4.They cannot praise him too much 5.can not be overemphasized 6.cannot be overestimated VIII

BACDD BABCD BADCA IX

一些人不愿表达感激之情，因为他们觉得这不会受欢迎。我的一个病人在出院几个星期后回到医院感谢他的护士。“我没有更早地回来，”他解释说，“是因为我猜想你们对于人们的感激一定厌烦得要命。”“正好相反，”她回答说，“我很高兴你来。很少有人意识到我们多么需要鼓励，我们从那些鼓励我们的人身上获得了多大的帮助。”我们所给予的感激永远不会过多。因为我们身边的人在构筑他们的人生哲学时所依据的正是这些微笑、我们所表示的感谢和我们表示欣赏的各种小小的示意动作。

X

1.He glared at John and was annoyed by his refusal to cooperate.

2.John's sincere speech shows his gratitude to the people who rendered him generous help when he was in difficulty.

3.He is something of a stamp collector. The fact that once he saved up for two years to buy a rare stamp is proof of it. 4.The beauty of these roses could not be overstated. They took/caught all the visitors fancy in one way or another. 5.At first he took it for granted that they should build more highways in this area. Then a careful calculation of the expenditure compelled him to think twice before he made the final decision.

6.Each time he receives a gift from me, no matter how small, my friend Bill never fails to acknowledge it.

7.The journalist has decided to trace the young man referred to in the old couple's letter, which is a tribute to the young man's effort at improving their living conditions.

8.Though he was fed up with the salesmen who knocked at his door and boasted about their products every day, he refrained from slamming the door in their face. Unit 3

TEXT A II

1.He changed his perspective and observed people who did not have smallpox.

2.He wants to give a good example of lateral thinking. 3.He compares the human brain to a computer and the change of one's point of view to the reprogramming of the computer. 4.It is to fight it.

5.He calls it vertical thinking.

6.He used the technique of lateral thinking.

7.The key is to make a shift in emphasis instead of fighting the problem head-on.

8.They should change their point of view and regard themselves as their body's keeper.

9.Very often lateral thinking yields much better results than vertical thinking.

10.It is approaching the target from a sideways point of view instead of approaching it directly.

III

1.tactic 2.utmost 3.structure 4.slack 5.significance

6.head-on 7.dead end 8.erased 9.framework 10.vertical;vertical

11.ceased 12.flaw 13.implies 14.affirmed IV

1.wound up being 3.take in 5.take over 2.pulling on 4.in effect 6.ended up teaching V

1.approach 2.fought 3.cure 4.pressured 5.focus 6.approach 7.program 8.experienced 9.switch 10.escape 11.fail 12.escaped