Unit 7
1 M:I was hoping you'd wear your dress. It's much prettier.
  W:But this blue silk dress is more confortable for hot weather.
  Q:Which dress did the woman wear?
2 M:If I were you, I'd live in the city instead of traveling all the way to work by train.
  W:But the county is so beautiful and the people are so friendly.
  Q:What does the woman mean?
3 W:Did you hear the Golden Gate Restaurant is a nice place to earth?
  M:But I hear the Red Rose is much better. The food is tsaty and the service is good.
  Q:What does the man mean?
4 M:I hear you've been to Hong Kong and Singapore recently. Tell me about the two cities.
  W:Well, Singapore is quite small but very clean. It has some very good shops,but you can't compare them with those in Hong Kong.
  Q:What can you learn from the conversation?
5 W:I enjoy all kinds of sports. What kind of sports do you like?
  M:Football had appealed to me very much before I learned to play tennis.Now I think nothing can compare with baskerball.
  Q:What kind of sports does the man like best now?
d,a,b,c,b
1 nowadays 2 perfect 3 dying 4 higher 5 Medical 6 painful 7 cure 8 a part from basic health care, people in the old days didn't have so many 9 People worked long hours and therefore didn't have much free time to follow hobbies or develop interests 10 It used to take weeks for mail and news to travel from one part of the world to another.
This Room looks a Bit of a Mess
 At first sitht this rook looks a bit of mess. A real eccentric lives here. You ean tell it's
a woman because there are eushions everywhere-men don't like cushions.Cushions may look attractive, but nine times out of ten
,they don't make seats more comfortable. But that's typical of the different ways' men and women
look at homes-men are often more practical, while women are more concerned with aesthetics.
 The room is very cluttered-there are far too many things in the room, and every surface is covered with some ornament. There
isn't really enough furniture here-she could do with a few shelves or cupboards to put all
the things in.But this is not a practicla person. This is somebody who lives in the world of
imagination-perhaps a children's book writer.
 There's something quite special about this room as far as color is concerned. There are loadsof bright colors, but no soft colors
at all. Also,there is very little natural light as the windows are all shut and the curtains
drawn.On the other hand, there are a lot of infoor plants in the room. There are also all kinds of
cut folwers in vasesm bottles and bowls. The flowers and the green do help loring this person
down to earth.And the bright colors definitely suggest a person who is warm-hearted and sociable.
1 a:a bit of mess
  b:cushions
  c:covered with some omament
  d:bright colors; soft colors
  e:shut; drawn; there is almost no natural light
  f:doesn't have enough furniture; shelves; cupboards will
  g:indoor plants and cut flowers; vases,bottles and bouls
2 a:pratical;concered with aesthetics
  b:imagination
  c:warm-hearted;sociable

A Room with Personal Objects
 It is more difficult to tell what type of person lives in this room because it is very
few cluces here. I think it's a man bacause there are hardly any personal objects on display-for instance, there aren't any family photos around the place.
 But there's plenty of evidence to suggest that he's an international businessman,someone who spends most of his time traveling . There ara a couple of oriental rugs which are probably worth a lot of money, and a few other ornaments which suggest that he has traveled to countries in the Middle East.
 Most of the furniture is functional rather than decorative. I think this is somebody who doesn't