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Unit 1
Text A
Comprehension of text
1. He
defines greatness as the lasting contribution
which a person makes or has made to
human civilization.
2. The
example of Churchill shows the importance of
persistence and dedication in achieving
greatness.
3. Firstborns and
only children tend to make good leaders in times
of crisis, but middle- born
children
are better peacetime leaders.
4. A 20th
century politician should be an effective public
speaker and a social person.
5.
Intelligence seems to be less important than other
factors, such as the ability to
communicate effectively.
6.
The ability to overcome traditional ways of
thinking is also crucial.
7. They
simply don’t devote the amount of time
required.
8. The study
showed that enjoying one’s work is the
best form of motivation.
Vocabulary
1
chat
ledge
ted
eristic
5 despite
ntial
le
9 intrinsic
ia
ion
13 contribution(s)
porary
ted
1 left behind
history
endowed with
5 put up with
nowhere
es on
built on
9 put in
up with
charge
...apart
Word building
efficiency
emergency
fluency
frequency
proficiency
tendency
urgency
sufficiency
1 fluency
iency
ncy
ency
5 tendency
ncy
Structure
1. For
some students, it's not that they don't put in
enough time
—
it's that they don’t have
good study habits.
2.
Children perform differently at school. It's not
that they have different IQs
—
it's that they
are brought up in different
environments.
3. The company is not
very productive. It's not that its staff aren't
talented
—
it's that their
energy hasn't been channeled
effectively.
4. I’m really sorry. It's
not that I don't want to go to the cinema with
you—
it's that I have to
finish my paper tonight.
5. You have a stomachache.
It's not that the food was bad
—
it's probably that you
have too
much stress from your work.
1. President
Wilson didn't try to bring the US back to economic
and political isolation.
Instead, he
believed in international cooperation through an
association of nations.
ers
don't teach students in groups. Instead, they can
help them learn effectively
according
to their different needs.
3. We
shouldn't focus on minor points. Instead, we
should try to solve the problem of the
greatest urgency at present.
4. He doesn’t get anybody else to help
him. Instead, he likes to attend to everything
himself.
5. Teaching
success shouldn't be measured by the scores the
students receive on tests.
Instead, it
should be measured by whether the students have
internalized the ability and
desire to
learn.
Close
1-5 BCBAD
6-10 DCABA
11-15 DABCA
Transition
西蒙顿说，
如
果事业上取得巨大成就者具有什么共性的话，
那就是一种持续不断地追求成功的动
力。
“人们往往认为他们天生具有一些超常非凡的东西，”他解释道。
“但研究结果表明，有的
伟人并没有惊人的智力。
有的只是程度上的差异而已。
伟大是建立在大量的学习、
实践和献身精
神的基础之上的。”他举出二战时期的英国首相温斯顿
?
丘吉尔作为一个永不放弃的冒险者的典
范。丘吉尔在
全国上下士气最为低落的时候被推上台，并出色地领导了英国人民。在
1940
年盟
军敦刻尔克大撤退之后的一次演讲中，他的话激励了全国人民，
“我们绝不会衰退、失败。我们
将坚持到底??我们永远不会屈服。
”
1. Americans
tend to define people by the jobs they have/do.
Such characteristics as their
family
and educational backgrounds are considered less
important.
2. His
uncompromising personality explains why he could
no longer put up with his employer
and
eventually submitted his resignation.
3. If you really want to learn English
well, you must put in a lot of time and energy, or
you'll
go nowhere. The same can be said
of other subjects.
4. Some actors’ fame
is built on their innate beauty, bu
t
despite his short stature, Dustin
Hoffman rose above and it is his
excellent acting that set him apart.
5.
After he took charge, we discovered that there
were striking differences between him and
his predecessor. He had the drive and
passion, came up with many new ideas, and focused
his work on how to raise our morale.
6. Deng Xiaoping made history when he
declared China's reform and opening-up policy.
Despite tremendous obstacles, he made
lasting contributions to our country's
modernization with his unrelenting
efforts.
7. Why could someone with a
genius IQ be left behind by a hardworking person
with an
average IQ? It has to be
acknowledged that besides one's IQ, many other
factors have much
to do with one's
achievements.
8. This
teacher is really remarkable in first motivating
her students so she can really teach
them something. It's not that she is
talented, it's that she focuses completely or
drawing
their full attention in class.
Text B
Guessing meaning of
the context
1-5BADAC
6-10ACCAB
11-14DCAB
Vocabulary exercises
1
scandal
d
ted
ormed
ed
nt
9
humiliate
10
coherent
11 analysis
12 rally
13
determined
14
consoled
Error correction
1 awards
rewards
2 they
it
3 do
done
4decrease
increased
5 rises
falls
6strict
strictly
7
People continuously work
People who continuously
work
8 and provide for psychological
support
and provide psychological support
9 for
of
10 less
more
Text C
1-5 ABABC
6-9 BCDA
Unit 2
Text A
Comprehension of text
1. He
got no thanks for returning a wallet, though he
deserved to.
