最新新视野大学英语视听说教程第四册6—10单元quiz答案讲课讲稿

Quiz 6

Part I

Directions: Listen to the short dialogs, then choose the correct answers to the questions. You will hear the recording twice. After the first playing, there will be time for you to choose the correct answers. Use the second playing to check your answers.

1. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. A TOEFL examination.

B. Any English language examination.

C. Good luck.

D. Ill luck.

Your answer Correct answer

C C

2. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. To keep evil away.

B. To wish for more money.

C. To show friendliness.

D. To treat a wound.

Your answer Correct answer

A A

3. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. She will paint it brown.

B. She wants the man to paint it brown.

C. She asks the man to climb up the ladder.

D. She asks the man not to walk under the ladder.

Your answer Correct answer

D D

4. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. The building is a 13-floor one.

B. The building does not have a 13th floor.

C. The building has a 13th floor but nobody lives there.

D. The building has a 13th floor but few people live there.

Your answer Correct answer

C B

5. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. It causes a car accident.

B. It causes an injury.

C. It prevents bad luck.

D. It makes plenty of money.

Your answer Correct answer

C C

Part II

Directions: Listen to the passage(s) three times. When the passage is read for the first time, listen for the general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words you hear. For blanks numbered from S8 to S10, write down either the exact words you hear or the main points in your own words. When the passage is read for the third time, check your answers.

Easter Island in the southern Pacific Ocean remains a mystery.

When the island was (S1) (1), it was almost uninhabited, but there were many statues on it. People are (S2)

(2)

to know who lived there before its discovery, how they lived, and why they (S3) (3)out. Different theories give different explanations, but none is completely convincing.

The Easter Islanders had their own system of (S4)

(4)

, different from any other in the world. No other (S5) (5)Islanders knew how to write. The American (S6) (6)did not know how to write either. Who (S7) (7)the Easter Islanders how to write, or did they develop their own system? Remember that writing was first invented in Asia only a few thousand years BC.

(S8) (8). How did the Easter Islanders get them? Is it possible that a few Easter Islanders traveled 2,300 miles to Chile, got sweet potatoes, and brought them back? But this is unlikely. (S9) (9), which was only colonized in 1492. Could Easter Island have been colonized by people from Chile? Yet, DNA taken from graves dug up on Easter Island has shown that these people were Polynesians, not American Indians. The Polynesians lived on the sea and knew how to travel thousands of miles in their small canoes. They knew where they were going. The American Indians did not know how to do that. Yet, (S10)

(10)

. Also, the seeds could have been brought in the stomachs of birds.

Your

Correct answer

answer

(1) discovered discovered

(2) eager eager