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1、Unit 1Task 1【答案】A.1)She wanted to see St.Paul s Cathedral.2)She was so surprised because she saw so many Englishmen who looked alike.3)They were all wearing dark suits and bowler hats,carrying umbrellas andnewspapers.4)Because she had often read about them and seen photographs of them,who all looked
2、as if theywere wearing a uniform.5)No,he didn t.6)He used the English saying“It takes all kinds to make a world”to prove hisopinion.B.If all the seas were one sea,what a great sea it would be!And if all the treeswere one tree,what a great tree it would be!And if this tree were to fall in the sea,wha
3、t a greatsplash therewould be!【原文】Yesterday morning Gretel went to the City of London.She wanted to see St.PaulsCathedral.She was surprised to see so many Englishmen who looked alike.They were all wearingdark suitsand bowler hats.They were all carrying umbrellas and newspapers.When she returnedhome
4、sheasked Mr clark about these strange creatures.They must be typical Englishgentlemen,shesaid.I have often read about them and seen photographs of them.They all look asif they arewearing a uniform.Does the typical English gentleman still exist?Mr.Clark laughed.Ive never thought about it,he answered.
5、Its true that manyof the menwho work in the City of London still wear bowler hate and I suppose they are typicalEnglishmen.But look at this.Mr.Clarkpicked up amagazine and pointed ata photo of a youngman.Hesjust as typical,perhaps.It seems as if there is no such thing as a typicalEnglishman.Do youkn
6、ow the English saying It takes all kinds to make a world?Thats true of allcountries-includingEngland.“Oh,just like the poemIf All the Seas Were One Sea ,”Gretel began to hum整理为 word 格式整理为 word 格式the seas were one sea,what a great sea that would be!If all the trees were onetree,what a greattree that
7、would be!And if this tree were to fall in the sea,what a great splashthat would be!”Task 2【答案】A.1)people were much busier2)colder than England;minus thirty degrees;last longer3)much more mountainous;much higher and much more rocky;more beautiful4)tend to be more crowded5)the houses;smallerB.1)T 2)T
8、3)F 4)F 5)F【原文】John is British but has worked in Japan.Etsuko is Japanese from Osaka,but she isstudyingin Britain.In the following passage you are going to hear,they are comparing lifeas they see it inthe two countries.But before listening to it,think of the twocountries and try to answer thefollowi
9、ng pre-listening questions.John:I found that living in Japan,people were busier.They seem to work the wholeday.Etsuko:Yes,that s right.We work from Monday through Saturday,even in summer.You know,summer in Japan is just horrible.It s very,very humid and hot,and you need toshower three timesa day.Joh
10、n:So you find it cooler in England?Etsuko:Yes,that s right.John:Where I was living in Japan,in the North,it was much colder than England,especially inwinter,minus thirty degrees centigrade.Does the winter in Osaka last longer thanthe winter inEngland?Etsuko:No,I don t think so.December,January,Febru
11、ary,March.John:Yes.It s a little bit shorter if anything.Etsuko:Ever since I came here,I noticed that the countryside here in England isvery beautiful.John:It s much flatter than in Japan.Etsuko:Yes.Japan is a mountainous country and our cities are full of people.Thereare lots ofpeople in a limited
12、flat area.整理为 word 格式John:Yes,I found Japan much more mountainous than Britain,especially in the north.Themountains are much higher and much more rocky.I found it more beautiful than Britain,I think.Etsuko:Yes,if you like mountains.John:And therefore the towns and villages tend to be more crowded.Et
13、suko:Yes,that s right.John:Yes.So because the cities are more crowded,the houses tend to be smaller,don t they?Etsuko:Yes,they are very compact,and we don t have a lot of space.In big citieswe have a lot oftaller buildings now.John:Is this a problem because there are more earthquakes in Japan?Etsuko
14、:Yes,that s right andTask 3【答案】A.1)In the US,people usually dance just to enjoy themselves;they don t invite otherpeople towatch them.2)Usually eight people dance together.3)Because people form a square in dancing with a man and a woman on each side ofthe square.4)He usually makes it into a song.5)T
15、hey wear old-fashioned clothes.B.1)F 2)T 3)F 4)F 5)TC.1)eight people form a square;on each side of the square2)what they should do;makes it into a song;sings it3)don t have much time to think4)old-fashioned clothes【原文】Rosa:Why don t you have folk dances in the United States?Most countries havespecia
16、l dancesthat the people have done for many years.The dancers wear clothes from the old days.Everyone likes to watch them dance.Steve:We have folk dances,too.A lot of people belong to folk dancing groups.Butwhen theydance,they usually do it just to enjoy themselves.They don t invite other peopletowat
17、ch them.Rosa:Is there a folk dancing group here?整理为 word 格式Steve:I think so.There must be.There s one in almost every city,and some bigcities haveseveral.Rosa:What are the dances like?Steve:Usually eight people dance together,four men and four women.When they start,they forma square,with a man and a
