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Unit 1 Shopping and Banking OlinePart I Getting readyB. Keys:1: drop 2: shopping 3: mouse 4: feet 5: retailing 6: street 7: get 8: down 9: third-party 10: online 11:30% 12: malls 13: Britain 14: gift-buying 15:50% 16: net 17: peroidC. Keys:1 : the site2 : merchant, addresses/phone numbers/call up3 : strict safety measuresPart II Net shopping under fireA. Keys:1 : delivery, delivery2 : delivery charges3 : personal information, 87%4 : returning goods, 47%5 : order, 35%, dispatch, 87%6 : money back, twoB. Keys:1 : convenience2 : choice3 : obstacles4 : complete trust5 : build consummers' trust6 : mature7 : payment8 : servicePart III Banking at homeA. Keys:1 : limited opening hours2 : Online banking services3 : getting current information on products4 : e-mailing questions to the bank5 : competing for customers6 : having no computers at homeB. Keys:1 : It is banking through the Internet.2 : 'Online banking' offers convenience which appeals to the kind of customer banks want to keep.3 : Banks most want to keep people who are young, well-educated, and have good incomes.Part IV More about the topic: Secret of Good Customer ServiceB. Keys:English Good Customer Service(Harrods)1 : in a pleasant environment2 : Second to none3 : different customers, take a look at everything, alternatives, come to sales assistants4 : first contact with the customerAmerican Good Customer Service(Saks)1 : human side, family, occasions in life, a partnership2 : repeat business, salesPart V Do you know…?Keys:1 : c2 : a、b、c3 : a、b、c4 : c5 : c6 : bTape scriptPart I Getting readyC.Consumers who want to shop online are suggested to bear the following things in mind:Evaluate the site. Always buy goods from well-known and trustworthy companies. Deal with companies which offer customer service, a complaints procedure and have a refund policy.Talk to merchant. E-mail and wait for reponses. Take down the addresses and phone numbers of those companies and make sure they are real by calling them up before buying any products and services.Ensure secure connection. Since buyers must submit personal information like number and expiry date of the card there are fears over security. Deal with sites that apply strict safety measures that require shoppers to give specific data known only to card holders before making the transaction.Be extra careful at a cybercafe or other public connection.Part II Net shopping under fireThere is an urgent need for e-commerce rules to boost confidence in buying online. Consumers International, a federation of 245 consumer organizations —including the UK's Consumers Association —said its survey showed that there were still obatacles to shopping online with complete trust.The study, funded by the European Union, involved buying more than 150 items from 17 countries. Each consumer organization taking part tried to find one site in its own country and one abroad to buy a selection of items. These included a dictionary, a doll, jeans, a hairdryer, computer software and hardware, chocolates and champagne.The key findings were:Eight of the items ordered took more than a month to reach their destination and at least 11 (eight percent) never arrived.Many sites did not give clear information about delivery charges.Only 13% of the sites promised that they would not sell customers' personal information on to a third party.Only 53% of the companies had a policy on returning goods.Only 65% of the sites provided confirmation of the order and only 13% told customers when their goods had been dispatched.In two cases,customers are still waiting for their money back more than four months after returning their goods.Louis Sylvan, vice-president of Consumers International, said, "This study shows that, although buying items over the Internet can benefit the consumer by offering convenience and choice, there are still many obstacles that need to be overcome before consumers can shop in cyberspace with complete trust."Chris Philips, Marketing Manager at a London based e-commerce security company commented, "This study confirms the difficulties of establishing consumers' trust in the Internet as a shopping experience. With statistics like these and Visa claiming 47% of disputes and fraud cases were Internet-related, it is little wonder that Internet commerce is not producing the profits predicted two or three years ago. Trust takes time to build, and the Internet will not mature as a retail channel until trusted brands, like the banks for example, start to offer ways of supporting trust relationships with guarantees payment and service."In September, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development will hold a meeting to discuss a set of international guidelines for electronic commerce.Part III Banking at homeMany people dislike walking to the bank, standing in long lines, and running out of checks. They are dissatisfied with their bank's limited hours, too. They want to do some banking at night, and on weekends. For such people, their problems may soon be over. Before long, they may be able to do their banking from the comfort of their own home, any hour of the day, any day of the week. Many banks are preparing "online branches," or Internet offices, which means that people will be able to take care of much of their banking business through their home computers. This process is called interactive banking. At these online branches, customers will be able to view all their accounts, move money between their accounts, apply for a loan, and get current information on products such as credit cards. Customers will also be able to pay their bills electronically, and even e-mail questions to the bank.Banks are creating online services for several reasons. One reason is that banks must compete for customers, who will switch to another bank if they are dissatisfied with the service they receive. The convenience of online banking appeals to the kind of customer banks most want to keep —people who are young, well-educated, and have good incomes. Banks also want to take advantage of modern technology as they move into the twenty-first century.Online banking may not be appropriate for everyone. For instance, many people do not have computers at home. Other people prefer to go to the bank and handle their accounts the traditional way. Even though online banking may never completely replace a walk-in bank, it is a service that many customers are going to want to use.Part IV More about the topic: Secret of Good Customer ServiceIn Britain they ask you, "Are you being served?" Whilst in America they tell you to "Have a nice day." But what is the secret of good customer service? From Harrods in London and Saks New York, we're going to find out the dos and don'ts of selling protocol.The reason that Harrods has been so successful over a hundred and fifty years is two fold. First of all they've offered their customers the products they want to buy in a pleasant environment. But secondly and more importantly, the level of customer service that they've given their customers, before sale, during sale and after sale, has been second to none. I think it's fair to say that if you compare the British with our cousins elsewhere in the world that we are actually quite a reserved lot. To a certain extent there are a lot of shrinking violets in this country who would rather just do their own thing. They'd rather wander around and browse and if they do need any help eventually, ask for it. So I think the way that we approach our own U.K. based customers is actually slightly different to the way we know we need to approach. For example, an American customer, or indeed a Japanese customer, or a Middle Eastern customer, who all have different ways of doing things. Well in serving different, I guess, nationalities, you do take very different approaches. With Europeans, for example, you do kind of let them take a look at everything. See what's being on offer and then ask them if they need any help. I think they'd probably much more prefer to come to you, rather than you so much to go to them. The American customer very much expects you to go to them, approach them, show them alternatives. Well I think maybe the more European or British customer can be almost turned off by that if someone is seen to be too aggressive, maybe too anxious to make a sale.It's most important that the first contact, the first initial meeting with the customer is a good and successful one because on that basis, the customer will make up their mind what they want to do next.I quite like the English sales assistants because they definitely have better thing to do than talk to you, which I like. It's very terrifying when you go to America. "Can I help you?" they're like licking you. You're just like, "No, I'm fine. I just want to look." That puts me off. I love the English sales assistant.So where have you experienced the very best in customer service?Umm, probably America. In terms of best as in, they give you so much attention it's almost embarrassing. They treat you, you know, the "have a nice day" thing. They' want to help you. They want you to buy, 'cause they often work on a commission basis. That's if you like best. But I prefer the ... like, being ignored.Tamara:I think England's still way behind in terms of, like America for example. I can call in Americafrom London and they'll track the item down. It's not like, "Sorry madam we don't have that in your size." I just got the Gucci boots, which mine had actually broken. And in England they said, "Sorry" you know, that's it. So this woman in Los Angeles tracked them down and, in fact got them for me. That's because they work on commission. And the sooner we learn that, the better the service will get.So what do the Americans have to say? They may speak with a different accent. But is the sales pitch a foreign language to the rest of the world?I think part of the reason Americans are known as experts is that we tend to focus a lot more in the human side of selling, not the mechanical side, which is the register and knowing about the product. We really want to know about your lifestyle. We want to know about your family. We want to know about your income. We want to know about your occasions in your life. And that's very different outside of the United States. Our consumer actually is comfortable with forming a partnership with a sales associate and giving up that information, very personal information, very personal information. I think that best part about Saks sales associate training that we actually develop customers, five different types of customers and we videotape them and put them up in front of every new sales associate and say, "This is our customers." They're very different. Each one of them is a top customer at Saks but they shop in a very different way. A lot of stores in this industry really measure selling effectiveness by sales and quite frankly that's not what Saks is about. I think the way you measure good quality staff is by repeat business. Obviously if you have someone on your selling floor that has a clientele, that is the measure of a good sales associate. Part V Do you know…?"Everybody loves a bargain, "this is a common American saying. A bargain is something you buy for less than its true vale. It is something you might not buy if it costs more.One person's useless ugly object can be another person's bargain. So many Americans put it outside with a "for sale" sign on it and they have a yard sale.Just about anything can be sold at a yard sale: clothing, cooking equipment, old toys, tools, books and chairs, even objects you think are extremely ugly or useless. You may have an electric light shaped like a fish. You may greatly dislike its looks, but it may be beautiful to someone else. Usually the seller puts a price on each object. But the price can almost always be negotiated. The price of a table, for example, might be marked $10. But the seller may accept 8. If the table has not been sold by the end of the day, the seller probably will take much less.Some people go to yard sales because it is part of their job. They earn their livings by buying old things at low prices then selling them at higher prices. Many others, however, go to yard sales just to have fun. They say it is like going on a treasure hunt. Sometimes they really do find the treasure.Ned Jaudere did. The Boston Globe newspaper says Mr. Jaudere has been collecting native American Indian objects since he was a young man. Last year, he stopped at a yard sale in the northeastern city of Worcester, Massachusertts. He paid $125 for what everyone thought was an old wooden club. Mr. Jaudere thought it was something else. Two days later, he confirmed that the club had been used by the Wampanoag Indian leader known as King Philip. King Philip used it during his war with the white settlers at eastern Massachusetts in 1675. The historic weapon had been stolen from a museum in 1970 and had been missing ever since. Mr. Jardere learnt the war club was valued at about $150 000 but he did not sell it or keep it. Mr. Jaudere returned the club to the museum near Boston Massachusetts from which it was stolen.Questions:1. Which of the following is a common American saying?2. What can be sold at a yard sale?3. Why do people go to a yard sale?4. When was the old wooden club stolen?5. What was the real value of the club?6. Why was the club at a great value?Unit 2 Hotel or B&BPart I Getting readyB. Keys:1 : 35%, 60%2 : 45%, 20%3 : 60%, 80%4 : 30%, 15%5 : 50%, 70%6 : 30%, 20%C. Keys:(1)1 : ￡30/single; ￡60/double, children under 12 2 : ￡29/full board3 : ￡28/double+bath, excluded(2) 1 : hot food, fried egg 2 : coffee, tea, jam, cooked 3 : dinner, bed and breakfast 4 : the room plus all meals 5 : Value Added TaxPart II A touch of homeOutline I : bed and breakfast, 15 000, advantages over big hotels II : meeting different people III : features, 1883, guests IV : B&Bs not suitable for some peoplePart III Renting a carA. Keys: 1 : three 2 : Mon. July 10th 3 : station wagon 4 : $79.95 5 : $59.95 6 : 4 p.m. 7 : 10 a.m.8 : ' free 9 : 12 cents 10 : $10 11 : 8% 12 : '$100B. Keys: a compact car/a station wagon/ automatic transmission/ current models/ pick up/return the car/special weekend rate/regular rate/ unlimited mileage/ insurance/ sales tax/ a full tank of gas/ deposit/ lowest rates.Part IV More about the topic: What Type of Room Do You Want?A. Keys: 1: 5 2: 2 3: 6 4: 4 5: 3 6: 1B. Keys: 1 : ￡40, all grades 2 : ￡55, Sales 3 : ￡150, Managerial, entertaining private guest, the lake 4: ￡220, privacy, country-side, kitchenPart V Do you know…?A. Keys: (France)Italy, (2)3, (3)2, (4)8 (Loudon,UK)Paris,France, (8)4B. Keys: 1 : F 2 : T 3 : F 4 : F 5 : TTape scriptPart I Getting readyB.A: Good morning. I'd like some information about tourist figures, please. First, about accommodation. What proportion of tourists stay in hotels? B: Well, in an average year 60% of tourists stay in hotels, but this year 35% are staying in hotels. A: What proportion of tourists stay in holiday camps? B: Well, in an average year 20% of tourists stay in holiday camps, but this year 45% are staying in holiday camps. A: Now, about places visited. What proportion of tourists visit Europe? B: Well, in an average year 80% of tourists visit Europe, but this year 60% are visiting Europe. A: And what proportion of tourists visit the U.S.A.? B: Well, in an average year 15% of tourists visit the U.S.A., but this year 30% are visiting the U.S.A.. A: Now, about methods of transport. What proportion of tourists go byplane? B: Well,in an average year about 70% of tourists go by plane, but this year about 50% are going by plane. A: What proportion of tourists take their own car? B: Well, in an average year about 20% of tourists take their own car, but this year about 30% are taking their own car. A: Thank you very much for your help.C.C:… so here's a brochure with the hotels in Midford. It gives you all the rates …T:I'm sorry, my English isn't so good. Can you explain this to me?C:Yes, of course. First of all we have the Castle Inn …here …it's the cheapest. It will cost you only ￡12 for a single room and ￡15 for a double. The price includes continental breakfast. If you want a full English breakfast you'll have to pay extra …T:What is this "English breakfast"?C:Oh, you know, hot food: fried egg, fried bacon, porridge … w hereas the continental breakfast is coffee, tea, rolls, jam and honey — nothing cooked, you see.T:I think I would prefer the continental breakfast.C:Well, yes, that's included. And then we have the Dalton Hotel, more expensive, but very nice, a bathroom attached to every room. The Dalton charges ￡30 for a single room and ￡60 for a double. But there is no charge for children under 12 who stay in the same room as their parents.T:I won't have my children with me. But maybe my husband will come a little later …C:Well, the Park Hotel is very reasonably priced. ￡16 per person. Every room has a bath. There's a special rate of ￡25 which includes dinner, bed and breakfast —what we call half board. Or you can have full board, that's the room plus all meals for ￡29 per person per night.T:We would only want breakfast.C:I see. Mm …you could try the fourth hotel here, the Phoenix. It will cost you ￡28 for a double room with bath. Breakfast is ￡5 per person.T:Yes. But what about the extra money, what do you call it in English, the service...C:All these rates include a service charge of 10%. They also include VAT - that's Value Added Tax.T:If we come later in the year will it be cheaper?C:Yes. These are the rates for June to September. You would pay less at other times of the year.T:I'll talk about it with my husband. Thank you for explaining everything to me.C:You're very welcome.Part II A touch of homeBev Rose is a very good hostess. She tells the guests in her home there are sodas in the refrigerator, snacks in the kitchen, and videos next to the TV.But Rose's guests aren't out-of-town family or friends. Her guests are from all over the world. Rose's house is like a small hotel. It is called a bed and breakfast or B&B for short. The name of Rose's B&B is Suits Us.Rose and her husband have joined a growing number of people who are operating B&Bs in their homes. B&Bs offer the charm, comfort, and hospitality that is often missing in big hotels. That's why there are many people who would rather stay at a B&B than a hotel when they travel.There are about 15 000 B&Bs across the U.S. Each year they welcome millions of visitors. And the number is increasing. "I think guests are looking for the personal touch," said Pat Hardy,the director of the American Bed and Breakfast Association. "In a B&B, you don't have a room number. The owner knows who you are and helps you enjoy your trip," Hardy said. Travelers often want more than just a place to sleep. They like B&Bs because the owner takes a personal interest in them.Rose said one of the best things about owning a B&B is meeting all the different people. She loves watching the guests meet each other for the first time at breakfast. "It's really fun to stand in the kitchen and talk with my guests. Even though most of them have just met for the first time, the conversations at the breakfast table are really interesting and lively."Many B&Bs are older homes with interesting histories. Suits Us was built in 1883. The rooms are filled with antiques and 19th-century decorations. The Roses rent three of the upstairs bedrooms to guests. Every room at Suits Us has its own personality. The Roses have named several of the rooms for previous guests. For example, one of the rooms is named the Woodrow Wilson Room because the former U.S. President stayed there. Another room is called the Annie Oakley Room because the famous cowgirl was once a guest there.Bed and breakfasts aren't for everyone. Some people aren't comfortable staying in someone else's home. And other people don't care for the personal interaction. But for a quiet, romantic place to stay, many people are checking into bed and breakfasts instead of hotels. Once people have stayed in a B&B, they often find it hard to go back to hotels.Part III Renting a carA:Good afternoon. U-Drive-It rentals. May I help you?C:Hi, yeah. I'm interested in, uh, renting a car for the weekend, and I'm wondering if you have a special weekend rate?A:Yes, we do. [Mm-hmm.] Uh … what sort of car were you i nterested in?C:Well, we're a family of three and we have camping equipment. Now, I'm used to driving a small car, but I might need something a little larger because of the family and, uh … all the equipment that we have. A:Well, um … I could suggest a compact car for/to you. [Mm-hmm.] Some of our compacts have … have large trunks, [OK.] or, uh … Oh, better yet, why not a small station wagon? [Oh, good.] Um … all our cars are current models and, uh, have automatic transmission.C:Oh, well, I'm used to driving a standard, but I guess there's no problem with automatic transmission.A:No, no. If you can drive a standard you can drive an automatic. [Mh-hmm.] Uh, now, listen, when were you … uh … interested in … in renting this?C:Uh, well, we'll be leaving on a Friday, that's the … let's see, that's Friday, July 7th, and then returning on the Monday. That would be the tenth.A:Mm-hmm. Well, let's see … uh … we have … uh … Oh! We have a Pinto station wagon for those dates. [Mm-hmm. Good.] Um … yeah, I think … I think that's your best bet.C:OK. Uh … well, then when would we have to pick up the car and when would we have to return the car to get that special weekend rate?A:Well, for the weekend rate you have to pick up the car after four o'clock on Friday afternoon [Uh-huh.] and then return it by ten o'clock on Monday morning.C:After four on Friday and returning by ten o'clock on Monday morning. [Mm-hmm.] OK. What … uh … uh, what would be the price for that?A:OK, now, our … our regular rate is seventy-nine ninety-five. [Ooh!] but the special weekend rate w… you can get that for fifty-nine ninety-five. [Oh, Great.] Um … now the first threehundred miles are free, [Mm-hmm…] after that it's twelve cents per mile.C:Oh, so it's twelve cents a mile extra after the first three hundred miles?A:That's right.C:OK. Uh … do you have any … um … rentals with unlimited mileage?A:Well, we do, but you can't get that special weekend rate.C:Uh-huh. OK. Well, then does the fifty-nine ninety-five - that was the rate, right? [Mm-hmm.] —does that include insurance?A:No … um … the insurance is ten dollars more, but I really recommend it.C:Yeah.A:OK, now there's a … there's a sales tax of eight percent, [Mm-hmm…] and … um … you have to return the car with a full tank of gas. [Uh-huh.] Also, we require a deposit of a hundred dollars.C:Oh boy. It sure adds up!A:Well, our rates are still the lowest in town.C:Uh-huh. OK. Well, I tell you what. I'd like to think about it, if that's right, and then I'll call you back…uh…A:Sure, that's fine. Uh, listen, when you … when you do call back, ask for Doug. That's me.C:OK. Well, thanks a lot. Doug. Goodbye.A:Take care.Part IV More about the topic: What Type of Room Do You Want?S: If the terms are favorable, we could come to an arrangement for regular accommodation. Now, I wanted to discuss the types of room with you, and rates for their use.M:Certainly. The rates I’ll quote to you first of all are what we call "rack rates" , that is the normal rates quoted to the public. But obviously we would discuss a discount rate for you. Now, as regards the rooms, they are all of a very high standard. All our rooms have central heating. Most of them are with bathroom, and they all have a washbasin and a toilet.S:That sounds fine. Can you tell me about your single rooms?M:Yes. Our single rooms are very comfortable, and the rates are very reasonable. I think you'd find them suitable for visiting staff of all grades. The rack rate is ￡40 a night.S: ￡40 a night …M:Yes. Or for real economy, let's suppose you have a sales conference. You could double up your sales staff and put them into twin rooms. That would work out very cheaply. The normal rate is ￡55 per twin or double room per night.S: Well, we might consider that possibility. But we also have some quite important visitors sometimes. Have you any really special accommodation we can offer them?M: Well, suppose you have visiting managerial staff. For something more luxurious, we can offer our Delphos Suite. It's delightful, and convenient for entertaining private guests. It has its own private terrace where guests can sit outside and enjoy the view over the lake …S: That sou nds most attractive …M: The normal rate is ￡150 per night …S: ￡150.M: … but for total luxury, the finest accommodation of any hotel in this area, I can recommend our Bella Vista Penthouse. From the balcony, there's a magnificent view over the whole countryside.S: Oh, lovely.M: It has a bedroom connecting to a large sitting room, with a separate study, a bathroom, and a fully-fitted kitchen. It combines total luxury with total privacy. For example, if your Company Director and his wife wanted to stay for a few days it would be ideal.S: And the rate?M: The normal rate would be ￡220 a night.Part V Do you know…?Five U.S. hotels were voted among the world's top ten, with the Halekulani in Honolulu ranking first, a survey of Gourmet magazine readers released last Friday said.Coming in second was the Oriental, in Bangkok, Thailand, followed by Villa d'Este, Cernobbio, Italy; The Regent Hong Kong, and Hotel Ritz, Paris.The Greenbriar, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia ranked No. 8. The 10th-ranked hotel was the Four Seasons Resort Nevis, in Charlestown, Nevis, West Indies.More than 150 hotels, resorts and inns in 27 countries and regions were ranked in general and specific categories that rated such things as dining, bars, pools, workout centers and romantic atmosphere. This is the third year that Gourmet, which has more than 5 million readers, has conducted the survey.Another U.S. hotel, the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas, topped the list for restaurant dining, beating out the Connaught in London, Italy's Villa d'Este and Bangkok's the Oriental. The Four Seasons in Philadelphia was No. 5.In the specific category of best business hotels, the Regent Hong Kong ranked first as it has for the past three years. In other categories, Paris' Hotel Ritz with its Roman thermal baths was voted to have the best pools and The Green- briar in West Virginia was found to have the best workout center, golf and tennis.Unit 3 “Planting” MoneyPart I Getting readyC. Keys:1 : Sincere; Y 2 : Doubtful; N 3 : Sarcastic; N 4 : Doubtful; N 5 : Sincere; Y 6 : Skeptical; N 7 : Surprised; Y 8 : Sincere; Y 9 : Emphatic; Y 10 : Sarcastic; NPart II National teach children to save dayA. Keys: 1 : Thursday, April 17 2 : teaching children how to save money 3 : 2 500 4 : 5 000 presentationsB. Keys:1: 4; 2: 3; 3: 2; 4: 1Part III Credit cardsKeys: 1 : importance 2 : later 3 : The potential disadvantages 4 : lots of purchases 5 : interest 6 : The benefits 7 : emergencies 8 : travelPart IV More about the topic: Gulf Between the Rich and PoorA. Keys: 1 : 3 2 : 1 3 : 2 4 : so much of their income 5 : ever larger houses and cars 6 : social programs or infrastructure repairs 7 : happier 8 : fewer disputes of work 9 : lower levels of stress hormones 10 : less often 11 : at an older ageB. Keys: 1 : vice president 2 : Myths of Rich and Poor 3 : positive side 4 : increased prosperity 5 : better off 6 : 30 years ago 7 : hundreds of gadgets 8 : easier 9 : more pleasurable 10 : cellular and cordless phones 11 : computers 12 : answering machines 13 : microwave ovens 14 : 3/4 15 : washing machines 16 : half 17 : clothes dryers 18 : 97% 19 : color televisions 20 : 3/4 21 : VCRs 22 : 2/3 23 : microwaves and air conditioners 24 : 3/4 25 : automobile 26 : 40% 27: home 28 :。

