4. He sits in his apartment cutting ______ magazines and then collected the pieces.

3. During the debate my opponent kept cutting ______.

2. The village was cut _______ from the outside world by heavy snow for a month

1. If we don't sell more goods, we'll have to cut _______ production.

3. cut back on减少

Mr Lin suggested we should cut back on the amount of things we produce in order to save the environment.(p23)

拓展：

cut off切断 cut up 切碎 cut down 砍倒，削减 cut out 切掉 cut short 剪断；打断 cut…into pieces 把……切成碎片 cut open… 切开 cut across / through 穿过 cut in 插嘴；(突然)插入

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用cut的正确短语填空：

2. lie with(做出决定等)得靠……；应由……(承担责任)

[原句]If so, the problem lies with you, not her. (p5)

例如：It lies with you to accept or reject the proposal.

拓展：

lie in在于……；lie 后用介词to(即lie to the east/west of…)表示方位或朝向，意即“在……之东/之西”，并不强调是否接壤；强调二者交界则用介词on(lie on the east/west of…),还可用来表示“在……河畔”；lie in表示“在……境内”。

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请用相关介词填空：

1). Ireland lies _____ the west of Britain.

2). Canada lies _____ the north of the United States.

3). Japan lies _____ the east of China.

4). Shanghai lies _____ east of China.

5). The decision on whether to do it lies _____ the Minister.

6). Carefulness leads to success while failure may lie _____ carelessness.

1. keep one’s word守信用，履行诺言

[原句]I was so angry that I went straight to Hannah and told her we weren’t going to be friends any more because she couldn’t keep her word. (p2)

拓展：

break one’s word食言，失信get word / have word 获得消息，听说，得知 give/pass one’s word 保证，承担；答应，允诺leave word留言 word by word逐字地 have a word with sb.跟某人说话 have words with sb.同某人吵架 get in a word 插话 in a word总之 Word comes / has come that 消息传来

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He left ____ with my secretary that he would call again in the afternoon and he did keep his ____.

A. words; words　　 B. word; word　　 C. word; words　　 D. the word; words