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PETS三级教材标准教程Unit01Charpter 1 PERSONAL AND PEOPLE Unit1 Personal and people Conversations part 1 Daisy is introducing Sally to Smith Daisy: Good morning, Smith. Could I take a few minutes of your time? Smith:Oh, its you,Daisy.What can I do for you? Daisy: May I introduce my friend Sally to you,Smith? Shes outstanding student in the college.She spesks good english and also she is good at operating computer. Sally: How do you do?Smith, Smith: Pleased to meet you,Sally.I heard a little about you from Daisy. Would you like work for two months in my company? Sally: Of course. Id love to. I really want to get some real experience from my work here. Smith: Ok. Please come to work at 8oclock tomorrow morning. Sally: See you tommorrow. Good bye.Part 3 A couple are talking about their neighbour Mr. WangMrs.: Darling, do you know anything about our new neighbour Mr. Wang ?Mr.: Nothing except he goes to work at 7:30 every morning.Mrs.: Hes quite special.Mr. : Special? Whats the special about him?Mrs: Well. For one thing,hes Wang Lis boy friend. Miss Li has told me that.Mr. : Whats else?Mrs.: Hes farmer to villege three yesrs ago.With only 20 ,but nowMr. :Whats happened?Mrs.: He has setted a piece of company with about 2000 employees. Its reported that he has built a new school for his poor hometown. PETS三级教材标准教程Unit02Chapter2Home and familyConversationsPart1Wang Fang shows a photo of her family to Dianna.Dianna: How many members are there in your family?Wang: There are five. Look at the photo. The old couple sitting in the middle are my parents.Dianna: Oh, your parents! They smile so happily.Wang: You are right. My mother was an English teacher in a middle school, and my father was a doctor, now both of them are retired from work.Dianna: Your fluent English must be inherited from your mother, I think.Wang: Maybe. When I was little, she liked to teach me English.Dianna: A wise mother! Who is the man on the left?Wang: He is my elder brother.Dianna: He looks so handsome and energetic. What is he doing now?Wang: He workis in a big company in Shanghai as a manager.Dianna: Who is the girl on the right? Is that you?Wang: No, that is my younger sister. She is studying in Los Angeles.Dianna:So the girl next to her must be you.Wang: Yes, you are right.Dianna: You are still as lovely as you were.Wang: Thank you, by the way, I would like to see my parents this weekend. Would you lie to go with me? My mother is preparing my favorite dishes. Have a taste, ok?Dianna: Oh, I would love to. I will be glad to meet you your parents. It seems you really have a happy family.PETS三级教材标准教程Unit04CHAPTER 4 WEATHER AND CLIMATEUnit 4 Weather and ClimateConversationsTed and Lisa are drinking coffee.Look,it is sunny today,isnt it?Yeach,I like sitting in the sun, drinking coffee and listening to the light music.You really know how to lead a comfortable life and enjoy yourself.A piece of bad news for you: Iits forecasted that it will be cloudy tomorrow.Its so changeable!Maybe the day after tomorrow,it will be snowy.Youre such a smart boy.It is predicted to snow.Really?Thats great!If so,we can buy a roll of film to take photos,and invite our friends Amy,Martin and Sally to play with snowballs.And we can also heap up a snowman standing on our playground!So it is not bad but good news.May your dream come true.Wang Lin is talking with Alice about the recent weather.How are you doing these days?Fine,and you?Me too.Its so hot and muggy today.Yes.The weather has been dry for days.Its reported that the temperature today rises to about 40C.Oh,I see.The heat makes my flowers fade,my little dogGegeis lying on the ground with its tongue strectching long.God damn!Could you remember the flood last month?Sure.It was raining cats and dogs.Luckily I was staying at home that day.A terrible flood.Some people lost their lives.Poor poeple!The flood is dangerous,and our government ha asked people to be mindful of heat,extreme heat may also cause death.Take it easy.The fall is coming and the heat will be finally over.I hope so.Yang Ming asks his teacher,Mr.Zhang,some questions about the climate.Good morning,Mr.Zhang.Good morning,any questions?Yes,could you tell me the difference of climate between Beijing and Kunming?Of course.Beijing is situated in the North and Kunming in the Southwest.Is the climate related to the latitude?Yes,Beijing is in the high latitudes while Kunming in the low latitudes.Does the latitude influence the temperature?Certainly,its colder in Beijing than in Kunming as a whole.The weather in Beijing is very bad.How?Can you explain it in