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英语听⼒教程4答案Unit 1 Shopping and Banking OnlinePart 1 Getting readyB: drop shopping mouse feet retailingstreet get done third-party online30% mails Britain gift-buying 50% net periodC: Major points Details1. the site2. merchant Addresses/phone number/call up3. Strict safety measures4.Part 2 Net shopping under fireA. delivery deliverydelivery chargespersonal information 87%returning goods 47%order 35% dispatch 87%money back twoB．Summary:convenience choice obstacles complete trustbuild consumers’ trust mature payment servicePart 3 Banking at homeA: Outline1. C: limited opening hours2. Online banking servicesD: getting current information on productsF: e-mailing questions to the bank3.A: competing for customers4.A: having no computer at homeB: 1. It is banking through the Internet.2. “Online banking” offers convenience which appeals to the kind ofcustomer banks want to keep.3. Banks most want to keep people who are young, well-educated, and have good incomes. Part 4 More about the topicB: English Good Customer Service American GoodCustomer Service1. in a pleasant environment 1. human side2. second to none a. family/…/occasions in life3. different customers b. a partnershipExample:take a look at everythingalternatives 3. repeat business sales come to sales assistants 4. first contact with the customerPart 5. Do you know …?1. c2. b3. c4. c5. c6. bUnit 2 Hotel or B&B?Part 1 Getting ready1. hot food: fried egg2. coffee tea jam cooked3. dinner, bed and breakfast4. the room plus all meals5. Value AddedTaxPart 2 A touch of homeOutline1. B&BA. bed and breakfastB. 15000C. advantages over big hotels2. A. meeting different people3. Several features of Suit UsA. built in 1883B. …famous guests4. A. B&B not suitable for some peoplePart 3 Renting a car/doc/ea22cf6fa98271fe910ef935.html rmation about the customerA family of three + camp equipmentLeaving on Fir., July 7thReturning on Mon., July 10th…Best choice: a Pinto station wagonRegular rate: $ 79.95Special weekend rate: $ 59.95Pick up: after 4 p. m. on Fri.Return: by 10 a. m. on Mon.Mileage rate: first 300 miles free, then 12 cents per mileOther costs: Insurance $ 10Sales tax 8%Deposit $ 100B: a compact car/ a station wagon/ automatic transmission/ current models/ pick up/ return the car/ special weekend rate/ regular rate/ unlimited mileage/ insurance sales tax/ a full tank of gas/ deposit/ lowest ratesPart 4. More about the topicA: 1. suite: a large room with a partition to separate the bedroom area from the sitting room area2. twin room: a room with two single beds for two people3. Penthouse: a well-furnished and luxurious suite at the top of the building4. Lounge or sitting room: a room not used as bedroom, whereguests may read, watch television, etc.5. single room: a room occupied by one person6. double room: a room with one large bed for two peopleUnit 3 “Planting” MoneyPart 1 Getting readyB: 这部分没有给答案A: Time: Thursday, April 17Purpose: teaching children how to save moneyWay of teaching: 2500 bankers making 5000 presentationsB: 1. Making savings visible and real: building up savings in a piggy bank/ opening children’s ownbank savings account.2. Encouraging children to save as much as they can: putting 25 cents away forevery dollar thechildren earn3. A first step toward learning to budget: giving children an allowance andpart of it goinginto their own savings.4. Making savings and investing fun: giving children play money to “invest”in stocks they cantrack in local newspapers Part 3 Credit cardsA: Outline1.The importance of credit cards2. NatureA. “charge”—paying at a later dateB: “limit”3. The potential disadvantages—expensiveA. easy to make lots of purchases on cardB. likely to pay a tremendous amount of interest4. The benefitsB. helpful for emergenciesC. good for travelPart 4 More about the topicA: Exercise 1Column A Column B1. 32 13 2Exercise 2: Answer the following two questions.1. “Spending priorities” refers to the following situation:Americans are spending so much of their income on ever larger houses and cars that they can’t afford to spend on social programs or infrastructure repairs.2. By doing so, one would feel happier, would have fewer disputes of work and lower levels of stress hormones in their blood. One gets sick less often and dies at an older age.B: Summary:Mr. Cox, the vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas,…, of Myths of Rich and Poor, sees the positive side to the increased prosperity of …Americans are better off than they were 30 years ago. Here … :Technological … created hundreds of gadgets that … both easier and more pleasurable, for example, cellular and cordless phones, computers,answering machines, and microwave ovens;Today … about 3/4 have washing machines, half have clothes dryers, 97% have color televisions, 3/4 have VCRs, 2/3 have microwaves and air conditioners, 3/4 own their own automobile, 40% own their own home, half have stereo systems.Part 5 Do you know …?A. Tokyo, Osaka, Oslo, Zurich. Hong Kong, Copenhagen, Geneva, Paris, Reykjavik, LondonB. 1. The euro has appreciated against the US dollar.2. Persistent economic turmoil.3. Tehran.4. The Economist team checks prices of a wide range of items—frombread and milk to cars and utilities—to compile this report.5. Business clients use it to calculate the amount of allowances grantedto overseas executive and their families.Unit 4 Loans for the DreamPart 1 Getting readyPart 2 Raising money for buying a carA: SummaryMr. Jackson …in the college…As…worth repairing, he … . Since…about a hundred pounds for …, … , three hundred fifty to four hundred…. The bank … different interest rates and conditions: a Personal Loan and an Ordinary Loan. Mr. Jackson is expected to repay the money with 24 months.1.透⽀额（贷款）overdraft2.偿还repay3.短期贷款（业务）lenders in the short term4.付利息pay interest on5.担保物collateral6.寿险life policy7.房屋的房契deeds of the houses8.政府证券Government Securities9.凭证certificate10.按⽇计算on a day-to-day basisPart 3 Housing in the U. S. A.A. Outline1. A. cost of housing1. 1/4-1/3 of a family’s income2. depending on size and locationB. way to buy a house—mortgage2. B. easy to get things repaired3. Buying …1. mortgage: …2. condominium: …B. 1. Home buyer borrows money from Bank sells mortgages to Fannie Mae sells shares and mortgage-based securities to Investors2. They control about half the home loans in America.3. Hiding changes in its value, poor supervision and not carefully reporting its finances.4. The stock price of Fannie Mae has dropped.Part 4 More about the topicA: 1. a. merchantable qualityb. fitting for particular purpose/ sellerc. as described2. no / retailer’s responsibility/ take to shop3. item/ too large/ fragile4. evidence of purchase/ date of purchase5. go to court / sue the sellerB. 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. FPart 5 Do you know …?B: Chart 1 Development of the idea of national taxesTime/ Number EventsApril 15th the last day to pay federal taxes1791 tax on whiskey and other alcoholic drink,farmers refused1794 George Washington, 13000 troops, defeated the Whiskey RebellionThe late 1800s people’s pay taxed by Congress, but rejectedby the Supreme Court1913 The 16th Amendment passed, legal for Congressto tax incomeMore than $312000 taxed at 35%, highest rateLess than $7000 no income taxChart 2 Composition of federal money in 20027%—income tax on businessesOver 40—personal income taxBelow 18%—other taxes, including customs35%— taxes for retirement programs and other servicesUnit 5 Briefing on Taxation and InsurancePoliciesPart 1 Getting readyDialogue one1. ￡30 00024% 2. overdraft 3. sailing Dialogue two1. A brand new video was stolen.2. Yes. The speaker paid the premium last week. Part 2 Briefing on personal taxation A. Outline 1. Structure of personal taxation A. rates1. lower rate: up to ￡23 700: 25%2. higher rate: above ￡23 700: 40% B. allowances1. single person: ￡32952. married person: ￡50153. pension: maximum 17.5% to 40%4. mortgage interest relief: 7%2. Collection of personal taxA. income tax —PAYEB. National Insurance1. employee’s contribution: 9%2. employer’s contribution: 5% to 10%B. 1. According … both simple and relatively low.2. The new … opt for separate taxation.3. The tax … pension is 40%4. PAYE stands for Pay As You Earn. The scheme …from theemployer before … bank transfer to the employee.5. Taxable income …deduction and the allowance have been excluded.Part 3. Should I buy an insurance policy?(1)A. insurance policy save money buying a houseB. 1. A. a fixed objective in mind/ how much to pay each monthB. a fixed objective each month in mind/ how much to produce over some years2. No/ regular & systematic/ short-term/ bank/ Building SocietyPart 4 More about the topicA. unmarried dependents no needAnswer the question with key wordsA. accumulate capital/ expand business/ end of termB. saving to produce a pensionPart 5 Do you know … ?1. T2. F3. F4. T5. TUnit 6 Visions of BusinessPart 1 Getting readyA. Michael Dell:Michael Dell serves as Chairman and CEO of Dell Computer Corporation. He is the longest tenured CEO in the whole computer industry. By using his innovative direct-to-consumer marketing approach and by pioneering the industry’s first service and support programs—the build-to-order revolution, Dell Computer Corporation has successfully eliminated the middle-man and established itself as one of the top vendors of personal computers worldwide.Frederick SmithFrederick Smith is Chairman, President and CEO of Federal Express Corporation, or FedEx, a global provider of transportation, e-commerce and supply chain management services. But when he first came up with the idea of overnight delivery service, nobody seemed to be interested in it. And now with its just-in-time delivery system, Smith has made FedEx a multi-billion dollar industry. FedEx used to provide mainly water and air delivery, but now it’s making a big push into the ground delivery business.B. Fred must stay competitive in the following aspects:1) the quality of service2) the breadth of the network3) the unique services needed4) the costPart 3 Michael Dell vs. Frederick Smith (2)B. Question: What keeps you going and what have you left to accomplish?Michael:Motivation: The opportunity in the industry, in the businessAmbitions1. To be a leader not only in client computing, but also in the enterprise and servers and storage.2. To do business not just in the United States but all over the world3. To add a lot of services that go along with the productsFrederickPositive attitude towards future:Being truly excited about the company’s futurePositive attitude towards work:Enjoy going to work every dayLove to competeLove to innovateLove to work with a lot of wonderful people and sit right in the middleof a lot of very exciting business trends.Part 4 More about the topicSummary:One of the most fundamental steps toward a successful business is the business plan. It doesn’t matter whether your company is a large one or a small one. What does matter is having a business plan to make the idea a reality. A plan is essential for any business. It is like a map for your business as to where you’re going to go. And a business plan is the very best way to get started because when you do a business plan you go from “A” to “Z” in figuring out every aspect: how much money you need; how many people you’ll need; whether you’ll need people. It gives you a way of prediction where the business may go so you can position yourself to respond intelligently and use the least amount of money. So a business plan is even more critical for those budding entrepreneurs that don’t have much money, for it can help to use the limited resources in the very best way.Part 5 Do you know … ?80 100oldest largest fastest growing 1919 school hours organized o perated forming Localdeveloped shares materials produced profits ownedbusiness operate1974 classrooms programs 5 18 2 700 000 85 0005 11 V olunteer m ain rules organized made soldeconomy money industry trade families communities12 14 business expert Project economic theoriessupply demand corporations world trade12 14 Economics leaving completing continuinggame jobs education money get earnneed want high schoolUnit 7 Fame and FortuneFor the tape script, you can download the file beside.Click here to download the file with tape script.(Or right click & “save target as”)Part I Getting readyA.B. Keys:1：magazine 2：newspaper 3：Microsoft Company 4：successful 5：richest6：3rd 7：1955 8：Washington 9：computers 10：13 11：baseball 12：football 13：computer programs 14：perform 15：high16：computer language 17：Basic 18：valuable 19：office20：home 21：established 22：1975 23：three 24：computer software 25：established 26：nternational 27：usiness 28：achines 29：1981 30：personal computer 31：operating system 32 ：129 33：computer companies34：Windows 35：easier 36：officials 37：4000000038：thousands of millions of dollars 39：16 000 40：48 41：30 42：100Part II Bill Gates’ n ew rulesA. Keys:1: quailty2: re-engineering3: velocity1: communication 2: e-mail3: sales data online 4: insights5: knowledge workers 6: high-level thinking7: create virtual teams8: paper process 9: digital process10: eliminate single-task jobs11: digital feedback loop12: route customer complaints13: redefine the boundaries14: business process 15: just-in-time delivery16: eliminate the middle man17: help customers solve problemsPart III Great business dealsA. Keys:1: NATIONAL STEAMSHIP2: 20 000 3: Aristotle Onassis4: 6 000 5: American6: Big Ben 7: 1 000 8: tourist9: Buckingham Palace 10: 2 00011: The White House 12: 100 00013: The Statue of Liberty 14: 100 000 15: Australian1: boom 2: world depression 3: millionaire4: identified 5: fraud 6: five 7: California 8: luxuryPart IV More about the topic: Walt Disney1: correspondence course 2: Oswald the Rabbit 3: talking cartoon film 4: Walt Disney himself 5: storyteller6: Ub Iwerks7: 35; feature-length cartoon film; 2 000 000; three8: potential9: 55; 17 000 00027: taste; vulgarity; children of all agesPart V Do you know…?1: $24 worth of kettles, axes and cloth.2: $80 000 000.3: $27 000 000.4: About 12 cents.5: About 800 000 square miles.6: About 1 600 000 square miles.7: $7 200 000.8: About 5 cents.9: $750 000 000 worth.10: An estimated 100 000 000 000 tons.Unit 8 Business SuccessFor the tape script, you can download the file beside.Click here to download the file with tape script.(Or right click & “save target as”)Part I Getting readyA.B. Keys:1: 90-149 pounds2: 465 pounds3: 240 pounds4: 46 pounds5: 835 poundsPart II Witty Ways to SuccessA. Keys:B. Keys:Dos:1: about 3 2: 1 or 2 pumps 3: be firm but not crushing 4: at waist level 5: down6: business format 7: e-mail buttons 8: carbon copy9: praise 10: criticize11: mind reading 12: return your phone call 13: cop toDon’ts:1: the limp handshake 2: the bone-crusher 3: the two-handed handshake 4: up 5: sensitive6: conflict 7: casual 8: smiley face9: winking 10: capitalizing11: carbon copy the bossPart III Technology in doing businessA. Keys:1: technologies; efficiency and sales2: in the digital world3: computer internet4: electronic commerce; consumers5: embrace; dieB. Keys:1: F 2: T 3: F 4: F 5: TPart IV More about the topic: How to Improve Your Executive Image?A. Keys:1: d 2: c 3: a 4: b 5: aPart V Do you know…?A. Keys:。

大学英语专业听力教程4参考答案Listeningcourse4

大学英语专业听力教程4参考答案Listeningcourse4Listening course 4These answers are typed word by word ,please make full use of them,not just copyingUnit 1Section one1、在美国，大学教育的费用很贵。

2、费用的上涨使越来越多的美国家庭通过借钱来支付上大学的费用。

3、有各种各样的联邦贷款和私人贷款可供学生挑选。

4、在这些贷款中，有些品种的利率将从七月一日起上调。

5、人们越来越担心，很多学生将背负着沉重的债务从大学毕业。

Section 2Part 1 A C D C B C B APart 2 F F T T F T T FSection 3NEWS 1 A;China's ambitious space programB: in the remote grasslands of Inner Mongolia a source of national pride and international prestige 2007 the astronauts will attempt a space walkThe capability to rendezvous and dock with other spacecraft to recruit female astronaut in the near futureNEWS 2 A: the growth of china's economyB: question marks overheating vehicles and appliancespower generation and automobiles higher food prices crops transportNEWS 3 A:china's large and growing trade with and aid to Africa.B: 1.In many African capitals ,the main football stadium islikely to have been built with Chinese aid money.2.it is estimated that Sino-African trade ,and aid, amounts to as high as 12 billion dollars a year.3.The links between china and Africa could grow to challenge the post-colonial links between Europe and Africa.4.On the meeting in Addis Ababa,china promised to cancel debts, grants duty-free access into china for African products and increase Chinese investments in Africa.Section 4Part 1A: T F F F TB: 1. It has been established for 11 years.2.it takes place every April.3.Because they glorify violence and foster unhealthy eating habits.4.They should have a wide variety of experiences, such as interacting with other people,playing games, sports, music and reading.5.The network is lobbying foe the better regulation of the use of television in public spaces.Part 2A D C D C AB DUnit 2Section one1、一些人担心他们并未从所吃的食物中获取足够的维生素。

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大学生英语教材4听力答案Unit 1: Campus LifePart 1: Short ConversationsSection A1. B. The chemistry building.2. C. A camera.3. A. It's too hot.4. B. She will go to the concert.5. C. He'll look for an apartment tomorrow.Section B6. C. They will have a party.7. A. She needs more time to think about it.8. B. His wallet was stolen.9. A. It's too crowded.10. B. He needs to go to the library.Part 2: PassagesSection A11. C. To prepare for a class presentation.12. B. Reading newspapers and magazines.13. A. Less than half of the students.14. B. To focus on practical applications.15. C. By attending seminars and workshops.Section B16. B. They will be more difficult.17. C. There will be more group work.18. A. To develop students' critical thinking skills.19. B. They allow students to apply theoretical knowledge.20. A. It helps students gain practical experience.Unit 2: Personal CharacteristicsPart 1: Short ConversationsSection A1. B. In a restaurant.2. C. They both enjoyed the movie.3. A. History.4. B. He prefers reading magazines.5. C. It's too expensive.Section B6. A. Taking risks.7. B. They are curious.8. C. She should be more patient.9. B. He has a new pet.10. A. She wants to lose weight.Part 2: PassagesSection A11. B. By staying positive.12. A. They are independent.13. C. They have a strong sense of purpose.14. A. They have a positive impact on others.15. C. By setting specific goals.Section B16. B. They are more likely to succeed.17. A. They learn from their failures.18. C. They have good time management skills.19. B. By stepping out of their comfort zone.20. A. They are motivated and determined. Unit 3: Travel and SightseeingPart 1: Short Conversations1. B. At a travel agency.2. C. She prefers cultural experiences.3. A. To visit historical landmarks.4. B. The weather forecast for tomorrow.5. C. By taking a guided tour.Section B6. C. It's famous for its museums.7. A. By taking a cruise.8. A. He will have a layover in Chicago.9. B. They should try the local cuisine.10. A. She enjoys exploring new places.Part 2: PassagesSection A11. C. It offers a variety of outdoor activities.12. B. To explore the natural beauty.13. A. They are known for their architecture.14. B. It attracts tourists with its cultural heritage.15. C. By experiencing the local traditions.16. B. To learn about different cultures.17. A. They can broaden their horizons.18. C. It allows people to relax and rejuvenate.19. B. They can create lifelong memories.20. A. It helps to promote mutual understanding. Unit 4: Daily LifePart 1: Short ConversationsSection A1. A. At a pet store.2. C. She bought a new laptop.3. A. He needs help with his homework.4. B. It's too noisy.5. C. He wants to try a new recipe.Section B6. B. They enjoy spending time outdoors.7. A. To reduce stress.8. C. She should get more sleep.9. B. They are planning a surprise birthday party.10. A. He wants to improve his cooking skills.Part 2: PassagesSection A11. B. By establishing a routine.12. A. It helps to save time.13. C. They can improve productivity.14. A. It allows for better organization.15. B. By prioritizing tasks.Section B16. B. It improves overall well-being.17. C. They can enhance creativity.18. A. It strengthens relationships.19. B. They can develop new skills.20. C. It contributes to personal growth.Note: The above answers are based on assumptions and may not match the actual content of the textbook. It is advisable to refer to the official answer key provided by the textbook publisher for accurate answers. The format of the article does not adhere to any specific style as per the instruction.。

