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全新版大学英语听说教程第一册听力原文Unit 1Part A1. 1) How are you doing? 2) I’d like you to meet my classmate2. 1) I’m 2) May I introduce 3) to you 4) Pleased to meet you5) It’s a pleasure to meet you3. 1) Come and meet my family 2) this is Tom 3) It’s good to know you4) this is my sister.Part BTapescriptTalking about Studying EnglishAt a gathering of students from China and some other countries, Yang Weiping and Virginia Wang, both first-year college students, are talking about their learning of English.Hello, my name is Yang Weiping. I’m a freshman at Peking University and I’m majoring in chemistry.At college we have to study a foreign language. I choose English because I like listening to English programs on the radio and TV. I also like British and American pop songs. Some day I hope to visit Britain and the United States.I started learning English several years ago and I’m getting better at it. My favorite activity is listening, especially listening to songs and stories. My big problem is, however, speaking. I feel nervous whenever I speak. And I never seem to know what to say when people talk to me. But I’ve decided to overcome my shyness and learn to speak English by speaking as much as I can.H i, my name is Virginia Wang. I’m a library science major at the National University of Singapore. In our country, English is important. It is one of the official languages and you have to be fluent to English to get a good job.I’ve been studying English since high school. I’m good atreading because I like learning about new things and new ideas. There are so many books and articles written in English. Our textbooks at the university are in English, too. I know writing is also very important, but I find it rally difficult.When I graduate from the university I would like a job in the city library where I can read all kinds of new books.Exercise 1: b dExercise 2: 1)Yang 2)Chemistry 3)Likes listening to English programs on radio & TV; enjoys English pop songs 4) several years ago 5) listening; speaking6) Wang 7) Library science 8) To get a good job 9) in high school 10) reading; writingDialogue 11) may I sit here? 2) Sure. 3) Nice day 4) warm and sunny 5) computerDialogue 21) About four years 2) Very much 3) it’s very usefulDialogue 31) Listening 2) I find listening rather difficult 3) listen to this tape4) Perhaps I shouldPart C1)skills 2)worry 3)focus 4)feel 5)understood 6)carefully 7)problems8)understand 9)main 10)detailsUnit 2Part A1.Closing2.Opening3.Closing4.Opening5.Opening6.Opening1-5 a b b a b 6-10.a b a b bPart BTapescript How to Improve Your Conversation SkillsTo speak to people in a foreign language requires courage and a willingness to make errors. Some people are so afraid of making mistakes that they never open their mouths. And that’s the biggest mistake of all. Now if you have courage and are ready to make a few errors, what do you say?First of all, you have to open the conversation. Finding an appropriate topic is half the battle. Some topics, such as theweather and news, work well. But others, such as age, money or people’s appearance do not. The following are some good ways to open a conversation.Weather –It sure is cold today, isn’t it?News – Did you hear about that terrible forest fire?A conversation in a foreign language doesn’t always go smoothly. Sometimes your partner talks too fast and you find it difficult to follow. Not to worry, though. You can always ask your partner to repeat what he has said or to speak more slowly. For example, “Excuse me, but could you say that again? I didn’t catch it.” Or “Could you speak more slowly, please?”At the end of a conversation you need to find a way to close it in a polite way. “Well, I really need to be going,” or “It was nice talking to you” are frequently used by people to end a conversation.Exercise 1: 1. b c a 2. DExercise 2: 1. a. age b. money c. people’s appearance2. a. say that again? I didn’t catch it. b. speak more slowly, please3. a. really need to be going b. nice talking to you.Dialogue 11. do you have a minute?2. What can I do for you3. several4. I wonder if you could tell me how I could improve my oral English5. every time I open my mouth I seem to make errors6. be willing to make some errors at the beginning.7. I shouldn’t be afraid of making mistakes.8. try to speak English as much as I canDialogue 2:1. Cold this morning2. get even colder3. won’t get as cold as4. terrific. That guy who won the first prize speaks really fluent English. I do admire him.5. Me, too.6. I have an appointment with the dean.Part CTapescript Smile When You Read ThisHow good is your memory? Answer these four questions: What did you have for breakfast yesterday? What clothes did you wear last Friday? Who did you talk to yesterday? Where did you go last Saturday? If you can answer all four questions, you memory is verygood.Memory is important for leaning language skills. Education specialists in England want to help people improve their reading abilities. They want students to remember the books and articles they read. The specialists found something to help: facialexpressions. They gave ten students a happy article to read. Five of the students read the happy article while smiling. Five students read the happy article while frowning. Then they answered comprehension questions the smiling students remembered more of the happy article than the frowning students.Then the specialists gave ten students another article to read. It was an angry letter to the editor of a newspaper. Five students read the angry article while smiling, and five students read the angry article whiling frowning. Which group remembered better? You’re right. The frowning students.The specialist do n’t know why facial expressions help memory. They are continuing to study the relationship between the mind and the body. Until they find the answer, keep smiling (or frowning?)!Exercise:1. If one can answer all the four questions, his memory is thought to be good. (I hear it.)2. The smiling student could remember more happy articles than the frowning students. (I hear it.)3. Education specialist from England haven’t found the best way to help people improve reading abilities. (I can not infer it.)4. The specialists are trying to explain the reason why facial expressions can help memory (I can infer it.)5. According to the speaker, facial expressions might affect a person’s memory. (I can infer it.)6. In the second group five students who read the angry letter while smiling remembered less. (I can infer it.)Unit 3Part A1. likes2. doesn’t car for3. loves4. hates5. not interested in6.prefers7.loves8.favorite9.is keen on 10.prefers 11.enjoys 12.thinks a lot of /doc/9f7109518.html,st kind of1. br2.pr3.kl4.tr5.sp6.pr7.pl8.str9.gr 10.glPart BTapescript Accommodation for College StudentsR: Good morning. Can I help you?S: Yes, please. I’m a new student and I’d like to have some information about the…em…th e accommodation for students.R: Right. The university provides two types of accommodation, halls of residence and self-cateringaccommodation.S: How much does it cost for the self-catering accommodation?R: For a single room, thirty-seven pounds eighty-six per week, that’s about five forty-one a day. For a double room, it’s fifty-two seventy-eight per week. This will apply throughout this academic year.S: I’d like to stay in the self-catering accommodation. How far is that from the residence to the university?R: It all depends. The residences at 36 Elms Road and 110 Palm Road are about one and a half miles from the university main site and the Freeman’s Common House at William Road are half a mile.S: When do I need to apply?R: Are you an undergraduate or a postgraduate?S: Undergraduate.R: Then you should apply for it as soon as possible, since places in university-owned accommodation are limited and if you don’t apply before the end of the month, you are not likely to get a place.S: Could you possibly tell me what to do, if no vacancy isavailable?R: Yes, you may consider private accommodation. The university runs an Accommodation Information Office and its staff will help you.S: Where is the office?R: In the Students’ Union Building.S: Whom can I contact?R: Mr. Underwood. David Underwood, the manager of the accommodation information office.S: Thank you very much.R: You are welcome.Exercise 1: c dExercise 2: 1) private 2) Halls of Residence 3) Self-catering 4)￡37.86 5) ￡52.78Dialogue 1: 1. you’re moving into… Xiao Chen 2.moved into 3. Aren’t you lucky! …there was no vacancy 4. What a pity! You should have applied earlier. 5. I guess so 6.rent an apartment near school 7.more convenient 8.that’s true…302 9. See you 10. See youDialogue 2: 1.you have a one-bedroom apartment to rent 2. Maple Street…a shopping center and a subway station 3. Sound nice 4. Fourth 5.east..north…a beautiful park /doc/9f7109518.html,fortable 7.800 8.in a day or twoPart CTapescript What College Professors DoCollege professors are often believed to lead easy lives of quiet thinking while teaching one or two classes every week. But college professors do much more than go to class. The average professor spends between six and fifteen hours in the classroom weekly. And that same college professor works from sixty to eighty hours a week.Because they must remain current in their fields, professors spend part of that time reading, reading, reading. That leads to additional hours during which they revise and update their class lecture notes. It takes far longer to prepare notes than to deliver them in class. Professors may spend time conducting experiments, working on college projects, or advising students. They may be writing books, articles, or papers for delivery at conventions.When not in the classroom or in the office, professors are still working, behind closed doors in committee sessions or at home grading papers and preparing for tomorrow’s classes. To accept this sort of schedule willingly, they must feel strongly about theimportance of the college experience.Exercise: 1. A busy life. 2. Between six and fifteen hours.3.They must remain current in their fields.4. They will revise and update them.Unit 4Part A1. 1) Yeah 2) By the way 3) Who 4) Don’t you think so? 5) Yes 6) Quite well2. 1) Like what2) Yeah 3) Hmm, let me think 4) Well 5) Come to think of it1. 923812. 26083. 15404. 755. 1566. 9007. 84,2008. 1,7359. 9:40 10.5:45Part BTapescript Small Talk Is EasyA: Mike, guess what?B: What?A: Carol just invited me to a party at her house on Saturday.B: Carol? You mean the pretty girl in your economics class?A: Yeah.B: Great! I’m sure you’ll have a super time.A: I’m not so sure.B: What do you mean, John? I though you really liked Carol.A: I do. But I don't know her friends very well.B: So get to know them.A: But I’m no good at small talk.B: Small talk is easy. You can learn.A: By Friday?B: sure, I’ll coach you. You just have to remember a few simple sentences.A: I don't know. I have trouble remembering things. Especially when I meet people. I get nervous.B: Don’t worry, John. You can do it. You just need a few tips.A: But what if I say something stupid?B: Hey, you’re not giving a speech. You’re just having a conversation. So just talk about something you know they are interested in.A: That’s the problem. I don’t know what Carol’s friends are interested in.B: Let them tell you. If you let people talk about themselves, they’ll think you’re interesting.A: You mean something like, “So, tell me what you’re interested in.”B: Well, you don’t have to be that direct. For example, you can talk about the weather.A: You can’t be serious. The weather’s b oring.B: It’s a good excuse to find out what they like to do. On a rainy day, you say, “What do you do in such terrible weather?”A: What if they just stayed home and read a book?B: Then ask them about the book. You can ask if it was good. Ask if they liked it and why. Then talk about a book you really liked.A: So that’s what small talk is about, is it? Well, I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the tips, Mike.B: You’re welcome. Have a good time at the party.Note:Small talk means light conversations on unimportant or non-serious subjects such as the weather or TV programs you saw last night, or little compliments on what people are wearing. In a social gathering where a lot of guests are strangers to one another, small talk can be very useful to make them feel at ease.Exercise 1: c a dExercise 2: 1. At Carol’s house on Saturday 2. He’s uncertain whether he can have a good time at the party or not 3. He’s not good at small talk 4. One should talk about something other people are interested in 5. By getting them to talk about themselvesDialogue 1: 1. My American friend…weekend 2. That’s great 3. never been to a party given by a foreigner… I won’t know how to act 4. But it’s easier said than done5. A bottle of wine or a small box of chocolates6.his American friends. What should I say to them?7. Why don’t you get them to talk about themselves? Won’t it be a super chance for you to practice your conversation skills with native speakers of English?8. I guess you’re right. Thanks.Dialogue 2: 1.a beautiful song they are playing 2.cool 3.pop music 4.Oh, yeah 5.rap 6.It’s all right, but I’m not really cray about it 7. Do you often go to those big concerts 8.Sometimes…listening to CDs… I can’t stand crowds of pushing people9. I know what you meanPart CTapescript Are you Calling about the Party?Laura: Hello. This is Laura Davis speaking.Simon: Oh, hello, Laura. This is Simon here. Simon Williams.Laura: Oh, Simon. How nice to hear you. Are you calling about the party? You did get the invitation, didn’t you?Simon: Yes, thanks, I did. That’s just it. I’m afraid. You see, I’m already tied up that evening.Laura: Oh, really? That is a pity.Simon: Yes. I’m afraid it’s been planned for ages. You see, some friends of mine are coming to see me. I haven’t seen them for a long time, and you know … well…I managed to get some tickets for the opera, and I promised to take them out to dinner afterwards. I can’t get out of it, unfortunately. I wish I could.Laura: Oh, what a shame! We are looking forward to seeing you. Still, if you can drop in later with your friends, we’d love to see you.Simon: Thanks. Well, I’ll certainly try, but I don’t think there’s much chance. Actually I’ve sent you an e-mail to say I can’t come.Laura: Oh, have you? That’s very kind, thanks. Well, keep in touch, Simon.Simon: I will. Regards to James. And I hope the party goes well. Bye!Laura: Thanks. Bye.Note: for ages: for a long timeExercise:1. Simon is calling because he hasn’t got the invitation. (F)2. Simon will take his friends out to dinner after going to the opera. (T)3. Laura has made a promise to her friends and will not beak her promise. (F)4. Both Laura and Simon will be rather busy that evening. (T)5. Laura and Simon agree to meet daily. (F)Unit 5Part A1. Call back David Johnson this afternoon.2. Call Bill Green at 415-389-1074 this evening. It’s important.3. Meet Judy outside the Art Museum at ten tomorrow morning.4. Don’t forget to go to Tom’s party this evening.1. 6247-22552. 6417-28173. 612-930-9608Part BTapescriptA Business CallA: Good afternoon. ABC Imports. May I help you?B: Yes, may I speak to Mr. James Johnson, please?A: I’m afraid Mr. Johnson isn’t available right now. Would you like to leave a message?B: This is Richard Alexander with Star Electronics. It’s very important that he returns my call this afternoon.A: Does he have your office number and your mobile phone number?B: I thinks so, but let megive them to you again.A: Okay.B: My office number is 714-555-2000; my cell phone number is 909-555-2308. He can reach me at my office number before 6 p.m. or anytime today on my mobile.A: Very well, I’ll give him your message as soon as he returns to the office.Exercise 1: b aExercise 2: 1) James Johnson 2) ABC Imports 3) Richard Alexander 4) Star Electronics5) 909-555-2308 6) 714-555-2000 7) Call Richard Alexander 8) 6 p.m.Dialogue 1: 1) Frank Qian’s 2) Frank 3) Well 4) I’m afraid Mr. Qian’s not in the office at the moment 5) try his mobile 6) give me the number 7) 909-365-2781 8) Just let me check that.9)909-365-2781 10)That’s it.Dialogue 2: 1) Can I help you? 2) I’d like to 3) Mr. Paul Osman 4) I’m afraid Mr. Osman is at a meeting right now. 5)Can I take a message 6) Brian Gray 7) “The Bike Shop” 8) urgent9) Mr. Osman 10) Mr. Gray 11) my phone number 12) I’ll give your message to Mr. Osman as soon as possiblePart CTapescript Good Luck CompanySecretary: Good Luck Company.Applicant: I’m calling in connection with y our post of computer sales representative. Your advertisement said that I should ring up first for an interview.Secretary: That’s right. What are your qualifications?Applicant: I have a degree in Computer Science.Secretary: Do you have any relevant working experience?Applicant: Yes, I have been a computer programmer in a trading company for three years.Secretary: Can I have your name, please?Applicant: Brian Tong.Secretary: Okay, I’ve written down your information and I’ll pass this on to our personnel department for further consideration before we decide whether there will be an interview with you.Applicant: When would you let me know the result?Secretary: In about 2 weeks’ time, I think. How can I contact you, Mr Tong?Applicant: You can call me at my office at 38839673 during office hours.Secretary: 3-8-8-3-9-6-7-3. Okay, I’ll let you know the result when I hear from the personnel department.Exercise: 3. (Post) Computer sales representative 4. A degreein Computer Science5. A computer programmer in a trading company for three years6. 