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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Unit 1 Act.2 If You Ask Me1. This is a story of a graduate who gets a job in a pub for a year and has a chance to be successful.2. Since her family cant support her to further study, she has to work. She has financial problems and feels lonely. She talks her trouble to Tony, a regular c
2、ustomer of the pub. Who gets her a loan to set up a business. With his help she has her monsters degree and her own company.3. After a few years Tony had been in a car accident and couldnt work, the writers money helped him. Tony said investing in people gives the best return you can ever hope for.U
3、nit 2 Act.1 Danger! Books may Change Your Life1. This article introduces the power of reading books to us. When we pick up a book, we are about to enter a new world. Books will influence the way we live.2. The writer mentions a word “home-run book” that might be the answer for the book everyone shou
4、ld read. “Home-run” book is which can give you pleasure and satisfaction. 3. The title described the power of reading.Unit 2 Act.2 They were alive and they spoke to me1. The writer introduces what makes a book alive. A book lives through the passionate recommendation of one reader to another.2. The
5、writer suggests us read as little as possible not as much as possible. What is more important is the quality not the quantity.Unit 3 Act.1 Fifty Years of FashionFashion in the year 1960 to 2010 has two constant factors: the ubiquitous jeans and the rise and fall of hemlines of womens skirts and dres
6、ses. The jeans date back to 16 century, and then jeans bacame the work cloth of miners. Jeans were worn with young people in 1950s, and after that developed a lot, associated with new ideas. The length of womens dresses is associated with economy. When the economy is positive, women enjoy to show th
7、em. Unit 3 Act.2 Eco-jewellery: Sea GlassThis article introduces the reason why sea glass is very popular. And describes the process of making jewellery from sea glass, makes people think about the importance of recycling. And paints the passion of Gina Cowen, who is a jewellery designer. Unit 4 Act
8、.1 The Credit Card TrapThis article tells the writers complain about bank credit card. She takes some examples to analyze how credit cards get people in to a trap and make people be in debt for bank. The author use a humorous way to suggest people how to solve the credit card trap, that cut them by
9、scissors, never use them anymore.Unit 4 Act.2 The Key to Wedded Bliss? Money MattersThis article tells us that what is important to marriage is money. What makes marrige work is finding your financial soulmate, marrying a person who shares your attitudes about money. The writer gives some guidelines
10、: (1) talk and share goals (2) run a home like a business (3) be supportive of careers (4) enjoy, but within reason (5) use a mediator (6) maintain some independence (7) invest in your marriageUnit 5 Act.1 Sex Differences in English Gossip RulesThis article summarizes findings form recent research.
11、And it presents the writers owns research findings that men gossip as much as women, but they call it “exchanging information”. The main difference between male and female gossip is that female gossip sounds like gossip. Three principal involved are: the tone rule, the detail rule and the feedback r
12、ule.Unit 5 Act.2 Marked:Women in the workplaceWomen constantly have to make choices about dress and appearance, and even the way they sign their names, which lead people to make judgments about them; men do not have to make the same choices.Unit 6 Act.1 Winston ChurchillChurchill came from a famous family and was a soldier and politician. When Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, Britain was at war. Churchill made speeches that inspired the nation, and led the country to victory. Although he was considered a great military leader, Churchill lost the general election after the war.专心-专注-专业