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Unit 1 Shopping and Banking OnlinePart 1 Getting readyB: drop shopping mouse feet retailingstreet get done third-party online30% mails Britain gift-buying 50% net periodC: Major points Details1. the site2. merchant Addresses/phone number/call up3. Strict safety measures4.Part 2 Net shopping under fireA. delivery deliverydelivery chargespersonal information 87%returning goods 47%order 35% dispatch 87%money back twoB．Summary:convenience choice obstacles complete trustbuild consumers’ trust mature payment servicePart 3 Banking at homeA: Outline1. C: limited opening hours2. Online banking servicesD: getting current information on productsF: e-mailing questions to the bank3.A: competing for customers4.A: having no computer at homeB: 1. It is banking through the Internet.2. “Online banking” offers convenience which appeals to the kind ofcustomer banks want to keep.3. Banks most want to keep people who are young, well-educated, and have good incomes.Part 4 More about the topicB: English Good Customer Service American GoodCustomer Service1. in a pleasant environment 1. human side2. second to none a. family/…/occasions in life3. different customers b. a partnershipExample:take a look at everythingalternatives 3. repeat business sales come to sales assistants4. first contact with the customerPart 5. Do you know …?1. c2. b3. c4. c5. c6. bUnit 2 Hotel or B&B?Part 1 Getting ready1. hot food: fried egg2. coffee tea jam cooked3. dinner, bed and breakfast4. the room plus all meals5. Value AddedTaxPart 2 A touch of homeOutline1. B&BA. bed and breakfastB. 15000C. advantages over big hotels2. A. meeting different people3. Several features of Suit UsA. built in 1883B. …famous guests4. A. B&B not suitable for some peoplePart 3 Renting a carrmation about the customerA family of three + camp equipmentLeaving on Fir., July 7thReturning on Mon., July 10th…Best choice: a Pinto station wagonRegular rate: $ 79.95Special weekend rate: $ 59.95Pick up: after 4 p. m. on Fri.Return: by 10 a. m. on Mon.Mileage rate: first 300 miles free, then 12 cents per mileOther costs: Insurance $ 10Sales tax 8%Deposit $ 100B: a compact car/ a station wagon/ automatic transmission/ current models/ pick up/ return the car/ special weekend rate/ regular rate/ unlimited mileage/ insurance sales tax/ a full tank of gas/ deposit/ lowest ratesPart 4. More about the topicA: 1. suite: a large room with a partition to separate the bedroom area from the sitting room area2. twin room: a room with two single beds for two people3. Penthouse: a well-furnished and luxurious suite at the top of the building4. Lounge or sitting room: a room not used as bedroom, whereguests may read, watch television, etc.5. single room: a room occupied by one person6. double room: a room with one large bed for two peopleUnit 3 “Planting” MoneyPart 1 Getting readyB: 这部分没有给答案A: Time: Thursday, April 17Purpose: teaching children how to save moneyWay of teaching: 2500 bankers making 5000 presentationsB: 1. Making savings visible and real: building up savings in a piggybank/ opening children’s ownbank savings account.2. Encouraging children to save as much as they can: putting 25cents away forevery dollar thechildren earn3. A first step toward learning to budget: giving children anallowance andpart of it goinginto their own savings.4. Making savings and investing fun: giving children play money to“invest”in stocks they cantrack in local newspapers Part 3 Credit cardsA: Outline1.The importance of credit cards2. NatureA. “charge”—paying at a later dateB: “limit”3. The potential disadvantages—expensiveA. easy to make lots of purchases on cardB. likely to pay a tremendous amount of interest4. The benefitsB. helpful for emergenciesC. good for travelPart 4 More about the topicA: Exercise 1Column A Column B1. 32 13 2Exercise 2: Answer the following two questions.1. “Spending priorities” refers to the following situation:Americans are spending so much of their income on ever larger houses and cars that they can’t afford to spend on social programs or infrastructure repairs.2. By doing so, one would feel happier, would have fewer disputes of work and lower levels of stress hormones in their blood. One gets sick less often and dies at an older age.B: Summary:Mr. Cox, the vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas,…, of Myths of Rich and Poor, sees the positive side to the increased prosperity of …Americans are better off than they were 30 years ago. Here … :Technological … created hundreds of gadgets that … both easier and more pleasurable, for example, cellular and cordless phones, computers,answering machines, and microwave ovens;Today … about 3/4 have washing machines, half have clothes dryers, 97% have color televisions, 3/4 have VCRs, 2/3 have microwaves and air conditioners, 3/4 own their own automobile, 40% own their own home, half have stereo systems.Part 5 Do you know …?A. Tokyo, Osaka, Oslo, Zurich. Hong Kong, Copenhagen, Geneva, Paris, Reykjavik, LondonB. 1. The euro has appreciated against the US dollar.2. Persistent economic turmoil.3. Tehran.4. The Economist team checks prices of a wide range of items—frombread and milk to cars and utilities—to compile this report.5. Business clients use it to calculate the amount of allowances grantedto overseas executive and their families.Unit 4 Loans for the DreamPart 1 Getting readyPart 2 Raising money for buying a carA: SummaryMr. Jackson …in the college…As…worth repairing, he … . Since…about a hundred pounds for …, … , three hundred fifty to four hundred…. The bank … different interest rates and conditions: a Personal Loan and an Ordinary Loan. Mr. Jackson is expected to repay the money with 24 months.1.透支额（贷款）overdraft2.偿还repay3.短期贷款（业务）lenders in the short term4.付利息pay interest on5.担保物collateral6.寿险life policy7.房屋的房契deeds of the houses8.政府证券Government Securities9.凭证certificate10.按日计算on a day-to-day basisPart 3 Housing in the U. S. A.A. Outline1. A. cost of housing1. 1/4-1/3 of a family’s income2. depending on size and locationB. way to buy a house—mortgage2. B. easy to get things repaired3. Buying …1. mortgage: …2. condominium: …B. 1. Home buyer borrows money from Bank sells mortgages toFannie Mae sells shares and mortgage-based securities toInvestors2. They control about half the home loans in America.3. Hiding changes in its value, poor supervision and not carefullyreporting its finances.4. The stock price of Fannie Mae has dropped.Part 4 More about the topicA: 1. a. merchantable qualityb. fitting for particular purpose/ sellerc. as described2. no / retailer’s responsibility/ take to shop3. item/ too large/ fragile4. evidence of purchase/ date of purchase5. go to court / sue the sellerB. 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. FPart 5 Do you know …?B: Chart 1 Development of the idea of national taxesTime/ Number EventsApril 15th the last day to pay federal taxes1791 tax on whiskey and other alcoholic drink,farmers refused1794 George Washington, 13000 troops, defeated theWhiskey RebellionThe late 1800s people’s pay taxed by Congress, but rejectedby the Supreme Court1913 The 16th Amendment passed, legal for Congressto tax incomeMore than $312000 taxed at 35%, highest rateLess than $7000 no income taxChart 2 Composition of federal money in 20027%—income tax on businessesOver 40—personal income taxBelow 18%—other taxes, including customs35%— taxes for retirement programs and other servicesUnit 5 Briefing on Taxation and InsurancePoliciesPart 1 Getting readyDialogue one1. ￡30 00024% 2. overdraft 3. sailing Dialogue two1. A brand new video was stolen.2. Yes. The speaker paid the premium last week. Part 2 Briefing on personal taxation A. Outline1. Structure of personal taxation A. rates1. lower rate: up to ￡23 700: 25%2. higher rate: above ￡23 700: 40% B. allowances1. single person: ￡32952. married person: ￡50153. pension: maximum 17.5% to 40%4. mortgage interest relief: 7%2. Collection of personal taxA. income tax —PAYEB. National Insurance1. employee’s contribution: 9%2. employer’s contribution: 5% to 10%B. 1. According … both simple and relatively low.2. The new … opt for separate taxation.3. The tax … pension is 40%4. PAYE stands for Pay As You Earn. The scheme …from theemployer before … bank transfer to the employee.5. Taxable income …deduction and the allowance have been excluded.Part 3. Should I buy an insurance policy?(1)A. insurance policy save money buying a houseB. 1. A. a fixed objective in mind/ how much to pay each monthB. a fixed objective each month in mind/ how much to produce over some years2. No/ regular & systematic/ short-term/ bank/ Building SocietyPart 4 More about the topicA. unmarried dependents no needAnswer the question with key wordsA. accumulate capital/ expand business/ end of termB. saving to produce a pensionPart 5 Do you know … ?1. T2. F3. F4. T5. TUnit 6 Visions of BusinessPart 1 Getting readyA. Michael Dell:Michael Dell serves as Chairman and CEO of Dell Computer Corporation. He is the longest tenured CEO in the whole computer industry. By using his innovative direct-to-consumer marketing approach and by pioneering the industry’s first service and support programs—the build-to-order revolution, Dell Computer Corporation has successfully eliminated the middle-man and established itself as one of the top vendors of personal computers worldwide.Frederick SmithFrederick Smith is Chairman, President and CEO of Federal Express Corporation, or FedEx, a global provider of transportation, e-commerce and supply chain management services. But when he first came up with the idea of overnight delivery service, nobody seemed to be interested in it. And now with its just-in-time delivery system, Smith has made FedEx a multi-billion dollar industry. FedEx used to provide mainly water and air delivery, but now it’s making a big push into the ground delivery business.B. Fred must stay competitive in the following aspects:1) the quality of service2) the breadth of the network3) the unique services needed4) the costPart 3 Michael Dell vs. Frederick Smith (2)B. Question: What keeps you going and what have you left to accomplish?Michael:Motivation: The opportunity in the industry, in the businessAmbitions1. To be a leader not only in client computing, but also in the enterprise and servers and storage.2. To do business not just in the United States but all over the world3. To add a lot of services that go along with the productsFrederickPositive attitude towards future:Being truly excited about the company’s futurePositive attitude towards work:Enjoy going to work every dayLove to competeLove to innovateLove to work with a lot of wonderful people and sit right in the middleof a lot of very exciting business trends.Part 4 More about the topicSummary:One of the most fundamental steps toward a successful business is the business plan. It doesn’t matter whether your company is a large one or a small one. What does matter is having a business plan to make the idea a reality. A plan is essential for any business. It is like a map for your business as to where you’re going to go. And a business plan is the very best way to get started because when you do a business plan you go from “A” to “Z” in figuring out every aspect: how much money you need; how many people you’ll need; whether you’ll need people. It gives you a way of prediction where the business may go so you can position yourself to respond intelligently and use the least amount of money. So a business plan is even more critical for those budding entrepreneurs that don’t have much money, for it can help to use the limited resources in the very best way.Part 5 Do you know … ?80 100oldest largest fastest growing 1919 school hours organized o perated forming Localdeveloped shares materials produced profits ownedbusiness operate1974 classrooms programs 5 18 2 700 000 85 0005 11 V olunteer m ain rules organized made soldeconomy money industry trade families communities12 14 business expert Project economic theoriessupply demand corporations world trade12 14 Economics leaving completing continuinggame jobs education money get earnneed want high schoolUnit 7 Fame and FortuneFor the tape script, you can download the file beside.Click here to download the file with tape script.(Or right click & “save target as”)Part I Getting readyA.B. Keys:1：magazine 2：newspaper 3：Microsoft Company 4：successful 5：richest6：3rd 7：1955 8：Washington 9：computers 10：13 11：baseball 12：football 13：computer programs 14：perform 15：high16：computer language 17：Basic 18：valuable 19：office20：home 21：established 22：1975 23：three 24：computer software 25：established 26：nternational 27：usiness 28：achines 29：1981 30：personal computer 31：operating system 32 ：129 33：computer companies34：Windows 35：easier 36：officials 37：4000000038：thousands of millions of dollars 39：16 000 40：48 41：30 42：100Part II Bill Gates’ n ew rulesA. Keys:1: quailty2: re-engineering3: velocity1: communication 2: e-mail3: sales data online 4: insights5: knowledge workers 6: high-level thinking7: create virtual teams8: paper process 9: digital process10: eliminate single-task jobs11: digital feedback loop12: route customer complaints13: redefine the boundaries14: business process 15: just-in-time delivery16: eliminate the middle man17: help customers solve problemsPart III Great business dealsA. Keys:1: NATIONAL STEAMSHIP2: 20 000 3: Aristotle Onassis4: 6 000 5: American6: Big Ben 7: 1 000 8: tourist9: Buckingham Palace 10: 2 00011: The White House 12: 100 00013: The Statue of Liberty 14: 100 000 15: Australian1: boom 2: world depression 3: millionaire4: identified 5: fraud 6: five 7: California 8: luxuryPart IV More about the topic: Walt Disney1: correspondence course 2: Oswald the Rabbit 3: talking cartoon film 4: Walt Disney himself5: storyteller6: Ub Iwerks7: 35; feature-length cartoon film; 2 000 000; three8: potential9: 55; 17 000 00027: taste; vulgarity; children of all agesPart V Do you know…?1: $24 worth of kettles, axes and cloth.2: $80 000 000.3: $27 000 000.4: About 12 cents.5: About 800 000 square miles.6: About 1 600 000 square miles.7: $7 200 000.8: About 5 cents.9: $750 000 000 worth.10: An estimated 100 000 000 000 tons.Unit 8 Business SuccessFor the tape script, you can download the file beside.Click here to download the file with tape script.(Or right click & “save target as”)Part I Getting readyA.B. Keys:1: 90-149 pounds2: 465 pounds3: 240 pounds4: 46 pounds5: 835 poundsPart II Witty Ways to SuccessA. Keys:B. Keys:Dos:1: about 3 2: 1 or 2 pumps 3: be firm but not crushing 4: at waist level 5: down6: business format 7: e-mail buttons 8: carbon copy9: praise 10: criticize11: mind reading 12: return your phone call 13: cop toDon’ts:1: the limp handshake 2: the bone-crusher 3: the two-handed handshake 4: up 5: sensitive6: conflict 7: casual 8: smiley face9: winking 10: capitalizing11: carbon copy the bossPart III Technology in doing businessA. Keys:1: technologies; efficiency and sales2: in the digital world3: computer internet4: electronic commerce; consumers5: embrace; dieB. Keys:1: F 2: T 3: F 4: F 5: TPart IV More about the topic: How to Improve Your Executive Image?A. Keys:1: d 2: c 3: a 4: b 5: aPart V Do you know…?A. Keys:1: Ten percent of American workers.2: Construction, agriculture, communication, retail, manufacturing, engineering and real estate.3: Her customers’ good will and the friendships she has made at her store. 4: Because women business owners tend to place more emphasis on nurturing the individual employee’s needs.Unit 9 Feeling the Financial MarketFor the tape script, you can download the file beside.Click here to download the file with tape script.(Or right click & “save target as”)Part I Getting readyA.B.Keys:1 ：investing2 ：owns3 ：profits4 ：agreement5 ：rate of interest6 ：issue7 ：ownership8 ：securities9 ：bet 10 ：commodity 11 ：futures 12 ：price 13 ：obligation 14 ：trade 15 ：markets 16 ：combine 17 ：pool 18 ：fund 19 ：play 20 ：professionals 21 ：instrumentsPart II The commodity marketsA.Keys:B.Keys:1 ：＄324.252 ：＄324.503 ：＄324.45C.Keys:1 ：4282 ：438.5D.Keys:1 ：8 4372 ：4203 ：2 855E.Keys:1 ：＄132 2 ：225.75Part III Bank organizationA.Keys:Banking Division: 1 : The Americas 2 : Europe 3 : Middle East Private Banking Division 4 : internationalTreasurer’s Division 5 : investment 6 : commercial 7 : Forex 8 : finance Administrative Division 9 : personnel 10 : econimicFinancial and Information Systems Division 11 : Tax 12 : Data Corporate Planning Division 13 : strategic 14 : creditPart IV More about the topic: The Dow-Jones Industrial Average Outline:I.1: daily measure 2: thirty 3: points 4: general 5: the American economy II.6: ownership 7: investment 8: demand 9: the company’s valueIII.10: one century 11: businessnews 12: The Wall Street Journal 13: 500 14: 1 00015: 1972 16: 500 17: 1987 18: 4 000 19: 5 000IV.20: closelywatchedPart V Do you know…?A.Keys:1 : less developed countries2 : National Income3 : Gross Domestic Product4 : Gross National ProductUnit 10 Business StrategiesFor the tape script, you can download the file beside.Click here to download the file with tape script.(Or right click & “save target as”) 部分已修正。

大学英语视听说第四册第四章小结的答案

PART ONE LISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION ADirections: In this section you’ll hear 6 conversations between 2 speakers. For each conversation, there are several questions and each question is followed by 3 choices. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter (A, B or C) on the question booklet.You will hear each conversation TWICE. (22.5 points)Conversation 11. What is the relationship between the speakers?A. Lovers.B. Strangers.C. Friends.2. What are they doing now?A. Listening to pop music.B. Going to a ball.C. Dancing.Conversation 23. Which season is it now?A. Autumn.B. Summer.C. Spring.4. What can we learn from the Chinese saying?A. People should wear warm clothes in spring.B. People should wear warm clothes in autumn.C. People should wear less clothing in spring.Conversation 35. Why was Jack at the restaurant with his family?A. For his grandpa’s birthday.B. For his parents’ wedding anniversary.C. For his grandma’s birthday.6. When is the woman’s birthday?A. Tomorrow.B. In February.C. In January.Conversation 47. Why did the woman call the man?A. To ask for directions.B. To inform him where she is.C. To say sorry.8. What time is it now?A. Around 7:30.B. Around 8:00.C. Around 8:30.9. Where did the woman leave from?A. Her house.B. The hotel.C. Her office.Conversation 510. What kind of person is Rosie?A. She’s talkative.B. She’s a real complainer(抱怨者).C. She’s easygoing11. What day is today?A. Friday.B. Thursday.C. Wednesday.12. What does the man suggest the woman do?A. Talk with Rosie directly.B. Not go to eat out with Rosie again.C. Let some other people talk to Rosie.Conversation 613. What’s the relationship between the speak ers?A. Friends.B. Husband and wife.C. Guide and traveler.14. What do we know about the woman?A. She visited many interesting places in Nanjing.B. She loves traveling.C. She enjoyed everything in Nanjing.15. What will they do next?A. Enjoy the fresh air.B. Take some pictures.C. Look at some photos.SECTION B (7.5 marks)Directions: In this section, you’ll hear a mini-talk. Listen carefully and then fill in the numbered blanks with the information you’ve got. Fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS. You’ll hear the mini-talk TWICE.The Solway Fitness ClubBusiness hours From 6:30 a. m. to 16. ______ p. m., seven days a week.Facilities ●There is a large gym with all the 17. ______.●Pools: a ten-meter pool for diving and 25-meter pool for18. ______●A steam room for relaxationTo become a member Call us and ask to 19. ______ to Mrs. ColvilleClub tours Guided tours are offered at 2:15 every 20. ______.PART TWO KNOWLEDGE USESECTION ADirections: Beneath each of the following sentences there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence. （15 points）21. —— ________ David this morning?—— Not yet, but he is sure to be here before noon.A. Have you seenB. Will you seeC. Do you seeD. Did you see22. When they came in, Mr. Harris ________ like a baby. Nobody would like to wake him up because he needed rest.A. fell asleepB. was asleepC. got asleepD. went to sleep23. Longjing tea, Jasmine tea and Wuyi tea are all famous, but which do you think________?A. tastes bestB. smells betterC. sounds bestD. drinks better24. The vegetables didn’t taste good. They ________ too long.A. had been cookedB. were cookedC. had cookedD. cooked25. ——I’m sorry, but I shouldn’t have been so rude to you.——You ________ your temper but it doesn’t matter.A. have lostB. had lostC. did loseD. was losing26. —— Why? Tom, your shirt is so dirty!—— Mum, I ________ my room upstairs all the morning.A. cleanedB. have cleanedC. was cleaningD. have been cleaning27. Some buildings in the past have been pulled down and new ones ________ there.A. are builtB. have builtC. are being builtD. are building28. When they heard the good news, they all looked ________ at the teacher and feltvery________.A. happy； happyB. happily； happilyC. happy； happilyD. happily； happy29. I want to buy that kind of pen because I ________ the pen ________ well.A. have told； writesB. have been told； writesC. was told； wroteD. have been told； is written30. The milk tea, ________, is popular with the teenagers.A. tasted wellB. tasted goodC. tasting goodD. tasting well31. The suggestion put forward by him at the conference ________.A. proved practicalB. was proved to be practicalC. was proved valuableD. proved to be value32. David as well as the other three students who ________ won in this writingcompetition________ praised by our class teacher.A. has; wasB. has; wereC. have; wasD. have; were33. When asked why she studied journalism, Sang Lan said she did so ______ for a host of a sports program.A. trainingB. being trainedC. to have trainedD. to be trained34. ----What do you think of white-water rafting?----It is an enjoyable sport, ________ young people find great excitement.A. whereB. whichC. whenD. that35. There is a new problem with the popularity of private cars_____ road condition need_____.A. that; to be improvedB. which; to be improvedC. where; improvingD. when; improvingSECTION BDirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with a word or phrase that best fits the context.（18 points）With a heavy heart Sally arrived early on the morning of the auction(拍卖). It was almost a year since her dear grandmother had passed away in this house at the age of ninety-two. 36 , the family business had failed and left them with heavy debts. So the bank had 37 _ the family to have an auction sale to repay their debts.Over the last several weeks, Sally had managed to save 100 dollars in order to bid（出价）for the 38 . Surely this would be enough, she had thought. Now the big moment had arrived. Looking around, Sally was surprised to see so many people had turned up, some from far away.As the auction began, Sally waited. Finally, the time came to bid on the quilt. She held her39 tightly and listened. The first bid was $50. She was shocked. It was so high. Quickly other people bid and soon the bidding 40 $85. Sally cried out “$100!”. For a moment there was silence.Just then, from the back, another person shouted “$125!” She had lost her41 . She couldn’t help wondering why so many people were interested in that old, torn, dirty quilt, which was sold for $500 to a complete 42 .After the sale, she went to the counter to pay for the few items that were now hers. The woman at the cash desk handed her the quilt. “There must be some 43 . Someone else got it,” she said. Then she found a hand-written 44 was pinned to the quilt, which read:Dear Madam,I noticed you 45 the quilt. Clearly, it was 46 to you. Please accept this quilt asmy gift. I don’t expect repayment from you, but do a similar favor in the future for a stranger who 47 to cross your path.36. A. Naturally B. Unfortunately C. Luckily D. Strangely37. A. forbidden B. waited C. forced D. expected38. A. house B. pillow C. furniture D. quilt39. A. purse B. picture C. book D. house40. A. rose B. climbed C. reached D. won41. A. thought B. chance C. method D. fortune42. A. relative B. customer C. friend D. stranger43. A. reason B. secret C. mistake D. fun44. A. note B. wallet C. address D. check45. A. admiring B. touching C. watching D. holding46. A. wonderful B. various C. pretty D. precious47. A. uses B. stops C. happens D. comesSection CDirections: Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with ONE word that best fits the context.(12 points)Almost everyone has some kind of hobby. It may be anything from collecting stamps 48 making model airplanes. Some hobbies are very expensive, 49 others don’t cost anything at all. Some collections are worth a lot of money; others are valuable only to50 owners.I know a man who has a coin collection worth several thousand dollars. A short time ago he bought a rare fifty-cent piece worth $250！He was very happy about his purchase (buying) and thought 51 price was reasonable. My youngest brother collects matchboxes. He has almost 600 of them but I doubt 52 they are worth any money. However, to my brotherthey are extremely valuable. Nothing makes him happier 53 to find a new matchbox for his collection.That’s54 a hobby means, I guess. It is something we like to do in our spare time simply for the fun of it. The value in dollars is not important, but the pleasure 55 it gives us is.PART THREE READING COMPREHENSIONDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage. （30 points）AA woman was walking her dog along a beach in New Zealand in late June when she saw something that looked like a white ball in the sand. It turned out to be a young Emperor penguin that was lost. At his age, he should have been close to Antarctica, swimming for fish and playing on the ice floes(浮冰). But this penguin started swimming north and just kept going.The penguin attracted a lot of attention in New Zealand. It has been 40 years since an Emperor penguin was last seen there. Researchers at the Department of Conservation were called in. They decided to watch the penguin closely, but not to disturb him in any way. Many New Zealanders came to Peka Peka Beach to look at the elegant penguin. They were careful to keep their dogs away from him so he wouldn’t be frightened.The public nicknamed the animal Happy Feet. Researchers started to notice that Happy Feet didn’t seem well. It turned out that he had been eating the sand from the beach, likely thinking it was snow.The public raised more than 11,000 pounds for an operation to get the sand out of his stomach. The operation was a success, and Happy Feet was taken to a zoo in Wellington, NZ. A group of experts met to decide how to help Happy Feet return to the wild.Last Sunday, they put him on a boat called Tangaroa, in a specially built ice-filled box and took him into the ocean which is his natural habitat. He took one last look at his human helpers and then dived into the ocean.56. Where was the young penguin supposed to be?A. On the sunny beach.B. Near Antarctica.C. Inside the hole in the ice.D. At the bottom of the ocean.57. Why did many New Zealanders keep their dogs away from the penguin?A. In order not to frighten him.B. In order not to make a noise.C. In order to watch him at a distanceD. In order to learn about the animal.58. What was the problem with Happy Feet?A. He felt extremely lonely.B. He had trouble walking on the sand.C. He had some sand in his stomach.D. He had no food to eat all the way.59. The public collected some money to ________.A. build a home for the penguinB. pay for an operation on the penguinC. do research on the penguinD. return the penguin to its natural habitat60. Where can we most probably read this passage?A. In a research paper.B. In a student’s book.C. In a travel magazine.D. In a newspaper report.BIf a child has a learning problem before he leaves the Second or Third Grade, it’s difficult for him to study well. ADHD(注意力缺乏多动症)is one of the most common learning disabilities. Even with parents and doctors working together without schools’ help, it is very hard to get rid of the disability. Sadly, even today, there are many schools that don’t know how to de al with the children with these disabilities.Fairfield Primary School is a good place for children that have been diagnosed with ADHD. The teachers really care about all of their students and they are willing to work with parents and doctors in order to help these children. When they see the child want to act up(捣蛋) in class, they usually give the child something physical to do in order to get rid of the excess(过多的) energy. They never punish the child for something that is beyond the child’s control.Overall, Fairfield Primary School has all of things that a child with ADHD needs. They provide interesting class games for the child’s excess energy. They also provide the school rules the child needs. They give the child a caring environment where they are not kept apart because they are different. This is a very good school for a child who is suffering from one or more of these problems.We believe your child with ADHD can learn, change and succeed if they come to study in Fairfield Primary School.61. The passage is mainly about ________.A. a childB. a schoolC. a teacherD. a disease62. Which of the following is necessary to help children with ADHD according to the passage?A. Taking them to see doctors more often.B. Parents’ spending more time c aring for them.C. Parents, doctors and schools’ working together.D. Choosing the best primary school for them.63. The teachers in Fairfield Primary School ________.A. don’t like children with excess energyB. are good at dealing with many diseasesC. create a good environment for parentsD. care about all the children with ADHD64. How do the teachers deal with students with excess energy?A. By punishing and criticizing them.B. By asking them to play games.C. By forcing them to listen to them.D. By giving them a strict environment.65. Who is the passage written for?A. Teachers.B. Children.C. Doctors.D. Parents.CMost of us believe that emotions come from what happens outside of ourselves. In f act, it’s not the outside events but what we do with those outside events in our mind that causes us to be happy or unhappy.Obviously, if it was only the event that was creating our emotions, we all would have the same reaction to any event or circumstanc e. Actually, it’s the way we understand it, or more correctly put the way we judge the event that matters. When we judge an event as positive to us, we have a positive emotion. If we judge the event to be something negative, the emotion we generate is negative.Our ability to judge how events will eventually work out has been proven scientifically to be at best 60% correct and in most cases less than 30%. That means we have only a 30 to 40 percent chance of being right in how we judge something. The truth is that we are very poorly equipped to judge the consequences of events accurately.Every day some people tell us that unfortunate events, disease or a lot of negative experiences were the best things that could have happened to them. Now of course some of you may say these people were optimistic and just retell the event to find a good way of looking at it. Thisway of looking at it is missing the point.If judging things is what causes us to label them positive or negative and this in turn makes us happy or unhappy, then refusing to judge things as bad benefits us a lot.Peace of mind and happiness can be achieved by simply accepting something that is totally true. We can’t judge if something is going to be good or bad for us in the future. If we are to be happy most of the time, we need to stop judging events moment to moment.66. What does the text mainly talk about?A. What creates our emotions.B. How to judge outside events.C. What makes us feel unhappy.D. How to achieve peace of mind.67. What makes us unhappy according to the text?A. Terrible circumstances.B. Daily life and experiences.C. That we judge events as negative.D. That the event goes badly.68. Which of the following is TRUE of people’s judgments?A. They make people happy.B. Most of them are not accurate.C. They are negative in most cases.D. Usually over 40% of them are right.69. What does “the point” refer to in the fifth paragraph?A. Negative experiences always turn out to be positive finally.B. We should keep optimistic when something bad happens.C. Refusing to judge things as bad makes a great deal of sense.D. The consequences of events have little to do with our judgments.70. If we want to keep happy, we should ________.A. not do anything to affect eventsB. accept different judgments from othersC. stop judging quickly how events will turn outD. not judge events when they are going smoothly第Ⅱ卷PART FOUR WRTINGSECTION ADirections: Read the following passage. Complete the notes by using the information for the passage. Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each answer. （10 points）Happiness is an emotion which is characterized by a feeling of absolute satisfaction. It is the feeling of being where you should be, getting what you want and needing little else.It is easy to confuse happiness with pleasure. But the two aren’t one. Pleasure is intense and continues for a short time. Happiness lasts longer. Pleasure can result from any number of happy experiences. For example you get pleasure from eating your favorite chocolate or reading a fantastic book. Take away the experience and pleasure ends. On the other hand, happiness is the aggregate of a number of experiences.What makes a person happy? Different people get happiness in different ways. For some, it comes from having a good job or a satisfying relationship. For others, it could be the ability to deal with life’s challenges with calmness. Whatever the source is, one thing i s certain: happiness is an attitude. It is the way of thinking that enables you to interpret things in a positive way. It is that particular feeling that puts a smile on your face, for no apparent reason.Happiness affects every aspect of a person’s life. Happier people are generally more successful, more productive and more balanced. They are healthier and stronger physically as well as emotionally. A happier person has a longer life, collects more friends and has greater chances of developing successful relationships with those around him.Happiness is the net result of many factors, of which 40% is within your control. Your thoughts, actions and goals, for example, are your own. You can choose to interpret an experience as enrichment, if you wish to do so. This, in turn, increases your happiness, so a good part of happiness can be controlled. By taking active control of this you can lead a more successful and satisfying life.Title: HappinessI. 71. ________a feeling of absolute satisfaction of being where you should be, getting what you want and needing little elseII. Differences◆ Pleasure● be 72. ________● result from happy experiences◆ 73. ________● be more lasting● be the aggregate of a number of experiencesIII. 74. ________● a good job or a satisfying relationship● the ability to 75. ________ calmlyIV. 76. ________● make people more successful, 77. ________● make people healthier and stronger● make a person 78. ________● make a person collect more friends and have greater chances to de velop successful79. ________V. SuggestionTake active control of the good part of your happiness to live a more80. ________ lifeSection Bw.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.mDirections: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (10 points)Summer is a busy period for holiday travel. Many people travel great distances in airplanes. Experts say people should know about some health problems that can strike when traveling by air. One of these is a lack of oxygen to the brain called hypoxia(缺氧症). The body begins losing oxygen minutes after an airplane takes off. The air pressure in a plane during flight is lower than that at sea level. This makes it more difficult for the body to effectively use the same amount of oxygen as it would，on the ground. Fewer oxygen molecules(分子) cross the tissues in the lungs and reach the bloodstream. The result is a five to twenty percent decrease in the amount of oxygen in the blood. This reduces the amount of oxygen that reaches the organs of the body. One effect of this lack of oxygen to the brain is headache. When this happens, the heart attempts to fix the situation by beating harder and faster. This can make the passenger feel tired. These signs of hypoxia are not dangerous in a healthy person. But a drop in oxygen level can cause a health emergency in people with heart or lung problems. They might lose consciousness or even suffer a heart attack.Experts say that smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol also reduce the body’s ability to use oxygen. So they suggest people should not drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes either before or during a flight. They warn that people with heart or lung problems should seek advice from their doctor before flying.81. What causes hypoxia when we travel by air? (no more than 7 words )__________________________________________________________________82. Why should we not smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol before flying? (no more than 9 words)__________________________________________________________________83. How do oxygen molecules reach our brain? (no more than 3 words)__________________________________________________________________84. What is the writer’s purpose of writing this passage? (no more than 8 words)__________________________________________________________________SECTION CDirections: Write an English composition according to the instructions given below in Chinese. (25 points)假如你是班长，你发现班上大多数同学学习非常努力，但是他们不重视体育锻炼。

