标准听力(七)答案
英语听力教程Unit7答案及听力原文
Unit 7 Fame and FortunePart I Getting readyA.B. Keys:1：magazine2：newspaper3：Microsoft Company4：successful5：richest 6：3rd7：19558：Washington9：computers10：1311：baseball 12：football13：computer programs14：perform15：high 16：computer language17：Basic18：valuable19：office 20：home21：established22：197523：three24：computer software 25：established26：nternational27：usiness28：achines29：1981 30：personal computer 31：operating system 32 ：129 33：computer companies 34：Windows35：easier36：officials37：40000000 38：thousands of millions of dollars 39：16 000 40：48 41：30 42：100Part II Bill Gate s’ new rulesA. Keys:1: quailty 2: re-engineering 3: velocityB. Keys:1: communication2: e-mail 3: sales data online4: insights 5: knowledge workers6: high-level thinking 7: create virtual teams 8: paper process9: digital process 10: eliminate single-task jobs 11: digital feedback loop 12: route customer complaints 13: redefine the boundaries 14: business process15: just-in-time delivery 16: eliminate the middle man 17: help customers solve problemsPart III Great business dealsA. Keys:1: NA TIONAL STEAMSHIP 2: 20 0003: Aristotle Onassis 4: 6 0005: American 6: Big Ben7: 1 0008: tourist 9: Buckingham Palace10: 2 000 11: The White House12: 100 000 13: The Statue of Liberty 14: 100 000 15: AustralianB. Keys:1: boom2: world depression3: millionaire 4: identified 5: fraud 6: five 7: California 8: luxuryPart IV More about the topic: Walt Disney1: correspondence course 2: Oswald the Rabbit 3: talking cartoon film4: Walt Disney himself 5: storyteller 6: Ub Iwerks 7: 35; feature-length cartoon film; 2 000 000; three 8: potential 9: 55; 17 000 000 27: taste; vulgarity; children of all agesPart V Do you know…?1: $24 worth of kettles, axes and cloth. 2: $80 000 000. 3: $27 000 000. 4: About 12 cents. 5: About 800 000 square miles. 6: About 1 600 000 square miles. 7: $7 200 000. 8: About 5 cents. 9: $750 000 000 worth. 10: An estimated 100 000 000 000 tons.Tape scriptPart I Getting readyA.B.In the past few years, hundreds of magazine and newspaper stories have been written about Bill Gates and his company, the reason the Microsoft Company is extremely successful. It has made Bill Gate one of the richest men in the world. William Gates the 3rd was born in 1955, in a western city of Seattle, Washington. He became interested in computers when he was 13 years old. When most young boys his age were playing baseball or football, young Bill Gates was learning to write computer programs. These programs tell computers how to perform useful tasks. Bill Gate attended Harvard University after high school. At Harvard, he began developing the computer language called Basic. He began to think that the computer would someday become a valuable tool that could be used in every office and home. Bill Gate returned to Seattle where he established the Microsoft Company in 1975. It employed only three workers. Microsoft developed computer software for established American companies, like General Electric and Citibank. Soon Microsoft was working with the International Business Machines Company knownas IBM. In 1981,IBM began selling a personal computer that used Microsoft products as part of its operating system. By then, Microsoft had 129 workers. Today IBM still uses Microsoft's computer operating system. So do many other computer companies. One of the most famous Microsoft products is a program called Windows. Windows makes it much easier to use a computer. Company officials say Microsoft has sold about 40 000 000 copies of the Windows program around the world. Microsoft does thousands of millions of dollars in business each year. It now has more than 16 000 workers in more than 48 countries. Microsoft today produces computer programs in 30 languages and sells them in more than 100 countries.Part II Bill Gate s’ new rulesIf the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about re-engineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. About how quickly business itself will be transacted. About how information access will alter the life-style of consumers and their expectations of business. Quality improvements and business-process improvements will occur far faster. When the increase in velocity is great enough, the very nature of business changes. To function in the digital age, we have developed a new digital infrastructure. It's like the human nervous system. Companies need to have that same kind of nervous system — the ability to run smoothly and efficiently, to respond quickly to emergencies and opportunities to quickly get valuable information to the people in the company who need it, the ability to quickly make decisions and interact with customers. The successful companies of the next decade will be the ones that use digital tools to reinvent the way they work. To make digital information flow an intrinsic part of your company, here are 12 key steps.1. Insist that communication flow through e-mail.2. Study sales data online to share insights easily.3. Shift knowledge workers into high-level thinking.4. Use digital tools to create virtual teams.5. Convert every paper process to a digital process.6. Use digital tools to eliminate single-task jobs.7. Create a digital feedback loop.8. Use digital systems to route customer complaints immediately.9. Use digital communication to redefine the boundaries.10. Transform every business process into just-in-time delivery.11. Use digital delivery to eliminate the middle man.12. Use digital tools to help customers solve problems for themselves.As I said in The Road Ahead, we always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. You know you have built an excellent digital nervous system when information flows throughyour organization as quickly and naturally as thought in a human being and when you can use technology to marshal and coordinate teams of people as quickly as you can focus an individual on an issue. It's business at the speed of thought.Part III Great business deals1.In the … er … late 1920s, early 1930s, there was a … a young Greek businessman who …er … made quite a lot of money … er … by importing tobacco into Argentina. Um … he then moved up to North America … er … this was in about … er … 1933, when of course the world was in the middle of a … a trade slump. Er … he … er … decided he wanted to get into shipping, and to get into shipping he needed ships so he … he started looking around for some ships to buy with his tobacco fortune and he found ten vessels … er …which belonged to the Canadian National Steamship Company … er … the problem being that they were frozen into the ice in the St Lawrence River in Canada. They'd been rusting away there for two years and were now completely filled up with snow and ice.Er … in fact the story goes that when he went aboard to … er … inspect one of the ships, he fell into a snowdr ift and … er … ended up on the deck below. Well, the ships had cost $2 million to build … er … about ten years before, and the owners were prepared to let them go just for a … a scrap price of … er … $30 000 each. He offered $20,000 and the owners accepted.He left them there, stuck in the ice, there was nothing more he could do. Er … but a few years later, the … the world depression … er … came to an end and … er … world war seemed to be looming in Europe and, of course, that led in its turn to a … bit of a shipping boom. So the young man, there he was with his ships and … er … he became one of the richest men in the world. His name was … Aristotle Onassis.2.Once upon a time there was an enterprising Scottish actor, called Arthur Furguson, whodiscovered that he could make a very good living selling things that didn't actually belong to him, in other words he was a con man. He first got the idea when he was sitting in the middle of Trafalgar Square (in London that is). Um … this was in 1923, and he saw a n American tourist admiring the stone lions and the fountains and Nelson's Column. He introduced himself as the "official guide" to the Square and started to explain the history of the place. And while he was doing this he also slipped in a little mention that as Britain was heavily in debt, the British government was looking for the right kind of person to buy the Square. He said that he was the official government salesman and that the asking price was around ￡6 000. The American said that this was a good price and offered to pay by cheque right away, so Mr. Furguson went off to okay this with his superiors — in other words he went off for an hour and a half and kept the American waiting. Well, he then came back and said, yes, they were willing to sell to the American at that price. The American wrote a check and Furguson gave him a receipt and the address of a company who would dismantle the Square and get it ready for shipping it to the States. Then he went off to cash the check.Soon after that he sold Big Ben for ￡1 000 and took a down payment on Buckingham Palace of ￡2 000. Two years later he went to the United States and leased the White House to a Texas cattleman for 99 years for $100 000 per annum. Later he arranged tosell the Statue of Liberty to an Australian for $100 000, but unfortunately Furguson allowed the buyer to take a photograph of him and the Australian, feeling slightly suspicious, showed the photograph to the police. Furguson was identified and sent to prison for fraud for five years. When he came out he retired to California, where he lived in luxury until he died in 1938.Part IV More about the topic: alt DisneyPresenter:Walt Disney is well known as the creator of Mickey Mouse and the inventor of Disneyland and Walt Disney World, but his creations are better knownthan his life. Peter Spencer is the author of a new book about Disney. Whatwas Walt Disney's background?Peter:Walter Elias Disney was born in 1901 in Chicago but actually he was brought up in a small town in the Mid-West near Kansas City, Missouri, whichincidentally was later used as the model for Main Street U.S.A. inDisneyland. Um ... he first studies cartooning, you know, by doing acorrespondence course. During the First World War he worked as a … adriver for the American Red Cross but after the war he returned to KansasCity where he met a guy called Ub Iwerks. Now they … er … started to worktogether on a series of experimental-type films ... um … and after a whilethey set off to California to join Walt's elder brother Roy who was livingthere in Los Angeles.Presenter:When did Mickey Mouse first appear?Peter:Ah, well, Disney and Iwerks first invented a character called Oswald the Rabbit but then in 1928 a new character was born: cheerful, sometimesrather naughty, energetic mouse with large funny ears. Yes, it was Mickeyand he appeared for the first time in the first talking cartoon film, calledSteamboat Willie. Er … not many people know this but Walt Disney actuallyprovided the voice for Mickey. By the way, he was almost called "MortimerMouse", which doesn't have the same kind of ring to it, or does it? Well,Roy and Walt gathered a team of artists … er … illustrators together … um …by this time Ub Iwerks had left them and started his own company, this wasin 1930, and Disney Studios, as they called themselves, starting … started toproduce the famous short cartoons with … starring Mickey and Minnie andDonald Duck and Pluto and Goofy. Er … Roy was the business manager anddriving force behind th e company … er … making it very profitable and Waltwas more the … er … imaginative, creative part of the partnership. Presenter:What kind of man was Walt Disney?Peter:Well, according to the artists who worked for him Walt actually couldn't draw ve ry well … er … most of the characters were actually drawn byIwerks, but apparently he was an amazing storyteller. He would act out thestories of films doing all the voices and actions to show the illustrators whathe wanted them to do and then they had to go off and try to recreate hisvisualizations.Presenter:The most famous cartoon of all was Snow White — and the best I still think.Peter:Mm, yeah, it was the first feature-length cartoon and it was released in …er … 1935. Now, Snow White and th e Seven Dwarfs required two milliondrawings and took three years' work to make. Um … obviously it was … er …very expensive, particularly for those times. By the way, the British filmcensor gave it an Adult certificate because he thought that it would be toofrightening for little children to see on their own. Er … that was followed byPinocchio and Fantasia in 1940, Dumbo in 1941. And … er … the DisneyStudios also started making … um … some rather low-budget live actionfeature films for children … er … something which the other studios didn'tdare risk doing. Er … some of his films mixed live action with cartoons —er … I'm thinking about Mary Poppins, which I think we've probably allseen, made in 1964, where cartoon characters and … and the real life actorsappeared together on screen and talked and danced and sang together.Disney was one of the first to see the potential of television, all the otherstudios were afraid of this medium. Um … so he started to produce filmsdirectly for television and … and now of course there's a Disney Channelshowing only Disney films.Presenter:And then he dreamt up Disneyland, didn't he?Peter:Ah, "dreamt" is the right word. Disneyland was a creation of the land of his dreams: safe, happy, clean, fairy-tale world with its own Magic Kingdom.The original Disneyland was opened in Los Angeles in 1955 and it cost $17million. Walt died in 1966 but he was already working on plans for theDisney World in Orlando, Florida, which opened in 1971, and the EPCOTCenter near Walt Disney World —that's the "Experimental PrototypeCommunity Of Tomorrow", by the way. And there's also a … a TokyoDisneyland, which was opened in … um … 1983.Presenter:And … and now there's even an Euro Disneyland near Paris, I think.Peter:Yes, that's right. Um … and the Disney Studios still continue to produce films in the … the house style, the Walt Disney style and presumably italways will. Disney's films appealed … um … and still do appeal to childrenof all ages, but people often criticize them for their lack of taste and theysay they're vulgar, but Disney said, "I've never called this art. It's showbusiness and I'm a showman." Well, can you imagine a world withoutMickey Mouse?Presenter:Peter Spencer, thank you.Part V Do you know…?1. The best real estate deal in historyEven in the days when America was known as the New World, it was a country with a reputation for its spirit of enterprise and the ability of its people to make a good deal. When the settlers started negotiating, the natives hardly knew what had hit them — and in the summer of 1626, probably the most spectacular real estate coup in history took place. Governor Peter Minuit of the Dutch West India Company had the job of buying Manhattan Island from the Indians. After some haggling with Chief Manhasset, the price was agreed at 24 dollars' worth of kettles, axes and cloth. Today, $24 would not buy one square foot of office space in New York City, and an office block in central Manhattan changes hands for around $80 million. Even allowing for inflation, Minuit got himself a real bargain.2. Not again, Josephine! You would think that the Manhattan deal would remain a one-off for ever. But less than two centuries later the loser was Napoleon, Emperor of France and (in his early years, at least) a brilliant military tactician.In 1803, Napoleon had his mind on European affairs (in particular, an invasion of Britain), so he decided to dispense with France's American possessions. He sold the entire Mississippi valley, an area of 828 000 square miles extending from Canada down to the Gulf of Mexico and westwards to the Rockies, for just over 27 million dollars. Through this deal, known as the Louisiana purchase, President Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States for only around 5 cents per acre.3. Nice ice at a reasonable price Napoleon did just manage to reach Moscow in his ill-fated invasion of 1812 — but it would seem that news of his poor American deal did not.For, astonishingly, the Russians went on to become the third victims of major land deals with America. On March 30th 1867, the U.S. Secretary of State, William Seward, bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a mere $7.2 million —thereby acquiring another 586 000 square miles of territory for less than 2 cents per acre. The Tsar presumably thought that this remote, frozen and virtually uninhabited piece of land had nothing at all to commend it — and at first, the American people agreed with him, for Alaska was known as "Seward's folly" and "Seward's ice box" for years. In 1896, however, gold was struck at Klondike in the Yukon, and since then, over 750 million dollars' worth has been mined. In 1968, black gold was discovered —and an estimated 100 billion tons of coal are also lying underground, just waiting to be dug up.。
标准听力答案
标准听力（六）答案解析Part III Listening Comprehension Section A11. M: I didn’t know you got a promotion.Why didn’t you tell me earlier so thatwe could have celebrated it?W: I guess it slipped my mind. My mind was lost to other things because ofwork.Q: What does the woman mean? 【听前预测】选项中的She, felt lost, forgot, work, promotion等表明, 对话与女士的工作有关，女士的话为听音重点。
【解析】选[C]。
女士的话it slipped my mind 为听音重点, it指代的是男士所说的you got a promotion。
[C]是对女士的话的同义转述，forgot对应slipped my mind, 故答案为[C]。
sth. slip sb.’s mind意为“某人忘记某事”。
12. M: Professor Linda, we were wonderingif we could sit in on your Englishclass.W: I wish I could say yes, but if I acceptedyou two, I wouldn’t know how to say noto a lot of others who have made thesame request.Q: What does the woman mean? 【听前预测】选项中的She, rejects, their request, accepts等表明, 对话与女士是否接受their的请求有关。
【解析】选[A]。
大学英语听说2CET 4 Model Test 7答案解析
