【学习讲义】高中英语(选修7)听力训练二

学习讲义英语选修7听力训练二
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W: I suppose you’ve bought some New Year gifts for your family.
M: Well, I’ve bought a shirt for my father and two books for my sister. But I haven’t decided what to buy for my mother.
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M: How does Nancy like the new dress she bought in Rome?
W: She said she would not have bought it if she had known Mary had already got such an Italian style dress.
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M: I need to go out of town, but the traffic is very heavy at this hour.
W: I suggest you take the tube instead. Then you d on’t have to deal with the terrible traffic. You see, I don’t feel like driving any more.
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W: How soon can we reach the airport, Dad?
M: We’re now running at 100 kilometres an hour, and the airport is 150 kilometres ahead, so…W: So we can get there by 10:00, in time to catch the 11:30 airplane.
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M: It’s very hard for me to decide what to eat now. Pizza and hamburgers are both good at this restaurant.
W: If you keep being so uncertain like this, I am afraid we cannot make it to the cinema.
M: D on’t worry. We’ll have enough time left to do some shopping before going there.
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M: Was the telephone ringing?
W: I didn’t hear anything.
M: I thought I heard it ring two or three times.
W: Sometimes when the windows are open, you can hear our neighb or’s phone.
M: Well, I’ m expecting an important phone call, and I don’t want to miss it.
W: Is it anything I should know about?
M: Not really. It has something to do with work and doesn’t really affect us here at home.
W: Well, why don’t you go ahead and do what you want to do outside? I’ll call you if the phone rings.
M: Thanks. I think I will. I've been waiting so long now. I’ m getting nervous. I need to breathe in some fresh air outside.
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W: Hello, Jack. Congratulations!The score was 3 to 1. You won the game.
M: Thank you, Sally. You watched the match, didn't you?
W: Of course, but when I got to the stadium, the match had already begun.
M: That’s why I didn't see you.
W: Your football team did so well, especially the third goal.That was so great.
M: Yes, but it wasn't easy to win the game. The visiting team is really strong.
W: I think so, but your team is even stronger. I knew you would beat them. Your coach did a good job, and the referees did a good job, too.
M: Thank you very much.
W: When is your next match?
M: On Friday, next week.
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M: Wow! There are so many jobs to choose from! What do you think?
W: Working in the media could be fun —there are newspapers, TV, the Internet…
M: Well, let's look. Hmm. How about this? You could be a TV news director.
W: Are you joking? Directing the news would be too stressful!
M: Well, writing for a magazine would be exciting. How about that?
W: No. I' m really more interested in working with computers. Hey, look! Designing interactive media. I’d like that!
M: Designing interactive media? It sounds interesting, but what is it?
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W: Our flight has been delayed for 2 hours. My husband will be waiting anxiously at London Airport.
M: You'd better make a phone call and tell him about the situation here.
W: Right. What are you here for?
M: I was at a two-week international conference on Space Technology in Beijing.
W: How interesting! I was there for a tour.
M: Really? How did you find it?
W:Beijing deserves to be the capital of this country. Apart from Beijing, I went to Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing. Those trips are among the ones I've enjoyed most ever. China is really rich in its history and tradition. Is this your first trip to China?
M: No. I come here every year but always on business. I have had no chance to visit tour spots. W: What a pity! Excuse me, I'll go and phone my husband.
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During his life Dr James Naismith worked as a doctor, taught PE and wrote several books. While he never thought it very important, Dr Naismith is today best known for one thing — he was the inventor of basketball.
Dr James Naismith was born in Canada in 1861 and his first job was at a special sports school in the USA. One day the school principal told James he was having a problem with the students. Because of the heavy snow, the students could not go outside. He told James that they needed a sport the boys could play indoors and gave the teacher two weeks to think of something.
It was on the very last day that James came up with his idea. The "birth of basketball" is said to be on December 21, 1891, when two teams from the school played the first game. It was quite different from the basketball games today. It had 9 players on each team and footballs were used instead of basketballs. Soon after, the game changed to 5 players on each side, using special "basketballs".
Although Dr Naismith did not live to see basketball become the worldwide game as it is today, in 1936, just three years before his death, basketball became an Olympic sport at the Games in Berlin.。