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2 We even found a stand-in for a villain in Sheldon Fein, the sallow mamma’s boy on our block who was left out of the boys’ games because he cried whenever anybody tagged him and always managed to fall down and skin his fat knees. (a) What did we find? We found someone who could be a villain. (b) Who was the stand-in for a villain? Sheldon Fein. (c) What was he like? He was sallow and a mamma’s boy.
He
has written
how a Yanomamö girl
is expected to help her mother
from a young age and
by the age of ten
will be running a house
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3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of suitable expressions from the collocation box. Sometimes more than one collocation is possible.
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1 The Australian bush _____ _______ for several days fires blazed before they were brought under control. 2 As a child Ruth’s long dark _____ _______ down her hair tumbled back. close-knit tight-knit 3 He comes from a very _________ /__________ family with three brothers and two sisters.
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(c) Who had the sense of having tumbled like Icarus? The writer, Sylvia Plath. (d) Why would she wake up with a breathless sense? Because she felt she was really flying. (e) What did the breathless sense feel like? It felt like a sudden shock. (f) Why did she catch herself on the soft bed just in time? Because she felt she was falling.
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1 Look at the sentences from the passage Superman and answer the questions 2 Rewrite the sentence from the passage Cultural childhoods in a diagram 3 Complete the sentences 4 Translate the paragraphs into Chinese 5 Translate the paragraphs into English
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1 Look at the sentences from the passage Superman and answer the questions. 1 My flying dreams were believable as a landscape by Dali, so real that I would awake with a sudden shock, a breathless sense of having tumbled like Icarus from the sky and caught myself on the soft bed just in time. (a) What were believable? Her dreams about flying were believable. (b) How real were they? They were very real.
Nouns which often go before: consumption energy food fuel blaze eyes fire headlights sun wood tumble hair prices Nouns which often go after: knit gloves a hat a jumper socks your brow / eyebrow Adjectives which often go before: knit close- tightWords which often go after: tumble down over backwards to
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2 Look at the sentence from the passage Superman. The Annie F. Warren Grammar School was a red-brick building, set back from the main highway on a black tar street, surrounded by barren gravel playgrounds. You can rewrite it in a diagram, like this:
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4 I remember my father used to ______ his_______/ knit brows eyebrows ________ together when he was thinking hard about something. blazing 5 It was extremely hot and the ______ was ________. sun jumper 6 Did you _____ that ________ yourself? It’s really knit beautiful! prices 7 I’m watching the financial markets – I think the______ of stocks will ________ quite soon. tumble
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4 Translate the paragraphs into Chinese. 1 My flying dreams were believable as a landscape by Dali, so real that I would awake with a sudden shock, a breathless sense of having tumbled like Icarus from the sky and caught myself on the soft bed just in time. These nightly adventures in space began when Superman started invading my dreams and teaching me how to fly. He used to come roaring by in his shining blue suit with his cape whistling in the wind, looking remarkably like my Uncle Frank who was living with mother and me. In the magic whirling of his cape I could hear the wings of a hundred seagulls, the motors of a thousand planes.
The Annie F. Warren Grammar School
was
a red-brickຫໍສະໝຸດ buildingset back from the main highway
on a black tar street
surrounded by barren gravel playgrounds
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Now rewrite the sentence from the passage Cultural childhoods in a diagram below.
He has written how a Yanamamö girl is expected to help her mother from a young age and by the age of ten will be running a house.
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我的飞行梦像达利的风景画那么真实可信，以致自己常常 会在一阵惊吓中醒来，好像伊卡罗斯那样从空中摔下，虽然发 现自己刚好掉到软软的床上，但也被吓得喘不过气来。当超人 开始侵入我的梦乡，并教给我飞行的技巧之后，我每夜的太空 冒险便开始了。超人身着耀眼的蓝色衣服，肩披随风飕飕作响 的斗篷，经常从我身边呼啸而过。他长得太像我的舅舅弗兰克 了，舅舅那会儿正跟妈妈和我住在一起。超人的斗篷神奇地旋 转时，我好像能听见上百只海鸥的振翅声，上千架飞机的马达 轰鸣声。