btlew silent spring rachel carson book ３ lesson 11

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Silent spring Silent spring Rachel Carson

Book Book ３３Lesson 11

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Part One: Warm-up

Part Two: Background Information

Part Three: Text Appreciation

Part Four: Language Study

Part Five: Extension

Book Book ３３Lesson 11

Contents

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Lesson 11 – Silent Spring

Part OnePart One

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On EnvironmentOn Environment

For reference

To be continued on the next page.

1. What do you know about environmental pollution?

Pollution refers primarily to the fouling of air, water, and land by wastes. Thus litter, billboards, and auto junkyards are said to constitute visual pollution; noise excessive enough to cause psychological or physical damage is considered noise pollution; and waste heat that alters local climate or affects fish populations in rivers is designated thermal pollution. The 20th century has seen pollution approach crisis proportions throughout the world.

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For reference


2. What environmental problems do we have nowadays?

Air pollution

Air pollution is contamination of the air by noxious gases and minute particles of solid and liquid matter in concentrations that endanger health. The major sources of air pollution are transportation engines, power and heat generation, industrial processes, and the burning of solid waste.

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Global warming

Global warming is the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases. Some longer-term results of global warming include melting of polar ice, with a resulting rise in sea level and coastal flooding; disruption of drinking water supplies dependent on snow melts; profound changes in agriculture due to climate change. Among factors that may be contributing to global warming are the burning of coal, petroleum products, and deforestation.

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Noise pollution

Human created noise harmful to health or welfare. Transportation vehicles are the worst offenders, with aircraft, trucks, buses, automobiles, and motorcycles all producing excessive noise. Apart from hearing loss, noise can cause lack of sleep, irritability, heartburn, indigestion, high blood pressure, and possibly heart disease. Noise-induced stress creates severe tension in daily living and contributes to mental illness.

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Part TwoPart Two

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I. Author

II. Silent Spring

Background Background informationinformation

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Rachel Carson (1907—1964) was an American biologist and writer. She was a quiet, private person, fascinated with the workings of nature from a scientific and aesthetic point of view.


I.I. Author Author


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grew up on a small Pennsylvania farm, went to the Pennsylvania College, majored in zoology, and then went to John Hopkins for a master’s degree in genetics.

published Under the Sea-Wind, then The Sea Around Us and The Edge of the Sea, and finally Silent Spring in 1962. In the wake of Silent Spring, she was attacked personally and as a scientist by many. While she was working on Silent Spring, she was seriously ill, a niece died and left a young son whom she adopted, her mother died, and she learned she had breast cancer.

died two years after Silent Spring was published, at age 56.



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Quotes from Rachel Carson

It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature.



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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. The rains have become an instrument to bring down from the atmosphere the deadly products of atomic explosions. Water, which is probably our most important natural resource, is now used and re-used with incredible recklessness.

Now, I truly believe, that we in this generation, must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.



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The more clearly we can focus our attention onthe wonders and realities of the universe about us,the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties of the earth are never alone or weary in life… Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.


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II. Silent II. Silent Spring Spring

received a letter from a friend in the summer of 1957, saying that an airplane hired by the state spraying DDT to control mosquitoes.

shocked by how extensive the pesticide situation was; decided to write about it and let people know.

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II. Silent II. Silent Spring Spring Summary of the book

The book starts with a fable of a lovely rural town that suddenly suffers blight, sickness, and death. Its people finally realize they had poisoned themselves. She presented scientific evidence that this was happening all over the country. She explained in plain terms how the strongest bugs survive, making stronger pesticides necessary, and that DDT, though scarce in the water, becomes concentrated as it works its way up the food chain. She advocated integrated management: using a minimum of chemicals combined with biological and cultural controls.

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Significance of the book

It roused a new public awareness that nature was vulnerable to human intervention. She proposed that, at times, technological progress is so fundamentally at odds with natural processes that it must be curtailed. Conservation had never raised much broad public interest, for few people really worried about the disappearance of wilderness. But the threats She had outlined—the contamination of the food chain, cancer, genetic damage, the deaths of entire species—were too frightening to ignore. For the first time, the need to regulate industry in order to protect the environment became widely accepted, and environmentalism was born.

