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21st Century College English Book 3
Unit 6 Text A
Every 23 Minutes
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Unit 6 Text A

• Lead-in Activities
• Text Organization
• Reading and Writing Skills
• Language Points
• Guided Practice
• Assignment

Every 23 Minutes
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Lead-in Activities
Warm-up Questions

• (The questions are based on the listening
  material)
• What feeling do you think will be caused by the
  death reported in the passage---how must the
  family and friends of the dead students feel?
  What about the person responsible?
• What do you think the police should do?

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Text Organization
The structure of Text A
I. The writing starts with a tragic story.
Paras. 1-5
II. The tragedy is not a rare occurrence.

Paras. 6-9
III. Another example of this kind of tragedy
Paras. 10-14
IV. A transitional paragraph
Para. 15
V. The harsh reality
Paras. 16-32
VI. Conclusion
Paras. 33-37
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Text Organization
I. The writing starts with a tragic story.
Para. 1
Para. 2
Paras. 3-5
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Text Organization
II. The tragedy is not a rare occurrence.
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Text Organization
III. Another example of this kind of tragedy
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Text Organization
IV. A transitional paragraph
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Text Organization
V. The harsh reality
Paras. 16-23
Paras. 24-32
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Text Organization
Every 23 minutes, who dies?
Every 23 minutes, who dies?
Every 23 minutes, who dies?
Every 23 minutes, who dies?
Paras. 1617
Paras. 1819
Paras. 2021
Paras. 2223
A mother, a woman, a man, a wife, etc.
A son, a father, a daughter, a sister, etc.
A brother, a friend, a bride-to-be, an aunt, etc.
A child, an uncle, a grandmother, a lover, etc.
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Text Organization
VI. Conclusion
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Reading Writing Skills

• 1) The author uses many different techniques to
  create an emotional response in readers. Review
  the writing techniques form the previous units
• Unit One Misconception Refutation
• Unit Two Viewpoint Disagreement
• Unit Three Anticipating objections
• Unit Four Five Listing Explaining
• Also, repetition, ellipsis are used applied
  in this text to render force to the argument.

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Reading Writing Skills

• Syntactical repletion
• Somebody drinks.
• Somebody drives.
• Somebody dies.
• Rhetorical repetition
• The question Every 23 minutes, who dies? is being
  repeated a number of times.
• Ellipsis
• A wedding.
• Followed by a funeral.
• To leave a war zone and then get injured.

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Reading Writing Skills
2) Distinguishing between facts and opinions
In reading comprehension, the ability to read in
a critical way is needed, which involves the
ability to distinguish between facts on the one
hand and the writers opinions or interpretations
on the other. Critical reading involves careful
examination of our own beliefs as well as the
authors.
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Language Points
Text A
Every 23 minutes
By Linda Weltner
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Language Points

• Every 23 Minutes
• Linda Welter
• 1 My husband and I went to a funeral a few weeks
  ago. The man we honored had not been ill and will
  never grow old. He was killed in his car on a
  Sunday night, driving home along a divided
  highway.
• 2 It was an ordinary evening, no blacker than any
  other, when a car coming in the other direction
  went out of control, broke through the guard
  rail, and hit two other cars before smashing head
  on into his. According to the newspaper, the
  driver, who was returning from a wedding, seemed
  puzzled. I only had two bottles of beer and a
  cocktail. she is reported to have said.

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Language Points
3 A wedding. 4 Followed by a funeral. 5 I wish
she could have been there to see all the lives
her act has changed forever, the wife, and four
children, the extended family, the hundreds and
hundreds of friends who sat in painful silence,
listening to words which barely touched the
depths of their grief. 6 Strange to think that,
according to the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, this happens in America every 23
minutes.
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Language Points

• 7 Somebody drinks.
• 8 Somebody drives.
• 9 Somebody dies.
• 10 And other lives are altered forever, though
  sometimes the changes may be invisible to a
  casual observer. By chance, the day before the
  funeral I ran into a longtime acquaintance while
  shopping. He commented on my crutches. I asked if
  he had ever broken his leg. Uh, I have a long
  rod in this thigh, he said, from a car accident
  two weeks after I came back from Vietnam.
• 11 Thats ironic. To leave a war zone and then
  get injured, I teased him. Youre lucky it
  wasnt worse.

