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Unit 8Reading 1SummarisingThough the women of the _former______ Soviet Union claimed that they would not be the kitchen slaves in the 1932 poster, they really were except on March, 8, the ___international__________ Women’s Day. Their busy routine includes taking care of the children, going to work, shopping for the family, and doing endless __chore________.Only on March 8 do the Soviet women ___bask_____ in their menfolk’s love and ____gratitude______. They will get a bunch of flowers and a little gift plus breakfast __cooked_______ by their husband. The gifts will win their exciting scream while the breakfast earns children’s complaints – the charred and ___shrivelled_________ eggs! Then the real celebrations begin – they go back to bed after breakfast and sleep like ______squirrels_____. Not everyone was happy on that very day. Yakov bought flowers to Katya, his new ___girlfriend________. To Katya’s amazement, he divided up fourteen ___carnations__________ to four girls in Room 99, five to Katya, three for each of the girls. Katya’s face __fell________. The other girls did cooking and Yakov spent International Women’s Day with the girls in Room 99.Difficult sentenceTheir husbands, with much cursing and clattering of pans, cook breakfast for the family; by ten o’clock they proudly serve their wives a charred and shrivelled egg.她们的丈夫则要为家人做早饭，他们嘴里骂骂咧咧的，弄的锅碗瓢盆叮当乱响。十点的时候他们非常自豪的把煎得焦糊糊皱巴巴的鸡蛋端到妻子跟前Beside the woman’s plate will be a bunch of flowers and a little gift, a bottle of scent perhaps, or a pair of tights, which she will exclaim over until the children, scarlet with fury, insist that their mother makes them their proper breakfast盘子边上会有一束鲜花，一份小礼物，可能是一瓶香水或是一双裤袜。妻子会高兴得大呼小叫，而这时孩子们已经气得满脸通红，跑过来要妈妈给他们做一顿像样的早餐。Wordslounge v. n.to lounge on sofa懒懒地斜卧沙发上to lounge against the wall懒洋洋地靠在墙上Don’t lounge around all day!不要整天闲荡！sneak v.The other kids sneaked on him.Let’s sneak some pizza into the cinema.While his parents were busy, Joe sneaked off to play.dump v.beloved a.well-