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Text Comprehension
I. Decide which of thefollowing best states the author’s purpose of writing.
C. A and Bare only part of the story. Each relates some individual anecdotes which givepart of Anne’s profile.
II. Judge, according tothe text, whether the following statements are true or false.
1. F
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. F
III. Answer thefollowing questions.
1. Refer to Para.4: She fled from Germany to Belgium to escape fascism; then moved to Paris, surviving the occupation by placing German subtitleson French films.
2. Anne is anindependent and honest lady.
3. Refer to Para.10: Anne assured her husband that he’d done theright thing. This means she appreciated his decision.
4. Refer to Para.8: she could endure difficulties in the hardesttime but she couldn’t tolerate her husband’s complaints and feeling sorry forhimself.
5. Refer to Para.12: She believes in tough love, and doesn’t let himjust lie around but forces him to overcome his troubles.
IV. Explain in your ownwords the following sentences.
1. But I alsomade some effort to adjust myself.
2. …because Iam sometimes too proud of myself.
Structural Analysisof the Text
Chronologicalaccount （descriptionof the air crash） →flashback （hiswife’s intuition and judgment on previous occasions） → flashback（ their romance and marriage） → chronological account （the author’s recovery from theair crash） →flashback（ hiswife’s surgery） →flashback（hiswife’s method to make people move on） → chronological account （the author’s concluding comments ）.
Vocabulary
I. Explain theunderlined part in each sentence in your own words.
II. Fill in the blank ineach sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.
III. Fill in the blankswith the appropriate forms of the given words.
IV. Choose the word or phrase that can replacethe underlined part in each sentence without changing its original meaning.
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. C
6. D
7. A
8. D
V. Give a synonym or anantonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.
VI. Write in each spaceone word that has the same stem as underlined in each given word.
Grammar
I. Change each sentenceinto a negative with the given word.
1. I hope itwill not rain.
2. Seldom hasshe been so successful before.
3. Nowhere in Iceland will you find gold.
4. Never hadDonald imagined that this strange incident would help him to find a job.
5. Scarcely hadhe any time to pack his suitcase.
6. In nocircumstances must you tell him this secret.
7. Rarely do weget more than three consecutive days of hot weather in summer.
8. I had hardlyever worked as hard as I did yesterday.
Hardly had Iever worked as hard as I did yesterday.
II. Translate thefollowing into Chinese.
1. 无爱之人不可能真正幸福。
2. 人人皆有过失。
3. 闪光的并非都是金子。
4. 这些都不是白做的。
5. 我不明白他为什么不在这儿。
6. 能不做的事她决不会做。
7. 我认为他没说真话。
8. 玛丽只求安宁。
III. Complete eachsentence with an appropriate expression of quantity from the box below.
IV. Insert as or likeas appropriate in each sentence.
1. as
2. as
3. like
4. like
5. as
6. like
7. like
8. like
9. as
10. as
VI. Make sentences ofyour own after the sentences given below, keeping the parts in italics in yoursentences.
1. He feltsweat on his forehead, but he took the violin from the wall as calmly as if hewere a welcome visitor.
2. After all,World War II was still on and atomic bomb research was a secret.
Translation
I. Translate thefollowing sentences into Chinese.
1. 1995年我中风后情绪低落，常常有自杀的念头，她又一次救了我。
2. 安妮帮助我度过了一些最困难的时刻，这可不是件容易的事，因为我有时候是个自负的演员。
3. 在我刚刚摆脱死神，还沉浸在劫后痛苦中的时候，她一直安慰我，但她不能容忍我自怨自艾——她把这个看得很重。
4. 她通过帮助别人——如和病友们谈心，交流她的经验，与六位癌症康复者一起建立了妇女癌症研究会——和癌症作斗争，并且彻底康复了。
II. Translate thefollowing sentences into English, using the words and phrases given inbrackets.
1. The fans waited anxiously in the rain for two hours before the“super girl” finally showed up.
2. They have been in love for eight years, and they went throughmany agonies before they finally got married.
3. I was upset by the loss of my wallet, but I could only consolemyself—it could have been worse. What if I had lost my passport at the airport?
4. Given his age and inexperience / Given that he was young andinexperienced, his performance in his first movie was excellent.
