departments. 5. You should ________________________ everything that is necessary for making the final decision. 6. The researcher _________ carefully the differences between the two phenomena. 7. Those involved in the accident have been _____________ and found blameless. 8. My parents __________ me not to go into the business world. 9. His decision __________________________ many years of investigation and research. 10. The police have to _______________ their list of suspects.
- Exercise 2: complete the sentences with the correct form of the words and expressions in the box. articulate, fluent, former, fuse, on top of, reside, schooling, static, notable, on occasions, work out 1. Foreigners who _______ in a country for more than six months should try and learn the language. 2. ________ all the other problems I had, I found that nobody understood my English. 3. It’s surprising that people are so ________ when they write text messages. 4. Although he had very little _________ he is a very successful writer. 5. Netspeak _______ common English words to make new combinations. 6. Both young and older people are often ________ in netspeak. 7. The professor complained that her ________ students would not have made so many spelling mistakes although this year’s students are much better. 8. The old couple lived in the small village, but ________ they went to the town for shopping. 9. Don't view things as ________ and isolated: everything is changing. 10. We're trying to _________ a way to make the system foolproof(简单). 11. The scientist’s achievement was very ______, which was why he was awarded $10,000.
- Task 1 Fill in the blanks with the right words or phrases. Change the form where necessary. resolve play favorites connect with barrier take a step beyond effective avoid acknowledge put oneself in someone else's shoes pay attention to 1. If you _______________________, you will not complain about it again. 2. As a public official, you should __________________ your words and behaviors. 3. To be successful in your professional life you should learn how to ________________ your colleagues. 4. Talking about others behind their backs is a ______________ to interpersonal relations. 5.Our government should adopt _____________measures to solve the unemployment problems. 6. When he is in anger, you should ___________ conflicting with him. 7. To demonstrate your sincerity you should __________ apologizing. I guess they need compensation. 8. A fair leader is one who tries to avoid ____________. 9. Can you help me ____________ this technical problem? 10. With so much evidence against him he had to _______________ his error.
- 1. I am one of the（1） of Designing Your Life: How to Live a Well-lived Joyful Life. That’s （2） the class we Stanford teachers called Designing Your Life. 2. So one of the biggest（3） in the class is the odyssey plan. People （4） three completely different plans for their life. 3. And he had one（5） where he just described the period of time between about 20 and 35 as your odyssey years, the years when you discover and （6） who you gonna be, you know, as or for one grown-up. 4. So we use the phrase, odyssey years, to describe（7） the ten years between about 22 and 32, or 20 to 35 that ten-to-fifteen-year period. 5. It is really a （8） time in any young person’s life. And we like the idea of an odyssey. It is sort of journey, you know, a mystical journey through all these（9） . 6. And that is when we have, you know, more stages in our life, so we have more time to do this kind of（10） . So it’s really a（11） time in a young person’s life.
- Words in use Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Change the form where necessary. Each word can be used only once. differentiate incompatible correlation dreadful intelligible negligible bizarre allege consolidate habitat 1. I will conduct a top-to-bottom review of the state departments, agencies, and commissions, and seek to __________ eliminate them where appropriate. 2. To a 10-year old girl, you need to offer understanding about her wishes and help her __________ between fantasy and reality. 3. When we heard about the __________ suffering of the children and adults, our primary instinct, like millions of others, was to shed tears. 4. It was when we started living together that we found, to our sadness and surprise, that we were __________. 5. It was __________ that he had taken a $50,000 bribe before the project was transferred to aother company. 6. The budget proposal has been described as "__________" by people objecting to it. 7. It seems that what people believe and what researchers have found out about the __________ between wealth and happiness are more different than overlapping 8. Current expenditure in this museum is__________ in coparison with the huge amount which foreign museums of similar standing spend. 9. The air and rivers in this area are getting cleaner, and attempts to preserve animal species and their __________ have been mainly successful. 10. If you can provide rational and __________ debates from an unbiased point of view, maybe we will all learn something.