文档介绍：Unit 1 Growing Up Text A Writing for Myself
Part I Cultural Note
Part II Language Points
Part III anization
Part IV Structure
Part V Translation
Part VI Vocabulary and Structure
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(4) “I guess I almost know it by heart.”()
know\ learn sth. By heart : recite sth.
. You have to know all the music by heart is you want to be a concert pianist.
(5) “At least they do with me because I am on the road so much.”(Para. 5)
Paraphrase: At least letters from home mean a lot to me because I travel a lot in a car for long distance.
(6) This isn’t a family.()
Paraphrase: This isn’t a letter from my family.
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I. Cultural Notes Grade schools in the .
The third year in high school (Para. 1). equals the eleventh grade (Para. 9). . students generally go through elementary schools (kindergarten to 5th or 6th grade), middle schools (grades 6-8) or junior high schools (grades 7-9), and high schools (grades 9-12 or 10-12).
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II. Language Points
off and on possibility take hold
bore turn out anticipate
out of date severe face up to
mand what’s more
hold back avoid back
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off and on (or on and off):
from time to time, now and again, irregularly
It has been raining on and off for a week. That’s why the clothes feel damp.
As her patient slept soundly during the night, Nurse Betty was able to doze off and on in a bedside chair.
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possibility:
state of being possible; (degree of) likelihood (usu. Followed by that-clause or of)
Is there any possibility of life on Mars?
They haven’t arrived. There is a possibility that they have taken the wrong road.
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take hold:
e established
The idea of one child only has taken hold in many Chinese families.
Old habits die hard. That’s why you should stop smoking before the habit takes hold.
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