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1.       Vocabulary: fill in the gaps with words or phrases given below. Change the form where necessary.

handful       manual      intellectual    jam      slice       luxury      industrial scare         upset        miracle      idle     function    private      ignorant wake up      break down

1) The problem of air pollution in our city is very serious because ours is a big zone of both residential and             buildings.

(industrial)

2) Average students who work hard usually do better than clever students who are            .

(idle)

3) When the camera             properly, a green light comes on.

(is functioning)

4) The fundamental issue in the current debate is whether environmental lead contamination causes             impairment in children.

(intellectual)

5) The girl,             and trembling, stood in the doorway hiding from the man who had followed her.

(scared)

6) It is reported that no more than a             of U.S. companies have been successful in the Japanese market.

(handful)

7) I’ve been doing the summer job for two months now. It would be a             to be able to have a day off.

(luxury)

8) Clarence refused to comment on the state of his marriage, saying it is “a            matter.

(private)

9) William             late and didn’t get to work until ten o’clock.

(woke up)

10) We agreed before we did the deal that we’d both take an equal             of the profit.

(slice)

11) When you look at the state of his car it’s a             that he wasn’t killed.

(miracle)

12) A week before the Spring Festival the telephone exchange             with people wanting to book train tickets.

(was jammed)

2.       Translation: translate the sentences into English, using the words or phrases in bracket.

1)      没有个人档案，求职者很难指望受雇当老师。 (file)

(Without his personal file, an applicant can hardly expect to get / be employed as a teacher.)

2)      有了足够的冰，我们就能冰这些饮料了。 (chill)

(With enough ice, we should be able to shill the drinks.)

3)      依我愚见，阅读是打发闲暇的最悦人方式。 (humble, leisure)

(In my humble opion, reading is the most pleasant way to spend one’s leisure.)

4)      有人说， 美国运动员迈克尔·菲尔普斯(Michael Phelps)在2008北京奥运会上赢得八枚金牌简直是个奇迹。 (miracle)

(Some people said it was simply a miracle that the American athlete Michael Phelps won eight gold medals at the 2008 Bejing Olympic Games.)

5)      洗衣机坏了，我们只能用手洗衣服了。(break down)

(The washing machine has broken down, so we have to wash our clothes by hand.)

Questions and Answers

1.       Why did the author go to the drugstore one day?

2. How old was the salesgirl?

3. What was the salesgirl’s reaction to the author’s mental arithmetic (心算)?

4. Did the salesgirl believe that the author did calculations by magic? Why or why not?

5. What was the author?

6. What did the author think of American teenagers?

7. In the author’s opinion, what was the most serious problem for American teenagers?

8. Why did the author give us the example of his friend’s son?

9. According to the author, what would happen if there was an idle, ignorant labor force in a modern industrial state?

10. What was the author’s purpose of offering a fable?