英语中级听力课件Lesson10

key words:
• Newcastle n. 纽卡斯尔（澳大利亚港市） • Surrey n. 萨里（历史上英格兰东南的一个地 区） • Blair Hill 布莱尔·希尔（男子名，文中指以此命名的 一中学） • Newton n. 牛顿（英国城市名） • Frederick 弗雷德里克 • Sidgwick 西奇威克 • Johnson 约翰逊（男子名） • Led Zepplin莱德·齐普林（摇滚乐队） • Stevenage 斯蒂芬艾治（英格兰东南部一个城 n. 区） • Carlisle 卡莱尔（英国英格兰西北部城市，坎布里亚郡 n. 首府） • Melrose n. 梅尔罗斯（苏格兰东南部的一个集 镇） • Section two： • chuckle n. 吃吃的笑声
Section Two:
Task 1: British Newspapers
请答题
Professor Richard Hill is talking about British newspapers. It seems to me that many British newspapers aren't really newspapers at all. They contain news, it is true, but much of this news only appears in print because it is guaranteed to shock, surprise or cause a chuckle. What should we expect to find in a real newspaper? Interesting political articles? Accurate reports of what has been happening in distant corners of the world? The latest news from the stock exchange? Full coverage of great sporting events? In-depth interviews with leading personalities? It is a sad fact that in Britain the real newspapers, the ones that report the facts, sell in thousands, while the popular papers that set out to shock or amuse have a circulation of several million. One's inescapable conclusion is that the vast majority of British readers do not really want a proper newspaper at all. They just want a few pages of entertainment.
key words:
• • • • • • • • • • • • • bizarre 奇异的（指态度，容貌，款式等） adj. eagle n. 鹰，鹰状标饰 toast n. 吐司面包 giraffe n. 长颈鹿 hermit n. 隐士，隐居者 recluse n. 隐遁者，寂寞者 tissue n. 薄纸，棉纸 penthouse n. （高楼大厦顶部的）阁楼 Richard Hill 理查德·希尔（男子名） Buckland 巴克兰（男子名） Howard Hughes 霍华德·休斯（男子名） Section Three： solar 太阳的，日光的 adj.
Section One:
Task 1: News Summary 1
请答题
The EEC is to give another ￡31 million to Britain's poorer areas. The aid from the regional development fund includes ￡13.5 million for Northern Ireland and ￡10 million for industrial improvement and road works in the north of England. In a report on rabies controls, Kent County Council has said that 17 dogs, 5 cats, 2 rabbits and 2 hamsters have been landed illegally at Channel ports in the first nine months of this year. This was seven more than in the same period last year. A derailed coal train at Thirsk in North Yorkshire has disrupted rail services between Newcastle and the south of England.
Section One:
Task 1: News Summary 1
请答题
Here's the news at 11:30. Thousands of people have marched through the centre of Corby in Northamptonshire to protwenku.baidu.comst against plans to close the steel works, the town's major employer. The marchers demonstrated outside the local British Steel Corporation's headquarters where union leaders are talking about closure plans with the management. Hospital waiting lists in the south west of England have gone up by a quarter in the last five years. While the number of doctors, nurses and other staff have increased, the demand on the service has grown even faster.
Section Two:
Task 1: British Newspapers
请答题
So my favourite newspaper is obviously very different from those popular papers that have a circulation of several million. But that does not mean that it is 'better' or that they are 'worse'. We are not comparing like with like. A publisher printing a newspaper with a circulation of several million is running a highly successful commercial operation. The people who buy his product are obviously satisfied customers and in a free society everybody should have the right to buy whatever kind of newspaper he pleases.
Section One:
请答题
Key to Task 1: Task 1: News Summary 1
A．True or False Questions. B. Blank-filling.
1—5: FFTFT
1. the local British Steel Corporation’s headquarters, closure plans 2. doctors, nurses and other staff, grown even faster 3. another 31 million pounds, poorer areas, regional development fund, 13.5 million pounds, 10 million pounds, industrial improvement, road works 4.17, 5, 2, 2, landed illegally, the first 9 months, 7 more 5.derailed local train, disrupted rail services, the south of England
Lesson Ten
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英语中级听力
key words:
• Section one：
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • closure n. 关闭，终止 rabies n. [医]狂犬病，恐水病 hamster n. 东欧或亚洲产的大颊的鼠类 derailed 出轨的 adj. disrupt v. 使陷于混乱，破坏 double barrelled 双筒的 transplant v. 移植，移种 pancreas n. [解] 胰腺 insulin 胰岛素 n. diabetes n. [医] 糖尿病，多尿症 magistrate 文职官员，地方官员 n. Corby n. 科比（位于英格兰中部的一个城区） Northamptonshire n. 北安普敦郡（英国郡名） Kent n. 肯特（英国东南部郡名） Thirsk n. 瑟斯克（英国约克郡一地名） Yorkshire n. 约克郡（英国英格兰北部的旧郡）
Section Two:
Task 1: British Newspapers
请答题
I buy the same newspaper every day. In this paper political matters, both British and foreign, are covered in full. The editorial column may support government policy on one issue and oppose it on another. There is a full page of book reviews and another devoted to the latest happenings in the theatre, the cinema and the world of art. Stock exchange prices are quoted daily. So are the exchange rates of the world's major currencies. The sports correspondents are among the best in the country, while the standard of the readers' letters is absolutely first-class. If an intelligent person were to find a copy of this paper 50 years from now, he or she would still find it entertaining, interesting and instructive.