《高级时事英语》形考答案
教师：赵军
Assignment for unit one
Task I listening
News for the week
Headline: man kills family
Main idea: a man shot and killed five members in his family and then phoned a friend.
Listening for pleasure
Headline: mind your own business
Main idea: an Australia man invited some of his Chinese friends to dinner, after the meal his friends insisted on asking him "how much the dinner costs", at last he told them it was none of their business.
Assignment for unit two
Writing: unwelcome gift
Jack and Laowang are good friends for years. A few days ago, Laowang invited jack for dinner to wish him farewell before his return to states.
Jack went to Wang's family for dinner and made a short speech; meanwhile, he presented Laowang with an antique clock to thank him for his help and support in these years. But then Laowang put this clock in another room. This made Jack confused and he said: "I'd like you to accept this small clock as a token of our long friendship". "Thank you", Wang said. "Don't you like it", "thank you".
At this moment another guest explained to Jack: giving a clock unlucky in Chinese culture and the word clock ----- zhong ----- also means end of life. But Jack said: "clock is the typical gift in America and everyone would be pleased".
At last, Jack said: "I was visiting china for years, used to cultural differences and never heard about clocks being unlucky. Cultural differences are part of the fun of traveling and now I have a lot to learn from Chinese".
Assignment for unit three
Task I listening
News for the week
Headline: a most unusual school
Main idea: children at Summerhill are given as much freedom as possible.
Listening for pleasure
Headline: cars
Main idea: talk about the advantages and disadvantages of cars.
Assignment for unit four
Writing: television
Television presents a vivid world in front of us. We can bring the theater, art, con certs, and sports events into our homes when we might otherwise never be able to see them. Television brings the world to people who cannot travel.
Television can also play an educational role in our daily life. Not only can we hear and see news as it happens, we can actually observe the paces and the people involved. Also people are able to take college courses by television. We are more knowledgeable of the whole world because of television.
However, television can also be harmful. Many of the programs now available show violence and scenes which are harmful to young people. Some students watch television instead of studying and doing exercise. Even though TV can educate and bring the world to us, we must carefully select the programs to watch.
Assignment for unit five
Task I listening
News for the week
Headline: state to improve controls on land
Main idea: measures to protect farmlands and control the growing land market.
Listening for pleasure
Headline: domestic violence
Main idea: domestic violence is a serious crime which causes serious social problems.
Assignment for unit six
Writing: alcoholic drinking
Alcoholic drinking is a big social problem in China today and needs to be tackled seriously. Excessive drinking of strong spirits both at home and in bars has already brought much suffering both the individual drinker and his family and society. My neighbor is a person who drinks a lot everyday. Every time he gets drunk, his wife gets very angry and blames him. He will not accept what she says. The result is that they fight noisily and we are all disturbed.
In my opinion, social help should be offered to alcoholics first. The government should set up a special kind of service trying to provide counseling and education to them. This should make them realize the serious consequences drink brings to both themselves and their family and the society. At the same time the government should pass more laws to restrict alcoholic production and consumption.
In dealing with alcoholic drinking, we should be patient with those alcoholics who suffer from kinds of troubles. But meanwhile, we need to be determined in our efforts to eliminate.
Assignment for unit seven
Task I listening
News for the week
Headline: British womanhood
Main idea: it gives some general information about what has been discovered by the central statistical office in its first comprehensive report and gives illustrations of different types of women to be found in Britain today.
Listening for pleasure
Headline: cyberspace for kids?
Main idea: children's fascination with computers is not guaranteed to last. The internet can be frustrating for kids if steps are not taken to ensure that they know how to use it.
Assignment for unit eight
Writing: how to spend the money
Refer to the book page 422 for the passage "how to spend the money".
Reading assignment 1
Title of your reading: should the Press be human
Author and source of your reading: Katharine Whitehorn in The Observer
The main idea: the author attacks journalists who witness crimes or acts of atrocity and deliberately do nothing to help to get a good story or paragraph, and concludes that journalists should remain human .
Reading assignment 2
Title of your reading: Parenting's best-kept secret: Reading to your children
Author and source of your reading: Barbara Bush in The Reader's Digest
The main idea: children who have been read to by their parents regularly from an early age seem to have a much greater interest in books and start school ahead of others in their readiness to read.
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