【新视野大学英语第三版1】第八单元（10）

Unit 8 Discovering new friends, enriching life

一．题目

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8.1Warm-up（4）

①What did you hear?（判断题）

1. People usually make friends with those who have the same kinds of experiences and interests.

2. If we make friends with similar people, we may avoid misunderstandings or conflicts.

3. Making friends with similar people can make our lives more interesting.

4. Friendships with other kinds of people can be valuable because people have different and interesting ideas and views.

5. You should only make friends with diverse people, for it is rewarding.

②How would you respond?——Task 1（口语题）

Do you have many friends? Are most of your friends similar to you or different from you? Please explain.

③How would you respond?——Task 2（口语题）

Do you think friends should have a lot in common? Is it important to have the same background, taste, opinions, etc.?

8.2Lisitening（2）

①Understand a conversation（选择题）

【1

A.Someone of a different gender.

B.Someone who has different interests.

C.Someone who has a different personality.

D.Someone who can be trusted and is reliable.

【2

A.Because they both love video games.

B.Because they both like laughing loudly.

C.Because they have very similar interests.

D.Because they have very different personalities.

【3

A.Because the woman is Ed's cousin.

B.Because the woman is not attracted to Ed.

C.Because the woman didn't grow up with Ed.

D.Because the woman doesn't like Ed's personality.

【4

A.A boy and a girl could study together.

B.A boy could just call a girl to have a chat.

C.A boy could go to the mall with a girl as friends.

D.A boy and a girl could only have a romantic relationship.

②Understand a passage（选择题）

【1

A.To reuse the used soap in the hotel.

B.To throw away the used soap.

C.To take the used soap home.

D.To collect the used soap.

【2

A.They recycle the used soap.

B.They cut the used soap into little pieces.

C.They give the used soap back to some hotels.

D.They only keep large pieces of the used soap.

【3

A.It cures the children's diseases.

B.It cleans the chemicals in the soil.

C.It helps to keep the children healthy.

D.It is sold by the people to make money.

8.3Specking—practicing conversation skills（4）

①Useful expressions（听）

②Model dialogues（听）

③Role—playing 1（读）

④Role—playing 2（读）

8.4Specking—listening and specking（6）

①Conversation-Task 1（填空题）

1. Reading makes people (1) ____ better than listening to music or (2) ____.

2. Reading will help our brain (3) ____ as we grow older.

3. Reading makes people (4) ____ to other people's feelings.

4. Certain books can help a depressed reader (5) ____.

5. Reading can help people become (6) ____.

②Conversation-Task 2（判断题）

1. The heart and muscles relax after a few hours of reading.

2. Elderly people who read or wrote a lot throughout their lives had better memory than those who didn't.

3. When readers get involved in a story, their emotions become weaker.

4. Books that give people advice to solve their problems are helpful.

5. When people read, they are exposed to difficult vocabulary and sentence structures that their brain holds in memory even if they don't make any effort to remember them.

③Conversation-Speak out（口语）

When you feel stressed, do you read or do you do something else?

④Passage-Task 1（填空题）

Before the Internet was invented, one way to find friends was being a pen pal. A pen pal is someone who (1) ____ to a person he/she has never met. Many years ago, a young English girl called Nona saw an ad about getting a (2) ____ in America. She immediately (3) ____ to Alice, a young girl living in Ohio. Nona had no idea where Ohio was, so she took out (4) ____ to see where Alice lived. Nona waited (5) ____ until a letter arrived from Alice. Nona was very pleased that Alice sent her a (6) ____ of herself. After that, Nona and Alice wrote regularly. They told each other about their lives and their (7) ____ . They felt like they (8) ____ together even though there was a huge ocean between them.

⑤Passage-Task 2（填空题）

1. In ____, Nona and Alice start to write to each other.

2. Both of them were ____ years old, when Nona and Alice first became pen pals.

3. ____ years had passed when they met for the first time.

