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1. Word Pretest

For each italicized word, find the best meaning below.

1. He was totally unconscious of any danger. When the crocodile came near, he was happily listening to his tape recorder, fishing rod in hand.
A. forgetful B. careless C. unaware D. unafraid
2. She drew the curtains aside to reveal a beautiful garden.
A. look after B. look for C. inform D. show
3. Famous for her big smile, she has a cheerful disposition.
A. method B. disposal C. location D. character
4. She is very grumpy when her tooth aches. Yesterday, her tooth ached again, and she quarreled with her friend over a very unimportant thing.
A. excited B. careful C. bad-tempered D. exciting
5. We are reorganizing the furniture, so everything in this room is in chaos.
A. paint B. confusion C. line D. place
6. No matter how well you have done in your study, you should never get complacent.
A. self-satisfied B. ordinary C. indifferent D. hard-working
7. It was all I could do to repress my laughter.
A. hold against B. hold back C. hold out D. hold with
8. he kept the old watch for sentimental reasons; it was a present from his mother
A. based on logic reasoning B. based on careful thinking
C. based on tender feelings D. based on practical judgment

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Analyze Yourself with the Help of Doodles

    Doodles are signs which you draw unconsciously when you are holding a pen in your hand and just happen to start writing aimlessly. However, there is more to these “diagrams of the unconscious” than what you see. Free from the restriction of the conscious mind, they can be a useful insight into your character and personality, revealing many important aspects of your secret hopes, ambitions, fears, and dreams.

1.  Faces are a sign of sociability or lack of it. If you doodle happy, smiling faces, you have a friendly, our-going disposition which people respond to, and you enjoy an active social life. You also have a tendency to be sentimental. If your faces are grumpy, this may indicate anti-social tendencies. Faces looking to the right are a sign of shyness and self-control.
2.  Bare or narrow trees show a lack of warmth, while landscapes demonstrate coldness and spiritual weariness. You’ve probably been disappointed in life or could even be suffering from a minor illness that needs attention.
3.  Confused lines and squiggles show that you’re a bit muddleheaded, lacking the organizational ability to cope with everyday living. This makes for chaos and a lack of self-control.
4.  house are wish-fulfillment doodles indicating a desire for a home, family, children and happiness. How you doodle your house is important. If you have curtains at the windows, smoke coming out of the chimney, little trees, flowers, figures, a path or a fence, you are seeking emotional security and a happy, fulfilled marriage from the outside world. Beware of becoming too complacent. If your house is bare with no decorations or signs of life, no door or garden, you’re lacking love and warmth in your life.
5.  If you build a house in lavers each laver separate, you could be too houseproud, too eager to make your loved ones follow your order and jump to attention. A little untidiness in a house makes the occupants feel comfortable, secure and happy. Are you repressing your emotions and neglecting to let yourself go now and then?

6.  Filled in or shaded doodles with heavy pressure are often a sign of aggression or anger. The heavier the pressure, the more angry you feel; the lighter the pressure, the more likely you will be to use sarcasm and a highly-developed critical talent to defend yourself.
7.  If your doodle looks like a web, you are making a cry for help in solving a  problem. You feel trapped, and are seeking a way out; perhaps you even want to travel, try out new ideas and realize your ambitions. But you lack confidence to step out into the world on your own because of the web you’re created around you.
8.  Knives, daggers, guns, or thin and angular strokes show aggressive behaviour patterns and sometimes even cruel tendencies. Such things as whips and instruments of torture can reveal tendencies to hurt people.
9.  Heavy line shapes are often a sign that you’ve build a barrier between yourself and the external world. You keep your emotions in tight check because you feel that you cannot cope with them and yet underneath that carefully built barrier you know that once you meet the right person, all sill be well.
10.  Hearts, flowers, animals with furry coats, letters twisted together, and groups of faces indicate that you’re in love. You enjoy day-dreaming, and building castles in the air. Sentimental, kind, and affectionate in your emotions, you long to belong to someone special.

Total words: 600
Total reading time:        minutes        seconds         
The text is adapted from Effective Reading, by Simon Greenall. New York: Random House, 1988.