Section AI S S B B B S S o^Four American teenagers, all children o f U.S. military personnel, have been arrested on charges o f attempted m urder after a woman was knocked off her motorbike w ith rope strung across two poles, Japanese police said.The four suspects—two 15-year-old boys, a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year old m an—w ere taken into custody on Saturday, the Tokyo M etropolitan Police Department said. (1) They are accused o f causing a severe head injury to a 23-year-old girl who works at a restaurant by stringing a rope between poles across a road.(2) U.S. forces in Japan was informed o f the A ugust incident in late October, a public information officer said. There was no clear explanation for the delay in the handover o f the suspects to police, other than it involved rules betw een W ashington and Tokyo covering U.S. forces and their dependents in Japan. The U.S. military presence and its impact on Japanese residents have been a thorny issue over the years.1. W hat do we know about the victim?D )0 新闻中提到 They are accused o f causing a severe head injury to a 23-year-old girl who works at a restaurant by stringing a rope between poles across a r o a d ,由此可知，该受害者为23岁的女性，在一家餐馆工作，脑部受了重伤。
初级英语听力lesson7
Interviewer: Now let's go back to your first novel, Rag Doll. When did you write that? Writer: Rag Doll, yes. I wrote that in 1960, a year after I left school. Interviewer: How old were you then? Writer: Um, eighteen? Yes, eighteen, because a year later I went to Indonesia. Interviewer: Mm. And of course it was your experience in Indonesia that inspired your film Eastern Moon. Writer: Yes, that's right, although I didn't actually make Eastern Moon until 1978. Interviewer: And you worked in television for a time too. Writer: Yes, I started making documentaries for television in 1973, when I was thirty. That was after I gave up farming. Interviewer: Farming? Writer: Yes, that's right. You see, I stayed in Indonesia for eight years. I met my wife there in 1965, and after we came back we bought a farm in the West of England, in 1970. A kind of experiment, really. Interviewer: But you gave it up three years later. Writer: Well, yes. You see it was very hard work, and I was also very busy working on my second novel, The Cold Earth, which came out in 1975. Interviewer: Yes, that was a best-seller, wasn't it? Writer: Yes, it was, and that's why only two years after that I was able to give up television work and concentrate on films and that sort of thing. And after that ... Shop Assistant: Harling's Hardware. Customer: Hello. I'd like to buy a new fridge. I can't afford a very expensive one, and it mustn't be more than 140 cm high. Shop Assistant: Right. I think I have one here. Wait a moment. Yes, here we are. It's 50 cm wide and 130 cm high. Customer: Oh. And how much is it? Shop Assistant: It's one hundred and twenty-nine pounds, very cheap. Customer: I'll come over and have a look at it. A: Good morning. Can I help you? B: Yes. I'd like to find my perfect partner. A: I see. Well, if you could just answer a few questions? B: Certainly. A: First of all, what age would you like your partner to be? B: About twenty. Not more than twenty-five, anyway. A: Okay. And what sort of build? B: What do you mean? A: Well, would you like someone who is very slim or would you prefer someone rather more plump? B: Ah, I see what you mean. I don't think I mind, actually. A: And what about height? B: Oh, not too tall. A: So, medium-height? B: Yes, and long hair. A: Any particular color? B: No. As long as it's long, it doesn't matter what color. A: Good. Now, is there anything else at all? B: Well, obviously I'd like someone good-looking. A: Well, we'll see what we can do. Would you like to fill in this form in the next room and I'll call you soon. (enters C) C: Hello. Is this the Perfect Partners office? A: That's right. C: I'm interested in meeting someone new. A: Well, you've certainly come to the right p1ace. What sort of person are you looking for? C: Oh, someone tall, dark and handsome. A: I see. And what sort of age? C: Oh, mid-twenties, I suppose. A: Well, I might have just the person for you. Could I just ask how old you are? C: Twenty-four. A: Good. Could you just wait here a minute? (C puzzled) (A goes and fetches B) A: This doesn't usually happen, but I think I've found just the person for you. B: Oh, no! C: Not you! B: What are you doing here? C: I think I should be asking you that. B: Well, I just wanted to ... (interrupted by A) A: Excuse me, but what's going on? C: That's my husband. B: And that's my wife. A: But you're just right for each other, from what you told me. (Pause) B: Yes ... I see what you mean. C: I suppose it's true. You are whatI'm looking for. B: Oh, darling. Why did we ever leave each other? C: I don't know, but it's not too late, is it? B: No. (they embrace) A: Excuse me. B & C: (surprised) Sorry? A: That'll be twenty-five pounds please! 47 Riverside Road, London SE1 4LP. 10th May, 1989Dear Chris, Thanks for your letter. I'm sorry I haven't answered it sooner but writing is difficult at the moment. I fell off my bike last week and broke my arm. It isn't anything very serious and I'll be OK in a few weeks. Your holiday sounds fantastic. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Someone at work went to Jamaica last year and had a wonderful time. When are you going exactly? I hope you'll have good weather. There isn't really much more news from here. I'll write a longer letter in a few weeks. Send me a postcard and give my regards to everyone.Yours Kim —I want to fly to Geneva on or about the first. —I'll just see what there is. —I want to go economy, and I'd prefer the morning. —Lufthansa Flight LH 203 leaves at 0920. —What time do I have to be there? —The coach leaves for the airport at 0815. —You must have some more chicken. —No, thanks. I'm supposed to be slimming. —Can't I tempt you? —Well, maybe I could manage a very small piece. —I expect you could do with a cup of tea, couldn't you? —I'd rather have a cup of coffee, if you don't mind. —Milk and sugar? —A milky one without sugar, please, —What would you like to drink? —A black coffee for me, please. —How about something to eat? —Yes, I'd love a portion of that strawberry tart. —Right. I'll see if I can catch the waitress's eye. —Can I take your order, sir? —Yes. I'd like to try the steak, please. —And to follow? —Ice cream, please. —Can I help you, madam? —Is there a bank at this hotel? —Yes, madam, the International Bank has an office on the ground floor of the hotel. —Is it open yet? —Yes, madam, the bank is open from Monday to Friday from 9:30 am till 3 pm. —Thank you. —Can I still get breakfast in the brasserie? —Yes, sir, if you hurry you can just make it—breakfast is served until 10:30. —How soon do I have to leave my room? —Normally it's by 12 noon on the day of your departure. —Well, you see, my plane doesn't go till half past five tomorrow afternoon. —I see. Which room is it, madam? —Room 577—the name is Browning. —Ah yes, Mrs. Browning. You may keep the room till 3 pm if you wish. —Oh, that's nice. Thank you very much. Conversation 1: Mrs. Henderson has just answered the telephone. Frank wasn't in so she had to take a message for him. Listen to the conversation and look at the message she wrote. Julie: 789 6443. Who's calling, please? Paul: Paul Clark here. Can I speak to Mr. Henderson, please? Julie: Sorry, he's out at the moment. Can I take a message? Paul: Yes, please. Could you tell him that his car will be ready by 6 pm on Thursday? Julie: Yes, of course. I'll do that. What's your number, in case he wants to ring you? Paul: 2748 double 53. Julie: (repeating) 2 ... 7 ... 4, 8 ... double 5 ... 3. Thank you. Goodbye. Conversation 2: Male: 268 7435. Who's calling? Female: This is Helen Adams. Could I speak to my husband? Male: Sorry, Mr. Adams is out. Can I take a message? Female: Could you tell him that my mother is arriving on Thursday? At about 1 pm. Male: Right, Mrs. Adams. I'll do that. Where are you, in case he wants to ring you? Female: I'm not at home. The number here is 773 3298. Male: (repeating the number) 773 3298. Thank you. Goodbye.Conversation 3: Female: 575 4661. Who's calling, please? Male: This is Mr. Jones from the Daily Star. I'd like to talk to Mr. Henderson. Female: Sorry, I'm afraid he isn't in. Can I take a message? Male: Yes... Please tell him that the advertisement will definitely be in Friday's paper. That's Friday, the 13th of this month. Female: Certainly, Mr. Jones. What's the phone number, in case he has forgotten. Male: My number? (astounded) The number of the Daily Star? Everyone knows it. (chanting) 123 4567. Female: (laughing and repeating) 1-2-3 4-5-6-7. Thank you. Mr. Jones. Shopkeeper: Yes, Mrs. Davies? What could we do for you today? Mrs. Davies: I want to order some foods. Shopkeeper: Well, I thought that might be the reason you came here, Mrs. Davies. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Mrs. Davies: But I want rather a lot, so you'll have to deliver it. Shopkeeper: That's perfectly all right. You just order whatever you like and we'll send it straight round to your house this afternoon. Mrs. Davies: Right. Well, first of all I want two boxes of baked beans. Shopkeeper: You mean two tins? Mrs. Davies: No, I mean two boxes. Two boxes of tins of baked beans. Shopkeeper: But each box contains forty-eight tins. Are you really sure you want so many? I mean, it would take a long time to eat so many. Mrs. Davies: Who said anything about eating them? I'm saving them. Shopkeeper: Saving them? Mrs. Davies: Yes, for the war. Shopkeeper: War? Are we going to have a war? Mrs. Davies: You never know. I'm not taking any chances. I read the papers. You're not going to catch me stuck in the house without a thing to eat. So put down two boxes of baked beans, will you? And three boxes of rice, five boxes of spaghetti and you'd better send me a hundred tins of tomato sauce to go with it. Have you got that? Shopkeeper: Yes, two boxes of baked beans, three boxes of rice, five boxes of spaghetti and a hundred tins of tomato sauce. But I'm not sure we have all these things in stock. I mean not that amount. Mrs. Davies: How soon can you get them, then? Shopkeeper: Well, within the next few days. I don't suppose you'll be needing them before then, will you? Mrs. Davies: You never can tell. It's touch and go. I was watching the nice man on the television last night. You know, the one with the nice teeth. Lovely smile he's got. And he said, 'Well, you never can tell. And that set me thinking, you see. Anyway, you just deliver them as soon as you can. I shan't be going out again after today. Now ... now what else? Ah yes, tea and sugar. I'd better have a couple of boxes of each of those. No ... no make if four of sugar. I've got a sweet tooth. Shopkeeper: So two boxes of tea and four boxes of sugar. Anything else? It doesn't sound a very interesting diet. How about half a dozen boxes of tinned fish? Mrs. Davies: Fish? No, I can't stand fish. Oh, but that reminds me, eight boxes of cat food. Shopkeeper: Cat food? Mrs. Davies: Yes. Not for me. You don't think I'm going to sit there on my own, do you? A sailor once went into a pub in a very dark street in Liverpool. He got very drunk there and staggered out around 11 pm. Around midnight, one of his friends found him on his hands and knees in the gutter. "What are you doing there?" he inquired. "I'm looking for my wallet. I think I lost it in that dark street down there," he said. "Well, if you lost it in that street, why are you looking for it here?" the friend demanded. The sailor thought for a moment." Because the light is better here," he answered.A famous 85-year-old millionaire once gave a lecture at an American university. "I'm going to tell you how to live a long, healthy life and how to get very rich at the same time," he announced. "The secret is very simple. All you have to do is avoid bad habits like drinking and smoking. But you have to get up early every morning, work at least 10 hours a day and save every penny, as well," he said. A young man in the audience stood up. "My father did all those things and yet he died a very poor man at the age of only 39. How do you explain that?" he asked. The millionaire thought for a moment. "It's very simple. He didn't do them for long enough," he answered.—What flights are there from London to Vienna tomorrow? —If you'd like to take a seat, I'll find out for you. —I'd like to travel first class, please. —BEA Flight BE 502 takes off from Heathrow at 0925, and flies direct. —What time have I got to get there?—You'll have to be at West London Air Terminal by 0810 at the latest.Dialogue 2: —Another piece of meat pie? —No, thanks, really. I'm on a diet. —Please do. You've hardly eaten anything. —It's delicious, but I don't think l ought to.Dialogue 3: —How about a nice cup of tea before you go? —Yes, I'd love one. —How do you like it? —A strong one with three spoons for me, please.。
人教版高中英语必修第一册听说训练7含答案
听说训练7Part A Reading Aloud(模仿朗读)In this part,you are required to watch a video clip and read after the speaker in the video.Conditions may be just as severe on the high peaks of the Alps,two thousand miles to the south,at least during the winter.But here spring brings a greater benefit than it does in the Arctic.The sun rises higher in the sky and is warm enough to melt all but the highest snow fields.As it melts,it reveals the snowball,already in flower.The plant formed its flower buds last autumn,before the increasing cold shut down all its activities for the winter.The buds remained dormant until the spring sunshine,filtering down through the snow triggered them into action andPart B Role Play(角色扮演)In this part,you are required to act as a role and complete three communicative tasks:listen to the speaker,ask the speaker three questions and then answer five questions.·播放情景录像情景介绍角色:你是学生。
英语听力教程Unit7答案及听力原文
英语听力教程U n i t7答案及听力原文-CAL-FENGHAI.-(YICAI)-Company One1Unit 7 Fame and FortunePart I Getting readyA.B. Keys:1：magazine 2：newspaper 3：Microsoft Company 4：successful 5：richest 6：3rd 7：1955 8：Washington 9：computers 10：13 11：baseball12：football 13：computer programs 14：perform 15：high16：computer language 17：Basic 18：valuable 19：office20：home 21：established 22：1975 23：three 24：computer software25：established 26：nternational 27：usiness 28：achines 29：198130：personal computer 31：operating system 32 ：129 33：computer companies34：Windows 35：easier 36：officials 37：4000000038：thousands of millions of dollars 39：16 000 40：48 41：30 42：100Part II Bill Gate s’ new rulesA. Keys:1: quailty2: re-engineering3: velocityB. Keys:1: communication 2: e-mail3: sales data online 4: insights5: knowledge workers 6: high-level thinking7: create virtual teams8: paper process 9: digital process10: eliminate single-task jobs11: digital feedback loop12: route customer complaints13: redefine the boundaries14: business process 15: just-in-time delivery16: eliminate the middle man17: help customers solve problemsPart III Great business dealsA. Keys:1: NATIONAL STEAMSHIP2: 20 000 3: Aristotle Onassis4: 6 000 5: American6: Big Ben 7: 1 000 8: tourist9: Buckingham Palace 10: 2 00011: The White House 12: 100 00013: The Statue of Liberty 14: 100 000 15: AustralianB. Keys:1: boom 2: world depression 3: millionaire4: identified 5: fraud 6: five 7: California 8: luxuryPart IV More about the topic: Walt Disney1: correspondence course 2: Oswald the Rabbit 3: talking cartoon film4: Walt Disney himself5: storyteller6: Ub Iwerks7: 35; feature-length cartoon film; 2 000 000; three8: potential9: 55; 17 000 00027: taste; vulgarity; children of all agesPart V Do you know…1: $24 worth of kettles, axes and cloth.2: $80 000 000.3: $27 000 000.4: About 12 cents.5: About 800 000 square miles.6: About 1 600 000 square miles.7: $7 200 000.8: About 5 cents.9: $750 000 000 worth.10: An estimated 100 000 000 000 tons.Tape scriptPart I Getting readyA.B.In the past few years, hundreds of magazine and newspaper stories have been written about Bill Gates and his company, the reason the Microsoft Company is extremely successful. It has made Bill Gate one of the richest men in the world. William Gates the 3rd was born in 1955, in a western city of Seattle, Washington. He became interested in computers when he was 13 years old. When most young boys his age were playing baseball or football, young Bill Gates was learning to write computer programs. These programs tell computers how to perform useful tasks. Bill Gate attended Harvard University after high school. At Harvard, he began developing the computer language called Basic. He began to think that the computer would someday become a valuable tool that could be used in every office and home. Bill Gate returned to Seattle where he established the Microsoft Company in 1975. It employed only three workers. Microsoftdeveloped computer software for established American companies, like General Electric and Citibank. Soon Microsoft was working with the International Business Machines Company known as IBM. In 1981,IBM began selling a personal computer that used Microsoft products as part of its operating system. By then, Microsoft had 129 workers. Today IBM still uses Microsoft's computer operating system. So do many other computer companies. One of the most famous Microsoft products is a program called Windows. Windows makes it much easier to use a computer. Company officials say Microsoft has sold about 40 000 000 copies of the Windows program around the world. Microsoft does thousands of millions of dollars in business each year. It now has more than 16 000 workers in more than 48 countries. Microsoft today produces computer programs in 30 languages and sells them in more than 100 countries.Part II Bill Gate s’ new rulesIf the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about