太原科技大学太烂了-王昭君的故事
Unit one
Task One
A .
Answer the following questions.
1)What did
Gretel want tp see in the City of
London'!
Key: She wanted to see 5t. Paul's
Cathedral.
2)Why was she so
surprised?
Key: She was so surprised
because she saw so many Englishmen who
lot
3)What did the Englishmen look
like?
Key: They were all wearing dark suits
and bowler hats, carrying umbrellas
4)Why
did Gretel think they must be typical English
gentlemen?
Key: Because she had often read
about them and seen photographs of them, who all
look
as if they were wearing a
uniform.
5)Dlid Mr. Clark also think there
is such thing as a "typical"
Englishman?
Key: No, he
didn't
6)What English saying did use to
prove his opinion?
Key: It takes all kinds
to make a world.
Task
Two
John is British but has worked in
7apan. Etsuko is a Japanese student from Osaka,
and she is
studying in Britain. Now they
are comparing life in the two
countries
John: I found that
living in Japan, people were much busier. They
seem to work the whole day.
Etsuko:Yes,
that's right. We work from Monday through
Satursay, even in summer. You know,
summer
in Japan is just horrible. It's very, very humid
and hot, and you need to shower
three times
a day.
John: So you find it cooler in
England:'
Etsuko Yes, that's
right
John Where I was living in Japan,
in the north, it was much colder than England,
especially in
winter, minus thirty degrees
centigrade. Does the winter in Osaka last longer
than winter in England?
Etsuko No, I don't
think so, December, January, February,
March...
John Yes. It’s a little bit
shorter if anything,
Etsuko Ever since I
came here, l noticed that tire countryside here in
England is reallybeatiful.
It's much
flatter than
John: It’s much flatter than
in Japan.
Etsuko:Yes. Japan is a
mountainous country and our cities are full of
people. They are lots of people in a limited
area.
John: Yes. I found Japan much more
mountainous than Brits, especially in the north..
The mountains are much higher and much more rocky.
l found it more beautiful than
Britain
Etsuka: Yes , if you like
mountains.
John: And therefore the towns
and the villages tend to be more
crowded.
Etsuka: Yes , that’s
right.
John Yes. So because the cities are
more crowded, the houses tend to be smaller, don’t
they?
Etsuko: Yes, they are very compact,
and we don have a lot of space. In big cities we
have a lot of
taller buildings
now.
John: Is this a problem because there
are more earthquakes in Japan?
Etsuko Yes,
that's right, and..
Task
three
Rosa: :Why don't you have folk dances
in the United States? Mast countries have special
dances
that the people have done for many
years. The dancers wear clothes from the old
days.
Everyone likes to watch them
dance.
Steve: We have folk dances, too. A
lot of people belong to folk dancing groups. But
when they
dance, they usually do it just
to enjoy t
hemselves. They don't
invite other people to
watch
them.
Rosa: Is there a folk
dancing group here?
Steve :I think so.
There's one in almost every city, and some big
cities have several.
Rosa: What are the
dances like?
Steve: Usually eight people
dance together, Four men and Four women. Whey they
start, they form a. square, with a man and a woman
on each side of the square. That’s why it's called
square
Dancing. Then there's a man who
tells the dancers what they should do. He usually
makes it Into a song, and sings it while they
dance.
Rosa: that should make the dances
easy!
Steve:Yes. but they are very fast.
They don't have much time to think. I like to
watch them, though.
The dancers wear old-
Fashioned clothes. They makes the dances pretty to
watch.
Rosa:1'd like to watch a group
dance.
Steve: I' ll take you
sometime.
Task four
1) On
the evening of February 3rd, people in Japanese
Families took one dried bean for each year of
their age and threw the beans on the floor,
shouting "Good luck in! Evil spitis out. This
was
known as“ Setsubun”，a time to celebrate
the end of winter and the beginning of
spring.
2) Before the Chinese Lunar New
Year in the old days, many Chinese families burned
the pictures of their kithchen god to bring good
luck. When Lunar neww Year's Day came. they put
a new picture of the kitchen god on the
wall..
