Unit创意阅读

Unit One

Words to note: 12, 8, 13, 14, 10, 15, 2, 5, 16, 11, 4, 7, 1, 6, 3, 9

Understanding the text:

Part A: 1. They gave clocks to Chinese and the phrase "give a clock" sounds like "make a funeral arrangement".

2. Because they symbolize the cutting of a relationship.

3. Things from your own place that are difficult to get locally in the place where you are

visiting.

4. With both hands.

5. To show modesty。 they do not want to appear greedy by accepting immediately.

Part C: 1. they can strengthen business relationships.

2. they may be seen as inappropriately romantic.

3. wrapped and presented correctly.

4. they don't want the donor to lose face if the gift is not appropriate.

5. remember the country's religion, avoid giving things that are not appropriate, and chose

the wrapping paper carefully.

Unit Two

Words to note: 7, 5, 12, 9, 1, 15, 2, 3, 10, 6, 13, 16, 4, 11, 14, 8

Understanding the text:

Part A: 1. The Western horoscope is divided into 12 star signs.

2. Varied answers.

3. Cartoons and crosswords.

4. Traveling overseas.

5. The horse.

6. Power, passion and daring.

7. The second new-moon day after the winter solstice.

8. Because some signs are believed to be incompatible with others and therefore a bad

marriage will result.

Part B: F, T, F, F, F, T, F, F

Unit 3

Words to note: 9, 3, 15, 2, 7, 1, 10, 14, 4, 12, 5, 11, 6, 8, 13

Understanding the text:

Part A: 8, 5, 2, 6, 3, 7, 1, 4

Part B: F, F, T, T, F, F, F, T, T, F

Unit 4

Words to note: 12, 7, 13, 2, 14, 10, 8, 1, 4, 5, 11, 9, 3, 6,

Understanding the text

Part B: F, F, F, T, F, T

Corrections:

1.British people eat a very large breakfast before going to work.

2.Families do not sit down together to have lunch.

3.People like to try different kinds of food from different countries.

The meal called tea includes tea, sandwiches and pasties with cream and jam..

Unit 5

Words to note: 6, 12, 4, 9, 1, 10, 15, 2, 11, 3, 13, 5, 14, 7, 16, 8

Understanding the text

Part A: T, F, F, F, T, T, F, T, F, F

Corrections:

2. In America Katy had no interest in her Chinese background.

3. It was Sam’s first time to visit Katy.

4. Katy does not like spending time with Sam at first.

7. Sam goes away to China because it’s the end of his holiday.

9. Sam is happy to see Katy.

10. Katy stayed with Sam in China.

Part B: 1. Because it is about her.

2. Because she went to a local school, spoke English to her friends and had no interest in her

Chinese background.

3. Because everything is new or strange for him.

4. That is the day when Katy fell in love with Sam.

5. Because he thinks that Katy is too good for him.

6. Katy now feels that she is really Chinese and that she has discovered her roots.

Unit 6

Words to note: 10, 4, 6, 17, 9, 1, 12, 3, 14, 2, 18, 5, 13, 11, 16, 8, 7, 15

Understanding the text

Part A: 1. It is important because it contains a great deal of evidence about how people in a society lived their everyday lives.

2. The Garbage Project is a research project carried out by the University of Arizona. It studies

the garbage in city rubbish dumps to find evidence of the lifestyles of the local

population. It started in 1973 inTucson, but has now expanded to many other cities and

has built a huge database of information on most aspects of modern American life.

3. The garbage is sorted into a variety of categories (food items, dangerous materials, personal

items etc.).

4. This is because when there is a shortage of something, people try to hoard large supplies of

the item. They may buy too much. This frequently means that the item needs to be

thrown away before it can be used – perhaps because of a shortage of storage space or

because it starts to perish.

5. There are two reasons for this. The first is that people do not want to be seen as wasteful

when it comes to food. They say (and think) they throw away less food than they

actually do. The other reason is that they know they should be eating less junk food

and more healthy food, but in fact the evidence from the garbage is that they eat more

junk food. They are not deliberately lying。 they just have an inaccurate impression of

their own eating habits.

6. The Garbage Project can give a clear impression of how people live and behave.