re-engineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. About how quickly business itself will be transacted. About how information access will alter the life-style of consumers and their expectations of business. Quality improvements and business-process improvements will occur far faster. When the increase in velocity is great enough, the very nature of business changes.To function in the digital age, we have developed a new digital infrastructure. It's like the human nervous system. Companies need to have that same kind of nervous system — the ability to run smoothly and efficiently, to respond quickly to emergencies and opportunities to quickly get valuable information to the people in the company who need it, the ability to quickly make decisions and interact with customers.The successful companies of the next decade will be the ones that use digital tools to reinvent the way they work. To make digital information flow an intrinsic part of your company, here are 12 key steps.1. Insist that communication flow through e-mail.2. Study sales data online to share insights easily.3. Shift knowledge workers into high-level thinking.4. Use digital tools to create virtual teams.5. Convert every paper process to a digital process.6. Use digital tools to eliminate single-task jobs.7. Create a digital feedback loop.8. Use digital systems to route customer complaints immediately.9. Use digital communication to redefine the boundaries.10. Transform every business process into just-in-time delivery.11. Use digital delivery to eliminate the middle man.12. Use digital tools to help customers solve problems for themselves.As I said in The Road Ahead, we always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.You know you have built an excellent digital nervous system when information flows through your organization as quickly and naturally as thought in a human being and when you can use technology to marshal and coordinate teams of people as quickly as you can focus an individual on an issue. It's business at the speed of thought. Part III Great business deals1.In the … er … late 1920s, early 1930s, there was a … a young Greek businessman who …er … made quite a lot of money … er … by importing tobacco into Argentina. Um … he then moved up to North America … er … this was in about … er … 1933, when of course the world was in the middle of a … a trade slump. Er … he … er … decided he wanted to get into shipping, and to get into shipping he needed ships so he … he started looking around for some ships to buy with his tobacco fortune and he found ten vessels … er …which belonged to the Canadian National Steamship Company … er … the problem bei ng that they were frozen into the ice in the St Lawrence River in Canada. They'd been rusting away there for two years and were now completely filled up with snow and ice.Er … in fact the story goes that when he went aboard to … er … inspect one of the sh ips, he fell into a snowdrift and … er … ended up on the deck below. Well, the ships had cost $2 million to build … er … about ten years before, and the owners were prepared to let them go just for a … a scrap price of … er … $30 000 each. He offered $20,000 and the owners accepted.He left them there, stuck in the ice, there was nothing more he could do. Er … but a few years later, the … the world depression … er … came to an end and … er … world war seemed to be looming in Europe and, of course, that led in its turn to a … bit of a shipping boom. So the young man, there he was with his ships and … er … he became one of the richest men in the world. His name was … Aristotle Onassis.2.Once upon a time there was an enterprising Scottish actor, called Arthur Furguson, whodiscovered that he could make a very good living selling things that didn't actually belong to him, in other words he was a con man. He first got the idea when he was sitting in the middle of Trafalgar Square (in London that is). Um … this was in 1923, and he saw an American tourist admiring the stone lions and the fountains and Nelson's Column. He introduced himself as the "official guide" to the Square and started to explain the history of the place. And while he was doing this he also slipped in a little mention that as Britain was heavily in debt, the British government was looking for the right kind of person to buy the Square. He said that he was the official government salesman and that the asking price was around ￡6 000. The American said that this was a good price and offered to pay by cheque right away, so Mr. Furguson went off to okay this with his superiors — in other words he went off for an hour and a half and kept the American waiting. Well, he then came back and said, yes, they were willing to sell to the American at that price. The American wrote a check and Furguson gave him a receipt and the address of a company who would dismantle the Square and get it ready for shipping it to the States. Then he went off to cash the check.Soon after that he sold Big Ben for ￡1 000 and took a down payment on Buckingham Palace of ￡2 000. Two years later he went to the United States and leased the White House to a Texas cattleman for 99 years for $100 000 per annum. Later he arranged to sell the Statue of Liberty to an Australian for $100 000, but unfortunately Furguson allowed the buyer to take a photograph of him and the Australian, feeling slightly suspicious, showed the photograph to the police. Furguson was identified and sent to prison for fraud for five years. When he came out he retired to California, where he livedin luxury until he died in 1938.Part IV More about the topic: alt DisneyPresenter:Walt Disney is well known as the creator of Mickey Mouse and the inventor of Disneyland and Walt Disney World, but his creationsare better known than his life. Peter Spencer is the author of anew book about Disney. What was Walt Disney's background Peter:Walter Elias Disney was born in 1901 in Chicago but actually he was brought up in a small town in the Mid-West near Kansas City,Missouri, which incidentally was later used as the model for MainStreet U.S.A. in Disneyland. Um ... he first studies cartooning, youknow, by doing a correspondence course. During the First WorldWar he worked as a … a driver for the American Red Cross butafter the war he returned to Kansas City where he met a guycalled Ub Iwerks. Now they … er … started to work together on aseries of experimental-type films ... um … and after a while theyset off to California to join Walt's elder brother Roy who was livingthere in Los Angeles.Presenter:When did Mickey Mouse first appear?Peter:Ah, well, Disney and Iwerks first invented a character calledOswald the Rabbit but then in 1928 a new character was born:cheerful, sometimes rather naughty, energetic mouse with largefunny ears. Yes, it was Mickey and he appeared for the first timein the first talking cartoon film, called Steamboat Willie. Er … notmany people know this but Walt Disney actually provided thevoice for Mickey. By the way, he was almost called "MortimerMouse", which doesn't have the same kind of ring to it, or does itWell, Roy and Walt gathered a team of artists … er … illustratorstogether … um … by this time Ub Iwerks had left them an d startedhis own company, this was in 1930, and Disney Studios, as theycalled themselves, starting … started to produce the famous shortcartoons with … starring Mickey and Minnie and Donald Duck andPluto and Goofy. Er … Roy was the business manager and drivingforce behind the company … er … making it very profitable andWalt was more the … er … imaginative, creative part of thepartnership.Presenter:What kind of man was Walt DisneyPeter:Well, according to the artists who worked for him Walt actually couldn't draw very well … er … most of the characters wereactually drawn by Iwerks, but apparently he was an amazingstoryteller. He would act out the stories of films doing all thevoices and actions to show the illustrators what he wanted themto do and then they had to go off and try to recreate hisvisualizations.Presenter:The most famous cartoon of all was Snow White — and the best I still think.Peter:Mm, yeah, it was the first feature-length cartoon and it was released in … er … 1935. Now, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfsrequired two million drawings and took three years' work tomake. Um … obviously it was … er … very expensive, particularlyfor those times. By the way, the British film censor gave it anAdult certificate because he thought that it would be toofrightening for little children to see on their own. Er … that wasfollowed by Pinocchio and Fantasia in 1940, Dumbo in 1941.And … er … the Disney Studios also started making … um … somerather low-budget live action feature fi lms for children … er …something which the other studios didn't dare risk doing. Er …some of his films mixed live action with cartoons —er … I'mthinking about Mary Poppins, which I think we've probably allseen, made in 1964, where cartoon characters a nd … and the reallife actors appeared together on screen and talked and dancedand sang together. Disney was one of the first to see the potentialof television, all the other studios were afraid of this medium.Um … so he started to produce films directly for television and …and now of course there's a Disney Channel showing only Disneyfilms.Presenter:And then he dreamt up Disneyland, didn't hePeter:Ah, "dreamt" is the right word. Disneyland was a creation of the land of his dreams: safe, happy, clean, fairy-tale world with itsown Magic Kingdom. The original Disneyland was opened in LosAngeles in 1955 and it cost $17 million. Walt died in 1966 but hewas already working on plans for the Disney World in Orlando,Florida, which opened in 1971, and the EPCOT Center near WaltDisney World — that's the "Experimental Prototype CommunityOf Tomorrow", by the way. And there's also a … a TokyoDisneyland, which was opened in … um … 1983.Presenter:And … and now there's even an Euro Disneyland near Pa ris, I think.Peter:Yes, that's right. Um … and the Disney Studios still continue to produce films in the … the house style, the Walt Disney style andpresumably it always will. Disney's films appealed … um … and stilldo appeal to children of all ages, but people often criticize themfor their lack of taste and they say they're vulgar, but Disney said,"I've never called this art. It's show business and I'm a showman."Well, can you imagine a world without Mickey Mouse? Presenter:Peter Spencer, thank you.Part V Do you know…1. The best real estate deal in historyEven in the days when America was known as the New World, it was a country with a reputation for its spirit of enterprise and the ability of its people to make a good deal.When the settlers started negotiating, the natives hardly knew what had hit them — and in the summer of 1626, probably the most spectacular real estate coup in history took place. Governor Peter Minuit of the Dutch West India Company had the job of buying Manhattan Island from the Indians.After some haggling with Chief Manhasset, the price was agreed at 24 dollars' worth of kettles, axes and cloth.Today, $24 would not buy one square foot of office space in New York City, and an office block in central Manhattan changes hands for around $80 million. Even allowing for inflation, Minuit got himself a real bargain.2. Not again, Josephine!You would think that the Manhattan deal would remain a one-off for ever. But less than two centuries later the loser was Napoleon, Emperor of France and (in his early years, at least) a brilliant military tactician.In 1803, Napoleon had his mind on European affairs (in particular, an invasion of Britain), so he decided to dispense with France's American possessions.He sold the entire Mississippi valley, an area of 828 000 square miles extending from Canada down to the Gulf of Mexico and westwards to the Rockies, for just over 27 million dollars. Through this deal, known as the Louisiana purchase, President Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States for only around 5 cents per acre.3. Nice ice at a reasonable priceNapoleon did just manage to reach Moscow in his ill-fated invasion of 1812 — but it would seem that news of his poor American deal did not.For, astonishingly, the Russians went on to become the third victims of major land deals with America.On March 30th 1867, the U.S. Secretary of State, William Seward, bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a mere $7.2 million —thereby acquiring another 586 000 square miles of territory for less than 2 cents per acre.The Tsar presumably thought that this remote, frozen and virtually uninhabited piece of land had nothing at all to commend it — and at first, the American people agreed with him, for Alaska was known as "Seward's folly" and "Seward's ice box" for years.In 1896, however, gold was struck at Klondike in the Yukon, and since then, over 750 million dollars' worth has been mined.In 1968, black gold was discovered —and an estimated 100 billion tons of coal are also lying underground, just waiting to be dug up.。
【英语四级听力标准练习】7及原文+答案
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39.【解析】rising。
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40.【解析】improved。
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42.【解析】survive。
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43.【解析】realization。
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44.【答案】thus leaving even less for the people in the underdeveloped areas to survive on【Main points】thus leaving even less for the people in the poor areas to survive on45.【答案】There are striking regional differences in the population growth trends【Main points】There are big regional differences in the population growth trends46.【答案】which at present contains about three-fifths of the people in the world【Main points】which now has about 3/5 of the people in the world标准听力（七）听力原文及答案解析Listening ComprehensionSection A11. W: I’ll make your flight reservations by phone now and then write out the ticket for you.M: That’s fine. Could you please tell me the departure time again?Q: What’s the man doing?【听前预测】选项中的Buying a ticket，Arranging，trip等表明，对话可能与订票事宜有关。
现代大学英语听力 Unit 7 Book 1答案
Unit 7 FestivalTask 1KeyAnswer the following questions.1) Who are these children?Key: They are Emma Mark and Jane2) What do they want for Christmas gifts?Key: Emma wants a joke book; Mark wants a model train; and Jane wants a radio3) How much do their gifts cost according to the magazine? Do you think Mark's gift is cheap or expensive?Key: The joke book costs two pounds fifty The radio costs twenty seven pounds ninety nine pence We don't know the exact price of the model train but it must be very expensiveTask 2KeyA.Fill in the blanks to show what the Phillips are doing on Christmas Eve.1) In the bedroom:Who? Emma.What is he/she doing? She is going to bed now.2) In the bathroom:Who? Mark.What is he/she doing? He's having a bath. Now he's washinghis feet and singing carol.3) In the hall:Who? Jane.What is he/she doing? She is putting the last Christmas cardson the table in the hall.4) In the sitting-room:Who? Mr. Phillips.What is he/she doing? He's putting all the presents under thetree. He's thinking about his busyday.5) In the kitchen:Who? Mrs. Phillips.What is he/she doing? She's preparing all the food fortomorrow's meals.B. Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.1) What will the Phillips have on Christmas? (d)a) Pudding. b) Pudding, turkey.c) Pudding, turkey, cake. d) Pudding, turkey, cake, sherry.2) Why are some people singing carols in the street? (a)a) They are singing carols to get money for the poor people.b) They are waiting for Mark to go to a party.c) They are singing carols for Father Christmas.d) They are singing carols for Christmas presents.3) Why is Father Christmas thinking about "black chimneys"? (c)a) He can recognize different houses from the different chimneys.b) He wants to know what people are cooking.c) He gets into people's houses through their chimneys.d) He is worried that the black chimneys are too dirty.Task 3KeyA. Fill in the blanks with what you hear on the tape.You got up early every morning and went to school. You read books at school. You drew pictures and made things out of clay. You drank milk every day and ate things that were good for you. Perhaps you had plaits. Perhaps you flew a kite. Perhaps you went abroad for your holidays. You can see photographs of yourself in the family album. They help you to remember the distant past.B. Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.1) Why did the boy like Christmas? (a)a) He could get presents, b) He liked the bright lights.c) He liked the big crowds and shops, d) He liked the coldness.2) Why didn't Father Christmas remember the boy's name and address?(c)a) There were too many boys for Father Christmas to remember.b) This boy was the last one to talk to Father Christmas on that day.c) The boy didn't know there wasn't any real Father Christmas. It wasonly somebody dressed and acting like him.d) This boy never told Father Christmas.3) Why was that year's Christmas different though the little boy receivedgifts as usual? (b)a) For he turned five that year.b) For he was disappointed in Father Christmas.c) For he suddenly realized that Father Christmas did not exist.d) For he received different presents.Task 4KeyA.Fill in the blanks with what you hear on the tape.Old people remember the past and young people think of the future It is a time of memories, of hopes and fears. It is the time of Halloween.B. Choose the best answer to the following question.Which of the following activity is NOT part of the Halloween celebrations? (b)a) Halloween parties, b) Paper lanterns.c) Pumpkin pie or ginger cake. d) People dressed up in fancy dresses.Task 5Key1) Why were the houses crowded on the first Thanksgiving Day?Key: There were only seven small houses to live in. So everyone had to squeeze in together. You might have had four or five extra peopleliving with your family.2) Why were the houses at that time dark?Key: Your house was dark inside. You couldn't see anything out of the tiny windows because they were made from oiled cloth, not glass.3) Why were the houses smelly?Key: The air was full of smoke from the fish-oil lamps and from the big fireplace, where something was cooking all day long.B. Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F) according to the tape.1) In the homes of the first pilgrims, the furniture was placed on wood floor. [ F ]2) The house was dark inside because the windows was too small. [ F ] Task 6KeyA. Answer the following questions.1) Why did the pilgrims drink beer all day?Key: Because most of the water in England was polluted in the early1600s. You could get very sick from it. But beer was safe because it has alcohol in it, and alcohol kills germs. So, that's what people drank every day.2) Why was laundry a big job then?Key: Because doing the laundry was a really big job in those days. First, the women had to make soap out of animal fat and ashes. That took a long time. Then the children had to carry water from the stream, so it could be boiled in big outdoor pots. After everything was washed, the laundry was hung on bushes to dry.B. Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F) according to the tape.1) The pilgrims never got drunk, for they never drank too much. [ F ]2) The pilgrims knew that their napkins were very dirty but they wouldnot bother to wash. [ F ]Task 7KeyFill in the following chart.Task 8KeyFill in the following chart.Task 9KeyFill in the following chart.Task 10ScriptAt midnight of Christmas Eve or early in the morning on Christmas, Christians go to church for a special service. On Christmas morning, everyone opens their presents and then it's time to decorate the table with candles and Christmas crackers. For Christmas dinner people eat roast turkey, roast potatoes, green vegetables and sauces. Then they have Christmas pudding. After dinner they put on paper hats. They read out the jokes from the crackers, or play games. At five o'clock pm it's time for tea and Christmas cake.The day after Christmas is Boxing Day. People visit their relations or go to parties. Or they just spend a quiet day at home. No one works on Boxing Day. After Christmas everyone needs a holiday!。
