第五课>>Section One

Task 1     An Unpleasant Trip

Key to Exercises

A.    Give brief answers to the following questions.

1. The Isle of Wight.
2. They were not pleased with their hotel.
3. He decided to write to the Manager of Happytours.
4. A travel agency.
5. The hotel and travel arrangements.
6. They will never book any future holidays through Happytours.

B.    Fill in the blanks with the words used in the brochure and by Mr Wilson to describe the hotel and travel arrangement.

Task 2     At the Travel Agency

Key to Exercises

A.    Choose the best answer to complete each of the following statements.

1. a    2. c    3. b    4. b     5. c    6. a

B.    True or False Questions.  Write a T in front a statement if it is true according to the recording and write an F if it is false.

1. T    2. F    3. T    4.T     5. F    6. T

C.    Fill in the blanks with the two things that Miss Bush will do.

1. Persuade her two friends, who are also going to the conference, to stop over with her on the way back.
2. Persuade Mr Adams to stop with her in Cairo.

Section Two

Task1    A Saturday Afternoon

Key to Exercises

A.    Identification.  Identify briefly the following characters in the story.

Name                                             Identification

Gillian                                         Dr Carmichael's new research assistant

Dr Carmichael                            the president of St Alfred's Hospital

Maurice Featherstone                the gardener of the hospital

B.    Choose the best answer to complete each of the following statements.

1. c    2. b    3.a    4.a     5. c    6. a   

C.    True or False Questions.  Write a T in front of a statement if it is true according to the recording and write an F if it is false.

1. F    2. F    3. T    4. F     5. T    6. F    7. T    8. T

D.    Fill in the blanks with information about Maurice.

Name:    Maurice Featherstone

Sex:    Male

Age:    old

Appearance:   clear, blue, honest eyes; white hair and a pinkish complexion

Temperament:   gentle and mild-mannered

Reasons for entering the hospital:

1. When he was seventeen, he burnt down his school.
2. Over the next few years, there were a number of mysterious fires in his neighbourhood.
3. Later he tried to set fire to the family mansion.

Visits from family members:    No

Bills:     paid on time

E.    fill in the blanks.

1. Gillian felt slightly uneasy as the porter unlocked the gates and waved her through.
2. Some of the patients were withdrawn and depressed, some seemed almost normal.  Only one or two had to be kept locked up.  She found it hard to believe that all of them had been thought too dangerous to live in normal society.
3. She arranged with the staff to give him a party.  They wanted it to be a surprise and Dr Carmicheal agreed to let him go out for the afternoon.  There was a flower show in the village.  Maurice seemed quite excited.  The cook had made a birthday cake and the staff had decorated the lounge.

Section Three

Task 1     Learning to Predict

Key to Exercises

1.    Answer:    he fails to employ the correct question form

      Reason:    "Consequently" suggests a result of the facts mentioned earlier.

2.    Answer:    difficulties may still arise.

      Reason:    "even when' suggests that in spite of the following facts, something else still exists.

3.    Answer:    the student may not have clearly heard what was said.

    Reason:    "In other words " is often followed by an explanation in clearer and easier words.

4.    Answer:    may feel angry at receiving such orders.

    Reason:    "However" suggests an opposite fact.

5.    Answer:    whether crops should be used to produce food or should be used to produce fuel.

     Reason:    "That is" also followed by an explanation.

6.    Answer:    a small industrial sector.

    Reason:    "At the same time" suggests the coexistence of two things.  Here prediction is also based on common knowledge.