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The African and the Asian elephants are the largest land animals in the world. They are really eno rmous animals. The African and the Asian elephants are alike, or similar, in many ways, but there are differences between the 2 types of elephants, too.

What are some of the similarities between the African and the Asian elephant? Well, for one thin g, both animals have long noses, called trunks. An elephant sometimes uses its trunk like a third h and. Both kinds of elephants use their trunks to pick up very small objects and very large, heavy o bjects. They can even pick up trees with their trunks. For another thing, both the African and the Asian elephants have very large ears, although the African elephant’s ears are considerably larger. In addition, both animals are intelligent. They can be trained to do heavy work. They can also be trained to do tricks to entertain people. In other words, they both work for people, and they ent ertain people also.

As I said before, the African and Asian elephants are alike in many ways, but they are also quite di fferent, too. Let me explain what I mean. The African elephant is larger and heavier than the Asia n elephant. The African male elephant weighs between 12,000 and 14,000 pounds. In contrast, th e average Asian male elephant weighs between 7,000 and 12,000 pounds.

Another major difference between the 2 kinds of elephants is the size of the ears. Asian elephant s have smaller ears than African elephants do. The teeth are different, too. The African elephant has 2 very large teeth. These teeth are called tusks. The Asian elephant sometimes does not have any tusks at all. The elephants differ in color, too. The African elephant is dark gray in color while the Asian elephant is light gray. Occasionally an Asian elephant is even white in color! The last big difference between the 2 elephants is their temperament. The Asian elephant is tamer than the A frican elephant. In other words, the African elephant is much wilder than the Asian elephant. As a result, it’s more difficult to train the African elephant to perform tricks to entertain people. That’s why the elephants you see in the circus are probably Asian elephants … not African elephants. Y es, there certainly are differences between the African and the Asian elephants, but there is one big similarity between the 2 animals: they are both fascinating and enormous animals. Postlistening

A. Comprehension Check

1. Recognizing Information and Checking Accuracy 1. What part of an elephant's body is its trunk ? (b)

2. Which animals can be trained to work for man? (c)

3. What is the range of an African male elephant's weight? (c)

4. Which of the following best describes the Asian elephant in comparison with the African eleph ant? (c)

5. Which is true of both elephants? (d) .

6. Elephants use their trunks to pick up both small and large objects. (I heard it.)

7. Elephants enj oy working and doing tricks for people. (I cannot infer it.)

8. African elephants are generally more dangerous than Asian elephants. (I can infer it.) 9. Asian e lephants like people more than African elephants do. (I cannot infer it.) 10. Some Asian elephants have tusks. (I can infer it.)

In the early 1970s five baby elephants were released in Kruger National Park in South Africa near a herd of buffalo. Park rangers later reported that one of the young elephants had joined the her

d of buffalo and was acting lik

e a buffalo. A visitor to the park in 1980 saw the ten-year-old eleph ant with its adopted family o

f about 20 buffalo. The buffalo and the elephant were tryin

g to chas e some lions away from a water hole. A few years later a park ranger reported seeing the young e lephant and the herd of buffalo drinking water from a water hole when a herd of elephants arrive d to drink water. The herd of buffalo ran off when they saw the herd of elephants, and the young elephant ran off along wit

h the herd of buffalo. It appears that the elephant was accepted as a m ember of the herd by the buffalo. Listening Factoid #2

An elephant grasps objects with its trunk much as a person does with a hand. The elephant's trun k can carry a log that weighs as much as 600 pounds (or 272 kilograms). The tip of the trunk can p ick up an object as small as a coin. An elephant also uses its trunk to communicate with other ele phants. When two elephants greet each other, each places the tip of its trunk in the other’s mout h. A mother will comfort her calf by stroking it with her trunk. Young males also play-fight by wres tling with their trunks.

