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Unit 1
Text A
Language Sense Enhancement
1. brought down
2. revolving
3. circle
4. wreckage
5. memory
6. bury
7. perished
8.
memorials
9. gaping wound
Language Focus
Vocabulary
I.
1.
1) divined
2) nerves
3) solidarity
4) sacred/mourn
5) coated
6) perish
7) hijack
8)
grief
9) farewell
10)
take revenge on
11)
revolves/revolves
12) denounced
2.
1) drop
…
off
2) applied for
3) went off
4) are gaining on 5) bring down
6) blotted out 7)
think back on 8)
picking /at
3.
1) brought down the American housing market in 2008
2) what will happen
after his son steps into his shoes?
3) not in the mood to go out
4) long before the market began
to show signs of weakness
5)
mourn the loss of the tranquil life we had in the
countryside
4.
1) in the aftermath of/to blot out/the tragic
2)
armed/at dusk/accomplices/explosive
3) in the space of/no illusion
II. More Collocation
1)
A little of
2) a few/much of / many of
3) much 4) few 5) many 6) many of 7) much of 8)
little
9) few of
10) some
III. Usage
1) As the boy grew older
2) she sings as beautifully as a nightingale/ sings like a nightingale
3) they don
’
t see themselves as servants of the people
4) as she had left her key in the office
5)
just do as you are
told
6) areas regarded as rural 7) as they do in China
8) as he was brave and
loyal as well
Comprehensive Exercises
I.
1.
1) mood
2) tragic
3) aftermath of
4) chaos
5) toppling
6) solidarity
7) take revenge
on
8) thinking back on
9) mourning 10) perished
2.
1) crashed
2) horrible
3) harsh
4) protect
5) remove
6) utterly
7) truly
8) justify
9)
rewarded 10) devastating
II.
1.
1) some high-ranking officers of the armed forces started a coup, toppling the government and
throwing
the country into chaos.
2) the
falling market shattered her illusion about
getting rich quickly
3) thinking back
on the history of world war II, we can see that
the formation of the Allies was
the
natural product of the development of political
and military circumstances then.