• Your language will be more natural and more easily understood.

• You will have alternative and richer ways of expressing yourself.

• It is easier for our brains to remember and use language in chunks or blocks rather than as single words.

　　Now read the text and find the collocations.

Collocations from THE FEAST: 18,000 BC be worried about... 担心......，turn for home with... 带着......回家了，the custom of family groups 家族成员的习俗， gather at different sites for reunions 在不同的地方相聚， follow... across... 跟随......越过......，if only... 但愿， a great honour to do... 非常荣幸做某事， feel proud 感到自豪， applaud one's choice 为某人的选择鼓掌， look ahead 有预见，feel worried 感到忧虑， accelerate one's walk up the path to... 沿着......的路走，in wait for... 在等......，reach one's destination 到达某人的目的地， a delicious smell 香味，arrest one's progress 阻止某人前进，fill the air 笼罩四周， become dizzy with hunger 因饥饿而头晕眼花， prepare...over the fire 把什么放在火上，be scooped up by... 被......舀了出来， smile with relief 宽慰的笑了， have a large long face 有一张又大又长的脸，with strongly pronounced eyebrows and cheekbones 浓眉大眼，颧骨突出， carry...over one's shoulder 肩膀上扛着，push...at... 把......递给某人，go outside... 走出，go to a corner of the cave走到洞穴的角落，pull out... 拖出， in a pile 一大堆，hit...hard on the edge 沿着边敲打......， now and then 不时的，cut up...切碎......， scrape the fish 刮鱼鳞，pass...to... 把......递给......，arrive for... 为......而来， smile to oneself 默默的笑，go out of... 走出...... 4. Reading more about man of 18,000 BC

In October of 2004, scientists announced the discovery of a new species that shocked the world. A new human-like species, a dwarfed relative who lived just 18,000 years ago in the company of pygmy elephants and giant lizards, had been discovered on Flores Island in Indonesia.

　　Skeletal remains show that the hominids (Homo Floresiensis), nicknamed 'hobbits' by some of their discoverers, were only one meter tall, had a brain one-third the size of that of modern humans, and lived on an isolated island long after Homo Sapiens had migrated through the South Pacific region. Homo sapiens and the Hobbits lived on the same island for at least 20,000 years and surely would have made contact with each other.

These Hobbits hunted pony-sized elephants and rats as big as dogs and battled Komodo