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Unit OneREADING ONECheck your comprehension1. They learn from their parents proper standards of conduct, principled values, and the importance of service.2. They get from their families encouragement, support, and love. All these are important for helping them become confident, compassionate, and successful members of society.3. The more time parents spend with their children, the less likely the children will be subjected to drugs and crimes.4. Yes, it’s very important. Because by spending quality ti me with their children, parents can help their children cope with social problem, such as drug abuse, alcoholism ect., and hence help them grow up healthily.5. To spend quality time with family members and engage in meaningful activities.Check your vocabulary1. We should keep up the values that America as a country has been sticking to in history so that the health and security of our families can be promoted and preserved.2. When parents spend more time with their children, they can get involved and havea real contact with them and can guide them in making the right choices in life.3. So, here and now, as President of the United States of America, with the authority given to me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, I, George W. Bush, proclaim September 23, 2002 as Family Day.Group discussionOpen.READING TWOCheck your comprehension1. d2. b3. c4. a5. aCheck your vocabulary1. The song “My Heart Will Go on” was all the rage at the end of 1997 after the movie Titanic was on.2. When Mary came back home, she found her husband and their dog nestled together on the sofa and the whole house was in a complete mess.3. I think we need to pause and contemplate what we are talking about now since this discussion is leading nowhere.4. We lit a big fire which made us feel very snug and safe.5. He painstakingly records details of every race.6. Her parents beamed with delight when they heard that she had won the contest.7. You might trade the car in for a smaller one.8. What with all this work and so little sleep at nights, I don’t think I can go on much longer.9. I know they don’t want me to do it and they would move heaven and earth to stopme if they could.Group discussion1. Because Almie Rose didn’t mention the bic ycle again, her parents assumed that she didn’t really want it.2. It may refer to an item (here in this context, a bicycle) that is rather expensive. 3-5. Open.READING THREECheck your comprehension1. T2. T3. F4. T5. T6. F7. TCheck your vocabulary1. deterioate2. reflect3. possession4. malady5. basically6. harsh7. acute8. distain9. alcohol 10. basic 11. alcoholic 12. guiltGroup discussionOpen.READING FOURCheck your comprehension A1. T2. T3. F4. F5. T6. TCheck your comprehension B1. Paragraph 2: The problem of child abuse has become a major topic in child development and an issue of much national concern.2. Paragraph 3: The variation in the reported figures of abused children is caused by the different interpretations of what child abuse is.3. Paragraph 4: Child abuse should be reported based on visible symptoms and evidence.Check your vocabulary A1. span2. clear up3. variation4. dramatic5. principal6. symptom7. prompt8. persistent9. hypothesisCheck your vocabulary B1. We do not intervene unless the children are being physically maltreated.2. He inflicted a great deal of sufferings on his wife and children.3. Over a span of ten years, the company has made great strides.4. The report stated that Dr Brandy had been negligent in not giving the patienta full examination.5. She has been designated to take over the position of treasurer.6. He suffered severe back injuries, which plague him to this day.7. They have to make the walls strong enough to withstand high winds.8. The government should consider further legislative reforms.9. He went on listening to her, at times impatient and at times fascinated.10. National poverty was aggravated by rapid population growth.Group discussionOpenPOST-READINGA.A love-filled family environment is a cradle for bringing up happy, healthy children. On the other hand, a worsening husband-wife relationship will cause unspeakable damage to an innocent child like Tommy, who is trapped in the middle of this torture. Love is, and will always be the answer to restoring a happy family.B.1. c2. a3. b4. b5. dUnit TwoREADING ONECheck your comprehension1. The training that a psychologist needs to undergo includes an average of seven years of graduate study for a doctoral degree, a supervised clinical internship and at least one year of post-doctoral supervised experience.2. Because when one has good emotional health, he / she is able to experience feelings, share them appropriately and not be overwhelmed by them.3. T he survey revealed that 47 percent of Americans don’t know how to find a mental health professional to help them.4. According to Dr. Cantor, learning to talk about one’s problems and concer ns is an important part of taking good care of oneself and maintaining good psychological health.5. If one has good emotional health, he / she is more likely to maintain both the level of physical health and emotional health he / she needs.6. Women are more concerned with taking care of other family members and may forget about themselves while men are likely to ignore the signals of their mental problems and seldom talk about their