现代大学英语听力1_课堂听力Unit_4

Unit 4

Task 1

【答案】

1) He stood up and rang the bell.

2) He wanted to make sure that the driver heard him.

3) The conductor came and shouted at him.

4) The landlady told him that’s the signal for the driver to go on and only the conductor was allowed to ring the bell twice. That’s why the conductor got so annoyed.

【原文】

A strange thing happened to Henri yesterday. He was on a bus and wanted to get off. So he stood up and rang the bell. To make sure the driver heard him he rang it twice, but the bus didn’t stop, and the conductor came and shouted at him.

The conductor was so annoyed, and spoke so fast, that Henri didn’t understand a word. The bus stopped at the next bus stop and Henri got off. As he got off he heard someone say, “I think he’s a foreigner.”

When Henri got home, he told his landlady about the incident.

“How many times did you ring the bell?” she asked.

“Twice,” said Henri.

“Well, that’s the signal for the driver to go on,” his landlady explained. “Only the conductor is allowed to ring the bell twi ce. That’s why he got so annoyed.”

Henri nodded. “I see,” he said.

Task 2

【答案】

1) T, 2) F, 3) F, 4) F, 5) T, 6) T

【原文】

The Taylor family, who live in North London, are planning to spend a day in Norwich. They can’t agree how to get there.

Mr. Taylor: I don’t want to drive all that way. Let’s go by train.

Mrs. Taylor: But that’s so expensive. It’s much cheaper for a family to go by car.

Peter: Why not try the coach? It’ll be cheaper than the train, and Daddy won’t have to drive.

Alison: But I’ll be sick! I hate traveling by coach.

Mrs. Taylor: Which is the quickest way to get there?

Mr. Taylor: Well, it’ll take at least three hours by car.

Peter: No, it won’t. Not if we take the motorway out of London.

Alison: I’m sure there’s a fast train service.

Mrs. Taylor: But we’ll have to get to Liverpool Street first. And then there’s the tube fares at this end, and bus or taxi fares at the other.

Alison: And the coach station is at Victoria, so that’s an extra journey too.

Mr. Taylor: I think there are som e special family rail fares. Perhaps that’ll be the cheapes t way.

Peter: But it won’t be the most convenient.

Mrs. Taylor: Why don’t we check all the facts and then decide?

Peter: OK.

Task 3

【答案】

A.

of, without, of,

for, to, by, to, to, into

from, with

on, in, around, about

B.

1) school buses are used only when children live more than a mile from the school. When their children are too young to walk that far, their mothers take turns driving them to school.

2) they can save gasoline and it is easier for them to find parking places

3) too many cars are on the road and have created many problems

【原文】

The United States is full of automobiles. There are still many families without cars, but some families have two or even more. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are a necessary part of life.

Cars are used for business. They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to get to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive in order to carry their products. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies.

Sometimes small children must be driven to school. In some cities school buses are used only when children live more than a mile from the school. When the children are too young to walk that far, their mothers take turns driving them to school. One mother drives on Mondays, taking her own children and the neighbors’ children as well. Another mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesdays and so on. This is called forming a car pool. Men also form car pools, with three or four men taking turns driving to the place where they all work.

More car pools should be formed in order to put fewer automobiles on the road and use less gasoline. Parking is a great problem, and so is the traffic in and around cities. Too many cars are being driven. Something will have to be done about the use of cars.

Task 4

【答案】

1) T, 2) F, 3) T, 4) F

【原文】

Mr. Fine: Can anyone in the class explain some differences between a zip code and an area code?

Mary: Both of them are numbers.

Mr. Fine: That’s how they are alike. But how are they different?

Mary: A zip code is for mailing letters. An area code is for making phone calls,

Mr. Fine: What kind of phone calls?

Mary: Long distance calls.

Mr. Fine: All right. And what is a zip code?

Mary: When I write a letter to my friends in New York City, I write 10027 on the envelope.

That’s their zip code. I have some other friends i n New York City, but their zip code is

10003.

Mr. Fine: In a big city there are different zip codes for different parts of the city. What about area codes?