《英语听力教程2》文本6
朗文英语听说教程二听力原文_Unit_06
Unit 6 Immigration: Bound for the United StatesIntroductionTEACHER: All right. Let’s get started. U.S. immigration is our topic today. I know many of you are immigrants, so you know something about this topic. As you may know by my last name, I have a German background; my parents immigrated to the U.S. from Germany about fifty years ago . . . . Yes, question?STUDENT 1: Does that mean you’re an immigrant?TEACHER: Well, no. My parents are immigrants. They came to the States from Germany. I’m a first generation German-American because I was born here. First, we’ll talk briefly about immigration, the history of immigration to the U.S., and the story of diversity in the U.S.Body: Part 1To immigrate means to move from one country to another. It’s a permanent move. By contrast, if you go to live and work in France for two years, you don’t immigrate there; you move there temporarily, because you plan to return to your country. So to immigrate means to move to another country to live there indefinitely. Immigration happens all over the world. Most people do it to improve their economic or social situation.Body: Part 2What I’ll do now is give you a brief chronology of U.S. immigration. Let’s start with the colonial period, the first wave of immigrants in the seventeenth century. Most immigrants were from Western Europe. Although the Spaniards arrived in 1513, the first permanent settlement in North America was one that the British started in l607 in Jamestown, Virginia. People were not prohibited from immigrating by the British; anyone could come. Life was difficult, and some people did not survive, but people felt it was worth the risk to have a better life in the colonies. The French, Spanish, and Dutch also came, but in smaller numbers. I should also point out that about 20 percent of the population at this time was African American. However, most weren’t immigrants; they were brought from Africa as slaves. Today we’re limiting our discussion to voluntary immigrants―to people who choose to come to the U.S. Now, by 1775, the U.S. population had grown to about 2.5 million. The country was growing fast. Some thought too fast. So in the 1790s, laws were passed to control immigration for the first time. The Naturalization Act of 1798 required immigrants to live in the U.S. a certain number of years before they became citizens.Body: Part 3The second big wave of immigration happened between 1840 and 1920. During this wave, about 37 million people came to the U.S. The industrial revolution had begun in Europe, causing a big shift from farming to factory jobs. Many left for the U.S., hoping to continue doing the farming jobs they knew. About 80 percent of these second wave immigrants were from all over Europe. During this second wave, Chinese workers also came to the U.S., mostly as contract workers. They arranged, or contracted, to work for an American company before they left home. Most of them worked in the gold mines of California, and later built railroads. Then laws were passed in the 1880s to keep most contract workers out. Now let’s see, where are we? Ah, yes, uh, 1891. In 1891, the U.S. Congress created the INS, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, to control immigration. Any of you who want to immigrate to the U.S. have heard of the INS. Up until 1891, each state had its own laws and could decide whichimmigrants could enter. So no one really controlled the total number of people allowed in each year. After 1891, the federal government made the laws instead. A year later, in 1892, the INS opened Ellis Island, in New York Harbor. Ships would go past the Statue of Liberty, the symbol of a new life for many people, and, stop at Ellis Island. Have any of you seen Ellis Island? Or the Statue of Liberty? You have, Stefan?STUDENT 2: Yes, I have. The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.TEACHER: What did you think?STUDENT 2: Very impressive. Interesting, too.TEACHER: Yes, it is interesting now that Ellis Island has been made into a museum. It’s an important part of American history. Between 1892 and 1954, when Ellis Island was closed, about 12 million immigrants entered through there, most from Europe. I’d encourage you all to go for a visit. Let’s go back for a minute. About 9 million people entered the U.S. between 1900 and 1910. As a result, the U.S. government decided that it needed to limit the number of immigrants. This led to a series of new laws. First, the Immigration Act of 1917 was passed to restrict who could enter. Then in 1921, the U.S. Congress passed a quota system. This meant they decided that a certain number of people from each country could enter the U.S. each year. For example, 2 million from Germany could enter. Once that number had immigrated, no more were allowed until the next year. That’s how the quota system worked. During this period, say up until the 1960s, the U.S. was called a “melting pot.” The attitude was that immigrants had to give up their traditions and cultures in order to create a uniform society. People were expected to forget about being Italian or Chinese. They were expected to learn English and to adjust to American ways of doing things.Body: Part 4Now, let’s look at the third wave, the period from 1965 to the present time. In 1965, the quota system was abolished. Instead, a limit of 290,000 was set on the total number of people who could enter each year. During the 1970s and 1980s, about 80 percent of the immigrants were from Latin America and Asia, and only 20 percent were from Europe and elsewhere. So if you compare the second and third waves, you see that in the second wave it was mostly Europeans, and in the third wave it was mostly Latin Americans and Asians. Again, economic opportunity was the main reason people immigrated. Each year, after 1965, many people wanted to immigrate to the U.S., many more than the 290,000 limit. This led to the Immigration Act of 1990. The Immigration Act of 1990 raised the yearly limit from 290,000 to 700,000. However, from 1990 to the present, the actual number has been closer to 1 million, one reason for this being that the U.S. needs workers for many of its service jobs, such as in restaurants or hotels or in farming.Body: Part 5In recent years, many people in the U.S. have come to realize that the country’s greatest strength is the diversity of its people. So, the old melting pot ideal has been replaced with the ideal of cultural diversity, with recognizing the importance of Americans’ many different cultural backgrounds. You can see this today in strong communities that are Korean-American, Japanese-American, Italian-American, Mexican-American, and so on. Any questions about this? Susan?STUDENT 3: I’m confused. I thought the melting pot was a good thing, that people should mix together and form a strong society.TEACHER: Yes, I think you’re right－we do want to mix together and form a strong society. But now the metaphor is that we want to have a mixed salad, where each ingredient keeps its original flavor, too. Does that sound like a good thing?STUDENT 3: Yes, it makes sense.ConclusionTEACHER: Well, let’s sum up. There were several waves of immigration into the U.S. The earlier waves were mostly Europeans, while the later waves have been mostly people from Latin America and Asia. The main reason has always been economic; they are looking for better jobs and a better life than they had in their home country. In the next class, I’m going to talk about current immigration laws. We’ll start there next time. That’s all for today。
《现代大学英语听力2》听力原文及题目答案Unit 6
I had two months until my new job began. It was like waiting an entire summer for school to start. I spent those two months talking to figure skating coaches and judges. I read boring rule books. I drove to the rinks where the skaters trained, and made notes about our conversations. I even took a lesson, which made some of the skaters laugh.Unit 6Task 1【答案】A.[d]—[b]—[a]—[e]—[c]B.a【原文】Laura usually leaves the offices of Quest Productions at about 5 o'clock, but last Monday she left at 5:30. She wanted to get home by 6:30 and she ran to the bus stop but she couldn't get on a bus. There were too many people and not enough buses. Laura was desperate to get home so she decided to go by tube.In the station she went to one of the automatic ticket machines but she didn't have enough change, so she had to join the queue at the ticket window. She bought her ticket and ran to the escalator. Laura went to the platform and waited for the tube. It arrived and the crowd moved forward.Laura was pushed into the train. It was almost full but she was given a seat by a man with a moustache. Laura thanked him and sat down. She started to read her newspaper. In the tunnel the train stopped suddenly and Laura was thrown to the floor together with the man with the moustache. Somebody screamed. The lights went out. It was quarter past 6 on a cold, wet December evening.Task 2【答案】A.1) a 2) b 3) d 4) cB.1) T 2) T 3) FC.wondered; television plays; exciting; every cigarette lighter; tape recorder; held in a certain way; the touch of a gold ring against the hand of; reveal; How wrong they were【原文】X was a secret agent. He had rented a furnished room in a provincial town not far from the public park and had been there two weeks. He was standing at the window looking out at the dull beds of geraniums, the park gates and the cold, uninviting statue of Queen Victoria that stood across the street from him, It was raining hard and the few people who passed by looked wet and miserable. X was miserable, too. How, he wondered, could anybody think there was anything interesting about the life of a secret agent? He knew it was because people had seen so many television plays about glamorous spies that they thought the life of a secret agent was exciting. They were convinced that every cigarette lighter concealed a secret tape recorder; that a fountain pen held in a certain way would open a locked door, that the touch of a gold ring against the handof an enemy would make him reveal all his secrets. How wrong they were! He looked round his room. The wallpaper was in the worst possible taste, the pictures horrible, the carpet worn, dirty and faded; and he was cold. This was the third Monday he had come to the window to look out. He prayed it would be the last.As if in answer to his prayer, a certain meeting he had been sent to investigate was about to take place. He took out his camera. Just beneath the statue two women had stopped to speak. He knew one of them, and it was she who pointed in his direction. The other woman looked up towards him and in that brief moment he photographed her.Task 3【答案】B.1) a 2) b 3) c 4) b 5) d【原文】Harry: Well, Robert, have you made up your mind yet what you want to do when you leave college?Nora: Oh Harry. Surely he's a bit young to decide on his career. He hasn't even got to college yet. Harry: Not at all, Nora. It's wisest to decide in good time. Look at me, for example. I really wanted to be a sailor, but now I spend my days sitting at a desk in an office. Yes, it's silly to train for the wrong job. And after all, Robert will be going to college soon.Nora: Now if I were a man I'd be a farmer. To see the crops growing--that's my idea of a good life.Harry: Yes, and to see the money rolling in is more important still.Robert: Well, that's not the way I look at it, Dad. It's the job I care about, not the money.Harry: Maybe not; but you'll learn to care about the money too, when you've got a family to keep.Nora: And of course Peter — well, he's keen to be a racing driver, or else an explorer. Robert: Oh, Peter's not old enough to make up his mind about such things.Harry: You haven't answered my question yet, Robert. What would you like to do?Nora: Are you sure you don't want to be a farmer, Robert? Or a market gardener?Robert: No, I'm sorry Mum, but I don't want to at all. I'd rather be a civil engineer. I want to build roads and bridges.Harry: Not ships? Isn't it better to be a shipbuilding engineer?Robert: Look here, is it my career we're planning, or yours?Harry: All fight, all right, there's no need to lose your temper. But you'd better win that scholarship first.Task 4【答案】I. correspondents; columnistA. may not need eitherB. to go to places where events take place and write stories about themII. first; bigger; better; who will soon leave to work for other peopleIII. working hours; free time; work long hours to begin with【原文】Here are some of the things a young man or woman should not do when he first asks an editor for a job:He should not tell the editor that he wants to be a foreign correspondent or a columnist. Very probably the editor does not need either. He wants a reporter who will go to such places as government offices and police stations and write a true story of what is happening there. Being a foreign correspondent or a columnist will come later.A young person should not tell tile editor that newspaper work is only the first step on the way to bigger and better jobs, such as those in government. The editor must take a lot of time and trouble teaching someone to be a good newspaperman or woman. He does not like the idea of teaching people who are soon going to leave him to work for someone else.A young journalist should accept the working hours and free time the editor gives him. As a new journalist, it is very probable that he will work longer hours than others and work on weekends. The editor did the same when he was a young newspaperman with no experience. He expects a journalist to understand how things are on a newspaper.Task 5【答案】A.1) acd 2) abeB.1) she is the wrong sex 2) she wears the wrong clothes【原文】SYLVIA: We've got a new manager in our department.LARRY: Oh? You hoped to get that job, didn't you?SYLVIA: Yes, I did.LARRY: I'm sorry. That's too bad. Who is it? Who got the job, I mean?SYLVIA: Someone called Drexler. Carl Drexler. He's been with the company only two years. I've been here longer. And I know more about the job, too!LARRY: Hmm. Why do you think they gave it to him and not to you?SYLVIA: Because I'm the wrong sex, of course !LARRY: You mean you didn't get the job because you're a woman?SYLVIA: Yes, that was probably it! It isn't fair.LARRY: What sort of clothes does he wear?SYLVTA: A dark suit. White shirt. A tie. Why?LARRY: Perhaps that had something to do with it.SYLVIA: You mean you think I didn't get the job because I come to work in jeans and a sweater?LARRY: It's possible, isn't it?SYLVIA: Do you really think I should wear different clothes?LARRY: Well. . . perhaps you should think about it.SYLVTA: Why should I wear a skirt? Or a dress?LARRY: I'm not saying you should. I'm saying you should think about it. That's all!SYLVIA: Why should I do that? I'm good at my job! That's the only important thing!LARRY: Hmm. Perhaps it should be the only important thing. But it isn't. Not inthis company.Task 6【答案】B.1st speaker(bcd) 2nd speaker(ae)C.1) F 2) F【原文】Al: Is this the right line to file a claim?Bob: Yeah. It's the same line for everything. You just stand here and wait.Al: Oh. Is there always such a long line?Bob: Every week. Sometimes longer. Is this your first time here?Al: Yes.Bob: What happened? Your plant closed down?Al: No. I'm a car salesman, or, I was a car salesman. But we just aren't selling cars. It's the interest rates. Two years ago, I averaged ten new cars a month. Do you know how many carsI sold last month? One. One car to a lady who had the cash. But the interest rates are up again.The boss let three of us go. How about you?Bob: I worked at a vacuum cleaner plant with about fifty workers. We put in a good day's work.But the machinery was getting old. As a matter of fact, the whole plant was old. So the management decided to build a new plant. You know where? In Singapore. The workers here made about seven dollars an hour, a couple of people made eight or nine an hour. You know how much they're paying the workers in Singapore? $2.50 an hour! Anyway, all fifty of us got laid off.Al: How long ago was that?Bob: They closed down ten months ago.Al: Any luck finding another job?Bob: Nothing. I have one, sometimes two, interviews a week. Last week I thought I had something.They liked my experience with machines. But I never heard from them again.Al: At least you know something about machines. All I can do is talk.Bob: Maybe you'll talk yourself into another job. Good luck. I'll see you here next week.Al: I hope not. I hope I'll have something by then.Task 7【答案】A.1) F 2) F 3) T 4) F 5) T 6) FB.1) According to the first speaker, it is frustrating because the teacher cannot see clearly the results of his efforts.2) According to the second speaker, English language teaching is a good job, because it guaranteesa stable income and regular working hours and means less pressure. He also likes the way elderly teacher are.