UNIT 5 History

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. —— Pearl Buck

Dictation

1. 消灭；根除2. 心灵手巧；善于创造发明3. 豹子4. 食肉动物；掠夺者5. 不可思议的；非凡的6. 潮气；湿气；水分7. 羚羊8. 喜鹊；饶舌者；爱收藏小玩意的人

9. 取回；挽回；检索10. （动植物的）栖生地，产地

1. eradicate

2. ingenuity

3. leopard

4. predator

5. marvelous

6. moisture

7. antelope

8. magpie

9. retrieve

10. habitat

Contents

Section A (Before-class)

1. Letter Perception 5. Vocabulary Building

2. Word Perception a. Derivation

3. Word Pretest b. Confusing Words

4. Reading Skill c. Glossary

6. Cloze

Section B (In-class)

Section C (After-class)

Word Pretest

Keys：

1. Which periodicals does the library subscribe to?

1-5 CAABC 6-9 ACCC

1. 图书馆订有哪些期刊？

2. Malnourished children are more likely to succumb to infections.

2. 营养不良的儿童更有可能死于感染。

3. Some trees were already beginning to shed their leaves.

3. 有些树已经开始落叶了。

Reading Skill: Skimming

The following practical steps for skimming are suggest--ed to help you get started:

Read the title. Note the author’s name and the source of the text. Read the first paragraph completely. Read subheadings and first sentences of other paragraph

s. If the final paragraph appears to be a summary, read it co

mpletely.

（ to be continued）

Keys：2-6 CABCB 1-6 FFTFTT

Derivation

Noun Verb Adjective Adverb

assumption

acknowledge

reflective

dominantly

category

imply

reassuring

definitely

assume assumed ing assumedly &

acknowledgement acknowledged acknowledgedly

reflection reflect reflectively

domination dominate dominant

categorize categorical categorically

implication implicative implicatively

reassurance reassure reassuringly

define definition definite

Confusing Words

historic historical

历史性的 历史的

Historical, historic

rejected, resist

test/analyze, analyzed

reject resist

拒绝；排斥（反应） 抵抗，抗拒

analyze test

分析；化验 测验；检验；考验；化验

Glossary

1. natural history

2. Stone Age

3. Paleolithic Age

4. Neolithic Age

5. Bronze Age

6. Middle Ages

7. Dark Ages

8. Renaissance

9. Old World

10. New World

1. 博物学2. 石器时代3. 旧石器时代4. 新石器时代5. 铜器时代6. 中世纪7. 黑暗时代8. 文艺复兴（时期）9. 旧大陆，旧世界10. 新大陆，新世界

Cloze, Section B & C

Keys to Cloze:

existed over brain bodyfound language use singlepassed ahead survival handling

Keys to Section B:

1-3 CAB 4-6 CBB 7-9 TTT10-2 FTT 13-5 CAC

Keys to Section C:

1-4 BBAA 5-8 ACBC