loading1. 1) heap 2) was smeared 3) warmed 4) dissolve
5) thrash 6) out of the way 7) hollows 8) tangled 9) get his hands on 10) opaque
11) at the edge of … illumined 12) hop
2. 1) take … apart 2) result from 3) run out of 4) feed on 5) come forward 6) woke up 7) focused on 8) settled over 3. 1) was dying to see the movie bases on it
2) as a rule, the sheer distance mutes all sounds from the ground 3) fuss too much over details
4) slumped into an armchair (feeling) completely exhausted 5) was reputed to be the wittiest woman of her time 4. 1) swarmed to … the spectacular … paddled
2) in the heart of … out of the range of … trailing over … gliding in 3) Day after day … strip … the heaving … slap
II. Confusable Words
1. 1) worth 2) worthy 3) worthwhile
4) worth … worth 5) worthwhile 6) worthy 2. 1) lone 2) alone 3) alone
4) lonely 5) lonely 6) alone … lonely
III. Usage
1. ice-cream 2. teas 3. wines 4. cloth 5. soap 6. beer 7. fuels 8. soils 9. sugars 10. grass
Comprehensive Exercises I. Cloze
1. 1) are dying to 2) in the heart of 3) tangled 4) paddles 5) loop 6) out of sight 7) in flocks 8) hopping 9) gliding 10) opaque 11) thrashing 12) darting 13) swarms 14) spectacular
2. 1) running 2) fancy 3) incorporate 4) exploring 5) guide 6) adventure 7) rarely 8) diverse 9) survive 10) lucky
II. Translation
1. 1) Janet was just the kind of girl Mike knew he could trust, so he bared his heart to her on their first date.
2) At first the girls played on the fringe of the dark forest, now laughing, now screaming, but before long they were out of sight.
3) The moment the football players disembarked from the plane, they saw a fleet of cars waiting for their arrival.
4) Carson condemned his opponent for using misleading information to smear his character.
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5) Alex gave the policeman a wallet stuffed with banknotes. He said he had found it on the curb when he hopped off his school bus.
2. Last Wednesday, my classmate Caroline and I visited Zhouzhuang, a well-known town looped all around by streams. When we arrived at the town, Caroline was so excited that she darted towards the first bridge she saw and began singing loudly there. Suddenly her voice hushed when she found that she had startled a flock of ducks not too far from us. Now as Caroline was dying for a boat ride, we decided to tour the town by boat. Now loud, now soft, Caroline talked to all the creatures in the stream and was fussing about everything while I looked at the boats gliding over the water in silence. Though we did not see anything spectacular, we enjoyed every minute in the town that lies out of the range of the heavy traffic and noise of the large city. Zhouzhuang is worth visiting and, time permitting, I’d like to go there again.
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