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1、Unit 1Part TwoListening I Interviewer: Angela, you were born in Korea but you've been living in Canada for a long time, haven't you?Angela: Yes, I was 10 years old when my parents immigrated to Canada and I've been living here for 20 years now.Interviewer: Do you think that belonging to

2、two different cultures has affected your personality?Angela: Yes, definitely. There are times when I think that I have two personalities. Depending on where I am and who I'm with, I'm Korean or I'm Canadian.Interviewer: That sounds complicated. Could you explain what you mean?Angela: Wel

3、l, growing up in Canada when I was going to high school, for example, I was known as Angela to the outside world, and as Sun-Kyung at home. I would wave hello to my teachers, but bow to my parents' Korean friends when they visited our home.Interviewer: Do different cultures have different ideas

4、as to what is polite?Angela: Yes, definitely. In high school, I was expected to look straight in the eyes of my teachers and to talk openly with them. But when Koreans spoke to me, I was expected to look at my feet and to be shy and silent.Interviewer: Do you think that having two personalities make

5、s you a richer person?Angela: Yes, but sometimes I don't know who I am. Exercise 11.F 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. TExercise 21) outside world 2) at home 3) wave hello 4) bow 5) look straight in the eyes of 6) openly 7) look at my feet8) shy and silent Listening II I am a very sensitive person, and th

6、at's good to a point. I feel everyone should be able to feel or understand what others are going through. But when you hurt, cry, or are unhappy for people you don't know, or for a movie that is not real, then I think that's a little too sensitive. That's the way I am.I am a very ind

7、ependent person. I must do things for myself. I don't like people doing things for me, or helping me, or giving me things. It's not that I don't appreciate it, because I do. I just feel that when someone does something for you, you owe them, and if there is one thing I don't like to

8、feel, it's that I owe anyone anything.I think I would be a good friend. I would do almost anything for someone I like, and would share or give anything I have. I'm very caring and understanding. People trust me with their secrets, and they're right for doing so because I never tell any s

9、ecret that is told to me. I'm always there to help in any way that I can. All you have to do is ask.I enjoy life and people, which makes me feel good. I find fun in almost everything I do (except housework). I like to watch people, talk to them, and be around them. It makes no difference whether

10、 I agree or disagree with what they feel, or how they live, or what they look like, or what age they are. I just enjoy learning and being aware of everything and everyone around me. Exercise 11. sensitive/ caring independent / understanding2. good friend 3. life people 4. learning being awareExercis

11、e 21. B 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. BPart Four Testing YourselfSection 1One day, when Mr. Smith came home from work, he found his wife very upset about something. Mr. Smith always thought that he was more sensible than his wife, so he started to give her a lecture on the importance of always remaining calm.Fi

12、nally he said, "It's a waste of your strength to get excited about small things. Train yourself to be patient, like me. Now, look at the fly that has just landed on my nose. Am I getting excited or annoyed? Am I swearing or waving my arms around? No. I'm not. I'm perfectly calm.&quo

13、t;Just as he had said this, Mr. Smith started shouting. He jumped up and began to wave his arms around wildly and swear terribly. He couldn't speak for some time, but at last he was able to tell his wife: The thing on his nose was not a fly, but a bee. 1) upset 2) sensible 3) lecture 4) calm 5)

14、strength6) landed 7) waving 8) perfectly 9) wildly 10) beeSection IITom: Oh, that Mr. Taylor. He is so boring!Mother: What do you mean?Tom: His lessons put me to sleep. And he's so quick-tempered, Mum.Mother: Quick-tempered? Mr. Taylor? Are you sure darling?Tom: Yes, he gets angry very quickly.M

15、other: That doesn't sound like Mr. Taylor at all!Tom: And do you know, he spends all the time looking at his reflection in the window, admiring himself.Mother: Really? And why does he do that?Tom: Because he's vain, that's why! And conceited! He thinks he knows everything.Mother: Oh, Tom

