新视野大学英语听说教程1unit10

新视野大学英语听说教程1unit10
Listening 10
Understanding Short Conversations: Now you will hear ten short conversations. A question will follow each conversation. Listen carefully and choose the best answer from the four possible choices.
1.A. Because he is aware that others lie and cheat.
B. Because he believes that honesty is more difficult.
C. Because he thinks that lying and cheating is part of life.
D. Because he feels that she is not aware of the truth.
2. A. Because he felt she wasn’t telling him the truth.
B. Because he thought she was an honest person.
C. Because he knew she could tell her the truth.
D. Because he believed she knew the truth.
3. A. Because her parents wanted her to get caught.
B. Because her parents heard she wouldn’t pass.
C. Because her parents put a lot of pressure on her.
D. Because her parents told her cheating was OK.
4. A. Because she found they were fake.
B. Because her father found they were fake.
C. Because she di dn’t like them.
D. Because he her father didn’t like them.
5. A. She won’t let her conscience bother herself.
B. She won’t steal from work again.
C. She will return the money right away.
D. She will get more sleep at night.
6. A. Because she can write better essays herself.
B. Because she has never tried it before.
C. Because she will be caught by the teacher.
D. Because she has never caught when she tries.
7. A. Because she fired all of the thieves.
B. Because she will fire anyone she catches stealing.
C. Because she is good at catching thieves.
D. Because she feel very strongly about stealing.
8. A. It’s very cynical.
B. It’s completely untrue.
C. It’s like other people’s.
D. It’s not getting her ahead.
9. A. Because he has no other friends.
B. Because she is always around.
C. Because she can be trusted
D. Because she trusts him.
10. A. Being honest all the time.
B. Hiding the truth.
C. Assuring him the truth is best.
D. Starting to lie often..
Understanding a Long Conversations: Now you will hear a long conversation followed by five questions. Listen carefully and choose the best answer from the four possible choices.
1.A. Because she knows the teacher.
B. Because she knows ways to cheat.
C. Because she knows the teacher is stupid.
D. Because she knows the class is easy.
2. A. He will pass the class easily.
B. He will get to know the teacher.
C. He will learn something about the class.
D. He will stop his worrying.
3. A. She buys them from the teacher.
B. She takes another student’s work.
C. She sells essays to other students.
D. She uses essys taken from the Net.
4.A. She buys the answers.
B. She trades papers with others.
C. She writes information on her desk.
D. She looks at another student’s paper.
5. A. She has no conscience.
B. She is not honest
C. He is her teacher.
D. He has cheated only once.
Understanding a Passage: Now you will hear a passage followed by five questions. Listen carefully and choose the best answer from the four possible choices.
1.A. Whether she should gain weight.
B. Whether she was gaining weight.
C. Whether she should calm down.
D. Whether she should be honest.
2. A. Because she knew he was calm.
B. Because she knew he exercised.
C. Because she knew he was right
D. Because she knew he was honest
3. A. He tries to make his boss happy.
B. He says what he really thinks.
C. He calms down before speaking.
D. He tells him the right idea.
4. A. He asks the speaker what he thinks.
B. He looks for a genuine person
C. He finds someone with the right idea.
D. He asks honest questions.
5. A. Honesty means to make someone happy.
B. Honesty is helpful in finding a good job.
C. Honesty is the cause of a good life.
D. Honesty is the most important thing.
Understanding a Movie Speech: Now listen to a speech from the movie The Great Dictator and fill in the blanks according to what you hear.
Barber: I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business. I don't want to 1) ___ or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if 2) ____-- Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another; human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's 3) ___, not by each other's misery. We don't want to 4) ___ and despise one another. In this world there's room for everyone and the good earth is 5) ____ and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and 6) ___ .
But we have lost the way.
Greed has 7) ____ men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have 8) ___ ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our 9) ____ has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we
need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these 10) ____, life will be violent and all will be lost.。