【原文】Interviewer: Do you prefer what you're doing to teaching?John Smith: Yes, one of the things I found a bit frustrating about teaching was that it was rather, very intangible than um, especially if you're teaching in England and most of the students know quite a lot of English before they arrive. They learn a lot of English outside the classroom, in pubs or coffee shops or other places, with the families they're living with. It's very difficult to pin down how much they learn from your actual lesson, whereas in marketing um, again there are lots of areas that are gray rather than black or white, but there are quite a few other areas where one can see quite clearly the results of one's efforts.Interviewer: What did you do after you quit your job in advertising?Second Man: In fact, I became a journalist and I worked as a freelance. I didn't have a full-time job with any newspaper. I just had to contribute things as they came along and 1wrote for magazines, and I did quite a lot of broadcasting for the VOA. Well, thiswas in a way the opposite of advertising because I enjoyed it a lot but I found it veryhard to earn enough money to live on.Interviewer: And then you decided to be a teacher?Second Man: Well, and so I thought. Well, I must do something which produces an income that I can be sure of. While I was working as a journalist I had done an article for amagazine about the English language teaching world and m fact I had come to theschool where I now teach as a journalist and interviewed a lot of the people. And Ithought it seemed a very nice place and I thought that the classes I visited had a very,very nice feeling about them, and so I thought, well, I'll see if they'll have me. Interviewer: Why do you prefer teaching to advertising?Second Man: Well, partly because in teaching you work regular hours. It I advertising you just had to stay at the office until the work was finished [I see.] and it could be three o'clockin the morning. [Oh, dean] Also you were very often made to work at weekends.Often some job would come up that was very important and they said it had to befinished — it had to go into the newspapers next week.Interviewer: So there was a lot mom pressure.Second Man: There was a lot more pressure in advertising. Also, the people I worked with when I was first in advertising were young hopeful people like myself. By the end I wasworking with a lot of old people who quite honestly were awful. And I kept lookingat them and saying, "Am I going to be like that?" And I thought if I am I'd better getout, whereas the English language teachers I saw, who were older people I thought,well, they seemed quite nice. And I wouldn't mind being like that myself.Task 8【答案】【原文】Matthew: Michael, do you go out to work?Michael: Not regularly, no. I... I used to; I used to have a job in a publishing company, but I decided it wasn't really what I wanted to do and that what I wanted to do wouldn't earn me much money, so I gave up working and luckily I had a private income from my family to support me and now I do the things I want to do. Some of them get paid like lecturing and teaching, and others don't.Matthew: What are the advantages of not having to go to work from nine till five?Michael: Ah... there' re two advantages really. One is that if you feel tired you don't have to getup, and the other is that you can spend your time doing things you want to do rather than being forced to do the same thing all the time.Matthew: But surely that's in a sense very self-indulgent and very lucky because most of us have to go out and earn our livings. Do you feel justified in having this privileged position?Michael: Yes, because I think I use it well. I do things which I think are useful to people and the community and which I enjoy doing.Matthew: Chris, what do you think the value of work is?Chris: Well, I think in our present-day society, for most people, work has very little value at all.Most of us go out to work for about eight to nine hours of our working day. We do things which are either totally futile and totally useless or have very little justification whatsoever, and for most of us the only reason for working is that we need to keep ourselves alive, to pay for somewhere to live, to pay to feed our children.Matthew: But surely people wouldn't know what to do if they didn't have to go to work? Chris: Well, again this raises the sort of two main aspects of work. Should we think of 'work only as a sort of bread-winning process, and this is very much the role it has in current society, or should we take a much wider perspective on work and think of all the possible sort of activities that human beings could be doing during the day? I think the sort of distinction currently is between say, someone who works in a car factory and who produces cars which are just adding to pollution, to over-consumption of vital resources, who is doing something which is very harmful, both to our environment and to, probably society, to contrast his work with someone perhaps like a doctor, who I think in any society could be justified as doing a very valuable job and one which incidentally is satisfying to the person who is doing it.Matthew: What do you do? Is your job just a breadwinning process or do you get some satisfaction out of doing it?Chris: Well, in the job I do find that most of the satisfaction is a mental one; it's coming to grips with the problems of my subject and with the problems of teaching in the University.Clearly this is the type of satisfaction that most people doing what we call in England "white-collar" jobs. This is quite different from the sort of craftsman, who is either working that his hands or with his skills on a machine, or from people perhaps who are using artistic skills, which are of a quite different character. Certainly it's becoming a phenomena that people who do "white-collar jobs during the day, who work with their minds to some extent, people who work on computers, people who are office clerks, bank employees, these people have fairly soul-destroying jobs which nevertheless don't involve much physical effort, that they tend to come home and do "do-it-yourself" activities at home. They make cupboard, paint their houses, repair their cars, which somehow provide the sort of physical job satisfaction that they're denied in their working day.Task 9【答案】B.1) No major change. For som e→“less paperwork”Some:→less working hoursOthers:→earn more money.2) Most adults→would go on working.Esp. young adults (18 to 24)→9 out of 10 would go on working【原文】Are most workers today feeling bored and dissatisfied with their jobs? It is often claimed that they are. Yet a study conducted by Parade magazine more than 20 years ago showed that people at that time felt the opposite.Parade asked questions of a representative sampling of adult Americans from coast to coast. The sampling included different sexes, age groups, and occupations.The interviewees were asked to make a choice from one of the following three to describe their feelings towards their work.A. Like their jobs.B. Dislike their jobs.C. Like their jobs in part,Results showed that 91 percent of the male interviewees and 84 percent of the females chose A, while only 5 percent men and 12 percent women interviewed chose B. The rest said that they liked their jobs in part and they comprised a very tow percentage.In all the three age groups — from 18 to 24, from 25 to 29 and 30 to 39 — those who liked theirjobs made up the majority. 70 percent, 88 percent and 92 percent respectively choose A. Those choosing B accounted for 20 percent, 9 percent and 8 percent of different age groups. And the rest, 6 percent, 3 percent and 0 percent respectively claimed that they only liked their jobs in part.The difference in responses among people with different occupations is small. Among the white-collar employees, those choosing A, B and C are 87 percent, 8 percent and 4 percent of the total. And for the blue-collar employees, 91 percent, 5 percent and 3 percent choose A, B and C respectively.It is interesting to note that there are few differences in attitude between men and women, professionals and factory workers. In each group, the largest number reported that they liked their jobs.Next, Parade asked, "If there were one thing you could change about your job, what would it be?" It was expected that many would wish to make their jobs less boring, but very few gave this reply. No major changes were reported. Some wished for "less paperwork"; many would shorten their working hours, but others would like more hours in order to earn more money. No serious complaints were made.Most people have to work in order to live. But what would happen if someone had enough money to stop working? Parade asked, "If you inherited a million dollars, would you go on working — either at your present job or something you liked better--or would you quit work?" The answers showed that most adults would prefer to work, even if they didn't have to. This is true especially of the younger adults aged 18-24. Of these, nine out often said they would go on working, even if they suddenly became millionaires.Task 10【答案】1) F 2) TC.1) b 2) aD.1. She really enjoyed meeting new people.2. She had good qualifications in English and Maths.3. She did not mind hard work, even if it was not always pleasant.4. She liked living away form home.【原文】Officer: Come in, please take a seat. I'm the careers officer. You're Cathy, aren't you?Mother: That's right. This is Catherine Hunt, and I'm her mother.Officer: How do you do, Mrs. Hunt? Hello, Catherine.Cathy: Hello. Pleased to meet you.Officer: And you'd like some advice about choosing a career?-Mother: Yes, she would. Wouldn't you, Catherine?Cathy: Yes, please.Officer: Well, just let me ask a few questions to begin with. How old are you, Catherine? Mother: She's nineteen. Well, she's almost nineteen.Officer: And what qualifications have you got?Mother: Well, qualifications from school, of course. Very good results she got. And she got certificates for ballet and for playing the piano.Officer: Is that what you're interested in, Catherine, dancing and music?Cathy: Well...Mother: Ever since she was a little girl, she's been very keen on music and dancing. She ought to be a music teacher or something. She's quite willing to train for a few more years to get the right job, aren't you, Catherine?Cathy: Well, if it's a good idea.Mother: There you are, you see. She's a good girl really, a bit lazy and disorganized sometimes,but she's very bright. I'm sure the careers officer will have lots of jobs for you. Officer: Well, I'm afraid it's not as easy as that. There are many young people these days who can't find the job they want.Mother: I told you, Catherine. I told you, you shouldn't wear that dress. You have to look smart to get a job these days.Officer: I think she looks very nice. Mrs. Hunt, will you come into the other office for a moment and look at some of the information we have there. I'm sure you'd like to see how we can help young people.Mother: Yes, I'd love to. Mind you, I think Catherine would be a nice teacher. She could work with young children. She'd like that. Or she could be a vet. She's always looking after sick animals.Officer: I'm afraid there's a lot of competition. You need very good results to be a vet. This way, Mrs. Hunt. Just wait a minute, Catherine.(The mother exits.)Officer: There are just one or two more things, Catherine.Cathy: Do call me Cathy.Officer: OK, Cathy. Are you really interested in being a vet?Cathy: Not really. Anyway, I'm not bright enough. I'm reasonably intelligent, but I'm not brilliant.I'm afraid my mother is a bit over-optimistic.Officer: Yes, I guessed that. She's a bit overpowering, isn't she, your mum?Cathy: A bit. But she's very kind.Officer: I'm sure she is. So, you're interested in ballet and music, are you?Cathy: Not really. My mother sent me to lessons when I was six, so I'm quite good, I suppose. ButI don't think I want to do that for the rest of my life, especially music. It's so lonely. Officer: What do you enjoy doing?Cathy: Well, I like playing tennis, and swimming. Oh, I went to France with the school choir last year. I really enjoyed that. And I like talking to people. But I suppose you mean real interests — things that would help me to get a job?Officer: No. I'm more interested in what you really want to do. You like talking to people, do you? Cathy: Oh yes, I really enjoy meeting new people.Officer: Do you think you would enjoy teaching?Cathy: No, no, I don't really. I was never very interested in school work, and I'd like to do something different. Anyway, there's a teacher training college very near us. It would be just like going to school again.Officer: So you don't want to go on training?Cathy: Oh, I wouldn't mind at all, not for something useful. I wondered about being a hairdresser — you meet lots of people, and you learn to do something properly—but I don't know. It doesn't seem very worthwhile.Officer: What about nursing?Cathy: Nursing? In a hospital? Oh, I couldn't do that, I'm not good enough.Officer: Yes, you are. You've got good qualifications in English and Maths. But it is very hard work.Cathy: Oh, I don't mind that.Officer: And it's not very pleasant sometimes.Cathy: That doesn't worry me either. Mum's right. I do look after sick animals. I looked after our dog when it was run over by a car. My mother was sick, but I didn't mind. I was too worried about the dog. Do you really think I could be a nurse?Officer: I think you could be a very good nurse. You'd have to leave home, of course.Cathy: I rather think I should enjoy that.Officer: Well, don't decide all at once. Here's some information about one or two other things which might suit you. Have a look through it before you make up your mind.Task 11【原文】I began my career during college, reporting on news stories at a Toronto radio station. The station’s program manager was also a professor who taught one of my classes. I convinced him that she needed a youth reporter because that year was International Youth Year. After graduation, I took a job as a television news reporter and later, news anchor. But sports reporting was something different, so I decided to try it. Figure skating was my first assignment.I had two months until my new job began. It was like waiting an entire summer for school to start. I spent those two months talking to figure skating coaches and judges. I read boring rule books. I drove to the rinks where the skaters trained, and made notes about our conversations. I even took a lesson, which made some of the skaters laugh.。
新编英语听力教程2听力原文
新编英语听力教程2听力原文From the perspective of English language learners, the listening material in the 新编英语听力教程2 may present a significant obstacle in their language acquisition journey. The fast-paced nature of the speech and the presence of unfamiliar accents can make it difficult for learners to understand and interpret the content accurately. This can lead to feelings of discouragement and a lack of motivation to continue practicing listening skills.Additionally, the use of complex vocabulary and grammatical structures in the listening material may pose a challenge for learners who are still in the process of building their language proficiency. This can result in a lack of confidence in their listening abilities and may deter them from engaging with the material effectively.From an instructional perspective, the difficulty level of the listening material in the 新编英语听力教程2 may not align with the proficiency level of the students. It isessential for educators to provide listening materials that are appropriate for the students' current skill level to ensure comprehension and engagement. If the listening material is too advanced, it can lead to frustration and a lack of progress in the students' language learning journey.Furthermore, it is crucial for educators to considerthe diverse linguistic backgrounds of their students when selecting listening materials. The presence of unfamiliar accents in the listening material may pose a challenge for students who are not accustomed to hearing a variety of English accents. This can create a barrier to comprehension and may hinder the students' ability to develop listening skills effectively.In conclusion, the problem of the 新编英语听力教程2听力原文 lies in the potential barriers it presents for English language learners in terms of comprehension, confidence, and motivation. It is essential for educatorsto carefully consider the difficulty level and linguistic diversity of the listening material to ensure that it supports the students' language learning journeyeffectively. By addressing these challenges, educators can create a more inclusive and supportive learning environment for English language learners.。
《现代大学英语听力2》听力原文及题目答案Unit--6Word版
I had two months until my new job began. It was like waiting an entire summer for school to start. I spent those two months talking to figure skating coaches and judges. I read boring rule books. I drove to the rinks where the skaters trained, and made notes about our conversations. I even took a lesson, which made some of the skaters laugh.Unit 6Task 1【答案】A.[d]—[b]—[a]—[e]—[c]B.a【原文】Laura usually leaves the offices of Quest Productions at about 5 o'clock, but last Monday she left at 5:30. She wanted to get home by 6:30 and she ran to the bus stop but she couldn't get on a bus. There were too many people and not enough buses. Laura was desperate to get home so she decided to go by tube.In the station she went to one of the automatic ticket machines but she didn't have enough change, so she had to join the queue at the ticket window. She bought her ticket and ran to the escalator. Laura went to the platform and waited for the tube. It arrived and the crowd moved forward.Laura was pushed into the train. It was almost full but she was given a seat by a man with a moustache. Laura thanked him and sat down. She started to read her newspaper. In the tunnel the train stopped suddenly and Laura was thrown to the floor together with the man with the moustache. Somebody screamed. The lights went out. It was quarter past 6 on a cold, wet December evening.Task 2【答案】A.1) a 2) b 3) d 4) cB.1) T 2) T 3) FC.wondered; television plays; exciting; every cigarette lighter; tape recorder; held in a certain way; the touch of a gold ring against the hand of; reveal; How wrong they were【原文】X was a secret agent. He had rented a furnished room in a provincial town not far from the public park and had been there two weeks. He was standing at the window looking out at the dull beds of geraniums, the park gates and the cold, uninviting statue of Queen Victoria that stood across the street from him, It was raining hard and the few people who passed by looked wet and miserable. X was miserable, too. How, he wondered, could anybody think there was anything interesting about the life of a secret agent? He knew it was because people had seen so many television plays about glamorous spies that they thought the life of a secret agent was exciting.They were convinced that every cigarette lighter concealed a secret tape recorder; that a fountain pen held in a certain way would open alocked door, that the touch of a gold ring against the hand of an enemy would make him reveal all his secrets. How wrong they were! He looked round his room. The wallpaper was in the worst possible taste, the pictures horrible, the carpet worn, dirty and faded; and he was cold. This was the third Monday he had come to the window to look out. He prayed it would be the last.As if in answer to his prayer, a certain meeting he had been sent to investigate was about to take place. He took out his camera. Just beneath the statue two women had stopped to speak. He knew one of them, and it was she who pointed in his direction. The other woman looked up towards him and in that brief moment he photographed her.Task 3【答案】B.1) a 2) b 3) c 4) b 5) d【原文】Harry: Well, Robert, have you made up your mind yet what you want to do when you leave college?Nora: Oh Harry. Surely he's a bit young to decide on his career. He hasn't even got to college yet.Harry: Not at all, Nora. It's wisest to decide in good time. Look at me, for example.I really wanted to be a sailor, but now I spend my days sitting at a desk inan office. Yes, it's silly to train for the wrong job. And after all, Robert will be going to college soon.Nora: Now if I were a man I'd be a farmer. To see the crops growing--that's my idea of a good life.Harry: Yes, and to see the money rolling in is more important still.Robert: Well, that's not the way I look at it, Dad. It's the job I care about, not the money.Harry: Maybe not; but you'll learn to care about the money too, when you've gota family to keep.Nora: And of course Peter — well, he's keen to be a racing driver, or else an explorer.Robert: Oh, Peter's not old enough to make up his mind about such things.Harry: You haven't answered my question yet, Robert. What would you like to do? Nora: Are you sure you don't want to be a farmer, Robert? Or a market gardener? Robert: No, I'm sorry Mum, but I don't want to at all. I'd rather be a civil engineer.I want to buildroads and bridges.Harry: Not ships? Isn't it better to be a shipbuilding engineer?Robert: Look here, is it my career we're planning, or yours?Harry: All fight, all right, there's no need to lose your temper. But you'd better win that scholarship first.Task 4【答案】I. correspondents; columnistA. may not need eitherB. to go to places where events take place and write stories about themII. first; bigger; better; who will soon leave to work for other peopleIII. working hours; free time; work long hours to begin with【原文】Here are some of the things a young man or woman should not do when he first asks an editor for a job:He should not tell