Unit 2 Text A 课后练习 ( 读写教程课本第 3 9 页 ) Language focus, Words in use, 3 适当形式选词填空。 说明:选择正确的单词,用适当形式进行填空。需要变形的要进行变形,没有变形即为错误,注意单词的拼写和大小写。 a ppraise paralyze symptom dismay brink b leak deem recede underestimate intervene 1. Kids are more likely to _________ in a situation if they believe their parents expect them to help. 2. The first lesson I learned as a newcomer for the company was never to _________ the degree of difficulty I would face in career advancement. 3. Just as I started to think that I was never going to get well, the illness began to _________ . 4. Whatever the decision is, I would like you to know that your department is my first choice and I _________ it a great honor if I could study in your department. 5. During one particularly _________ moment in my career, a senior colleague of mine said to me, ''If you follow your dreams, the money will come. Follow the money, and you'll lose your dreams." 6. Unless we can find a way to _________ nature and then invest in protecting it, our basic life-support systems are going to collapse. 7. The blizzard ( 暴风雪 ) moved south, turning into an icy rain that _________ the airports for three days. 8. In this introduction we have diagnosed some of the causes of the illness and, in the following chapters, we will draw attention to its various unpleasant _________ . 9. In those days, divorce under any circumstances was socially unacceptable and there was great _________ in the family who went through it. 10. Every time she talked about being rejected in her hunt for a job, she seemed on the _________ of tears, and I would quickly switch the conversation to another topic.