Script: 1) I think the best way is to take the subway. 2) You will take less than 5 minutes to get there. 3) Keep going until you see a white building on your left. 4) Take the elevator to the sixth floor. 5) Take the subway first, and then change to Bus No. 9. 6) Sorry, I’m a stranger here myself. 7) The subway station is just two blocks away. 8) Excuse me, can you tell me how to get to the computer center? 9) The chemistry building is opposite the library. 10) You can take Subway Line 2 and get off at Xi Zhi Men. Key： 1-b, 2-a, 3-c, 4-e, 5-d, 6-f, 7-j, 8-i, 9-h, 10-g 3 Listen to 6 sentences for workplace communication and choose their right responses.
Script: 1. When you come out of the lift, turn left. Smith’s office is the second one on the right. 2. How far is it from here to the library? 3. Is there a bus going there? 4. Am I going in the wrong direction? 5. Is the shopping mall far from here? 6. Excuse me, where is the nearest supermarket? Key： 1. A 2. B 3.A 4. C 5.C 6. D Handling a Dialogue
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Understanding a Short Speech/Talk
5 Now listen to a short talk and fill up the blanks according to what you have heard. The words
in brackets will give you some hints. Script: Good morning, everyone. Let me tell you how to get to Tsinghua University from Beijing International Airport. The easiest way is to take a taxi. And the second way is to take the airport shuttle bus. You can go all the way to Zhong Guan Cun terminal. From the terminal, a taxi ride costs about 10 yuan. The third choice is to take an airport subway to Dong Zhi Men Station. Then change to Line 2 to Xi Zhi Men Station. Change again at Xi Zhi Men Station to Line 13 to Wu Dao Kou Station. Then, you may walk to Tsinghua University. key: 1. Beijing International Airport 2. take a taxi 3. take 4. 10 yuan 5. an airport subway 6. change 7. Line 13 8. walk 6 Listen to the talk again and complete the information in Column A with the right choices in Column B. Key: 1. b 2. c 3. b 4. d SECTION III Trying Your Hand
Practicing Applied Writing
2 Find from the box the English equivalents to the signs given in Chinese.
key: a-5, b-6, c-9, d-7, e-4, f-10, g-3, h-8, i-2, j-1
Writing Sentences and Reviewing Grammar
Key:
1. butter 2. much doubt 3. movies 4. passengers 5. much education 6. room numbers 7. a large population 8. fear 9. information
6 Correct the errors in the following sentences.
1. All the news is interesting to us.
2. We all like your idea of using the money to build a primary school. 3. If he refuses to pay, I shall take measures against him. 4. What lovely hair you have!
5. The Johnsons have just moved into a large house and are planning to buy much new furniture.
6. Mary likes potatoes better than tomatoes.
7. It was such a long journey that we felt very tired when we arrived. 8. My father never gave me much advice.
9. Our school bought two pieces of equipment for the lab. 10. In modern age, electronics has been developing very fast. 11. He did too little preparation for his examination.
12. There is/are a book, two pencils and three notebooks on the desk. 13. Every means has been tried but without much success. 14. Ten dollars is all that I can afford to pay for the recorder.
SECTION IV Maintaining a Sharp Eye
Passage I Funny Road Signs from around the World!
Information related to the reading passage
America is a nation on wheels. Americans use their cars even for very short distances such as going to the neighborhood store to buy some groceries. The average household owns two cars, trucks or sport vehicles and one in four owns three or more.
Ninety percent of Americans drive to get where they need to go, reporting an average of 87 minutes a day behind the wheel. For car commuters, it’s an average of 100 minutes. Cities like Atlanta, San Bernardino and Riverside, Calif., have difficult commutes as the result of city sprawl. In Atlanta, 12.7% of commuters spend more than an hour getting to work, and in the “Inland Empire”, which includes San Bernardino and Riverside, 15% of commuters take more than an hour to get to the office.
About a third can be classified as aggressive drivers. Six in ten concede they sometimes go well over the speed limit. Sixty-two percent occasionally get frustrated behind the wheel, more than four in ten get angry and two in ten sometimes boil into road rage. And nothing fuels driver anger like getting stuck in a traffic jam.
Anyway, the road still offers more freedom than frustration. Three quarters of Americans say