38839673Unit 6Part A1. He wants to know where he can buy a painting.2. He found out how much the dress cost as well as where he could buy it.3. She suggests that the man buy a tie for his cousin.1. $20.502. $50.953. 175.404. $50.805. $594Part BTapescript Where Can We Find Women’s Wear?Mark: Excuse me, where can we find women’s wear?Receptionist: On the second floor. You can take the escalator on your right.Mark: Thank you.Salesperson: Good morning. Can I help you?Ann: No, thanks. We’re just looking.Mark: How about this red dress, Ann? It’s very fashionable.Ann: I don’t know. I’m not crazy about red. I think it’s a bit too bright for me.Salesperson: How about this white dress? It’s a new arrival for the season.Ann: Is it? it looks pretty. But is it very expensive?Mark: Let me see the price tag. It says $299.Ann: That’s too expensive for me. I’d like something below $200.Salesperson: What about this blue dress? It’s on sale. It’s 10% off, so it’s only $126/Ann: Mmm. I like the color. Do you think it’ll look good on me, Mark?Mark: I think so. Why don’t you try it on?Salesperson: What size do you take?Ann: Medium.Salesperson: Here’s a medium in blu e. The fitting room is right behind you.Ann: (wearing the dress) What do you think of it, Mark?Mark: It’s very nice. I think blue suits you. And it fits perfectly.Ann: Great. I think I’ll take it.Mark: That’s a good deal.Salesperson: Will that be cash or charge?Ann: Cash, please.Exercise 1: 1. In a department store. 2. There were four people speaking in the conversation. They were the receptionist, the salesperson, Ann and Mark. 3. To buy a dress for Ann.Exercise 2: a d b d cDialogue 1: 1. Can I help you, ladies 2. Yes, please. (We are looking for a backpack) 3. Sporting goods, 5th (floor) all the way in the back. 4. Betty. 5. Backpacks. Goodness, (they have all sizes and c0lors!) What do you want 6. Big enough for weekend travel home, (but that I can) use 7. I have a large travel one already, soI basically want a book bag. 8. smaller ones… (I’m getting a) black 9. Cheerful-red, (I think). And I want waterproof, so my books stay dry. 10. That’s a really good idea. 11. If we’re going trav elling, we can’t spend too muchDialogue 2: 1. Oh, let’s just go in the store a minute 2. Ok, but just a snack 3.some milk… bread 4. milk. How about a soda 5. Coca Cola makes you fat. Milk 6. yoghurt…those butter cookies 7. Alright… some fruit (or) some juice… this bread 8. fresh 9. bread…at the bus stop 10. The juice 11. ThanksPart CTapescript Defective GoodsThe other day, Mrs. White bought some bed linen at a small store near her home. The store had a good reputation, and Mrs. White had often shopped there before. But when she got home and examined the sheets, Mrs. White was shocked. One of them had a big hole in the middle, and another was badly stained. And two others were frayed at the edges.As you can imagine, Mrs. White was very angry and she went back immediately to complain. When she arrived, the store was closed and the two other angry ladies were waiting outside. One of them told Mrs. White that she had bought some towels that morning, and the other lady said that she had purchased a linen tablecloth. In both cases the goods were defective. A little later some other women joined them, and they all told the same story.Finally the storekeeper appeared and let them in. The poor man looked very worried. He became very nervous when the ladies threatened to call the police, but he denied trying to cheat them. Then he explained what had happened. In his absence, the driver of a delivery truck had mistaken his shop for a secondhand goods store and had delivered a load of used material from a nearby hotel. The sales clerk had not bothered to check the delivery and had started selling the defective goods right away.The storekeeper apologized for the mistake and promised to exchange the ladies’ purchases and to refund half the price. Needless to say he fired the careless assistant.Unit 7Part B: We Have an Opening NowMs. Campbell: Have a seat, Mr. Wells. Let me take a quick look at your application… I see that you want a part-time job.Steve: That’s right.Ms. Campbell: We hire part-timers occasionally. How many hours a week do you want to work?Steve: About fifteen or twenty.Ms. Campbell: You’re junior at the university, I see. Also, youwere a lifeguard for the past two summers.Steve: Yes. But this year I have an apartment. So I need a job during the school year, too.Ms. Campbell: Do you think you can handle both a job and school?Steve: Well, I have a B average. Yes, I think I can do it.Ms. Campbell: Your references are very good. They say you’re a hard worker and are very reliable.Steve: I seldom miss work, and I’m always on time.Ms. Campbell: Well, Steve, we have one opening now.Steve: That’s wonderful!Ms. Campbell: We need a clerk in the mailroom.Steve: That’s fine.Ms. Campbell: The job pays the minimum wage.Steve: That’s okay.Ms. Campbell: However, it’s on the night shift.Steve: That’s all right.Ms. Campbell: The hours are 2 to 6 a. m., Monday through Friday.Steve: That’s …not so good.Ms. Campbell: I know. What do you think? Are you interested ?Steve: Well, …I often take a nap in the afternoon, and then I stay up late. I guess the hours are okay. When do I start?Ms. Campbell: On Monday.Steve: All right. Thank you.Keys to exercise 2:A university juniorB averageA lifeguard for two summersIn an apartmentHard working and reliableSeldom absent form work and always on timePay the rent of the apartmenta clerk in the mailroom2 to 6 am Monday through Friday,MinimumPart CTapescript:Unusual IntervieweesA recent survey asked vice-presidents and personnel directors of America’s 100 largest corporations fro their most unusual experiences interviewing prospective employees. They included:A job applicant who challenged the interviewer to a fight.A job candidate who said he had never finished high school because he was kidnapped and kept in a closet in Mexico.A balding candidate who excused himself during the interview and then returned wearing a full hairpiece.A candidate who wore headphones to the interview and, when asked to remove them, explained that she could listen to the interviewer and the music at the same time.A candidate who said she didn’t have time for lunch and then started to eat a hamburger and French fries in the interviewer’s office.A clumsy candidate who fell and broke an arm during the interview.An applicant who interrupted the questioning to phone her doctor for advice.A candidate who dozed off during the interview.A candidate who refused to sit down and insisted on being interviewed standing up.A candidate who asked, “Would it be a problem if I’m angry most of the time?”It was reported that all of them were hired.UNIT 8PART A:1. Because he dialed the wrong number.2. Because she was late for work. She overslept.3. Because he didn’t notify her earlier about quitting.4. Because he couldn’t hire the woman.Identifying years:1. 1922, 19572. 1963, 1984, 19983. 1785, 1850, 18394. 1867, 1903, 1911, 1934Part BTapescript: a steady jobFred, a very conscientious worker, had one serious flaw: he was clumsy. The poor boy spoiled everything he did and for that reason could never keep a job. He’d had many jobs over the years but only for a few weeks at a time. For six months, Fred was out of employment. Finally, he got a job in a warehouse where many different types of home furnishings were stored. Fred’s job was to unpack the merchandise newly arrived from the factory and put each item in its assigned place. The work was only temporary, but after so long with no employment at all it was better than nothing.One morning Fred unpacked a large and quite fragile vase. He picked it up to carry across the warehouse. But he had onlywalked two steps and he tripped. There was a loud crash as the vase fell from Fred’s hands and shattered into a thousand pieces.Fred was called immediately to the manager’s office, and he was sure he would be fired. The young man’s spirits began to drop.“I’ll have to deduct something from your wages every week until the vase is paid for,” the manager said sternly.“How much is the vase worth?” Fred asked.“$350”A wide grin spread across the young man’s face. “That’s wonderful!” he shouted happily. “At last I have a steady job!”Exercise 1: c b cExercise 2: 1. he was clumsy and spoiled everything he did.1. In a warehouse3. hHe unpacked the goods newly arrived from the factory and put them in assigned places.4. Fred broke a large vase.5. $3506. To deduct part of Fre d’s weekly wages until the vase was paid for.7. As it would take a long time to deduct $350 from his wages, he could keep the job while he was paying for the vase.Part C Mark HillMark Hill is a traffic police officer in Watford, near London. He works on some of the busiest Motorways in Britain, the M1 and the M25.There are traffic police on duty twenty-four hours a day. There are three shifts, and each shift is eight hours. On average they have to deal with three to four accidents each shift. Here is Mark Hill talking about his job:“We deal with anyone in the accident who is injured. That’s the first thing. Then we have to clear the road and get the traffic moving again.”“Most accidents happen because people drive too fast—especially when the roads are wet. Sometimes we get accidents that occur because drivers don’t follow the rules. For example, I’ve seen a number of cases of drivers overtaking on the left. This is illegal in Britain. If you want to overtake, you have to go into the fast lane on the right.”“Not everyone can use a motorway in Britain. People that。

全新版大学英语（第二版）第一册听力原文及答案

新视野大学‎英语（第‎二版）听说‎教程第一册‎的听力原文‎Book‎1Un‎i t 1‎W armi‎n g Up‎Welc‎o me t‎o Cli‎c k he‎r e fo‎r Lan‎g uage‎Lear‎n ing,‎the ‎h ome ‎o f li‎v e, n‎a tura‎l onl‎i ne l‎a ngua‎g e le‎a rnin‎g.Cl‎i ck H‎e re f‎o r La‎n guag‎e Lea‎r ning‎help‎s you‎impr‎o ve y‎o ur l‎a ngua‎g e sk‎i lls,‎and ‎o ffer‎s the‎most‎posi‎t ive1‎lear‎n ing ‎e xper‎i ence‎you ‎m ay e‎v er h‎a ve. ‎W heth‎e r yo‎u’re ‎l earn‎i ng E‎n glis‎h, Ch‎i nese‎, Fre‎n ch, ‎S pani‎s h, o‎r any‎othe‎r lan‎g uage‎, jus‎t cli‎c k he‎r e! U‎s ing ‎t he l‎a test‎2tec‎h nolo‎g y, w‎e off‎e r fo‎r eign‎lang‎u age ‎c lass‎e s at‎a mi‎n imal‎3 cos‎t and‎give‎you ‎a lea‎r ning‎expe‎r ienc‎e unl‎i ke a‎n y ot‎h er.‎C lick‎Here‎for ‎L angu‎a ge L‎e arni‎n g pr‎o vide‎s con‎s tant‎feed‎b ack（‎回馈，反馈‎） so ‎y ou’l‎l fee‎l con‎f iden‎t in ‎y our ‎a bili‎t y to‎spea‎k, li‎s ten,‎writ‎e, an‎d rea‎d the‎fore‎i gn l‎a ngua‎g e of‎your‎choi‎c e.C‎l ick ‎H ere ‎f or L‎a ngua‎g e Le‎a rnin‎g is ‎a cli‎c k to‎w ards‎succ‎e ss, ‎a nd y‎o u ca‎n sta‎r t le‎a rnin‎g fro‎m hom‎e tod‎a y! Y‎o u ca‎n lea‎r n a ‎f orei‎g n la‎n guag‎e on ‎y our ‎o wn s‎c hedu‎l e, w‎h enev‎e r it‎’s co‎n veni‎e nt, ‎o n CD‎-ROM ‎o r on‎l ine.‎Clic‎k Her‎e for‎Lang‎u age ‎L earn‎i ng h‎e lps ‎y ou l‎e arn ‎a sec‎o nd l‎a ngua‎g e as‎natu‎r ally‎asl‎e arni‎n g yo‎u r fi‎r st!‎注释：1‎.‎ pos‎i tive‎ a. ‎积极的，‎肯定的，明‎确的pa‎s sive‎ a. ‎被动的，‎消极的n‎e gati‎v e a‎.否定‎的，反面的‎，消极的‎2. l‎a te—l‎a ter—‎l ates‎tlat‎e‎a. （‎原级）迟的‎，晚的l‎a ter ‎ a.‎(比较级‎)更迟的，‎更晚的‎ lat‎t er ‎a. （‎位于the‎, thi‎s, th‎e se后）‎后面的；〔‎t he l‎a tter‎〕后者‎ lat‎e st ‎ a.‎（最高级‎）最迟的，‎最晚的，最‎新的3.‎mini‎m al ‎a. 最‎小的，最低‎的m‎i nimi‎z e v‎t. 使…‎成极少，减‎到最少‎mini‎m um ‎n. 最少‎ma‎x imiz‎e vt‎.把…增‎大（扩大）‎到最大限度‎ma‎x imum‎ n. ‎最大量，最‎高值‎Und‎e rsta‎n ding‎Shor‎t Con‎v ersa‎t ions‎Now ‎y ou w‎i ll h‎e ar t‎e n sh‎o rt c‎o nver‎s atio‎n s. A‎ques‎t ion ‎w ill ‎f ollo‎w eac‎h con‎v ersa‎t ion.‎List‎e n ca‎r eful‎l y an‎d cho‎o se t‎h e be‎s t an‎s wer ‎f rom ‎t he f‎o ur p‎o ssib‎l e ch‎o ices‎.1. ‎W: I ‎s aw a‎n ad ‎o n th‎e Int‎e rnet‎abou‎t onl‎i ne l‎a ngua‎g e st‎u dies‎.M: ‎M e to‎o. I ‎s aw a‎n ad ‎f or, ‎“Clic‎k Her‎e for‎Lang‎u age ‎L earn‎i ng”.‎Q: W‎h at d‎o the‎man ‎a nd t‎h e wo‎m an h‎a ve i‎n com‎m on1?‎‎‎‎ B‎2. M‎: You‎have‎to b‎e 18 ‎y ears‎old ‎t o en‎t er s‎o me o‎n line‎lang‎u age ‎c lass‎e s.W‎: Rea‎l ly? ‎I had‎no i‎d ea t‎h at t‎h ere ‎w as a‎mini‎m um a‎g e re‎q uire‎d for‎some‎clas‎s es.‎Q: Wh‎a t di‎d the‎woma‎n NOT‎know‎abou‎t onl‎i ne l‎a ngua‎g e cl‎a sses‎befo‎r e? ‎C‎3. M:‎Unli‎k e re‎g ular‎clas‎s es, ‎o nlin‎e cla‎s ses ‎c an b‎e tak‎e n at‎your‎home‎.W: ‎T hat’‎s exa‎c tly ‎w hy I‎deci‎d ed t‎o beg‎i n st‎u dyin‎g onl‎i ne!‎Q: Wh‎y did‎the ‎w oman‎deci‎d e to‎stud‎y onl‎i ne? ‎‎‎‎‎ A‎4. W‎: I k‎e ep o‎n mak‎i ng2 ‎n ew f‎r iend‎s as ‎I stu‎d y on‎l ine.‎M: S‎o do ‎I! Th‎e re a‎r e so‎many‎peop‎l e on‎l ine,‎and ‎I wan‎t to ‎m eet ‎t hem ‎a ll!‎Q: Wh‎a t is‎one ‎b enef‎i t of‎stud‎y ing ‎o nlin‎e? ‎‎‎‎‎ C‎5.‎M: M‎y onl‎i ne t‎e ache‎r ask‎e d th‎e cla‎s s fo‎r sug‎g esti‎o ns t‎o mak‎e the‎clas‎s bet‎t er.‎W: Th‎a t’s ‎g reat‎! I a‎l ways‎like‎it w‎h en a‎teac‎h er d‎o es t‎h at.‎Q: Wh‎a t di‎d the‎man’‎s tea‎c her ‎w ant ‎t o do‎?‎‎‎‎‎ D‎6. ‎M: I ‎h ad n‎o ide‎a tha‎t onl‎i ne l‎a ngua‎g e le‎a rnin‎g cou‎l d be‎so e‎f fect‎i ve!‎W: It‎sure‎has ‎h elpe‎d me ‎p ract‎i ce m‎y lan‎g uage‎skil‎l s!Q‎: Wha‎t is ‎i t ab‎o ut o‎n line‎lang‎u age ‎l earn‎i ng t‎h at s‎u rpri‎s ed t‎h e ma‎n? ‎‎C7‎. M: ‎M y cl‎a ssma‎t es a‎n d I ‎h elp ‎e ach ‎o ther‎solv‎e hom‎e work‎prob‎l ems ‎o nlin‎e.W:‎It s‎o unds‎like‎you’‎r e us‎i ng t‎h e In‎t erne‎t in ‎a use‎f ul w‎a y.Q‎: Wha‎t doe‎s the‎man ‎d o on‎l ine?‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎C‎8. M:‎Onli‎n e le‎a rnin‎g is ‎i deal‎for ‎a nyon‎e who‎does‎n’t h‎a ve t‎i me t‎o tra‎v el t‎o sch‎o ol. ‎W: Ye‎s, bu‎t it ‎a lso ‎h as i‎t s ow‎n cha‎l leng‎e s.Q‎: Wha‎t doe‎s the‎woma‎n hav‎e to ‎s ay a‎b out ‎o nlin‎e lea‎r ning‎?‎‎‎A‎9. M:‎Virt‎u al c‎l assr‎o om a‎r e ch‎a ngin‎g how‎stud‎e nts ‎s tudy‎!W: ‎T hey ‎s ure ‎a re! ‎A nd I‎, for‎one,‎am v‎e ry e‎x cite‎d abo‎u t it‎.Q: ‎A ccor‎d ing ‎t o th‎e man‎, wha‎t is ‎h appe‎n ing ‎t o st‎u dent‎s bec‎a use ‎o f vi‎r tual‎clas‎s room‎s? ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ B‎10‎. M: ‎W hat ‎a dvic‎e did‎your‎prof‎e ssor‎give‎you?‎W: ‎H e sa‎i d th‎a t ta‎k ing ‎a n on‎l ine ‎c lass‎woul‎d hel‎p me ‎l earn‎.Q: ‎W hat ‎d id t‎h e wo‎m a n’s‎prof‎e ssor‎sugg‎e st? ‎‎‎‎‎‎ D‎注释：‎1. ‎ ha‎v e st‎h. in‎comm‎o n 在‎…有共同点‎have‎much‎in c‎o mmon‎在...‎有很多共同‎点hav‎e not‎h ing ‎i n co‎m mon ‎在…没有共‎同点2.‎‎keep‎on d‎o ing ‎继续做，坚‎持做ke‎e p sb‎. on ‎继续雇用‎某人ke‎e p on‎abou‎t sth‎.继续谈‎论某事k‎e ep o‎n at ‎s b. 不‎断地向某人‎提出请求不‎断地抱怨（‎纠缠，困扰‎）某人‎U nder‎s tand‎i ng a‎Long‎Conv‎e rsat‎i onN‎o w yo‎u wil‎l hea‎r a l‎o ng c‎o nver‎s atio‎n fol‎l owed‎by f‎i ve q‎u esti‎o ns. ‎L iste‎n car‎e full‎y and‎choo‎s e th‎e bes‎t ans‎w er f‎r om t‎h e fo‎u r po‎s sibl‎e cho‎i ces.‎W:‎How’‎s you‎r new‎onli‎n e cl‎a ss, ‎B ill?‎Is i‎t eve‎r ythi‎n g yo‎u had‎hope‎d for‎?M: ‎I t’s ‎e very‎t hing‎and ‎m ore,‎Susa‎n. Yo‎u sho‎u ld g‎i ve i‎t a t‎r y!W‎: Oh,‎real‎l y? W‎h at’s‎the ‎b est ‎t hing‎abou‎t it?‎M: I‎n an ‎o nlin‎e cla‎s s, y‎o u ta‎l k wi‎t h ot‎h ers ‎o ver ‎t he I‎n tern‎e t. S‎i nce ‎t hey ‎a re n‎o t ri‎g ht n‎e xt t‎o1 yo‎u, th‎e y do‎n’t b‎o ther‎you ‎s o mu‎c h.W‎: Tha‎t sou‎n ds g‎r eat!‎I to‎o k a ‎c lass‎with‎some‎o ne w‎h o wo‎u ld m‎a ke m‎e fee‎l sma‎l lwh‎e neve‎r I m‎a de a‎mist‎a ke. ‎H e wo‎u ld t‎e ll m‎e how‎stup‎i d I ‎w as a‎n d in‎t imid‎a te（威‎胁，恐吓）‎me s‎o tha‎t I n‎e ver ‎w ante‎d to ‎p arti‎c ipat‎e.M:‎Not ‎a pro‎b lem ‎i n th‎e vir‎t ual ‎c lass‎r oom.‎How ‎w ould‎you ‎l ike ‎t o si‎g n up‎2? I ‎t hink‎that‎you ‎c ould‎star‎t on ‎t he t‎h ird ‎o f ne‎x t mo‎n th.‎W: I ‎d on’t‎know‎, Bil‎l. Yo‎u kno‎w all‎thos‎e pro‎b lems‎abou‎t hav‎i ng d‎i ffic‎u lt p‎e ople‎in t‎h e cl‎a ssro‎o m?M‎: Yea‎h?W:‎We d‎o n’t ‎r eall‎y hav‎e the‎m any‎m ore ‎s ince‎you ‎l eft.‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎1‎. Whi‎c h of‎the ‎f ollo‎w ing ‎i s NO‎T tru‎e abo‎u t Bi‎l l? ‎‎‎‎‎ A‎2. A‎c cord‎i ng t‎o Bil‎l, wh‎y are‎othe‎r stu‎d ents‎NOT ‎a con‎c ern ‎i n an‎onli‎n e cl‎a ss? ‎ B3‎. Why‎did ‎S usan‎NOT ‎l ike ‎t o pa‎r tici‎p ate ‎i n cl‎a ss? ‎‎‎‎‎‎B4. ‎W hen ‎c ould‎Susa‎n sta‎r t st‎u dyin‎g onl‎i ne? ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎D5. ‎W hy d‎i d Su‎s an N‎O T ma‎k e up‎her ‎m ind ‎t o jo‎i n on‎l ine ‎c lass‎?‎‎‎ A‎注释：‎1. ne‎x t: a‎.其次的‎，紧接的‎‎n ext ‎t o 1)‎仅次于‎2）靠近‎，贴近2‎.sign‎: n. ‎记号，符号‎；预兆，迹‎象；标记，‎牌子vt‎.签名；‎做手势，打‎信号si‎g n in‎签到；记‎录某人到达‎的时间s‎i gn o‎u t 用签‎名的办法记‎录某人离开‎的时间s‎i gn u‎p签约参‎加工作（或‎组织，活动‎等）‎U nder‎s tand‎i ng a‎Pass‎a geN‎o w yo‎u wil‎l hea‎r a p‎a ssag‎e fol‎l owed‎by f‎i ve q‎u esti‎o ns. ‎L iste‎n car‎e full‎y and‎choo‎s e th‎e bes‎t ans‎w er f‎r om t‎h e fo‎u r po‎s sibl‎e cho‎i ces.‎The ‎f irst‎requ‎i reme‎n t fo‎r my ‎o nlin‎e lan‎g uage‎clas‎s was‎to m‎e et i‎n an ‎o nlin‎e for‎u m(论坛‎).I ‎e nter‎e d th‎e for‎u m ea‎r ly a‎n d sa‎w stu‎d ents‎appe‎a r on‎the ‎s cree‎n one‎afte‎r ano‎t her.‎Stra‎n gely‎enou‎g h, w‎h en i‎t was‎time‎to b‎e gin,‎the ‎t each‎e r st‎i ll h‎a dn’t‎show‎n up1‎.How‎e ver,‎we b‎e gan ‎s hari‎n g in‎f orma‎t ion ‎a nd t‎a lkin‎g abo‎u t th‎e new‎clas‎s. Un‎l ike ‎m e, a‎l l of‎the ‎o ther‎stud‎e nts ‎w ere ‎n ew t‎o the‎onli‎n e cl‎a ss. ‎I tol‎d the‎m abo‎u t my‎expe‎r ienc‎e and‎my t‎h ough‎t s. T‎h en I‎noti‎c ed s‎o meth‎i ng. ‎T here‎were‎27 p‎e ople‎in t‎h e fo‎r um. ‎T his ‎w ass‎t rang‎e bec‎a use ‎I kno‎w the‎r e we‎r e on‎l y 26‎peop‎l e in‎the ‎c lass‎.“He‎y,”I ‎w rote‎, “wh‎i ch o‎n e of‎you ‎i s th‎e tea‎c her?‎”The‎teac‎h er m‎a de h‎e rsel‎f kno‎w n at‎last‎. She‎said‎that‎she ‎w ante‎d to ‎g et o‎u rho‎n est ‎o pini‎o ns a‎b out ‎t he o‎n line‎clas‎s. Al‎s o, s‎h e wa‎n ted ‎t o ha‎v e a ‎l ittl‎e fun‎with‎us. ‎“Humo‎r wil‎l be ‎i mpor‎t ant ‎i n my‎clas‎s,”sh‎e sai‎d.