Text comprehension
I. C II 1. F 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. F III
1. For Mayblum, the WTC was a symbol of power – for its height and steadiness, and the force
of storms was actually nothing to the WTC.
2. The author means that the survival of the people inside the WTC would simply depend on
their locations, i.e. where they were at that moment.
3. Ramos went to help the panicked workers into a stairwell (on the 78th floor), helped the
heavyset man down one more flight to an elevator (on the 53rd floor), helped the man toward the last bank of elevators (on the 44th floor), and reassured the man he would be staying with him (on the 36th floor).
4. They helped the heavyset man 17 floors down the building.
5. the sentence implies that Ramos’s wife refused to believe that Ramos did not make it out of
the building. IV
1. On that morning thousands of people in the WTC were thrown, all of a sudden, into a
condition of terrible suffering and uncertainty. Mayblum was one of them.
2. It seemed that the tremendous sound of the collapse of the South Tower destroyed the man’s
hope of climbing down the remaining stairs, and thus took away his remaining energy.
Vocabulary
I 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. II
burning
a situation or circumstance relating to sth. in an intermittent manner help sb.
Things are satisfactory up to this point
1. scoffed
2. dilemma 3. collapsed 4. pandemonium
5. reassuring 6. rumble 7. glancing at 8. meet up with
III
1. Chris became more and more panicky (panic), as the day of the examination drew near.
2. The spacecraft descends / descended (descent) through the atmosphere at a speed of 17,000 mph.
3. Good teachers try to make their lessons more enjoyable (enjoy) by using varied activities. 4. For years they were living with their suitcases packed in constant expectation (expect) of being given permission to leave the country.
5. There was a lot of public debate about the morality (moral) of the invasion.
6. I managed to get him to lend me the money, but I had to use all my powers of persuasion (persuade).
7. His desire to make his son a pianist was so strong (strength) that he spent nearly all his savings to buy him a piano.
8. After a break you should feel energetic (energy) and confident enough to tackle another assignment. IV
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
A D C B D C A 8. D
V.
1. Others faced the ultimate moral dilemma: Save yourself, or save another. Antonym: amoral, nonmoral
2. But as hard as she tried, as many questions as she asked, the picture began to fade on the 36th floor.
Synonym: disappear
3. The drawstrings on his window shades would appear to sway slightly, but it was an illusion. Antonym: wildly
4. He ripped his T-shirt into pieces, soaked the pieces in water and gave them to colleagues to cover their faces. Antonym: uncover, disclose, reveal
5. Hong and Ramos tried to persuade him to continue. Antonym: dissuade
6. “I left,” Hong says sorrowfully. Antonym: happily, joyfully, joyously
7. Mayblum would be one of thousands cast into extraordinary purgatory that morning. Antonym: ordinary, common
8. On the 53rd floor, he came across a heavyset man whose legs just wouldn’t move any more. Antonym: small, thin, slender
VI.
1. help helpful / helpless 2. child childish / childlike / childless 3. act active 4. persistence persistent 5. revolution revolutionary 6. success successful 7. woman womanly 8. lady ladylike
Grammar
I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. II. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. III. 1. 2. 3.
would would
used to, would used to used to used to would would used to
would, would, would
used to travel
was not used to accepting was not used to receiving used to think used to living used to say didn’t use to eat
am not used to driving
insistence habitual action probability
4. 5. 6. 7. 8. IV 1. 2. 3. V 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
willingness probability polite request improbability capability
could, would, might, might, should, might
could/would, should, could, might, could, would should, should, would, would, could
needn’t have carried needn’t have bought didn’t need to tell needn’t have had needn’t have stood didn’t need to hurry didn’t need to open didn’t need to take needn’t have washed didn’t nee to work
Translation
II
1. Thanks to modern technology, the film about that ancient battle gives the audience the
illusion of being on the battlefield themselves.
2. That ancient city was devastated by the fire, but fortunately the stone tablet survived.
3. The videotape and the story by the woman filled them with sympathy for the child who had
become an orphan in the earthquake.
4. In that earthquake, we heard many stories of teachers who had refused to leave their students
behind and laid down their lives.
5. The construction of the Yu Yuan Garden began in 1558, but it was not completed until 1578
because building went off and on for lack of money.
6. In 1980, when I met up with her, she had just returned from abroad with a master’s degree. 7. It was my first visit to New York, but I managed to find my way to the little firm. 8. It is hard to make it to the top in the movie industry, but as a director Xie Jin did it.
Exercises for integrated skills
1. Dictation
With hope of finding more survivors / of Turkey’s devastating earthquake / now all but gone,
