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Unit 5 Business

CLASS WORK

Guess the new word’s meaning by hyponym (分类词), antonym and synonym clues.

The patient had all the symptoms of flu. His head ached, his muscles were sore, and he had a high fever. The doctor said that these signs meant flu.

It is important that people from different cultures come to understand each other and develop mutual trust. Only when people trust each other is international cooperation possible.

The old landlady was a gossipy woman. She kept talking all the time leaving not a single second for me to say a word.

Money must be lasting and easy to recognize, to divide, and to carry about. In other words it must be “durable, distinct, divisible and portable”.

I was trying to help you, not hinder you.

In spite of all the efforts they have made, the farms, used to be very big, are now slowly dwindling.

Unlike his sister, who is a warm, interested person, John is apathetic to everyone and everything.

Most people in that country, the educated and illiterate, the urban and rural, men and women, the young and old, have this experience.

Some of the passengers enjoy talking about their fears they had during their flight in airplanes while others resent being asked to discuss their personal feelings.

There were no fillip seats available, so they were forced to buy expensive ones.

While a string is long and flexible, a stick is long and rigid.

The city government did not intend to enlarge the living quarters in downtown. Instead, it decided to retain their present size.

On the first page of his notebook, you can find nothing but geometric shapes of all kinds, such as circles, squares, triangles, cylinders and cubes.

On Sundays, we might have some meat such as pork, sheep, cattle or various fowl like chicken, turkey and duck.

The tribe still uses very primitive strikers: sharpened sticks, pointed stones, and hammers made of heavy stones ties to strong pieces of bamboo.

It is better to be reflective about problems than to be thoughtless.

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