B:
1. a. a secretary b. good at her job
c. different in her private life d. pretty tidy in office
e. incoherent in her behavior 2. a. concerned about state affairs b. critical of the political system
c. eager to bring law and order to his country 3. a. easy-going
b. a bit vicious when upset c. not sympathetic
d. not interested in civil rights 4. a. a retired army officer b. respectable and dignified
c. helpful to those dependent on him
d. a bit fanatic about organization and description e. not too polemic
f. fond of his wife and family
5. a. shy and unhappy during childhood b. unable to make friends till very late c. good at being by himself d. self-reliant and independent e. fond of children Section three
1. Bert‘s friendship 2. Bert and sports 3. Adam‘s hobbies
4. the two men‘s religious belief
5. Adam –not a creative problem solver
6. Heart attack victims enjoy Type B behavior. Lesson 14 Section one III. Exercises: A.
1. general election in Britain in the near future 2. An earthquake killed five people 3. stole a quarter of a million pounds
4. and fifty-seven people were killed in an aircraft crash 5. was held in London
6. were made to end the strike at Independent Television
7. were made when a fight between football supporters of rival teams B. 1. b 2. c 3. a 4. a 5. c 6. a 7. b 8. a C. 1. T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. F 6. F 7. F 8. T
D:
1. The Prime Minister
2. In central Italy, avalanches, the earthquake during the night 3. Three masked men, with shotguns, unlock the van
4. two hundred and fifty-seven people, hit the side of a volcano 5. a basis for negotiations, the chances of success
6. Fifteen people, in court in Manchester, matches in London Section Two II. Exercises:
Task 1: Bearded Lady
A. 1. She was a bearded woman. 2. They advised her to shave.
3. When she realized that she was fighting a losing battle. 4. At first it was a bit unnerving.
5. Her beard keeps her husband‘s toes warm on cold nights. B. 1. F 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. T 6. F 7. T 8. F C. 1. at an enormous rate, five inches
2. trying to keep it down, fighting a losing battle 3. chop off a few feet
4. the pointing and laughing in the end Task 2: At a Youth Center
A. 1. a 2. c 3. a 4. a 5. c 6. b B. a. drinking under the age of sixteen b. music at the dance ball c. language they use d. their hair and clothes
C. 1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. F D. 1. turned me out 2. wrong
3. on at my boy about 4. with
5. there‘s any need, take part in 6. sitting in on, take you up on 7. take you out of your way
E. 1. Because she does not think the music played in the hall is of her generation.
2. Because he believes the young people are quite traditional in their attitudes and they are not that different from the old generation.
3. He believes that every generation creates its own special language as well as its own styles in clothes and music.
4. Because he hopes Mrs. Brent to have a better understanding of the young people. Section Three II. Exercises:
Recognizing the Main Idea:
1. trading without money --- barter
2. how money came
3. shifting from barter society to a monetized world 4. different money values in different countries 5. why difficult to give examples of barter deals 6. prospect of bartering Lesson 15 Section One: III. Exercises:
A. 1. a 2. c 3. b 4. c
B. 1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T C. Speaker A:
a. Killers deserve death penalty.
b. Death penalty will prevent other people from killing. c. It is important to get rid of the bad seed.
d. Criminals are never rehabilitated, they are hardened.
e. Some people are just bad, evil, and there is nothing one can do. Speaker B:
a. Nobody has the right to take another person‘s life.
b. Nobody is sure that the person convicted is really guilty.
c. Criminals should be rehabilitated instead of being eliminated. d. There should be more extensive programmes.
e. It is a social problem. We and society are responsible.
D. 1. Because she has doubts on the lawyers and the judicial system today. 2. Because studies show that criminals are never rehabilitated. 3. She suggests expanding the programme to an extensive one. 4. (1) The jails and prisons are already crowded.
