Creative Reading book 4 13-15答案

Unit 13:Understanding the text:Part A:Solutions:1.Broadcasting lessons through the television and radio/ Using modern telephone services/Using facsimile machines/ Using satellite technology/ Using the Internet2.Trying satellite transmissions3.Delivering tapes of the broadcasts4.Making face-to-face contact with each student once a year: Teachers visit students, or studentsattend mini-schools.Technology Used”1.telephones2.videos3.radios4.satellites5.Internet6.facsimile7.audiosPart B:1i/2c/3e/4b/5a/6g/7h/8f/9dServices Provided:1.Established The Correspondence School, School of the Air, three regional stations and 19Distance Learning Centers.2.Provided educational services in a more efficient way (than correspondence)3.Provides quality distance education services and flexible delivery of courses to a wide varietyof institutions and clients by employing educational and technological specialists to write, broadcast, distribute, coordinate and market distant education services and materials.4.Creates and delivers educational materials to every school in Western Australia and to everyremote learning area.Developing your skills:Part A:Not surprisingly, four times more is the number of respondents using ICQ for entertainment than for their studies. When asked about its effect on their studies, less than a quarter thought that it had any effect. Slightly fewer people use ICQ for fun than for making friends, and there is a significant difference between those using it for entertainment and those declaring “other” reasons for using ICQ.Extending your vocabulary:Part A:1.The People’s Republic of China2.The United Kingdom3.Great Britain4.The United Nations5.The United States of America6.Japan or Japanese7.China or Chinese8.English9.Central Intelligence Agency10.Federal Bureau of Investigation11.World Health Organization12.January13.Master of Business Administration14.Doctor of Philosophy15.kilometer16.kilogram17.Young Women’s Christian Association18.Young Men’s Christian Association19.Young Urban Professionals20.World Wide Web21.as soon as possible22.that is to say23.(for) example24.by the way25.page26.pages27.Please turn over28.carbon copy29.enclosed30.curriculum vitae31.personal computer32.northwest33.southeastpact disk35.video compact disk36.digital video disk37.I seek you38.water closet39.telephone (number)40.MondayPart B:1.cater for2.remote3.prohibitive4.transmission5.enhance6.medium7.coordinate8.exploitedThe student’s letter:Dear Minister:I am writing to you to ask if it would be possible to set up a system of distance learning for the young people of my region.For many years, there has been no school, or, rather, the nearest school is two hours away and children cannot go there every day. The younger school-age children have been looked after by Mrs. Wong, who used to be a teacher a long time ago, but now she is too old and we need a better system of schooling. The older ones, or at least those whose parents have enough money and can spare them from the farm, have to leave home and board in the school because it is too far away. Our main problem, however, is the fact that the young children will not learn how to read and write.I have and idea that might work in our village. Very few people have computers in our village, but some do. We have a large village hall where we sometimes have dances or meetings, and although I can’s ask you to buy computers for everybody, it would be possible to install four or five computers in the village hall and people would come and learn on the Internet. Perhaps you could send someone out to help install this and explain how the system works?I hope that you will be able to reply positively to my request, Minister. We need your help here in the remote lands of our region.Thanking you in anticipation, I remain,Yours sincerely,Michael ChangThe minister’s letter:Dear Mr. Chang:I read your letter requesting some form of distance learning for your village with great interest. I am not unaware of the problems posed by the lack of schooling in remote regions such as your own. My government has tried to find some solutions to these problems and I think that we are nearing our objective.The problems facing us, however, are very serious. The cost of building schools in small settlements such as yours is prohibitive. How many students would there be at any time in this school? Ten? Fifteen? This is not enough and this is the problem we face. To make a school viable, we need a minimum of fifty pupils, and even then, it is difficult to justify the investment. We also have the problem of finding teachers willing to go and live in such remote areas, even if we had a building to use.Despite these difficulties, we have never given up. We believe that only if young people are well educated will they be able to live a more meaningful life in the future. It is of utmost importance for them to maximize each learning opportunity, and this explains why we have been looking for what we are able to do to help them.Your idea of shared computers in the village hall is a feasible solution for which we have been looking. I am seriously considering using it as a pilot scheme to see if it works, and if it does, we could use it in other remote regions. At least it is an intermediary proposal, while waiting for the results of your discussions on the construction of new schools and transport systems to enable pupils to attend.I shall contact you again when we have decided, but I would say that there are strong possibilities that your request may be granted.Yours sincerely,Minister of EducationUnit 14:Understanding the text:Part A:Fears and Worries: He thought he might be “on the scrap-heap”./ He thought he might be considered “of no use.”/ How would he manage financially?