Unit One Friendship 1)1. correspond2. build3. sensible4. brilliant5. grasp6. appoint7. hardware8. gaze2)1.cast your eyes / an eye over2.torn down3. making a fortune4. turned up5. lost track of6. pass on7. checking up on8. was under arrest1)1. The story took place in New York.2. He was on night duty, patrolling the avenues and trying to prevent any possible crimes on hisbeat.3. He came from the western part of the United States, which was still wild and under-developedat that time.4. He was waiting by appointment for Jimmy Wells, the best friend of his youth.5. Twenty years before, Jimmy and Bob had made an appointment that they would meet again inthe same restaurant exactly twenty years from that date and time, no matter what theirconditions might be or from what distance they might have to come.6. He was arrested by a policeman in plain clothes, because he was wanted by the Chicago police.7. He was Jimmy Wells, Bob's friend of youth.8. Yes, they did meet that night, but in a very special way. Jimmy approached Bob as a patrolman,talking to Bob as if they did not know each other before.2)1. He loved New York so much that he preferred to live nowhere else.2. It was a luxurious watch, handsome and with small diamonds set on its lids. Judging by thewatch, one might think that he had made a fortune in the West.3. Each of them was eager to know what exactly the other looked like.4. You are not Jimmy at all, because it is not possible for a man to change the shape of his nose sothoroughly within a matter of twenty years.5. The Chicago police informed us that you might have come to New York and they wanted us tostop and arrest you … It is wise of you not to resist.6. He could not control his emotions when he found out the truth. His hand was trembling withfear and shock.C he c k in g Yo u r Vo c ab ula r yC he c k in g Yo u r Co mp r e h e ns io nUnit Two Love1)engaged 2. grief 3. manipulate 4. agonizing 5. maximum 6. fascinate 7. silverware8. grace2)1. moist.2. fit into3. In the course of4. glory5. overjoyed6. clip7. in vain8. yield1)1. He was dying in bed of a serious disease.2. They were long and large. His fingers were long and square, laced with fine veins all the way tothe tips. His nails squared off the ends of his fingers, with clearly defined white edges. He hadalways taken great care to keep them neat. They were not tough hands; nor soft, either.3. She could feel pure and honest expressions of his love.4. He took very good care of them.5. Her husband held her hands in the most frightening moments of his illnesses and in the deepest,darkest moment of his life.6. She discovered an opened pack of emery boards.7. At the sight of the emery boards, she could not control her grief any longer and broke into tears.8. He was her youngest son, who resembled her husband very much.9. She felt the clasp was as reassuring as his father's.2)1. Holding one of my hands tightly, he expressed his pure love for me as well as his wish to betogether with me forever.2. I tried to bear in mind what his hands were like because I knew he would soon leave us forever.3.When death was drawing near, he clasped my hands to seek comfort and support from me and toexpress his pure and deep love for me.4. Since my husband had been using them before he died, I like to use them now so that I couldfind myself mentally closer to him.5. Even though he had died, my husband's way of expressing love through his handclasp had beenpassed down to our son, which was a lasting comfort to me.C he c k in g Yo u r Vo c ab ula r y C he c k in g Yo u r Co mp r e h e ns io nUnit Three Happiness1)1. purchase2. temporary3. inform 5. rewarding 6. scale 7. cultivate8. conscience2)1. a fact of life2. wear out3. suggests4. other than5. has something to do with6. working out7. attractive8. taken … pains1)1. We feel happy, but only for a short time. Over time, we get bored with the thing we’ve got.2. Material happiness is derived from our purchasing power while spiritual happiness meanssomething else altogether, like good friends, a loving spouse, well-raised children, a home builton love, a clear conscience, a worthy goal and a satisfying job. Such things bring uscontentment that lasts and has meaning.3. His philosophy is: No matter how much money you make, you always want more. So, oneshould break free from this cycle and find time to do what he wants.4. The author lists seven "scales" by which we can measure wealth: friends, health, strength,family, knowledge, skill and character.5. They are not taxed.6. They are good friends, a loving spouse, well-raised children, a home built on love, a clearconscience, a worthy goal and a job you truly enjoy. All these things can bring us lasting andmeaningful happiness.7. Take a look at the world around you and think about what it is that you enjoy and what makesyou truly happy.2)1. If you excel in the skill you practice daily, you will get a sense of achievement and pride, whichwill bring you lasting happiness.2. If money or anything else has brought you some happiness in life, you have to give it up whenyou die. But it is not true of knowledge, because the contentment and happiness that knowledgebrings might be with you forever even when you die.3. We only appreciate such things when we are older, and not as thoughtless teenagers.4. Try