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1、stepbystep第二册答案A. 1.What kind of student comes to Oxford? The answer to this is, there is Oxford Type. Common qualities they look for are commitment, enthusiasm and motivation for your chosen area of study backed by a strong academic record.2.The University of Cambridge is one of the oldest universi

2、ties in the world, and one of the largest in the United Kingdom. It has a worldwide reputation for outstanding academic achievement and the high quality of research undertaken in a wide range of science and arts subjects.3.The University of Sydney was the first to be established in Australia and, af

3、ter almost 150 years of proud achievement, still leads in innovation and quality. The University excels in sport and social activities, debating, drama, music and much more.4.Known for excellence in teaching, research, and service to the community, the university of Victoria serves approxi-mately 17

4、,000 students. It is favored by its location on canada s spectacular west coast, in the capital of British Columbia.5.New Zealand s largest university, the University of Auckland, was established in 1833, and has grown into an international center of learning and academic excellence. The University

5、is situated in the heart of the cosmopolitan city of Auckland and provides an exciting and stimulating environment for 26,000 students.6.Founded in 1636 Harvard has a 380-acre urban campus with easy access to Boston. It has a total enrollment of about 18,500 students. This university comprises many

6、different schools such as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of business Administration and School of Education.7.Columbia University is an independent coeducational universi-ty, which awards master s, doctoral, professional, and other advanced degrees, with an enrollment of about 20,000 grade

7、-ate and professional students.8.Boston University is located along the banks of the Charles River. With more than 30,000 students from all over the United States and 135 countries, it is the third largest inde-pendent university in the United States.BAmerican universities have been offering classes

8、 online through computers for a number of years. Now, some newly created colleges are offering academic degrees online. One uni-versity offers both bachelor s degrees and master s degrees. Offi-cials say they try to provide students with a social experience as well as an educational one. For example

9、, in some programs, groups of the same six students progress through all their classes together. They communicate by computer. Another online school uses a problem-solving method of teaching. Students attempt to solve real problems in their classes online instead of reading information.Students who

10、have a taken online classes say they like them because they do not have to travel to a building at a set time to listen to a professor. Professors say they have better communica-tion with students through eimail notes than they do in many tra-ditional classes.1-2B.C. 1. GCSE examinations2. Students/

11、 higher education3. student/ second year/high school/college4. General exam/ School Certificate5. Sitting University Entrance Examination6. Bachelor s degree: 3/4 years Master s degree: another year or two Doctorate: a further 3_- 7 years1-3A. 1. Education has acquired a kind of snob value in modern

12、 times.2. Nowadays if we want to get a decent job, we have to have a piece of paper.3. If we want to get promotion in even a humblest job, we have to obtain a certificate or a diploma first.4. Experience and practical skills are regarded as relatively unim-portant.5. Johnson would ve been a manager

13、by now if he d taken the trouble to get a degree.6. He s a clever man, he could ve done anything if he d had a proper eductation.7. Would it not be better to allow people to become expert in a way most suited to them rather than oblige them to follow a set course of instruction, which may offer no o

14、pportunity for them to develop skills in which they would ve become expert if left to themselves?B. Major viewpoints Supporting ideas and facts Statement Numbers: 1,4,7Statement Numbers: 2,3,4,61-4Thinking ahead of the speaker -Anticipation HelpsListening is an extremely complex communicative activi

15、ty. In his book Principles and Implications of cognitive Psychology, Nasser defines listening as a temporally ex-tened activity in which the listener continuously develops more or less specific readiness for what will come next. In other words, an effective listener is constantly setting up hy-pothe

16、sis in his mind, and also, he is constantly testing his hypothesis by matching it with what he has heard in rality.If he hears what he has expected, he receives the informal- ton. But if what he hears is totally out of his expectation, he fails to get the meassge.The skill to anticipate what is comi

17、ng in listening com-prehension depends largely on the listener s familiarity with the theme of the message. It also depends on the listener s knowledge of the speaker as well as the setting.Obviously, when we listen to something that we already have some information about, it is generally a lot easi

18、er for us to take in the new information. Therefore, pre-listening preparation seems to have a big role to play in enhancing listening comprehension. Before actual listening, we could perhaps first give some thought to the topic, discuss it with others, read some related materials and do some vocabu

19、lary work. If we could make ourselves fully orientated for the forthcoming talks or lectures, we are moa likely to become effective listeners.Of course, readiness beforehand is not at all enough. Active thinking must take place all the way through. In fact, we should always try to think ahead of the

20、 speaker. The ability to anticipate helps us in logical and intelligent guesswork. It does not only enable us a to know generally what a person is going to talk about in a certain situation, but also, interestingly enough, sometimes even exactly what a person s next utterance is going to be in a dis

21、cussion?2-1A. 1.There are more than 2,700 languages in the world. In addi-tion, there are more than 7,000 dialects. A dialect is a region- al variety of a language that has a different pronunciation, vocabulary, or meaning.2.The language in which a government conducts business is the official langua

22、ge of that country.3.One billion people speak English. That s 20 percent of the world s population.4.Four hundred million people speak English as their first lan-guage. For the other 600 million it s either a second language or a foreign language.5.There are more than 500,000 words in the Oxford dic

23、tionary. Eighty percent of all English vocabulary comes from other languages.6.Eighty percent of all information in the world s computers is in English.7.Somalia is the only African country in which the entire popu-lation speaks the same language, Somali.8.More than 1,000 different languages are spo

24、ken on the conti-nent of Africa.9.When the American spaceship Voyage began its journey in 1977,it carried a gold disc. On the disc, there were mes-sages in 55 languages. Before all of them, there was a mes-sage from the Secretary General of the United Nations in English.B. 1.learning styles: differe

25、nt ways of learning that different people have2.hearing learners: people who learn best by listening3.visual learners: people who learn best by reading or looking at pictures4.tactile learners: people who learn best by touching and doing thingsC. 1- a 2 c 3 d 4 b2-2 B Not afraid to make mistakes int

26、erested in the mistakes he makes and having them corrected Eager to experiment with ev-ery new thing trying to use something new playing with the language testing himself Doing more of his own batWorking outside the class-room reading books Passive not speaking up much rarely asking the teacher why

27、this and why not something else relying entirely on the teacher just accepting what the teacher gives him and doing nothing more with it Unwilling tostick his neck out afraid to make mistakes Invariably deciding the other person is more likely to be right than himself not too sure abut the test2-3A.

28、 Things that make English difficult to learnHodgepodgeIdioms in informal EnglishLargestvocabulary Cermanic French Greek & Latin Anglo-Saxon French Irregularity in spelling & PronunciationB. (F) 1. The English language is a mixture of different languages, This feature has nothing good but only to mak

29、e it more difficult to learn.(T) 2. According to the speaker, some words from the French have more prestige than those from the Old English al- though they mean the same thing.(F) 3. Canadian English is close to American English in some words and idioms. But the spelling and pronunciation reflect Br

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