the editor that he wants to be a foreign correspondent or a columnist. Very probably the editor does not need either. He wants a reporter who will go to such places as government offices and police stations and write a true story of what is happening there. Being a foreign correspondent or a columnist will come later.A young person should not tell tile editor that newspaper work is only the first step on the way to bigger and better jobs, such as those in government. The editor must take a lot of time and trouble teaching someone to be a good newspaperman or woman. He does not like the idea of teaching people who are soon going to leave him to work for someone else.A young journalist should accept the working hours and free time the editor gives him. As a new journalist, it is very probable that he will work longer hours than others and work on weekends. The editor did the same when he was a young newspaperman with no experience. He expects a journalist to understand how things are on a newspaper.Task 5【答案】A.1) acd 2) abeB.1) she is the wrong sex 2) she wears the wrong clothes【原文】SYLVIA: We've got a new manager in our department.LARRY: Oh? You hoped to get that job, didn't you?SYLVIA: Yes, I did.LARRY: I'm sorry. That's too bad. Who is it? Who got the job, I mean?SYLVIA: Someone called Drexler. Carl Drexler. He's been with the company onlytwo years. I've been here longer. And I know more about the job, too!LARRY: Hmm. Why do you think they gave it to him and not to you?SYLVIA: Because I'm the wrong sex, of course !LARRY: You mean you didn't get the job because you're a woman?SYLVIA: Yes, that was probably it! It isn't fair.LARRY: What sort of clothes does he wear?SYLVTA: A dark suit. White shirt. A tie. Why?LARRY: Perhaps that had something to do with it.SYLVIA: You mean you think I didn't get the job because I come to work in jeans and a sweater?LARRY: It's possible, isn't it?SYLVIA: Do you really think I should wear different clothes?LARRY: Well. . . perhaps you should think about it.SYLVTA: Why should I wear a skirt? Or a dress?LARRY: I'm not saying you should. I'm saying you should think about it. That's all!SYLVIA: Why should I do that? I'm good at my job! That's the only important thing!LARRY: Hmm. Perhaps it should be the only important thing. But it isn't. Not inthis company.Task 6【答案】B.1st speaker(bcd) 2nd speaker(ae)C.1) F 2) F【原文】Al: Is this the right line to file a claim?Bob: Yeah. It's the same line for everything. You just stand here and wait.Al: Oh. Is there always such a long line?Bob: Every week. Sometimes longer. Is this your first time here?Al: Yes.Bob: What happened? Your plant closed down?Al: No. I'm a car salesman, or, I was a car salesman. But we just aren't selling cars. It's the interest rates. Two years ago, I averaged ten new cars a month.Do you know how many carsI sold last month? One. One car to a lady who had the cash. But the interest ratesare up again. The boss let three of us go. How about you?Bob: I worked at a vacuum cleaner plant with about fifty workers. We put in a good day's work. But the machinery was getting old. As a matter of fact, the whole plant was old. So the management decided to build a new plant. You know where?In Singapore. The workers here made about seven dollars an hour, a couple of people made eight or nine an hour. You know how much they're paying the workers in Singapore? $2.50 an hour! Anyway, all fifty of us got laid off.Al: How long ago was that?Bob: They closed down ten months ago.Al: Any luck finding another job?Bob: Nothing. I have one, sometimes two, interviews a week. Last week I thought I had something. They liked my experience with machines. But I never heard from them again.Al: At least you know something about machines. All I can do is talk.Bob: Maybe you'll talk yourself into another job. Good luck. I'll see you here next week.Al: I hope not. I hope I'll have something by then.Task 7【答案】A.1) F 2) F 3) T 4) F 5) T 6) FB.1) According to the first speaker, it is frustrating because the teacher cannot see clearly the results of his efforts.2) According to the second speaker, English language teaching is a good job, because it guarantees a stable income and regular working hours and means less pressure. He also likes the way elderly teacher are.【原文】Interviewer: Do you prefer what you're doing to teaching?John Smith: Yes, one of the things I found a bit frustrating about teaching was that it was rather,very intangible than um, especially if you're teaching in England and most of the students know quite a lot of English before they arrive. They learn a lot of English outside the classroom, in pubs or coffee shops or other places, with the families they're living with. It's very difficult to pin down how much they learn from your actual lesson, whereas in marketing um, again there are lots of areas that are gray rather than black or white, but there are quite a few other areas where one can see quite clearly the results of one's efforts.Interviewer: What did you do after you quit your job in advertising?Second Man: In fact, I became a journalist and I worked as a freelance. I didn't have a full-time job with any newspaper. I just had to contribute thingsas they came along and 1wrote for magazines, and I did quite a lot of broadcasting for the VOA. Well, this was in a way the opposite of advertising because I enjoyed it a lot butI found it very hard to earn enough money to live on.Interviewer: And then you decided to be a teacher?Second Man: Well, and so I thought. Well, I must do something which produces an income that I can be sure of. While I was working as a journalist I had donean article for a magazine about the English language teaching world andm fact I had come to the school where I now teach as a journalist andinterviewed a lot of the people. And I thought it seemed a very nice placeand I thought that the classes I visited had a very, very nice feelingabout them, and so I thought, well, I'll see if they'll have me.Interviewer: Why do you prefer teaching to advertising?Second Man: Well, partly because in teaching you work regular hours. It I advertising you just had to stay at the office until the work was finished [I see.]and it could be three o'clock in the morning. [Oh, dean] Also you werevery often made to work at weekends. Often some job would come up thatwas very important and they said it had to be finished — it had to gointo the newspapers next week.Interviewer: So there was a lot mom pressure.Second Man: There was a lot more pressure in advertising. Also, the people I worked with when I was first in advertising were young hopeful people like myself.By the end I was working with a lot of old people who quite honestly wereawful. And I kept looking at them and saying, "Am I going to be like that?"And I thought if I am I'd better get out, whereas the English languageteachers I saw, who were older people I thought, well, they seemed quitenice. And I wouldn't mind being like that myself.Task 8【答案】The interview with Michale:【原文】Matthew: Michael, do you go out to work?Michael: Not regularly, no. I... I used to; I used to have a job in a publishing company, but Idecided it wasn't really what I wanted to do and that what I wanted to do wouldn't earn me much money, so I gave up working and luckily I had a private income from my family to support me and now I do the things I want to do. Some of them get paid like lecturing and teaching, and others don't.Matthew: What are the advantages of not having to go to work from nine till five? Michael: Ah... there' re two advantages really. One is that if you feel tired you don't have to get up, and the other is that you can spend your time doing things you want to do rather than being forced to do the same thing all the time. Matthew: But surely that's in a sense very self-indulgent and very lucky because most of us have to go out and earn our livings. Do you feel justified in having this privileged position?Michael: Yes, because I think I use it well. I do things which I think are useful to people and the community and which I enjoy doing.Matthew: Chris, what do you think the value of work is?Chris: Well, I think in our present-day society, for most people, work has very little value at all. Most of us go out to work for about eight to nine hours of our working day. We do things which are either totally futile and totally useless or have very little justification whatsoever, and for most of us the only reason for working is that we need to keep ourselves alive, to pay for somewhere to live, to pay to feed our children.Matthew: But surely people wouldn't know what to do if they didn't have to go to work?Chris: Well, again this raises the sort of two main aspects of work. Should we think of 'work only as a sort of bread-winning process, and this is very much the role it has in current society, or should we take a much wider perspective on work and think of all the possible sort of activities that human beingscould be doing during the day? I think the sort of distinction currently is between say, someone who works in a car factory and who produces cars which are just adding to pollution, to over-consumption of vital resources, who is doing something which is very harmful, both to our environment and to, probably society, to contrast his work with someone perhaps like a doctor, who I think in any society could be justified as doing a very valuable job and one which incidentally is satisfying to the person who is doing it.Matthew: What do you do? Is your job just a breadwinning process or do you get some satisfaction out of doing it?Chris: Well, in the job I do find that most of the satisfaction is a mental one;it's coming to grips with the problems of my subject and with the problems of teaching in the University. Clearly this is the type of satisfaction that most people doing what we call in England "white-collar" jobs. This is quite different from the sort of craftsman, who is either working that his hands or with his skills on a machine, or from people perhaps who are using artistic skills, which are of a quite different character. Certainly it's becoming a phenomena that people who do "white-collar jobs during the day, who work with their minds to some extent, people who work on computers, people who are office clerks, bank employees, these people have fairly soul-destroying jobs which nevertheless don't involve much physical effort, that they tend to come home and do "do-it-yourself" activities at home. They make cupboard, paint their houses, repair their cars, which somehow provide the sort of physical job satisfaction that they're denied in their working day.Task 9【答案】A.B.1) No major change. For some→“less paperwork”Some:→less working hoursOthers:→earn more money.2) Most adults→would go on working.Esp. young adults (18 to 24)→9 out of 10 would go on working【原文】Are most workers today feeling bored and dissatisfied with their jobs? It is often claimed that they are. Yet a study conducted by Parade magazine more than 20 years ago showed that people at that time felt the opposite.Parade asked questions of a representative sampling of adult Americans from coast to coast. The sampling included different sexes, age groups, and occupations. The interviewees were asked to make a choice from one of the following three to describe their feelings towards their work.A. Like their jobs.B. Dislike their jobs.C. Like their jobs in part,Results showed that 91 percent of the male interviewees and 84 percent of the females chose A, while only 5 percent men and 12 percent women interviewed chose B. The rest said that they liked their jobs in part and they comprised a very tow percentage.In all the three age groups — from 18 to 24, from 25 to 29 and 30 to 39 —those who liked theirjobs made up the majority. 70 percent, 88 percent and 92 percent respectively choose A. Those choosing B accounted for 20 percent, 9 percent and 8 percent of different age groups. And the rest, 6 percent, 3 percent and 0 percent respectively claimed that they only liked their jobs in part.The difference in responses among people with different occupations is small. Among the white-collar employees, those choosing A, B and C are 87 percent, 8 percent and 4 percent of the total. And for the blue-collar employees, 91 percent, 5 percent and 3 percent choose A, B and C respectively.It is interesting to note that there are few differences in attitude between men and women, professionals and factory workers. In each group, the largest number reported that they liked their jobs.Next, Parade asked, "If there were one thing you could change about your job, what would it be?" It was expected that many would wish to make their jobs less boring, but very few gave this reply. No major changes were reported. Some wished for "less paperwork"; many would shorten their working hours, but others would like more hours in order to earn more money. No serious complaints were made.Most people have to work in order to live. But what would happen if someone had enough money to stop working? Parade asked, "If you inherited a million dollars, would you go on working — either at your present job or something you liked better--or would you quit work?" The answers showed that most adults would prefer to work, even if they didn't have to. This is true especially of the younger adults aged 18-24. Of these, nine out often said they would go on working, even if they suddenly became millionaires.Task 10【答案】B.1) F 2) TC.1) b 2) aD.1. She really enjoyed meeting new people.2. She had good qualifications in English and Maths.3. She did not mind hard work, even if it was not always pleasant.4. She liked living away form home.【原文】Officer: Come in, please take a seat. I'm the careers officer. You're Cathy, aren't you?Mother: That's right. This is Catherine Hunt, and I'm her mother.Officer: How do you do, Mrs. Hunt? Hello, Catherine.Cathy: Hello. Pleased to meet you.Officer: And you'd like some advice about choosing a career?-Mother: Yes, she would. Wouldn't you, Catherine?Cathy: Yes, please.Officer: Well, just let me ask a few questions to begin with. How old are you, Catherine?Mother: She's nineteen. Well, she's almost nineteen.Officer: And what qualifications have you got?Mother: Well, qualifications from school, of course. Very good results she got. And she got certificates for ballet and for playing the piano.Officer: Is that what you're interested in, Catherine, dancing and music? Cathy: Well...Mother: Ever since she was a little girl, she's been very keen on music and dancing. She ought tobe a music teacher or something. She's quite willing to train for a few more years to get the right job, aren't you, Catherine?Cathy: Well, if it's a good idea.Mother: There you are, you see. She's a good girl really, a bit lazy and disorganized sometimes,but she's very bright. I'm sure the careers officer will have lots of jobs for you.Officer: Well, I'm afraid it's not as easy as that. There are many young people these days who can'tfind the job they want.Mother: I told you, Catherine. I told you, you shouldn't wear that dress. You have to look smart toget a job these days.Officer: I think she looks very nice. Mrs. Hunt, will you come into the other office for a momentand look at some of the information we have there. I'm sure you'd like to see how we can help young people.Mother: Yes, I'd love to. Mind you, I think Catherine would be a nice teacher. She could work with young children. She'd like that. Or she could be a vet. She's always looking after sick animals.Officer: I'm afraid there's a lot of competition. You need very good results to bea vet. This way, Mrs. Hunt. Just wait a minute, Catherine.(The mother exits.)Officer: There are just one or two more things, Catherine.Cathy: Do call me Cathy.Officer: OK, Cathy. Are you really interested in being a vet?Cathy: Not really. Anyway, I'm not bright enough. I'm reasonably intelligent, but I'm not brilliant. I'm afraid my mother is a bit over-optimistic.Officer: Yes, I guessed that. She's a bit overpowering, isn't she, your mum? Cathy: A bit. But she's very kind.Officer: I'm sure she is. So, you're interested in ballet and music, are you? Cathy: Not really. My mother sent me to lessons when I was six, so I'm quite good,I suppose. But I don't think I want to do that for the rest of my life, especiallymusic. It's so lonely.Officer: What do you enjoy doing?Cathy: Well, I like playing tennis, and swimming. Oh, I went to France with the school choir last year. I really enjoyed that. And I like talking to people. But I suppose you mean real interests — things that would help me to get a job? Officer: No. I'm more interested in what you really want to do. You like talking to people, do you?Cathy: Oh yes, I really enjoy meeting new people.Officer: Do you think you would enjoy teaching?Cathy: No, no, I don't really. I was never very interested in school work, and I'd like to do something different. Anyway, there's a teacher training college very near us. It would be just like going to school again.Officer: So you don't want to go on training?Cathy: Oh, I wouldn't mind at all, not for something useful. I wondered about beinga hairdresser — you meet lots of people, and you learn to do somethingproperly—but I don't know. It doesn't seem very worthwhile.Officer: What about nursing?Cathy: Nursing? In a hospital? Oh, I couldn't do that, I'm not good enough. Officer: Yes, you are. You've got good qualifications in English and Maths. But it is very hard work.Cathy: Oh, I don't mind that.Officer: And it's not very pleasant sometimes.Cathy: That doesn't worry me either. Mum's right. I do look after sick animals. Ilooked after our dog when it was run over by a car. My mother was sick, but I didn't mind. I was too worried about the dog. Do you really think I could be a nurse?Officer: I think you could be a very good nurse. You'd have to leave home, of course. Cathy: I rather think I should enjoy that.Officer: Well, don't decide all at once. Here's some information about one or two other things which might suit you. Have a look through it before you make up your mind.Task 11【原文】I began my career during college, reporting on news stories at a Toronto radio station. The station’s program manager was also a professor who taught one of my classes. I convinced him that she needed a youth reporter because that year was International Youth Year. After graduation, I took a job as a television news reporter and later, news anchor. But sports reporting was something different, so I decided to try it. Figure skating was my first assignment.I had two months until my new job began. It was like waiting an entire summer for school to start. I spent those two months talking to figure skating coaches and judges. I read boring rule books. I drove to the rinks where the skaters trained, and made notes about our conversations. I even took a lesson, which made some of the skaters laugh.（注：可编辑下载，若有不当之处，请指正，谢谢!）。
《听力教程》2第二版第六单元文本
