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became the largest one on the campus.
3. With the Internet becoming increasingly popular for young people to connect with their friends, letter writing is becoming less and less common. 7
1. With the traditional values in their heads, most parents found it hard to accept their children’s thinking.
2. With this kind of jeans out of fashion, young people do not like to wear them any more now.
3. With the differences in their skills and abilities, the young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds..
Collocation 8
1 fluid 2 contemporary 3 radical 4 enormous 5 prideful 6 competitive 7 rebellious 8 transition 9 unavoidable 10 traditional 11 unique 12 peculiar
Keys to Unit 3 Text B Understanding the text 2
1. A 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. B 6. D 7. D 8. C
Words in use 4
1. hollow 2. restless 3. demonstrate 4. exiled 5. miserable 6. commercial 7. hesitated 8. erupt 9. refine 10. Feasible
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Expression in use 5
1. are tired of 2 fall into 3 be strict with 4 not amount to much
5 drifted off 6 bonded with 7 resign himself to 8 surrender themselves to
Sentence structure 6
1. The man walked slowly, with one hand pulling with effort at his coat and the other holding tightly on to his trousers.
2. With more and more students joining it, the new club soon expanded and became the largest one on the campus.
3. With the Internet becoming increasingly popular for young people to connect with their friends, letter writing is becoming less and less common. 7
1. With the traditional values in their heads, most parents found it hard to accept their children’s thinking.
2. With this kind of jeans out of fashion, young people do not like to wear them any more now.
3. With the differences in their skills and abilities, the young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds..
Collocation 8
1 fluid 2 contemporary 3 radical 4 enormous 5 prideful 6 competitive 7 rebellious 8 transition 9 unavoidable 10 traditional 11 unique 12 peculiar
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Unit 4 Text A Ex. 1
1. The author uses this sentence to tell her own love story. She didn’t expect that she would end up marrying Butch. He became her boyfriend just because of her wish to find a cute boyfriend. She didn’t really want to marry him at the beginning.
2. Because when she met up with Butch the first time, he kept staring at her all night long. He flattered her and fell in love with her at first sight. He looked really wild or maybe even dangerous.
3. Because Butch had a “bad boy image” which was very tempting to a lot of girls, and his wild, dynamic personality was a little frightening. She didn’t know whether she could be getting along with him.
4. Though she always had an excellent reputation in respect to her schoolwork, she thought that her college life was dull, with no fun. In her opinion, college was supposed to be a time of great learning and also of some fun.
5. Because she was becoming more interested in him and she wanted to find out if she was the “right” date in the eyes of Butch, thinking of herself as a traditional girl.
6. It means that Butch didn’t want to do anything to change his bad situation. The word fate here refers to the fact that Butch was going to be expelled from the
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7. Though Butch was wild and would sometimes display directly his love in front of her friends, he was always a perfect gentleman at his core. And they had a pure and responsible relationship for seven years.
8. The author and her husband’s faithful journey of love that started with a causal attraction but bloomed into a mature love proves that romantic love can last long through the ups and downs in life. Ex. 3
1. confess 2. tempting 3. commence 4. coordinating 5. granted
6. deserved 7. displayed 8. consequently 9. lodged 10. proceed Ex. 4 -ed
Contented compress complicate -ion
Identification justification qualification Illustration exhibit extension Interpretation plantation perception Ex. 5
1. qualifications 2. perception 3. plantations 4. compressed 5. exhibit
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