Thursday, March 21, 2013

Even More Vocabulary


 


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 (
, dañado), so now he can’t speak very well.
3. Most cars in the U.S. use gasoline or diesel (
柴油). 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, residuos) 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) to go to college.
b. That’s ___! You deserve (
应得, merecerse) it. 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 (
, pelea). 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, 遇到, encontrar
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 usually say /i:/. After you learn more words, you will start to recognize these regularities and repetitions. (
规律和重复)

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