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IV. Key to Exercises I Preview 1 Listen to the recording of the text and then fill in the blanks in the following sentences. 1. aim/purpose; training; practical/professional 2. had just started tezching; he had to study literature; specialize in pharmacy 3. be respected; useful; make a living and support your wife and rear your children; philosophy, history, literature, art music 4. a new species of mechanized savage; push-button Neaderthals; human beingswaking; average; a living; all about 5. we can start from what the past learned for us 6. peculiar accomplishment; the mind and experience 7. human experience or wisdom 8. sarcastic; humorous 2 Read the text for better comprehension and answere the questions 1. It means annoying experiences, tough problems or failures. 2. They must have finished their graduate studies with an advanced degree like a PhD. 3. it simply means “one of the students”. The word “body” here means the whole group of students. Because the students is thin and tall. It is meant to be humorous rather tha insulting. 4. He teaches English literature. 5. By using the word “stuff”, he shows his dislike for the course very clearly. He doesn’t like the course because he thinks it is useless for his planned career. 6. We can assume that he does not think it necessary to waste money on the book since he intends to drop the course. 7. The latter. It is a humouous way of referring to a certain type of people. 8. He is talking about the Pharmacy School. Heis being sarcastic when he calls it “a Drugstore Mechanics School”. It means “技工”. 9. He is talking about the diploma for universit or college graduates. 10. It means “having been introduced to the ideas developed or produced throughout history”. 11. It refers to his effort to convince the student. 12. Hold” here means an intransitive verb meaning “reamin true”. It is often used as a set phrase “hold true”. 13. It means “things of the same kind” (诸如此类). 14. We ca