sufferings.Check your vocabulary1. When you want to ask about your emotional health, psychologists are the right people to be consulted.2. It means developing emotional stability to avoid going to extremes, and relieving tension and anxiety by bringing repressed feelings and fears to consciousness in an appropriate way.3. In some cases, women don’t take care of themselves as they think everyone else in the family deserve priority attention.4. Since long ago, we have been frequently reminded to have physical examinations. However, keeping emotional health has been entirely ignored.5. If we only take care of our physical health and pay no attention to our emotional health, we will in time frequently suffer from painful psychological ups and downs. Group discussionOpenREADING TWOCheck your comprehension1.F2. T3. T4. T5. FCheck your vocabulary A1. Several children have measles, and the others are bound to succumb to it.2. When a burning piece of wood fell down upon me from the collapsing house, I instinctively raised my arm to protect my face.3. I was asked to organize the trip, but I messed it up due to lack of experience.4. I couldn’t drive my car out of the garage, as a big truck stopped in front of the gate and was just in the way.5. I was a bad setback, but we must pick up the pieces and start again.6. Though ten years had passed since the accident, the old couple still bore the scars and were unable to find happiness in their lives.7. As the disease in highly contagious, you’d better wear a mask when going out to public places.8. The whole matter is nearly out of control; therefore, the best course of action we can take at present is to let people know the truth.Check your vocabulary B1. Just as is stated in the Bible, both of these women died as they had reached the greatest extent of their longevity. As they were getting very old and had had every kind of experience in life, their bodies were functionally reduced to nothing. Therefore their deaths were no different than one other normal deaths.2. Death is the worst possible consequence. Nothing can be worse.3. Every time I wear that particular sweater which I believe brings me luck, my favorite team, the Red Sox, wins. The boy I have a liking for talks to me on odd-numbered days instead of even-numbered days. They only exception to this rule is when a holiday comes and breaks the pattern,4. If we want to be able to revive from past unpleasant experiences and start again living normally, we have to find a way to deal with the unreasonable feeling that we must have done something wrong and should be responsible for every misfortune. Group discussionOpen.READING THREECheck your comprehension A1. a2. b3. d4. b5. aCheck your comprehension B1. Paragraph 2: People’s spending habits betray their attitudes toward money. Money is considered to be an important symbol of strength and influence.2. Paragraph 3: Compulsive spenders must spend money. When they buy on credit, they gain great pleasure as they can spend enormous amounts.3. Paragraph 4: Compulsive bargain hunters are addicted to buying things that are cheap, because when they can buy something for less than other people they feel they are winning.Check your vocabulary1. Psychology2. bargain3. addicted4. personality5. therapy6. furthermore7. advertising8. compulsive9. complain 10. budget 11. discount 12. creditGroup discussionOpen.READING FOURCheck your comprehension1. d2. d3. b4. d5. dCheck your vocabulary A1. unique2. positive4. bottom line6. trauma7. release8. declineCheck your vocabulary B1. He is allergic to penicillin, so he has to try other treatments.2. The arts of China have not declined in spite of Western influence.3. The government has reacted/reacted to the outbreak of violence by sending army patrols to police the area.4. After reflecting for a time on the problem he decided not to go.5. That building is unique because all the others alike were destroyed.6. Examinations do not motivate a student to seek more knowledge.7. I got into a panic when I found the door was locked.8. You are not going to let a wonderful chance like that slip through your fingers, are you?9. The people organized a protest about the rise in prices.10. She didn’t attend the meeting. And we were curious to know where she’d gone. Group discussionOpen.POST-READINGA:When circumstances take twists and turns, we feel an urge to complain. But complaining produces a negative mindset. It seduces us to unwittingly dwell on the things that caused the negative emotion. By learning to appreciate what we have been able to achieve so far, our minds can accept what has just happened as corrective feedback to help us stay on track to a psychologically healthy life.B:1.b2.a3.d4.b5.dUnit ThreeREADING ONECheck your comprehension1. They would receive an automatic “F” as a punishment.2. They were all indoctrinated into the system except for one boy who postponed handing in the blue book.3. He begged the assistant to take his blue book secretly but the assistant refused.4. No. he hasn’t.5. Because if the teacher’s assistant didn’t know him, he could shove the book into the pile and run away and the assistant could never find out who he was.6. Strict, responsible and principled.Check your vocabulary1. Feeling extremely exhausted after a day’s work, she slumped into the sofa and soon fell asleep.2. “Impertinent!” Mr. Smith huffed and puffed again and again