【正文】 you can find reasonably priced hotels and restaurants. (not necessarily) Traveling in that country is not necessarily expensive。 without her we cannot continue. 3. He became badtempered as a co__________ of drinking too much wine. 4. The con_________ of power must be reduced. azard dispensable nsequence sumption 5. Streams containing waste material are sometimes dis________ into rivers. 6. Wise people do not form their opinions purely on a r_______ basis。 11. … relatively insignificant means to a healthy end. (Para. 10) n. a method, system, object, etc. that you use as a way of achieving a result方法，手段，工具 means Notice that both the singular and plural forms of the noun “ means” have the same spelling. XV. Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) according to the reading text. 1. Workaholics are anized people who get a lot of work done and, therefore, they lead a full life. 2. Most pany employers support the idea that a balanced employee is a productive employee. F F 3. Workaholism, from psychology counselors’ viewpoints, can have both advantages and disadvantages for us. 4. Our parents’ and grandparents’ work was more of physical work, but the stress they felt was no less than we do. 5. Very petitive people tend to bee workaholic, because they equate selfworth with success at their professions. F T T 6. Workaholics never take holidays. 7. Workaholics admit that they spend too much time on work. 8. We should realize that there is a lot to life than a job. F F T XVI. Complete the following sentences with the help of the first letter(s). Fill each blank with one word only. 1. The old building is a h______。 ambition n. 2) [C] a goal, objective志向 . I am not especially bright, but I have tremendous ambition. 我不是特別聰明，但倒是很有雄心壯志。 9. …their work as indispensable and their working long hours as mitment… (Para. 8) a. pletely necessary。 refuse to admit否認(rèn) deny . He denied knowing anything about the matter. 他說(shuō)他對(duì)此事一無(wú)所知。 . He flatly denied the charge. 他斷然否認(rèn)該項(xiàng)指控。 7. … that needs discharging. (Para. 6) ) send out gas, liquid, smoke, etc. 排放 vt. 2) give official sanction for sb. to leave解雇 discharge vi. give or send out排放 . The oil which discharged into the sea seriously harmed a lot of birds and animals. 泄入大海的石油嚴(yán)重危害了大量鳥獸。” . . . Because of the depressed economy, almost one third of our employees were discharged. 因?yàn)榻?jīng)濟(jì)不景氣，幾乎三分之一員工被解雇了 。 6. … good feelings we may not necessarily be able to attain … (Para. 4) possibly but not certainly不一定 not necessarily “ He was lying, of course .” “ Not necessarily.” “他肯定在說(shuō)謊。 loyal . She has remained loyal to him throughout his misfortune. 在他遭受不幸期間 ,她自始至終對(duì)他保持忠誠(chéng)。可我恰恰相反 , 我討厭它。 on the contrary, it’ s a good thing. 這不是個(gè)極大的錯(cuò)誤，恰恰相反，這是件好事。 4. Despite lip service to the contrary … (Para. 3) support in words, not in fact口頭支持 lip service . I know she’ s unhappy, despite all her arguments to the contrary. 盡管她竭力說(shuō)她很快樂(lè)，可我知道她并不幸福。 3. … negative consequence. (Para. 3) n. 1) [C] result結(jié)果 consequence n. 2) [U] importance重要 . It is of little consequence to a man of such great consequence. 對(duì)這樣的顯要人物而言，這件事 無(wú)關(guān)緊要。 dimension n. 1) [C,U] measures測(cè)量 . What are the dimensions of the desk? 這個(gè)桌子的長(zhǎng)寬高各是多少？ n. 2) a particular side or aspect方面 . Everyone’ s character has several different dimensions. 每個(gè)人的性格都是多方面的。 1. … having a life other than work. (Para. 2) 1) instead of, except for除了 other than 2) not。 excite priorities A teacher’ s priorities include exciting students’ interests and stimulating their creativity. Are You a Workaholic? ? Reading Skills ? Detailed Study of the Text ? Exercises Finding Out Word Meanings As we learned in Unit 2, we can often figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word from clues provided by context. The context clues that might be helpful for us to recognize the meaning of a new word include the following. 1. Some sentences give the definition for a difficult word with the help of punctuation such as mas, dashes or parentheses. 2. Context sometimes gives examples to illustrate a difficult word rather than define it. We can use the examples to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word. 3. Synonyms (同義詞 ) are words or phrases that are similar in meaning. A synonym is one type of context clue that helps you to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. 4. Antonyms (反義詞 ) are words or phrases that have opposite meanings to other words or phrases. Antonym clues can help you understand new words. 5. Sentences before or after a sentence that has a difficult word sometimes explain the meaning of the word. 6. Sometimes we can use our own experiences, or our knowledge about a certain topic, to find out the meaning of an unfamiliar word. 7. Word part clues. We can often figure out an unfamiliar word because we know the prefix or suffix attached to the root word, or the two words that make up a p