unit 1 tales of unexplained 课时作业(六)
task: conducting a survey
i. 智力测试：
1．my watch is ten minutes slow and i think it is five minutes fast. your watch is five minutes fast and you think it is ten minutes slow. we plan to catch a train that leaves at four o’clock, the distances we have are the same and we start together. who gets to the railway station first?
2. my grandmother is twice as old as my mother, and my mother is three times older than i am. i’m going to celebrate my fifteenth birthday next month right after the new year’s day. my grandmother and my mother have already celebrated their birthday. so how old is my grandmother now?
3. bob does not like school. he never cares for his study at all. but yesterday he was glad to tell me: “last saturday in class the teacher opened his book and explained the text. i also opened my book and tried to follow him. i wonder why all he said seemed to easy to me. i was really surprised how well i understood it. “ why did bob understand the lesson so well that day?
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4. one day little mary went to see her aunt. her aunt asked her to take a bag of magazines back to her mother. “and these are for you, mary,” said the aunt, putting some apples in the bag. on her way home mary met frank and gave him half f the apples. as she went on, she met jack and gave him one third of the apples left. after a while she came home and gave four apples to her younger sister. in the end she found nothing but the magazines left in the bag. how many apples did her aunt give mary?
5. rose is standing on my right hand side. how can i be on her right hand side without walking to her left hand side?
ii. 翻译下列短语：
1. complete a questionnaire ______________________
2. conduct a survey ____________________________
3. rate several statements ________________________
