2022.7.3

# 邂逅词汇

more to the point 更何况
disguise sb as 把某人伪装成
co-education 男女合校的教育
a single sex school 男校或女校
impose abnormal conditions upon children 对孩子产生不良的影响
mixed-ability class 各层次学习能力的学生在一起上课的班级
it is remarkable that/importantly 值得一提的
distinguish sb./sth. from 区分人或事物之间的差异
Recognise differences between people or things.
without distinction 无差别
anti-social behaviour 对他人和社会有负面影响的行为
Behaviour that lacks consideration for others and may cause damage to society.
the great majority of 大部分的
be well-behaved/decent 行为得体的
a small minority 极个别人
apart from/besides/in addition/additionally 除了
well-adjusted adults 能够很好适应社会生活的成年人
a healthy/positive outlook on life 健康 / 积极的人生态度
A healthy/positive way of understanding and thinking about life can help students to succeed both academically and socially.
adolescence 青春期
The period of your life from in which you develop from being a child into being an adult.
drop out of school/quit school before graduation 辍学
skip school/avoid attendance at school 逃学

creative 有创造力的
productive 多产的
descent /dɪˈsent/ 下降（descend）
descendant 后代，继承者（successor，heir /eə/，inheritor /ɪnˈherɪtə/）
decent /ˈdiːsnt/ 得体的，像样的
dissent /dɪˈsent/ 异议
Spooky how the time flies when one is having fun.
no wonder 怪不得
great Scott 伟大的斯科特，好家伙
drowsy /ˈdraʊzi/ 昏昏欲睡
fickle 不可靠的，易变的
fame 名声，威望（reputation，prestige /preˈstiːʒ/）
disguise 怀疑
deposit 订金，订钱，押金
dispose 处置，布置，排列
disposable 可任意处理的
intrigue /ɪnˈtriːɡ/ 密谋
lumber 木材，废旧家具
bombarded 被大肆抨击
avail 效用，利益
herbology 草药学
herb 草药
reassuring 让人放心
ended up agreeing 最终同意了
impartial 公平的（partial 部分的，不完全的，不公平的）
representative 代表，典型的
disparities /dɪsˈpærɪtiz/ 不等，差异
illuminated 照亮，被照明的
refrigerator 冰箱
demolition /ˌdeməˈlɪʃn/ 拆除
threatened 受威胁的
threatened with demolition 威胁拆除
out of bounds 禁止进入
bracelet /ˈbreɪslət/ 手镯
hibernate 冬眠，一个映射框架
yoga 瑜伽
yoghurt 英 yogurt 美 酸奶
craftsman /ˈkrɑːftsmən/ 工匠，手艺人
orphan 孤儿
creativity 创造力
crime 犯罪
prime 首要的
nearest 最近
tennis 网球
tenant 房客
crystal 晶体
physics 物理学
assistance 帮助
breakfast 早餐
reservation 保留
politics 政治
digestive 消化的
dried 干的
vitamin 维生素
democratic 民主的
democracy 民主
museum 博物馆
limited 有限的
gender 性别状态
sediment 沉淀物
athlete 运动员
ticket 票
exploration 探寻
atlas 地图集
domestic 国内的
photographs 照片
campsite 营地
attitude 态度
altitude 海拔
insurance 保险
fact 失事
hurricane 飓风
butterflies 蝴蝶
documentation 证明文件，凭证
achievements 成就
labour 劳动力
label 标签
tag 标签，标牌，称呼
reduction 减少
diversity 多样性
firewood 柴火
diesel /ˈdiːzl/ 柴油
fuel 燃料
gas 气体
situational 环境形成的
mammals 哺乳动物
cotton 棉花
memory 记忆
sunshade 阳伞
Olympics 奥林匹克运动会
specialist 专家
experimental 实验
basement 地下室
fight 搏斗
flight 飞行
resort 名胜，求助，诉求
resource 资源
extraterrestrial /ˌekstrətəˈrestriəl/ 天外来客，外星人
resident 居民
residential 住宅的，适合居住的
compelled 强迫（过去式，过去分词）
fertilizer 肥料
transparency 透明度
national 国家的
breathe 呼吸
breeze 微风
conditioner 护发素
air-conditioner 空调
conditional 有条件的
efficient 非常高效的
nursing 护理工作
undersea 海底的
decoration 装饰
canal /kəˈnæl/ 运河
irrigation 灌溉
calendar 日历
entry 条目
assessed 评定
assessment 看法
cram 把… 塞进

# 语法

# 听力

# 剑 11 Test 3 Section 2

13.Most shops are small independent stores, which is good, but many people prefer to use supermarkets and department stores in nearby large towns, as there are so few well-known chain stores here.

few well-known chain stores = lack of local retailers

14.Our hospital closed 15 years ago, which means journeys to other towns are unavoidable.

