unit10 listening
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and over 1,000 planes. B) About 100 ships and planes. C) Nearly 100 ships and planes. D) More than 100 ships and planes. 4. A) A curious loss of bearings. B) A curious phenomenon of ships swirling in the sea. C) A curious white light. D) A monster in the sea. 5. A) The Bermuda Triangle phenomenon has something to do with the weather. B) Nobody has ever before picked up an SOS message in this part of the Bermuda Sea. C) The Bermuda Triangle phenomenon is the most mysterious in the world. D) The cause for this mystery has still not been found.
ACD
② Listening to a passage A Mary is talking about the Bermuda Triangle mystery. Listen carefully and then choose the best answer to each question you hear
Keys 1 planetary 8 successfully land 2 vehicles 9 mission 3 potential 10 roving geologist 4 launched 11 sampling 5 surrounding 12 send back information 6 over-inflated soccer ball 13 accomplished 7 bounce 14 essential ingredient
In 1997, the Pathfinder Mission used air bags to 8) on Mars. Two years later, the Polar Lander was lost during landing. That 9) did not use air bags. So NASA engineers went back to a method they knew would work. At landing sites thousands of miles apart, these 10) will spend 90 days 11) Mars. They will wake up in the morning and they’ll get a message from Earth which says, “this is what we want you to do today”, and they’ll start doing that; and then, kind of in the middle of the day, they’ll 12) on what they’ve13) , which we need to plan tomorrow. The Rovers are not going to Mars looking for life but they will be looking for water, which is an 14) for even the simplest forms of life to have existed or perhaps to still exist.
Crop circle 麦田怪圈
Extraterrestrial 外星人
LISTENING FOR CONTENT
① Listening to a conversation A Listen to a conversation between Sally and Sam about the hidden Mayan Palace. At the end of the conversation, some questions will be asked about what was said. Write down a short answer to each question. 1. Where did Sam go on vacation? South America . 2. How big is the palace? It measures 270,000 square feet . 3. Why did the palace remain hidden for so long? Because the absence of temples, pyramids and tombs that usually indicate a major site .
Bermuda Triangle 百慕大三角 Graveyard 坟地 SOS
1. A) In the western Atlantic. B) In the eastern Atlantic. C) Between Maine and Bermuda. D) Between Bermuda and Rich island. 2. A) Because there is an unexplained light found in the area. B) Because nobody knows the reason why this mystery occurs there. C) Because there are only broken parts of ships and planes with nobody in them. D) Because there is no signal whenever ships or planes cross this area.
Travelling in the World’s Mysteries
WARM-UP
A Listen to a passage about crop circles and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). 1. ( F ) Crop circles are a common phenomenon in the world. 2. ( ) Crop circles usually form at night. 3. ( F ) Crop circles have been proven to be produced by extraterrestrials. 4. ( ) It is said that only a lucky few have witnessed crop circles. 5. ( ) It is still a mystery why crop circles appear and disappear within a short period of time.
Missions to Mars Mars in no pushover. This is actually not a slam dunk and nobody should think that it is. Thirty-four times humans have sent spacecraft to our 1) neigh-bour. Only 11 times have the 2) not crashed or burnt up in the Martian atmosphere, or missed their mark entirely and skipped out into deep space. Mars may come and bite us, and, and that’s one of the reasons that we’re flying two, just in case Mars bites us, and if we lose one, we have a second basically to mitigate that risk and that 3) . At the Kennedy Space Centre, twin Rovers are going through the final check-out. In June, two Delta rockets, 4) 3 weeks apart, will start the Rovers on a 7-month journey to Mars. After air breaking through the atmosphere, giant air bags will deploy, 5) the spacecraft, which like an 6) , will land and 7) on the Martian surface.
Mayan palace 玛雅人宫殿 Guatemala 危地马拉 Tropical rainforest 热带雨林 Cancuen Intact 没碰过的 Commerce 商业 Thrive 繁荣 Limestone masonry 石灰岩石块 Jade 玉,翡翠 Inlay 补牙用填充物 Demise 死亡,终结
ABDCD
③ Listening to English news
A Listen to the following news about missions to Mars, and fill in the blanks with what you hear. Pushover 容易做的事情 Slam dunk 令人印象深刻的举动 Martian 火星的 Mitigate 减轻,降低 减轻, Deploy 展开,配置 展开, Geologist 地质学家
B Listen to the conversation again and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) In the tropical rainforest in Guatemala. B) In the middle of Mexico. C) South of Honduras. D) In Panama. 2. A) They lost contact with the outside world. B) They filled their teeth with gold. C) They liked precious stones and were prosperous. D) They liked to invade other nations. 3. A) The Mayans put more emphasis on human relationships. B) The Mayan city has been prosperous until now. C) The Mayan usually took up agriculture. D) The Mayan lived peacefully for hundreds of years.
