
U1
Listening
A. Communicate
1、1Answers will vary. (e.g. Type of business: a small gourmet food shop; a takeout restaurant; a grocery store with specialty products. Cheap or expensive products: Probably expensive because it looks like they carry gourmet products in small quantities (not like a large supermarket).
2、Answers will vary. (e.g. Types of small businesses: family-owned restaurants, boutiques / clothing stores, dry cleaners, car repair shops, bakeries, etc. Qualities of small business owners: hardworking, good with money, willing to take risks, independent, good leadership / managerial skills, creative, practical, disciplined, and self-confident.)
3、Answers will vary
C. Vocabulary
1、g
2、i
3、d
4、a
5、f
6、h
7、e
8、c
9、b
10、j
D. Listen for Main Ideas
1、T
2、F
3、T
4、T
E. Listen for Details
Segment 1:
1、
24
more than 30 billion dollars
2、difficult
rapid
3、television
investors
4、Bill Gate
Segment 2:
1、a café
seven
2、free time
Segment 3:
1、one third
(one) half
2、30
bankruptcy
Segment 4:
1、marriage / family life
2、divorced
chose
Exercise F
2、Answers will vary. (e.g. There is no guarantee of becoming rich as a business owner.)
3、Answers will vary. (e.g. You have to make difficult choices between family and work.)
G. Listen and Take Notes
Extended Listening
Exercise A
1、B
2、A
3、C
4、B
Exercise B
Exercise C
1、A
2、B
3、D
4、B
Exercise D
1、the chef
the wait staff
2、brighter than me
out of their way
3、daring and creative
new ideas
Exercise E
1、C
2、B
3、C
4、B
Exercise F
1、F
2、T
3、F
4、T
Exercise G
1、D
2、A
3、B
4、B
Exercise H
1、$50,000 to $80,000 a month.
2、To finish school and become a doctor.
3、His company was making $66 million a year.
4、Dell is one of the largest computer companies and earns nearly $80 billion a year.
5、He did not have a passion for computers and drive to succeed in business.
TEDTalks
C. Vocabulary
1、C
2、B
3、A
4、B
5、A
6、B
7、A
8、A
9、C
10、A
D. Watch for Main Ideas
·When you become successful, set an even higher goal for yourself.
·Many entrepreneurs fail because they do not take responsibility for their own ·mistakes.
·Make sure you take time to celebrate when you are successful.
E. Watch for Details
Segment 1:
1、Answers will vary. (e.g. By taking life and education seriously for 17 years.)
Segment 2:
2、Answers will vary. (e.g. choices you will have to make)
3、Answers will vary. (e.g. make mistakes)
4、Answers will vary. (e.g. decision-making)
Segment 3:
5、Yes
6、Answers will vary. (e.g. To work hard for more success.)
Segment 4:
7、Yours
8、Answers will vary. (e.g. Celebrate your achievement.)
F. Identify Examples
G. Expand Your Vocabulary
1、B everything is set
2、B the market
3、C good talent
4、C made it
5、A turn into
6、B for sure
Self-test
1—5: BDAAD
6–10: BCBDC
1—5: ACACC
6–10: BBACA
U2
Listening
A. Communicate
Answers will vary.
C. Vocabulary
1、I
2、d
3、a
4、e
5、h
6、c
7、g
8、f
9、b
10、j
D. Listen for Main Ideas
·Emoji and emoticons help people to communicate better.
·Emoji and emoticons are harming written language.
F. Listen for Details
4
3
6
5
2
Exercise G
Segment 1:
1、Simple pictures.
2、Punctuation or other non-letter symbols.
3、A combination of two words to make one word.
4、Basketball / Sunlight.
5、Picture
6、Character
Segment 2:
7、Facial expressions and gestures.
Segment 3:
8、Abbreviations.
9、u for you.