很明显我们已经 15 年没医院了，去隔壁城镇在所难免

19.The council has managed to secure funding to keep the library open later into the evening, twice a week.

later into the evening, twice a week = will have its opening hours extended

# Unit 6

# Unit 7

# 口语

The most impressive shopping experience for me is about my first laptop，I bought it 3 years ago for the further study of the university at a electricity shopping complex in my hometown. My expection price is about 7000 yuan but it cost me about 8000 yuan at last. I recommended by a friend of mine who do the part-time job in this store,i remember it's a dell authorized store and the mean price of the laptop in this store is 7000 yuan, so i choose a mean one which have a good performance in data processing and some other computer programming works because of my major needing. It also had a excellent graphic card ，i think it was better than the others of same prices，so i brought it home for nearly 7200 yuan. After a few days，there was something wrong with the battery，and it doesn't have the processing speed i expected, so i brought some other accessories like a machanical hard disk and a memory module, so it cost me another 800 yuan in total for extra.
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# 阅读

# 2022.7.2 阅读

匹配性题差异

# 剑 17 Test 1 Passage 3 Q36-40

To catch a king

Anna Keay reviews Charles Spencer's book about the hunt for King Charles II during the English Civil War of the seventeenth century

Charles Spencer's latest book, To Catch a King, tells us the story of the hunt for King Charles II in the six weeks after his resounding defeat at the Battle of Worcester in September 1651. And what a story it is. After his father was executed by the Parliamentarians in 1649, the young Charles II sacrificed one of the very principles his father had died for and did a deal with the Scots, thereby accepting Presbyterianism* as the national religion in return for being crowned King of Scots. His arrival in Edinburgh prompted the English Parliamentary army to invade Scotland in a pre-emptive strike. This was followed by a Scottish invasion of England. The two sides finally faced one another at Worcester in the west of England in 1651. After being comprehensively defeated on the meadows outside the city by the Parliamentarian army, the 21-year-old king found himself the subject of a national manhunt, with a huge sum offered for his capture. Over the following six weeks he managed, through a series of heart-poundingly close escapes, to evade the Parliamentarians before seeking refuge in France. For the next nine years, the penniless and defeated Charles wandered around Europe with only a small group of loyal supporters.

Years later, after his restoration as king, the 50-year-old Charles II requested a meeting with the writer and diarist Samuel Pepys. His intention when asking Pepys to commit his story to paper was to ensure that this most extraordinary episode was never forgotten. Over two three-hour sittings, the king related to him in great detail his personal recollections of the six weeks he had spent as a fugitive. As the king and secretary settled down (a scene that is surely a gift for a future scriptwriter), Charles commenced his story: 'After the battle was so absolutely lost as to be beyond hope of recovery, I began to think of the best way of saving myself.'

One of the joys of Spencer's book, a result not least of its use of Charles II's own narrative as well as those of his supporters, is just how close the reader gets to the action. The day-byday retelling of the fugitives' doings provides delicious details: the cutting of the king's long hair with agricultural shears, the use of walnut leaves to dye his pale skin, and the day Charles spent lying on a branch of the great oak tree in Boscobel Wood as the Parliamentary soldiers scoured the forest floor below. Spencer draws out both the humour – such as the preposterous refusal of Charles's friend Henry Wilmot to adopt disguise on the grounds that it was beneath his dignity – and the emotional tension when the secret of the king's presence was cautiously revealed to his supporters.

Charles's adventures after losing the Battle of Worcester hide the uncomfortable truth that whilst almost everyone in England had been appalled by the execution of his father, they had not welcomed the arrival of his son with the Scots army, but had instead firmly bolted their doors. This was partly because he rode at the head of what looked like a foreign invasion force and partly because, after almost a decade of civil war, people were desperate to avoid it beginning again. This makes it all the more interesting that Charles II himself loved the story so much ever after. As well as retelling it to anyone who would listen, causing eyerolling among courtiers, he set in train a series of initiatives to memorialise it. There was to be a new order of chivalry, the Knights of the Royal Oak. A series of enormous oil paintings depicting the episode were produced, including a two-metre-wide canvas of Boscobel Wood and a set of six similarly enormous paintings of the king on the run. In 1660, Charles II commissioned the artist John Michael Wright to paint a flying squadron of cherubs* carrying an oak tree to the heavens on the ceiling of his bedchamber. It is hard to imagine many other kings marking the lowest point in their life so enthusiastically, or indeed pulling off such an escape in the first place.

Charles Spencer is the perfect person to pass the story on to a new generation. His pacey, readable prose steers deftly clear of modern idioms and elegantly brings to life the details of the great tale. He has even-handed sympathy for both the fugitive king and the fierce republican regime that hunted him, and he succeeds in his desire to explore far more of the background of the story than previous books on the subject have done. Indeed, the opening third of the book is about how Charles II found himself at Worcester in the first place, which for some will be reason alone to read To Catch a King.

The tantalising question left, in the end, is that of what it all meant. Would Charles II have been a different king had these six weeks never happened? The days and nights spent in hiding must have affected him in some way. Did the need to assume disguises, to survive on wit and charm alone, to use trickery and subterfuge to escape from tight corners help form him? This is the one area where the book doesn't quite hit the mark. Instead its depiction of Charles II in his final years as an ineffective, pleasure-loving monarch doesn't do justice to the man (neither is it accurate), or to the complexity of his character. But this one niggle aside, To Catch a King is an excellent read, and those who come to it knowing little of the famous tale will find they have a treat in store.

• Presbyterianism: part of the reformed Protestant religion

• cherub: an image of angelic children used in paintings