大学英语视听说四级新版原文+练习答案Unit4

⼤学英语视听说四级新版原⽂+练习答案Unit4Unit 4 CreativityPart 1 Listening, Understanding and SpeakingListening IIn China, education is considered a race. Students have to begin as early as possible and have to proceed as quickly as possible around the track. Success is measured by how many students cross the finish line in the short time .In America, we recognize the race too, but we feel that the students have a chance to explore things for themselves, even if not all of them reach the finish line. As a result of their exploring, some of the participants may have more to offer by the end of the race. The advantage of the Chinese way is that more students become proficient and reach the finish line. The disadvantage is that they may have less to say or to show once they get there. The disadvantage of the American way is that some students never finish the race. The advantage, however, is that some who do go "all the way" have very interesting and original things to say when they get there.1. F T T T F F2.1) race 2) race 3 ) proceed 4) explore things for themselves 5) proficient6)interesting 7) original 8) less 9) finish the raceListening IIOnce Wealth and Poverty approached a merchant and introduced themselves as Goddesses. The merchant greeted both of them and said, "May I ask why you have come to my humble house" The Goddess of Wealth said, "We want you to judge between us who is the most beautiful."The merchant did not know what to say. He knew he was between the devil and the deep blue sea: If he said that Wealth was more beautiful than Poverty, Poverty would curse him. If he said that Poverty was more beautiful than Wealth, Wealth would abandon him. However, he became calm and said, "I have great respect for you both. Would you please do what I ask of you It is the only way I can judge properly." The Goddesses agreed. He said, "Mother Wealth, would you please walk towards my house Mother Poverty, Would you please walk away from my house This way I can see you both better, from near and far." The two Goddesses did what the merchant had asked them to do. Then the merchant confidently declared, "Mother Wealth! You appear most beautiful when you are nearest my house. Mother Poverty! You look most beautiful when you are farthest from my house." The Goddesses appreciated the wit and wisdom of the merchant. The Goddess of Wealth happily stayed in his house while the Goddess of Poverty cheerfully departed.、Whenever we have a serious problem, if we look within and think calmly, a solution will come in answer to the problem.1. F T F F F2. 1. Why did the two Goddesses go to the merchant’s place C2. What would happen if the merchant declared the Goddess of Wealth to be more beautifulthan the Goddess of the Poverty B3. What did the merchant ask the Goddesses to do D4. What was the reaction of the Goddesses A5. What does the story tell us CListening IIIThere is an old and common saying in the United States that "There is nothing new under the sun." I thought of that today while reading an article in a magazine. The article tells about the growing number of people who are building earth-sheltered houses, which are partly underground. I had known about modern earth-sheltered houses, but I had never thought about their roofs before. Instead of having metal or tiles on the roofs, many of these houses now have living roofs. The wooden top of the house is covered with a special waterproof plastic material. On top of this there is soil, in which grass and flowers are planted. Such a roof can be very beautiful. But this really is not a new idea. When the early settlers came to the UnitedStates, they often made their houses by digging into the ground. Their roofs were made of wood, and then covered by large areas of soil with grass or turf. They were warm, though not always waterproof. People replaced these houses and roofs as soon as they could live in regular wooden homes with wooden or metal roofs. Now, 200 years later, some people think of this as a new idea. But I think, "There is nothing new under the sun."1. 1) partly underground 2) living 3 ) digging into the ground 4) grass waterproof`2.Questions:1. What does the speaker mean by saying "There is nothing new under the sun"2. What makes the speaker think of "earth-sheltered houses"3. What is a living roof4. How many years ago did the early settlers first build earth-sheltered houses-Why did People replace these earth-sheltered houses with regular wooden ones5.Key: C D A B DListening IVMan: It is said that the first sandwich was made in 1762 by the Earl of Sandwich. He didn't want to take time away from his card games to eat, so he ordered his butler to makesandwiches instead.Woman:Is that so Hey, look at this. The first beauty contest was held in Belgium in 1888. Why in Belgium of all places Man: Why not Oh, here's one I bet you're proud of. The electric chair was used for the first time in 1890, in the United States. Yes, you're first to diagnose AIDS, too. The firstrecorded case was in New York.$ Woman:Plus and minus signs were used in 1514 in Holland. Yeah, there was no way we could have guessed that one. And the equals sign, you'll be pleased to hear, was first used in Oxford, in 1557. You'd have thought they'd all have been invented at the same time.Man:Well, we both got these right. Coffee was in Arabia around 1,000 AD, and just before that, playing cards were invented in China.Woman:Well, I got this one right. First diagram of a flying machine was drawn by Leonardo da Vinci, as I said, in 1492. Man: Yeah, but the first air flight wasn't made until 1903, and it was in the United States. Woman: But that wasn't the question, was it Also, England was also the first to transmit television.)Man:Garbage! It was the Italians.Woman: No, it says here, the first TV transmission was in London, 1925. And here we are again, the first traffic lights were in London, in 1868.Man: But they didn't even have cars then, so why would they have needed traffic lights1．D A A F C E A B B2．1)1762 2)1888/Belgium 3)1890/the United States 4)New York5)1514/Holland 1557 6) 1492/1903 7) 1925/1868~Part 4 Further ListeningListening IJuan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle. He's got two large bags over his shoulders. The guard stops him and says, "What's in the bags""Sand," answers Juan.The guard says, "We'll just see about that. Get off the bike." The guard takes the two bags and rips them apart; he empties them out and finds nothing in them but sand.He detains Juan overnight and has the sand analyzed, only to discover that there is nothing but pure sand in the bags.The guard releases Juan, puts the sand into new bags, hefts them onto the man's shoulders and lets him cross the border.A week later, the same thing happens. The guard asks, "What have you got""Sand," says Juan.The guard does his thorough examination and discovers that the bags contain nothing but sand. He gives the sand back to Juan, and Juan crosses the border on his bicycle.,This sequence of events is repeated every week for three years. Finally, Juan doesn't show up one day and the guard meets him in a bar in Mexico."Hey, buddy," says the guard. "I know you are smuggling something. It's driving me crazy. It's all I think about. I can't sleep. Just between you and me, what are you smuggling"Juan sips his beer and says, "Bicycles."1) border 2) rips 3) overnight 4) analyzed 5) release 6) cross7) weekly 8 ) thorough 9) show up 10) bicyclesListening IIPottery has been found in the remains of every ancient civilization. The oldest known piece of pottery was found in China and dates back to 7,900 BC. That's almost 10,000 years ago!#The first pots were large bowls, formed by taking a lump of clay and making a bowl shape. Pottery doesn't just include pots, but anything made from clay that can hold things, such as jugs, vases and cups. Pottery was used to hold water, milk, seeds and grains.Later, people learned to mix different clays together to make stronger pottery and to put the pottery in a fire oven so that the clay would harden faster. The potter's wheel was invented in China around 3100 BC. The wheel spins clay like a top. It allows people to make pottery much more quickly and makes shapes that were perfectly symmetrical—bowls that were really round, rather than lumpy or uneven. Pottery is not only considered one of the first inventions but also one of the first art forms. Most types of pottery have been painted with figures or designs; some even tell a story!1. B A C2. oldest known piece of pottery was found in china and dates back to 7900 BC(and was madealmost 10,000 years ago).2. It was used for holding water, milk ,seeds, and grains.3. To make stronger pottery and to make the clay harden faster.4. It allowed people to make pottery much more quickly and to make symmetrical shapes.5. Because most types of pottery have been painted with figures or designs; some even tell astory.：Listening III(Students are in the classroom waiting for the teacher to arrive. Two are talking.)Cathy:I've enjoyed talking about creativity in our English class. I wish I had been encouraged more when I was in elementary school.Michael:I know what you mean. I always liked drawing, but my teachers and parents insisted I was just wasting my time with it. My father said I should work onmathematics.Cathy: Maybe you still will still use your artistic talent some day.Michael:Oh, I don't know. After all, I'm in university now. Perhaps I'm too old to be creative., Cathy: I don't think so. I read an interesting article about a lady who wanted to be an artist but the whole family wanted her to work in their candy business.Michael:What happenedCathy: Well, Jean, the lady, knew painting was what she wanted to do, not making candy. After graduating from college she tried various jobs to support herself,though none of her jobs was in the candy business. And she kept painting inher spare time.Michael: Then whatCathy: About 20 years ago a worker in the family candy business quit around Valentine's Day, one of their busiest seasons. Her father needed Jean to cometo help with the business.Michael:Did sheCathy: Yes, although she didn't like it.Michael: So, how did she copeCathy: She got an idea of putting art and candy together.Michael: HowCathy: First she experimented with making an edible paint. She found that powdered food coloring mixed with vodka would work.Michael: That's quite a combination.Cathy: Then, for her "canvas", she melted white chocolate and molded it flat. She even learned how to make chocolate frames.Michael: What kind of art did she createCathy: She copied the works of famous painters. She displayed her candy art in the candy shop and customers would come in just to look at the art.~Michael:What did her family think thenCathy:They didn't take her seriously until the Toledo Museum of Art heard about her works and paid her to paint 77 reproductions of works in their collection. Thatwas her first big job. Now she works full-time on her candy creations. Michael:Does she do anything besides copying art masterpiecesCathy: Yes, she's done some portraits. However, people love her reproductions.Michael: What are the prices for her candy art creations|From $150 to $200 each.Cathy:Michael: Well, her creativity has brought her success.1.What did the male speaker like to do B2.How did Jean make a living right after graduating from college B3.Why did she begin to help with the family business C4.How did she paint A5.In what way was she successful AListening IVFor over 30 years, "Sesame Street" has been the most popular TV program for young children in the United States. The characters on this show are mainly puppets, and probably the most loved of the puppets is a gigantic yellow bird called "Big Bird".Caroll Spinney has played Big Bird all the years of Big Bird's existence on American television. Spinney's love of puppets and his own creativity led him to this career. When he was five years old, he saw his first puppet show. He loved the show and never forgot it. When he was seven he bought a used monkey puppet for five cents. His mother had made him a stuffed snake from green material, so he got the idea of making his own puppet show. He made a stage from wooden orange boxes and his mother's old curtains. He charged 2 cents for admission and earned 32 cents for his first performance.Spinney's family liked his creativity and encouraged him to do more. For Christmas when he was nine, his older brother made him a better puppet theater and his mother secretly sewed eight colorful puppets for him. Spinney later wrote, "The more I gave shows, the more I felt the power that one has when performing. All these people would sit in a room and listen to everything I said. I did all the character voices: little girl voices, an old lady voice, and a ghost voice. The audience listened and clapped at the end, and also paid me to do it. What could be a better way to make a living than to perform I knew that I would wind up in the world of entertainment." Spinney continued giving puppet shows. When he decided to go to art school, puppet shows helped him pay for his tuition. Even when he was in the army, he managed to continue giving puppet shows. He knew he wanted to do this as his life's work and that he wanted his audience to be children. When he was given the opportunity to create the character of Big Bird on "Sesame Street", he accepted it and over the years has made Big Bird one of the most beloved characters on American television.1-5 T T T F F6-10 T T T F F。

大学英语听力第四单元答案

Unit 4, book 2 Beware of ads!II. Listening Skills (omitted)III. Listening InTask 1: The Influence of AdvertisingRichard: Dad, I need a pair of new shoes for an important basketball game. My old ones look kind of funny.Father: Funny! We just bought those last spring. There’s a lot of life left in them. Richard: But look at this ad with Yao Ming. He says these shoes give him extra spring.Father: Yao Ming is so tall that he doesn’t need extra spring. Anyway, he makes more money than I do. And they probably give him millions of dollars to wearthose shoes.Richard: But if you bought me the shoes, I’d wear them for nothing. And I’d have that extra spring.Father: Do you think Yao Ming reached the top just because of the shoes he wears? Or was it something else?Richard: You mean like hard work, dedication, that sort of thing?Father: Exactly. Just focus on your studies and forget the shoes.Task 2: I’ll get a camera.One day just before closing time, John rushed into a TV store to buy a color TV set with the money he had saved for three months. The friendly shop assistant was waiting for the day’s last and 100th customer to reach his sales target for his bonus, so he warmly greeted John and showed him the various models on display. He asked John to see how sharp and colorful the image on the screen was. At that moment, a new commercial came onto the screen, introducing a popular brand of camera as well as some beautiful pictures it had taken. The camera and the pictures attracted John. He suddenly changed his mind and told the shop assistant: “Thank you for the TV commercial. Now I have to hurry to the camera store to get that camera.”Task 3: Don’t even think about it!“Don’t even think about it!” is a phrase commonly used in the United States when a person emphatically denies or refuses something.In 1995, Shaquille O’Neal, a popular basketball player, made a Pepsi commercial in which this phrase was used. The commercial begins with Shaq playing basketball, and a little kid is watching him. Then the boy cries out the name of this basketball star. Shaq turns to see the kid with a Pepsi in his hand. He walks over to the boy and says, “Hey, can I have it?”He bends over, supposing that his admirer will give him the Pepsi. But then the kid says, “Don’t even think about it!” This commercial was rather popular, and it had been shown on TV for about three years. The commercial seems tohave a more dramatic effect than that produced by the Coca-Cola company in the 1970s. In the Coke ad a young boy meets football star “Mean”Joe Green as he is leaving the field after a game. The boy gives his hero a bottle of Coke, and in exchange for the drink, the football player throws his towel to the boy, who excitedly catches the souvenir.The phrase “Don’t even think about it!” is used on many other occasions. Visitors to New York City are often amused to see a road sign with these words: “Don’t even think about parking here.”This road sign means that people are strictly prohibited from parking there.IV. Speaking OutModel 1 Who pays?Sample DialogA: Look, “Make yourself heard!” The Ericsson’s TV commercial is so cool.B: I think the Nokia’s commercial is just as fascinating: “Connecting People.”A: I’m afraid consumers will have to pay for the advertising.B: I hear that the advertisements create a favorable image of a product, and that leads to consumer brand loyalty.A: Could you explain “consumer brand loyalty?”B: I mean consumers identify with (认同) the product and keep buying it. Sometimes they’re even willing to pay more.A: It is contradictory that increased sales lead to a lower production cost per unit, but more advertising results in greater costs for consumers. The winner is always the company.B: I agree.Model 2 Beware of ads!Sample DialogA: Shall we switch to another channel? I don’t like those TV commercials.B: Why do you think so? Look: Just do it! What a powerful product.A: I doubt it.B: Now, look at this L’Oreal commercial. The model’s skin is so smooth.A: This is what they want you to believe: use the product and you will get the same skin.B: You mean they are lying about the product? I don’t really think so.A: Advertisers now appeal to emotions, not reason. They want you to like their product.B: Well, I don’t really agree with you, but we can switch to another channel.Model 3 Are the free magazines free?Sample DialogA: What’s that brochure you’re reading?B: It’s a giveaway brochure you can easily find here and there. It’s got some pretty interesting things in it.A: Do you really think so? It’s not really free. Look at all the ads in it.B: Could be, but I don’t have to pay for it.A: You bet you do. The cost of the ads is included in the products.B: Still, I think advertising tells me about new products. It helps me in choosing what to buy.A: This is just what the advertisers want you to do.B: But some commercials are really fascinating. Besides, you don’t have to believe all the ads.A: Well, let’s go swimming.V. Let’s TalkA Job Ad for a Friendly EmployeeA firm advertising for a “friendly” employee has been asked to change its wording because it discriminates against unfriendly people.Travelco, a travel agency, put in a request for a “friendly employee” to provide food for its staff. But the Job Center in Bristol told managing director Harry Smith that he would have to remove the word “friendly”before the advertisement could be accepted.Mr. Smith said he could not believe the decision and thought it was “ridiculous”. He said: “We were told we could not use that particular word because it was discriminatory against people who looked unfriendly. We thought it was ridiculous. It’s only too natural for us to specify what kind of people we want.” He added, “The people at the center have since said they thought they had been a little over the top.”The center had made it a rule that certain words were not allowed in ads and the words “motivated” and “enthusiastic” had been banned in the past.An official of the center said: “we do have guidelines of not using personality characteristics in advertisements to ensure that there is no discrimination in the process.”She added”“We should leave the dispute to the local judges. They’ll make the final decision. It’s possible that a member of our staff has been over-enthusiastic in cutting out words in ads.”VI. Further Listening and SpeakingTask 1: Banning Cigarette AdsNancy: Hey, Robert, what do you think about cigarette ads?Robert: They’re disgusting. Many countries have banned tobacco ads completely. Nancy: I heard in the States advertisers are not allowed to show young peoplesmoking cigarettes, neither are ads targeted at youth allowed.Robert: But advertisers keep finding ways around the law. Some years ago one cigarette ad showed a deer smoking, but it was dressed in a universitysweater. Obviously the ad is trying to attract young people.Nancy: In order to increase sales, they have to make smoking appealing to young people. Make them think it’s cool.Robert: Right. Cigarette manufacturers need to keep bringing in new customers. The old ones are dying of lung cancer.Nancy: good point. Our Student Union should do some publicity against smoking on campus.Robert: I couldn’t agree more.Task 2: A Radio CommercialAre you looking for appliances or furniture to give new life to your home?Look no further! Here at Frontier Furniture, we have everything you need to give your home a new look and feel. Stereos, video machines, refrigerators, dining tables, washers and dryers. You name it; we have it! Low on cash? We have an easy rent-to-own plan that will put you on your favorite sofa tonight. Big color TVs cost only two hundred and twenty-five dollars; digital pianos starting at three ninety-nine ($399); king size beds from two hundred and fifty dollars. Free delivery on all major appliances.So come on down to Frontier Furniture. Located down-town two blocks east of city hall, across from Union Square. We’re open daily from 10:00 AM to 9:30 PM. So, come on in, and let us make your dream home a reality.Task 3: An Introduction to AdvertisingAdvertising has become increasingly specialized in modern times. In today’s business world, supply usually outnumbers demand. There is great competition among different manufacturers of the same kind of product to attract customers to their product. They always have to remind the consumer of the name and the qualities of their product. They do this by advertising. The manufacturers advertise in the newspapers and on poster. They sometimes pay for songs about their product in commercial radio programs. They employ attractive salesgirls to distribute samples. They organize competitions, with prizes for the winners. They often advertise on the screens of local cinemas, most important of all, in countries that have television, they have advertisements put into programs that will accept them. Manufacturers often spend large sums of money on advertisements. Sometimes they even spend more on ads than on the products themselves. We buy a particular product because we think it is the best. We usually think so because of the advertisements that say so. Some people never pause to ask themselves if the advertisements are telling the truth.。

