Unit 4 INCREASE YOUR LANGUAGE_PROFICIENCY Working with Words and Expressions 1.1)grin 2)browse 3)shivered 4)hearty 5)nerves 6)courtship 7)pinching B)napping 9)blinking 10)bragging 2.1)live off 2)cut loose 3)shot out 4)were weighed down 5)stopped short of 6)washing them down with 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 1 页，共 7 页 -7)shake.out 8)come up to 9)hosing down Increasing Your Word Power 1.1)He seems to be rather slow witted and often laughs a delayed laugh at a simple joke.2)His friends finally found him in a liquor store where he was shaking out his nerve-s bcfore the shooting contest.3)When the professor was lecturing on Shakespeare,my mind kept turning to whom the Little Prince would meet on the next planet.4)People in the disaster area have to live off the cheap blessings of rice and noodles donated by charity organizations.5)It s a basic skill for a fashion model to walk gracefully to the rhythm of the music on the catwalk.6)A curtain of bubbles shot out of the bottle as they opened the champagne in celebration of their baseball game win.7)I just wanted to call and say a hearty hello and find out how you are doing.2 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 2 页，共 7 页 -a 1)smile 2)laugh 3)grin 4)chuckle 5)giggle 6)roar 3.LOOSE 2)loose:a.not tied or packed together,e.g.with string or in a box;not packaged Her long brown hair was loose about her shoulders.3)loose:a.(of clothes)notfittingtightly In hot weather,loose cotton clothes are niore comfortable.4)loose:a.not exact or controlled Just give me a loose translation of what the article is about.5)loose:a.careless or irresponsible,esp.in what one says We sat out on the porch until late at night,just having some loose talk.SHOOT 1)shoot:v.hit,wound,or kill with a bullet,etc.A tourist was shot dead by robbers at the train station last night.2)shoot:v.hunt or kill(birds or animals)as a sport 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 3 页，共 7 页 -lie has a liccnsc to shoot pheasants(J.,on the farmer s land.3)shoot:v.ask(a lot of questions)quickly He shot questions at me so quickly that I didn t even have time to think of the answers.4)shoot:v.move very quickly or suddenly He shot out of the offcee a minute ago?I think he was late for a meeting or something.5)shoot:t?make(a photograph or film)The first half of the film was shot on lo cation in Southern India.4 1)cracking 2)living 3)refrigerator 4)quart 5)change 6)porch 7)race 8)cleaning 9)casually 10)hearty 11)Eventually 12)saw 13)browsing 14)scared 15)courtship TRANSLATION Life is full of miracles.Sometimes,a chance meeting ca lead to a happy marriage.When he was twenty,he was college poor.One day,he went to buy 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 4 页，共 7 页 -some beer and on his way back he saw his neighbor,a Japanese woman,cracking walnuts on her front porch.He walked slowly and she looked up,smiling.He smiled back and said hello,and returned with the beer to his apartment,his heart still with the girl.So he raced his heart downstairs,but stopped short of her house,becausehe didnt know what to say.After a while,with studied casualness he walked past the girl who was cleaning up the shells,but he only came up with a hearty hello and walked away.He was troubled by his ow indecision.Then,he returned,walking past her again.They smiled to each other,but again nothing was said before he returned to his apartment.Later,they began to talk,sit together on the porch,and snack on the sweet bread she baked personally.Then they held hands.Eventually,he married the woman he found cracking walnuts on an afternoon.Had he not gone for the beer,or had he met someone else instead of her,his life would have been totally different.WRITING _ Sample Essay:My Views on Love at First Sight We often hear people talk about“love at first sight”?Some accept the idea and may cite such and such examples to prove that it works.Others 名师资料总结-精品资料欢迎下载-名师精心整理-第 5 页，共 7 页 -consider it just as a case of romance but would not take it as a golden rule for a happy marriage.My opinion is that for those who wish to develop serious and lasting relationships,love at first sight?is a dangerous game to play.First of all,love at first sight may tempt one to jump on the bandwagon of love with too much haste.One needs to figure out what one really wants from a love relationship before declaring that he or she is in love.Love takes time to blossom and it takes a lot of mutual understanding,caring,sharing and affection.If you are not ready to take the responsibility of loving and being loved,then do not make haste,for haste makes waste.Secondly,love at first sight is often prompted by physical attraction,but true love is grounded not just on mutual attraction but rather on mental compatibilities.In developing a lifetime relationship,inner charm,personality traits,character and values arc the most important factors to be considered.I believe in three old sayings:“beauty is in the eye of the beholder”?but“beauty is only skin deep”?and“beauty comes from within”?It is true that love is a feeling that cannot be ration