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Thomas Paine's Common Sense galvanized radical sentiment in the early days of the American revolution.

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom's Cabin roused Northern antipathy to slavery in the decade leading up to the Civil War.

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, which exposed the hazards of the pesticide DDT, eloquently questioned humanity's faith in technological progress and helped set the stage for the environmental movement.

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The book that her efforts resulted in was about the spraying and what it did to the birds and other creatures. But that does not begin to describe its scope or account for its impact. One might just as well say that Darwin wrote about turtles and the Pacific islands where they were found. (Esquire magazine)

With the publication of Silent Spring in 1962, Rachel Louise Carson, the essence of gentle scholarship, set off a nationally publicized struggle between the proponents and opponents of the widespread use of poisonous chemicals to kill insects. Miss Carson was an opponent. (THE New York TIMES)


II.II. Silent SpringSilent Spring

The end of Silent Spring.

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Part ThreePart Three

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Text Text AppreciatioAppreciationn


I. Text analysis 1. Theme 2. Structure

II. Writing devices 1. Diction 2. Antithesis 3. Alliteration & assonance 4. Rhetorical question 5. Metaphor 6. Parallelism

III. Sentence paraphrase

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I.I. Text Text AnalysisAnalysis

Out of his ignorance and lack of concern for the integrity of nature, man is tampering with nature by abusing chemicals, causing irrecoverable harms on environment and people.

Theme of the story

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Part 1 (paras. 1—2) about:

Part 2 (paras. ) about:





I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisStructure of the text

3—5

6 — 9

10—23

beauty and harmony enjoyed by both nature and all its life

evil spell

transitional paragraphs, directing readers’ attention to the very cause of the nationwide disaster— a white powder, the chemical

explanation of how the ecological disasters were created

24—25 proper solution to the disasters

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I.I. Text AnalysisText Analysis

Before the use

After the use

Before & after the use of chemicals

all life in harmony with its surrounding people’s life: the town in the midst of prosperous farms; fishing the streams plants: blooming flowers; growing on green field; oak, maple, birch flaming and flickering with life animals: birds feeding on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow; floods of migrants pouring through; sweet singing of birds

Scan the text and list out the related information.


loss of life: mysterious diseases sweeping the flock of chickens; sickening and killing cattle and sheep and fish; several and unexplained deaths of adults and children; birds trembling violently and being unable to fly; soundless birds; browned and withered vegetation

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I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisBefore & after

the use of chemicalsDiscuss

in groups.

Before

the use

After

the use colorful nature: brown, withered


colorful nature: in spring:white clouds of bloom , green fields, in autumn: oak and maple and birch setting up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered in winter:white snowThrough much of a year: laurel, ferns, wildflowers

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I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisBefore & after

the use of chemicalsDiscuss

in groups.

Before the use

After the use

silent nature:Sound: stillness, a spring without voices

Movement: backyards deserted, birds trembled violently and could not fly, fish died


active nature:Sound: barking of the fox, birds’ chorus in the morning

Movement: drift, flame, flicker, silently crossthe fields, fly and feed, pour through, observe, flow, lie, raise houses, sink wells, build barns

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II.II. Writing Writing DevicesDevices

Diction

Polysyndeton

In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a background of pines. (1)

… only silence lay over the fields and the woods and marsh. (4)


Stress each details

Polysyndeton: repetition of conjunctions in close succession, which has an cumul

ative effect

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Diction

Polysyndeton


… the physical form and the habitsof the earth’s vegetation and its animal life have been molded by

the environment. (10) Chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie long in soil, …

(11)

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Diction

Emotive & specific words



The town lay in the midst of prosperous farms, where, in spring, white clouds of

bloom drifted above the green fields. (1)

Emotive words: words that

connote people’s feelings about things or ideas

Impress and move feelings

Colorful description of

nature

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Diction


… where countless birds came to feed on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow. (2)


Specific words stressing abundance and variety of species

Along the roads, laurel, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the traveler’s eye... (2)

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Diction


Others came to fish the streams, which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pools where trout lay. (2)


… and when the flood of migrants was pouring through in spring… (2)

Then foxes barked in the hills and deersilently crossed the field. (1)

Specific words make the

description vivid and lively.

