【正文】 t student. His parents never have to push him to do his homework. She thanked her teacher for pushing her into sending her essays to a magazine. 32 keep at it The experiment may take a few days to finish, but it’ s worth keeping at it. I was about to give up when my classmates shouted, “ Keep at it!” 33 be bound to do sth: be certain to do sth The weather is bound to improve in a couple of days. He’ s bound to get the scholarship. No other applicant is better qualified. 34 be satisfied with 35 keep on doing sth His children kept on pestering him while he was working hard on a report. 36 work (on sb/sth) The folk remedy works. My headache’ s gone. Do you think the plan will work? 3 interpretations 1 With the labor market being increasingly petitive, many people do not take their present jobs for granted. 2 After the brutal longdrawnout tribal war, the mon people living in the area all yearning for peace and security. 3 Standing up to the great pressure from the doctor and relatives, my mother insisted on teaching me reading and writing. 4 Since neither side gave in to the other, the war had been going on for more than a decade. Book 1 lesson 6 1 text 1 Culture shock might be called an occupational disease of people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad. 2 These cues, which may be words, gestures, facial expressions, customs, or norms, are acquired by all of us in the course of growing up and are as much a part of our culture as the language we speak or the beliefs we accept. 3 All of us depend for our peace of mind and our efficiency on hundreds of these cues, often without our conscious awareness. 4 When foreigners in a strange land get together to grumble about the host country and its people, you can be sure they are suffering from culture shock. Another symptom of culture shock is regression. The home environment suddenly takes on a tremendous importance. 5 It usually takes a trip home to bring one back to reality. 6 However, those who have seen people go through culture shock and on to a satisfactory adjustment can see steps in the process. 7 If you are a real tourist, you probably do not stay long enough for this phase to wear off but go on to the next new location or experience. 8 When you stay in a new environment for a while, you move to stage twothe crisis stagein which the shine wears off and daytoday realities sink in. 9 However, if you stick with the experience and try to deal with it realistically, you will probably move to the third phase of culture shock: recovery. 10 In recovery, you learn the systems, procedures, language, or nonverbal behaviors of the new environment so that you can cope with it on the basis of some mastery, petence, and fort. 11 You no longer need to make mental conversions of the country’s money。 would you take over for a while? The new president will take over from Mr. Johnson next week. 25 face down/ facedown 26 pick sb up 27 hold off 3 interpretation 1 Hearing that the firm I work for was going to be taken over by an oil pany, I was greatly shocked. 2 The miners had been trapped in the collapsed gallery for over one week before they were picked up. 3 Mother has never given in to the difficulties encountered in the course of my growing up. 4 This country can not afford to have another civil war. Its people long for lasting peace. 5 His sincere selfcriticism made us respect him all the more. 6 No force can keep the Chinese people back from reuniting their own country. Book 1 lesson 5 1 text 1 While traveling for various speaking engagements, I frequently stay overnight in the home of a family and am assigned to one of the children’ s bedrooms. 2 I’ m not plaining, only making a point. 3 I think that in far too many families, not only do children e to take their parents’ generosity for granted, but also the effects of this can actually be somewhat harmful to children. 4 ? ..along with those things the parents yearned for but didn’t get. 5 ? .requests for toys for fear that their children will feel?? . 6 Overindulgence of a child also happens when parents are unable to stand up to their children’ s unreasonable demands. Such parents vacillate between saying no and giving inbut neither response seems satisfactory to them. 7 But overindulging children with material things does little to lessen parental guilt(since parents never feel that they’ ve given enough), nor does it make children feel more loved. 8 Children may, to some degree, bee greedy, selfcentered, ungrateful and insensitive to the needs and feelings of others, beginning with their parents. 9 Parents who are fortunate enough not to have a problem with feelings of guilt don’ t need to respond crossly to their children when denying a specific request which is thought to be unreasonable. They can explain, cheerfully, that it ’ s too expensiveexcept perhaps as a birthday or holiday giftor that the child will have to contribute to its purchase from an allowance or from the earnings of an outside job. 2 phrase 1 stay overnight 2 be assigned to sth: 向（某人）提供 ? , 把 ? 分派給（某人） Xiao Zhang has been assigned to Class five. The best worker was assigned to the most difficult job. be assigned to do sth: （某人）被指派做某事。 With all the windows open, the room is very cool. With so many people watching me, how can I concentrate on my work? 10 (to the)east/west/north/south of : He works in Beijing, and lives in a small town some 40 kilometers south of the city. 11 live for sth/sb:為 ? ..而活 12 give in to sth./sb Parents often give in to their children’ s demands. 13 the nine of them 他們九人（一共有九人）， nine of them 他們當中的九人。） He is distinguished from his twin brother by a mole on his back. 7 mea