Unit 3, Answers

Section Two, Part 1
Three years; Desperate for romance; serenader; Renaissance music; turned the serenade into an art form for hire; women; men; Theatre; love songs; white tie; tails; Italian songs; chocolate hearts or flowers; balcony; trees or fire escapes Whether a musician comes along or not; a gondola and a group of musicians; burst into tears; avoid unpleasant situations; completely misintews 2
Exercise A The talks between three European Union countries and Iran to find a basis for resuming negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program Iran’ Exercise B Britain, France and Germany; Iranian representatives; resuming negotiation; sensitive activities HighHigh-level; diminished hopes; defusing; Recent declarations; the prospects for a compromise; enough common grounds
Section Four, Part 2
Exercise C 1. A 2. D 3. A 4. D 5. A 6. C 7. B 8. B
Section Three, News 1
Exercise A Is about Asian countries’ reactions to the Japanese Prime countries’ Minister’ Minister’s annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine Exercise B 1. Japanese Prime Minister Jnichiro Koizumi again 2. a leading voice 3. the growing isolation o Japan in the region is being highlighted 4. China has indicated its President Hu Jingtao would not meet Mr. Koizumi and South Korean President says he’ll only greet he’ him out of courtesy as the host of the meeting. 5. Yes. Li Zhaoxing said that relations between the two countries were in difficulty and the Japanese were to blame.
Section Four, Part 1
Exercise A The recreation of the prehistoric word in Liaoning, China, based on the scientific findings on fossils discovered there
Section Three, News 3
Exercise A European Union foreign ministers’ meeting in ministers’ Brussels, which is expected to give formal approval to the EU’s new mission to monitor EU’ the border between Gaza Strip and Egypt. Exercise B T; 2. F; 3. F; 4. F
Section Four, Part 1
Exercise B 1. 35 prehistoric animals 2. through the marriage of science, art and technology 3. The exhibit is not behind the glass or otherwise enclosed, so visitors are eye-to-eye with existing beasts. It is displayed in this way so that visitors eye-towill feel as if they’re stepped into a Chinese forest 130 million years in the they’ past. 4. because every single plant, every insect, every organic feature in it accurately represents something that has been found as a fossil in northeastern China. 5. what color some of the animal were 6. birds are living dinosaurs 7. They study the movements of commonplace turkeys, chickens and ostriches to learn how similarly-built dinosaurs would stand or walk similarly8. scientists now estimate the Giant T-Rex could reach speeds of 16 Tkilometers per hour far slower than the more 70 kilometers per hour previously thought
Section One
Girls score higher than boys in almost every country. Differences between males and females are a continuing issue of fierce debate. Cultural and economic influences play an important part. But recent findings suggest that the answer may lie in differences between the male and female brain. These include differences in learning rates.
Section Two, Part 2
1. Mnemonics are methods for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall. 2. Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. 3. While language is one of the most important aspects of human evolution, it is only one of the many skills and resources available to our minds. 4. Association is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it. 5. Location gives you two things: a coherent context into which you can place information, and a way of separating one mnemonic form another.
Section Four, Part 2
Dictation The goal of this study was to determine what type of “gaze” is gaze” required to have this effect. The Queen’s study showed that the total amount of gaze Queen’ received during a group conversation is more important than when the eye contact occurs. The eye contact experiment used computer-generated images computerform actors who conveyed different levels of attention. The researchers concluded that people in group discussions will speak up more if they receive a greater amount of eye contact from other group members. The effect of eye gaze has literally fascinated people throughout the ages.