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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
2. 15 %, over 65,
3. 80 %, over 65, at least
4. watch out for
5. immune system, to decline, lungs, the senses, the brain, skin
6. benefit more from, the eldly
Section Two:
Task 1: At a Small Restaurant
A.(1) c (2) b (3) a (4) a
B.(1) F (2) T (3) F (4) T (5) T (6) F (7) T (8) F (9) T
C.(1) He has trouble finding good, reliable domestic staff for his restaurant.
(2) Because more and more organizations wanted to see his demonstration.
(3) He wanted to combine the demonstration with a permanent establishment.
(4) He decided to choose this remote place because he wanted to have a restaurant for
those who love peace and quiet and beautiful scenery and who also appreciate good food.
Task 2: The Tree Climbers of Pompeii
A. 1. A man was half way up the tree.
2. Ruins.
3. To collect pine cones.
4. The processed them into some sauce which is used in Italian cooking.
5. No. The foreman bought a licence from the State for the right to go round places
collecting pine cones.
6. The tree climbers.
B. 1. halfway up this tree, his hands, his feet, 20 or 30 feet up
2. more or less, a rather middle-aged monkey, of 50
3. extremely sought after, in the food industry
4. good at, um recognizing, ready, a bit hard
5. sit around, fell down
Section Three:
Recognizing the Main Idea:
1.Expressing neutrality after being nominated
2.Making a promise of what to do when elected the President
3.We should go to the moon.
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5.The problem of the black people should be considered
6.Why I want to resign.
Lesson 18
Section One: Energy Crisis
A. 1. b 2. b 3. a 4. c 5. c
B.Pros:
a.It is the only alternative when fossil fuel is running out.
b.It can produce electricity for our daily use.
c.Working at a nuclear power station is far safer than working down a coal-mine or
on a North Sea oil-rig.
d.It can create its own fuel and burn its wast
e.
Cons:
a. Nobody can imagine what will happen if there is a nuclear accident.
b. Radioactivity causes cancer and may affect future generations.
c. There is no technology for absolutely safe disposal of nuclear waste.
d. Terrorists could hold the nation to ransom if they captured a reactor.
e. Nuclear energy is expensive, dangerous, evil, and most of all, absolutely unnecessary.
C. 1. 450 years, 50 years, oil, 30 years
2. go back to the Stone Age, turn our backs on
3. active for thousands of years
4. 25 years, 26 ‘retired’ reactors
5. the sun, the waves, the wind, survive unless, working on,
6. and there are a lot of them about, none of us, at night
7. in the short-term; rely on; oil, coal and gas; conservation of present resources;
research into new forms of power
Section Two:
Task 1: The Years to Come (I)
A. 1.b 2.a 3.c 4.a 5.c 6.b
B. 1.T 2.F 3.T 4.F 5.F 6.T 7.T 8.F
C. 1. 216,000; ninety percent; in the poorest countries
2. at least, alternative sources of energy
3. Due to, half of the population
4. species, the loss of their habitat
5. within five or ten years, save the earth
Task 2: The Years to Come (II)
A. 1. A space station to be launched towards the end of the 1990s.
2. No, eleven other nations have agreed to contribute a few of the station’s many parts.
3. In the space.
4. Eight.
5. A dream that has been cherished for 120 years --- a colony in space.
6. Because they want to use the space station to discover how to establish healthy and
productive habitation in space.
B. a. a room for each crew member
b. a shower
c. a toilet
d. exercise equipment
e. a washing machine
f. a pantry
g. a sick bay
h. a television set
i. video
j. a telephone
k. a computer
C. 1. celestial body, a shining star, 38 degrees north or south of the equator
2. Twenty trips, two rockets, piece by piece, a low orbit
3. 250 miles above the Earth, bolt together, many components, batch of parts, in 1995 Section Three:
Recognizing the Main Idea:
1.I shall return.
2.Hoping for a country of equality
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4.I won’t send you to any foreign wars.
5.Why I resign
6.I’m innocent of the charges against me.
Lesson 19
Section one
Task 1:
A: 1. a 2. c 3. c
B:
1.to live and relax in, living in the cramped little houses and flats, the Second World War
2.are growing up, and very small children demand a room of their own
3.may demand an extra room to treat their friends privately
4.restaurant and transport, people are beginning to entertain and dine at home, which
requires a larger dinning room
C:
1. a. situated in the business heart of the city so quiet and fairly free from traffic in the
evenings.
b. several theaters opened recently
c. suitable for those who like living high up since accommodation being situated mostly is tower blocks
2. a. favored mostly by upper middle class families who prefer a detached house.
b. a walled garden surrounding the house and ensuring privacy
3. a. suitable for those who are not interested in gardening
b. grand mansions to be chosen
c. a wonderful view of the Thames
d. only a few minutes away from London’s theaters and shops
Task 2:
A:
1.She is the First Lady of Jazz, the greatest blues singer the world has ever before.