英语听力教程Unit7答案及听力原文
Unit 7 Fame and FortunePart I Getting readyA.B. Keys:1：magazine 2：newspaper 3：Microsoft Company 4：successful 5：richest6：3rd 7：1955 8：Washington 9：computers 10：13 11：baseball12：football 13：computer programs 14：perform 15：high16：computer language 17：Basic 18：valuable 19：office20：home 21：established 22：1975 23：three 24：computer software25：established 26：nternational 27：usiness 28：achines 29：198130：personal computer 31：operating system 32 ：129 33：computer companies 34：Windows 35：easier 36：officials 37：38：thousands of millions of dollars 39：16 000 40：48 41：30 42：100Part II Bill Gate s’ new rulesA. Keys:1: quailty2: re-engineering3: velocityB. Keys:1: communication 2: e-mail3: sales data online 4: insights5: knowledge workers 6: high-level thinking7: create virtual teams8: paper process 9: digital process10: eliminate single-task jobs11: digital feedback loop12: route customer complaints13: redefine the boundaries14: business process 15: just-in-time delivery16: eliminate the middle man17: help customers solve problemsPart III Great business dealsA. Keys:1: NATIONAL STEAMSHIP2: 20 000 3: Aristotle Onassis4: 6 000 5: American6: Big Ben 7: 1 000 8: tourist9: Buckingham Palace 10: 2 00011: The White House 12: 100 00013: The Statue of Liberty 14: 100 000 15: AustralianB. Keys:1: boom 2: world depression 3: millionaire4: identified 5: fraud 6: five 7: California 8: luxuryPart IV More about the topic: Walt Disney1: correspondence course 2: Oswald the Rabbit 3: talking cartoon film4: Walt Disney himself5: storyteller6: Ub Iwerks7: 35; feature-length cartoon film; 2 000 000; three8: potential9: 55; 17 000 00027: taste; vulgarity; children of all agesPart V Do you know…1: $24 worth of kettles, axes and cloth.2: $80 000 000.3: $27 000 000.4: About 12 cents.5: About 800 000 square miles.6: About 1 600 000 square miles.7: $7 200 000.8: About 5 cents.9: $750 000 000 worth.10: An estimated 100 000 000 000 tons.Tape scriptPart I Getting readyA.B.In the past few years, hundreds of magazine and newspaper stories have been written about Bill Gates and his company, the reason the Microsoft Company is extremely successful. It has made Bill Gate one of the richest men in the world. William Gates the 3rd was born in 1955, in a western city of Seattle, Washington. He became interested in computers when he was 13 years old. When most young boys his age were playing baseball or football, young Bill Gates was learning to write computer programs. These programs tell computers how to perform useful tasks. Bill Gate attended Harvard University after high school. At Harvard, he began developing the computer language called Basic. He began to think that the computer would someday become a valuable tool that could be used in every office and home. Bill Gate returned to Seattle where he established the Microsoft Company in 1975. It employed only three workers. Microsoft developed computer software for established American companies,like General Electric and Citibank. Soon Microsoft was working with the International Business Machines Company known as IBM. In 1981,IBM began selling a personal computer that used Microsoft products as part of its operating system. By then, Microsoft had 129 workers. Today IBM still uses Microsoft's computer operating system. So do many other computer companies. One of the most famous Microsoft products is a program called Windows. Windows makes it much easier to use a computer. Company officials say Microsoft has sold about 40 000 000 copies of the Windows program around the world. Microsoft does thousands of millions of dollars in business each year. It now has more than 16 000 workers in more than 48 countries. Microsoft today produces computer programs in 30 languages and sells them in more than 100 countries.Part II Bill Gate s’ new rulesIf the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about re-engineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. About how quickly business itself will be transacted. About how information access will alter the life-style of consumers and their expectations of business. Quality improvements and business-process improvements will occur far faster. When the increase in velocity is great enough, the very nature of business changes.To function in the digital age, we have developed a new digital infrastructure. It's like the human nervous system. Companies need to have that same kind of nervous system — the ability to run smoothly and efficiently, to respond quickly to emergencies and opportunities to quickly get valuable information to the people in the company who need it, the ability to quickly make decisions and interact with customers. The successful companies of the next decade will be the ones that use digital tools to reinvent the way they work. To make digital information flow an intrinsic part of your company, here are 12 key steps.1. Insist that communication flow through e-mail.2. Study sales data online to share insights easily.3. Shift knowledge workers into high-level thinking.4. Use digital tools to create virtual teams.5. Convert every paper process to a digital process.6. Use digital tools to eliminate single-task jobs.7. Create a digital feedback loop.8. Use digital systems to route customer complaints immediately.9. Use digital communication to redefine the boundaries.10. Transform every business process into just-in-time delivery.11. Use digital delivery to eliminate the middle man.12. Use digital tools to help customers solve problems for themselves.As I said in The Road Ahead, we always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.You know you have built an excellent digital nervous system when information flows through your organization as quickly and naturally as thought in a human being and when you can use technology to marshal and coordinate teams of people as quickly as you can focus an individual on an issue. It's business at the speed of thought.Part III Great business deals1.In the … er … late 1920s, early 1930s, there was a … a young Greekbusinessman who … er … made quite a lot of money … er … by importing tobacco into Argentina. Um … he then moved up to North America … er … this was in about … er … 1933, when of course the world was in the middle of a …a trade slump. Er … he … er … decided he wanted to get into shipping, andto get in to shipping he needed ships so he … he started looking around for some ships to buy with his tobacco fortune and he found ten vessels … er …which belonged to the Canadian National Steamship Company … er … the problem being that they were frozen into the ice in the St Lawrence River in Canada.They'd been rusting away there for two years and were now completely filled up with snow and ice. Er … in fact the story goes that when he went aboard to … er … inspect one of the ships, he fell into a snowdrift and …er …ended up on the deck below. Well, the ships had cost $2 million to build …er … about ten years before, and the owners were prepared to let them go just for a … a scrap price of … er … $30 000 each. He offered $20,000 and the owners accepted.He left them there, stuck in the ice, there was nothing more he could do.Er … but a few years later, the … the world depression … er … came to an end and … er … world war seemed to be looming in Europe and, of course, that led in its turn to a … bit of a shippi ng boom. So the young man, there he was with his ships and … er … he became one of the richest men in the world. His name was … Aristotle Onassis.2.Once upon a time there was an enterprising Scottish actor, called ArthurFurguson, who discovered that he could make a very good living selling things that didn't actually belong to him, in other words he was a con man. He first got the idea when he was sitting in the middle of Trafalgar Square (in London that is). Um … this was in 1923, and he saw an America n tourist admiring the stone lions and the fountains and Nelson's Column. He introduced himself as the "official guide" to the Square and started to explain the history of the place. And while he was doing this he also slipped in a little mention that as Britain was heavily in debt, the British government was looking for the right kind of person to buy the Square. He said that he was the official government salesman and that the asking price was around ￡6 000. The American said that this was a good price and offered to pay by cheque rightaway, so Mr. Furguson went off to okay this with his superiors — in other words he went off for an hour and a half and kept the American waiting. Well, he then came back and said, yes, they were willing to sell to the American at that price. The American wrote a check and Furguson gave him a receipt and the address of a company who would dismantle the Square and get it ready for shipping it to the States. Then he went off to cash the check.Soon after that he sold Big Ben for ￡1 000 and took a down payment on Buckingham Palace of ￡2 000. Two years later he went to the United States and leased the White House to a Texas cattleman for 99 years for $100 000 per annum. Later he arranged to sell the Statue of Liberty to an Australian for $100 000, but unfortunately Furguson allowed the buyer to take a photograph of him and the Australian, feeling slightly suspicious, showed the photograph to the police. Furguson was identified and sent to prison for fraud for five years. When he came out he retired to California, where he lived in luxury until he died in 1938.Part IV More about the topic: alt DisneyPresenter:Walt Disney is well known as the creator of Mickey Mouse and the inventor of Disneyland and Walt Disney World, but his creationsare better known than his life. Peter Spencer is the author ofa new book about Disney. What was Walt Disney's backgroundPeter:Walter Elias Disney was born in 1901 in Chicago but actually he was brought up in a small town in the Mid-West near Kansas City,Missouri, which incidentally was later used as the model for MainStreet in Disneyland. Um ... he first studies cartooning, youknow, by doing a correspondence course. During the First WorldWar he worked as a … a driver for the American R ed Cross but afterthe war he returned to Kansas City where he met a guy called UbIwerks. Now they … er … started to work together on a seriesof experimental-type films ... um … and after a while they setoff to California to join Walt's elder brother Roy who was livingthere in Los Angeles.Presenter:When did Mickey Mouse first appearPeter:Ah, well, Disney and Iwerks first invented a character called Oswald the Rabbit but then in 1928 a new character was born:cheerful, sometimes rather naughty, energetic mouse with largefunny ears. Yes, it was Mickey and he appeared for the first timein the first talking cartoon film, called Steamboat Willie. Er …not many people know this but Walt Disney actually provided thevoice for Mickey. By the way, he was almost called "MortimerMouse", which doesn't have the same kind of ring to it, or doesit Well, Roy and Walt gathered a team of artists … er …illustrators together … um … by this time Ub Iwerks had leftthem and started his own company, this was in 1930, and DisneyStudios, as they called themselves, starting … started to producethe famous short cartoons with … starring Mickey and Minnie andDonald Duck and Pluto and Goofy. Er … Roy was the business managerand driving force behind the company … er … m aking it veryprofitable and Walt was more the … er … imaginative, creativepart of the partnership.Presenter:What kind of man was Walt DisneyPeter:Well, according to the artists who worked for him Walt actually couldn't draw very well … er … most of the characters wereactually drawn by Iwerks, but apparently he was an amazingstoryteller. He would act out the stories of films doing all thevoices and actions to show the illustrators what he wanted themto do and then they had to go off and try to recreate hisvisualizations.Presenter:The most famous cartoon of all was Snow White — and the best I still think.Peter:Mm, yeah, it was the first feature-length cartoon and it was released in … er … 1935. Now, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfsrequired two million drawings and took three years' work to make.Um … obviously it was … er … very expensive, particularly forthose times. By the way, the British film censor gave it an Adultcertificate because he thought that it would be too frighteningfo r little children to see on their own. Er … that was followedby Pinocchio and Fantasia in 1940, Dumbo in 1941. And … er …the Disney Studios also started making … um … some ratherlow-budget live action feature films for children … er …something which th e other studios didn't dare risk doing. Er …some of his films mixed live action with cartoons —er … I'mthinking about Mary Poppins, which I think we've probably allseen, made in 1964, where cartoon characters and … and the reallife actors appeared together on screen and talked and danced andsang together. Disney was one of the first to see the potentialof television, all the other studios were afraid of this medium.Um … so he started to produce films directly for television and …and now of course there's a Disney Channel showing only Disneyfilms.Presenter:And then he dreamt up Disneyland, didn't hePeter:Ah, "dreamt" is the right word. Disneyland was a creation of the land of his dreams: safe, happy, clean, fairy-tale world with itsown Magic Kingdom. The original Disneyland was opened in LosAngeles in 1955 and it cost $17 million. Walt died in 1966 buthe was already working on plans for the Disney World in Orlando,Florida, which opened in 1971, and the EPCOT Center near WaltDisney World — that's the "Experimental Prototype Community OfTomorrow", by the way. And there's also a … a Tokyo Disneyland,which was opened in … um … 1983.Presenter:And … and now there's even an Euro Disneyland near Paris, I think.Peter:Yes, that's right. Um … and the Disney Studios still continue to produce films in the … the house style, the Walt Disney styleand presumably it always will. Disney's films appealed … um …and still do appeal to children of all ages, but people oftencriticize them for their lack of taste and they say they're vulgar,but Disney said, "I've never called this art. It's show businessand I'm a showman." Well, can you imagine a world without MickeyMousePresenter:Peter Spencer, thank you.Part V Do you know…1. The best real estate deal in historyEven in the days when America was known as the New World, it was a country with a reputation for its spirit of enterprise and the ability of its people to make a good deal.When the settlers started negotiating, the natives hardly knew what had hit them — and in the summer of 1626, probably the most spectacular real estate coup in history took place.Governor Peter Minuit of the Dutch West India Company had the job of buying Manhattan Island from the Indians.After some haggling with Chief Manhasset, the price was agreed at 24 dollars' worth of kettles, axes and cloth.Today, $24 would not buy one square foot of office space in New York City, and an office block in central Manhattan changes hands for around $80 million. Even allowing for inflation, Minuit got himself a real bargain.2. Not again, Josephine!You would think that the Manhattan deal would remain a one-off for ever. But less than two centuries later the loser was Napoleon, Emperor of France and (in his early years, at least) a brilliant military tactician.In 1803, Napoleon had his mind on European affairs (in particular, an invasion of Britain), so he decided to dispense with France's American possessions.He sold the entire Mississippi valley, an area of 828 000 square miles extending from Canada down to the Gulf of Mexico and westwards to the Rockies, for just over 27 million dollars.Through this deal, known as the Louisiana purchase, President Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States for only around 5 cents per acre.3. Nice ice at a reasonable priceNapoleon did just manage to reach Moscow in his ill-fated invasion of 1812 — but it would seem that news of his poor American deal did not.For, astonishingly, the Russians went on to become the third victims of major land deals with America.On March 30th 1867, the . Secretary of State, William Seward, bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a mere $ million — thereby acquiring another 586 000 square miles of territory for less than 2 cents per acre.The Tsar presumably thought that this remote, frozen and virtually uninhabited piece of land had nothing at all to commend it —and at first, the American people agreed with him, for Alaska was known as "Seward's folly" and "Seward's ice box" for years. In 1896, however, gold was struck at Klondike in the Yukon, and since then, over 750 million dollars' worth has been mined.In 1968, black gold was discovered —and an estimated 100 billion tons of coal are also lying underground, just waiting to be dug up.。
