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Unit 2 Let’s celebrate!
1．My older brother，Colin，figured out(弄明白，弄清楚) what was happening.
2．But it wasn’t the first time I had been attracted to a tape recorder.(It was the first time
that...句型，从句用过去完成时)
3．It turned out that(结果是，原来是) my dad had borrowed a tape recorder for preparing his
projects.
4．But ten years later，I drew on the confidence gained from those early explorations of the sound
and walked into a radio station，in the hope of selling(熟词生义，此处意为“推销，推荐”)
myself as a broadcast journalist.
5．Ask the tourists from around the world that flood into(涌入) Yellowstone National Park what
they most hope to see，and their answer is often the same：a grizzly bear.
6．Grizzly bears are re-occupying large areas of their former range(n.分布区域；领地)．
7．As grizzly bears expand their range into places where they haven’t been seen in a century or
more，they’re increasingly being sighted by(被看到；被目击) humans.
8．Obviously，if precautions aren’t taken，grizzlies can become troublesome，sometimes
killing farm animals or walking through yards in search of(寻找) food.
9．This in turn(反过来) can be dangerous，both for dolphins and humans.
10．Rescue biologist Brittany Baldrica said，“The goal was just to be a barrier that was
novel(熟词生义：adj.新奇的，新颖的) to the animal...”
11．Horses，SpongeBob and the Monkey King from Chinese legend(n.传说)—you probably
wouldn’t expect to see this collection of animals，pop cultural icons and mythological creatures
flying(see的复合结构：see＋宾语＋doing)together in the sky，but this event happens every year
in Weifang，the World Kite Capital in Shandong Province.
12．More than 10,000 participants(n.参与者) from over 30 countries and regions around the
world compete(v.竞争) in the festival every year.
compete v．竞争；参加比赛，常用作不及物动词，后接宾语时需加介词。
compete in参加比赛(或竞赛)；compete with/against 与……竞争/比赛；compete for为了……
而竞争
competition n．竞争，比赛
competitor n．比赛者，参赛者
Nearly 12,000 competitors from 45 nations and regions competed for 481 gold medals in Hangzhou
Asian Games.
