Text C

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Unit 5

Text A Vocabulary

1 emulated 2 requesting 3 succeeding 4 miniature 5 inevitable

6 sizable 7 practically 8 outraged 9 craving 10 maximum, maximum 11 afflicts 12 ignorance 13 intense 14 intervals 15 correspondence

1 take charge of 2 get hold of 3 who live off 4 smile (up) on 5 adjust to 6 reflect upon 7 in person 8 due to 9 along with 10 picking up 11 checked out 12 stuck out

Word building

1 indoor 2 influx 3 inhaled 4 input 5inquire 6 insights 7 immigrated 8 implanted 9 impressed 10 imperiled 11 imports 12 including

Structure

1 you might as well tell me the whole story 2 I think we as well buy this computer 3 I might as well be talking to a brick wall 4 we might as well have stayed at home

5 I might as well sell the farm and try and find a happy life somewhere else

1 with 2 at 3 on /about 4 on 5 with

1 I’m curious about anything you may mention 2 Some of us like this film

3 No matter how old we are, we still can and should learn new things

4 Jefferson would only accept other person’s opinions after considering them carefully 5 Dr. Haines took care of every person in the village

6 The government lawyers tried their best to stop AT& from controlling the market

Close

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Transition

我经常思考阅读为我打开的新境界。我当时在狱中就知道，阅读已永远改变了我的人生历程。今天看来，阅读能力唤醒了在我内心潜伏已久的对于思想活跃的渴望。我当然不是在追求任何学位，那只是大学赋予学生地位象征的方式。我通过自学所受到的教育使我每多读一本书就更深切地意识到正在给美国黑人带来苦难的视听不明和有口难言。不久前，一位英国作家从伦敦打来电话问了我几个问题。其中一个问题是，“你的母校是哪所学校？”我告诉他，“是书本。”在任何一个空闲的十五分钟里，你都会发现我在学习一些我觉得可能有助于黑人的东西 ...

1 As you can image, reading has opened a new world to me and changed forever the course of my life.

2 He had demonstrated an unusually intense interest in books since childhood. So fascinated with books was he that he never let a day pass without doing some reading.

3 Every time he takes the subway to and from work, he was with him a book that he wants to read. That is the way he has read nearly a hundred books in the past three years.

4 When he was in high school, he used to read deep/far into the night in his own room. Each time he heard the approaching footsteps of his mother, he would turn off the light and freighted sleep, but as soon as mother passed, he would turn on the light and begin reading again.

5 There is hardly anything about China he’s not curious about. And to satisfy his curiosity he has decided to go there in person to see as much as he can.

6 I don’t know I have little/no idea what made your son envy that pop singer and try to emulate him in everything. You might as well ask him in person.

7 As soon as he checked out the book from the library, he thumbed through its pages by the corridor light.

8 I don’t think anyone ever learned more in the countryside than I did. In fact, those three years in the countryside enabled me to study far intensively than I would have if I had attended some college.

Text B

Vocabulary exercises

1 vocational 2 surplus 3 suspense 4identity 5 punched 6 comparative 7 approximately 8overfloeing 9 quest 10 limitations 11 assembly 12 Furthermore 13 supplement 14 detailed

1 to be sure 2 impose on 3 a measure of 4 lived through 5 for life 6 with ease 7 after all 8 all too often 9 summed up 10 slipped away 11 choose from 12 at your convenience 13 beyond belief 14 kept a close eye on 15 breaking her stride

Error correction

1 easy difficult

2 in twenty-first century in the twenty-first century 3 Archilochus, who has already described Archilochus has already described 4 therefore but 5 much little 6 his their 7 with to 8 engaged in engaged 9 increasingly increasing 10 positive negative

Text C

Guessing meaning from the context

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4. They did it by way of the alphabet 5 A

6 one’s physical senses

7 her physical awareness of certain words, in this case the ‘moon’ 8 D

9 She came to know that she could learn marvelous things from books while away the schoolroom.

10 (nor had she ever dreamed that)’I would slip into a life-long habit of learning through reading about on my own, and that I gleaned from books, that is, pieces of knowledge and understanding about things around me, would come to exert such a profound influence over my life.’ 11B 12 B