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UNIT 6: HIGH-FLYERS
I. WORD FORMATION
VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
1 accommodate accommodation
2 accuse accuser accusing accusingly
accused
3 advertise advertisement
advertising
advertiser
4 ambition ambitious ambitiously
ambitiousness
5 anonymous anonymously
6 create creation creative ≠ uncreative creatively≠
creativity uncreatively
creator
creativeness
7 criticize critic critical ≠ uncritical critically #
criticism uncritically
8 determine determination determined determinedly
indeterminate= unknown
9 disable disability disabled
disablement
10 approve # disapprove approval ≠ disapproval approving ≠ disapproving approvingly ≠
disapprovingly
11 edit edition editorial editorially
editor
editorial (an article in a
newspaper. )
12 employ employment ≠ self-employed
unemployment unemployed
employer
employee
13 enroll enrollment (enrolment)
14 ecology ecological ecologically
ecologist
15 entertain entertainment entertaining entertainingly
entertainer

16 enthuse enthusiasm enthusiastic ≠ enthusiastically ≠

enthusiast unenthusiastic unenthusiastically
17 entrepreneur entrepreneurial
18 flexibility ≠ inflexibility flexible ≠ inflexible flexibly ≠
inflexibly

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19 focus focus focused

20 fund fund
21 fury furious furiously
22 generosity generous generously
23 inspire inspiration inspirational
24 investigate investigation investigatory
investigative
25 relevance ≠ irrelevance relevant (to sth) ≠ relevantly ≠
irrelevant irrelevantly
26 loyalty ≠ disloyalty loyal ≠ disloyal loyally ≠
disloyally
27 maintain maintenance
28 major (in sth) major major majorly =
extremely
29 oppose opposition
30 opt (to do sth/ for sth) option optional optionally
31 optimise optimism ≠ pessimism optimistic ≠ pessimistic optimistically ≠
optimist ≠ pessimist pessimistically

32 organize (organise) organization ≠ organizational

≠ disorganize disorganization organized ≠ disorganized
organizer unorganized
33 patience ≠ impatience patience ≠ impatience patiently ≠
impatiently
34 prompt (make sb decide to prompt (reminder) prompt( quick/ immediate) promptly(on time/
do sth) promptness ( the quality of immediately/
doing sth quickly and without delay)
without delay, or at the
arranged time)
35 psychiatry(psychology) psychiatric psychiatrically
psychiatrist
36 punctuality punctual punctually
37 realize realization real ≠ unreal really
realism realistic ≠ unrealistic realistically
realist
reality ≠ unreality
38 deny denial undeniable undeniably

II. PHRASAL VERBS (Separable and Inseparable)

A. / Two-part phrasal verbs can be separable or inseparable . With separable phrasal verbs, the object can
come before or after the particle(for, up, with, etc….)
Ex: We must work out the solution/ We must work the solution out.
B. / When the object is a pronoun (her, it ,them,etc), it can only come after/before the particle.
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Ex: We should give it up.

C. / With inseparable phrasal verbs, the object always comes after/before the particle, even when it is a
pronoun.
Ex; She looks after her sick dad. She looks after him.
D. / Three-part phrasal verbs are always inseparable.
Ex: We won’t run out of energy. We won’t run out of it.
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End up
Break up
Call for
Work out
Run out (of)
Ask sb out
Bring up
Call off
Count on
Give up
Hold up
Take after
Turn into
Look down on sb/sth
Look sth up
Look up to sb.
III. GRAMMAR
1. Cleft sentences:
A./ We use cleft sentences : It is /was…….that……… to emphasize a piece of information.
Ex: It was from Heather that we heard the news.
B. / We use cleft sentences to make contrast.
Ex: It was an Iphone 14 that Joe bought, not a laptop.
C. / The emphasized part can be a noun (phrase) or an adverb (phrase or clause)
Ex: It was the question 6 that James missed.
It was because of the tattoo on her hand that Kate couldn’t get that job.
D. / If the emphasized information is a proper noun(a personal subject or object), who/whom can be used instead
of that
Ex: It was Joe who bought an Iphone 14 last week.
It was Ken, my boyfriend whom I admire the most.
2. GERUNDS, PERFECT GERUNDS AND PERFECT PARTICIPLES
A. / Gerunds are used as nouns, either as a subject or an object of a sentence.
Ex: Running is his favourite activity.
We suggested eating out this weekend.
B. / Present participle(V-ing) is used as a verb in a sentence.
Ex: Feeling tired, they looked for some benches to rest.
I heard my son playing the piano in the living room.
C. / Perfect gerund (having+ past participle)is used to emphasize a past action.

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Ex; The man was accused of having hunted in the national park illegally.
D. / Perfect participle is used for an action happening before another.
Ex: Having learned the lessons carefully, she finished the test well.