Exercise H
1、Answers will vary. (e.g. we’re losing ablty to commun cmplx ideas = step back)
2、Answers will vary. (e.g. emoji + emot imprv lng = step frwrd)
Extended Listening
Exercise A
1、C
2、B
3、C
4、D
Exercise B
1、5.2 billion
2、diversity
the culture of former speakers
3、awareness
endangered languages
grants
language-preservation projects
4、record and upload
5、hear the words
learn the language
Exercise C
1、B
2、C
3、D
Exercise D
1、T
2、F
3、F
4、T
5、F
Exercise E
1、A
2、B
3、B
Exercise F
1、They enjoy playing with the language and actively invent new vocabulary.
2、To express new ideas and objects.
3、Because England was once ruled by French-speaking Normans.
4、By using prefixes and suffixes.
Exercise G
1、D
2、A
3、C
Exercise H
2、invented to describe sounds and the things that make sounds; also invented by repeating a sound with a small change
3、invented by reducing phrases
4、the shortening of a longer word, often reducing it to one syllable
5、combining elements from two words
Exercise I
TEDTalks
C. Vocabulary
1、C
2、B
3、B
4、C
5、C
6、B
7、A
8、A
9、A
10、A
D. Watch for Main Ideas
·She wants to encourage people to be creative with language.
E. Watch for Details
a、1
b、3,5
c、4,6
F. Watch for Details
1、T
2、F
3、T
4、F
5、T
6、F
G. Listen for Explanations Of Words and Terms
1、c
2、a
3、b,d,e
4、d,e
H. Explain Words and Terms
1、boutique
2、thunderstorm
3、camcorder
4、to flanme
5、LOL
I . Expand Your Vocabulary
1、C laws of nature
2、B as opposed to
3、A Give it a rest
4、C makes no sense
5、A Go ahead
Self-test
1–5: ABBCD
6-10:DBCAC
1–5:DCDBD
6-10: BCCBD
U3
Listening
A. Communicate
1、Answers will vary. (e.g. A dog trained in avalanche rescue is finding survivors.)
2、Answers will vary. (e.g. Animals as heroes: some animals, such as the dog in the picture, can be trained to find people after natural disasters.)
C. Vocabulary
1、h
2、j
3、c
4、b
5、d
6、g
7、e
8、a
9、f
10、I
D. Listen for Main Ideas
·the history of search and rescue dogs
·how technology could make search and rescue dogs more effective
·why rats are good at finding landmines
·why ravens might make very good rescue animals
E. Listen for Details
Exercise F
Segment 1:
Answers will vary. (e.g. Who used dogs for search and rescue in the 17th century? How did the dogs help rescue people?)
Segment 2:
Answers will vary. (e.g. What other skill did the dogs have?)
Segment 3:
Answers will vary. (e.g. What kind of technology are they using? How is technology making them more effective?)
Extended Listening
Exercise A
1、C
2、B
3、D
4、B
Exercise B
1、It was a magnitude 7.0 earthquake.
2、Three million.
3、An immediate response to the crisis.
4、Crisis mapping.
5、Crowd-sourced data.
Exercise C
1、B
2、B
3、A
4、C
Exercise D
1、gym
2、black
3、15
4、168
5、high energy
focus
Exercise E
1、B
2、B
3、C
4、B
Exercise F
1、can
a force for good
Yes
It can
2、does
to help many people
Yes
a force for good
Exercise G
1、T
2、F
3、T
4、T
5、F
Exercise H
1、B
2、B
3、C
4、A
Exercise I
1、2013
small earthquake
2、saving many lives
3、water, food, and tents
4、500 tents
1,250 blankets
earthquake survivors
5、nearly 1/3
health
Speaking
Exercise D
TEDTalks
D. Vocabulary
1、B
2、A
3、B
4、A
5、B
6、C
7、A
8、B
9、A
10、A
Exercise F
Segment 1:
more than 1M ppl killed / yr
2.5M disabled / displaced
community takes 20 — 30 yrs to recovr
Segment 2:
reduce 1st respns time by 1 day, reduce recvry
time by 1000 days (3 yrs)
insur. co. — if homeownrs’ claims procssd 1 day
earlier, home rebuilt 6 mths faster
G. Watch for Details
1、a,b,e,h,k
2、a,b,f,h,k
3、a,c,g,h,I
4、a,d,h,j
I. Expand Your Vocabulary
1、C pulling toghter
2、C wiped out
3、A putting at risk
4、A game changer
5、B the odds
6、A sort out
Self-test
1–5: BADBD
6-10:CCBDB
1–5: BCDAB
6-10:BCDAC
U4
Listening
A. Communicate
1、Answers will vary. (e.g. Temple Grandin’s visual output area appears much larger in the brain scan than a typical person’s. This relates to the title because it could make her a better visual learner — learning by seeing images and techniques.)
