Unit 1 Let’s Go Somewhere! Before you go/ Travel Unit 1 (Dictation A)
(1) Before going on a trip I pay the bills, empty the trash, and give a house key to a friend. (2) Don’t pack the night before you travel，for you will forget things when you’re in a hurry.
(3) If you are traveling with a friend, plan your packing together, and share your alarm clock,
toothpaste, or first aid kit. （急救用品）
(4) If you travel abroad you must be sure you have all the necessary documents like a passport and
a visa to travel to a specific country.
(5) From up here we can have a bird’s eye view of the island.
(6) Most of the unearthed relics remain intact. 大多数出土文物仍保持完整无损 (7) What a magnificent（壮观） sight! It’s really fascinating.（迷人） (8) Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is key to it. 实践得真知。
Unit 1 (Dictation B)
(1) Better to ask the way than go astray (迷路；误入歧途). 问路总比迷路好
(2) Sometimes business people and technicians must travel to conduct business or to attend
training sessions.
(3) There are many advantages to travelling, like fun, adventure, the excitement of seeing a new
place, and learning about a new culture.
(4) Indirect knowledge is indispensable (necessary/vital/essential), but experiences gained through
travel are very useful supplements to what we have learned through reading.
(5) In many other countries there are social practices and customs different from your own, and
acting in the same way you do at home abroad may not always be appropriate.
(6) It seems to me that the more tourists can mix with local people, the better off everyone is.
(7) Coping with situations that have not been previously encountered can show you that you are
capable of achieving, or succeeding at, so much more than you had thought. (8) Reading makes a full man; practice, a competent man.
Q1. Why do people like travelling?/ What significant role can travelling play in a person’s life? Q2. The most unforgettable trip in my life
Q3. Some people think the negative impacts of tourism on host countries outweigh the positive ones. What do you think of the idea?
Unit 4 Health
How do you feel? /Getting better
Unit 4 (Dictation A)
(1) An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一天一苹果，疾病不找我。 (2) I am suffering from insomnia, and I have a weak digestion. (3) I feel dizzy and I’ve got no appetite. 我头晕，没有胃口。
(4) It’s not a sharp pain; just sort of a dull ache. 这不是剧痛，只是有些隐痛。
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(5) Keep to your bed, and try to have more water. Here’s a sick-leave certificate for two days.
(6) Health security involves eating healthy food- mainly green vegetables, fruits, juices and
maintaining cleanliness, hygiene around your place of living.
(7) For good mental health, we should not stress and exhaust ourselves but relax in order to
refresh our mind.
(8) A contented mind is a perpetual feast. 知足常乐
Unit 4 (Dictation B)
(1) Wealth is nothing without health. 健康胜于财富 wlth is noth witht hlth.
(2) These vitamin B and C pills are to build up your resistance. Resist the temptation of
(3) Smoking is harmful to health, but I’m really hooked on these cigarettes. I’m a chain/heavy
smoker. 我是个老烟鬼。Hooker prostitue
(4) If we are physically and mentally fit then we feel contented, energetic, happy, confident and
enjoy every moment.
(5) Make sure you set aside a few minutes whenever it is possible to do a certain daily activity that
helps you with stress. Ease/relieve the stress
(6) Reading makes your brain healthier with a steady supply of information and mental exercises. (7) Another way to mentally and physically healthy is to give up bad habits such as drinking and
smoking.
(8) Smile everyday! It will not only make you feel better, but encourage others too. (9) A light heart lives long. 不恼不愁，直到白头。Care-free mind
Q1 How to stay healthy mentally as well as physically?
Q2 Do you think health is more important than good grades or a successful career? Why or why not?
Unit 5 Student Life
Starting out/ After graduation
Unit 5 (Dictation A)
(1) A good beginning makes a good ending. 好的开始是成功的一半。
(2) I am taking 19 credit hours this term and I have passed the exam with flying colours.
(3) The library offers a soothing environment for people to enjoy their reading. The computer lab
provides access to the Internet. Readers can search for information online.
(4) Compassion (sympathy), sensitivity, commitment and being a team player are qualities I value most as a student.
(5) While young, we must prepare ourselves for the future by studying hard and involving
ourselves in meaningful causes.
(6) There is no better way to overcome boredom or depression than to help others in need. (7) I like to visit web sites where young people can discuss their experiences with others.
(8) I can learn about myself, learn about others and meet a lot of interesting people by
volunteering.
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Unit 5 (Dictation B)
(1) A young idler, an old beggar. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
(2) I’m going to get married after graduation and live in a house by the ocean.
(3) I’ll most probably stay at home to be a full-time mother before my children are 16 years old. (4) To witness their growth would be the most valuable thing in my life.
(5) I think it’s important for everyone to keep learning all their lives. That’s why I chose to major
in Lifelong Education. Specialize in
(6) After I graduate from college I will go to graduate school to continue my study, because I think
Bachelor’s degree is not enough nowadays. Master’s degree/doctorate
(7) I think modern youth should not bury/indulge themselves in their own day-to-day affairs, but
be concerned with important issues of the world. Listless attitude=unconcerned or indifferent attitude
(8) I think Chinese education system is in sore need of an upgrade. Improvement/reform/ (9) I want to start my own business, an import-export business.
