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Unit1
Vocabulary
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1) allot
2) go through fire and water 3) reside 4) sobbed
5) made no mention of 6) sacrifice 7) came upon 8) rhythm 9) volume
10) something of a
2.
1) I stayed on as an assistant professor.
2) I hold it to my ear because I want to hear time tick away. 3) The salary is not wonderful, but the duties are light. 4) The moral of the lesson is not to talk to strangers. 5) Yes, but it cannot hold a candle to Huangshan.
3.
1) The nasty smell from the kitchen made her stomach churn.
2) When she sank into drunkenness, she was able to forget her sorrow. 3) In the 1,500 meters, Martin and Parker came first and third respectively.
4) The two hills Shunner Fell from the north and Lovely Seat from the south flank the famous Butter Tubs Pass.
5) Levi, in gratitude to Joshua, gave a party for him.
4.
1) Ambition ambition regardless of 2) discourse by way of 3) is engraved inward
5.
1) have come upon / across 2) had come out 3) come on / up 4) came across 5) comes down to 6) came around / to
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7) comes to 8) came through 9) came up with 10) comes up
Usage
1) the Wilsons 2) Mark Twain 3) Annie Johnsons
4) another Winston Churchill 5) a Mrs. Burton 6) a Budweiser 7) A Monet 8) an old Ford
Cloze 1.
1) go through fire and water 2) salary 3) give 4) no peace 5) sink into 6) ambition 7) By way of 8) expressive 9) churned 10) engraved
11) not hold a candle to 12) inward
2.
1) Success 2) literacy 3) significantly 4) promoting 5) appropriate 6) too 7) later
8) repetition 9) invented 10) less
Translation
Although my grandmother was illiterate, she had a good stock of myths and legends. When I was young I gave her no peace, constantly asking her to tell me stories. After she had finished her
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housework, she would lift me onto her lap and tell stories, all the while rocking me in rhythm. Having noticed my interest in stories, my parents lost no time in initiating me into reading. They bought many storybooks with illustrations, and whenever free, they would read these stories to me over and over again. By and by I had a vocabulary large enough to read on my own.
Unit2
Vocabulary
1.
1) appetite 2) destructive 3) agency 4) processed 5) saturated 6) utter 7) hoisted 8) referring to 9) retrieve
10) Unfortunately
2.
1) Peter was chasing the dog and Tom was riding the wooden horse in the garden. 2) They all looked on except one young man. He took her to the hospital instantly. 3) I laid charges against the company and won the case.
4) If we want to stay competitive, first of all we need to modernize our factory. 5) They got irrigation water from the dammed rivers.
3.
1) Except in the oases the desert is almost devoid of vegetation, although some stunted, thorny shrubs grow in the western Sahara.
2) The fruits growing wild in the coastal forest are edible.
3) The national security agency made recommendations for improving safety standards in airplanes / to improve safety standards in airplanes.
4) The Beatles enjoyed success on a scale unparalleled by any previous pop group.
5) The emergence of language was a defining factor in the evolution of modern humans.
4.
1) Excluding packaged to boost / of boosting 2) comes second to infected with traces of
3) vegetarian are bred slaughtered ideal reduction
5.
1) get over
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2) got to
3) get through 4) get over 5) get by 6) get away 7) got in 8) get … out 9）get along
10）get away with
Usage
1. sing a pop song
2. died a miserable death 3. live a harmonious life 4. Breathing a deep breath 5. dreamed a bad dream 6. smiled a bitter smile 7. a hard fight to fight 8. sleep a troubled sleep
Cloze 1.
1) exclude 2) stubborn 3) devoid of 4) bow to 5) potent 6) drawbacks 7) contaminating 8) heightened 9) infected
10) come second to 2.
1) consumption 2) between 3) packed 4) evident 5) population 6) encouraging 7) grave 8) against 9) criticize 10) itself
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