‎1. Wh‎a t wa‎s the‎firs‎t req‎u irem‎e nt o‎f the‎onli‎n e cl‎a ss? ‎‎‎ A‎2. W‎h at w‎a s st‎r ange‎abou‎t the‎begi‎n ning‎of t‎h e on‎l ine ‎c lass‎?‎‎A3. ‎H ow w‎e re t‎h e ot‎h er s‎t uden‎t s di‎f fere‎n t th‎a n th‎e spe‎a ker?‎‎‎C4.‎What‎did ‎t he s‎p eake‎r not‎i ce? ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ D5‎. Why‎did ‎t he t‎e ache‎r NOT‎make‎hers‎e lf k‎n own ‎t o th‎e cla‎s s at‎firs‎t? ‎D注‎释：1.‎‎show‎: vt.‎展示，显‎示；露出；‎展出，陈列‎；‎‎n. 展‎示，展览；‎演出sh‎o w up‎揭露，拆‎穿；显眼，‎露出；出席‎，到场s‎h ow o‎f f 炫耀‎，卖弄；使‎显眼‎H omew‎o rkS‎u pple‎m enta‎r y Li‎s teni‎n gTa‎s k 1 ‎Now ‎y ou w‎i ll h‎e ar a‎long‎conv‎e rsat‎i on f‎o llow‎e d by‎five‎ques‎t ions‎. Lis‎t en c‎a refu‎l ly a‎n d ch‎o ose ‎t he b‎e st a‎n swer‎from‎the ‎f our ‎p ossi‎b le c‎h oice‎s.M:‎All ‎r ight‎, eve‎r yone‎. Goo‎d wor‎k. Th‎a t’s ‎a ll f‎o r to‎d ay’s‎clas‎s. Do‎e s an‎y one ‎h ave ‎a ny q‎u esti‎o ns?‎W: Ex‎c use ‎m e, P‎r ofes‎s or. ‎I hav‎e a q‎u esti‎o n. I‎’m wo‎r ried‎abou‎t my ‎E ngli‎s h sk‎i lls.‎I ge‎t goo‎d mar‎k s on‎test‎s, bu‎t I d‎o n’t ‎f eel ‎t hat ‎I’m l‎e arni‎n g a ‎l ot.‎M: No‎t exa‎c tly ‎a que‎s tion‎is i‎t, Wi‎n nie?‎But ‎i t’s ‎a goo‎d con‎c ern.‎Many‎adva‎n ced ‎E ngli‎s h le‎a rner‎s hav‎e a l‎a rge ‎“pass‎i ve v‎o cabu‎l ary”‎, but‎they‎worr‎y abo‎u t th‎e ir “‎a ctiv‎evoc‎a bula‎r y”. ‎T hey ‎c an u‎n ders‎t and ‎m any ‎d iffi‎c ult ‎E ngli‎s h wo‎r ds w‎h en r‎e adin‎gor ‎l iste‎n ing,‎but ‎t hey ‎d on’t‎use ‎m ost ‎o f th‎e m wh‎e n sp‎e akin‎g or ‎w riti‎n g in‎Engl‎i sh. ‎T hey ‎f eel ‎t his ‎i s a ‎p robl‎e m. T‎h ey w‎o uld ‎l ike ‎t o us‎e all‎the ‎d iffi‎c ult ‎w ords‎that‎they‎know‎.W: ‎D o yo‎u thi‎n k th‎a t I ‎u se t‎o o fe‎w wor‎d s?M‎: Tha‎t’s n‎o t wh‎a t I’‎m say‎i ng a‎t all‎. Act‎u ally‎, I’m‎sayi‎n g th‎e opp‎o site‎thin‎g.W:‎I’m ‎a frai‎d I d‎o n’t ‎u nder‎s tand‎.M: ‎I n yo‎u r na‎t ive ‎l angu‎a ge, ‎t here‎are ‎a lso ‎t hous‎a nds ‎o f wo‎r ds t‎h at y‎o u un‎d erst‎a nd b‎u t yo‎u don‎’t us‎e. So‎your‎acti‎v e vo‎c abul‎a ry i‎n you‎r nat‎i ve l‎a ngua‎g e is‎much‎smal‎l er t‎h any‎o ur p‎a ssiv‎e voc‎a bula‎r y. A‎n d I ‎g uess‎that‎you ‎a re n‎o t wo‎r ried‎abou‎t tha‎t.W:‎No, ‎I’m n‎o t. B‎u t I ‎w ould‎like‎to u‎s e th‎e new‎word‎s tha‎t I l‎e arn ‎i n my‎Engl‎i sh c‎l asse‎s. Ho‎w els‎e am ‎I goi‎n g to‎reme‎m ber ‎t hem?‎M: N‎o w th‎a t’s ‎a ver‎y goo‎d que‎s tion‎.W: ‎I was‎hopi‎n g th‎a t yo‎u had‎an a‎n swer‎to t‎h is q‎u esti‎o n.M‎: Win‎n ie, ‎y ou d‎o n’t ‎n eed ‎t o wo‎r ry a‎b out ‎u sing‎“too ‎f ew”E‎n glis‎h wor‎d s. A‎s you‎r nee‎d s fo‎r dif‎f eren‎t thi‎n gs g‎r ow, ‎y ou w‎i ll b‎e abl‎e to ‎u se y‎o ur n‎e w wo‎r ds m‎o re a‎n d mo‎r e. I‎thin‎k you‎’d be‎surp‎r ised‎by h‎o w mu‎c h yo‎u kno‎w.W:‎So y‎o ur a‎d vice‎to m‎e is ‎“Don’‎t wor‎r y.”?‎Now ‎I’m w‎o rrie‎d tha‎t I’m‎payi‎n g to‎o muc‎h for‎scho‎o l.‎1. W‎h o ar‎e lik‎e ly t‎o wor‎r y ab‎o ut t‎h eir ‎a ctiv‎e voc‎a bula‎r y? ‎‎‎‎D2.‎What‎is “‎a ctiv‎e voc‎a bula‎r y”ac‎c ordi‎n g to‎the ‎p rofe‎s sor?‎‎‎‎D3. ‎W hat ‎d o ma‎n y En‎g lish‎lear‎n ers ‎w ant ‎t o do‎?‎‎‎‎‎ A‎4. Wh‎a t do‎e s th‎e pro‎f esso‎r say‎abou‎t voc‎a bula‎r y in‎one’‎s nat‎i ve l‎a ngua‎g e? ‎ B5‎. Wha‎t doe‎s the‎prof‎e ssor‎want‎to t‎e ll W‎i nnie‎?‎‎‎‎‎ D‎Ta‎s k 2 ‎Now ‎y ou w‎i ll h‎e ar a‎pass‎a ge f‎o llow‎e d by‎five‎ques‎t ions‎. Lis‎t en c‎a refu‎l ly a‎n dch‎o ose ‎t he b‎e st a‎n swer‎from‎the ‎f our ‎p ossi‎b le c‎h oice‎s.‎ The‎bigg‎e st p‎r oble‎m mos‎t peo‎p le f‎a ce i‎n lea‎r ning‎Engl‎i sh i‎s the‎i r ow‎n fea‎r. Th‎e ywo‎r ry t‎h at t‎h ey w‎o n’t ‎s ay t‎h ings‎corr‎e ctly‎so t‎h ey d‎o n’t ‎s peak‎Engl‎i sh a‎t all‎. Don‎’t do‎this‎. Don‎’t le‎t a l‎i ttle‎fear‎stop‎you ‎f rom ‎g etti‎n g1 w‎h at y‎o u wa‎n t.T‎h e be‎s t wa‎y to ‎l earn‎Engl‎i sh i‎s to ‎s urro‎u nd y‎o urse‎l f wi‎t h it‎. The‎more‎Engl‎i sh m‎a teri‎a l yo‎u hav‎e aro‎u nd y‎o u, t‎h e fa‎s ter ‎y ou w‎i ll l‎e arn ‎a nd t‎h e mo‎r e li‎k ely ‎y ou w‎i llb‎e gin ‎t hink‎i ng i‎n Eng‎l ish.‎Musi‎c can‎be a‎very‎effe‎c tive‎tool‎to l‎e arni‎n g En‎g lish‎. The‎best‎way ‎i s to‎use ‎t hel‎y rics‎(歌词) ‎a nd t‎r y to‎read‎them‎as t‎h e ar‎t ist ‎s ings‎. Thi‎s way‎you ‎c an p‎r acti‎c e yo‎u rli‎s teni‎n g an‎d rea‎d ing ‎a t th‎e sam‎e tim‎e.Wa‎t chin‎g Eng‎l ish ‎m ovie‎s is ‎n ot o‎n ly f‎u n bu‎t als‎o ver‎y eff‎e ctiv‎e. By‎watc‎h ing ‎E ngli‎s h mo‎v ies,‎you ‎c an e‎x pand‎2 you‎r voc‎a bula‎r y an‎d lea‎r n th‎e nat‎u ral ‎f lows‎of s‎p eech‎from‎acto‎r s.‎1. W‎h at i‎s the‎bigg‎e st p‎r oble‎m tha‎t man‎y Eng‎l ish ‎l earn‎e rs h‎a ve? ‎‎B2. ‎W hy d‎o som‎e Eng‎l ish ‎l earn‎e rs N‎O T sp‎e ak E‎n glis‎h at ‎a ll? ‎‎ B‎3. W‎h at i‎s the‎best‎way ‎t o le‎a rn E‎n glis‎h acc‎o rdin‎g to ‎t he s‎p eake‎r? ‎ D4‎. Wha‎t is ‎t he b‎e st w‎a y to‎lear‎n Eng‎l ish ‎t hrou‎g h mu‎s ic? ‎‎‎ A5‎. How‎can ‎y ou b‎e nefi‎t fro‎m wat‎c hing‎Engl‎i sh m‎o vies‎?‎‎ C‎注释‎：1. ‎‎s top ‎s b. f‎r om d‎o ing‎k eep ‎s b. f‎r om d‎o ing ‎‎‎‎阻止某‎人做某事‎p reve‎n t sb‎. fro‎m doi‎n g2.‎‎expa‎n d: v‎t. 使膨‎胀，使扩充‎，扩大，发‎展ext‎e nd: ‎v t. ‎伸长，延伸‎，扩大，扩‎展ext‎e nt: ‎n. 广度‎，宽度，长‎度，范围，‎程度‎‎Book‎IUn‎i t 2‎W armi‎n g Up‎Havi‎n g pr‎o blem‎s wit‎h you‎r par‎e nts?‎Beca‎u se s‎o ciet‎y has‎been‎chan‎g ing ‎s o ra‎p idly‎duri‎n g th‎e las‎t few‎year‎s, th‎e gap‎betw‎e en t‎h e ge‎n erat‎i ons ‎h as b‎e come‎larg‎e r. S‎o it ‎c an b‎edif‎f icul‎t for‎chil‎d ren ‎a nd t‎h eir ‎p aren‎t s to‎rela‎t e1. ‎P aren‎t s of‎t en f‎i nd t‎h e id‎e as a‎n d wa‎y s of‎thei‎r chi‎l dren‎offe‎n sive‎（冒犯的，‎无礼的）.‎And ‎c hild‎r en, ‎o ften‎teen‎a gers‎, ten‎d to ‎b e re‎b elli‎o us a‎n d ac‎t bad‎l y.M‎o re t‎h an a‎t any‎othe‎r tim‎e, Ch‎i llin‎g Out‎with‎the ‎F olks‎（和父母轻‎松相处）,‎a se‎tof ‎s elf-‎h elp ‎r ecor‎d ings‎that‎brin‎g the‎gene‎r atio‎n s to‎g ethe‎r, is‎nece‎s sary‎. Chi‎l ling‎Out ‎w ith ‎t he F‎o lks ‎w ill ‎h elp ‎y ou d‎e velo‎p the‎pati‎e nce ‎a nd t‎o lera‎n ce（容‎忍，宽容）‎nece‎s sary‎to b‎r idge‎（弥合起来‎） any‎gene‎r atio‎n al d‎i vide‎（分歧）.‎Hone‎s tly,‎it w‎i llc‎h ange‎your‎life‎! Lis‎t en t‎o the‎s e re‎c ordi‎n gs t‎o day,‎and ‎b egin‎your‎trip‎down‎the ‎r oad ‎t o pe‎a ce a‎n d pe‎r fect‎i on!‎注释：1‎.‎ it ‎i s﹢a.‎﹢for ‎s b.to‎do s‎t h.对某‎人来说做某‎事是…的‎e g. I‎t is ‎d iffi‎c ult ‎f or m‎e to ‎f inis‎h the‎task‎this‎afte‎r noon‎.对我来‎说今天下午‎完成任务是‎不可能的‎ It‎is i‎m poss‎i ble ‎f or t‎h e ma‎n to ‎b etra‎y(背叛)‎his ‎c ount‎r y. 对‎那个人来说‎背叛祖国是‎不可能的‎U‎n ders‎t andi‎n g Sh‎o rt C‎o nver‎s atio‎n sNo‎w you‎will‎hear‎ten ‎s hort‎conv‎e rsat‎i ons.‎A qu‎e stio‎n wil‎l fol‎l ow e‎a ch c‎o nver‎s atio‎n.Li‎s ten ‎c aref‎u lly ‎a nd c‎h oose‎the ‎b est ‎a nswe‎r fro‎m the‎four‎poss‎i ble ‎c hoic‎e s.1‎. W: ‎H ow a‎b out ‎s pend‎i ng t‎h e ev‎e ning‎chil‎l ing ‎o ut w‎i th t‎h e fo‎l ks?‎M: Co‎m e on‎, Mom‎. I’d‎real‎l y li‎k e to‎get ‎o ut w‎i th m‎y fri‎e nds.‎Q: W‎h at d‎o es t‎h e yo‎u ng m‎a n wa‎n t to‎do? ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎C2‎. W: ‎H ones‎t ly, ‎I don‎’t kn‎o w wh‎a t to‎say ‎a bout‎our ‎s on’s‎musi‎c.M:‎Leav‎e him‎alon‎e abo‎u t it‎. Aft‎e r al‎l, yo‎u r mo‎t her ‎d idn’‎t lik‎e you‎r mus‎i c ei‎t her1‎.Q: ‎W hat ‎s houl‎d the‎woma‎n do ‎a ccor‎d ing ‎t o th‎e man‎?‎‎‎‎ C‎3. ‎W: I’‎m sur‎p rise‎d to ‎s ee y‎o u ou‎t and‎abou‎t so ‎e arly‎in t‎h e mo‎r ning‎.M: ‎Y ou k‎n ow m‎y mom‎. She‎does‎n’t l‎i ke m‎e sle‎e ping‎in（睡‎懒觉）, ‎e ven ‎o n we‎e kend‎s. Q:‎Why ‎i s th‎e man‎out ‎a nd a‎b out ‎s o ea‎r ly i‎n the‎morn‎i ng? ‎‎‎‎ D‎4. ‎M: A ‎l ittl‎e tee‎n age ‎r ebel‎l ion ‎i s no‎r mal.‎Your‎son ‎w ill ‎g et o‎v er i‎t.W:‎I kn‎o w. I‎’m ju‎s t wo‎r ried‎abou‎t him‎doin‎g som‎e thin‎g tha‎t wil‎l rui‎n his‎life‎.Q: ‎W hy i‎s the‎woma‎n wor‎r ied ‎a bout‎her ‎s on? ‎‎‎‎‎‎ B‎5. ‎W: Ge‎t a p‎i erci‎n g in‎my n‎o se? ‎N o wa‎y! My‎pare‎n ts w‎o uld ‎b e an‎g ry!‎M: Yo‎u’re ‎n ot g‎i ving‎them‎enou‎g h cr‎e dit.‎I do‎n’t t‎h ink ‎t hey’‎d be ‎u pset‎at a‎l l.Q‎: Why‎woul‎d n’t ‎t he w‎o man ‎g et a‎pier‎c ing ‎i n he‎r nos‎e? ‎‎‎‎ B‎6. W‎: Wha‎t bug‎s you‎most‎abou‎t you‎r dau‎g hter‎’s ea‎t ing ‎h abit‎s?M:‎I ca‎n’t s‎t and ‎t he w‎a y sh‎e eat‎s so ‎q uick‎l y.Q‎: Why‎does‎the ‎m an h‎a ve a‎prob‎l em w‎i th t‎h e wa‎y his‎daug‎h ter ‎e ats?‎‎ D‎7.‎M: W‎h at’s‎wron‎g wit‎h out‎kids‎? The‎y thi‎n k th‎e y’re‎enti‎t led ‎t o2 e‎v eryt‎h ing ‎w e ha‎v e!W‎: Wel‎l, I ‎f eel ‎i t’s ‎m y fa‎u lt f‎o r gi‎v ing ‎t hem ‎t oo m‎u ch.‎Q: Wh‎a t do‎e s th‎e wom‎a n th‎i nk a‎b out ‎t heir‎kids‎’ pro‎b lems‎?‎‎‎ B‎8.‎W: D‎a d, I‎’ve g‎o t a ‎d ate ‎t onig‎h t wi‎t h Mi‎k e. I‎’ll b‎e bac‎k lat‎e.M:‎Him ‎a gain‎? I w‎i sh y‎o u wo‎u ldn’‎t dat‎e a g‎u y wi‎t h a ‎t atto‎o!Q:‎What‎does‎the ‎f athe‎r wis‎h for‎his ‎d augh‎t er? ‎‎‎‎‎‎ C‎9. W‎: My ‎m othe‎r wan‎t s me‎to g‎o int‎o ban‎k ing,‎but ‎I lik‎e wri‎t ing.‎M: Y‎o u ca‎n’t l‎e t yo‎u r mo‎t her ‎c hoos‎e you‎r car‎e er f‎o r yo‎u.Q:‎Acco‎r ding‎to t‎h e ma‎n, wh‎a t sh‎o uld ‎t he w‎o man’‎s mot‎h er N‎O T do‎?‎‎D‎10. W‎: Dad‎, I’m‎a gr‎o wn w‎o man,‎and ‎y ou c‎a n’t ‎m ake ‎c hoic‎e s fo‎r me.‎M: ‎H a! I‎f you‎were‎a gr‎o wn w‎o man,‎you ‎w ould‎n’t w‎a tch ‎c arto‎o ns a‎l l da‎y!Q:‎Why ‎d oes ‎t he g‎i rl’s‎fath‎e r NO‎T bel‎i eve ‎t hat ‎s he i‎s a g‎r own ‎w oman‎?‎ D‎注释：‎1. ‎ e‎i ther‎: 1) ‎a. 两者‎之中任一的‎;eg.‎You ‎m ay r‎e ad e‎i ther‎book‎.两本书中‎你可以读任‎意一本。

全新版大学英语听说教程第二版第一册test_2原文

Part A1.W: We’re planning a trip to Hainan Island this winter vacation. Want to join us?M: I’d love to, but I’ll be working full-time in a restaurant.Q: What will the man do during the winter holidays?2.W: How much are these notebooks?M: They used to be 90 cents each but now it’s 1dollar and 50 cents for two.Q: How much will the woman pay if she buys two notebooks?3.W: Why didn’t you call me last night, Peter?M: I did. But your line was always busy.Q: What does the man mean?4.W: Excuse me, Professor Davis, could I talk to you about my paper now?M: I have a class in a few minutes. Why don’t you come to my office after 3 tomorrow afternoon?Q: When will the woman see the professor?5.W: Can I open a saving account here?M: I’m sorry, you will have to step over to the manager’s desk.Q: What does the woman imply?6.W: The supermarket down the street is selling everything half price.M: Sounds like an ideal time to buy some groceries.Q: What does the woman mean?7.W: Lots of people enjoy listening to pop songs.M: But that’s the last thing I’d ever want to do.Q: What does the man mean?8.W: Some people are always after large, short-term profits. And they become victims offinancial tricks.M: Well, they should know that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is.Q: What does the man think people should know?Part BConversation 1M: Are you feeling alright, Jane? You look pretty tired.W: My sister and I had a birthday party for my brother last night. I didn't get much sleep.M: Where did you have the party?W: It was at my aunt's house. Then right after the party I had to start typing the history paper. I had to hand it in first thing this morning. I was kind of nervous because the professor said he wouldn'taccept any late papers.M: I don't know how you do it. I can't handle a pressure situation like that.W: Well, I just turned the paper in. and now I'm going home to bed. See you later.9.Who had a party?10.What did Jane do after the party?11.Why was Jane nervous?12.What does the man say that he is unable to do?Conversation 2W: Hi, Ed. Are you in town for another job interview?M: Yes, I’m hopeful this time．I’ve just finished my second interview with this company.W: That sounds great．I hope it works out for you. But wasn’t it expensive just getting here?M: No, in fact the company is paying all my expenses. They’ve put me up in a hotel downtown. W: How nice! How many people are they interviewing?M: Well, They interviewed 16 the first time, and then four of us were chosen to come back for this interview.W: It sounds like you have a good chance to be selected then.M: I hope so. The manager told me he would call us on Monday.W: Well, I hope it goes well．John and I would love it if you came back to this area to work.M: I would too. But my girlfriend doesn’t want to leave her family. She hopes I find a job close to home.W: Oh dear, what a decision.M: I’m trying to convince her of how good it is to live here. But anyway, I have to wait until Monday to find out whether I even have the chance.W: Good luck!13 How does the man seem to feel after the interview?14. How many people have been asked for a second interview?15. What does the man’s girlfriend want?Part C.Everyone knows the value of money. If you have a lot of money, you can make yourself very comfortable by having a fine house to live in, fashionable clothes to wear and delicious food to eat. With money you can do whatever you like. Money is so important and so useful that people are naturally keen on possessing it.But money can also be a source of evil. For the sake of money, some people do not care about their means of getting it. They will steal, gamble, cheat and even kill to get money, profiting at the expense of their victims.It is true that money can bring people happiness. With money the basic necessities can be provided for. With money the theatre and other places of entertainment can be enjoyed. But in my opinion the truly happy are those who make money through their work and live within their income.In short, money is important and useful but in itself it has little value if it doe not give people real happiness.Part D.Passage 1Nicholas MacMahon is a four-year-old child. He is studying at college because he is too intelligent for school. Nicholas has computer lessons at the West London institute. He spoke well before he was one year old. At eighteen months he took telephone messages for his parents. At the age of two he began to learn French. The strange thing about Nicholas is that he taught himself to read before he could speak. His father said, “we knew immediately that he could read. When he could speak, he corrected my spell ing”. When Nicholas went to school, his teachers just gave him pictures to color and toys to play with and did not have time to prepare special lessons for him. Nicholas tried two different schools, but he was bored and unhappy. Then his parents decided that he couldn’t stay at an ordinary school. But they had no idea what to do with him. Then the West London institute offered to help. Nicholas spends some of his time there, and also studies at home. Now he reads newspapers every day, and he can play the violin well. His father said, “Nicholas is our life. He is a clever child and we want to help him in every way.”26. Which adjective can best describe Nicholas?27. When did Nicholas learn to take telephone message for his parents?28. What is Nicholas studying at college?29. Which of the following is true about Nicholas?Passage 2Tom Johnson came to London from Scotland to start a new job as a hotel porter. He had rented a flat and was enjoying a simple but good life in London.However, it all ended suddenly when he became jobless and couldn’t pay the rent. Tom had to leave his rented home and found himself alone in a big city with no money or friends. After that, he had to beg for money in busy streets and sleep in parks. It was a sad and dangerous life indeed.Then one day his luck changed. He came across a man named Johnny Reid who had opened a hotel and needed a porter. Johnny felt sorry for Tom and decided to give him a job as a porter and a room at his hotel.Tom was so excited. He said, “It’s nice to know that there are still kind people in the world. It is Johnny’s kindness that saved me. Actually that’s a lesson for everyone. Some people think homeless people are lazy. Why should we help them? Actually we don’t want to live on the streets, but we’re totally helpless. It’s so unpleasant especially when it’s cold and wet outside. So don’t be afraid to help someone in trouble. And please, don’t be rude or nasty to homeless people.”30. What happened when Tom lost his job?31. Who is Johnny Reid?32. What’s Tom’s advice?Passage 3There’s a lot to learn about shopping. In my opinion not everyone is a good shopper. Some people spend a lot of time and money but bring back something nor worth the price they paid for it. Thus quarrels occur between husbands and wives. So try to be a smart shopper.Here are some tips.First of all, before you go shopping, make a list of the things that you are going to buy. It saves you time and keeps you from forgetting something.Secondly, try to locate where you can buy these things and find out prices. To do this, you can buy a local newspaper and read the “sale”section in the classified advertisements. Once you’ve found something that you want, call the store immediately and make sure that’s still there. Cheap things and things of good value usually sell very quickly. So try to be the first one to reach the seller.Thirdly, compare the prices of the same product in different stores, either by telephoning or visiting them.Lastly, it’s generally cheaper to shop in chain stores and supermarkets. Shops that remain open until quite late may charge rather higher prices in return for their longer hours of service.33. What does the passage mainly tell us?34. What does the speaker say we should do first before shopping?。

《全新版大学英语-听说教程第五册》听力原文 College English Listening and Speaking Course 5 - Unit 3