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PRACTICE
I. Complete each of the following sentences with a word or phrase from the box.
entrepreneur punctually indeterminate recycled maintenance
enthusing widespread use prompted with fury patience
1. Plastic can be recycled and sold for about ＄500 million a year.
2. It is lots of patience that a disability support worker needs to have in his job,
3. What prompted you to buy that old car?
4. The caretaker is responsible for the maintenance of the school buildings.
5. Last month, a young property entrepreneur bought a vacant house and sold it for twice the original value.
6. Having heard her awkward words, they became shaking with fury .
7. Rick was there, enthusing about life and his job in Paris.
8. It is hard to guess her age. She is a woman of indeterminate age.
9. Rachel Carson strongly disapproved of the widespread use of pesticides such as DDT.
10. Hurry up Jessica! We must leave now. The court session will start punctually at 9a.m.

II. Supply the correct form of the words in brackets.

1. Baxter was determined to go to the art school despite his parents’ disapproval. (approve)
2. The members of the jury did not believe the accuser was telling the truth. (accusation)
3. This course will give you some tips which can encourage creativity when you feel uncreative , and run out of
ideas. (creation)
4. If you want to start a new business, you must think intelligently and ambitiously. (ambition)
5.There is a feeling of unreality as if I was stepping into another world about the story which I’ve been reading.
(real)
6. My boyfriend always believes that good things will happen. I call him an eternal optimist. (optimize)
7. Sadly, some parents have totally unrealistic expectations of their children. (realism)
8. When I came, there was a queue of frustrated customers, waiting impatiently to be served. (patience)
9. ChiPu’s popularity among teenagers is undeniable especially during her participation in a famous Chinese
gameshow. (denial)
10. His mom disapprovingly asked him not to eat in the living room. She’s not in favor of crumbs in the couch.
(approval)

III. Supply the correct tenses or forms of the verbs in brackets.

1. Her opposition to using pesticides on agricultural farming has been supported by the chemical industry
recently.(support)
2. Do you agree it is necessary for pesticides to be banned ? (ban)
3. Would you mind if I turned up the television? (turn)
4. By the time you come back from the office, I will have prepared the dinner. (prepare)
5. My daughter saw my old friend whom she had not known before. (not/know)
6. Hard as he tried, he couldn’t catch up with his classmates. (try)
7. Not until Kate got home did she realize that she had taken someone else’s bike. (get/ realize)
8. After the argument, she has avoided meeting me .(avoid/ meet)
9. He regretted not expressing his love to her when they were in high school. (not/express)
10. They were rumored to have left the country for a secret destination last month. (rumour/ leave)
11. She is understood to have been offered over $ 3000 by the magazine for her story. (offer)
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12. Having heard a quick explanation from the teacher, we started discussing the solutions. (hear)
13. You should have got up earlier, then, you wouldn’t be late. ( get up)
14. Having to get up so early every morning is really getting me down . (get down)
15. We needn’t have taken extra food last Wednesday . The tour was carefully prepared. (take)
16. If you’ve broken the law, you can expect to be punished. (punish)
17. She was supposed to let them know the plans, but she didn’t bother. (suppose/ let)
18. James won’t come back until next week. You can’t have seen him in the bar last night. (not/ see)
19. Next month my father will have been working as an accountant for his company for 10 years (work)
20. They are always boasting that their son will become a gifted mathematician. (boast)

IV. Complete each of the following sentences with ONE suitable phrasal verb in the box. Use its correct
tenses or forms.
hold up bring up come up with call off count on
call for end up work out ask out break up
1. Jessica is always bringing up her job problems during her coffee break.
2. The director decided to call off the small projects to focus on the more important ones.
3. The movie is about a little boy who does not count on his parents and a lesson for being independent.
4. Traffic was held up for several hours by the accident this morning. I was 20 minutes late for work.
5. Despite many efforts, their marriage broke up in 1993 after a series of negotiations.
6. He asked me out last night but I had to work the night shift.
7. Working as a surgeon is the sort of work that calls for a high level of concentration.
8. The police had a full investigation to work out what caused the accident.
9. Much of this meat will probably end up as dog food if it can’t be sold out every day.
10. It’s cool and rewarding when you can come up with new strategies to help our project.

