第十课>>Section One

Task 1     News Summary I

Key to  Exercises

A.    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

B.    Fill in the blanks.

1. The marchers demonstrated outside the local British Steel Corporation's headquarters where union leaders are talking about closure plans with the management.
2. While the number of doctors, nurses and other staff have increased, the demand on the service has grown even faster.
3. The EEC is to give another 31 million pounds to Britain's poorer areas,  The aid from the regional development fund includes 13.5 million pounds for Northern Ireland and 10 million pounds for industrial improvement and road works in the north of England.
4. Kent County Council has said that 17 dogs, 5 cats, 2 rabbits and 2 hamsters have been landed illegally at Channel port in the first nine months this year.  This was seven more than in the same period last year.
5. A derailed coal train at Thirsk in North Yorkshire has disrupted rail services between Newcastle and the south of England.

Task 2     News Summary II

Key to Exercises

A.    Choose the best answer for each of the following statements.

1.b    2. c    3. a    4. c

B.    Answer the following questions briefly.

1. A double-barrelled.
2. The girl's brother.
3. When the girl was being overpowered by police officers.
4. Into the ceiling.
5. A 23-year-old electronics worker and a 55-year-old housewife.
6. They are doing well.
7. Two months ago.
8. 125 pounds with 25 pounds costs.
9. A woman was killed when a chimney on a house collapsed and two men were killed when their car crashed into a fallen tree.
10. More high winds and rain.

Section Two

Task 1     British Newspaper

Key to Exercises

A.    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. T    3. T    4. F

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

1. b    2. a    3. b

C.    Fill in the blanks with information about Professor Hill's favourite paper.

News:    (1)  Political matter are covered in full. 

            (2)      The editorial column may support government policy on one issue and oppose it on another.

Book Reviews:     a whole page for it

Art:    a whole page for the latest happenings in the theatre, the cinema and the world of art

Economics:    (1)    Stock Exchange prices are quoted daily.

                      (2)    Exchange rates of the world's major currencies are reported daily.

Sports:    The correspondents are among the best.

Readers' Letters:    The standard is first-class

Task 2 Eccentricity

Key to Exercises

A.    Answer the following questions.

1. A person who behaves in a totally different manner from those in the society he lives in.
2. Not specifically.
3. He used to share his house openly with the strangest animals and sample them as food.
4. The hermit.

B.    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. T      5. T    6. T    7. F     8. F

C.    Fill in the blanks.

1. Nobody was allowed to touch his food and he would wrap his hand in a tissue before picking anything up.  He didn't even allow a barber to go near him too often and his hair and beard grew down to his waist.

Section Three

Task 1 Learning to Rephrase

Key to Exercises

1. US: use more oil/ day, future supply -- limited
2. current rate of use, oil not a major source of energy in 25 years
3. a lot of coal, but problem: mining, transporting & burning with pollution
4. production of new nuclear power plants, slow down, public concern over safety
5. government expected 20% electricity from nuclear energy 1970s, but only 12% 1979
6. no fuel for solar heating system, sunshine free
7. solar system can't provide 100% heat due to sunshine
8. solar heating possible in most US, better in areas: lot of winter sunshine, heat necessary, fuel expensive
9. hot-liquid system : basically same but contains water not air, a large hot water tank, not a container of hot rocks
10. energy from sun: answer to our need for new, cheap, clean source of energy