detail?Its cloudy and windy.Through the whole year,the wind blows very hard.The dirt spreading in the air can make people dirty.It can even get through the window and fall on your furniture.But the strong wind offers a good chance to fly kites.What about Kunming?Its warm and sunny.The weather si agreeable,comfortable and humid.The range of temperature is unnoticeable.In short,that means its like spring all the year round.Youre right.Thank you very much.Aaron is calling his girlfriend,Helen.Darling,what are you busy with now?I am missing you very much.Next week,I have a 3-day vacation.Lets make a trip.Great!Where do you like to go?The South or the North?The temperature in the North is below zero.The worst is that it has sonowed there for days.But I enjoy the cold weather.It must be refreshing after a hot and muggy summer we spent.It was terribly hot indeed.If we go southward,its unnecessary to travel with more clothes,the weather is fairly agreeable!Cold as it is in the North,we can seize the opportunity to ski.Skiing is so exciting and challenging!Ok,this time,Ill follow you.Next time,lets go travelling in the South for surfing.passage Our Changing AtmosphereAccording to the National Academy of Sciences,the Earths surface temperature has risenby about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past century,with accelerated warming during the past two decades.There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warmingover the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.Human activities have altered the chemical composition of the atmospherethrough the buildup of greenhouse gases-primarily carbon dioxide,methane,and nitrous oxide.Energy from the sun drives the earths weather and climate,and heats the earths surface;in turn,the earth radiates energy back into space.Atmospheric greenhouse gases(water vapor,carbon dioxide,and other gases)trap some of the outgoing energy,retaining heat somewhat like the glass panels of a greenhouse.Without this naturalgreenhouse effect,temperatures would be much lower than they are now,and life as known today would not be possible.Thanks to greenhouse gases,the earths average temperature is a more hospitable 60F.However,problems may arisewhen the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases increases.Scientists generally believethat the combustion of fossil fuels and other human activitiesare the primary reason for the increased concentration of carbon dioxide.What has changed in the last few hundred yearsis the additional release of carbon dioxide by human activities.Fossil fuels burned to run cars and trucks,heat homes and businesses,and power factories are responsible for about 98% of US carbon diozide emissions,24% fo methane emissions,and 18% of nitrous oxide emissions.Increased agriculture,deforestation,landfills,industrial production,and mining also contribute a significant share of emissions.In 1997,the United States emitted about one-fifth of total global greenhouse gases.The 20th centurys 10 warmest yearsall occurred in the last 15 years of the century.Of these,1998 was the warmest year on record.The snow covers in the Northern Hemisphereand floating ice in the Arctic Ocean have decreased.Globally,sea level has risen 4-8 inches over the past century.Worldwide precipitation over land has increased by about one percent.The frequency of extreme rainfall eventshas increased throughout much of the United States.Increasing concentrations of greenhouse gasesare likely to accelerate the rate of climate change.Scientists expect that the average global sirface temperaturecould rise 1-4F(0.6-2.5C)in the next fifty years,and 2.2-10F(1.4-5.8C)in the nxt century,with significant refional variation.Evaporation will increase as the climate warms,which will increase average global precipitation.Soil moisture is likely to decline in many regions,and intense rainstorms are likely to become more frequent.Sea level is likely to ris two feet along most of the US coasts.Calculations of climate change for specific areas much less reliable than global ones,and it is unclear whether regional climate will become more variable.Words and Expressionsatmosphere Fahrenheit accelerated warmingn.大气,空气 n.华氏温度 adj.加速的 n.升温decade evidence attributable activityn.十年 n.证据,论据 adj.可归于.的 n.活动;行动alter chemical buildup greenhousev.改变 n.化学制品 n.组合,集合 n.温室gas carbon dioxide methane nitrous oxiden.气体 二氧化碳 n.甲烷,沼气 vt.一氧化二氮radiate atmospheric vapor trapvt.放射,辐射 adj.大气的,大气层的 n.水汽,水蒸气 vt.捕获,捕捉outgoing retain panel averageadj.外出的，离开的 vt.保持,保留 n.面板 adj.平均的hospitable arise concentration combustionadj.好客的,殷勤的 vi.出现,发生 n.集中，集合 n.