常用短语用法复习知识点up front/up in the air up front提前付款，先期付款；开诚布公的，公开的，坦率的 例句We'll pay you half up front and the other half when you've finished the job. 我们先付给你一半钱，剩下的一半等你干完了再付。 Some companies charge a fee up front; but we don't think that's right. 有些公司预先收费，但我们认为那是不对的。 You can't help being biased so you may as well be up front about it. 你难免会有偏见，倒不如干脆坦然承认。 谷雨刷题王 单词快速记忆法 新概念英语青少版 up in the air没有确定 例句Our travel plans are still up in the air. 我们的旅行计划尚未决定。 The issue is still up in the air. 问题仍然悬而未决。 Plans for the picnic are still up in the air since we can't decide where to go. 由于我们不能决定去哪儿，野餐计划还未定。 up to date在进行中，直到现在(的)，直到最近(的)；最新式的 例句I have not received news from him up to date. 直到如今我还没有接到他的消息。 The list is up to date now that we've added the new members' names. 我们把新成员的名字已经加进去了，这份名单是最全的了。 She wears clothes that are right up to date. 她穿着最时新的衣服。 When I first met Begay at Los Ninos Elementary on “King and Queen Day”, she was wearing a smile ear-to-ear. This morning, though, Begay was___21___. The parent she had been trying to___22___was a no-show again. Begay___23___needed to talk to her. Her boy was smart, but now about a year behind. She___24___there were problems at home. He was always late and had already missed too much school. By 8 a.m. , kids were arriving, and Begay’s___25___quickly became a beehive（蜂窝）of activity. Forty-five minutes___26___, the little boy finally walked in, shoulders sunk, head___27___. Rather than___28___him in front of the class, Begay welcomed him warmly. He was testing Begay’s long-held___29___that no child is a lost cause, no matter how___30___he seems. “It’s the unspoken    ___31___teachers start out with,” Begay said. During lunch I sat down with Begay’s students and asked them what they liked about her. “ She never gets angry, “ said one girl. A boy___32___:” She’s funny and likes telling jokes.” Before we left the___33___, the shy, quiet girl next to me___34___,” She teaches me when I don’t want to learn.” Her___35___stayed with me. When I___36___it with Begay, I told her that I felt it was a very    ___37___thing for a child to say. She agreed. “They never___38___that to me.” said Begay, “But that’s what I___39___. I want them to enjoy school. I want them to feel like someone___40___them.” 21. A. sensitive B. worried C. thrilled D. energetic 22. A. meet B. investigate C. enquire D. praise 23. A. gradually B. occasionally C. abruptly D. desperately 24  A. clarified B. revealed C. suspected D. acknowledged 25. A. classroom B. school C. canteen D. house 26  A. after B. before C. later D. ago 27. A. rose B. bowed C. nodded D. shook 28. A. disturbing B. astonishing C. capturing D. embarrassing 29. A. conclusion B. dream C. belief D. ambition 30. A. awesome B. troubled C. innocent D. careless 31  A. commitment B. assumption C. proposal D. regulation 32. A. rejected B. declared C. added D. protested 33. A. office B. kitchen C. playground D. table 34. A. shouted B. whispered C. cried D. suggested 35. A. comment B. adventure C. experience D. discovery 36. A. interpreted B. promoted C. shared D. demonstrated 37. A. fancy B. comprehensive C. crucial D. meaningful 38. A. do B. express C. guarantee D. leave 39. A. acquire B. secure C. accomplish D. pursue 40. A. believes in B. stands by C. tums against D. fears for