新视野大学英语视听说第四册unit4test答案

Part I ScriptDirecti ons: Liste n to the short dialogs, and the n choose the correct an swers to the questions. You will hear the recording twice. After the first playing, there will be time for you to choose the correct an swers. Use the sec ond play ing to check your an swers.1. (Liste n to the audio record ing for the questi on.)A. The man has bee n offered many good jobs because he is well-r oun ded.B. The man is hav ing an in terview.C. The woma n wants to joi n in some courses too.*厂r* D. The woma n thinks it's unn ecessary to lear n occupati onal skills.2. (Liste n to the audio record ing for the questi on.)A. She thinks the man will be fired.B. She thinks the man will be severely punished.C. She thinks the man's work will be given to his colleagues.D. She thinks the man should be courageous to admit the mistake.3. (Liste n to the audio record ing for the questi on.)A. He is a self-made successful bus in essma n.B. He in herited a large fortune.C. He is a successful young tradesma n.D. He will hand his compa ny over to his son.4. (Liste n to the audio record ing for the questi on.)A. Wedn esday morning.B. Thursday morning.C. Thursday eve ning./ —n帝D. Not settled.5. (Liste n to the audio record ing for the questi on.)A. The compa nies Joh n has worked in are no t large eno ugh.B. Joh n's work experie nces are not long eno ugh.C. Joh n has n't got a dece nt educati on backgro und./ —nD. Joh n lear ned little in each job, and long service means no thi ng today.Part II ScriptDirecti ons: Liste n to the passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, listen for the general idea. When the passage is read the second time, fill inthe bla nks nu mbered from (1) to (7) with the exact words you hear. For bla nks numbered from (8) to (10), write down either the exact words you hear or the main points in your own words. Whe n the passage is read the third time, check your an swers.The West End of London maintained its top spot as the world's most (1) expensiveoffice locati on last year as occupa ncy costs (2) decline globally due to the un certainecono micclimate.West End offices (3) average$16,682 per employee workstati on lastyear,with $15,700 for sec on d-ra nked Paris, a lead ing real estate con sultancysaid in its seve nth annual Global Office Occupa ncy CostsSurvey.The basis of the survey has cha nged to workstatio ns,from commendation .to give a clearer picture of (7) costs.⑹four area previously,During the economic downturn last year, the city of Toronto moved up three places toninth in the "top 10".(8)----------------------In comparison, New York offices dropped out of the top three into the sixth place.(9)"In the U.K., cen tral London costs are dow n by 8.8 perce nt, and London's West Endisdown 5.1 percent. However in international terms, the situation is distorted bysig nifica nt curre ncy movements.(10) II said the man ager of the con sulta ncy agency.(1) ⑵⑶⑷⑸⑹⑺(8) Your an swer expe nsivedecl ineaveragecompared agency four comme ndation(9)Correct an swerexpe nsivedecli nedaveragedcomparedagencyflooraccommodati onBut the biggest climber of all was Dubli with the Irish capital jumping nine place to the tenth among the world's most expe nsive office locati onsGlobally, most office locati ons con tinueto register decli nes in occupa ncy costs last year, reflect ing the weak andun certa in global econo mic en virIn Euro terms, London is some 17 perce n cheaper(10)tha n last year, but in dollar term it is virtually un changedPart III ScriptDirecti ons: Liste n to the followi ng recordi ng, and the n choose the correct an swers to the questions. You will hear the recording twice. After the first playing, there will be time for you to choose the correct an swers. Use the sec ond play ing to check your an swers.1. What may workaholics do?A. They bring work home.B. They keep work ing un til after midni ght.C. They bend over their work on weeke nds.7 —n金D. All of the above.2. Which of the following does the speaker recommend doing?A. C oncen trati ng on one thing a week.B. C oncen trat ing on one thing a day.C. Concentrating on one thing at a time.D. Doing just a few thi ngs at a time.3. What should one do first accord ing to the passage?A. What is importa nt.B. What one un dersta nds.C. What is easy.C D. What is difficult.4. What does the speaker say about work ing at home?A. One should not bring too much work home.B. One can work in the living room if one has a home office.C. One should not bring con fide ntial files home./ —n苗D. One should work only with in the usual work ing hours.5. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. Bad Habits of Workaholics.B. Tips for Workaholics.C. Good Habits of a Devoted Worker.D. Cultivation of a Devoted Worker.Part IVDirecti ons: Choose the best an swer to each of the followi ng stateme nts.1. Do you see yourself as a leader or more of a team _______ ?B. workerC. mateD. colleague2. If the leadership is weak, I'm not afraid to ________ in order to achieve the goal at hand.A. take upD. make for3. I did n't get that promotio n. They brought in some new guy. I'm not going to __________ for much lon ger.厂 A. hold upA. playerB. take overC. make upB. hold toC. hang upD. hang around4. Mr. Jones is a ______ m illio naire, and rm honored to have worked for him forthe past 30 years as his acco untant.A. make-selfB. self-makeC. self-madeD. self-mak ing5. Just clear out your desk and that's the end of it. Do I make myself _____ , Mr.Westlake?A. clearB. clearlyC. clarityD. unclearly6. Tha nk you! I'll certai nly trytome with this raise in pay.the trust you have dem onstrated in.专业.专注.A. live accordi ng toB. live withC. live up withD. live up to7. As a marketing manager, she frequently found herself in conflict with thefinan cial departme nt ______ her staff's expe nses.A. inB. forC. aboveD. over8. As the trai ning admi nistrator, she wan ted to launch an _______ trai ningproject.A. i n-the-serviceB. on-the-serviceC. on-the-jobD. on-job9. The two people forged a Ion g-term allia nee, which led to a trainingprogram.专业.专注.so successful that it hasbee n picked up by the compa ny's offices in Germa ny and Japa n.A. neverB. afterwardsC. sinceD. then10. I'm going to lay dow n the law. From now on, every one in the compa nymustfollow regulati ons __________ .A. to the orderB. to the comma ndC. to the wordsD. to the letter。

现代大学英语听力第四册Unit 04

Unit 4Task 1:【答案】A.1) Temple，Cemetery，Kong Family Mansion.2) the centre of3) 33 metres，glazed tiles，stone columns4) a statue of Confucius，the life story of ConfuciusB.1) F2) F3) F【原文】Qufu is the hometown of Confucius (551BC—479BC), a great thinker, statesman and educator in China's history, and founder of the Confucian school of philosophy, which has had a great influence on Chinese society and on the way Chinese people think. The place abounds in cultural relics, of which the most famous are the Confucian Temple and Cemetery of Confucian and the Kong Family Mansion.The Confucian Temple, standing in the centre of Qufu City, was first built in 478 BC. Repeated renovations and expansions have turned the temple into a palatial complex with 9 rows of buildings. Today there are 466 halls, pavilions and rooms intact, coveting a total area of 21.8 hectares. The Great Accomplishment Hall, the major structure of the temple, is 33 metres tall and is roofed with yellow glazed tiles. In front of the Hall stand 10 stone columns carved with dragons. The Hall houses a statue of Confucius and a stone inscription of Ming Dynasty, which tells the life story of Confucius in 120 pictures.The Confucian Cemetery, occupying more than 200 hectares, has served as the graveyard of Confucius and his descendants for more than 2,300 years.The Kong Family Mansion, standing tight next to the Confucian Temple, was the living quarters of Confucius' descendants. The Family Mansion now houses a large number of documents, files and antiques.The Temple and Cemetery of Confucian and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu were put on the list of world cultural heritage sites in 1994.Task 2:【答案】A.1) The kings of ancient Egypt wanted to keep their bodies safe after death and to hold their treasures.2) It is located on the west bank of the Nile, not far from Cairo.3) The ancient Egyptians compared the setting of the sun to the end of life and this is why all the pyramids are on the west bank.4) They were taken across the river in boats at flood time.5) The limestone, which used to make the pyramid smooth, is gone. So people can climb the hugestones like steps to the top.6) The Libyan Desert.B.Number of blocks of stone: 2,300,000.Average weight of the blocks: 2.5 tons.Number of slaves on the project: 100,000.Number of years taken: 20.The height of the pyramid: over 450 feet.Area covered: 13 acres.Length of each side: 755 feet.【原文】The kings of ancient Egypt planned strong tombs to keep their bodies safe after death and to hold their treasures. Over these tombs huge stone pyramids were built. There are over 80 known pyramids in Egypt, but the Great Pyramid is the largest of all.The Great Pyramid was built thousands of years ago for a king called Khufu. It stands on the west bank of the Nile River not far from Cairo.In fact all the pyramids along the Nile are on its west bank. The ancient Egyptians compared the rising of the sun to the beginning of life and the setting of the sun to the end of life. This is why their dead bodies were buried on the west bank of the Nile.It’s very hard to imagine just how big the Great Pyramid is. It has over 2,300,000 blocks of solid stone. Theses huge stone blocks weigh an average of two and a half tons each, as heavy as a big car. Some even weigh 15 tons. Without machinery, the ancient Egyptians cut and moved and lifted each of these stones. Many of the blocks came from the east bank of the Nile, and they were taken across the fiver in boats at flood time. It took more than 100,000 slaves 20 years to build the Great Pyramid.The Great Pyramid is over 450 feet high today, and it was once higher. Its base covers 13 acres. Each of the sides of the pyramid is 755 feet long. It takes about 20 minutes to walk all the way around the pyramid.Every king wanted his tomb to be the best. But Khufu outdid them all. The surface of his pyramid used to shine with smooth white limestone, and its top came to a sharp point. Inside, the body of Khufu rested in a great stone coffin. His body was preserved to last forever, and many treasures were buried with him.After many years, the shining surface was worn away, and men took some of the huge stone blocks to build other things: Thieves stole the treasures, and the body of Khufu was stolen, too.Today, the sides of the Great Pyramid are no longer smooth and white. The limestone is gone. The huge stones are exposed and you can climb them, like steps, to the top. When you have reached the top, you can see for miles about you. You can see the smaller pyramids and the Sphinx, the great stone statue of the lion with a human head. To the west you can see the Libyan Desert, and to the east you can see the green Nile Valley and the modern city of Cairo.Task 3:【答案】A.1) the joy of the family or the unity of the whole empire2) the thriving children3) the rank of an officialB.1) F2) F3) T4) F5) T【原文】In China, people can often see a pair of stone lions, a male and a female, in front of the gates of traditional buildings. The male is on the left with his right front paw resting on a ball, and the female on the right with her left front paw fondling their cub.The lion is a very special animal to Chinese people. Traditionally, he is regarded as the king of the animal world, the animal that represents power and prestige. The ball the male lion is playing with probably symbolizes the joy of family or the unity of the whole empire, and the cub the female is fondling, the thriving children.Traditionally, however, the stone lions were only to be found in front of the gates of mansions of powerful officials. In fact, the rank of the officials was indicated by the number of curls on the lion's head. The lion for the highest rank had 13 curls, and the number decreased by one as the rank went down until it reached the 7th rank, because below that no one was allowed to have stone lions guard their house at all.It is interesting to note that lions were not native to China. It is said that the first lion was brought into the country as a girl from the King of Parthia to the Chinese Emperor of the Eastern Han who reigned the country at around 87 AD. The next year, another lion was given by a country from Central Asia. But it was probably the introduction of Buddhism to China during this period that got sculptors interested in, making stone lions, because according to the legend, when Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, was born, he was seen to "point to Heaven with one hand and to Earth with the other, mating like a lion." In the Buddhist faith, therefore, the lion is considered divine. It is a noble creature sent by the Buddha to protect the Truth and keep off evils.Stone lions have also been used to decorate bridges for the same reason. The best known is the Lugouqiao (also known as Marco Polo Bridge). Built from 1189 to 1192, the lion stones sculpted on the posts of the bridge have stood on guard for more than 800 years. One funny thing about the stone lions on the bridge is people often 'disagree on the exact number. It is said that there are 485 in all, but there may be 498 or 501. No wonder people often say "as many as the stone lions on the Lugouqiao". You cannot count them.Task 4:【答案】A.1) It's "Liberty Enlightening the World".2) It stands on Liberty Island in Upper New York Bay.B.Material: mostly copper.Original color: reddish-brown.Color now: green.In her right hand: a torch.In her left hand: a tablet.On her head: a crown.At her feet: a broken chain.C.1) a2) b3) b4) b5) a6) c【原文】Americans like to say the Statue of Liberty is in good condition for a woman of her age. She is more than one-hundred-years old. France gave the statue to the United States inEighteen-Eighty-Four.For more than thirty years the statue welcomed millions of foreign people arriving by ship to live in the United States. Today more than two-million people visit the statue every year. The Statue of Liberty has become a representation of freedom.The full name of the statue is "Liberty Enlightening the World." It stands on Liberty Island in Upper New York Bay, about two-and-one-half kilometers from Manhattan Island. It was built in the nineteenth century. But it still remains the tallest metal statue in the world.The Statue of Liberty is mostly made of copper. Once it was a reddish-brown color. But time and weather have turned it green. The statue wears a loose robe. She raises her right arm high in the air. Her right hand holds a torch -- a golden light. Her left hand holds a tablet. It shows the date of the American Declaration of Independence – July Fourth, Seventeen-Seventy-Six. The statue wears a crown on her head. The crown has seven points. Each of these rays represents the light of freedom. This light shines on seven seas and seven continents. A chain representing oppression lies broken at her feet.Twelve-million immigrants from other countries passed the statue by ship between Eighteen-Ninety-Two and Nineteen Twenty-Four. Then they were taken to the immigration centeron nearby Ellis Island. There they went through the processes necessary to live in the United States.Many immigrants thought of the statue as a welcoming mother for refugees. Emma Lazarus expressed this idea in a poem in Eighteen-Eighty-Three. She called her poem "The New Colossus." She wrote:"Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. "The people of France gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States in Eighteen-Eighty-Four. Their gift honored freedom. It also marked the friendship between the two nations. This friendship had developed during America's revolution against Britain. France helped the revolutionary armies defeat the soldiers of King George the Third. The war officially ended inSeventeen-Eighty-Three. A few years later, the French rebelled against their own king.A French historian and politician named Edouard-Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye started the idea for a statue. Mister Laboulaye was giving a party in his home near Versailles inEighteen-Sixty-Five. This was the year the American Civil War ended. Slavery also ended in the United States. It was a time when Mister Laboulaye and others were struggling to make their own country democratic. France was suffering under the rule of Napoleon the Third.Mr. Laboulaye suggested that the French and Americans build a monument together to celebrate freedom. One of the guests at the party was a young sculptor, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. For years Mister Bartholdi had dreamed of creating a very large statue. By the end of the party he had been invited to create a statue of freedom for the United States. Mr. Bartholdi had never designed anything taller than four meters. But he planned this statue as the largest since ancient times. Its face would be the face of his mother, Auguste-Charlotte Bartholdi.In Eighteen-Seventy-Five the French established an organization to raise money for Mister Bartholdi's creation.Two years later the Americans established a group to help pay for the pedestal. This structure would support the statue. American architect Richard Morris Hunt was chosen to design the pedestal. It would stand forty-seven meters high inside the walls of a fort. The fort had been built in the early Eighteen-Hundreds. It was designed in the shape of a star.In France, Mister Bartholdi designed a small version of his statue. Then he built a series of larger copies.Workers created wood forms covered with plaster for each main part. Then they placed three-hundred pieces of copper on the forms. The copper "skin" was less than three centimeters thick.France had hoped to give the statue to the United States on July Fourth,Eighteen-Seventy-Six. That was the one-hundredth anniversary of the signing of America's Declaration of Independence. But technical problems and lack of money delayed the project by eight years.At last France presented the statue to the United States. The celebration took place in Paris on July Fourth, Eighteen-Eighty-Four. Americans started building the pedestal that same year. But they had to stop. People had not given enough money to finish the structure.A New York newspaper urged Americans to give more money for the pedestal. People reacted by givingone-hundred-thousand dollars.Now the huge statue had a pedestal to stand on. In France, the statue was taken apart for shipping to the United States. It was shipped in two-hundred-fourteen wooden boxes.On October Twenty-Eighth, Eighteen-Eighty-Six, President Grover Cleveland officially accepted Liberty Enlightening the World. He said: "We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home." Mister Bartholdi and representatives of the French government attended the ceremony. People paraded through the streets of New York. Boats filled the harbor.Over the years Americans shortened the name of the statue. They called it the Statue of Liberty, or Miss Liberty. The statue continued to welcome many immigrants arriving by ship until Nineteen-Twenty-Four. That is when Ellis Island stopped much of its operation. The great wave of immigration to the United States was mostly over.But millions of visitors kept coming to see the Statue of Liberty. By the Nineteen-Eighties, the statue badly needed repairs. Again people on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean cooperated to raise money. Automobile manufacturer Lee Iacocca led the campaign in the United States. Big companies gave money for the repairs. So did school children. Fireworks lit the sky at the celebration for the restored Statue of Liberty on July Fourth, Nineteen-Eighty-Six.Thousands of people still visit the Statue of Liberty every day. They reach the statue by boat. Many people climb the three-hundred-fifty-four steps to the crown. Or they ride up to observation areas in an elevator. Or they study the story of the statue in a museum in the monument.Task 5:【答案】A.1) Their guidelines were too general/unspecific on how to safeguard those artifacts.2) She thinks that a country is entitled to keep its heritage and with the ownership goes the responsibility to protect it.3) He was afraid of being accused of selling away the artifacts for personal gain,4) She suggested having an exhibition abroad.B.I. Reasons local communities should be involved.A. Cultural properties can be appreciated and better protected.B. The government is unable to take care of everything itself.II. Education is the key.A. Lobby aggressively to put heritage subjects into the school curriculum.B. Produce awareness-raising materials.C. Build a good distribution system to get the information out to everyone.【原文】Interviewer: One of the most basic issues affecting cultural heritage preservation is the question of ownership. What does current international law allow for? What are the shortcomingsof current UNESCO conventions in regard to cultural heritage preservation?Dupree: That is a question particularly relevant to Afghanistan. When the massive looting of the Kabul Museum took place, nobody paid much attention, except for the specialists.UNESCO didn't say much of anything. Then the Bamiyan Buddhas were blown up,and immediately UNESCO came out with guidelines. However, theirguidelines—which concerned safe havens for artifacts when the environmentsurrounding them was threatening—were so unspecific. They spoke aboutsafeguarding any Afghan artifacts anywhere in the world. Which is fine, but how?They didn't say. So UNESCO was criticized. The whole question of who owns thenational heritage of a country, and who is responsible for it, is very difficult. Ipersonally talked to Commander Ahmed Shah Massoud who was unfortunately laterassassinated. I said, “Look, the museum collections are in danger. Is there any chanceyou would consider sending them out of the country to be held in some safe haven?"And he said, “Personally I think it would be a good idea to put them in some safehaven, but politically I cannot do this. My opponents would say I am selling away theartifacts for my own personal gain." I think that a country is entitled to keep itsheritage. But, at the same time, in keeping their heritage they have the responsibilityto protect it. This is not always possible.Interviewer: What more do you think could have been done by the international community to safeguard the artifacts in the Kabul Museum?Dupree: Actually, once I was here at the Asia Society, and I asked the director of the galleries, "Would you consider having an exhibition?" That would have been one way to takethem out without the critics being able to say they had been sold for personal benefit.This way, they would not only be on display, but they would be gathering income.Look at what happened with the Tutankhamen exhibit: long, long lines all over theworld. So this could have been one way of doing it. But the leadership in Afghanistankept changing so quickly that even if you came to an agreement with one person, hewould soon be out, and then you'd have to go through it all over again with anotherperson.Interviewer: To many people in the non-Western world, cultural heritage does not imply a collection of artifacts behind glass, but rather objects that are an indiscernible, integralpart of their daily lives. What more do you think can be done at the grassroots level topromote cultural resource protection and involve local people in preserving andmaintaining the objects that inform their lives? What role does education play incultural heritage preservation?Dupree: This is one of my main concerns. Of course, cultural heritage has many components;some are tangible, some are intangible. Problems in the past existed on many levels.For one, the government has always been responsible for repair and maintenance. Thepeople were not involved; so they felt no responsibility for cultural properties aroundthem. Now we see that monuments that are living parts of the community havesuffered less during the war. So I am convinced that we have to involve communities,by forming action committees, so those monuments and other parts of the culture thatthey are living with can be appreciated. Local people often don't see there is anythingunique in some of the things they work with daily. You have to raise their awarenessof this, because for a long, long time the government will not be able to take care ofeverything itself, nor should it. It should be the community acting out of a sense ofresponsibility for their past. As far as education is concerned, it is the key. InAfghanistan, heritage subjects were not included in an appropriate way in the schoolcurriculum. Now there are two generations of young people who have grown upoutside of their own country. They haven't a clue as to what their culture is. Theydon't have a clue of the glorious things in their history. And why should they be heldaccountable for them unless they understand, and understand clearly, that this is partof their past, and it is part of their culture. So the education sector must becomeinvolved, and this includes aggressive lobbying. They're going to revise thecurriculum in Afghanistan, and we must lobby aggressively to see that these issues areput into the entire curriculum. But that doesn't do all that is necessary. You have toproduce reading materials, posters, and other awareness-raising materials. And eventhat is not enough. Unless you have a good distribution system, this will all beconcentrated in the cities. You need to get the information out to everyone, so civilsociety can be intelligently informed about its heritage and how to protect it.Task 6:【答案】A.1) People wanted to build ever more impressive structures, but lacked the technology needed for great buildings.2) They symbolized power and wealth.3) It began in 1173.4) They found that the tower was leaning slightly and began to wait for the tower to settle.5) The soil was too soft to bear the weight.6) It has leant to different directions. Now it leans to the south.B.1) F2) T3) F4) F5) T6) T7) F【原文】In the world of medieval Europe, buildings were thought to represent humankind's greatest stamp upon the universe. Ambitions for ever more impressive structures sometimes soared, often ignoring the technical knowledge needed for human hands to craft masterpieces out of stone and mortar, and imperfect creations resulted from time to time. One such flawed design, however, produced a structure that not only survived the ages but also achieved great fame, becoming a much-celebrated marvel of human fallibility.The town of Pisa, in the west-central part of the Italian peninsula, had been a major trading and maritime center for some 300 years when 12th-century builders began constructing a bell tower in its famous piazza. The freestanding bell tower was to be a worthy accompaniment to the piazza's superb cathedral, which was still not finished after a century of construction. Such bell towers symbolized power and wealth, and various republics seemed to compete with one another to construct ever more grand ones. It was only reasonable then that Pisa, whose economic position and power rivaled that of its northern neighbors, Genoa and Venice, should construct a particularly impressive tower.Conceived in the comparatively elaborate Pisan style, the bell tower would measure 52 feet in diameter at the ground level. The original design called for a relatively tall first level that was to be ornamented by engaged columns and which was to be capable of supporting six additional stories, each embellished with marble arcades. A portal decorated with sculptures of animals and monsters would function as an entranceway to the tower. Inside, 294 steps would lead visitors upward through the successive arcades to an open terrace. Of course, at the very top of the stonetower there would be space devoted to a bell chamber.In 1173, workers began to construct the tower. After they had completed the first three floors —only about a third of the intended 191-feet height—it became obvious to them and to the designers that the tower was leaning slightly. The sad fact was that the soft soil on which it stood simply was not capable of bearing the weight of the structure.The townspeople halted the construction project and began a long wait for the tower to settle. But when 100 years had passed and their patience had grown very thin, people finally had to admit that the tilt had only gotten worse. The Pisans nevertheless decided to resume work on the tower, determined to make the remainder of the building straight, even if such an arrangement would create a curve in the tower above its third story.Work proceeded through the second third of the structure, but by the time it was completed, the builders had made the awful discovery that the tilt had become more noticeable. Again the Pisans brought everything to a halt, pausing for almost a century. Finally, in 1350, the still leaning tower was finished.Its unfortunate feature did not make it unique, however. Other European towers of that era leaned as well. But the angle of Pisa's Leaning Tower became more and more remarkable as it liter-ally began to screw itself into the soft ground, leaning at first to the northwest, then to the north, to the east, and to the south, where it still slants today. Despite its instability, or perhaps because of it, the tower has risen into the ranks of world-class landmarks.Today, the tower is a full 17 feet out of plumb, a situation that puts immense stresses on its lower levels. Workers have been strapping steel cables to the tower's lower part in an effort to keep it from becoming crushed under the strain. Numerous international experts also feel the strain while trying—so far in vain—to find a way that will somehow save the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It is unfortunate that these experts are not able to consult one of the city's favorite sons. The great Renaissance scientist Galileo grew up in Pisa and, in fact, climbed the tower to perform his free-tall gravity experiments. As someone who had wanted to understand gravity, perhaps he would have enjoyed trying to combat the very force that at last may topple Pisa's remarkable Leaning Tower.Task 7:【答案】A.1) a Bronze Age culture was developing2) it was reserved for vesselsB.1) It seems to have developed in about 2,200 BC.2) In the Central Plains of the Yellow River valley.3) They were made to be used in state ritual and ancestor worship.4) For over 1,000 years.5) To represent his land which he had divided into nine provinces.6) They did this to reaffirm their hereditary rights to power and to persuade the ancestors and deities to influence events favorably.7) They were buried either in storage pits or in tombs.C.【原文】From the first simple wine cup — one of the earliest Chinese bronze vessels yet known — to the extraordinary life-sized terracotta figures buried with the First Emperor of Qin, this exhibition features discoveries that have fundamentally changed our knowledge of ancient Chinese history and art.At about the same time that Stonehenge was rising in England and Abraham was framing the principles of Judaism in the Middle East, a Bronze Age culture was developing in China that in many respects was seldom equaled and never surpassed. This development seems to have occurred early in the first half of the second millennium B.C. in the fertile Central Plains of the Yellow River valley.Unlike other cultures, where bronze was first used chiefly for tools and weapons, in China this alloy of copper and tin was reserved for the manufacture of majestic vessels that played central roles in state ritual and ancestor worship for more than 1,000 years, even after the official beginnings of the Iron Age in the fifth century B.C. Representing the wealth and power of the rulers, these ritual utensils show the highest degree of technical and artistic accomplishment in early Chinese civilization.The legend of the founding of China's first dynasty demonstrates the importance of bronze to the ancient Chinese: After King Yu of the Xia brought the primordial floods under control, in about 2200 B.C., he divided his land into nine provinces, and had nine ding (food cauldrons) cast to represent them. When the Xia dynasty fell, the "nine ding," also called the "Auspicious Bronzes of the State," passed to the Shang dynasty, and, in turn, to the Zhou when they conquered the Shang. Possession of bronze vessels thus became a symbol for the holding of power and prestige. Rulers used bronze cauldrons, cups, drinking vessels, and other containers to present offerings of food and wine to royal ancestors and deities. In this way they reaffirmed their hereditary rights to power and attempted to persuade the ancestors to influence events favorably.After the Shang period, ritual vessels became more important as expressions of personal prestige than as vehicles for pious offerings. This is evident from the changing content of bronze inscriptions. Cast into the surface of a vessel, these inscriptions first appeared during the last Shang dynasty as a terse identification of the vessel's owner or of the ancestor to whom it was dedicated. During the Western Zhou period inscriptions became increasingly common and。

