bipartisan consensus on the high value of college education. 6) There are two indications. One sign is the high college drop-out rate — 40% of kids who enroll in college don't get a degree within six years. The other sign is that in 2007, most people in their 20s who had college degrees were not in jobs that required them.
7) Employers can use it as a rough measure of job applicants' intelligence and willingness to work hard.
8) There are four alternatives. 1. online learning; 2. certification tests; 3. career and technical education; 4. occupational licensure rules could be relaxed to create opportunities for people without formal education.
UNIT 2 Entertainment I． Vocabulary Builder 1. Definition
1) lingering: continuing to exist for longer than usual or desirable 2) preteen: relating to or made for children who are 11 or 12 years old 3) build out: to enlarge the scale of the original building
4) feud: long and bitter quarrel between two people, families or groups
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5) property: thing(s) that someone owns 6) feature: to show a film, play etc.
7) franchise: formal permission to sell a company's goods or services in a particular area
8) premium: an additional amount of money, above a standard rate or amount
9) speculation: guess 10) credit: attribute sth to sb/sth
11) pump up: informal to increase the value, amount, or level of something
12) rampant: (of disease, crime, etc) flourishing excessively; unrestrained 2. Blank filling 1) inherit unparalleled 6) territory incessant
2) cut a deal 3) transaction 5) portfolios 7) platform
8) prescription 9) reckoned
10) 4)
II． Sentence Translation
1. 同样重要的是，这次交易为迪斯尼引入了以13-19岁青少年男孩们为目标的品牌。以前迪斯尼为11-12岁的女孩子们提供大量的Hannah Montana娃娃衣服，向更小的孩子们推销米奇和米妮玩具，可青少年男孩一直是他们客户群中的缺口。
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2. 这次交易结合了惊奇公司强大的全球品牌和许多世界闻名的人物形象，包括钢铁侠、蜘蛛侠、X战警、美国上尉、神奇四侠和雷神，以及迪斯尼创新的技术，在全球范围内无以伦比的娱乐资产投资组合，以及一个可以通过多种平台和领域最大化创新资产价值的商业结构。
3. 杰克逊演艺经历的长度使他得以体验、推广甚至创新了许多技巧，可以帮助艺人们凭借音乐才能获利。
4. 在他事业的高峰，杰克逊先生和他的经理人团队精明地计算出，流行乐的价值不仅仅和唱片销量捆绑在一起，也和唱片版权息息相关。
5. 随着唱片收入随着销量下滑，盗版猖獗，数字分销而大幅下滑，现场演唱会重新成为流行乐的赚钱方式。 III． Comprehension of the Texts
1. DIS can get a strong brand to sell to teen boys, which has remained a market blank for the company. 2. To acquire other companies/brands.
3. 1) Just months after taking the job, Iger engineered the $6 billion acquisition of Pixar
2) Early in 2009, Iger cut a distribution deal with Steven Spielberg's newly recreated DreamWorks film studio.
4. Because Marvel has made movies of some of its most profitable
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franchises for other studios, and has licensed its properties widely throughout the entertainment world.
5. No. The deal, which valued Marvel at $50 a share, represents a 28% premium to Marvel's stock price, which closed on Aug. 28 at $38.65. 6. B
7. No. The ―shift‖ in Para. 2 is a verb, meaning ―to sell‖, while the ―shift‖ in Para. 3 is a noun, meaning ―a change‖. 8. D 9. C
10. To pay for his huge shopping sprees and the upkeep of ―Neverland‖, his ranch in California. 11. A 12. B
13. Elvis Presley is mentioned in Para. 8 to make a sharp contrast with Michael Jackson, suggesting that Jackson cannot reach the same level in art as Presley. 14. B
UNIT 3 Entertainment
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I． Vocabulary Builder 1. Terms translation 1) egg-laying chickens 3) be not subject to the new law 5) breed 7) cast votes
2) extend one’s limbs 4) fulfill one’s promise 6) signed a petition 8) deliver a live report
9) national security takes precedence over wildlife protection 10) lighten restrictions 11) standing on one’s head 13) media blitz 15) wait tables owners
17) furrowed brow 19) ringing proclamation 2. Blank filling 1) obsession latent
5) confined
8) under the guise of
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2) allergy
3) discreet 4)
18) national news agency 20) be prepared for the backlash 12) be sexually transmitted 14) the Associated Press 16) be divvied out to new
6) captivating 7) dwindled prompt
10) weighed in
11) eliminates 12) breed II． Sentence Translation
1. 而海军方面指出其志愿救生员在附近发现鲸鱼或海豚时，会减少
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