燃烧fossil fuels primary additional release矿物燃料 adj.第一位,主要的 adj.另外的,附加的 n.释放truck responsible emission deforestationn.卡车,敞篷货车 adj.有责任 n.散发 n.采伐森林landfill minimg contribute emitn.垃圾掩埋法 n.采矿,矿业 v.贡献 vt.发出,发射global floating decrease precipitationadj.全球的 adj.漂浮的,浮动的 v.减少 n.降(雨)量frequency extreme rainfall increasingn.频率,发生次数 adj.极端的,极度的 n.降雨,降雨量 adj.日益增加的regional variation evaporation moistureadj.地方的,地域性的 n.变化 vi.蒸发(作用) n.潮湿,湿气decline intense rainstorm calculationvi.下降 adj.强烈的,特定的 adj.暴风雨 n.计算,考虑specific reliable unclear variableadj.特殊的,特定的 adj.可靠的,可信赖的 adj.不清楚的 adj.可变的,不定的ExercisesSection I Listening ComprehensionListen to the record.Answer each question by choosing A,B,C or D from the four possible choices.1.Oh,my God,I have difficulty in breathing,how do th Africans here stand such heat?Maybe they are used to it.2.It has been snowing heavily for one week.So you will know why the vegetables are so expensive.3.Mary has gone to the theatre in spite of my suggestion.Why not send her umbrella now?Look up ward,the dark clouds!4.Its a holiday now.Where would you like to go,the North or the South?I prefer the South to the North.Its more agreeable-sunny and warm.5.The temperature today is 20C.That means it is 2C higher than that of yesterday,1C lower than that of the da before yesterday.BDo you want to know something about the history of weather?Dont look at the sky.Donts look for the old weather report.Looking ar tree rings is more important.Correct weather reports date back to only one century,but some trees cn provide an exact record of the weather even further back.Its natural that a tree would grow bestin a climate with plenty of sunlight and rainfall.It is also expected that little sunlightor rainfall would limit the growth of a tree.The changes from a favorable to an unfavorable climatecan be determined by reading the pattern of ring in a tree trunk.To find out the weather of ten years ago,count the rings of a tree trunk form the outside to the inside.If the tenth ring is far from the other rings,then it si certain that plenty of sunny and rainy weather occurred.If the rings are close together,then the climate was bad for the tree.Studying tree rings is not only important for the history of the weather,but also for the history of man.In a region of New Mexico you can find only sand-no trees and no people.However,many centuries ago a large population lived there.They left suddenly,why?A scientist studied patterns of dead tree rings which had grown there.He decided the people had to leave because they had cut down all the trees.Trees were necessary to make filrs and buildings.So,after the people destroyed the trees,they had to move.Supplementary Reading Extreme WeatherExtreme weather will become more common,experts forecast.NEW YORK It has been a summer of extremes.Rains have deluged Europe and Asia,swamping cities and villages and killing abot 2 000 people.while drought and heat have seared the American Western and Eastern cites.What is going on?The floods and droughts could simply be flickersin the inherently chaotic weather system,some experts say.But many warn that such extremeswill be increasingly common as the world grows warmer.Such a shift could pose big problems in places where water is alreadya strained resource,they say.A warmer world is more likely to be a wetter one,experts warn,with more evaporation resulting in more rains,in more heavy and destructive downpours.But in a troublesome twist,that world may also include more intense droughts,as the increased evaporation parches soils between occasional storms.In a hotter climate,your chances of being caught with either too muchor too little rains are higher,said John Wallace,a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University fo Washington.And the globe is getting warmer.The last several decades of global temperature readingscurve up on graphs like the end of a hockey stick.Climate specialists concluded for the first time last yearthat humans were causing most of the warming trend by burning coal and oil,which release carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases.The main way that warming is likely to manifest itself,scientists say,is through changes in the balance of water as liquid,vapor and ice.There si growing evidence now that shifts in the golbal water cycleare likely to cause potentially catastrophic effectsin several parta of the world,said Rajendra Pachauri,an Indian engineer who si the new chairmanof the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.Still,a scientific debate persists.Some speciallists say the earth has built-in buffering mechanismsthat