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Unit 5
- Jim and I get into another fight over the socks and shirts everywhere in the living room.
- It was impossible for me to communicate with him.
- With his eyes closed, he said that he had been "stressed out recently and needed silence".
- But there I was looking for the experts' clips on the Internet.
- talk humorously about gender differences
- What he had said amazed me.
- found out more about sth
- have a fight
- Amen also added that since men's brains are less active, men need more excitement and simulation.
- change channels for something new and different
- To my surprise, the socks and shirts were gone.
- to bridge the gap
- in his own way
Unit 6
- I was so happy that I called Angela and asked her to be bridesmaid.
- I've got to be a perfect bride.
- What this woman wrote in her diary probably sounds familiar-inviting the brides close friends to be her bridesmaids.
- In Roman times, S+V.
- be involved in sth
- A superstition is a belief that one events results in -or prevents-another, when the two are in no related.
- Take a rabbit's foots, for example.
- Have you ever thought about the reason why a rabbits' foots is considered lucky in many western countries.
- One saying is that rabbits, unlike most other animals, touch the ground with their back feet first when they are running.
- prevent sth from
- It's clear that these are just two situations where people superstitiously associate one event with another.
- Aside from superstitions for good luck, some more long practiced customs have grown out of fears that are related to superstitions.
- Superstition-based customs are what most members of a society usually deal with the unknown.
- The word for the number "four" sounds like the word for "death".
- the association with
- The reason why people in the West often say "Bless you" when a person sneezes is also superstition-based.
- used to
- Some superstitious customs have been practiced in different ways.
- An artificial rabbits's foot , for example, is often used instead of a real one to avoid the killing of rabbits.
- to find comfort in
- hope for a chance to VR
Unit 7
Was this the face launch'd a thousand ships and burnt the topless tower of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
In this famous quote, it is easy to see that Helen's beauty was seen as the cause of the Trojan War.
Neither Paris's passion nor the king's anger alone burned the great city to the ground.
God and goddesses often exercised their power over mortals when there were disagreement.
had a fight over a golden apple for the fairest.
