Section Ⅶ WRITING WORKSHOP & READING CLUB 维度一：品句填词 1.He stepped （向前） to receive the award， feeling proud and excited. 2.The family’s （收入） increased after they started their own business. 3.Keeping （信任） in himself， he overcame numerous challenges to reach his goals. 4.The artist experimented with different （风格）， from abstract to realism. 5.After running the marathon， he c from exhaustion at the finishing line. 6.He showed great d by waking up early every day for a morning run. 维度二：词形转换 1.This （advance） method has been introduced in every factory. 2.There are huge amounts of （refer） books which I am often confused to choose from. 3.This is a （reject） of most of what has gone before. 4.The most famous （design） are Chinese， so are the models. 5.I （bitter） regret that we haven’t been able to do better. 6.In addition， it is for those with a keen interest in health （promote）. 维度三：固定搭配和句式 1.Both his grandfather and his father were miners who had to （从……退休） work through injury. 2.Her work has （有助于） our understanding of this difficult subject. 3.The boy was （如此生气以至于） he broke away from his mother and ran away. Ⅰ.阅读理解 In 1931， Americans were suffering through the Great Depression.It was The Good Earth by Pearl Buck that brought comfort， the top-selling book that year. Born into a workers’ family in 1892， Pearl Buck left the United States and moved to China with her parents.Her education began at home with her mother teaching her American school things while a Chinese tutor taught her other subjects， including writings of Confucius.In 1910， she went back to America to study philosophy.After graduation， she returned to China and married John Lossing Buck， an agriculture expert， eventually settling down in a small village in the north of China. It was her first child Carol who had an unusual disease causing her to have trouble learning， that made Pearl Buck become a famous writer.The reason was money.She needed it to pay for her daughter’s care.She recalled why she chose China and its people as the subjects， “If none of you want to write about these wonderful farmers， I will write about them.So I wrote The Good Earth.” The Good Earth tells the story of a poor Chinese man named Wang Lung and his wife O-Lan.It tells how they work hard and finally make enough money to purchase some land for a farm.They stick to the land even in times of starvation.Wang finds happiness in owning land and raising crops.He even prohibits his sons from selling the land after his death. Pearl Buck told her China stories with honesty and Americans were impressed by the new images of the Chinese.The book earned Pearl Buck the Pulitzer Prize and in 1938， she be ... ...