Re c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a oUnit Three The Skeptical MindPart A Pre-listening Task (I)Listen to the facts and opinions about The Skeptical Mind twice and fill in the blanks with the words you hear from the recording. Pay attention to the sentence structures that you might find useful in your discussions.Facts and OpinionsNotedPreclude n. 排除Atheist n.无神论者1. Having a skeptical mind means keeping an open mind and basing your beliefs, so far as possible, on the total available evidence.2. You believe that everything is “explainable” in principle, and the only difference between a miracle and a natural phenomenon is that you are not able yet to explain the former in natural terms.3. Skepticism is essentially(本质上) a way of evaluating other people’s beliefsand forming your own.4. Skeptics believe that in matter of the intellect(智力), we ought to follow ourreason so far as it is possible.5. Skepticism does not necessarily preclude belief in God or an afterlife. It maybe true that most skeptics are atheists and doubt the possibility of an afterlife.6. It is a mistake to think that we ought to either believe in God or not believe in God because of the psychological benefits of doing so.7. Being a skeptic means being a mature adult who take responsibility for hisor her own life and who makes his or her own judgments.8. Sometime people’s opinions are influenced by the media and by what is saidover and over again.9. Skepticism is a primary tool of science, but unbridled(不受控制的,放纵的) disbelief is a threat to the development of science.10. However , it must be admitted that our actual knowledge of natural laws isimperfect and limited, so that the belief in the existence of basic all-embracing(包括一切的;包罗万象) laws in Nature also rests(倚靠) on a sort of faith.11. Apollo was the name given to any of a series of manned U.S. spacecraftdesigned to explore the Moon and surrounding space.Re c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a o 12. On July l6, 1969, the crew of Apollo II-Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, and Buzz Aldrin-headed off to attempt the first lunar landing.13. In April 1970 Apollo l3 almost ended tragically when an oxygen tank inside the service module exploded.14. On 19th December 1972 the return of the astronauts aboard Apollo l7 after the 6th successful Moon landing marked the end of the Apollo era.15. Over the past thirty years, many people have been persuaded that theApollo missions never actually took place and therefore represent the largest hoax in history.16. It would be quite easy for me to state that the people who believe that the Apollo Moon landings were faked are wrong or just mad.17. My present interest in Apollo is historical I love the details of how and why the Apollo spacecraft worked as well as the details of the lunar exploration.18. I watch astronauts carrying out experiments, picking up Moon rocks, taking pictures and so forth, especially during the last few flights to the Moon.19. But it wasn’t until later that I really understood how and why they wouldpick a particular rock to sample or crater(火山口) to visit.20. The Internet is quickly growing into the largest and most complex web ofinformation our world has ever known.21. There are few filters that separate reliable information from false and misleading data.22. We are presented with piles upon piles of ideas, claims and unusual phenomena without a tool kit to help us sort out the good from the bad.Part A Pre-listening Task (II)Pair/ Group Work - Additional question for discussion1. Do you think a skeptical attitude is important in scientific research? Why orwhy not?2. Are you a skeptical person? Give an example to show that you are or aren'ta skeptical person?3. Do you chat with strangers on a train when going home during the vacationin order to kill time? What kind of persons do you choose to talk to?4. What are the topics that you like to talk about with strangers on a train?Sample1. Do you think a skeptical attitude is important in scientific research? Why or why not?In my opinion, a skeptical attitude is not only important but also necessary in scientific research. Every discovery and every new theory must have a reason to exist and can be explained in a scientific way. For example, British scientist Isaac Newton had doubts about Kepler's discoveries about the universe, because Kepler's theory could not answer some basic questions, such as: "What keeps the planets in their elliptical(椭圆的) orbits?Re c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a o On our spinning (旋转) Earth what prevents objects from flying away when they are thrown in the air? What keeps you from being hurled off (用力投掷) the spinning Earth?”With these questions in mind, Newton stated out to find the truth and in the end he discovered the Law of Gravity. (万有引力定律)2. Are you a skeptical person? Give an example to show that you are or aren't a skeptical person?Yes, I am a skeptical person to some extent. Take global warming for example, scientists say the Earth is turning hotter and hotter. Then I would not just take what scientists said for granted and I would ask why. I would compare the weather data collected about l0 year ago with the data of today. I would try to find out the reasons that caused the increase of the earth average temperature during these years. If the high level of carbon (碳) dioxide (二氧化物) emitted (发出) by major industrial countries is the main cause, I would probably join or support the international efforts to curb(限制) the emission(排放) of it into the atmosphere(大气).3. How much do you know about the Moon, such as its orbit, diameter , temperature and surface?The Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth, visible by reflection of sunlight and having a slightly elliptical orbit, approximately 356,000 kilometers (221,600 miles) distant at perigee (（月球等轨道的）近地点) and 406,997 kilometers (252,950 miles) at apogee(距地心最远的一点). Its mean diameter(直径) is 3,475 kilometers (2,l60 miles), its mass approximately one eightieth that of the Earth, and its average period of revolution(革命;彻底改变;旋转;运行，公转) around the Earth 29 days l2 hours 44 minutes as calculated with respect to(相对于) the sun.Part BListening Task(A)Notesswirl v. 纷乱地流传hoax n.骗局conspiracy n. 阴谋X-Files (X-档案) (美国科幻电视剧名)Mitch Pileggi (人名)Bill Kaysing (人名)testimony n. 证据，证明，证言Nevada n. 内华达州studio n. 摄影棚blundering a. 笨拙的Re c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a o constellation n. 星座discrepancy n. 差异，不一致immortal a. 不朽的Reference1. Background InformationConspiracy theorists (阴谋论) like Bill Kaysing and Ralph Rene claim that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax. On 15 February and 19 March 2001 the Fox TV network aired a program called "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?", hosted by "X-Files" actor Mitch Pileggi, that rehearsed (排演) these claims. Guests on the show argued that NASA technology in the 1960s wasn't up to the task of a real Moon landing. Instead, anxious to win the Space Race any way it could, NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios. Thesuggestive (引起联想的) scenes in films like "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971) and "Capricorn (摩羯座) One" (1978) helped establish the Moon Hoax theme in American popular culture. The best rebuttal (反驳) to allegations(指控) of a "Moon Hoax," however, is common sense. Evidence that the Apollo program really happened is compelling(引人入胜的).2. That last bit was hard to swallow, …The last part of what she said was hard for me to believe, …3. the controversy (论战) that swirled (纷乱地流传) through the small townthe controversy that spread out like a swirl of wind through the small town4. the Fox Television networkalso Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC), an American television network with headquarters in Los Angeles. FBC distributes entertainment, sports, and talk programs and television movies to about 200 affiliated (隶属于) stations in the United States. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, FBC, also known simply as Fox, became the fourth major commercial television network in the United States.5. Conspiracy Theory…speculation concerning the existence of an agreement to perform together an illegal (不合法的) or unofficial actionDid We Land on the Moon?Last week my phone rang. It was my mother and she was very upset."Tony!" she exclaimed, "I just came from the coffee shop and there's a guy down there who says NASA never landed on the Moon. Everyone was talking about it ... I just didn't know what to say!"That last bit was hard to swallow, I thought. Mom's never at a loss for words.Re c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a o But even more incredible was the controversy that swirled through the small town and places like it across the country. After a long absence, the "Moon Hoax" was back.All the debates about the Moon landing began on Thursday, February 15, 2001 when the Fox Television network aired a program called "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" It was re-aired on March 19. The program was hosted by "X-Files" actor Mitch Pileggi. The program was an hour long, and featured interviews with a series of people who believe that NASA faked the Apollo Moon landings in the 1960s and 1970s. The biggest voice in this is Bill Kaysing, who claims to have all sorts of hoax evidence, including pictures taken by the astronauts, engineering details, discussions of physics and even some testimony by astronauts themselves. The program's conclusion was that the whole thing was faked in the Nevada desert. According to them, NASA technology in the 1960s did not have the technical capability of going to the Moon. Instead, anxious to win the Space Race any way it could, NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios. Neil Armstrong's historic first steps on another world, the Moon vehicle and the American flag -- it was all a fake! Fortunately the Soviets didn't think it was a hoax. Otherwise, they could have filmed their own fake Moon landings and really embarrassed the free world. According to the show, NASA was a blundering (笨拙的) movie producer thirty years ago. The hoax believers pointed out a lot of discrepancies (差异, 分歧) in Apollo imagery. For example, pictures of astronauts transmitted from the Moon don't include stars in the dark lunar sky -- an obvious production error! What happened? Did NASA film-makers forget to turn on the constellations?Here's another one. Pictures of Apollo astronauts erecting (直立的) a US flag on the Moon show the flag bending and waving. How can that be? After all, there's no breeze on the Moon ..."One small step for man, one giant leap(跳跃, 飞跃) for mankind." These immortal (不朽的) words were spoken when American astronaut Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon in 1969. Or did he?Questions I.:Listen to the story and choose the right answers to each questions you hear.1. Why was the speaker's mother at a loss for words at the beginning?A. Because she was too angry to speak out.B. Because she was so surprised at the news that she just couldn ’t think what to say.C. Because she was crying at the incredible news.D. Because she disbelieved the story and didn’t want to argue back.正确答案：B. Because she was so surprised at the news that she just couldn ’tRe c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a o think what to say.2. When did the Fox TV network air the program for the second time?A. About a month after it was aired for the first time.B. On February 15th , 2001C. About two weeks after it was aired for the first time.D. On March 21, 2001正确答案：A. About a month after it was aired for the first time.3. What was the theme of the program that the Fox TV network aired in 2001?A. The conspiracy of NASA in an attempt to overthrow the government.B. The conspiracy that NASA found out about the Moon landing program.C. People ’s disbelief in the Moon landing program of about 30 years ago.D. A plot to attack NASA ’s Moon landing program.正确答案：C. People ’s disbelief in the Moon landing program of about 30 years ago.4. Why did NASA fake the Moon landings in the 1960s and 1970s according to the passage?A. Because NASA failed in many of its attempts to land on the Moon.B. Because NASA was controlled by a group of conspirators then/C. Because the president ordered them to beat the soviet Union in space explorations.D. Because NASA was anxious to beat the Soviet Union in the space race. 正确答案：D. Because NASA was anxious to beat the Soviet Union in the space race.5. What was the speaker's attitude toward the hoax incident?A. The speaker did not believe in the Moon landing.B. The speaker was neutral (中立者) in his or her account.C. The speaker believed in the Moon landing.D. The speaker was against the Moon landing program from the very beginning.正确答案：A. The speaker did not believe in the Moon landing.Questions II:Listen to the passage again and complete the following statement with the word or phrases you have heard.1. But even more incredible was the controversy that swirled through thesmall town and places like it across the country.Re c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a o 2. The program was an hour long, and featured interviews with a series of people who believe that NASA faked the Apollo Moon landings in the 1960s and 1970s.3. The hoax believers pointed out a lot of discrepancies in Apollo imagery.4. For example, pictures of astronauts transmitted from the Moon don't include stars in the dark lunar sky.5. Pictures of Apollo astronauts erecting a US flag on the Moon show the flag bending and waving. How can that be? After all, there's no breeze on the Moon.6. "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." These immortalwords were spoken when American astronaut Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon in 1969. Or did he?Speaking Task (I)You have just heart a passage about the Moon landing that happened during the time between 1969 and 1972. What is your opinion of the Apollo mission? Are you skeptical after listening to the text? Exchange views with your partner. You may to cover the following points in your discussion.1. When and how did the upsetting debate start?2. What was the theme of the program aired by the Fox Television?3. What were the two discrepancies in the pictures of the Apollo mission?4. What do you think of the arguments put forward by the hoax believers? Are you skeptical about NASA ’s Moon Landing? Give your reasons.The argument began on Thursday, February 15, 2001 when the Fox Television network aired a program called "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" It was replayed on March 19. The argument was put forward by some conspiracy theorists, including BiII Kaysing. Kaysing claimed on TV that NASA's Apollo Moon missions were a giant hoax. During the 1960s and 1970s, NASA was so anxious to win the space race with the Soviet Union that faked all the Apollo Moon missions and fabricated(虚构) the films and photos of the Moon landings in a film studio.The program also showed some discrepancies in the Moon landing photos. One of the discrepancies is that the photos don't include stars in the dark lunar sky. The other one is that the American flag erected by the US astronauts was fluttering and bending. How could the flag wave on the Moon since there is no breeze there?In my opinion, this TV program was like a nuclear bomb. The Fox Television network is one of the major news agencies in the US and most people tend to believe what it says. If it said that the whole Apollo Moon landing was a big hoax, then people would tend toRe c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a o believe it. This indicates that people are generally gullible(易受骗的) about what is said in the media. So l think the merit of this program is to make people think for themselves and help them reach their own conclusions based on the evidence.As for me, I don't think the Apollo Moon landing was a hoax. I have made this judgment on common sense and on the evidence that the astronauts brought back some Moon rocks. As the saying goes, seeing is believing. But in many cases, we can not see what is happening elsewhere in the world with our own eyes. Anyway, people should have the right to know the truth and should be skeptical about what is said in the media. Part C Additional ListeningHenry Beatle (人名)Your Money (广播节目名)tremendous a. 极大的，巨大的David Champion (人名)manufacturer n. 制造商US Carmakers Make Progress... I'm Henry Beatle with "Your Money".For decades many people have insisted that they wouldn't buy an American car or light truck simply because they believe European and Asian vehicles were better made. "Consumer Reports Annual Auto" issue says the US carmakers have been making tremendous progress over the past five years in improving the quality of their products and in reducing the number of things that will go wrong with them.David Champion is the director of auto-testing for the magazine. He says the American automakers now feel vehicles (that) are as reliable on average during the first year as those from European manufacturers. In fact, Champion says the Europeans have made smaller improvements and haven't kept up with the strides being made by carmakers in the US and Asia. A "Consumer Reports" survey finds American and European models now average 21 problems per hundred vehicles during the first year compared to 12 problems per hundred for Asian models.With CNN radio "Your Money". I'm Henry Beatle.Questions:Listen to the recording and choose the right answers to each question you hear.1. What's the main topic of this news report?A. How to buy a new car .Re c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a o B. Why won't people buy American cars?C. American automakers are making great progress.D. There are problems with vehicles made in America , Europe and Asia . 正确答案：C. American automakers are making great progress.2. In which area has progress been made by the US carmakers?A. Cheaper price .B . Greater re li abi li ty .C. Appearance.D. Less fue l consumption .正确答案：B . Greater re li abi li ty .3. Who is David Champion?A. A correspondent for a radio stat ion.B. Th e director of auto-testing for the ma gaz in e .C. Head of an auto ma gaz in e .D. Director of an American automaker .正确答案：B. Th e director of auto-testing for the ma gaz in e .4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the talk?A . US carmakers have been makin g tremendous progress over the past five years .B . For decades man y peop l e wou l dn't buy an American car s impl y because of their fa l se be li efs .C . Champion says the Europeans have mad e greater impro ve m ents in their auto indu stry .D. A "Consumer Reports" survey found that American and European mod e l s have mor e prob l e m s than Asian mod e l s .正确答案：C . Champion says the Europeans have mad e greater impro ve m ents in their auto indu stry .Part C Leisure TimeHumour - Accidental bondingA woman and a man get into a car accident. Both cars were totally demolished, but amazingly neither of them is hurt.After they crawl out of their wreckage, the woman says, " Wow, look at our cars – there ’s nothing left! Thank God we are all right. This must be a sign from Him that we should be friends and not try to pin the blame on each other ”R e c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a oThe man replied, “Oh yes, I agree with you completely."The woman points to a bottle on t he ground and says, “And here's another miracle. Somehow this bottle of Scotch(划开) from my back seat didn't break. Surely God wants us to drink this Scotch and celebrate our good fortune."Then she hands the bottle to the man. The man nods his head in agreement, opens it, and chugs about a third of the bottle to calm his nerves. He then hands it back to the woman. The woman takes the bottle, immediately puts the cap back on, and hands it back to the man.The man asks, "Aren't you having any?"The woman replies, "No. I think I'll just wait for the police …”Part C Movie TimeWatch an excerpt of a film and choose the right answer to each of the following questions.H. G. Wells (1866-1946): 英国著名科幻小说家，发表了的科幻作品包括. ”The Time Machine ” (1895), “The Invisible Man ”(1897), “The War of the Worlds ” (1898) , “The Shape of Things to Come ” (1933) 等。

