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Text Comprehension
私淑弟子II．
1. It was a military campaign in which many soldiers died. The effects on Churchill were () he lost his political position and he was overwhelmed with grief.
2. He felt so inspired to paint that he was distracted from his personal problems.
3. His sister-in-law’s painting inspired him to try his hand at it; his wife rushed out to buy all the materials he would need; and the wife of Sir John Lavery helped him overcome his fear of the blank canvas.
4. The blank whiteness of the canvas made him feel he didn’t know where to begin. This nervousness was not typical of Churchill, who was known publicly as a brave and strong-willed person.
5. Churchill was comparing the canvas to an opponent in a fight, and he could now e that he need not fear his “adversary”.
球怎么折6. He meant that Churchill would have been a great painter, just as he was a great politician.
7. It was his great comfort when the death of his mother was followed quickly by the death of his daughter.
8. Becau the judges suspected that it was not painted by an amateur; they were later surprid and delighted becau Churchill was not just a famous political figure but also a talented untrained artist.
9. No, she considers that decade an artistically fruitful one.
10. He meant that painting was like a friend who never betrayed or abandoned him. This ems to suggest that he often felt lonely, misunderstood and/or disappointed in his relationship with other people.
Vocabulary
III.
1.artistic 2.overcome 3.infinite 4.plunged 5.mission 6.camgpain 7.revived 8.distract 9.at 11.precaution 12. disastrous
IV.
24小时打一字1. delighted with 2. bore fruit 3. kept Clementine company 4. rely on
5. take refuge 6. awaken people to 7. pay the price 8. chanced upon; dated from 9. tried his hand at 10. fell upon; came to her rescue
Word Building
V.
1. broadens the mind 2. weakened 3. sweeten Diet Coke 4.hardens 5. strengthen 6. deepen your understanding of the cour materiall
7. sharpen the kitchen knives 8. reddened 9. brighten; quickens
10. lightened
VI.
1. lucky 2. wealthy 3. tasty 4. icy 5. wavy 6. smelly 7. sleepy 8. noisy (smelly is also plausible) 9. healthy 10. sunny
Structure
VII.
1. Amazed at the great changes that are taking place in shanghai, many foreign visitors leave China with a completely new view of our country.
2. Unpleasantly startled by the appearance of a mou, we promptly decided to clean our apartment.
3. Tired of their own cooking, they’ve decided to go to a restaurant for a change.
磅礴的反义词4. Frightened by the horror film, the little girl was alert to every sound in the hou that night.
5. Deeply disappointed with the actress’s performance, tom soon switched to another channel.
6. Embarrasd about still being in bed at , when my friends came I pretended to be sick with a terrible headache.
VIII.
1. So I did 2. So did my brother 3. So she was 4. So they do; so do his classmates 5. So am I
Cloze
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lonely; overcame; refuge; finally; however; where; delighted; contemplated; entry; campai
宇字取名
gn; distract; plunged into; Within a month; rescue; when; overwhelming
排球起源Translation
X.
“‘在画画呢!’她大声说道。‘多么有趣。可你还在等什么呢? 把画笔给我---大的那支。’她猛地用笔蘸起颜料，还没等我缓过神来，她已经挥笔泼墨在惊恐不已的画布上画下了有力的几道蓝色。谁都看得出画布无法回击。我不再迟疑。我抓起那支最大的画笔，迅猛异常地向我可怜的牺牲品扑了过去。自那以后，我再也不曾害怕过画布。”
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XI
1. When his wife died of a stroke in her sixties, the 72-year-old retired professor was overwhelmed by grief. Life would be too difficult for him without anybody to rely on.
2. Last month two amateur painters held an exhibition of their pictures in London. Many people went to e it, including a few celebrated professors.
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3. When ven astronauts died in the Challenger disaster in the mid-1980s, it plunged the whole world into shock and grief.
4. After completing her cond prime ministry, she remained actively involved in political affairs. She came to the rescue veral times when the government was in difficulty.
5. After his failure in the election campaign, Dr. Smith retired to a small village, where he tried his hand at farming.
6. As long as you keep working hard all your life, you will recall your past with a glow of satisfaction.
7. We must awaken people to the importance of environmental protection now, or it will soon be too late.
8. That official was removed from office for being involved in a political scandal. Had he known this would happen, he might have acted differently.