听力7原文及答案
听力7原文及答案(Text 1)M: Your son plays the violin beautifully. Does he want to become a musician?W: No, he wants to study law. Playing the violin is his hobby.(Text 2)W: Do you think we’ll be able to see the game clearly?M: Don’t worry. There’s a good vie w of the players from all of the seats.(Text 3)W: My hand still hurts from falling on the ice yesterday. I wonder if I broke something.M: I’m not doctor, but it’s not black and blue or anything. Maybe you just need to rest it for a few days.(Text 4)W: I wonder if Jack will be here by 8:00. He is supposed to be.M: His mother said he left at 7:30, so he should be here by 8:15 at the latest. (Text 5)M: I really enjoyed that TV program about whales last night. Did you get home in time to see it?W: Oh, yes. But I wish I could have stayed awake long enough to see the whole thing.(Text 6)W: I will give up! I simply can’t learn Japanese!M: Why do you say that? I think you’re making a lot of progress.W: No, I’m not. I try and try, and I still can’t speak it very well.M: Learning any language takes a lot of effort. But don’t give up. Why don’t wepractise those dialogues together?W: Good idea. That just might help.(Text 7)W: When I got home last night, I found a letter from students at the school I used to go to. They want me to go back and talk to them.M: Oh, really? And are you going?W: I don’t know. I used to hate school, so I don’t want to go back very much.M: But it’s different now.W: Yes, I know. But it’s still a difficult decision. You see, wh en I was at school I used to be a rebel and none of the teachers used to like me very much.M: Well, I think you should go. When I was younger, I used to dream about meetinga famous pop star. You can’t disappoint them.W: You’re right. OK. I will go.(Text 8)M: Okay, we can go to see the movie Saving the Planet at the Rock. What time does it start?W: Eight.M: So we can be back about 10:30, right?W: No. It doesn’t end until 11.M: I can’t sit in the movies so long!W: Well, then, what do you want to see?M: Shakespeare in Love is at the Regal and Twister at the Royal. Shakespeare in Love starts at 7:45 and it ends at 9:00.W: Okay, okay. Let’s go to see Shakespeare in Love. I can see Saving the Planet with my friend Barbara later.M: What are we going to do after the movie?W: We can go swimming and bowling.(Text 9)M: I talked to my great-grandmother on the phone this morning.W: Your great-grandmother? Do you talk with her often?M: I try to call her at least once a week. She’s a really wonderful woman. She’s over85. I enjoy talking to her. Because she is so understanding, and because she givesme good advice.W: What advice did she give you today?M: She told me to be careful because a big storm is coming.W: She said that a big storm is coming? Is she a weather forecaster?M: Not exactly. She said that she could feel it in her bones when the storm is coming.I know it sounds funny, but when she feels it, she is usually right.W: That’s not actually so funny. When people get older, they probably have s ome pain in their joints from decreasing air pressure just before a storm.M: Then I’d better pay more attention to my great-grandmother’s weather forecast. (Text 10)Hi, kids:It’s Friday again, so I won’t be home from work until 9:15. Dinner is in the refrigerator. Peggy, you can heat up the soup and make the salad. Suzy, you can set the table. Billy and Jack, I want you to clean the table, wash the dishes, and put them away. Peggy, please clean the bathroom.Jack, you know how to use the cleaner. Would you please do the floors?And you, Billy, please clean up the mess in the basement. I don’t know what you were doing down there, but you left tools all over the place. And Suzy, you canhelp Billy sweep.Dad will be home around 6:30. Why don’t you ha ve dinner ready by then? OK，kids? Enjoy your dinner. Oh yes, you can have the chocolate cake. But please leave a little piece for your hard-working mother.参考答案：1-5 AACBA 6-10 BABCB 11-15 AABCB16-20 ACABA。
新视野第二册视听说听力原文及答案Unit7
Unit7II. Listening Skills1. W: How much money is the rent for an apartment in this neighborhood?M: Your rent should be about a quarter of that.Q: How much should be the woman’s rent be?2. M: I paid $3,500 for this digital camera. It was on sale at a 30$ discount.W: It’s a real bargain.Q: How much did the camera cost originally?3. M: What’s the rate for an economy car?W: The daily rate is $32, unlimited mileage.Q: How much will the man pay if he rents the car for a week?4. M: I’ll take these sweaters. How much do they cost?W: They are $180 each and four makes a total of $720. But today we are offering a 20% discount.Q: How much does the man have to pay?5. W: What an old car you’ve got!M: Well, it had run 12,000 miles when I bought it second hand. And it’s covered 3,080 miles since then.Q: How many miles has the car run?1.B2.A3.A4.D5.BIII. Listening InTask 1: It’s time to buy.Mike: Hey, Robert, where are you off to?Robert: I’m going to talk to a banker about a loan.Mike: You are short of money? I thought you were the saving type.Robert: There’s a time to save and a time to spend.Mike: I know all about spending. What’s the loan for? I have a few bucks I could…Robert: I’m considering getting a mortgage to buy some property.Mike: Do you think property is a good investment? I mean, it’s a lot of money.Robert:Well, Mike, as you know, property values have been going through the roof. If I had bought an apartment two years ago, its value would have gone up by 30 percent today. Mike: And from what I know, interest rates are low now.Robert: Exactly. Sounds like a good time to buy.1. a banker a loan2.saving save spend3. a mortgage property4.Property values5.risen/gone up/increased by 30 percentTask 2: Can I have my change please?Tom was down on his luck and felt he needed a few drinks. Hw went to a bar and had several drinks. When he was done, he stood up and walked toward the door. The barman shouted after him, “Hey mister, are you going to pay for those drinks?”Tom turned around and replied, “I have already paid you,” and then walked out of the bar. Almost immediately he saw one of his friends Richard and told him about the barman, “Just go in there and drink all you want, then get up and leave. When the barman asks you to pay the bill, just tell him you have already paid.”This sounded easy enough, so Richard went in and has several drinks. The barman went to him and said, “Before you came in, another man was here. When I asked him to pay his bill, he told me he’d paid, but I don’t remember him paying me.”Richard said, “I would love to stay and hear your story, but I don’t have time. Can I havemy change please?”1. A2.B3.D4.C5.CTask 3: Why not just print money?What’s the solution to a recession, a time of little economic activity? Just print money! Sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Let’s see if this will work by using an example.Let’s pretend that all the students in your class make up the ENTER population of the country, and the teacher represents the government. Let’s also pretend each student has exactly $1.00.Since we are in a recession, let’s have the teacher, who represents the government, print money. He prints $1.00 more for everyone. Now everyone has $1.00 more to spend. More money to spend sounds like a great way to get us out of recession, since more money to spend means demand for goods and services.Then if that works, why don’t we give MORE money away? How about $100? Now we have lots of money to spend. So no more recession, right?Not really, because we have only looked at one side of the problem. As more and more people receive more and more money, what’ll happen?Since everyone has more money, the students all go shopping to spend that extra money. This causes the demand for goods and services to rise, and people who sell goods and services raise price. For example, if you could buy a new music CD at $10 in the past, now the price could be $1,000! This is called inflation.So, the original reason for printing all this money was to help get us of recession, but we have only replaced one problem with another.1.T2.T3.F4.F5.FIV. Speaking OutModel 1 I want to blow it all.John: Hey, Se-Jin, do you want to come shopping with me? My dad just gave me my monthly allowance and I want to blow it all.Se-Jin:That sounds just like you, John! What do you want to buy?John:I don’t know…Some music CDs, maybe.Se-Jin: If you spend all that money on things you don’t even know if you want, you won’t have any money left when you need it.John:But if I just save my money, that doesn’t s sound like much fun either. Besides, I need some new CDs.Se-Jin: You also need a financial advisor!Now Your TurnA: Hey, do you want to come shopping with me? I just got some money from my part-time job, and I want to get rid of it right away.B: That’s your style. What do you want to buy?A: I don’t know…some fashionable clothes, maybe.B: If you waste all your money on things you don’t even know if you want, you’ll be out of money completely when you need it.A: But if I just hold on to my money…that doesn’t make much sense either. I really need some new clothes. What’s the point of saving lots of money without fun?B: As I see it, you need a person to look after your money.Model 2 Can money buy everything?Peter: I’m trying to think of ways to become rich. If I could get my hands on a lot of money, I’ll be really happy.Jane: Do you really think so? I’m not so sure.Peter: Of course, why wouldn’t I? I’d be able to have anything I want.Jane: Well, there are plenty of people who have a lot of money but aren’t happy. What do you say to that?Peter: But if I became a millionaire, I’d buy whatever I wanted.Jane: Can you buy true love? Can you buy the moon?Peter: Maybe not, but I can buy a house with a lot of modern conveniences.Jane: So many people think like you do, buy look at all the divorces, suicides and murders among wealthy people. How do you explain that?Peter: Maybe there’s something in what you said.Now Your TurnA: I really hope I can make a fortune. If I had a lot of money, I’d be as happy as a king.B: Do you really believe so? I have my doubts about it.A: Of course, why wouldn’t I? If I were a millionaire, there’s nothing I couldn’t buy.B: Well, can you but health? Can you but true friendship?B: Maybe not. But I can but a big house and car, and make my life more comfortable.A: Maybe you have a point there. Money can bring material comforts. But don’t forget, there are also divorces and suicides among wealthy people.B: Well, there is some truth in what you said. Money cannot but real happiness.Model 3 I wonder if you could give me a loan.John: Hey, Se-Jin, I was just on my way to find you.Se-Jin: What’s up, John?John:Se-Jin, I’m kind of broke, and you usually have a bundle tucked away. I wonder if you could give me a loan.Se-Jin: Dream on! I’m hard up myself.John:You see, I want to buy some new stereo equipment, and I’m just about a hundred short. Se-Jin: Why not save up for it?John:The stores have all stuff on a huge sales promotion right now. I could save at least 30 percent!S-Jin: John, I’d lend you money if you were in a jam. But a new stereo isn’t an emergency. John: Then I’m afraid I have to find someone who is more easy-going.Now Your TurnA: Hi, I was trying to catch up with you.B: What happened?A: Money had burned a hole in my pocket. You usually have some savings. I wonder if you can lend me some money?B: You’re daydreaming. I’m short of money myself.A: Look, I want to buy a digital camera, and I’m only short of 150 bucks.B: Why not save towards it?A: The camera is on sale right now. This can save me almost 25 percent.B: Well, I’d lend you the money if you were in real redouble. But a new camera isn’t urgent.A: Then I’m afraid I’ll have to try someone who’s more generous.V. Let’s TalkStory of a MiserThere was a miser who loved money more than anything else. Just before he died, he said to his wife, “Now, listen. When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the afterlife with me.”He made her promise with all her heart that when he dies, she would pit all the money in the casket with him. Then he died. He was laid in the casket, his wife was sitting there wearing black, and her friend was sitting next to her.When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got already to close the casket, the wife said, “Wait a minute!” She had a box with her. She came over with the box and put it in the casket.Then the undertakers locked the casket down, and they rolled it away. He friend said, “Girl, I know you weren’t fool enough to put all that money in there with your husband!”She said, “Listen, I’m a Christian. I can’t go back on my word. I promise him that I would put all the money in the casket with him.”“You mean you really put that money in the casket with him!?”“I surely did,” said the wife. “I wrote him a check.”1.more than2.money casket3.promise4.in the casket5.sitting black6.next to/beside7.close8. a box9.away/off10.foolish all that money/the money11.a Christian on her word12.put the money13.a checkVI. Furthering Listening and SpeakingTask 1: Giving Money to a BeggarSusan: Hey, Robert, you gave that beggar some of your hard-earned cash?Robert: I know. He looked as if he needed help.Susan: Buy you’re always so careful with your money.Robert: Yeah, I guess so, but I like to help when someone’s in need.Susan: I just wonder why the guy doesn’t get a job and make his own living.Robert: It’s just not that simple, Susan. Some people have a hard time of it in life.Susan: Maybe they waste all their money. If you give them money, they will just go on wasting it. Robert: Life has been good to me, Susan, and I’d like to share some of my luck.1.the beggar2.as if3.help4.careful with/about5. a job6.people7. a hard time8.waste9.share10.good luckTask 2: Buying a MachineAn American manufacturer is showing his machine factory to a potential customer. At noon, when the lunch bell rings, two thousand men and women immediately stop working and leave the building.“Your workers, they’re escaping!” cries the visitor. “You’ve got to stop them.”“Don’t worry, they’ll be back,” says the American. And indeed, an exactly one 0’clock the bell rings again, and all the workers return from their break.When the tour is over, the manufacturer turn s to his guest and says, “Well, now, which of these machines would you like to order?”“Forget the machines,” says the visitor. “How much do you want for that bell?”1.T2.F3.F4.T5.TTask 3: An Introduction to Credit CardsCredit cards are plastic cards issued by a bank or other financial institutions allowing the holder tobuy goods and service without using cash. Many American don’t like to carry much cash. For them the cards are convenient and safe to use.Credit cards are gaining popularity, even for buying small items. They are accepted almost everywhere, though not at fast food restaurants.Credit cards allow you to purchase things that you may not currently have the money to buy. When you use a credit card, the credit card company that issued the credit card pays the store. Later, a bill will be mailed to you by your credit card company for the amount you purchased. At that time, you can either pay the bill in full, or only pay a minimum amount, and wait till later to finish paying. If you wait till later, you will owe the credit card company interest on the amount that you do not pay.1.D2.C3.B4.C5.ASpeakingCan you change a twenty-dollar bill?Cashier: How can I help you, Miss?Jill: Could you change a 20 for me?Cashier: Sure. How do you want it?Jill: Could I have two 5’s, but not enough 1’s. Are quarters all right with you?Cashier: Well, I have some 5’s, but not enough 1’s. Are quarters all right with you?Jill: Oh, that’s even better! In that case, I won’t have to worry about the small change for the laundry.Cashier: Here you are!Jill: Thanks a million!。
英语听力教程Unit7答案及听力原文