Chapter 11 Lincoln and Kennedy: Similar Destinies

John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln lived in different times and had very different family and e ducational backgrounds. Kennedy lived in the 20th century; Lincoln lived in the 19th century. Ken nedy was born in 1917, whereas Lincoln was born more than a hundred years earlier, in 1809. As for their family backgrounds, Kennedy came from a rich family, but Lincoln’s family was not wealt hy. Because Kennedy came from a wealthy family, he was able to attend expensive private school s. He graduated from Harvard University. Lincoln, on the other hand, had only one year of formal schooling. In spite of his lack of formal schooling, he became a well-known lawyer. He taught him self law by reading law books. Lincoln was, in other words, a self-educated man. In spite of these differences in Kennedy and Lincoln’s backgrounds, some interesting similarities between the 2 m en are evident. In fact, books have been written about the strange coincidences in the lives of the se 2 men. For example, take their political careers. Lincoln began his political career as a congress man. Similarly, Kennedy also began his political career as a congressman. Lincoln was elected to t he U.S. House of Representatives in 1847, and Kennedy was elected to the House in 1947. They w ent to Congress just 100 years apart. Another interesting coincidence is that each man was electe d president of the United States in a year ending with the number 60. Lincoln was elected preside nt in 1860, and Kennedy was elected in 1960; furthermore, both men were president during year s of civil unrest in the country. Lincoln was president during the American Civil War. During Kenne dy’s term of office, civil unrest took the form of civil rights demonstrations.

Another striking similarity between the 2 men was that, as you probably know, neither president lived to complete his tern in office. Lincoln and Kennedy were both assassinated while in office. K ennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, after only 1,000 days in office. Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 a few days after the end of the American Civil War. It’s rather curious to note that both pr esidents were shot while they were sitting next to their wives.

These are only a few examples of the uncanny, or unusual similarities in the destinies of these 2

Americans – men who had a tremendous impact on the social and political life in the United State s and the imagination of the American people.

were incredibly large. One dinosaur, believed to have been the largest dinosaur ever, is called seis mosaurus. Seismosaurus literally means "earth shaker.‖ This animal was between 100 and 120 f eet long and weighed about 89 tons. To give you some idea of how big seismosaurus was, let me tell you that an American football field is 300 feet long. Consider that the African elephant weighs between six and seven tons, This means that seismosourus was about 13 to 14 times heavier tha n an African elephant. It's not surprising that his name means "earth shaker"! Listening Factoid # 2

Dinosaur life spans probably varied in length from tens of years to hundreds of years, Many scient ists who study dinosaurs think that their possible age can be estimated from the maximum life sp

ans of modern reptiles, such as the 66-year lifespan of the common alligator and the amazing life span of a Black Seychelles Tortoise. The Black Seychelles Tortoise is now extinct, but one of these tortoises was captured in 1766, when it was an adult tortoise. The captured tortoise lived until 19 18, a record 152 years in captivity. The sad thing is that the tortoise had an accidental death, so n o one knows how long it might have lived, if it had not been for the accident. Now, these estimat es of the life spans of the dinosaurs would be too long if it, turned out that dinosaurs were more similar to modern birds or animals, rather than to reptiles, as some scientists believe. Scientists m ay gain more knowledge about the life spans of the dinosaurs in coming years.

Chapter 14 The American Civil War: Why It Happened

The American Civil War was fought over 100 years ago. It began in 1861 and lasted until 1865. T he battles of the American Civil War resulted in the death of 620,000 Americans. What caused thi s terrible civil war between the North and the South?

Well, historians believe that there were many causes of the war. One of the important causes of the war was the friction between the North and the South over the issues of slavery. The souther n way of life and the southern economy were based on the use of slave labor. For almost 250 year s before the Civil War, the economy of the South depended on the use of black slaves. The slaves were used to plant and pick cotton and tobacco. Cotton and tobacco were the main crops grown i n the South. Most southerners did not think it was wrong to own, buy, or sell slaves like farm ani mals. Slavery was, in fact, the foundation of the entire economy and way of life in the South. This was not the situation in the North. The northern economy did not depend on the use of slave lab or. Why not?

