prediction-jolly
Unit 8
Go Traveling
Part II Text A
Text
Organization
1
Parts
Part One
Part Two
Paragraphs
Paras
1-5
Paras 6-8
Main
Ideas
Description of the
Napo River and surrounding jungle scenery at
night, together with the author's
reflections on it.
Recalling what
happened to her at their arrival at the village
and
what others felt about the Napo
River and the people there.
Part Three
Paras 9-18
Detailed
description of journeying in the jungle and her
feelings
about it
2.
1) Birds, insects and animals of all
descriptions
2) The sweet air
3) Various kinds of trees and other
plants
4) River abundant in fish
5) Little girls who liked to play with
the writer's hair
6) Children singing
lovely songs
7) Treating guests with
wonderful foods
8) People and nature in
harmony
Vocabulary
I.
1.
1) heap
2) was smeared
3) warmed
4) dissolve
5)
thrash
6) out of the way
1
7) hollows
8) tangle
9) get his hands
on
10) opaque
11) at the
edge of, illumined
12) hop
2.
1) take ... apart
3) run out of
5) come
forward
7) focused on
3.
1) After reading the book
Little Women,
Mary was dying
to see the movie based on it.
2) Street
noises do not penetrate to the 20th floor of our
office building because as a rule, the sheer
distance mutes all sound from the
ground.
3) You will inevitably lose
sight of the overall objective if you fuss too
much over details.
4) Back at home from
his long journey, Tom slumped into an armchair,
(feeling) completely
exhausted.
5) Dorothy Parker, an American poet and
short-story writer, was reputed to be the wittiest
woman
of her time.
4.
1) Thousands of people
swarmed to the East
Lake
yesterday to watch
the
spectacular boat race
between the world
champions who paddled their boats like mad.
2) The Smiths live in the heart of a
large forest, which is out of the range of all the
noise of
modern cities. The house
itself, the ivy trailing over the stone walls and
the swans gliding in the
lake nearby
all make for an ideal place for anyone to live in.
2) result from
4) feed on
6) woke up
8) settled over
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