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3 Some phrases or expressions from Text B are hidden in the
following picture. Find the phrases or expressions and then use them to complete the sentences with the help of the clues.
1) He sweeps the floor for the hotel to work out (以工作抵偿) the cost of board. (Para. 1)
2) She was unused to (不习惯) talking about herself. (Para. 4)
3) After waiting for a long time，the little boy is out of patience(不耐烦). (Para. 4)
4) The bad weather has added to (增加) the difficulties in our work. (Para. 4)
5) The homeless people in the city have to walk the streets (走街串巷), begging for food and money. (Para. 5)
6) We were terrified when we came on / upon (发现) a snake behind the little cottage on the edge of the wood. (Para. 5)
7) Eva was cutting the grass, and in the meantime (与此同时) Adam was planting roses. (Para. 7)
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8) From this book written by a movie star we get / have got the idea (领悟到) that those people in the limelight are just ordinary people — even famous faces have flaws! (Para. 7)
Checking Your Comprehension
1 Answer the following questions with the information contained in Text B.
1) How did the author get to know about the school for coloured people in Virginia?
He overheard two miners talking about it while working in the coal-mine.
2) Why did the author resolve to go to the school?
Because he heard that the school was established for coloured people and opportunities were provided to poor but worthy students to work out all or a part of the cost of board and learn some trade or industry at the same time.
3) What kind of situation was he in when he reached the city of Richmond late one night?
He was tired, hungry and dirty. And he was completely out of money. He had not a single acquaintance in the city, and, being unused to city ways, he didn’t know where to go.
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4) How did he spend his first night in Richmond?
He walked the streets till he became too exhausted to walk any longer. Then he found an elevated sidewalk and lay under it for the night upon the ground.
5) How did he earn some money for his breakfast the next morning?
He helped unloading a cargo of pig iron from a large ship.
6) Why didn’t the head teacher admit the author to the institution at first?
Because of being so long without proper food, a bath and change of cloth, he didn’t make a very favourable impression upon her.
7) How did the author get a chance to prove his worthiness to the head teacher?
The head teacher asked him to sweep the adjoining classroom and he did an excellent job, which proved his worthiness as a student in the institute.
2 Read the following statements and then decide whether each of them is true or false based on the information in the text. Write T for True and F for False in the space provided before each statement. 1) F At Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute poor but worthy students had
opportunities to pay just a part of the cost of board.
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(Poor but worthy students were provided opportunities to earn money to pay all or a part of the cost of food in the school and at the same time learn some trade or industry.)
2) T On the first day of his journey, he realized that he didn’t have enough
money to go to Hampton.
3) F He reached the city of Richmond by walking and begging for a number of
days.
(He reached the city of Richmond by walking and begging rides for a number of days.)
4) T Though he was tired and hungry, he still believed that he would reach
Hampton.
5) F By helping unload a big ship, he earned enough money to buy a chicken leg
and an apple pie for his breakfast.
(By helping unload a big ship, he earned enough money for his breakfast.)
6) F He felt that a new kind of existence had begun because he arrived at the
school with a surplus of 50 cents.
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