Vocabulary?

1. ?

1) ?absolutely????2)?available???3)?every?now?and?then???

4) ?are?urging/?urged??5)?destination???6)?mostly??7)?hangs?out??

8) ?right?away???????9)?reunion???10)?or?something???11)?estimate????

12)?going?ahead??

2. ??

1) ?It?seemed?that?his?failure?in?the?examination?was?still?on?his?mind.?

2) ?He?was?completely?choked?up?by?the?sight?of?his?team?losing?in?the?final?minutes?of?the?game.?

3) ?She?was?so?lost?in?study?that?she?forgot?to?have?dinner.?

4) ?Something?has?come?up?and?I?am?afraid?I?won’t?be?able?to?accomplish?the?project?on?time.?

5) ?The?cost?of?equipping?the?new?hospital?was?estimated?at?$2?million.??

3. ?Complete?the?sentences.?

1) ?were?postponed??????????the?awful??????????is?estimated??

2) ?reference??????????????not?available?????????an?kind?of?

3) ?not?much?of?a?teacher????????skips????????????go?ahead

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Collocation?

1. to??2.for??3.at??4.from???5.in????6.to?on????7.on??8.with

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Usage?

1. more?or?less??2. kind?of/?sort?of??3. something??4. kind?of/?sort?of??

5. more?or?less?? 6. or?something??7. Comprehensive?exercises

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Cloze?

1. ?text-related?

1. choked?up??2.awful??3.practically??4.neighborhood??5.correspondence?6.available??7.destination??8.reunion??9.Mostly??10.postponing??11.absolutely??

2. ?Theme-related?

1. how??2.savings??3.embarrassment??4.phone??5.interrupted??6.touch??

7.envelop??8.signed??9.message??10.needed

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Translation

1. ?Translate?the?sentences.?

1) ?Half?an?hour?had?gone?by,?but?the?last?bus?hadn’t?come?yet.?We?had?to?walk?home.

2) ?Mary?seems?to?be?very?worried?about?the?Chinese?exam?because?she?

hasn’t?learned?the?texts?by?heart.?

3) ?Since?the?basketball?match?has?been?postponed,?we?might?as?well?visit?the?museum.

4)?He?stayed?in?Australia?with?his?parents?all?the?way?through?World WarⅡ.?

5)?Since?I?graduated?from?Nanjing?University?in?1985,?I?have?kind?of??lost?touch?with?my?classmates.??

2.?Translate?the?passage.??

It?is?not?easy?to?keep?in?touch?with?friends?far?away.?This?is?true?in?my?case. It?has?been?a?couple?of?years?since?I?left?my?old?neighborhood?and?all?the?

friends I had there.?I?have?been?meaning?to?write?to?them?but?things?come?up?and I?just?don’t?seem?to?find?the?time.?They?are?always?on?my?mind,?however,?

I?think?I?will?certainly?make?an?effort?to?keep?up?correspondence?with?

them?in?the?future.