2.To learn dancing. But she failed.
3.All by accident. A pianist discovered her talent.
4.no, at first she had to learn a lot to because a professional musician; then she has to
know a lot about the public and changing fashions in order to keep her top position.
5.She chooses what she wants to sing. Anything she does sing is a part of her life.
6.She feels she has always been her true self in her music. And she’s singing from deep
down inside herself.
B: 1. T 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. F 6. 6 7. T 8.T
C:
1.slower, lighter, how I feel, the same way twice, a mixed up sort of thing.
2.stay at the top, out of work, back on the streets, you started from
3.up to a point.
4.made a fortune from my music, any damn thing
Section two:
Task 1: Setting up a home computer
A: 1. b 2. a 3. c 4. a
B: 1. T 2. F 3. F 4. T 5.F 6. T
Task 2: My computer makes me sick
A: 1. c 2. a 3. c 4. b
B:
1.NO, but statistic figures at least suggest that there is a cause of alarm.
2.The terminal should be placed where there is another source of light; no blank wall
behind the terminal so that the operator has a chance to rest from time to time, get up regularly and walk about the room.
3.Those who use computers for interest or pleasure in their own homes.
4. a. constipation because of long hours spend in sedentary inactivity;
b. backache due to crouching over an inconveniently positioned key board
c. a general sense of fatigue owing to having puzzled over a problem for longer than
was sensible.
5.The condition worsened.
6.Because of the electrostatic field of the video screen attracting dust from the atmosphere,
which irritates exposed skin.
7. A generation of short-sighted, constipated, hunched migraine sufferers with skin
problems and circulatory troubles.
C:
1.there is an alternative source of light from that of the screen.
2.frequently, if possible, by looking at something in the distance to give them a change
from the close focus used on the screen.
3.the screen is properly tuned, for a shaky or fuzzy image can cause nausea or headaches.
4.and working area are so designed that you are sitting in a comfortable position, not
screwed up or bent over.
5.regularly and walk about the room. Better go out into the fresh air occasionally.
D:
1. working capacity, intellectual capacity, dangers, benefits
2. the UK, 800 pregnant women, computer terminals, a major part, no less than 36%, severe abnormality
3. control group, the same age, computer terminals, severe abnormalities, 16%
Section three: note-taking (omitted)
Section III
Study skills: Note-taking 3
Main ideas and Supporting Details:
A.Suggested Abbreviations:
heart disease: heart dis. cholesterol: chol. Cigarette: cigat. exercise: ex. especially: esp. similarity: simty. difference: diffr. financial: finan. responsibility: respty. hostility: hosty.
’ve heard.
B.The main idea and supporting details of each paragraph you
1.Main idea: companions to heart dis.
Supporting details: a. high level of fat and chol in the diet
b. cigat. Smoking
c. physical inactivity
d. over weight
e. high blood pressure
1.Main idea: Bert’s life after work
Supporting details: a. physical ex.
b. reading (1) history (2) historical novels
c. gardening
d. fixing things around the house —a complete tool collection
2.Main idea: simities. & differs. Between Adam & Bert
a.simties (supporting details)
(1)married
(2)grown children
(3)in mid-50s
(4)successful in business careers
(5)hard workers
(6)in a position of finan. Security & respty. In their jobs
(7)professional lives not easy
b.diffrs. (supporting details)
(1)For Adam: life—full of tension & hosty.
(2)For Bert: life—more enjoyable
3.main idea: Adam’s use of time
Supporting details: a. fighting time
b. if delays in schedule, angry & hostile
c. resents people not on time & not moving as quickly
d. fill up every minute with productive activity
Lesson 20
Section one:
Task 1: Fixing an appointment
A. 1 a 2 c 3 b
B. 1. the last short-list interview,
to dine with the Japanese agent,
a meeting with the lawyer about planning permission
a tutorial with Maria Rosa
2. a committer meeting
Business with the examining board
A meeting with Johan Blun’s parents
C: 1. is to be postponed to Wednesday or later in the week
2. is to be put off till Wednesday morning
3. at 2.30 on Monday afternoon
Task 2: Last of the airships
A: 1. c 2. b 3. a 4. b 5. c
B: 1. F 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. T 7. T 8.T
C: 1. 97, 35, 62
2. 50, 25
3. 245, 41, 125km/hr, less than half the time
4. 1,000 passengers, circus animals and cars, 1937
5. 1.5 million, 13,100
D: 1. was pressurized in order to prevent gas from ever entering it.
2. were chained to the tables
3. were searched for matches before entering the ship
4. was made of special materials, which had been chosen to minimize the possibility of accidental sparks, which might cause an explosion.
Section two
Task 1: Looking for a flat
A: 1. she is trying to find a flat in the advertisements in those newspapers.
2. No, she is going to share it with two other girls.