18、 woman on each side of the square.That s why it s calledsquare dancing.Then there s a man who tells the dancers what they should do.Heusually makes it into a song.He sings it while they dance.Rosa:Oh,that should make the dances easy!Steve:Yes,but they are very fast.They don t have much time to think
19、.I like towatch them,though.The dancers wear old-fashioned clothes.That makes the dances pretty towatch.Rosa:I d like to watch a group dance.Steve:I ll take you sometime.Task 4【答案】1)It was a time to celebrate the end of winter and the beginning of spring.2)They burned the picture of their kitchen go
20、d to bring good luck.3)The custom said the bridesmust wear“something old,something new,somethingborrowed,and something blue”to bring good luck.4)Because they could not eat meat,eggs or dairy products during Lent,so they triedto use upthese things before Lent began.5)It was a straw man made by childr
21、en in Czech;it was a figure of death.6)People brought their animals to church.And before the animals went into the churchpeopledressed them up in flowers and ribbons.【原文】1)On the evening of February 3rd,people in Japanese families took one dried beanfor each yearof their age and threw the beans on t
22、he floor,shouting Good luck in!Evil spiritsout!This wasknown as Setsubun,a time to celebrate the end of winter and the beginning ofspring.2)Before the Chinese Lunar New Year in the old days,many Chinese families burnedthe pictureof their kitchen god to bring good luck.When Lunar New Years Day came,t
23、hey putancwpicture of the kitchen god on the wall.整理为 word 格式3)When American women got married,they sometimes followed an old custom in choosingwhatto wear on their wedding day.The custom said the bride must wear something old,somethingnew,something borrowed,and something blue.This was to bring good
24、 luck.4)Before Lent(a time on the Christian calendar),the people of Ponti,Italy atean omelet madewith 1,000 eggs.People could not eat meat,eggs or dairy products during Lent,sothey tried touse up these things before Lent began.5)When winter ended in Czech,the children made a straw man called Smrt,wh
25、ichwas a figureof death.They burned it or threw it in the river.After they destroyed it,theycarried flowershome to show the arrival of spring.6)January 17th was St.Anthonys Day in Mexico.It was a day when people broughttheir animalsto church.But before the animals went into the church,the people dre
26、ssed them upin flowersand ribbons.This ceremony was to protect peoples animals.Task 5【答案】A.1)F 2)T 3)F 4)T 5)F 6)T 7)TB.Advantages DisadvantagesLots of servants to do the work Terrible life for servantsbeautiful clothes to wear very uncomfortable clotheslots of tea parties boring and formal tea part
27、ies often no menbeing invitedlife being slower much more illnessplenty of time to talk to each other children left with servants all dayvery poor educationno freedom for women【原文】Man:Well,I think life used to be much more fun than it is now.I mean,look atthe Victorians.They had lots of servants to d
28、o all the work;they never had to do any cooking orcleaning;they just wore those beautiful dresses and went to tea parties.Woman:You must be joking!Their clothes were terribly uncomfortable and their teaparties werevery formal and boring.They used to wear their hats and long gloves even when they整理为
29、word 格式were eating cakes and biscuits.And men were not usually invited.Man:Really?Werent they?Woman:And think of the poor servants.What a terrible life just cleaning andcooking for otherpeople all the time!Man:But you hate housework!Woman:Yes,I know,but there are lots of machines now to help you wit
30、h the housework.Peopledont need servants.Man:Maybe they dont,but life then was much slower than it is now-people nowadaysarealways rushing,and they never have time to stop and enjoy themselves.Woman:Life then was fine for the rich,but it was dreadful for the poor.There wasmuch moreillness.They didnt
31、 have the money to pay doctors,and they often used to die ofillnessesthat dont exist in England now.Man:Maybe.But people used to talk to each other,play the piano or play cardstogether.Nowadays people just sit in front of the television for hours and never talk to eachother.Woman:I agree with youabo
32、ut television;but what about their children?They lefttheir Childrenwith the servants allday.Children hardly ever saw their parents!And the clothesthey hadto wear!Horrible,tight,uncomfortable,grown-up clothes.Children have a muchbetterlife now than they used to,and schools and education are much bett
33、er too.Man:I hate school.Woman:And look at opportunities for women.In those days,women used to stay athome,playthe piano,change their clothes several times a day and have tea parties.What alife!Theydidnt have any freedom at all.Im very happy living now.I can work,have a career,dowhat I want to.Man:Y
