Unit 1 Personality and Development Listening and speaking
1, What does your taste in music reveal about your personality 1, creativity 2, favorite songs
3, 36,000 4, 104 different musical styles 5. their personality 6. conventional 7. more uneasy 8. outgoing 9. hard-working 10. stable 11. gentle 12.low 13. at ease with 14.intelligent
Thinking and speaking Student 1 Music genres Rock & roll Personality Introverted, emotional Student 2 Rock & roll Active, aggressive Student 3 Classical Peaceful, carefree Student 4 Student 5 country Rap and hip-hop Stable, careful, tranquil Energetic, dynamic outgoing, romantic, outdoorsy, shy,
2. Does your career fit your personality?
Listening and understanding
1, imaginations 3. patterns 5. landscape architect 7. instructions 9. routine and order 11. cost estimator 13. doers 15. sales agent 17. logic 19. detail 21. software engineer 23. outdoors 25. electrician 27. human interaction 29. school psychologist
2, designs 4. graphic designer 6. procedures 8. details and data 12. see projects though 14. big picture
16. management analyst 18. mysteries 20. librarian 22. results-driven 24. jewelry 26. nuclear engineer 28. personal coach 10. accountant
3. Easy ways to be an optimist 1/. B; C; E 2/.
1. It comes from a series of active inner processes-psychological somersaults.
2. to stress that optimism can be improved with practice. 3. If you serve up a smile to others, they usually bounce it back.
4. Probably because they evolved as a means of nonverbal communication between people.
5. A happy face can influence one's brain in a positive way, making the brain begin to change the mood accordingly.
6. To be in a protective bubble to feel optimistic, which means to self-direct our own moment-to-moment perspective.
Unit 2 Leisure and Work Listening and speaking 1. Leisure and work in the US 1, D 2/
1. relaxing or fun 2. a paying job
3. four to eight hours a week 4. every category 5. employer's 6. cooking
7. keeping house 8. household economy 9. rising real incomes 10. squeeze ever 11. try to do too much 12. changing nature
2. Leisure and Culture
1. 40 hours a week; choose to use it 2. how we approach leisure; better at it 2/.
1. work-related activities 2. a business goal 3. the holiday 4. schedules 5. new experiences 6. a national pastime 7. physical education 8. active 9. an exercise ethic 10. outdoor skills 11. richness 12. meaningful 13. playing 14. win 15. competitive and team skills
3. Traditional outdoor games: why do they matter? 1/.
1. a decline 2. everyday life
3. physical, interpersonal and social 4. gender and cultural 5. fun 6. death 7. encouraging 8. interest in 9. need for 2/.
1. revive interest in; adults'; little or no 2. dismissed; breathe new life
3. ages; abilities; numbers; adapted; fair play 4. sort out disputes; risk management 5. long-term risk; opportunity 6. growing; break times
Unit 4 IQ and EQ
1. Are we more clever than we really are?
1/
Adjectives: bright; smart; clever; sharp; quick; talented Nouns: ability; skill; talent; gift Phrases: have a skill in ; have a talent for 2/
1. self-fulfilling 3. intelligent 5. more bold 7. be able to do it 9. talent 3/
1. A; 2. A; 3. D; 4. A; 5C
2. Controversy of intelligence
2. confident about 4. capable
6. dramatic decisions 8. skill 10. less likely 1/
1.D; 2. B; 3. A; 4. B; 5. C 2/
1. assess and compare 2. long. complex and dark 3. 1800s 4. natural selection 5. smart people 6. a master race 7. 20th century 8. mental age 9. extra help/ attention 10. fixed inborn 11. proper attention 12. practice 13. IQ measurement
14. one's mental age÷ chronological age×100 15. early 1900s 16. army recruits 17. a kind of label 18. undesirable traits 19. their answers 20. interpreted and weighted
21.real and measurable 22. genetic, environmental, educational
3. IQ vs. EQ: What makes people successful? 1/
1.F; 2. T; 3. T; 4. F; 5. F; 6. T 2/
1. A; 2. C; 3. D; 4. C; 5. B