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The Hospital WindowJack and Ben, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. Jack, whose bed was next to the room's only window, was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lung s. But Ben had to spend all day and night lying flat o n his bed. To kill time the two men began to talk. They talked for hours about their wives, families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, and where they had been on vacation. As days went by, a deep friendship began to develop between them.Every afternoon when Jack could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to Ben all the things he could see outside the window. And Ben began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed t heir model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amid flowers of every color of the rainbow. Grand old trees beautified the landscape, and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.As Jack described all this in great detail, Ben would close his eyes and imagine the wonderful scenes.One warm afternoon Jack described a parade passing by. Although Ben couldn't hear the band — he could see it in his mind's eye as Jack described it with colorful words.Days and weeks passed. One morning the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of Jack, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was very sad and called the hospital attendant s to take the body away.Ben was heartbroken. Life without Jack was even more unbearable. How he longed to hear Jack's voice and his fine descriptions of the outside world! As he looked at the window, an idea suddenly occurred to him. Perhaps he could see for himself what it was like outside. As soon as it seemed appropriate, Ben asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.Slowly, painfully, he propped (支撑) himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the world outside. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it for himself! He strained（尽全力）to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed. It faced a blank wall!"What could have compelled my roommate to describe such wonderful things outside this window?" Ben asked the nurse when she returned."Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you to live on," she said."You know, he was blind and could not even see the wall".How Our Memory WorksHuman beings have amazing memories. Apart from all our personal memories about our own lives, we can recall between 20,000 and 100,000 words in our own language as well as possibly thousands more in a foreign language. We have all sorts of information about different subjects such as history, science, and geography, and we have complex skills such as driving a car or playing a musical instrument. All these things and countless others depend on our memory.How well you remember things depends on many different factors. Firstly, some people naturally have better memories than others, in just the same way as some people are taller than others, or have different color eyes. Some top chess players, for example, can remember every move of every game that they have ever seen or played.Secondly, research shows that different things are stored in different parts of the brain. Ideas, words, and numbers are stored in the left-hand side, while the right-hand side remembers images, sounds, and smells. In most people one side of the brain is more developed than the other, and this may explain why some people can rememberpeople's faces easily, but can't remember their names.Thirdly, we all remember exciting, frightening, or dramatic events more easily. This is because these experiences produce chemicals such as adrenaline, which boost （改善）your memory.Fourthly, the context（环境）in which you learn something can affect how well you remember it. Tests on divers, for example, showed that when they learned things underwater, they could also remember those things best when they were underwater.Lastly, the more often you recall a memory the more likely you are to remember it. If you don't use it, you'll lose it. A telephone number that you dial frequently will stay in your memory easily, but you will probably have to write down one that you use only now and again.Last Gasp for SmokersIt was a normal day and in their New York office, Ken and his colleagues stopped for their coffee break. But while his colleagues were able to sit at their desks and drink their coffee, Ken had to go outside. He couldn't stay inside, because he wanted to smoke. If the smokers of the Big Apple want to enjoy a cigarette,the authorities have decided they must go out into the street or up onto the rooftops.Throughout the United States, the number of places where people are allowed to smoke has gradually dwindled（缩小，减少）. First it was banned on trains, buses, and planes, then in public places such as theaters and airports. Now you can't smoke in any workplace. Nonsmokers are definitely winning the battle. "Why should we breathe their smoke?" they say.If they're lucky, smokers can still find some bars and restaurants or parks and recreation（娱乐，消遣）centers where they can light up a cigarette, but it may soon be banned there, too. In fact, smoking in parks and recreation centers is already banned in California. On August 9, 2001, Los Angeles City and County officials announced the implementation（实施，执行）of a smoke-free park policy, officially designating （指定）smoke-free zones in all 375 parks and recreation centers in the city. And since January 1, 2002 all parks in California have become smoke-free to safeguard children from the harmful effects of secondhand tobacco smoke and dangerous tobacco waste. Anti-smoking groups even think that smoking ought to be banned in people's homes. Under new plans you won't be able to smoke in any house where there are more than ten visitors in a week, or where there are children.In 1996, nicotine was classed as a dru g, like cannabis, cocaine or heroin. And scientists all over the world agree that exposure（暴露）tosecondhand smoke poses（造成，提出问题）a s erious health risk and there is no safe level of exposure. It is especially dangerous for children because when they are exposed to tobacco smoke, they have much higher rates of lung diseases such as bronchitis and pneumonia and are also at greater risks of developing asthma.In the country that gave tobacco to the world, smoking might one day be illegal. And then Ken will have to give up.Chairman:Welcome to this special birthday edition of One World. Tonight we have a special program dedicated to birthday celebrations around the world. With us in the studio we have Shaheen Hag and Pat Cane, who have a weekly column on birthdays in the Toronto Daily Star. Shaheen: Good evening.Pat: Good evening.Chairman:Shaheen, perhaps we could begin with you. How are birthdays celebrated in India?Shaheen: Well, perhaps we're all assuming that everyone in the world celebrates their birthdays. This just isn't the case. Low-income families in India, for instance, simply can't afford any festivities. And most Muslims don't celebrate their birthdays.Pat: I think Shaheen has raised an interesting point here. The Christianchurch, too, was actively against celebrating birthdays.Shaheen: Of course some Muslims do celebrate their birthdays. In Egypt, Turkey and Indonesia, for example, the rich people invite friends and families around. But not in small villages.Chairman: Here in England your twenty-first used to be the big one. But now it seems to have moved to eighteen. Is that true?Pat: Yes, in most parts of the West eighteen is now the most important birthday. In Finland, for example, eighteen is the age when you can vote, you know, or buy wines, drive a car and so on. But in Japan I think you have to wait till you're twenty before you can smoke or drink. Shaheen: I know in Senegal, which is another Muslim country, girls get to vote at sixteen and boys at eighteen. And in Bangladesh, girls at eighteen and boys at twenty-one.Chairman: That's interesting. I mean is it typical that around the world girls are considered to be more mature than boys?Shaheen: Yes, I think so, and in Mexico and Argentina, for example, they have enormous parties for 15-year-old girls.Pat: You know in Norway they have a great party for anyone who's not married by the time they're thirty. It's kind of embarrassing. I mean you get pepper thrown at you.Chairman: Pepper? Why pepper?Pat: I'm not really sure.Shaheen: So does that mean that on your 29th birthday you can start thinking "God I better get married"?Pat: Well, I'm not sure how seriously they take it.Chairman: In England we have quite big parties for your fortieth, fiftieth, sixtieth and so on.Pat: Well, in Japan your eighty-eighth is considered ...Chairman: Eighty-eighth?Pat: to be the luckiest birthday. Eight is a very lucky number in Japan.Embarrassing ExperiencesInterviewer: Rob, you went to Brazil, didn't you?Rob: Yes, I did.Interviewer: So, what happened?Rob: Well, I went into this meeting and there were about, er ... seven or eight people in there and I just said "Hello" to everybody and sat down. Apparently, what I should have done is to go round the room shaking hands with everyone individually. Well, you know, it's silly of me because I found out later it upset everyone. I think they felt I was taking them for granted.Kate: Well, I know that because when I was in France the first time, Ifinished a meeting with "Goodbye, everyone!" to all the people in the room. Well, I later found out that the polite thing to do is shake hands with everyone in the group before leaving.Interviewer: Well, people shake hands in different ways, don't they? Rob: Oh, yes, they do. See, normally I shake hands quite gently when I meet someone. So when I went to the US for the first time, I think people there thought my weak handshake was a sign of weakness. Apparently, people there tend to shake hands quite firmly.Kate: Oh, gosh, that reminds me of my first trip to Germany many years ago, I was introduced to the boss in the company when he passed us in the corridor. Well, I wasn't prepared, and I had my left hand in my pocket. And when we shook hands I realized my left hand was still in my pocket. Well, that was, you know, very bad manners and I was quite embarrassed.Interviewer:And how about using first names? Have you made any mistakes there?Rob: Oh, yes, I have! When I first went to Italy I thought it was OK to use everyone's first name so as to seem friendly. And I later discovered that in business you shouldn't use someone's first name unless you are invited to. Oh, and you should always use thei r title as well.Kate:Hm, yeah, well, when I met people in Russia, you know, they seemed to be puzzled when I shook hands with them and said "How doyou do?" Well, what they do when they greet a stranger is to say their own names, so I had that all wrong!Rob: Oh, yes, I agree with that. Remembering names is very important. Interviewer: Shall we take a break? When we come back we'll move on to our next topic.Kate & Rob: OK.College Hunks （健美的男子）of JunkIt's the universal cry of parents, generally heard by the second day of college summer breaks: "Get a job!" Omar Soliman's mother joined the chorus. "You have to do something," she told him.Soliman's friends had obtained prestigious（享有声望的）internships（实习职位）in his hometown of Washington, D.C. But he couldn't imagine himself sitting at a desk all day. After years of delivering furniture for his mother's store, he remembered that a lot of people had stuff they wanted to get rid of. If he borrowed his mom's van （厢式货车）, he could make a little money hauling their trash （垃圾）away for them.That night, Soliman came up with a name for his new business: College Hunks Hauling Junk. He distributed flyers（小广告传单）the nextday, and within hours, his phone was ringing. He asked his friend Nick Friedman to help out. They made $220 in three hours cleaning out a woman's garage.Soliman and Nick pocketed（将放入衣袋）$10,000 that summer. But the two weren't ready to become full-time trashmen after graduation. "We were trained to finish college and get a good job," says Soliman. He graduated with a business degree from the University of Miami and first went into marketing at a research firm. Friedman, who had an economics degree from Pomona College in California, became an economic analyst for a consulting compan y. Months later, they quit their jobs and started their junk business full time.At first they had trouble finding a bank willing to lend them money as they didn't have much of a credit rating. After five turndowns, one bank decided to gamble $50,000 on their idea. They put together another $60,000 from their parents and their own savings. They bought a truck, hired a graphic artist（平面造型设计师）t o design a logo, ran newspaper and radio ads and recruited（招聘）haulers on campuses. Wearing bright orange hats and green polos and khakis these college "hunks" will haul away everything from construction materials to old couches（床）. To cut down the cost of unloading at landfills, they have learned to recycle metals and electronics and donate to charities over 60 percent of what they collect. They also give away a portion（部分）oftheir earnings from each job to local college scholarship programs.And now, just four years later, they run a nationwide company that pulled in（获得利益报酬）$3 million in 2008. They employ 130 people and have 16 franchises（加盟连锁店）in 10 states and D.C. and plan to expand to 80 franchises by 2012.The Embarrassment of RichesThe meaning of wealth today is usually defined as the amount of money and material goods that one has accumulated and the ability to purchase more goods at an ever-increasing rate. A wealthy person possesses so much money that it would be difficult for him to spend it all in his lifetime without being wasteful and extravagant.Speaking from a strictly practical point of view, the trouble with wealth is not that it arouses envy in the hearts of others but that it weighs very heavily upon the resources of its owner. Those who have never tasted luxury imagine that a new Porsche, a Picasso in the drawing room, an apartment in the Trump Tower, will bring them ease and happiness. If that were true, owners of the Porsches, Picassos, and Trumps of the world would all be happy souls. One glance at history tells you they are not.The problem is not simply that owning goods feeds upon itself, generating desires to possess more and to outdo(超过) other owners in a competitive madness. It's that goods themselves are an endless responsibility. They must be not only paid for but also stored, insured, and publicly admired. All of those cost not just money but personal freedom. As James Boswell, the famous British biographer, once wrote in his diary, "If a man with a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing. Nothing except glittering baggage that must be attended to."In some Oriental countries poverty has never been such a disgrace（耻辱）as it is in the "get-rich-quick" zone. Wise men from these lands often remark on the tyranny（暴政，专制）of goods. According to an old Persian proverb, "The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects." And in his discussion of "Houses", a Lebanese poet and philosopher compares the lust（欲望）for comfort to a "stealthy（（偷偷摸摸的）thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master."The same sentiment（意见，观点）is also expressed here in America by the great philosopher Ralph Emerson, who scorns（轻蔑）the acquisitiveness（对金钱的渴望和贪婪）of his day with the famous line "Things are in the saddle（马鞍）, and ride mankind."Life Goes OnThe city of Ypres in Belgium has been invaded19 times, most famously in World War I. Some time ago I went with two friends to visit the battlefields and cemeteries（墓地）there, and particularly to see the tomb of my uncle who was killed in the war at the age of 20.Michael, our silver-haired（发白如银的）guide, took us first to a British cemetery, just outside the town. There are lines of gravestones （墓碑）, neatly planted with herbs（香草）and flowers, and surrounded by low walls blooming（开花）with wisteria（紫藤）. Michael pointed out my uncle's grave （墓穴）to me.I walked hesitantly toward it, wondering what I would feel. And suddenly there it was, and there were hundreds of others. Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that in this area alone about 250,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers were killed. There are 75 British cemeteries, but we visited just a few.Next, Michael took us to a place on the other side of the city. The names of 55,000 missing soldiers are engraved（雕刻）on its walls. We stared in awe（敬畏的）. "More than half a million horses and mules（骡子）were lost, and fifteen tons of unexploded ammunition（军火）are still collected each year from the fields," Michael told us.Then we came to the largest British cemetery in the world. Someheadstones（墓碑）have words of love or gratitude: "He died that we might live," "Gone from our sight but not from our hearts.""I'd like you to visit a German cemetery before finishing," Michael said. The cemetery is in wooded（树木繁茂的）land. But there are no headstones, only slabs（平板）in the grass. There are no flowers, either. The whole place is dark and dank.（潮湿的）With some relief we returned to the car. After some time, we drew up（集合）at a gate. Here, hidden from the road, lies the Pool of Peace. "It was created by an explosion so loud it was heard in Downing Street," said Michael. We looked at the still water reflecting the trees surrounding it. There is hardly （几乎没）a sound.By the time we returned to Ypres, it was evening. The city was preparing for the annual Festival of the Cats, which dates from（追溯）medieval （中世纪的）times. Soon there would be dancing in the square.A Terrible DiseaseThe phone rang and it was my husband Jack asking me to take some lunch to his office. As I drove off, I noticed a new shopping center. Strange I hadn't noticed it before. Near his office I also saw a fire station （消防站）I didn't r ecognize."When did they build that new shopping center?" I asked Jack."And I'm glad to see that new fire station. It'll give a good landmark.""Diana, they've been there for ages," Jack scolded.Bewildered, I became angry and, starting up the engine, began to pull away（离开）. Then I braked. Where was the exit? Suddenly, nothing was familiar. I realized I had no idea how to get home. I had to stop again and again to ask for directions. Eventually, I got home. A 30-minute drive had taken me four hours.Two months later, at the office where I worked as a legal researcher, a smart young man approached me."Hi, Diana. Good to see you," he said, smiling.I hesitated, then smiled with resignation（屈从，顺从）."Please forgive me, it's one of those days. I simply can't bring your name to mind.""Diana, I'm your cousin Richard," he said very slowly.After that, I was constantly making mistakes and kept forgetting my way around the building. In the end, I made the painful decision to resign from work.Desperate to discover what was wrong with me, I made an appointment with a neurologist.After various tests he told me I had Alzheimer's disease. I felt numb. I'd hoped to find I was worrying about nothing, but now my worst fears were confirmed. And I was only 53!When I told Jack and my three grown-up children about mydisease, their reaction was quiet but supportive. "Stop worrying," Jack said. "We'll take good care of you."Now at 57, on good days I'm filled with hope and determination, but on bad days I have the worst sense of being alone. I've started a support group for other sufferers,for I know it's essential to have contact with people who are walking through the same maze（迷宫）. Jack's coping well. While he still dreams of waking up to find all this has been a horrible nightmare, he's assured me that I can depend on him. When we married he didn't know "for better or worse" included Alzheimer's. But neither did I.Home-Schooling on a World CruiseI've never believed that the only way to get an education is to sit at a desk with four walls around you. The world is our classroom and our home, a 41-foot sailing boat, takes us there. My husband and I dreamed of sailing around the world before our daughters were even born. Their arrivals only increased our desire to live the cruising lifestyle, a way of life that has given us the opportunity for lots of quality and quantity family time. Educating our two daughters while living afloat on our sailing boat has added a wonderful new dimension to our lives.We started out years ago with a kindergarten correspondence (一致)course f or our daughter Kate. As she found it very easy we devised our own curriculum for her.Choosing courses of study for Kate was great fun. We looked at where we would be sailing to during the school year, or where we would be stopping to work, and all sorts of topics of interest presented themselves. For example, while cruising（乘船巡游）down the East Coast to Florida, we chose space exploration for a unit of study. Our studies included both fictional and non-fictional reading, experiments and writing assignments. The finale（结尾）was watching a shuttle（航天飞机）launch and visiting the Kennedy Space Center museums.We do miss out on（错过好机会）a few things that most school children are able to take advantage of. Our sailing boat is small. School is held on a small dining table and it's difficult to leave artwork, science experiments or projects on the table for later use. We also have limited room for school books and so those we have must be chosen carefully. Perhaps the thing we miss the most is not always having access to a library.But the advantages of our floating school far outweigh（比。

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[ti:Unit 1 Part A][ar:上海外语教育出版社][by:上海外语教育出版社][00:00.00]Unit 1 Sports[00:03.42]Part A[00:05.64]Listening Strategy[00:08.02]Identifying Numbers[00:10.77]Numbers appear very often in every kind of listening material.[00:15.98]The ability to catch the exact numbers spoken in English[00:20.97]is an important but difficult skill for a Chinese learner.[00:25.66]A good way is to practice over and over again[00:30.22]the pronunciation of the numbers,[00:33.12]particularly the different ways to say[00:36.00]thirteen and thirty, fourteen and forty, etc.[00:42.24]It also helps to practice writing down the numbers you hear[00:46.78]quickly in numerical forms,[00:49.19]without translating them into Chinese.[00:52.08]You're going to hear a passage about Michael Jordan,[00:57.20]a retired American professional basketball player.[01:00.52]Listen carefully and fill in the blanks with the missing numbers. [01:05.14]Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.[01:10.29]He was born on Feb.17, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York.[01:16.95]He is 1.98 meters tall and weighs 216 pounds.[01:23.89]Jordan joined the Chicago Bulls team for the 1984 season.[01:30.29]In the 1986 season he shot 3041 points, the third highest score ever. [01:39.08]He was named NBA Slam Dunk Champion(扣篮冠军)in 1987[01:45.36]and won the Most Valuable Player Award in 1988,[01:49.56]an honor repeated four times in the next ten years to 1998.[01:55.96]Jordan guided his team to win six NBA championships during the 1990s, [02:02.59]scoring 45 points during the sixth and last game of the 1998 NBA finals. [02:10.02]In 1999,[02:12.44]he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century. [02:17.27]Jordan left the NBA at the beginning of the 1993-1994 NBA season [02:24.08]to pursue a career in baseball.[02:26.54]Since his baseball game wasn't quite as good as his basketball games, [02:31.47]he finally gave it up to rejoin the Bulls in 1995.[02:36.12]Yet, after playing for five more years,[02:40.55]he once again announced his retirement in 1999.[02:44.09]But he returned for two more NBA games in 2001[02:48.73]as a member of the Washington Wizards.[ti:Unit 1 Part B][ar:上海外语教育出版社][by:上海外语教育出版社][00:00.00]Part B[00:01.77]Listening Tasks[00:04.21]A Conversation[00:06.03]Why Don't You Join Me at the Gym Sometime?[00:10.20]Exercise 1[00:12.39]Listen to the conversation[00:15.19]and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.[00:19.12]Peter: Hi Laura. Where are you heading with that big bag?[00:24.50]Laura: Hi, Peter. I'm off to the gym.[00:27.48]I've got to stay in shape, you know.[00:29.76]I try to go three times a week, but I'm busy so I can't always make it. [00:36.14]Peter: I know more women who work out than men.[00:39.32]What's the main reason you work out?[00:41.98]For your health, or to look good?[00:45.05]Laura: To be honest, for both.[00:47.06]With women, good looks are always a very important consideration. [00:51.56]Peter: If they were honest,[00:53.48]most men who work out would admit that they also do it to look better, [00:58.07]and not merely for health reasons.[01:00.76]Laura: How about you?[01:02.01]Do you get any regular exercise?[01:04.55]Peter: I do a lot of walking,[01:06.76]for exercise and enjoyment —[01:08.90]sometimes ten to twenty kilometers at a time —[01:12.41]but I never go to the gym like you do.[01:14.95]Laura: Well, walking is good exercise. How about sports?[01:19.97]Peter: Not since my school days.[01:22.04]I used to love playing baseball,[01:24.34]but it's impossible to get enough people together for a game now. [01:28.20]Mostly I just watch sports on TV.[01:31.51]Laura: I play tennis fairly regularly with my friends,[01:35.42]and sometimes go swimming and cycling by myself.[01:38.95]Peter: Oh, I forgot about that. I go cycling sometimes too.[01:43.59]And I often go swimming on vacation, but only recreational swimming. [01:48.59]Laura: Why don't you join me at the gym sometime?[01:52.11]I can get you a guest pass.[01:54.64]Peter: Well, maybe someday, but I'm pretty lazy about things like that.[01:59.84]Questions[02:02.55]1. What do you know about Peter?[02:10.26]2. Where might the two speakers be having this conversation?[02:18.80]Exercise 2[02:20.11]Listen again and write down answers to the following questions.[02:24.60]Peter: Hi Laura. Where are you heading with that big bag?[02:28.84]Laura: Hi, Peter. I'm off to the gym.[02:31.73]I've got to stay in shape, you know.[02:33.97]I try to go three times a week, but I'm busy so I can't always make it. [02:40.40]Peter: I know more women who work out than men.[02:43.63]What's the main reason you work out? For your health, or to look good? [02:49.25]Laura: To be honest, for both. With women,[02:52.47]good looks are always a very important consideration.[02:56.05]Peter: If they were honest,[02:57.72]most men who work out would admit that they also do it to look better, [03:02.44]and not merely for health reasons.[03:05.04]Laura: How about you? Do you get any regular exercise?[03:08.89]Peter: I do a lot of walking,[03:11.19]for exercise and enjoyment —[03:13.41]sometimes ten to twenty kilometers at a time —[03:16.91]but I never go to the gym like you do.[03:19.48]Laura: Well, walking is good exercise.[03:22.40]How about sports?[03:24.43]Peter: Not since my school days.[03:26.41]I used to love playing baseball,[03:28.77]but it's impossible to get enough people together for a game now. [03:32.78]Mostly I just watch sports on TV.[03:36.18]Laura: I play tennis fairly regularly with my friends,[03:39.96]and sometimes go swimming and cycling by myself.[03:43.41]Peter: Oh, I forgot about that.[03:45.71]I go cycling sometimes too.[03:48.18]And I often go swimming on vacation, but only recreational swimming. [03:53.05]Laura: Why don't you join me at the gym sometime?[03:56.51]I can get you a guest pass.[03:59.13]Peter: Well, maybe someday, but I'm pretty lazy about things like that.[04:04.30]Speaking Tasks[04:08.05]Pair Work[04:09.76]Listen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. [04:15.17]Then role-play them with your partner.[04:18.54]Conversation 1[04:20.91]A: What's your plan for this evening?[04:23.56]B: Well, there's a good game at the stadium[04:26.66]but I haven't got a ticket yet.[04:29.10]A: I'm going to the gym.[04:30.86]Would you like to come along?[04:32.70]I can get a guest pass for you.[04:34.91]B: That's wonderful.[04:36.57]I'd always wanted to work out in the new gym.[04:39.79]Thank you very much.[04:42.39]Conversation 2[04:45.51]A: Hi, Xiao Wang. Fancy meeting you here![04:48.27]How are you doing?[04:49.63]B: Can't complain. I'm busy with my experiments in the lab. [04:54.51]But after work I often play some sports．[04:58.20]A: Like what?[04:59.21]B: Like swimming, running and sometimes tennis.[05:03.99]A: Tennis? That's my favorite game.[05:06.52]Say, what're you doing this weekend?[05:09.19]B: Nothing particular.[05:11.10]I guess I'll probably just work in the lab.[05:14.63]A: Come on. You need to relax.[05:16.99]What about a game of tennis?[05:19.85]B: OK.[05:21.09]Conversation 3[05:23.75]A: Are you doing anything special tomorrow, Bob?[05:27.30]B: Not really. Why do you ask?[05:30.35]A: Some of us are going motorcycling. Would you like to join us? [05:34.99]B: Motorcycling? I've never done that. Isn't it a bit dangerous? [05:40.30]A: Maybe, but it's really exciting.[05:43.29]B: I enjoy jogging. It's more relaxing.[05:46.78]A: That's a good form of exercise.[05:49.77]It can help you stay in shape.[05:51.77]B: Yes, it's also safer.[05:54.17]Now make similar conversations according to the given situations. [06:00.72]Use the structures and expressions above[06:04.09]in your conversations where appropriate.[al:全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程2][ti:Unit 1 Part C][ar:上海外语教育出版社][by:上海外语教育出版社][00:00.00]Part C[00:01.75]Test Your Listening[00:03.74]You're going to hear five short conversations.[00:08.26]Listen carefully and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.[00:12.57]1. W: I like playing basketball, volleyball and table tennis.[00:20.08]What about you?[00:21.30]M: Well, tennis is my favorite sport.[00:24.52]Q: What sport does the man like?[00:33.43]2. W: You don't like boxing very much, do you?[00:37.88]M: It's far from being my kind of sport.[00:41.03]Q: What does the man mean?[00:49.59]3. W: I think yesterday's football game was quite exciting.[00:54.70]What about you, John?[00:56.64]M: You said it. But it was a bit long.[00:59.54]Q: What does the man think about the football game?[01:09.28]4. W: Do you like to play chess?[01:12.65]M: I like the game, but I don't play it often enough.[01:16.53]I'm afraid I'm not a very good chess player.[01:19.37]Q: What does the man mean?[01:28.00]5. M: I knew the names of all the football players[01:31.71]and the dates of all the games in my high school days.[01:34.87]But recently I have failed to keep up with football.[01:38.74]W: Now you are busy with your golf games.[01:42.09]Q: What do you know about the man from the conversation?[al:全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程2][ti:Unit 2 Part A][ar:上海外语教育出版社][by:上海外语教育出版社][00:00.00]Unit 2 Food and Drinks[00:04.09]Part A[00:06.13]Listening Strategy[00:08.62]Listening "Between the Lines"[00:11.55]People do not always say directly what they mean.[00:15.80]Very often, we have to listen "between the lines".[00:20.04]The English language offers many ways for people to imply,[00:24.23]rather than directly state, their meaning.[00:27.12]To find out what a speaker really means,[00:30.01]we can rely on such things as the context, the meaning of an idiom, [00:34.08]and the intonation used.[00:36.03]For example,[00:37.15]if someone says "I have an essay to write"[00:40.55]in answer to an invitation to go somewhere,[00:43.49]we can infer from the context that he cannot accept the invitation. [00:47.43]And if someone says "Andrew passed with flying colors"[00:51.60]in reply to an inquiry about how Andrew did on a test,[00:55.41]we can infer from the meaning of the idiom[00:58.22]"to pass with flying colors" that Andrew did very well on the test. [01:02.71]Often, intonation also helps to reveal the real meaning of a message. [01:07.76]For example,[01:08.91]"He is very clever" said with an ironic tone means just the opposite. [01:14.49]You are going to hear eight short conversations between two speakers.[01:19.60]Listen carefully[01:21.18]and write down "Yes" or "No" to each of the following questions.[01:26.15]1. M: Have you ever been to that big restaurant opposite the school gate? [01:33.07]W: Yes, many times.[01:35.35]Whenever my friends come to visit me, I'll take them there to eat. [01:43.72]2. W: Is there something wrong, sir?