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F100413英语精读复习资料 内部资料 翻版必究 F100413英语精读复习资料 内部资料 翻版必究 UNIT 8 Language sense enhancement There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides or orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of colour that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the autumn mornings. Word and Phrases to Drill abundance 充裕，丰富 bark 吠，叫 bloom （开）花 blossom （全部）花朵 brood 孵卵 chorus 合唱曲 complain 抱怨，投诉 counterpart 职能相当的人或物 creep 悄悄缓慢走过；蔓延 desert 离弃 evil 邪恶，罪恶 flicker 摇曳，闪烁 flock 一群（禽，畜） grim 阴森的，无情的，狰狞的 harmony 河蟹，融洽 hatch （使）孵出 migrant 候鸟，迁徙动物 misfortune 厄运，不幸 mysterious 不可思议的，神秘的 patch 块，斑 prosperous 繁荣昌盛的 puzzle 使困惑 sicken 生病；使恶心 silence 使缄默，压制 spell 魔力，中邪；一段时间 stark 严酷的 stricken 患病的，罹难的 surroundings 周围的事物，环境 throb 跳动，有规律的颤动 tragedy 惨案，杯具 unnoticed 不被察觉的 vegetation 草木，植被 wither （使）枯萎 be lined with 两边……排列成行 come into bloom 盛开着花 feed on 以……为食 in harmony with 与……河蟹 in the midst of 在当中，在某件事发生的时候 scores of 大量，许多 settle on/over 降临，笼罩 Vocabulary 1)Don’t get scared. A barking dog does not bite. 2)The cover story repeats the shopworn(陈旧的)criticism that Microsoft is evil because its second-rate software crushes better programs. 3)Our hen is still brooding and no chicken has been hatched yet. 4)Much of the harvesting on this farm is done by migrant workers, who came across the border to make a living in southern California. 5)”Hamlet” is one of Shakespeare’s great tragedies. 6)As an interpreter, Mr. Wang was present at the negotiation between our foreign minister and his American counterpart, the US Secretary of state. 7)He tired to drive home to us that we should listen when the people are complaining. 8)The financial crisis is affecting industrial produ