16、. Be reasonable. I'm sure you're exaggerating. Mr. Taylor seems such a nice, kind man.Tom: Well, he isn't. He is mean and cruel.Mother: Cruel? Now how can a history teacher be cruel?Tom: Because he only gave me two out of ten points in my history test.Mother: Oh, now I understand. Tom, I

17、 think you'd better get on with your homework! 1. B 2. B 3. D 4. B 5. D 6. A 7. C 8. BSection III(S1 = the first speaker; S2 = the second speaker; S3 = the third speaker; S4 = the fourth speaker)S1: In this week's edition of Up with People we went out into the streets and interviewed a numbe

18、r of people. We asked a question they just didn't expect. We asked them to be self-critical.to ask themselves exactly what they thought they lacked orthe other side of the coinwhat virtues they had. Here is what we heard.S2: Well.I.I don't know really.it's not the sort of question you as

19、k yourself directly. I know I'm good at my job. At least my boss considers me hard-working, conscientious, and efficient. I'm a secretary by the way. When I look at myself in a mirror as you sometimes do in the privacy of your own bedroom.or at your reflection in the shop windows as you walk

20、 up the street. Well.then I see someone a bit different. Yes.I'm different in my private life. And that's probably my main fault I should say. I suppose I'm not coherent in my behavior. My office is always in order.but my flat! Well.you'd have to see it to believe it.S3: Well.I'm

21、 retired, you know. Used to be an army officer. And.I think I've kept myself.yes, I've kept myself respectable the whole of my life. I've tried to help those who depend on me. I've done my best. I am quite self-disciplined. Basically I'm a good guy, fond of my wife and family. Th

22、at's me.S4: Well.when I was young I was very shy. At times I.I was very unhappy.especially when I was sent to boarding school at age seven. I didn't make close friends till later.till I was about.fifteen. Then I became quite good at being by myself. I had no one to rely on.and no one to ask

23、for advice. That made me independent. My wife and I have two sons. We.we didn't want an only child because I felt.well I felt I'd missed a lot of things.1) secretary 2) hard-working 3) efficient 4) private5) army officer 6) help 7) fond 8) independent9) shy 10) fifteenUnit 2Part TwoListening

24、 I Mart Moody from Tupper Lake used to tell this tale. "I went out one day and there was a big flock of ducks out on Tupper Lake. And I had this good dog. I shot at the ducks, and then I sent the dog out there. She was heavy with pups at the time, and I didn't know whether I should send her

25、 out there. It was a cold day in the fall. Well, she took right off and away she went. But she didn't show up when it got dark. I began to worry about her. She was a good dog, a really good retriever. She'd get anything I shot at. "So the next morning I woke up and I thought I'd bet

26、ter go and see if I could find her. And I got down to the shoreline of the lake and I looked out. Suddenly I saw something coming. It was this dog. She came into the shore! She had three ducks in her mouth. And behind her she had seven pups. And each of the pups had a duck in his mouth." Exerci

27、se 11. B 2. B 3. A 4. B 5. CExercise 21. T 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. TListening II There was an old man who had a daughter. He told his daughter that he had invited a preacher to his house. He said, "Daughter, I'm going down to the train to meet the Reverend, and I've roasted two ducks and

28、 left them there for him in the other room. Don't you touch them!" The daughter said, "No, I won't touch them." So her papa went to the train to meet the Reverend, and the girl began to taste the ducks. The ducks tasted so good that she kept on tasting them until she had eaten

29、 them all up, every bit of them.After the old man came back, he didn't even look in the place where he had left the ducks. He went directly into the other room to sharpen his knife on the oilstone so he could carve the ducks. The preacher was sitting in the room with the girl. She knew that her

30、papa was going to punish her, and she started crying and shedding tears. The preacher asked, "What is the matter with you, girl?" She said, "Papa has this one bad fault: He invites preachers to his house and goes to sharpen his knife to cut off both their ears." And the Reverend

