Unit 4 The Lady on Pemberton Street Review of Vocabulary for Unit 3
1. 转化
2. 堆起来
3. 影响
4. 隔绝
5. 随意的；偶然的
6. 拆毁
7. 时尚
8. 处理掉
9. 垃圾
英语词汇的奥秘
10. 可行性
frequency是什么意思
11. 一贯地
12. 控制；抑制
1. divert sidetrack
2. stack to pile
3. impact to influence
4. insulate to prevent or reduce the transmission of electricity, heat, or sound to or from (a body, device, or region) by surrounding with a non-conducting material; protect
麦克哈尔happening by accident or chance
6. demolition destruction
7. fad fashion; craze
8. discard to get rid of as uless or undesirable
9. garbage worthless, uless, or unwanted matter; rubbish discarded or waste matter 10. viability practicability (of living things) capable of normal growth and developmentaccidently
11. consistently regularly; systematically
12. hold down to restrain or control
Some related questions
1. How is it alike to Unit 3 in theme?
2. What is Mable like?
a. she is at least in her 65, bright eyes between fierce and merry, thin but not frail
b. she is a warm-hearted woman though sometimes tough with litter- throwers.
c. Mable kept on sweeping the street regardless of the dreadful weather.
About the story
Protecting the environment ems a big and sometimes abstract problem, but it does concern us all. With the disappearing of ozone layer above two poles, the frequent occurrence of acid rain and the sandstorm, environmental problems kept
the attention of the scientists as well as the mon people.
The main idea of the text
Mable is definitely one of tho people who consciously protect the environment. Her decades' practice of cleaning the block has inspired many people around her to pay more attention to the environment issues and be a conscious cleaner. Have you ever noticed any examples of environmental heroes around you?
Text Structure
Read the text thoroughly and prehend the discour by dividing it into veral parts: Mee t—the clean sweep—the alley gate—the block cleaning—the “debt〞上海教育出版社
Words and Phras:
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Unit 4
K ey Words
prove的用法1. dilapidated: collapsing艾薇儿好听的英文歌
2. reedy: shrill, loud and unpleasant to hear
3. luscious: delicious, attractive
4. genuinely: really, truly, authentically
偷偷爱上你日剧5. mence: start
6. admonish: advi, persuade
7. incongruous: inharmonious
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8. infectious: contagious
9. festive: joyful
10. skeletal: skinny, bony
11. bativeness: aggressiveness
12. insomnia: sleeplessness
13. vacant: empty
14. a rap at the door: a knock at the door 16. a sheaf of advertising circulars
The Lady on Pemberton Street
潘伯敦街上的女士
by Albert DiBartolomeo
艾伯特▪迪巴特罗门
Shortly after the author and his wife move to a hou on a little street called