at his son’s rudeness, stomping around the room even after his son had left.3. The policeman barked at the criminal and raised his gun.4. As the hours ticked away, we waited anxiously for news.5. His sneaky behaviour has driven away a lot of friends. He always acts suspiciously and it seems like he’s up to something.6. “I will surely beat him!” claimed the older boxer with an air of arrogance.7. If you do not have enough time to go through the whole book, read the introductory remarks to get a vague idea about it.8. She unfolded the letter from her son, tears streaming down her cheeks.9. They have been ordered to surrender their passports.10. It is simple pleasures, such as a walk on a sunny day, that have a cumulative effect of improving our general mood.Group discussionOpen.READING TWOCheck your comprehension A1.d2.b3.c4.c5.dCheck your comprehension B1. Test anxiety is a psychological problem that many people may experience. They may feel so worried and panicky during an examination that they perform poorly.2. He devoted himself to helping many students learn how to function better during exams and to bring up their grades.3. Because they realized they were not the only ones who had done poorly on test because of tension.4. No. it is not good. Because being too relaxed will result in little concern about the performance in an exam and lead to poor results. There is an optimal level of stress to be aimed at.5. In this situation, one should try to think of the possible questions to be asked and keep in mind what can reasonably be done in the time left.Check your vocabulary A1. As your sight narrows, you can only see things straight before you and are thus unable to see things at a wider range.2. What you have to do is to stop it from overcoming and defeating you.3. You cannot give your best performance unless you have a modest degree of concern.4. “… But if they consider it to be anxiety and feel unable to cope with it properly, that will make them react not normally, but in a crazy way.”5. Several students working in the workshops as volunteer leaders used to be test anxiety suffers who were very nervous and performed poorly in tests.Check your vocabulary B1. Meaning: Tunnel-like vision is a condition in which you are unable to see things that are not straight in front of you.Use: People with tunnel-like vision can hardly have an overall view on anything.2. Meaning: Essential things that people need.Use: Every time he is about to set out to travel, he examines his supplies carefully.3. Meaning: To suddenly get involved in a situation.Use: Plunged into such a big occasion, he has speechless for quite a few minutes.4. Meaning: To cause people to suffer from mental pain or anxiety.Use: He tortured his girlfriend with his endless skepticism.5. Meaning: Something as easy as ABC is of little difficulty.Use: To climb over the mountain is as easy as ABC for him.Group discussionOpen.READING THREECheck your comprehension A1.T2.F3.F4.T5.T6.F7.T8.F9.T 10.FCheck your comprehension BThe older generation valued studies a lot and seldom held part-time jobs except for those whose families were poor.The younger generation, poor or rich, places studies in a much less important position and devotes much more time to taking part-time jobs.Check your vocabulary1. elaborate2. squirm3. endorse4. lengthy5. blame6. markedly7. tripe8. decline9. generosity 10. typifyGroup discussionOpenREADING FOURCheck your comprehension A1.F2.T3.F4.F5.F6.T7.T8.FCheck your comprehension B1. The situation reached a climax one October evening, which later became the transitional point of our relationship.2. As she entered the room, Kim found one of my shoes under her bed (and I was notsure how this happened). All of a sudden, she flew into a rage.3. …finally, both of us tried to beat each other to get to the door first, slam it and rush out of the room.Check your vocabulary B1. The only flaw in his character is his carelessness.2. He was so infuriated by the visitor’s impoliteness that he suddenly rose and showed her the door.3. It was rather difficult for him to go through the transition from living a luxurious life to becoming penniless overnight.4. I had a trunk filled with various odds and ends that I would need for camping.5. Edison nudged him slightly and told him the secret, whispering into his ear.6. Miss Green had a fit when she saw her favorite vase was broken by the naughty boy.7. She is totally fed up with the frustration of working so hard to cook dinner for her husband, who would then call late to tell her he had eaten out.8. He is in a bad mood because he has just broken up with his girlfriend.9. Mother says to Maggie, “ Go and clear up your room.”Group discussionOpen.POST-READINGA:By pointing out the misconception that the longer we study, the better we’ll learn, this article teaches us that in order to learn effectively, we must first understand our optimum length of studying based on the recognition of how our minds function. B:1.a2.d3.c4.d5.aUnit Four Reading oneCheck your comprehension A1. Y ou and people around you suffer if you don’t like the job you do.2. You can always choose a job environment agreeable to your nature.3. We are all more craetive than we believe ourselves to be.Check your comprehension B1.T2.F3.T4.F5.FCheck your comprehension C1.As the state of frustration remains, he becomes rebellious and bad-tempered,figuratively attacks people arround him,and is unfriendly to and unhappy with the world.2. If you are doing something you are not interested in, it is just like you arewearing a heavy vest while running a race and you will feel exhausted easily.3. When you are put in job which is not agreeable to your personality, you willfeel miserable and end up falling ill or suffering a nerous breakdown.4. W hen a department head points proudly to one of his best salesmen and says, “whenI first took E ddie and put him in the position ,he was not capable at all”,he is actually admitting his creativeness in an unconscious way.5. In my opinion, if everyone strives to do what he / she really likes, the worldwould become much more agreeable and humane.Check your vocabulary1.