第11页 ：boast 自夸； A recent Monday saw a steady stream of locals pop in to pick up their packages and buy groceries.

     renew the contact with sb 续签合同； virtually ---almost 几乎；

cut off 切断与外界的联系  trainee--学员；employee雇员；refer sb to sb ---send sb to sb for  help;

    Adults are portrayed alone in my settings and poses---absorbed in a volume, deep in thought, lost in a moment of leisure.

   perception 知觉