step-by-step-3000-第二冊-Unit1-原文及答案

1、step-by-step-3000- 第二冊-Unitl-原文及答案Unit 1Part I - A87, 80, 53, 48, 24, 17Script:The Porter FamilyMr William Porter is very old. He is 87. And Mrs Catherine Porter is 80. Mr Porter is from Wales. John Porter and Mary are brother and sister. John Porter is 53 and he is a lawyer. His wife Susan is 4&

2、; and she is an architect. James Porter and Joan Lee are cousins. James Porter is 24 and Joan Lee is 17.Part I-BL spending special time together.2. specific, complain, request, praise.3. fatigue insecurities, foxhole, striking out, protect.4. distant5. all marriages Work together o understand6. Resp

3、ect, danger professional, physical, verbal7. Understand, winPart I-C40, excel, domestic argument, losing win-win, lose-lose, win, a gift, returns argue over, aren't，who, in control, fear, didn't need, ought not to , couldn, tried to, destroy, marriagelove, loved, secure, discover, garden, cu

4、ltivate, the most precious, own self, bloom.obtain, our partner, loved and respected, control.Part II- AA2L similar social backgrounds.2. the same race or same ethnic background.3. the same religion.A3Japan /9.2% / arranged marriages3% / between blacks and whitesMany people in Western cultures choos

5、e their own wives and husbands. In many other countries, spouse are often chosen by the parents. In China and Japan before this century (20th century), upper-class marriages were arranged by the older males. In many cultures in the Middle East, Asia, and pre-industrial Europe, the man's family n

6、egotiated a "bride price*1 with the woman's family; the man's family was expected to pay it. In Hindu India, the bride's family paid a '電room's price” to the family of the man. These customs are weakening;for intance, only 9.2 percent of Japanese marriages are now arranged.W

7、hat are the criteria for choosing mates? Most marrlages-whether arranged by families or occurring from personal attraction or love-are based on similar social backgrounds. In other words, the man and the woman come from the same social class (or else a class that is only slightly higher or slight lo

8、wer). Among many people in Egypt, key members of the man's family must go to the family of the woman and propose marriage. These family members must be able to show that the manvs family is at least of the same social class as the woman and that a certain amount of money exists to allow the marr

9、iage to go forward.Having the same race or the same ethnic background is the second main criterion for marriage throughout the world. In the U.S,. Where there are many different races, only 3 percent of all marriages are between blacks and whites, meaning that the races are still largely separate in

10、 marriage.In many countries, marriage is also based on the woman and man having the same religion; this is a third common criterion for choosing a mate. In culture in which religion is very strong value, marriages would often not take place if there were religious differences.Part II BL physical app

11、earance;2. what somebody looks like，look beyond the physical appearance3. the high percentage of divorces.4. falling love with somebody,loving somebodyScript:What do you think it is that attracts people to each other, that makes people want to be together?I think that perhaps unfortunately in the in

12、itial stages it's the physical appearance that attracts. I think unless you find somebody attractive, unless there's something about them-it could only perhaps be the way they smile or they laughs or a twinkle in their eye, or the way of a curl falls over their forehead. But something like t

13、hat has to make you interested enough to find out more about that person, unless thatfs there I think you just don't bother. So initially physical attraction I think is all important.Why do you say nunfortunatelyH?Because in fact it shouldn't be what somebody looks like that is important. Yo

14、u should be able to look beyond he physical appearance and see what sort of a person he or she is，whether they are selfish or selfless, whether they are kind, caring. But I think initially you are not bothered with that. That come perhapslater.In pop songs and magazines and newspapers and son on9 th

15、e idea of falling love in s always emphasized, so people have this idea that you have to fall in love. Do you think this is misleading for people? Do you think people expect something that in fact doesn't exist?Yes, I do. In fact I think we can probably lay the blame for the high percentage of d

16、ivorceit's a third I think now, isnft it? I think one in three people get divorced. Probably as far as I can see it9 the reason is that they go into marriage or into a relationship with a very romantic view of love which I think has been created by the pop songs, by all the love stores, by the B

17、arbara Cartland novels, etc. 9 that young people read. Really, you meet someone, you fall in love, and that9s it., ifs the beginning, they live happily even after. And I think that's the problem, because people just expect that and ifs not like that.So what is it，do you think, that really sustai