2. He wants to show how
much people need gratitude to keep up a spirit of
kindness and
cooperation.
3.
She saved up for two years, went to Normandy in
person, and gave her son's gold
wristwatch to the woman.
4.
He send a short recording expressing his
appreciation of the author's thoughtfulness and
sent it to the author.
5. A
patient whose life was saved by a blood
transfusion came back again and again to
donate his blood anonymously so that
more patients could be saved.
6. He does it by citing
W.H. Hudson's gratitude for his wife's day-to-day
heroism.
7. Those people who do little
things for us all year round.
8. It can
make people take infinite pains with their work.
9. Gratitude is needed all the time and
none of us can give too much of it.
Vocabulary
1 intention
e
g
5
trace
9 tribute
tional
us
ude
13 slammed
ble
1 caught/took
my fancy
2.a mistake on
John's part
3 take for granted
twice
5 saved up
ed to
7 boast about
pains with
9 refrain from
ing of
11 in one way or
another
up
Word building
de
de
de
ude
ude
ude
de
de
1 coordination
t
-workers
-owners
5 co-authored
ation
ation
t
Structure
sacrifice for the
education of the young was too great
price is too high to pay in order to save their
lives
be too careful in performing an
experiment
cannot praise him too much
not be overemphasized
be
overestimated
Cloze
1-5 BACDD
6-10 BABCD
11-15
BADCA
Transition
一些人不愿
表达感激之情，
因为他们觉得这不会受欢迎。
我的一个病人在出
院几个星期后回到医
院感谢他的护士。
“我没有更早地回来，”
他解释说，
“是因为我猜想你们对于人们的感激一定
厌烦得要命
。
”
“正好相反，
”
< br>她回答说，
“我很高兴你来。
很少有人意识到我们多么需
要鼓励，
我们从那些鼓励我们的人身上获得了多大的帮助。
”<
/p>
我们所给予的感激永远不会过多。
因为我们
身边的人在构筑他们的人生哲学时所依据的正是这些微笑、
我们所表示的感谢和我们表
示欣赏的
各种小小的示意动作。
glared at John and was annoyed by his
refusal to cooperate.
's
sincere speech shows his gratitude to the people
who rendered him generous help
when he
was in difficulty.
is something of a
stamp collector. The fact that once he saved up
for two years to buy a
rare stamp is
proof of it.
beauty of these roses
could not be overstated. They took/caught all the
visitors
fancy in one way
or another.
first he took it for
granted that they should build more highways in
this area. Then a
careful calculation
of the expenditure compelled him to think twice
before he made the final
decision.
time he receives a gift from me, no
matter how small, my friend Bill never fails to
acknowledge it.
journalist
has decided to trace the young man referred to in
the old couple's letter,
which is a
tribute to the young man's effort at improving
their living conditions.
he was fed up
with the salesmen who knocked at his door and
boasted about their
products every day,
he refrained from slamming the door in their face.
Text B
Guessing
the meaning from the context
1- 6
CADABD
7-12CACABD
Vocabulary
1 apt
2interpreting
3presumed
4distinction
5undergo
6reconcile
7intrude
8accquainting
9annoyed
10trivial
11frail
12 deny
13blurred
14convention
Error correction
1not just
friends and families
not just with friends and
families
2his
their
3writting
written
4
what that/which
5extreme
6because of they
don’t
because they
don’t
7 for
by
8even they
even though they
9harmful
harmless
Text C
1-5BDCDB
6-10DBBAC
Unit 3
Text A
extremely
10 that
it
Comprehension of text
changed his perspective and observed people who
did not have smallpox.
wants to give a
good example of lateral thinking.
compares the human brain to a computer and the
change of one's point of view to the
reprogramming of the computer.
is to fight it.
calls it
vertical thinking.
used the technique
of lateral thinking.
key is to make a
shift in emphasis instead of fighting the problem
head-on.
should change their point of
view and regard themselves as their body's keeper.
often lateral thinking yields much
better results than vertical thinking.
is approaching the target from a sideways point of
view instead of approaching it
directly.
Vocabulary
ure
icance
-on
end
ork
al;vertical
s
ed
up being
in
over
2 pulling on
effect
up teaching
Word building
ch
red
ch
m
enced
9 switch
d
assistant
accountant
servant
dependent
attendant
contestant
defendant
consultant
inhabitant
occupant
1 attendant
t
tans
6 occupants
ant
8 inhabitants
Structure
use
great importance
great/critical/extreme significance
little value
marked
benefit
invaluable help
1. should have told me at
once2.
have told me
beforehand3.
have left the
company long ago
4. never should have
happened
5. should have left thirty
minutes ago
6. should have phoned
Cloze
tant
ants
tant
ant