大学英语3复习整理2.doc

大学英语3复习整理 Unit 1 Expressions get by 过得去，尚可 just about 几乎 get through 通过，，度过 at that point 就在那时 on balance 总的来说 when it comes to… 谈及 aside from 除了 cut back 减少 dine out 外出吃饭 on a small/big scale 小（大）规模地 at one time 曾经，一度 get along 生活过得去 miss out(on sth.) 缺少，未得到 in addition 另外 go with 与……相配 whip up 快速做成 as a result 结果 relate to 能领会，与……有关 take over 占统治地位，取…….而代之 make a sense 有意义的 pick up 买单 face up to 面对 Language Sense Enhancement I suspect not everyone who loves the country would be happy living the way we do. It takes a couple of special qualities. One is a tolerance for solitude. Because we are so busy on such a tight budget, we don’t entertain much. During the growing season there is no time for socializing anyway. Jim and Emily are involved in school activities, but they too spend most of their time at home. The other requirement is energy—a lot of it . The way to make self-sufficient work on a small scale is to resist the temptation to buy a tractor and other expensive laborsaving devices. Instead, you do the work yourself. The only machinery we own (not counting the lawn mower) is a little three-horsepower rotary cultivator and a 16-inch chain saw. Comprehensive Exercises 1.Text-related Jim Doherty may not be a born farmer, but he gets by without too much trouble. Not that he has had it easy. That first hard winter he faced must have left him with the temptation to give up and go back to the city. But he managed to get through it without losing heart. He’s picked up a lot of skills since then and made some real improvement to his farm, though without much laborsaving machinery, aside from that old rotary cultivator. I suspected he doesn’t make all that much, though he does have his writing to supplement what little profit he makes from the farm. I guess he does it primarily for the quality of life. Certainly, they seem a happy family and you can often see them out working together, o