Unit 2

Unit 2Part OneExercise 2 1. F 2. F 3.T 4. F 5. T 6 TExercise 31. donations/ individuals and organizations2. dedicate/ time and resources3. loving and caring4. keep coming5. keep the best6. feel better about7. not necessarily8. lovely surprise9. truth/ understanding 10. real keyPart TwoListening IExercise 11. department store2. attend college3. difficult4.physical education5. terrifiedExercise 21. F2. T3. T4.F5. TListening IIExercise 11.80/ eighty2. Caps, sweaters and scarves3. Her daughter-in-law4. Because she is blind5. 19/ nineteen6. In China7. 1/ One8. TorontoExercise 21. 60/ sixty2. making up3. various parts of the world4. a printed slip of5.Never before6. a personal letter7. who is wearing the clothingPart Three More ListeningPractice OneExercise 1 1.C 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. BExercise 21. approaching2. left3. toilet4. locked5.Tickets6. please7. pushed8. stampedPractice TwoExercise 1 1. C 2. A 3. DExercise 2 2. 4. 5.6.8.9Practice ThreeExercise 1 Written language 2. 3. 5.6Spoken language 1. 4Exercise 21. spoken language2. sign language3.representations4. derived fromPractice FourExercise 11. misunderstanding 2 . lump 3. 5/ five 4. cancer 5. fineExercise 21. T2. F3. T4. T5.T6.FPart Four Testing YourselfSection 11. A 2 . D 3. A 4. B 5. CSection II1. moods2. regularly3. meet4. risks5.hurt6. satisfy7. disappointed8. should9.unless 10. stuckSection III1. F2. T3. F4. F5.T6.FScriptsPart TwoListening 1My name is Atsuko Saeki. I work as a salesclerk in a big department store in Fuji, Japan. Six years ago when I was 21 years old, I went to California to attend college. Life in the United States was much more difficult than I had ever imagined. It wasn't like the descriptions I had read in my textbooks. People often seemed tense. I felt very alone.One of my hardest classes was physical education. We often played volleyball. All the other students were good at it, but I wasn't. One afternoon, the teacher asked me to hit the ball to my classmates. For most people, this would be easy but I was terrified that I would make a fool of myself. One of the boys on my team saw how nervous I was. He walked up to me and whispered, "Come on, you can do that."You can't imagine how those words of encouragement made me feel. I was so happy; I almost cried. I managed to hit the ball and I think I thanked the young man, but I'm not sure.I have never forgotten his kind words of encouragement. He probably doesn't even remember what he said to me or how much his kindness meant to me. Whenever things aren't going well, I think of those simple words of encouragement: Come on, you can do that.We often forget that our words can have a powerful impact on other people. Even a simple word—good or bad—can have a lasting effect.Listening IIThe first part:Dear Miss Austen,I was so happy to receive your letter. It is a valuable letter of reply to me. I never expected sucha detailed response. I am eighty years old and I am blind. There is little I can do except knit and that is why I knit so many caps, sweaters and scarves. Of course, I can't write, so my daughter-in-law is writing this letter for me.I know a little bit about the work you are doing. At the age of nineteen I married a man who was going as a missionary to China. For 40 years, with an occasional year at home in America, we worked in China. We had two sons, only one of whom is still alive. After 40 years, my husband's health began to fail. We moved back to the States where he took charge of a settlement house in Brooklyn, New York. When my husband died, I came to Toronto to live with my son and daughter-in-law.The second part:What I most wanted to say is this. For 60 years I have been making up missionary packages of clothing, food, medicine, or books. I have sent them to various parts of the world. Sometimes I have received a printed slip of acknowledgement, sometimes nothing. Never before in all these years have I had a personal letter describing the village and telling me who is wearing the clothing and what they said. I never thought that in my lifetime I would receive a letter like that. May God bless you.Part Three More ListeningPractice 1Ex1: C A D C BEx2: 1) approaching 2) left 3) toilet 4) locked 5) Tickets 6) please 7) pushed 8) stampedScripts:Two Belgians and two Dutchmen traveled regularly to work on the same train. After a while the Dutchmen saw that the two Belgians only had one ticket between them and asked how they managed to achieve this. They explained that when they heard the conductor approaching from the other end of the carriage, the two of them left their seats, went into the toilet and locked the door. When the conductor knocked on the toilet door, saying, "Tickets, please!", they pushed one ticket under the door. It was then stamped and pushed back under the door again.The Dutchmen thought this was a very good idea and the following morning bought one ticket between them. When they got to their carriage there was only one Belgian. They told him what they had done