听力材料原文+参考答案 Units 6-7
英语新闻听力教程unit6原文及答案.doc
英语新闻听力教程unit6原文及答案.doc Unit 6Public HealthSection A warming up1. life expectancy2. regulators abortion3. rabies4. infected withcases 5. bird flu immune 6. outbreaks-borne 7. prescription medicines 8. AIDS 9. antiviral10. MedicareSection B 1. BTapescript: 1. The problem of obesity is spreading into many different aspects of Americans ’ lives. Now researchers have confirmed that some children are so fat they can’ t fit into car safety seats designed fordski.2. Two more Indian states have banned the sale of soft drinks produced by . giantsCoca-cola and Pepsi-cola after a test by an environmental group showed highpesticide levels. This brings the total number of states to six where there is a partialor full ban of the soft drinks.3.An Asian expert says disease and natural disasters may pose a great securitythreat to the region than conventional political conflicts.4.The United Nations say opium cultivation in Afghanistan has declined for the firsttime since 2022 as tens of thousands of farmers have given up opium poppies forlegal crops.5.The authorities in Iran have warned that if the dangerously high level of airpollution in the capital‘’ Teheran continues, there could be thousandsiesof. casualt Section CItem 1 1. ATapescript: The number of people infected with HIV, the virus that can lead to AIDS,is still rising and has passed 14 million worldwide for the first time. The UnitedNations said there had been five million new infections this year and warned thatAIDS was outstripping global and national efforts to contain it.Sub-Saharan Africaremains the worst affected region. In Asia, where more than eight million people are infected, the UN says infection rates are rising sharply. It warned that Pakistan, in particular, was on the verge of a serious epidemic.Item 2 Task 11. TTask 2 1. international conference malaria West African state scientific findingsin lost GDP3. world population’s is transmittedTapescript: The biggest ever international conference on malaria has begun in theWest African state of Cameroon to discuss the latest scientific findings on the disease which kills more than million people worldwide each year. 75 percent of those victimsare African children. Of the 2,000 delegates meeting in the capital Yaounde, 80% arefrom Africa. The disease costs the continent more than 12 billion dollars in lost GDPeach year. The latest research suggests that 41% ofthe world ’ s population live inareas where malaria is transmitted.Item 3 1. Whether more than one food company is responsible for anoutbreak of E.coli bacteria. 2. Bad spinach from Natural Selection foods 3. Earth Bound Farm 4. It has recalled the spinach. 5. get rid of any fresh spinach in bags or other containers. 6.One person died and dozens were sick in 19 states.Tapescript: The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether more thanone food company is responsible for an outbreak of bacteria. Officials have linkedbad spinach from natural Selection Foods as one source of the . the company saysthe products are sold under the brand name Earth Bound Farm. Doctor DavidAtchison with the FDA says Natural Selection Foods has voluntarily recalled thespinach. The FDA advises shoppers to get rid of any fresh spinach in bags or othercontainers. At least one person has died. Dozens of others have gotten sick in atleast 19 states.Section D EU Health Experts Meet to (1) Formulate Measures to contain the (2)Bird FluRecent outbreaks (3)German authorities confirmed the (4) presence of the H5N1virus in (5) wild swans. Outbreaks have also been reported in (6) the Balkans, (7)Turkey, the Caspian Sea areascountermeasures Increase surveillance and (8) toughen import bans (9) dedicatean additional million dollars for surveillance and (10) testing programsorder farmers to keep poultries indoors (11) to prevent transmission of the disease.Tapescript: European health experts have gathered in Bussel to formulate a responseto recent bird flu outbreaks among migratory birds. The Panel today endorsedmeasures that would increase surveillance and toughen import bans, such as theEuropean Union ’plan,s suspending the imports of untreated feathe rs from non-EUcountries. The European Commission has dedicated an additional million dollars forbird surveillance and testing programs. German authorities today confirmed thepresence of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in wild swans on an island in the Baltic Sea.Outbreaks have been confirmed in the Balkans, Turkey, the Caspian Seas andelsewhere. Several EUcountries have ordered farmers to keep poultries indoors toprevent transmission of the disease. But the World Organization for Animal Health inParis says this is not necessary at the present time.Item 2Task 11. DTask 21. F 3. TTapescript: A week after a toxic waste scandal brought down the government ofIvory Coast teams of Ivorian and French experts are still trying to establish exactlywhat the material was composed of. Tons of waste from a ship were dumped inleaking drums in at least 11 open air locations in Ivory Coast’ s biggest city Abidja Our correspondent James Copnall is there. The latesthealth ministry figures showthat nearly 16,000 people have sought treatment and 6 have died as a result of thetoxic waste. The numbers increased dramatically each day. This does notnecessarily mean that the health situation is deteriorating just as rapidly, however, astate of panic seems to have set in. meanwhile, teams of French and Ivorian expertswere attempting to find out what exactly the toxic waste was composed of.Item 31.It has issued an updated version of its strategy for dealing with a possibleinfluence pandemic.2.The updated strategy needs cities, states, and businesses to prepare now tokeep operating on their own and not on federal help.3.It could make up to 40% of the workforce too sick to work for two weeks at a time. The infection could remain active in a community for up to two months.4.The pandemic could cause as many as two million deaths in theUnited States.5.it tends to break out when a never-before-seen strain of the virus startspassing from person to person.Tapescript: The White House has issued an updated version of its strategy for dealing with a possible influenza pandemic. The plan warns cities, states and businesses that they should prepare now to keep operating on their own and not count on federal help, and says that a flu pandemic could make up to 40% of the workforce too sick to work for two weeks at a time and that the infection could remain active in a community for up to two months. In the worst place, the report says, a pandemic could cause as many as two million deaths in the United States. Influenza pandemic tend to break out when a never-before-seen strain of the virus starts passing from person to person. Scientists are currently worried that the Asian bird flu might mutate into that kind of virus.Section E1.The move is expected to reduce expenses involved in the drug that has been hailed as a life-saving treatment.2.in the study patients who cut their smoking in half also cut their risk of lungcancer by 27%.3.European Union officials continue to reassure the public that the apparentspread of the avian flu virus is at this point a threat to animals not humans.4. One hundred and twenty-three identification cards had been issued to patients who need them to prove to law enforcement personnel that they used marijuana for medical purposes.5.Analysts say total spending on research into malaria last year accounted for only about one third of one percent of total medical research and development funding.文档内容到此结束，欢迎大家下载、修改、丰富并分享给更多有需要的人。
Unit7教材听力原文及译文
UNIT 7Section A1b Listen and write these city names in the boxes above.Conversation 1Tom: Hey,Peter.Peter: Hi, Tom.Tom: How’s the weather down there in Shanghai? Peter. It’s cloudy. How’s the weather in Moscow? Tom: It’s snowing right now.Conversation 2Peter: Hi,Aunt Sally.Aunt Sally: Hello, Peter.Peter: How’s the weather in Boston?Aunt Sally: Oh, it’s windy.Conversation 3Peter: So, how’s the weather in Beijing?Julie: It’s sunny.Conversation 4Peter: Hi, Uncle Bill.Uncle Bill: Hello, Peter.Peter: How’s the weather in Toronto?Uncle Bill: It’s raining, as usual!2a Listen and number the pictures［1-4］. Jim: Hello, Linda. This is Jim.Linda:Hello, Jim!Jim: Is Uncle Joe there?Linda: No, he isn’t. He’s outside.Jim: Out side? It’s cold, is n’t it?Linda: No, it’s sunny and really warm.Jim: What’s Uncle Joe doing?Linda: He’s playing basketball.Jim: Is Aunt Sally there?Linda: Yes, she is, but she’s busy right now.Jim: What’s she doing?Linda: She’s cooking.Jim: How abo ut Mary? What’s she doing?Linda: Not much. She’s only watching TV. You want to talk to her, don’t you?听录音，在上面方框中写出这些城市的名字。
听力材料
Unit 1 综合能力评估试题听力材料及参考答案听力材料Ⅰ. 听句子，选择最佳应答语。
1. What special food did you eat in Beijing?2. Where did Tom go on vacation last month?3. How was Mike’s vacation in the UK?4. When did you visit Huangguoshu Waterfall?5. What was the weather like when you were on vacation?Ⅱ. 听对话，选择最佳答案。
6. W: I went to Malaysia on vacation last October. What about you, Dave?M: Mmm ... I went there last December, Maria.7. M: Did everyone in your class like the school trip to the beach?W: Well, most of us thought it was exciting, but Betty thought it was boring.8. M: Amy, did you go to Mount Tai this summer vacation? You said you wanted togo there.W: No, Tom. But I went to Penang Hill.9. W: Rick, I rode a bicycle to the square this morning.M: Me too, Jane, but I didn’t see you.10. M: What did you do yesterday, Anna?W: In the morning I visited my uncle and then played volleyball with my friends.In the afternoon I did my homework.Ⅲ. 听长对话，选择最佳答案。
《现代大学英语听力2》听力原文及题目答案Unit 6
I had two months until my new job began. It was like waiting an entire summer for school to start. I spent those two months talking to figure skating coaches and judges. I read boring rule books. I drove to the rinks where the skaters trained, and made notes about our conversations. I even took a lesson, which made some of the skaters laugh.Unit 6Task 1【答案】A.[d]—[b]—[a]—[e]—[c]B.a【原文】Laura usually leaves the offices of Quest Productions at about 5 o'clock, but last Monday she left at 5:30. She wanted to get home by 6:30 and she ran to the bus stop but she couldn't get on a bus. There were too many people and not enough buses. Laura was desperate to get home so she decided to go by tube.In the station she went to one of the automatic ticket machines but she didn't have enough change, so she had to join the queue at the ticket window. She bought her ticket and ran to the escalator. Laura went to the platform and waited for the tube. It arrived and the crowd moved forward.Laura was pushed into the train. It was almost full but she was given a seat by a man with a moustache. Laura thanked him and sat down. She started to read her newspaper. In the tunnel the train stopped suddenly and Laura was thrown to the floor together with the man with the moustache. Somebody screamed. The lights went out. It was quarter past 6 on a cold, wet December evening.Task 2【答案】A.1) a 2) b 3) d 4) cB.1) T 2) T 3) FC.wondered; television plays; exciting; every cigarette lighter; tape recorder; held in a certain way; the touch of a gold ring against the hand of; reveal; How wrong they were【原文】X was a secret agent. He had rented a furnished room in a provincial town not far from the public park and had been there two weeks. He was standing at the window looking out at the dull beds of geraniums, the park gates and the cold, uninviting statue of Queen Victoria that stood across the street from him, It was raining hard and the few people who passed by looked wet and miserable. X was miserable, too. How, he wondered, could anybody think there was anything interesting about the life of a secret agent? He knew it was because people had seen so many television plays about glamorous spies that they thought the life of a secret agent was exciting. They were convinced that every cigarette lighter concealed a secret tape recorder; that a fountain pen held in a certain way would open a locked door, that the touch of a gold ring against the handof an enemy would make him reveal all his secrets. How wrong they were! He looked round his room. The wallpaper was in the worst possible taste, the pictures horrible, the carpet worn, dirty and faded; and he was cold. This was the third Monday he had come to the window to look out. He prayed it would be the last.As if in answer to his prayer, a certain meeting he had been sent to investigate was about to take place. He took out his camera. Just beneath the statue two women had stopped to speak. He knew one of them, and it was she who pointed in his direction. The other woman looked up towards him and in that brief moment he photographed her.Task 3【答案】B.1) a 2) b 3) c 4) b 5) d【原文】Harry: Well, Robert, have you made up your mind yet what you want to do when you leave college?Nora: Oh Harry. Surely he's a bit young to decide on his career. He hasn't even got to college yet. Harry: Not at all, Nora. It's wisest to decide in good time. Look at me, for example. I really wanted to be a sailor, but now I spend my days sitting at a desk in an office. Yes, it's silly to train for the wrong job. And after all, Robert will be going to college soon.Nora: Now if I were a man I'd be a farmer. To see the crops growing--that's my idea of a good life.Harry: Yes, and to see the money rolling in is more important still.Robert: Well, that's not the way I look at it, Dad. It's the job I care about, not the money.Harry: Maybe not; but you'll learn to care about the money too, when you've got a family to keep.Nora: And of course Peter — well, he's keen to be a racing driver, or else an explorer. Robert: Oh, Peter's not old enough to make up his mind about such things.Harry: You haven't answered my question yet, Robert. What would you like to do?Nora: Are you sure you don't want to be a farmer, Robert? Or a market gardener?Robert: No, I'm sorry Mum, but I don't want to at all. I'd rather be a civil engineer. I want to build roads and bridges.Harry: Not ships? Isn't it better to be a shipbuilding engineer?Robert: Look here, is it my career we're planning, or yours?Harry: All fight, all right, there's no need to lose your temper. But you'd better win that scholarship first.Task 4【答案】I. correspondents; columnistA. may not need eitherB. to go to places where events take place and write stories about themII. first; bigger; better; who will soon leave to work for other peopleIII. working hours; free time; work long hours to begin with【原文】Here are some of the things a young man or woman should not do when he first asks an editor for a job:He should not tell the editor that he wants to be a foreign correspondent or a columnist. Very probably the editor does not need either. He wants a reporter who will go to such places as government offices and police stations and write a true story of what is happening there. Being a foreign correspondent or a columnist will come later.A young person should not tell tile editor that newspaper work is only the first step on the way to bigger and better jobs, such as those in government. The editor must take a lot of time and trouble teaching someone to be a good newspaperman or woman. He does not like the idea of teaching people who are soon going to leave him to work for someone else.A young journalist should accept the working hours and free time the editor gives him. As a new journalist, it is very probable that he will work longer hours than others and work on weekends. The editor did the same when he was a young newspaperman with no experience. He expects a journalist to understand how things are on a newspaper.Task 5【答案】A.1) acd 2) abeB.1) she is the wrong sex 2) she wears the wrong clothes【原文】SYLVIA: We've got a new manager in our department.LARRY: Oh? You hoped to get that job, didn't you?SYLVIA: Yes, I did.LARRY: I'm sorry. That's too bad. Who is it? Who got the job, I mean?SYLVIA: Someone called Drexler. Carl Drexler. He's been with the company only two years. I've been here longer. And I know more about the job, too!LARRY: Hmm. Why do you think they gave it to him and not to you?SYLVIA: Because I'm the wrong sex, of course !LARRY: You mean you didn't get the job because you're a woman?SYLVIA: Yes, that was probably it! It isn't fair.LARRY: What sort of clothes does he wear?SYLVTA: A dark suit. White shirt. A tie. Why?LARRY: Perhaps that had something to do with it.SYLVIA: You mean you think I didn't get the job because I come to work in jeans and a sweater?LARRY: It's possible, isn't it?SYLVIA: Do you really think I should wear different clothes?LARRY: Well. . . perhaps you should think about it.SYLVTA: Why should I wear a skirt? Or a dress?LARRY: I'm not saying you should. I'm saying you should think about it. That's all!SYLVIA: Why should I do that? I'm good at my job! That's the only important thing!LARRY: Hmm. Perhaps it should be the only important thing. But it isn't. Not inthis company.Task 6【答案】B.1st speaker(bcd) 2nd speaker(ae)C.1) F 2) F【原文】Al: Is this the right line to file a claim?Bob: Yeah. It's the same line for everything. You just stand here and wait.Al: Oh. Is there always such a long line?Bob: Every week. Sometimes longer. Is this your first time here?Al: Yes.Bob: What happened? Your plant closed down?Al: No. I'm a car salesman, or, I was a car salesman. But we just aren't selling cars. It's the interest rates. Two years ago, I averaged ten new cars a month. Do you know how many carsI sold last month? One. One car to a lady who had the cash. But the interest rates are up again.The boss let three of us go. How about you?Bob: I worked at a vacuum cleaner plant with about fifty workers. We put in a good day's work.But the machinery was getting old. As a matter of fact, the whole plant was old. So the management decided to build a new plant. You know where? In Singapore. The workers here made about seven dollars an hour, a couple of people made eight or nine an hour. You know how much they're paying the workers in Singapore? $2.50 an hour! Anyway, all fifty of us got laid off.Al: How long ago was that?Bob: They closed down ten months ago.Al: Any luck finding another job?Bob: Nothing. I have one, sometimes two, interviews a week. Last week I thought I had something.They liked my experience with machines. But I never heard from them again.Al: At least you know something about machines. All I can do is talk.Bob: Maybe you'll talk yourself into another job. Good luck. I'll see you here next week.Al: I hope not. I hope I'll have something by then.Task 7【答案】A.1) F 2) F 3) T 4) F 5) T 6) FB.1) According to the first speaker, it is frustrating because the teacher cannot see clearly the results of his efforts.2) According to the second speaker, English language teaching is a good job, because it guaranteesa stable income and regular working hours and means less pressure. He also likes the way elderly teacher are.