新通用大学英语综合教程第四册听力及答案 Unit 4

Unit 4 Looking GoodUnit Goals1. Discuss appropriate dress2. Comment on fashion and style3. Evaluate ways to change one’s appearance4. Describe what makes a person beautiful5. Write a description of peopleLesson 1Lead-inTV Documentary: Selling Them ShortA. The report mentions some problems short men face. What are they?buying clothes, getting a date, seeing around people in elevators, seeing a movie screen, driving carsB. Use words from the box to complete the statement. You will not use all of the words.1. mature and respected2. submissive, childish, weakVideo ScriptLynn Sherr: Imagine a world where nothing fits. Where pants are too long.Craig: The crotches are down to here, the seat’s down to here, the pants are up to there.Lynn Sherr: Where elevators are filled with giants.Rob: You kind of get cramped. And you know, it’s kind of hard to breathe sometimes.Lynn Sherr: Where driving a car means your feet don’t reach the pedals.David: You have to fumble down here, and some have bars underneath and some have these little electronic things on the side you have to figure out.Lynn Sherr: And where you can’t see the movie screen, let alone find a date to there.lst woman: I don’t care hair color, eye color, skin color-they need to be tall. Sorry.Lynn Sherr: Welcome to the world of short men. Ralph Keyes, 5’7”, wrote a book about height.Ralph Keyes: We just assume anybody we’re looking up to has power…has power over us.Lynn Sherr: We put Chris and Debbie, colleagues here at ABC News, in front of our camera, posing at different heights. Half the shots showed Chris as the tallerof the pair.Chris: The air’s kind of thin up here.Lynn Sherr: In the other half, Debbie was taller. Then we gave the photos to students at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and asked them to tell us a story about whatwas going on. When Chris was taller, the adjectives used to describe himwere mature and respected. When Chris was shorter than Debbie, theycalled him submissive, childish, weak. Andrea McGinty, who runs a datingservice in Chicago, knows all the tricks. We asked her to help us constructan experiment to test just how willing women are to date shorter men. Andwe found three brave volunteers. Stu is the shortest. How tall are you?Stu: I’m 5 foot. And 5’5” with the Afro.Lynn Sherr: Rob is 5’3”. He prefers taller women.Rob: I kind of enjoy it. I mean, I think there are some serious advantages to being a little bit, having a woman who’s a little bit taller.Lynn Sherr: David is getting married this fall.David: She is 5 feet tall.Lynn Sherr: And you are?David: I am 5’6”.Lynn Sherr: Oh, well.David: Giant, right.Lynn Sherr: We recruited other men about the same age as David, Stu, and Rob, but taller.We asked them all to dress in jeans and a sweater, then we did somethingcruel. We put them in lineups, five at a time, behind a two-way mirror. Themen couldn’t see or hear what was going on in the next room. That’s wherewe invited groups of women to look at the men and choose a date. In thiscase, we wanted to see if anyone would pick 5’3” Rob. When Andrea told uswomen like doctors, we gave him an M.D. Their choice?2nd woman: Anderw.3rd woman: I would say, Matt.Lynn Sherr: No, Rob. We piled on some more assets. We said, besides being a doctor, he was also a best–selling author and champion skier who just built his own skihouse.Andrea McGinty: Does that affect your choices?4th woman: He’s still short.Lynn Sherr: Then we gave Rob a promotion. We made him chief of at a prestigious hospital.Andrea McGinty: Who would you pick, Kim?5th woman: Andrew’s probably the closest to who I’d pick.6th woman: I’d pick Matt.7th woman: Jeffrey, the pilot.Lynn Sherr: What would it take? Now, we said Rob was also a gourmet cook who loves children.8th woman: Oh, definitely I would take him in a minute, then. Height, no problem.7th woman: I wouldn’t, because I would think I don’t want short, little kids. I was thinking that!Lynn Sherr: Well, at least someone liked Rob. But if it was this harsh for him at 5’3”, what would it take to get a date for Stu at just 5 feet?ListeningPart 1A. Sound BitesRead and listen to a conversation between a couple about dressing up and dressing down.Teaching Suggestions●Have students look only at the photos. Ask:What’s the man wearing in the first photo? (a suit and tie)What’s he wearing in the second one? (jeans and a T-shirt)Where do you think the people are going?●Say You are going to hear a conversation about dressing up and dressing down. AskWhat do you dressing up and dressing down mean?●Have students read and listen to the conversationLanguage note: Students may need help with the following words or expressions:T39B. Pair WorkUse the following words to tell the story of what happened in the conversation. Teaching suggestions●To check comprehension of the words in the box, ask:In which photo is Paul wearing formal clothing? (the first)In which is he wearing casual clothing? (the second)In which photo is Paul overdressed? (the first) Why?Why is he underdressed in the second photo?●In pairs, have students tell the story of what happened in the conversation using thewords in the box.●Circulate to offer help with the new words as needed.●To review, have a volunteer tell the story to the class.Part 2Evaluate Ways to C hange One’s AppearanceA. Listening ComprehensionListen to Part 1 of a radio program about men’s hairstyles. Then read the statements and listen again. Complete the statements, according to the information in the program.1. a2. b3. aScript T44Part 1 [C = Chuck Sims, host; S = Susan Yiga1, Australia]C: Chuck Sims here, and you’re listening to In Style. T oday we welcome Susan Yiga1, a hairstylist who does a lot of work for the film industry. Susan has won numerous awards for her beautiful work.S: Oh, thanks.C: Susan, I love your work. So many movies. So many gorgeous actors.S: Thank you, Chuck. Great to be here.C: Susan is an expert on the history of hairstyles, and today we’re going to focus on men’s hairstyles. Susan, tell us something about how men’s hairstyles changed in the twentieth century.S: Absolutely. But before I do, let’s not forget some of the styles that were in fashion before the twentieth century. Remember that back in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, among the European upper classes, the wig was a fashion must. Everyone wore one.C: Think wigs will ever come back?S: These days, you never know. Do you know why they became so fashionable?C: Not really.S: Well, you see, in the seventeenth century, King Louis XIV of France was going bald –so he had a staff of about forty wig makers working on long curly wigs for him to wear. C: Forty wig makers!S: Yes. And of course it then became the rage for all men to wear long curly wigs – until the nineteenth century. At that time, the style changed, and men stopped wearing wigs by the beginning of the nineteenth century. After that, they generally wore their own hair fair fairly long, and most men wore very long beards or sideburns.C: Which we see in some of the very early photos from that time.S: Right. But by the early twentieth century, that had changed. The norm for men was to wear their hair cut very, very short. And beards were something only grandfathers wore.If a man wore a mustache at all, it was cut very short.C: Until the 1960s and’70s, of course.S: Of course.B. Read the following statements and listen to Part 2 again. Complete the statements, according to the information in the program.1. b2. a3. cScriptPart 2S: By the 1960s, in Europe and throughout the Americas, men began to wear their hair long, and they grew beards and mustaches – pretty much as a protest against decades of what they saw as a very conservative culture.C: I remember that.S: At that time there had been an unwritten fashion code that said any man who didn’t wearhis hair very short – or who had a beard – was a radical.C: That’s hard to believe today.S: But that’s how it was. In the UK and the U.S., rock musicians led the way with hair, and mustaches seeming to get longer each year.C: Men today don’t always realize what an incredible change that was. Isn’t that true?S: Absolutely. How a man wore his hair was a social and political statement. But today,men’s hair fashions are all over the place –which was certainly not true back then.Men can wear their hair either long or short. Anything goes.C: Ponytails. Braids.S: Yup. A short beard or moustache.C: The goatee has been the beard of choice for a number of years now.S: And, of course, the bald look has become very popular now. Who would have thought twenty years ago that men would actually choose to shave off all their hair! No way! C: Any other trends worth looking at?S: Well, we haven’t said anything yet about men dyeing their hair. Over the last decade some men have chosen to dye their hair bright blond, red, yellow –even green or purple.C: Yeah, as a matter of fact, I saw that last time I was in Tokyo.S: That’s right. I’ve heard that in Japan this is a kind of social statement in response to strict school dress codes.C: Well, thank you, Susan, for … ahem … letting your hair down about a very interesting subject.S: Good one, Chuck. Thanks for having me.Teaching suggestionsStep 1Have a volunteer read the statements and answer choices out loud. If necessary, explain the meanings of unfamiliar terms.Step 2Review answers as a class.Step 3To have students support their choices, ask What were man protesting against when they changed their hairstyles? What would it have been considered eccentric? Why do they want to express their individuality?Option:Form small groups. To personalize the activity, have male students tell their group members which styles they have worn or would like to wear.C. DiscussionDo you agree with the hair stylist that “anything goes” today for men’s hairstyles? Are there any hairstyles that you really don’t like on a man? Do you think men’s hairstyles have improved or gotten worse in recent times?Teaching suggestionsStep 1To prepare for the discussion, have students look at the photos depicting hairstyles and decide which they like and which they don’t like on a man.Step 2Have students discuss the questions in small groups.Step 3To review, take a class poll. With a show of hands, determine which hairstyles depicted inthe photos are the least popular on a man. Then have students vote on whether they think hairstyles have improved or gotten worse in recent times. Write the results on the board. Step 4To finish, have volunteers summarize the results of the poll.SpeakingComment on Fashion and StyleA. Conversation snapshotTeaching SuggestionsStep 1Before students read and listen, have them look at the photo. Ask What do the man’s clothes say about him? (Possible response: that he likes fashion; that he wants to attract attention)Step 2After students read and listen, check comprehension by asking What does the first woman think about what the man is wearing?What does the second woman think? (that the man is in style; that his shirt is loud.)Language note:Check out is used in spoken English to tell someone to look at someone or something. Can you believe……? Shows you are surprised or shocked by something.Rhythm and Intonation PracticeTeaching SuggestionsHave students repeat chorally.B. VocabularyDescribing fashion and style. Listen and practice.Teaching SuggestionsStep 1Have students listen to the words and study the definitions. Then have students listen and repeat chorally.Step 2Say Use words that are informal (hot, tacky, flashy) with friends or other people you know well.Step 3To provide practice, have pairs use the words or phrases to give their own opinions of the clothes the man in the conversation snapshot picture is wearing.C. Listening ComprehensionListen to the conversations about fashion and style. Choose the adjective that best summarizes each speaker’s point of view.1． a 2. b 3. c 4. a 5. aScriptConversation 1F1: What magazine are you reading?F2: Metropolitan. Want to have a look?F1: Do you mind?F2: Not at all.F1: These purses are fantastic!F2: Which ones? Oh yeah. Everybody’s getting those now.F1: I’ve got to have one.F2: Better hurry before they go out of style!Conversation 2M1: Hey, Jim.M2: Hey, Carl. Whoa! That’s some jacket you’ve got on.M1: Oh, Yeah. It’s my “Look at me” jacket.M2: It’s very … yellow.M1: Hey, Yellow gets attention.M2: Ok, if you say so.Conversation 3F1: Oh, look at that. I don’t believe it.F2: Where?F1: That kid over there. What on earth on earth has she done to her hair?What is she, thirteen?F2: Sounds about right. Oh, that hair!F1: I just can’t believe it.F2: Me neither.Conversation 4 [M2 = U.S., New York]M1: Mr. Spano! How can I help you today?M2: I want to get my wife something nice, you know, for her birthday.M1: Of course! What did you have in mind?M2: Well, actually I was thinking about-I don’t know-a nice dress.M1: Oh, I see! Are you thinking about a party dress?M2: Sounds good.M1: May I suggest this simple black silk dress?M2: Hmm, nice. very tasteful.M1: Very nice. I think your wife will find it very attractive.M2: Yeah, I like it very much. But I want to look around and see what else you’ve got.Conversation 5 [F2 = U.S., Midwest]F1: Stac y, thanks so much for coming over to help. You’re a real friend.F2: Hey, I understand. It’s hard to clean out your closet alone.F1: Ok. Let’s start with this blouse.F2: All right then. Hold it up so I can see it … Whoa!When did you get that?F1: Must have been a bout … oh, maybe eight years ago.F2: Uh, think that one can go.F1: Toss it?F2: Yup. No one’s wearing that anymore.ReadingText ABackground Information 少Key Words and Expressionsdevious adj.不正当的Achieve success by devious means or get rich by devious ways.Let's take the devious route home to avoid the crowds in the main roads. groom v.使整洁Jack groomed himself carefully in front of the mirror.Xiao Liu cares for hisr appearance and often well groomed.offensive 攻击性的The offensive troops gained ground quickly.The general led a massive military offensive attack.conservative adj.保守的The president always wears a conservative dark suit. We agree with the conservative use of natural resources.Subdue v. 1.克制Subdued my excitement about the upcoming holiday.2.开垦Farmers subdued the arid lands of Australia.self-confidence 自信Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle.Jenny showed her self-confidence in fighting against the illegal affairs.. Teaching Suggestions 少Reference Translation从骇人听闻到引人注目纹身获得认同正如时尚的此起彼伏，穿着打扮的标准也在继续改变。

