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 Text: Numbers and Belief
Language Points
Exercises: 1) Vocabulary 2) Structure 3) Translation
Enjoy English
Grammar ers an
Mood & Subjunctive Mood (3) [语法：语气与虚拟语气(3)]
Academic Writing
Transition and Coherence (3) [过渡与衔接 (3)]

I. I. Vocabulary:
1.1 Fill in the blanks with the words and expressions given below, changing the
form where necessary

1) It’s unbelievable that her tone is so ______ her mother’s.
2) She is studying geology and has spent hundreds of hours finding out causes of the ______ striking Tokyo in 1923.
3) Many people ______ intelligence more important than appearance.
4) We ______ a campaign to raise money for the children too poor to go to school.
5) ______ his timely arrival, I was not cheated into a purchase of the fake diamond.
6) The fiftieth wedding anniversary was taken as a ______ day in a person’s life.
7) It is ______ that you abandoned her. She is really excellent.
8) Many historians are studying the ______ of civilization.
9) It is a kind of ______ that dreams can foretell one’s fortune.
10) The lucky man won a car in the ______.

1.2 Please give the opposites of the following words by adding or subtracting prefixes.
通过加或减前缀，写出下列词的反义词。
1) complete (a.) 2) disappear (v.) 3) disbelief (n.) 4) lucky (a.) 5) regularly (ad.) 6) significant (a.)
7) unfortunate (a.) 8) unsurprising (a.)
Answers:
1.1
1) similar to 2) earthquake 3) consider 4) launched5) Thanks to 6) significant

7) unfortunate 8) origin9) superstition 10) lottery
1.2
1) incomplete (a.) 2) appear (v.) 3) belief (n.) 4) unlucky (a.)5) irregularly (ad.)

6) insignificant (a.) 7) fortunate (a) 8) surprising (a.)

II. Structure
2.1 Complete the following sentences, using the given words as the Linking Verb.

1) Friday the 13th is an unlucky day, on which many things can ______
2) You ______. Why don’t you take an umbrella with you?
3) News ______. We were defeated instead.
4) Yesterday Jim ______ and ran a high fever.
5) As autumn is coming, leaves ______.
6) It has not rained for half a year. All the streams ______.
7) Meat easily ______ in hot weather.
8) As time went by, the criminal ______.
9) One does not necessarily ______ as he grows older.
10) Being treated so rudely, the model almost ______.
Answers:
1) go wrong 2) get wet 3) came false 4) fell ill5) turn yellow 6) run dry

7) goes bad 8) grew impatient9) superstition 10) lottery
2.1 When used as a conjunction, “while” may mean “during the time that …” (与此同时), “although” (虽然…但是), “whereas” (而), “as long as ” (只要) and “since or now that” (既然).
Exercise: Study the following sentences and explain the meanings of the “while” in
each sentence.
1) In many western cultures, people believe that seven is a lucky number, while many Chinese people believe that the luckiest number is eight.
2) While many university students seek part-time jobs, she pays all her attention to studying elective/selected courses.
3) While she loves her son, she is very hard on him.
4) While there is water there is life.
5) I’d like to settle it while we are at it.
6) Mary got 95 in the exam while her partner got 50.
7) While they are my neighbors, I don’t know them very well.
8) While you are sorting your things upstairs, I’ll pack your books.
9) While there are crimes in this city, we will carry on the fight.
10) You will never save any money while you are so extravagant.

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