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Language Points
12 Well, my wife was killed in the crash and so
was the wife of the driver, he said
uncomfortably. We were hit by a drunk. 13 Ive
known this man for years, yet suddenly realized
there was a whole chapter of his life hed never
mentioned. I asked and discovered hed remained
in the hospital seven weeks, and that all that
time hed known his wife was dead. It was hard to
know where to go from there, for there
arequestions you cant put to someone in a casual
conversation questions like, How could you
bear it? or What did you do about wanting
revenge?
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Language Points

• 14 I wish I knew the answers to those questions.
  I wish I could offer those answers to the woman
  who, overwhelmed by grief, could barely walk as
  she followed her husbands coffin from the
  church. 
• 15 Every 23 minutes, who dies?
• 16 A mother who will never comfort the child who
  needs her. A woman who will never know how very
  much her friends depended on her. A man whose
  contributions to his community would have made a
  difference. A wife whose husband cannot picture
  the future without her.
• 17 Every 23 minutes, who dies?

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Language Points

18 A son who involuntarily abandons abandons his
parents in their old age. A father who can never
acknowledge his childrens accomplishments. A
daughter who can never take back her angry words.
A sister who will never be her sisters maid of
honor. 19 Every 23 minutes, who dies? 20 A
brother who will not be there to hold his newborn
niece. A friend whose encouragement is gone
forever. A bride-to- be who will never say her
vows. An aunt whose family will fragment and fall
apart.
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Language Points

• 21 Every 23 minutes, who dies?
• 22 A child who will never fulfill his early
  promise. An uncle who leaves his children without
  guidance and support. A grandmother whose husband
  must now grow old alone. A lover who never had a
  chance to say how much he cared. Every 23
  minutes.
• 23 A void opens.
• 24 Someone looks across the table at a vacant
  chair climbs into an empty bed, feels the pain
  of no voice, no touch, no love. Where there was
  once intimacy and contact, now there is only
  absence and despair.

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Language Points

• 25 Every 23 minutes
• 26 A heart breaks.
• 27 Someones pain shatters the confines of her
  body, leaking out in tears, exploding in cries,
  defying all efforts to soothe the despair. Sleep
  offers no escape from the nightmare of awakening.
  And morning brings only the irreversibility of
  loss.
• 28 Every 23 minutes.
• 29 A dream ends.

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Language Points

• 30 Someones future blurs and goes blank as
  anticipation fades into nothingness. The phone
  will not ring, the car will not pull up to the
  house. The weight of tomorrow becomes unbearable
  in a world in which all promises have been broken
  by force.
• 31 Every 23 minutes.
• 32 Somebody wants to run. Somebody wants to hide.
• 33 Somebody is left with hate. Somebody wants to
  die.
• 34 And we permit this to go on.
• 35 Every 23 minutes.