(2) The taxpayers have to pay to maintain murderers‘ lives. Task Two: A New Way of Life
A. 1. Michelle Burns and Luke Saunders.
2. They have given up regular jobs and high salaries and begun a new way of life.
3. Because they had worked long hours and had hardly seen each other. As a result, their marriage was breaking up.
4. They raise sheep and goats, grow their own vegetables, and they have some chickens. 5. He‘s been a three-year motor-cycle journey round the world. 6. He had been a car factory worker on the assembly line.
7. He had a bit of money to start with, then he began to do odd jobs like picking fruit, washing up, etc.
8. He‘s going to start a new journey in the opposite direction. And he'll be away for three years again.
B. 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. F 6. T 7.T 8. F 9. T 10. F C. 1. leave the ?rat race‘. 2. fell in love with 3. in it for profit
4. on the farm, feel lonely
5. four nuts on the bolts
6. giving up, turning round, coming home Section Two:
Task 1: The Work of Sigmund Freud A. 1. c 2. a 3. b
B. a. Forgetting of proper names b. Forgetting of foreign words
c. Childhood and concealing memories d. Mistakes in speech
e. Mistakes in reading and writing
C. 1. be traced back to, problem or conflict, concerned 2. of the neuroses, also present, in normal persons
3. the borderline, the normal and the neurotic person, nearly as clearly marked 4. a childhood memory, painful to us 5. good reasons for, the slips and errors Task 2: Cheese
A. 1. a 2. b 3. a 4.c
B. 1. T 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. T 6. F 7. T 8. T
C. 1. Early cheese was probably rather unpalatable and tasteless.
2. ?Fresh cheese‘ is a kind of cheese to be eaten immediately after the milk has coagulated.
3. ?Ripened cheese‘ is a kind of cheese with salt added to the soft fresh cheese and other biochemical processes continued in the course of cheese-making. 4. The Latin word ?caseus‘. 5. In the nineteenth century.
6. People kept milk at different temperatures and in various environments. Section Three:
Recognizing the Main Idea: 1. why all cultures change
2. the origin of the name ?‘Anasazi‘ 3. descendents of the Anasazi
4. the theme that unifies the historical development of the Anasazi 5. labor distribution of the Anasazi 6. the end of the Anasazi Lesson 16
Section One: Men and Women III. Exercises:
A. 1. F 2. F 3. F 4. T
B. (1) --- (d, i, m); (2) --- (a, c, e, j, l); (3) --- (h); (4) --- (f); (5) --- (b, g); (6) --- (k); C. 1. all her up about, your side of 2. for sale
3. house-trained, reasonably trained, two years, two weeks, needs training, within 4. 25p, all a man was worth
5. staring me in the face, blew me top
6. blamed me for 7. egged her on
8. came off, barged into
9. blown over, a world of good Section Two:
Task 1: The Suffragette Movement A. 1. c 2. a 3. a 4.b
B. 1. She would feel highly insulted.
2. They got the right to vote and some of them became members of the Parliament. 3. They have been useful in helping women in their jobs in other vocations. 4. She didn‘t want to vote.
5. She feels all right joining men in their world of work and sport. But she is happy to leave politics to men. C. 1. approve of 2. a good laugh 3. In the long term
4. interfered with, a few boos and there, clapping 5. different to, at their own job 6. a great thrill on the race track Task 2: Sex Discrimination
A. 1. T 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. F B. 1. sit under, fall off, got to stand up
2. being discriminated against, at least to some extent 3. proved wrong, removes, valid grounds for 4. stamp it out
5. a great shame, go round Section Three:
Recognizing the Main Idea:
1. Reading for a particular purpose
2. Why does a student come to the library 3. Writing is the most difficult skill 4. How to write a correct sentence
5. Simplicity --- a quality much admired 6. Participating in group discussions Lesson 17 Section One:
Task 1: News in Brief
A. 1. c 2. a 3. a 4. b 5. b 6. c B. 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. F 6. F
C. (1) --- (g, o, p); (2) --- (d, h, n); (3) --- (c, i); (4) --- (e, g); (5) --- (b, f, m); (6) --- (a, k, q); (7) --- (l); Task 2: Old Age and Health A. 1. a 2. c 3. a
B. 1. becoming senile, very few people