Lesson 9
Mirror of America
Ⅰ. Word explanation
1. range
A. to launch
B. to wander
C. to seek
D. to wonder
2. cruise
A. voyage
B. crowd
C. cloud
D. boat
3. profound
A. perfect
B. deep
C. proud
D. desirable
4. frailty
A. weakness
B. stiffness
C. frugality
D. fracture
5. core
A. centre
B. thread
C. edge
D. front
6. obsess
A. to process
B. to observe
C. to occupy
D. to absorb
7. attest
A. to prove
false causeB. to arrest
C. to attend
D. to progress
8. cosmos
A. custom
B. system
C. universe
D. course
9. slum
A. a piece of ground going up or down
B. a city area of dirty, poor living condition
C. an area of soft wet land
D. the entire tract of country drained by a river
10. perception
A. understanding
B. conception
C. entrance
D. percentage
11. rebuff
A. to puff
B. to oppose
C. to refuse
D. to reprove
12. debunk
A. to retell
B. to expose
C. to impress
D. to describe
13. flirt
A. to fling over
B. to play with
C. to throw away
D. to point at
14. ingenuity
A. stupidity
B. reality
C. cleverness
D. truth
15. deplore
A. to look for
B. to ask for
C. to be in lack of
D. to be sorry about
16. long and tiring
A. scathing
B. cynical
C. tedious
D. abundant
17. good, strong, quick at understanding
A. keen
B. revered
C. earnest
D. puritanical
18. the state of intellectually deceived or misled
A. vanish
B. ambition
C. illusion
D. dreary
19. importance with respect to power to produce an effect
A. consequence
B. sultan
C. clamour
D. providence
20. a prevailing tendency or inclination
A. epidemic
B. trend
C. gratitude
D. climax
Ⅱ.Replace each underlined part with one word learnt in the text, the first letter of which is given:
1. You can't expect him too much. He is just a teenager.  　j
2. The naughty boy of ten got our room messed up.  　m

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