【原文】Interviewer: Do you prefer what you're doing to teaching?John Smith: Yes, one of the things I found a bit frustrating about teaching was that it was rather, very intangible than um, especially if you're teaching in England and most of the students know quite a lot of English before they arrive. They learn a lot of English outside the classroom, in pubs or coffee shops or other places, with the families they're living with. It's very difficult to pin down how much they learn from your actual lesson, whereas in marketing um, again there are lots of areas that are gray rather than black or white, but there are quite a few other areas where one can see quite clearly the results of one's efforts.Interviewer: What did you do after you quit your job in advertising?Second Man: In fact, I became a journalist and I worked as a freelance. I didn't have a full-time job with any newspaper. I just had to contribute things as they came along and 1wrote for magazines, and I did quite a lot of broadcasting for the VOA. Well, thiswas in a way the opposite of advertising because I enjoyed it a lot but I found it veryhard to earn enough money to live on.Interviewer: And then you decided to be a teacher?Second Man: Well, and so I thought. Well, I must do something which produces an income that I can be sure of. While I was working as a journalist I had done an article for amagazine about the English language teaching world and m fact I had come to theschool where I now teach as a journalist and interviewed a lot of the people. And Ithought it seemed a very nice place and I thought that the classes I visited had a very,very nice feeling about them, and so I thought, well, I'll see if they'll have me. Interviewer: Why do you prefer teaching to advertising?Second Man: Well, partly because in teaching you work regular hours. It I advertising you just had to stay at the office until the work was finished [I see.] and it could be three o'clockin the morning. [Oh, dean] Also you were very often made to work at weekends.Often some job would come up that was very important and they said it had to befinished — it had to go into the newspapers next week.Interviewer: So there was a lot mom pressure.Second Man: There was a lot more pressure in advertising. Also, the people I worked with when I was first in advertising were young hopeful people like myself. By the end I wasworking with a lot of old people who quite honestly were awful. And I kept lookingat them and saying, "Am I going to be like that?" And I thought if I am I'd better getout, whereas the English language teachers I saw, who were older people I thought,well, they seemed quite nice. And I wouldn't mind being like that myself.Task 8【答案】【原文】Matthew: Michael, do you go out to work?Michael: Not regularly, no. I... I used to; I used to have a job in a publishing company, but I decided it wasn't really what I wanted to do and that what I wanted to do wouldn't earn me much money, so I gave up working and luckily I had a private income from my family to support me and now I do the things I want to do. Some of them get paid like lecturing and teaching, and others don't.Matthew: What are the advantages of not having to go to work from nine till five?Michael: Ah... there' re two advantages really. One is that if you feel tired you don't have to getup, and the other is that you can spend your time doing things you want to do rather than being forced to do the same thing all the time.Matthew: But surely that's in a sense very self-indulgent and very lucky because most of us have to go out and earn our livings. Do you feel justified in having this privileged position?Michael: Yes, because I think I use it well. I do things which I think are useful to people and the community and which I enjoy doing.Matthew: Chris, what do you think the value of work is?Chris: Well, I think in our present-day society, for most people, work has very little value at all.Most of us go out to work for about eight to nine hours of our working day. We do things which are either totally futile and totally useless or have very little justification whatsoever, and for most of us the only reason for working is that we need to keep ourselves alive, to pay for somewhere to live, to pay to feed our children.Matthew: But surely people wouldn't know what to do if they didn't have to go to work? Chris: Well, again this raises the sort of two main aspects of work. Should we think of 'work only as a sort of bread-winning process, and this is very much the role it has in current society, or should we take a much wider perspective on work and think of all the possible sort of activities that human beings could be doing during the day? I think the sort of distinction currently is between say, someone who works in a car factory and who produces cars which are just adding to pollution, to over-consumption of vital resources, who is doing something which is very harmful, both to our environment and to, probably society, to contrast his work with someone perhaps like a doctor, who I think in any society could be justified as doing a very valuable job and one which incidentally is satisfying to the person who is doing it.Matthew: What do you do? Is your job just a breadwinning process or do you get some satisfaction out of doing it?Chris: Well, in the job I do find that most of the satisfaction is a mental one; it's coming to grips with the problems of my subject and with the problems of teaching in the University.Clearly this is the type of satisfaction that most people doing what we call in England "white-collar" jobs. This is quite different from the sort of craftsman, who is either working that his hands or with his skills on a machine, or from people perhaps who are using artistic skills, which are of a quite different character. Certainly it's becoming a phenomena that people who do "white-collar jobs during the day, who work with their minds to some extent, people who work on computers, people who are office clerks, bank employees, these people have fairly soul-destroying jobs which nevertheless don't involve much physical effort, that they tend to come home and do "do-it-yourself" activities at home. They make cupboard, paint their houses, repair their cars, which somehow provide the sort of physical job satisfaction that they're denied in their working day.Task 9【答案】B.1) No major change. For som e→“less paperwork”Some:→less working hoursOthers:→earn more money.2) Most adults→would go on working.Esp. young adults (18 to 24)→9 out of 10 would go on working【原文】Are most workers today feeling bored and dissatisfied with their jobs? It is often claimed that they are. Yet a study conducted by Parade magazine more than 20 years ago showed that people at that time felt the opposite.Parade asked questions of a representative sampling of adult Americans from coast to coast. The sampling included different sexes, age groups, and occupations.The interviewees were asked to make a choice from one of the following three to describe their feelings towards their work.A. Like their jobs.B. Dislike their jobs.C. Like their jobs in part,Results showed that 91 percent of the male interviewees and 84 percent of the females chose A, while only 5 percent men and 12 percent women interviewed chose B. The rest said that they liked their jobs in part and they comprised a very tow percentage.In all the three age groups — from 18 to 24, from 25 to 29 and 30 to 39 — those who liked theirjobs made up the majority. 70 percent, 88 percent and 92 percent respectively choose A. Those choosing B accounted for 20 percent, 9 percent and 8 percent of different age groups. And the rest, 6 percent, 3 percent and 0 percent respectively claimed that they only liked their jobs in part.The difference in responses among people with different occupations is small. Among the white-collar employees, those choosing A, B and C are 87 percent, 8 percent and 4 percent of the total. And for the blue-collar employees, 91 percent, 5 percent and 3 percent choose A, B and C respectively.It is interesting to note that there are few differences in attitude between men and women, professionals and factory workers. In each group, the largest number reported that they liked their jobs.Next, Parade asked, "If there were one thing you could change about your job, what would it be?" It was expected that many would wish to make their jobs less boring, but very few gave this reply. No major changes were reported. Some wished for "less paperwork"; many would shorten their working hours, but others would like more hours in order to earn more money. No serious complaints were made.Most people have to work in order to live. But what would happen if someone had enough money to stop working? Parade asked, "If you inherited a million dollars, would you go on working — either at your present job or something you liked better--or would you quit work?" The answers showed that most adults would prefer to work, even if they didn't have to. This is true especially of the younger adults aged 18-24. Of these, nine out often said they would go on working, even if they suddenly became millionaires.Task 10【答案】1) F 2) TC.1) b 2) aD.1. She really enjoyed meeting new people.2. She had good qualifications in English and Maths.3. She did not mind hard work, even if it was not always pleasant.4. She liked living away form home.【原文】Officer: Come in, please take a seat. I'm the careers officer. You're Cathy, aren't you?Mother: That's right. This is Catherine Hunt, and I'm her mother.Officer: How do you do, Mrs. Hunt? Hello, Catherine.Cathy: Hello. Pleased to meet you.Officer: And you'd like some advice about choosing a career?-Mother: Yes, she would. Wouldn't you, Catherine?Cathy: Yes, please.Officer: Well, just let me ask a few questions to begin with. How old are you, Catherine? Mother: She's nineteen. Well, she's almost nineteen.Officer: And what qualifications have you got?Mother: Well, qualifications from school, of course. Very good results she got. And she got certificates for ballet and for playing the piano.Officer: Is that what you're interested in, Catherine, dancing and music?Cathy: Well...Mother: Ever since she was a little girl, she's been very keen on music and dancing. She ought to be a music teacher or something. She's quite willing to train for a few more years to get the right job, aren't you, Catherine?Cathy: Well, if it's a good idea.Mother: There you are, you see. She's a good girl really, a bit lazy and disorganized sometimes,but she's very bright. I'm sure the careers officer will have lots of jobs for you. Officer: Well, I'm afraid it's not as easy as that. There are many young people these days who can't find the job they want.Mother: I told you, Catherine. I told you, you shouldn't wear that dress. You have to look smart to get a job these days.Officer: I think she looks very nice. Mrs. Hunt, will you come into the other office for a moment and look at some of the information we have there. I'm sure you'd like to see how we can help young people.Mother: Yes, I'd love to. Mind you, I think Catherine would be a nice teacher. She could work with young children. She'd like that. Or she could be a vet. She's always looking after sick animals.Officer: I'm afraid there's a lot of competition. You need very good results to be a vet. This way, Mrs. Hunt. Just wait a minute, Catherine.(The mother exits.)Officer: There are just one or two more things, Catherine.Cathy: Do call me Cathy.Officer: OK, Cathy. Are you really interested in being a vet?Cathy: Not really. Anyway, I'm not bright enough. I'm reasonably intelligent, but I'm not brilliant.I'm afraid my mother is a bit over-optimistic.Officer: Yes, I guessed that. She's a bit overpowering, isn't she, your mum?Cathy: A bit. But she's very kind.Officer: I'm sure she is. So, you're interested in ballet and music, are you?Cathy: Not really. My mother sent me to lessons when I was six, so I'm quite good, I suppose. ButI don't think I want to do that for the rest of my life, especially music. It's so lonely. Officer: What do you enjoy doing?Cathy: Well, I like playing tennis, and swimming. Oh, I went to France with the school choir last year. I really enjoyed that. And I like talking to people. But I suppose you mean real interests — things that would help me to get a job?Officer: No. I'm more interested in what you really want to do. You like talking to people, do you? Cathy: Oh yes, I really enjoy meeting new people.Officer: Do you think you would enjoy teaching?Cathy: No, no, I don't really. I was never very interested in school work, and I'd like to do something different. Anyway, there's a teacher training college very near us. It would be just like going to school again.Officer: So you don't want to go on training?Cathy: Oh, I wouldn't mind at all, not for something useful. I wondered about being a hairdresser — you meet lots of people, and you learn to do something properly—but I don't know. It doesn't seem very worthwhile.Officer: What about nursing?Cathy: Nursing? In a hospital? Oh, I couldn't do that, I'm not good enough.Officer: Yes, you are. You've got good qualifications in English and Maths. But it is very hard work.Cathy: Oh, I don't mind that.Officer: And it's not very pleasant sometimes.Cathy: That doesn't worry me either. Mum's right. I do look after sick animals. I looked after our dog when it was run over by a car. My mother was sick, but I didn't mind. I was too worried about the dog. Do you really think I could be a nurse?Officer: I think you could be a very good nurse. You'd have to leave home, of course.Cathy: I rather think I should enjoy that.Officer: Well, don't decide all at once. Here's some information about one or two other things which might suit you. Have a look through it before you make up your mind.Task 11【原文】I began my career during college, reporting on news stories at a Toronto radio station. The station’s program manager was also a professor who taught one of my classes. I convinced him that she needed a youth reporter because that year was International Youth Year. After graduation, I took a job as a television news reporter and later, news anchor. But sports reporting was something different, so I decided to try it. Figure skating was my first assignment.I had two months until my new job began. It was like waiting an entire summer for school to start. I spent those two months talking to figure skating coaches and judges. I read boring rule books. I drove to the rinks where the skaters trained, and made notes about our conversations. I even took a lesson, which made some of the skaters laugh.。
人教版英语九年级全册Unit 6 听力材料和参考答案
九年级上册第6单元听力测试第一节听短对话，选择正确的答案。
每段对话只播一遍1. W. When do you go to bed?M: I usually go to bed at 10 o’clock.W: Do you still go to sleep with the bedroom light on, Eric?M: Well, it’s a bad habit. And I have stopped it already.Q: Did Eric use to keep the light on while sleeping?2. M: What’s the matter, Anna?W: Why didn’t you wake me up earlier, Dad? I think I’m going to fail the English test. M: Why?W: It’s too late to get to school on time.Q: What’s the matter with Anna?3.M: I bought a T-shirt for only five dollars yesterday!W: What is it made of? Sometimes the cheap one doesn’t feel good.M: A hundred percent of cotton.W: Great! Where did you buy it? I want to buy one, too.Q: What does the woman think of the T-shirt?4. W: What are these in English?M: They are shoes with special heels.W: What are they used for?M: They are used for changing the style of the shoes.Q: What are the shoes with special heels used for?5. W: How do you feel about this new invention?M: I think it’s very useful.W: Was it invented in 1949.M: No, it was invented in 1958.Q: When was the new invention invented?第二节听长对话或独白，选择正确的答案。
英语六级听力原文及参考答案