31、asked, "What is that you say, daughter?" The girl said, "Yes, Papa invites preachers here all the time and cuts off both their ears." The preacher said, "Daughter, hand me my hat. Quick!" The girl gave him his hat and he ran out of the door quickly. The daughter called

32、her papa and said, "Papa, the preacher got both the ducks and has gone." The old man ran to the door and yelled to the preacher, "Hey, where are you going in such a hurry? Come back here right now!" But the preacher just kept running and shouted back over his shoulder, "Damn

33、ed if you'll get either one of these." Exercise 11. A 2. A 3. B 4. C 5. CExercise 21. T 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. FListening III Jack Storm was the local barrel maker and blacksmith of Thebes, Illinois. He had a cat that stayed around his shop. The cat was the best mouse catcher in the whole c

34、ountry, Jack said. He kept the shop free of rats and mice. But, one day, the cat got caught in a piece of machinery and got a paw cut off. After that, he began to grow weak and thin and didn't take any interest in anything, because he wasn't getting enough to eat.So, one day, Jack decided to

35、 make a wooden paw for the cat. He made it with his pocket knife and fastened it on the injured leg. After that, the cat began to grow sleek and fat again. Jack decided to stay at the shop one night to see how the cat managed with his wooden paw.After dark, the cat got down in front of a mouse hole

36、and waited. Pretty soon a mouse peered out cautiously. Quick as a flash the cat seized it with his good paw and knocked it on the head with his wooden one. In no time, that cat had eighteen mice piled up in front of the mouse hole. Exercise 11) stayed around 2) mouse catcher 3) rats and mice4) got a

37、 paw 5) weak and thin 6) make a wooden paw7) fastened it 8) grow sleek and fat 9) managed10) peered out cautiously 11) seized it with 12) eighteen micePart Four Testing YourselfSection 1Long long ago, there was a pretty girl named "Red Riding Hood" because she was always wearing a red hood

38、. One day her mother asked her to take some snacks to her grandmother because her grandmother was ill. Her mother told her, "Don't hang around on your way. Don't leave the main road." On her way, she saw a wolf. The wolf asked her where she was going and she told him that she was g

39、oing to her grandmother's house. The wolf thought to himself how delicious she would taste. Red Riding Hood danced in the woods, picking flowers for her grandmother and forgetting what her mother had said to her. The wolf went to the grandmother's house and ate up the poor lady. Then he wait

40、ed in the bed for Red Riding Hood. As Red Riding Hood came into the grandmother's house, she found her grandmother looked rather strange with very large ears, eyes, hands and mouth. And suddenly the wolf jumped out of the bed and devoured the little girl. At that time, a hunter passed the house

41、and heard loud snores made by the wolf. He went in and carefully cut the wolf's stomach open because he thought the wolf had probably eaten the grandmother. Then both little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother escaped from the wolf's stomach. After that, Red Riding Hood remembered the import

42、ance of her mother's words and never left the main road again. Questions: 1. Why was the girl called "Red Riding Hood"? 2. What was she asked to take to her grandmother? 3. What did her mother tell her NOT to do on the way? 4. How did the wolf think Red Riding Hood would taste? 5. What

43、 did the wolf do to both the girl and her grandmother? 6. Who rescued Red Riding Hood and her grandmother? 1. C 2 . B 3. C 4. B 5. A 6. CSection IIMoon was sad. She had spent many years looking at the people on Earth and she saw that they were afraid. They were afraid of dying. To make them feel bet

44、ter she decided to call on her friend Spider to take a message to them. "Spider," she said. "The people on Earth are afraid of dying and that makes me very sad. Please tell them that they will all die sooner or later but it is nothing to be scared of." So Spider slowly made his w

45、ay to Earth, carefully picking his way down on moonbeams and sunbeams. On his way he met Hare. "Where are you going, Spider?" asked Hare."I am going to give the people of Earth a message from Moon," he said."Oh, you'll be far too long. Tell me the message and I'll ta