to find out what really makes your life enjoyable and meaningful. Then you will understandwhat is most important in life and what is meant by happiness.5. Material happiness is not the only happiness we need. We should have spiritual happiness aswell.C he c k in g Yo u r Vo c ab ula r yC he c k in g Yo u r Co mp r e h e ns io nUnit Four Health1)1. isolate2. issue3. contract4. ignorance5. broken6. segment7. applause8. prejudice2)1. bring … to an end2. infect3. threats4. leading5. at risk6. wept7. tolerate8. set aside9. make room for10. appealing1)1. She came to break the silence that has been kept over the issue of HIV/AIDS for a long time.2. In the United States, two hundred thousand Americans are dead or dying; a million more areinfected. AIDS is the third leading killer of young adult Americans today. Worldwide, 40million, 60 million, or a hundred million infections will be counted in the coming few years.3. Because it has nothing to do with politics. It does not care whether you are Democrat orRepublican; it attacks people regardless of race, sex or age; it does not ask whether you are gayor straight.4. Because we have helped it spread with our ignorance, prejudice and silence.5. Because they are human. Each of them is a person. They are not evil and have not earnedcruelty. They do not deserve meanness. They don’t benefit from being isolated or treated asoutcasts. They long for our pity and they are worthy of our compassion and support.6. Instead of practicing prejudice against her, they have rendered strong support to her. Her parentsand her brother have shown concern for her consistently. They have always encouraged her andhave helped her pull through the hardest moments in her struggle against the disease.7. She calls on the whole nation to be aware of AIDS. She calls on the HIV positive to have thecourage to fight it out. She calls on the healthy people to set aside prejudice and showcompassion and support for AIDS patients.2)1. To act on the proposal I made, I have to break the silence myself tonight. It is time to speak outthe truth about the deadly disease — AIDS.2. AIDS has become so widespread that those who have been infected come from every part ofsociety.3. This question reveals the essence of the AIDS issue: Since AIDS poses a threat to humankind,every one of us, irrespective of race, age or sex, may contract HIV and become a victim ofAIDS for the simplest reason that we are all human.4. Because people with HIV have not turned into some strange kind of creature that is totallydifferent from us. They are just as human as anyone else. We have no reason to practiceprejudice against them.5. Then the future generations will face the problem in an honest and frank manner. Only in thisway can they deal with the disease effectively and make the world safe and free from thisdeadly disease.C he c k in g Yo u r Vo c ab ula r yC he c k in g Yo u r Co mp r e h e ns io nUnit Five Education1)1. combine2. implement3. illusion4. indispensable5. intelligence6. emphasis7. reconcile8. data9. negotiate10. reform2)1. in store2. to this end3. in accordance with4. in depth5. equip6. access7. phase8. get out of1)1. The role of education in the 21st century should be based on the hope for a world that is a betterplace to live in.2. We have to overcome the tensions between the global and the local, between tradition andmodernity, between long-term and short-term considerations, between the need for competitionand the concern for equality of opportunity and between the spiritual and the material so as tomake the world a better place to live in.3. We can learn to live together by understanding others and their history, traditions and spiritualvalues, implementing common projects and managing the inevitable conflicts in an intelligentand peaceful way.4. No. Because there are so many different types of knowledge; any attempt to know everythingwould be an illusion.5. General education provides the passport to lifelong education. It enables people to learn otherlanguages and become familiar with other subjects. It also arouses people's interest in learningand thus lays the foundation for lifelong education.6. People also need to acquire the competence to cope with various situations and cooperate withothers in teams.7. To develop team skills, students should be provided with opportunities to involve themselves inwork experience while they are still in education.8. The aim of "learning to be" is the complete fulfillment of man. All people should receive aneducation that would equip them to develop an independent, critical way of thinking andexercising judgment.9. We should build a learning society based on the acquisition, renewal and use of knowledge.2)1. The solution to any serious problem involves much consideration, cooperation and negotiation.It is exactly the same with educational policies, which can only be worked out through lots ofdiscussions and negotiations.2. There are so many different kinds of knowledge that it is increasingly meaningless andimpossible to train students into specialists in all fields.C he c k in g Yo u r Vo c ab ula r yC he c k in g Yo u r Co mp r e h e ns io n3. The future of industrial economies depends critically on their ability to turn the development inknowledge into creative ideas, new methods or