Pre-College English for Tibetan Speakers

高原英语：高考知识点

མཐོ་རྒྱུགས་དབྱིན་ཡུག་རྒྱུགས་གཞི་རྩ་གནད།

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Unit 6: The Media

Vocabulary 1: News and Current Events (194)

First three questions: brainstorming

Complete the Dialogue (194-195)

In order, including examples: anchor, live, arrested, citizen, illegal, theft, violent, racial, discrimination, criminal/forbidden (mistake: whichever word is not used does NOT have a space in the story! There will be one extra word), judge, judged, epidemic, poverty, corruption, murdered, diverse, inflation, broadcast.

Reading Comprehension Questions (196)

  1. D, night
  2. B, theft, disease, murder
  3. C, judged to be innocent
  4. C, painting, Tibetan Medicine museum
  5. B, herders
  6. C, angry and upset
  7. C, treatment
  8. D, corrupt
  9. C, a man who kills in markets
  10. D, for food
  11. C, always a criminal
  12. B, matter-of-fact and journalistic.
  13. Student opinion
  14. Student opinion

Grammar: Conditionals: Exercise 2 (198) example answers

  1. If it rains, he will drive. If it’s sunny, he will bike.
  2. If they’re tired, they’ll watch a movie together. If they have energy, they’ll go out dancing.
  3. If I’m in a hurry, I’ll eat instant noodles. If I have some time, I’ll eat pizza.
  4. If he has the time and money, he’ll go to the moon. If he doesn’t, he’ll go to Henan.

Exercise 3 (198)

  1. She doesn’t study enough. If she studied more, she would get better grades.
  2. He isn’t careful enough. If he was more careful, he would be a better driver.
  3. You don’t sleep enough. If you slept more, you would feel more energetic.
  4. We don’t get paid enough. If we got paid more, we would be more satisfied.
  5. They don’t care enough. If we cared more, we would do something about pollution.
  6. He likes his job. If he didn’t like his job, he wouldn’t work so hard.
  7. He must like children. If he didn’t like children, he wouldn’t decide (have decided) to be a teacher.
  8. He must like to argue. If he didn’t like to argue, he wouldn’t always get in fights with people.
  9. He must like to be outdoors. If he didn’t like to be outdoors, he wouldn’t climb mountains every weekend.

Exercise 4 (198-199)

  1. I was feeling sick. If I had been feeling well, I would have been in class.
  2. If he hadn’t been busy, he wouldn’t have run by without saying ‘hello.’
  3. I wasn’t invited. If I had been invited, I would have come to the party last night.
  4. I didn’t remember your address. If I had remembered your address, I would have sent you a letter.
  5. If he hadn’t had a long day herding yaks, he wouldn’t have gone to sleep so early.
  6. He wasn’t looking. If he had been looking, he would have stopped his motorcycle at the traffic light.
  7. I didn’t know it was going to rain. If I had known it was going to rain, I would have taken my umbrella to school today.
  8. It must have had a disease. If it hadn’t had a disease, it wouldn’t have died.
  9. He must have been driving too fast. If he hadn’t been driving too fast, he wouldn’t have been stopped by the policeman.
  10. He must not have remembered her birthday. If he had remembered her birthday, he would have given his girlfriend a birthday present.

Exercise 5 (199)

  1. Would be
  2. Mistake: V = see. Will see
  3. Would have taken
  4. Don’t ask
  5. Hadn’t rained
  6. Will you look
  7. Used
  8. Wouldn’t have opened
  9. Owned, would never drive
  10. Have, will sleep

Grammar: Mixed Clauses: Exercise 1 (199-200)

  1. Who
  2. Which have/where there are
  3. Where/in which
  4. Which/that
  5. Which
  6. Where, there is
  7. Which is
  8. Which
  9. Who
  10. Which
  11. Where there are/which have
  12. Which

Exercise 2 (200)

Paragraph 1: Which is, where, there are, which, which is, who, which

Paragraph 2: which has/where there are, where, who, which

Paragraph 3: which, there are, which, which has/where there are, there are, which has/where there are

Grammar: Mixed Passives Cloze (201)

Paragraph 1: was reported, had been believed, was found, was not given, was washed, was carried, was suddenly washed, had to be taken.

