Unit 8 After Listening
1. 2. 3. 4.
one of the top crop producers in Canada she went to college mystified by it all
through the eyes of a tourist
Text A
Language Sense Enhancement 1. 1) on the planet 2) a feel for
3) fringes and hollows 4) half a continent 5) in detail
6) sucking 7) shade
8) smeared with 9) in flocks
10) are reputed to
Language Focus
Vocabulary I.
1. 1) heap
2) was smeared 3) warmed 4) dissolve 5) thrash
6) out of the way 7) hollows 8) tangled
9) get his hands on 10) opaque
11) at the edge of, illuminated 12) hop
2. 1) take apart
2) result from 3) run out of 4) feed on
5) come forward 6) woke up 7) focused on
8) settled over
3. 1) was dying to see the movie based on it.
2) as a rule, the sheer distance mutes all sounds from the ground
3) fuss too much over details
4) slumped into an armchair, feeling completely exhausted 5) was respected to be the wittiest of her time 4. 1) swarmed to, the spectacular, paddled
2) in the heart of, out of the range of, trailing over, gliding in 3) Day after day, strip, the
II. Confusable words 1.
1) worth 2) worthy 3) worthwhile
4) worth, worth 5) worthwhile 6) worthy 2.
1) lone 2) alone 3) alone 4) lonely 5) lonely 6)alone
III. Usage 1) ice-cream 2) teas 3) wines 4) cloth 5) soap 6) beer 7) fuels 8) soils 9) sugars 10) grass
Comprehensive Exercises
I. Cloze
1. 1) are dying to
2) in the heart of 3) tangled
heaving, slap