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Unit 4
Period 3
Listening and Speaking
新 课 导 入
Credit, or the offering of money loans for repayment, has existed since the Bronze Age. For most of this history, lenders relied mainly on their subjective judgement when deciding whether or not a borrower was creditworthy. With the development of information technology and data analysis, more and more countries are building their own credit systems with objective credit rating methods. People’s activities such as credit card payments, loan payments, etc, are recorded and scored, and will affect their future creditworthiness.
Did You Know?
Read and answer the questions
1. What is credit?
2. How is a peson’s creditworthiness judged in different times?
3. What activities will affect a person’s future creditworthiness?
1. What is credit?
2. How is a peson’s creditworthiness judged in different times?
3. What activities will affect a person’s future creditworthiness?
Credit means the offering of money loans for repayment, or the status of being trusted to pay back money to the lenders.
In the past, a peson’s creditworthiness mainly relied on the lenders’subjective judgement. At present, it is judged according to objective credit rating methods.
People’s activities such as credit card payments, loan payments, etc, will affect their future creditworthiness.
课 堂 学 习
1
Listen to the conversation and choose the topics discussed.
1 The tips to book a good hotel.
2 The importance of being creditworthy.
3 The origin of the credit system.
4 The benefits of a social credit system.
5 The cost of having a bad social credit record.
2
Listen to Part I and complete the paragraph.
I have been 1 _____________________ on time, returning books to the library 2 ___________________________, and using 3_________________ properly. As a reward, we didn’t have to pay a deposit when 4 _____________________ during our trip to Hangzhou. The hotel is very ni