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Unit 8 Students’ book: Vocabulary A. Guessing the meanings of words and phrases 1. f 2. i 3. b 4. j 5. e 6. a 7. c 8. d 9. h 10. g B. Looking up words in a dictionary move, possibly climb, quickly and often with some difficulty move forward suddenly and quickly breathing quickly forming white mass of small air bubbles (here, like a wave breaking on a beach) perform the Christian religious ceremony of baptism, i.e., of acceptance into the Christian Church with good judgment hammock: bed of canvas which is hung from 2 posts of poles. Here, the phrase fat hammocks describes the doctors thick eyelids. laugh or talk loudly and unpleasantly appearance, seeming likeness look with almost closed eyes thoughts of possible profits product of distillation (i.e., after heating liquid or steam) . Here, the black distillate refers back to something infinitely black and evil on line 43. Workbook: TEXT I Comprehension B. Reference version. The mothers had already learned the news before their sons could stammer it out. The news spread from one brush house to another and continued to travel fast into the town. When the doctor realized that Kino was the man who had asked for his help, he became both serious (about the treatment) and wise/clever (about how he could gain). For a moment the doctors eyes were focused on nothing as his thoughts turned to Paris. The news caused a profound negative force to be at work in the town. This could be compared to a scorpion, which causes pain, or the hunger created by the smell of food, or feeling of loneliness which comes when love is refused. What acted as the venom-producing bag of the town, i.e., the increasing self-interest in the townspeople, began to create poison which afflicted the whole town with a negative force. TEXT II Comprehension 1. F (This was not the reason. The reason is that gold had religious significance to them. King Tutankhamen, like other ancient Egyptians, worsh