英语六级听⼒原⽂及参考答案 ⼤学英语四六级考试中的听⼒环节进⾏了改⾰，为了帮助同学们更好的复习，以下是店铺为⼤家搜索整理的'2017年英语六级听⼒原⽂及参考答案，希望⼤家能有所收获， section A Conversation 1 ⽓候变化和全球经济发展 W： Professor Henderson could you give us a brief overview of what you do， where you work and your main area of research? M： Well the Center for Climate Research where I work links the science of climate change to issues around economics and policy。
Some of our research is to do with the likely impacts of climate change and all of the associated risks。
W： And how strong is the evidence that climate change is happening that it‘s really something we need to be worried about。
M： Well most of the science of climate change particularly that to do with global warming is simply fact。
But other aspects of the science are less certain or at least more disputed。
And so we‘re really talking about risk what the economics tells us is that it’s probably cheaper to avoid climate change to avoid the risk than it has to deal with the likely consequences。
U6听力原文与答案
UNIT 6Section One Tactics for listeningPart 1 PhoneticsExercise: Complete the following short dialogue as you listen to the tape. Pay special attention to the weak forms, link-ups and contractions.Professor Archer is having lunch with the Director at the Restaurant Avenida.Director: What (I) would you like, Professor?Archer: What (2) do you suggest?Director: Perhaps caldeirada?Archer: (3) What's that?Director: Fish soup.Archer: That sounds nice.Director: And you (4) must have some feijoada.Archer: What's that?Director: (5) It's a local speciality－pork (6) with black beans.Archer: Yes, I'd like (7) some of that.Director: Is there anything you (8) can't eat?Archer: I don't like chili.Director: (9) That's all right — there's no chili in feijoada. Do you (10) mind if I smoke?Archer: Not at all. Would you excuse me (11) for a moment? (To waiter) Excuse me, can you tell me where the toilets are?Waiter: (12) Over there, sir.Part 2 Listening and Note-TakingEric: Excuse me. What time's the first train to London1!Clerk: Eight thirty.Eric: I see. And are there any other trains? I want to arrive before lunch. Clerk: Well, now ... there's one at nine fourteen, … nine twenty,… nine forty-two ....Eric: Oh, just a minute. You're saying them very quickly ... Er, yes ... and after nine forty-two?Clerk: After nine forty two, there's ... there's one at ten fifteen ... and eleven twenty…Eric: Ten fifteen and eleven twenty?Clerk: Yes, that's right.Eric: OK. Thanks very much.Exercise A: Listen to Eric and the booking-clerk at the railway station. Look at the timetable. After each bleep, draw a ring round the time of the train.Operator: Hello! Can I help you'?Nancy: Yes. What's the number of the Leicester Hotel, please? Operator: The Leicester? That's 837 5234.Nancy: I see. And what about the New Norwich Hotel?Operator: That's 785 2491.Nancy: Thanks. And the Royal Buckingham?Operator: Just a minute ... that's um ... 249 6360.Nancy: Uh~huh ... and the Gloucester?Operator: The Gloucester ... um ... 564 8844 ....Nancy: Thanks, ... oh ... here's one more ... the, urn. the Peterborough Hotel.Operator: Oh, that's 684 2549.Nancy: Oh ... and the last one. The Old Bedford?Operator: The Old Bedford? That's 327 6975.Nancy: Well, that's all now. Thanks very much for your help. ByeExercise B: Listen to the operator. After each bleep, write down the phone number of the hotel.1. The Leicester Hotel 837 52342. The New Norwich Hotel 785 24913. The Royal Buckingham Hotel 249 63604. The Gloucester Hotel 564 88445. The Peterborough Hotel 684 25496. The Old Bedford Hotel 327 6975Section Two Listening comprehensionPart 1 DialoguesDialogue 1 What a Super FlatAnn Morris and her friend, Sheila, have been invited to Jack and Rebecca's for supper. Although they know each other well, it is the first time Ann and Sheila have visited the couple's flat.Jack' Hi, Ann! Hello. Sheila! Come on in. I say, you're both looking very smart!Ann: Thanks. It's nice to be invited out. What a super flat you've got, Jack!Sheila: yes, you never told us you lived in such luxury. It's so cosy*! Jack: I'm glad you like it. Sit down and I'll get you a drink.Ann: Where's Rebecca?Jack: She won't be long. She's just popped* out for a few things at the last minute ... (Later)Sheila: Mm! This spaghetti* is really good. 1 didn't know you could cook.Jack: I'm afraid it had to be something cheap. You know how it is! Ann: It's delicious. Is it your own recipe*, by any chance'?Jack: No, I just followed what is said in the book.Sheila: Can you give me the name of the book?Rebecca: Sure, Italian Cooking Made Easy — it has to be for him! Exercise A: Listen to the dialogue and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T or F in the space provided. Discuss with your classmates why you think the statement is true or false.F 1. Jack and Rebecca live in the country. (They live in a flat, so probably they live in the city.)T 2.The guests are surprised to see that Jack and Rebecca live in such a nice place.( Ann: What a super flat you've got, Jack! Sheila: Yes, you never told us you lived in such luxury. It's so cosy!)T 3. Jack's spaghetti is very delicious. (Sheila: Mill! This spaghetti is really good.)F 4. The guests know Jack is a good cook. (Sheila: ... I didn't know you could cook.)Exercise B: Listen to the dialogue again and answer the following questions.1. What did the guests think or the flat?(They thought the flat was super, luxury and cosy.)2. How many friends did Jack invite to his home? (Two. Ann and Sheila.)3. What did they have for dinner? (They had spaghetti.)4. Why did Jack cook it instead of buying it? (He thought it is cheaper.)5. Who gave Jack the recipe? (He got the recipe from a book.)Dialogue 2 Back from WorkIt is seven o'clock. Clive Sutton has just arrived home from work. Clive: It's not good enough, you know.Cathy: What's wrong, Dad?Clive: When I came in. the house was a disgrace. One of you was lying on the settee* and the other was nowhere to be seen.Cathy: It wasn't my turn to tidy. It was Emma's.Emma: I did it yesterday. Besides, I had a lot of homework to do. Cathy: When 1 came in, you were in your room listening to records. Emma: At least my room's tidy. Yours is a real mess.Clive: Look! I don't care whose turn it was yesterday or today. It just won't do! I expect you to sort out* your jobs between you. You're both old enough now. When I came in, the breakfast dishes were still in the sink and there were clothes lying all over the furniture, waiting to beironed.*Emma: I'm always doing the ironing. Cathy used to help with it, but now she says she's too busy.Cathy: I've got exams this year. You haven't.Clive: Girls, girls, that's enough. Have either of you eaten yet?Emma: I've had a sandwich. I'm trying to lose some weight.Cathy: And I don't feel hungry.Clive: Well, I do. In future, make sure one of you makes a meal. We've got to live, you know. And I've got to work to keep us. You'll want spending money and holidays, you'll have to do your share of the housework!Emma: I'm sorry, Dad.Cathy: Me too. Look, Emma, why don't we make a list of jobs and put it on the wall?Exercise: Listen to the dialogue and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T or F in the space provided, Discuss with your classmates why you think the statement is true or false.T 1. The house was a mess when tile father came in (Clive: When I came in the house was a disgrace.)T 2. The children do the chores by tams. (Cathy: It wasn't my turn to tidy. It was Emma's.)F 3. When the father came in, one of the girls was lying on the settee and the other was doing her homework. (Clive: One of you was lying on the settee and the other was nowhere to be seen.)F 4. When the father came back, the girls had done the washing-up. (Clive: ... When I came in the breakfast dishes were still in the sink…)T 5. Emma usually does the ironing. (Emma: I'm always doing the ironing.)T 6. Both of the girls are students. (Emma: I had a lot of homework to do. Cathy: I've got exams this year.)T 7. Emma is probably on a diet. (Emma: I'm trying to lose some weight.) T 8. The father has to cook dinner for himself. (Clive: Girls, girls, that's enough. Have either of you eaten yet? Emma: I've had a sandwich. Cathy: And I don't feel hungry. Clive: Well, I do. In future, make sum one of you makes a meal.)T 9. The girls will sort out the housework between themselves. (Cathy: Look. Emma, why don't we make a list of jobs and put it on the wall?)Part 2 PassagesPassage 1 The "Lost" ReceiptAs my train was not due to leave for another hour, I had plenty of time to spare. After buying some magazines to read on the journey, I made my way to the luggage office to collect the heavy suitcase I had leftthere three days before. There were only a few people waiting, and 1 took out my wallet to find the receipt for my case. The receipt did not seem to be where I had left it. I emptied the contents of the wallet, and railway tickets, money, scraps* of paper, and photographs tumbled* out of it; but no matter how hard 1 searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.When my turn came, I explained the situation sorrowfully to the assistant. The man looked at me suspiciously as if to say that he had heard this type of story many times and asked me to describe the case. I told him that it was an old, brown-looking object no different from the many cases I could see on the shelves.The assistant then gave me a form and told me to make a list of the chief contents of the case. If they were correct, he said, I could take the case away. I tried to remember all the articles I had hurriedly packed and wrote them down as they came to me. After I had done this, I went to look among the shelves. There were hundreds of cases there and for one dreadful moment, it occurred to me that if someone had picked the receipt up, he could have easily claimed* the case already. This had not happened fortunately, for after a time, I found the case lying on its side high up in a corner. After examining the articles inside, the assistant was soon satisfied that it was mine and told me I could take the case away. Again I took out my wallet: this time to pay. 1 pulled out a ten-shilling note and the "lost" receipt slipped out with it. I could not help blushing*and glanced up at the assistant. He was nodding his head knowingly, as if to say that he had often seen this happen before, too!Exercise: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.l.C 2. A 3. A 4. D 5. B 6. D 7. D 8. A 9. CPart 3 NewsNews Item 1V oters have approved political changes that will establish an elected parliament. State television said more than 98% of the voters approved the proposal for democratic reforms. The measures also will give women the right to vote and to be candidates for office, making Bahrain one of the only Gulf Arab states to do so. And equality will be guaranteed among the different religious groups in Brunei*. The Emir of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa* welcomed the results. The changes are expected to take effect by the year 2004 at the latest.Exercise A: Listen to the news item and complete the following summary.This news item is about democratic reforms in Bahrain and Brunei. Exercise B: Listen to the news item again and complete the following passage.V oters have approved political changes that will establish an electedparliament. State television said more than 98% of the voters approved the proposal for democratic reforms. The measures also will give women the right to vote and to be candidates for office, making Bahrain one of the only Gulf Arab states to do so. And equality will be guaranteed among the different religious groups in Brunei. The Emir of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa welcomed the results. The changes are expected to take effect by the year 2004 at the latest.News Item 2Opposition Parties are demanding a new election after a violent protest over voting problems Tuesday. At least 6 people were killed and many injured during the voting. People at over 100 voting places were not able to vote Tuesday. Official said Wednesday that those voting centers would be open soon. Early election results show the ruling General People’s Congress Party in the lead. Final results are expected by the end of the week. Election officials say many people took part in the voting. V oting hours were extended to give people more time to vote. More than 20,000 candidates are competing for 7,000 seats in the local council* in Yemen*. Exercise A: Listen to the news item and complete the following summary.This news item is about the local council election in Yemen.Exercise B: Listen to the news item again and choose the best answerto complete the following sentences.1. A2. A3. B4. C5. D6. BNews Item 3More than 300 people have been killed and 250,000 displaced following a disputed presidential vote. The government has agreed to hold a new election if ordered by a court.The violence this week in Kenya has thrown the usually peaceful country into crisis. Its economic and democratic progress may be in danger.The crisis began Sunday after election officials declared President Mwai Kbaki the winner of a second term. On Friday Kenya’s main opposition party, the Orange Democratic Movement, called for a new election.A spokesman for the president said the government will accept another election if a court orders a new vote.Kenya became independent from Britain in 1963. It has the largest economy in East Africa.Exercise A: Listen to the news item and complete the following summary.This news item is about Kenya’s election violence that threatens gains in East Africa’s top economy.Exercise B: Listen to the news item again and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T or F in the space provided. Discuss with your classmates why you think the statement is true or false.F 1. After the election, 300 people have been injured and 25,000 homeless. (More than 300 people have been killed and 25,000 displaced following a disputed presidential vote.)T 2. A court might order a new election. (The government has agreed to hold a new election if ordered by a court.)T 3. The riot may slow economic and democratic progress of Kenya. (The violence this week in Kenya has thrown the usually peaceful country into crisis. Its economic and democratic progress may be in danger.)F 4. After President Mwai Kibaki won the first term Friday, the main opposition party appealed for a new election. (The crisis began Sunday after election officials declared President Mwai Kbaki the winner of a second term. On Friday Kenya’s main opposition party, the Orange Democratic Movement, called for a new election.)F 5. Kenya separated from British Commonwealth in 1960. (Kenya became independent from Britain in 1963.)Section Three Oral WorkPart 1 Questions and AnswersMother: Where are Jim and Mary?Father: Jim’s gone fishing and Mary’s gone with him.Mother: Oh, dear, I can’t bear cooking bony little fish.Father: You nee dn’t worry about Jim bringing anything home. Mother: Why not?Father: He never catches anything. He just likes fishing.Mother: I can’t help thinking Mary will be bored.Father: She hates fishing, of course, but she isn’t happy about Jim going off by himself.Mother: Well, you can’t be surprised at her wanting to be with him. Father: No. I can even remember a girl watching me play football. Mother: I can’t imagine myself doing that again.Exercise: Listen to the dialogue and then answer some questions about it .You will hear the dialogue and the questions only once. Answer each question in a complete sentence after you have heard it.1. Where is Jim?(He’s gone fishing.)2. What can’t Mother bear?(She can’t bear cooking bony little fish.)3. Wh at needn’t Mother worry about?(She needn’t worry about Jim bringing anything home.)4. What is it that Mother can’t help thinking?(She can’t help thinking Mary will be bored.)5. What isn’t Mary happy about?(She isn’t happy about Jim going off by himself.)6. What can’t Father be surprised at?(He can’t be surprised at Mary's wanting to be with Jim.)7. What can Father remember?(He can even remember a girl watching him play football.)8. What can’t Mother imagine herself doing again?