Unit 2 Text B

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Unit 2 Text B

• Green Spaces in Cities

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Why we need green spaces?

• One clear finding from their (psychologists)
  studies is that people need green spaces for
  better mental health.

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• Trees and bushes have been planted the roots of
  these plants will hold the soil, too, and the
  green leaves make the area beautiful.

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• The costly result is a growing greenness in the
  cities and a healthier environment for all the
  civilians who live there.

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• DirectionsFor this part, you are allowed 30
  minutes to write a composition on the title Make
  Our Cities Greener. Your composition should be
  based on the following outline1. ???????2.
  ?????(?,????,????,??? ???)3. ????????

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Make Our Cities Greener

• Sample
• In recent years, the expansion of population and
  industry in our cities has been accompanied by a
  corresponding shrinking of the areas planted with
  trees and grass. This shows that our urban
  environment is becoming worse, and poses a threat
  to our health. It is imperative that we take
  drastic actions to make our cities greener.

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• There are several advantages to making the urban
  areas more pleasant places to live and work in by
  planting trees and grass. For one thing, science
  has proved that plants reduce the amount of
  harmful carbon dioxide in the air we breathe. For
  another, green areas help us to relax by making
  us feel that we are surrounded by nature.

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• Therefore, I strongly recommend that every city
  resident take it as his or her duty to promote
  the greening of our cities. This can be done by
  spreading awareness of the importance of this
  task among our friends and neighbors. Moreover, I
  feel that it is the duty of our local governments
  to put their weight behind this great cause.

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Words and Phrases

• open field
• have few options
• apartment building
• rural areas/ the countryside
• green space
• city planner
• work on a solution
• power lines
• conservation project
• green belt

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Words and Phrases

• housing development
• biking and walking trails
• wildlife conservation
• coordinate one's efforts to
• a building plot
• poor housing conditions
• a strip of paper
• the Suez Canal
• urban life

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Sentences (C E)

• ???????????????
• They didn't leave him much option.
• ???????????
• The restaurant is under new ownership.

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• ?????????????????
• Idioms usually cannot be translated literally in
  another language.
• ??????????????
• Bright colors characterize his early paintings.

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• ????????????
• His poems are by no means comparable to
  Shelley's.
• ?????????????
• He is now at the summit of his career.

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• ???????????,????????
• Put the letter on top of that pile of books,
  where it can be seen easily.
• ????????,?????????????????
• You will have to work on the weak points in your
  English if you want to pass the examination.

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• ??????????????
• We must coordinate our efforts to help the poor.
• ???????????????
• This path leads halfway into the forest and then
  stops.
• ???????4???
• I can take up to four people in my car.

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vacant (L1)

• empty with nothing in it ??, ???, ???
• There are three empty houses in our street.
• vacant with nobody in it not occupied ???, ???
• By the end of the game the stadium was almost
  vacant.

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• blank without writing, print, or other marks on
  a surface???, ???
• a blank page ?? a blank screen?????
• bare without natural and customary covering
  ???, ????
• Don't walk on that broken glass with bare feet.

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lot plot (L1)

• n. used mainly in American English
• There is a parking lot around the corner.
• ?????????? 

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plot

• a small marked or measured piece of ground for
  building or growing things
• I grow potatoes on my little plot of land.
• a vegetable plot

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option (L4)

• option ????????,??????????
• choice ?????????,?????
• alternative ????????,??????
• selection ???????,???????????.

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• Multiple-_____ techniques have been used
  frequently in listening test.
• You have the ______ of leaving for home or
  staying with us.
• I made a careful _______ of a football team.
• The judge offered the criminal the _____ of a
  fine or a six months in prison.
• choice, option, selection, alternative

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• at ones option
• ?????
• ???????.
• It is at your option to take it or not.

