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1、创意阅读creative readingB1答案Unit One CustomsWords to note: 12, 8, 13, 14, 10, 15, 2, 5, 16, 11, 4, 7, 1, 6, 3, 9Understanding the text: Part A: 1. They gave clocks to Chinese and the phrase give a clock sounds like make a funeral arrangement. 2. Because they symbolize the cutting of a relationship. 3. T

2、hings from your own place that are difficult to get locally in the place where you are visiting. 4. With both hands. 5. To show modesty; they do not want to appear greedy by accepting immediately.Part C: 1. they can strengthen business relationships. 2. they may be seen as inappropriately romantic.

3、3. wrapped and presented correctly. 4. they dont want the donor to lose face if the gift is not appropriate. 5. remember the countrys religion, avoid giving things that are not appropriate, and chose the wrapping paper carefully.Unit Two HoroscopesWords to note: 7, 5, 12, 9, 1, 15, 2, 3, 10, 6, 13,

4、16, 4, 11, 14, 8Understanding the text:Part A: 1. The Western horoscope is divided into 12 star signs. 2. Varied answers. 3. Cartoons and crosswords. 4. Traveling overseas. 5. The horse. 6. Power, passion and daring. 7. The second new-moon day after the winter solstice. 8. Because some signs are bel

5、ieved to be incompatible with others and therefore a bad marriage will result.Part B: F, T, F, F, F, T, F, F Unit Three AstronomyWords to note: 9, 3, 15, 2, 7, 1, 10, 14, 4, 12, 5, 11, 6, 8, 13Understanding the text: Part A: 8, 5, 2, 6, 3, 7, 1, 4Part B: F, F, T, T, F, F, F, T, T, FUnit 4 Food, Glor

6、ious FoodWords to note: 12, 7, 13, 2, 14, 10, 8, 1, 4, 5, 11, 9, 3, 6, Understanding the textPart B: F, F, F, T, F, T Corrections:1. British people eat a very large breakfast before going to work.2. Families do not sit down together to have lunch.3. People like to try different kinds of food from di

7、fferent countries.5. The meal called tea includes tea, sandwiches and pasties with cream and jam.Unit 5 A Romantic StoryWords to note: 6, 12, 4, 9, 1, 10, 15, 2, 11, 3, 13, 5, 14, 7, 16, 8Understanding the textPart A: T, F, F, F, T, T, F, T, F, F Corrections: 2. In America Katy had no interest in he

8、r Chinese background. 3. It was Sams first time to visit Katy. 4. Katy does not like spending time with Sam at first. 7. Sam goes away to China because its the end of his holiday. 9. Sam is happy to see Katy.10. Katy stayed with Sam in China.Part B: 1. Because it is about her. 2. Because she went to

9、 a local school, spoke English to her friends and had no interest in her Chinese background. 3. Because everything is new or strange for him. 4. That is the day when Katy fell in love with Sam. 5. Because he thinks that Katy is too good for him. 6. Katy now feels that she is really Chinese and that

10、she has discovered her roots.Unit 6 The Archaeology of TodayWords to note: 10, 4, 6, 17, 9, 1, 12, 3, 14, 2, 18, 5, 13, 11, 16, 8, 7, 15Understanding the textPart A: 1. It is important because it contains a great deal of evidence about how people in a society lived their everyday lives. 2. The Garba

11、ge Project is a research project carried out by the University of Arizona. It studies the garbage in city rubbish dumps to find evidence of the lifestyles of the local population. It started in 1973 in Tucson, but has now expanded to many other cities and has built a huge database of information on

12、most aspects of modern American life. 3. The garbage is sorted into a variety of categories (food items, dangerous materials, personal items etc.). 4. This is because when there is a shortage of something, people try to hoard large supplies of the item. They may buy too much. This frequently means t

13、hat the item needs to be thrown away before it can be used perhaps because of a shortage of storage space or because it starts to perish. 5. There are two reasons for this. The first is that people do not want to be seen as wasteful when it comes to food. They say (and think) they throw away less fo

14、od than they actually do. The other reason is that they know they should be eating less junk food and more healthy food, but in fact the evidence from the garbage is that they eat more junk food. They are not deliberately lying; they just have an inaccurate impression of their own eating habits. 6.