can limit extremes.But manyy other say that past records,current trends and computer models all point to big changes ahead.One new study this summer found evidence that Asian monsoon,as a part of falter in arid,subtropical areas intensified.Generally,agriculture is expected to falter in arid,subtropical areas like the eastern Mediterranean and southern Africa,while flourishing in northern climes,like the North American wheat belt,as more precipitation and longer growing seasons boost yields.But climate specialists say that even there rainis more likely to fall as field-scouring torrents.Long-term planners in the western United States are trying to adjust.Next year,California will for the first time incorporateclimate changes into its five-year water-management plan.Water supplies there are already squeezed by growing populations,said Jonas Minton,the deputy director of the California Department of Water Resources.A warming climate is intensifying the problem,he siad.Over the last 50 years,he siad,winter precipitation in the Sierra Nevada mountain regionhas been falling more and more in the form of rain,increasing flood risks,instead of as snow,which supplies farmers and faucets alike as it melts in the spring.PETS三级教材标准教程Unit05CHAPTER 5 FOOD AND DRINKUnit 5 Food and DrinkConversationsMick and his landlady are talking what they like at a meal.Youll be having meals with us.Is there any type of food that you dont like or that I cant cook for you?Erm,not really.The only thing is:Im not very keen of fish.Not very keen on fish? No.Oh,well,thats not too much of a problem.Erm,something else.Oh.I dont like tea,I never drink tea.Erm,something else.Oh.I dont like tea,I never drink tea.Oh,you never drink tea?I usually have coffee.oh,we usually have tea all the time.Oh dear!Erm,Ill mak you some coffee.Daisy and Lily are going to a snack bar.Wed better get something to eat,please.Lets go to snack bar,I hope youll like it.Well,Ive never been to one before,so youll have to show me how to get round there.Ok,you see,its a kink of help-yourslef serivce.You just line up and tell them what you want,and theyll give it to you.Come along.I guess well ahve to join the line there.Yes.You go and follow the line and Im going to pick up the trays,knives and forks.Tom and Alice are continuing their conversation while having their meal.Have some of the sweet and sour fish,please.Its appetizing and tasty.Will you have another cup of coke?No,thank you.Im afraid its a bit too much for me.How about having a glass of white wine to go with the fish?Thats a good idea.This dish is really wonderful.What about some fruit?Help yourself to an apple,please.Its very juicy.I must say weve had a splendid meal.Mary is talking with her neighbour Sue about how to make fruit salad.Good morning,Mary,could you tell me how to make a fruit salad?Of course,its my pleasure.Well,first of all,you select the fruit that you want,and then you wash it very carefully.Erm,then go about peeling it.Start off with,say,the apples,peeling them,washing them thoroughly,chopping them up into shapes.Peeling the ba.bananas,chopping them up,putting a little bit of lemon juice so that they dont go brown.Erm,taking the grapes,washing them,cutting them up.Erm,pears,you could do the same thing for them.Putting them all together,sprinking them Liberally with sugar,er,a little bit more lemon juice,putting them into a bowl,and there you have a fruit salad.I see.Thank you very much.Ill have a try.Passage Enjoy Eating atMelting PotYou are what you eat.Nutrition experts often use this saying to promote better eating babits.What we put in our mouth does become a part of us.But we can look at this statement another way.What we eat reflects who we are-as people and as a culture.Do you want to understand another culture?Then you ought to find out about its food.As a foreign traveler can prove,the relation between food and national identity is close and strong.Not only do citizents of most nations come to perceivesome aspect of their cuisine as distinctive,but nations themselves are typically associated with particular food.Countries are what they eat,or at the very least,people tend to think of nations is culinary terms.Thus,learning about American food can give us a real taste of American cultrue.What is American food?At first you might think the answer is easy as pie.To many people,American food means hamburgers,hot dogs,fried chicken and pizza.If you have a sweet tooth,you might even think of apple pie or chocolate chip cookies.Its true that American do eat those things.But are those the only thing you can find in America?Except fo