4. They have been pen pals and lifelong friends for more than ____ years.

⑥Conversation-Speak out（口语）

Would you like to have a pen pal? Why or why not?

8.5Homework

①News report 1（选择题）

【1

A.Those who have won a competition.

B.Those who fail to win any competition.

C.Those who have brilliant skills in competitions.

D.Those who show the spirit of good competition.

【2

A.Because they ran behind other people but finished the race.

B.Because they helped each other when they fell down in a race.

C.Because they tripped and fell down and were seriously injured.

D.Because they finished the race first even though they fell down.

②News report 2（选择题）

【1

A.She followed the dog.

B.She played with the dog.

C.She walked with the dog.

D.She took the dog to her hotel.

【2

A.It followed Olivia to ask for food.

B.It knew that Olivia would go back to Germany.

C.It ran away from Olivia in the next few months.

D.It waited for Olivia outside her hotel whenever she returned.

【3

A.She adopted the dog.

B.She gave the dog to the hotel.

C.She gave the dog to a German family.

D.She stayed in Argentina forever for the dog.

③Understanding passages（选择题）

【1

A.Google would start to test its self-driving cars.

B.Google self-driving cars caused only one accident.

C.Google self-driving cars drove one million miles in one year.

D.Google self-driving cars hadn't been involved in any accidents.

【2

A.The Tesla car can drive without the driver controlling it.

B.The Tesla car can drive long distances without the driver sitting in it.

C.The Tesla car doesn't need the driver to pay attention at all.

D.The Tesla car doesn't need the driver to prepare to react to sudden conditions.

【3

A.The truck driver.

B.The Tesla driver.

C.Some pedestrians.

D.A passenger in the Tesla.

【4

A.To develop the technology of self-driving cars.

B.To have strict laws to control automatic programs.

C.To let people know self-driving cars can reduce traffic.

D.To have some control over using the automatic abilities.

二.听力原文

8.1Warm-up（4）

①What did you hear?（判断题）

People are usually friends with other people who share the same kinds of experiences and 

interests because there is a certain comfort being with people who are alike.  

When we are friends with similar people, we understand their life experiences because they are much like our own, and we can avoid misunderstandings or conflicts.  

This can make our friendships easy, but they can also make our lives less interesting 

because we talk about the same things and do the same things.  

Sometimes people are fearful of being friends with someone who seems too different.  

However, friendships with diverse people can be powerful and valuable.  

When people have a chance to really know other kinds of people, most of them discover that 

people are more similar to each other than they first believed, and having diverse friends 

opens up their world to different and interesting ideas and views.  

To be truly rewarding, friendships should celebrate both similarities and differences 

among people.

8.2Lisitening（2）

①Understand a conversation（选择题）

M: Is Ed your boyfriend? 

W: No, he's my best friend. 

M: But he's a guy! W: A best friend doesn't have to be the same gender. 

A best friend is someone who has a similar personality and similar interests, but that person can have different opinions about things. 

Most importantly, a best friend must be someone I trust and can depend on. 

M: I agree, but isn't it easier to find these common characteristics between people of the 

same gender? 

W: Not really. Ed and I are both calm and don't talk or laugh too loudly. 

We both love tennis, animals, and popular music but hate video games. 

We're perfect as best friends! 

M: That's pretty amazing, but why aren't you boyfriend and girlfriend? 

W: I don't have that kind of attraction for him. 

I don't feel like holding hands or kissing him because he seems like a cousin or brother. 

I see his personality, not his gender, just like I would if he were female. 

M: That's unusual. 

W: Not really. I grew up with a group of male and female friends, so gender was never an 

issue. 

In previous generations, they didn't accept that it was possible for males and females to be 

just friends, but times have changed. 

M: True. My dad said he never called girls just to talk to, or study with or go to the mall as 

friends.

For his generation, if a boy and a girl were together, it was for a romantic reason. 