34、ou mean you can work hard all your life like a Victorian servant.Woman:Life isnt all tea parties,you know.Task 6【答案】A.1)b 2)a 3)c 4)aB.1)family unit;process;change;used to be;the extended;the nuclear整理为 word 格式2)job patterns;progressed;agricultural;industrial;forced;job opportunities;split up3)tradi
35、tional;family;expanded;other living arrangementsC.1)mother,father,children,and some other relatives,such as grandparents,livingin the samehouse or nearby2)only the parents and the children3)previously married men and women marry again and combine the children from formermarriages into a new family【原
36、文】The American family unit is in the process of change.There used to be mainly twotypes offamilies:the extended and the nuclear.The extended family most often includedmother,father,children,and some other relatives,such as grandparents,living in the same houseor nearby.Thenas job patterns changed an
37、d the economy progressed from agricultural to industrial,people wereforced to move to different parts of the country for job opportunities.These movessplit up theextended family.The nuclear family became more prevalent;this consisted of onlythe parents andthe children.Now besides these two types of
38、traditional groupings,the word familyis beingexpanded to include a variety of other living arrangements.Todays family can be made up of diverse combinations.With the divorce rate nearlyone intwo,there is an increase in single parent homes:a father or mother living withone or morechildren.Blended fam
39、ilies occur when previously married men and women marry againandcombine the children from former marriages into a new family.On the other hand,some couplesare deciding not to have any children at all,so there is an increase in childlessfamilies.There arealso more people who live alone:single,widowed
40、,divorced.Now one in five Americanslivesalone.Task 7【答案】A.Men Women Both整理为 word 格式Study subjects like history or EnglishStudy engineering Go to university to get good jobsLook for a good job because they want a good husbandLook for a good job because they want to be successful Work for a lifetime W
41、ork up to ten yearsGet married by twenty-sevenCook the mealsLook after the childrenGo out for a drink after work Come home by four oclock in the afternoonB.1)c 2)c 3)a 4)b 5)c 6)c 7)c【原文】In Japan both men and women go to university and both men and women study the artssuchas history or English.But v
42、ery few women study science,medicine or engineering.In engineeringclasses of thirty or forty students,there may be only one or two women.Men andwomen both goto university in order to get good jobs:men want to work for a big company,besuccessful,earn alot of moneyand support a family;women,onthe othe
43、r hand,want to work for a bigcompanybecause they have a better chance of meeting a successful man and getting married.This ischanging,however,as Japanese women begin to think about their own careers.Theyhave beganto take jobs which they like rather than jobs in order to find a husband.Men work for t
44、heir whole lives and usually stay with the same company.A woman mayworkup to ten years,but after that she usually gets married.Most women are marriedby the age oftwenty seven,then they stay at home and look after the children.A man does notcook or look整理为 word 格式after the children.When he comes home
45、,his meal must be ready.The woman may goout in theafternoon,shopping with her friends or having a chat,but she must go back homeby four oclockto prepare the meal.Then she may have to wait a long time for her husband to comehome.Oftenhe has to go out for a drink after work:if he doesnt he may not ris
46、e very highin the company.After her children grow up,a woman can go back to work,but it is not easy.If herformercompany takes older women back,she might be lucky.But most women find it difficultto find ajob when they are older.Task 8【答案】A.1)a 2)c 3)b 4)c 5)c 6)b 7)c 8)bB.1)T 2)T 3)F 4)F 5)T 6)F 7)F
47、8)F 9)T 10)F【原文】Matthew:Geth,how do people set about getting married in England?Geth:I suppose the most common way is still for people to go home.For example,people wholive in London now will go back to their homes in the provinces where theyll meetalltheir relatives and their parents,and theyll get
48、 married in a church,with thebridewearing white,the traditionalwhite.Then theyll go off and have a booze-up withtheirrelatives and friends and a jolly good time will be had by all.Otherwise you cangetmarried in a registry office,which means you turn up with your bride-to-be orbridegroom-to-be with t
49、wo witnesses only.The ceremony takes about five minutes,Isuppose.You sign the form and thats it.Matthew:There are many today who say that marriage is a complete waste of time.Whats yourview of marriage in the twentieth century?Goth:Well,I live in London as you know.I think in London,the tendency is
50、to.for a.boyand girl,man or woman to live together before marriage and often to live togetherwithout any prospect of marriage at all.I think this probably is.is true of Londonand整理为 word 格式the other big cities than elsewhere,because after all people in Londonare livingin a bigplace where home ties a