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《高级时事英语》形考答案 教师：赵军 Assignment for unit one Task I listening News for the week Headline: man kills family Main idea: a man shot and killed five members in his family and then phoned a friend. Listening for pleasure Headline: mind your own business Main idea: an Australia man invited some of his Chinese friends to dinner, after the meal his friends insisted on asking him “how much the dinner costs”, at last he told them it was none of their business. Assignment for unit two Writing: unwelcome gift Jack and Laowang are good friends for years. A few days ago, Laowang invited jack for dinner to wish him farewell before his return to states. Jack went to Wang’s family for dinner and made a short speech; meanwhile, he presented Laowang with an antique clock to thank him for his help and support in these years. But then Laowang put this clock in another room. This made Jack confused and he said: “I’d like you to accept this small clock as a token of our long friendship”. “Thank you”, Wang said. “Don’t you like it”, “thank you”. At this moment another guest explained to Jack: giving a clock unlucky in Chinese culture and the word clock zhong also means end of life. But Jack said: “clock is the typical gift in America and everyone would be pleased”. At last, Jack said: “I was visiting china for years, used to cultural differences and never heard about clocks being unlucky. Cultural differences are part of the fun of traveling and now I have a lot to learn from Chinese”. Assignment for unit three Task I listening News for the week Headline: a most unusual school Main idea: children at Summerhill are given as much freedom as possible. Listening for pleasure Headline: cars Main idea: talk about the advantages and disadvantages of cars. Assignment for unit four Writing: television Television presents a vivid world in front of us. We can bring the theater, art, con certs, and sports events into our homes when we might otherwise never be able to see th