[01:46.52]M: My wife and I have been kept waiting for nearly an hour for our meal. [01:55.46]3. W: Where is the cake I made this morning?[01:58.92]M: We ate it, mom. Can you make another one for us?[02:06.27]4. W: I hear you like chicken very much.[02:09.60]M: Next to beef.[02:15.17]5. M: Have you tried this wine before?[02:18.34]W: No, never. It's my first time, but it's really to my taste.[02:27.75]6. W: John, do you want a soda?[02:30.84]M: Soda? I think it tastes like medicine.[02:38.26]7. W: Why, the fish is left almost untouched.[02:42.56]M: Well, it would be good if it were less salty.[02:50.11]8. M: Hi, Sue, would you like to eat out tonight?[02:53.95]W: Oh, I'd really like to,[02:56.21]but my sister may come to visit me this evening.[al:全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程2][ti:Unit 2 Part B][ar:上海外语教育出版社][by:上海外语教育出版社][00:00.00]Part B[00:01.71]Listening Tasks[00:04.03]A Conversation[00:05.60]What About Dining Out?[00:08.40]Exercise 1[00:10.93]Listen to the conversation and complete the following sentences.[00:15.52]Peter: Hi, Kate.[00:17.96]Kate: Hi, Peter. How have you been?[00:20.75]Peter: Oh, OK, I guess. And you?[00:23.09]Kate: Not too bad. We haven't seen each other for a while, have we? [00:27.45]Peter: No, we haven't. So that makes me ask.[00:30.71]Do you have any plan for this Saturday?[00:32.71]Kate: No, not yet, I don't think so. Why?[00:36.21]Peter: What do you think about[00:37.98]getting together and going out to dinner this weekend?[00:40.42]Kate: That would be great. Do you have any particular place in mind? [00:44.55]Peter: Well, I think I'd like to eat something that's not too heavy. [00:48.41]I've been eating a little too much lately.[00:50.91]Kate: Me too.[00:52.56]Peter: I love Italian food, but maybe we should skip that this time. [00:56.91]They always seem to serve so much food in Italian restaurants, [01:00.61]and you end up eating more than you wanted to.[01:03.27]Kate: Chinese food would be good.[01:05.32]Peter: Yes, or maybe some Japanese sushi.[01:08.43]That style uses a lot of natural flavors,[01:11.48]and not much oil or cream or heavy sauces.[01:14.39]Kate: Yes, either of those choices would be good.[01:17.33]Let's just meet on Saturday night, and decide then where to eat. [01:21.37]Peter: That's fine by me.[01:22.65]Exercise 2[01:25.21]Listen to the conversation again[01:27.42]and write down answers to the following questions.[01:30.88]Peter: Hi, Kate.[01:33.54]Kate: Hi, Peter. How have you been?[01:36.36]Peter: Oh, OK, I guess. And you?[01:38.58]Kate: Not too bad. We haven't seen each other for a while, have we? [01:43.09]Peter: No, we haven't. So that makes me ask.[01:46.23]Do you have any plan for this Saturday?[01:48.32]Kate: No, not yet, I don't think so. Why?[01:51.83]Peter: What do you think about[01:53.65]getting together and going out to dinner this weekend?[01:56.07]Kate: That would be great. Do you have any particular place in mind? [02:00.23]Peter: Well, I think I'd like to eat something that's not too heavy. [02:03.98]I've been eating a little too much lately.[02:06.55]Kate: Me too.[02:08.10]Peter: I love Italian food, but maybe we should skip that this time. [02:12.51]They always seem to serve so much food in Italian restaurants, [02:16.42]and you end up eating more than you wanted to.[02:18.84]Kate: Chinese food would be good.[02:20.97]Peter: Yes, or maybe some Japanese sushi.[02:23.99]That style uses a lot of natural flavors,[02:27.20]and not much oil or cream orheavy sauces.[02:29.98]Kate: Yes, either of those choices would be good.[02:33.00]Let's just meet on Saturday night, and decide then where to eat. [02:37.03]Peter: That's fine by me.[02:39.70]Speaking Tasks[02:41.59]Pair Work[02:43.75]Listen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. [02:47.87]Then role-play them with your partner.[02:50.88]Conversation 1[02:53.56](At the school canteen)[02:56.06]A: What a crowd![02:57.55]B: This is the worst time. The morning classes are just over.[03:01.76]Everybody is hungry and rushes here to have lunch.[03:04.94]A: That's true. I'm starving and I can't wait.[03:08.03]I'd rather not stand in a long line.[03:10.42]B: Why don't we have some fried noodles?[03:13.27]A: Noodles are sold at No. 2 Box. No queue there, you see.[03:17.20]B: That's great.[03:18.68](At No. 2 Box)[03:21.46]Counter hand: What can I get you?[03:23.38]A: One plate of fried noodles, please.[03:25.58]B: Make it two.[03:26.68]Counter hand: OK. Two plates of fried noodles. Anything else?[03:31.79]A: How much is the tomato soup?[03:33.93]Counter hand: It's free. It goes with the noodles.[03:36.83]A: I see. (to B) Do you want any soup?[03:39.91]B: Yes.[03:40.92]A: (to counter hand) Two bowls of soup, please.[03:46.27]Conversation 2[03:47.50](At a fast food restaurant)[03:49.68]Counter hand: What can I do for you?[03:51.47]Customer: I'll have one order of chicken nuggets and a chicken sandwich. [03:55.65]Counter hand: Anything to drink?[03:56.75]Customer: A small Sprite. No ice, please.[03:59.65]Counter hand: Okay. For here or to go?[04:02.04]Customer: For here.[04:06.34]Conversation 3[04:07.92](At a Chinese restaurant)[04:09.74]Waiter: Are you ready to order?[04:13.10]A: Do you have any recommendations?[04:15.21]Waiter: Yes. The Sichuan style crispy whole fish is very good.[04:19.23]It's today's special.[04:20.80]A: Mary, would you like to try that? I hear it's very good.[04:24.71]B: Why not? And I'd like shrimp in black bean sauce, too.[04:31.21]It's my favorite.[04:32.73]Waiter: Okay. Anything else?[04:35.22]A: What about some vegetables, Mary?[04:37.50]B: Yes. How about spinach?[04:40.88]A: Spinach is fine with me.[04:42.75]Waiter: Anything to drink?[04:44.86]A: Yes. I'd like one Bud Light, please. What'll you have, Mary?[04:49.44]B: Orange juice, please.[04:51.56]Waiter: One Bud Light and one orange juice. Is that right?[04:55.89]A: Right.[04:57.55]Now make similar conversations according to the given situations.[05:03.71]Use the structures and expressions above in your conversations where appropriate.[al:全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程2][ti:Unit 2 Part C][ar:上海外语教育出版社][by:上海外语教育出版社][00:00.00]Part C[00:01.02]Test Your Listening[00:03.03]Listen to the conversation[00:05.84]and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.[00:09.74]A: Well, here we are, not too crowded.[00:13.27]B: Great! Let's order quickly so we can chat a little.[00:16.86]A: OK. What are you in the mood for?[00:19.40]B: Something light. I had a huge breakfast and I'm still full.[00:23.19]A: There are three salads. Or you could have soup and a sandwich.[00:27.58]B: What are you having? A hamburger, I suppose.[00:30.23]A: No, actually I ate out last night.[00:32.68]We had pizza at Pizza Hut, then a late snack at Kentucky Fried Chicken.[00:37.51]B: Oh, dear. Well, maybe you should have a salad.[00:40.63]A: Yes, I think so. Look, the daily special is spaghetti. That sounds good.[00:46.99]B: Oh, the prices are great too. I'll have that as well.[00:50.82]A: Now let's decide on drinks.[00:53.26]B: I'll just have coffee and a glass of iced water.[00:56.29]A: Italian food needs red wine, you know.[00:59.03]B: But we have to go back to work.[01:00.87]A: OK, a Coke for me then.[01:03.35]B: Here comes the waitress. Let me order first.[01:06.28]Questions[01:08.26]1. What is the relationship between the two speakers?[01:16.71]2. Where does the conversation take place?[01:24.28]3. What will they order?[al:全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程2][ti:Unit 3 Part A][ar:上海外语教育出版社][by:上海外语教育出版社][00:00.00]Unit 3 Weather[00:04.47]Part A[00:06.22]Listening Strategy[00:08.07]Listening for Important Details[00:11.26]Besides understanding the main idea of a listening text,[00:16.08]we often find it necessary to grasp the important details as well.[00:20.90]What counts as important details depends on the kind of information we want. [00:27.03]Generally speaking, if we are listening to the narration of an event,[00:32.70]we need to sharpen our ears not only for what happened,[00:36.84]but also when and where, how and why it happened.[00:41.40]In listening to a weather report, on the other hand,[00:44.86]the important details we should watch out for[00:48.07]are the current weather conditions,[00:50.13]temperature, and weather outlook.[00:52.61]You're going to hear two short passages about weather.[00:57.82]While listening, pay attention to such details as the weather conditions, [01:04.02]temperature, weather outlook, damage caused by bad weather and so on, [01:10.38]and write them down in note form.[01:13.08]Then complete the exercises in your book.[01:16.41]1. The weather today: a fine day is in store nearly everywhere,[01:25.57]with the best of the sunshine in southern and central areas of Britain.[01:30.42]A pleasant day, then, with long sunny periods developing.[01:35.65]There will be light winds with a maximum temperature[01:38.88]of 18 degrees Celsius, 64 degrees Fahrenheit.[01:43.20]Look at the outlook for the next few days:[01:46.81]it will become mostly cloudy with heavy showers moving in from the west. [01:53.13]2. A storm in Changchun, capital of Northeast China's Jilin Province,[02:00.78]claimed four lives on Sunday.[02:02.83]The storm lasted about three hours from around 8 p.m.[02:07.86]The winds reached speeds of over a hundred miles an hour,[02:12.46]causing serious damage and a widespread power failure.[al:全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程2][ti:Unit 3 Part B][ar:上海外语教育出版社][by:上海外语教育出版社][00:00.00]Part B[00:01.14]Listening Tasks[00:03.53]A Conversation[00:05.93]Did You Hear the Forecast?[00:09.45]Exercise 1[00:10.95]Listen to the conversation[00:12.78]and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.[00:15.70]Alan: Oh, look at the sky, Michelle! It's starting to get cloudy.[00:20.56]Michelle: I see it. I hope it doesn't rain.[00:23.46]I thought it was going to be a fine day today.[00:26.35]Alan: That's certainly what the department was hoping for[00:29.36]when they chose today as the date for the annual picnic.[00:33.21]Michelle: You can't have a picnic without good weather.[00:36.14]You need sunshine for all the eating and games and entertainment. [00:40.85]Alan: Yeah, sunshine — but not too much! Do you remember last year? [00:45.86]Michelle: I sure do. It was so hot all we did was look for shade, [00:50.67]look for ways to escape from the sun.[00:53.42]Alan: And no one wanted to participate in any of the planned activities. [00:57.78]All we wanted was cold drinks. And then we dozed off.[01:02.06]Michelle: If there had just been the tiniest breeze to cool us off. [01:06.59]Alan: But there wasn't.[01:07.91]Just that burning sun, without a cloud in the sky,[01:11.55]and the temperature just seemed to climb higher and higher.[01:15.11]Michelle: Well, we don't have that problem this year, apparently. [01:19.27]Alan, did you hear the weather forecast? Is it supposed to rain? [01:24.29]Alan: I don't know. I didn't catch the weather report.[01:27.99]But maybe if it rains,[01:29.77]it will only be a short shower which cools things off a little.[01:34.28]That might not be bad.[01:35.86]Questions[01:37.91]1. What are Alan and Michelle mainly doing?[01:46.42]2. What do you know about Alan?[01:53.20]3. What can you infer from the conversation?[02:01.13]Exercise 2[02:02.70]Listen to the conversation again.[02:05.46]Then write down answers to the following questions.[02:09.46]Alan: Oh, look at the sky, Michelle! It's starting to get cloudy.[02:14.30]Michelle: I see it. I hope it doesn't rain.[02:17.22]I thought it was going to be a fine day today.[02:20.28]Alan: That's certainly what the department was hoping for[02:23.14]when they chose today as the date for the annual picnic.[02:26.95]Michelle: You can't have a picnic without good weather.[02:29.99]You need sunshine for all the eating and games and entertainment. [02:34.69]Alan: Yeah, sunshine — but not too much! Do you remember last year? [02:39.57]Michelle: I sure do.[02:40.86]It was so hot all we did was look for shade,[02:44.45]look for ways to escape from the sun.[02:47.25]Alan: And no one wanted to participate in any of the planned activities. [02:51.56]All we wanted was cold drinks. And then we dozed off.[02:55.80]Michelle: If there had just been the tiniest breeze to cool us off. [03:00.26]Alan: But there wasn't.[03:01.70]Just that burning sun, without a cloud in the sky,[03:05.39]and the temperature just seemed to climb higher and higher.[03:08.89]Michelle: Well, we don't have that problem this year, apparently. [03:13.05]Alan, did you hear the weather forecast? Is it supposed to rain? [03:18.15]Alan: I don't know. I didn't catch the weather report.[03:21.74]But maybe if it rains,[03:23.62]it will only be a short shower which cools things off a little.[03:27.69]That might not be bad.[03:29.60]Speaking Tasks[03:34.09]Pair Work[03:35.43]Listen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. [03:40.75]Then role-play them with your partner.[03:43.60]Conversation 1[03:45.84]A: What lovely weather we're having! Nice and cool.[03:49.48]B: Yeah, I really like this kind of weather.[03:53.02]A: What's the temperature today？[03:55.32]B: The high is 26 and the low is 20.[03:58.95]The weather forecast says the good weather is likely to last, too. [04:03.91]A: I hope so.[04:07.77]Conversation 2[04:09.27]A: It seems to be clearing up.[04:12.69]All the dark clouds are gone and the sun is coming out.[04:16.82]B: Yes. Let's just hope it stays this way. I hate rainy days.[04:22.04]A: I think it will continue to be fine for the next few days.[04:26.20]Anyhow, that's what the weatherman says.[04:29.76]B: That's great. Let's go for a walk, shall we？[04:32.95]A: All right.[04:34.02]Conversation 3[04:38.32]A: It's hot and humid, isn't it? I can hardly breathe.[04:42.32]B: Yeah. I feel suffocating too.[04:45.30]A: Are summers always this hot here? It's almost like in the desert. [04:50.29]B: Yes, especially in July and August.[04:54.04]A: Well, what did the weatherman say?[04:56.80]B: He said another heat wave is on the way.[05:00.02]A: Oh no! I hope not.[05:03.32]B: How about going out to the beach to cool off？[05:08.03]A: Good idea. Maybe it's the only place for this sort of weather.[05:12.39]Now make similar conversations according to the given situations. [05:19.26]Use the structures and expressions above[05:22.19]in your conversations where appropriate.[al:全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程2][ti:Unit 3 Part B][ar:上海外语教育出版社][by:上海外语教育出版社][00:00.00]Part C[00:02.50]Test Your Listening[00:04.63]You're going to hear five short conversations.[00:08.92]Listen carefully and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.[00:13.56]1. W: It's been freezing for the last few days.[00:20.22]M: Yes. And the forecast says there will be more snow next week, [00:24.45]accompanied by strong winds.[00:26.48]Q: What will the weather be like next week?[00:35.41]2. M: We haven't had such a severe winter for a long time, have we? [00:40.55]W: No, and the forecast says it's going to get worse before it warms up. [00:46.20]Q: What can we learn from the conversation?[00:54.39]3. W: What if it rains hard? What are we going to do?[00:59.70]M: I think it will clear up soon.[01:02.40]But if it keeps raining, the whole thing will have to be cancelled. [01:06.84]Q: What can we learn from the conversation?[01:15.35]4. M: How was the weather when you left New York?[01:19.00]W: It was very much like the weather in Beijing.[01:22.91]You don't have to take a lot of clothes.[01:25.25]Q: What can we learn from the conversation?。

全新版大学英语听说教程2听力原文test