and asked the Belgian if he had a ticket as he was traveling on his own.He said he didn't have a ticket at all and when they asked him how he planned to travel for free, he told them they would have to wait and see until the conductor arrived, but he had no doubt that he would manage it without difficulty.As soon as they heard the conductor coming, the two Dutchmen immediately went to the toilet and locked the door. A few moments later the Belgian followed them down the corridor and knocked on the toilet door, saying, "Tickets, please!" One ticket appeared under the door. Questions:1. Where did the story take place?2. What did the two Dutchmen want to know from the two Belgians?3. How did the Dutchmen feel about the Belgians' behavior?4. What did the Belgian do when asked if he had a ticket?5. Who finally managed to travel free of charge?Practice 2Ex1: C A D Ex2: 245689Scripts:"My name is Jim Shelley, and I am an addict..." With these words I began to solve the problem, the problem of my telephone addiction.It started socially I suppose—a few calls each day. It seemed harmless, just a quick chat. Gradually though, the situation got worse. Soon it was frequent use, then compulsive calling, until, finally, addiction.And it began to affect my work. I was spending all of my lunchtime phoning. During the day I would disappear for a quick call. I spent days waiting for the phone to ring. I got agitated. In the end, I would ring someone, then someone else, telling myself "just one more".I was phoning people and leaving messages to guarantee enough calls to see me through the day.I used to arrive at friends' homes and before the door was closed, go straight for the phone with the words "Is it OK if I just use the phone..." One night I found it impossible to sleep, thinking the phone was ringing downstairs. I jumped out of bed and then discovered it hadn't rung at all.Things were so bad I often rang people and asked them if they had been trying to ring me. I had a business line and a private line installed. I bought an answerphone, then borrowed money so I could buy a car and have a carphone. At work, I became hostile and violent when colleagues tried to stop me using the phone. And one day I hit my supervisor with the phone. I was dismissed. Finally the police caught me destroying a phone box that had taken my last ￡1 coin, and I was ordered to see a psychiatrist.I haven't had a phone in the house for three weeks so far, and it's several days since I used a phone box. I also try not to watch TV because there are always people on it making phone calls. My name is Jim Shelley and I am an addict.Practice 3Ex1: 2356 14 Ex2: spoken language, sign language, representations, derived from Scripts:Our ability to speak language is an inborn characteristic of our species. We carry in our genes and our brains the capacity for spoken language. If the day ever arrives when we abandon spoken language and the sign language used by people with hearing and speaking disabilities, we will be waving goodbye to the species of human beings that we are.In contrast to written language, spoken and sign languages are user-friendly. As very young children, we just start speaking or signing; we don't have to spend years in school learning to speak. Nor does spoken language divide humanity into those who can read and write and those who are nonliterate. Everyone who is mentally and physically able can speak a language.Historically, spoken language came to humans before written language. Biologically, speech or sign language comes to each child before literacy. This is because written languages are symbolic representations of spoken languages. If we had no spoken language, we could not have created written language. Written language may have emerged as the primary method used to store and retrieve information in certain areas of the world, but it is based on and derived from spoken language.In the 21st century, people with access to voice-in/voice-out computer technology will once again be able to use spoken language to access all stored information. Talking computers are going to make writing and reading obsolete.The obituary for written language will not be written. It will be spoken by someone talking to a voice-in/voice-out computer in 2050.Practice 4Ex1: misunderstanding, lump, 5/five, cancer, fineEx2: T F T T T FScripts:Interviewer: You experienced a misunderstanding when you worked in Singapore, didn't you? Carol: Mmm, yes—quite a few, actually.Interviewer: Tell us about one, then.Carol: Um, well, I had this red lump on my left leg. One night the pain was really bad and I got so scared. Next day I went to the hospital and they cut out the lump and stitched me up. Then I heard the doctor say to his assistant, "Get it to the lab for tests right away." I was told to return in five days to have my stitches out and get my result. On the day I was going to the hospital I realized I'd missed my appointment! It had been on the day before!Interviewer: Go on...Carol: I phoned up the hospital