3) When American women get married,
they sometimes followed an old custom in Choosing
what to wear on their wedding day. The custom said
the bride must wear something old, something new,
something borrowed, and something blue". This was
to bring good luck.
4) Before Lent (a time
on the Christian Calendar) the people of Ponti.
Italy ate an omelet made with 1.000 eggs. People
Could not cat meat, eggs or dairy products during
Lent. so they tried to use up these things before
Lent began.
5))When winter ended in Czech,
the children made a straw man called Smirt, which
was a figure of death. They burned it or threw
it in the river. After they destroyed it, they
Carried flowers home to show the arrival of
spring.
5} January 17th was St. Anthony's
Day in Mexico. It was a day when people brought
their animals to church. Butbefore the animals
enter into the church, the people dressed them up
in flowers and ribbons. This ceremony was to
protect people's animals
Task
six
The American family unit is in the
process of change. There used to be mainly two
types of families: extended s and the nuclear The
extended family most often included mother, father
,children and same other relatives, such as
grandparents, living in the same house or nearby.
Then as job patterns changed and the economy
progressed from agricultural to industrial, people
were forced to move to different parts of the
country for job opportunities. These moves split
up the extended families. The nuclear family
became more prevalent: this consisted of only the
parents and the children. Now besides these two
types of trad
itional groupings, the
word "family" is being expanded to include a
variety of other living
arrangements
Today's family can be made up
of diverse cvm6inativns. With the divorce rate
nearly one in two, there is an increase in single
parent homes: a father yr mother living with one
or more children, blended families" occur when
previously married men and women marry again and
combine the children from former marriages into a
new family. On the other hand, some couples are
deciding not to have any children at all, so there
is an increase in childless Families. There are
also more people who live alone: single, widowed,
divorced. Now one in five Americans lives
alone.
Task 7
In
Japan both men and women go to university and both
men and women study the arts ,such as history or
English. But very few women study science,
medicine or engineering. In engineering class, of
thirty or forty students, there may 6e only one or
two women. Men and women both go to university in
order to get good jobs: men want to work for a big
company, be successful, earn a lot of money and
support a family; women, on the other hand, want
to work for a big company because they have a
better chance oF meeting a successful man and
getting married. This is changing, however, as
Japanese women begin to think about their own
careers. They have began to take jobs which they
like rather than jobs in order to find a
husband.
Men work for their whole lives and
usually stay with the same company. A woman may
work upto ten years, but after that she usually
gets married. Most women are married by the age of
twenty
seven, then they stay at home and
look after the children. A man does not cook or
look after the children. When he comes home, his
meal must be ready. the woman may go out in the
afternoon,
shopping with her friends yr
having a chat, but she must go back home by four
o’clock to prepare the meal. Then she may have to
wait a long tune for her husband to come home.
Often he has to go out for a drink after work: if
he doesn't he may not rise very high in the
company. After her children grow up, a woman can
go back to work, but it is not easy. If her former
company takes older women back, she might be
lucky. Hut most women find it difficult to find a
job when they are
older.
Task
8
Matthew: Geth, how do people set about
getting married in England?
Geth: 1
suppose the most common way is still far people to
go home. For example, people who
Live in
London now will go back to their homes in the
provinces where they will meet all
their
relatives and their parents, and they' 1l get
married in a church with the bride wearing white,
the traditional white. Then they'll go off and
have a booze-up with their relatives
and
friends and a jolly good time will be had by all.
Otherwise you can get married in a
registry office, which means you turn up
with your bride-to-be or bridegroom-to-be with
two witnesses only. The ceremony takes
about five minutes, I
story about a
rich nobleman who had a very formal dinner party.
When the hood was served, one of the guests
started to eat his peas with a knife. Other guests
were amused at shocked, but the nobleman，calmly
piched up his knife and began eating in the same
way. It would have been bad manners to make his
guests to feel foolish or
uncomfortable.