Well, in the South there were many large cotton plantations that used hundreds of slaves. In the North, however, there were smaller farms. The northern farmers planted many different kinds of crops, nor just cotton or tobacco. The Northerners did not need slaves, since their farms were sm aller than most of the southern plantations. In fact, many Northerners were so opposed to slaver y that thy wanted to end slavery completely. The northern attitude against slavery made the Sout herners angry. So, for many years before the war, there was constant friction between the North and the South over this issue. This friction eventually led to war.

There was other friction, too, as I said before, between the North and the South. There were, in other words, other causes of conflict between the North and the South. One involved the growth of industry in the North. While the South remained an agricultural area, the North became more and more industrialized. As industry increased in the North, it brought more people and greater wealth to the northern states. As a result, many Southerners began to fear northern political and

economic domination. Because of this fear, many Southerners believed that the South should lea ve the Union and that they should form their own country.

In 1860, the Southerners decided it was time to leave the Union when Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States. Lincoln, as you may know, was against slavery. The people of the S outh were afraid that their way of life and their economic system were in danger with Lincoln in t he presidency. Consequently, the southern states decided to secede from the Union. In other wor ds, they wanted to break away from the North and form a separate country. In 1861, South Caroli na seceded, and by June of 1861 eleven states had seceded and established a new country. They called the new country the Confederate States of America. The war between the North and the S outh began when the southern states seceded from the Union.

The main reason that the North went to war against the South was to bring the southern states back into the Union. In other words, the North went to war to keep the United States one country . After 4 years of terrible fighting, the North won the war against the South, and the US remaine d one country. The North won the war mainly because of its economic and industrial strength an d power.

The Civil War had 2 important results for the US: (1) the Civil War preserved the US as one count ry; and (2) it ended slavery in the US.

Many Americans wonder what the US would be like today if the South had won the Civil War. Th e history of the US would have been very different if the South had won the war between the stat es.

Postlistening

A. The Comprehension Check

1. Recognizing Information and Checking Accuracy 1. How long did the American Civil War last? (c )

2. What was one cause of the American Civil War? (b)

3. Describe the economy of the South at the time of the Civil War. (c)

4. How was the economy of the North different from the economy of the South before the war? (

d)

5. How did the growth of industry change the North? (b)

6. Why did the South decide to leave the Union and form its own country? (b)

7. What was the na me of the country formed by the southern states? (d)

8. What was the most important reason that the North went to war with the South? (b) 9. Why di

d th

e North win the war? (d) 10. What did the Civil War accomplish? (c) 11. The American Civil W ar started in 1861. (T)

12. The American Civil War ended over 100 years ago. (T)

13. There were many large cotton plantations in the North before the war. (F There were many

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Unit 1-Conversation 1**（1）Janet: So this is the Cherwell Boathouse — it's lovely! And look at those people punting! It looks quite easy. Mark: I'm not so sure about that! Janet, there's something Kate and I wanted to discuss with you. Some people in college are organizing charity events this term. We've decided to get involved. Janet: Raising money for charity Right. In China, people raise money for charity but students don't usually do that. Mark: Students often do that here. Anyway, we're thinking of doing sponsored punting. Janet: Sponsored punting! What's that Kate: Sponsoring is when people pay you to do something — like run a long distance. So people would be sponsoring students to punt. Janet: What a great idea! I'd love to join you! Mark: That's why we're telling you about it. So that's decided then. Let's make a list of things we need to do. Kate: I'll do that. One of the first things we should do is choose the charity. Mark: Yes. And choose a day for the event. And we need to design the sponsorship form. I've got one here. Kate: That looks fine, but we must change the wording. Who wants to do that Mark: I'll do that. What have we got so far Kate: Choose a charity. Also a day for the event. Change the wording on the sponsorship form... Um ...