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Diction


The few birds seen anywhere trembled violently and could not fly. (4)


… mysterious diseases swept the flocks of chicken; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. (3)

… that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. (4)

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Diction

Qualifying phrases

Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, had been relatively slight. (10)


To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth’s vegetation and its animal

life have been molded by the environment. (10)

Qualifying phrases stress

precision.

Only in the present century has one species— man—acquired significant power to alter the nature of this world. (10)

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Diction

Concrete words

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Chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie long in soil, entering into living organisms, passing from one to another in

a chain of poisoning and death. Or they pass mysteriously by underground

streams until they emerge and combine into new forms that kill vegetation, sicken cattle, and work unknown harm on those

who drink from once pure wells. (11)

Pure factual description

Concrete words describe

identifiable qualities of

particular things, feelings or events.

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Antithesis

The rapidity of change follows the impetuous pace of man rather than the deliberate pace of nature. (13)

Antithesis: the relation between successive units that are put in contrast

a pair of antitheses“drastic and rapid pace of man”

vs. “slow and careful pace of nature”


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Antithesis: more examples

This imagined tragedy may easily become a harsh reality we all shall know. (8)

Try to find more examples

in the text.

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II.II. Writing Writing DevicesDevicesAlliteration & assonance


…, and many real communities have already suffered a substantial number of them, ... (8)

Alliteration is the repetition of the same consonant sounds or of different vowel sounds at the beginning of words.


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Alliteration & assonance: more examples

There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among adults but even among children. (3)

Others came to fish the streams, which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pools where trout lay. (2)

The use of alliteration and assonance helps

achieving sensory impressions.

Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.

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Rhetorical question

Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such

a large number of poisons on the surface of the

earth without making it unfit for all life? (16)How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to his own kind? (18)

Rhetorical question is a question asked to imply a definite answer.

Rhetorical question is often used in argument & persuasion.

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The town lay in the midst of prosperous farms, where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. (1)

metaphor: a figure of speech containing an implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another.

Metaphor

More examples


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II.II. Writing Writing DevicesDevicesMetaphor: more examples


The countryside was, in fact, famous for the abundance and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of migrants were pouring through in spring and fall people traveled from great distances to observe them. (2)

Metaphor is used

to heighten

effect and

clarity.


Metaphor used together with alliteration stressing the striking display of colors

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On the mornings that had oncethrobbed with the dawn chorus ofscores of bird voices there wasnow no sound; … (4)

Metaphor: more examples

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Parallelism

These chemicals are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes,

killing every insect, the “good” and the “bad”, tostill the song of birds and the leaping of fish, to

coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil… (16)

Chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests orgardens lie long in soil, entering into living

organisms, passing from one to another in a chain of poisoning and death. (11)

Parallelism involves balancing the structural elements of a sentence.

Clear and effective

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III.III. Sentence Sentence Paraphrase 1Paraphrase 1

The rapidity of change follows the impetuous

pace of man rather than the deliberate pace of

nature. (13)

Parallel structure: introduced by correlative conjunctions, such as either…or, both…and, not only…but also, whether…or, rather than

More examples

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The rapid change of the environment takes place as a consequence of man’s drastic and reckless alteration of nature. It does not occur as a result of slow and careful working of nature.

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Given time—time not in years but in millennia—life adjusts, and a balance has been reached. (12)

It takes thousands of years for life to adapt itself to environment. Actually it so happens that life adapts and a balance has been reached.

Participle phrase used as adverbial of conditions

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More examplesIf life is given time

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And even this, were it by some miracle possible, would be futile, for the new chemicals come from our laboratories in an endless stream. (14)

Even if life did adjust to the chemicals by some miracle, it would be useless, because the new chemicals are continuously created and produced .

