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Unit ThreeSection AII. Answer the following questions. 1. The writer is black. He is not an American citizen. 2. According to him, during their two years together they had experienced the usual ups and downs of a couple learning to know, understand, and respect each other. In addition he thought they had honestly confronted the weaknesses and strengths of each others characters. 3. They learned a great deal about tolerance, compromise and being open with each other. 4. This fact emphasized that many couples might marry for the wrong reasons and find out many years later that they were incompatible, that they hardly took the time to know each other, that they overlooked serious personality conflicts in the expectation that marriage was an automatic way to make everything work out right. 5. Her mother, Deborah, counseled Gail to be really sure she was doing the right thing. 6. He immediately suspected that Mark was marrying his daughter in order to remain in the United States. 7. He quoted statistics showing that mixed couples had higher divorce rates than couples of the same race and gave examples of mixed couples he had counseled who were having marital difficulties. 8. People can be very cruel toward children from mixed marriages. Or: Gails father suggested that Gail be realistic because people can be very cruel toward children from mixed marriages. III. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the words given below. Change the form where necessary. 1.mutual 2.tolerance 3.harbored 4.hesitates 5.proceeded 6.overlooked 7.prejudice 8.compromise 9.confirmed 10.subsequent 11.canceled 12.counseled IV. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the phrases or expressions given below. Change the form where necessary. 1.have nothing to do with 2.taking care of 3.met with 4.on the surface 5.work out 6.all along 7.ups and downs 8.sopportive of 9.on the surface 10.worrying about 11.learn of 12.For a time V. The suffixes -al, -ing and -age are added to verbs to form nouns. Study the examples below: refuse -al refusal build -ing building waste -age wastage Now with the help of the verbs given below, write the corresponding nouns in the spaces. Change the spelling of the word where necessary. You can find these nouns in the reading passages of this unit and the previous two units. 1.shopping 2.feeling 3.storage 4.cooking 5.ending 6.surrounding 7.gathering 8.removal 9.arrival 10.passage 11.writing 12.marriage VI. The suffixes -hood, -ship and -dom can be added to nouns or (occasionally) to adjectives to form new, abstract nouns. Study the examples given in the table below. Words Suffixes New Words child n. -hood childhood false a. -hood falsehood friend n. -ship friendship hard a. -ship hardship king n. -dom kingdom free a. -dom freedom Now give the noun forms of the following words. Make changes in spelling where necessary and pay attention to the meanings of the new words. 1.relationship 2.citizenship 3.leadership 4.membership 5.boyhood 6.livelihood 7.brotherhood 8.authorship 9.adulthood 10.neighborhood 11.wisdom 12.ownership VII. Rewrite the following sentences by using “never too to” structure. 1.She was never too polite to criticize my clothes. 2.One is never too old to learn. 3.The farmer is never too foolish to know what crops to grow. 4.Children are never too afraid to tell the truth. 5.His income was never too small to support his family.VIII. Rewrite the following sentences by using an appositional structure (同位结构). 1.My best friend, Anna, was here last night.2.The company manager, Mr. Madison, gathered his staff and announced the decision.3.You should have seen an ophthalmologist, an eye doctor.4.He sent ahead the accountant, the most experienced person in the company.5.“Leave it to me,” said Dan Defoe, the man on night duty.IX. Translate the following sentences into English. 1.Life is full of ups and downs.2.I knew all along that he would graduate with distinction.3.The working staff had some reservations about the truth of the claim.4.The local government will not hesitate to take the severest measures against criminals. 5.He tried to buy time by doing a lot of talking. X. Translate the following sentences into Chinese. 1.在一起生活的两年中，我们经历了一对情侣在学着相互了解、理解和尊重时常会出现的磕磕碰碰。2.下列事实强调了这样一点：已经结婚35年的盖尔父母正经历着一场充满怨恨、令人痛苦的婚变，这件事给了盖尔以毁灭性的打击, 并一度给我们正处于萌芽状态的关系带来了负面的影响。3.当时这一切是多么新鲜、多么令人兴奋。而且我们俩人都认为 至少在表面上是如此我们的婚姻是理想婚姻，一切迹象都表明这婚姻是会天长地久的。4.当他得知我在公民身份部门遇到的问题时, 他立即怀疑我是因为想留在美国而娶他的女儿的。5.当我们在讨论结婚的时候，他清楚地表明了这样一点：如果我对任何问题有怀疑, 我应该毫不犹豫地取消我们的计划。XI. Choose the best one of the three answers given to fill in each blank. 1-5.CBCBA 6-10.CBABC 11-15.CBAAC 16-20.BACCBXII.1.The mother corrects her original opinion: But when I met Mark I found him a charming and intelligent young guy. Any mother would be proud to have him for a son-in-law. So, color has nothing to do with it. 2.The mother presents others opinion: Yes, my friends talk. Some even express shock at what youre doing.3.Then the mother rejects that opinion, too: But they live in a different world. So you see, Marks color is not the problem.4.The mother presents her opinion: My biggest worry is that you may be marrying Mark for the same wrong reasons that I married your father.5.An example to support her point of view: When we met I saw him as my beloved, intelligent, charming, and caring. It was all so new, all so exciting, and we both thought, on the surface at least, that ours was an ideal marriage with every indication that it would last forever. I realized only later that I didnt know my beloved, your father, very well when we ma