Unit 11 Could you please tell me where the restrooms are?
[00:05.88]SECTION A
[00:08.83]1b Listen and complete the conversations.
[00:50.18]2a Listen.You will hear some of the directions below.
[00:57.34]Number the directions in the order that that you hear them.
[01:30.41]2b Listen again and show how the boy walks to the drugstore.
[01:37.96]Draw a line on the picture above.
[02:09.54]3a Read the article.
[02:14.09]Then list the advantages and disadvantages of going to the mall.
[02:20.04]They're all at the mall.
[02:24.20]After school,a lot of young people go to the mall.
[02:29.45]We decided to talk to come students about why they there.
[02:34.78]Interviewer:Why do you go to the mall?
[02:38.33]Yu Yue:I go to the mall because my friends hang out there.
[02:43.08]But I don't really like it.
[02:46.24]Interviewer:Oh?Why not?
[02:50.21]Yu Yue:The air isn't fresh.I prefer being outside.Also,it's usually crowded.
[02:58.26]Interviewer:And how about you?
[03:01.50]Li Jun:Oh,I love the mall.There's always something happening.
[03:07.06]There are a lot of free concerts there.It's also just fun to watch people.
[03:13.52]Hu Peng:I like the mall,too.I like to go in the music store and listen to CDs.
[03:19.99]I also like to look at books in the bookstore.
[03:24.36]Yu Yue:Well,when I go into stores I always spend too much money!
[03:30.13]SECTION B
[03:36.29]2a Listen and write what the tourists ask about in each conversation.
[05:06.05]2b Listen again and write where the man says the tourists should go.
[07:36.52]READ Grown-ups like cartoons,too.
[07:45.16]Cartoons are no longer just for kids.
[07:49.52]Many young adults are showing interest in cartoons,maybe more than children.
[07:56.19]They wear Mickey Mouse watches,wrap their mobile phones in Hello kitty bags,
[08:02.72]and look at Chibi Maruko Chan on their computers.
[08:07.68]"We love the cute images,"said Qiu Xue,25,
[08:13.61]with Tintin and his famous dog Snowy on the front of her T-shirt.
[08:19.17]When the 25-year-old Shenzhen girl first wore the T-shirt to work,
[08:25.03]all the girls screamed with jealousy."They all wanted one too,"Qiu said.
[08:32.39]Like many other young adults,
[08:36.02]Qiu gets relazation from reading cartoons or watching them on TV.
[08:42.37]"After a day's work,I just want to take it easy,"she says.
[08:48.01]So leave behind the boring,real world.
[08:52.98]Go instead to a place where the people are good-looking,
[08:58.12]and the heroes can do anything.
[09:01.78]It's interesting to follow the history of cartoons in Chia.
[09:07.06]From the 1950's to the 1970's,picture-story cartoons were very popular.
[09:14.79]Old Chinese stories like Monkey King
[09:19.02]and The Three kingdoms were enjoyed by millions of young people.
[09:24.45]Monkey king tells the story of Tang Xuanzhuang and his journey to India to get Buddhist writings
[09:32.00]A brave monkey,Sun Wukong,tricks the demons and monsters who want to eat Tang
[09:39.66]Three kingdoms,written by Luo Guanzhong,
[09:44.80]is about the Three Kingdoms period(220AD-280AD)
[09:51.88]and the battles among three powerful political forcer:
[09:56.43]Liu Bei,Cao Cao and Sun Quan.It's a great story with many brave heroes.
[10:03.59]In the 1980's,people also became interested in foreign cartoons like Garfield,
[10:11.84]Snoopy,and Winnie the Pooh.
[10:15.37]Many were adventure stories with educational themes,
[10:20.36]putting ideas of love and beauty into children's hearts.
[10:25.21]Then in the 1990's,the style changed again.
[10:30.18]New cartoons like City Hunter and Slan Dunk often looked at real-life things,
[10:37.54]like crime in the city.
[10:41.20]They did not always have happy endings.
[10:45.15]Cartoon lovers in China and all over the world loved the imagination
[10:51.91]and creativity in the stories and the pictures.
[10:55.67]Hong Yannan,21,explains why she likes the cartoon Chibi Maruko Chan.
[11:02.83]"The character is more like a real person than a cartoon,"she says.
[11:08.68]"Chibi cries because she has plain looks,but her friende are beautiful,
[11:14.95]She often makes big plans that never happen.
[11:19.31]I am not only watching her story,but also remembering when I was a child."
[11:25.87]Words and Expressions in Each Unit 11
[11:33.24]restroom shampoo drugstore main
[11:36.96]n.公共厕所 n.洗发香波 n.药店 adj.主要的
[11:40.68]department department store escalator furniture
[11:44.95]n.部 百货商店 n.电动扶梯 n.家具
[11:49.22]furniture store exchange hang hang out
[11:53.35]家具店 v.换 v.悬挂 闲荡
[11:57.48]fresh advantage disadvantage block
[12:01.96]adj.新鲜的 n.有利条件 n.不利条件 n.街区
[12:06.44]slide water slide clown dress up
[12:10.92]v.滑行 水滑道 n.小丑 盛装
[12:15.40]Reading
[12:17.96]hairstyle adventure no longer Mickey Mouse
[12:22.33]n.发型 n.冒险 不再 米老鼠
[12:26.71]wrap jealousy relaxation hero
[12:30.54]v.包 n.嫉妒 n.放松 n.英雄
[12:34.36]monkey king Monkey King kingdom
[12:38.39]n.猴子 n.国王 <<美猴王>> n.王国
[12:42.41]The Three Kingdoms journey Buddhist brave
[12:46.68]<<三国演义>> n.旅行 adj.佛教的 adj.勇敢的
[12:50.95]trick demon period AD(Anno Domini)
[12:55.88]v.哄骗 n.恶魔 n.时间 abbr.公元
[13:00.80]battle powerful political force
[13:04.77]n.战争 adj.强大的 adj.政治的 n.军队
[13:08.74]foreign Garfield Snoopy Winnie the Pooh
[13:12.67]adj.外国的 <<加菲猫>> <<史努比>> <<小熊维尼>>
[13:16.60]theme beauty heart hunter
[13:20.14]n.主题 n.美 n.心脏 n.猎人
[13:23.68]City Hunter slam dunk Siam Dunk
[13:27.95]<<城市猎人>> v.使劲扔 v.浸 <<灌篮高手>>
[13:32.23]crime imagination creativity
[13:35.46]n.犯罪 n.想象力 n.创造力
[13:38.70]Chibi Maruko Chan plain look
[13:44.07]<<樱桃小丸子>> adj.平常 n.面容
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