Unit1

Vocabulary

1.

1) allot

2) go through fire and water 3) reside 4) sobbed

5) made no mention of 6) sacrifice 7) came upon 8) rhythm 9) volume

10) something of a

2.

1) I stayed on as an assistant professor.

2) I hold it to my ear because I want to hear time tick away. 3) The salary is not wonderful, but the duties are light. 4) The moral of the lesson is not to talk to strangers. 5) Yes, but it cannot hold a candle to Huangshan.

3.

1) The nasty smell from the kitchen made her stomach churn.

2) When she sank into drunkenness, she was able to forget her sorrow. 3) In the 1,500 meters, Martin and Parker came first and third respectively. 4) The two hills Shunner Fell from the north and Lovely Seat from the south flank the famous Butter Tubs Pass.

5) Levi, in gratitude to Joshua, gave a party for him.

4.

1) Ambition ambition regardless of 2) discourse by way of

3) is engraved inward

5.

1) have come upon / across 2) had come out 3) come on / up 4) came across 5) comes down to 6) came around / to 7) comes to

8) came through 9) came up with 10) comes up

Usage

1) the Wilsons 2) Mark Twain

3) Annie Johnsons

4) another Winston Churchill 5) a Mrs. Burton 6) a Budweiser 7) A Monet 8) an old Ford

Cloze 1.

1) go through fire and water 2) salary 3) give

4) no peace 5) sink into 6) ambition 7) By way of 8) expressive 9) churned 10) engraved

11) not hold a candle to 12) inward

2.

1) Success 2) literacy

3) significantly 4) promoting 5) appropriate 6) too 7) later

8) repetition 9) invented 10) less

Translation

Although my grandmother was illiterate, she had a good stock of myths and legends. When I was young I gave her no peace, constantly asking her to tell me stories. After she had finished her housework, she would lift me onto her lap and tell stories, all the while rocking me in rhythm.

Having noticed my interest in stories, my parents lost no time in initiating me into reading. They bought many storybooks with illustrations, and whenever free, they would read these stories to me over and over again. By and by I had a vocabulary large enough to read on my own.

Unit2

Vocabulary

1.

1) appetite 2) destructive 3) agency 4) processed 5) saturated 6) utter 7) hoisted

8) referring to 9) retrieve

10) Unfortunately

2.

1) Peter was chasing the dog and Tom was riding the wooden horse in the garden. 2) They all looked on except one young man. He took her to the hospital instantly. 3) I laid charges against the company and won the case.