Unreal conditional clause in which

“were” is placed at the beginning of the

clause

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More examples

If it were…possible

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The chemicals are the synthetic creations of man’s inventive mind, having no counterparts in nature. (13)

Man-made productsMan’s creative power

There are no such things as chemicals in nature. go to 5

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The whole process of spraying seems caught up in an endless spiral. (17)

The whole process of spraying chemicals to kill insects is a vicious cycle of chemical abuse. The more deadly chemicals are used, the more resistance they meet from the insects.

Get involved inNever-ending process of increasing abuse of

chemicals

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Thus it is no accident that our most troublesome insects are introduced species. (23)

It is certain, unavoidable

That’s why the most troublesome insects in our country are brought in from other places.

“it” used as an anticipatory subject

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I am saying, rather, that control must be geared to

realities, and that the methods employed must be

such that they do not destroy us along with the

insects. (19)

On the contrary I am saying that the control should be determined by the actual environment and that the methods should not be harmful to humans that they die along with the insects .

Formal structure so…that

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More examples

Be adapted to

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… instead we need the basic knowledge of animal

populations and their relations to their surroundings

that will “promote an even balance and damp down

the explosive power of outbreaks and new

invasions”. (24)

Instead we need the basic knowledge of

animal populations and their relations to their

surroundings. This knowledge contributes to

retaining an equal balance and reducing their

mass-breeding and invading power. go to 9

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we have subjected enormous numbers of

people to contact with these poisons,

without their consent and often without

their acknowledge. (25)

We have made enormous numbers of people contact with these poisons.

make sb. experience, suffer

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Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a

large number of poisons on the surface of the earth

without making it unfit for all life? (16)

Such a number of poisons stored on the surface of the earth will surely make it unfit for all living things.

Rhetorical question store for

future use

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Such a system set the stage for explosive

increases in specific insect populations. (20)

Such a way of farming creates favorable

conditions for the rapid increase of

particular insects.

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Part FourPart Four

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I. Word Study

II. Phrases and Expressions

Language Language StudyStudy

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study1. abundance

n. a great or plentiful amount, fullness, affluence

Examples:

Carpets are available in abundance.

abundant a.

This area is abundant in petroleum deposit.

abound v.

Streams abound with fish.

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study

2. assault

v./n. violent physical or verbal attack(usually implies sudden, intense

violence)

Examples:

Muggers often assault their victims on dark

streets.

increases in violent assaults over the past

decade

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3. colossal

a. enormous (a hugeness that elicits awe)

Examples:

Even by modern standards, the 46, 000

ton Titanic was a colossal ship.

colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient

temple

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4. confine

v./n. keep within bounds, restrict

Examples:

Please confine your remarks to the issues at

hand.

The sick child was confined to bed.

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Examples:

• Mary's parents refused their consent to her marriage. • Has the minister consented to having his

speech printed?

5. consent v./n. agree, accept, approve of



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6. contaminate

v. a. make impure or unclean by contact or mixture

b. expose to or permeate with radioactivity

Examples:

The river was contaminated with waste.

Don't be contaminated by bureaucracy.

n. contamination

Word formation

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v. a. strive in opposition or against difficulties; struggle b. compete, as in a race; maintain Examples:

The armies in the two countries are contending for control of the strategic territory. They had to contend with long lines at the airport.The defendant contended that the evidence was inadmissible.

7. contend

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8. deliberate

a. a. intentional b. arising from or marked by careful consideration

Examples:

He mistook the oversight for a deliberate insult.

He told us a deliberate lie.

They took a deliberate action yesterday.

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• shadows flickering on the wall• a flicker of doubt• leaves flickering in the wind•The candle flickered in the wind.•flames that flickered in the night

9. flicker v./n. a. move waveringly b. burn unsteadily or fitfully

墙上摇曳的影子一丝疑虑在风中摇晃的树叶蜡烛在风中闪烁不定。黑夜中闪烁的火光

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racial harmonydomestic harmony Everyone lives in harmony.Tourism should develop in harmony with environment.harmonious relationshipsharmonize different approaches into unified strategies



种族和睦家庭和睦每个人和睦生活在一起。旅游业应与环境同步发

展。和睦的关系将不同的方法统一起来

使其成为统一的策略

10. harmony n. a. agreement in feeling, interests, and opinions, etc. b. pleasing combination of related things