18、ns a relationship that keeps a relationship going?Well, I think you have to differentiate between falling in love with somebody, which I see as more superficial, and loving somebody; which I see as a deeper emotion and one that perhaps lasts. Falling in love is superficial attraction, being attracte

19、d to somebody physically having fun togethei; whereas loving somebody I think is an emotion that grows, it conies with shared experiences, perhaps enjoying doing the same things together, shared hobbies shared interests, suffering together as well, going through the bad times, helping each other, su

20、pporting each other. 1 think all that needs time to grow; and I'd call that love, and I think that's what makes a relationship lastPart II Cone of the biggest decisions they will make in life,as the ”just-right" wife for him,definition of what the ,fjust-rightnwife is9 the millionaire m

21、an and the poor man , her physical qualities, different words,by her physical qualities,in two different atmospheres,also have their definition of the f,just-rightf, wife,the German man's definition is different from the Spanish man's.Part IIIA baseball diamondA wine barScript:frizzly hair /

22、 glasses/ funny/ monologue pizzaA fancy-dress party the man dressed as Cheshire Cat Outside a cinemacoincidence/ he'd also missed the filmA boat/ the river bank fell in river/ he dived in and rescued herScript:Kate: I was on my way home from junior high and in order to get to my house you have t

23、o walk by this baseball diamond. And there was a game of baseball going on and it looked kind of interesting, so I stopped. There weren't very many people watching. And there was this guy and he wasn't really very good-looking, but he had frizzly hair and glasses and he was really funny. He

24、did this kind of monologue thing, which war great. And I went home and I told my mother I was going to marry him after talking to him for half an hour. And when I got to high school, he was president of the student body and he asked me out and.we've got our picture in the yearbook together holdi

25、ng hands, and it's really nice.Ke: Well, Td arranged to have a drink with a friend of mine, a woman friend of mine whofs a platonic friend of mine. And she insisted on bringing this friend of hers who she said Fd like to meet and I thought she was trying to fix us up and I said，"Please doiT

26、t!" But she did bring this friend and we hit it off. And after the wine bar we went to have a pizza and we all had a few more drinks and the other woman who ended up ordering a pizza that had a bunch of stuff on it that she really liked, so we picked at each other's pizzas all night and we

27、realized that we were sort of had an ideal relationship so that we could order really any pizza on the menu and we'd both be happy. And anyway we ended up living together and still are.Coralyn: We met at a party and it was fancy-dress party. A friend of mine's twenty-first and it was quite b

28、ig and I went dressed as Alice in Wonderland and this person, this guy that I married was dressed as the Cheshire Cat. And it Just seemed so amazing that, you know, we were both from the same tiling and we started chatting and ended up being together.Jill: Fd arranged to go to the cinema with a grou

29、p of friends and unfortunately I missed the train that would have got me to standing outside-the film had started. So I wasn't allowed in. And there was a chap outside, hefd also missed the film and we started to talk and we talked quite a bit and he said,"Let's go down the road and see

30、 that film, because that one hasn't started at the Odeon.11 So we went down there and we've been going out ever since!Carole: I first met my partner when he was on a boat and I was on the river bank，standing and looking generally into the distance and he was coming in to land with his boat a

31、nd he threw me a rope and said,"Would you mind catching this?” and I caught it and missed and tripped over it and fell in the river and he had to dive in and rescue me. And that was it!Part IVBook, choked, disappointment, take you to dinner; tolerant smile, went by, rose, big restaurant test, u

32、nderstand and admireScript:John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didnft9 the girl with the rose. His interest in her had begu

33、n thirteen months before in Florida library. Taking a book off the shelf he found himself intrigued, not with the words of the book, but with the notes penciled in the margin. The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind. In the front of the book，he discovered the previous ow

34、ner's name, Miss Hollis Maynell.With time and effort he located her address. She lived in New York City. He wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her to correspond. The next day he was shipped overseas for service in World War through the mail. Each letter was a seed falling on a f

35、ertile heart. A romance was budding. Blanchard requested a photograph, but she refused. She felt that if he really cared, it woukliVt matter what she looked like> When the day finally come for him to return from Europe, they scheduled their first meeting -7:00p.m. At the Grand Hotel Station in Ne

36、w York. MYou will recognize me,"she wrote, Hby the red rose IY11 be wearing on my lapel.11 So at 7:00 he was in the station looking for a girl whose heart he loved, but whose face he'd never seen, ril let Mr Blanchard tell you what happened.A young woman was coming toward me, her figure long and slim. Her blonde hai