Step by Step2000听力教程-4-答案Unit-4

Unit 4Work and Workforce Part IWarming upA.Category Why1Reentry women Wanting to go back to.work 2People who have dead-Wanting a Career with a tot more end jobsearning potential 3People who have CareersBurned out Looking for some kind of transition into another industry 4.People who see their industry dry up and shrink Wanting transition into the computer industry 4People who are happy in their jobs Gaining more computer expertise in order to advance Planning on staying in their jobsTapescript:I-IvyK-Kate (Ivy Miller interviews Kate Bellow about a program that retains women for computer jobs.And why:)w w w .k h da w .c o m 课后答案网I.We've kind of gone over the range,but could you tell us who generally takes this program?You have 30students,you get to know them,I guess,fairly well.K:I do.I:Who...who are these people?K:Basically they fall into I would say five categories.We still have the reentry woman,the woman who's been at home raising her kids,and has decided she needs to or wants to go back to work.I was that category when I went through the program;I'm a graduate of the program.Then we have people who have jobs.They're dead-end jobs,they're not using their intelligence,and they really want a career with a lot more earning potential.We get people who have careers,their first careers,the things that they trained for --they're teachers,nurses,med techs,and they're totally burned out,and they're looking for some kind of transition into another industry.We also get those who are seeing their industry dry up and shrink.I get a lot of people out of "the oil patch"-petroleum engineers andgeophysicists who say,"Hey,I don't want to move to Houston;I'd like to stay in Denver.'And so they're ...they have decided that they want to transition into the computer industry.And then we also get some people who're really happy in their w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网jobs,they're doing exactly what they want except because the computer is taking over,they need to gain more computer expertise in order to advance,and so they're planning on staying in their jobs.B.JobKey wordsSpeaker 1Psychologist listening /talk /problems /patients /progress /turn life around Speaker 2Camp counselorkids /problems /win trust /open up /develop confidence &self-worth /summer Speaker 3Firefighterburning /smoke /get people out /dangerousTapescript :1.PsychologistMaybe the biggest challenge for me is listening to people talk about all their problems.At the end of the day,I'm usually pretty worn out.At times,it can be depressing as well.On the other hand,I do see patients making real progress.It's great to see someone really turn their life aroundand get on top of a problem that they thought they never could deal with.2.Camp counselorAs a camp counselor,it's difficult to find a way to get through to kids with problems and win their trust.Sometimes kids are very suspicious w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网and find it hard to trust an adult --even a young adult.So getting them to open up is the hardest part.Once you've done that,they almost become different people.One of the things I find most rewarding is seeing kids develop confidence and a sense of self-worth.It's especially great to see that happen in a kid who started out the summer with low self-esteem.3.FirefighterIt sounds pretty obvious,but in my job,the biggest challenge is going into a burning building that's full of smoke when you can barely see a few inches in front of you.It's really difficult --especially when youknow there are people in there,and it's your job to get them out.Once you do get someone out safely,then you feel really great and you forget about how dangerous the work is.C.Speaker 1forming his own music group (Justin)recording album /making music video breaking into music scene in a big way Speaker 2being a doctor (Sophia)working first overseas then back home in a hospital Speaker 3being a model (Rachel)starting her own modeling agency w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网Tapescript :1.JustinWhat do I hope I'll have achieved by the time I'm 30?Well,I hope I'll have made a successful career in the music industry.Right now,I play in a band and I'd love to be able to do that professionally.I plan to form a group of my own in a few years.Once we get known,we'll record an album-and make music videos,of course-and try to break into the music scene in a big way.2.SophiaI plan to be a doctor.When I've graduated from med school and finished with my interning,I want to work overseas for a few years.I'll probably work in a developing country with an organization like UNICEF.After that,I'll come back home and work in a hospital.I don't really care if I make a lot of money or not,but I do want to work somewhere where Ifeel I can make a difference.3.RachelI'm planning to be a model.I've already had some modeling experience,and after I graduate,I'm going to see if I can get a job with anagency in New York or Los Angeles.I'll probably work as a model for ten years or so,and then I hope to start a modeling agency of my own.D.Read the following diff diffic ic icultult sentences and listen.1.An increased level of stress affects us physically by producing certain w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网changes in the body such as increased heart or breathing rate,dilation of the pupils,or our blood pressure and sugar level can go up.2.It seems these days we're constantly listening to each other complain about being stressed out and feeling a variety of these responses which you've just mentioned.Part IIAmericans at atWorkWork A .B .Americans at atWork Work I.Introduction II American workforce A.Distributions B.Working women1.Working females aged 16and over --58%2.Mothers with children under 18--67%II III.I.Work ethic A.Definition of strong work ethic B.Most Americans --with a strong work ethic C.Reason for not working harder --not feeling they will benefit from the work Tapescript .The topic of work in the United States is an interesting one because w ww .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网the statistics do not always agree with popular general impressions about American workers and the American economy.I will try to reconcile these impressions with what we know from some recent statistics.To get you warmed up,let me give you a few questions to think about before I start the first point of our lecture today:Do you think most Americans work in factories that produce goods for domestic use and exportation?Do you think most American women are housewives,or do most of them work outside the home?Do you think people in the United States work hard?If time permits,I'll deal with each of these points in today's lecture.So,then,where do most people in the United States work?If you thought in the manufacturing sector,in other words in factories,you were wrong.It is true that the United States is,and is seen as,a strong industrial power,but the statistics reveal that another branch of the economy is even stronger than manufacturing.Instead of dealing with the large figures required when discussing a total U.S.workforce of 125million people,let's take a look at 100hypothetical workers and See where they're employed.Of those 100workers,16work in manufacturing,that is,in producing goods.Another 4work in construction,and 3work inagriculture,forestry,and fishing.And 1out of 100workers is employed in mining.You might find the figures for manufacturing and agriculture surprisingly low,and in a sense they are.The United States is in fact a leading producer of manufactured goods and agricultural products in the w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网world;however,a surprisingly small number of workers,16out of'100for manufacturing,and only 2perhundred for agriculture alone,is responsible for this output.The above figures account for 24of the 100hypothetical workers we started with.Where do the other 76work?Well,a full 76are employed in what are called the service industries.By the way,the term industry often applies purely to production,or manufacturing.Today,however,I will use industry in its more general sense,any general business activity.Service industries,then,include a wide variety of businesses that provide services rather than produce goods.You know the difference between goods and services,don't you?Let's take a look at the different sectors of the service industries now.Of 76'workers in the service industries,25are employed in community,social,and personal munity,social,and personal services include doctors'offices,private hospitals,hotels,computer programming and data processing companies,restaurants,repair shops,engineering companies,and private research facilities.The next largest sector in the service industries,wholesale and retail trade,employs 23of the 76people.Wholesale trade involves purchases directly from the producer,whileretail trade is more familiar to us.purchases from department stores,supermarkets,automobile dealerships,and so on.The next largest sector in the service industries,the government,employs 17of those 100hypothetical workers we started with.The best-w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网known government workers are teachers,police,and postal workers,but this sector also includes government officials and administrators,of course.The next sector is finance,insurance,'and real estate,in other words,banks and the stock market,some 5,500insurance companies,and companies involved in the buying and selling of property.Six of every 100workers are employed in finance,insurance,and real estate.The last service sector is transportation,communication,and utilities.What does the phrase "transportation,communication,and utilities"make you think of?If you thought of airlines,roads,and railroads for transportation,you are munication,of course,includes newspapers,magazines,and books as well as TV and radio broadcasting.And utilities,as you probably know,are companies that provide us with gas,water,and electricity.In the United States,these jobs are not part of the government services as they are in many countries;transportation,communication,and utilities are provided by private companies and account for 5of the 100workers we began with.Before we leave our first topic,let's check to make sure you have all the figures for the 76workers in the service industries;25in community,social,and personal services;23in wholesale and retailtrade;17in government;6in finance,insurance,and real estate;and last,5in transportation,communication,and utilities.Before I discuss the work ethic,I'd like to make a slight digression and get back to the question of working women.Would you be surprised if w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网I said that most of the female population aged 16and over work?As a matter of fact,the actual figure is 58percent.The figure for mothers with children under 18years of age is even higher.67percent.That two thirds of mothers are employed certainly has an economic impact on the country and no doubt influences to some extent the character of the American family.But we'll look at that in a later lecture.Now that we've taken care of that digression,let's talk about our last topic:the work ethic.I asked You earlier if you felt people in the United States worked hard.Well,I'm not sure what your opinion is,but a strong work ethic means that workers take their work seriously.Workers with a strong work ethic feel an obligation to work hard,expect little time for recreation,and take pride in doing their job well.According to surveys,most Americans do have a strong work ethic,that is,they feel they should work hard.The problem is that they do not always do so.And the reason they give for not working harder is that they don't feel they will benefit from the work.Others --like the owners of the company --will benefit instead.Part III Stress management Program .Talk of the DayToday's Today'stopic:topic:Stress and how to manage it Guest speaker :Dr.Elizabeth Sander (a medical doctor &writer)w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网Definition of stress .A physical or psychological response to the demands that we're placing on ourselvesCaller:JudyQuestion 1:Any warning signs?Answer:Some of the most common warning signs:fatigue /listlessness /sleeping problems /a loss of appetite /sudden stomach disorders /heart palpitationsQuestion 2:Ways to make life less stressful?Answer:Taking effective steps:Becoming aware of potentially stressful situations and avoiding them Reducing workload and organizing the work in a better way Getting proper rest and exercise Finding a balance between work and playTapescript:H --HostD --Dr.Sander J --Judy H:Good morning,and welcome to "Talk of the Day."Do you often find that you're trying to accomplish more in a day than is humanly possible?Do you have trouble falling asleep at night because you can't stop thinkingabout yesterday's activities or planning tomorrow's?Do you find yourself spending too much time at work without enough time for leisure activities?Today our topic is stress and how to manage it.Tell us about the level of stress in your life and how you cope with it,or call us with your questions.w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网With us to help answer some of the questions you may have is Dr.Elizabeth Sander,a medical doctor and writer of a best-selling book on stress management.She has also conducted numerous workshops designed to teach people how to identify and prevent stress.Good morning Dr.'Sander and thank you for joining us today.D:Thank you for having me.H..Dr,Sander,before we take our first call,perhaps you could just tell us what exactly we mean by "stress.'We hear the word being used so much today.What is stress?D:Yes,that's a very good question.Actually,stress can be either a physical or psychological response,or both,to the demands that we're placing on ourselves.An increased level of stress affects us physically by producing certain changes in the body such as increased heart or breathing rate,dilation of the pupils,or our blood pressure and sugar level can go up.These are normally responses that are designed to help us,for example,when we're in danger,but which under other circumstances,for example,when we have a deadline to meet for a project at work,don't really benefit us.Psychologically,we respond to these demands by becoming nervous,irritable,depressed,or even angry.H:Yes,it seems these days we're constantly listening to each other complain about being stressed out and feeling a variety of these responses which you've just mentioned.Well,let's see what kind of stress level our w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网callers have.Let's take a call from Judy in Fallbrook.J.Yes,hello,thank you for taking my call.This is a great topic.You know,I have so many friends who are always complaining about being stressed out.I just don't understand it.I just don't understand what it means to be stressed out.And it seems that I'm just as busy as they are if not more so,Maybe I'm really stressed and just don't realiz e it.Are there certain warning signs that I can be on the lookout for that will tell me I've reached a dangerous level of stress?D.That's a great question and yes,many people are at dangerous levels of stress without realizing it or they just don't want to admit it because they're afraid that they would have to change something in their life.Some of the most common warning signs are fatigue,listlessness,sleeping problems --either you can't fall asleep at night or you wake up throughout the night;you may have a loss of appetite or sudden stomach disorders,and heart palpitations are quite common.So one of the key issues is to help people realiz e that they are experiencing some of these problems associated with too much stress.J.Well,as I said,many of my friends are aware of their situation,but itseems they never do anything about it.Are there ways that they can make their life less stressful?D.Of course.There are steps that we can take to lower the amount of stress in our lives,but unfortunately many people are so caught up in the cycle of w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网activity and stress that they don't stop to take these important steps.The most important step is that we become aware of potentially stressful situations and avoid them.We can also simply reduce our workload and organiz e the work that we do have in a better way.Another important step is to get the proper rest and exercise.If you're under a lot of stress to begin with,very often sleep or exercise can help to release some of that stress and prepare you to take on more.One of the worst things that can happen is to allow the stress to build up.Finally,one of the most effective steps we can take is to find a balance between work and play.In the U.S.it's been recently discovered that the average American is working more now than we did 20years ago.We have become almost obsessed with work and we have a hard time enjoying ourselves anymore.J:Yeah,that's definitely true.Thank you.That information is really helpful.H.O.K.Let's take another call,from Lori in Ramona.Part IV Listen and relax Tapescript:S --SteveJ --Jim S:Jim in Brighton,you're next on RKO.J:Hi,Steve.Been listening to you.S:Thanks.What kind of job do you do?J:I am a postal worker and a mail carrier.w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网S:Oh.Do you like it?J:I do.I like it very much.S.Do you get --now you said you're a mail carrier --so you get out there.J:I --yes,every day.S:Um hum.That part I think I would like 'cause I don't like being cooped up.J:Yeah,I'm told,from when I got into the Postal Service in the beginning of 1988,that the carriers are the best job.S:Um hum.J.Because we're out there on the street,and we don't have anybody looking over our shoulders --S.That's also --J:--for a whole eight hours.S:Yup.You don't have those supervisors with you all that time.J.We're only in there in the morning.And they're looking over your shoulder.But I work in Allston,and it's a very small station,and everybody's on a name --a first-name --S:Oh,that's good.J:--basis,and there's not a lot of stress there.If you want to do your job,you do it,and you do it well,and you don't complain a lot --S:Um hum.J:--then it's really an easygoing job,and I do like it.w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网S:That's good.What do you think the best job would be -ever?J:The best job of any in the world?S:Yeah.J:A food taster !S:Hah!Yeah !J:A traveling food taster,where everything's a junket.S:Um hum.J:That could be very nice.S:That sounds pretty good.Now your job,obviously you like the outdoors.Do you feel that you like it a little less when those windy,wintry,snowy days come?J:You get used to it,to tell you the truth.But the thing is the heat,in the summertime,gets me worse because in the winter you can always put more clothes on --S:That's true.J.--but in the summer what are you going to do?S.There's a limit to how much you can take off and still finish your route.J:And if I could just add a little interdiction here.I married one of mycustomers.S.No kidding.J:Yes.It was one of those stories right out of the fairy tale books.S:Now let me ask you this.Did she start lingering and happen to be w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网around there around the time that you would come dayafter day?J.No,no,actually.This is odd,but I met her on a Sunday,and as you know,postal --there is no postal service on Sunday,and I met her on a Sunday just walking through the neighborhood where I deliver the mail,having seen other people who I'd known.And I was introduced to her as one of my other customers,and I would have probably never met her because her job hours are roughly the same as mine,so hadn't it been for a fluke,of walking around the neighborhood on a Sunday,we wouldn't have met.S.-That's great.J:Yeah.S.And now she gets her mail right on time.J.No,well,we have moved,so I'm no longer her mail carrier,but I'll always be her mail carrier.(S laughs.)J:But I like the job.I know,of course,in the news there's a lot of things about postal workers who go off,and that's always a sad thing to hear.S..Yeah,let me ask you that --J.But where I am in,there's none of that kind of stress.I guess that I work in a small office.Everybody knows everybody,and there's not as muchanimosity.S:Sure.J.--from self-respect,to begin with.But the person who doesn't like to go to work under any circumstances,they're not going to like their job even if w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网it is the food taster on a junket.S:You're right.It's the attitude,attitude is everything.J:The attitude is first and foremost.S..Well,thanks for the call.I really appreciate it.Yeah,bye,bye.w w w .k h d a w .c o m 课后答案网。