/ He was nervous of having the official status of being “retired”.Positive Expectations: “jam-packed” with things to do/ He had already retired once, and enjoyed the changes it brought about, the new country, etc./ Money is not a real problem---he already has a good “package” from before./ Has enough time to do all the things he has been putting off “until tomorrow”.Very positive.Part C:1.Because he doesn’t feel “old”, he still feels life is to be enjoyed to the full.2.Because they were trying to tease (in a way bully) Albert because he was so quiet but he hadmade them realize they had not accurately understood his character at all---they were embarrassed.3.To provide examples of seemingly meaningless or very unimportant incidents that are soclearly remembered when the more important events of his life seem to be forgotten. This shows us that, perhaps, it is the accumulation of these seemingly unimportant events that shape and mould our character and our life.4.It means that the past and the future always seem to be more enjoyable, more exciting than thepresent. The present always seems a disappointment.5.He is saying he hopes that he will always be too busy doing things, enjoying the present andthinking about the future, to spend much time looking back and being nostalgic.Developing your skills:Part A:Expression form Text: 7-8-1-10-4-2-5-9-3-6Part B:1.Seize the day---if you have an opportunity to do something now, don’t wait until later, when the opportunity may have passed.2.If things are going badly now, don’t despair; they may improve tomorrow, or later.Other examples:1.If you worry about the future, you cannot enjoy the present.2.Don’t exhaust all your resources today; save some for tomorrow.3.The future will bring what it brings and there is little you can do about it, so don’t worry about it!4.Make the most of today, the present, because if you think that tomorrow may be better, this is not necessarily true.Part C:1.Yes, but to retire to something you have to have had something to retire from!2.But all work and no play make Jack a dull boy (another English saying)! We all need anappropriate work-life balance.3.But if you make rest a habit, then that too becomes a curse.4.I agree. Retiring must be a positive move, with plans to do things that you want to do ratherthan things that you have to do.5.Not if you enjoy your work. It is very negative to think that your life’s work is meaningless.The enjoyment you have got from it gives it meaning.6.All these things make one think negatively about oneself, but perhaps the feelings aredifferent. I agree that losing one’s job makes one lose one’s self-confidence and sense of worth to those around one.Extending your vocabulary:Part A:Antonyms: boring/vigorous/repulsive/cowardly/placid/unprofitable/huge/crucial/raguely1.My English teacher was a huge man.2.Eating until you are sick is a repulsive idea.3.I am vaguely thinking of going to Hong Kong for my holidays.4.Just leaving your girlfriend without telling her is the cowardly way out.Unit 15:Understanding the text:Part A:1.Persia, Arabia, India and Egypt.2.had left something in the palace.3.they had betrayed him.4.more than a thousand lovely young girls.5.the thieves beat him and cut off his fingers, and he did not want to suffer any more.6.merchants when they went to Ali Baba’s house.7.pouting hot oil on their heads one by one.8.he enjoyed listening to her stories and always wanted to hear the endings, which were giventhe next day.Part B:Before: mad/ killed innocent girls/ lost wisdom to rule his kingdomAfter: stopped killing innocent girls/ appreciated his wife’s talents/ realized that not all women were wicked and faithless/ realized that he must put his kingdom in order again/ able to rule his kingdom wiselyPart C:1.translated the stories into English4.betrayed by his wife and maidservants/ became mad/ killed one innocent girl (his new wife) everyday/ married Sheherezade/ realized his own fault because of Sheherezade5.took the initiative to marry King Shahriah so as to convert him/ told the king part of a story each night/ successfully converted the king6.overheard the magic password and stole the 40 thieves’ money and treasure/ killed all the thieves and lived happily as a rich man for the rest of his life7.overheard the magic password/ caught by the thieves/ killed by the thievesDeveloping your skills:Part A:Column B:1.something the king had left in his palace2.the 40 thieves3.the thieves’ money and treasure4.Ali Baba’s brother5.the leader and two other thieves6.Ali Baba’s servant7.readers8.Sheherezade telling a story each night9.the king’s10.the kingPart B:1.The purpose of knocking him on the head was to make sure that he could not warn the others.2.After realizing that there must be other thieves in the other jars, Ali Baba asked his servant toboil a large quantity of oil.1. so2. so that3. so4. so5. so thatExtending your vocabulary:Part A: 1B 2A 3B 4B 5A 6A 7B 8B 9B 10A 11A 12B 13B 14A 15A 16B 17B 18A 19B 20APart B: 1Y 2Y 3Y 4Y 5Y 6X 7Y 8Y 9X 10Y 11X 12Y 13X 14Y 15X 16Y 17Y 18X 19Y 20X Expanding your creativity:RapunzelThere were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire. They had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world.One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion (rapunzel). It looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, and had the greatest desire to eat some. This desire increased everyday, and as she knew that she could not get any of it, she quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable. Then her husband was alarmed, and asked: “What ails you, dear wife?”