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Key to Unit 8 Text comprehension Explain in your own words the following sentences. 1 The festival that really delighted him was Valentines Day. 2 My first memory of the joy Dad brought to me on Valentine’s Day goes back to the year when I was six. 3 That box and its contents led to a series of memories which were a mixture of the sweet ones and the bitter ones. 4 As I was getting older, the gifts were replaced by heart-shaped boxes. Vocabulary Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words. 1． regarded him as 2． brought back to mind a series of experiences, both happy and unhappy, one after another 3． aroused your strong emotion and made you cry 4． were gradually replaced by 5． to a greater degree Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form. legible timed surpassing 4. sensed 5. relegated 6. signaled 7. perfunctory 8 .generosity 9 .teasing 10. mark  III. Choose a word or phrase that best completes each of the following sentences. 1-4 CDBB 5-8 A BAD IV. Fill in each blank with one of the two words from each pair in its appropriate form and note the difference in meaning between them.1. (Form basically carries the suggestion of giving outline to something previously less well-defined and of putting the finishing touch on a product. Shape suggests the bringing about of a far-reaching change, or an impersonal cause-and-effect relationship.) a. formed b. shaping c. formed d.shaped 2. (Contest is a game in which people try to win, or it refers to a struggle to win power or control. Competition is an activity involving firms, in which each firm tries to get people to buy its own goods in preference to the other firms goods, suggesting an effort to get something that not everyone can have.) a.contest petition c. competition d. contest 3. (Memory basically refers to ones ability to remember things, but it is also used as something