Unit 7 Section A Pre-reading Activities First Listening Having ideas about a story before you read it is an important reading skill. Please listen to a very short piece of recording. Second Listening
Section C My Moving Experience Moving is bad — in the sense of carrying furniture, equipment and hundreds of boxes out of one place and into another. This is why you hardly ever meet nomads (游牧人
Section B The Trashman Saturday, April 7 Steve and I hauled trash for four solid hours continuously, except for about five minutes when we stopped to talk. My shoulder hurt wickedly each time I put an
Section B Should I Have a Gun? I own a black gun with a brown handle. It holds five bullets and stays loaded by my bed. I've always advocated gun control; the odd thing is I still do. It wasn't ignora
Unit 9 Section A Pre-reading Activities First Listening Having ideas about a story before you read it is an important reading skill. Please listen to a very short piece of recording. Second Listening
Section B Web Site Resources: The Best Aid for Cheating? SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) — For generations of students, writing term papers has been a major source of nerves and frustration, if not the ultimate
Unit 10 Section A Pre-reading Activities First Listening Having ideas about a story before you read it is an important reading skill. Please listen to a very short piece of recording. Second Listening
Section B Trends for the 21st Century What problems will our world encounter in the next 1,000 years? Social scientists and economists, farming experts and environmentalists pose this question and exa
Section C Great Ideas Some of the most important inventions of the past 2,000 years may surprise you. Want to get rich? Become famous? You don't have to be a film star or a basketball player or a musi
Section B Ways of Increasing Creativity My guests had arrived, but once again, I'd forgotten to put the wine in the fridge.
Unit 8 Section A Pre-reading Activities First Listening Having ideas about a story before you read it is an important reading skill. Please listen to a very short piece of recording. Second Listening
Section C A Bank Robbery It was about midday. I'd left work early in the morning to cash (兑现)a cheque. I walked along to the bank and found there were only about ten or eleven customers in the