Part I Listening Task

Script for the recording:

Mr. Swiller was known far and wide as a hard-nosed boss who watched his employees like a hawk. One day, he was making one of his regular tours of the factory when he spotted a young man leaning against a pile of boxes just outside the foreman’s office. Since George, the foreman, wasn’t around, Swiller stood off to the side and watched to see just how long the young man would stand around doing nothing.
The young man yawned, scratched his head, looked at his watch, and sat on the floor for a while. Then he stood up, stretched, yawned again, and leaned back on the pile of boxes.
Swiller stepped from his hiding place, and walked up to the young man. “ You!” he shouted. “How much do you make a week?”
The young man looked up indifferently. “Two hundred and fifty dollars,” he said.
Swiller dashed into the cashier’s office, took $250 from the cash box, and returned. “Take it,” he said, “ and get out! Don’t let me see you around here again!”
The young man took the cash, put it into his pocket, and left.
When Swiller found George, he was red with anger. “What’s the matter with you, letting that guy idle around in front of your office? I just gave him a week’s pay and fired him.
“You mean the kid in the red shirt?” George asked.
“ Yes! The kid in the red shirt!”
“He was waiting for twenty dollars we owe him for lunch,” George said. “He works for the coffee shop around the corner.”
After Listening
1. one of his factory workers/employees
2. fire; a week’s pay
3. he let the young man idle around in front of his office
4. a coffee shop boy/ the one who works for the coffee shop around the corner

Part II Reading Task

Text A
Comprehension

Possible answers to content questions:
1. No, he doesn't. Because his personal experience tells him this is wrong.
2. He was a merchant and had been in business in Japan for many years. He was a tiny little fellow, not much more than five feet four in height, and very slender, with white hair, a red face much wrinkled, and blue eyes.
3. Edward Burton had done something the narrator could never have believed he would, unless he had heard the story from his own lips. Both in appearance and manner he suggested the type of character you would not associate with such an action.
4. Lenny Burton was a bridge player. Edward Burton used to play bridge with him.
5. In his eyes, Lenny was not a bad chap, and he liked him.
6. He got, from time to time, a bit of money from his family in London and made a bit more by card-playing.
7. He called at his namesake's office to ask for a job.
8. Edward refused his request and humiliated him.
9. The response showed that he was a cruel man because he even made fun of Lenny who was down and out instead of giving him help.
10. Edward asked Lenny to swim from the Shioya Club round the beacon and land at the creek of Tarumi. It was over three miles and rather difficult.
11. Because he knew that he was not in good condition and might not make it.
12. Yes. Because Edward said that he hadn't got a vacancy in his office when he set the condition.

Text Organization

1.
Parts Paragraphs Main Ideas
Part One Para 1 It is no easy job to judge people, for they aren't always what they appear to be.
Part Two Paras 2- 3 Kind and gentle, Edward Burton, a wealthy merchant, appeared
 as if he could not bear to hurt a fly.
Part Three Paras 4 - 51 As it turned out, Burton was cold-blooded enough to send a
 friend to certain death.
2.
Sections Paragraphs Mainly about
Section One Paras 4 -16 What Edward knew about Lenny
Section Two Paras 17 - 31 How Edward responded to Lenny's request
Section Three Paras 32 - 51 How Edward, a "kind" gentleman, handled a friend
in desperate need of help

Language Sense Enhancement

1.
(1) struck (2) mild
(3) gentle (4) raise it
(5) benign (6) with point
(7) something of (8) made every penny
(9) small and frail (10) not bear to hurt a fly

Vocabulary

I.

1.
1) In a way 2) in accordance with 3) vacancy 4) in good condition
5) transparent 6) rub 7) spicy 8) hitherto
9) with (a) bad grace 10) instinct 11) pawned 12) current

2.
1) turned up 2) will stick to 3) brought back 4) go about
5) driving at 6) put (them) away 7) turning (things) over 8) took (him so much) aback

3.
1) She has a very weak constitution —she may not be able to survive the operation.
2) I was taken aback by the insurance company's rejection of my compensation claim.
3) It was something of a surprise when we ran into each other in a place like that.
4) My hair needs trimming/to be trimmed —it's getting too long.
5) Appearances are often deceptive.