《英语听力教程4》答案及原文

Unit 1 Shopping and Banking OlinePart I Getting readyB. Keys:1: drop 2: shopping 3: mouse 4: feet 5: retailing 6: street 7: get 8: down 9: third-party 10: online 11:30% 12: malls 13: Britain 14: gift-buying 15:50% 16: net 17: peroidC. Keys:1 : the site2 : merchant, addresses/phone numbers/call up3 : strict safety measuresPart II Net shopping under fireA. Keys:1 : delivery, delivery2 : delivery charges3 : personal information, 87%4 : returning goods, 47%5 : order, 35%, dispatch, 87%6 : money back, twoB. Keys:1 : convenience2 : choice3 : obstacles4 : complete trust5 : build consummers' trust6 : mature7 : payment8 : service Part III Banking at homeA. Keys:1 : limited opening hours2 : Online banking services3 : getting current information on products4 : e-mailing questions to the bank5 : competing for customers6 : having no computers at homeB. Keys:1 : It is banking through the Internet.2 : 'Online banking' offers convenience which appeals to the kind of customer banks want to keep.3 : Banks most want to keep people who are young, well-educated, and have good incomes.Part IV More about the topic: Secret of Good Customer ServiceB. Keys:English Good Customer Service(Harrods)1 : in a pleasant environment2 : Second to none3 : different customers, take a look at everything, alternatives, come to sales assistants4 : first contact with the customerAmerican Good Customer Service(Saks)1 : human side, family, occasions in life, a partnership2 : repeat business, salesPart V Do you know…?Keys:1 : c2 : a、b、c3 : a、b、c4 : c5 : c6 : bTape scriptPart I Getting readyC.Consumers who want to shop online are suggested to bear the following things in mind:Evaluate the site. Always buy goods from well-known and trustworthy companies. Deal with companies which offer customer service, a complaints procedure and have a refund policy.Talk to merchant. E-mail and wait for reponses. Take down the addresses and phone numbers of those companies and make sure they are real by calling them up before buying any products and services.Ensure secure connection. Since buyers must submit personal information like number and expiry date of the card there are fears over security. Deal with sites that apply strict safety measures that require shoppers to give specific data known only to card holders before making the transaction.Be extra careful at a cybercafe or other public connection.Part II Net shopping under fireThere is an urgent need for e-commerce rules to boost confidence in buying online. Consumers International, a federation of 245consumer organizations — including the UK's Consumers Association —said its survey showed that there were still obatacles to shopping online with complete trust.The study, funded by the European Union, involved buying more than 150 items from 17 countries. Each consumer organization taking part tried to find one site in its own country and one abroad to buy a selection of items. These included a dictionary, a doll, jeans, a hairdryer, computer software and hardware, chocolates and champagne.The key findings were:Eight of the items ordered took more than a month to reach their destination and at least 11 (eight percent) never arrived.Many sites did not give clear information about delivery charges.Only 13% of the sites promised that they would not sell customers' personal information on to a third party.Only 53% of the companies had a policy on returning goods.Only 65% of the sites provided confirmation of the order and only 13% told customers when their goods had been dispatched.In two cases,customers are still waiting for their money back more than four months after returning their goods.Louis Sylvan, vice-president of Consumers International, said, "This study shows that, although buying items over the Internet can benefit the consumer by offering convenience and choice, there are still many obstacles that need to be overcome before consumers can shop in cyberspace with complete trust."Chris Philips, Marketing Manager at a London based e-commerce security company commented, "This study confirms the difficulties of establishing consumers' trust in the Internet as a shopping experience. With statistics like these and Visa claiming 47% of disputes and fraud cases were Internet-related, it is little wonder that Internetcommerce is not producing the profits predicted two or three years ago. Trust takes time to build, and the Internet will not mature as a retail channel until trusted brands, like the banks for example, start to offer ways of supporting trust relationships with guarantees payment and service."In September, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development will hold a meeting to discuss a set of international guidelines for electronic commerce.Part III Banking at homeMany people dislike walking to the bank, standing in long lines, and running out of checks. They are dissatisfied with their bank's limited hours, too. They want to do some banking at night, and on weekends. For such people, their problems may soon be over. Before long, they may be able to do their banking from the comfort of their own home, any hour of the day, any day of the week.Many banks are preparing "online branches," or Internet offices, which means that people will be able to take care of much of their banking business through their home computers. This process is called interactive banking. At these online branches, customers will be able to view all their accounts, move money between their accounts, apply for a loan, and get current information on products such as credit cards. Customers will also be able to pay their bills electronically, and even e-mail questions to the bank.Banks are creating online services for several reasons. One reason is that banks must compete for customers, who will switch to another bank if they are dissatisfied with the service they receive. The convenience of online banking appeals to the kind of customer banks most want to keep —people who are young, well-educated, and have good incomes. Banks also want to take advantage of modern technology asthey move into the twenty-first century.Online banking may not be appropriate for everyone. For instance, many people do not have computers at home. Other people prefer to go to the bank and handle their accounts the traditional way. Even though online banking may never completely replace a walk-in bank, it is a service that many customers are going to want to use.Part IV More about the topic: Secret of Good Customer Service In Britain they ask you, "Are you being served?" Whilst in America they tell you to "Have a nice day." But what is the secret of good customer service? From Harrods in London and Saks New York, we're going to find out the dos and don'ts of selling protocol.The reason that Harrods has been so successful over a hundred and fifty years is two fold. First of all they've offered their customers the products they want to buy in a pleasant environment. But secondly and more importantly, the level of customer service that they've given their customers, before sale, during sale and after sale, has been second to none. I think it's fair to say that if you compare the British with our cousins elsewhere in the world that we are actually quite a reserved lot. To a certain extent there are a lot of shrinking violets in this country who would rather just do their own thing. They'd rather wander around and browse and if they do need any help eventually, ask for it. So I think the way that we approach our own U.K. based customers is actually slightly different to the way we know we need to approach. For example, an American customer, or indeed a Japanese customer, or a Middle Eastern customer, who all have different ways of doing things.Well in serving different, I guess, nationalities, you do take very different approaches. With Europeans, for example, you do kind of let them take a look at everything. See what's being on offer and then ask them if they need any help. I think they'd probably much moreprefer to come to you, rather than you so much to go to them. The American customer very much expects you to go to them, approach them, show them alternatives. Well I think maybe the more European or British customer can be almost turned off by that if someone is seen to be too aggressive, maybe too anxious to make a sale.It's most important that the first contact, the first initial meeting with the customer is a good and successful one because on that basis, the customer will make up their mind what they want to do next.I quite like the English sales assistants because they definitely have better thing to do than talk to you, which I like. It's very terrifying when you go to America. "Can I help you?" they're like licking you. You're just like, "No, I'm fine. I just want to look." That puts me off. I love the English sales assistant.So where have you experienced the very best in customer service?Umm, probably America. In terms of best as in, they give you so much attention it's almost embarrassing. They treat you, you know, the "have a nice day" thing. They' want to help you. They want you to buy, 'cause they often work on a commission basis. That's if you like best. But I prefer the ... like, being ignored.Tamara:I think England's still way behind in terms of, like America for example. I can call in America from London and they'll track the item down. It's not like, "Sorry madam we don't have that in your size."I just got the Gucci boots, which mine had actually broken. And in England they said, "Sorry" you know, that's it. So this woman in Los Angeles tracked them down and, in fact got them for me. That's because they work on commission. And the sooner we learn that, the better the service will get.So what do the Americans have to say? They may speak with adifferent accent. But is the sales pitch a foreign language to the rest of the world?I think part of the reason Americans are known as experts is that we tend to focus a lot more in the human side of selling, not the mechanical side, which is the register and knowing about the product. We really want to know about your lifestyle. We want to know about your family. We want to know about your income. We want to know about your occasions in your life. And that's very different outside of the United States. Our consumer actually is comfortable with forming a partnership with a sales associate and giving up that information, very personal information, very personal information. I think that best part about Saks sales associate training that we actually develop customers, five different types of customers and we videotape them and put them up in front of every new sales associate and say, "This is our customers." They're very different. Each one of them is a top customer at Saks but they shop in a very different way. A lot of stores in this industry really measure selling effectiveness by sales and quite frankly that's not what Saks is about. I think the way you measure good quality staff is by repeat business. Obviously if you have someone on your selling floor that has a clientele, that is the measure of a good sales associate.Part V Do you know…?"Everybody loves a bargain, "this is a common American saying.A bargain is something you buy for less than its true vale. It is something you might not buy if it costs more.One person's useless ugly object can be another person's bargain. So many Americans put it outside with a "for sale" sign on it and they have a yard sale.Just about anything can be sold at a yard sale: clothing, cooking equipment, old toys, tools, books and chairs, even objects you thinkare extremely ugly or useless. You may have an electric light shaped like a fish. You may greatly dislike its looks, but it may be beautiful to someone else. Usually the seller puts a price on each object. But the price can almost always be negotiated. The price of a table, for example, might be marked $10. But the seller may accept 8. If the table has not been sold by the end of the day, the seller probably will take much less.Some people go to yard sales because it is part of their job. They earn their livings by buying old things at low prices then selling them at higher prices. Many others, however, go to yard sales just to have fun. They say it is like going on a treasure hunt. Sometimes they really do find the treasure.Ned Jaudere did. The Boston Globe newspaper says Mr. Jaudere has been collecting native American Indian objects since he was a young man. Last year, he stopped at a yard sale in the northeastern city of Worcester, Massachusertts. He paid $125 for what everyone thought was an old wooden club. Mr. Jaudere thought it was something else. Two days later, he confirmed that the club had been used by the Wampanoag Indian leader known as King Philip. King Philip used it during his war with the white settlers at eastern Massachusetts in 1675. The historic weapon had been stolen from a museum in 1970 and had been missing ever since. Mr. Jardere learnt the war club was valued at about $150 000 but he did not sell it or keep it. Mr. Jaudere returned the club to the museum near Boston Massachusetts from which it was stolen.Questions:1. Which of the following is a common American saying?2. What can be sold at a yard sale?3. Why do people go to a yard sale?4. When was the old wooden club stolen?5. What was the real value of the club?6. Why was the club at a great value?Unit 2 Hotel or B&BPart I Getting readyB. Keys:1 : 35%, 60%2 : 45%, 20%3 : 60%, 80%4 : 30%, 15%5 : 50%, 70%6 : 30%, 20%C. Keys:(1)1 : ￡30/single; ￡60/double, children under 12 2 : ￡29/full board3 : ￡28/double+bath, excluded(2) 1 : hot food, fried egg 2 : coffee, tea, jam, cooked 3 : dinner, bed and breakfast 4 : the room plus all meals 5 : Value Added Tax Part II A touch of homeOutline I : bed and breakfast, 15 000, advantages over big hotels II : meeting different people III : features, 1883, guests IV : B&Bs not suitable for some peoplePart III Renting a carA. Keys: 1 : three 2 : Mon. July 10th 3 : station wagon 4 : $79.955 : $59.956 : 4 p.m.7 : 10 a.m.8 : ' free9: 12 cents 10 : $1011 : 8% 12 : '$100B. Keys: a compact car/a station wagon/ automatic transmission/ current models/ pick up/return the car/special weekend rate/regular rate/ unlimited mileage/ insurance/ sales tax/ a full tank of gas/ deposit/ lowest rates.Part IV More about the topic: What Type of Room Do You Want?A. Keys: 1: 5 2: 2 3: 6 4: 4 5: 3 6: 1B. Keys: 1 : ￡40, all grades 2 : ￡55, Sales 3 : ￡150, Managerial, entertaining private guest, the lake 4: ￡220, privacy,country-side, kitchenPart V Do you know…?A. Keys: (France)Italy, (2)3, (3)2, (4)8(Loudon,UK)Paris,France, (8)4 B. Keys: 1 : F 2 : T 3 : F 4 : F 5 : TTape scriptPart I Getting readyB.A: Good morning. I'd like some information about tourist figures, please. First, about accommodation. What proportion of tourists stay in hotels? B: Well, in an average year 60% of tourists stay in hotels, but this year 35% are staying in hotels. A: What proportion of tourists stay in holiday camps? B: Well, in an average year 20% of tourists stay in holiday camps, but this year 45% are staying in holiday camps. A: Now, about places visited. What proportion of tourists visit Europe? B: Well, in an average year 80% of tourists visit Europe, but this year 60% are visiting Europe. A: And what proportion of tourists visit the U.S.A.? B: Well, in an average year 15% of tourists visit the U.S.A., but this year 30% are visiting the U.S.A.. A: Now, about methods of transport. What proportion of tourists go by plane? B: Well,in an average year about 70% of tourists go by plane, but this year about 50% are going by plane. A: What proportion of tourists take their own car?B: Well, in an average year about 20% of tourists take their own car, but this year about 30% are taking their own car. A: Thank you very much for your help.C.C:… so here's a brochure with the hotels in Midford. It gives you all the rates …T:I'm sorry, my English isn't so good. Can you explain this to me?C:Yes, of course. First of all we have the Castle Inn … here …it's the cheapest. It will cost you only ￡12 for a single room and ￡15 for a double. The price includes continental breakfast. If you want a full English breakfast you'll have to pay extra …T:What is this "English breakfast"?C:Oh, you know, hot food: fried egg, fried bacon, porridge …whereas the continental breakfast is coffee, tea, rolls, jam and honey — nothing cooked, you see.T:I think I would prefer the continental breakfast.C:Well, yes, that's included. And then we have the Dalton Hotel, more expensive, but very nice, a bathroom attached to every room. The Dalton charges ￡30 for a single room and ￡60 for a double. But there is no charge for children under 12 who stay in the same room as their parents.T:I won't have my children with me. But maybe my husband will come a little later …C:Well, the Park Hotel is very reasonably priced. ￡16 per person. Every room has a bath. There's a special rate of ￡25 which includes dinner, bed and breakfast — what we call half board. Or you can have full board, that's the room plus all meals for ￡29 per person per night.T:We would only want breakfast.C:I see. Mm … you could try the fourth hotel here, the Phoenix. It will cost you ￡28 for a double room with bath. Breakfast is ￡5 per person.T:Yes. But what about the extra money, what do you call it in English, the service...C:All these rates include a service charge of 10%. They also include VAT - that's Value Added Tax.T:If we come later in the year will it be cheaper?C:Yes. These are the rates for June to September. You would pay less at other times of the year.T:I'll talk about it with my husband. Thank you for explaining everything to me.C:You're very welcome.Part II A touch of homeBev Rose is a very good hostess. She tells the guests in her home there are sodas in the refrigerator, snacks in the kitchen, and videos next to the TV.But Rose's guests aren't out-of-town family or friends. Her guests are from all over the world. Rose's house is like a small hotel. It is called a bed and breakfast or B&B for short. The name of Rose's B&B is Suits Us.Rose and her husband have joined a growing number of people who are operating B&Bs in their homes. B&Bs offer the charm, comfort, and hospitality that is often missing in big hotels. That's why there are many people who would rather stay at a B&B than a hotel when they travel.There are about 15 000 B&Bs across the U.S. Each year they welcome millions of visitors. And the number is increasing. "I think guests are looking for the personal touch," said Pat Hardy, the director of the American Bed and Breakfast Association. "In a B&B, you don't have a room number. The owner knows who you are and helps you enjoy your trip," Hardy said. Travelers often want more than just a place to sleep. They like B&Bs because the owner takes a personal interest in them.Rose said one of the best things about owning a B&B is meetingall the different people. She loves watching the guests meet each other for the first time at breakfast. "It's really fun to stand in the kitchen and talk with my guests. Even though most of them have just met for the first time, the conversations at the breakfast table are really interesting and lively."Many B&Bs are older homes with interesting histories. Suits Us was built in 1883. The rooms are filled with antiques and 19th-century decorations. The Roses rent three of the upstairs bedrooms to guests. Every room at Suits Us has its own personality. The Roses have named several of the rooms for previous guests. For example, one of the rooms is named the Woodrow Wilson Room because the former U.S. President stayed there. Another room is called the Annie Oakley Room because the famous cowgirl was once a guest there.Bed and breakfasts aren't for everyone. Some people aren't comfortable staying in someone else's home. And other people don't care for the personal interaction. But for a quiet, romantic place to stay, many people are checking into bed and breakfasts instead of hotels. Once people have stayed in a B&B, they often find it hard to go back to hotels.Part III Renting a carA:Good afternoon. U-Drive-It rentals. May I help you?C:Hi, yeah. I'm interested in, uh, renting a car for the weekend, and I'm wondering if you have a special weekend rate?A:Yes, we do. [Mm-hmm.] Uh …what sort of car were you interested in?C:Well, we're a family of three and we have camping equipment. Now, I'm used to driving a small car, but I might need something a little larger because of the family and, uh …all the equipment that we have. A:Well, um … I could suggest a compact car for/to you.[Mm-hmm.] Some of our compacts have … have large trunks, [OK.] or, uh …Oh, better yet, why not a small station wagon? [Oh, good.] Um …all our cars are current models and, uh, have automatic transmission.C:Oh, well, I'm used to driving a standard, but I guess there's no problem with automatic transmission.A:No, no. If you can drive a standard you can drive an automatic. [Mh-hmm.] Uh, now, listen, when were you … uh … interested in …in renting this?C:Uh, well, we'll be leaving on a Friday, that's the …let's see, that's Friday, July 7th, and then returning on the Monday. That would be the tenth.A:Mm-hmm. Well, let's see … uh … we have … uh … Oh! We have a Pinto station wagon for those dates. [Mm-hmm. Good.] Um … yeah, I think … I think that's your best bet.C:OK. Uh … well, then when would we have to pick up the car and when would we have to return the car to get that special weekend rate?A:Well, for the weekend rate you have to pick up the car after four o'clock on Friday afternoon [Uh-huh.] and then return it by ten o'clock on Monday morning.C:After four on Friday and returning by ten o'clock on Monday morning. [Mm-hmm.] OK. What … uh … uh, what would be the price for that?A:OK, now, our … our regular rate is seventy-nine ninety-five. [Ooh!] but the special weekend rate w…you can get that for fifty-nine ninety-five. [Oh, Great.] Um …now the first three hundred miles are free, [Mm-hmm…] after that it's twelve cents per mile.C:Oh, so it's twelve cents a mile extra after the first three hundred miles?A:That's right.C:OK. Uh …do you have any …um …rentals with unlimited mileage?A:Well, we do, but you can't get that special weekend rate.C:Uh-huh. OK. Well, then does the fifty-nine ninety-five - that was the rate, right? [Mm-hmm.] — does that include insurance?A:No … um … the insurance is ten dollars more, but I really recommend it.C:Yeah.A:OK, now there's a … there's a sales tax of eight percent, [Mm-hmm…] and … um … you have to return the car with a full tank of gas. [Uh-huh.] Also, we require a deposit of a hundred dollars.C:Oh boy. It sure adds up!A:Well, our rates are still the lowest in town.C:Uh-huh. OK. Well, I tell you what. I'd like to think about it, if that's right, and then I'll call you back…uh…A:Sure, that's fine. Uh, listen, when you …when you do call back, ask for Doug. That's me.C:OK. Well, thanks a lot. Doug. Goodbye.A:Take care.Part IV More about the topic: What Type of Room Do You Want?S: If the terms are favorable, we could come to an arrangement for regular accommodation. Now, I wanted to discuss the types of room with you, and rates for their use.M:Certainly. The rates I’ll quote to you first of all are what we call "rack rates" , that is the normal rates quoted to the public. But obviously we would discuss a discount rate for you. Now, as regards the rooms, they are all of a very high standard. All our rooms have central heating. Most of them are with bathroom, and they all have a washbasin and a toilet.S:That sounds fine. Can you tell me about your single rooms?M:Yes. Our single rooms are very comfortable, and the rates are very reasonable. I think you'd find them suitable for visiting staff of all grades. The rack rate is ￡40 a night.S: ￡40 a night …M:Yes. Or for real economy, let's suppose you have a sales conference. You could double up your sales staff and put them into twin rooms. That would work out very cheaply. The normal rate is ￡55 per twin or double room per night.S: Well, we might consider that possibility. But we also have some quite important visitors sometimes. Have you any really special accommodation we can offer them?M: Well, suppose you have visiting managerial staff. For something more luxurious, we can offer our Delphos Suite. It's delightful, and convenient for entertaining private guests. It has its own private terrace where guests can sit outside and enjoy the view over the lake …S: That sounds most attractive …M: The normal rate is ￡150 per night …S: ￡150.M: …but for total luxury, the finest accommodation of any hotel in this area, I can recommend our Bella Vista Penthouse. From the balcony, there's a magnificent view over the whole countryside.S: Oh, lovely.M: It has a bedroom connecting to a large sitting room, with a separate study, a bathroom, and a fully-fitted kitchen. It combines total luxury with total privacy. For example, if your Company Director and his wife wanted to stay for a few days it would be ideal.S: And the rate?M: The normal rate would be ￡220 a night.Part V Do you know…?Five U.S. hotels were voted among the world's top ten, with the Halekulani in Honolulu ranking first, a survey of Gourmet magazine readers released last Friday said.Coming in second was the Oriental, in Bangkok, Thailand, followed by Villa d'Este, Cernobbio, Italy; The Regent Hong Kong, and Hotel Ritz, Paris.The Greenbriar, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia ranked No. 8. The 10th-ranked hotel was the Four Seasons Resort Nevis, in Charlestown, Nevis, West Indies.More than 150 hotels, resorts and inns in 27 countries and regions were ranked in general and specific categories that rated such things as dining, bars, pools, workout centers and romantic atmosphere. This is the third year that Gourmet, which has more than 5 million readers, has conducted the survey.Another U.S. hotel, the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas, topped the list for restaurant dining, beating out the Connaught in London, Italy's Villa d'Este and Bangkok's the Oriental. The Four Seasons in Philadelphia was No. 5.In the specific category of best business hotels, the Regent Hong Kong ranked first as it has for the past three years. In other categories, Paris' Hotel Ritz with its Roman thermal baths was voted to have the best pools and The Green- briar in West Virginia was found to have the best workout center, golf and tennis.Unit 3 “Planting” MoneyPart I Getting readyC. Keys:1 : Sincere; Y 2 : Doubtful; N 3 : Sarcastic; N 4 : Doubtful; N 5 : Sincere; Y 6 : Skeptical; N 7 : Surprised; Y 8 : Sincere; Y 9 : Emphatic; Y 10 : Sarcastic; NPart II National teach children to save day。

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• Clara Barton
• Born on December 25, 1821 in Oxford, Mass., Barton was educated at home, and at 15 started teaching school. Her most notable antebellum achievement was the establishment of a free public school in Bordentown, N.J. She is remembered as the founder of the American Red Cross. By the end of the Civil War Barton had performed most of the services that would later she associated with the American Red Cross, which she founded in 1881. In 1904 she resigned as head of that organization, retiring to her home at Glen Echo, outside Washington, D.C., where she died 12 Apr. 1912.
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否则就听不成啦!Part 1 Short dialogs and multiple choice questions(每小题：分)Directions: Listen to the short dialogs, then choose the correct answers to the questions. You will hear the recording twice. After the first playing, there will be time for you to choose the correct answers. Use the second playing to check your answers.Questions 1 to 1 are based on the following passage or dialog.1.A. He is seeking help.B. He is offering advice.C. He is trying to look calm.D. He is having an interview.Questions 2 to 2 are based on the following passage or dialog.2.A. She is weak in doing projects.B. She is weak in studies.C. She tends to work whole-heartedly.D. She is not willing to start a project.Part 1 Short dialogs and multiple choice questions(每小题: 4 分; 满分：8 分)小题得分对错我的答案客观1. 4 A A2. 4 C CSubtotal: 8 老师评语：Click ONCE on the speaker icon to start listening!放音结束前请不要离开本页。

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What is a stock market? The stock market is the means through which previously issued corporate stocks, shares of ownership in a corporation, are traded. Stock exchanges are organizations whose members act as intermediaries to buy and sell stocks for their clients.

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Unit 4 Reports on Disasters & AccidentsPart I.1.firebomb/ shopping/ several /2.1,000 tornadoes3.car ferry/ taken over/ Green Action Front4.South Korea/ 270/ thousands5.robbed/ 5/ lunchtime/ 10,0006.hurricane/ 100/ twenty/ 1007.Hijacked/ TuesdayPart II. Hurricanes & tornadoesA. 1. a storm 2. about 2000 3. the winds were up to 75 miles an hour 4. the Indian army5. destroyed/ links / collapsed6. more than 40 people7. over 100,000 peopleLarge numbers of villages have been completely cut off. The official said the death toll could reach 2000. the Indian army has been called into help the relief effort. From Deli. Here is David Willis.The storm with winds of up to 75 miles an hour struck India’s southeast coast, flattening homes, destroying crops and cutting transport links. Eyewitnesses reported tidal waves more than 12 feet high. The storm was followed by torrential rains, which swept away roads and railway lines, and flooded low lying areas. More than 40 people are thought to have died when a ferry sank. But most of the deaths have been due to flooding, houses collapsing or electrocutions. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from their homes and are taking shelter in relief camps. After surveying the flooded area by helicopter, the chief minister said it resembled a burial ground. He’s appealed to the federal government to treat the incident as a national calamity. David Willis.B. 1. The worst of the heavy rains and thunderstorms appears to be over2.in parts of Europe3.During the past week4.Affected5.At least five6.because emergency warnings were issued before.C. 1. c 2 b 3. d 4. bNine hours Greenwich Mean Time. The news read by Wendy Gordon. The worst of the heavy rains and thunderstorms that have been sweeping parts of Europe during the past week appears to be over. Exceptionally heavy rainfall brought flooding to many parts of Germany, Switzerland, Northern Italy and France and chaos to rail and road transport. Although most flights are expected to be back to normal by this time tomorrow, there are expected to be serious delays on the German and Italian motorways over the forthcoming holiday weekend and train services are unlikely to be normalized for several days. A government spokeswoman in France announced that the damage to homes and property is expected to be at least four thousand million francs. It is reported that at least five people have lost their lives. Experts agree that casualty figures are low because emergency warnings were issued on the day before the storms began. The federal government in Switzerland has urged motorists and rail travelers not to travel during the next few days and no international traffic will be allowed on the main north-south motorway routes across the country until next Tuesday.Part III. EarthquakesA. Another earthquake, the fifth in three days, hit Japan last night. Hundreds of homes have now been destroyed or badly damaged, and thousands have been made homeless since the earthquakes started. Many of the homeless have begun to make themselves makeshift shelters from the rubble. Electricity, gas and water supplies have also been seriously disrupted. Experts believe that the country will be hit by more quakes during the next 48 hours.C.I. A. Sunday/ the 23rd B. in southern ItalyII. A. at least 400 B. many more than 400III. A. in small towns and villages outside Naples 1. hospital 2. church 3. private homes B. 1. eight or nine 2. in the streets or squares 3. countryside/ traffic jams 4. telephone lines/ 5. electricity and waterIV. A. 1. the fog 2. the cold weather B. roadIt’s eight o’clock on Monday the 24th of November. At least 400 people are feared to have died in a major earthquake which shook large areas of southern Italy last night. As rescue work continues in wide areas of southern Italy it is becoming increasingly more likely that the present toll of 400 dead will rise much higher. The tremors were felt all over Italy, from the French border to Sicily, but the worst damage appears to be in small towns and villages, many of them very isolated, outside Naples. Naples itself has also been badly affected. In a little village about sixty miles east of the city scores of people are thought to have died as the earthquake hit a village hospital and a local church as well as many private homes. It appears that there was an evening service going on in the church at the time.In Naples it was the old part of the city which was worst affected—many buildings of eight or nine stories broke apart and collapsed as the earthquake hit at around 8 p.m. last night. A large proportion of inhabitants spent the night in the open in the streets or squares and as smaller tremors continue, more chaos has ensued as townspeople rush for the countryside, blocking roads and causing traffic jams. Telephone lines have been broken and electricity and water supplies are failing—the fog and cold conditions are making rescue operations very difficult in some of the remoter parts of the south particularly where road conditions are not very good.Our own correspondent has been to the disaster area and sends us this report.Part IV Earthquake TipsDuring an earthquakeWhen you feel an earthquake, duck under a desk or sturdy table. Stay away from windows, bookcases, file cabinets, heavy mirrors, hanging plants, and other heavy objects that could fall. Watch out for falling plaster and ceiling tiles. Stay undercover until the shaking stops, and hold onto your cover. If it moves, move with it. Below are some additional tips for specific locations: If you are in a high-rise building, and not near a desk or table, move against an interior wall and protect your head with your arms. Do not use the elevators. Do not be surprised if the alarm or sprinkler systems come on. Stay indoors. Glass windows can dislodge during the quake and sail for hundreds of feet.If you’re outdoors, move to a clear area away from trees, signs, buildings, electrical wires and poles.If you’re on a sidewalk near buildings, duck into a doorway to protect yourself from falling bricks, glass, plaster, and other debris.If you’re driving, pull over to the side of the road and stop. Avoid overpasses, power lines, and other hazards. Stay inside the vehicle until the shaking is over .If you’re in a crowded store or other public place, do not rush for exits. Move away from display shelves containing objects that could fall.If you’re in a wheelchair, stay in it. Move to cover, if possible, lock you wheels, and protect your head with your arms.If you’re in the kitchen, move away from the refrigerator, stove, and overhead cupboards. (Take time now to anchor appliances, and install security latches on cupboard doors to reduce hazards.)If you’re in a stadium or theater, stay in your seat and protect your head with your arms. Do not try to leave until the shaking is over, then leave in a calm, orderly manner. Avoid rushing towards exits.After the earthquake checklist.Be prepared for aftershocks, and plan where you will take cover when they occur.Check for injuries. Give first aid, as necessary.Remain calm and reassure others.Avoid broken glass.Check for fire. Take appropriate actions and precautions.Check gas, water, and electric lines. If damaged, shut off service. If gas is leaking, don’t use matches, flashlights, appliances, or electric switches. Open windows, leaving building, and report to gas company.Replace all telephone receivers, and use for emergency calls only.Tune to the emergency broadcast station on the radio or television. Listen for emergency bulletins.Stay out of damaged buildings.Part V. do you know…?A1.Main idea: to remember Tsunami victims2.Time : midday/ 3 minutes of silence/ people stopped/ flags lowered to half staff.3.Purpose: giving people a chance to remember all those who died.4.1) Sweden/ 700+1200 Germany: +1000Brge earthquake/ epicenter under water2.no/ most quakes no tsunamis3.depending on distance/ near the earthquake/ immediately / hardest hit area/ two hoursaway.4. a. water/ seriously withdrawing or coming in for no apparent reasonb. feeling an earthquake / witnessing a landslide at the coast。

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• 1. So dearly did she love women that she offered her life as their ransom.
• 2. Emily found work as a schoolteacher and eventually she raised enough money to return to university education.
1913 ran out grab the bridle hit fractured her skull died consciousness
This news item is about a bomb attack in Russia.
a bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives. local police headquarters were standing to attention receive their orders
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4 The United States Congress signed the world's Treaty of International Red Cross.
• 5 Today her work continues to be important to thousands of people in trouble.
just 142 were fit enough.
the rest were too fat, unfit or had poor overall presentation and grooming.
street crime, particularly mugging, is seen as a serious problem in Malaysia's major cities.
announced ambitious targets last week to tackle street crime
a 20% fall by this time next year
retired policemen are being brought back and members of Malaysia's people's volunteer corps are being enlisted to fight on the frontline. they'll join police on street patrols.
Unit Four
1 Clara Barton made a big difference in many lives.
2 she went to the fields of battle to nurse the wounded.
3 she wrote letters in support of an American Red Cross organization.
• 3. In 1909, Emily gave up full-time teaching so that she could devote more of her time to the WSPU.
4. The scale of her militant acts increased and in December 1911 she was arrested for setting fire to pillar boxes.
5. Once she had recovered her health, Emily began making plans to commit an act that would gave movement maximum publicity.
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1872 literature leave find the 20-a-term fees 1906 one of the chief stewards hand a petition March 1909 two months stone throwing setting fire to pillar boxes
The opposition has called for the countrபைடு நூலகம்'s top policeman to be replaced because of the failure to tackle the issue.
this news item is about a group of terrorist suspects arrested last week in Sydney and Melbourne who might have intended to attack a nuclear reactor.

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