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Composition:Dragon Boat Festival The Duanwu Festival, also called the Dragon Boat Festival, is an ancient Chinese traditional festivaL. It is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats are the most exciting things in memory of Qu Yuan, a great poet. In some places, people spread realgar wine on the children in the hope of protecting them from the evil spirits. Many people consider May as a dangerous time for diseases in a year, and therefore they hang moxa and calamus around the doors to prevent from evil and diseases and pray for good luck. Good saying: Custom makes all things easy. 习惯成自然。Lesson 71 词汇精讲 awful adj. 让人讨厌的，坏的 awfully adv. 非常（在表示负面的情景中，可用awfully代替very） I am awfully(very) sorry. time n. 次（数） time在英语中作不可数名词时表示“时间”；作可数名词时表示“次数”，三次或三次以上通常用基数词+times表示：once，twice，three times on time 按时，准时in time 及时 all the time 一直 I’ve been waiting here all the time. once upon a time 很久很久以前cheat the time 打发时间 We are cheating the time by playing cards. watch one’s time 等待时机I’m watching my time. make time 腾出时间Time will tell. 时间会证明一切。 Time and tide wait for no man. 岁月不等人。 answer v. 接（电话） v. 对……作出反应；响应answer the phone/telephone 接电话answer the door/doorbell 应声开门 v. 回答；答复answer a letter 回信 I don’t think you’ve answered my question. n. 答案；解决办法；答复 I wrote him several letters but couldn’t get an answer. 我给他写了好几封信，可都没有回音。 Do you know the answer to Question 10? This is one of the possible answers to today’s environmental problems. 这是有可能解决当今环境问题的办法之一。 课文精讲 1、Whats Ron Marston like, Pauline? What is sb. like? 询问某人的外貌或品行。 Whats your father like? what’s … like? 什么怎么样？ Whats the climate like in your country? Whats the weather like in spring? 2、speak to sb. 与某人说话 May I speak to Pauline, please? I’d like to speak to Pauline, please. 在电话中回答：This is…. 3、pretend as 假装 She pretended herself as her mother.Lesson 72 When did you … ? today this morning this afternoon this evening tonight ? yesterday yesterday morning yesterday after