1. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the following words from the text.

1) He regularly ______ with known drug-dealers.

2) I would leave you in the old world, and ______ myself to the new.

3) It is often difficult to ______ the truth of an event from a newspaper report.

4) It was the suggestion that he might alter course to win an election that really ______ him.

5) She looked into his eyes and ______ madness.

6) The Americans are adamant that they will not ______ on this point.

7) But your father stands in the way because of certain unrealistic _______.

8) Men and birds are ______ of climbing high.

9) Two old boys ______ on the street corner discussing cattle.

10) The second world war ______ his enthusiasm for politics.

2. Complete the following sentences with the proper forms of the words in the brackets.

1) She talked ______ (compose) to reporters about her terrible ordeal.

2) People need a chance to reflect on spiritual matters in ______ (solitary).

3) The breathtaking green valley below ______ (apt) named Beautiful Valley.

4) His tact was ______ (exemplar), especially considering the circumstances.

5) He glanced at Juliet accusingly and she looked suitably ______ (abash).

6) Each nation can have its own ______ (peculiar) when it comes to doing business.

7) The audience punctuated his speech by outbursts of ______ (applaud).

8) Foreign funds alone are clearly not enough, nor are ______ (exhort) to reform.

9) NEW YORK-E-mail is crippled, concussed by a(n) ______ (repress) spam stream.

10) Any ______ (resemble) of a character in this book to a living person is purely incidental.

3. Find the appropriate prepositions or adverbs that collocate with the neighboring words.

1) His head being turned ______, he passed a crook of the road, and, looking forward again, beheld the figure of a man, ______ grave and decent attire, seated ______ the foot of an old tree.

2) As nearly as could be discerned, the second traveller was about fifty years old, apparently ______ the same rank of life as Goodman Brown, and bearing a considerable resemblance ______ him, though perhaps more ______ expression than features.

3) With this excellent resolve ______ the future, Goodman Brown felt himself justified______ making more haste ______ his present evil purpose.

4) Thus far the elder traveller had listened ______ due gravity; but now burst ______ a fit of irrepressible mirth, shaking himself so violently that his snake-like staff actually seemed to wriggle ______ sympathy.

5) But ______ your leave, friend, I shall take a cut ______ the woods until we have left this Christian woman ______.

4. Paraphrase the following sentences and then translate them into Chinese.

1) And Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap while she called to Goodman Brown.

2) He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind.

3) But the only thing about him that could be fixed upon as remarkable was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent.

4) We are a people of prayer, and good works to boot, and abide no such wickedness.

5) She, meanwhile, was making the best of her way, with singular speed for so aged a woman, and mumbling some indistinct words — a prayer, doubtless — as she went.

6) They continued to walk onward, while the elder traveller exhorted his companion to make good speed and persevere in the path, discoursing so aptly that his arguments seemed rather to spring up in the bosom of his auditor than to be suggested by himself.

7) Thus the pair proceeded, at a good free pace, until suddenly, in a gloomy hollow of the road, Goodman Brown sat himself down on the stump of a tree and refused to go any farther.

8) The young man sat a few moments by the roadside, applauding himself greatly, and thinking with how clear a conscience he should meet the minister in his morning walk, nor shrink from the eye of good old Deacon Gookin.