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11. impetuous

a. impulsive and passionate (forceful impulsiveness or impatience)

Examples:

impetuous, heaving waves

impetuous promise

奔腾汹涌的浪花冲动的许诺

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a. a. unselective; widespread; wholesale b. confused; chaotic; unrestrainedExamples:

indiscriminate taste in music indiscriminate violence the indiscriminate use of pesticides the indiscriminate policies of the previous administration indiscriminate spending

12. indiscriminate

无特殊音乐品味大规模的暴力事件杀虫剂的广泛使用前任内阁令人困惑的政策无节制的挥霍

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study13. intensify

v. make intense or more intense

Examples:

intensified imageThe press has intensified its scrutiny of his background.

放大像新闻界已增强了对他背景的调查。

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I.I. Word StudyWord Study14. modify

v. a. change in form or character; alter b. make less extreme, severe, or strong

Examples:

The equipment may be modified to produce VCD sets.

refuse to modify her stand on the issue

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repress

stifle



15. suppress

v. put an end to forcibly, prohibit the activities of (suggesting the exercise of force that drastically inhibits or crushes)

Examples:suppress anger/annoyance/delightsuppress a sneezesuppress the urgeThe virus suppresses the body’s immune system.

Synonyms

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List:

1. be caught up in

2. be geared to

3. within bounds

4. immune to

5. lay down

6. life-and-death

7. a limit on

8. set the stage for

II.II. Phrases and Phrases and ExpressionsExpressions

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v. a. captivated b. If you get caught up in sth. you become involved in it often without wanting to.

Examples:

I was caught up in the mood of the evening.

He got caught up in the drugs business.

1. be caught up in Cf.


catch up with

catch up on


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Examples:

You start first, walk on and I'll catch up with you later.

I have to catch up on my work so I can't go out.

catch up with, catch up on


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v. adjust or adapt so as to make suitable

Examples:

Education should be geared to children's needs.

2. be geared to


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out of bounds a. If a place is out of bounds, people are not

allowed to go there. b. If something is out of bounds, people are not

allowed to do it, use it, see it, or know about it.

Examples:

All our trading activities are within the bounds

of the law.

This area is out of bounds to persons not concerned.

3. within bounds being under legal or moral obligation


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4. immune to

a. a. not affected by a given influence b. not subject to an obligation imposed on others

Examples:

immune to persuasion 不能被说服的immune from taxation 免于纳税 immune from criminal prosecution 免于刑事诉讼

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v. a. give up and surrender b. specify

Examples: lay down their arms

lay down the rules

5. lay down


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a. a. involving or ending in life or death b. vitally important.Examples:

a life-and-death battle

a life-and-death struggle between union and management

6. life-and-death


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n. 限度，极限

Examples:

What’s the limit on how many bottles of wine you can bring through customs?

attempt to set a limit on customer waste

7. a limit on


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v. prepare for

Examples:

The president’s recent death set the stage

for a military coup.

Will this agreement merely set the stage for

another war?

8. set the stage for


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Part FivePart Five

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Quiz Quiz

List:

1. Quiz 1

2. Quiz 2

3. Quiz 3


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Quiz 1Quiz 1Match the items in the two columns.

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1. modify2. consent3. tremble4. spell5. abundance6. tamper7. assault 8. intended9. evolve10. immune11. destructive12. undergo13. invariably14. suppress15. outbreak16. contention17. largely 18. potent19. integrity

a. powerfulb. mainlyc. charmd. alwayse. freef. interfereg. ruinoush. experiencei. outburstj. argumentk. developl. stiflem. deliberaten. completenesso. plentyp. shakeq. attackr. agrees. alter

1s, 2r, 3p, 4c, 5o, 6f, 7q, 8m, 9k, 10e, 11g, 12h, 13d, 14l, 15i, 16j, 17b, 18a, 19n

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Quiz 2Quiz 21. only___ those conditions can we live __ each other. a. under, in peace and harmony with b. by, in peace and harmony with c. with, under peace and harmony with d. under, in peace and harmony for

2. ___ we seem to have conquered nature. But this is not true. Many scholars actually say that we should stop __ nature before it is too late.