Paragraph 2: could have been done, had not been seen/was not seen, couldn’t be seen, couldn’t be picked up, would be found

Paragraph 3: was brought, had been washed out, was found, was taken, (was) given, was notified

Special Topic: News of the Weird: Reading Comprehension Questions (202-203)

  1. D
  2. C
  3. D
  4. C
  5. A
  6. B
  7. A (Mistake: should read “What might cause the collapse of Calcutta’s Howrah Bridge?”
  8. C

Cloze 1 (203)

1-5 CADBA6-10 DCBDC11-15 BCBAD16-20 ACBDA

Cloze 2 (204)

1-5 CABAB6-10 ACBDB11-15 ACDBB16-20 CABDD

Test Reading 1 (204-205)

1-4 ABBD

Test Reading 2 (205-206)

1-4 BDAC

Test Reading 3 (206)

1-4 CCBC

Test Reading 4 (207)

1-4 CDAB

Vocabulary 2: Advertising and Money (209)

Top 4 questions: discussion

Matching (209)

13, 16, 14, 11, 6, 5, 2, 3, 1, 20, 18, 17, 15, 4, 10, 7, 8, 9, 12, 19

Reading: Advertising: Reading Comprehension Questions (211-212)

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

Grammar: Future in the Past: Exercise 2 (213)

  1. Were going to go
  2. Was going to fail
  3. Was going to become
  4. Were going to win
  5. Wasn’t going to come (Mistake: V should be “(not come)”)
  6. Were going to get
  7. Weren’t going to meet
  8. Were going to say

Exercise 3 (213-214)

  1. Ate
  2. Was eating, walked
  3. Was going to eat, walked
  4. Was going to fight, decided
  5. Was working, went
  6. Wasn’t going to study, said
  7. Thought, were going to become, were, became
  8. Was going to see, stayed
  9. Wasn’t she going to walk
  10. Was going to take, got into, didn’t have to.
  11. Wasn’t your grandmother going to make
  12. Was going to call you up, was talking, sent, didn’t receive

Exercise 5 (214-215)

  1. Sam believed that he would change the world.
  2. Lori wondered if/whether she could finish her math homework.
  3. Do you think that you could bike from here to Golog in a day? Mistake: verb “believe” should be “think”
  4. She thought she would stay overnight but she didn’t.
  5. I thought Amelia and Jacob would be together forever!
  6. Lobsang believed that you would win the race.
  7. Did you think Ben could run faster than Tashi?
  8. I thought we could take a bus from here to Labrang.
  9. Samantha thought she could beat all the students in a race.
  10. My friends thought that they would never get old.

Grammar: Mixed Modals…and more: Exercise 1 (215-216)

  1. Could, can’t (mistake: first underlined example should read “ could (can/could/may)”)
  2. Might, would
  3. Shouldn’t, ought to, should, wouldn’t
  4. May, might not
  5. Must, will
  6. Don’t have to
  7. Mustn’t
  8. Could, would, can’t
  9. Ought not to, are supposed to
  10. Had to, couldn’t

Exercise 3 (216)

  1. Should have passed
  2. Shouldn’t have bouht
  3. Shouldn’t have asked (mistake: verb should be “not ask”)
  4. Couldn’t have climbed (mistake: verb should be “not climb”)
  5. Could have come
  6. Could have frozen
  7. Should have returned
  8. Must have been
  9. Must have already arrived
  10. Shouldn’t have stayed (mistake: verb should be “not stay”), should have gone

Exercise 4 (217)

  1. Shouldn’t be studying, must study
  2. Should shut
  3. Should I make
  4. Have to go
  5. Should have been, should have stayed, couldn’t come, should stay
  6. Must be
  7. Should have been, may have gotten stuck
  8. Might be, might be, should ask
  9. Can you help, can’t find, can you tell, should get in
  10. Mustn’t smoke (mistake: “mustn’t” misspelled “musn’t”)

Exercise 5: Cloze (217-218)

1-5 DCCAA6-10 CBCBC11-15 BDDCB16-20 BCBBA21-25 CBABA

(Mistake: #20 options should read: A. would have done, B. would do, C. wouldn’t do, D. wouldn’t have done)

Cloze 1 (218-219)

1-5 BCBDA6-10 CDCAB11-15 BCCDB

Cloze 2 (219-220)

1-5 CADBA6-10 CBDCA11-15 DBCBA16-20 DBDAC

Test Reading 1 (220-221)

1-4 ADBC

Test Reading 2 (221)

1-4 ADCA

Test Reading 3 (222)

1-4 BCDC

Test Reading 4 (222-223)

1-4 AADC

Test Reading 5 (223-224)

1-4 CDBB