B: It’s really cheap. A: And the engine? B: It’s almost new. A: Then I think you should get it.
1. What are these people talking about? _________________________________________________ 2. Where are they? ____________________________________________________________________ 3. Who will buy the goods? ____________________________________________________________
Conversation 5: A: Where to? B: The airport. A: Okay. How much time do you have? B: About an hour. A: I don’t know….there is a lot of traffic now. B: I can’t miss the flight. A: Well, I’ll do my best. B: Oh! Look out! A: Listen, Lady. Do you want to catch your flight? B: I sure do. A: Then close your eyes and keep quiet. And I’ll get you there on time.
1. What are these people talking about? _________________________________________________
2. Who is Speaker A and who is Speaker B? _____________________________________________
3. Is Speaker B a man or a woman? _____________________________________________________
4. Where are the two people now? ______________________________________________________
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5. Is Speaker B in a hurry? _____________________________________________________________
6. Does Speaker A do as Speaker B want? ______________________________________________
7. How will Speaker B travel next? ______________________________________________________
Exercise 6-4 Directions: Read the following short passages and try to infer meaning.
Passage 1 You are a high school student sitting in class when a substitute teacher walks in and announces
that your regular teacher is ill. Everyone in the class including you applauds happily. The
substitute knocks on the desk for order, but the students ignore him and talk louder.
Inferences: 1. Why do students ignore the substitute teacher? ______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why does everyone applaud happily? ______________________________________________________________________________________ Passage 2 A girl who disappeared when she was eight years old has been found in Cambodia, according
to her father. Eighteen years after she disappeared, a woman was found in a village in the
Ratanakhiri province trying to steal food. The woman who was found looks like other members of
the family. She can’t speak any language that has been identified and is very frightened, but her
family hope that she will adjust and settle down.
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Inferences: 1. Why can’t the woman speak any language? ______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. How old is she now? ______________________________________________________________________________________ Passage 3 Siem Reap is a small town near the world famous temple of Angkor Wat. The town is charming and worth exploring, with some fine examples of Khmer and French colonial architecture set among the more modern developments. Nowadays, visitors are flocking in, using it as a base for visits to the nearby temples. Inferences: 1. In what country is Angkor Wat? ______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why do tourists want to go to Siem Reap? ______________________________________________________________________________________
Passage 4 It is named the Suvarnachad canine pool in honour of His Majesty the King’s favorite pet dog Tongdaeng.The King spent the money raised from selling T-shirts and polo shirts bearing Tongdaeng’s image to set up the pool in 2005.To mark the three-year anniversary, the King’s pet dog KhaodaengKaengron, a great-grandchild of Tongdaeng, was yesterday taken to show off his various skills, which included swimming, before an applauding crowd of participants at the ceremony. Inferences: 1. What is the passage about? ______________________________________________________________________________________
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2. What is the Suvarnachad canine pool for? ______________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Where is the Suvarnachad canine pool? ______________________________________________________________________________________ 4. How old is the Suvarnachad canine pool? _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Who is the owner of Tongdaeng and KhaodaengKaengron? _____________________________________________________________________________________
Passage 5 SHE WIPED HER FORHEAD, picked up the tray with the coffee and the sandwiches and biscuits, and went along the passage. The door of the front room was closed, which didn’t really surprise her; it was quite possible that Steve had wanted to talk to the Colonel without her hearing what he said….. She did not hear voices. She put the tray down on a chair by the front door, hesitated, wondered whether she ought to trap, or whether to go straight in. It was absurd to think of knocking, but she did knock, almost timidly at first. No