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compass n．指南针
beyond sb.' s compass某人力所不及
cast/fetch/take a compass 兜圈子，绕道，转弯抹角 keep sth. within compass把某种事物限制在适当的范围内 speak within compass s谨慎小心地说
within sb.'s compass某人力所能及的；在某人权力之内的 within the compass of在……的范围内 magnetism n．磁，磁力
Passage 10
Private Cars
With the increase in the general standard of living, some ordinary Chinese families begin to afford a car. Yet opinions of the development of a private car vary from person to person. It gives a much greater degree of comfort and mobility. The owner of a car is no longer forced to rely on public transport, and hence no irritation caused by waiting for buses or taxis. However, others strongly object to developing private cars. They maintain that as more and more cars are produced and run in the street, a large volume of poisonous gas will be given off, polluting the atmosphere and causing actual harm to the health of people.
Whether private cars should be developed in China is a difficult question to answer, yet the desire for the comfort and independence a private car can bring will not be eliminated. (143 words)
Useful Words and Expressions: Mobility n．活动性，机动性 hence ady．因此，从此 seven years hence七年以后
Hence the Play．因而就有了这出戏。
It Is very late；hence you must go to bed．时间已经很晚了，因此你必须睡觉去。
The town was built among the hills, hence the name Hilltown.该城镇修建在群山之中，故取名\山城\。 irritation n．愤怒 volume n．量 elimiimte vt．消除
Passage 10
A Henpecked Husband and His Wife
There was once a large, fat woman who had a small, thin husband. He had a job in a big company and was given his weekly wages every Friday evening. As soon as he got home on Fridays, his
wife used to make him give her all his money, and then she used to give him back only enough to buy his lunch in his company every day.
One day, the small man came home very excited. He hurried into the living-room. His wife was listening to the radio and eating chocolates there.
\will never guess what happened to me today, dear,\he said. He waited for a few seconds and then added, \won ten thousand dollars on the lottery!\
\pulled a long face and added angrily, \how could you afford to buy the ticket?\Useful Words and Expressions: henpecked adj．[口]怕老婆的，妻管严的 living-room 客厅，起居室 lottery n．奖券，彩票 a lottery ticket彩票，奖券 a great lottery 虚无缥缈的事 delightedly adj．喜欢地，高兴地 a delighted look高兴的神情 pull a long face拉下脸来 have a smiling face笑脸
have a face to say that脸皮厚得竟能讲出这种话
Passage 12
A Young Man's Promise
One day a young man was writing a letter to his have a face to say that girl friend who lived just a few miles away in a nearby town. He was telling her how much he loved her and how wonderful he thought she was. The more he wrote the more poetic he became. Finally, he said that in order to be with her he would suffer the greatest difficulties, he would face the greatest dangers that anyone could imagine. In fact, to spend only one minute with her, he would swim across the widest river, he would enter the deepest forest, and he would fight against the fiercest animals with his bare hands.
He finished the letter, signed his name, and then suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to mention something quite important. So, in a postscript below his name, he added: \doesn't rain.\Useful Words and Expressions: Suffer vt．遭受，经历，忍受 suffer from a headache经受头痛之苦