Unit One Text A
Comprehension Content Questions Pair Work
1 He used to be utterly bored by English courses. 2 When he was in the third year in high school.
3 He heard that Mr. Fleagle was dull, formal, rigid, and hopelessly out of date, and unable to inspire. He thought he was excessively prim and proper. 4 Because he expected the topics would be dull. 5 The art of Eating Spaghetti.
6 Because this topic brought back vivid memories of a night in Belleville when he and his family members learned how to eat spaghetti.
7 He thought he would violate all the rules of formal composition he’d learned in school, and Mr. Fleagle would surely give it a failing grade.
8 He was preparing himself for a command to report to Mr. Fleagle immediately after school for discipline.
9 He announced that he wanted to read an essay to the class.
10 Mr. Fleagle was reading Mr. Baker’s essay to the class. The class listened attentively, and then the entire class was laughing with open-hearted enjoyment. 11 Because both Mr. Fleagle and his classmates appreciated his essay very much.
12 Probably he meant that the way Baker’s essay was composed was exactly the way essays should be written or that the essence of a good essay is that it can move readers.
Text Organization Working on Your Own
1 2 Baker’s impression of his new English teacher
4 Vivid memories the title brought back 6 Anticipating punishment
8 Classmates’ response to the essay
2 Part Two: Baker found himself attracted by one particular topic and wrote about it
for his own joy.
Part Three: The experience of writing the essay helped him discover his talent for writing and realize what he wished to do in life.
Language Sense Enhancement
1 ⑴ warmth (2) put it down (3) recapture and hold (4) relive (5) however
(6) violate (7) composition (8) a failing grade (9) mind (10) for myself
Language Focus 1 Vocabulary
1 1) respectable 2) agony 3) put down 4) sequence 5) hold back 6) distribute 7) off and on 8) vivid 9) associate 10) finally 11) turn in 12) tackle
2 1) has been assigned to the newspaper’s Paris office.
2) was so extraordinary that I didn’t know whether to believe him or not. 3) a clear image of how she would look in twenty years’ time. 4) gave the command the soldiers opened fire. 5) buying bikes we’ll keep turning them out. 3 1) reputation, rigid, to inspire
2) and tedious, What’s more, out of date ideas
3) compose, career, avoid showing, hardly hold back
II Synonyms in Context
1 composed 2 severe 3 agony 4 extraordinary 5 recall 6 command 7 was violating 8 anticipate
III Collocation
1 at 2 for 3 of 4 with 5 as 6 about 7 to 8 in, in 9 from 10 on/upon
Comprehensive Exercises 1 Cloze 1 Text-related
(1) hold back (2) tedious (3) scanned (4) recall (5) vivid (6) off and on (7) turn out/in (8) career
2 Theme-related
(1) last (2) surprise (3) pulled (4) blowing (5) dressed (6) scene (7) extraordinary (8) image (9) turn (10) excitement
II Translation
1
1) As it was a formal dinner party, I wore formal dress, as Mother told me to.
2) His girlfriend advised him to get out of/get rid of his bad habit of smoking before it
took hold.
3) Anticipating that the demand for electricity will be high during the next few months, they have decided to increase its production.
4) It is said that Bill has been fired for continually violating the company’s safety rules. / Bill is said to have been fired for continually violating the company’s safety rules.
5) It is reported that the government has taken proper measures to avoid the possibility of a severe water shortage. / The local government is reported to have taken proper measures to avoid the possibility of a severe water shortage.
2 Susan lost her legs because of / in a car accident. For a time, she didn’t know how to face up to the fact that she would never (be able to) walk again.
One day, while scanning (though) some magazines, a true story caught her eye/she was attracted by a true story. It gave a vivid description of how a disabled girl became a writer. Greatly inspired, Susan began to feel that she, too, would finally be able to lead a useful life.
Text B Comprehension Check
1 c 2 a 3 c 4 d 5 b 6 d
Translation
1 我的耳朵里嗡嗡作响，听不见他们后来讲的话，只东一点西一点深入片言只语。“……玛莎是墨西哥人……辞职……不干……” 2 等我意识到我的这番话的意思时，为时已晚。爷爷知道我明白那不是钱的问题。不是那个问题。
3 第二天，我沉默不语，一幅十分伤心的小女孩的模样，拖着脚步走进校长办公室。
4 他看上去像孩子般开心，像孩子般天真无邪，可是我心里比谁都明白。
Language Practice
1
1) b 2) d 3) a 4) f 5) c 6) g 7) h 8) e 2
1) resigned 2) expectation 3) have maintained 4) represents 5) exception 6) was awarded 7) plus 8) make it 9) dedicate 10) innocent
11) compare to 12) significance
Unit Two
Text A
Comprehension Content Questions Pair Work
1 He was reading a letter. 2 No.
3 The driver talked about his friend with the author. 4 They had been friends since childhood.
5 They attended the same primary school and high school, and always went to school together.
6 They hadn’t seen each other more than once or twice a year because the driver moved away from the old neighborhood. 7 Old Ed was dead.