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The man we honored had not been ill and will
never grow old. the man we honored the man to
whose funeral we went the dead
Paraphrase ?
The man had died of neither illness nor old age.
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Text-related information
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) is responsible for
reducing deaths, injuries and economic losses
resulting form motor vehicle crashes. NHTSA
investigates safety defects in motor vehicles,
sets and enforces fuel economy standards, helps
states and local communities reduce the threat of
drunk drivers, etc. NHTSA also conducts research
on driver behavior and traffic safety, to develop
the most efficient and effective means of
bringing about safety improvements.
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No is used in front of a comparative adjective to
indicate the level, standard, or size of
something, and sometimes to express surprise,
scorn, or admiration.
Example Winners of the prize will be notified
by post no later than 31st August. He made no
fewer than 50 mistakes. The job was no better
than a common laborers.
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Text-related information
Cocktail
A cocktail is an iced alcoholic drink which
contains several ingredients including one or
more spirits. There are well over fifty different
guesses as to the origin of the word. Some
plausible ones include a deviation from the
French coquetier, an egg cup, in which the
drink was supposedly first served from coquetel,
a mixed drink of the French Revolution period,
and from a toast to that cock which after a
cockfight had the most feathers left in its
tail.
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smash head on into his hit violently against
his car front to front head on with the head or
front parts meeting violently
Example The two cars crashed head on. The
bicycle ran head on into the lorry.
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Text-related information
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a military struggle fought
in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975, involving the North
Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front
(NLF) in conflict with the United States forces
and the South Vietnamese army. During the
conflict, approximately 3 to 4 million Vietnamese
on both sides were killed, in addition to another
1.5 to 2 million Laotians and Cambodians who were
drawn into the war. More than 58,000 Americans
lost their lives.
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The verb wish followed by a that-clause The verb
wish can be followed by a that-clause to express
a DESIRE for some situation that is different
from the one that existed or exists in reality.
? wishthat-clause in the past perfect tense?a
particular action in the past. I wish (that) I
hadnt eaten so much. She wishes (that) shed
never got involved in the whole affair.
? wishthat-clause in the past simple tense?
expressing regret about a state or situation that
exists at this moment. I wish ( that ) I didnt
have to go to work today. I wish (that ) I was
/ were a bit taller.
Exercise IX, p. 174 1. Im sorry you told Anne
what I said about her.
Key I wish you hadnt told Anne what I said about
her.
Exercise IX, p. 174 2. Julie was sorry she didnt
give Roger the message.
Key Julie wished shed given Roger the message.
Exercise IX, p. 174 3. Its too bad Peter has to
leave so early.
Key I wish Peter didnt have to leave so early.
Exercise IX, p. 174 5. George regretted that he
couldnt attend the meeting.
Key George wished that hed been able to attend
the meeting./ George wished that he could have
attended the meeting.
Assignment
Exercise IX, 4. 6. 7. 8., p.175
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comment on remark on
Example The fans commented fervently on the
last match. The minister refused to comment on
the rumors about his resignation.
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words which barely touched the depths of their
grief.
Paraphrase ?
words that were hardly enough to express their
deep grief.
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chapter n. a period of time in a persons
life or in history
Practice Make a sentence with the word
chapter.
Example A new and more responsible chapter or
my career as a journalist has begun. That
opened a new chapter in the history of
international relations.
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It was hard to know where to go from there, for
there are questions you cant put to someone in a
casual conversation
Translate into Chinese
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do about (doing) sth. take action about
(doing) sth.
Example What can the public do about improving
the environment? We shall have to do something
about our methods if we are to get any results.
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make a /no/much, etc. difference (to
sb./sth.) be important/unimportant/very
important, etc. (to sb./sth.) have an
/no/much, etc. effect (on sb./sth.)
Example Whether he comes or not makes no
difference.
Example Your support can make a difference to
our project.
Translate ??????????????????
Key His speech makes much difference to our
students future career.
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picture vt. form a mental picture imagine
Example I cant picture the village without the
old church. He pictured to himself what it might
be like to live on the moon.
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A son who involuntarily abandons his parents in
their old age.
Paraphrase ?
A son who, in spite of himself, will not be
supporting his parents when they get old.
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A daughter who can never take back her angry
words. take back ones words admit that
something one said was wrong or should not have
said it
Example Well, I take back my words about your
being selfish. Although he knew he had been
wrong, he refused to take back his words.
Translate into Chinese
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void n. a feeling of loss
Example His death left a great void in her
life. She sensed the black void of despair
inside him.
Translate A void opens.
Key ????????
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Someones pain shatters the confines of her body,
leaking out in tears, exploding in cries, defying
all efforts to soothe the despair.
Translate into Chinese
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Sleep offers no escape from the nightmare of
awakening. And morning brings only the
irreversibility of loss.
Paraphrase ?
Day and night, awake or asleep, they are obsessed
with the painful loss of their loved ones, a loss
that will never be made up any day.
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go blank become blank
Note Go can be followed by an adjective that
describes the state or conditions of a person or
thing, or changes in that state or condition.
Example Her hair was going gray. The company
went bankrupt during the crisis.
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fade into gradually disappear into or become
Example As evening came, the coastline faded
into darkness. Day slowly faded into night.
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The weight of tomorrow become unbearable in a
world in which all promises have been broken by
force.
Translate into Chinese
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Guided Practice

