Unit 1
text A
After You Read
Knowledge Focus
2. 1) F 2) T 3) F 4) F 5) T 6) F 7) F 8) T 9) F 10) T
3. 2)-6)-8)-7)-4)-5)-3)-1)
Language Focus
1. 1) inconsequential 2) ecstatic 3) predominant 4) instigate
5) vanish 6) parsimony 7) mammoth 8) depreciates
9) truant 10) imputation
2. 1) of 2) to 3) for 4) on 5) to 6) with
7) for 8) through 9) down 10) off
3. 1) i 2) e 3) h 4) b 5) c 6) j
7) a 8) f 9) g 10) d
Comprehensive Work
3. 1) Della; Jim; Madame Sophronie 2) three
3) sobs; sniffles; smiles 4) chops
5) spices; gold; jewels 6) magi
7) gifts 8) Arabia; India
9) Jim’s gold watch; the love Jim and Della shared
10) serious; sweetness
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text B
2. 1) fragrance 2) gleam 3) magical 4) slippery
5) creaked 6) Overhearing 7) genuinely 8) resistant
9) offended 10) beloved
text C
1. 1) B 2) C 3) A 4) C 5) C
Unit 2
Before You Read
2. Irrationalism
Individualism
Being close to nature
Simplicity in style
Objection to puritan morality
The “newness” of the Americans as a nation independent from the
European yoke
text A
After You Read
Knowledge Focus
1. 1) Dutch 2) Kaatskill 3) good-natured 4) lazy
5) hot-tempered 6) an old man 7) changed 8) George III
9) George Washington 10) twenty
3. 1) T 2) F 3) F 4) T 5) F 6) T 7) T 8) F 9) F
Language Focus
1. 1) precipice 2) entangled 3) metamorphosed 4) incomprehensible
5) bustled 6) vehemently 7) addled 8) jargon
9) sulk 10) austere
2. 1) assemblage 2) perplexity 3) acquainted 4) tranquility
5) involuntary 6) rusty 7) populous 8) aloft
9) impenetrable 10) desolate
3. 1) On 2) upon (on) 3) in 4) at
5) at
Comprehensive Work
1. 1) c 2) a 3) d 4) b
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text B
2. 1) himself → herself 2) it → them 3) dramatic → dramatically