【正文】 of them get bored, and some get into trouble. What a waste! If their overworked parents were given more free time instead, everyone would be happier.This isn’t just a national problem eitherit’s worldwide. Dates may be different from country to country, but the pattern’s the same. Why should children do half as much work and get twice as much holiday as their parents?Lesson 6Section ITask 1: In the Path of the EarthquakeA. True or False Questions. 1—6: FTFTFFB. Map 1 is a layout of the Skinners’ farm. Mark out the plants and buildings in the map. Then in map 2 draw a new plan of the Skinners farm after the quake.Map 1:1. farm house2. garden path3. cypress trees4. rose garden5. eucalyptus trees6. raspberry patch7. cow shed8. granaryMap 2:Task 2: A Funny Thing Happened to Me.A. Multiple Choice. 1—6: cabbcaB. Give brief answers to the following questions.1. Last Friday.2. He was a student.3. In London.4. By taxi.5. The taxi got stuck in a traffic jam and the train had left by the time he got to the station.6. 1 hour.7. The station buffet.8. An evening newspaper, the “Standard”.9. At a table near the window.10. He did the crossword puzzle.C. True or False Questions. 1—6: FFTTFTD. Blankfilling.1. reached across, opened, took one, dipped, into, popped it into.2. get up and go, pushed back, stood up, hurried out of.Section IIConsolidation: A Very Beautiful StoryA. Give brief answers to the following questions.1. A tape from Gentleman Jim.2. Yesterday.3. Jim’s wife.4. There was a message hidden in the tape.5. Half the police force in London and 3 experts.6. Nothing had been found yet.7. Happy memories and things.8. In his words.B. True or False Statements. 1—8: FTFF TTFTC. Discuss with your classmates what message is hidden in Gentleman Jim’s recording.D. Listen to the 2nd part of the policeman’s discussion and list all the things they feel unusual about Gentleman Jim’s recording.1. Jim keeps telling his wife to play the message over and over again.2. Jim tells his wife that she’ll find something forting.3. Jim keeps saying “very beautiful” over and over again.4. The speech doesn’t sound natural.E. Listen to Gentleman Jim’s recording again and work out the message.Answer: There are 2 gold bricks in the garden under the big red rose tree.Section IIITask 1: Listening to Predict1. Answer: a glance at the headings of sections or subsections will show the order in which the items are introduced.Reason: “In addition” is followed by a supplementary idea. Prediction here is also based on mon knowledge.2. Answer: providing a summary which can be reread later.Reason: “As well as” is often followed by an idea of the same importance as the one before “as well as”.3. Answer: may not appear in a bibliography.Reason: “However” suggests an opposite idea.4. Answer: (no more than try to cover the most important ones here.Reason: “Therefore” suggests a result.5. Answer: it doesn’t.Reason: “Unfortunately” suggests that something opposite to one’s expectation will happen.6. Answer: it’s still important.Reason: “Though” suggests that in spite of the fact that follows, something still happens.Task 2: DictationSign LanguageDeaf people, people who can’t hear, are still able to municate quite well with a special language. It’s called sign language. The speaker of sign language uses hand gestures in order to municate. Basic sign language has been used for a long, long time, but sign language wasn’t really developed until about 250 years ago. In the middle of the 1700s a Frenchman named Ep233。e developed sign language. Ep233。e was able to speak and hear, but he worked during most of his life as a teacher of deaf people in France. Ep233。e developed a large number of vocabulary words for sign language. Ep233。e taught these words to his deaf students. Ep233。e’s system used mostly picture :image signs. We call them picture image signs because the signs create a picture. For example, the sign for sleep is to put both hands together, and then to place the hands flat against the right side of your face, and then to lower your head slightly to the right. This action was meant to show the position of sleep. So we call it a picture image sign.Lesson 7Section ITask 1: Learning a Foreign LanguageA. Multiple Choice. 1—4: bcaaB. True or False Questions. 1—4: FTTFC. Give brief answers to the following questions.1. Albert Humphries.2. Balham, London.3. 4 years.4. He has been going to an evening class and has watched quite a lot of the BBC television programmes.5. They use a different book in the class.6. They make the same mistakes as he does.7. It means being able to put together the right groups of words and to say them in a reasonably accurate way.Task 2: In the LibraryA. Multiple Choice. 1—6: bbcacaB. True or False Questions. 1—6: TTFTFTC. Give brief answers to the following questions.1. Round the corner.2. A 20p a day fine for each book.3. Tahiti.4. No.D. Blankfilling.1. 5 pounds, you damage them, entitles you, 2 records at a time, everything available, be much more popular than.2. telephone to renew the books.3. we get back, worth all the bother, some paperbacks in the airport, I’ve been such a nuisance.Section IITask 1: Lessoned World CollegesA. Give brief answers to the following questions.1． On the phone.2． Some information about the college.3． Robert Creighton.4． Julian’s friend in Spain.5． English.6． No. There are scholarships for all colleges, but parents will have to pay too.7． Yes. But academic ability is not the only thing important. Personal qualities will also be considered.8． Maturity, the ability to get on well with people from different countries.B. Blankfilling.1. the line, put you through to2. Pacific College, French, may be taught in Italian3. painting and modern dancing4. pro