M8U1 The Written Word

Welcome to the unit & Reading – Pre-reading Class__________ Name__________ Number01

I. Vocabulary

1. soap opera; be bent on doing; on the run; live up to one’s expectation; worn out; brand new; come to one’s rescue; touch on; be intend ed to do; in tune

2. fiction; antique; characteristics; abuse; desperate; criminal; tension; twists; plot; generous; vain; civil; civil; theme; violence; vice; reform; threat; resist; reunion; bind; spit; rags; wrap; supreme; reputation; debt; holy; romantic; rhyme; tune; farewell

3. dramatic; feature; novelist; abusive; criminal; tension; generosity; civilize, civilization; virtue; threaten, threatening; resistant; reunion; bound, bound; spun, spun, spinning; pinned, pinning; spat, spitting; adorable, adoration; romantic; intention, intentional, unintentional; sprang, sprung

4. 1) reputation 2) antique 3) generous 4) vain 5) bent 6) characteristic 7) desperate 8) novelist 9) criminals 10) touches 11) holy 12) intended 13) tune 14) run, live 15) tension

5. 1) abused his power

2) a, 在逃

4) be reformed

5) a, 反抗入侵b, 防热c, 抵制诱惑d, 禁不住买

6) a, 磨破穿就b, 耗尽c, 筋疲力尽的

7) a, intends b, is intended for c, with the intention of

6. 1) in tune 2) in vain 3) in debt 4) bent on 5) touched on 6) on the run 7) intended to 8) brand new 9) came to its rescue 10) worn out 11) sprang 12) Farewell 13) adored 14) characteristic 15) abusing 16) reputation 17) Supreme 18) desperate 19) resist 20) twists 21) rigid 22) threat 23) generous 24) reform 25) violent

7. 1)-5) ABACA 6)-10) CCDBA 11)-15) CDABA 16)-20) DBBCA