W: I'm glad things have changed because it's nice to be friends with the opposite sex 

because we shouldn't limit our friendships just because of our gender differences. 

Questions：

1.According to the woman, what is a best friend? 

2. Why does the woman think she and Ed are perfect as best friends?  

3. Why are the woman and Ed not boyfriend and girlfriend?  

4. What did the man's dad say about his generation?

②Understand a passage（选择题）

Guests who stay at hotels are provided with small soap pieces that are used whilst they are 

staying there, but most guests don't use very much of the soap, so there is a large amount of soap that is thrown away and wasted.  

The Hilton Hotel in Singapore tells their housekeepers to collect the used soap to recycle.  

Each month they gather all the collected soap pieces and send them to Hong Kong to be 

processed.  

In the last three years, they have donated over 16 tons of soap in Asia.  

There are volunteers who shave off a thin layer of the soap to make them look new, or 

sometimes, they will put all the little soap pieces together and melt them, so they could 

create larger soap pieces.  

These volunteers have been doing this for four years and work with a hundred hotels from 

six different countries to recycle their used soap.  

This group of volunteers has also opened a new, larger place in South China to help 

mainland hotels recycle their used soap pieces.  

Recycling soap pieces is a benefit for the hotel industry because they are throwing away less waste and chemicals that would be buried in the earth.  

Recycling soap pieces also helps people who live in poor areas in Southeast Asia that have a dirty environment.  

The free soap they receive helps to keep their children healthy because research has shown that soap can reduce their chance of getting common illnesses that kill approximately one 

million children every year. 

Questions 

1.What does the Hilton Hotel in Singapore tell their housekeepers to do with the used soap?  

2. What do volunteers do with the used soap?  

3. How does the recycled soap help those people living in a dirty environment?

8.4Specking—listening and specking（6）

①Conversation-Task 1/2（填空题/判断题）

M: I hate reading. 

W: You shouldn't.  Reading has many benefits. 

M: Reading only makes me want to sleep! 

W: That's true.  Reading's great for relaxing when you're stressed. 

M: I listen to music when I feel stressed. 

W: Reading makes you relax better than listening to music or taking a walk.  

It's even better than having a cup of tea.  

Research has shown that the heart and muscles relax after a few minutes of reading. 

M: And this makes me sleep easier! 

W: Exactly. But reading will also help your brain stay clear as you grow older. 

Researchers found that elderly people who read or wrote a lot throughout their lives had 

better memory than those who didn't. 

M: I didn't know reading could do that. 

W: Reading also makes people more sensitive to other people's feelings.  

Researchers believe that when readers get involved in a story, their emotions become 

stronger.  

They also found that certain books can help a depressed reader feel happier. 

M: You mean reading funny books?  Romantic books?  Or exciting adventure stories? 

W: No, books that give people advice to solve their problems are helpful because these 

books give them inspiration to change their lives and become happier. 

M: Can reading help me become a good writer? 

W: Yes, usually when you read, you are exposed to difficult vocabulary and sentence 

structures that your brain holds in memory even if you don't make any effort to remember 

them.  

So when you write, you can use the advanced language structures your brain remembers 

from reading them. 

M: Gosh, reading is amazing! 

W: Hey, where are you going? 

M: To the bookstore!

④Passage-Task 1/2（填空题）

Before the Internet, friendships across the world were rare because it wasn't possible to 

meet people far away.  

One way of finding friends was being a pen pal.  

A pen pal is someone who writes letters to a person he/she has never met.  

In 1942, a young 12-year-old English girl named Nona saw an ad about getting a pen pal 

in America.  

She found a 12-year-old girl named Alice, who lived in the State of Ohio, and immediately wrote her a letter.  

Nona was very excited about her American pen pal because she thought Alice must have 

such a different, interesting life compared to her English one.  

She had no idea where Ohio was, so she took out a map to see where her friend lived.  

She waited impatiently until a letter arrived from Alice in Ohio.  