Unit6Section One Tactics for ListeningPart 1 Phonetics-Stress, Intonation and AccentAmerican: W-e-ell, l just lo-o-ve rice and fish ...↗American: Well, as I was saying, I just love rice and fish and tomato sauce↘. American: And I suppose you want to know what drinks I like and so on ... Well, I guess I don'tmuch care for whisky ...↗American: And I don't care for rum ... ↗American: And I don't like lemonade at all. ↘American: And my favourite music is my own ... ↗American: And Cat Stevens, I guess.↘Exercise:123456 7He has finished his sentence√√√He wants to add something√√√√Part 2 Listening and Note-takingIdentifying CriminalsCan computers help the police to identify criminals? Experts now think computerscan make it easier for the police to find people they want to question.At present, the system most widely used by the British police is called Photofit. Witnessesdescribe a suspect and then a picture is built up like a jigsaw, using five differentsets of features.These are: hair, eyes, nose, mouth and chin. This system can be very useful itl finding criminals, but only in one case out of twenty, Quite often, almost half the time, in fact, Photofit pictures aremisleading. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, the picture may look nothing at all like the suspect. Secondly, the likeness may be so general that it is not at all helpful. And unfortunately, a bad likeness can lead to the arrest of an innocent person.Witnesses' attitudes can influence their descriptions. In a recent experiment, a group of people was shown a picture of a man and told that he was a mass murderer. When asked to produce Photofit pictures of this man, they made pictures that showeda murderous-looking individual. But at the same time, a second group was shown the same picture and told that the same man was a lifeboat captain who had received a medal for bravery. When the second group produced Photofit pictures, these showeda man who was handsome and well-groomed.The police have another way of identifying criminals. Police records containtens of thousands of photographs of people convicted of crimes. Witnesses can look through these in the hope of recognising suspects; however, it has been discovered that a witness begins to forget the culprit's features after spending a long time looking through these photographs.A computer system called FRAME (Face Retrieval and Matching Equipment) combinesthe best features of both methods. All the photographs on record are put on the computer file. When a witness describes a suspect, the computer' searches the photographs that fit the description. The witness is then presented with a small number of photographs to look through.Of course, this system, as it exists at present, will only help to identify people whose photographs are already on police files. So now, experts have to work on the problem of getting accurate descriptions from witnesses. One thing they have discovered is that witnesses give better descriptions when they are encouraged to recall the scene of the crime. They do not need to go there; just imagining the scene works just as well.Exercise A:puters can make iteasier for the police find people they want to question.2.A bad likenesscan lead to the arrest of an innocent person.3.A witness begins to forget the culprit's features after spending a long time looking through thesephotographs.4.Experts have to work on the problem of getting accurate descriptions from witnesses.5.Witnesses give better descriptions when they are encouraged to recall the sceneof the crime.Exercise B:I.The Photofit systemA.Witnesses describe asuspect.B.Then a picture isbuilt up, using five different sets of features.1.Hair.2.Eyes3.Nose.4.Mouth.5.Chin.C.Advantage1.This system can be very useful infindingcriminals . D. Disadvantage1.But only in one case out of twentythe method is accurate.2. Almost half the time Photofit pictures aremisleading.3. There are two reasons for misleading.i. Firstly, the picture may look nothing at all like the suspectii. Secondly, the likeness may beso general that it is not at all helpful.E.Witnesses'attitudes can influence their descriptions.II. Another way of identifying criminalsA.Police records tens of thousands of photographsof people convicted of crimes.B.Witnesses look through these in the hope ofrecognisinv susnects.III. FRAME (Face Retrieval and Matching Equipment)A. A computer system combinesthe best features of both methods.B. All the photographs on record are put on thecomputer file.C. The computersearches the photographs that fit the description.D. The witness is then presented with a small number of photographs to look through.E. Disadvantage1. The system will only hello to identify people whose photographs are already on police files.2. Descriptions from witnesses must beaccurate.Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart 1 DialoguesDialogue 1 I Don't Believe ItA:No, I think it's a load of rubbish myself. I mean, some people believe anything, don't they? Well, it doesn't make sense,does it? Things flying around in the sky, coming down from another planet and all that? No, I think when the scientists say it's happened and we can explain how it happened -- I mean, when we have some real proof, then I'll believe it.B:There could be some truth in it, but I tend to think it's just a tourist attraction. 1can't explain the photographs. And then there are the photographs of "Bigfoot," theerm er, Abominable Snowman* in the mountains of India. Well, that's thesame sort of thing. I suppose it could betrue, but it's the same with all these stories, you'd like to see it for yourselfbefore you believeit.C:Oh, yes. They definitely exist. Yes, I believe that some people come back to haunt* us. 1 mean, we've all had strange feelings about people who are no longer with ns, or strange feelings about certain places. I think those feelings are a kind of ghost. We don't always see something, you know, in a long white dress going "whooo-ooo"in the middle of the night, but we can have strong feelings about the past. Some people have very strong feelings so they actually begin to see things, something moving, a shape, a light, I don't know. Scientific facts can't explain everything in this world, you know.1.Probably some photographs of mysterious shapes, footprints or that sort of things.2.The first speaker.1.I only believe things when there is real proof or scientific explanation.2.People sometimes just duplicate old mysterious stories in a new setting to attract tourists.3.There de exist ghosts. When people havea very strong feeling about the past,they begin to seeghosts.Dialogue 2 Unidentified Flying ObjectsInterviewer: Mr Burton, you say that you have seen a UFO. Is that right?Mr Burton:Yes, absolutely right. It happened just over a year ago.Interviewer: And where was this?Mr Burton:Near my home in Aldershot, in the south of England. I live near the big military base in Aldershot.Interviewer: What time of day was it?Mr Burton:It was about one o'clock in the morning. I was out fishing. The weather forecast said it was going to be a warm, clear night with no clouds, and that's perfect for fishing.Interviewer: And what happened?Mr Burton:Well, I saw a bright light coming towards me at about three hundred feet, and then it started to land. It was behind some trees, but I could see it clearly because there was a full moon. Then I saw two forms coming towards me, andwhen they were about five feet away, they just stopped and looked at me for a good ten or fifteen seconds.Interviewer: What did they look like?Mr Burton: They were quite small, about four feet tall, dressed in green suits from head to foot,and they had helmets of the same colour with a red visor*, so I couldn't see their faces. They both carried space guns.Interviewer: Did they speak to you?Mr Burton:Yes. The one on the right said "Come this way, please."Interviewer: Weren't you frightened? ... I mean, weren't you surprised that they spoke English?Mr Burton: They spoke in a funny accent. It sounded more like a machine talking than a person. No, I wasn't frightened. I don't know why. The one who spokestarted to walk towards the light, and I followed him, with the other one behind me. We got to a wall and the first "form" just walked through it! I couldn't believe it! I had to climb over it, and then we got to the spaceship.Interviewer: What did that look like?Mr Burton:It was about forty-five feet across, and silver, very, very shiny, and there were round windows all round the side.Interviewer: Did you go inside?Mr Burton:Yes, I did. There were steps going up, and we went into an octagonal* room. I stood there for about ten minutes. The walls, the floor, and the ceiling were all black. I couldn't see any controls or instruments, but there was a central column going up from the floor to the ceiling, about four feel wide, right in the middle of the room. Interviewer: Were there any more of these "forms"?Mr Burton: No, just the two. Suddenly, one of them said "Stand under the red light."I couldn'tsee any red light, but then I moved to the right and I could see it up onthe wall, justunder the ceiling. I stood there for about five minutes, and then a voicesaid "Whatis your age?" I said "Seventy-four." Then they told me to turn around.After aboutfive more minutes one of them said "You can go. You are too old andill for our purposes." So I left and went back, to the fiver.Interviewer: Did the spaceship take off?Mr Burton:Yes, I heard a very high-pitched noise, like a scream, and the thingtook off straightinto the sky and disappeared. I sat by the river and watched it go. Thiswas about two o'clock.Interviewer: Then what did you do?Mr Burton:Next morning I went to the police, and in the afternoon someone fromthe Ministry of Defense came to my house to interview me. He told me to keep quietabout the whole thing, and tell absolutely no one. I thought this was very strange,but I did as he told me.Interviewer: Why have you decided to tell people about it now?Mr Burton: Because I want people to know what happened to me. I didn't use tobelieve in UFOs, but now I know they exist. I think governments are trying to hide something, but people have a right to know,interviewer: Thank you, Mr Burton, very much. A fascinating storyExercise:A UFO ReportTime: One o'clock in the morningPlace: Aldershot, in the south of EnglandDescription:A bright light was coming towards me at about three hundred feet. and it landed behind some trees. Then I saw twoforms coming towards meLife form:They were quite small about four feet tall, dressed in green suits from head to foot, and they had helmets of the same colour with a red visor. They both carried space guns. Spaceship:It was about 45 feet across, and silver, very, very shiny, and there were round windows all round the side. There weresteps going up.The interior of the spaceship is an octagonal room. The walls, the floor, and the ceiling were all black. There were no controls or instruments, but there was acentral column going up from the floor to the ceiling, about four feet wide, right in the middle of the room.Part2 PassagePassage The Loch Ness MonsterOne of the strangest and most fascinating things about Scotland* is the Loch* Ness Monster, Some people believe in the monster's existence. Many do not! However,very important bodies of people do believe there is some truth in the famous monster story: experts from Britain's Royal Air Force*, scientists from the Boston Academy of Applied Science* and computer specialists from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S.A.), to mention but a few!Loch Ness is an enormous lake in Northern Scotland. It is about twenty-four miles long and one mile wide, and has an approximate depth of 1,000 feet, which makes it very difficult for anybody to find and examine the highly elusive* monster. In fact the first convincing reports of people seeing the monster date from only about six years before the beginning of the Second World War. Since then there have been other sightings, and photographs of the monster have been taken! Many of these photographs have later been recognised as fakes -- silly jokes played on an unsuspecting public! However, other photographs have amazed the most searching scientific minds. In fact, it seems certain that something (and probably several of them) does exist in the deep waters of Loch Ness. The most amazing photographs show a flipper* -- the flipper perhaps of a very large animal (twenty or thirty feet long, it is imagined).From these photos British specialist in animal life, Sir Peter Scott, who isalso an artist, hasconstructed this picture of what he believes the monster might look like.But where did the monster come from? Did it mysteriously climb out of a prehistoric world beneath the earth's crust*? Did it originally swim into the lake from the sea? Before the Ice Age, Loch Ness opened into the sea. Was the young monster's egg frozen into the ice of the Ice Age? And somehow did the monster come alive again when the ice went away? We just do not know! Can we ever find the answers to all the questions surrounding the legend* of the Loch Ness Monster, do you think? Exercise A: Loch Ness is an enormous lake in Northern Scotland. It is about twenty-four mileslong and one mile wide, and has an approximate depth of 1,000 feet.Exercise B:1.C *2. A3. D4. A5. B6. B7. C8. DExercise C:l. One of the strangest and most fascinating things about Scotland is the LochNess Monster.2.They are Britain's Royal Air Force, the Boston Academy of Applied Science and NASA.3.Because the most amazing photographs show a flipper -- the flipper perhaps of a very large animal (twenty or thirty feet long, it is imagined).4.Because before the Ice Age, Loch Ness opened into the sea.5.Sir Peter Scott is a British specialist in animal life and also an artist.Part 3 NewsNews Item 1US secretary of State Hillary Clinton had said that the US is keen to broaden and deepen its ties with Asia. Speaking to the BBC ahead of an Asian tour, Mrs Clintonsaid North Korea ’ s nuclear plans, the economic crisis and climate change would top the agenda. Her week-long tour will take in Japan, China, South Korea and Indonesia. The stops reflect the diversity of ties the US has in this region. Going to Asia signals that the US is not just a transatlantic power but also a transpacific power. She also stressed that the US was keen to work more collaboratively with China. Mrs. Clinton said there were real opportunities to develop a good relationship with Beijing on issues such as climate change and clean energy. It is the first time in 60 years that a secretary of state has made Asia the destination of a first trip in office.A:This news item is about US intention to strengthen Asia ties.B:参照原文News Item 2A new round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program will be heldnext week in Beijing.The talks involving China, Russia, Japan, the United States, and North and South Korea have been scheduled for June 23-26. Working group talks set for June21-22 will lay the groundwork for discussions later in the week.Beijing has already hosted two rounds of the so-called six-party talks, butboth have made little headway into resolving the standoff*.China hopes all sides will deepen their discussions based on previouslyreached agreements, including to resolve.the crisis peacefully through dialogue and reaching the final goal of a nuclear freed Korean Peninsula.The United States and its key Asian allies, South Korea and Japan, have been pushing Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program since the extent of the program became known in December 2002.Exercise A:This news item is about a new round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program.Exercise B:Directions : Listen to the news item and answer the following questions.1. What kind of talks will be held next week in Beijing?A new round of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program will be held next week in Beijing.2. When have the talks been held?They have been scheduled for June 23-26.3. Which countries are involved?The talks involve China. Russia. Japan the United States and North and South Korea, 4.Has much headway been made into resolving the standoff after two rounds ofsix-party talks?No. little headway has been made into resolving the standoff.5.What does China hope?China hones all sides will deepen their discussions based on previously reached agreements, including to resolve the crisis peacefully through dialogue and reachingthe final goal of a nuclearfreed Korean Peninsula.News Item 3Exercise A:This news item is about the reworking of US foreign policy.Exercise B:1.F2.T3.T4.T5.FSection Three Oral WorkMark Twain was thought by many knowledgeable observers to smoke the worst cigars in the world."They bring their own cigars when they come to my house," he once remarked. "They betray an unmanly terror when I offer them a cigar; they tell lies and hurry away to meet engagements which they have not made when they are threatened with the hospitalities* of my box." Twain, felt unhappy, conducted an experiment.He invited twelve personal friends to supper one night. One of them was as notorious* forcostly and elegant cigars as Mark Twain was for cheap and devilish* ones.Before that day Mark Twain called at his house and when no one was looking borrowed ahandful of his cigars which cost him forty cents apiece and bore red-and-gold labels in sign of their nobility.Then Mark Twain removed the labels and put the cigars into a box with his favorite brand on it.They took these cigars when offered at the end of the supper, and lit them and struggled with them -- in dreary* silence. Then they made excuses and filed out, treading* on one another's heels with indecent eagerness; and in the morning when Mark Twain went out to observe results the cigars lay all between the front door and the gate.All except one -- that one lay in the plate of the man who could stand only one or two whiffs*. He told Mark Twain afterward that someday Twain would get shot for giving people that kind of cigar to smoke.Section Four Supplementary ExercisesPassage 1"MegaSkills' for ChildrenMegaSkills is a program used in schools across the United States. This program trains adults to help children develop the skills needed for what educators call lifelong learning. MegaSkills is based on the idea that parents and teachers can help children gain skills through normal, daily activities.Dorothy Rich created the program. She heads a nonprofit organization in Washington, DC,called the Home and School Institute.Mizz Rich identified eleven major skills that children need to succeed in life. She based them on information she gathered from educators and employers. She describes them as "inner engines of learning" for school and work.These MegaSkills include feeling able to do what is needed, and wanting to do it. Being willing to work hard and doing what is right are other MegaSkills. So are completing what you start, showing concern far others, and using good judgment. Dorothy Rich says children also need to learn how to solve problems, and how to work with a goal in mind.MegaSkills Education Online offers suggestions for activities to build these skills. For example, there are ideas about how parents can help children get organized in school. Parents can begin by helping a child plan a school project, like a science project.A parent can suggest that the child think about all the supplies needed forthe project. Whatspecial supplies might the child need? The child can write down each step requiredfor the project,then number the steps to help follow them.Other ideas offer ways to help younger children plan their time. MegaSkills Education Online suggests