(She can’ t imagine herself watching Father play football again.)Part 2 RetellingThere’s an old saying that says, “It never hurts to ask.” Here’s a famous American story that proves the truth of that statement. Or does it?In 1620, a group of settlers ca me from England to the “new world.” They built a small community in Massachusetts. Mark Story, a middle aged widower, lived there. After his wife died, Mark shared a small cabin with a handsome young man named John Allen. Mark felt very lonely without a wife. One day he told John that he wanted Io marry one of the young women of the community - Pamela Miller. But Mark was afraid to propose to her himself. So he asked his friend John to do it for him.Poor John also wanted o marry Pamela. But he didn’t tell Mark that. Instead, he went to Pamela and asked her to marry Mark Story. Pamelawas surprised and disappointed. She listened quietly. Then she said, “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?”Exercise: Listen to the passage and then retell it in your own words. You will hear the passage only once.Section 4 Supplementary ExercisesPart 1 Listening ComprehensionPassage 1 A CoinI was not more than thirteen years old at the time, certainly, but I remember the moment as if it were yesterday. I had just taken my place in class, when I noticed a small shining coin a few feet away from my desk.I am sure it was not the desire for gain which prompted me to stoop and pick it up, for the coin was a farthing and almost completely worthless. But its newness attracted me, and the fact that I could not spend a coin of such small value made me want to keep it forever. As the teacher was talking to us, I pretended to drop a pencil and bent over. From that moment, the coin was mine.The farthing and I remained firm friends for years. Trousers wore out, but the coin survived. It lived to see short trousers become long ones; it accompanied me in my youth and early manhood. It joined the army with me during the war, and later came to the office every day when I became a civilian again.Every night when I emptied my pockets and placed their contents on my bedside table, the coin made its appearance. Sometimes, it would play hide-and-seek with me and make me dig deeply into my pockets. But sure enough, it was always there, trapped inside larger items, like a pen-knife, or sleeping in the folds of my handkerchief. It certainly kept strange company. When I was a boy, it would attach itself to sticky sweets, or get caught in pieces of wire. When I grew up, it took its place proudly beside the silver coins that jingled in my pocket. It had reason to be proud, for I am sure it knew that I would rather have lost every single silver coin I had than part with the precious little farthing. It did not shine any more, but at nighttime it would unfailingly arrive, last but smiling, and look up at me from my bedside table. One night, however, the coin was missing. I searched everywhere, but weeks passed and I did not find it. This time I realized sadly that it had gone for good and could only hope that it had found some nicer pocket to live in.Exercise: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.l. C 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. D 6. B 7. A 8. B 9. DPassage 2 Utah OlympicThe Utah Olympic Park is high in the Wasatch Mountains, about forty kilometers east of Salt Lake. It is about 2,200 meters above sea level.The mountains receive an average of seven-and-one-half meters of snow each winter.The Utah Olympic Park extends over 150 hectares of land. The Park has five areas for ski jump competitions. In warm weather, skiers train on special man-made jumps.An Olympic size track has been built for bobsleigh* and luge* competitions. It is one of only three such tracks in North America. The track is close to the ground and has fifteen turns. Its path is similar in shape to the land.The Utah Olympic Park will hold four major events during the 2002 Winter Games. They are the Nordic skiing*, bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton competitions. The skeleton event has not been seen at the Olympics since 1948. Officials expect it to be extremely popular next year. Athletes competing in the skeleton slide down the track on a luge sled. But they lie on their stomachs instead of their backs.The Utah Olympic Park can hold about 20,000 people to watch the ski jumping event. It can hold about 15,000 people to see the other events. The Utah Olympic Park already is used for national and international competitions. It also operates as a training center for the competitors. And, young people who wish to join the United States national teams train there.The Utah Olympic Park is open to the public during the summer andwinter months. Everyone is welcome to watch the athletes train and compete against each other. Visitors also can try some of the Olympic sports. This includes going down one of the ski jumps or riding on the bobsleigh or luge track.Exercise: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.l. B 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. D 6. DPart 2 Oral WorkElsa lay in bed, thinking over her first couple of weeks in London. She yawned and stretched. It was Saturday and she didn’t have to go to school. There was a knock at the door and Dorothy came in carrying a cup of tea.“Come on, love, you can’t lie in bed all day. Time and tide wait for no inert,” said Dorothy, flinging open the curtains.“I’m playing in a football match today,” said Elsa.“Oh, I wouldn’t let my girl do anything like that,” said Dorothy. Sh e was nice, but her view was a little old fashioned.“I’ll run the bath for you, love,” said Dorothy on her way out, “Elsa.” Dorothy still hadn’t noticed that Elsa always took a shower. Exercise: Listen to the passage and then give your opinion on the following topics.1. What have you learned about Elsa and Dorothy from the passage?2. Do you think your parents’ views are sometimes a little old-fashioned?。
现代大学英语听力1原文加答案Unit6
Unit 6T ask 1【答案】but not very small, the centre of the city, pets, dream of, living room, floors, bedrooms, dark, hobbies, swimming pool【原文】My dream house is not very big but not very small. It is very quiet and it is near the centre of the city.I imagine a large garden with pets including three dogs and two cats. I dream of a large kitchen and a comfortable living room with a big sofa and big windows. I like brightly-lit rooms.There are only two floors, with two bedrooms and two bathrooms. The furniture is modern and not dark. I would like to have a hobbies room with plenty of books and maps on the walls.Finally, I would like to have a small swimming pool for the summer and a good sauna for the winter.This is my dream house.T ask 2【答案】A.1) kitchen, bathroom, hall2) shops3) central heating112 pounds, first, Mary Jones, 41, 40414B.1) T, 2) F, 3) F, 4) F【原文】Rod: Hello. Is that Oxford 40414?Mary: Y es it is.Rod: Erm... I’m enquiring about the flat which was advertised in th e local paper.Mary: Oh yes?Rod: Wonder if you could tell me, how much is the rent a month, please?Mary: It’s ￡112.Rod: I see. Is it fairly near the city centre?Mary: Y es, it’s only about a kilometre away.Rod: I see. Is it quite handy for the shops?Mary: Y es, within a minute or two on foot.Rod: What about a garden?Mary: Well you have the use of the garden.Rod: I see. And central heating, is there?Mary: Y es, yes. Gas central heating.Rod: I see. Erm... how many rooms are there, please?Mary: Well, there’s one very large bed-sitting room, a kitchen and bathroom and a small hall. Rod: I see. Erm... which floor is it on?Mary: On the first floor.Rod: Oh good. Erm... would it be possible for me to visit it tomorrow, say about 5 o’clock? Mary: Y es, certainly.Rod: Oh good. That’s fine. Could you just give me your name, please?Mary: Y es. The name is Mary Jones [Y es.] and the address is 41 North Parade.Rod: 41 North Parade. Fine. Thanks ever so much. I’ll see you tomorrow at 5 o’clock then. Mary: Y es. [OK?] Good.Rod: Bye-bye.Mary: Goodbye.T ask 3【答案】1) b, 2) c, 3) d, 4) d【原文】Mr. Henschel is talking about his house.I nterviewer: Mr. Henschel, you’re from Germany, and you’re now living in Thailand.Mr. Henschel: Y es, that’s right. I built this house eight years ago.Interviewer: Why did you choose a traditional Thai house?Mr. Henschel: Because I collect Thai antiques and I think they look best in a traditional house. Interviewer: It’s really very beautiful. And very cool here in the garden. What’s above us?Mr. Henschel: Th ere’s a large, open verandah above us. See? There’s an opening here. Y ou can see the sky.Interviewer: And someone on the verandah can look into the garden.Mr. Henschel: That’s right. That’s the living room, at the front of the house, with the stairs next to it. There’s a toilet under the stairs and next to that is the study.Interviewer: What else is there on the ground floor?Mr. Henschel: There’s a dining room at the back of the house, across from the study. Interviewer: And upstairs?Mr. Henschel: The bedrooms, and the verandah. The main bedroom is above the living room. ButI don’t need a lot of bedrooms. I just need room for my antiques.Interviewer: But where’s the kitchen?Mr. Henschel: The kitchen is outside, there, in the other building. Thai houses are often like that.Then the heat and the cooking smells aren’t in the house.T ask 4【答案】1) Electricity comes through an underground cable. Then a thin cable enters our home through a fuse box and a meter.2) The meter counts the units of electricity.3) No. Because they are normally under the floors or in the walls.4) Usually for refrigerators, cookers, water heaters and washing machines.【原文】Electricity comes through an underground cable. Then a thin cable enters your home through a special box, called a fuse box, and a meter. This meter counts units of electricity, and at the end of a month or a quarter your parents pay their electricity bill. Different wires go from the meter toall the rooms in your house or flat. Y ou cannot see these wires because they are under the floors or in the walls. Some wires are for the lights in the ceiling, and others are for all our machines. We use electricity for refrigerators, cookers, water heaters and washing machines. What does your family use electricity for?T ask 5【答案】1) b, 2) b, 3) a, 4) a, 5) c【原文】1) Something’s definitely wrong. It’s not cooling properly. The food that I put in it yesterday was spoiled by today.2) It’s been out of order for several hours. I can’t get a dial tone. I’d like to get it fixed as soon as possible because I have to make some important business calls.3) I wish you could fix the central heating in there. When I go to bed at night it’s so cold that I can’t get to sleep.4) It hasn’t been heating r ight for some time. Sometimes it gets too hot and bums everything. Other times it doesn’t get hot enough, and things don’t get cooked.5) It’s been driving me crazy all summer! It keeps breaking down and it doesn’t keep the room cool. It’s so hot in this r oom most of the time that I can hardly breathe.T ask 6【答案】1) The Kienasts’ Housing Problem.2) It means five Children born of the same mother at the same time.3) They were too small to leave the hospital.4) They decided to add some extra rooms to the Kienasts’ house.5) 12.6) No. The neighbors want to help them.【原文】When Mrs. Kienast’s quintuplets were bo rn, they were too small to leave the hospital. They couldn’t leave the hospital until they weighed enough. During the time when the babies were in the hospital, Mrs. Kienast was busy at home.After the Kienasts’ neighbors learned of the quintuplets’ birth, they decided to add some extra rooms to the family’s house. The house was too small for a big family. It had only five rooms. The neighbors decided to add seven more. They are giving their labor without pay because they want to help.T ask 7【答案】1) She and Pete have worked hard for renovating their house. Now it’s finished, and looks nice. Others say they have done a good job. So she thinks it’s worthwhile.2) Y es, he thinks so. In the house, he can touch various things (e.g. the leather cover of a rare book), and hear Mary working out in the morning on her exercise bar, or playing piano.3) The music room and the breakfast room.4) Those interesting things, such as designing curtains, are finished.5) She likes some kinds of shopping, like buying antiques, but hates ordinary day-to-day shopping.【原文】Mary Fargo and Pete Russell are talking about how they feel about their house, now that they’ve finished renovating it.Mary: Y es, yes. I really feel that it was all worth it now. When people come to see it, they always say they love it, and that we’ve done a super job, and it’s good to hear that.Pate: I sometimes walk around and just touch various things— some of these books are very rare and they’re lovely to hold— here, feel this leather cover. I think a house should be all about the senses. I hear Mary working out in the morning on her exercise bar, or playing the piano.It really sounds like a home as well.Mary: I think I have two favourite rooms — the music room is here. We had the carpet specially made. Y ou can feel the thickness of it, even in shoes. It’s an informal sitting room, really. A lot of our favourite things are in this room. Sometimes, after a heavy day, I like to just sit here and look at the paintings, or play the piano, or listen to music. My other favourite is the breakfast roo m because it’s so bright and cheery, and in the summer we throw the windows open and I can hear the birds, or Pete playing with the dog.Pete: Someone asked me the other day if I could bear to do it all again.Interviewer: And what did you say?Pete: Well of course, it’s all worthwhile in the end. But to tell you the truth, I was almost sad when it was finished. Well, you know that, I wondered what I was going to do next. I loved designing the curtains for example. And I liked doing the wallpaper. And it was especially good because we were doing it for ourselves. I hated doing some of the mundane things, though.Mary: I think it’s a question of degree, really. I like some types of shopping. I love shopping for antiques, for example. And choosing furniture and fabrics. I like doing that. What I hate doing is ordinary day-to-day shopping. I love shopping for a dinner party, for example.Going into all the small specialty shops, the cheese shop, the fishmonger’s and so on. But I hate shopping for washing powder, for example. I don’t like ding the ordinary boring things.T ask 8【答案】A.Social and economic, America’s housing system1.1) smaller houses or apartments2) rental housing3) cooperatives2. the rising energy prices1) cities2) less to heat and light3) underground3. economic factors1) the cost of houses getting higher and higher2) higher interestB.1) It is a way of solving housing problem and helping keep the cost low. In the cooperative, everyone buys a share of an apartment building. If a low-earning requirement is met, the buys can get a low-interest loan from the government.2) During the day, heat from sunlight is collected through windows on the south side of the house. At night, the windows are covered, and the collected warmth heats the home.【原文】In recent years, there have been important social and economic changes in the United States. And, these changes have affected almost all of America’s housing system, from home building to home buying.First of all, American families are growing smaller. People today are having fewer children, or choosing not to have children at all. Many people are marrying later in life. And, about 40 percent of all American marriages end in divorce.All this means that many Americans now want smaller houses. And, a larger percentage are buying apartments.This has created a shortage of rental housing in many parts of the country. It has caused special difficulties for those who are old or poor, and do not have the money to buy a place of their own.Some people are solving this problem by forming cooperatives. In a cooperative, everyone in an apartment building joins together and buys a share of the building. If 20 percent of those living in the cooperative have low earnings, then the group can get a low-interest loan from the government. If people want to sell their share in the cooperative, they cannot receive more than they paid for it. This helps keep the cost of cooperatives low.Recent concern over the cost of energy also has brought changes in American housing. Some people are moving back to the cities, to save the cost of driving long distances to work. And, many Americans have begun to seek homes that cost less to heat and light. Some homes are being built underground. They cost almost nothing to heat, because the temperature of the earth changes very little as the seasons change.Other new houses get their energy from the sun. During the day, heat from sunlight is collected through windows on the south side of the house. At night, the windows are covered, and the collected warmth heats the home.Recently, the American economy has also had a major effect on American housing. Inflation has pushed the cost of homes higher and higher. And, interest rates have become very high. Buyers now must pay as much as 18 percent interest for housing loans.Americans with just moderate earnings now find it very difficult to make monthly payments on new home. In the last few months, even apartments have grown too costly for most people to buy.T ask 9【答案】A.1) Debate on Radio Time.2) Four guests are in the studio. James and Alice are from Sheffield; David and Louise are from a small village in Y orkshire.3) The topic is how living in town compares with living in the country.