5. Every time he left on business, the manager would authorize hisassistant to act for him, as the business of the company couldn’t wait.
6. The poor old man did not have much to eat but he kept healthybecause he believed in the benefit of doing exercise.
7. Of all the ancient civilizations, only that of China has endured through the ages and is still full of vitality.
8. Like many other writers, this young writer focuses on the eternaltheme of love. What sets him apart from others is his keen observations ofrural life in China.
Exercises forintegrated skills
I. Dictation
Love means thatI know the person I love. / I’m aware of/the many sides of the other person/—not just the beautiful side / but also the limitations. / I have an awareness/ of the other’s feelings and thoughts. / I can see the other person / on adeeper level.
Love means /that I care about the welfare / of the person I love. / If I care about you, /I’m concerned about your growth, / and I hope you will become / all that youcan be- come. /
Love meanstrusting the person I love. / If I love you, / I trust that you will accept mycaring and my love / and that you won’t deliberately hurt me. / I trust thatyou will find me lovable / and that you won’t abandon me. / If we trust eachother, / we are willing to be open to each other / and reveal our trueselves.
II. Fill in each blankin the passage below with ONE word you think appropriate.
Listening
Transcript
Section 1
You travel a great deal. Do you enjoy it?
Oh yes, I absolutely love traveling. I love going fromplace to place, and however much I travel I never get sick of it. I’m alwaysexcited, particularly when I get on a plane, because I very much like flying. Idon’t know why, because people nowadays say that it’s a very mundane way totravel, but I don’t find it so. I think flying is very exciting indeed. You geton the plane, there’s the noises at the airport, and I’m crazy about the wholething, when it …… the engines start, and it starts to go down the runway, andthere’s a great thrill as it goes down the runway—this is the only real thrillabout flying—the sense of speed as you go down a runway. AndI en- joy all that enormously.
Mind you, I don’t like everything about flying. I like itonce you’re in the aircraft but I don’t like sitting around airports,particularly if the plane’s delayed. I absolutely hate it then, because theairport’s crowded with people, nobody knows what’s happening, and I hate peoplenot telling me what’s happening—so I don’t know whether I’m going to wait foran hour, I don’t know whether I’m going to wait for about four hours.
Section 2
The trouble is that today many aircrafts have got so fastthat short flights are very short and you don’t really have time to even get adrink, or a meal, and all the things they do. So I much prefer going on longflights to short flights. Perhaps not too long, but long enough to enjoy it.When you get to really long flights, say 24 hours, I’m not so fond of those,because it’s very tiring and it’s difficult to get to sleep, and you get verydisorientated because of the difference in time and I don’t like that very muchat all. But there are things you can do to make a long flight easier to dealwith, and what I like to do is, if possible, it’s easier if you can flywherever you’re going when it’s mostly dark, because then there’s a fair chanceof getting to sleep. What I like to do for my ideal long-distance flight is tohave a long enough spell that you could go to sleep.
What I don’t like is the habit they have on long-distanceflights of constantly waking you up, because they think that you may be bored,when of course really all you want to do is sleep. And I’m not at all fond ofit—I hate it when they come along and say to me “Oh it’s timefor your meal now.” or it’s “Would you like another drink?”—Ijust can’t stand that because all I want to do is to go to sleep.
A. Pre-listeningdiscussion
Open todiscussion
B. Listen to Section 1 carefullyand answer the questions.
1. Yes. （the interviewer say so, and sheobviously know a lot about flying）
2. Theexcitement of it, particularly the takeoff.
3. That it’s“mundane”—it’s soordinary now that it isn’t exciting any more.
4. She doesn’t like waiting around at airports when planes aredelayed, because the airports are crowded, and she doesn’t know how long she’llhave to wait.
C. Listen to Section 2carefully and answer the questions.
1. She prefers long flights, because on short flights you don’t havetime to enjoy the flight, have a meal, etc.
2. They’re tiring, it’s difficult to get to sleep, and the change intime zones makes you disorientated.
3. Travel indarkness, so she can get to sleep.
4. Because theythink the passengers are bored, or because it’s time for another meal
Questions fordiscussion
1. The authorasked her children to write thank-you notes to express their gratitude.
2. Open to discussion.
3. Open todiscussion.