that parents and children list activities for a day when there is no school. For example, the family might plan to wake up at eight o'clock and eat breakfast by nine.As the day progresses, children can write down the time they start each activity on the list. At the end of the day, the family can see how close they came to following their plan.MegaSkills says this exercise is one way to reduce the time spent watching television. It can also increase the time children spend on schoolwork.There are other free suggestions and activities at the MegaSkills website.Exercise A:"MegaSkills" for ChildrenI. Definition of the word "MegaSkills"MegaSkills is a program that trains adults to help childrendevelop the skills through normal. daily activities.II. Creator of MegaSkillsMegaSkills is created by Dorothy Rich who runs a nonprofitorganization in Washington, DC, called the Home and SchoolInstitute.III. Services offered by MegaSkills Education Online1. It offers suggestions for activities to develop the skills thatare needed for school and work.2.It offers ways to help younger children plan their time.IV. Advantages of the time planning activity1.The activity can reduce the timespent watching television.2.It can also increase the timechildren spend on schoolwork.Exercise B:1.Feeling able to do what is needed, and wanting to do it;2.Being willing to work hard and doing what is right;pleting what you start;4.Showing concern for others;ing good judgment;6.Learning how to solve problems;7.Learning how to work with a goal in mind.Directions : Listen to the passage again and give your opinion on the following topics. "MegaSkills says this exercise is one way to reduce the time spent watching television."1.Why do children spend more time watching television than doing homework?2.What negative impact does TV have on children?What activities can distract children from their TV program?Passage 2 FossilFossil*, remains or traces of prehistoric plants and animals, buried and preserved in sedimentary* rock, or trapped in organic matter. Fossils representing most living groups have been discovered, as well as many fossils representing groups that are now extinct. Fossils range in age from 3.5-billion-year-old traces of microscopic cyanbacteria* (blue-green algae) to 10,000-year-old remains of animals preserved during the last Ice Age.Fossils are most commonly found in limestone, sandstone, and shale (sedimentary rock). Remains of organisms can also be found trapped in natural asphalt, amber, and ice. The hard, indigestible skeletons and shells of animals and the woody material of plants are usually preserved best. Fossils of organisms made of soft tissue that decays readily are more rare. Paleontologists* (scientists who study prehistoric life) use fossils to learn how life has changed and evolved throughout earth's history.Many factors can influence how fossils are preserved. Remains of an organism may be replaced by minerals, dissolved by an acidic solution to leave only their impression, or simply reduced to a more stable form. The fossilization of an organism depends on the chemistry of the environment and on the biochemical makeup of the organism. As a result, not all organisms in a community will be preserved.Plants are most commonly fossilized through carbonization. In this process, the mobile oils in the plant's organic matter are leached out* and the remaining matter is reduced to a carbon film.Plants have an inner structure of rigid organic walls that may be preserved in this manner, revealing the framework of the original cells. Animal soft tissue has a less rigid cellular structure and is rarely preserved through carbonization. Although paleontologists have found the carbonized skin of some ichthyosaurs*, marine reptiles from the Mesozoic* Era (240 to 65 million years before present), the microscopic structure of the skin was not preserved.Different types of fossils are found in different geological formations,《听力教程》2第二版第六单元文本depending on the prehistoric environment represented and the age of the rock. Older rocks are found on low, eroded continents near the edges of large oceans. Younger rocks are found more' commonly where there is active mountain building and volcanic activity. Old fossils are most commonly found where an old mountain range has eroded, such as in eastern North America and northern Europe, or where twoold continents have collided, such as in Russia. Younger fossils are found at the ocean side of young mountains where an ocean plate is colliding with a continental plate, such as in western North and South America and in New Zealand.Exercise A:Plants are most commonly fossilized through carbonization. In this process, the mobile oils in theplant's organic matter are leached out and the remaining matter is reduced to a carbon film.Exercise B:1.A2.B3.C4.B5.D6.A7.C8.D Exercise C:1.Fossil, remains or traces of prehistoric plants and animals, buried and preservedin sedimentaryrock, or trapped in organic matter.2.Paleontologists use fossils to learn how life has changed and evolved throughout earth's history.3.The remains of an organism may be replaced by minerals or dissolved by an acidic solution.4.Old fossils are most commonly found where an old mountain range had eroded,such as in eastern North America and northern Europe, or where two old continents have collided, such as in Russia.5.Younger fossils are found at the ocean side of young mountains where an ocean plate is colliding with a continental plate, such as in western North and South America and in New Zealand.。
新视野大学英语听说教程(第二版)第2册 unit6 听力原文
Unit 6 What’s in a Name?新视野大学英语听说教程第二版第2册1. M: That was really something! What do you remember most about the play we watched?W: I remember an actor asking “What’s in a name?” It made me think about my own name and its meaning.Q: What does the woman remember about the play?2. W: What do you think the writer of the play meant when he asked “What’s in a name?”M: I think that he was questioning the importance of names, that is, how they affect our lives. Q: Why did the writer ask the question?3. M: There’s something I don’t understand. Please tell me again why you changed your name. W: I wanted a name that would sound more elegant than the one my parents gave me.Q: Why did the woman change her name?4. M: My English teacher discouraged us from using our Chinese names in class.W: That’s not fair! I’m proud of my own name, and I’m not going to use another!Q: Why doesn’t the woman want to use another name?5. W: In Sociology class, I learned that in many different cultures, names say a lot about people. M: I heard the same thing in Psychology class. Names can have a great influence on a person’s identity.Q: According to the man, how do names affect people?6. W: I’ve heard that the judging people by their names is superficial.M: I couldn't agree more. There are much better ways of judging people.Q: How does the man feel about judging people by their names?7. M: Y our name is very impressive! It sounds beautiful! Lucky you!W: Not really. I never thought that my name correctly expressed who I really am as a person. Q: What is the woman’s impression of her name?8. W: If our child is a boy, I think we should give him your name. What do you think?M: Let’s not. I don’t agree with parents doing that. Naming a child after a parent seems uncreative.Q: Why would n’t the man like to name his son after himself?9. M: I always thought my name was unique, but this book says 17% of babies born in the sameyear as me had the same first name.W: But it also says only 50 of those 600,000 babies also had the same middle name.Q: How many people, born in the same year as the man, were given the same first and middle names?10. W: If we name our son after someone in the Bible, maybe he’ll become more religious.M: I doubt it. My brother has a name from the Bible, and he isn’t at all religious. I think we should think more about this.Q: What is the relationship between the two speakers?LONGW: There sure is a lot of pressure on Chinese to take a foreign name, don’t you agree?M: I’m not sure. Many people don’t use foreign names even when they go abroad or meet foreigners. Take our leaders, for example.W: Y es, but many internationally famous actors, writers and artists do. Some of them feel they won’t be successful abroad if they use their Chinese names.M: What does it matter? What’s in a name, anyway?W: Names are important, and I feel people are turning their backs on their culture when they takea foreign name.M: I don't think so. Names to me are superficial things. I use a foreign name in my English class just for the sake of convenience. When speaking to people in another language, it’s simpler to use a name that belongs to that language.W: Maybe you’re right, but I still feel the way I do. Using a foreign name doesn’t seem right to me.1.How does the woman feel about Chinese taking foreign names?2.What are people doing when they take foreign names according to the woman?3.What does the man think of names?4.When does the man use a foreign name?5.What does the woman decide in the end?PASSI’m going to change my name tomorrow. Does this sound odd? Let me explain. Since I was a baby, my name has been a label that has identified me as I grew. However, I have changed a lot. Most of all, my ideas on life have developed. By the time I become an adult, I was clearly not the same person I was as a baby. So why should my name be the same? I’ve decided to change it to reflect my changes as a person. Some people tell me they don't approve of this plan. They think I am disrespecting my parents, who named me. But I’ve spoken with my parents, and they agree with me. Keeping the same name throughout life is nonsense. The only real problem for me is that it will take people a long time to get used to my new name.1.What does the speaker plan to do tomorrow?2.What does the speaker say has changed about her the most?3.Why don’t some people agree with her plan?4.What do her parents think of her plan?5.What problem does the speaker anticipate after changing her name?。
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Unit 6-Conversation 1Janet: What are you reading, Kate?Kate:Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. Do you know it?Janet: I've heard of it, yes, but I've never read it. It's a 19th century children's story, isn't it?K a te: That's right. It's very famous. It's set in Oxford. It starts with this young girl sitting on a river bank. The interesting thing is, the author, Lewis Carroll, he was an Oxford professor and he used to have tea with the girl's family on this river bank.Ja net: Oh, that's fascinating! I'll put it into my diary. Kate: Is that what you're writing? I know you've been keeping a diary all the year.Janet: It's been a great year. I've had such a good time — so lucky to have Mark and Kate as friends. Feel I've been doing well with work. Much happier about asking questions in tutorials.Janet: My screen's gone dark.Mark: You're using the battery, remember. It's run out, obviously.Janet: It can't be the battery. It's still charged. Oh no it's still black. Oh dear, I hope it's nothing serious. I haven't backed anything up recently.Kate: That's not like you, Janet.Janet:I know, but I lost my memory stick. I really should have backed things up. How stupid of me not to do that! Supposing I've lost everything!Mark: Let me take a look. The power is still on. And also the operating system still seems to be working ... I think it has to be the graphics card ... But maybe that's not the problem ... Janet: If only I'd backed things up!Kate: Relax, Janet! We'll take it to the computer shop this afternoon. I'm sure it'll be OK.Janet: I hope so.Unit 6-Conversation 2Janet: Tell me about Alice in Wonderland.Kate: I tell you what, I'll read it to you.Kate: Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and having nothing to do: Once or twice, she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?" So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid) ... Janet: Kate, Mark, where are you going? You've got my laptop!Kate: It's all right, Janet, we're taking it to the computer shop. We'll be back soon.Mark: It's not like Janet to forget to back up her work. Kate: She should have been more careful. Janet: It was stupid of me, I know! Stupid, stupid! Janet: Oh! It was a dream! What a relief!Kate: You were talking in your sleep.Janet: What was I saying?Kate: "Stupid, stupid."M ark:I've sorted out your computer.Janet: Have you? Oh, thank goodness! What was the problem?Mark:It was the graphics card, as I predicted ...Janet: Is that what it was! I'm so relieved! Thanks, Mark. Kate: He's great, isn't he?Janet: Yes. So are you, Kate.Kate: You're such a good friend.Unit 6-Outside viewComputers are a very important part of our lives. They tell us about delays to transport. They drive trains, analyze evidence and control buildings. Did you know that 60 per cent of homes in Britain have got a PC (a personal computer)? For many young people, playing computer games is their favorite way of spending spare time. Computers are a very important part of most areas of life in Britain-libraries, the police and in school. But they are becoming more important in our homes as well. They’ll even control the way we live-in “smart homes”or computer-controlled houses. The smart home is now a real possibility. It will become very common. A central computer will adjust the temperature, act as a burglar alarm and switch on lights, ready for you to come back home. And of course you will be able to give new instructions to the computer from your mobile phone. So if your plans change, your home will react to match. Many homes have got lots of televisions and several computers. The smart home will provide TV and Internet sockets in every room, so you’ll be able to do what you want whenever you want. If the temperature outside changes, the smart home will adjust the temperature levels inside. The computer will also close the blinds when it gets dark or to stop so much sun from entering a room. And if you want to eat when you get home, the computer will turn the oven on for you! Are computers taking over our lives? In a survey, 44 per cent of young people between 11 and 16 said their PC was a trusted friend. Twenty per cent said they were happier at their computer than spending time with family or friends. Another survey found that people in Britain spend so much time on the phone, texting and reading emails that they no longer have time for conversation. What do you think about that?Unit 6-Listening inNews ReportUS Scientists have announced the discovery of gravitational waves, which are tiny waves produced by massive objectsmoving very quickly. Two black holes produced the waves when they crashed into each other about 1.3 billion years ago.A black hole is a place in space where the gravity is so strong that even light cannot escape. This announcement of the discovery comes a century after Albert Einstein first predicted gravitational waves would exist.The discovery was made possible by using a highly sensitive instrument designed to detect signals of gravitational waves and identify their sources. This discovery proves that there are gravitational waves, and strongly confirms the existence of black holes.With this discovery, scientists are given a new tool to study and understand the universe. The waves could help scientists learn more about what happened immediately after the universe began and how the universe expanded. Scientists hope that they may be able to observe parts of the universe that were previously undetectable.1.What discovery have US scientists made?2.What features do black holes have according to the newsreport?3.Why is the discovery important?Passage 1When you have a biscuit with your cup of tea, do you dunk it? And if so, what’s the perfect way to do it? That’s the subject of today’s Science in Action report. It may be hard to believe but scientists at the University of Bristol have been analyzing this question. And after a two-month study they devised a mathematical formula for dunking biscuits. So no more melting chocolate, or biscuit crumbs in the bottom of your cup, which is the fate of one in four biscuits that are dunked in tea, according to research by a biscuit manufacturer. Doughnut dunkers don’t face the same problems because doughnuts are held together with an elastic net of protein, gluten. This substance allows the doughnut to absorb liquid without breaking down its structure. The structure of a biscuit, however, is held together by sugar which melts when placed in hot tea or coffee.So what is the answer? The researcher, let by Dr. Len Fisher, discovered that holding the biscuit in a horizontal position – or “flat-on”– has a significant effect on the amount of time that a biscuit can stay in hot liquid before falling apart. In fact this horizontal dunking results in a dunking time up to four times longer than traditional vertical dunking.What’s the reason for this? It seems that the answer is related to diffusion, in other words, the length of time it takes for the liquid to penetrate the structure of the biscuit. Basically, it takes longer for the liquid to travel through the channels of a biscuit when it is laid flat on the surface of the liquid. Also the fact that when a biscuit is dunked horizontally, with the biscuit submerged in the liquid, and the chocolate coating staying out of the liquid, the chocolate helps hold the biscuit together. Another factor influencing the equation is the temperature of the tea – the hotter the tea, the faster the sugar melts.Researchers also found that by dunking a biscuit into tea or coffee, up to ten times more flavor is release than it the biscuit is eaten dry. So it’s worth experimenting yourself. If you are wondering how you can perfect the horizontal dunk, the researchers have come up with an idea for a biscuit-holding device to make dunking biscuits easier. They are even mow working on producing a table giving guidelines on dunking times for different types of biscuit. On that note, I think it’s time to go off to the canteen for a tea break! Passage 2Peter: Hey Louise, look at this book about crop circles - some of the photos are absolutely unbelievable. Louise: You don t believe in all that stuff, do you Peter? Peter: I'm not saying I believe in UFOs and things, but some of the formations are fascinating. They’remade up of lots of interconnected circles andgeometrical shapes. You know, in the past few years,there have been more reports of them. The circlesare getting larger and the designs are getting moreintricate... I'm sure that they can't all be man-made.Think about it - they're so complicated, and theyappear at night in the middle of fields of wheatbarley or corn. It’s definitely pretty weird! Louise: I know, but l saw a TV documentary about it, and they showed how a group of hoaxers made anelaborate crop circle in a field at night usingwooden plank, ropes, plastic tubes and a gardenroller. They even fooled some of the people whobelieve in the paranormal-aliens coming down inUFOs and aliens coming down in UFOs andcreating them, and so on.Peter: I'm sure lots of them are created by people just to get publicity but look here-it says, “The firstrecords of crop circles go back as far as the 17thcentury. Since the 1970s there have been over12,000 reports from countries all around the worldincluding Italy, America, South Africa, Australiaand Brazil.” Most reports are from here in Englandthough.Louise: But surely that’s just because they get so muchmedia coverage these days, so more people aremaking them.Peter: Perhaps, but how do you explain the fact that the actual chemical composition of the grains of corpsinside the circles changes? Scientific tests havefound they have a higher protein level. The stems ofthe grains have often been exposed to hightemperatures. And they found that the soil withinthe circles contains more iron than the soil outside.So far, the hoaxers haven't been able to copy allthese features.Louise: Well, I'm not a scientist but I'm pretty sceptical about all these so-called paranormal explanations. Iremember in the programme I watched, theresearchers found signs of human interference, suchas holes in the earth and footprints!Peter: Come on… you must admit, that still leaves a lot which is unexplained!Louise: There's lots of things that are hard to explain but this really...。
