听力教程4 U11 施心远

Keys to Unit 11

Section I

1.“国家成人读写能力评估”是检测美国成年人阅读能力的一项主要测试。

2.该测试检测的是参加者阅读和理解日常生活信息的能力

3.这项调查发现有1,100万，即百分之五的成年人看不懂英语。

4.研究人员说，问题的部分原因在于很多美国年轻人作为消遣所进行的阅读已经不

太多了。

5.人们发现阅读水平高的人比那些不具备阅读能力的人的年收入多28,000美元。Section II

Dialogue

Great leaders in history:

military chiefs/ national heroes/ dreaded tyrants

see these so-called great leaders in the same light

spiritual leaders

Characteristics:

what they want to achieve

lose sight of their objectives/ work towards them/ what obstacles they may come up against

the end justifies the means

the will of the people/ improve their lot

be successful

Passage

1.Going to the library or locking yourself in your room with no aim other than reading for

a predetermined time is likely to lead to boredom.

2.One way round this problem when you encounter it is to set yourself really small and

manageable reading tasks.

3.The task should be one that is useful towards your final aim of getting your essay or

paper or dissertation written, or revising for your exam.

4.In devising such tiny but “do-able”tasks for yourself you are using your creativity,

making the reading a personal task to you and breaking a large endeavor up into small and attainable steps.

5.Often the motivation supplied by an assignment or essay will help you to focus your

reading in helpful ways.

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Ex.2

1) We can set ourselves a particular period of time in which to assess the relevance of

a number of books or articles for our purposes, to understand an important but

difficult argument and to locate material in and take notes about a source that we have good reasons to believe can help us to answer a particular question.

2)To get started with reading should not be difficult. And once you have made a

beginning, the next day or the next time you come to this piece of reading, you will

already have achieved something with this text and so the next stage should follow more easily.

Section III

Item 1:

A. a fat man’s walk from California to Manhattan.

B.40-year-old father of two

A year and a month

Nearly 4,800 kilometers

His home in California

Manhattan

To lose weight after falling into a depression and developing an eating disorder

He arrived 100 pounds or 45 kilograms lighter / He realized weight loss was more about the state of mind than body and the secret to becoming thinner was being happier.

“A Fat Man Walking”

To publish a book about his experiences

Item 2:

A.the first atheist summer camp in the UK.

B. the US/atheism/what they think/philosophy/logical fallacies/the Invisible Unicorn Challenge/live in the area around their tents/they don’t exist/a negative/thinking/philosophy /scientific and critical thinking

Item 3: the new compulsory citizenship ceremony and test in Britain.

Old practice:

Swear an oath of allegiance/ lawyer/ certificate

New practice:

1.2004/ compulsory citizenship ceremony/ a broader oath/ respect Britain’s rights,

freedoms and laws/ civic dignitaries

2.establish knowledge of the country/ its language

1)24/ life in the United Kingdom/ 45 minutes

2)Try again and again

3)Simple tests of knowledge/ more complex cultural issues

3.feel they belong/ ease racial tension

Controversy

1.have similar schemes/ the United States/ citizenship classes/ ceremonies

2.nationalistic/ undue pressure/ conform/ build a multi-cultural society in Britain. Section IV

Part I:

A. C

B. 1. Six basic ingredients of explosives.

2. Because the dogs are very reliable. They have never had a dog out working in a field,

where they had to evacuate a building because a dog made an incorrect assessment.

3. In 1990.

4. 474.