B Listen to the news again and answer the following questions. After you finish the task, check your answers with your partner.
ACD
② Listening to a passage A Mary is talking about the Bermuda Triangle mystery. Listen carefully and then choose the best answer to each question you hear
Keys 1 planetary 8 successfully land 2 vehicles 9 mission 3 potential 10 roving geologist 4 launched 11 sampling 5 surrounding 12 send back information 6 over-inflated soccer ball 13 accomplished 7 bounce 14 essential ingredient
In 1997, the Pathfinder Mission used air bags to 8) on Mars. Two years later, the Polar Lander was lost during landing. That 9) did not use air bags. So NASA engineers went back to a method they knew would work. At landing sites thousands of miles apart, these 10) will spend 90 days 11) Mars. They will wake up in the morning and they’ll get a message from Earth which says, “this is what we want you to do today”, and they’ll start doing that; and then, kind of in the middle of the day, they’ll 12) on what they’ve13) , which we need to plan tomorrow. The Rovers are not going to Mars looking for life but they will be looking for water, which is an 14) for even the simplest forms of life to have existed or perhaps to still exist.
Crop circle 麦田怪圈
Extraterrestrial 外星人
LISTENING FOR CONTENT
① Listening to a conversation A Listen to a conversation between Sally and Sam about the hidden Mayan Palace. At the end of the conversation, some questions will be asked about what was said. Write down a short answer to each question. 1. Where did Sam go on vacation? South America . 2. How big is the palace? It measures 270,000 square feet . 3. Why did the palace remain hidden for so long? Because the absence of temples, pyramids and tombs that usually indicate a major site .
Bermuda Triangle 百慕大三角 Graveyard 坟地 SOS
1. A) In the western Atlantic. B) In the eastern Atlantic. C) Between Maine and Bermuda. D) Between Bermuda and Rich island. 2. A) Because there is an unexplained light found in the area. B) Because nobody knows the reason why this mystery occurs there. C) Because there are only broken parts of ships and planes with nobody in them. D) Because there is no signal whenever ships or planes cross this area.
Travelling in the World’s Mysteries
WARM-UP
A Listen to a passage about crop circles and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). 1. ( F ) Crop circles are a common phenomenon in the world. 2. ( ) Crop circles usually form at night. 3. ( F ) Crop circles have been proven to be produced by extraterrestrials. 4. ( ) It is said that only a lucky few have witnessed crop circles. 5. ( ) It is still a mystery why crop circles appear and disappear within a short period of time.
Missions to Mars Mars in no pushover. This is actually not a slam dunk and nobody should think that it is. Thirty-four times humans have sent spacecraft to our 1) neigh-bour. Only 11 times have the 2) not crashed or burnt up in the Martian atmosphere, or missed their mark entirely and skipped out into deep space. Mars may come and bite us, and, and that’s one of the reasons that we’re flying two, just in case Mars bites us, and if we lose one, we have a second basically to mitigate that risk and that 3) . At the Kennedy Space Centre, twin Rovers are going through the final check-out. In June, two Delta rockets, 4) 3 weeks apart, will start the Rovers on a 7-month journey to Mars. After air breaking through the atmosphere, giant air bags will deploy, 5) the spacecraft, which like an 6) , will land and 7) on the Martian surface.
Mayan palace 玛雅人宫殿 Guatemala 危地马拉 Tropical rainforest 热带雨林 Cancuen Intact 没碰过的 Commerce 商业 Thrive 繁荣 Limestone masonry 石灰岩石块 Jade 玉,翡翠 Inlay 补牙用填充物 Demise 死亡,终结
ABDCD
③ Listening to English news
A Listen to the following news about missions to Mars, and fill in the blanks with what you hear. Pushover 容易做的事情 Slam dunk 令人印象深刻的举动 Martian 火星的 Mitigate 减轻,降低 减轻, Deploy 展开,配置 展开, Geologist 地质学家
B Listen to the conversation again and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
1. A) In the tropical rainforest in Guatemala. B) In the middle of Mexico. C) South of Honduras. D) In Panama. 2. A) They lost contact with the outside world. B) They filled their teeth with gold. C) They liked precious stones and were prosperous. D) They liked to invade other nations. 3. A) The Mayans put more emphasis on human relationships. B) The Mayan city has been prosperous until now. C) The Mayan usually took up agriculture. D) The Mayan lived peacefully for hundreds of years.
B Listen to the news again and answer the following questions. After you finish the task, check your answers with your partner.