4.
1) Mr. Smith used to be a successful businessman in our community. Oddly enough he went broke overnight some time ago. The other day when I saw him wandering on the street, I was greatly shocked to find his hair all white and his face wrinkled. I was sad to see that he had gone all to pieces.
2) One thing is definite: Rena is vain. She is capable of going to great lengths to satisfy her vanity.
3) Mother has too mild a nature to get angry. Even when Father yelled at her, she never yelled back. Most afternoons, she would sit calmly at her table, reading a novel while sipping her tea. And when I was upset, she would hold me tenderly and stroke my hair until I was calm again.

II． Usage

1. Except for her lack of experience, she would be qualified for the job.
2. Fred would tell me nothing about what he was writing except that it was to be a Christmas play.
3. Tom does everything around the house except cook.
4. The log cabin stayed empty except when we came during the summer vacation.
5. She would not speak to me except to answer my questions.
6. I knew nothing about Judith except what I'd heard at second hand.
7. I have every confidence in your wisdom except where this sort of thing is concerned.
8. The house was just as I left it except that everything was covered with dust.

III. British and American English

 Vocabulary Spelling
AmE BrE AmE BrE
apartment flat favorable favourable
can tin paralyze paralyse
candy sweets labor labour
elevator lift meter metre
faculty staff (of a university) catalog catalogue
first floor ground floor leveling levelling
gas, gasoline petrol theater theatre
mail post defense defence
railroad railway plow plough
pants trousers program programme
subway tube, underground practice (v.) practise
corn maize characterize characterise
store shop tire tyre (on a car)

Comprehensive Exercises

I. Cloze

1.
(1) insane (2) current (3) candid
(4) capable (5) was taken aback (6) in good condition
(7) constitution (8) go all to pieces (9) gone broke
(10) vacancy (11) mild (12) deceptive

2.
1) suspected 2) pleading
3) confirmed 4) stunned
5) lucrative 6) jewellery
7) wealthy 8) urge
9) spell 10) arrested

II. Translation

1.
1) I have an instinct that Henry will seek to join the expedition, because he is something of an adventurer.
2) He is capable of sticking to the task at hand, even if he is exposed to noises.
3) The trademark was registered in accordance with the laws hitherto in force.
4) Oddly enough, many people volunteered to help organize the meeting, but only a few turned up.
5) The teacher’s affectionate words, along with his candid comments, changed the way Mike perceived the society and himself.

2.
For my own part, I find that appearances are all too often deceptive. For instance, you might be wrong if you judged by appearances only people like Edward Hyde Burton.In appearance, he seemed a man all of a piece. He was a tiny little fellow with white hair and mild blue eyes, gentle and candid. Nevertheless, he turned out to be very cruel. He insulted and fooled Lenny who was down and out and made him commit himself to an insane venture. What was still more surprising was that he was completely indifferent to Lenny's death. Without doubt, Burton was a man with a heart of stone.

Part III Home Reading Task

Text B

Comprehension Check

1. d 2. b 3. b 4. d 5. d 6. a

Translation

1. 显然，如果他结了婚的话，他妻子因他改不掉恶习，真会把他一脚踹到马路边上去。
2. 如今回想起来，我感觉到好像那天命运着意要给我上一课。而且它真地好好给我上了一课。
3. 当我试图想着要站起来时，听见从紧挨我的上方传来了一个熟悉的、粗哑的声音。
4. 看见他眼中和蔼的、怜悯的神情，我泪水盈眶。

Language Practice

1.
1) h 2) a 3) g 4) c 5) f 6) b 7) d 8) e
2.
1) was overwhelmed with 2) by far 3) dumping 4) guilt
5) thinking up 6) conjure up 7) assumption 8) keep…under control
9) welled up 10) literally 11) at one time or another 12) teach you a lesson

Part IV Comprehensive Language Practice

A model completed remittance application