Unit 2
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5 Match the words in the box with their deinitions.
1. definite
2. perpetual
3. whirl
4. blaze
5. giggle
6. promt
7. tumble
6 Complete the paragraph with the correct form of the words in Activity5
(1) promted
(2) definite
(3) whirl
(4) perpetual
(5) blazing
(6) giggling
(7) tumbled
7 Replace the underlined words with the correct form of the words in the box.
1 blinked
2 barren
3 tag
4 torture
5 resemblance
6. napkin
8 Answer the questions about the words and expressions.
1-5 a a b a a 6-11 b a a a b b
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4. Choose the best way to complete the sentences.
1-6 d a b d c c
5 jumper2
1-5 a a a b a 6-7 a a
6
(1) notion (2) continual (3) dependent on (4) ethnic (5) largely
(6) temptation (7) an outsider (8) reluctance (9) external
7
1-5 a b a a b 6-8 a b a
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1 Look at the sentences from the passage Superman and answer the questions.
1 My lying dreams were believable as a landscape by Dali, so real that I would awake with a sudden shock, a breathless sense of having tumbled like Icarus from the sky and caught myself on the soft bed just in time.
(a) What were believable?
Her dreams about lying were believable.
(b) How real were they?
They were very real.
(c) Who had the sense of having tumbled like Icarus?
The writer, Sylvia Plath.
(d) Why would she wake up with a breathless sense?
Because she felt she was really lying.
(e) What did the breathless sense feel like?
It felt like a sudden shock.
(f) Why did she catch herself on the soft bed just in time?
Because she felt she was falling.
2 We even found a stand-in for a villain in Sheldon Fein, the sallow mamma’s boy on our block who was left out of the boys’ games because he cried whenever anybody tagged him and always managed to fall down and skin his fat knees.
(a) What did we find?
We found someone who could be a villain.
(b) Who was the stand-in for a villain?
Sheldon Fein.
(c) What was he like?
He was sallow and a mamma’s boy.
(d) Where did he come from?
He came from their block.
(e) Why was he left out of the boys’ games?
Because he always cried and fell over.
(f) What happened when he always managed to fall down?
He skinned his knees.
3
1 The Australian bush fires blazed for several days before they were brought under control.
2 As a child Ruth’s long dark hair tumbled down her back.
3 He comes from a very close-knit / tight-knit family with three brothers and two sisters.
4 I remember my father used to knit his brows / eyebrows together when he was thinking hard about
something.
5 It was extremely hot and the sun was blazing.
6 Did you knit that jumper / hat yourself? It’s really beautiful!
7 I’m watching the inancial markets – I think the prices of stocks will tumble quite soon.
4 Translate the paragraphs into Chinese.
1. 我的飞行梦像达利的风景画那么真实可信，以致于自己常常会在一阵惊吓中醒来，好像伊卡罗斯那样从空中摔下来，虽然发现自己刚好掉到软软的床上，但也被吓得喘不过气来。当超人开始侵入我的梦乡，并教给我飞行的技巧之后，我每夜的太空冒险便开始了。超人身着耀眼的蓝衣服，肩披随风飕飕作响的斗篷，经常从我身边呼啸而过。他长得太像我的舅舅弗兰克了，舅舅那会儿正跟妈妈和我住在一起。当超人的斗篷神奇地旋转时，我好像能听见上百只海鸥的振翅声，上千架飞机的马达轰鸣声。 2. ( 这段话里有多处被动用法，有些译成中文时仍保留被动态，有些则应该变成主动，否则译文就不通顺。)
相反，根据海伦·莫顿的研究，太平洋岛国汤加的儿童经常挨父母和哥哥的打。人们认为儿童和成年人相比更像疯子，因为他们缺乏被大家看重的社会能力（汤加人称之为poto）。小孩子经常因为笨手笨脚而挨骂，他们连摔跤都会被嘲笑、呵斥，甚至被打。人们认为儿童很顽皮，都是因为淘气他们才哭闹，或者要东西吃。在大人看来，三至五岁的儿童尤其任性，因此他们打这个年龄段的孩子也打得最狠。父母们相信，只有靠训导和体 罚才能使孩子获得社会能力，所以他们用一种在外人看来非常严厉的方式对待孩子。
5 Translate the paragraphs into English.
1. At the railway station, an old man told me his experience in the Liberation War, the fighting stories of which were of great fascination to me. Then he got up on the train and it roared past me. But the stories were so real and deinite that I greatly marvelled at the courageous deeds of those war heroes.
2. Effective environmental policy might bring about a good environment, as well as reducing energy consumption. Looking back on the recent development of this region, we find, to our pleasant surprise, that little exception has been taken to the environmental policy of the local government, and the policy has also raised the environmental awareness of the local residents and prompted them to save energy as
possible as they could.
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