Warming Up

1. T 2.F 3. NG

Understanding Short Conversations

1. B 2.A 3. D 4. B 5. B 6. C 7.C 8. A 9. B 10. C

Understanding a Long Conversation

1. A 2.D 3. D 4. C 5. B

Understanding a Passage

1. C 2.A 3. B 4. C 5. D

Understanding a Movie Dialog

1. important decisions

2. As in

3. agreed on

4. What’s wrong with

5. I mean

6. wait a minute

7. what a challenge

8. what he’s doing

9. gets his way

10. ever imagined

Listening and Speaking

1. Why Chinese talk so much.

2. When it is put on our table.

3. It’s a dish of potato noodles with bits ofmeat in it.

4. Open-ended.

5. Open-ended.

Homework SupplementaryListening

Task 1

1. B 2.C 3. B 4. C 5. C

Task 2

1. B 2.C 3. D 4. B 5. D

Task 3

1 federal government

2. education reform law

3. be forced to

4. place top importance on

5. calls for

6. main goal

7. by 40 percent

8. low-income and minority

9. poorly performing students

10. free after-school help