“Ah,”she replied, “if I can eat some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die.”The man, who loved her, thought, “Sooner than let your wife die, bring her some of the rampion yourself. Let it cost what it will.”At twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife. She at once made herself a salad of it, and ate it greedily. It tasted so good to her---so very good, that the next day she longed for it three times as much as before. If her husband was to have any rest, he must once again descend into the garden. In the gloom of evening, therefore, he let himself down again. But when he had clambered down the wall he was terrified, for he saw the enchantress standing before him. “How dare you,” said she with an angry look, “descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief? You shall suffer for it!”“Ah,” answered he, “let mercy take the place of justice! I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity. My wife saw your rampion from the window, and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat.” Then the enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him: “If the case be as you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will. Only I make one condition: You must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world; it shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother.” The man in his terror consented to everything, and when the woman was brought to bed, the enchantress appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her. Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child under the sun. When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest, and had neither stairs nor door, but quite at the top there was a little window. When the enchantress wanted to go in, she placed herself beneath it and cried: “Rapunzel, Repunzel, let down your hair to me.” Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of window above, and then the hair fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.After a year or two, it came to pass that the king’s son rode through the forest and passed by the tower. Then he heard a song, which was so charming that he stood still and listened. This was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting her sweet voice resound. The king’s osn wanted to climb up to her, and looked for the door of the tower, but none was to be found. He rode home, but the singing had so deeply touched his heart, that everyday he went out into the forest and listened to it. Once when he was thus standing behind a tree, he saw that an enchantress came there, and he heard how she cried, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair to me.”Then Rapunael let down the braids of her hair, and the enchantress climbed up to her. “If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I too will try my fortune,” said he, and the next day when it began togrow dark, he went to the tower and cried: “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair to me.”Immediately the hair fell down and the king’s son climbed up.At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man, such as her eyes had never yet beheld, came to her; but the king’s son began to talk to her quite like a friend, and told her that his heart had been so stirred that it had made him restless, and he had been forced to see her. Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him for her husband, and she saw that he was young and handsome, she thought: “He will love me more than old Dame Gothel does”, and she said yes, and laid her hand in his. She said: “I will willingly go away with you, but I do not know how to get down. Bring with you a skein of silk every time you come, and I will weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready, I will descend, and you will take me on your horse.” They agreed that until that time he should come to her every evening, for the old woman came by day. The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until one day Rapunzel said to her: “Tell me, Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young son of the king---he is with me in a moment.”“Ah! You wicked child!” cried the enchantress, “What do I hear you say! I thought I had separated you from all the world, and yet you have deceived me!” In her anger she clutched Rapunzel’s beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground. And she was so pitiless that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.On the same day she cast out Rapunzel, however, the enchantress fastened the braids of hair, which she had cut off, to the hook of the window, and when the king’s son came and cried: “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair to me.” She let the hair down. The king’s son ascended, but instead of finding his dearest Rapunzel, he found the enchantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomous looks. “Aha!” she cried mockingly, “you would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well. Rapunzel is lost to you; you will never see her again.”The king’s son was beside himself with pain, and in his despair he leapt down from the tower. He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell pierced his eyes. Then he wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries, and did nothing but lament and weep over the loss of his dearest wife. Thus he roamed about in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapunzel, with the twins to which she had given birth, a boy and a girl, lived in wretchedness. He heard a voice, and it sounded so familiar to him that he went towards it, and when he approached, Rapunzel saw him and fell on his neck and wept. Two of her tears wetted his eyes and they grew clear again, and he could see with them as before. He led her to his kingdom where he was joyfully received, and they lived for a long time afterwards, happy and contented.。