Unit 7
1.celebrity 2.tremendous 3.Ironically 4.enables 5.commercial
6.phenomenon 7.purchase 8.signaled 9.exceeds 10.vital
11.survey 12.ambassador 13.contribute 14.endorsement 15.prefers
16.refresh 17.evidence 18.origin 19.established 20.suitable
II. 片語與句型造句
1. Mable is taller than all the other girls/any other girl in her class.
2. Timothy runs faster than all the other classmates/any other classmate.
3. Andrew does/did not buy into this terrible/horrible/bad story.
4. No matter how/However hard Lorna tries/tried, her father does/did not buy into her explanation.
5. Charlotte’s cell phone is more expensive than that of her father.
6. The style of Pete’s sunglasses is more good-looking than that of his (elder/older) sister’s.
7. These days, teenagers know more about modern inventions than their parents.
8. These days many/a lot of high school students do not know how to write a letter.
9. No one/Nobody knows Maria is sick because she looks fine/all right/good on the outside.
10. Harry seems carefree on the outside but is actually/in factworried/troubled on the inside.
11. The cost of this trip/journeygoes/went beyond Brian’s budget.
12. Angelina’s performance went beyond her parents’ expectations, and they were proud of/took pride in it.
13. As a matter of fact, Amy is a mother of two children/kids.
14. As a matter of fact, Justin speaks three languages, which are Chinese, English, and Japanese.
15. Darren could not get at the cause of this car accident/crash.
16. Serena is starting to get at the reason (why) her best friend lied, so she is willing to forgive and forget.
17. After becoming sick, Nicolas saw the light and stopped/quit smoking.
18. The words of Penelope’s teacher made her see the light and begin/start to treasure/cherisheverything/all that she has.
III. 綜合測驗
1.D 2.C 3.A 4.A 5.B 6.B 7.A 8.D 9.B 10.D
IV. 課文問答
1. Whether or not an item is a brand-name product.
2. Image is important.
3. It actually reflects a person’s lack of self-confidence.
4. Because they don’t have the independence or originality to create their own image or style.
5. They see the light that it is unwise to buy designer clothes to prove their own worth.
V. 閱讀測驗
1.D 2.A 3.B 4.C 5.D
VI. 翻譯
1. Joey is more dishonest than all the other boys/any other boy in his class.
2. No wonder not a girl buys into his words.
3. Melanie listens to her friends’ advice/suggestions more than that/those of her parents.
4. Her parents know nothing about her/don’t understand her at all these days.
5. Debbie is/appears/seems friendly on the outside.
6. The amount of food Greg ate went beyond his usual limit.
7. As a matter of fact, Theodore is a famous writer.
8. Finally/At last, more and more people get at the cause of brand names’ high prices.
9. They see the light that it is unwise to buy designer clothes simply to prove their own worth.
VII. 寫作練習
Part I
1. I see different brands of mobile devices in the picture.
2. Smartphones and tablets are often expensive because they enable us to do many things with their functions.
3. I have a smartphone my parents bought me for my birthday.
4. My smartphone wakes me up every morning. It provides me with music I can listen to on my way to school. I can even look up English words with my smartphone.
5. My smartphone brings convenience to my life, but I have to be careful or I will neglect the world around me.
Part II
On my birthday, my parents bought me a smartphone. I find my smartphone very useful. Every morning, my smartphone wakes me up. On my way to school, I listen to songs on it. In addition, I look up English words that I don’t know with the help of my smartphone. My smartphone makes my life colorful, but I know that I have to be careful, or I will lose touch with the world around me. I should learn to control my smartphone instead of being controlled by it.
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