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P165 After Listening

1.toys crayons candy

2.hundreds of backpacks house

3.give

4.other children

P172 Comprehension Content Questions

Pair Work

1. They found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so much in tune that they set up a joint studio.

2. Johnsy would be able to recover from pneumonia if she wanted to live.

3. She wanted to paint the Bay of Naples some day.

4. She could see a bare yard, and an old ivy vine climbing half way up the brick wall.

5. Because she thought that she would die when the

6. No. Because in the text the author mentions that Behrman was a failure in art. For forty years he had been always about to paint a masterpiece, without ever actually starting one.

7. He was upset that Johnsy should have such a silly idea.

8. Because they were afraid that Johnsy would die if the leaves on it were all gone.

9. She saw the last leaf on the vine.

10. It rekindled her will to live. And she realized that it was a sin to want to die.

11. He caught pneumonia because he painted the last leaf on a rainy and cold night in the yard and was wet through.

12. Yes, he finished his masterpiece eventually. It was his fine painting of the last leaf, the painting that saved Johnsy.

P173 Text Organization

Working on You Own

1.

1) She made up her mind to die when the last leaf fell.

2) She decided not to give up her life.

3) Behrman, a kind neighbor, who was aware of Johnsy’s state

of mind, risked death to paint the last leaf and save her.

4) Because it was so perfect the girls both mistook it for the real

thing.

2. Scenes Paragraphs Characters Events

Two Paras.3-8 the doctor,Sue The doctor told Sue that

Johnsy needed a strong

will to live on.

Three Paras.9-17 Johnsy, Sue Johnsy decided that she

would die when the last ivy leaf

fell.

Four Paras.18-21 Behrman, Sue Sue told Behrman about

Johnsy’s fancy.

Five Paras.22-23 Sue, Johnsy As Johnsy was

encouraged by the last leaf that

wouldn’t give in to the weather,

her will to live returned.

Six Paras.34-37 the doctor, Sue The doctor told Sue that

Johnsy would recover, but that

Behrman had caught

pneumonia himself and his case

was hopeless.

Seven Paras.38-39 Sue, Johnsy Sue told Johnsy that

Behrman had performed a kind

deed without any thought of

self.

P174 Language Sense Enhancement

1. (1)curling (2)looking the part (3)masterpiece (4)to excess (5)For the rest (6)smelling strongly of (7)fancy (8)light and fragile(9)slight hold upon the world (10)streaming

P176 V ocabulary

I

1. 1)masterpieces 2)fragile 3)fancy 4)nonsense 5)cling to

6)endure 7)acute 8)whistle 9)mock 10)subtracted

11)Sin 12)flutter/fluttering

2. 1)gave in/ gave up 2)figure out 3)sized up 4)wiped out 5)pulling up 6)wear away 7)sit up 8)hear of/ about

3. 1) usually stand out in childhood memories.

2) a joint bachelor’s degree program in environmental studies

together with Duke University.

3) still stalks the country.

4) scarcely any surface water in the desert.

5) for change in the election law is so persistent that both houses have promised to consider it.

4. 1) dreary mingled with not to excess a merry

2) called to us in a whisper in tune with

3) backward wet through won’t hear of turn loose your P179 II Words with Multiple Meanings

1. He went to Paris on business last month.

2. The train to Brussels goes at 2:25p.m.

3. As soon as they arrived at the meadow, the shepherd let the sheep go.

4. We went exploring together in the mountains./ We will go exploring together in the mountains.

5. Let’s go and have a drink in the bar.

6. The store is going to close up soon.

7. South Koreans went crazy when their soccer players beat the Spanish team in the quarter-finals.

8. When the mother came out of the house, she found her children gone.

P180III Usage

1. a little white wooden house

2. long, curly red hair

3. a large old round table

4.a cheap Indian restaurant

5. a huge cool chocolate ice-cream

6. rapid technological advance

7. a handsome young Chinese American

P181. Comprehensive Exercises

I Cloze

1.(1)in tune (2)Scarcely (3) in a whisper (4)cling to

(5)merry (6)sat up (7)nonsense (8)fancy (9)sin

(10)masterpiece

2.(1)mission (2)involve (3)jail (4)not (5)collect

(6)deliver (7)beautiful (8)vacation (9)need (10)small P182 II Translation

1.1)The red house stands out against the old trees that reach

high up to the sky.

