Task 2: A Funny Thing Happened to Me. A. Multiple Choice.

1—6: cabbca

B. Give brief answers to the following questions.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. . 9. 10. C. True or False Questions.

1—6: FFTTFT

D. Blank-filling.

1. 2. Section II

Consolidation: A Very Beautiful Story

A. Give brief answers to the following questions.

1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 6. 7. 8.

1—8: FTFF TTFT

B. True or False Statements.

C. 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. 2. 3. 4.

E. Listen to Gentleman Jim’s recording again and work out the message.

AnswerSection III

Task 1: Listening to Predict

1. Answer: a glance at the headings of sections or sub-sections 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

common knowledge.

2. Answer: providing a summary which can be re-read 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: Dictation

Sign Language

Deaf people, people who can‘t hear, are still able to communicate quite well with a special language. It‘s called sign language. The speaker of sign language uses hand gestures in order to communicate. 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 Epée developed sign language. Epée was able to speak and hear, but he worked during most of his life as a teacher of deaf people in France. Epée developed a large number of vocabulary words for sign language. Epée taught these words to his deaf students. Epée‘s system used mostly picture :image signs. We call them picture image signs