46、ke it there for you," replied Hare."OK! Moon wants the people of Earth to know that they will all die." Spider started."Right! Tell the people of Earth that they will all die," said Hare. And with that, Hare disappeared off to Earth.Spider gloomily made his way back to Moon

47、and told her what had happened. Moon was very angry with Hare when she heard what he had said to the people, and hit him on the nose! That is why, to this day, Hare has a split lip."You should have taken the message yourself," said Moon to Spider.And to this day, Spider is still carefully

48、carrying Moon's message and spinning the web in the corner of our roomsbut how many of us listen? 1. T 2. F 3. F 4. F 5.T 6. F 7. T 8. TSection IIIWe don't often know how a word or a legend associated with that word started; however, in the case of the American "cowboy" we do. The

49、cowboy legend began in 1867 when the first transcontinental railroad was being built across the American West.A branch line of the new railroad went to Abilene, Kansas. In Abilene, a 29-year-old cattle merchant, Joseph McCoy, had a plan that made him a millionaire and put his name in dictionaries. H

50、is plan was simple. He knew that in the high grasslands of southern Texas there were large herds of cattle. If these cattle could be brought to Abilene, they could be put on trains and shipped to cities in the North and East, where they would bring good prices. He bought a lot of land close to the r

51、ailroad in Abilene, where cattle could be kept before being shipped, and put his plan into action.McCoy advertised for ranchers and cow-handlers to bring their herds of cattle to his new railway cattle yard in Abilene. He offered $40 for each of the cattle, ten times more than anyone else did. One h

52、undred days after his offer was made, the first herds arrived from the South. Each herd had two or three thousand cattle in it. In the next four years, McCoy shipped more than two million cattle to the North and East. He soon became a millionaire.McCoy referred to the men bringing the cows to Abilen

53、e as "cowboys". Soon there were at least 5,000 cowboys bringing cattle up to Kansas from Texas. Because the camera had recently been developed, many photos were taken of the cowboys and their long trips with the cattle. These photos were published in eastern newspapers and the cowboy becam

54、e an American folk hero. Soon writers, such as Zane Gray, were writing books about the cowboys and their adventures. Thus the legend of the cowboy grew and developed into the 20th century. 1.1867 2. shipped ( If these cattle could be brought to Abilene, they could be put on trains and shipped to cit

55、ies in the North and East.)3. millionaire 4. land 5. cattle 6. million7. cowboys 8. camera 9. hero 10. adventuresUnit 3Part TwoListening I In August 1975, three men were on their way to rob the Royal Bank of Scotland at Rothesay when they got stuck in the revolving doors. They had to be helped free

56、by the staff and, after thanking everyone, sheepishly left the building. A few minutes later, they returned and announced their intention of robbing the bank, but none of the staff believed them. When, at first, they demanded £5,000, the head cashier laughed at them, convinced that it was a pra

57、ctical joke.Considerably disheartened by this, the gang leader reduced his demand first to £500 then to £50 and ultimately to 50 pence. By this stage the cashier could barely control herself for laughter.Then one of the men jumped over the counter and fell awkwardly on the floor, clutching

58、 his ankle. The other two made their getaway, but got trapped in the revolving doors for a second time, desperately pushing the wrong way. Exercise 11. B 2. C 3. D 4. AExercise 21. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. F 6. TListening II Man: Yes, I'd like to report a theft. Police Officer: Okay. Can you tell me

59、exactly what happened? Man: Well, I was walking home from work two days ago, enjoying the nature all around me.the birds, the frogs, the flowing stream.Okay, Okay when this woman knocked me right off my feet, grabbed my stuff, and ran off through the trees. Hmm. I was so surprised by the ordeal that I didn't chase her. Police Officer: Yeah. Can you describe the woman for me? Man: Yeah. She was about 190 centimeters tall. Police Officer: Wait. You said a woman robbed you. Man: Well, I'm not really sure. Hmm. You see, the person was wearing a white and black polka-dot dress, a lig