“it is too late now to stop him,” said harri s grimly.2.After plowing through all those textbooks, it was a relief to read a novel.3.This custom is totally alien to him, a newcomer from Europe.4.Sheer chance quite often plays an important part in sparking off an idea.5.He has got the knack of getting people to listen.6.Every day before she starts working, she is apt to tidy her office and mark herselfa cup of tea.7.Lulled by almost uninterrupted economic growth, too many European firms assumedthat prosperity would last forever.8.She fritters away all her money on clothes and trips to the cinema.9.To my mind, some scenes in this play are incredibly violent.Group discussionOpenReading twoCheck your comprehension A1. The narrator has been in the field of education for fifteen years.2. they prepared a Mo ther’s Day tea.3. Jjimmy was stricken becaue all of the mothers came except his.4.The narrator asked Jimmy to keep her mother company to make him feel useful and to aviod his embarrassment.5.They met again when the narrow was at high school to take a serior class on a field trip.6. Jimmy expressed his gratitude in his booklet and give the narrator a hug.Check your comprehensionB1.F2.F3.T4.F5.TCheck your vocabulary1. His mother has never yet failed to return from town without some special treats for him.2. Separated for years, the two friend hugged each other like a couple of lost children.3. The key to the cellar was tucked away at the back of the shelf.4. she has such an endearing personality that everybody likes her.5. He has a habit of mumbling in his sleep.6. This should save her from boredom and will also relieve the pressure on you to keep her entertained.7.As the lights changed, I pulled away and drove past him.8.Wandering about streets, you will see many people handing out various kinds of booklets.9.We will put our heads together and see if we can come up with some ideas.10. They unloaded the boat and cleaned it thoroughly.Reading ThreeCheck your vocabulary1.His success story stimulates many young people round the world and makes themdream of their own success.2.The agency took some photographs of Nick and he immediately got many offers ofwork and became successful.3.If you have the required personality (besides the “in”look) , you could alsobecome successful as a model.4.Nick remains calm and is not arrogant about his success, and he knows that thecareer of a model is short and uncertain.Reading FourCheck your comprehension A1. F2. T3. T4. F5. T6. TCheck your comprehension BAt first the narrator was told on the phone that Revlon would take no more resumes. But she did not give up. She drove down to the place where the interview was conducted. She learned the name of the interviewer in person. The interviewer was stunned by her courage and gave her a chance. At last her excellent performance won her the job.Check your vocabulary A1.When I was a young girl, all I could see in my hometown was the boring cornfieldsof Indianapolis. Hence reading the advertisements about the attractive worlds of fashion and cosmetics was a good way for me to get away from the bland reality around me.2.I was taken away in my mind to some exciting foreign places that I could onlygo to indreams.3.At the beginning of my career, the physicians I sold pharmaceuticals to wereall shocked by my differences.4.But finally being different (i.e, a colored woman) helped me.5.Because of my better performance than other people, I changed people’s negativeattitudes towards colored people.6.Because the public supported me, I had another chance.7.We need to have the courage to follow the voice that comes from our hearts andwhen I listen to this, I know that I am going to receive a miracle.Check your vocabulary B1. be whisked away2. take one’s place3. longingly4. light up5. no way6. stunned7. fulfillment 8. give up on somethingPost-readingA.This article talks about interview objectives and types of interview, and gives suggestions of how to prepare for an interview—especially what interviews should pay attention to in providing information. It also points out some other factors that should be taken into account at the interview.B.1.T2.T3.F4.F5. T6. F7. FUnit FiveREADING ONECheck your comprehension A1. F2. T3. T4. F5. F6. TCheck your comprehension B1. One caregiver said that she had always been close to her mother; another wasthe oldest child; another was the youngest child. In a word, they all felt that they could do the job better than anyone else.2. Many caregivers believed that they had an obligation to help their relatives.Some stated that helping others made them feel more useful. Others hoped that by