proud   adjective

／pravd／

1．You feel proud of things you

  have done，or things you own，

  if you are pleased with them：

  Peter was proud of himself for

  winning the race．Sarah felt

  very proud of her new watch．

2．Your parents or teachers are

  proud of you when you do

  well：Michael came top of the

  class and his parents were very

  proud of him．The cat seems

  proud of her six lively kittens．

3．A proud person thinks they are

voice   noun

／vכis／

Your voice is the

 sound you make when

 you speak or sing：

Speak in a load clear

voice so that everybody

 can hear you．I didn't

 recognize  Andrew's

 voice on the telephone. We could hear angry  voices coming  from  next door．Lucy has a nice singing voice.

en·cour·age   verb

／In'kΛrIdз／encouraged，    encouraging，has encouraged

 1．You encourage someone

  when you keep telling

  them that you know they

  can succeed：My parents

  have always encouraged

  me in my music．

2．You encourage someone

  to do something when you

  tell them that they should

  do it：Our teacher encourages us to ask questions．

better or cleverer or more im-

IAntonyms/31. We can find these explainations (解釋) in          dictionary.

A. an English-English                  B. a Chinese-English

  C. an English-Chinese                  D. a Chinese

32. Another form of the word "proud" in this dictionary is             .

  A. pleasure        B. pride           C. happiness       D. voice

33. You can find           new words in this dictionary extract (摘要).

  A. many           B. one             C. two             D. three

34. The word "proud" has           uses than the word "encourage".

  A. fewer           B. less             C. more            D. much more

35. The word "voice" is                      .

A. a noun         B. an adjective     C. a verb          D. an adverb

Synonyms

portant than other people：The

Ugly Sisters were too proud to

TreatCinderellalla as sister．

See also pride．

 You lose your voice

when you have such a

bad cold that you can't speak．

xdiscourage：Our parents

 discourage us from playing

computer games all the time.