Unit4VocabularyI.1.advantageous;letalone;witnessing…vanishing;landmark;entitled;displace;Established;patriotic…strengthen;contradictions;aspires;divorced;pendulums2.cometo;dozedoff;belivedin;wassetapart;takein;sucksin;cleanup;turnaway3.1)makesno/littledifferencewhetherwegotherebytrainorbybus2)overtakenGeneralMotorsastheworld’sbiggestcarmaker3)atoddswithhiswifeovermoneymatters4)beenattheforefrontof1nanotechnologyresearch5)letalonecookameal4.a)isincreasingly…toaccelerate…theirinvestmentb)economy…makeanearnest…domestic…strikeabalancebetweenc)ahandfulof…beendorsedby…onalargescaleII.WordFormationWTO世界贸易组织GDP国内生产总值自动出纳机增值税Computer-aideddesignInformationtechnology信息技术2InternationaldirectdialingMusictelevision音乐电视InternationalOlympicCommitteeVeryimportmentperson贵宾，大人物激光CPUIII.Usage1)Anunusualpresent,abookonethics,wasgiventoHenryforhisbirthday.2)Thereason(hegave)thathedidn’tnoticethecartilltoolatewasunsatisfactory.3)Football,hisonlyinterestinlife,hasbroughthimmanyfriends.4)Cloninghadbeenraisedasapossibilitydecadesago,thendismissed,something3thatseriousscientiststhoughtwassimplynotgoingtohappenanytimesoon.ComprehensiveExercisesCloze1.academics…networking…avarityof…growthvanish…facilitate…endorsing…outlook…sweepingaside…patriotic…erasing…strikeabalance2.aided…effectsdistances…connected…invested…features…prevailingqualitatively…volume…DistinguishingTranslation41.1)DuetohispessimisticoutlookontheEuropeaneconomy,JohnhasmovedhisassetsfromEuropetoelsewhere.2)Ilikehiringyoungpeople.Theyareearnestlearnersandcommittedtowork.3)Unlikehergirlfriendswhocentertheirlivesontheirchildren,Marycaresmoreaboutherpersonalgrowth.4)Whyisitthataconsiderablenumberofcolleaguesareatoddswithyou?5)TheChinesegovernmenthasintroducedavarietyofpoliciestostrengthencooperationwithdevelopingcountries.2.Globalizationhasgreatimplicationsfor5youngChinese.Forexample,youngfarmersaremovingonalargescaletourbanareastolookforjobs.Andforthoseyoungpeoplewhoaspiretostudyabroadorworkinforeign-investedenterprises,Englishhasbecomeincreasinglyimportant.Atthesametime,aconsiderablenumberofoverseasChinesestudentshavereturnedhomeinrecentyears,fortheyholdanoptimisticoutlookforthelong-termgrowthoftheChineseeconomy.TheInternethasstrengthenedthelinksbetweenChineseyoungpeopleandthoseelsewhere.Theyfollowthelatesttrendandcopyforeignfashions.Someofthemdon’tseemtocare6fortraditionalChinesevirtues,letalonecarrythemforward,whichhasgivenrisetoworriesthatthetraditionalChineseculturemightonedayvanish.7