helping someone now, they would deserve care when they became old and dependent.3. Because they often have jobs and other responsibilities to take care of.4. Because of the fear of poverty as it costs more to use community services. Check your vocabulary A1. fictitious2. psychologist3. obligation4. poverty5. siblings6. mutuallyCheck your vocabulary B1. In the Iraqi War, the coalition forces displayed a smooth cooperative effortin attacking the Iraqi troops.2. Jenny and her husband share mutual beliefs regarding almost every aspect of their family life.3. She is very affectionate with children. They always like her.4. I don’t like the assertive tone in his speech.5. You can look at the books without any obligation to buy.6. You can help to relieve people’s poverty by sending them gifts of money or food.7. There are a lot of fictitious characters in this so-called “historical” novel.8. Jane is an imaginative girl who always lives in myths and fairy tales. Group discussionOpen.READING TWOCheck your comprehension1. b2. a3. c4. b5. dCheck your vocabulary1. We feel compassionate/compassion for the plight of Iraqi refugees who havesuffered constant wars and sanctions.2. His noble example inspired/ inspires/ has inspired the rest of us to greater efforts.3. Please duplicate forty copies of this test paper for me.4. Michelangelo’s exquisite paintings are collectors’ valuable items.5. Hearing that his wife was determined to divorce him, he was so furious thathesmashed everything at home.6. It is a religious tradition that they sacrifice a lamb.7. He is the victim of his own success because his health is deteriorating terribly while he runs here and there attending to his many businesses.8. At 90, my grandfather is getting very old and frail.Group discussionOpen.READING THREECheck your comprehension1. Grandma has Alzheimer’s disease. The patient becomes forgetful.2. She wanted to send Grandma to a nursing home.3. No, she doesn’t . She feels very sorrowful.4. She takes the ice cream and eats it, but doesn’t recognize her granddaughter.5. She came to accept the state Grandma was in. She decided that she would come and visit Grandma every weekend and hug her even though Grandma didn’t recognize her. She believes what matters more is to remember love rather than someone’s nam e. Check your vocabulary1. b2. c3. d4. cGroup discussionOpen.READING FOURCheck your comprehension A1.T2. T3. F4. T5. NK6. FCheck your comprehension B1.I felt secure and safe in your arms.2.You are old now. I should take care of you like what you did for me when Iwas a child. I will keep you close to me and put you to sleep.3.You rough hands show how much you have done for me and are a clear demonstrationof your love and care for me.4.Open or unroll your rough hands just like flowers open to the sun.5.Close your eyes and sleep. If you can not see things due to your faillingeyesight, you will hear me singing to you softly.Group discussionOpen.POST-READINGA.The introduction of the bill which enforces adult children’s legal obligation to maintain their elderly parents in Singapore has caused people to rethink about how to deal with the parent-child relationship and also reconsider the values of social morals and customs.B1. F2. F3. F4. F5. T6. F7. TUnit SixReading OneCheck your comprehension A1. It means "securing profits."2. He cut his tent canvas into pants and sold them to the miners. The sales were brisk.3. The blue jeans did not become popular until the 1960s. They became popular because the generation of baby boomers took blue jeans as a symbol against "materialistic" culture.4. Because the number of the age group who wore the most jeans declined.5. Hans’s leveraged buyout had more than justified the buyout's cost.6. Publicly traded companies are usually under the control of Wall Street brokers want to make immediate profits out of them and can hardly set the seemingly unprofit; belong-term goals.7. The six long-term goals are: communications, diversity, empowerment, ethical management, new behaviour and recognition.Check your vocabulary A1. take advantage of2. take off3. appealing4. drastic5. boom6. credit…to7. sweeping8. at the mercy of9. unprofitableCheck your vocabulary B1. There was a(n) sturdy resistance to the government's plan of raising the fee of bus tickets.2. After years of efforts, he built up a(n) empire in publishing field.3. The local government's new policy has brought a(n) surge of investment.4. Though at the edge of bankruptcy, the manager of the company won't give up and is still making every effort to salvage the situation.5. The weather here is so fickle that you never know what it will be like the next minute.6. Vendors were doing a(n) brisk trade in souvenirs.7. He is unlikely to be send to the army to quell his nationalist aspiration.8. Production has dropped while prices and unemployment have skyrocketed.9. The new contract is all buttoned up; let’s celebrate.10. They were lost at sea, at the mercy of wind and weather.Group discussionOpen.Reading TwoCheck your comprehension A1. T2. F3. T4. F5. T6. FCheck your comprehension B1. I never wanted to have that unpleasant feeling again.2. Each time, I imagined what goal I wanted to achieve, what kind of player I wanted to become3. I think I bore my ultimate goal in mind and made efforts to get closer to it.4. Do things step by step or else you are likely to get disappointed or downcast。