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Key to
Learning to Read: An
English Reading Course
Book II
Unit One
Part I
Reading for information
I. 1. A
2.C 3. D 4.B 5.C 6.A
II.
1.
有一百份卷子要批，而且全是男孩们用潦草的字迹写成的，这事他已经拖了好几个星
期
了。这些日子，他一直觉得头上仿佛悬着把剑。
2.
我私下里已经花了一大笔钱来学习音乐了。
3.
他的脸上挂满了汗珠。
4.
没有哪个宣布判决的法官会比此时的谢卡尔更痛苦，更无助。
5.
说出事实和接受事实同样需要勇气。
III
．
1.
sun; straight
in the face; blinking; dazed
2.
morning;
night; tempering truth; shock
3.
truth; trials;
wife; colleague; headmaster
4.
apple pie;
culinary masterpiece; good; swallow
5.
fine; mean;
selfish
6.
singing; stupefied
7.
frogs;
buffalo; window shutters
8.
strength; give; receive
Part
II Reading for pleasure
I.
1. Hell is not so terrible as
most people think because it can be transformed
into Heaven through
hard work.
2. Heaven is a land of beauty
and peace, and it is the result of our hard work.
3. All those hardworking people
with courage and determination can rest in Heaven
after they die,
because although they
cannot reach Heaven in the first place, they can
build Hell into Heaven.
4. Those
who are afraid of Hell and do not have courage to
fight difficulties and disasters will end
up in Hell.
5. This
parable tells us that our destiny is controlled by
ourselves.
Part III Homework
See the key on the last page of this
book.
Unit Two
Part I Reading for information
I 1.A 2. C 3. B 4. D
5. A 6. B
II
1.
可那天我却一点都不在乎路途远，只要有他在我身边。
2.
他跳到水流的另一边，把手伸给
我，我握住他的手，稳稳当当地跳了过去。
3.
一阵清凉的微风吹过坡顶，吹走
了我们因长途跋涉而产生的一身燥热，我们一下子觉
得凉爽了许多。
4.
他一下子把我像小孩似的抱起来，沿着堤岸向水边跑去。
5.
在他爬下来之前我已恢复了平静
，他全然不知道我曾因某种莫名的情感而流泪。
III
1.
smiled at
2.
jumped; held
out; took; made
3.
put; around; put around; breathing;
moved; against
4.
laid on; felt against
5.
linked; around
6.
kissed; turned
around
7.
scooped
up; ran up
8.
threw around; laughed
9.
lowered run;
caught; pulled; laughing; stroked
10.
squeezed;
rest; against; touched; beat against
Part II Reading for pleasure
1. She had been to the Caribbean island
to get married three years before.
2.
She returned to the same Caribbean island three
years later to get divorced.
3. Her
husband James.
4. She hated her husband
for not being there when she was having a
miscarriage, for not hurting
as much
as her for their lost son, but most of all for
looking so much like the baby boy that she
held for just three hours before he was
taken away.
5. She and her husband
finally opened their mind to each other. She
talked about her sufferings
and her
husband shared her pain, which comforted her
greatly. She began to believe that maybe
she still had a future with her
husband, and decided to give their marriage a
second chance.
Part III Homework
See the key on the last page of this
book.
Unit Three
Part I Reading for information
I. 1. D 2. C 3. D 4. B
5. A 6. C
II.
1.
痴迷往往会使人们做出各种各样奇怪的事情。哈丽雅特
.
玛格妮丝的痴迷驱使她犯下了
有史以来最荒唐的罪行。
2.
尽管他在海上一待
就是两三年，每次回家也只能待上几天，哈丽雅特还是深爱着他。
不幸没能为他生下一男
半女，她心里非常不安。
3.
她成功地骗了他三年，可是现在她明白，她要么得找出一个长相像理查德的三岁男
孩，要么就得向他彻底坦白。
4.
可是丈夫走后，哈丽雅特便恐慌
起来，特别是当邻居们开始问她怎么突然有了个孩子
的时候。而当通缉令出现在当地邮局
时，她更是惶惶不可终日。
5.
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信如期送到了理查德服役的船上，但没有到他手里。理查德因为急于再次见到自己的
儿子而离船开了小差。
III
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1.
provide him
with a child; commit a crime
2.
pregnant;
deceiving her husband; got her into deep water;
steal a child
3.
a boy of the right age; kidnapped; in
ecstasy
4.
the
captain of the ship; had gone AWOL
5.
arrested; held
for trial; discharged; no jurisdiction
Part II Reading for pleasure
1.
The pretended
to argue about whether it would be easy to stand
in front of the clock for one
hour
without moving and say
“
Here
it comes, there it goes
”
as
the clock
’
s pendulum swung
back and forth. Actually they were just
trying to deceive the hotel owner.
2.
They made him
believe that it was very easy to win the bet and
win a hundred dollars.
3.
He thanked God for his old clock, which
might help him get money for his
son
’
s education.
Besides, he was thinking about buying a
new coat for his wife and a walking stick for
himself.
4.
People thought that he must have been
crazy when they saw him talking to the clock.
5.
He found that
the two men had already gone with their money.
Part III Homework