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课件网) Learning about Language P4/P10/P61 1 Read and write: _____ cook something in very hot water _____ relating to plants _____ qualities or characteristics of something _____ a kind of substance that flows freely, such as water or milk _____ physical material that exists boil botanical property liquid substance Build up your vocabulary 2 Read and fill in the blanks with words that have the same roots. 1 The two flowers are quite distinct from one another, so it is easy to make a _____ between them. 2 Scientists need to _____ how the new material stands up to wear and tear to prove how valuable it is. 3 A talented scientist well known for his _____ to his country, Huang Danian committed himself to his research in geophysics. distinction commitment value 4 A: Did you come to any conclusions B: Yes, we _____ that by drawing out the extract at a low temperature, we could find the substance that we needed to complete the experiment. 5 She spends a lot of time _____ her patients' dreams. This analysis is very helpful, explaining their daily behaviour very well. concluded analysing 3 Read and fill: insist obtain objective acknowledge apparently crucial Lu Xun, _____ as one of the greatest modern writers in China, was born in Shaoxing Zhejiang Province in 1881. In 1904, he went to Japan and became a medical student, with the _____ of improving people's health and saving lives. However, he changed his mind when he saw in a photo a Chinese man about to be killed by a Japanese soldier. acknowledged objective It struck him that the other Chinese men in the photo _____did not care about what was happening to their fellow countrymen. From this, he concluded that the _____ problem in China was not physical illness, but the spiritual illness of people at that time. Following this, he quit medical school. When he returned to China in 1908, he _____a teaching job. In 1917, a friend _____that he help write for a magazine called New Youth. That was how his first famous short story A Madman's Diary got published. crucial obtained insisted apparently insist obtain objective acknowledge apparently crucial Assessing Your Progress 1 Complete the sentences: To our surprise, he was actually the _____ and caring father of three children. To _____ , his fame and wealth were gained through hard work and his in-depth（深入的，全面的） knowledge of his business. A genius for invention, Thomas Edison obtained scores of （许多，大量） _____. gentle gentle sum up circumstance encounter novelist patent sum up patents ④ Under no _____ should we do terrible things to other people. ⑤ As a botanist, he takes notes on the properties of any plant he _____ . ⑥ The first-person narrator is a stylistic（体裁上的） device（方式、方法） that has been used by many _____ and poets throughout the ages. 第一人称叙述是古来许多小说家和诗人使用的一种文体手法。 circumstance gentle sum up circumstance encounter novelist patent encounters ... ...