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Unit 6-Conversation 1 Janet: What are you reading, Kate Kate:Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. Do you know it Janet: I've heard of it, yes, but I've never read it. It's a 19th century children's story, isn't it K a te: That's right. It's very famous. It's set in Oxford. It starts with this young girl sitting on a river bank. The interesting thing is, the author, Lewis Carroll, he was an Oxford professor and he used to have tea with the girl's family on this river bank. Ja net: Oh, that's fascinating! I'll put it into my diary. Kate: Is that what you're writing I know you've been keeping a diary all the year. Janet: It's been a great year. I've had such a good time — so lucky to have Mark and Kate as friends. Feel I've been doing well with work. Much happier about asking questions in tutorials. Janet: My screen's gone dark. Mark: You're using the battery, remember. It's run out, obviously. Janet: It can't be the battery. It's still charged. Oh no it's still black. Oh dear, I hope it's nothing serious. I haven't backed anything up recently. Kate: That's not like you, Janet. Janet:I know, but I lost my memory stick. I really should have backed things up. How stupid of me not to do that! Supposing I've lost everything! Mark: Let me take a look. The power is still on. And also the operating system still seems to be working ... I think it has to be the graphics card ... But maybe that's not the problem ... Janet: If only I'd backed things up! Kate: Relax, Janet! We'll take it to the computer shop this afternoon. I'm sure it'll be OK. Janet: I hope so. Unit 6-Conversation 2 Janet: Tell me about Alice in Wonderland. Kate: I tell you what, I'll read it to you. Kate: Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and having nothing to do: Once or twice, she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation" So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid) ... Janet: Kate, Mark, where are you going You've got my laptop! Kate: It's all right, Janet, we're taking it to the computer shop. We'll be back soon. Mark: It's not like Janet to forget to back up her work. Kate: She should have been more careful. Janet: It was stupid of me, I know! Stupid, stupid! Janet: Oh! It was a dream! What a relief! Kate: You were talking in your sleep. Janet: What was I saying Kate: "Stupid, stupid." M ark: I've sorted out your computer. Janet: Have you Oh, thank goodness! What was the problem Mark:It was the graphics card, as I predicted ... Janet: Is that what it was! I'm so relieved! Thanks, Mark. Kate: He's great, isn't he Janet: Yes. So are you, Kate. Kate: You're such a good friend. Unit 6-Outside view Computers are a very important part of our lives. They tell us about delays to transport. They drive trains, analyze evidence and control buildings. Did you know that 60 per cent of homes in Britain have got a PC (a personal computer) For many young people, playing computer games is their favorite way of spending spare time. Computers are a very important part of most areas of life in Britain-libraries, the police and in school. But they are becoming more important in our homes as well. They’ll even control the way we live-in “smart homes” or computer-controlled houses. The smart home is now a real possibility. It will become very common. A central computer will adjust the temperature, act as a burglar alarm and switch on lights, ready for you to come back home. And of course you will be able to give new instructions to the computer from your mobile phone. So if your plans change, your home will react to match. Many homes have got lots of televisions and several computers. The smart home will provide TV and Internet sockets in every room, so you’ll be able to do what you want whenever you want. If the temperature outside changes, the smart home will adjust the temperature levels inside. The computer will also close the blinds when it gets dark or to stop so much sun from entering a room. And if you want to eat when you get home, the computer will turn the oven on for you! Are computers taking over our lives In a survey, 44 per cent of young people between 11 and 16 said their PC was a trusted friend. Twenty per cent said they were happier at their computer than spending time with family or friends. Another survey found that people in Britain spend so much time on the phone, texting and reading emails that they no longer have time for conversation. What do you think about that Unit 6-Listening in