• Vocabulary
• Cloze
• Translation
• Structure Writing

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Vocabulary
???? III Ex. III, p. 170
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Vocabulary
III. Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Change the form where necessary.
injure revenge nightmare soothe despair s
hatter leak fade defy fragment
1. When he failed the entrance exam, his ______
drove him to consider suicide.
? despair
2. Their van ran into a taxi but fortunately no
one was ______ .
? injured
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Vocabulary
III. Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Change the form where necessary.
injure revenge nightmare soothe despair s
hatter leak fade defy fragment
3. It would take years for the pain over her
divorce to ______ away.
? fade
4. The soldiers vowed to get ______ for their
captains death.
? revenge
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Vocabulary
III. Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Change the form where necessary.
injure revenge nightmare soothe despair s
hatter leak fade defy fragment
5. Milk baths are a very expensive way to ______
the pain of minor burns or insect bites.
? soothe
6. When his health failed and he had to close his
business, it ______ all his hopes for his
familys future.
? shattered
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Vocabulary
III. Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Change the form where necessary.
injure revenge nightmare soothe despair s
hatter leak fade defy fragment
7. The poor man lost his mind after the tragic
accident and his behavior ______ comprehension.
? defied
8. We need to have the roof repaired it ______
every time it rains.
? leaks
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Vocabulary
III. Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Change the form where necessary.
injure revenge nightmare soothe despair s
hatter leak fade defy fragment
9. The whole trip was a ______ the motel had
lost our reservation, then our car was stolen,
and besides that, the weather was terrible.
? nightmare
10. I had a very strange dream last night, but
only remember a few ______ of it.
? fragments
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Cloze
???? III Ex. X, p. 175
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Cloze
X
X. Select the most appropriate word from among
each of the four choices given. The choice
0 means that no additional word is necessary.
My son Brain, who was in training to become an
army pilot, was on his way to a party one evening
when he stopped at a gas station to ask for
directions. Just as he pulled _1_, one of the gas
pumps _2_ and Brain lost both his legs. Everyone
agreed that Brain was lucky _3_with

• 1. A) at B) up
• C) up at D) 0
• 2. A) explode B) exploded
• C) explosion
• D) was exploding
• A) he escapes
• B) in an escape
• C) in his escape
• D) to have escaped

• 1. A) at B) up
• C) up at D) 0
• 2. A) explode B) exploded
• C) explosion
• D) was exploding
• A) he escapes
• B) in an escape
• C) in his escape
• D) to have escaped

B
B
D
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Cloze
his life (the only other _4_ of the accident died
on the spot) everyone, that is, except _5_
Brain, who was filled with total _6_ . It wasnt
the pain and difficulty of adjusting _7_ living
with a handicap that he found so hard to bear it
was the sheer senselessness of the accident that
had _8_ his legs, his life and his dreams. He _9_
the

• A) vehicle B) veteran
• C) victim D) volunteer
• A) as B) by
• C) of D) 0
• A) despair B) desperate
• C) tragedy D) tragic
• 7. A) at B) for C) to D) 0
• A) disabled B)faded
• C) fragmented
• D) shattered
• A) acknowledged
• B) contacted
• C) defied D) vowed

C

• A) vehicle B) veteran
• C) victim D) volunteer
• A) as B) by
• C) of D) 0
• 6. A) despair B) desperate
• C) tragedy D) tragic
• 7. A) at B) for C) to D) 0
• A) disabled B)faded
• C) fragmented
• D) shattered
• 9. A) acknowledged
• B) contacted
• C) defied D) vowed

D
A
C
D
A
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Cloze
risks of his chosen profession, so if hed
suffered the same _10_ in a plane crash, he
wouldve accepted it. If hed been wounded in
_11_, he couldve forgiven his enemy, or vowed to
get _12_. But how can you forgive Or get even
with a _13_ in a gas pump? Where can you turn
to find meaningful _14_ into the risks of
stopping to ask for directions? Brain was

• 10. A) disability B) disabled
• C) injure D) injury
• A) circumstances
• B) circuit
• C) combat D) contact
• A) conviction
• B) convinced
• C) revenge D) revenged
• A) blank B) drunk
• C) flick D) leak
• 14. A) insight B)instance
• C) instinct
• D) investment

• 10. A) disability B) disabled
• C) injure D) injury
• A) circumstances
• B) circuit
• C) combat D) contact
• A) conviction
• B) convinced
• C) revenge D) revenged
• A) blank B) drunk
• C) flick D) leak
• 14. A) insight B)instance
• C) instinct
• D) investment