【原文】Mike: Hello everyone, and welcome to this month’s edition of Debate on Radio Time, the programme for students of English round the world. With me in the studio today I have four guests, James and Alice from Sheffield, and David and Louise from a small village in Y orkshire. How does living in a town compare with living in the country? What do they all think? Let’s start with you, James.James: Living in a town like Sheffield is wonderful. There is so much to do. My parents often go to the theatre or the cinema. I belong to a youth club and go to lots of discos. There’s a good swimming pool at the Sports Centre and a large library. Public transport is good, so it’s easy to get from one place to another. I live very near my school, so I can walk there, and it’s easy to visit my friends.Mike: So you’re very happy. What about you, Alice?Alice: Well, James is right in many ways. But I don’t like living in town. It’s very noisy with all the traffic, and rather dirty. I like going for long walks in the fresh air, but we’ve only got parks. I cycle to school to get some exercise but it’s rather dangerous, and car drivers shout at you. I don’t really like discos or cinemas. I like open fields and a peaceful life. Mike: So you’re a country girl at heart? Do you ag ree with her, David?David: Y es, I do. Y ou’re closer to nature in the country and it’s much quieter. Y ou can watch the plants and animals change with the seasons, and there’s more room to play out of doors.And people are more friendly. They seem to have more time, so they stop and talk to you.There’s less traffic too, so the air stays fresh.Mike: Do you agree with David, Louise?Louise: Not really. I think life in the country is very dull. It’s too quiet. And you can’t really play anywhere because the fields are full of crops and animals. There is less traffic, but people drive very fast on country roads, so they are quite dangerous. I don’t like animals. The nearest youth club is ten miles away. The worst thing is that I have to get up very early.Public transport is very bad in the country, so I have to catch a special school bus from the other end of the village. All my school friends live in different villages, and it’s difficult to see them out of school. Life’s much better in town.Mike: Well, w e don’t agree. Two for and two against. Well, where is it best to live? Can you think of any more points? Have a debate in your class and take a vote. Now it’s goodbye from James, Alice, David and Louise.All: Goodbye, everybody.Mike: Thank you for joining us and until next Radio Time. Goodbye from me.T ask 10【答案】Well, I think I’d prefer to live in a village because ... well, I think the people there are friendly and there is a lot of fresh air. I think life generally is healthier in a village and I like being close to nature. And it’s very important for my work as a writer to have peace and quiet.Well, I’d prefer to live in a city because there’s more going on. Er ... being an actress, I need to go to the cinema and the theatre and there’s far more entertainment in the city than there is in the country, Of course. I also like it because ... um ... people are more open-minded. Peopledon’t ... um ... mind what you do in the city. And for the shopping as well, I mean, I love going to the village shops, but the stores and shops in London can’t compare with anything.Y es, well, I prefer living in a village. It’s safer than a city and there’s less crime and of course there’s less traffic, so it’s much more pleasant. Then, it’s much cheaper than the city. There are…you know, rents are cheaper and so of course are house prices. It’s quiet, it’s…it’s peaceful. Y es, I much prefer living in a village.Y es you. Think of the children Roger. It seems to me that you’re so…so carried away with the idea…that you’re going to…the idea of buying a house at long last that…well…your personal likes and dislikes are…are making you anything but practical. Alex for example. He’ll be going to secondary school next year. And as far as I’m concerned the nearer the school the better. Have you read the description of your beautiful village house? Where is it? Y es, here we are. “Local primary school within walking distance” it says. That of course means that the nearest secondary school will be in Colchester.T ask 11【答案】to, are, of, is, in, for, to, to, of, or, of, to【原文】Is it better to rent furniture or to buy your own home furnishings? Today, many young people are renting instead of buying, and furniture rental is one of the fastest-growing businesses in the United States. The reason for this trend is quite simple. People prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture that they really like instead of buying used or cheap furniture. Renting has another advantage too. It saves people the cost of moving their furniture to other parts of the country when they relocate.T ask 12【答案】For many years, owning a home has been an important part of the American dream. Since the end of World War II, that dream has come true for a growing number of Americans. Just before the war, less than half of all families in the United States owned their own homes. Toda, about 65 percent do.Americans also are living in newer homes than at any other time in American history. The average home today is about 23 years old.Many of these new houses are in suburban areas, just outside America’s cities. About 30 years ago, builders started putting up houses in these areas by the hundreds, and sold them as quickly as they could build them. Today, 35 percent of all Americans live in suburban housing areas that did no exist 30 years ago. The remaining 65 are divided about equally, between cities and small towns.。
大学英语听力教程上册unit6原文及答案
Unit SixPart One StatementsComplete each of the statements with what you hear and choose A or B that explains the word or phrase in bold.1. I can't hear you, the noise of the traffic is absolutely awful. ( A )2. I'm going away to New Y ork for a few days and I'd like you to keep an eye on my homewhile I'm away. ( B )3. Ask them to give us a ring if they see or hear anything suspicious. ( A )4. Smoking has the highest percentage of deaths compared to other addictive drugs andalcohol. (A)5. In my opinion, smokers should quit smoking as soon as possible. ( B )6. Many people tried to tell the Freemen to give up, but the Freemen group did not want to bearrested. ( B )7. The group of Freemen will still be charged with writing bad checks and threatening ajudge. ( A )8. The six children are happy to be with the policemen, and they are not afraid of being takenaway and split up again. ( A )9. They split the brothers up among three foster homes. This upset the children very much. ( B )10. The company that makes the electricity wants to charge people more money for it. ( A )Part Two DialoguesDialogue OneHave Y ou Gone Deaf or Something?M: Oh, there you are. I've been waiting for you half an hour. What have you been doing?W: I've been shopping. I've bought a new hat. Do you like it?M: It's all right. I met the Popes' son, Norman, while I was waiting for you. He's just come back from France.W: Yes, I know. Mrs. Pope told me. She's very proud of him. She says he speaks French fluently.M: How long has he been learning it?W" I'm not sure.M: What did you say?W: I said I'm not sure. I think he's been studying French since he was twelve.M: Who's been studying French?W: Norman has. The Popes's son. Have you gone deaf or something?M: I can't hear you. The noise of the traffic is absolutely awful,W: Yes, it is, isn't? Goodness, I'm tired. I've been walking round the shops for nearly three hours.I. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear,1. Where does this conversation take place? ( A )2. What's the relationship between the two speakers? ( B )3. Who speaks French fluently? ( C )4. How long has Norman been learning French? ( C )5. How long has the woman been walking round? ( B )I. Listen to the dialogue again and write T for True or F for False for each statement youhear.1. The woman bought a lot of things. ( F )2. They met with the Popes' son while they were shopping. ( F )3. Mrs. Pope was very proud of her son because he spoke French fluently. ( T )4. The man couldn't hear the woman because she didn't speak loudly. ( F )5. The woman wasn't fired even though she had been shopping for a long time. ( F ) Dialogue TwoThe Journey to ParisM: Good morning. Can you tell me the times of morning flights to Paris. Please?W: Yes, certainly. There are daily flights at 8:30 and 10:20.M: And when do they arrive in Paris?W: The early flight arrives at 20:40 and the mid-morning one at 22:30.M: So the journey takes twelve hours and ten minutes?W: Yes, that's correct. But remember, you must be at the airport one hour before.M: Of course. And in Pairs, is there a bus to the city center?W: Yes, there are buses every half an hour and the journey takes about 40 minutes.M: Fine. How much is a single air ticket?W: Single (450)M: Right. I'd like to book two tickets, please, on the early morning flight to Pairs on May 2lth.W: Two tickets. OK, fine.I. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear.1. When does this conversation take place? ( A )2. Where does this conversation take place? ( A )3. What can we learn about the flights to Paris? ( B )4. How long does the journey to Paris take? ( C )5. How much does the man pay for his tickets? ( B )II, Listen to the dialogue again and write T for True or F for False for each statement you hear.1. The early flight arrives at 8:30 and the mid-morning one at 10:20. ( F )2. The man must be at the airport half an hour before. ( F )3. There are buses to the airport every half hour. ( F )4. The journey to the city center takes about 40 minutes. ( T )5. The man booked two tickets on the mid-morning flight to Paris on May 21st. ( F ) Dialogue ThreeI'd Like Y ou to Keep an Eye on My Home While I'm AwayW: I'm going away to New Y ork for a few days and I'd like you to keep an eye on my home while I'm away.M: Certainly. Madam. What's your name and address?W: The name's Martha, and the address is 26, Spring V ale.M: Thank you. Y ou'll lock all the doors, and make sure all the windows are shut, won't you?W: Of course.M: And you'll remember to cancel the milk.W: Yes, I've already done that.M: And the paper.W: Yes.M: And you won't leave any ladders about.W: No, we haven't got a big ladder.M: That's fine. Are you friendly with the people next door?W: Yes, we are.M: Well, I think you' d better tell them you're going away, too. Ask them to give us a ring if they see or hear anything suspicious.W: Yes, I will. Thank you.I. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to each of questions you hear.1. What is the woman going to do? ( A )2. What does she want the man to do? ( A )3. What does the man ask the woman to cancel? ( B )4. Does the woman get along well with the people next door? ( B )5. What does the man ask her neighbor to do? ( C )II. Listen to the dialogue again and fill in the blanks with the information you hear.The woman is leaving for New Y ork, so she asks the man to keep an eye on her home whileshe is away. Then the man gets her name and address and gives her some suggestions: to lock allthe doors, to shut all the windows, to cancel the milk and the paper, and not to leave any ladders about And at last the man also advises her to tell her neighbours that she is away, so they can give them a ring if they see or hear anything suspicious.Part Three PassagesPassages OnePower ProtestThe state of California has a problem. They can not produce enough electricity for everyone. Many people want something done about it. The company that makes electricity wants to charge people more money for it.Some people meet to talk about the increase in the cost of electricity. Some people put their names on a letter to protest it. Other people want to pay only part of their electric bills.Some people who meet want to stop paying so much money for electricity. They are afraidthat they will have to pay even more money later. They think that if they pay more now, the power company will charge them more later.The letter they signed went to the governor. They sent one to the power company as well.Most people in California think that the problem with the power comes from the electric companies who want more money.I. Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear.1. What's the problem in the state of California? ( B )2. What does the power company want to do? ( C )3. Why do some people want to stop paying money for electricity? ( D )4. Where was the letter sent? ( A )5. From where do most people in California think the problem with the power comes? (C)II. Listen to the passage again and complete the following sentences with the information you hear.1. The state of California has a problem. They cannot produce enough electricity for everyone.2. Some people meet to talk about the increase in the cost of electricity, some people put theirnames on a letter to protest it.3. Other people want to pay only part of their electric bills.4. Some people who meet want to stop paying so much money for electricity. They are afraidthat they will have to pay even more money later.5. Most people in California think that the problem with the power comes from the electriccompanies who want more money.Passage T woFreemen Surrender to F.B.I.A group of people decided that the American government was not acting like they should. Theyfelt the government was breaking their own laws. The group decided to make their own government.They called themselves the Freemen group.The Freemen wrote bad checks. They wanted to have a judge killed. These were against the law.The EB.I. wanted to arrest these people. But the Freemen group went to a ranch in Montana. They protected themselves with guns and would shoot anyone who came near.The EB.I. did not want anyone killed or hurt. They talked to the Freemen about what they did.Many people tried to tell the Freemen to give up. The Freemen group did not want to be arrested.They thought that they did not do anything wrong.The Freemen decided to give up after staying on the ranch for 81 days. The F.B.I. director was glad that no one was hurt. The U.S. president asked people at his dinner party to say a prayer for everyone involved.The group of Freemen will still be charged with writing bad checks and threatening a judge.I. Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear.l. Why did the group decide to make their own government? ( C )2. Why did the F.B.I want to arrest the Freemen? ( D )3. Where did the Freemen group go when the F.B.I wanted to arrest them? ( D )4. Why didn't the Freemen group want to be arrested? ( B )5. What was the result? ( A )I. Listen to the passage again and answer the following questions.l. What did the group of people call themselves?The Freemen group.2. How did the group of people protect themselves?They protected themselves with guns and would shoot anyone who came near.3. Did the F.B.I want to kill them?No. They did not want anyone killed or hurt.4. After how many days did the freemen decide to give up?81 days.5. How many people were hurt in the end?No one.Passage ThreeCouple Adopts Six Children in One DayA family went from zero to six children in one day. Sarah and Jim Cole adopted six brothers and sisters from the family. On adoption day, they went on TV and then to the courthouseto sign papers. Four years ago, government workers took all six children away from their real parents. They said the parents were not taking care of them. They split the children up amongthree foster homes. This upset the children very much.At first, the Coles wanted to take only two children. But the government workers wanted allthe brothers and sisters together again. Finally the Coles agreed to take all of them.It was hard in the beginning. But it slowly got easier. The children got older. The Coles got used to taking care of the six children.The Coles are not rich people. The government has a program to help people who adopt children. They pay them money for each child each month.The children are happy to be with the Coles. They are getting to know each other again.They are not afraid of being taken away and split up again.I. Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear.1. How many children did Sarah and Jim have at first? ( D )2. On adoption day, what did they do first? ( B )3. Why were the six children taken away from their real parents? ( C )4. Why did the Coles agree to take all of the six children? ( A )5. How are they getting along now? ( B )II. Listen to the passage again and write T for True or F for False for each statement youhear.1. Sarah and Jim Cole adopted six brothers and sisters from several families. ( F )2. The real parents split the children up among 3 foster homes. ( F )3. The Coles wanted to adopt only one child at first. ( F )4. The Coles felt it was hard to take care of six children even though they got older. ( T )5. The government would pay the couples money for each child each month to help them. ( T )Part Four Idioms and ProverbsI. In this part, you will be presented with ten sentences. Listen carefully and write them down.1. All is fair in love and war.2. Diligence is the mother of good fortune.3. V ictory lies in desperate position.4. Truth will prevail.5. There is no smoke without fire.6. The used key is always bright.7. Slight negligence may lead to great disaster.8. Pride goes before, and shame follows after.9. Ring out the old, ring in the new.10. There is no rose without thorns.II. In this part, you will hear ten sentences. In each sentence there is one idiom that is given below.Listen and guess its meaning from the context.Script:1. Linda and Jerry met two years ago at a party. They have been head over heels in lovesince then.2. My son was very worded about his final exams. I told him to keep his chin up.3. A: Forget all your mistakes and start it over!B: I'll try, but that's easier said than done.4. I have already gone out on a limb; there is nothing more I can do for you.5. He has been in hot water with his boss. He might get fired.6. I love these shoes, but they were really expensive. I bought them even though they cost anarm and a leg.7. Now that she has five children, she has her hands full.8. Sue hadn't planned to take a trip, she just left for New Y ork on the spur of the moment.9. After a hard year at school, summer vacation was a bed of roses. Justin spent most of histime relaxing at the beach.10. My boss is really mean and unfair, working for him is a bed of thorns.Keys:1. very much in love2. face something difficult with courage3. It is easy to suggest, but hard to do4. to put yourself in a isolated situation5. be in trouble6. be very expensive7. be extremely busy8. without a lot of thought or planning, spontaneously9. a good, easy situation in life10. a difficult or unhappy situationPart Five Exercises for HomeworkI. Short ConversationsIn this part, you will hear ten short conversations. Each of them is followed by a question.After the question, you are supposed to choose a correct answer from the four choices.1 W: What a waste of time! I'll never go there again.M: I had no way of knowing it would be so bad.Q: What does the man mean? ( B )2. M: Is there a Miss Smith in the house? Here is a package for her, but I need her signature.W: Miss Smith is not here fight now. Can I sign the receipt for her?Q: What is the man probably doing? ( A ) "3. M: Brenda, before you answer my questions, I want you to know that all we care about ishelping people to get well.W: Yes, I know. But still, I am afraid of the surgery.Q: What's the man's profession? ( C )4. W: I admire your success, Mr. Fiske. And I especially admire those who made it to the topthrough life-long hard work.M: Thank you, Miss Walker. I, too, believe in hard work, even though luck may sometimes play a part.Q: What do we learn about Mr. Fiske from the conversation? ( A )5. W: Excuse me, could you help me find "The Sun Also Rises", a novel by Ernest Hemingway.M: Why don't you search for it on the computer over there? It's much easier than you look at the titles on the shelves.Q: Where does the conversation mostly take place? ( A )6. M: Next time you see Ted, please don't forget to give him my best regards.W: Sure, but he has been assigned to a New Y ork office now. I don't know when I can see him again.Q: What can we infer from the conversation? ( D )7. M: Will Flight 998 arrive on time at 2:00?W: I'm sorry Flight 998 is delayed due to a storm. We will announce its time of arrival as soon as we get notice.Q: What do we learn about Flight 998 from the conversation? ( D )8. M: Jessica, I am sorry I have to leave fight now. I have a dinner appointment with an oldclassmate of mine whom I haven't seen for years.W: That's fine with me. There isn't much left for us to do anyway. But I think you'd bette~ tell the office manager that you are leaving.Q: What is the relationship between the man and the woman? ( A )9. W: Jimmy, I know you were born and brought up in America. How can you have such astrong British accent?M: My family lived for some years in London, where my father worked as arepresentative of a large American business. And I went to a public school there.Q: What do we learn from this conversation about Jimmy? ( D )10. W: Daddy, how many kilometers is a mile?M: Cathy, this is the third time you have asked me this question. If you are too forgetful to remember the exact answer, you can find it in the dictionary on yourdesk. Don't bother me with such a question again and again.O : What does the man tell his daughter to do? ( C )II. PassagesPassage OneMilk PricesThe price of milk may be going up. There was not enough rain in some parts of the country last year.This may mean that a gallon of milk will cost 41 cents more after October 1st.A California court wants to keep the cost down. California already has high milk prices. The court does not want the cost to go any higher.Higher milk prices will be very hard for some people. Families with many children buy a 10t of milk.The poor and old people without much money will also be hurt by higher prices.The court said that more milk from other states could be sold in California. The price of milk from other states might not be as high. Some states got enough rain so that their cost did not go up.People will buy the cheaper milk. This will make all the milk sellers lower their prices. If they do not, their milk will not sell.Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear.1. Why may the price of milk be going up? ( A )2. How much will a gallon of milk cost after October 1st? ( D )3. For whom will high milk prices be very hard? ( D )4. Why did the price of milk not go up in some states? ( B )5. Why will the milk sellers lower their prices? ( D )Passage T woGirl DiesSome people had a party. A little girl ended up missing. Many people looked for her.The little girl had been dead when she was found in a swimming pool.Police officers wanted to tell everyone that was at the party. They hoped to find more clues, They needed to know what happened.The girl's body was examined. The person who examined her stated that she did not drown. She was murdered.Police were not saying much to the public. They had not named anyone as a suspect. They need to find out more about what happened on the day of the party.Listen to the passage and answer the following questions.1. What happened at the party,?A little girl ended up missing.2. Where was the little girl found?In the swimming pool.3. Who wanted to tell everyone that was at the party'?Police officers.4. What can we learn after the girl's body was examined?The girl did not drown but was murdered.5. What did the police do? Why?Police didn't say much to the public because they need to find out more about what happened on the day of the party.Passage ThreeAlcohol Can Be DangerousI went to a presentation on alcohol. Most people like alcohol all over the world. Drinking alcohol is a social activity for people. But alcohol can be dangerous if people drink too much. A little alcohol is good for health and mind, but too much alcohol can cause damage to our minds and bodies. I learned that people should drink a glass of water for every drink of alcohol they have. This will help prevent dehydration, and perhaps stop a hang-over. I also learned that if someone's blood alcohol concentration goes over the 4.5 point, he or she might stop breathing and die. I think alcohol is a good drink because usually everyone feels good, and they can enjoy talking. However, people must take responsibility for their actions and drink responsibly.Listen to the passage and complete the following sentences with the information you hear.1. I went to a presentation on alcohol.2. Drinking alcohol is a social activity for people.3. A little alcohol is good for health and mind, but too much alcohol can cause damage toour minds and bodies.4. I learned that people should drink a glass of water for every drink of alcohol they have.This will help prevent dehydration, and perhaps stop a hang-over.5. However, people must take responsibility for their actions and drink responsibly.III.A S tory for RetellingHere is a story. Listen and retell it.Because I Don't Want Him to Join the Army Two soldiers who had been in the army for many years went home to their village and decided to drink a little in the bar there. When they had drunk enough, they came out into the street to look for something interesting to do, but it was a very quiet place, and there was nothing interesting at all, so they could not find anything there.But at last, while they were standing in the market near the bar, they saw a village boycoming down the street. He was leading a dog by a rope, so the soldiers decided to have a joke with him.“hello.”One of the soldiers said to the boy, “why does your brother have to have a rope around his neck when he goes for a walk with you?”“Because I don’t want him to join the army.” The boy answered at once.。
PEP人教版六年级英语上册《Unit6__本单元听力材料及部分练习答案》(附答案)
Unit6 本单元听力材料及部分练习答案A Let’s tryIt’s cold outside. Sam is talking with Sarah. Listen and circle.Sam: P hew! It’s too cold in January.Sarah: Yes, but we can stay inside sand watch films.Sam: Great. I like cartoons.Sarah: Yes, me too. They make me feel happy.答案：1A 2BB Let’s tryIt’s seven o’clock in the morning, and it’s time to get up. Listen and circle. Dad: Ah-choo! (sneeze)Mum: Bless you! Oh, no! You have a fever. You should see a doctor. Dad: OK. But what about the zoo!Mum: It’s OK. I will tell the kids.答案：1B 2ALet’s check1. John: Mike, it’s snowing outside.Mike: That’s great, john.John: Really? The cold weather makes me feel sad.Mike: Why? Look at the snow. It’s so beautiful!John: Yes. I guess so.Mike: It makes me feel so happy!2. Robin: Are you OK, Yifan?Wu Yifan: No, I feel ill.Robin: Oh dear! Do you have a headache?Wu Yifan: Yes, I do.Robin: Hmm. You should see a doctor.3. Chen Jie: Oliver, what’s wrong?Oliver: I’m so angry.Chen Jie: Oh, you should count to ten. Why are you angry?Oliver: Someone took my sunglasses. Chen Jie: No, they’re on your head. Oliver: Oh, yes. Haha!4. Zhang Peng: Ah-choo!Amy: are you OK, Zhang Peng?Zhang Peng: Yes. I’m fine.Amy: Wear warm clothes. It’s cold outside. Zhang Peng: I will, thanks.答案：1A 2B 3A 4A。
听力书Unit 7答案
Unit 7Opening upAnswers1.b2.b3.a4.b5.a6.a7.B(At night,the temperature on Mars may reach a slow about minus 153 degrees Celsius at the poles.)8.a9.a(butterflies have taste receptors on their feet . They can taste their food by standing on ti.)10.b(Hummingbirds are the only birds that are able to fly backwards.)Listening to the world Sharing1.Reference answersThe people in the podcast talk about whether they like to live in the countryside or in the city ,what animals they like and what animals they are scared of.2.Answers√ 12（As she’s getting older,sheincreasingly wants to visit the countryside more and more.)√ 3√ 45 (She enjoys taking weekendsout of London.)6 (He’s lived in the countrysidefor about 37 years.)3.Answers1.C2.A3.F4.D5.E6.B4.Answers1) Snakes2) the end3) hate4) scared of5) afraid of6) horses7) frighten8) scares9) memories10) sharks11) unknown(See T113 for Scripts)2.Reference answersThree problems are mentioned.They are related to water,animals and the weather.3.Reference answers1)envir.probs. 3)2050 5)popu.2)> 6 bil. 4)> 9 bil. 6)probs.4.Reference answers1)3 7)> 13)150000km22)probs. 8)diffi. 14）the weather3)Water 9)animals 15)↑4)< 10)↑16)↑5)4.52L 11)↓17)↑6)600L 12)Rainf.Viewing2.Answers1(The documentary is aboutJonna Lumley’s experience of seeing the magical Northern Lights.√ 2√ 33.Answers1.C2.C3.A4.A4.Answers1. beautiful2. magical3. lovely4.fantastic5.happy6.astonishingSpeaking for communication Role-play2.Answers1.B2.A3.A3.Answerse-a-c-b-d-f-g4.Answers1.can’t be2.is definitely not3.must be4.Maybe it’s5.It’s definitely not6.might beAnswersPicture A:a shark’s toothPicture B:a chameleon’s(变色龙）skinPicture C:an eagle’s eyePicture D:a dog’s noseGroup discussionGet ideas1.Answers1.It’s Fish River Canyon in Namibia.2.It is very big and amazingly quiet.2.AnswersThe expressions you hear are 1,2,3,5 and 8.Further practice in listeningShort conversationsAnswers1.C2.A3.B4.D5.DAnswers1.D2.C3.D4.AAnswers1.C2.C3.A4.CPassage 2Scripts and answers1)participated 2)access 3)tremendous4)currently 5)incredible 6)accompany7)remarkable 8)amazing 9)catching a glimpse of 10)looking forward to。
现代大学英语听力原文及答案unit
Unit 7Task 1【答案】A.1) In a mental asylum.2) He was a member of a committee which went there to show concern for the pertinents there.3) They were cants behaving like humans.4) He was injured in a bus accident and became mentally ill.5) He spent the rest of his life in comfort.B.painter, birds, animals, cats, wide, published, encouragement, A year or two, The Illustrated London News, cats' Christmas party, a hundred and fifty, world famous 【原文】Dan Rider, a bookseller who loved good causes, was a member of a committee that visited mental asylums. On one visit he noticed a patient, a quiet little man, drawing cats. Rider looked at the drawings and gasped."Good lord, man," he exclaimed. "You draw like Louis Wain!""I am Louis Wain," said the artist.Most people today have never heard of Louis Wain. But, when Rider found him in 1925, he was a household name."He made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world," said H. G. Wells in a broadcast appeal a month or two later. "British cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves."Before Louis Wain began drawing them, cats were kept strictly in the kitchen if they were kept at all. They were useful for catching mice and perhaps for keeping the maidservant company. Anyone else who felt affection for cats usually kept quiet about it. If a man admitted that he liked cats, he would be laughed at. The dog was the only domestic animal that could be called a friend.Louis Wain studied art as a youth and became quite a successful newspaper and magazine artist. He specialized in birds and animals, including dogs, but never drew a cat till his wife was dying. They had not been married long, and during her illness a black-and-white cat called Peter used to sit on her bed. To amuse his wife, Louis Wain used to sketch and caricature the cat while he sat by her bedside. She urged him to show these-drawings to editors, fie was unconvinced, but wanted to humour her.The first editor he approached shared his lack of enthusiasm. "Whoever would want to see a picture of a cat" he asked, and Louis Wain put the drawings away. A year or two later he showed them to the editor of The Illustrated London News, who suggested a picture of a cats' Christmas party across two full pages. Using his old sketches of Peter, Louis Wain produced a picture containing about a hundred and fifty cats, each one different from the rest. It took him a few days to draw, and it made him world famous.For the next twenty-eight years he drew nothing but cats. He filled his house with them, and sketched them in all their moods. There was nothing subtle about his work. Its humour simply lay in showing cats performing human activities; they followed every new fashion from sea bathing to motoring. He was recognized, somewhat flatteringly, as the leading authority on the feline species. He became President of the National Cat Club and was eagerly sought after as a judge at cat shows.Louis Wain's career ended abruptly in 1914, when he was seriously injured in abus accident and became mentally ill. Finally, he was certified insane and put in an asylum for paupers.After Dan Rider found him, appeals were launched and exhibitions of his work arranged, and he spent the rest of his life in comfort. He continued to draw cats, but they became increasingly strange as his mental illness progressed. Psychiatrists found them more fascinating than anything he had done when he was sane.Task 2【答案】A.1) Because he was always trying new things and new ways of doing things just like a young painter.2) It didn’t look like her.3) It was the only picture she knew that showed her as she really was.4) People from the poorer parts of Paris, who were thin, hungry, tired, and sick.B. 1) F 2) T 3) F 4) TC. 1881, 1973, Malaga, Spain, ninety-one yearsD. fifteen, nineteen, twenty-three, colors, darker, change, soft-colored, strange,shape, human face and figure, strange【原文】Pablo Picasso was born in 1881. So probably you are wondering why we call him "the youngest painter in the world". When he died in 1973, he was ninety-one years old. But even at that age, he was still painting like a young painter.For that reason, we have called him the "youngest" painter. Young people are always trying new things and new ways of doing things. They welcome new ideas. They are restless and are never satisfied. They seek perfection. Older people often fear change. They know what they can do best, riley prefer to repeat their successes, rather than risk failure. They have found their own place in life and don't like to leave it. We know what to expect from them.When he was over ninety, this great Spanish painter still lived his life like a young man. He was still looking for new ideas and for new ways to use his artistic materials.Picasso's figures sometimes face two ways at once, with the eyes and nose in strange places. Sometimes they are out of shape or broken. Even the colors are not natural. The title of the picture tells us it is a person, but it may look more like a machine.At such times Picasso was trying to paint what he saw with his mind as well as with his eyes. He put in the side of the face as well as the front. He painted the naked body and the clothes on it at the same time. He painted in his own way. He never thought about other people's opinions.Most painters discover a style of painting that suits them and keep to it, especially if people like their pictures. As the artist grows older his pictures may change, but not very much. But Picasso was like a man who had not yet found his own style. He was still looking for a way to express his own restless spirit.The first thing one noticed about him was the look in his large, wide-open eyes. Gertrude Stein, a famous American writer who knew him when he was young, mentioned this hungry look, and one can still see it in pictures of him today. Picasso painted a picture of her in 1906, and the story is an interesting one.According to Gertrude Stein, she visited the painter's studio eighty or ninety times while he painted her picture. While Picasso painted they talked about everything in the world that interested them. Then one day Picasso wiped out the painted headthough he had worked on it for so long. "When I look at you I can't see you any more!" he remarked.Picasso went away for the summer. When he returned, he went at once to the picture left in the comer of his studio. Quickly he finished the face from memory. He could see the woman's face more clearly in his mind than he could see it when she sat in the studio in front of him.When people complained to him that the painting of Miss Stein didn't look like her, Picasso would reply, "Too bad. She'll have to look like the picture." But thirty years