英语听力教程LTW2 Unit6
Unit 6 The Interviewer's Eye
Part I Getting ready Part II Two girls talking on the phone Part III A good interview Part IV More about the topic: The Interviewer's Eye Part V Memory test: Who’ll Get the Job? Part VI Watch and enjoy
Part I Getting ready The interview, a widely used method of personality assessment, is a means of eliciting from the subject a report of past, present, and anticipated future responses. Most interviews are unstructured, but some use set questions asked in a given sequence. Some interviewers may give candidates a hard time by asking them difficult questions. *eliciting 探得（信息） *unstructured 松散的，自由的，开放的 *in a given sequence 按一定的顺序 *candidates 候选人
*long-range goals：长远目标
rewarding about it? 19.Describe your present job — what do you find _________ 20.Now, _____ what do you do in your ___________? spare time 21.What _______ excites you about the ____ job you’re doing _____? now now 22.What _______ job you’re doing _____? worries you about the ____ 23.Describe your _________. ideal boss How would you rate your ___________? present boss *rate：评价 24.____
新视野大学英语听说教程第2册听力原文及答案Unit6
新视野大学英语NewHorizonVLS2_Tapescripts of Unit6 II. Listening SkillsDialog 1Girl 1: What do you think of this miniskirt, Amy? Pretty hot stuff, eh?Girl 2: Wow…it’s pretty short. My mom would never let me wear something like that.Girl 1: My mom’s cool. She lets me make my own decisions about clothes.Girl 2: Not my mom. She’d be mad if I came home in a skirt like that.Girl 1: Let’s both got one; then maybe your mom wouldn’t be so upset if we both wore the same skirt.Girl 2: Well…maybe.1.D2. The first girl(The girl who suggests wearing the short skirt.)Dialog 2Mother: Lily, where did you get that skirt? You can’t wear that. It’s much too short! What will others think?Lily: You don’t understand fashion. It’s what everyone is wearing. I think it looks very attractive.Mother: Nonsense, it’s only suitable for a supermodel on the catwalk. It’s not meant for ordinary people like us. Your dad is sure to say the skirt is far too revealing!Lily: But it’s really in high fashion; everyone is wearing clothes like this.Mother: Not everyone. Your friend Amy would never wear a skirt like that![Amy comes in, wearing the same style of short skirt!]Lily: Look, Amy has come. She’s wearing the same skirt!Mother: My God, I give up.1. B2. No, she hasn’t.III. Listening InTask 1: A Woman’s Funny DressLily: Mom, look at that woman. Her dress looks funny.Mother: I wouldn’t say that, Lily. It looks fine to me.Lily: Are you kidding? She’s out of fashion. That’s last year’s style.Mother: Oh, come one, as long as it looks good on her.Lily: Wow, you’re really as out-dated as she is.Mother: You’re right. I’m out of date. So what? What’s the point of following the fashion?Lily: No wonder you never buy me new dresses.1.looks funny2.looks fine to her3.is behind the times4.went out5.looks good on her6.out-dated7.keeping herself in style8.no wonderTask 2: How is fashion decided?Fashion designers design and make fashionable clothes for men and women. They deign trends and create new styles. Paris has been the traditional center of world fashion, though recently British designers have had great influence in setting new styles, and so have certain designers in the United States and Italy. French designers guard the secrets of their new designs until their collections are shown to the public. Then pictures of the styles are published in newspapers and magazines all over the world. People from many countries travel to Paris to buy the clothes and copy the newest ideas. In January they go to see the spring clothes; and in July, to see the autumn designs. Many dress manufacturers from other countries buy the original clothes of the famous French designers. They then take them back to their own sewing rooms, where the clothes are copied and made up in great numbers. That’s why you may be able to buy in your town the clothing that is in the latest style without paying a very high price for it. Other manufacturers use the Paris styles simply as a starting point for their own ideas. Still others may adapt only a part of the French design into their own styles.1. F2.F3.T4.T5.FFashion designers design fashionable clothes,begin trends and new styles,and their work is copied all over the world.Paris is the center of the world fashion, where the secrets of the newdesigns are guarded until they are shown to the public People and manufacturers come to Paris to buy and copy new clothes, in January andJuly. Then the clothes are copied and made up in largenumbers, for which one does not have to pay a high price.Other manufacturers use Paris styles simply as a starting pointfor their own ideas.Still others adapt only a part of the French designTask 3: Dreaming of Being a Fashion ModelTop fashion models travel all over the world, earn huge salaries and live exciting lives. If you want to be a model, you should know the basic rules. Girls are usually picked to be models when they are between 15 and 22 years old. Ideally, they are tall, long-legged, and thin. The minimum height is about 5’8”, and the average weight is 108-125 pounds. A few other important things for a fashion model are clear skin, healthy hair, straight teeth, and a well-shaped body. You’ll also need ambition, intelligence, confidence, independence, and will-power.If you’ve got the right looks but are worried over not being tall enough or fit enough, Kimi is the answer. Kimi is the magic key to developing your fashion model potential. Kimi is a computer-designed stimulator. It massages your feet to stimulate a part of your brain that produces more growth hormones. This will give you the fashion model kind of height. You should also go in for some sports like running or basketball. These increase the benefits of using Kimi.Make an important decision today. Order Kimi right now! Don’t you think having the hegith and shape of a fashion model would be wonderful? Yes, Kimi helps you realize your dream.1.D2.B3.A4.B5.CTop fashion models…..earning large salariesFuture models…..being at least 5’8” tallKimi…………..massaging one’s feetA part of the brain……producing growth hormones directlyCustomers…….buying KimiIV. Speaking OutModel 1 How did you like the fashion show?Laura: How did you like the fashion show last night?John: It was dumb. I think it’s stupid of women to wear clothes like that.Laura:I didn’t see anything wrong with the clothes; they looked pretty nice to me.John:Do you really think people can wear that stuff and walk around the streets?Laura: Yes, I do. At least, some people certainly can. They wear high-fashion clothes to show off their sense of style and wealth.John:Well, I still think they’re dumb. It makes more sense to spend the money on more practical purposes.Now Your TurnA: What did you think of the low-cut dress at the fashion show yesterday evening?B: I think it’s not decent for Chinese girls to wear a dress like that.A: The dress seemed quite al right to me. In fact, they looked pretty nice to me.B: Do you really think people can wear that stuff and walk around the streets?A: Yes, I do. Don’t forget this is already the 21st century. Some people wear high-fashion clothes to show off their sense of style as wealth.B: Well, I still think low-neck dresses are wrong. It would be better to spend the money on high-quality, traditional clothes.Model 2 I’m looking for a light jacket.Salesman: What can I do for you?John:I’m looking for a light jacket.Salesman: Please come this way; they’re just over here. What size do you like?John:I’m not sure.Salesman: ok, I’ll measure you. Well, you are size 42. What color do you like?John:Light blue, please.Salesman: OK, try this one on.John:Yes, that’s comfortable. And the color goes well with my jeans. How much is it? Salesman: $24.99.John:I’ll take it. Can I pay with a credit card?Salesman: Sure, we take both debit and major credit cards.Now Your TurnA: Can I help you?B: Can you show me a pair of jeans?A: OK. What size do you wear?B: I don’t know.A: No problem, I’ll take your measurements…OK, what color do you like?B: Dark blue, please.A: Please try this one on…How does it feel?B: Yes, that’s comfortable. And the color matches my jacket. What does it cost?A: $79.90.B: I’ll take it. Can I pay with a credit card?A: Sorry, we accept only cash.Model 3 Could you show me a pair of running shoes?Salesman: Good morning, see anything you like?John:Not yet, I’ll look around first…Excuse me, could you show me a pair of running shoes? Are any of these on sale?Salesman: The price of the Reeboks won’t change, but the Nikes go on sale this afternoon:25% off. That’s a good deal.John:No, I don’t like Nikes at all.Salesman: Well, why don’t you try on this pair of Reeboks and see how they feel?John:Okay. But I think they are going to be on the small side. Oh, there, I’m afraid are a bit too tight. Do you have a size 24?Salesman:I’m sorry, they’re all sold out. But I’ll be glad to order a new pair of you.John:How long will it take?Salesman: Three days.John:Then don’t bother. Thank you anyway.Now Your TurnA: May I help you?B: I want to buy a dress. Can I have a look at the green one?A: Sure. Please try it on and see how it feels.B: OK…I think it’s a bit too large. Do you have a smaller one?A: I’m sorry, this is the smallest one. How about the blue one?B: No, I don’t like the color. Thanks.V. Let’s TalkThe MiniskirtMary Quant was a famous dress designer in the 1960s. Her main contribution to fashion history was the miniskirt. During the 1960s many young people were starting to think women could do more in life than be wives and mothers. Clothes became a weapon in the battle between generations. Anything different and daring was soon popular. During this period miniskirts attracted the world’s attention. It was teenagers and very young girls who bought short shirts that displayed their legs. Ms. Quant said that at her fashion shop, young women began demanding shorter and shorter skirts. “If I didn’t make them short enough, the girls that had wonderful legswould take scissors and shorten the skirts themselves.” She said. Eventually, Ms. Quant’s skirts, which arrived in the United States in the mid-60’s, were reduced to about five inches. In parts of Europe and North America the miniskirt represented loose morals. Members of the older generation believed good girls would never appear in miniskirts. But in Ms. Quant’s opinion, short skirts worn with heavy pantyhose would make the girl look childlike. Lately, feminists have come to see mini as a symbol of women’s liberation, as a powerful weapon against the traditional stereotype of the woman simply as wife and mother.1.D2.D3.A4.C5.BVI. Furthering Listening and SpeakingTask 1: Paying for the New ClothesDaughter: Mom, I need some new clothes. Everything I have is out of date. The new semester will be starting soon—can we go shopping?Mother:You have a closet full of clothes that are still in very good condition. Your father and I already have to pay you university tuition…and there’re the books too.Daughter: But everyone else will be wearing the latest Levis. And I will look stupid wearing the same old skirts I wore in high school. They are so long. People will think I came formthe middle ages.Mother:But…Daughter: Maybe I could get a part-time job to help pay for the new clothes.Mother:No, you need to study. But university is a new experience…maybe we can look for something not too expensive.Daughter: Wonderful, at least we can have a look.The daughter wants to buy new clothes, but the mother disagrees, saying she still has a lot of clothes in good condition and the parents have to pay for the university tuition. The daughter argues that she needs clothes in fashion, so as not to look as if she had come form the middle ages. The daughter then suggests getting a part-time job to cover the expenses. Not wanting to affect the daughter’s studies, the mother finally agrees to buy new clothes.Task 2: A Model’s Description of Her WorkBefore the fashion show started, we had a rehearsal. In a small room we were each given a space.A dresser got us into the fashion clothes, then an assistant checked that the style was right—the correct number of buttons undone, the trousers pulled to the right height. Once dressed, we queued up in order by the door. The fashion designer checked that the clothing was as the he wanted. The music started, and we went out. We posed for the photographers, turned and walked back. It was a breeze. I walked back into the room, too excited to realize I was meant to hurry. In the few steps from the door you can throw off quite a few layers of clothing. By failing to do so, I almost missed my next turn.At 8:30p.m., with the audience in place, we were back in the clothes. We went out again, to a full house. The music was loud, but clear. You could hear the talking—fashion shows are not theatre, and people don’t keep quiet. Journalists discuss what to write about; buyers discuss whether they can make a profit from the clothes. And although you have been chosen for your looks that are suitable for certain dresses, as a model, you are just an advertisement for the designer. So youwalk through conversations, unable to stop or react. You are not a creative human being, just a smiling doll.1.T2.F3.T4.F5.FTask 3: Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-dot BikiniShe was afraid to come out of the lockerShe was as nervous as she could beShe was afraid to come out of the lockerShe was afraid that somebody would seeOne, two, three, four, tell people what she woreIt was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikiniThat she wore for the first time today.An itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikiniSo in the locker she wanted to stay.Two, three, four, stick around we’ll tell you moreShe was afraid to come out in the openAnd so a blanket around her she woreShe was afraid to come out in the openAnd so she sat bundled up on the shoreTwo, three, four, tell the people what she wore…SpeakingBuying an Expensive DressNancy: Your new low-cut dress is wonderful.Jill: Thank you, Nancy. I just bought it on sale. It was marked d9own 50%.Nancy: Where did you get it?Jill: Lane Crawford. They had a year-end sale that was too good to pass up.Nancy: I heard about this store. They have all the high-end stuff.Jill: Nothing good in life is cheap.Nancy: Well, let’s go shopping then. And don’t forget to bring it.Jill: Bring what?Nancy: Your credit card.。
《英语听力教程2》文本6
Unit 6 The Computer: a Necessary Evil?Part ⅠGetting readyA computer is a machine that performs calculations and processes information with astonishing speed and precision. A computer can handle vast amounts of information and solve complicated problems. It can take thousands of individual pieces of data and turn them into more usable information with blinding speed and almost unfailing accuracy.A The following words and phrases will appear in this unit. Listen carefully and study the definitions.1. process: put (information, numbers, etc.) into a computer for examination2. program: supply (a computer) with a list of instructions that must be given to a computer in order to make it perform an operation3. laptop: a computer small enough to be held on one's knees for use4. electronic mail (e-mail): an electronic system which joins a group of computers, allowing people to send messages to each other on their computers5. keyboard: several rows of keys on a computer6. Internet: an international network of computer databases7. World Wide Web (WWW): a popular system that makes it easier for people to find and use information on the Internet8. browser: a computer program that lets you find and use information on the Internet9. silicon ship: a very small piece of silicon containing a set of electronic parts and their connections, which is used in computers10. Integrated Circuit: a very small set of electrical connections printed on a single piece of semiconductor material, such as a chipB You are going to hear a short passage about the different sizes of computers. Write down every word as a dictation. It will be read three times. First reading, read from beginning to end. Second reading, read with pauses. Third reading, read without pauses again. (You may find the following words hard to spell: mainframe computer [主机计算机], microprocessor [微处理器].)C You are going to hear the first part of a conversation between a school headmaster and the chairman of the board of directors of the school. They are arguing about the plan for buying a computer for the school. Write down all the pros and cons.Pros Cons●can be used for storing school●rather pricey (expensive)__________, lists of _________ ●would be __________ to spend theand details of _______________ money on more ________, ________ ●can save the ___________ a lot equipment and __________________of ___________________________ ●just like _____________ machines●children can work out their own●waste children's ____________ on____________________ whichwill ________________________________stimulate their ____________ in ●children won't ________ anything ______________ and help them to from itthe subject better●_______ studies are getting verypopular in the _________ schoolsand ____________________________Part ⅡAirlines are wiring up for travelers"Laptop" is a newly coined word for portable computer. Another word for "laptop" is "notebook". Though laptops are comparatively small in size, they are almost as functional as big ones. You can check your e-mail, and reply to those that require a response. You can send a message of your own to a friend in another city. You might also read a few articles in some of the worldwide discussion groups.A You are going to hear a report on the use of laptop computers in planes. First listen to the topic sentences. Fill in the blanks while listening.1. Ten years ago, it was unusual to see people in a ____________ working on ____________ Now they are ____________.2. It all ____________ when they began to have a consistent policy about the use of ____________ during flight.3. Then came the ____________ phone.4. Finally airlines are starting to offer _________ power sources for_________.5. _________ and _________ -flight facilities at airports have been trying to _________.6. New aircraft will all have a modem point and ____________ at every seat. Ant phones will get __________ satellite links.B Now listen to the whole report. While listening for the first time, add more key words in the left- hand column. After the second listening, decide whetherthe statements are true or false. Put "T" or "F" in the brackets.Statements( ) 1. Now it is very common to see people in a plane working on laptop computers.