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Few and far between (p30) 相隔很久才发生的; 彼此相距很远；稀少 Good novels are few and far between. Idiomatic pairs of adj. Black and blue 遍体鳞伤 Fair and square 公正，正大光明 Hale and hearty 精神充沛,老当益壮 Aspire(p.30) vi. +for/to/after be filled with high ambition Do you aspire after knowledge? The more power they have, the more they aspire to it. English majors in non-English speaking countries aspire to abandon their native accents and speak pure English. What do you aspire for at present? go too far/carry sth. too far:(p.33)go beyond the limits of what is considered reasonable You have gone too far in saying that you’d rather break with the family. Go far: 1(of person) be successful; do much He is clever and intelligent, and will go far. 2(of money) buy goods, services,etc. A hundred does not go so far as it did ten years ago. （现在一百元不如十年前那么顶用了。） Parallelism:the method to express ideas of equal importance in the same or similar grammatical form. Parallelism can be classified into five types, namely list and series, contrast, series plus contrast, choice, and comparison.He would stand before us, put his hands on his waist and take a tremendous breath.(series) p.19 Through him I discovered that thought is often full of unconscious prejudice, ignorance and hypocrisy.(list) p. 23 . To hear people justify their habit of hunting foxes by claiming that the foxes liked it.To hear our Prime Minister talk about the great benefit we conferred on India by jailing people like Gandhi. To hear American politicians talk about peace and refuse to join the League of Nations. (list) p.25 Oral topic 1 Marriage between college students should or should not be forbidden? Oral topic 2 Do you think Internet isolates people or shortens the distance between people? Justify your answer. Oral topic 3 Some students prefer to study alone. Others prefer to study with a group of students. Which do you prefer? Why? Tongue-twister TEM 4 NOTE-WRITING Write on answer sheet two a note of about 50-60 words based on the