8 Because he was very regretful.
9 He thought he himself also neglected keeping up correspondence with his friends. 10 Because they had been good friends over the years. They were old now, and there weren’t many people at their age still alive.
11 The driver felt that their friendship over the years had been very important to him, more important than he could say because he was not good at expressing his feelings. 12 He decided to write a letter at once because he didn’t want to make the same mistake as the driver did.
Text Organization Working on Your Own 1
1) The story begins with the cab driver reading a letter. 2) The letter Tom wrote to his friend Ed.
3) Their conversation was centered on the lifelong friendship between the driver and Old Ed.
4) The author got to learn more about their friendship by reading the letter himself.
2 Part Two: Reading the letter by himself, the author learned more about the lifelong
friendship between the driver and Old Ed.
Part Three: The driver’s experience urged the author to reach for his pen.
Language Sense Enhancement
1 (1) come to think of (2) as well (3) used to (4) much of a (5) correspondence (6) take it
(7) quite a while (8) so
(9) All the way (10) friendship
Language Focus 1 Vocabulary
1
1) absolutely 2) available
3) every now and then 4) are urging/urged 5) destination 6) mostly 7) hangs out 8) right away 9) reunion
10) or something 11) estimate 12) going ahead 2
1) in the examination was still on his mind.
2) was completely choked up by the sight of his team losing in the final minutes of the game.
3) was so lost in study that she forgot to have dinner.
4) has come up and I am afraid I won’t be able to accomplish the project on time. 5) of equipping the new hospital was estimated at $2 million. 3
1) were postponed, the awful, is estimated 2) reference, not available, am kind of 3) not much of a teacher, skips, go ahead
II Collocation
1 to 2 for 3 at 4 from 5 in 6 to, on 7 on 8 with
III Usage
1 more or less 2 kind of/ sort of 3 something 4 kind of/ sort of 5 more or less 6 or something
Comprehensive Exercises I Cloze 1 Text-related
(1) choked up (2) awful (3) practically (4) neighborhood (5) correspondence (6) available (7) destination (8) reunion (9) Mostly
(10) postponing (11) absolutely
2 Theme-related
(1) how (2) savings
(3) embarrassment (4) phone (5) interrupted (6) touch (7) envelope (8) signed (9) message (10) needed
II Translation
1
1) Half an hour had gone by, but the last bus hadn’t come yet. We had to walk home. 2) Mary looks as if she is very worried about the Chinese exam because she hasn’t learned the texts by heart.
3) Since the basketball match has been postponed, we might as well visit the museum.
4) He stayed in Australia with his parents all the way through World War II.
5) Since I graduated from Nanjing University in 1985, I have kind of lost touch with my classmates.
2
It is not easy to keep in touch with friends when they are far away. This is certainly true in my case.
It has been a couple of years since I left my old neighborhood and all the friends I had there. I’ve been meaning to write to them but something or other comes up and I just don’t seem to find the time. They are always on my mind, however, and I think I will certainly make an effort to keep up correspondence with them in future.
Text B
Comprehension Check
1 d 2 b 3 a 4 d 5 c 6 d 7 d
Translation
1 火舌舔着比尔的双臂、脸和双腿，但他紧紧地抓住罗伊斯。“我不会把你丢弃在这儿的，”他说道。
2 一辈子与居住在澳大利亚灌木地带的那些刚强的硬汉一起生活的人生经历，将两条准则永久地铭刻在比尔心头：无论多么艰难，决不泄气，决不抛弃朋友。 3 如果我不能挺住的话，罗伊斯就会死在那里，比尔一次又一次地告诫自己。 4 但真正最令比尔激动的时刻是火灾发生六个月之后，刚刚出院的罗伊斯走进尤里卡饭店，请他喝啤酒。
Language Practice
1 1) c 2) e 3) d 4) g 5) f 6) h 7) a 8) b
2
1) stuff 2) despair
3) was peering / peered 4) soaked 5) swung
6) in good shape 7) extent 8) rescue 9) draw on
10) Worse still 11) burst into 12) flinging