( ) 2. Today many passengers work on laptops in a plane, but only very few will make phone calls, send faxes, check e-mail or surf the World Wide Web. ( ) 3. As soon as you board a plane, you may begin use of your laptop. ( ) 4. Laptop computers first appeared in scare stories.( ) 5. Passengers are not allowed to use their laptops during take-off.( ) 6. The on-board phone not only allows passengers to make urgentlast-minute calls to the office but also allows full data communications to fax machines, corporate computer networks and the Internet.( ) 7. With in-seat power sources for notebooks, battery life is no longer the biggest challenge for notebook users.( ) 8. Though people can work on laptop computers in a plane, they are forbidden to use them at airports.( ) 9. Using the modem point, people in a plane will be able to write e-mail and send data.( ) 10.It is expected to cost about ￡700 050 000 to fit the modem links, telephone handsets and modify seats in one aircraft.C Now listen to the report again, and correct all the false statements in activity B.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Part ⅢTechno-chatThe Internet is the name for a group of worldwide information resources. These resources are so vast as to be well beyond the comprehension of a single human being. Not only is there no one who understands all of the Internet, there is no one who even understands most of the Internet. Using the Internet meanssitting at your computer screen and accessing information. But do you know Internet can sometimes act as a match-maker?A You are going to hear Tom and Jason talking about Internet and techno-chat. While listening for the first time, add more key words in the left-hand column. After the second listening, answer the questions in no more than five words or numbers.Questions1. Where do the beauty and utility of Internet lie?________________________________________________2. What are the two main functions of the Internet according to the conversation?________________________________________________3. What is Internet compared to in the conversation?________________________________________________4. How did one of the speakers meet his girl friend?________________________________________________5. What's the name of the bulletin board?________________________________________________6. How long has it been around?________________________________________________7. How much computer time will one dollar buy?________________________________________________8. Who are you going to talk to on a computer network?________________________________________________9. Is it possible for you to have a private conversation on a computer network?________________________________________________10. What's the main advantage of talking through a computer?________________________________________________11. What are the rush hours for techno-chat program?________________________________________________12. What does Tom mean by saying "Look in the mirror, man."?________________________________________________B Now listen to the conversation again. Complete the following summary about Internet and techno-chat programs by writing in the missing words with the help of the above notes and answers.The Internet is a computer _________. It is the _________ and most_________ achievement in the history of _________. Its _________ and_________ lie in the _________. The Internet _________ millions of people all over the world to _________ and to _________. You communicate by either _________ and _________ electronic mail, or by _________ a connection to someone else's computer and _________ messages _________ and_________ You share by _________ in discussion groups and by _________ the many programs and information _________ that are _________ for free. The techno-chat programs on the Internet allow you to talk to people whom you _______ wouldn't talk to, and let you talk about __________ with __________, without prejudice.Part ⅣMore about the topic: Computer Technology and Individual Computers handle many tasks in business, education, manufacturing, transportation, and other fields. They provide scientists and other researchers with a clearer understanding of nature. They give people who work with words an effective way to create documents. They enable designers and artists to see things that have never been seen before. But sometimes computers are offensive enough to interfere with people's private life.The following short passage is about how individual privacy is affected by modern computer technology. Supply the missing words while listening.Most people agree that modern computer _________ is a very successful way to _________ information. Information that used to take _________ or _________ to find can now be found in a few _________ or at most a few_________ using a computer. Yet computer experts say that this technology has developed so _________ that present _________ do not _________ some basic _________.Now there is _________ about the _________ that computers are being used to gather _________ information about _________. The following story will help _________. The person is not _________, but the story shows what kind of __________ can be gathered. Our story is about a young man named John. John works for a large __________.John likes his __________. He enjoys his __________. He likes the other __________ in his office and he thinks he receives fair __________. John just found out that his company has gathered information about him. He _______ that company officials have all his _________ records for the past __________ years. They also know all the __________ John has ever lived. They know what ___________ he has made. They even know he was _________ when he was only __________ years old. The arrest was a __________, and the_________ against him were dismissed. But the _________ of his arrest still_________.John also discovered the company has gathered information about his_________ and _________. It has his _________ record, his _________ records and _________ records. It also has a list of all the _________ calls John has made for the _________ year. In fact, John discovered that the company has _________ information about him than John has about himself. John was _________.John _________ to his supervisor. The supervisor _________ how John_________, but he said that gathering such information is _________ and there was really _______ John could do.That story is not really true. However it _________ to people like John every day. Many large companies now gather information about their _________. Many companies now _________ all telephone calls made by their workers. Company ___________ want to know if the worker is ________ the telephone only for _______ business. They also record what ___________ or ________ the worker has in his or her _________. If the worker _________ and_________ electronic-mail, the company may want _________. The companies say they want to know if a worker is using __________ computer equipment for _________ than company business. Companies say they are not _________ on their workers. They say they are ___________ their workers are _________. The _________ is: "Does the company have the _________ to seek this kind of information?"Some experts say _________ is the best protection of _________. They say people must learn what kind of information can be gathered _________. And they must develop _________ ways to best _________ themselves against the illegal _________ of their privacy.Part ⅤMemory test: Who Invented the First Computer?Computers are tremendously important in a variety of ways. They simplify many difficult or time-consuming tasks to an extraordinary degree. They provide businesses, governments, individuals, and institutions with an efficient way to manage large amounts of information. Nevertheless, very few people know who invented the first computer and when it was invented.A You are going to hear a short passage about the history of computers. First get familiar with the following names.Alan Turning Blaise PascalCharles Babbage Gottfried von LiebnitzB Now listen to the passage. While you listen, don't forget to add more key words in the notes column. After listening, write down briefly what happened in each year listed below with the help of the notes.2000 years ago: __________________________________1642: ____________________________________________1671: ____________________________________________1834: ____________________________________________1936: ____________________________________________1946: ____________________________________________1960s: ___________________________________________C You are going to hear a monologue about computer systems. Listen carefully and complete the following chart.Part ⅥReminder of key points in this unitVerb & Verb Phrase Noun & Noun Phrase OtherPart Ⅰperform mainframe priceyprocess microprocessor reasonablespare chip in minuteshunt in space invader reassuringwork out electronic gamestimulate cataloguefiling cabinetPart Ⅱcheck laptop computer/notebook oddsurf fax gradualcreak open e-mail consistentfly over World Wide Web (WWW) initiallykeep pace keyboard scarespring up suspicion modestmodify electro-magnetic radiation urgentdata on-boardInternet in-seatpower source built-interminal in the region ofweb browsermodemsatellite linkPart Ⅲshare achievement absolutelyestablish mankind significanttag along industrial revolution impressive participate utility wondrous guarantee techno-chat program available for free match-maker fantasticchat session privatecappuccino sipperinhibitionprejudicePart Ⅳgather concern shocked protect extent (il)legaldismiss individual costlyprotest investmentspy on chargefinancial recordtax recordsupervisorPart Ⅴcompute abacus mathematical add infants' school externalmultiply valve computer internaldivide integrated circuit arithmeticprogram silicon chip logicbreak code RAM / ROM principal input output monitor disc drive floppyscannerjoy stickcomponentlight penCentral ProcessingUnit (CPU)。
全新版大学英第二版语综合教程2听力原文Unit 6
Unit 6 The MindListening and SpeakingAudio Track 2-6-1A: Do you usually remember or forget things?B: I have a bad memory. I sometimes forget people’s birthdays.A: That’s terrible. I think you should get a diary to help you remember.A: Have you ever been shocked or not able to believe how much someone has changed over time? B: Sure! My childhood friend was very shy. Now, he is a TV actor. I don’t believe it. He’s changed so much!Audio Track 2-6-2Manolo: Galina, let’s get some lunch before our next class.Galina: Okay. Wow, that English test was difficult!Manolo: I know.Galina: For me, the hard part is the vocabulary. I just can’t remember it all.Manolo: Well, there are things you can do ...Audio Track 2-6-3Galina: Really?Manolo: Yeah. One thing I do is label things in English.Galina: What do you mean?Manolo: For example, I write the word chair on a small piece of paper. Then I put the paper on a chair in my house.Galina: Hmmm ... Good idea.Manolo: And here’s another idea: When I learn a w ord, I also learn related words.Galina: For example?Manolo: Well, when I learned the word film, I made a note of a similar word ...Galina: Movie!Manolo: Exactly! Then I added related words like actor and movie star , and verbs like rent and see . Here’s another idea ...Audio Track 2-6-4(Audio Track 2-6-2 + Audio Track 2-6-3)Audio Track 2-6-5/Audio Track 2-6-6Conversation 1Woman: Morning, Simon. Wow, you look tired.Man: Oh, I didn’t sleep very well last night. I had a weird dream. I was in a clas sroom at school, but I didn’t have any clothes on! No one looked at me, but I was really embarrassed. Conversation 2Woman: Jesse, Jesse! Wake up! You’re having a nightmare.Mala child: Oh, what a terrible dream! I dreamed I was on a dark street. Suddenly, there was a large dog behind me. It ran toward me, but I couldn’t move.Woman: Don’t worry, Jesse. It was only a dream. Go back to sleep.Conversation 3Man1: Morning Tim.Man2: Morning. Hey, I had an amazing dream last night. I was on a beautiful boat. The sun was warm and the ocean was really blue. I jumped into the water, and I began to swim with the fish. The thing is, I can’t swim! But in the dream, I could. It was pretty cool.Audio Track 2-6-7/Audio Track 2-6-8/Audio Track 2-6-9I had an amazing dream last night. At first, I was standing outside of a strange big house. The house was painted pink, a very unusual color for a house. It had a lot of big windows, both round and rectangular. The house had large square pillars and twisted columns. I remember thinking that there must be a big living room, several bedrooms, a kitchen, and a guest room in such a big house.I was wondering whose house it was when I suddenly heard a voice saying: “welcome home.” Wow, so this dream house was mine!I went inside and walked into my living room. It was spacious. There were sofas, a table, a big-screen TV, and a stereo system. It was pretty cool. All of my best friends were there, too. But for some reason they didn’t speak, didn’t smile, and didn’t even move. And then suddenly they all disappeared. I was scared. This dream was turning into a nightmare.I then went to the kitchen. It was also spacious. There were all kinds of kitchen equipment such asa gas stove and oven. There were also many electric appliances, such as a refrigerator, a microwave oven, an electric mixer, and a food processor. I liked the food processor the most, those certainly make life much easier. There was also a dining table in the middle of the room. The whole family was sitting around the table, waiting for a meal to be served. The kids were hungry and started to cry. But the gas stove didn’t work and there was no electricity for the microwave oven or the food processor.I wanted to help so I looked in the fridge but it was empty. I started to despair, what more could I do? That’s when I suddenly woke up.Audio Track 2-6-10/Audio Track 2-6-11Scientists know that the brain is very active when a person is sleeping. There are five stages, or parts, of sleep. Stage 1 starts after you fall asleep. If there is a noise or a bright light, you wake up very easily. In Stage 2, your brain waves are very slow. In Stage 3 and Stage 4, you are in deep sleep. It’s very difficult to wake up then. Your body rests and grows during these stages.Stage 5 is when you dream. Your eyes move a lot, and your brain waves are fast. This stage ofsleep is very important for your memory. After Stage 5, you wake up a little, and then Stage 1 starts again. We go through the five stages of sleep four or five times every night, so we have many dreams in one night. How much sleep do you need? The answer depends on your age. Babies should sleep fifteen to sixteen hours every day. Children and teenagers need nine or ten hours of sleep, but older people only need six to eight hours. If you sleep for only four hours one night, you may just feel tired the next day. But many nights of bad sleep can be bad for your health. People who don’t get enough sleep get sick more often. And sleep is very important for learning. It’s one reason why students should go to bed early!Audio Track 2-6-12For centuries, people have asked: Why do we dream? What do our dreams mean? Today, science doesn’t have definite answers to these questions, but we do know some things about dreams. First, we all dream, often four to five times a night. Second, we don’t usually remember most of our dreams. And finally, when we dream, our brains are very active.Thousands of years ago, people began to study dreams. In many cultures, people believed dreams were messages from spirits or gods. Later, the ancient Greeks and Romans had a new idea: Dreams come from a person’s mind. Doctors studied dreams to help sick or worried people.Audio Track 2-6-13/Audio Track 2-6-14In the past, some cultures used dreams to predict the future. They thought dreams could help a person choose a husband or wife, guess a baby’s birthday, or start a business. In some places, this practice is still common.Today, scientists think dreams are about our thoughts and feelings. Our minds send us messages about our lives. Unfortunately, many messages are often strange or confusing. People wake up and think: What did that dream mean?So, how can you understand the messages in your dreams? Think about the events in the dream. What do they say about your life? For example, one common dream is about flying. Sometimes this dream means you feel free or want freedom. Other times it means you feel afraid. What do your dreams tell you about your life?Audio Track 2-6-15/t/ /d/ /id/watched studied waitedwished explained handedAudio Track 2-6-161. I liked the movie.2. They moved to Tokyo.3. It started to rain.4. She reminded me of you5. Grandma hugged us.6. We laughed loudly.7. We enjoyed the visit.8. Nobody believed us.9. Dad stopped at a store.10. We asked directions.11. They memorized the song.12. I hated math class.Audio Track 2-6-17Mia: Come on, Justin. Let’s go. The concert starts in an hour.Justin: OK, I’m coming.Mia: Do you have the tickets?Justin: Yes, they’re here in my jacket. Oh, wait a minute.Mia: What’s wrong?Justin: I can’t find the tickets. They’re not in my pocket.Mia: Oh no! Where are they? Are they in the desk?Justin: I don’t think so.Mia: Try to remember. Maybe they’re in your backpack.Justin: Wait … I found them. They were in my other jacket. Let’s go.Audio Track 2-6-18A: Are the people at their ten-year college reunion?B: Definitely, there is a “ten-year reunion” banner in the picture.A: Are you certain? I didn't notice it.B: I am certain.A: Are there six men in the picture?B: I’m not sure.A: Is there a bottle on the table?B: Sure, there IS a bottle on the table.Audio Track 2-6-19A: What did your dream house look like?B: My dream house was light blue. I liked the color. The house was huge, and it had a lot of windows. The windows were all open.A: I think that shows you have a big, outgoing and open personality.A: What did the living room look like?B: It was the most spacious room in the house and my grandma was there. She was sitting on a comfortable sofa watching a big-screen TV.A: I think that means you care about your grandma and you want her to feel comfortable.When I was a small kid I often dreamed that I was a grown-up and that my favorite movie star was in love with me. The weird thing is that I can't remember exactly how we met or what we said to one another.Recently, I had a terrible nightmare. I remember it vividly. A gigantic dinosaur with huge claws was chasing me, and it very nearly caught me. It was unusual because I felt so scared that I screamed and woke up.Video CourseVideo Track 2-6-1Agnes: I have a very good memory when it comes to faces and images and drawings and things like that. I don’t remember numbers very well. I even forget m y ATM code sometimes. Alyssa: I can usually remember people’s names when they tell