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Unit 2 Morals and Virtues
1．This is a great addition to a young kid’s collection，as a reminder to hold tight to
dreams(紧握梦想) and never give up.
2．Kids will love reading his story about how he faced challenges and advanced ahead(取得进
步 ) ， and he also includes DIY experiments for kids to try ， and a section of full-color
photographs.
3．We quickly created an account(账号) on a pet sitting website and began searching for options.
account n．账户；网络账号；描述，报告；说明，解释 v．认为是；视为
I opened a bank account(银行账户)after I made $10,000 by doing a part-time job during the
summer vacation.
While this book tells the stories of famous people in history，it also gives an account of(讲述/描
写) the common individuals.
短语：on account of 因为，由于
on no account 决不
take account of/take...into account 把……考虑在内；顾及
account for 解释，说明；是……的原因；占(一定数量或比例)
The rise of house prices can account for(解释) the fact that many young people cannot afford to
buy a house.
Body language accounts for(占) 55 % of a first impression while what you say just 7%.
4.There were only a couple of sits available in that part of the world，but we tried our luck，sent a
request，and to our surprise(to one’s surprise令某人惊讶的是) landed(熟词生义，此处为动
词，意为“成功得到，赢得”) a three-month job in Grenada，so our year was going to be
taken up with(专心于，致力于) Caribbean pet sits.
5．The more we looked into plastic pollution，the more we realized the severity of the global
plastic pollution.(“the＋比较级．..，the＋比较级．..”结构)
6．We love connecting with(与……联系，沟通) like-minded(志趣相投的) people.
7．It’s been amazing few years that was sparked(引发，触发) by a conversation about pet
sitting.
8．For much of human history，ethical behavior has been guided by the Golden Rule：do to
others as(引导方式状语从句) you would have them do to you.
9．The care doctor，after seeing her twisted(扭曲的) body，was weighing(认真考虑，权衡)
whether to insert a breathing tube when he asked Chochinov a strange question：Did Ellen read
magazines?10．Ellen read widely and enjoyed many simple pleasures of life，but the gap between her life as
a person who uses a wheelchair and the doctor’s sense of what he would want in her situation was
too vast to be bridged(熟词生义，此处为动词，意为“弥合，消除”) by the Golden Rule.
11．Time is a limited resource in the health-care system，and there’s no denying that(不可否
认的是)getting to know a patient as an individual means investing(mean doing sth意味着做某
事) additional minutes or hours.
12．The term was coined[熟词生义：v.创造(新词语)] by Judith Ramaley while a director at
National Science Foundation in 2001.
13．One of the latest philosophies(n.思想体系；人生哲学，生活或工作准则) gaining
steam(迅猛增长) is adding an arts component(n.组成部分，成分) to the STEM educational
focus，thus，creating the STEM vs.STEAM debate.
14．The believers in STEM education want the focus to remain on the core(adj.核心的，最重要
的) STEM principles(n.原则；道义；基本法则)．
