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SECTION A
Understanding theText
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1. The dealbetween them is that the narrator gives Rob his leather jacket, and Rob, inexchange, gives the narrator his girlfriend. They make the deal because theywant to get something from each other: Rob is crazy aboutfashion, and he wants to own the narrator’s fashionable leather jacket; thenarrator longs to have a beautiful girlfriend, and Rob’s girlfriend is beautiful.
2. He thinks abeautiful and well-spoken girlfriend will assist him to land a job and achievesuccess in an elite law company.
3. The narratorfeels this way because he can’t stop thinking that his purpose of dating Pollyis not for romance bur for improving her intelligence, and he can’t let Pollyknow his plan.
4. The narratordecides to teach Polly logic because he believes logic is essential for clearthinking. By teaching Polly logic, he can make her intelligent.
5. When thenarrator teaches her logic, Polly responds either shortly with “cool” “great”“I like that idea”, or simply with nodding or blinking without saying anything.These responses give us an impression that Polly is a nice but rathersimple-minded girl.
6. Yes. He isonly too successful in teaching Polly logic because in the end when he asksPolly to be his girlfriend, Polly refuses his request by applying all thelogical fallacies he has taught her.
7. Because hewants to make one more attempt to win Polly as his girlfriend by asking her toforget what he has taught her.
8. The end ofthe story is ironic because Polly turns out to be smarter than the narrator.First, she is able to refute all his arguments as logical fallacies. Then, shediscloses that she and Rob have played a trick on him. The narrator has beentoo smart for his own good.
Critical Thinking
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(Omitted)
Words in use
3
1. crumbled
2. discern
3. surpass
4. shrewd
5. conversion
6. distort
7. radiant
8. ingenious
9. stumped
10. proposition
Word building
4
5
1. bankruptcies
2. atmospheric
3. delicacies
4. urgency
5. accountancy
6. gloom
7. magnet
8. metallic
9. mastery
10. vacancy
11. guilt
12. secrecy
Banked cloze
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1. C
2. I
3. A
4. O
5. F
6. H
7. M
8. K
9. J
10. D
Expressions in use
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1. were drippingwith
2. in exchangefor
3. flared up
4. make ananalogy between
5. set a datefor
6. make …out of
7. made a pact
8. had appealedto
Structure Writing
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My most embarrassing experience
My mostembarrassing experiences that are still fresh in my mind happened when I was incollege. Before I narrate my story, there’ re two things that I need tomention. First, I’m one of the top students in my school. My photo was alwayspasted on the bulletin boards after midterm examination so many people knew me.Second, I enjoy musing. Actually, it is these two things that gave rise to mytragedy.
We usually wentto the playground to do gyms after class. There were two roads back to ourclassroom. I usually preferred the shortcut, which is a bit narrow with severalutility poles. As usual, I walked on the shortcut, musing freely. I can’tremember exactly what I was thinking about. At that very moment when an “onch”broke out in the crowd, I still had no idea what happened or even who utteredthis. Suddenly, a hail of ache sprang up and I knew who had collided with theutility pole. And tears seemed so corporate that they started to overflow. Andthere came the babbling and teasing, “Isn’t that Dong Hui from class 617? Doyou believe it? She just ran into it.” If only there were holes right under myfeet so that I could dive into it!
No, I shouldn’tcry in the public. 1 pulled myself together and I soon worked out a plan. Yes,I would pretend nothing had happened and buried my forehead in my palms, hidingmy tears from others, and dashed to the classroom. I took a relieved breathwhen finding out that none of my classmates had met me. However, when Ireturned to dorm after dinner, one of my roommates asked concernedly, “Are youOkay? My boyfriend said he happened to see you bump against a utility pole. Hethought you might be thinking some difficult math problems.” I blushed at hernarrative, “Yes, I was working with a math puzzle when returning to theclassroom. I’ m Okay.”
Isn’t thatembarrassing when you thought something had been ignored, someone just let itloose in front of 12 people that you got along with day and night? That may bethe reason why I still remember every detail of it up till now. It isembarrassing but a part and parcel of my high school life.
Translation
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亚里士多德是古希腊的哲学家和科学家。他的作品涵盖了许多主题，包括物理学、生物学、动物学、逻辑学、伦理学、诗歌、戏剧、音乐、语言学、政治和政府，构成了第一个综合的西方哲学体系。亚里士多德是第一个将人类的知识领域划分为不同学科的人，如数学、生物学和伦理学。他相信人所有的观念和所有的知识在根本上都是基于感知能力。他对自然科学的看法构成了他许多作品的基础。他几乎对他所处时期的每一个人类知识领域都做出了贡献。他的作品包含了人们所知的最早的关于逻辑的正式研究，即使在今天，亚里士多德哲学所涵盖的方方面面仍是学术研究的重要课题。他的哲学理论对所有的西方哲学理论的发展有着经久不衰的影响。在去世2300多年后，亚里士多德仍是最有影响力的哲学家和科学家之一。
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The Doctrine ofthe Mean is the core of Confucianism. The so-called “mean” by Confucius doesn’tmean “compromise” but a “moderate” and “just-right” way when understanding andhandling objective things. Confucius advocated that this thought should notonly be treated as a way to understand and deal with things but also beintegrated into one’s daily conduct to make it a virtue throughself-cultivation and training. The Doctrine of the Mean is not only the core ofConfucianism but also an important component of traditional Chinese culture.From the time it came into being to the present, it has played an invaluablerole in the construction of national spirit, the transmission of national wisdom,and the development of national culture.
SECTION B
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(Omitted)
Understanding theText
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1. C
2. A
3. B
4. D
5. B
6. D
7. C
8. A
Critical Thinking
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(Omitted)
Words in use
4
1. triggering
2. obscure
3. hypothesis
4. formulate
5. threshold
6. incidence
7. refute
8. realm
9. decay
10. testimony
Expressions in use
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1. play the odds
2. subject to
3.attributes/attributed... to
4. be factoredinto
5. call for
6. by virtue of
7. get stuck on
8. come intoplay
Sentence structure
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1. The time has comefor a broad international effort to integrate China into the global economy.
2. The time hascome for us to recognize that traditional art forms presented in traditionalvenues cannot compete with objects produced by popular culture.
3. The time hascome for considering the policy of conserving these material resources on whichthe permanent prosperity of our country must depend.
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1. These reportsdiffer from his earlier work in that they offer solutions to public pensionproblems.
2. These forumsare unique in that they provide a venue for those with varying perspectivesto have an open and honest dialog.
3. Socialsupport has been found to act as a stress reducer in that it protects peoplein crisis from both physical and psychological problems.
Collocation
Warm-up
1. intellectual
2. lighten
3. demands
4. winning
5. erroneous
6. vastly
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1. available
2. erroneous
3. valid
4. intellectual
5. lightening
6. inaccurate
7. winning
8. distort
9. logic-proof
10. tremendous
11. watertight
12. cognitive