5. come up with 6. refashioned into 7. rise to fame

8. captures my attention

《读写教程 III》: Ex. V, p. 100 1. respect 2. admiration 3. place 4. money 5. reward 6. living 7. nothing 8. name

《读写教程 III》: Ex. VI, p. 101 1. intelligence/competence 2. consequence 3. significance 4. ignorance 5. indifference 6. excellence 7. brilliance 8. magnificence

《读写教程 III》: Ex. VII, p. 101 1. coexists 2. co-director 3. cooperate 4. copilot

5. co-author

《读写教程 III》: Ex. VIII, p. 102

1. Jimmy walked slowly to the corner of the playground, his face covered with tears. 2. The hotel taxi sped away, the taillights disappearing into the distance.

3. Their stomachs crying for food, their backs burning from too much sun, both boys gathered their things and headed for home.

4. Barbara just lay there, her mouth trembling, her eyes unfocused, unable to say a word. 5. Then the two players let him fall to the track, his chest landing first, his head following, bouncing, and finally lying still.

《读写教程 III》: Ex. IX, p. 103

1. Most snakes, although with a threatening appearance, aren’t really dangerous if you leave them alone.

2. Women, even though with the same abilities, have failed to approach the income of men. 3. Though with a severe shortage of coal supply, the governor was not forced to close all the schools.

4. She is capable of making complete French meals even though with no cheese between salad and dessert.

5. When in doubt about the result of your test, call the test office.

《读写教程 III》: Ex. X, p. 103

1. His parents did not approve of his plan to go and study abroad with a girl they had never met, but he went ahead and got to New York with her.

2. It is said that the painter used his aunt as the model in the painting whose face represented suffering yet strength.

3. The real Ken did not like the three-dimensional Barbie dolls, which were described as having the appearance of “a woman who sold sex”.

4. The novelist instantly rose to fame in 1950 with the publication of Good-bye, My Dear, a novel inspired by his experience with a girl on his older brother’s farm.

5. After the war, a character called Uncle Sam began appearing in political cartoons, and soon became American’s most popular symbol.

6. The painting shows a serious-looking man and a woman standing alongside him in front of a farmhouse, their models being respectively the painter’s dentist and sister.

7. In order to have the buffalo on the other side of the nickel, he went to the Central Park Zoo to sketch an aging buffalo which was later killed for a wall decoration.

8. One story says that “US” was short for “Uncle Sam” whose real name was Sam Wilson who had once worked with a man who had signed a contract with the government to provide meat to the US Army.

《读写教程 III》: Ex. XI, p. 103

1. 19世纪70年代中期，法国艺术家弗里德里克?奥古斯特?巴托尔迪正在设计一个大项目，名为“自由照耀世界”。这是一座庆祝美国独立和美法联盟的纪念碑。

2. 马特尔公司将这个娃娃作了一番改造，变成了体面而地道的美国货，尽管胸围有些夸张。它名从当时10多岁的少女芭芭拉。

3. 如今芭芭拉已有60多岁了，她拒绝接受采访，但据说非常喜欢芭比。她可能是当今世上真名实姓不为人知的最著名的人物。

4. 1930年，格兰特?伍德因其画作《美国哥特式》一举成名。此画体现了美国农民庄严的自豪，常常被人临摹。

5. 他深受中世纪艺术的影响，他的灵感来自于一所古老农舍的哥特式窗户，但最令世人注目的是画中人物的脸。

6. 但1913至1938年间发行的野牛硬币，却是为了纪念由美国拓居引起的两起相互关联的悲剧——野牛群的灭绝和美洲印第安人的毁灭。

7. 尽管此前一直是白人被用作美国硬币上的模特，而著名艺术家詹姆斯?厄尔?弗雷泽却反传统而行之，启用了三名真正的美洲印第安人作为自己创作的原型。

8. 战后，政治漫画里开始出现了一个名叫“山姆大叔”的人物。他的原型是一个早期漫画人物名叫乔纳森大哥，此人在美国独立战争时期非常出名。

Section B. Engelbreit’s the Name, Cute Is My Game

XVI. Choose the best answer to each of the following questions

1. A 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. C 6. B 7. A 8. D

《读写教程 III》: Ex. XVII, p. 118 1. crush 2. astonishing 3. distribution 4. distinctive 5. elaborate 6. comprised 7. features 8. decorated

《读写教程 III》: Ex. XVIII, p. 118 1. in; at 2. down 3. from; with 4. in; on 5. to 6. of 7. Like 8. at Unit 5

Section A. Graceful Hands 《读写教程Ⅲ》: Ex. II, p. 130

1. The writer gets to know it from Mrs. Clark’s medical chart and the report she received from the preceding shift.

2. Maybe it is because the idea of Mrs. Clark’s dying soon makes her feel sick. 3. The writer wants to show us a true-to-life picture of Mrs. Clark at the end of her life. 4. Because she doesn’t have enough strength to do so.

5. Because she didn’t want them to suffer from the experience of seeing her die.

6. She means that they both realize that Mrs. Clark is dying and as human beings this is an unavoidable and very special moment.

7. Maybe because she thought it was too much for them to cope with.

8. Because Mrs. Clark’s fingers are very long and graceful, which at first catches the writer’s eyes easily. But after knowing more about Mrs. Clark, the author mentions her graceful fingers again and again so as to imply that Mrs. Clark’s heart and mind are graceful as well.

《读写教程Ⅲ》: Ex. III, p. 130 1. preceding 2. decay 3. secured 4. dripping 5. slid 6. hints 7. interval 8. privileges

《读写教程Ⅲ》: Ex. IV, p. 131

1. The young woman reached for her bag and pulled out a gun.

2. The local people can foretell a storm when the clouds hang around the mountain. 3. Thomas turned his head, trying to avoid breathing in the vapor.

4. He always covers his mouth when coughing so that he won’t spread germs. 5. John managed to accomplish his work in time.

6. It is very strange that the old lady seemed to be able to sense my thoughts. 7. We did not provide for such a sudden and large-scale enemy attack. 8. His intervention may have spared me a bloody nose.

《读写教程Ⅲ》: Ex. V, p. 131 1. firm