Unit 1
Active reading (1)
EX.3
3
EX.4
1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (c) 4. (d) 5. (c) 6. (a)
EX.5
1.productive 2.attendance3. resistance 4. ambitious
5.acceptance 6. script 7. impressive
EX.6
(1) attendance (2) ambitious (3)productive (4)impressive
(5)resistance (6) script (7) acceptance
EX.7
1. mortgage 2. deck 3.surf 4. costal; defy5.lengthy
EX.8
1.(b) 2. (a) 3. (b) 4. (b) 5. (b) 6. (a) 7. (b) 8. (b)
Active reading (2)
EX.4
(1) triple (2) cemetery (3)rear(4)biography(5)cram
(6)budding(7)finite (8) elapse
EX.5
1.elapsed; cemetery 2.rear; crammed3.triple 4.budding; biography
5.finite
EX.6
1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (a) 4. (a) 5. (b) 6. (b) 7. (a) 8. (a)
EX.7
1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (b) 4. (a) 5. (a) 6. (b) 7. (b) 8. (b) 9. (a)
Language in use
EX.2
1.a late-night party 2. a well-stocked library 3. a world-famous professor 4. some well-timed advice 5. rapidly-growing population 6. a free-market economy 7. a half-hour boat trip
EX.3
1.It’s how we behave that determines what other people think of us.
2.It’s what our character is that usually determines what sort of job we are going to end up doing.
3.It isn’t always what marks weget at university that determine what we do as a career.
4.It is often what we experienced in our childhood that determines how we react to life’s problems.
5.It’s what our genetic clock is and what changes we make to it that determine when we die.
EX.4
1.It wasn’t just that the shops were all closed for Thanksgiving, but there was no one in the street.
2.It wasn’t just that she spent all her time at college going to parties, but she took the time to gain a first-class degree.
3.It wasn’t just thatthey weren’t listening to what he said, butit seemed as if they weren't at all interested.
4.It wasn’t just thatI was upset，but I felt as if I was gomg to burst out crying.
5.It wasn’t just that the Grim Reaper was intended to frighten people，but it was also a figure of fun.
EX.7
1.Students differ about whether they should have their future mapped outwhen they are still at university.Some think they should have a definite goal and detailed plan, so as to brace themselves for any challenges, whereas some others think they don’t have to think much about the future,because future is full of uncertainties.
2.After a very carefull check-up, the scientist was told he had got a fatal disease. Although he knew that his life was ticking away, instead of complaining about the fate, the scientist decided to make the best of theremaining days, and speed up the research project he and his colleagues initiated, and have a shot at completing it ahead of schedule.
Guided writing
Sample
From the Sui and Tang dynasties until the end of the Qing period, examinations in China were rites of passage to the gates of success for civil service employment, status, wealth and power, often known as “thorny gates”. With variations at different times, exams marked the transition from study to work or stage-by-stage progression from local to provincial to metropolitan and national levels.
There were rituals for candidates to prepare for these important selection exams. Students had read, recited, and memorized the classics and learned to write particular kinds of poems and essays by strictly using a particular script, writing special texts and counting the exact number of lines and characters. Depending on the level, this could take many years.
At the examination halls there were special rituals to take the exams. Guarded by soldiers, candidates waited in line at dawn for their names to be called. They bowed to the examiners and were searched to make sure they had only brushes and ink with them. They were given a place to sit in a small hut where they read the questions and wrote their answers for perhaps three days, talking to no one. None of them was allowed to leave until the exam was over. The examiners had to go through similar hardships to mark the papers.
Unit 2
Active reading (1)
EX.5
1. definite 2. perpetual 3. whirl 4. blaze 5. giggle 6. prompt
7. tumble
EX.6
1. prompted 2. definite 3. whirl 4. perpetual 5. blazing
6. giggling 7. tumbled
EX.7
1. blinked 2. barren 3. tag 4. torture 5. resemblance 6. napkin
EX.8
1. (a) 2. (a) 3. (b) 4. (a) 5. (a) 6. (b) 7. (a) 8. (a) 9. (a)
10. (b)11. (b)
Active reading (2)
EX.4
1.(d) 2. (a) 3. (b) 4. (d) 5. (c) 6. (c)
EX.5
1.(a) 2. (a) 3. (a) 4. (b) 5. (a) 6. (a) 7. (a)
EX.6
1.notion 2. continual 3. dependent on 4. ethnic 5. largely
6.temptation 7.outsiders 8. reluctance 9. external
EX.7
1.(a) 2. (b) 3. (a) 4. (a) 5. (b) 6. (a) 7. (b) 8. (a)
Language in use
EX.3
1.fires blazed 2. hairtumbled 3. close-knit 4. knit brows
5.sun blazing 6. knit jumper hat 7.prices tumble
EX.5
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 definite 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.
Guided writing
Sample
Mr and Mrs Wang are a couple and were both my teachers when I was in secondany school. Mrs Wang taught me English and Mr Wang used to teach me maths. Because our school was an all-age school, both of them taught me for about seven years. When I heard about Mr Wang’s death I was so sorry, I could only guess what that must mean to Mrs Wang.
I remember the stories Mr Wang would tell in the maths classes, not always about maths, actually, but about life and these are the kinds of things all of us remember now. When I was struggling for one of the exams, Mr Wang took me for a walk round the playing fields. He told me I was good at maths.
Me? I couldn’t believe he was saying that. In those days I was getting such low marks and felt I was a certain failure. “Look,” he said, “You’ve got ability but you don’t really believe it. I’m telling you, you can not only pass but that you can do very well in maths.” Well, I did do well, that comment really helped me to turn the corner and there was no problem after that. Sometimes apparently small comments are like gold and Mr Wang had the art of making those golden comments.
I also remember one year Mrs Wang told me that one of my pictures from the art class had been sent to the city museum for an exhibition. She was not the art teacher but her way of telling me the news was like Mr Wang’s comment, a complete turningpoint. A picture from our small school… painted by me … in the museum … how could that be? They two made me believe in myself and gave me a picture of the wholeness of life and how to be better people, not just learningschool subjects.
So I am really grateful for them. I am working hard here and seem to be getting on quite well at university. I think I will be a teacher or maybe a writer.