英语听力教程Unit7答案及听力原文Unit 7 Fame and FortunePart I Getting readyA.B. Keys:1：magazine 2：newspaper 3：Microsoft Company 4：successful 5：richest6：3rd 7：1955 8：Washington 9：computers 10：13 11：baseball12：football 13：computer programs 14：perform 15：high 16：computer language 17：Basic 18：valuable 19：office 20：home 21：established 22：1975 23：three 24：computer software25：established 26：nternational 27：usiness 28：achines 29：198130：personal computer 31：operating system 32 ：129 33：computer companies 34：Windows 35：easier 36：officials 37：38：thousands of millions of dollars 39：16 000 40：48 41：30 42：100 Part II Bill Gate s’ new rulesA. Keys:1: quailty2: re-engineering3: velocityB. Keys:1: communication 2: e-mail3: sales data online 4: insights5: knowledge workers 6: high-level thinking7: create virtual teams8: paper process 9: digital process10: eliminate single-task jobs11: digital feedback loop12: route customer complaints13: redefine the boundaries14: business process 15: just-in-time delivery16: eliminate the middle man17: help customers solve problemsPart III Great business dealsA. Keys:1: NATIONAL STEAMSHIP2: 20 000 3: Aristotle Onassis4: 6 000 5: American6: Big Ben 7: 1 000 8: tourist9: Buckingham Palace 10: 2 00011: The White House 12: 100 00013: The Statue of Liberty 14: 100 000 15: AustralianB. Keys:1: boom 2: world depression 3: millionaire4: identified 5: fraud 6: five 7: California 8: luxuryPart IV More about the topic: Walt Disney1: correspondence course 2: Oswald the Rabbit 3: talking cartoon film 4: Walt Disney himself5: storyteller6: Ub Iwerks7: 35; feature-length cartoon film; 2 000 000; three8: potential9: 55; 17 000 00027: taste; vulgarity; children of all agesPart V Do you know…1: $24 worth of kettles, axes and cloth.2: $80 000 000.3: $27 000 000.4: About 12 cents.5: About 800 000 square miles.6: About 1 600 000 square miles.7: $7 200 000.8: About 5 cents.9: $750 000 000 worth.10: An estimated 100 000 000 000 tons.Tape scriptPart I Getting readyA.B.In the past few years, hundreds of magazine and newspaper stories have been written about Bill Gates and his company, the reason the Microsoft Company is extremely successful. It has made Bill Gate one of the richest men in the world. William Gates the 3rd was born in 1955, in a western city of Seattle, Washington. He became interested in computers when he was 13 years old. When most young boys his age were playing baseball or football, young Bill Gates was learning to write computer programs. These programs tell computers how to perform useful tasks. Bill Gate attended Harvard University after high school. At Harvard, he began developing thecomputer language called Basic. He began to think that the computer would someday become a valuable tool that could be used in every office and home. Bill Gate returned to Seattle where he established the Microsoft Company in 1975. It employed only three workers. Microsoft developed computer software for established American companies, like General Electric andCitibank. Soon Microsoft was working with the International Business Machines Company known as IBM. In 1981,IBM began selling a personal computer that used Microsoft products as part of its operating system. By then, Microsoft had 129 workers. Today IBM still uses Microsoft's computer operating system. So do many other computer companies. One of the most famous Microsoft products is a program called Windows. Windows makes it much easier to use a computer. Company officials say Microsoft has sold about 40 000 000 copies of the Windows program around the world. Microsoft does thousands of millions of dollars in business each year. It now has more than 16 000 workers in more than 48 countries. Microsoft today produces computer programs in 30 languages and sells them in more than 100 countries.Part II Bill Gate s’ new rulesIf the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about re-engineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. About how quickly business itself will be transacted. About how information access will alter the life-style of consumers and their expectations of business. Quality improvements and business-process improvements will occur far faster. When the increase in velocity is great enough, the very nature of business changes.To function in the digital age, we have developed a new digital infrastructure. It's like the human nervous system. Companies need to have that same kind of nervous system —the ability to run smoothly and efficiently, to respond quickly to emergencies and opportunities to quickly get valuable information to the people in the companywho need it, the ability to quickly make decisions and interact with customers. The successful companies of the nextdecade will be the ones that use digital tools to reinvent the way they work. To make digital information flow an intrinsic part of your company, here are 12 key steps.1. Insist that communication flow through e-mail.2. Study sales data online to share insights easily.3. Shift knowledge workers into high-level thinking.4. Use digital tools to create virtual teams.5. Convert every paper process to a digital process.6. Use digital tools to eliminate single-task jobs.7. Create a digital feedback loop.8. Use digital systems to route customer complaints immediately.9. Use digital communication to redefine the boundaries.10. Transform every business process into just-in-time delivery.11. Use digital delivery to eliminate the middle man.12. Use digital tools to help customers solve problems for themselves.As I said in The Road Ahead, we always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.You know you have built an excellent digital nervous system when information flows through your organization as quickly and naturally as thought in a human being and when you can use technology to marshal and coordinate teams of people as quickly as you can focus an individual on an issue. It's business at the speed of thought.Part III Great business deals1.In the … er … late 1920s, early 1930s, there was a … a youngGreekbusinessman who … er … made quite a lot of money … er … by importing tobacco into Arge ntina. Um … he then moved up to North America … er … this was in about … er … 1933, when of course the world was in the middle of a …a trade slump. Er … he … er … decided he wanted to get into shipping, andto get in to shipping he needed ships so he … he started looking around for some ships to buy with his tobacco fortune and he found ten vessels … er …which belonged to the Canadian National Steamship Company … er … the problem being that they were frozen into the ice in the St Lawrence River in Canada.They'd been rusting away there for two years and were now completely filled up with snow and ice. Er … in fact the story goes that when he went aboard to … er … inspect one of the ships, he fell into a snowdrift and …er …ended up on the deck below. Well, the ships had cost $2 million to build …er … about ten years before, and the owners were prepared to let them go just for a … a scrap price of … er … $30 000 each. He offered $20,000 and the owners accepted.He left them there, stuck in the ice, there was nothing more he could do.Er … but a few years later, the … the world depression … er … came to an end and … er … world war seemed to be looming in Europe and, of course, that led in its turn to a … bit of a shippi ng boom. So the young man, there he was with his ships and … er … he became one of the richest men in the world. His name was … Aristotle Onassis.2.Once upon a time there was an enterprising Scottish actor, called ArthurFurguson, who discovered that he could make a very good living selling things that didn't actually belong to him, in other words he was a con man. He firstgot the idea when he was sitting in the middle of Trafalgar Square (in London that is). Um … this was in 1923, and he saw an America n tourist admiring the stone lions and the fountains and Nelson's Column. He introduced himself as the "official guide" to the Square and started to explain the history of the place. And while he was doing this he also slipped in a little mention that as Britain was heavily in debt, the British government was looking for the right kind of person to buy the Square. He said that he was the official government salesman and that the asking price was around ￡6 000. The American said that this was a good price and offered to pay by cheque right away, so Mr. Furguson went off to okay this with his superiors — in other words he went off for an hour and a half and kept the American waiting. Well, he then came back and said, yes, they were willing to sell to the American at that price. The American wrote a check and Furguson gave him a receipt and the address of a company who would dismantle the Square and get it ready for shipping it to the States. Then he went off to cash the check.Soon after that he sold Big Ben for ￡1 000 and took a down payment on Buckingham Palace of ￡2 000. Two years later he went to the United States and leased the White House to a Texas cattleman for 99 years for $100 000 per annum. Later he arranged to sell the Statue of Liberty to an Australian for $100 000, but unfortunately Furguson allowed the buyer to take a photograph of him and the Australian, feeling slightly suspicious, showed thephotograph to the police. Furguson was identified and sent to prison for fraud for five years. When he came out he retired to California, where he lived in luxury until he died in 1938.Part IV More about the topic: alt DisneyPresenter:Walt Disney is well known as the creator of Mickey Mouse and the inventor of Disneyland and Walt Disney World, but his creationsare better known than his life. Peter Spencer is the author ofa new book about Disney. What was Walt Disney's backgroundPeter:Walter Elias Disney was born in 1901 in Chicago but actually he was brought up in a small town in the Mid-West near Kansas City,Missouri, which incidentally was later used as the model for MainStreet in Disneyland. Um ... he first studies cartooning, you know, by doing a correspondence course. During the First WorldWar he worked as a … a driver for the American R ed Cross but afterthe war he returned to Kansas City where he met a guy called UbIwerks. Now they … er … started to work together on a series of experimental-type films ... um … and after a while they set off to California to join Walt's elder brother Roy who was livingthere in Los Angeles.Presenter:When did Mickey Mouse first appearPeter:Ah, well, Disney and Iwerks first invented a character called Oswald the Rabbit but then in 1928 a new character wasborn:cheerful, sometimes rather naughty, energetic mouse with largefunny ears. Yes, it was Mickey and he appeared for the first timein the first talking cartoon film, called Steamboat Willie. Er …not many people know this but Walt Disney actually provided thevoice for Mickey. By the way, he was almost called "Mortimer Mouse", which doesn't have the same kind of ring to it, or doesit Well, Roy and Walt gathered a team of artists … er …illustrators together … um … by this time Ub Iwerks had left them and started his own company, this was in 1930, and DisneyStudi os, as they called themselves, starting … started to producethe famous short cartoons with … starring Mickey and Minnie andDonald Duck and Pluto and Goofy. Er … Roy was the business managerand driving force behind the company … er … m aking it very profitable and Walt was more the … er … imaginative, creativepart of the partnership.Presenter:What kind of man was Walt DisneyPeter:Well, according to the artists who worked for him Walt actually couldn't draw very well … er … most of the characters wereactually drawn by Iwerks, but apparently he was an amazingstoryteller. He would act out the stories of films doing all the voices and actions to show the illustrators what he wanted themto do and then they had to go off and try to recreate hisvisualizations.Presenter:The most famous cartoon of all was Snow White — and the best I still think.Peter:Mm, yeah, it was the first feature-length cartoon and it was released in … er … 1935. Now, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfsrequired two million drawings and took three years' work to make.Um … obviously it was … er … very expensive, particularly for those times. By the way, the British film censor gave it an Adultcertificate because he thought that it would be too frighteningfo r little children to see on their own. Er … that was followed by Pinocchio and Fantasia in 1940, Dumbo in 1941. And … er …the Disney Studios also started making … um … some rather low-budget live action feature films for children … er …something which th e other studios didn't dare risk doing. Er …some of his films mixed live action with cartoons —er … I'm thinking about Mary Poppins, which I think we've probably allseen, made in 1964, where cartoon characters and … and the reallife actors appeared together on screen and talked anddanced andsang together. Disney was one of the first to see the potential of television, all the other studios were afraid of this medium.Um … so he started to produce films directly for television and …and now of course there's a Disney Channel showing only Disneyfilms.Presenter:And then he dreamt up Disneyland, didn't hePeter:Ah, "dreamt" is the right word. Disneyland was a creation of the land of his dreams: safe, happy, clean, fairy-tale world with itsown Magic Kingdom. The original Disneyland was opened in LosAngeles in 1955 and it cost $17 million. Walt died in 1966 but he was already working on plans for the Disney World in Orlando,Florida, which opened in 1971, and the EPCOT Center near WaltDisney World —that's the "Experimental Prototype Community OfTomorrow", by the way. And there's also a … a Tokyo Disneyland,which was opened in … um … 1983.Presenter:And … and now there's even an Euro Disneyland near Paris, I think.Peter:Yes, that's right. Um … and the Disney Studios still con tinue to produce films in the … the house style, the Walt Disney styleand presumably it always will. Disney's films appealed …um …and still do appeal to children of all ages, but people often criticize them for their lack of taste and they say they're vulgar,but Disney said, "I've never called this art. It's show business and I'm a showman." Well, can you imagine a world without MickeyMousePresenter:Peter Spencer, thank you.Part V Do you know…1. The best real estate deal in historyEven in the days when America was known as the New World, it was a country with a reputation for its spirit of enterprise and the ability of its people to make a good deal.When the settlers started negotiating, the natives hardly knew what had hit them — and in the summer of 1626, probably the most spectacular real estate coup in history took place.Governor Peter Minuit of the Dutch West India Company had the job of buying Manhattan Island from the Indians.After some haggling with Chief Manhasset, the price was agreed at 24 dollars' worth of kettles, axes and cloth.Today, $24 would not buy one square foot of office space in New York City, and an office block in central Manhattan changes hands for around $80 million. Even allowing for inflation, Minuit got himself a real bargain.2. Not again, Josephine!You would think that the Manhattan deal would remain a one-off for ever. But less than two centuries later the loser was Napoleon, Emperor of France and (in his early years, at least) a brilliant military tactician.In 1803, Napoleon had his mind on European affairs (in particular, an invasion ofBritain), so he decided to dispense with France's American possessions.He sold the entire Mississippi valley, an area of 828 000 square miles extending from Canada down to the Gulf of Mexico and westwards to the Rockies, for just over 27 million dollars.Through this deal, known as the Louisiana purchase, President Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States for only around 5 cents per acre.3. Nice ice at a reasonable priceNapoleon did just manage to reach Moscow in his ill-fated invasion of 1812 —but it would seem that news of his poor American deal did not.For, astonishingly, the Russians went on to become the third victims of major land deals with America.On March 30th 1867, the . Secretary of State, William Seward, bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a mere $ million —thereby acquiring another 586 000 square miles of territory for less than 2 cents per acre.The Tsar presumably thought that this remote, frozen and virtually uninhabited piece of land had nothing at all to commend it —and at first, the American people agreed with him, for Alaska was known as "Seward's folly" and "Seward's ice box" for years. In 1896, however, gold was struck at Klondike in the Yukon, and since then, over 750 million dollars' worth has been mined.In 1968, black gold was discovered —and an estimated 100 billion tons of coal are also lying underground, just waiting to be dug up.。
《柏林广场A1》练习册听力与答案（第七课）
