新标与准大学英语第三册 Language in use-Unit2.doc

Language in use unpacking complex sentences 1 Look at the sentences from the passage Superman and answer the questions. 1 My flying dreams were believable as a landscape by Dali, so real that I would awake with a sudden shock, a breathless sense of having tumbled like Icarus from the sky and caught myself on the soft bed (c) Who had the sense of having tumbled like Icarus? The writer, Sylvia Plath. (d) Why would she wake up with a breathless sense? Because she felt she was really flying. (e) What did the breathless sense feel like? It felt like a sudden shock. (f) Why did she catch herself on the soft bed just in time? Because she felt she was falling. 2 We even found a stand-in for a villain in Sheldon Fein, the sallow mamma’s boy on our block who was left out of the boys’ games because he cried whenever anybody tagged him and always managed to fall down and skin his fat knees. (a) What did we find? We found someone who could be a villain. (b) Who was the stand-in for a villain? Sheldon Fein. (c) What was he like? He was sallow and a mamma’s boy. (d) Where did he come from? He came from their block. (e) Why was he left out of the boys’ games? Because he always cried and fell over. (f) What happened when he always managed to fall down? He skinned his knees. 2 Rewrite the sentence from the passage Cultural childhoods in a diagram below. He has written how a Yanamam? girl is expected to help her mother from a young age and by the age of ten will be running a house. He --has written --how a Yanomam? girl is expected to help her mother -- from a young age and by the age of ten --- will be running a house 3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of suitable expressions from the collocation box. Sometimes more than one collocation is possible. 1 The Australian bush fires blazed for several days before they were brought under control. 2 As a child Ruth’s long dark hair tumbled down her back. 3 He comes from a very close-knit / tight-knit family with three brothers