【正文】 t that hour.2. She fulfilled her ambition of being a fashion designer after years of hard work. 3. They kept on trying their best to develop their business, but in suchintense market petition, they had no idea if success would e along one day. 4. As music plays an important role in our life, many music teachers and educatorsadvocate taking up a musical instrument at a young age. 5. This rule should be entirely clear in the minds of everyone and should not be misunderstood under anycircumstances. 6. My daughter was shy。subsequent to the receipt of this letter I have never heard from him. 8. The duties to provide services for children in need are notconfine to the local social services department. 9. We pray that all nations be reconciled and that all people around the world live in peace. 10. He suggested a small but distinct improvement on our former plan。 life in a mass shooting in Tucson. He kept her alive by (1)applying pressure to her wounds and speaking (2)tender words of sympathy until medical people arrived. He was (3)hailed as a hero by the public. Although his devotion to public service is (4)remarkable, in his book They Call Me a Hero: A Memoir of My Youth, Hernandez insists that he is not a hero. Hernandez said that he initially resisted the idea of writing a book about his experience on that day of enormous (5)tragedy. I had been (6)pushed by a few publishers after the incident, he said. I thought heroes should be people who make a lifetime (7)mitment to helping others. However, Hernandez, now a school board member, had e to realize that he would be interested in writing a book (8)focusing on his public service.As a young official, I39。m not going to say no, he said.in sb.39。免受call on呼吁，號召 sum up概括總結(jié)relate to理解，認(rèn)同 in need在困難時(shí)，在貧困之中be/get caught up in被卷入，陷入1. She held her hand above her eyes to shield them from the sun so that she could see more clearly the man in front of her. 2. The boy studied the signs for over an hour, but still could not make sense of them, so he turned to his teacher for help. 3. They called on the developed countries to mit more money to protecting the environment. 4. We will continue to care for those in need and work to establish a society that is generous and prosperous. 5. Many people are/get caught up in careers and raising kids so that they forget that their marriages also need to be taken good care of. 6. My most favorite program is the one that deals with scientific subjects that ordinary people can relate to . 7. Finally, I would like to sum up by saying that it has been a tremendous pleasure to work with you all. 8. He is a person that you can always count on when you need help. 9. Betty loves her words, Reading is the most wonderful thing in the world.10. This restaurant is very popular because it has some separate, smaller rooms reserved for families with small children. As one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia through China, Marco Polo is perhaps the most wellknown foreign merchant and voyager to the Chinese people. He traveled extensively (廣泛地) with his family, journeying from Europe to Asia from 1271 to 1295. He remained in China for 17 of those years. His book The Travels of Marco Polo depicts his journeys throughout Asia, giving Europeans their first prehensive look into the Far East, including China, India, and Japan. From his written accounts the Westerners learned of porcelain, coal, gunpowder, printing, paper money, and silk for the first time. The wealth of new geographic information recorded by Polo was widely used in the late 15th and the 16th centuries during the age of the European voyages of discovery and conquest (征服). In the centuries since his death, Marco Polo has received the recognition that failed to e his way during his lifetime. Marco Polo39。波羅可能是中國人最熟知的外國商人和航海家。期間，他在中國留居了17年。波羅游記》描述了他游歷亞洲的旅程，讓歐洲人首次全面領(lǐng)略了包括中國、印度和日本在內(nèi)的遠(yuǎn)東地區(qū)的情況。在15世紀(jì)末和16世紀(jì)歐洲發(fā)現(xiàn)與征服的大航海時(shí)代，馬可在他去世后的這幾個(gè)世紀(jì)里，馬可馬可 鄭和是中國歷史上最著名的航海家（maritime explorer）。在此后的28 年里，鄭和帶領(lǐng)船隊(duì)七下西洋，前后出海的人員有10 多萬人，訪問了30 多個(gè)國家和地區(qū)。鄭和下西洋是世界航海（navigation）史上的壯舉，它展現(xiàn)了鄭和卓越的航海和組織才能，同時(shí)展現(xiàn)了明朝的國力和國威（national strength and prestige），加強(qiáng)了明朝和海外各國之間的關(guān)系。s voyages to the Western Seas were a great feat in the world39。s outstanding navigation and organization talents。 notice if you intend to leave this pany. 3. We were honored that so many people of distinctionand talent were present to discuss the issues. 4. The local government has been providing substantial support to them, without which they couldn39。s lecture failed to impress the students as some of them had left before it was over. 10. We all admitted that the trip was worthwhile after we saw a(n) magnificent palace and a fantastic museum.2. 15選10Amateur業(yè)余愛好者，業(yè)余的 endurance耐久持久，忍耐力Individual個(gè)人的，個(gè)人 independent自主的，不相關(guān)聯(lián)的Present現(xiàn)在的，目前的 despite不管，盡管Developed先進(jìn)的，發(fā)達(dá)的 contests爭奪競爭Remarkable異常的，引人注目的 coined創(chuàng)造Insurance保險(xiǎn) inherent固有的，內(nèi)在的，天生Established已建立的 contracts契約Separate分開分離For several centuries, cricket (板球) has been a very popular sport in England. It has been enjoyed by both professional and (1)(amateur) players. This superpopular game is a batandball game played between two teams of 11 players. It can provide you with health benefits like building (2)(endurance), balance, and physical fitness. But for a team sport, cricket also places (3)(individual) players under unusual pressure because every team player is (4)(independent) of each other. Cricket might have started in early 16thcentury England. Written records (5)(present) evidence of a game known as creag being played by Prince Edward at Newenden, Kent in 1301。s not cricket (10)(coined) to describe unfair behavior in general.3. 選詞組regardless of不管