Vocabulary: Cars, trucks, vans, motorcycles, and tractors...

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Fill in the blanks with the appropriate form of the words below. You might need to add third person -s or change the verb to past tense, etc.

the design

the vehicle

the pattern

the environment

to recycle

to run on

solar

current

to warn

to avoid

the destination

the manufacturer

a press conference

fantastic

the brain

luxury

annual

to adjust

amazing

the route

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, متضرّر), so now he can’t speak very well.

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

4.   a.   Who is your ________ employer?

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

5.   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. (氧气, oxígeno, кислорода,  أكسجين)

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

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

8.   They had a bad argument (争论, pelea, ссора, خصام، جدال). 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, يصادف، يقابل بالصدفة

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

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

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

12. 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, يستحق)

           You’ve studied so hard.

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

14. The President held a _____ to announce (=tell everyone) that he was going to run for re-election. (连任, reelección, переизбрание, переизбрание)

15. 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.

16. 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.

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. (模式化行为, 规律和重复, patrón, regularidades y repeticiones, регулярность и повторения,

 تكرار, تصرف، سلوك)

1. vehicles

2. brain

3. solar

4. current

5. recycle
6. manufacturer

7. luxury

8. avoid
9. run on

10. environment

11. destination
12. fantastic

13. warned

14. press
15. annual

16. route

17. adjusted

18. design (or layout)

19. patterns