Enhancing Conversational Skills: Expressing Likes, Turn-Taking, and Whole Concepts

1. UNIT EIGHT

2. 1.--- Would you like another piece of…? ---I’d like to./ I’d love to./. ---I’d like to, but…./I wish I could, but… ---I am sorry I can’t. ---Thank you very much, but…..

3. 2. Well ,just a little please. • a little of +不可数名词= a bit of+u.n • a little/ a bit+adj./ adv. • just/ only a little/ a few • not a little =very • not at all = not at all • I was ________tired. I couldn’t go any further. not a little

4. 3.take turns to do sth/ at sth • by turns (adv) 轮流地/依次地.. • We drove the car by turns • We took turns at driving the car. • in turn(s) • They sang songs on the stage in turn. • on the turn 正在转变. • The milk is on the turn. • Their opinions are on the turn

5. 3. Sometimes they cooked it whole… • whole全体的,全部的 • 完全的, 整个的 • The whole building caught fire. • A whole cake • We eat this type of fish whole • Wholly adv. 完全地=completely • I don’t wholly believe him.

6. C • 1._____is known to all, China will be an_____powerful country in 20or30 years. • A.That;advancing B.This; advanced • C.As ; advanced D. It ; advancing • 2.In the office I never seem to have time until after5:30 p.m., _____many people have got home. • A. whose time B. that C. on which • D. by which D

7. C • 3. All of the flowers now raised here have developed from those ____in the forest. • A.once they grew B.they grew once • C.they once grew D.once grew • 4.Carol said the work would be done by October,___personally I doubt very much. • A. it B. that C. when D. which D

8. A • 5. Is this the reason____at the meeting for his carelessness in his work? • A. he explained • B. what he explained • C. how he explained • D. why he explained

9. D • He is the only one of the students who____ a winner of scholarship for three years. • A.is B. are C.have been D.has been • Recently I bought Chinese vase,____ was very reasonable. • A. which price B. the price of which • C. its price D. the price of whose B