a. On the surface, tampering to b. On the surface, tampering with c. On the appearance, tampering with d. In the surface, interfering with

a b



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Lesson 4 - Wisdom of Bear Wood

Quiz 2Quiz 23. The other day I came across a book, which

came out quite recently. It argued that education should not be too closely ___ market needs.

a. geared with b. geared to c. link to d. connect with

4. We were ___ a great dilemma. But then Wei Ming came ____ a brilliant idea.a. facing to, up b. faced with, up with

c. thrown into, across d. confronted with, to

b b


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Quiz 2Quiz 2

5. __ New York is a world in itself because many different races and ethnic groups ___ each other.

a. In a certain extent, intermingle with b. In a certain degree, live with

c. In a certain way, are mixed up with d. To a certain extent, intermingle with

6. The reform and opening policy has changed our life ___.

a. in every way b. for the way c. on every way d.

in many ways

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Quiz 2Quiz 27. We have already ___ the terms, but the contract will have to be ___ higher authorities for approval.

a. settled on, subjected for b. settled on, subjected to c. agreed on, taken for d. agreed with, referred to

8. Don’t let us put it ____ until tomorrow. Let’s get it ____ the way.

a. aside, out of b. off, out of c. away, off d. off, outside

b b


Lesson 11 – Silent Spring -

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Quiz 2Quiz 29. One problem is the lack of strict inspection.

People actually either know or ____ those who ___ garbage.

a. know of, raise their pigs in b. know about, feed their pigs to

c. know of, feed their pigs on d. know, raise their pigs with

10. What happened that day had a great ____ on people’s lives. Now they all know that no country can be completely ____ terrorist attack. a. effect, immune to b. impact, immune from

c. influence, free to d. result, free from

c a



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11. Products tend to sell well that are packed in

____ catch the consumer’s eye.

a. such ways as to b. such way as to

c. ways so as to d. a way that

12. True friends do not abandon each other ____

of danger.

a. at all times b. at one time

c. in no time d. in times

Quiz 2 Quiz 2

a d



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Quiz 2Quiz 2

13. ____ he gets an operation, the boy may lose his hearing forever.

a. If b. Given

c. Even though d. Unless

14. His remarks were ____ annoy everybody at the meeting.

a. so as to b. such to c. such as to d. as much as to

d c



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15. At the top of the cliff____the deep valley stood

a ten-foot pine tree.a. there b. overlooking

c. where d. towering

16. ___ his poor health he had to retire at the age of 50.

a. Thanks to b. Because c. Owing to d. For

b c



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Quiz 2Quiz 2 17.There are times when children feel that they could

manage very well ___ their parents would leave them alone. a. only when b.only if

c. when only d. if only

18. People who speak and write well are generally ____ educated and intelligent and give a good impression. a. being seen b. to see

c. seen d. see

d c



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Quiz 2Quiz 219. The heat in the summer is no less____ in

this mountain region. a. concentrated b. extensive c. intensive d. intense

20. Obviously, the chairman’s remarks at the conference were _____ and not planned. a. substantial b. synthetic

c. simultaneous d. spontaneous

d d

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1. I love my parents so much that I would not _________hurt their feelings. (intend)

2. Some fathers are too _________ towards their daughters. They wouldn’t let them out of their sight. (possess)

3. I am sorry that I can’t keep the ________ because I will have a meeting this evening. (appoint)

4. The _______ of too much time to sports leaves too little time for studying. (devote)

5. ________ his age, the little boy reads very well. (consider)

Quiz 3Quiz 3intentionally

possessive

appointment

devotion

Considering

Fill out the blanks with the proper form of the given words.

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6. He is worried about the ____________ use of antibiotics. (discriminate)

7. The press has _______ its scrutiny of the candidate's background. (intense)

8. Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is ______. (potent)

9. She was _______ with joy. (radiate)

10. They won by a__________margin. (substance)

11. This _________ dress material does not crush. (synthetics)

12. It's _______ wet when I take my holidays. (vary)

Quiz 3Quiz 3indiscriminate

intensified

impotent

radiant

synthetic

invariably

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