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Lesson 1

The Middle Eastern Bazaar I．

1)A bazaar is a market or street of shops and stands in Oriental countries．Such bazaars are likely to be found in Afghanistan，the Arabian Peninsula，Cyprus，Asiatic Turkey and Egypt．

2)The bazaar includes many markets：cloth—market，copper— smiths’market．carpet—market，food—market，dye—market，pottery—market，carpenters’market，etc．They represent the backward feudal economy．

3)A blind man could know which part 0f the bazaar he was in by his senses of smell and hearing．Different odours and sounds can give him some ideas about the various parts 0f the bazaar．

4)Because the earthen floor，beaten hard by countless feet，deadens the sound of footsteps，and the vaulted mudbrick walls and roof have hardly and sounds to echo. The shop-keepers also speak in slow, measured tones, and the buyers follow suit. 5)The place where people make linseed oil seems the most picturesque in the bazaar. The backwardness of their extracting oil presents an unforgetable scene.

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1)little donkeys went in and out among the people and from one side to another

2)Then as you pass through a big crowd to go deeper into the market, the noise of the entrance gradually disappear, and you come to the much quieter cloth-market.

3)they drop some of items that they don't really want and begin to bargain seriously for a low price.

4)He will ask for a high price for the item and refuse to cut down the price by any significant amount.

5)As you get near it, a variety of sounds begin to strike your ear.

Ⅲ. See the translation of text. IV.

1)n. +n..seaside, doorway, graveyard, warlord 2)n. +v..daybreak, moonrise, bullfight 3)v. +n..cutback, cutthroat, rollway

4)adj. +n..shortterm, softcoal, softliner, hardware 5)adv. +v. .output , upgrade, downpour

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6)v. +adv..pullover, buildup V.

1)thread (n.) she failed to put the thread through the eye of the needle.(v.) He threaded through the throng.

2)round (v.) On the 1st of September the ship rounded the Cape of Good Hope. (adv.) He wheeled round and faced me angrily.

3)narrow(v.) In the discussions we did not narrow the gap any further. (adj．)He failed by a very narrow margin． 4)price(n．) The defence secretary said the U．S．was not looking for an agreement at any price．(v．)At the present consumption rates(of oil)the world may well be pricing itself out of its future．

5) (v．)live About 40％of the population lives on the land and tries to live off it． (adj．)The nation heard the inaugural speech in a live broadcast．

6)tower (n．)The tower was built in the 1 4th century．(v．)The general towered over his contemporaries． 7)dwarf (v．)A third of the nation's capital goods are shipped from this area，which dwarfs West Germany's mighty Ruhr Valley in industrial output．(n．)Have you ever read the story of

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