She was pleased that Alice sent her a picture of herself so she could see what her new friend looked like.  

Amazingly, they discovered that they had the same interests.  

They wrote regularly about their lives and told each other secrets.  

They felt like they grew up together even though there was a huge ocean between them.  

Over the years, they read about each other's marriages and children until they finally met 

45 years after they first began their friendship.  

They found it odd to see the person they had been writing to for so many years and hear 

their different accents.  

More than 73 years later, they're still pen pals and lifelong friends.

8.5Homework

①News report 1（选择题）

Most people are familiar with the gold medal given to the best Olympic athletes, but there's 

one special award that's one of the greatest awards to receive. 

The award is called the Fair Play Award given by the International Fair Play Committee, and 

it's not for having brilliant skills or winning an event; it's for doing something in the spirit of 

good competition.

The International Fair Play Committee gave the Fair Play Award to two athletes at the 2016 Rio Olympics who helped each other when they fell down. 

During the 5,000-metre race, New Zealand runner Nikki tripped and fell down. 

American runner Abbey was running behind Nikki and fell over Nikki when Nikki was on 

the ground. 

Abbey encouraged Nikki to get up and finish the race, and they both began to run again. 

Suddenly, Abbey fell because she was more seriously injured than she thought. 

This time, Nikki stopped and encouraged Abbey to get up and run. 

They were losers because they were the last runners to finish, but many say they were really the winners of the race for helping each other. Questions:1. Who may receive a special award called the Fair Play Award?2. Why were Nikki and Abbey given the Fair Play Award?

②News report 2（选择题）

Olivia Sievers is a German flight attendant. 

She frequently flies from Germany to Argentina for work. 

When she goes to Argentina, she must stay there at least one day until she returns to 

Germany. 

One day when she was walking near her hotel in Argentina, a friendly dog came to her, so 

she played with it and fed it with some food before she returned to her hotel. 

The dog followed her and slept outside her hotel that night and every night while she was 

there.

Olivia didn't think much of it and went back to Germany. 

When she returned to Argentina, the dog amazingly knew she was coming and was waiting 

for her outside her hotel! 

This happened many times in the next few months. 

Olivia cared about the dog, so she arranged for someone to adopt it. 

But the dog ran away and came back to the hotel. 

Olivia decided the dog was supposed to be hers, so she took it home to Germany. 

Questions：

1.What did Olivia do when she saw a friendly dog in Argentina?

2. What amazing thing did the dog do?

3. What did Olivia finally decide to do?

③Understanding passages（选择题）

Self-driving cars aren't the future; they're already here. 

Scientists and engineers are developing ways to make driving automatic to reduce traffic and car accidents. 

One of the first widespread uses of these self-driving cars began when Google started 

using them in 2012. 

At that time, the car drove itself, but people were in the car since it was still being tested. 

Three years later, in 2015, Google claimed that after one million miles of driving, there had 

been about a dozen accidents with these vehicles, but almost all of them were caused by 

drivers of the other cars. 

Only one accident was caused by the self-driving car, but a person was actually controlling 

the self-driving car at the time of the accident.

At the end of 2015, Tesla Motors became the first to include automatic driving ability. 

This ability allows the car to drive without the driver controlling it; however, the driver must 

still pay attention and be prepared to react to sudden, changing conditions. 

This Tesla can also park without the driver in the car.

Seven months after Tesla released these cars, the first deadly accident occurred in Florida. 

A man was in his Tesla using the automatic driving, but he probably wasn't paying attention. 

The car hit a large truck and the man died.

Because this technology is so new, there are no US laws about these automatic programs, 

but car companies and the government are concerned about the safety of these types of 

vehicles and wish to have some control over using these automatic abilities on the road. 

Questions:

1.What did Google say about its self-driving cars in 2015?

2. What does the speaker say about the Tesla car?

3. Who probably was responsible for the accident of the Tesla car in Florida?

4. What do car companies and the government hope to do?

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