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Unit 1 Pirates of the Internet It’s no secret that online piracy has decimated the music industry as millions of people stopped buying CDs and started stealing their favorite songs by downloading them from the internet. Now the hign-tech thieves are coming after Hollywood. Illegal downloading of full-length feature films is a relatively new phenomenon, but it’s becoming easier and easier to do. The people running America’s movie studios know that if they don’t do something----and fast---they could be in the same boat as the record companies. Correspodent: “What’s really at stake for the movie industry with all this privacy?” Chernin: “Well, I think, you know, ultimately, our absolute features.” Peter Chernin runs 20th Century Fox, one of the biggest studios in Hollywood. He knows the pirates of the Internet are gaining on him. Correspont: “Do you know how many movies are being downloaded today, in one day, in the United States?” Chernin: “I think it’s probably in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions.” Correspondent: “And it’s only going to grow.” Chernin: “It’s only going to grow. √Somebody can put a perfect digital copy up on the internet. A perfect digital copy, all right. And with the click of mouse, send out a million copies all over the world, in an instant.”

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Unit One Tr a ck 4-1-O L-l A. Jay and Elise are talking about an accident. Listen and check the correct picture. Jay: Come in here, Elise. You should see this show! Elise: What is it? Jay: It's called "The Titanic of the Sky." It's about the Hindenburg, a great engineering feat. Elise: The Hindenburg ... Jay: You know, that giant zeppelin that crashed in 1934. Thirty-five people died. Elise: Oh yeah, I remember now. It was flying from Germany to the United States. It crashed as it was landing. Jay: Right. It's so funny looking, don't you think? It doesn't look anything like the airplanes as have today. Elise: That's true. Why would people ride in a zeppelin anyway? It seems so dangerous. Jay: Well, some people called the Hindenburg "man's greatest achievement in flight." They thought it was safe, I guess. Elise: Who rode in it anyway? Jay: Mostly wealthy people. It accommodated between 30 and 40 passengers and crew. One person said it was like a "flying hotel." Eise: It sounds pretty great. Jay: Yeah, and it was fast. That's why people rode it. They wanted to get to their destination faster. Elise: Why didn't they just take a jet plane? Jay: Elise! You know they didn't have jets back then. Look, in 1934 it took five days to travel from Germany to the U.S. by ship. The zeppelin could do it in half that time. It was speedy. Elise: Well, maybe I'll sit down and watch a little bit. Maybe I'll learn something ... Tr a ck 4-1-O L-2 B. Listen again. How was the zeppelin described? Check your answers. Track 4-1-OL-3 A. Listen to the conversation and check the correct picture. Jack: I think we should buy a bigger car. Big cars are safer. Kayla: Yes, but on the other hand, they consume more oil. Jack: They also look really cool. Kayla: That's true, but there are some SUVs which are not big but also very beautiful. Jack: And 1 think big cars are more fun to drive. Kayla: But then again, it's very expensive. Jack: Well, let's get more information about several kinds of cars, okay? T r a c k4-1-O L-4 Listen to another person talking about famous buildings in his country and fill in the blanks with information you hear. My country has two very famous buildings called the Petronas Towers. The buildings are made of glass, steel, and concrete. They were designed by an American architect, but he used a Malaysian style. They were finished in 1998, and they were the tallest buildings in the world at that time. Each tower has 88 floors, and is 452 meters high. I really like the Petronas Towers. They show both the modern and the traditional side of my country. T r a c k4-1-O L-5 A. Listen to a talk on controversies about modern buildings. Then fill in the blanks to complete the sentences. Modern buildings: We love them, We hate them The world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris is almost 500 years old, and it faced a very modern problem: There simply wasn't enough space for six million visitors each year. In 1989, American architect I.M. Pei designed a striking glass pyramid in the building's center to be a visitor entrance and shopping arcade. But he also started an angry debate. Some people felt his glass building was a piece of art, like the ones inside the museum. Others said it was just an ugly, modern mistake. Kyoto, Japan, is the country's ancient capital, and the heart of its culture. Its railroad station was too small for the millions of visitors. In 1997, the city completed a new station in a huge shopping center, right in the oldest part of the city. Designed by Hiroshi Hara, the building also contains a hotel and department store. Before it was built, critics said that the high, wide, modern building would destroy the city's traditional look. On the other hand, supporters said it would bring new life into the city center. Track 4-1-OL-6