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4. up 5. to/for 6. on 7. as 8. out

6. Sentence structure

1. He always prefers to start early rather than leave everything to the last minute. 2. She prefers to be the boss, to be in charge and to organize others rather than be organized by someone whom she may not even rate very highly.

3. My brother preferred to take the whole blame himself rather than allow it to fall on the innocent.

7. Sentence structure

1. Try as he would, he was not able to think up any way to find the place where the first black men had dug their diamonds. 2. Search as they would, they were unable to

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find anything that was at all different from other well-known portions of China. 3. Try as we might, we could not get out of the difficult situation that we are in at the moment.

Collocation Warm-up

1. repeated overwhelming immense 2. heroic

substantial

3. attained fueled achieve 8.

1. sudden opportunity 2. immense obstacles 3. amazing determination 4. profound difficulties 5. overwhelming failures 6. poverty-stricken 7. substantial hardships 8. repeated misfortunes

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9. sheer persistence 10. dazzle…audience 11. achieve fame 12. strong will

课文翻译：

课文B Unit 1

机会偏爱有准备之人

1莱斯·布朗和其孪生兄弟出生于迈阿密一个异常贫困的街区，出生后不久就一起被厨工玛米·布朗收养。

2由于儿时过度好动，还爱不停地说话，莱斯被送到专为学习困难儿童而设的特殊教育班，并一直读到了高中。一毕业，他就成了一名垃圾清运工。大家都觉得 他将来不会有什么好前途，但他自己却不这么想。他有激情，有梦想——一个让他为之奋斗的伟大梦想。他觉得自己一定会成为电台音乐唱片节目主持人，通常也叫“DJ”，那可是电台名人．专门为面向全市的广播制作音乐节目。

3一到晚上，他就带着收音机上床睡觉，这样他就可以一边听着当地DJ的节目，一边沉浸在自

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己的梦想里。他在自己的小卧室里营造了一个假想电台。他把梳子当麦克风，劲头十足地对着想象中的听众练习自己的杰作。

4他无休止地练习让朋友们不胜其烦。他们都说他根本没有机会，永远都不可能成为DJ。他们嘲弄他，告诉他别做白日梦，要面对现实。然而，这些负面影响并没有让莱斯停止追求。他心中一直铭记自己的目标，继续沉浸在自己的世界里，全身心投入到对未来的准备中，去实现他成为著名DJ的梦想。

5一天，莱斯决定主动出击，开始自已的事业。他大胆地来到当地电台，告诉经理他熟悉电台布局环境，完全可以成为一名DJ。

6经理满腹狐疑地看着这个一身工作服还戴着顶草帽的邋遢年轻人，问他：“你了解播音的专业知识吗？”

7莱斯回答说：“不，先生，我不了解。” 8“哦，孩子，那恐怕我们没法雇用你，”经理直截了当地回应。就这样，莱斯对成功的第一次尝试完全以失败告终。

9 莱斯十分坚定。他很爱自己的养母玛米·布朗，还精打细算攒钱为她买喜欢的东西。尽管人人都

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