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Unit 4 Sharing
1．Argentinians aren’t known(adj.知名的) for helping strangers，but young people are leading
the way in tough(adj.艰难的) times.
2．There are thousands of people living(现在分词在there be 句型中作定语，修饰people) on
the streets across the capital，and 43% of the country’s population lives in poverty.
3．It’s a reflection of the terrible economic crisis and sky-high inflation that’s enveloping(v.裹
住，笼罩) the country.
4．These volunteers may not be well off(adj.富有的，富裕的)，but they offer whatever they
can(whatever引导宾语从句) to lift their neighbors up：a hand，a meal，or simply some of their
time.
5．“Today there are more people living on the streets，more people in need(在困难中)，more
people begging for(祈求，乞讨) money or help，” said Eduardo Donza...
6．Volunteering can’t solve these wider issues on its own(独自地)．
7．That willingness to help matters(熟词生义：v.至关重要)．
8．Deveza wanted to donate one of her own kidneys—but she was turned down(拒绝) because
she might develop the same health problems as(和……一样) her mother in later life.
9．In 2017，she started the world’s first paired exchange of different organs between living
donors(n.器官捐献者)，exchanging half her liver for(用……换取……) someone else’s
kidney.
exchange A for B 用A 换取B
exchange sth with sb和某人交换某物
in exchange for作为对……的交换
exchange students交换生
10．A case study of the organ exchange has now been published，and the surgeons who were
involved are calling for(需要，需求) more exchanges like this.
11．They drew up a plan：Simmons would donate a kidney to(把……捐献给……) Deveza’s
mother，and in return(作为回报)，Deveza would give half her liver to Simmons’ sister.
12．The team hope that the ground-breaking case will inspire more people to consider doing(考
虑做……) the same.
13．School is important for children and parents everywhere，and there are a lot who take the
education of youth very seriously(take sb/sth seriously认真对待某人、某事)．
14．However，Heidi Erickson，one of the researchers in the study，stated(陈述，声明) that
there is no harm in(做……没有害处) taking students out of the classroom，even for multipledays throughout the year，as long as(意为“只要”，引导条件状语从句) they are learning and
in an appropriate(合适的) space.
15．The project is meant to(旨在) contain the growing Sahara Desert and fight climate change.
16．First proposed in 2005，the project aims to(旨在) plant a forest from Senegal on the Atlantic
Ocean in western Africa to Eritrea，Ethiopia and Djibouti in the east.
aim to do.../at doing...旨在做……；力求达到……
be aimed at (doing) sth 瞄准；目的在于
aimless adj.漫无目的的
aimlessly adv.漫无目的地