《柏林⼴场A1》练习册听⼒与答案（第七课）7678 97 10Effektiv lernenKapitel 712. Ich m?chte eine Pause machen. Ich suche ein Café und bestelle ein Mineralwasser.3. Ich m?chte Deutsch lernen. Ich mache einen Sprachkurs.4. Ich m?chte mit der U-Bahn fahren. Ich brauche ein Ticket.5. Ich m?chte in Berlin leben. Ich brauche eine Wohnung.6. Ich m?chte die Stadt besichtigen. Ich mache eine Stadtrundfahrt.2Dialog 1● Entschuldigung, wo ist denn die Touristeninformation?○ Tut mir leid, das wei? ich nicht. Was suchen Sie denn? Ich wohne hier, vielleicht kann ich Ihnen helfen.● Ich bin das erste Mal hier und m?chte eine Stadtrundfahrt machen.○ Da habe ich einen guten Tipp. Die beste Stadtrundfahrt k?nnen Sie mit dem Bus 100 machen. Der startet am Bahnhof Zoo und f?hrt bis Alexanderplatz. Die Fahrt dauert ungef?hr eine halbe Stunde. Das ist wirklich super und kostet nur den normalen Buspreis!● Wie oft f?hrt der Bus?○ Das wei? ich nicht genau. Fragen Sie doch dort bei der BVG-Information.Dialog 2● Bist du das erste Mal in Berlin?○ Ich lebe seit zwei Monaten hier, aber ich kenne nur mein Büro in Berlin-Mitte und meine Wohnung in Friedrichshain. Und am Wochenende lerne ich Berlin kennen! Heute mache ich mit Leuten eine Stadtrundfahrt mit dem Fahrrad. Da trifft man nette Leute, lernt die Stadt kennen und macht Sport!● Das ist ein guter Tipp. Wer organisiert das?○ Das wei? ich nicht genau, wir treffen uns an der Kulturbrauerei. Aber hier habe ich die Internetadresse.31. Gehen Sie geradeaus, an der Ampel links und die n?chste rechts, da sehen Sie die Post.2. Gehen Sie die n?chste links, dann gleich wieder rechts, an der zweiten Kreuzung sehen Sie das Arbeitsamt.3. Gehen Sie geradeaus, dann die dritte Stra?e rechts und dann gleich links, da sehen Sie das Internetcafé.42. a) Nehmen Sie den Bus 32. b) Nimm den Bus 32.3. a) Benutzen Sie das Fahrrad. b) Benutz das Fahrrad.4. a) Schauen Sie in den Stadtplan. b) Schau in den Stadtplan.5. a) Gehen Sie in den Park. b) Geh in den Park.6. a) Kaufen Sie ein Ticket. b) Kauf ein Ticket.7. a) Schlie?en Sie die Tür. b) Schlie? die Tür.8. a) Fragen Sie die Frau. b) Frag die Frau.5.11. einer;2. einem, dem;3. meiner, meinen;4. der, dem;5. den;6. seiner, seinem5.21. zu, in der, auf dem;2. zum, um;3. nach;4. am;5. an der, zur;6. zu, in der5.32. die;3. eine;4. zum;5. das;6. der;7. der;8. einem;9. einen; 10. ein; 11. einen; 12. ein;13. eine; 14. das; 15. den; 16. einen; 17. die; 18.einen; 19. dem; 20. der 61b; 2c; 3b; 4c; 5c; 6b; 7c71. Firma, Personalbüro, Personalbogen2. Girokonto, Sparkasse, Firma, Gehalt, Konto3. Aufzug, Kollegin, Kantine4. Kasse5. Monatskarte81. Gehalt;2. Konto, Sparkasse;3. Monatskarte;4. Personalbogen;5. Kantine9.1…p“ Verb, (ihr) habt…b“ das Büro, haben…t“ Fahrrad, Land…d“ oder, Handy…k“ Tag, (du) fragst, Montag…g“ Entschuldigen Sie.9.21. Das Büro ist montags geschlossen.2. Die Tickets verkaufen wir montags bis freitags.3. Montag und Donnerstag esse ich immer in der Kantine.4. Habt ihr auch ein Konto bei der Sparkasse?5. Der Bus f?hrt hier um sieben Uhr siebzehn ab.101F; 2R; 3F; 4F; 5R; 6RKapitel 81.1das Wohnzimmer, die Küche, das Bad, das Kinderzimmer1.2Beispiele:Wohnzimmer: das Bild, der Sessel, der Tisch, der Teppich, die Lampe, das Buch, das Regal, das KissenKüche: die Waschmaschine, der Herd, das Spülbecken, der Schrank, die Wand, die Arbeitsplatte, der Abzug, der Boiler Bad: das Handtuch, das Waschbecken, die Badewanne, die Dusche, der Wasserhahn, der Spiegel, der Schrank, dasWC/Klo / die Toilette, das Brett, die Lampe, die Flie?en Kinderzimmer: das Bett, der Schreibtisch, das Fenster, der Stuhl, das Kissen, das Kuscheltier1.3A: m2 = Quadratmeter; K = Küche; DU = Dusche; WC = Toilette (Wassercloset); sep. = separat; NK = Nebenkosten; Min. = Minuten; Tel. = TelefonB: ZKB = Zimmer + Küche + Bad; m2 = Quadratmeter; Altb. = Altbau; OG = Obergeschoss; MM = Monatsmieten; Tel = Telefon21a; 2c; 3a。
新动力 大学英语听力教程Unit 7原文及答案
Unit 7Part OneWarming-up Activity1.We surely shall see the sun shine soon.2. A bloke’s back bike brake block broke.3.Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.4. A tidy tiger tied a tied tighter to tidy her tiny tail.5.Where’s the big black bear the big black bug bit?6.Bob bought a big bag of buns to bait the bear’s baby.7.Give me the gift of a grip top sock: a drip-drape, ship-shape, tip-top sock.8. A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place where a plaice is pleased to be placed.9.Three gray geese in the green grass grazing. Gray were the geese and green wasthe grass.10.Finnish fisher named Fisher failed to fish any fish one Friday afternoon andfinally he found out a big fissure in his fishing-net.Part TwoStatements1.understanding of the social structure2.most men would choose to live3.warn someone of danger4.economic and religious reasons5.death and taxesPart ThreeShort Conversations1.W: Do you want your son to be a lawyer after he graduates?M: No, not really. I hope he would take over my company when I retire.Q: Who is the man? (C)2.W: I’d like the dresses to be cleaned and pressed.M: Y es, Miss. They’ll be ready by Monday.Q: What is the man’s occupation? (D)3.W: Y ou just told me there was no room any more. Why do you give one to thatman?M: I’m sorry, Madam. But he had a reservation.Q: To whom the woman is speaking? (A)4.W: Thank you for seeing us off, but do not forget to finish your homework ontime.M: Of course, Madam. Y our order will always be followed by your son.Q: Who is the woman? (B)5.W: Y ou are quite clever. Y ou know who to speak French, German and Japanese.Which is the easiest to learn?M: They all required a lot of time but Japanese gave me the easiest time since it’s my mother tongue.Q: Who is the man? (A)Part FourShort PassageWe will explain some sayings about birds. For example, if something is “for the birds”, it is worthless or not very interesting. Someone who “eats like a bird”eats very little. And “a bird’s eye view” is a general look at an area from above. Have you ever observed that “birds of a feather flock together”? In other words, people who are similar become friends or do things together.There is some good advice. “A bird in a hand is worth two in a bush.” This means you should not risk losing something you have by trying to get more of something you do not have. Sometimes, I can do two things by making only one action. This is called “killing two birds with one stone”. But I would never really kill any birds. I love all kinds of animals. This is “a real feather in my cap”. It is something to be proud of. Most of the people I work with are “early birds”. They believe that “the early bird catches the worm”. They think that a person who gets up early in the morning for work has the best chance of success.Questions:1.What does the saying “a bird’s eye” mean? (C)2.What does the proverb “birds of a feather flock together” mean? (B)3.When the writer mentions “killing two birds with one stone”, what does hesuggest? (C)4.What does the expression “the early bird catches the worm” imply? (B)5.What is the best title for the passage? (C)Part FiveTrue or False ExercisesPeter had been thrown eight years in prison for robbing a bank near his house. So he was always refused by those employers after he returned home. Everyone knew that he had ever been a prisoner and nobody trusted him. He had wandered for a long time before he finally found a way to support his wife and children. He entered into the same bank where he had robbed, pulled out the same gun, pointed at a clerk and poured out the same words: “Give me your money.”After that, he went out of the bank calmly. Unusually, he sat in front of the bank instead of escaping as before. Of course, the policemen arrived immediately. When they caught him, Peter turned to the arresting policemen and said peacefully, “Would you please ask the court to put my family on welfare just as soon as possible?”1.T2.F3.F4.F5.TPart SixFun TimeMr. and Mrs. Jones were very angry with each other. For several days, they did not speak to each other at all. One evening; Mr. Jones came back from work very tired, so he went to bed soon after dinner. Of course, he did not say anything to his wife beforehe went upstairs. Mrs. Jones washed the dishes and then watched TV. When she went up to bed, she found a piece of paper on the small table near her bed. On it were the words: “Mother, wake me up at 7 a.m., Father.”When Mr. Jones woke up the next morning, it was nearly 8. on the small table near his bed he saw a piece of paper. It read: “Father, wake up. It’s 7 a.m., Mother.”1.What happened between Mr. Jones and Mrs. Jones/They were angry with each other.2.What did Mr. Jones do soon after dinner, and why?Mr. Jones came back from work very tired, so he went to bed soon after dinner. 3.What did Mrs. Jones do after dinner?Mrs. Jones washed the dishes and then watched TV.4.What message did Mrs. Jones find on the paper on the small table near her bed?Mother, wake me up at 7 a.m., Father5.When did Mr. Jones wake up the next morning?Nearly 8.。
听力教程第三册答案UNIT7
UNIT 7Section one Tactics for ListeningPart 1 Spot DictationMeet Your ChiropractorThe doctor of chiropractic (D.C.) is a (1) well-recognized member of the health team who (2) considers the human body as a total functioning (3) unit and gives special attention to the spine, (4) muscles, nerves, circulatory and skeletal (5) systems. The chiropractor seeks to (6) relieve pain.The procedures utilized are primarily focused on the (7) spine. The chiropractor is concerned about the spine's relationship to the (8) nerve system, which controls important body functions. The chiropractor knows that a malfunctioning* spinal joint can not only cause (9) back pain or headaches, it can also (10) interfere with the nerves leading from the spine, thereby (11) affecting other portions of the body.Millions of Americans are chiropractic patients for a wide variety of (12) health disorders. They depend on their chiropractor as their (13) family doctor to help them maintain their health through proper (14) diagnosis, treatment, and referral when (15) necessary.A minimum of six years of college study including internships (16) goes into the making of a chiropractic physician. Many doctors of chiropractic choose to (17) limit their practices to certain specialties, such as (18) sports injuries,nutrition, orthopedics or radiology.As a (19) licensed and regulated member of the healing arts, the doctor of chiropractic must pass a state (20) licensing board examination in order to practice.Part 2 listening for GistLike the "Iron Age" volunteers, Paul has also chosen to cut himself off from many aspects of modem life, not, however, as an experiment but because he feels it is a more satisfactory way to live. He is talking about his small cottage in the Welsh mountains:"And that brings me to say what is primitive about it, namely, it is anything that has to be done, and there are obviously certain basic needs of life, is 'DIY' as they say: Do it yourself. There is no labor to be had nowadays in such a remote part. Er, there are no neighbors for most of the year and so you are on your own entirely. The place itself is extremely primitive. Er, I mentioned the water. I mentioned that we now have got electricity. Er, the building itself - it's important to keep it clean and it's stupid to try. We try to keep it tidy, and reasonably clean. It is very difficult to keep it warm, warm enough particularly in winter and that we do by an old kitchen range with coal and wood."ExerciseDirections: Listen to the passage and find its topic sentence.The topic sentence is "The place itself is extremely primitive."Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart1 DialogueA Healthy LifeDr Martin Answay writes a column in a popular women's magazine on health problems. He is also an expert on heart disease.Q: Is there a secret to good health? I mean, is there some way we can achieve it which is not generally known?A: It certainly isn't a secret. However, there is a great deal of ignorance, even among supposedly educated people, about how to be reasonably healthy. Q: Well, what advice do you give, then?A: Vh ... to begin with, take diet. I believe that one of the greatest dangers to health in Britain and other countries ... particularly developed countries ... is the kind of food we tend to prefer.Q: Such as?A: Such as that great national institution, the British breakfast, for example, ham and eggs. Or the kind of lunch so many people in this country have: sausage and chips! Or all the convenience foods like hamburgers. Or even things we regard as "healthy", such as full-fat milk. Or Cheddar cheese. The list is endless.Q: What's wrong with those things?A: The excessive consumption of such things leads to the overproduction ofcholesterol, which in turn results in heart attack ...Q: Excuse me, but what exactly is cholesterol?A: It's a ... wax-like substance ... yellowish ... and it's produced naturally in our livers. We all need some cholesterol for survival.Q: Well, if we need it, in what way is it bad for us?A: Too much of it is bad for us. It builds up in our arteries, causing them to get narrower, so that our blood supply has difficulty in getting through ... and this, of course, can eventually end in a heart attack or stroke. The point I'm trying to make here is that, even though we all need some cholesterol in order to insulate our nerves, and to produce cell membranes and hormones, the things many of us eat and even consider healthy lead to the overproduction of cholesterol. And this is very dangerous.Q: How can we avoid this overproduction of cholesterol?A: By cutting down our consumption of animal fats: things like red meat, cheese, eggs, and so on. And by increasing our consumption of fresh fruit andvegetables, and also by eating more potatoes, rice, pasta and bread.Q: Pasta? Potatoes? But ... aren't such things fattening?A: Nonsense. It isn't pasta, potatoes or bread that makes us fat. It's what we put on such things! Cheese, Butter, Meat!Q: So anything we like, anything that's delicious, is bad for us. Isn't that what you're saying?A: Rubbish! I'm simply saying we eat too much of these things. And there aremany ways of preparing delicious food without using such large quantities of animal fats.Q: Last of all, what about exercise? You recently warned against certain forms of exercise, which you said could be dangerous.A: What I said was that if people aren't used to getting regular and vigorous exercise, they should begin slowly, and not try to do too much at the beginning! I also said that certain games, such as squash, can be dangerous, particularly if you aren't used to playing them. A number of injuries are due to sudden, twisting movements that games like squash involve.Q: What kinds of exercise do you recommend, then?A: Gentle jogging, swimming, cycling, brisk walking ... exercise that is rhythmic and gentle, and above all, sustained. That is, done for at least fifteen minutes uninterruptedly at least three times a week. We all need such exercise, and the fact is that far too few of us get enough of it, particularly if we live inlarge cities and regularly use cars.ExerciseDirections: Listen to the dialogue and complete the following grids.A. CholesterolB. ExercisePart 2 PassageAging of America1)The impending collision between the boomers and the nation's retirementsystem is naturally catching the eye of policymakers and the boomersthemselves.2)Retirement income security in the United States has traditionally been basedon the so-called three-legged stool: Social Security, private pensions, and other personal saving.3)Retirement planning takes time, and these issues need to be addressed soonerrather than later.4)One found that in 1991 the median household headed by a 65-69-year-old hadfinancial assets of only $14,000, but expanding the measure to include Social Security, pensions, housing, and other wealth boosts median wealth to about $270,000.5)Only one or two generations of Americans have had lengthyretirements, and the crucial retirement issues keep changingrapidly, making long-term predictions even harder.The Baby Boom* generation - the roughly 76 million people born between 1946 and 1964has been reshaping American society for five decades. From jamming the nation's schools in the 1950s and 1960s, to crowding labor markets and housing markets in the 1970s and 1980s,to affecting consumption patterns almost continuously, boomers have altered economic patterns and institutions at each stage of their lives. Now that the leading edge of the generation has turned 50, the impending collision between the boomers and the nation's retirement system is naturally catching the eye of policymakers and the boomers themselves.Retirement income security in the United States has traditionally been based on the so-called three-legged stool: Social Security, private pensions, and other personal saving. Since World War II the system has served the elderly well: The poverty rate among elderly households fell from 35 percent in 1959 to 11 percent in 1995 .Are the baby boomers making adequate preparations for retirement? In part, the answer depends on what is meant by "adequate". One definition is to have enough resources to maintain pre-retirement living standards in retirement. A rule of thumb* often used by financial planners is that retirees should be able to meet this goal by replacing 60-80 percent of pre-retirement income. Retired households can maintain their pre-retirement standard of living with less income because they have more leisure time, fewer household members, and lower expenses. Taxes are lower because retirees escape payroll taxes and the income tax is progressive. And mortgages have, for the most part, been paid off. On the other hand, older householdsmay face higher and more uncertain medical expenses, even thoughthey are covered by Medicare.From a public policy perspective, assuring that retirees maintain100 percent of pre-retirement living standards may be overly ambitious. But should policymakers aim to ensure that they maintain90 percent of their living standards? Or that they stay out of poverty?Or use some other criterion? Retirement planning takes time, andthese issues need to be addressed sooner rather than later.A second big question is how to measure how well baby boomers are preparing for retirement. Studies that focus only on personal saving put aside for retirement yield bleak conclusions. One found that in 1991 the median household headed by a 65-69-year-old had financial asset of only $14,000. But expanding the measure to include Social Security, pensions, housing, and other wealth boosts median wealth to about $270,000.A third issue - crucial but as yet little explored - is which baby boomers are not provided adequately for retirement and how big thegap is between what they have and what they shouldhave. Some boomers are doing extremely well, others quite poorly. Summary averages for an entire generation may not be useful as descriptions of the problem or as suggestions for policy.The uncertain prospects for the baby boomers in retirement are particularly troubling because, as a society, we as yet understand little about the dynamics ofretirement. Only one or two generations of Americans have had lengthy retirements, and the crucial retirement issues - health care, asset markets, Social Security, life span - keep changing rapidly, making long-term predictions even harder.Exercise A Pre-listening QuestionAs China's aging population is increasing rapidly, there should be a well-funded pension system put in place. However, the country's pension system only covers a fraction of the work force. It predicts that China will have an elderly population of about 400 million by 2040, which will be a large burden on the economy if an effective pension system is not established.The Chinese government, aware that the old pension system in the planned economy could not keep pace with the market economy, started to reform a purely "pay-as-you-go" pension system in 1997 and introduced one that combines a basic pension with personal savings accounts. The accounts are jointly paid into by employers and employees, as saving to support employees' retirements. The state is considering expanding a reformed pension insurance system nationwide.China is also accelerating the reform of China's pension system.It has been trying to find appropriate ways to invest pension funds in the capital market rather than simply putting them in banks or buying treasury bonds.It has also been trying to find appropriate ways to invest pension funds inthe capital market overseas.To ensure the maintenance and appreciation of the pension pool, more investment tools should be allowed, with sound governance and parallel reform in the financial sector to ensure returns.Exercise B Sentence DictationDirections: Listen to some sentences and write them down. You will hear each sentence three times.Exercise C Detailed ListeningDirections: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.l.D 2.D 3. B 4.B 5.C 6.C 7.A 8.CExercise D After-listening DiscussionDirections: Listen to the passage again and discuss the following questions.1)The boomers have altered economic patterns from jamming the nation'sschools in the 1950s and 1960s, to crowding labor markets and housing markets in the 1970s and 1980s, to affecting consumption patterns almost continuously.2)(Open)。
