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Word building 4.
-al/-ial fate fatal horizon horizontal mechanic mechanical occasion occasional proportion proportionan logical logic deny denial commercial mommerce
-ity relative relativity prior priority continue continuity actual actuality 5.
1.actuality 2.mechanical 3.logic 4.denial 5.Occasional 6.fatal 7.continuity 8.relativity 9.priority 10.commerce 11.proportional 12.horizon 6.
1.D 2.J 3.M 4.H 5. A 6.O 7.F 8.L 9.I 10.C 7.
1.comes down to 2.take exception to 3.make concessions to 4.burst into 5.feel at ease with 6.on both counts 7.took over 8.stemmed from
Unit 7 Text B A proud homemaker
Reading skills: 1 1.C 2.B 3.B 4.A Understanding the text 2
1.D 2.C 3.A 4.C 5.D 6.A 7.B 8.C
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Critical thinking 3
1. *Similarities: family-oriented, busy with house chores, cook meals, take care of children, clean rooms, do laundry 2. *Help and support the husband *education and behave children morally *Maintain the order of home. *Keep the family healthy
3. *the husband: The man is supposed to have more responsibilities for his family since he physically stronger than his wife.
*The wife: the woman, to some degree, is more persevered in overcoming difficulties and she is always family-oriented.
*Both: Even though they share different family responsibilities, they both play important and indispensable poles as parents, husband or wife. Two incomes are always better than just one.
4. *Advantages: able to take good care of family, including their diet and health; more communication with family; help children with their schoolwork.
*Disadvantages: a lot of stress, exhausted, less aware of the outside world, lose social contact.
5. *Work outside: have many contacts, communication with more people, be informed of the outside world, be of more help financially.
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*Stay home: take better care of family, pay more attention to children, provide healthier food to family, keep the rooms clean, help the husband / wife.
Words in use 4
1. bounce 2.tolerant 3.supplement 4.condemn 5.overflowed 6. swear 7.resemble 8.compounded 9.disgusting 10.trim
Expressions in use 5
1. convert to 2. was revolted by 3. was comprised of 4. busied himself with
5. fussed over 6. is unique in 7. exerting themselves 8. substituted for
Sentence structure 6
1. Having no idea about their thoughts and opinion, I would rather five up the attempt to guess what their reaction will be.
2. To avoid making mistakes, I would rather be home alone and not communicate with anybody.
3. The old man would rather be living in the past, for things are much more different today than they were in the past.
Sentence structure 7
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1. I couldn’t stand bad manners and thought my leaving was anything but rude, so I got the nest train back home and left him there.
2. They usually look very nice and even generous, but in terms of integrity, they are anything but honest.
3. When the two young people got married, may people attended the wedding ceremony, yet it was anything but modern.
Warm-up
1. strong urge 2. Particularly difficult 3. Demanding job 4. make concessions 5. Social context 6. Management style 8.
1. plausible 2. context 3.management 4.pleasantly 5. great 6. Strong 7 subtle 8 conflicting 9 personal 10 typically 11 diplomatically 12 vaguely
Unit 8 Human rights vs. Animal rights
Text A Animals or children?-A scientist’s choice
understanding the text:
1. He became a children’s doctor because of this love for children and his strong desire to keep them healthy.
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2. He is thought of having no moral compass: He tortures innocent animals for his career advancement and his experiments having nothing to do with medicine.
3. The public barely watches, convinced that the issue has no significance to them, while the senator and politicians continue to give way to the lobbying of animal rights activists
4. The author does not really admit their mistake, but the tone is apparently ironic, criticizing that the physicians were too soft to respond to the animal rights activists.
5. Life is cruel to both animals and human beings . if the physician don’t create an animal model of the problem, they have to do experiments on human beings, or the medical knowledge will remain static.
6. Drugs to cure infection will remain undiscovered, surgical and diagnostic techniques will remain undeveloped, and fundamental biological processes will remain mysteries.
7. Because protection from serious sickness and drugs as well as most complex surgical procedures were initially developed in animals instead of human beings
8. If the more radical members of this movement are successful in threatening further research, their efforts will bring about a tragedy that will cost the lives of many human beings. Language focus
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