Unit 1
ARE WOMEN GIVEN A FAIR CHANCE?
I don’t think women are given a fair chance to have as good a career as men for three reasons.
First, girls have more difficulty getting an education than boys. If there is little money in the family, boys will get the first chance to go to school. Even if girls do begin school, they often leave earlier to help the family or to go to work. It is often felt that girls will marry and look after another family but that boys must earn money for the family. This way of thinking prevents some girls from training for a career.
Second, women have more difficulty getting to the top of their chosen career. Most people who run companies are men. So they choose other men to succeed them. This means that women get fewer chances to show how good they are at running businesses. Unless they are given the opportunity, they will never be able to show that they can run companies successfully.
Third, women are more likely to give up their careers to look after children or run the house. This is becaues these kinds of responsibilities are considered women’s work. However, men do not have this problem. They can work long hours and go on business trips. They can improve their career chances since the family is cared for at home.
Unit 2
What? My mum is always telling me to eat more vegetables, because they’re good for me!
So… if our fruit and vegetables were grown with chemical fertilizers, they might look healthy, but probably aren’t really healthy? I guess we’ve got to stop using so many chemical fertilizers to grow our food!
Unit 3
THE STORY OF THE DRUNKEN CHICKENS
Part 1
Mary Smith looked at the beautiful ripe plums. They would make lovely jam. When she had finished the cooking, she filled all her empty jam jars and left the rest of the jam in the pan. She would put it in the fridge when it was cooler. But just then the telephone rang,her mother was in hospital after a car accident. Mary picked up her bag and ran out of the house.
Some days later, her husband, John,came home from a business trip. He had been travelling all day and felt like having a drink and a piece of cake. As he came into the kitchen he saw a pan with a dark red mess inside it, he lifted it up and smelled it. It smelled bad. Mary must have forgotten to clean this pan, he thought. So he poured all the jam into the chicken yard and cleaned the pan. Then feeling comfortable, he began to eat a piece of cake.
Part 2
When Mary returned, she noticed the chickens behaving strangely. They were running round the yard as if they were sick. She saw the dark red mess on the ground and went closer. When she saw a plum stone she went into the kitchen. Her husband was reading a newspaper at the table. Angrily Mary rushed to him. “You threw away my jam,”she shouted,”Oh,”that’s what it was,”he said.”I’m sorry but I thought it was porridge which had gone bad in the hot weather.””Good heavens!”said Mary.”That mustbe the jam I left in the pan, butwhy didn’t you threw it in the dusbin?”John laughed,”It was a mistake. However ,the chickens have enjoyed the jam, except that it has made them drunk. What are we going to do with these drunken chickens?”
Unit 4
TO DRIVE OR NOT TO DRIVE
C=CYCLIST P=POLICEMEN L=LIN PU
Lin Pu is excited, but very nerous. He just got his driver’s license last week and yesterday bought his brother-in-law’s old car. Today, he is driving in the city for the first time. Taxis are going in every direction. People are crossing the street withour paying attention to the cars, and the people riding bikes never look before they turn.
Oh, dear! Why did I ever buy a car?
Unit 5
CHINA’S CULTURE THEME PARK
OK, but hurry up, because we want to see at least half of the villages before noon. We mustn’t miss the Uyghur cultural dances and the Dai singing in the afternoon.
Ha! I know you’ll want to shop again later!
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