Q1 What do we need to learn in university besides knowledge? Q2 What role should young people play in society? Q3 What qualities do you value most as a student? Q4 What will you do after your graduation?
Unit 6 Telecommunications Telephoning / Crazy for cell phones
Unit 6 (Dictation A) deny
(1) It can’t be denied there has been a cell phone boom in the last decade. (2) Telephones have entered ordinary household as a daily necessity.
(3) Mobile phones are necessary, and they are very useful in emergencies.
(4) Cell phones are indispensable (inseparable, integral) to communicate between people.
(5) It enables them to keep in touch with their friends and family more conveniently and quickly. (6) As a result, mobile phone has been endowed with new functions such as Internet browsing,
commercial information transmission and newspaper reading. Automatic manuel
(7) As an important tool for the life of modern people, mobile phone has brought more deepening
influence and changed people’s life.
(8) He that talks much errs much. 言多必失 / Talk is cheap. 多说不吃亏。
Unit 6 (Dictation B)
(1) There have been problems associated with cell phone. Some people are addicted to it. (2) Excess is just as bad as deficiency. 过犹不及 excessive deficient
(3) It is now illegal to drive and use your cell phone at the same time. Irregular abnormal (4) Taking your hand off the steering wheel to use your phone is risky.
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(5) What I don’t like about cell phones is when they ring at the most unexpected times. at the least expected times
(6) While mobile phone brings convenience to people’s exchanges, it also seems to make
interpersonal exchanges tend to “networking” and “individualization”.
(7) Turn your phone off in meetings, movies, restaurants, or any place where a ringing phone
might disturb people. Swith off vibrating mode (8) I feel like I lost some privacy because of cell phones.
(9) Text message economy becomes a new spot of light for IT media. Spotlight limelight Steal the spotlight
Unit 7 Sports and Hobbies In my free time/ The active life
Unit 7 (Dictation A)
(1) Playing a sport we like is an essential part of our life. Elemental
(2) I go skiing quite often and I learned how to scuba dive when I was eight years old.
(3) Drawing puts my mind at ease and lets me think about other things, as opposed to what’s going
on in the news and the troubles that I might be having.
(4) Some of my favorite activities are going to the movies, hanging with my friends, and doing
arts and crafts.
(5) I can get my figure back if I play a sport.
(6) I play tennis fairly regularly with my friends, and sometimes go swimming and cycling by
myself.
(7) I always looked at other people’s jewelry and drew designs on it. (8) Repair the house before it rains. 未雨绸缪
Unit 7 (Dictation B)
(1) To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies. (2) It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
(3) Undoubtedly, hobbies indeed constitute an indispensable part in people’s life. (4) All work and no play make Jack a dull boy. 只工作不玩耍，杰克也变傻。 (5) People play sports because they want to keep fit or live an active life. (6) Sport is of vital importance to improve the quality of one's life.
(7) We should learn to alternate work with rest and recreation. 我们应该学会劳逸结合。 (8) Sitting in a chair all day makes me very crazy, and playing sports can help me to relax.
Q1 Why do people need to play sports?
Q2 What are your hobbies? Why do you like them?
Q3 “Human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose
pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one.” Comment on this quote. Which class, in your view, would it be preferable to belong to? And why?
Unit 8 Men and Women
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Unit 8 (Dictation A)
(1) The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. 欲得君心，先悦君腹。
(2) Male babies tend to outnumber female ones because more parents seem to want to have sons. (3) Men and women are equally smart according to all forms of I.Q. test, but significantly
different form each other if you examine on how they think and act.
(4) Men always try to solve problems by themselves, and often refuse helps when they are really
in trouble, for accepting helps means they are not independent enough as a man. (5) It’s the natural function of women to bear children and to feed them at infancy.
(6) Women are no less capable, intelligent, logical, reasonable, responsible, etc. than men.
(7) On the surface, women in most countries have the free choice to either stay at home or enter a
profession.
(8) Men are big, strong and aggressive, while women are physically inferior, and mentally
intimate.
(9) Men and women excel at different types of tasks.
Unit 8 (Dictation B)
(1) Compared with their male colleagues, career women have to shoulder more responsibilities in
society.
(2) It’s very difficult to be wife, mother and successful career woman at the same time.
(3) Working women experience problems such as sexual harassment and being fired because of
pregnancy.
(4) We could also offer women better benefits and a better pension when they retire.
(5) The unequal treatment of working women will take years to change and will always stay an
important issue.
(6) A woman’s position within a family, in a way, depends on her economic status. (7) A woman who has to rely on her husband economically won’t be treated equally.
(8) The past decades have seen a dramatic increase of women participating in the labor force from
countries all over the world.
Q1 What are the differences between men and women?
Q2 Do male and female graduates from your college have the same job opportunities? If not, why
not?
Q3 Is it possible for a woman to be successful in her career and take good care of her family at the
same time?
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