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On top of (L6)

• a. In addition to
• He lost his job and on top of that his wife left
  him.
• b in complete control of
• a competent teacher who's really on top of his
  job

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Literally (L7)

• in a literal manner or sense specific,
• a) word for word not imaginatively,
  figuratively, or freely
• to translate a passage literally ????
• b) actually in fact
• the house literally burned to the ground
• c) seemingly, but not really (a loose usage)
• she literally flew from the room

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figuratively , literally

• ______ speaking, it was a blow right between the
  eyes.
• ( it was a bad shock)
• Idioms usually cannot be translated _______ in
  another language.
• When he said he never wanted to see you again,
  Im sure he didnt mean it ______.
• figuratively, literally, literally

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urban (L9)

• adj. of a town or city ???
• I dont enjoy an urban life.
• rural adj. of or like the country side
  concerning country or village life ???,??????
• We left the city for a rural home.
• ?????????????
• Do you prefer urban life or rural life?
• ???? ??????????

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urb city

• urbane
• ?adj. having very good social manners as that in
  a city ?????, ???
• suburb (sub near )
• ? n. an outer area or a town or city ??
• ? suburban
• exurb (ex- out)
• ? n. a region, generally semi-rural, beyond the
  suburbs of a city ????

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Pave (L10)

• Country boys thought the streets of London were
  paved with gold.
• (that London was a place of wealth and success)

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• pave the way for (to) ?????
• ?????????????????.
• This agreement will pave the way for a ________
  peace between the two countries.
• lasting

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Mud (L12)

• someone's name is mud
• infml someone is unpopular and spoken about with
  disapproval after causing trouble
• My name's mud in the office after what happened
  today.

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tend (L15)

• v T old-fash
• 1.to take care of (a living thing) look after
• ????????,?????????.
• She tended her husband lovingly during his long
  illness.
• a farmer tending his sheep
• 2 AmE to serve customers in (a store, bar, etc.)
  a bartender

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costly etc (L19)

• costly implies that a price is a large
  sum,usually because of good quality,preciousness
  of an object ???
• The furs are too costly.
• expensive suggests a price more than the average
  person would normally be able to pay or a price
  much higher than articles worth ???, ???

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• The diamond ring is more expensive than the
  silver ring and the gold ring.
• dear (BrE) refers to something that sells beyond
  its normal price high-priced ??????
• Fruit is dear at this time of year.

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• valuable stresses the quality and importance of
  the object without specifying the price ????
• Grain is very valuable to human kind.
• precious implies sth that is quite unique and
  cant be replaced by other thing???, ???
• Diamond, gold and silver are often called the
  precious metals.

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• priceless suggests a value beyond a persons
  power to estimate invaluable ???, ????
• The seas and oceans are priceless assets to
  human beings.

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• costly,expensive?dear??????????????expensive?
  ?costly,??????????dear.??????,???????????????????
  ???????

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• valuable????????? precious?????????????.???????
  ?????????dear?expensive????????valuable?precious?p
  riceless???????

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Why not (L21)

• Why not .????.?????
• Why dont we/you

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• Why not make one for yourself instead of buying
  one?
• ??????????????? 
• Why dont we talk it over again?
• ???????????
• Why dont you ask him yourself?

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up to (L31)

• as far as, as much as, as many as
• Up to two thousand students can hold a party in
  this hall. ????????2,000??????? 
• Everyone works, from the boy who sweeps the
  floor up to the President.
• ?????????????????

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Downtown (L34)

• going to downtown
• downtown
• the business center of a town or city
• City Hall has recently passed a proposal to
  improve street lighting in the city's downtown.

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comparable (L41)

• comparable adj with/ to
• 1) similar that can be compared ????,???
• The sets of figures are not comparable.
• Man and ape have comparable anatomies.
• 2) deserving to be compared ????
• His thesis is not comparable with yours.

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• comparative adj
• 1) relating to, based on, or involving comparison
  ??(?)?
• Worse is the comparative form of bad.
• 2) measured or judged by a comparison which is
  not stated ???,???,????
• He lives in comparative comfort

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civilian (L49)

• civilian n. a person not of the armed forces
  (???????)??,??
• Many civilians are killed in any war.
• ??????????????
• civilian clothes ??, ??

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• citizen n. a person who belongs to a particular
  country by birth or by being naturalized, who
  gives loyalty to it, and expects protection from
  it, whether or not he/she actually lives there
  ??,??
• She's an American citizen but lives in Canada.
• ??????,????????

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