英语中级听力13-15课答案

Lesson13.
Section One
Task1. Guess What People Are Talking About
A. 1----5T F F T F 6.T
B.
1.wine and good food
2. the river
3. walking along the river and all the couples
4. paintings there
C.
1. reminds/of
2. got something about it/sort of charm
3. unusual/in the center of
4. from the top
5. down by the river
Task2. Nice to see you!
A.1---2.c a
B.1—d, I; 2—a; 3—e,f; 4—b, c, f; 5—h; 6—g
C. 1. are keeping you busy
2. in the process/doing it up
3. give you a hand with/something of
4. see myself leaving/foreseeable
5. my butting in
6. over here on a scholarship/the Royal Academy of Music Section Two
Task1. What do you like about your job?
A.1----4a c b c
B.1----5 F F T F T 6----8 F F T
C. 1. a night person
2. on the lookout for/ stump me
3. plan on sticking around
4. the Beatles/a great beat to move to
ing up with
6. at the end of/have slimmed down/built up
7. against a tight deadline
8. at first/working with
Task 2. What do you think of yourself?
A. 1-----5: a c a c b 6.a
B.
1---a. a secretary
b. good at her job
c. different in her private life
d. pretty tide in office
e. incoherent in her behavior
2---a. concerned about state affairs
b. critical of the political system
c. eager to bring law and order to his country
3---a. easy-going
b. a bit vicious when upset
c. not sympathetic
d. not interested in civil rights
4---a. a retired army officer
b. respectable and dignified
c. helpful to those dependent on him
d. a bit fanatic about organization and discipline
e. not too polemic
f. fond of his wife and family
5---a. shy and unhappy during childhood
b. unable to make friends till very late
c. good at being by himself
d. self-reliant and independent
e. fond of children
Section three
1.Bert’s friendship
2.Bert and sports
3.Adam’s hobbies
4.the two men’s religious belief
5.Adam---not a creative problem solver
6.Heart attack victims enjoy Type B behavior
Lesson 14
Section One
A.1.general election in Britain in the near future
2. an earthquake killed five people
3. stole a quarter of million pounds
4. and fifty-seven people were killed in an aircraft crash
5. was held in London
6. were made to end the strike at Independent Television
7.were made when a fight between football supporters of rival teams.
B. 1----5: b c a a c 6----8: a b a
C.1----5 T T F F F 6----8: F F T
D. 1.The Prime Minister
2. In center Ttaly/avalanches/the earthquake during the night
3. three masked men/with shotguns/unlock the van
4. two hundred and fifty-seven people/hit the side of a volcano
5. a basis for negotiations/the chances of success
6. fifteen people/in court in Manchester/matches in London Section Two
Task1. Bearded Lady
A.Answer the following question briefly.
1.What is special of Mrs. Clark?
She was a bearded woman.
2.What advice did all those specialists offer her?
They advised her to shave.
3.When did she decide to let her beard grow?
When she realized that she was fighting a losing battle.
4.What was it like being stared at all day?
At first it was a bit unnerving.
5.Is there any advantage of her beard?
Her beard keeps her husband’s toes warm on cold nights.
B 1----5 F F T T T 6----8: F T F
C.1. at an enormous rate/five inches
2. trying to keep it down/fighting a losing battle
3. chop off a few feet
4.the point and laughing in the end
Task2. At a youth Center
A. 1----5: a c a a c 6 b
B. a. drinking under the age of sixteen
b. music at the dance ball
c. language they use
d. their hair and clothes
C. 1----5 F T T F T 6 F
D.
1. turned me out
2. wrong
3. on at my boy about
4. with
5. there’s any need/ take part in
6. sitting in on/take you up on
7. take you out your way
E. 1. Why does Mrs. Brent refuse to dance?
Because she does not think the music played in the hall is of her generation.
2. Why does Finchley say that the so-called generation gap is only a myth? Because he believes the young people are quite traditional in their attitudes and they are not that different from the old generation.
