1? C2? B3? B4? A5? A
GUIDED WRITING
Sentence Combination
Reference version：
Gossip can be gracious and kindly and as often affected by good will as by rancour.
Try to imagine, for instance, a village where there is no gossip. Every citizen in it is, to use a common expression, minding his own business, never caring to see what anyone else is doing. In such a place, there would probably be no charities, no getting together, no luncheon clubs, no sewing bees, no Rotary, no Parent?Teacher Associations, and in fact, no local news, for news is nothing but verified gossip.
K 3?3News is verified gossip and history is verified news — verified in the unlimited passage of time, for this verification may take a few hours or a few thousand years. Scholars today are endlessly checking the legendary accounts of the victories of Genghis Khan or seeking to reconcile conflicting testimony as to the exact words of Jesus. For we know that a great deal of unverified gossip slips into history's pages, to linger there for generations until the discovery of lost evidence brings us closer to the truth.
It is inevitable that this should be so. Stories which are passed from father to son may be intentionally altered to suit the age or the taste of the listener, without intent to distort; or they may be told with accuracy, but inaccurately heard, and still more inaccurately repeated.
COMPREHENSIVE EXERCISES
Ⅰ? Spelling
1? escort2? rhythmical3? surround
4? minister5? swirl6? punctuate
7? quilt8? serenely9? ecstatic
10? wail11? deceive12? knee
Ⅱ? Dictation
The last days before Easter were busy and exciting ones. Father whitewashed the house inside and out, and painted the window boxes and shutters a bright blue. The two children selected the largest, most perfect eggs, and they were laid aside for decorating. Evenings Mother got out her dyepots and the fascinating work of making dozens and dozens of fancy Easter eggs kept the family busy. There were two ways of decorating them. The plainer ones were dyed first. When they dried, Father scratched patterns on them with pen?knives. The fancy ones were lots of work. Mother had a tiny funnel, with melted beeswax in it. With this she drew intricate patterns on the white eggs. After the wax hardened, she dipped them in the dye. Then she scratched off the wax and there was the beautiful design left in white on the coloured eggs. The finished ones were placed in baskets and put on a shelf until Easter morning.
K 3?4Ⅲ? Listening Comprehension
A? 1? C2? B3? A4? C5? B6? D