me. However I can’t remember numbers very well. I need to write down the telephone numbers when people tell them to me. Daniel: I have a good memory for numbers especially phone numbers. I usually only need to hear it once. I have a bad memory for foreign languages.Gian: I have a bad memory for names so I try to use a characteristic to remind me. Such as Becky is blonde — Becky blonde. Tom is tall — Tom tall.Dan: Usually I have a good memory but sometimes I have problems remembering names. Sometimes I have to say to people “Hey Bro. Hey Sis.”Video Track 2-6-2Gian: I have a bad memory for names so I try to use a characteristic to remind me. Such as Becky is blonde — Becky blonde. Tom is tall — Tom tall.Dan: Usually I have a good memory but sometimes I have problems remembering names. Sometimes I have to say to people “Hey Bro. Hey Sis.”Video Track 2-6-3Dave: When I was a small kid I had a dream that I swam to Europe and bought cheese and swam back home. The cheese tasted great.Malinda: Last night I had a nightmare that I was lost in the forest and I forgot where I was and when I woke up I was very afraid and I ran out of my room.Alyssa: Last night I had a dream about a friend who’s living very far away from me. When I woke up I felt sad because I miss her.Woo Sung: After I saw Jurassic Park I had a dream that dinosaurs were chasing me and it was really scary.Dan: I had a strange dream where a bird ate me. It was really weird.Alyssa: Last night I had a dream about a friend who’s living very far away from me. When I woke up I felt sad because I miss her.Video Track 2-6-5Claudia: Hi!Roberto: Hi.Claudia: What’s the matter?Roberto: I had a really strange dream last night.Claudia: Really? Do you remember it?Roberto: I think so … maybe … I don’t know. But it was really weird.Claudia: Come on! Try.Roberto: Well I remember … in my dream it was daytime, and I was in my pajamas … and I saw a man in the street. I stopped and asked him where to buy a ticket.Claudia: A ticket? A ticket for what?Roberto: I don’t know!Claudia: And then what happened?Roberto: I’m not sure … but I remember that I began talking to him, and I really enjoyed it. We laughed a lot. He reminded me of someone …Claudia: Yeah, and then?Roberto: … and then he hugged me! And it was Mike!Claudia: No! Really? Do you remember anything else?Roberto: No, but something else happened. I’m sure of it.Claudia: Oh, think!Roberto: I got i t! We talked some more … and then …he shook my hand … and then … he began to dance … like this!Claudia: Oh, like a ballet dancer?Roberto: Yeah. And then … I woke up.Claudia: This is so scary …Roberto: Why? What are those?Claudia: They were a surprise. I got us two tickets to a show tonight … the New York City Ballet.Video Track 2-6-6Claudia: Hi!Roberto: Hi.Claudia: What’s the matter?Roberto: I had a really strange dream last night.Claudia: Really? Do you remember it?Roberto: I think so … maybe… I don’t know. But it was really weird.Claudia: Come on! Try.Roberto: Well I remember … in my dream it was daytime, and I was in my pajamas … and I sawa man in the street. I stopped and asked him where to buy a ticket.Video Track 2-6-7Claudia: And then what happened?Roberto: I’m not sure … but I remember that I began talking to him, and I really enjoyed it. We laughed a lot. He reminded me of someone …Claudia: Yeah, and then?Roberto: … and then he hugged me! And it was Mike!Claudia: No! Really? Do you remember anything else?Roberto: No, but something else happened. I’m sure of it.Claudia: Oh, think!Video Track 2-6-8Roberto: I got it! We talked some more … and then … he shook my hand … and then … he began to dance …like this!Claudia: Oh, like a ballet dancer?Roberto: Yeah. And then … I woke up.Claudia: This is so scary …Roberto: Why? What are those?Claudia: They were a surprise. I got us two tickets to a show tonight … the New York City Ballet.。
英语听力教程(第2册)Unit 6 听力原文
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Tell me about yourself。
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What do you think are your strengths and weaknesses？3。
We have a lot of applicants for this job, why should we appoint you？4。
What has been your most valuable experience？5。
How would you describe your personality？6。
When did you last lose your temper？Describe what happened。
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Which is more important to you：status or money?8。
How long do you think you’d stay with us if you were appointed？9。
Why do you want to leave your present job?10。
What makes you think you’d enjoy working for us?11。
Are you an ambitious person？12。
What would you like to be doing ten years from now？13。
What are you most proud of having done in your present job?14。
What was the worst problem you have had in your present job and how did you solve it？15。
What is the best idea you’ve had in the past month?16。
大学英语听力 2Unit6 ppt课件
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A These people are at a college reunion. Listen to what they are saying. Pay attention to the words in blue.
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Unit 6 The Computer: a Necessary Evil?Part ⅠGetting readyA computer is a machine that performs calculations and processes information with astonishing speed and precision. A computer can handle vast amounts of information and solve complicated problems. It can take thousands of individual pieces of data and turn them into more usable information with blinding speed and almost unfailing accuracy.A The following words and phrases will appear in this unit. Listen carefully and study the definitions.1. process: put (information, numbers, etc.) into a computer for examination2. program: supply (a computer) with a list of instructions that must be given to a computer in order to make it perform an operation3. laptop: a computer small enough to be held on one's knees for use4. electronic mail (e-mail): an electronic system which joins a group of computers, allowing people to send messages to each other on their computers5. keyboard: several rows of keys on a computer6. Internet: an international network of computer databases7. World Wide Web (WWW): a popular system that makes it easier for people to find and use information on the Internet8. browser: a computer program that lets you find and use information on the Internet9. silicon ship: a very small piece of silicon containing a set of electronic parts and their connections, which is used in computers10. Integrated Circuit: a very small set of electrical connections printed on a single piece of semiconductor material, such as a chipB You are going to hear a short passage about the different sizes of computers. Write down every word as a dictation. It will be read three times. First reading, read from beginning to end. Second reading, read with pauses. Third reading, read without pauses again. (You may find the following words hard to spell: mainframe computer [主机计算机], microprocessor [微处理器].)C You are going to hear the first part of a conversation between a school headmaster and the chairman of the board of directors of the school. They are arguing about the plan for buying a computer for the school. Write down all the pros and cons.Pros Cons●can be used for storing school●rather pricey (expensive)__________, lists of _________ ●would be __________ to spend theand details of _______________ money on more ________, ________ ●can save the ___________ a lot equipment and __________________of ___________________________ ●just like _____________ machines●children can work out their own●waste children's ____________ on____________________ whichwill ________________________________stimulate their ____________ in ●children won't ________ anything ______________ and help them to from itthe subject better●_______ studies are getting verypopular in the _________ schoolsand ____________________________Part ⅡAirlines are wiring up for travelers"Laptop" is a newly coined word for portable computer. Another word for "laptop" is "notebook". Though laptops are comparatively small in size, they are almost as functional as big ones. You can check your e-mail, and reply to those that require a response. You can send a message of your own to a friend in another city. You might also read a few articles in some of the worldwide discussion groups.A You are going to hear a report on the use of laptop computers in planes. First listen to the topic sentences. Fill in the blanks while listening.1. Ten years ago, it was unusual to see people in a ____________ working on ____________ Now they are ____________.2. It all ____________ when they began to have a consistent policy about the use of ____________ during flight.3. Then came the ____________ phone.4. Finally airlines are starting to offer _________ power sources for_________.5. _________ and _________ -flight facilities at airports have been trying to _________.6. New aircraft will all have a modem point and ____________ at every seat. Ant phones will get __________ satellite links.B Now listen to the whole report. While listening for the first time, add more key words in the left- hand column. After the second listening, decide whetherthe statements are true or false. Put "T" or "F" in the brackets.Statements( ) 1. Now it is very common to see people in a plane working on laptop computers.( ) 2. Today many passengers work on laptops in a plane, but only very few will make phone calls, send faxes, check e-mail or surf the World Wide Web. ( ) 3. As soon as you board a plane, you may begin use of your laptop. ( ) 4. Laptop computers first appeared in scare stories.( ) 5. Passengers are not allowed to use their laptops during take-off.( ) 6. The on-board phone not only allows passengers to make urgentlast-minute calls to the office but also allows full data communications to fax machines, corporate computer networks and the Internet.( ) 7. With in-seat power sources for notebooks, battery life is no longer the biggest challenge for notebook users.( ) 8. Though people can work on laptop computers in a plane, they are forbidden to use them at airports.( ) 9. Using the modem point, people in a plane will be able to write e-mail and send data.( ) 10.It is expected to cost about ￡700 050 000 to fit the modem links, telephone handsets and modify seats in one aircraft.C Now listen to the report again, and correct all the false statements in activity B.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Part ⅢTechno-chatThe Internet is the name for a group of worldwide information resources. These resources are so vast as to be well beyond the comprehension of a single human being. Not only is there no one who understands all of the Internet, there is no one who even understands most of the Internet. Using the Internet meanssitting at your computer screen and accessing information. But do you know Internet can sometimes act as a match-maker?A You are going to hear Tom and Jason talking about Internet and techno-chat. While listening for the first time, add more key words in the left-hand column. After the second listening, answer the questions in no more than five words or numbers.Questions1. Where do the beauty and utility of Internet lie?________________________________________________2. What are the two main functions of the Internet according to the conversation?________________________________________________3. What is Internet compared to in the conversation?________________________________________________4. How did one of the speakers meet his girl friend?________________________________________________5. What's the name of the bulletin board?________________________________________________6. How long has it been around?________________________________________________7. How much computer time will one dollar buy?________________________________________________8. Who are you going to talk to on a computer network?________________________________________________9. Is it possible for you to have a private conversation on a computer network?________________________________________________10. What's the main advantage of talking through a computer?________________________________________________11. What are the rush hours for techno-chat program?________________________________________________12. What does Tom mean by saying "Look in the mirror, man."?________________________________________________B Now listen to the conversation again. Complete the following summary about Internet and techno-chat programs by writing in the missing words with the help of the above notes and answers.The Internet is a computer _________. It is the _________ and most_________ achievement in the history of _________. Its _________ and_________ lie in the _________. The Internet _________ millions of people all over the world to _________ and to _________. You communicate by either _________ and _________ electronic mail, or by _________ a connection to someone else's computer and _________ messages _________ and_________ You share by _________ in discussion groups and by _________ the many programs and information _________ that are _________ for free. The techno-chat programs on the Internet allow you to talk to people whom you _______ wouldn't talk to, and let you talk about __________ with __________, without prejudice.Part ⅣMore about the topic: Computer Technology and Individual Computers handle many tasks in business, education, manufacturing, transportation, and other fields. They provide scientists and other researchers with a clearer understanding of nature. They give people who work with words an effective way to create documents. They enable designers and artists to see things that have never been seen before. But sometimes computers are offensive enough to interfere with people's private life.The following short passage is about how individual privacy is affected by modern computer technology. Supply the missing words while listening.Most people agree that modern computer _________ is a very successful way to _________ information. Information that used to take _________ or _________ to find can now be found in a few _________ or at most a few_________ using a computer. Yet computer experts say that this technology has developed so _________ that present _________ do not _________ some basic _________.Now there is _________ about the _________ that computers are being used to gather _________ information about _________. The following story will help _________. The person is not _________, but the story shows what kind of __________ can be gathered. Our story is about a young man named John. John works for a large __________.John likes his __________. He enjoys his __________. He likes the other __________ in his office and he thinks he receives fair __________. John just found out that his company has gathered information about him. He _______ that company officials have all his _________ records for the past __________ years. They also know all the __________ John has ever lived. They know what ___________ he has made. They even know he was _________ when he was only __________ years old. The arrest was a __________, and the_________ against him were dismissed. But the _________ of his arrest still_________.John also discovered the company has gathered information about his_________ and _________. It has his _________ record, his _________ records and _________ records. It also has a list of all the _________ calls John has made for the _________ year. In fact, John discovered that the company has _________ information about him than John has about himself. John was _________.John _________ to his supervisor. The supervisor _________ how John_________, but he said that gathering such information is _________ and there was really _______ John could do.That story is not really true. However it _________ to people like John every day. Many large companies now gather information about their _________. Many companies now _________ all telephone calls made by their workers. Company ___________ want to know if the worker is ________ the telephone only for _______ business. They also record what ___________ or ________ the worker has in his or her _________. If the worker _________ and_________ electronic-mail, the company may want _________. The companies say they want to know if a worker is using __________ computer equipment for _________ than company business. Companies say they are not _________ on their workers. They say they are ___________ their workers are _________. The _________ is: "Does the company have the _________ to seek this kind of information?"Some experts say _________ is the best protection of _________. They say people must learn what kind of information can be gathered _________. And they must develop _________ ways to best _________ themselves against the illegal _________ of their privacy.Part ⅤMemory test: Who Invented the First Computer?Computers are tremendously important in a variety of ways. They simplify many difficult or time-consuming tasks to an extraordinary degree. They provide businesses, governments, individuals, and institutions with an efficient way to manage large amounts of information. Nevertheless, very few people know who invented the first computer and when it was invented.A You are going to hear a short passage about the history of computers. First get familiar with the following names.Alan Turning Blaise PascalCharles Babbage Gottfried von LiebnitzB Now listen to the passage. While you listen, don't forget to add more key words in the notes column. After listening, write down briefly what happened in each year listed below with the help of the notes.2000 years ago: __________________________________1642: ____________________________________________1671: ____________________________________________1834: ____________________________________________1936: ____________________________________________1946: ____________________________________________1960s: ___________________________________________C You are going to hear a monologue about computer systems. Listen carefully and complete the following chart.Part ⅥReminder of key points in this unitVerb & Verb Phrase Noun & Noun Phrase OtherPart Ⅰperform mainframe priceyprocess microprocessor reasonablespare chip in minuteshunt in space invader reassuringwork out electronic gamestimulate cataloguefiling cabinetPart Ⅱcheck laptop computer/notebook oddsurf fax gradualcreak open e-mail consistentfly over World Wide Web (WWW) initiallykeep pace keyboard scarespring up suspicion modestmodify electro-magnetic radiation urgentdata on-boardInternet in-seatpower source built-interminal in the region ofweb browsermodemsatellite linkPart Ⅲshare achievement absolutelyestablish mankind significanttag along industrial revolution impressive participate utility wondrous guarantee techno-chat program available for free match-maker fantasticchat session privatecappuccino sipperinhibitionprejudicePart Ⅳgather concern shocked protect extent (il)legaldismiss individual costlyprotest investmentspy on chargefinancial recordtax recordsupervisorPart Ⅴcompute abacus mathematical add infants' school externalmultiply valve computer internaldivide integrated circuit arithmeticprogram silicon chip logicbreak code RAM / ROM principal input output monitor disc drive floppyscannerjoy stickcomponentlight penCentral ProcessingUnit (CPU)。