V. Use the structure of Cleft Sentences or Perfect Gerunds or Perfect Participles to rewrite the following
sentences.
1. All she’s concerned about is her son’s progress.
It is her son’s progress that she’s concerned about.
2./ Alfie bought 60 roses for his mother’s birthday.
→ It was for his mother’s birthday that Alfie bought 60 roses .
3. /My girlfriend wrote an excellent poem to praise her father on the Father’s Day .
→ It was on the Father’s Day that my girlfriend wrote an excellent poem to praise her father.
4./I started to operate the machine after I had read the instructions carefully.
Having read the instructions carefully, I started to operate the machine .
5. / She apologized to me because she hadn’t finished her report on time.
Not having finished her report on time, she apologized to me.
6./ Jane was sitting in the armchair. She was thinking of her happy childhood in the countryside.
Sitting in the armchair, Jane was thinking of her happy childhood in the countryside.
7. / I was walking in Tao Dan Park when I saw a gentle woman feeding the squirrels .
Walking in Tao Dan Park, I saw a gentle woman feeding the squirrels .
8. / He decided to write a book about his journeys after he had travelled to 50 countries in the world.
Having travelled to 50 countries in the world, he decided to write a book about his journeys.
9. / Katie felt hungry and went into the kitchen to cook some noodle.
Feeling hungry ,Katie went into the kitchen to cook some noodle.

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10. / His absence at the party made her worried.

It was his absence at the party that made her worried.

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VI. Supply the correct form of the words in brackets.
(Word formation chuyên)
1. Many hi-tech companies are run by entrepreneurial people rather than professional corporate managers.
(entrepreneur)
2. “We have a good chance of winning. ” our coach exclaimed optimistically. (optimism)
3. I felt so sorry for her when she’s totally uncritical of his son’s bad behaviors. (criticize)
4. The stubborn inflexibility prevented her from working with her classmates. (flexible)
5. Nick Vujicic is a nonprofit founder and entrepreneur whose many success stories make him one of the most
inspirational people of this century. (inspire)
6. I was so tired that I couldn’t argue with him about his unrealistically optimistic plans. (realism)
7. In advanced countries, public places are becoming more accessible to people with (disabilities. (disabled)
8. She became famous after a critical review of psychiatrically hospitalized children. (psychiatry)
9. Joe was accused of disloyalty to his boss since he had revealed a confidentiality agreement to his friend. (loyal)
10. Blair gave a long disorganized speech that left his teacher and friends confused. (organization)

VII. OPEN CLOZE: Complete the following passage with ONE suitable word.
When Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published in 1962, the book became a phenomenon. A passionate
and eloquent warning (1) about the long-term dangers of pesticides,the book unleashed an extraordinary national
debate and was greeted (2) by vigorous attacks from the chemical industry. But it would (3) also inspire President
John F. Kennedy to launch the first-ever investigation (4) into the public health effects of pesticides- an
investigation that would eventually result (5) in new laws governing the regulation of these deadly agents.
Featuring the voice of Mary-Louise Parker (6) as the influential writer and scientist, Rachel Carson is an
intimate portrait of the woman(7) whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship (8) to the natural
world. Drawn from Carson’s own writings and letters , this book illuminates (9) both the public and private life of
the woman (10) who launched the modern environmental movement and revolutionized how we understand our
relationship with the natural world.

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TEST FOR UNIT 6

I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others. (0.5 pts)
1. A. criticism B. enthusiasm C. flexibility D. edition
2. A. investigatory B. psychiatric C. punctuality D. enthusiastic

II. Choose the word which is stressed differently from the others. (0.5 pts)
3. A. maintain B. relevant C. ecology D. ambitious
4. A. disability B. creativity C. indeterminate D. anonymous

III. Choose the letter (A, B, C or D) that best completes each of the following sentences. (2.5 pts)
5. ………………I got beautiful photo shoots.
A. He was my best friend that B. It was from my best friend that
C. It was my best friend that D. Jack was my best friend
6./……..did Jane realize that she had lost her purse at the supermarket.
A. When she chose all necessaries B. After she had chosen all necessaries
C. On choosing all necessaries D. Only after choosing all necessaries
7./ I’d sooner you ……. the last Math test.
A. did B. could do C. had done better D. would have done
8./” Why didn’t you tell your mother your problem?” . ”I would have told her …………………….”
A. had she asked me to B. if she asked me
C. she had asked me D. if she’s asked me
9 ./ Were the teacher not to come , we ……………..put off the rehearsal .
A.would have been B. would have C. would have to D. should have to
10./ “You really made a terrible mistake when you didn’t come to the lecture yesterday.”
“I know. I ………the professor’s lecture yesterday.”
A. should have attended B. would attended C. should attend D. must have attended
11./ Not only will the boss accept the pay rise………agree about the longer vacation.
A. but also he B. but he also will C. he but also will D. he will but also
12./ It’ s only when my PowerPoint is properly prepared ……. the presentation in class.
A. which my group has B. it will have C. that my group has D. that does my group have
13./ We can’t help………ourselves …….what we have done.
A. contend/ with B. contending/ at C. to contend/with D. contending/with
14./ I suggest our classroom …….before the new school year.
A. be decorated B. were decorated C. should decorate D. is decorated