2)The salary in/for my new job is great, but for the rest, I’m

not satisfied.

3)The waters of the two streams mingle near our village.

4)We should not mock at other people’s religious beliefs.

5)The curtains of the room are not quite in tune with the

style of the furniture.

2. Here and there we see young artists who stand out from other people. They may be in worn-out jeans all the year round, or walk barefoot/in bare feet even in winter, or drink to excess, or cling to the fancy of creating a masterpiece without actually doing any creative work. In fact, many of them act like this just to look the part, or to be in tune with other artists. They have forgotten that only through persistent effort can one achieve success.

P186 Comprehension Check

1.b

2.c

3.b

4.c

5.d

6.a

Translation

1.他被急急送到机场，刚好赶上唯一一架或许能让他赶到垂危老父身边的飞机。

2.前一夜，老人突发严重的心脏病，被用了大量镇静剂，此

刻神智只是部分清醒。

3.每次护士来到病房，士兵总是在那儿，但他没有主意她，也没有主意夜晚医院里的丛杂声——氧气罐的丁当声，夜班医护人员相互打招呼时的笑声，其他病人的叫喊声，呻吟声和打鼾声。

4.他以一种极富人情味的方式证明了世间有人关心别人的境遇。

P187 Language Practice

1. f1) c2) a3) g4) b5) e6) h7) d8)

2. 1)conscious 2)outline 3)enables 4)moans 5)started off 6)cut short 7)serial 8)toughen 9)Military 10)pulled out 11)collapsed 12)encouragement

P191a Part III Supplementary Exercises

2.(one chance in ten) (curative power of medicines)

(whistle a merry tune) (ten to one) (be wet through)

3.

1)(I will do all that science can accomplish.)

2)(The cold breath of autumn had blown away its leaves, leaving it almost bare.)

3)(I want to turn loose my hold on everything , and go sailing down, down, just like one of those poor, tired leaves.)

4)(They looked at each other for a moment without speaking. A

persistent, cold rain was falling, mingled with snow.)

5)(The day wore away, and even through the twilight they could see the lone ivy leaf clinging to its stem against the wall.)

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I had two months until my new job began. It was like waiting an entire summer for school to start. I spent those two months talking to figure skating coaches and judges. I read boring rule books. I drove to the rinks where the skaters trained, and made notes about our conversations. I even took a lesson, which made some of the skaters laugh. Unit 6 Task 1 【答案】 A. [d]—[b]—[a]—[e]—[c] B. a 【原文】 Laura usually leaves the offices of Quest Productions at about 5 o'clock, but last Monday she left at 5:30. She wanted to get home by 6:30 and she ran to the bus stop but she couldn't get on a bus. There were too many people and not enough buses. Laura was desperate to get home so she decided to go by tube. @ In the station she went to one of the automatic ticket machines but she didn't have enough change, so she had to join the queue at the ticket window. She bought her ticket and ran to the escalator. Laura went to the platform and waited for the tube. It arrived and the crowd moved forward. Laura was pushed into the train. It was almost full but she was given a seat by a man with a moustache. Laura thanked him and sat down. She started to read her newspaper. In the tunnel the train stopped suddenly and Laura was thrown to the floor together with the man with the moustache. Somebody screamed. The lights went out. It was quarter past 6 on a cold, wet December evening. Task 2 【答案】 A. 1) a 2) b 3) d 4) c B. 1) T 2) T 3) F C. wondered; television plays; exciting; every cigarette lighter; tape recorder; held in a certain way; the touch of a gold ring against the hand of; reveal; How wrong they were 《 【原文】 X was a secret agent. He had rented a furnished room in a provincial town not far from the public park and had been there two weeks. He was standing at the window looking out at the dull beds of geraniums, the park gates and the cold, uninviting statue of Queen Victoria that stood across the street from him, It was raining hard and the few people who passed by looked wet and miserable. X was miserable, too. How, he wondered, could anybody think there was anything interesting about the life of a secret agent He knew it was because people had seen so many television plays about glamorous spies that they thought the life of a secret agent was exciting.