
U5
- Listening
A. Communicate
Answers will vary.
C. Vocabulary
1、b
2、g
3、I
4、c
5、d
6、h
7、j
8、e
9、f
10、a
D. Listen for Main Ideas
1、C
2、B
3、A
4、B
5、B
E. Listen for Details
- Extended Listening
Exercise A
1、B
2、B
3、C
4、C
Exercise B
To sign up for activities promising stress relief, to learn new techniques to cope with stress, and to find all means and ways to manage their stress.
Exercise C
Exercise D
·China’s Ministry of Education is aware of the negative effects of too much academic stress on students and has taken action to reduce it.
Exercise E
1、B
2、B
Exercise F
1、In 2018.
2、It assessed the primary and junior high school education sectors in China.
3、Advanced preparation.
4、The desire to succeed remains fierce among Chinese students and parents.
Exercise G
1、C
2、B
3、D
4、D
5、A
Exercise H
Exercise I
1、C
2、C
3、B
Exercise J
Exercise K
A
- Speaking
A. Communicate
1、Answers will vary. (e.g. What causes chronic stress? Psychological fear or worry about the future that lasts a long time.)
2、Answers will vary. (e.g. What are the results of too much stress? Thicker heart muscles and high blood pressure that can lead to heart disease.)
3、Answers will vary. (e.g. What are the effects of stress on your everyday life?)
Exercise E
- TEDTalks
C. Vocabulary
1、A
2、A
3、B
4、B
5、B
6、B
7、C
8、B
D. Watch for Main Ideas
1、B
2、C
3、A
4、A
5、A
E. Watch for Details
Segment 1:
↑
↑
=
>
Segment 2:
→
→
→
G. Expand Your Vocabulary
1、B freaked me out
2、C change your mind
3、C fine-tunes
4、A bottling it up
5、A reach out to
Self-test
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U6
- Listening
A. Think Critically
1、Answers will vary. (e.g. Something that is precious is valuable and important; water, reefs)
2、Answers will vary.
C. Vocabulary
1、b
2、j
3、d
4、c
5、e
6、I
7、f
8、h
9、a
10、g
D. Listen for Main Ideas
·The preservation of coral reefs is important for both marine and human life.
E. Listen for Details
F. Listen and Take Notes
Exercise H
TA:
reefs
so
to
ocean
health
Student:
habitats
lots
of
species
TA:
can
you
link
directly
to
ocean
health
Exercise I
1、OK, now let’s talk about what’s happening to the reefs.
2、About 20 percent are badly damaged and can’t recover.
3、About one half are at risk, but can be saved.
- Extended Listening
Exercise A
1、C
2、C
3、D
Exercise B
1、Nearly 900 dolphins.
2、Bleeding and fractures in dolphins’ middle ears, and probably decompression sickness (when they rose to the surface too quickly).
3、It can cause them to die.
4、The ability to identify predators.
Exercise C
·The Chinese government has taken action to protect the habitat of the endangered Chinese sturgeon.
Exercise D
1、B
2、B
3、C
4、C
Exercise E
1、In the ocean.
2、For about 40 years.
3、Water and noise pollution, overfishing, heavy water traffic and the reduction of free-flowing water.
4、(1)The government designated important ecological areas along the river.
(2)The government set up a new River Chief system (where government employees are tasked to manage water pollution and ecological issues).
Exercise F
1、A
2、D
3、B
Exercise G
1、70%
2、half of the oxygen
3、the climate
most of our rain
global warming and climate change
4、natural remedies
5、get their income
6、more than one billion
Exercise H
1、Increasing human activities; man-made problems.
2、We should take positive action. For example, we can limit fishing to reasonable levels and use alternative energy (such as wind and solar power), to ease the problems caused by climate change and pollution.
Exercise I
1、solutions
cleaning up the mess
oceans
2、humans have created
Exercise J
Exercise K
1、C
2、D
3、D
4、A
5、A
- Speaking
Exercise C
1、information question
2、yes / no question
3、statement question
- TEDTalks
Exercise C
1、B
2、C
3、B
E.Vocabulary
1、F
2、F
3、F
4、T
5、T
6、T
7、F
8、F
T
9、T
F. Watch for Main Ideas
·People respect museums and value the things that are in them.
·He wants people to respect the oceans as much as they respect museums so that they will protect them from environmental damage.
·Museums are a well-respected educational resource.
G. Watch for Details
1、A
2、B
3、C
4、B
5、B
6、A
H. Expand Your Vocabulary
1、A steep learning curve
2、C Teaming up with
3、A taken up
4、A blow my mind
5、A plug into
6、A the havoc we’re wreaking
Self-test
1-5: CABAD
6-10:BACAB
1-5: DADBC
6-10:ADACA
U7
- Listening
A. Communicate
1、Answers will vary.
2、Answers will vary.
C. Vocabulary
1、j
2、d
3、b
4、a
5、c
6、I
7、g
8、h
9、f
10、e
D. Listen for Main Ideas
·We need more research before we can say exactly how the Internet affects reading.
·Young people are losing their ability to read because of the Internet.
·Young people do not understand why they should memorize information.
·Because the Internet has written text as well as pictures and videos, it makes reading easier for some students.
·Young people read differently today than in the past.
·By not reading deeply, young people are missing a lot.
Exercise E
F. Listen for Details
Exercise G
1、A
2、A
3、C
4、B
- Extended Listening
Exercise A
1、C
2、B
3、A
Exercise B
Digital education.
Exercise C
1、subject
age, ability or location
2、level the playing field
cheap
poorer students
affordable and accessible
3、ideas
world
repeat
fear
assignments
purchase
textbooks or stationery
Exercise D
1、B
2、C
3、D
Exercise E
1、Nearly 2,500.
2、Taking shortcuts and not putting effort into their writing.
