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Phrases to learn box. Change

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1. Despite his achievements as a__________ money

manager and generous philanthropist, Soros’s lifelong

dream was to become a noted philosopher..

2. A nurse needs a lot of patience and goodwill. A bit

of charm also helps, and a lot of ______________ and

training is needed.

3. The Maya civilization reached its period of greatest

development about 250 A.D. and continued to_______

for hundreds of years.

remarkable

commitment

flourish

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4. You could argue that her sense of insecurity

____________ growing up in an unstable family

environment.

5. Against the predictions of the opinion polls, he

comfortably won the general election of April 1992, but

his government soon faced ___________economic

problems.

6. _______________ the birthday celebration comes

unexpectedly over the radio the announcement of the

President of the country declaring a state of emergency

for suspected enemy missiles approaching.

resulted from

grave

In the midst of

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7. It was a series of legislative acts that finally gave

federal agencies effective power to ________ black

rights and thus opened the way to an end to

discrimination.

8. His most famous work was painted to commemorate

his daughter’s miraculous _________ from paralysis.

9. Most central banks, such as the Federal Reserve

System in the USA, control the note issue and

__________the banking system against collapse.

10. The new president decided that police corruption

was the first thing to ______ when he came to power.

enforce

recovery

guarantee

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11. Many people are not satisfied with the new employment laws which ____________ against black people and other minorities.

12. Work becomes harder____________________. It seems that I have to seek help from my professor.

13. John is_________his brother in that he is much more enthusiastic about his schoolwork.

14. Black people in the area are claiming that they have been _____________repeated racial attacks from police officers

15.This policy, they say, is _______ confused and at worst non-existent.

discriminate

with each passing day

unlike

subjected to

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16. The official report _________ the likely benefits

of the scheme, but avoids considering the costs.

17. Stephen has ________________ since the days he

could only afford one meal a day. He is now the

owner of ten discount chain stores.

18. The new president would_________ to remember

that he wouldn’t have made it without the support of

the Black voters.

19. I really admire those businesswomen who

manage to achieve success ___________________.

plays up

come a long way

do well

against all the odds

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20. The state of the country’s economy is very

worrying. _____________, it seems unwise to raise

tax on capital investment.

In this context

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1. A letter that is posted today will probably

reach him the day after tomorrow.

_______________________________________

______ ______ ______

2. As we were thus encouraged, we made a

still bolder plan for the next year.

_______________________________________

_______________________________________

A letter posted today will probably reach him

the day after tomorrow .

Thus encouraged, we made a still bolder plan

for the next year.

3. Our government has banned imports of

cosmetics which contain animal products from

18 countries, mostly in Europe, for fear that

they could cause mad cow disease.

________________________________________

________________________________________

________________________________________

__________________________________

Our government has banned imports of

cosmetics containing animal products from 18

countries, mostly in Europe, for fear that they

could cause mad cow disease.

4. After she graduated from St. Mary’s College,

Joyce applied to the University of California at

Los Angles.

________________________________________

________________________________________

________________________________________

Having graduated from St. Mary’s College,

Joyce applied to the University of California at

Los Angles.

2. Come to do sth. can be used to mean “do sth. at the end of a fairly long process”, as in the following model taken from the text:

Model :Eventually three principal routes converged at the Coffin house, which came to be the Grand Central Terminal of the Underground Railroad.

Complete the following sentences by translating the Chinese into English, using “come to do sth.”:

1. Often it is in overcoming hardships that ____

_________________________________

( 我们方懂得珍惜生命的价值） .

2. Some scientists believe that _______________ _

_____________________________________

( 人们总有一天会喜欢转基因农作物的 )since

they can increase yields and farmers’ incomes,

reduce prices and help combat hunger and di

sease in the developing world.

we come to appreciate the value of life.

to like genetically modified crops someday

people will come

3.With repeated hackers’ attacks on our system, __

_____________________________________ _____

___________________________ ( 我们逐渐

意识到聘请一位计算机保安专家的必要性 ) 。

4. Having conducted some surveys in Chinese kind

ergartens, Howard Gardner ___________ _______

________________________________ __________

________ ___________ _ ( 逐渐意识到中国人喜欢“把着手教” ) 。

we have come to realize the necessity of

hiring a computer-security expert.

came to

understand that the Chinese preferred

“teaching by holding the hand”.

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Settlement painful capture underground racial conviction disguise abolish liberate close in on

痛苦的奴隶生活坚定了亨森为自由而战的决心。 他获得自由后不久就成了一个帮助逃亡奴隶的组织中的一员。 _______________________________________

______________________________________________

______________________________________________

_

____________________________________________

____________________________________________

Henson’s painful life as a slave strengthened

his determination to struggle for freedom.

Shortly after he achieved freedom he

became a member of an organization that

assisted fugitive slaves.

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他几次偷偷地回到美国帮助其他奴隶通过地下铁路获得自由。有一次在逃跑时，亨森和几个逃跑的奴隶被捕捉奴隶得人包围。 ___________________________

______________________________________________

______________________________________________

______________________________________________

______________________________________________

__________________

He secretly returned to the United States

several times to help others to travel the

Underground Railroad to freedom. Once

some slave catchers closed in on the escaping

slaves and Henson when they were on the

run.

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He disguised them and successfully avoided

capture. In addition, he built a small settlement

in Dresden for escaped slaves, setting up a chapel

and a school where they could learn useful ways

of making a living.

他将逃跑的奴隶乔装打扮一番，成功地躲避了追捕。另外，他在得累斯顿为逃跑的奴隶建造了一个居住小区，并建了教堂和学校，逃跑的奴隶们在这里能够学到有用的谋生之道。_______________________________________________

_______________________________________________

_______________________________________________

_______________________________________________

______________________

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他坚信奴隶制终将被废除，所有奴隶将获得解放，种族歧视消失的那天一定会到来。 _________________

______________________________________________

_____________________________ ________________

______________________________ _______________

_______________________________

He held to the conviction that slavery would

be abolished, all the slaves would be

liberated, and the day was bound to come

when racial discrimination no longer

existed.

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Translate into Chinese the

underlined sentences in the

essay:

1.Our society benefits as fewer of its people have their genius suppressed or their talents wasted.

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如今天才遭受压抑、才华被浪费的人数减少了，我们的社会因此而收益。

2.Today, Dr. King’s legacy---the commitment to take affirmative actions to open doors and opportunity---is under political assault.

______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________

今天，金博士的遗产 ---- 采取积极行动打开大门，提供机会的承诺 ---- 正受到政治上的攻击。

3.Modern-day conservatives haven’t a clue

about what to do with an economy that is

generating greater inequality and reducing the

security and living standards of more and

more Americans.

_______________________________________

_______________________________________

_______________________________________

_______________________________________

今天的经济正在造成更大的不平等，并使越来越多的美国人安全感减少、生活水准降低；对于如何应对目前的这种经济形势，当今的保守分子一无所知。

4. Men and women , he aught, “have the

capacity to do right as well as wrong, and

history is a path upward, not downward. It’s

only when it is truly dark that you can see the

stairs.”

_______________________________________

_______________________________________

_______________________________________

__________________________________

他教导说，人，无论是男是女，“既有能力做好事，也有能力做坏事，而我们的历史的道路是向上走的，不是向下走的。只有在天空漆黑的时候，你才能望见星星。”