1. 高中基础 (2251 期 20150428) 4-5 版 A “Historic” Handshake

2. Pre-reading 1.Do you think it important to learn about other people’s body language? Why or why not?

3. 2.Look at the following photos and pay attention to the body language of the two presidents. What can you learn from it?

4. How much do you know about the diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba?

5. While reading Complete the sentences according to the article. To maintain dominance while meeting with Castro, Obama _______1_______ across the table because it is a sign of ______2______. He also stared at Castro during the talk, which was regarded as _____3_____. leaned in and pointed adversarial behavior a threat display

6. As the two presidents had neither ______4______ nor ______5______ with each other, it can be concluded that Obama was still unwilling to treat Castro as a friend. shoulder embrace diplomatic hug

7. Even when having a lighter moment, the two presidents showed totally different facial expressions with Obama’s _____6_____ in contrast to Castro’s self-contained smile. expressive smile

8. True or false 1.It has been about 60 years since Obama and Castro had a bilateral meeting. 2.The body language experts thought Obama’s gestures and facial expressions were positive. F F

9. 3.For some reasons, the two presidents always kept a certain distance during the meeting. 4.According to professor Erik Bucy, Obama and Castro must have different personalities. 5.Joseph Tecce agreed that President Obama was the one who had controlled the meeting. T F T

10. Language study Complete the sentences with the words in their proper forms. 1.China is soon to achieve a(n) __________ position in the world market. 2.He was __________ with a gun by the attacker. 3.It was not easy to reach the __________ that he was the murderer. 4.Red usually __________ a sense of energy and strength. 5.The book is a(n) __________ of climate change and solutions to it. analyzeconcludethreatdominanceconvey dominant threatened conclusion conveys analysis

11. Sentence structure My conclusion is that the two personalities are quite different with Castro being a bit on the shy side, lacking in confidence about the meeting, and being frightened by the situation … 本句中含有 “ with + 宾语 + 非谓语动词作宾语补足 语 ” 的句型结构，且现在分词表主动。此外，也可 用过去分词表被动，不定式表将来。

12. Translate the following sentences. 1. 在场所有人都盯着她看，她感到很紧张。 2. 有太多的问题要解决，科学家们只好停下来查 明原因。 3. 随着所有问题得到解决，我们开始为新的实验 做准备。 She felt very nervous with all the people present staring at her. With too many problems to solve, scientists had to stop to find out the causes. With all the problems solved, we began to prepare for a new experiment.

13. After reading Discuss in groups and work out what you can learn from the three people in the picture.