3、They had to look up information in libraries and archives.
4、They gave students the lowest scores for these issues.
5、Critical thinking and methodical research.
Exercise F
1、C
2、D
3、B
Exercise G
1、T
2、F
3、T
4、F
Exercise H
1、A
2、B
3、D
Exercise I
An Example of Critical Thinking Exercise:
candles and matches
How does a candle burn
Procedure of the exercise:
1、lit
watched them burn
2、theory after theory
why their candles burned
3、why these theories were wrong
4、closer to the truth
The answer to the question students had through critical thinking:
1、flame
wax
vapor
rose
hot
2、fed the flame
wax into vapor
- TEDTalks
D. Vocabulary
1、A
2、C
3、A
4、C
5、C
6、A
7、B
8、A
9、B
10、B
E. Watch for Main Ideas
Segment 1:
·Mitra believes that because of advances in technology, the education system we have today is outdated and needs to change.
Segment 2:
·The Hole-in-the-Wall experiments were more successful than Mitra had expected.
Segment 3:
·Through the Hole-in-the-Wall experiments, Mitra showed that there is a way to level the playing field for all children, rich and poor.
Segment 4:
·The grannies are very important because they motivate the students to learn.
Segment 5:
·Mitra’s goal is a new educational system in which teachers start the learning process and then let children self-organize and learn by themselves.
E. Watch for Details
Segment 1:
1、credit card debt
2、environmental footprint
3、happiness
Segment 2:
1、footprint
2、save (you some) money
3、more ease
Segment 3
1、edit
2、space
3、multifunctional spaces
F. Watch for Details
3
4
1
6
7
2
8
5
G. Expand Your Vocabulary
1、A sets the stage
2、C run the show
3、B How on earth
4、C haven’t the foggiest idea
5、B ahead of their time
6、A spare parts
Self-test
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U8
- Listening
A. Communicate
1、Answers will vary. (e.g. They are remodeling, or fixing up, an old home. They might feel excited, nervous, tired, etc.)
2、Answers will vary. (e.g. Some people might like to do DIY projects because it’s cheaper than hiring someone, it gives them a way to be creative, they can work with their hands, it challenges them, and they enjoy the final product more because of their hard work.)
3、Answers will vary. (e.g. For all of the reasons listed in Number 2, and also because they can personalize the things they make.)
4、Answers will vary.
C. Vocabulary
1、C
2、C
3、B
4、A
5、A
6、B
7、B
8、C
9、B
10、B
D. Listen for Main Ideas
1、Answers will vary. (e.g. Results: most people in Group 1 did nothing. They did not work on the bracelet because there was no real reason to do so; they would just be taking the bracelet apart and putting it back together again in exactly the same way. They probably could not see the point in doing that.)
2、Answers will vary. (e.g. Results: most people in Group 2 worked on the bracelet. They did so because they had a reason to do it—to change the bracelet’s design.)
3、Answers will vary. (e.g. Results: they put a higher value on their own frogs, because people have a strong tendency to overvalue things that they do or make themselves.)
4、Answers will vary. (e.g. Results: they put a higher value on the expert-made frogs. They did not make the frogs themselves, so they were able to see that the expert-made frogs were of a higher quality and thus worth more than the ones made by the experiment participants.)
2、A
3、C
4、C
E. Listen for Details
2
4
3
1
7
6
8
5
F. Listen for Details
2
1
4
3
- Extended Listening
Exercise A
1、C
2、B
3、C
Exercise B
1、Answers will vary. (e.g. When Jake becomes a teenager, in about 7 years.)
2、He told his father to paint his room yellow and told his mother blue.
3、He felt uncomfortable as he and his wife Susan painted their son’s room yellow and blue and he thought their son would be disappointed at the mix-up.
4、The colors reminded him of his favorite movie characters, the Minions.
Exercise C
1、C
2、A
3、B
4、D
Exercise D
1、resources
ecosystems
quality
2、500
3、Airbnb and Uber
Exercise E
2
1
3
5
4
6
7
9
11
8
10
Exercise F
1、A
2、C
3、B
4、C
Exercise G
1、Software was no longer free and you couldn’t alter it. It soon became expensive.
2、To offer the source code of its browser for free.
3、They thought “free” software sounded second-rate.
Exercise H
1、B
2、D
3、D
Exercise I
1、T
2、T
3、F
- TEDTalks
Exercise A
A/B/C/D
D. Vocabulary
1、a
2、h
3、I
4、b
5、c
6、j
7、f
8、e
9、d
10、g
C. Listen for Signals
1、B
2、C
3、A
E. Watch for Main Ideas
·help people live in a way that does not hurt the environment
·teach people how to achieve high productivity in a small business environment
·help people become more self-reliant and less dependent on large industry and corporations
F. Watch for Details
Segment 1:
·Answers will vary. (e.g. Background: farmer, technologist, fr. Poland, now in the U.S.)
·Answers will vary. (e.g. Important machines: tractors, bread ovns, circuit mkers)
Segment 2:
·Answers will vary. (e.g. robust, modular, ↑ efficient + optimized, ↓ cost, made fr local + recycle matrls— last lifetime, NOT become obsolete)
Segment 3:
Answers will vary. (e.g. 3D desgns, schematics, instruct videos, budgets)
Segment 4:
Answers will vary. (e.g. farming, building, manufacturing)
Segment 5:
Answers will vary. (e.g. Who: developing wrld, Amer farmer, builder, entrepr, maker; What: strt construc bus, parts manufact, orgnc CSA, sell power back to grid)
Exercise H
1、A
2、B
3、B
I. Expand Your Vocabulary
1、A a fraction of the cost
2、C was broke
3、A showing up
4、C unleash
5、B supply chains
Self-test
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6-10:BADBA
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