Unit1 Welcome to the Unit & Reading 同步练习1 一、单词拼写 (根据中文提示拼写单词)。 I remember you mentioned the same thing on a (早先的) occasion. She was ashamed of her children's bad (举止). She's studying how (态度) towards death change from culture to culture. The beauty of the sunrise is beyond (描述). The symptoms of flu may be unpleasant, but they (消失) within a few days. It's his work attitude that (打动) me deeply! Always read the (说明) before you start taking the medicine. Mr. Deng said science and (技术) is the primary productive force. You should clear up the (误解) between them. Pat refused to give her any (信息) about Sarah. 二、翻译 (根据中文提示完成句子)。 11. 换句话说，迪克在他工作的前10个星期里，有很多很多事情要做。 , Dick had plenty to do in his first 10 weeks on the job. 我期待着你的消息。 I am hearing from you. 这个句子可以被划分成三个部分。 This sentence can be _____ three parts. 14.He has lots of (可怕的经历) on the river. 15. 什么使他们如此害怕 What them so 三、阅读理解。 It was December 25, 1914, only 5 months into World War I. German, British, and French soldiers, already sick and tired of the senseless killing, disobeyed their superiors and started socializing with “the enemy” along two-thirds of the Western Front. German troops held up Christmas trees with signs, “Merry Christmas”. Thousands of troops ran across the battlefields covered with dead bodies. They sang Christmas songs, exchanged photographs of loved ones back home, shared food and even played football. Soldiers hugged men they had been trying to kill a few short hours before. They agreed to warn each other if their officers forced them to fire their weapons, and to aim high. Fear ran through the military leaders on both sides. They felt that their power was being challenged: soldiers declaring their brotherhood with each other and refusing to fight. Generals declared this unexpected peacemaking illegal and said that participating soldiers would face a military court. Those found guilty would be imprisoned or even shot. By March 1915 the socializing movement had been destroyed and the killing machine was back in full operation. Over the next three years more than fifteen million people died in the war. Not many people have heard the story of the Christmas Truce (休战). On Christmas Day, 1988, a local radio host in Boston played “Christmas in the Trenches”, a song about the Christmas Truce several times and was stunned by his listeners’ response. Thousands of people called in, praising the song, with many moved to tears by the amazing events it described. You can probably guess why the callers were in tears. The Christmas Truce story goes against most of what we have been taught about people. It lets us see the world as it can be and says, “This really happened once.” It shows us the potential we have as humans contradicts all of those TV and newspaper stories that tell us how mean and heartless people are. It is like hearing that our deepest wish ... ...
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