later, Gertrude Stein said that Picasso's painting of her was the only picture she knew that showed her as she really wasPicasso was born in Malaga, Spain, a pleasant, quiet town. His father was a painter and art teacher who gave his son his first lessons in drawing.Young Pablo did badly at school. He was lazy and didn't listen to what the teachers were saying. He had confidence in himself from the beginning. But it was soon clear that the boy was an artist and deserved the best training he could get. Not even his earliest drawings look like the work of a child.One can say that Picasso was born to be a painter. He won a prize for his painting when he was only fifteen. He studied art in several cities in Spain. But there was no one to teach him all he wanted to know. When he was nineteen he visited Paris.Paris was then the center of the world for artists. Most painters went there sooner or later to study, to see pictures, and to make friends with other painters. Everything that was new and exciting in the world of painting happened there. When he was twenty-three, Picasso returned there to live, and lived in France for the rest of his life.He was already a fine painter. He painted scenes of town life—people in the streets and in restaurants, at horse races and bull fights. They were painted in bright colors and were lovely to look at.But life was not easy for him. For several years he painted people from the poorer parts of the city. He painted men and women who were thin, hungry, tired, and sick. His colors got darker. Most of these pictures were painted in blue, and showed very clearly what the artist saw and felt. The paintings of this "blue period" are full of pity and despair.Picasso did not have to wait long for success. As he began to sell his pictures and become recognized as a painter, his pictures took on a warmer look. At the same time he began to paint with more and more freedom. He began to see people and places as simple forms or shapes. He no longer tried to make his pictures true to life.The results at first seemed strange and not real. The pictures were difficult to understand. His style of painting was known as Cubism, from the shape of the cube. Many people did not like this new and sometimes frightening style. But what great paintings give us is a view of life through one man's eyes, and every man's view is different.Some of Picasso's paintings are rich, soft-colored, and beautiful. Others are strange with sharp, black outlines. But such paintings allow us to imagine things for ourselves. They can make our own view of the world sharper. For they force us to say to ourselves, "What makes him paint like that What does he see"Birds, places, and familiar objects play a part in Picasso's painting. But, when one thinks of him, one usually thinks of the way he painted the human face and figure. It is both beautiful and strange. Gertrude Stein wrote, "The head, the face, the human body--these are all that exist for Picasso. The souls of people do not interest him. The reality of life is in the head, the face, and the body."Task 3【答案】American Decorative Arts and Sculpture:colonial period, furniture, ceramics, ship modelsAmerican Art:The Far East, Islam, scroll painting, Buddhist sculpture, prints, the third millennium European Decorative Arts and Sculpture:Western, the fifth century, Medieval art, decorative arts, English silver, porcelain, the musical instrumentsPaintings:11th century, 20th century, impressionists, Spanish, DutchTextiles and Costumes:high quality, a broad selection, weavings, laces, costumes, accessories【原文】Welcome to the Museum of Fine Arts. Boston has long been recognized as a leading center for the arts. One of the city's most important cultural resources is the Museum of Fine Arts, which houses collections of art from antiquity to the present day, many of them unsurpassed. Now let me introduce to you some of the collections here.The Museum's collections of American decorative arts and sculpture range from the colonial period to the present time, with major emphasis on pre-Civil War New England. Furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, and sculpture are on exhibition, as well as an important collection of ship models. Favorite among museum-goers are the collection of 18th-century American furniture, the period rooms, and the superb collection of silver.The Boston Museum's Asiatic collections are universally recognized as the most extensive assemblage to be found anywhere under one roof. Artistic traditions of the Far East, Islam, and India are represented by objects dating from the third millennium B.C. to the contemporary era. The collections of Japanese and Chinese art are especially noteworthy. The variety of strengths in the collection are reflected in such areas as Japanese prints, Chinese and Japanese scroll painting, Chinese ceramics, and a renowned collection of Buddhist sculpture.The Department of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture houses Western European works of art dating from the fifth century through 1900. Outstanding among these holdings are the collection of medieval art and the collection of French 18th-century decorative arts. Also of exceptional importance are the English silver collection, the 18th-century English and French porcelain, and the collection of musical instruments.The Museum has one of the world's foremost collections of paintings ranging from the 11th century to the early 20th century. This department is noted for French paintings from 1825 to 1900, especially works by the impressionists. The Museum's great collection of paintings by American artists includes more than 60 works by John Singleton Copley and 50 by Gilbert Stuart. There is also a strong representation of paintings from Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands.The collection of textiles and costumes is ranked among the greatest in the world because of the high quality and rarity of individual pieces and because it has a broad selection of representative examples of weavings, embroideries, laces, printed fabrics, costumes, and costume accessories. The textile arts of both eastern and western cultures are included, dating from pre-Christian times to the present.Apart from what I have mentioned, the Museum has got much more to offer, for example, the collections of classical art, Egyptian and ancient Near Eastern art, and20th-century art. I'll leave you to explore by yourselves and enjoy your time here.Task 4【答案】A.1) specialists, specialized settings, money, sharp division2) conventions, some societies and periods3) commodityB.1) Because they lacked opportunity: The necessary social, educational, and economic conditions to create art rarely existed for women in the past.2) Because the art of indigenous peoples did not share the same expressive methods or aims as Western art.C. 1) F 2) T【原文】The functions of the artist and artwork have varied widely during the past five thousand years. It our time, the artist is seen as an independent worker, dedicated to the expression of a unique subjective experience. Often the artist's role is that of the outsider, a critical or rebellious figure. He or she is a specialist who has usually undergone advanced training in a university department of art or theater, or a school with a particular focus, such as a music conservatory. In our societies, works of art are presented in specialized settings: theaters, concert halls, performance spaces, galleries, and museum. There is usually a sharp division between the artist and her or his audience of non-artists. We also associate works of art with money: art auctions in which paintings sell for millions of dollars, ticket sales to the ballet, or fundraising for the local symphony.In other societies and parts of our own society, now and in the past, the arts are closer to the lives of ordinary people. For the majority of their history, artists have expressed the dominant beliefs of a culture, rather than rebelling against them. In place of our emphasis on the development of a personal or original style, artists were trained to conform to the conventions of their art form. Nor have artists always been specialists; in some societies and periods, all members of a society participated in art. The modern Western economic mode, which treats art as a commodity for sale, is not universal. In societies such as that of the Navaho, the concept of selling or creating a salable version of a sand painting would be completely incomprehensible. Selling Navaho sand paintings created as part of a ritual would profane a sacred experience.Artists' identities are rarely known before the Renaissance, with the exception of the period of Classical Greece, when artists were highly regarded for their individual talents and styles. Among artists who were known, there were fewer women than men. In the twentieth century, many female artists in all the disciplines have been recognized. Their absence in prior centuries does not indicate lack of talent, but reflects lack of opportunity. The necessary social, educational, and economic conditions to create art rarely existed for women in the past.Artists of color have also been recognized in the West only recently. The reasons for this absence range from the simple--there were few Asians in America and Europe prior to the middle of the nineteenth century--to the complexities surrounding African Americans. The art of indigenous peoples, while far older than that of the West, did not share the same expressive methods or aims as Western art. Until recently, such art was ignored or dismissed in Western society by the dominant cultural gatekeepers.Task 5【答案】A.1) a) 2) c) 3) b)B.Ⅰ. observant, a dog, Leather BarⅡ. Magnificent visual memory, essentialsⅢ. Rhythm, DustmenⅣ. everyday scenes, Her salty sense of humourC. 1) T 2) F 3) T 4) T【原文】Few artists can have made such an immediate impact on the public as Beryl Cook. At one moment she was completely unknown; at the next, so it seemed, almost everyone had heard of her. First, a few paintings appeared quietly in the window of a remote country antique shop. Then there were exhibitions in Plymouth, in Bristol, in London; an article in a colour supplement, a television programme, a series of greetings cards and a highly successful book. Her rise was all the more astonishing since she was completely untrained, and was already middle-aged by the time she began to paint.Faced with such a series of events, the temptation is to discuss Beryl's art in the context of naive art. This seems to me a mistake, for she is a highly sophisticated and original painter, whose work deserves to be taken on its own terms.What are those terms If one actually meets Beryl, one comes to understand them a little better. The pictures may seem extrovert, but she is not. For example, she is too shy to turn up at her own private viewings. Her pleasure is to stay in the background, observing.And what an observer Beryl Cook is! It so happens that I was present when the ideas for two of the paintings in the present collection germinated. One is a portrait of my dog, a French bulldog called Bertie. When Beryl came to see me for the first time, he jumped up the stairs ahead of her, wearing his winter coat which is made from an old scarf. A few days later his picture arrived in the post. The picture called Leather Bar had its beginnings the same evening. I took Beryl and her husband John to a pub. There was a fight, and we saw someone being thrown out by the bouncers.The point about these two incidents is that they both happened in a flash. No one was carrying camera; there was no opportunity to make sketches. But somehow the essentials of the scene registered themselves on Beryl, and she was able to record them later in an absolutely convincing and authoritative way.The fact is she has two very rare gifts, not one. She has a magnificent visual memory, and at same time she is able to rearrange and simplify what she sees until it makes a completely convincing composition. Bertie's portrait, with its plump backside and bow legs, is more like Bertie than reflection in a mirror—it catches the absolute essentials of his physique and personality.But these gifts are just the foundation of what Beryl Cook does. She has a very keen feeling for pictorial rhythm. The picture of Dustmen, for instance, has a whirling rhythm which is emphasized by the movement of their large hands in red rubber gloves—these big hands are often a special feature of Beryl's pictures. The English artist she most closely resembles in this respect is Stanley Spencer.Details such as those I have described are, of course, just the kind of thing to appeal to a professional art critic. Important as they are, they would not in themselves account for the impact she has had on the public.Basically, I think this impact is due to two things. When Beryl paints an actual, everyday scene—and I confess these are the pictures I prefer—the smallest detail isimmediately recognizable. Her people, for example, seem to fit into a kind of Beryl Cook stereotype, with their big heads and fat and round bodies. Yet they are in fact brilliantly accurate portraits. Walking round Plymouth with her, I am always recognizing people who have made an appearance in her work. Indeed, her vision is so powerful that one tends ever after to see the individual in the terms Beryl has chosen for him/her.The other reason for her success is almost too obvious to be worth mentioning—it is her marvelous sense of humour. My Fur Coat is a picture of a bowler-hatted gentleman who is being offered an unexpected treat. What makes the picture really memorable is the expression on the face of the man. The humour operates even in pictures which aren't obviously "funny". There is something very endearing, for instance, in the two road sweepers with Plymouth lighthouse looming behind them.A sense of humour may be a good reason for success with the public. It is also one which tends to devalue Beryl's work with professional art buffs. Her work contains too much life to be real art as they understand it.This seems to me nonsense, and dangerous nonsense at that. Beryl does what artists have traditionally done—she comments on the world as she perceives it. And the same time she rearranges what she sees to make a pattern of shapes and colours on a flat surface—a pattern which is more than the sum of its individual parts because it has the mysterious power to enhance and excite our own responses to the visible.I suspect Beryl's paintings will be remembered and cherished long after most late 20th-century art is forgotten. What they bring us is a real sense of how ordinary life is lived in our own time, a judgment which is the more authoritative for the humour and lightness of touch.Task 6【答案】A. objects, action or story, painted and composed, interestingB.Plate 1: symmetrical, more interesting designPlate 2: asymmetrical, shapes, colorsPlate 3: extends, the left side, pointC.Plate 4: c) d)Plate 5: a) b) d)Plate 6: a) b) d)【原文】The six pictures in your book are all what we call still life paintings—that is to say, they pictures of ordinary objects such as baskets of fruit, flowers, and old books. There is no “action”, there is no "story" being told in any of these paintings. Yet we find these paintings interesting because of the way they have been painted, and especially because of the way they have been composed.The picture in PLATE 1 was painted by the seventeenth-century Spanish master Zurbaran. How simply Zurbaran has arranged his objects, merely lining them up in a row across the table! By separating them into three groups, with the largest item in the center, he has made what we call a symmetrical arrangement. But it is a rather free kind of symmetry, for the objects on the left side are different in shape from those on the right. Furthermore, the pile of lemons looks heavier than the cup and saucer. Yet Zurbaran has balanced these two different groups in a very subtle way. For one thing, he has made one of the leaves point downward toward the rose on the saucer, and hehas made, the oranges appear to tip slightly toward the right. But even by themselves, the cup and saucer, combined with the rose, are more varied in shape than the pile of lemons on the left. All in all, what Zurbarran has done is to balance the heavier mass of lemons with a more interesting design on the right.We find a completely different sort of balance in a still life by the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Pieter Claesz (see PLATE 2). Objects of several different sizes are apparently scattered at random on a table. Claesz has arranged them asymmetrically, that is, without attempting to make the two halves of the picture look alike. The tall glass tumbler, for instance, has been placed considerably off-center, weighing down the composition at the left. Yet Claesz has restored the balance of the picture by massing his most interesting shapes and liveliest colors well over to the right.PLATE 3, a still life by the American painter William M. Harnett, seems even more heavily weighted to one side, for here two thick books and an inkwell are counterbalanced merely by a few pieces of paper. But notice the angle at which Harnett has placed the yellow envelope: How it extends one side of the pyramid formed by the books and inkwell way over to the left edge of the picture, like a long cable tying down a ship to its pier. Both the newspaper and the quill pen also point to this side of the painting, away from the heavy mass at the right, thus helping to balance the whole composition.Now turn to a still life by one of Harnett's contemporaries, the great French painter Paul Cezanne (see PLATE 4). Here the composition is even more daringly asymmetrical, for the climax of the entire picture is the heavy gray jug in the upper fight comer. Notice that Cezanne has arranged most of the fruit on the table, as well as a fold in the background drapery, so that they appear to move upward toward this jug. Yet he has balanced the composition by placing a bright yellow lemon at the left and by tipping the table down toward the lower left corner.Our next still life (see PLATE 5), by the famous Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, seems hardly "still" at all. As we view this scene from almost directly above, the composition seems to radiate in all directions, almost like an explosion. Notice that Van Gogh has painted the tablecloth with short, thick strokes which seem to shoot out from the very center of the picture.Finally, let us look at a painting by Henri Matisse (see PLATE 6). Here we see a number of still life objects, but no table to support them. Matisse presents each form by itself, in a world of its own, rather than as part of a group of objects in a realistic situation. But he makes us feel that all these forms belong together in his picture simply by the way he has related them to one another in their shapes and colors.Task 7【原文】Frank Lloyd Wright did not call himself an artist. He called himself an architect. But the buildings he designed were works of art. He looked at the ugly square buildings around him, and he did not like what he saw. He wondered why people built ugly homes, when they could have beautiful ones.Frank Lloyd Wright lived from 1869 to 1959. When he was young, there were no courses in architecture, so he went to work in an architect's office in order to learn how to design buildings. Soon he was designing buildings that were beautiful.He also wanted to make his buildings fit into the land around them. One of the houses he designed is on top of a high hill. Other people built tall, square houses on hills, but Wright did not want to lose the beauty of the hill. He built the house low and wide.Now other architects know how to design buildings to fit into the landscape. Frank Lloyd Wright showed them how to do it.。
