必修五Module2Vocabulary-and-Reading--高中教育精选.pptVIP

3. From the text we can infer that _____. A. Timoteo will give up his present job before long B. Timoteo will try to help as many people as possible C. more people will volunteer to direct the traffic there D. the government will take measures to improve the traffic * /soft/ scdsfefergreryh True (T) or False (F). 1. Timoteo gets some money from drivers now and then. 2. The jobs that Timoteo did when he was young made him start this job. * /soft/ scdsfefergreryh 1. a nearly vertical fall 2. a form of transport, especially one with an engine and four wheels. 3. to still be alive, after being in an accident 4. the total number of dead I. Find the words or phrases in the passage which mean: sheer drop vehicle survive death toll * /soft/ scdsfefergreryh 5. a part of the road which is not straight 6. to be used to something that you don’t see its true value and don’t show thanks 7. to make someone think hard 8. a reason for living bend take for granted have an profound effect on mission in life * /soft/ scdsfefergreryh II. Fill in the blanks with the information in the text. Timoteo Apaza is a gentle 46-year-old man, living in a village near the most dangerous part of the road. The roads are in bad _________ and accidents are _________. But thanks to Timoteo, who works as a human traffic signal, the death toll has fallen. condition frequent * /soft/ scdsfefergreryh Apaza had been a miner and a soldier, and then he worked as a(n) ___________ and had a close _________ with death when he came off the road at a bend and fell three hundred metres down the mountain. Fortunately, he _________. A few years later, he was _________ in the night to help pull people out of a(n) _______ bus. encounter survived called out crashed lorry driver * /soft/ scdsfefergreryh From then on, he felt that it was his _______ in life to help others. So he ________ his place on the bend and directs the traffic. He is a(n) _________ and n