1-5 ABABC 6-9 BCDA
Unit 2
Text A
Comprehension of text
1. He got no thanks for returning a wallet, though he deserved to.
2. He wants to show how much people need gratitude to keep up a spirit of kindness and cooperation.
3. She saved up for two years, went to Normandy in person, and gave her son's gold wristwatch to the woman.
4. He send a short recording expressing his appreciation of the author's thoughtfulness and sent it to the author.
5. A patient whose life was saved by a blood transfusion came back again and again to donate his blood anonymously so that more patients could be saved. 6. He does it by citing W.H. Hudson's gratitude for his wife's day-to-day heroism. 7. Those people who do little things for us all year round. 8. It can make people take infinite pains with their work.
9. Gratitude is needed all the time and none of us can give too much of it.
Vocabulary
1 intention 2.sincere 3.glaring 4.sore 5 trace 6.render 4.denial 5.proof 9 tribute 7.conventional 11.generous 12.gratitude
13 slammed 14.agreeable
1 caught/took my fancy 2.a mistake on John's part 3 take for granted 4.think twice 5 saved up 6.referred to 7 boast about 8.took pains with 9 refrain from 10.something of 11 in one way or another 12.fed up
Word building
1.altitude 2.aptitude 3.attitude 4.longitude 5.fortitude 6.mulitiude 7.latitude 8.solitude
1 coordination 2.coexist 3.co-workers 4.co-owners 5 co-authored 6.Cooperation 7.Coeducation 8.copilot
Structure
1.no sacrifice for the education of the young was too great 2.No price is too high to pay in order to save their lives 3.cannot be too careful in performing an experiment 4.They cannot praise him too much 5.can not be overemphasized 6.cannot be overestimated
Cloze
1-5 BACDD 6-10 BABCD 11-15 BADCA
Transition
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。
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.
Text B
Guessing the meaning from the context
1- 6 CADABD 7-12CACABD
Vocabulary
1 apt 2interpreting 3presumed 4distinction 5undergo 6reconcile 7intrude 8accquainting 9annoyed 10trivial 11frail 12 deny 13blurred 14convention
Error correction
1not just friends and families not just with friends and families
2his their 3writting written 4 what that/which 5extreme 6because of they don’t because they don’t
7 for by 8even they even though they 9harmful harmless Text C
1-5BDCDB 6-10DBBAC
Unit 3
Text A
extremely 10 that it