七年级英语下unit6听力材料及参考答案
七年级英语下unit6听力材料及参考答案听力材料Ⅰ. 看图听五个句子，选择与所听句子内容相符的图画，并将其字母标号填入题后横线上。
每个句子读两遍。
1. There is a nice study on the first floor.2. Is there a map on the wall?3. The supermarket is between the bankand the bookstore.4. This sign means“Turn right”.5. The cat is under the chair.Ⅱ. 听五个句子，分别选择其相应的应答语，并将其字母标号填入题前括号内。
每个句子读两遍。
6. Your bedroom is very beautiful.7. Is Mr. Wu looking for an apartment near the school?8. Put your books away, please.9. Sorry, I don ’t know the way to the hospital.10. What’s on the sofa?Ⅲ. 听下列五段对话，根据对话内容及各题的问题选择正确选项，并将其字母标号填入题前括号内。
每段对话读两遍。
11. W: Is there a study in your home?M: Yes, there is. It ’s on the second floor and it’s next to my bedroom.12. W: Are there any students in the classroom?M: No, there aren’t. They’re having a P.E. class on the playground.13. W: What kind of home do you live in?M: I live in a townhouse with two floors.14. W: Why aren’t you happy today?M: Because I think I will get a speeding ticket.15. M: The traffic rules in your country are different from ours. Is that so?W: Yes, in England, people must drive on the left of the street.Ⅳ．听下面一篇短文，再根据短文内容和所提问题选择正确答案，并将其字母标号填入题前括号内。
八年级英语听力及参考答案
2013年上期八年级英语三维目标检测题听力材料Units1-2第一节、听句子，选择与其内容相符的图片并排序。
1. The scientists will fly a rocket to the moon.2. Jane is playing tennis.3. My father usually goes to work on foot.4. I need to get some money to pay for my trip.5. Kids won’t go to school in the future. They’ll study at home on computer.第二节、听对话，然后选择正确的答案。
听下面五段对话，根据每段对话内容回答所提问题。
6. W: You look unhappy. What’s wrong, Peter?M: Oh…my clothes are out of style. I don’t look cool.7. M: Do you know people in the future will live to be very old?W: Yes. I think people will live to be 200 years old.8. M: How about the cities in future, Lucy?W: Cities will be very big and crowded.9. M: I need money to buy gifts for my mum. But I have no money.W: You should get a part-time job, Tom.10. W: Where do you live, Jim?M: I live in an apartment.听下段对话，完成第11-12小题。
W: So, Joe, what do you think your life will be like in ten years?M: Oh, I think I’ll be an astronaut.W: An astronaut? Are you kidding?M: No, I’m serious. I’ll fly rockets to the moon. Maybe there will be flights to other planets.W: Oh, and where will you live?M: I’ll live on a space station.听下段对话，完成第13-15小题。
Units6-7综合检测2022-2023学年人教版八年级英语下册
八年级英语(Unit 6-7)一、听力部分（20分）Ⅰ. 听对话，选择与内容相符的图片，每段对话读两遍。
（5分）( ) 1.( ) 2.( ) 3.( ) 4.( ) 5.II .听句子. 选择适当答语(每个句子读两遍)。
（5分）( )6. A. I visited my uncle. B. She went to the Summer Palace.C. I'd like to go to Australia.( )7. A. Yes, he did. B. Yes, he was. C. Yes, he does.( )8. A. He was tired. B. He was happy. C. He went to Canada, ( )9. A. It was fantastic. B. They were beautiful. C. She was sad.( )10. A. It was great. B. I stayed at home. C. I visited my grandparents. Ⅲ.听对话及问题，选择正确答案(每段对话和问题读两遍)。
（5分）A)听第二段对话，回答第11~12小题。
( )11. Where did Alan go last summer?A. Beijing.B. Shanghai.C. Xi’an.( )12. Who is on Alan's right?A. Angela.B. Kimi.C. Cindy.B)听第二段对话，回答第13~15小题。
( )13. How high is Demao Building?A. About 325. 2 meters.B. About 320. 5 meters.C. About 305. 2 meters. ( )14. How many animals are there in Center Zoo?A. 2,000.B. 3 ,000.C.5,000.( )15. What will the girl do in Chengdu?第1 页共6 页A. See pandas.B. Visit Center Zoo.C. See tigers and lions.Ⅳ. 听短文,选择正确答案(短文读三遍)。
听力7原文及答案
听力7原文及答案(Text 1)M: Your son plays the violin beautifully. Does he want to become a musician?W: No, he wants to study law. Playing the violin is his hobby.(Text 2)W: Do you think we’ll be able to see the game clearly?M: Don’t worry. There’s a good vie w of the players from all of the seats.(Text 3)W: My hand still hurts from falling on the ice yesterday. I wonder if I broke something.M: I’m not doctor, but it’s not black and blue or anything. Maybe you just need to rest it for a few days.(Text 4)W: I wonder if Jack will be here by 8:00. He is supposed to be.M: His mother said he left at 7:30, so he should be here by 8:15 at the latest. (Text 5)M: I really enjoyed that TV program about whales last night. Did you get home in time to see it?W: Oh, yes. But I wish I could have stayed awake long enough to see the whole thing.(Text 6)W: I will give up! I simply can’t learn Japanese!M: Why do you say that? I think you’re making a lot of progress.W: No, I’m not. I try and try, and I still can’t speak it very well.M: Learning any language takes a lot of effort. But don’t give up. Why don’t wepractise those dialogues together?W: Good idea. That just might help.(Text 7)W: When I got home last night, I found a letter from students at the school I used to go to. They want me to go back and talk to them.M: Oh, really? And are you going?W: I don’t know. I used to hate school, so I don’t want to go back very much.M: But it’s different now.W: Yes, I know. But it’s still a difficult decision. You see, wh en I was at school I used to be a rebel and none of the teachers used to like me very much.M: Well, I think you should go. When I was younger, I used to dream about meetinga famous pop star. You can’t disappoint them.W: You’re right. OK. I will go.(Text 8)M: Okay, we can go to see the movie Saving the Planet at the Rock. What time does it start?W: Eight.M: So we can be back about 10:30, right?W: No. It doesn’t end until 11.M: I can’t sit in the movies so long!W: Well, then, what do you want to see?M: Shakespeare in Love is at the Regal and Twister at the Royal. Shakespeare in Love starts at 7:45 and it ends at 9:00.W: Okay, okay. Let’s go to see Shakespeare in Love. I can see Saving the Planet with my friend Barbara later.M: What are we going to do after the movie?W: We can go swimming and bowling.(Text 9)M: I talked to my great-grandmother on the phone this morning.W: Your great-grandmother? Do you talk with her often?M: I try to call her at least once a week. She’s a really wonderful woman. She’s over85. I enjoy talking to her. Because she is so understanding, and because she givesme good advice.W: What advice did she give you today?M: She told me to be careful because a big storm is coming.W: She said that a big storm is coming? Is she a weather forecaster?M: Not exactly. She said that she could feel it in her bones when the storm is coming.I know it sounds funny, but when she feels it, she is usually right.W: That’s not actually so funny. When people get older, they probably have s ome pain in their joints from decreasing air pressure just before a storm.M: Then I’d better pay more attention to my great-grandmother’s weather forecast. (Text 10)Hi, kids:It’s Friday again, so I won’t be home from work until 9:15. Dinner is in the refrigerator. Peggy, you can heat up the soup and make the salad. Suzy, you can set the table. Billy and Jack, I want you to clean the table, wash the dishes, and put them away. Peggy, please clean the bathroom.Jack, you know how to use the cleaner. Would you please do the floors?And you, Billy, please clean up the mess in the basement. I don’t know what you were doing down there, but you left tools all over the place. And Suzy, you canhelp Billy sweep.Dad will be home around 6:30. Why don’t you ha ve dinner ready by then? OK，kids? Enjoy your dinner. Oh yes, you can have the chocolate cake. But please leave a little piece for your hard-working mother.参考答案：1-5 AACBA 6-10 BABCB 11-15 AABCB16-20 ACABA。
听力6原文及答案
听力6原文及答案(Text 1)M: Excuse me, but it’s a bit too hot here. Is it OK if I open the window?W: Fine with me. I feel a little hot, too.(Text 2)M: When is Simon’s birthday?W: March 11th, just four days before mine.(Text 3)W: John’s room was in a mess. I t seemed that he had never cleaned it.M: This problem was not uncommon for a young man away from home.(Text 4)M: Hi, Jane, do you have some change? I have to make a call on the payphone.W: Payphone? Why not use my mobile phone? Here you are.(Text 5)W: Nobody expected that he would be able to come to the party.M: But he did.(Text 6)W: What time is it now?M: It is half past nine.W: It is said that our library has got some new books. I want to go and have a look.Do you think I’ll have enough time t o get there before it closes?M: I can’t tell. What time does it close?W: About 10 o’clock.M: Can you make it in half an hour? Anyhow it’s not far from here. By the way, can you return some books for me?W: OK, no problem! Do you know what the new books are about? I need some books about English writing for my term paper.M: I heard that most of the new books are about English grammar and writing. All of them are the latest publications. I am sure there are some you need.W: That’s great. Oh, it’s already9:40. There are only 20 minutes left. I’d better get going. See you!M: See you!(Text 7)W: What happened?M: Well, I was lying in the sand enjoying the music on the radio when suddenly I heard someone shouting for help. So I jumped up and saw a little boy waving his arms in the air. I took off my shirt and my watch and jumped into the water. I brought him back.W: Was there anybody else around?M: No. Not at that moment.W: Where were his parents?M: They were away buying some drinks.(Text 8)W: What ti me does Mother’s plane arrive?M: I’m not sure, but I think it is at 2:13. I’ll call the airport to make sure.W: Why don’t you do that while I change my clothes?M: Do you think Dick or Brenda wants to go?W: I don’t know. I think we can call them.M: I know Dick has to work, but maybe Brenda can go.W: OK, call her first, then the airport. I’ll go and get ready.(Text 9)M: Hello, Mary. Why are you standing here in the cold wind?W: I’m waiting for a bus; but the buses are very full at this time of the da y.M: Where are you going? This isn’t your way home. You must take a bus from the other side of the street to go home.W: I’m not going home now. I’m going for a walk in the park. I always like to go fora walk before lunch.M: Then why not walk from here to the park, too? It isn’t very far.W: Oh, no, Bill. It isn’t very interesting to walk through the street; in fact, it’s very boring. So I always take a No. 3 bus.(Text 10)Few people would even think of beginning a new job at the age of 76, but one of A merica’s most famous artists did just that. Anna Mary Robertson, better known as “Grandma Moses”, turned to painting because she was too old to work on her farm.Grandma Moses painted carefully and her works were nice. She first painted only to enjoy herself, and then began to sell her works for a little money. In 1939, a collector, Louis Caldor happened to see several of Grandma Moses’ works hanging in a shop. He liked them, bought them at once, and set out to look for more. Caldor held a show to introduce the works of Grandma Moses to other artists.Grandma Moses died on December 13, 1961, at the age of 101. She was world famous.参考答案：1-5 AABCB 6-10 BCACC 11-15 CBACB 16-20 CAABA。
英语视听说答案6-7
M: I know what you mean. Things that you need to see, touch and feel first, before you buy, are hard to buy online. But then again, there’re lots of people who buy everything online!
M: Hmmm. I usually go to . Sometimes I use eBay.
W: Really, I’ve never used either of those. What are they all about?
M: Well, eBay is an auction site. People put their stuff up for sale, and then other people log in and if they’re interested in one item, they bid on it. If you want to bid, you put in the amount that is the most you’re willing to pay. Then, by a certain deadline, the highest bid gets the item.
5. You just need to package it all back up again.
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八年级英语上册测试卷
6-7
听力材料
一、听力理解(本大题分为A、B、C、D四部分)
A. 听句子。
根据所听句子的内容和所提的问题，选择符合题意的图片回答问题，并将答案写在题前的括号内。
每小题听一遍。
1. W：Jack is going to be a reporter When he grows up.
2. M：Cindy is going to work in Beijing after college.
3. W：There will be more people take a bus to work in the future.
4. M：Tom lives in an apartment in the city now.
5. W：May is going to stay at home and watch TV this weekend.
B. 听对话。
根据所听对话内容和所提的问题，在各题所给的三个选项中选出一个最佳选项，并将答案写在题前的括号内。
每段对话听两遍。
听第一段对话，回答第6题。
M: What did you do two years ago, John?
W: I was a teacher in a middle school.
听第二段对话，回答第7题。
M: Will you go to the cinema tomorrow?
W: No, I will go to the beach
听第三段对话，回答第8题。
M: Let’s have a picnic this Saturday, OK?
W: No, we have already had a picnic. Let's have a party instead.
M: OK.
听第四段对话，回答第9题。
M: Do you want to live in Guangzhou?
W: No. I want to live in Zhuhai.
听第五段对话，回答第10题。
M: Where are you going to study next year?
W: My parents want me to go to Hong Kong. They are going to work there.
听第六段对话，回答第11-12题。
W: What are you going to do next year?
M: Well, I am going to keep fit and get good grades. What about you?
W: I am going to learn to play piano.
M: How are you going to do that?
W: I am going to have the piano lessons.
听第七段对话，回答第13-15题。
M: Hi, Jane! What are you going to do when you grow up?
W: I'm going to be a driver.
M: A driver? That sounds exciting.
W: You're right. What about you, Rick?
M: I'm going to be a teacher, and my sister Ann is going to be a teacher.
W: Really? It's interesting. Is your brother Jack going to be a teacher, too?
M: No, he wants to be a doctor. What about your sister Kate?
W: Oh, she wants to be a scientist.
C.根据所听短文的内容，在每小题给出的三个选项中选出一个能完成句子的最佳选项，并将答案写在题前的括号内。
短文听两遍。
Do you think there will be robots in hospitals? If you go to a hospital in New York, you’ll see a new “doctor” there. He is very clever. He can work 24 hours a day and never gets tired. He is Dr Robot. Doctors often spend a lot of time asking patients questions. But Dr Robot spends less time asking patients questions.
How can Dr Robot do this? A computer “tells” him what to do. Dr Robot can do many things that people can do, but he cannot do all the jobs of human doctors.
D. 听填信息。
请根据所听内容完成下面的信息采集表。
录音听两遍。
Tom is going to be a pilot. Because he likes travelling all over the world. He can visit many interesting places and make a lot of friends from other countries. Peter likes playing the piano very much. He learned to play the piano when he was 7 years old. Now he can play very well. He is going to be a pianist when he grows up. He thinks it can make him famous. Betty’s hobby is singing songs. She is going to be a singer when she grows up. Because she can make much money if she becomes a famous singer.
参考答案
一．A:1-5 CAAAA
B:6-10 CBBAC 11-15 CBABA
C:16-20 ACBBC
D:21. pilot 22. travelling 23. playing the piano 24. singer 25. money
二．26-30. BCBCD 31-35. BACBC 36-40.BBBBA 41-45. CCBCA
三．46~50 BACCB 51~55 ACBDA
四．56-60 CBBCC 61-65 BCDBA 66-70.CBGFD
五．71. work 72. called 73. weighing 74. show 75. like
76. words 77. clean 78. open 79. robots 80. place
六．81. To practice speaking English after class 82. Basketball 83. Hollywood
84. an engineer 85.5/Five
B. One possible version:
My New Year's Resolution
My name is Wang Lin, a student from Class One, Grade Eight, Guangming Middle School. I like basketball very much. I’m going to make a basketball team. So I have to practice playing basketball more after class and join a basketball club. I hope I can become as famous as basketball stars, Lin Shuhao. And I am also going to get good grades in school. I’m going to work harder and do homework more carefully.。