15、The Garbage Project can give a clear impression of how people live and behave.Part B: F, F, T, F, F, T Corrections 1. It was started in Arizona, but has now expanded to cover many other American cities and even Mexico City as well.2. There are too many households in Tucson to collect from each and e

16、very one. Therefore, only a sample of households had their rubbish collected. Also, there is no time specified in the text, it simply says “over a period of time”.4. The passage does not specify the quantity of Mexican sugar found simply that some was found in Tucson where there was a sugar shortage

17、. There is no evidence that it tasted bad.5. The evidence shows that poor people buy smaller packets of food and not the large economy packets (which more wealthy families bought). They may have wanted to buy the more economical larger packets but could not afford the larger outlay of money.Unit 7 H

18、ome TruthsWords to note: 5, 11, 16, 3, 1, 15, 2, 14, 4, 12, 6, 10, 8, 13, 9, 7Understanding the text:Part A: 1. Property prices increased by this amount in the 1990s. 2. The year in which Sir Edward Coke said An Englishmans home is his castle. 3. The number of new homes built each year in Britain. 4

19、. Pots of paint sold by a single British company in one year.5.Average price of a British home in 2001.Part B: 1. A castle was a very strong building specifically built to keep the people inside safe and secure. The expression, therefore, means that the home is a place where the owner feels safe fro

20、m the outside world and where the outside world cannot enter without his permission. He is protected and secure there. This is a very common expression used to describe the attitude of English people towards their homes. It may also link with ideas about privacy: many British people like to think of

21、 their home as being a prvate place which others cant simply just walk into without permission; inside the family they can do as they wish, without being bothered by outsiders. 2. One reason is that the house costs so much to buy that it makes good sense to maintain it and even important it as much

22、as possible (both to make it worth even more if it is sold and to improve the comfort and space if not). The other reason is that the home is, in a way, a refection of the owner. How the house looks to other people, tells them something about the person who owns it therefore the owner wants to make

23、sure it reflects a good image of his or her self. The better the houses look, the better the owners feel about their status. 3. It is a loan from a bank or other financial company that is used specifically to buy a house. It is paid back through monthly payments (with interest) over a number of year

24、s often over as many as 25 years. 4. Before the industrial revolution, the home was much more than simply a house that you happened to be living in at that time. It had a history of family life, of ancestors, of relatives and probably of having the same neighbors for generations. After the industria

25、l revolution, people had to move much more and the home became more of a place that you were living in at that time and many of the other traditions were lost. 5. Trading up means buying a house that is relatively cheap, keeping it for a few years until its value has increased (and also the owners a

26、ssets), and then selling it to buy a more expensive property. This process is repeated several times over, each property being more expensive than the one before. Trading up only works in times of inflation or progressive increases in property values; if prices were stable over many years, trading u

27、p would be unlikely to happen much. Unit 8 A World of PlantsWords to note: 3, 7, 6, 1, 10, 8, 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, Understanding the text:Part A: 6, 3, 1, 2, 4, 5Part B: T, F, F, T, F, T Corrections 2. Although the Eden Project is in Britain, the plants come from all over the world and many of them would

28、 not grow naturally in Britain but need specially-controlled greenhouses. 3. It was the first time that Katie had visited the Eden Project. 5. There is no information as to whether or not it is the largest greenhouse in the world. The Humid Tropics Biome is said to be the largest greenhouse in the w

29、orld.Unit 9 Blue JeansWords to note: 12, 4, 9, 1, 11, 2, 10, 6, 15, 3, 13, 5, 8, 14, 7Understanding the text: Part A: 1950s; 1980s; 1930s; 1870s; 1970sPart B: T, F, F, T Corrections1. Originally jeans were made from a mixture of fabrics. It wasnt until the 18th century that cotton was used.3. Quite

30、the reverse. During WW II, cotton and other raw materials was scarce so the manufacture of jeans was greatly reduced.4. They did not hate Western culture but they did wish to separate themselves from the culture of their parents they wanted a separate identity and culture to their parents.Part C: Fr

31、om serge de Nimes. It makes cloth dark blue. The pockets tore easily. It symbolized strength of the jeans. They were no longer a sign of youth rebellion.Unit 10 A Ghost StoryWords to note: 6, 9, 2, 14, 10, 8, 1, 13, 3, 11, 4, 7, 12, 15, 5Understanding the text:Part A: 3, 5, 2, 1, 4Part B: F, F, T, F, F, T, T, T Corrections1. The narrators grandmother lived alone but he used to visit her.2. The text does not specify why the narrator and his family moved into the city but it seems unlikely the grandmother was the reason.4. Th