2、Answers will vary. (e.g. Challenges include making sure that children with autism get an education that will help them to realize their potential. Research on autism is revealing more and more about the potential that people with autism have to contribute to society, but public (and private) services and programs for people with autism are often not up-to-date with the latest research. Thus, families struggle to find the funding and programs that have the most hope of helping their loved ones. Children with autism sometimes have trouble caring for themselves physically, so this is also a challenge for their families. Some people with autism have special visual and spatial abilities, for example an extraordinary ability to recognize patterns in data or visual information; others have extraordinary talent in music or art; still others have extraordinary memories. These are just a few of the abilities that have been found in people with autism.)
C. Vocabulary
1、B
2、A
3、C
4、B
5、C
6、C
7、B
8、C
9、A
10、A
D. Listen for Main Ideas
1、N
2、T
3、F
4、F
5、T
6、F
E. Listen for Details
Segment 1:
difficult
difficulty
difficulties
1、Difficult / Difficulty.
2、How Dr. Grandin has faced many difficulties.
Segment 2:
brain
brain
handles
processes
1、Brain
2、handles
processes
3、How Dr. Grandin’s brain handles (or processes) information.
Extended Listening
Exercise A
1、C
2、A
3、B
4、C
5、D
Exercise B
Exercise C
1、C
2、A
3、C
4、C
5、B
Exercise D
1、eliminate
how you limit yourself
input
2、strengths
weaknesses
3、accurate
Exercise E
1、A
2、C
3、B
Exercise F
1、F
2、F
3、T
4、F
Exercise G
1、C
2、D
3、A
4、B
Exercise H
Exercise I
1、A person with physical disabilities can still succeed, but it may require more effort and hard work.
2、Someone with low social status can still do well, but it may take more effort and hard work.
3、You should master the challenges you face and work hard.
Speaking
Exercise A
1 of cattl wld becm prlyzd + stp moving.
contctd Dr. G
Dr. G saw facil, IDed prblm — hole in roof — lght came in
hole coverd, cattl calm
Exercise E
1、[t]
2、[d]
3、[d]
4、[d]
5、[t]
6、[d]
7、[әd]
8、[d]
9、[әd]
10、[t]
TEDTalks
D. Vocabulary
1–5: TFTTT
6-10:FTFTF
E. Watch for Main Ideas
·Everyone has limitations.
·Individual limitations can be opportunities to find creative solutions.
·Having the complete freedom to do whatever you want to do can be paralyzing.
F. Watch for Details
5
6
7
1
4
3
2
Exercise G
1、art
2、creat
3、lim
4、destr
5、img
6、appr
J. Expand Your Vocabulary
1、A went nuts
2、A came to mind
3、B coming up with
4、A going through the motions
5、B let go
Self-test
1–5: DACCB
6-10:BDACA
1-5: DADBD
6-10:CCCBC
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
1-5: BBCAB
6-10:BACAB
1-5: ABBAB
6-10:BCDCB
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
1-5: CBDBB
6-10:ADACB
1-5:CDBBA
6-10:CABAC
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.)
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
1-5: DCACB
6-10:BADBA
1-5:ACCDB
6-10:DBCBD
