Section Ⅶ WRITING WORKSHOP & READING CLUB 维度一:品句填词 1.The company’s (政策) is clearly stated on its website, allowing customers to return products within 30 days. 2.Students are required to create a personal (简介) on the school’s online learning platform. 3.The hospital uses (腕带) to easily identify patients with specific needs. 4.The after-school language course is (可选择的), but it’s a great opportunity to learn a new language. 5.Online (隐私) has become a major concern with the rise of social media platforms. 6.To a small child, f and reality are very close to each other. 7.Clare is now a full-time a with six books, including four novels. 8.The village was used as the l for a popular TV series. 维度二:词形转换 1.It’s reported that he has achieved an (amaze) success. 2.He could not resist the attraction of the sea and became a (sail). 3.Computers should be made readily (access) to teachers and pupils. 4.Literature is an (option) course to students in our school. 5.The rent is reasonable, and moreover, the (locate) is perfect. 6.All the characters in the book are (imagine). 维度三:固定搭配和句式 根据括号内的汉语提示补全下面的句子。 1. (令我吃惊的是), he has worked out the maths problem. 2.These documents (公众无法看到). 3.We have worked together for a couple of years. (那就是我如此了解他的原因). 4. (一系列) simple English reading materials for middle school students has come out this year. Ⅰ.阅读理解 English language has “borrowed” words for centuries.“But is it now lending more than it’s taking?” asks Philip Durkin, deputy chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. Today English borrows words from other languages with a truly global reach.Some examples that the Oxford English Dictionary suggests entered English during the past 30 years include tarka dal, a creamy Indian lentil dish (1984, from Hindi), quinzhee, a type of snow shelter (1984, from Slave or another language of the Pacific Coast of North America), popiah, a type of Singaporean or Malaysian spring roll (1986, from Malay), izakaya, a type of Japanese bar serving food (1987), affogato, an Italian dessert made of ice cream and coffee (1992). Some words slowly build up in frequency.For instance, the word sushi is first recorded in English in the 1890s, but the earliest examples in print all feel the need to explain what sushi is, and it is only in recent decades that it has become ubiquitous, as sushi has spread along the high street and into supermarkets in most English-speaking countries. It’s very hard to be precise about the boundaries of the vocabulary of any language, especially a global one like modern English ... ...