内容正文:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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Which toys will you give Sophie and Oliver respectively?
Question 1
I’m Sophie.
I’m Oliver.
Would you change your mind if I told you Sophie’s real name is Edward and Oliver’s real name is Maria? Why?
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Question 2
My real name is Edward.
I’m a boy.
My real name is Maria.
I’m a girl.
What can you learn from the experiment?
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Question 3
Sentence 1
Recently, a bus in Chongqing plunged off a bridge and into the Yangtze River, killing fifteen people on board.
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SENTENCES
现在分词killing在本句中作结果状语,表示一种顺其自然的结果。动词不定式也可以作结果状语,但通常表示出乎意料的结果。试比较:
It has been raining for over ten days, causing the river to rise.
He hurried to the airport only to find the plane had taken off.
Sentence 2
Obviously, these people showed their bias against female drivers.
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SENTENCES
bias n. an opinion about whether a person, group or idea is good or bad which influences how you deal with it
e.g. have a bias towards/in favor of English majors 对……偏爱
have a bias against minorities 对……有偏见
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1. There is so much __________ information in the report that you will have to rewrite it.
2. Why are you __________ me of lying? I don’t know the truth, either.
3. Wines are __________ either by region or by the grape variety.
4. The car went out of control and __________ over the cliff.
5. The professor’s __________ was destroyed after his research was found to include false data.
Complete each sentence using one word from the box in its correct form. Note that there is one word more than you need and you can use each word only once.
plunged
inaccurate
accusing
reputation
classified
VOCABULARY
plunge accuse stereotype accurate reputation classify
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Translate the following sentences into English.
1. 约翰几乎每天上课都无法集中思想,这导致老师们很生气。(make)
2. 在球队输了这场重要的足球赛后,一群愤怒的球迷纷纷指责主教练。(finger)
John cannot focus his attention/concentrate in class almost every day, making his teachers very angry.
A crowd of angry football fans pointed th