Unit 1 Text A
Language Sense Enhancement
1. the fierce resistance 2. the long march 3. the devastating enemy 4. bleak 5. launched 6. military might 7. mowed down 8. campaign 9. a painful lesson 10. the aid
Language Focus Vocabulary I.
1. 1) alliance 2)at the cost of 3) stroke 4)limp 5)minus 6) regions 7) declaration 8) siege 9) raw 10) bide his time 11) have taken their toll 12) in the case of
2. 1) is faced with 2)get bogged down 3) is pressing on/pressed on 4) drag on 5) get by 6)dine out 7) have cut back 8) get through 3. 1) head to the conquest of cancer in the near future
2) has been brought to a halt by the delayed arrival of raw
materials due to the dock worker’s strike 3) will/should never get in the way of her career 4) caught the foreign minister off guard
5) of the electronic calculator has rendered the slide rule out of
date/obsolete
4. 1) Being faced with/the occupation of/regions