and the receptionist said the doctor wasn't in, but she'd put me through to his assistant. Oh, my heart was pounding by this time and my mouth was all dry. Interviewer: With stress?Carol: Yes. I was really nervous. Anyhow, the assistant said "OK" and told me "Hold on" while she got my card. When she got back to the phone she said, "I think you'd better come in and talk to the doctor in person." I was really shocked.Interviewer: Oh dear!Carol: "Why?" I asked. "Is there something wrong?" "Well," she said. "The doctor'll tell you about the treatment." So...there's me thinking: Oh my God, this is it. I've got cancer. I felt literally sick. "So when can I talk to the doctor?" I asked. She said she'd get him to call me when he got in later that morning.Interviewer: Oh, no, poor you! What did you do?Carol: Oh, I went to work. But I couldn't concentrate or work straight. Every time the phone rang, I nearly passed out. I kept ringing the hospital, but the doctor was late. Eventually, he rang me up. Oh, I was really shaking. He said, "Ms Smith?" I said, "Yes?" "Oh, everything's fine," he said. "No further treatment necessary." What? I made him say it three times. I said, "So why didn't your assistant tell me that? It would have saved me all this worry!" "I don't know," he said. He didapologize, though.Interviewer: How scary!Carol: Yeah. A couple of days later I got a letter from the hospital with the results of the tests. It said that I'd had some kind of "tumor". I looked it up in a medical dictionary and it explained that it was a benign kind of tumor. I think the assistant must have seen the word "tumor" and immediately thought it meant cancer. That was a day I'll never forget.Part Four Testing YourselfSection 1A D AB CScripts:A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. All the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead.The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead.Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died.The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and finally made it out.When he got out, the other frogs said, "Did you not hear us?" The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time.Questions:1. Where did the story take place?2. What happened to two of the frogs?3. What did the other frogs say to the two frogs?4. What happened to the two frogs?5. What made one of the frogs ignore the other frogs' advice?Section 2All of us would like our friends to know our 1) moods and our needs instinctively. That rarely happens and never happens 2) regularly. No one will ever be able to 3) meet your needs if they don't know what your needs are. It is true that you take 4) risks when you let your needs be known. You may be turned down and 5) hurt. However, when you are expecting your friends to read your mind and 6) satisfy your needs without your input, you are going to be 7) disappointed and hurt without your friends ever knowing why.This is a common misconception of friendships and even marriages. When asked if he had told his wife he wanted her to ride bicycles with him, one husband said, "Of course I didn't tell her. After all these years of marriage, she 8) should know!" The sad thing is she will probably never know 9) unless he tells her. So, tell your friends what you want and what you need. Otherwise you will be 10) stuck in relationships that can never grow to be "best friends".Section 3F T F F T FScripts:I am an American English professor who has spent a lot of time in China. In fact, my husband and I have made sixteen trips to China since 1990. We have made many friends, especially since we started working on New College English with Chinese colleagues. These colleagues made me aware of a word I use in one particular situation. Let me tell you about it.My husband and I have come to Hangzhou during the Spring Festival twice and worked on the English texts with our colleagues. During this time we have eaten all of our meals together, enjoying good food and conversation. The first year my friends noticed that when I seemed to think we had talked long enough and should go back to our work, I would say "Well?" and they understood I thought it was time to leave. I didn't realize I was giving this signal until later when they started teasing me about it. As a joke, I continued doing this.After we returned to the United States, I noticed I did the same thing. I decided to stop saying "Well?". This year we returned for the Spring Festival. Again, the same group was eating mealstogether. At the end of the first lunch, I did not say "Well?". Everyone else just sat there until finally someone said, "Aren't you going to say 'Well'?" Everyone laughed. After that, it was my word that signaled the end of each meal, always with laughter.Recently my husband and I had dinner guests in our home in the U.S. Without meaning to, I said it again! However, I didn't want our guests to think I wanted them to leave, so I quickly continued, "Would you be more comfortable if we sat in the living room now?".。