D
C
C
D
A
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Cloze
given artificial legs, and months of physical
_15_ to help him function in his new life. But no
one ever found _16_ to replace or revive the love
of life that _17_ meaningless accident destroyed.
In a very real sense, I lost my son that night at
the gas station _18_ his body survived, his
spirit did not.
15. A) grief B) guidance C) threat D)
therapy 16. A) anyway B) any way C) out how D)
out a way 17. A) that B) what C) which D)
whom 18. A) As though B) Even though C) Had D)
However
15. A) grief B) guidance C) threat D)
therapy 16. A) anyway B) any way C) out how D)
out a way 17. A) that B) what C) which D)
whom 18. A) As though B) Even though C) Had D)
However
D
B
A
B
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Translation
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Translation
???? III Ex. XI, p. 176
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Translation

• Translate the following paragraphs into Chinese.

Every 23 minutes. A heart breaks. Someones
pain shatters the confines of her body, leaking
out in tears, exploding in cries, defying all
efforts to soothe the despair. Sleep offers no
escape from the nightmare of awakening. And
morning brings only the irreversibility of loss.
?23??? ??????? ??????????????,???????,??????,??
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Translation
Every 23 minutes. A dreams ends. Someones
future blurs and goes blank as anticipation fades
into nothingness. The phone will not ring, the
car will not pull up to the house. The weight of
tomorrow becomes unbearable in a world in which
all promises have been broken by force.
?23??? ??????? ????????,??????????,???????????,
??????????????????????????,?????????????
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Translation
???? III Ex. XII, p. 177
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Translation
1. ?????????????????????????
adopt
event
reasonable
I wish you could adopt a more reasonable attitude
towards the event.
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Translation
2. ????????????,??????????
had my leg broken
I had my leg broken in the car accident and so
did my son.
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Translation
3. ?????????,??????????
walk on her own
overwhelmed by grief
The old woman, overwhelmed by grief, could
hardly/barely walk on her own.
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Translation
4. ?????????,????????????
accomplishments
acknowledge
It was 50 years after his death that his
accomplishments were acknowledged by society.
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Translation
5. ?????????,????????????
flames of war
there are
Where there were
Where there were flames of war, now there are
peace and prosperity.
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Translation
6. ?????,????????
defies the healing power of any medicine
be seriously ill
He is seriously ill and his disease defies the
healing power of any medicine.
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Translation
7. ??????,????,?????????,??????????
goes blank
blur
fade into nothing
He has lost confidence in life as the future
blurs and goes blank and the early hopes fade
into nothingness.
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Translation
8. ???????????????????????????,?????????
harsh
fall apart
with
Little Tom realized that nothing could change the
harsh reality that his family had fallen apart
with his parents sudden deaths.
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Structure Writing
Review
So far we have learned the following writing
techniques from the previous units
Write your own
Writing techniques
Unit One Misconception Refutation Unit Two
Viewpoint Disagreement Unit Three Anticipating
objections Unit Four Five Listing Explaining
No.1
No.2
No.3
No.4
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Structure Writing
Write a shore essay (about 150 words) in
response to Text A, using one of the writing
techniques youve learned.
1
State a common misconception, then give an
example to show that its not true, for
example When people think about the victims of
drunk driving, they usually only consider the
people who are killed or injured
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Structure Writing
Write a shore essay (about 150 words) in
response to Text A, using one of the writing
techniques youve learned.
2
Outline a viewpoint, then explain why you
disagree with it, for example The author of
Every 23 minutes seems to feel that deaths
caused by drunk drivers are harder to bear than
other deaths.
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Structure Writing
Write a shore essay (about 150 words) in
response to Text A, using one of the writing
techniques youve learned.
3
Persuade people to do something against drunk
driving by arguing against possible objections,
for example Ordinary citizens often feel
inadequate to do anything about drunk drivers. In
a mood of self-defeat they exclaim
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Structure Writing
Write a shore essay (about 150 words) in
response to Text A, using one of the writing
techniques youve learned.
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Present and then explain a list, for example I
see three main steps that could be taken to
reduce drunk driving stricter legislation, more
traffic police and better education about the
dangers of drinking.
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