Unit 8 My Forever Valentine
Key to the Exercises
Text comprehension
I. Decide which of the following best states the author’s purpose of writing.
B
II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.
1. F        2. T        3. F        4. T        5. F
IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences.
1. The festival that really delighted him was Valentine's Day.
2. My first memory of the joy Dad brought to me on Valentine’s Day goes back to the year when I was six.
3. That box and its contents led to a series of memories which were a mixture of the sweet ones and the bitter ones.
4. As I was getting older, the gifts were replaced by heart-shaped boxes.
Vocabulary
I. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.
1. regarded him as
2. brought back to mind a series of experiences, both happy and unhappy, one after another
3. aroused your strong emotion and made you cry
4. were gradually replaced by
5. to a greater degree
II. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box in its appropriate form.

1. legible
2. timed
3. surpassing
4. sensed
5. relegated
6. signaled
7. perfunctory
8. generosity
9. teasing
10. mark

III. Choose a word or phrase that best completes each of the following sentences.
1-4 CDBB    5-8 ABAD
IV. Fill in each blank with one of the two words from each pair in its appropriate form and note the difference in meaning between them.
1. a. formed              b. shaping            c. formed          d. shaped
2. a. contest              b. competition        c. competition      d. contest
3. a. memories            b. memory            c. recollection      d. recollection
4. a. cheap              b. cheap              c. inexpensivesort out the facts        d. inexpensive
V. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.
1. rich (well-prepared, complicated, complex)
2. unpleasant (displeasing, disagreeable, bitter, nasty)
3. slacken (decelerate)
4. coldly (bitterly, hatefully, spitefully)
5. lovely (lovable, attractive)
6. shame (disgrace, humiliation)
7. indifferent (half-hearted, thoughtless)
8. selfishness (greediness, meanness)
VI. Rephrase each of the following sentences with the word given in brackets.

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