Active reading one
2 Choose the best way to complete the sentences 1(b) 2(b) 3 (a) 4(a) 5 (c)
Dealing with unfamiliar words
3 Match the words in the box with theirdefinitions.
1 honest about the situation or your opinions, even if this offends people(frank) 2 a place that many people go to for a holiday (resort) 3 tasting extremely good (yummy)
4 containing a lot of liquid, so tasting good (juicy)
5 dark in a way that makes you feel sad or a little afraid (gloomy) 6 lack of experience of life (innocence)
7 the ability to understand and make good judgments about something (perception) 8 ideas, behaviour, or statements that are not true or sensible (nonsense)
4 Replace the underlined words with thecorrect form of the words in the box. 1 The waves were very large in size as they fell onto the beach. (enormous) 2 There was so much seafood that it was holding tightly onto the plate. (clinging)
3 In the area of land where they were visiting, it wasn’t usual to eatfish and chips. (region) 4 When he had eaten the shellfish, he got rid of the shells. (discarded)
5 To eat shellfish you need special tools to break open the shells and dig out the food. (implements; crack; scrape)
6 The boy was especially fond of his mother’s bread and cakes from the oven. (baking)
7 Because they’re smooth, wet and quite difficult to hold, it’s quite achallenge to try your first oysters. (slippery)
5 Answer the questions about the words in thebox. 1 Which word means feeling? (emotion)
2 Which word means a feeling that a situation is so bad that there’s nothingyou can do to change it? (despair)
3 Which word means to say you’re not happy with someone or something? (complain)
4 Which word describes how your face looks when you’re annoyed or worriedabout something? (frown)
5 Which word describes something that is unpleasant to taste, smell orsee? (nasty)
6 Which word means to say something to someone in order to have fun byembarrassing or annoying them slightly? (tease)
6 Check (√) the true statements 1 2 4
Active reading 2
Dealing withunfamiliar words
4 Answer the questions about the words andexpressions in the box. 1 (a) moreactive 2 (a) itsfeatures
3 (b) the reason for it 4 (b) made in afactory
5 (a) help causehormones to leave the brain 6 (a) press itstrongly 7 (b) your parents 8 (b) liquid 9 (a) tellpeople
5 Replace the underlined words with thecorrect form of the words in the box.
Key: (1) luxury (2) nourishing (3) mould (4) manufacturer (5) snap (6) condensed (7) flavour (8) popularity (9) genetic (10) trait
Language in use giving extrainformation 1 Rewrite the sentences.
1 The restaurant was in a French seaside resort by the Atlantic Ocean, whereyou get excellent seafood.
2 My father, who wanted me to try my first oyster, had decided to take mefor lunch to a restaurant. 3 The oyster, which was slippery, was unlike anything I have ever tasted before or since.
4 Chocolate is made from the beans of the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao, which means “food of the gods”.
5 The world’s best-selling type of chocolate, milk chocolate, which is sweeter and smoother than dark chocolate, didn’t appear until the end of the 19th century.
6 Daniel Peter, who was Swiss, perfected the process of making milk chocolate.
leaving out words
2 Rewrite the sentences.
1 and the waiter had already brought an enormous portion of seafood, crabs,prawns, lobsters and all sorts of shellfish clinging onto each other ...
2 On his plate was a pile of discarded lobster claws, and alongside was abattery of implements used to crack the shells ...
3 The next development was learning how to get cocoa butter from the beans, a process first tried in 1825.
4 Condensed milk is a thick, sweet milk sold in cans.
5 Hormones are a chemical substance produced by your body. word formation
4 Answer the questions with the words youformed in Activity What’s the word for:
1 how you feel if the sea makes you ill? (seasick) 2 someone who likes shopping a lot? (shopaholic)
3 what something is if it is useful and providing help? (helpful)
4 what a flight is if it goes directly from one place to another? (non-stop) 5 someone who doesn’t smoke? (non-smoker)
6 writing which is about real people and events, not imaginary ones? (non-fiction)
5 Translate the sentences into Chinese.
1 外面，天空灰蒙蒙的，海面上刮来一阵强风。天气看起来和我的心情一样阴郁。
2“好啦，别抱怨了，就给我尝一只牡蛎，然后你就可以吃些好吃、顺口的东西，比如对虾加黄油面包。”他提议说。吃了这么长时间的饭，他的话中第一次有了妥协的意思。 3 但是，尽管清晰地感觉到了他的妥协——只有一个十岁的男孩才有这样的感觉，我仍然明白这妥协包含着吃掉那只牡蛎，那只放在我父亲的盘子边上的牡蛎。 4（添加了可可油后）巧克力凝固成易折断的条块，入口即化。
5 但是，是什么原因使得巧克力出奇地畅销？又是什么原因导致了巧克力的上瘾特性，使无数人承认自己是巧克力迷呢？
6 Translate the sentences into English.
1 They don’t serve chips / French fries here. If you want them, you have togo to a KFC or McDonald’s.
2 He picked up a walnut and tried to crack it with a hammer, but instead hecrushed it. 3 When the gold was heated and melted, they poured it into a mould to form agold bar. 4 He admitted to breaking the window of the classroom.
5 To our delight, the new economic policy is beginning to have a positive effecton the economy.
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