经管院第六届团支书联席会期末复习宝典
would be trying to interpret the methodology used. SITUATION 3 In this case, you would not be directly interested in the project itself, but more in the findings of the project. You may not even want to mention the project in your article. B)
Situation 2: Research Methodology
Location of research Number of cities covered Aspects of life studied Data collection methods: How garbage was collected Time scale involved Number of households How is garbage stored How is garbage sorted How is garbage disposed of Where people interviewd
Situation 3: Magazine article
Why rubbish is important What rubbish can tell us Details Details Using Tables to Summarise/Categorise Information for Different Purposes
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How can rubbish be analysed Interesting examples of findings: Example 1 Example 2 What people say about their rubbish
Extending your vocabulary
Part A: Antonyms and synonyms Answer these questions.
1. What words in the text have the same meaning as ?garbage?? Rubbish, waste, (junk), refuse
2. What is another word for ?thrown away?? Discarded
3. What is the opposite of ?healthy food?? Junk food
4. Which words means ?to some extent?? partially
5. Which word means ?strange? and ?unusual? exotic
6. Which words means ?rich? and ?having lots of money? affluent
Part B: Cloze passage
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Use the words in the box to complete the paragraph.
hazardous partially plentiful stale lumps refined shudder go off
We may [shudder] when we consider the [plentiful] amounts of waste – some [hazardous] – that are thrown away every day. Food such as bread that has gone [stale], or dairy products that quickly [go off]; fruit that has been [partially] eaten, and [lumps] of unwanted meat show how wasteful we are. Our [refined] lifestyle is based on consuming things that we do not need.
UNIT SEVEN: Home Truths Words to note
Column A
Bricks and mortar Cater
Compelling Familial Humble Obsession
Column B
A house, flat, or other building considered as property To provide people with everything they want or need Interesting or exciting enough to keep Your attention completely Relating to families
Simple and with only basic equipment or features
An emotional state in which someone or something is so important to you that you are always thinking about them, in a way that seems extreme to other people Complete and total
To become larger than something else To buy something
Outright Outstrip Purchase
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Refuge Renovate
A place you go to protect yourself from Something dangerous or threatening
To make something old look new again by Repairing and improving it, especially a Building
In bad condition because no one has spent money on repairs
Relating to the countryside or in the countryside Extremely impressive
Someone?s position in a profession or Society, especially compared to other People
A gradual change or development that Produces a particular result
Run down Rural
Spectacular Status
Trend
Understanding the text
Part A: Numbers
1. 33% 2. 1682
Property prices increased by this amount in the 1990s
The year in which Sir Edward Coke said An Englishman?s
home is his castle
3. 200,000 The number of new homes built each year in Britain
Pots of paint sold by a single British company in one year
4. 2.4 million
5. 100,000 Pounds Average price of a British home in 2001
Part B: Comprehension
1. When British people say, ?My home is my castle? what do they mean?
A castle was a very strong building specifically built to keep the people inside safe and secure. The expression, therefore, means that the home is a place where the owner feels safe from the outside world and where the outside world cannot enter without his permission. He is protected and secure there. This is a very common expression use to describe the attitude of English people towards their homes.
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2. What are the two main reasons why British people like spending lots of money on their homes?
One reason is that the house costs so much to buy that it makes good sense to maintain it and even improve it as much as possible (both to make it worth even more if it is sold and to improve the comfort and space if not). The other reason is that the home is, in a way, a reflection of the owner. How the house looks to other people, tells them something about the person who owns it – therefore the owner wants to make sure it reflects a good image of him or her self.
3. What is a mortgage?
It is a loan from a bank or other financial company that is used specifically to buy a house with. It is paid back (with interest) over a number of years – sometimes as many as 25 years.
4. What impact did the industrial revolution have on people?s ideas about homes? Before the industrial revolution, the home was much more than simply a house that you happened to be living in at that time. It had a history of family life, of ancestors, of relatives and probably of having the same neighbours for generations. After the revolution, people had to move around much more and the home became more of a place that you were living in at that time and all the other things were lost.
5. What is trading up?
Trading up means buying a house that is relatively cheap, keeping it for a few years until it, and the owners income, have increased, and then selling it to buy a more expensive property. This process is repeated several times over, each property being more expensive than the one before.
Developing your Skills Identifying Logical Connection between Sentences
The correct sequence should be: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
I think we should buy our own house.
Yes, we don?t want to pay rent to someone else. But house prices are so expensive. So we need to take out a mortgage.
But it will take 25 years to pay the mortgage.
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