IV. Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting. (1.0 pt)
15. If every one has any questions , please contact us at the informed desk.
A B C D
16. Katie’s friends encouraged her taking part in the international piano competition.
A B C D
17. You needn’t have explaining much about your absence at the meeting .He was too officious to sympathize
A B C with you.
D
18. She was criticized by the chemical industry and some government officials, but she had never given up.
A B C D

V. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete the passage. (1.25 pts)

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Beatrix Potter was a story writer whose books about animals have been translated into many languages and
read by both children and adults. (19)…….. being an author, she was also regarded as a very successful farmer .
Born in London in 1866, Beatrix was (20)…………at home by various servants. Every year she counted the days
to her annual holiday in the countryside.She would take to her London home small animals which she(21)……
and drew. As she grew up, she entertained other children with drawings and stories about these animals. In 1901,
she printed a book at her own (22)……….called “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” So many (23)………copies were sold
that she bought a farm, where over the next eight years she wrote many other stories. They all sold very well and
readers liked their detailed color drawings.
19. A. Apart B. Beside C. Besides D. Otherwise
20. A. looked for B. cared for C. minded D. asked for
21. A. observed B. examined C. checked D. brought up
22. A. earnings B. spending C. charge D. expense
23. A. images B. articles C. originals D. copies

VI. Read the passage and choose the most suitable answer to each question. (1.25 pts)
Although both Luther Burbank and George Washington Carver drastically changed American agriculture
and were close friends besides, their methods of working could hardly have been more dissimilar. Burbank’s
formal education ended with high school, but he was inspired by the works of Charles Darwin. In1872, on his farm
near Lunenberg, Massachusetts, he produced his first “plant creation”- a superior potato developed from the Early
Rose variety. It still bears his name. After moving to Santa Rosa, California, in 1875, Burbank created a stream of
creations , earning the nickname “the plant wizard”. He developed varieties of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and
other plants, many of which are still economically important. He began his work some thirty years before the
rediscovery of Gregory Mendel’s work on heredity, and while he did not participate in the developing science of
plant genetics, his work opened the country’s eyes to the productive possibilities of plant breeding. However, the
value of his contributions was diminished by his methods. He relied on his keen memory and powers of
observation and kept records only for his own use. He thus thwarted other scientists from studying his
achievements.
Carver, on the other hand, was a careful researcher who took thorough notes. Born a slave , he attended
high school in Kansas, Simpson College in Iowa, and Iowa State College, which awarded him a master’s degree.
When the eminent black educator Booker T. Washington offered him a position at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama,
he accepted. While Burbank concentrated on developing new plants, Carver found new uses for existing ones. He
produced hundreds of synthetic products made from the soybean, the sweet potato, and especially the peanut,
helping to free Southern agriculture from the tyranny of cotton.

24. What is the author’s main purpose in writing the passage?

A. To demonstrate how Carver and Burbank influenced American agriculture.
B. To compare the products created by two agricultural scientists
C. To contrast the careers and methods of two scientists.
D. To explain how Charles Darwin inspired both Carver and Burbank.
25. According to the passage, which of the following best describes the relationship between Burbank and Carver?
A. They were competitors. B.Carver was one of Burbank’s teachers.
B. Burbank invited Carver to work with him. D.They were friendly neighbors.
26. It can be inferred that Burbank’s first “plant creation” is known as the ……………..
A. Early Rose potato B. Burbank potato C. Lunenberg potato D. Wizard potato

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27. The word his in bold refers to…………….

A. George Washington Carver’s B. Gregory Mendel’s
C. Luther Burbank’s D.Charles Darwin’s
28. Which of the following a closest in meaning to the word thwarted in bold ?
A. restored B. predated C. nurtured D. prevented

VII. Use the correct form of the word given. (1.0 pt)
29. We have to discuss this issue again since we seem to be focusing too much on irrelevant details. (relevance)
30. Investigators needed several months to work out the motive of those criminals. (investigate)
31.The government should have a more flexibly reformed approach to education. (flexibility)
32. His father’s commitment to the school is clear and his integrity is undeniably proven. (deny)

VIII. Rewrite the following sentences as directed. Do not change the words given. Remember to keep the
meaning unchanged. (2 pts)
33. Basil revised his lessons carefully, so he got such a good result in the final exam. (NOT)
Had Basil not revised his lessons carefully, he wouldn’t have got such a good result in the final exam.
34. Polly decided to put an end to the relationship with her boyfriend after their argument. (UP)
Polly decided to break up the relationship with her boyfriend after their argument.
35. Not until Friday did they deliver our equipment . (THAT)
It wasn’t until Friday that they delivered our equipment.
36. I noticed a small hole on the back of my dress after I washed it last Thursday. (WASHED)
Having washed the dress last Thursday, I noticed a small hole on its back.

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