Unit 1 cloze

In the fall of our final year, our mood changed. The relaxed atmosphere of the preceding summer   semester, the  1 ball games, the boating on the Charles River, the  2  parties had  disappeared, and we all started to get our heads down, studying late, and  3  at classes rose steeply again.  We  all  sensed we were coming to the end of our stay here, that we would never get a chance like this again, and we became determined not to waste it.   Most important of course were the final exams in April and May in the following year. No one wanted the 4  of finishing last in class, so the  5  group pressure to work hard was strong. Libraries which were once empty after five o'clock in the afternoon were  6  room only until the early hours of the morning, and guys wore the  7  under their eyes and their 8  , sleepy faces with pride, like  9  proving their

10. Impromptu bags   late-night  standing   attendance diligence edals   humiliation  pale  peer  

Unit 2 social anthropologists children  

Social anthropologists社会人类学家ask questions about how childhood, and the role of children儿童扮演的角色, is seen within the 1 they study在他们所研究的族群里, rather than how it fits into Western 2 ideas如何符合西方的观念about childhood. By doing this they seek to 3强加给outside ideas onto people with very different understandings of the world or of making value 4 作价值观方面的判断on other people‘s ways of raising their children养育孩子. While Westerners might take 5 to eight- year-old girls working or to 12-year-old girls marrying, within their own communities such activities are seen as a normal and 6 part积极的常态of childhood

Indeed, seen through the eyes of non-Westerners, many “normal“ Western childcare 7 西方育儿方式are seen as extremely 8 极其怪异and possibly harmful to children. Placing children in rooms of their own, refusing to feed them on demand想吃东西的时候不给他们吃, or letting them cry rather than immediately 9 to them不赶快去安抚他们, are viewed very 10 in many societies在很多社会里都是不对的and lead some to think that Westerners don‘t know how to look after children properly.

Unit 3   music

The third plane on which music exists is the sheerly

musical plane. Besides the 1 sound of music

and the 2 feeling that it gives off, music

does exist in terms of the 3 themselves and of

their 4 . Most listeners are not sufficiently

conscious of this third plane.

It is very important for all of us to become more

alive to music on its 5 musical plane. After all, an

actual musical material is being used. The 6

listener must be prepared to increase his 7 of

the musical 8 and what happens to it. He must

hear the melodies, the rhythms, the 9, the

tone colors in a more conscious fashion. But above all

he must, in order to follow the line of the composer's

thought, know something of the 10 of musical

form. Listening to all of these elements is listening on

the sheerly musical plane.

Pleasurable principles expressive harmonies notes material manipulation awareness intelligent sheerly

Unit 4 Golden memories

(1——3)  I can still vaguely recall the men who built the walls, and raised the roof, even though it was many families ago. The master from the manor house over the way needed a 1 for his grounds man to live, and found a clearing in the huge 2 which ran up and down the hills. He sent workmen to 3 the golden stone from the local quarry and they spent three months constructing two cottages in the park. 

 I only see my neighbour side-on. I’ve never seen him from the front, but I do know that strangely, although we’re 4, we’re the exact 5 of each other, with my front door facing east and my neighbour’s facing west, my bedroom in the back over his kitchen, my kitchen under his bedroom in the front. I think I’m the lucky one because each morning, my stone 6 in the sunlight. 

 The groundsman tended the orchards and the gardens around the 7 house so the trees in autumn were always 8 down with apples and pears, and as the days grew shorter the land around was 9 with helpers picking the fruit and rounding up the 10 to take to the manor house, or to market in town down the way.

 Lodge orchard haul identical opposite gleams manor bowed teeming windfalls

Unit 5 Dinner at  

The appointment meant Josh wouldn't get home until after Christmas. He was not, however, unhappy. He was meeting Jo Rogers, the 1 senator for Connecticut, and one of the best-known 2 in the US. Senator Rogers was a 3 in her third term of office, who knewCapitol Hill inside out but who had 4 managed to keep her 5 with her voters as a Washington 6 . She was pro-abortion, anti-corruption, pro-low carbon 7 and anti-capital punishment, as fine a 8 liberal as you could find this side of the Atlantic. Talk show hosts called her Honest Senator Jo, and a couple of years ago, Time magazine had her in the running for Woman of the Year. It was election time in the following year, and the word was she was going to run for the Democratic 9 . Rogers had met Josh in DC, thought him highly 10 , and had invited him to dinner.

Senior faces outsider emissions nevertheless nomination Democrat progressive credibility competent

Unit 7 heroes Piccioto

Picciotto was the highest ranking firefighter to survive the

attack. The chief of the department, the first 1 and

the chief of 2 operations had all been killed. Altogether

the death 3 included 343 firefighters and more than 3,000

4 .

Picciotto tells the story in his book Last Man Down. He

uses a 5 first person style which gives the reader

an idea of the 6 and the chaotic confusion of one

of the darkest days in the history of the United States, the

7 now known to the world simply as 9/11, but a day

of utmost 8 and heroism too. Published in 2002, the

book became an immediate best-seller, which the author

wrote in 9 , and intended as a tribute to, his decent

and trustworthy comrades who gave their lives. It’s also a

10 to his leadership skills. As he says, “People call us

heroes, but we were just doing our job.”

Deputy rescue gratitude toll civilians dramatic humanity testimony nightmare tragedy

Unit 8

(12——14) Urban myths have the characteristics common to all myths: They often record events, people believe in them, they have been passed on by word of mouth and exaggerated, they often contain a moral or warn of possible dangers in particular situations or 1, and they advise people what to do or how to behave.  

In their way, for listeners in the 21st century, they are just as 2 as the myths of the Greeks, Romans, Celts, Vikings, Mesopotamians and Chinese from years gone by.

But the one difference is that true 3 always feature gods or heroic near-gods or stories about the creation of the world and its natural phenomena such as lightning or 4 mountains.   

In 5, urban myths are more 6. The London Subterraneans are far from god-like, neither the 7 nor the driver is heroic, the New York alligators don’t 8 natural phenomena, and while the story of the 9 businessman may be a cautionary tale, it hardly acts as a 10 for heroic behavior.  

Contexts real myths sacred contrast mundane hitchhiker symbolize hapless model