2024年4月4日发(作者：魔兽争霸3冰封王座绿色版)

Unit Two

II Comprehension of the Text

I. Because they couldn't live longer without growing older.

2. Be was more famous for his search for the Fountain of Youth.

3. They take a bath in tubs of warm mud and receive injections of monkey

glands.

4. Many people can reach the age they are designed for because of their being

well off.

5. The emphasis is on finding ways to ensure that more people achieve the

maximum lifespan healthy conditions.

6. He hated exercise and never took any.

7. Because they reproduce less or don't reproduce at all.

8. It can help slow down ageing.

9. Old people would soon end up as a huge majority and the planet would

have trouble supporting so many people.

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10. The author thinks that old age is one of the natural phenomena, and it is

the last pan of one's life.

II Vocabulary

ating 2. originates 3. tempted 4. afflicted

5. optimum 6. rapture 7. adhered 8. persistent

9. diminishing 10. despised 11. patented 12. manipulate

Exercises on CD and web course only:

13. promising 14. necessitate 15. perish

IV1. searching for 2. ended up 3. in the hope of 4. looked forward to

5. ho1d on to 6. in time 7. well off 8. conditions

9. involved in 10. to such an extent 11. originated in 12. adhered to

Exercises on CD and web course only:

13. perished from 14. slowed down 15. handed out

V Collocation

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