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Unit One CustomsWords to note: 12, 8, 13, 14, 10, 15, 2, 5, 16, 11, 4, 7, 1, 6, 3, 9 Understanding the text:Part A: 1. They gave clocks to Chinese and the phrase "give a clock"sounds like "make a funeral arrangement".2. Because they symbolize the cutting of a relationship.3. Things from your own place that are difficult to get locally inthe place where you are visiting.4. With both hands.5. To show modesty; they do not want to appear greedy by accepting immediately.Part C: 1. they can strengthen business relationships.2. they may be seen as inappropriately romantic.3. wrapped and presented correctly.4. they don't want the donor to lose face if the gift is not appropriate.5. remember the country's religion, avoid giving things that arenot appropriate, and chose the wrapping paper carefully.Unit Two HoroscopesWords to note: 7, 5, 12, 9, 1, 15, 2, 3, 10, 6, 13, 16, 4, 11, 14, 8 Understanding the text:Part A: 1. The Western horoscope is divided into 12 star signs.2. Varied answers.3. Cartoons and crosswords.4. Traveling overseas.5. The horse.6. Power, passion and daring.7. The second new-moon day after the winter solstice.8. Because some signs are believed to be incompatible withothers and therefore a bad marriage will result.Part B: F, T, F, F, F, T, F, FUnit Three AstronomyWords to note: 9, 3, 15, 2, 7, 1, 10, 14, 4, 12, 5, 11, 6, 8, 13 Understanding the text:Part A: 8, 5, 2, 6, 3, 7, 1, 4Part B: F, F, T, T, F, F, F, T, T, FUnit 4 Food, Glorious FoodWords to note: 12, 7, 13, 2, 14, 10, 8, 1, 4, 5, 11, 9, 3, 6, Understanding the textPart B: F, F, F, T, F, TCorrections:1.British people eat a very large breakfast before going to work.2.Families do not sit down together to have lunch.3.People like to try different kinds of food from differentcountries.5.The meal called tea includes tea, sandwiches and pasties withcream and jam..Unit 5 A Romantic StoryWords to note: 6, 12, 4, 9, 1, 10, 15, 2, 11, 3, 13, 5, 14, 7, 16, 8 Understanding the textPart A: T, F, F, F, T, T, F, T, F, FCorrections:2. In America Katy had no interest in her Chinese background.3. It was Sam’s first time to visit Katy.4. Katy does not like spending time with Sam at first.7. Sam goes away to China because it’s the end of his holiday.9. Sam is happy to see Katy.10. Katy stayed with Sam in China.Part B: 1. Because it is about her.2. Because she went to a local school, spoke English to her friendsand had no interest in her Chinese background.3. Because everything is new or strange for him.4. That is the day when Katy fell in love with Sam.5. Because he thinks that Katy is too good for him.6. Katy now feels that she is really Chinese and that she hasdiscovered her roots.Unit 6 The Archaeology of TodayWords to note: 10, 4, 6, 17, 9, 1, 12, 3, 14, 2, 18, 5, 13, 11, 16, 8, 7, 15 Understanding the textPart A: 1. It is important because it contains a great deal of evidence about how people in a society lived their everyday lives.2. The Garbage Project is a research project carried out by theUniversity of Arizona. It studies the garbage in city rubbishdumps to find evidence of the lifestyles of the local population.It started in 1973 in Tucson, but has now expanded to manyother cities and has built a huge database of information onmost aspects of modern American life.3. The garbage is sorted into a variety of categories (food items,dangerous materials, personal items etc.).4. This is because when there is a shortage of something, peopletry to hoard large supplies of the item. They may buy toomuch. This frequently means that the item needs to be thrownaway before it can be used – perhaps because of a shortage ofstorage space or because it starts to perish.5. There are two reasons for this. The first is that people do notwant to be seen as wasteful when it comes to food. They say(and think) they throw away less food than they actually do.The other reason is that they know they should be eating lessjunk food and more healthy food, but in fact the evidence fromthe garbage is that they eat more junk food. They are notdeliberately lying; they just have an inaccurate impression oftheir own eating habits.6. The Garbage Project can give a clear impression of how peoplelive and behave.Part B: F, F, T, F, F, TCorrections1.It was started in Arizona, but has now expanded to cover manyother American cities and even Mexico City as well.2.There are too many households in Tucson to collect from eachand every one. Therefore, only a sample of households had theirrubbish collected. Also, there is no time specified in the text, itsimply says “over a period of time”.4.The passage does not specify the quantity of Mexican sugarfound – simply that some was found in Tucson where there wasa sugar shortage. There is no evidence that it tasted bad.5.The evidence shows that poor people buy smaller packets offood and not the large economy packets (which more wealthyfamilies bought). They may have wanted to buy the moreeconomical larger packets but could not afford the larger outlayof money.Unit 7 Home TruthsWords to note: 5, 11, 16, 3, 1, 15, 2, 14, 4, 12, 6, 10, 8, 13, 9, 7 Understanding the text:Part A: 1. Property prices increased by this amount in the 1990s.2. The year in which Sir Edward Coke said "An Englishman's home is his castle."3. The number of new homes built each year in Britain.4. Pots of paint sold by a single British company in one year.5. Average price of a British home in 2001.Part B: 1. 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 fromthe outside world and where the outside world cannot enterwithout his permission. He is protected and secure there. This isa very common expression used to describe the attitude ofEnglish people towards their homes. It may also link with ideas about privacy: many British people like to think of their home as being a private place which others can’t simply just walk into without permission; inside the family they can do as they wish, without being bothered by outsiders.2. One reason is that the house costs so much to buy that it makesgood sense to maintain it and even important it as much aspossible (both to make it worth even more if it is sold and toimprove the comfort and space if not). The other reason is that the home is, in a way, a refection of the owner. How the house looks to other people, tells them something about the personwho owns it – therefore the owner wants to make sure it reflectsa good image of his or her self. The better the houses look, thebetter the owners feel about their status.3. It is a loan from a bank or other financial company that is usedspecifically to buy a house. It is paid back through monthlypayments (with interest) over a number of years – often over as many as 25 years.4. Before the industrial revolution, the home was much more thansimply a house that you happened to be living in at that time. It had a history of family life, of ancestors, of relatives andprobably of having the same neighbors for generations. Afterthe industrial revolution, people had to move much more andthe home became more of a place that you were living in at thattime and many of the other traditions were lost.5. Trading up means buying a house that is relatively cheap,keeping it for a few years until its value has increased (and alsothe owners’assets), and then selling it to buy a moreexpensive property. This process is repeated several times over,each property being more expensive than the one before.Trading up only works in times of inflation or progressiveincreases in property values; if prices were stable over manyyears, trading up would be unlikely to happen much.Unit 8 A World of PlantsWords to note: 3, 7, 6, 1, 10, 8, 2, 4, 5, 9, 11,Understanding the text:Part A: 6, 3, 1, 2, 4, 5Part B: T, F, F, T, F, TCorrections2. Although the Eden Project is in Britain, the plants come fromall over the world and many of them would not grow naturallyin Britain but need specially-controlled greenhouses.3. It was the first time that Katie had visited the Eden Project.5. There is no information as to whether or not it is the largest greenhouse in the world. The Humid Tropics Biome is said to be the largest greenhouse in the world.。