冀教版七年级英语下册unit7 听力试卷附答案
冀教版七年级英语下册Unit 7 听力(限时: 20分钟满分: 30分)一、听句子, 选出句子中所包含的信息, 每个句子读两遍(每小题1分, 共5分)1. A. usual B. awful C. careful2. A. steps B. habits C. ways3. A. get in the way B. got on the way C. got in the way4. A. Flying a kite is popular.B. Flying a kite is good for us.C. We’re good at flying a kite.5. A. Laughter is good medicine.B. Always take good medicine.C. Medicine can make you laugh.二、听句子, 选出该句的最佳答语, 每个句子读两遍(每小题1分, 共5分)6. A. It is delicious. B. That’s all right.C. Sorry, I won’t.7. A. For a week. B. After a week.C. Once a week.8. A. Yes, I do. B. I never drink.C. It’s good for me.9. A. In 2010. B. Twice a day.C. At three o’clock.10. A. He watched a football game.B. He is going to the store.C. He went to the library.三、听对话和问题, 选出正确答案, 对话和问题读两遍(每小题1分, 共8分)11. What sports does Jim like best?A B C12. How did the people get food a long time ago?A B C13. What does Lin Tao plan to take part in?A. The long jump.B. The high jump.C. Running.14. What does Jim usually eat?A. Fruit.B. Vegetables.C. Meat.15. Why doesn’t Jim take exercise every day?A. He doesn’t like exercise.B. He wants to put on weight.C. He is too busy.16. What is Tom doing?A. Writing a letter.B. Writing a report.C. Writing an e-mail.17. Where does Tom eat breakfast?A. At home.B. At school.C. In a restaurant.18. How often does Tom have milk?A. Three times a week.B. Once a day.C. Twice a day.四、听短文和问题, 选择正确答案, 短文和问题读两遍(每小题1分, 共7分)19. What kind of life did people live a long time ago?A. A healthy and happy life.B. An easy and happy life.C. A healthy and easy life.20. Where do families love to go for holidays now?A. To the mountains.B. To the beaches.C. To the parks.21. What do some people go fishing for now?A. For food.B. For money.C. For fun.22. How is Susan?A. Beautiful.B. Healthy.C. Best.23. Which fruit does Susan like?A. Bananas.B. Apples.C. Pears.24. What food does Susan eat for dinner?A. Salad.B. Eggs and milk.C. Chicken.25. Why doesn’t Susan eat too much ice cream?A. Because it’s very cold.B. She thinks she may be fat.C. She doesn’t like it.五、听短文填空, 短文读两遍(每小题1分, 共5分)Unit 7 听力听力材料:一、1. Playing the computer games all day is awful.2. I decided to change my eating habits.3. Don’t get in the wa y of my work.4. It’s good for us to fly a kite.5. Always laugh, because it is good medicine.二、6. Don’t eat too much junk food.7. How often does the girl come to school on foot?8. Do you often eat vegetables?9. When does the train leave?10. Where did he go last night?三、Dialogue 1W: Do you like sports, Jim?M: Yes, of course I do. I like many sports. I like playing basketball best.Q11: What sports does Jim like best?Dialogue 2M: Did the First Nations people come to Canada a long time ago?W: Yes. They went hunting for their meals at that time.Q12: How did the people get food a long time ago?Dialogue 3W: The School Sports Day is coming. I plan to take part in running and the long jump.What about you, Lin Tao?M: I want to take part in the long jump, too.Q13: What does Lin Tao plan to take part in?Dialogue 4W: Do you like eating vegetables, Jim?M: Yes. I usually eat vegetables and I sometimes eat meat.W: Do you take exercise every day?M: No, I don’t have much time.Q14: What does Jim usually eat?Q15: Why doesn’t Jim take exercise every day?Dialogue 5W: What are you doing, Tom?M: I am writing a report about habits.W: What’s your good habit?M: I often get up early and eat breakfast at home. I have vegetables twice a day, milk once a day and fruit three times a week.W: Oh! It’s good for you. Do you have any bad habits?M: Yes. I often watch TV and don’t have enough sleep.W: You need to do more sports, Tom.Q16: What is Tom doing?Q17: Where does Tom eat breakfast?Q18: How often does Tom have milk?四、Text 1A long time ago, people lived a healthy and happy life. They went fishing and hunting for food. Now people live a rich and happy life. Some people go fishing for fun. Families love to have holidays. They love to go to the beach and enjoy swimming. Many big cities have many shops and hotels for the visitors.Q19: What kind of life did people live a long time ago?Q20: Where do families love to go for holidays now?Q21: What do some people go fishing for now?Text 2 Susan is my best friend. She isn’t very beautiful, but she is very healthy. She has good eating habits. She likes fruit best. It’s healthy. She doesn’t like bananas, but she likes apples. She has salad for lunch. She doesn’t have hamburg ers for dinner, because she thinks they’re not healthy. Chicken is good for health, so she often eats it for dinner. She likes ice cream, too. She doesn’t eat too much. She thinks she may be fat.Q 22: How is Susan?Q23: Which fruit does Susan like?Q24: What food does Susan eat for dinner?Q25: Why doesn’t Susan eat too much ice cream?五、Dale is my best friend. He is very healthy because he has a good habit. He usually gets up at 6:30. Then he goes to school at 7 o’clock. He works hard at school. Afte r school, he gets some exercise in the park with his friends for about half an hour. Then he goes home at 5:30. In the evening, he always does his homework after dinner. He sometimes watches TV or reads newspapers. He usually goes to bed at 9:40.答案:一、1~5: BBABA二、6~10: CCACC三、11~13: CAA 14~15: BC 16~18: BAB四、19~21: ABC 22~25: BBCB五、26. habit 27. 6:30 28. gets some exercise29. homework 30. newspapers。
新标准视听说七单元答案
Unit 7 The secret life of scienceUnit overviewInside viewConversation 1Example answers1 Probably a London science museum. (The picture shows Stephenson’s Rocket of 1829, an important early steam engine.)2 You can see old scientific objects, listen to talks and press buttons to see things happen.3 They need to have interesting activities and have a fun atmosphere.2Answers5-3-2-6-1-4Answers1(c) 2(d) 3(d) 4(a) 5(b) 6(b)Conversation 2AnswersTopics actually mentioned are: steam engines, electricity, space rockets, satellites, computing, scientific experiments, agriculture, history of flight and telescopes.5Answers1 It’s got everything to do with science.2 She thinks it sounds fascinating.3 At the museum.4 She tells him Andy and she are going to spend the night together.5 Joe is surprised and confused.6Answers(1)Why is it so special(2)I suppose this is(3)have special exhibitions for kids(4)The first thing you have to do(5)we’re really gonna stay the night(6)While you’re getting(7)where are you two off toOutside view3AnswersUses of computers include: to provide travel updates, to operate trains, to analyze evidence, to control buildings, to switch on lights, to provide entertainment, to control the temperature and to close blinds.Places where computers are used include: homes, police stations, libraries and schools.4Answers1(a) 2(d) 3(c) 4(a) 5(d)5Answers(1)areas of life(2)in our homes(3)computer-controlled houses(4)adjust the temperature(5)give new instructions(6)react to match(7)TV and Internet(8)outside changes(9)stop too much sun from entering(10)t urn the oven on7Example answersComputers play a major role in the daily lives of people in Britain. They are important for the operation of the transport network, assist the police in their duties, and control many buildings. The young are very keen on computers, particularly enjoying computer games, their number one leisure activity.Soon computers may even run the homes of ordinary people. In smart homes a central computer, which can be accessed through a mobile phone, will control temperatures, maintain security, and operate electrical appliances throughout the building. Blinds will be lowered or raised depending on the amount of light and it will be possible to have dinner waiting for one when one gets home after work.This worries some people who think the British spend too much time on their electronic devices, but the young are happy to treat their computers even as friends. Listening inPassage 1Listening and understanding2Answers1 Scientists at the University of Bristol carried out a two-month study to find the best way to dunk a biscuit.2 About one in four biscuits break up when dunked.3 Unlike biscuits, doughnuts are held together by protein gluten which doesn’t break down in hot liquids.4 Horizontally dunking a biscuit into tea allows a longer dunking time, as the liquid takes longer to soak into it.5 The hotter the tea the faster the biscuit breaks up.6 Dunking a biscuit in a hot drink releases up to ten times more flavour than eating the biscuit dry.3Answers1 dunking biscuits2 held together3 absorb liquid4 travel through5 hold the biscuit6 producing a tableDeveloping critical thinking4Example answers1 Yes, I find it fascinating to learn of this strange custom. I mut try it myself. It seems it really makes biscuits taste better!2 I think he is a regular biscuit-dunker but kept on losing half his biscuit so he wanted to find out how he could avoid pleasure to disaster!3 Well, it cannot have cost much and it might give pleasure to a lot of people – so why not do it?4 Now we are getting serious. of course, research into food and health is far more important.5Answers1 I really do not know – it looks as if it might be something to do with the moon and its phases – but why is it in a field?2 Crop circles – this is farmland, isn’t it? The circles are made in a field of wheat? I don’t think I know anything about this.3 Do they use agricultural equipment?4 Oh, look at them –they must be man-made. How else could such tidy patterns appear in a field?5 Why do people make them? Or is there some secret I don’t know about?Listening and understanding6AnswersThe statements said by Peter are: 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8.The statements said by Louise are: 3, 5 and 7.7Answers1(b) 2(b) 3(d) 4(a) 5(c) 6(a)PronunciationAnswers√science scientific√energy energetic√history historical√electricity electrical√agriculture agricultural√exhibit exhibition5AnswersPerhaps, / but / how do you explain the fact / that the actual chemical composition / of the grains of crops inside the circles changes? / Scientific tests / have found / they have a higher protein level. / The stems of the grains / have often been exposed to high temperatures. / And they found that the soil within the circles / contains more iron / than the soil outside. / So far, / the hoaxers / haven’t been able to copy / all these features。
七年级广州听说与听力专练答案2021-2022U7
七年级广州听说与听力专练答案2021-2022U7Ⅰ.听力(共两节，满分30分)第一节(共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)听下面5段对话。
每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。
听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。
每段对话仅读一遍。
1.Where did the man go last year?A.Chengdu.B.Beijing.C.Xi’an.2.Which book has the woman bought?A.A math book.B.A history book.C.An English book.3.Where will the man go first?A.The classroom.B.The library.C.The post office.4.What’s the time now?A.7：00.B.6：30.C.6：20.5. What are the speakers talking about?A.An organizat ion’s help.B.Ways to protect animals.C.Things made from animals.第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)听下面5段对话或独白。
每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。
听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。
每段对话或独白读两遍。
请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. How is the man probably feeling?A.Disappointed.B.Encouraged.C.Delighted.7. What will the man probably do tonight?A.Have a meeting.B.Go to a party.C.Fly to the US.请听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
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Part III Listening Comprehension
Section A
11. M: I kept looking for Mary at the seminar but I never saw her. I can’t imagine she forgot about it. She’d been talking about it for weeks.
17. M: I really can’t understand it. I kept a very careful record of my checks and the total was much less than we deposited.
W: But perhaps your wife also wrote some checks, Charlie.
【解 析】选[C]。对话中女士提到she
caught…bad cold a couple of days ago（她前几天
患上重感冒了）, 由此可知, 女士在说she
（Mary）因为生病不能参加研讨会, 故答案为
[C]。[B]中ill for several weeks与a couple of days
W: What personality traits do you admire, then?
M: I admire an honest, flexible, easy-going person who possesses the “can-do”spirit.
W: What leadership qualities have you developed as an administration personnel?
M: With my qualifications and experiences, I feel I am hardworking, responsible and diligent in many projects I undertake. Your organization could benefit from my synthetical and interpersonal skills.
W: How long woth this company?
M: I will stay as long as I can continue to learn and to grow in my field.
16. W: Didn’t Mary go shopping with you yesterday? She is on holiday as far as I know.
M: Even if she hadn’t had a lot of studying to do, she would have preferred to stay at home.
W: Oh she didn’t. It’s just that she caught a really bad cold a couple of days ago.
Q: What does the woman say about Mary? 【听前预测】选项中出现的She, seminar, forgot, ill等表明, 对话可能与She没有参加研讨会的原?因有关。
Q: What can we infer from the man? 【听前预测】选项中的His memory, familiar with, tired of等表明, 本题很可能考查He的事实状况，可能与记性有关。
【解 析】选[B]。男士的话I’ve been there a million times为答案出处, there指代女士提到的the hotel, 由此可知男士对去hotel的路是很熟悉的, 故答案为[B]。
W: Why did you leave your last job?
M: Well, I’m hoping to get an offer of a better position. If an opportunity knocks, I will take it. I feel I have reached the “glass ceiling” in my current job. I feel there’s no opportunity for advancement.
M: I feel that I’m good at motivating people and leading them to work together as a team.
W: What do you find frustrating in a work situation?
M: Sometimes the narrow-minded people who are not receptive to new ideas make me feel frustrated.
14. M: I bought a hundred and fifty pounds’ worth of travelers’ check, just to get me started.
W: Well, if you don’t need it all at once, why not put some of it on deposit?
ago不符,是干扰项。
12. M: Why is Susan so tired and upset?
W: She’s been studying day and night for her final exam. I warned her many times to prepare earlier, but she wouldn’t listen.
Q: What does the woman suggest? 【听前预测】由选项中重复出现的travelers’ check可知, 对话与旅行支票有关。
【解 析】选[B]。对话中女士用why not put some of it on deposit建议男士存一些钱, [B]中的Saving是对put…on deposit的同义转述, 故答案为[B]。put sth. on deposit意为“将某物（常指钱）存起来”。
W: What makes you think you would be successful in this position?
M: My graduate school training combined with my internship should qualify me for this particular job. I am quite sure I will be successful.
Q: What does the woman mean? 【听前预测】选项中的She, advised Susan, study, accepted the warning等表明, 对话可能与女士对Susan的学习建议有关。
【解 析】选[B]。对话中女士提到I warned her many times to prepare（我多次告诫她要复习）, [B]是对女士的话的同义转述, 其中often对应many times, study对应prepare, 故答案为[B]。
Q: What can be inferred from the conversation? 【听前预测】选项中的chairs, bad, have the chairs replaced等表明, 对话可能与讨论是否要换掉椅子有关。
【解 析】选[D]。由That doesn’t mean we’ve got to have them the rest of our lives和they’re falling apart（它们散架了）可推知, 男士认为应当换掉现在的椅子, 故答案为[D]。
15. W: I hear you got lost on you way to the meeting at the hotel. Are you joking?
M: I don’t know how I did it anyway. I’ve been there a million times.
Now you will hear the two long conversations.
Conversation One
【听前预测】选项中的 work, job, hunting, offer, position, qualified with 等表明, 对话可能与找工作有关。
W: Can you sell yourself in two minutes? Go for it.
W: How do you handle conflicts with your colleagues in your work?
M: I will try to present my new ideas in a more clear and civilized manner in order to get my points across.
18. W: Martin, we’ve had these chairs since we got married. They are very comfortable.
M: That doesn’t mean we’ve got to have them the rest of our lives. Anyway they’re falling apart.
Q: What does the woman imply? 【听前预测】选项中的His wife, deposited, account, bank等表明, 对话与His wife对钱的处理有关。