内容正文:
· Book 1 Unit 3 family matters
· Developing ideas & Presenting ideas
一、用单词的适当形式完成句子
1.With a lot of difficult financial problems (settle), the top leaders in the company felt like a cat on hot bricks.
2.Planning is the key, not only to (track) your progress, but to ensuring that you can finish your tasks on time.
3.I don’t agree with her, but I (admiration)her for sticking to her principles.
4. (judge) from the data of the State Information Center, Chinese economy is recovering from covid-19 gradually.
5.Chinese kites, using simple materials such as wood and cloth, were often made (feature) the shapes of birds.
6.Natural disasters have (obvious) contributed to the continent’s economic crisis.
7.Her husband became much (positive) than before and was soon back in full-time employment.
8.What are some of the special (feature) of Beijing Opera?
9.Below is a (summarize) of what we talked about.
10.The more (power) you are, the greater responsibility you need to take.
二、阅读理解
A
Dear Alcohol,
You’ve been around forever. I can remember all the pain you’ve caused for me.
Do you remember the night you almost took my father’s life? I do. He loves you. Sometimes I think he loves you more than he loves me. He’s addicted to you, to the way you promise to rid him of his problems only to cause more of them. You just sat back and laughed as his car went spinning through the street, crashing into two other cars. He wasn’t the only one hurt by you that night.
Do you remember the night of my first high school party? You were there. My friends were intrigued by you. They treated you as if they were never going to see you again, drinking all of you that they could. I spent two hours that night helping my friends who had fallen completely. “I’m so embarrassed,” they said as I held their hair back so that they could vomit (呕吐). “I’m sorry,” they said when I called taxies for them, walking them