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2.

1) coincides with her husband’s.

2) sends the prices soaring/results in the soaring of prices.

3) of alternate sunshine and rain.

4) have been his lifelong passions, although he studied economics at university.

5) Tension came over her

3.

1) media; dedication to; grace

2) his competitors; in excitement; hug him; congratulate him on

3) emotions; numerous; intensity; passion for

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II. Collocation

1. Mike, a Green, made the suggestion that a large park be built near the community.

2. In a letter to his daughter, Mr. Smith expressed his wish that she (should) continue her education to acquire still another degree.

3. There is no reason to hold the belief that humans have no direct moral responsibility to safeguard the welfare of animals.

4. Children need to feel safe about the world they grow up in, and it is unwise to give them the idea that everything they come into contact with might be a threat.

5. Anxiety can result from the notion that life has not treated us fairly.

6. Nobody believed his claim that he was innocent.

III. Words with Multiple Meanings

1. I work out in the gym for one hour every morning.

2. Florence has worked as a cleaner at the factory for five years.

3. The wounded man worked his way across the field on his hands and knees.

4. The safe load for a truck of this type works out at about twenty-five tons.

5. It is difficult to understand how human minds work.

6. To my disappointment, the manager’s plan of promoting the new products doesn’t work at all.

7. The teacher has a lot of experience of working with children who don’t know how to learn.

8. The medicine was like magic, and it worked instantly after you took it.

Comprehensive Exercises

I. cloze

1.

(1) In my mind’s eye

(2) groan

(3) competitor

(4) intensity

(5) anxiety

(6) tense

(7) sweat

(8) tension

(9) soaring

(10) recurring

(11) brought me back to earth

(12) fantasy

(13) sweat

(14) congratulate

(15) number

(16) media

2.

(1) engineer

(2) forget

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(3) convinced

(4) how

(5) build

(6) accident

(7) thought

(8) only

(9) sharp

(10) touched

(11) instructions

(12) finally

II. Translation

1.

1) It is the creativity and dedication of the workers and executives that turned the company into a profitable business.

2) The prices of food and medicine have soared in the past three months.

3) We plan to repaint the upper floors of the office building.

4) His success shows that popularity and artistic merit sometimes coincide.

5) I don’t want to see my beloved grandmother lying in a hospital bed and groaning painfully. 2.

Numerous facts bear out the argument/statement/claim that in order to recover speedily from negative emotion, you should allow yourself to cry. You needn’t/don’t have to be ashamed of crying. Anxiety and sorrow can flow out of the body along with tears.

Consider the case of/Take Donna. Her son unfortunately died in a car accident. The intensity of the blow made her unable to cry. She said, “It was not until two weeks later that I began to cry. And then I felt as if a big stone had been lifted from my shoulders. It was the tears that brought me back to earth and helped me survive the crisis.”

Unit6 Women, Half the Sky

Part II Reading Task

Comprehension

Content Question

Pair Work

1. They liked girly toys such as a miniature kitchen, and Barbies.

2. To convert a gas-guzzling SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle.

3. Because she didn’t know anything about cars and was afraid of being cheated by the mechanic.

4. She was craving independence and wanted to live away from home for some time.

5. It helped her earn six engineering credits, which of course made it easier for her to become an engineering major.

6. Five years.

7. In her view, if you find a subject is difficult to learn, it does not mean you’re not good at it. It just means you have to set your mind and work harder to get good at it.

8. Because he had confidence in her abilities believing she could have done better if she had studied more.

9. No, she wasn’t always confident. She had moments of panic, worried that as a woman she

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would be unable to understand thermodynamics.

10. She considers it wrong because it is based on a faulty premise.

11. It is flexible and more powerful than we imagine.

12. What she means is not to accept others’ opinions blindly but to use one’s own judgment. Text Organization

Working On Your Own

1.

Part One: The author describes how she stumbled into engineering.

Part Two: The author writes about how she has overcome obstacles, including the bias against women, on her way to success.

Part Three: The author draws the conclusion that women can do anything men can so long as they believe in their own abilities.

2.

1) she was not a tomboy.

not to an engineering department.

she didn’t know the first thing about engineering.

because she craved independence from her parents.

already earned her six credits in engineering.

2) math and design.

she participated in a national competition to convert an SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle. work harder at it.

that she should study more.

had to work hard at courses she found difficult, which encouraged her to keep going.

Language Sense Enhancement

1.