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Unit 6 Earth first
1．Over the next week，as my bank account(银行账户) grew smaller，I crazily applied
for(申请) jobs，but I was defeated.
2．I noticed a woman with short white hair struggling(notice的复合结构：notice＋宾语＋宾
补) to open her car door against the wind.
3．She was fired(熟词生义：v.解雇) unexpectedly.
4．In his new book The Journeys of Trees，science writer Zach St.George explores an
extremely slow migration (迁徙)，as forests move inch by inch(逐渐地，逐步地) to more
hospitable(adj.环境适宜的) places.
5．They move back and forth(来来回回；往返地) across continents，like migrating birds or
whales.
6．This has happened over thousands of years，and climate change tends(往往会) to be the
driving force(驱动力)—pushing and pulling forests around the globe.
7．Of course，today，climate change is speeding up，and trees can’t keep pace(并驾齐驱；
齐步并进)．
8．And earlier this year，Abdullah launched(v.发动，发起；上市，发行) a new effort(熟词
生义：n.有组织的活动) to build the world’s largest coral nursery in the Red Sea.
9．While offering(状语从句的省略) sacrifice to the Zaowangye，people place candy，water，
beans and hay on the table in front of the Zaowangye image.
10．Above all(最重要的是；尤其是)，it suggests a new year with a new image and expresses
the good wishes of Chinese people to ring out the Old Year and ring in the New Year.
