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(3)Think and express. (先思考，后动笔)
第三题为开放性试题，前一问为Yes or No ，后一问为原因。先思考肯定或否定作者的某一观点，再表达观点。
B: Skills of reading and expressing (解题技能)
Step1：信息查找Locating
Step2：信息转换Transforming
Step3：信息拓展Extending
It was Mother’s Day. John was so busy with his work that he couldn’t go back home. When he passed by a flower shop in the evening, an idea came to his mind. “I’ll send Mum some roses.” While John was picking out his flowers, a young man went inside. “How many roses can I get for only five dollars, madam?”he asked. The assistant(店员)was trying to tell him roses were as expensive as forty dollars a dozen(一打).Maybe he would be happy with carnations.(康乃馨).
“No, I have to have red roses,” he said. “My mum was badly ill last year and I didn’t get to spend much time with her. Now I want to get something special. It has to be roses as rose is her favourite.”
After hearing it, John said he would pay the rest of the money for the young man. Moved by both of them, the assistant said, “Well, lovely young men, thirty dollars a dozen, only for this time.”
Taking the roses, the young man almost jumped into the air and ran out of the shop. It was well worth twenty-five dollars that John paid to see the exciting moment. Then John paid for his dozen of roses and told the assistant to send them to his mother.
As he walked out, he felt nice. Suddenly he saw the young man crossing the street and going into a park. But soon John realized it was not a park but a cemetery(墓地).Crying, the young man carefully put down the roses, “Mum, oh, Mum, why didn’t I tell you how much I loved you? God, please help me find my mum and tell her I love her.”
Seeing this, John turned and quickly walked to the shop. He would take a dozen of flowers home himself.
How much did John spend in the flower shop that day?
2. Why did John change his mind and take a dozen of flowers home himself?
3. Do you want to say “Mum, I love you.” to your mother? Why or why not?
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Tony Wheeler was born to travel. His father worked for an airline. For the first 16 years of his life，Wheeler and his family lived in many different countries.
In the early 1970s，Wheeler met a young woman named Maureen. They soon married. Before getting jobs， Tony and Maureen wanted to travel. They took a year-long trip from London，through Asia，to Australia. On the trip，they visited places like India， Iran， and Afghanistan.
When Tony and Maureen arrived in Australia，people asked many questions about their trip. To answer these questions，Wheeler wrote a guidebook called Across Asia on the Cheap . The book told people about different countries' weather，customs(风俗），and places to see. But unlike travel guides in the 1970s，Wheeler’s book also talked about places most tourists did not go. He also wrote about unusual things to see and do. The book was very popular．
Wheeler and Maureen started a company called Lonely Planet. They continued travelling. They wrote guidebooks for each place they visited. Today，400 people work for Lonely Planet. The company has over 650 guidebooks. Wheeler still writes about travel “hot spots” (for example，Cambodia in Asia and Croatia in Europe). For more information，read the books!
Who was Maureen?
What did Tony enjoy doing through his life??
If you go abroad, will you buy Tony’s guidebook? Why or why not?
【小试身手】
Ma Yun became one of the richest men in China when his company Alibaba went on the stock (股票) market last year with a value of ￡140 billion—the largest public offering in history. Here are some stories about him on the way to success.
Ma made his first trip to the US in 1995 and used the Internet for the first time. After searching for “beer”, he saw that no results came up about China. Then he searched for “China” and still saw no results. He decided to set up a Chinese website—the seed for Alibaba was sown(播种).
Ma said he was refused many times in his life. He failed the College Entrance Examination in China three times and few companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC. And he was refused by the famous Harvard University 10 times.
It was difficult to learn English when Ma was a teenager because of limited resources. However, he found that he could give tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou to learn English well. And he kept it for nine years. Ma said that tourists opened up a new world for him because everything they said and did was so different from what he had been taught at school and by his parents.
Ma’s hero is Forest Gump who never gives up. When he made a speech about his success at Davos(达沃斯论坛) in 2015, Ma said, “Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you are going to get”.
How many times was Ma Yun refused by Harvard University?