inventions. With creativity, new businesses andnew jobs will be created.4. The education one receives, which begins at birth and continues all through one's life, shouldhelp develop and put into full play one's potentials and talents. Unit Six Intercultural Communication1)1. slice2. tender3. proof4. funeral5. preserve6. familiarity7. proclaim8. client 2)1. on the … side2. hold … breath3. slippery4. helped himself to5. declined6. resist7. flavor8. proceeded1)1. Because her mother was proud of her skill of cooking. By asking her boyfriend to praise hermother's cooking the narrator hoped that he would win her mother's favor.2. He looked rather plain with too many freckles across his nose.3. At dinner he drank two full glasses of the French wine he had brought while everybody else hada half-inch "just for taste". He did not know how to use chopsticks and how to showappreciation for the food the mother cooked. He ate big portions of the dish he liked, instead oftaking only a polite spoonful. He declined the tender and expensive new greens the narrator'smother had carefully prepared. What is worse, he spoiled the flavor of the mother's famous dishby pouring too much soy sauce into it.4. When he shook hands with her parents, Rich showed that same easy familiarity he used withnervous new clients and he addressed them by their first names, which sounded quite impolite.Nobody except a few older family friends, had ever called them by their first names.5. He thought it was good and that everything had gone well that night. He was expecting to seethe narrator's parents again.6. Because at every possible moment when she was alone with her mother, her mother would bevoicing her dissatisfaction with Rich. So the narrator did not have a chance — not even thecourage — to tell her mother about her marriage plan.7. It was the cultural differences that caused their misunderstanding. Rich did not know muchabout Chinese table manners and he took others' words literally.2)1. She is poor at cooking and could not cook creatively; no one would enjoy the dishes shecooked.2. Rich didn't realize at all how serious his mistakes were in my parents' eyes. Instead, he thoughtwhat he had done was proper in the situation.3. He did not realize that he had shaken my parents' hands in a way that had irritated them.4. It is extremely easy to tell them that you are getting married.C he c k in g Yo u r Vo c ab ula r yC he c k in g Yo u r Co mp r e h e ns io nUnit Seven The Olympic Spirit1)1. original2. triumph3. token4. temple5. swift6. dynamic7. committee8. tolerance 2)1. on his behalf2. in the name of3. abide by4. governing5. version6. descending7. shedding8. witnessed 1)1. It was officially adopted at the closing dinner of the congress for the reestablishment of themodern Olympic Games on June 23, 1894.2. They take the Olympic oath to promise that they shall play fairly and obey all of the Olympicrules. The oath is taken by one athlete from the host country on behalf of all athletes. Holding acorner of the Olympic flag, the chosen athlete repeats the oath.3. During the ancient Olympic Games, a sacred flame was lit from the sun's rays at Olympia, andstayed lit until the Games were completed.4. Blue represents Europe; Black, Africa; Red, America; Yellow, Asia; and Green, Oceania.5. The Olympic flag is a symbol of peace, goodwill, and global solidarity and tolerance.2)1) F The tokens of the Olympic ideal represent the essence of the Olympic Movement andcontribute to the legacy of the Olympic Games.2) F It is now universally recognized in English as "Swifter, Higher, Stronger."3) T4) T5) T6) F It was not officially adopted until 1958.7) TC he c k in g Yo u r Vo c ab ula r yC he c k in g Yo u r Co mp r e h e ns io nUnit Eight Man and society1)1. intention2. harmonious3. damaging4. stimulate5. reserve6. accompany7. manners8. nourish2)1. working on2. taken lightly3. subjected to4. on (your) guard5. defects6. Leave … aside7. boost8. on the contrary1)1. Because such self-knowledge makes it possible to reinforce our standards of conduct, so that wecan build good relationships with our fellow human beings.2. Standards of conduct have a decisive influence over relationships. They form a common basisof respect from which we can establish relationships.3. Yes. Good manners are closely related to standards of conduct because acquiring good mannersis a necessary aspect of establishing standards of conduct.4. Because good manners help us to overcome even the most difficult situations. They areirreplaceable assets in establishing and maintaining relationships.5. Feelings of superiority and pride may give rise to bad feelings and resentment; such feelings donot help others and may well demoralize them.6. No. It is not enough just to have good manners and clear judgment in order to help others, forthe effort to do good must be accompanied by an unselfish love and a positive attitude.7. A positive attitude inspires others and transmits love through advice which is practical,beneficial and possible to carry out. It does not depend on personal success and good luck; sothose with this attitude always behave in the same way, whether they are sad or happy, whetherthey are successful or not in their endeavors.C he c k in g Yo u r Vo c ab ula r yC he c k in g Yo u r Co mp r e h e ns io n。