3 The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine, a

dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her

five husbands

one's hair stands on end :某人感到毛骨悚然的

I thought I was alone in my room until I heard the mysterious noice again, and my hair stands on .

4 It is all very well for such things to occur in fiction

occur: 某个事件出乎意料的发生(正式)

happen:

一个事件出乎意料发生

take place: 事件根据安排“举行”

Eg: When did the accident happen / occur?

It occured to me that / to do.

It occured to me to open the window.

When will the wedding take place

5 To varying degrees, we all have secrets which we do not want even our closest friends to learn

learn: 了解某个事实，学习某种知识、技能

know: 知道某个事实，具有某方面的知识、技能，认识、了解某个人(状态动词，不能用于进行时态)

I learned that I had passed the test.

She knows about compu