3. How does James explain eth seemingly different language used by the young people?
He believe that every generation creates its own special language as well as its own styles in clothes and music.
4. Why does Finchley suggest Mrs. Brent to read a book entitled Britain’s Sixteen-Year-Olds?
Because he hopes Mrs. Brent to have a better understanding of the young people. Section three
1.trading without money---barter
2.how money came
3.shifting from barter society to a monetized world
4.different money values in different countries
5.why difficult to give examples of barter deals
6.prospect of bartering
Lesson15
Section One
A.1----4: a c b c
B.1----5: F TT F T
C
Group A
a.killers deserve death penalty
b.Death penalty will prevent other people from killing
c.It is important to get rid of the bad see
d.
d.Criminals are never rehabilitated, they are hardened.
e.Some people are just bad, evil, and there is nothing one can do.
Group B
a.nobody has the right to take another person’s life.
b.Nobody is sure that the person convicted is really guilty.
c.Criminals should be rehabilitated instead of being eliminate
d.
d.There should be more extensive programs.
e.It is a social problem. We and society are responsible.
D.1. Why doesn’t the second speaker believe that we are sure the person convicted is really guilty?
Because she has doubts on the lawyers and the judicial system today.
2. why doesn’t the first speaker trust the present rehabilitation program?
Because studies show that criminals are never rehabilitated.
3. what does the second speaker suggest to improve the rehabilitation program?
She suggests to expand the program to an extensive one.
4. what are the two reasons given by the first speaker for not keeping murders in
jail?
(1) the jails and prisons are already crowded.
(2) the taxpayers have to pay to maintain murders’ lives.
Task2. A new way of life
A.1. who are being interviewed?
Michelle Burns and Luke Saunders.
2. what’s special about them?
They have given up regular jobs and high salaries and begun a new way of life
3. why did Michelle and her husband decide to come to live in a remote area of Scotland?
Because they had worked long hours and had hardly seen each other. As a result, their marriage was breaking up.
4. how do they make a living now?
They raise sheep and goats, grow their own vegetables, and they have some chickens.
6.what is unusual of Mr. Luke Saunders?
He had been a car factory worker on the assembly line.
7.what did he do for money?
He had a bit of money to start with, then he began to do odd jobs like picking fruit, washing up, etc.
8.what is he going to do now?
He is going to start a new journey in the opposite direction. And he will be away for three years again.
B 1----5 F T F F F 6-----10: T T F T F
C. 1. leave the “rat race”
2. fell in love with
3. in it for profit
4. on the farm/feel lonely
5. four nuts on the bolts
6. giving up/turning round/coming home
Section Two
Task1.
A.1---3: c a b
B. a. forgetting of proper names
b. forgetting of foreign words
c. childhood and concealing memories
d. mistakes in speech
e. mistakes in reading and writing
C. 1. be traced back to/problem or conflict/concerned
2. of the neuroses/also present/in normal person
3. the borderline/the normal and the neurotic person/nearly as clearly marked
4. a childhood memory/painful to us
5.good reasons for/the slips and errors
Task2.
A.1----4: a b a c
B.1----5 T F T T T 6----8: F T T
C. 1. WHAT WAS EARL Y CHEESE PROBABLY LIKE?
Early cheese was probably rather unpalatable and tasteless.
2. what is fresh cheese?
It is a kind of cheese to be eaten immediately after the milk has coagulated.
3. what is ripened cheese?
It is a kind of cheese with salt added to the soft fresh cheese and other biochemical processes continued in the course of cheese-making.
4. what is the origin of the English word “cheese”?
The Latin word “caseus”
5. when do people begin to realize the role of micro-organisms and enzymes in producing different types of cheese?
In the 19th century.
6.what do people do to make cheese of different taste before the discovery of micro-organisms?
People kept milk at different temperatures and in various environments.
Section three
1.why all cultures change
2.the origin of the name “Anasazi”
3.descendents of the Anasazi
4.the theme that unifies the historical development of the Anasazi
bor distribution of the Anasazi
6.the end of the Anasazi。