Step1 Words and expressions

１七天的節日_____________________ ２聚會______________________________

３迎接新年________________________　　　４有很多相同的地方__________________

５盡力去做某事____________________　　　６請某人吃飯________________________

７換句話說________________________　　　８作弄某人___________________________

９欺騙某人________________________　　　１０圣誕節后的那個禮拜_______________

Step2 Sentence transformation

1. On Nature Day people don’t allow destroying nature.

On Nature Day_________ __________ __________ nature is allowed.

2. In this book the writer tells us how the festival was born.

In this book the writer tells us about________ _______ ______ the festival.

3. Many families have a party to welcome the new year.

Many families________ ________ to________ the new year.

4. We must do our best to make our community better and more beautiful.

We must do_______ ________ _______ we can to make our community better and more beautiful.

5. It seems that I have to tell the truth.

There seems to be________ _________ ________ for me_________ to tell the truth.

Step3 Cloze

determine, marry, contain, faith, tradition, gift, appear, celebrate, blind,

affection(love), date, connect, fall, message, use, that, prison, fail , ban(禁止)

February14 is Valentine’s Day. Although it is ________ as a lover’s holiday today, with the giving of candy, flowers or other ______ between couples in love, it ______ back to 5th century Rome as a tribute(頌詞稱贊) to St. Valentine, a Catholic bishop(天主教主教).

Claudius had _________ that married men made poor soldiers. So he _______ marriage from his empire. But Valentine would secretly ______ young men that came to him. When Claudius found out about Valentine, he first tried to convert him to paganism(異教徒) but ____. After that, he was stoned and beheaded. During the days that Valentine was in ________, he_____ in love with the blind daughter of his jailor. His love for her, and his great ______, healed (cured) her from her_________. Before he was taken to death, he signed a farewell ________ to her,”From your Valentine.” The phrase has been ______ on his day ever since. Later it became a __________ for the men to give the ones they admired handwritten messages of _____, _____ Valentine’s name.

The reason why Cupid became ______ with the holiday is ________ he was the son of Venus, the Roman god of love and beauty. Cupid often _______ on Valentine cards.

Step4 Correction

1.In the middle of the room stands a table with a lit candle on it.

2. I prefer taking a boat to the dam to ride a horse.

3. The meeting lasted after a ten-minute break.

4. Much experience are needed to operate a computer well.

5. At these conditions, she didn’t like to go there.

6. We are now living in the room whose windows face the south.

7. As a result of the dam, the water level of the lake raised by 65 meters.

8. One learns a language by making mistakes and correct them.

9.He is arguing the question with her classmate.

Step5 Translation

１他不娶她真是傻瓜。

２我們舉辦這次晚會是為了紀念這位著名的作家。（honor）

３他故意踩我的腳。

４在這愉快的日子我送給他最好的問候。（occasion）

5你剛才講的那個故事使我想起了我曾經的一個經歷。

６他對她的信任是堅定的。（faith）

Step6 Fill in the blanks with proper preposition and adverbs.

1. People celebrate Mardi Gras______ dressing_____ ______ costumes.

2. Our ancestor celebrated the birth_______ a son or a daughter _____ giving_______ red eggs.

3. _______ April Fool’s Day if a person is taken______, he or she is called “April Fool”.

4. _______ common_________ many other boys, he liked baseball.

5. ________ festivals people used to give thanks_______ their harvests and life.

6. If you compare Kwanzaa________ Christmas, you can find it is similar_______ Christmas in some way.

Step7 Modal verbs

1. You___________ talk loudly in the reading room.

2. ----Shall I tell him about it?

----No, you____________. I’ve already told you.

3. You must have seen the film,___________ you?

4. You must have gone to the cinema yesterday evening, _____________ you?

5. I’m afraid you will______________ do the work again.

6. ---I can’t find Tom anywhere.

---He_______________ be in the lab.

7. The lights are still on. The students_________________ forgotten to turn them off.

8. Oh, I’m afraid I________________ go now. My mother must be waiting for me.

9. You look so tired and sleepy. You_______________ gone to bed early last night.