Conversation 1
1. Answers：
1. Janet and Kate are in Photo 1. Kate and a coupleare in Photo 2. Maybe they’re Kate’s parents.
2. Janet and Kate are in a dormitory. Kate and the couple are standing outside a building, maybe on the university campus.
3. Maybe Kate is sorting out some nice clothes because her parents are visiting or perhaps she’s tidying up her room before their visit！
2. Answers：
| Characteristics | Kate | Kate’s mother | Kate’s father |
| sociable | √ | √ |
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| quiet |
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| funny |
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| likes spending time alone | √ |
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| reads a lot |
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| tends to worry |
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| quite easygoing |
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| good at listening |
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Conversation 2
3. Answers： 4-5-3-2-1
4. Answers：
(1) I pictured it
(2) it's serious
(3) What exactly happened
(4) we landed
(5) real concern
(6) there's no need to worry
(7) eat in an English pub
5. Answers：1 (a) 2 (b) 3 (b) 4 (a) 5 (b) 6 (a)
News Answers
1. Answers：
1. This is a sequence of photos showing how a fatheris taking care of children. Firstly, the father is feeding a baby with a bottle. Then the father is taking two children out for a walk; the baby is in aback carrier. The third one also shows the father out playing with his children; he is holding a Frisbee and the baby is still in a back carrier. Lastly, a grandfather is reading a book to the baby and the father is joining in with the activity.
2. Yes, I think so. Men sometimes do the cooking; some help with the washing, cleaning and shopping too.
3. Oh yes, I think nowadays lots of fathers take alot of responsibility for childcare, especially in families where the mother is also working.
4. Ofcourse, they do. One of the significant factors that help them do so is thatchildcare is widely available in nurseries and kindergartens and many grandparents also help to look after children.
2. Answers：The true statements are: 2 and 4.
3. Answers：
1. More mothers have been pursuing careers and fathers have been spending more timecaring for children and doing household chores.
2. He pursues his career and shares in raising the children and doing the housework.
3. He started to do more cooking and to drive the children here and there.
4. He says his father did a lot more than his friends’ fathers and his father was a role model for him.
5. It meant he could take on more day-to-day care of the children.
6. No, he has been able to continue pursuing his career.
4. Answers： 1 (d) 2 (c) 3 (b) 4 (d) 5 (a)
Passage 1
Answers
2. Answers：
1 Yes, a friend of my mother’s has twin boys: They are identical and it is easy to be confused about who is who, except that one is left-handed and the other is right-handed.
2 Identical twins come from the same egg and are of the same sex, whereas fraternal twins come from different eggs and may or may not be of the same sex.
3 I’ve heard that twins often have similar personalities and preferences. For example, I read about twins who were separated at birth and met up after 39 years. They had the same hobbies, drove the same car and gave their children the same names.
3. Answers：
Nationality of the girls: American
University subject studied by both girls: psychology
Age when the girls met: 20
Age when the girls fell through glass doors: five
Josh’s age: 22
Month of Josh’s and his twin’s wedding: June
4. Answers：
1. The question she wants to discuss is which is more important, your familyenvironment or your genes.
2. They were separated at birth and adopted by different families.
3. A friend of both of theirs insists they meet.
4. Both their adoptive fathers died when they were children.
5. Their boyfriends look alike and have similar names.
6. They have the same recurring dream.
7. They are identical twins and are going out with two sisters, and they are having a double wedding next June.
8. Genes decide 50 percent of who we are and our environment decides the other 50 percent.
Passage 2
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7. Answers：
1. to give a kidney, more and more
2. aged 38
3. just like a mother
4. the same friends
5. always so busy
6. five years ago
7. most of the time
8. Answers：
1. She became very ill a year ago.
2. She was terrified and decided to find out more about giving Henrietta a kidney.
3. The hospital reassured them.
4. People only need ten percent of one kidney to be completely healthy and kidney donors often live longer than other people.
5. She got better so fast because she knew she’d done something worthwhile and felt very good.
6. She feels very grateful.
7. She’d like to do something that no one knows about.
