文档介绍：Unit 1
Active reading (1)
Catching crabs
Reading and understanding
3 Choose the best summary of what happened in the crab cage.
3 The cage was full of crabs. One of them was trying to escape, but each time it reached the top the other
crabs pulled it back. In the end it gave up trying and started to prevent other crabs from escaping.
4 Choose the best answer to the questions.
1 What happened to the students in the fall of the final year?
(a) They became more relaxed.
(b) They became more serious.
(c) They spent more time outside.
(d) They stopped going to lessons.
2 Why did some people have bags under their eyes in the morning?
(a) They’d been to an all-night party.
(b) They’d started worrying about their future.
(c) They’d spent all night in the library.
(d) They wanted to impress their teachers.
3 Which students had already planned their future?
(a) The ones who had the best grades.
(b) The ones who came from wealthy families.
(c) The quieter ones who didn’t have the best grades.
(d) The ones who wanted to get married and start a family.
4 Why did the writer go home?
(a) He wanted to speak to his father.
(b) He could study better at home than at college.
(c) He had to attend a job interview.
(d) It was a national holiday.
Unit 1 Discovering yourself
5 Why did his father take him out to catch crabs?
(a) They needed to get something to eat for dinner.
(b) He wanted to show him how to catch crabs.
(c) He wanted to tell him something about life.
(d) They both wanted to enjoy the coastline and the sea.
6 What advice did his father give him?
(a) Get to know yourself better.
(b) Watch what others do carefully.
(c) Always listen to your father.
(d) You can’t always do what you want.
Dealing with unfamiliar words
5 Match the words in the box with their definitions.
1 achieving good results (productive)
2 the fact of being present at an event, or of going regularly to school, church etc (attendance)
3 the refusal to accept somet