Listening and Speaking
1.
Growing Up
Growing up is by no means a bad thing. It allows us to make a 1) difference in the world, to find out who we are, and to live the life we 2) imagined as children. We dreamed of growing up when we rested our young heads on our downy pillows and looked up with 3) wonder at the glow-in-the-dark stars stuck to our ceiling, wondering what the world 4)looked like beyond our own home, beyond the world that had been so meticulously created for us. Yet upon growing up, we find that reality often 5) contends with tho very dreams. We find that the 6) reality of growing up is perhaps less lovely than we’d envisioned. We find that the only thing we really want back is our youth and our 7) innocence and the cruel irony is that the are the very things that will never 8) return.
Text A
Reading Comprehension
1.
A.
Time expressions | Related events or states |
when the author was nine years old | Her mother left the family. |
during her nior year of high school | She started to review what happened to her mom and realized that she just felt sad about her mom’s leaving. |
when she arrived on Duke’s campus | She was conscious of her sorrowful feelings, but didn’t have anyone to share her emotions with. |
at the beginning of her spring mester | She came to realize that only by leaving behind her complicated feelings about her mom could she live her own life. |
农作物种植this summer | She was able to understand some of the things in her life after so many years’ grief over her mom. |
last week | To her great shock she didn’t feel sad about her mom’s death, becau the grief over her mom had already affected her for so many years and it was time to let go. |
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怎么用钱折爱心
B.
Pronouns or phras | What they refer to |
She (Line 5, Para. 1) | my mother |
us (Line 6, Para. 2) | our family members |
He (Line 6, Para. 2) | my father |
her (Line 3, Para. 5) | my mother |
at that time (Line 8, Para. 2) | the time when we live without my mom |
doing so (Line 7, Para. 5) | to fail |
this news (Line 2, Para. 6) | the news that my mother may have pasd away |
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C.
1) My peripheral world was puzzled by her actions.
2) By the time I accepted that I had emotions that needed to be grieved, I had already arri
ved on Duke’s campus.
2.
My mom was said to be a good mom until one day in my ninth year, she left my two brothers and me forever. What she did puzzled me and changed everything in my life, though I never shed a tear. My dad did what he could to keep our life as normal as possible, prompting us to remain grateful to God. The revisiting of the memory of my mom during my nior year of high school made me understand that I needed to grieve my mom so that I could move on to a new chapter of my life. I couldn’t find anyone to whom to discharge my emotions until I participated in Kathy Rudy’s Baldwin Scholars freshman minar in Duke, where I learned to let go of my mother and was able to make n of some of the things in my life. Notice of the speculation of my mother’s death left me shockingly unaffected, for the grief and the pressures impod upon my life by my mom were already relead. The whole issue taught me that people need to deal with the past by understanding it, then leaving it behind, and most importantly, acknowledging pain as an opportunity for growth.
Reading and Discussing
Language in U
4.
1) proclaim
神情的意思
2) scar
3) speculation
4) discharging
5) clarity
6) contacted
7) compromi
芹菜的功效与作用禁忌
8) grieved
9) affirmed
10) prompted
5.
1) If you don’t know what you want, you might end up with something you don’t want.
2) It is the time of year when the island nations of the Caribbean normally expect their hotels and beaches to be crammed with sun-ekers.
3) I can teach you about kindness, but I cannot impo graciousness on/upon you.
4) When parents find it hard to let go of bitterness or anger, or if they are depresd about the changes brought on by divorce, they can find help from a counlor or therapist.
5) As the preferred candidate for this job he has no shortcoming other than his lack of experience.
6.
in hand（在手头；在掌控中） | 正直along the way（一路上；沿途） |
by hand（用手） | on the way to …（在去……的路上） |
at hand（在手边） | in the way（妨碍人的；挡道的） |
on hand（现有；在现场） | out of the way（偏远的） |
| by the way（顺便说说） |
| under way（进行中） |
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