1. Reading Comprehension

Study the following pictures carefully, and then fill in the cart below.

1. Vocabulary Building

① Word Match
Match the following words with their definitions within each group of five words.

muddlehead        a confused person
aggressive          apparent
bidding            order; command
conspicuous        doubtful
skeptical           not afraid of opposition; pushy

rigid              in agreement
harmonious         strange; unusual
loyal              lonely
solitary            true; faithful
eccentric           strict; hard

consult             a stage of development
stubborn            prediction
steady              determined; with a strong will
prophecy           even; balanced
phase              go to (a person) for advice or information

Complete the sentences by using the words above. Change the forms if necessary.

1. I met an           old man in a restaurant the other day. He brought a monkey with him and fed the animal with beer and hot dishes, while he himself ate some bread.
2. Naturally, people are very           about things which they did not see for themselves.
3. The student wrote to tell her parents that she had a           relationship with her roommates and that they were like sisters.
4. The new weapon system is still in the research           .
5. He’s a           child who won’t obey his mother.
6. He remains           to the team even though they have lost every game in the past two seasons.
7. The old man living next to me lives a poor and           life. His sons and daughter seldom visit him.
8. Have you           your doctor about your illness?
9. He took a          seat near the entrance so that his late-coming friend would see him easily.
10. Michael’s wanderlust made him unable to hold a           job.

② Prefix
Some words in this unit begin with prefixes pseudo-, vice-, auto-, and mal(e)-.  Study the examples and their meanings, and then list some more words with these prefixes in the space provided. Add more if you can.

prefix      meaning        example
pseudo-     false           pseudoscience = false science
vice-       next in rank to    vice-chairman = an officer next in rank to a chairman
auto-       self-            autobiography = the story of a person’s life written by himself
mal(e)-     ill, bad, badly     maladjusted = poorly adjusted

pseudo-  1.          2.          3.          4.          5.          
vice-    1.          2.          3.          4.          5.          
auto-    1.          2.          3.          4.          5.          
mal(e)-  1.          2.          3.          4.          5.          

Read the following sentences and decide the meanings of the italicized words.
1. George Orwell was the pseudonym for Eric Blair.
pseudonym:
2. Cancer is a serious malady.
malady:
3. In the United States, a vice-president is empowered to serve as president in the latter’s absence or disability.
vice-president:
4. This is an autographed photo by her favorite film star.
autographed:
5. Taking those drugs will lead to malformation of the baby’s limbs.
malformation:
6. We must automate our business equipment, otherwise we will fall behind our competitors.
automate:
7. The great enemy of healthy cultural and political life is the pseudoevent.
pseudoevent:
8. he made an autocriticism of his mistake.
autocriticism:

③ Glossayry
The following are some adjectives which are often used to describe people’s character. Using some of the words, write at least five sentences to describe one of your classmates. You may ask for the birth date of this classmate and read the horoscopes in Text B to help you with your description.

steady            careful            solitary            exciting
skeptical          skilled            friendly            quiet
ambitious         egotistical         perfect             different
enthusiastic       diplomatic         popular            independent
self-concerned     clear-thinking      open-minded        gentle
generous          strong            systematic          sensitive
successful         helpful           stubborn            dreamy
afraid            proud             kind               energetic
serious           fair               clever             changeable
understanding      honest            rigid              cold
impassive         hard-working       eccentric           curious
traditional         orderly            patient            cool
loving             impatient         distant             imaginative
loyal             optimistic          interesting          boring

1. Cloze

Fill in each of the blanks with a word given below.
　　Handwriting analysis is a system which analyzes people’s handwriting. The
        Shows a person’s personality and character. The handwriting shows if the person is        or dishonest, gets angry easily or stays calm, has a good        or forgets easily. Hand writing analysis can tell when people’s feelings have a strong         on their thinking, or if they usually think logically. It can         if the person has a lot of friends and likes to spend time with them, or if he likes to be         most of the time. Handwriting analysis can even tell when people are shy. They are so afraid of other people that they spend most of their time alone when they would really like to be with         . Handwriting analysis can also tell in what         people work carefully, or if they are sometimes lazy and careless.

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