Vocabulary Review

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Fill in the blanks with the appropriate form of the words below. You will need to change the verbs by adding third person -s or changing them to past tense, etc.
1.  Cars, trucks, vans, motorcycles, and tractors are all _________. They

     transport (=move) people and things.                                                                                                                              

2.  In the accident, part of his _________ was damaged (被损坏的, dañado, повреждено), so now he can’t speak very well.

3.  Most cars in the U.S. use gasoline or diesel (柴油, дизель). Some new ones use electricity, too. Now some cars ________ ethanol, which is made from corn.

4.  He doesn’t have to plug in his calculator. It is ________-powered. That means it gets its power, or energy, from the sun.

5.  a.  Who is your ________ employer?

     b.  Actually, I don’t have a job right now, but I used to work for Bank of America.

6.  If you can, it’s a good idea to _________ paper. That way, we won’t need to cut down so many trees. Trees are important because they produce (=make) oxygen.

7.  By emptying waste (废物, 垃圾, residuos, отходы) into our rivers and oceans, we may be seriously harming (=hurting) the __________.

8.  When they finally reached (=arrived at) their __________, everyone got off the bus and picked up their luggage.

9.  They had to return their new computer to the __________ because it wasn’t functioning (=working) properly.

10.     a.   Guess what? I got a scholarship (奖学金, beca, стипе́ндия) to go to college.

     b.  That’s __________!  You deserve it. (应受, 应得, 值得, te mereces, заслужить) You’ve studied so hard.

11.     He ________ me not to walk down that street at night. He said it was dangerous.

12.     The President held a _____ to announce (=tell everyone) that he was going to run for re-election.

13.     On their vacations, the billionaire and his family always stay in _________ hotels­­­—only the most comfortable and most expensive things for them!

14.     They’re trying to decide where to have their _________ conference. They choose a different place each year. Last year, they had it in Hawaii. This year, they’re thinking about Miami.

15.     To go there, I used to take Franklin Street and turn onto Pine. But I have found a quicker _________. Now I take Divisadero and turn onto Market instead.

16.     They had a bad argument (争论, pelea, ссора). After that, he didn’t want to see her, so he tried to _______ her.   He had his lunch at a different time so he wouldn’t run into* her.

     *meet, see, 撞见,encontrar,сталкиваться

17.     The rooms were too cold, so the building engineer came and ______________ the air conditioning. Now they’re more comfortable.

18.     Here is the _________ for next month’s magazine cover. We will put this picture in the middle, and this one on top. Above the big picture, it will say, “Terrorist Attack!”

19.     English pronunciation is difficult, but there are ________.  For example, when you see ie or ea, you often say /i:/. After you learn more words, you will start to recognize these regularities and repetitions. (规律和重复, регулярность и повторения)