2011苏州科技大学大一期末英语复习资料.docx

2011大一期末英语复习资料Unit4Where there’s a will,as they say,there’s a way.when I told my best friends,Liz and Chris,about my problem,Liz put me in touch with a local dollmaker who made doll heads,hands and feet of a ceramic that closely resembled the old porcelain ones.From her I commissioned a doll head in the style of three-quarters of a century ago—making sure to specify”big blue eyes that opened and closed,”and hands and feet.from a doll supply house I ordered a long brown wig and a kidskin body,and Meagan and I shopped for fabric,lace and ribbon to duplicate the outfit GG had so lovingly described.Liz volunteered to put the doll together,and as the last days before Christmas raced by,Chris helped me make the doll’s outfit,complete with lacy petticoat.And while Liz,Chris and I searched for doll”boots with real buttons,”Meagan wrote and illustrated the story of the lost doll.Finally,our creation was finished.To our eyes it was perfect.But,of course,there was no way it could be exactly like the doll GG had loved so much and lost. Would she think it looked anything like it?Unit5One warm and plsasant summer afternoon,I sat on an old blanket under apine tree chatting with mymother.For years,we had been coming to this park for family picnics and gatherings,and my mother and I often sat in this same spot.In recent years,we usually just talked about life, but sometimes we recalled events from my childhood.Like the time I was thirteen and had my first date,when Mother brought me to this spot under the tree and told me about the facts of life.Or the time a few years later,when my hair turned out pink for my senior prom and she’d held me while I cried.But the most special event that occurred next to this tree was when I told Mother I was getting married.Tears filled her eyes and this time I held her while she cried.She told me she was sad to lose her little girl but happy to see that I had turned into a beautiful young woman.Over the years,we’d watched the pine trees in this park