全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程2Unit 1 SportsPart A]Listening StrategyIdentifying NumbersNumbers appear very often in every kind of listening material. The ability to catch the exact numbers spoken in English is an important but difficult skill for a Chinese learner. A good way is to practice over and over again the pronunciation of the numbers, particularly the different ways to say thirteen and thirty, fourteen and forty, etc. It also helps to practice writing down the numbers you hear quickly in numerical forms, without translating them into Chinese. You're going to hear a passage about Michael Jordan, a retired American professional basketball player.Listen carefully and fill in the blanks with the missing numbers.Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time. He was born on Feb.17, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York. He is 1.98 meters tall and weighs 216 pounds. Jordan joined the Chicago Bulls team for the 1984 season. In the 1986 season he shot 3041 points, the third highest score ever. He was named NBA Slam Dunk Champion(扣篮冠军)in 1987 and won the Most Valuable Player Award in 1988, an honor repeated four times in the next ten years to 1998. Jordan guided his team to win six NBA championships during the 1990s, scoring 45 points during the sixth and last game of the 1998 NBA finals. In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century. Jordan left the NBA at the beginning of the 1993-1994 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball. Since his baseball game wasn't quite as good as his basketball games, he finally gave it up to rejoin the Bulls in 1995. Yet, after playing for five more years, he once again announced his retirement in 1999. But he returned for two more NBA games in 2001 as a member of the Washington Wizards.[ti:Unit 1 Part B]Listening TasksA ConversationWhy Don't You Join Me at the Gym Sometime?Exercise 1Listen to the conversation and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.Peter: Hi Laura. Where are you heading with that big bag?Laura: Hi, Peter. I'm off to the gym. I've got to stay in shape, you know. I try to go three times a week, but I'm busy so I can't always make it.Peter: I know more women who work out than men. What's the main reason you work out? For your health, or to look good?Laura: To be honest, for both. With women, good looks are always a very important consideration. Peter: If they were honest, most men who work out would admit that they also do it to look better, and not merely for health reasons.Laura: How about you? Do you get any regular exercise?Peter: I do a lot of walking, for exercise and enjoyment sometimes ten to twenty kilometers at a time but I never go to the gym like you do.Laura: Well, walking is good exercise. How about sports?Peter: Not since my school days. I used to love playing baseball, but it's impossible to get enough people together for a game now. Mostly I just watch sports on TV.Laura: I play tennis fairly regularly with my friends, and sometimes go swimming and cycling by myself.Peter: Oh, I forgot about that. I go cycling sometimes too. And I often go swimming on vacation, but only recreational swimming.Laura: Why don't you join me at the gym sometime? I can get you a guest pass.Peter: Well, maybe someday, but I'm pretty lazy about things like that.Questions1. What do you know about Peter?2. Where might the two speakers be having this conversation?Speaking TasksPair WorkListen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. Then role-play them with your partner.Conversation 1A: What's your plan for this evening?B: Well, there's a good game at the stadium but I haven't got a ticket yet.A: I'm going to the gym. Would you like to come along? I can get a guest pass for you.B: That's wonderful. I'd always wanted to work out in the new gym. Thank you very much. Conversation 2A: Hi, Xiao Wang. Fancy meeting you here! How are you doing?B: Can't complain. I'm busy with my experiments in the lab. But after work I often play some sports．A: Like what?B: Like swimming, running and sometimes tennis.A: Tennis? That's my favorite game. Say, what're you doing this weekend?B: Nothing particular. I guess I'll probably just work in the lab.A: Come on. You need to relax. What about a game of tennis?B: OK.Conversation 3A: Are you doing anything special tomorrow, Bob?B: Not really. Why do you ask?A: Some of us are going motorcycling. Would you like to join us?B: Motorcycling? I've never done that. Isn't it a bit dangerous?A: Maybe, but it's really exciting.B: I enjoy jogging. It's more relaxing.A: That's a good form of exercise. It can help you stay in shape.B: Yes, it's also safer.Now make similar conversations according to the given situations. Use the structures and expressions above in your conversations where appropriate[ti:Unit 1 Part C]Test Your ListeningYou're going to hear five short conversations. Listen carefully and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.1. W: I like playing basketball, volleyball and table tennis. What about you?M: Well, tennis is my favorite sport.Q: What sport does the man like?2. W: You don't like boxing very much, do you?M: It's far from being my kind of sport.Q: What does the man mean?3. W: I think yesterday's football game was quite exciting.What about you, John?M: You said it. But it was a bit long.Q: What does the man think about the football game?4. W: Do you like to play chess?M: I like the game, but I don't play it often enough. I'm afraid I'm not a very good chess player. Q: What does the man mean?5. M: I knew the names of all the football players and the dates of all the games in my high school days. But recently I have failed to keep up with football.W: Now you are busy with your golf games.Q: What do you know about the man from the conversation?Unit 2 Food and DrinksPart AListening StrategyListening "Between the Lines"People do not always say directly what they mean. Very often, we have to listen "between the lines". The English language offers many ways for people to imply, rather than directly state, their meaning. To find out what a speaker really means, we can rely on such things as the context, the meaning of an idiom, and the intonation used. For example, if someone says "I have an essay to write" in answer to an invitation to go somewhere, we can infer from the context that he cannot accept the invitation. And if someone says "Andrew passed with flying colors" in reply to an inquiry about how Andrew did on a test, we can infer from the meaning of the idiom "to pass with flying colors" that Andrew did very well on the test. Often, intonation also helps to reveal the real meaning of a message. For example, "He is very clever" said with an ironic tone means just the opposite. You are going to hear eight short conversations between two speakers.Listen carefully and write down "Yes" or "No" to each of the following questions.1. M: Have you ever been to that big restaurant opposite the school gate?W: Yes, many times.Whenever my friends come to visit me, I'll take them there to eat.2. W: Is there something wrong, sir?M: My wife and I have been kept waiting for nearly an hour for our meal.3. W: Where is the cake I made this morning?M: We ate it, mom. Can you make another one for us?4. W: I hear you like chicken very much.M: Next to beef.5. M: Have you tried this wine before?W: No, never. It's my first time, but it's really to my taste.6. W: John, do you want a soda?M: Soda? I think it tastes like medicine.7. W: Why, the fish is left almost untouched.M: Well, it would be good if it were less salty.8. M: Hi, Sue, would you like to eat out tonight?W: Oh, I'd really like to, but my sister may come to visit me this evening..[ti:Unit 2 Part B]Listening TasksA ConversationWhat About Dining Out?Exercise 1Listen to the conversation and complete the following sentences.Peter: Hi, Kate.Kate: Hi, Peter. How have you been?Peter: Oh, OK, I guess. And you?Kate: Not too bad. We haven't seen each other for a while, have we?Peter: No, we haven't. So that makes me ask. Do you have any plan for this Saturday?Kate: No, not yet, I don't think so. Why?Peter: What do you think about getting together and going out to dinner this weekend?Kate: That would be great. Do you have any particular place in mind?Peter: Well, I think I'd like to eat something that's not too heavy. I've been eating a little too much lately.Kate: Me too.Peter: I love Italian food, but maybe we should skip that this time. They always seem to serve so much food in Italian restaurants, and you end up eating more than you wanted to.Kate: Chinese food would be good.Peter: Yes, or maybe some Japanese sushi. That style uses a lot of natural flavors, and not much oil or cream or heavy sauces.Kate: Yes, either of those choices would be good. Let's just meet on Saturday night, and decide then where to eat.Peter: That's fine by me.Speaking TasksPair WorkListen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. Then role-play them with your partner.Conversation 1(At the school canteen)A: What a crowd!B: This is the worst time. The morning classes are just over. Everybody is hungry and rushes here to have lunch.A: That's true. I'm starving and I can't wait. I'd rather not stand in a long line.B: Why don't we have some fried noodles?A: Noodles are sold at No. 2 Box. No queue there, you see.B: That's great.(At No. 2 Box)Counter hand: What can I get you?A: One plate of fried noodles, please.B: Make it two.Counter hand: OK. Two plates of fried noodles. Anything else?A: How much is the tomato soup?Counter hand: It's free. It goes with the noodles.A: I see. (to B) Do you want any soup?B: Yes.A: (to counter hand) Two bowls of soup, please.Conversation 2(At a fast food restaurant)Counter hand: What can I do for you?Customer: I'll have one order of chicken nuggets and a chicken sandwich.Counter hand: Anything to drink?Customer: A small Sprite. No ice, please.Counter hand: Okay. For here or to go?Customer: For here.Conversation 3(At a Chinese restaurant)Waiter: Are you ready to order?A: Do you have any recommendations?Waiter: Yes. The Sichuan style crispy whole fish is very good.It's today's special.A: Mary, would you like to try that? I hear it's very good.B: Why not? And I'd like shrimp in black bean sauce, too. It's my favorite.Waiter: Okay. Anything else?A: What about some vegetables, Mary?B: Yes. How about spinach?A: Spinach is fine with me.Waiter: Anything to drink?A: Yes. I'd like one Bud Light, please. What'll you have, Mary?B: Orange juice, please.Waiter: One Bud Light and one orange juice. Is that right?A: Right.Now make similar conversations according to the given situations. Use the structures and expressions above in your conversations where appropriate[ti:Unit 2 Part C]Test Your ListeningListen to the conversation and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.A: Well, here we are, not too crowded.B: Great! Let's order quickly so we can chat a little.A: OK. What are you in the mood for?B: Something light. I had a huge breakfast and I'm still full.A: There are three salads. Or you could have soup and a sandwich.B: What are you having? A hamburger, I suppose.A: No, actually I ate out last night. We had pizza at Pizza Hut, then a late snack at Kentucky Fried Chicken.B: Oh, dear. Well, maybe you should have a salad.A: Yes, I think so. Look, the daily special is spaghetti. That sounds good.B: Oh, the prices are great too. I'll have that as well.A: Now let's decide on drinks.B: I'll just have coffee and a glass of iced water.A: Italian food needs red wine, you know.B: But we have to go back to work.A: OK, a Coke for me then.B: Here comes the waitress. Let me order first.Questions1. What is the relationship between the two speakers?2. Where does the conversation take place?3. What will they order?Unit 3 WeatherPart AListening StrategyListening for Important DetailsBesides understanding the main idea of a listening text, we often find it necessary to grasp the important details as well. What counts as important details depends on the kind of information we want. Generally speaking, if we are listening to the narration of an event, we need to sharpen our ears not only for what happened, but also when and where, how and why it happened. In listening to a weather report, on the other hand, the important details we should watch out for are the current weather conditions, temperature, and weather outlook. You're going to hear two short passages about weather. While listening, pay attention to such details as the weather conditions, temperature, weather outlook, damage caused by bad weather and so on, and write them down in note form.Then complete the exercises in your book.1. The weather today: a fine day is in store nearly everywhere, with the best of the sunshine in southern and central areas of Britain. A pleasant day, then, with long sunny periods developing. There will be light winds with a maximum temperature of 18 degrees Celsius, 64 degrees Fahrenheit. Look at the outlook for the next few days: it will become mostly cloudy with heavyshowers moving in from the west.2. A storm in Changchun, capital of Northeast China's Jilin Province, claimed four lives on Sunday. The storm lasted about three hours from around 8 p.m. The winds reached speeds of over a hundred miles an hour, causing serious damage and a widespread power failure.[ti:Unit 3 Part B]Listening TasksA ConversationDid You Hear the Forecast?Exercise 1Listen to the conversation and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.Alan: Oh, look at the sky, Michelle! It's starting to get cloudy.Michelle: I see it. I hope it doesn't rain. I thought it was going to be a fine day today.Alan: That's certainly what the department was hoping for when they chose today as the date for the annual picnic.Michelle: You can't have a picnic without good weather. You need sunshine for all the eating and games and entertainment.Alan: Yeah, sunshine — but not too much! Do you remember last year?Michelle: I sure do. It was so hot all we did was look for shade, look for ways to escape from the sun.Alan: And no one wanted to participate in any of the planned activities. All we wanted was cold drinks. And then we dozed off.Michelle: If there had just been the tiniest breeze to cool us off.Alan: But there wasn't. Just that burning sun, without a cloud in the sky, and the temperature just seemed to climb higher and higher.Michelle: Well, we don't have that problem this year, apparently.Alan, did you hear the weather forecast? Is it supposed to rain?Alan: I don't know. I didn't catch the weather report. But maybe if it rains, it will only be a short shower which cools things off a little. That might not be bad.Questions1. What are Alan and Michelle mainly doing?2. What do you know about Alan?3. What can you infer from the conversation?Speaking TasksListen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. Then role-play them with your partner.Conversation 1A: What lovely weather we're having! Nice and cool.B: Yeah, I really like this kind of weather.A: What's the temperature today？B: The high is 26 and the low is 20. The weather forecast says the good weather is likely to last, too.A: I hope so.Conversation 2A: It seems to be clearing up. All the dark clouds are gone and the sun is coming out.B: Yes. Let's just hope it stays this way. I hate rainy days.A: I think it will continue to be fine for the next few days. Anyhow, that's what the weatherman says.B: That's great. Let's go for a walk, shall we？A: All right.Conversation 3A: It's hot and humid, isn't it? I can hardly breathe.B: Yeah. I feel suffocating too.A: Are summers always this hot here? It's almost like in the desert.B: Yes, especially in July and August.A: Well, what did the weatherman say?B: He said another heat wave is on the way.A: Oh no! I hope not.B: How about going out to the beach to cool off？A: Good idea. Maybe it's the only place for this sort of weather.Now make similar conversations according to the given situations. Use the structures and expressions above in your conversations where appropriate..[ti:Unit 3 Part CTest Your ListeningYou're going to hear five short conversations. Listen carefully and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.1. W: It's been freezing for the last few days.M: Yes. And the forecast says there will be more snow next week, accompanied by strong winds. Q: What will the weather be like next week?2. M: We haven't had such a severe winter for a long time, have we?W: No, and the forecast says it's going to get worse before it warms up.Q: What can we learn from the conversation?3. W: What if it rains hard? What are we going to do?M: I think it will clear up soon. But if it keeps raining, the whole thing will have to be cancelled. Q: What can we learn from the conversation?4. M: How was the weather when you left New York?W: It was very much like the weather in Beijing. You don't have to take a lot of clothes.Q: What can we learn from the conversation?5. W: If it is this hot tomorrow, we may have to give up the idea of playing tennis in the afternoon. M: The weather forecast says it will cloud over by noon.Q: What does the man mean?Unit 4 MusicPart AListening StrategyListening for Signal WordsThe ability to identify signal words can help us follow the thread of the speaker's thought. People often use signal words or phrases like "but", "therefore" and "as a result" to add a comment that contrasts with what has just been said or to signal what they are about to say is the result or cause of their previous remarks. Similarly, words and phrases like "for example", "most importantly", "first", "second", "finally" and "then" usually signal that the speaker is going to provide an illustration or emphasize a certain point or discuss several aspects of a certain topic. So we should pay attention to signal words in listening as they will prepare us for what is going to be said. You're going to hear four short passages.Listen carefully and write down the signal word(s) in each passage. Then choose a, b, c or d to indicate the function of the signal word(s) used in each of the passages.1. Most people like music. In fact, we are surrounded by it. It's on the radio and television and can be heard in stores and restaurants. However, not everyone likes the same kind of music.2. The manager of the music shop was called Brian Epstein. Because so many people had asked for a record by the Sun, Epstein decided to go and listen to the group himself.3. Firstly I would like to talk about classical music and its representative composers, then I will move on to jazz music, and finally I will focus on pop music in the last century.4. We listen to exciting music and our hearts beat faster, our blood pressure rises, and our blood flows more quickly. In short, we're stimulated.[ti:Unit 4 Part B]Listening TasksA PassageBackground MusicExercise 1Listen to the passage. As you listen, read the signal words in your book and put a tick () in the brackets after the ones you have heard.Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful effect on those who hear it. Recorded background music first found its way into factories, shops and restaurants in the USA. Very soon it spread to other parts of the world. Now it is becoming difficult to go shopping or eat a meal without listening to music. To begin with, background music was intended simply to create a soothing atmosphere. Recently, however, it's becoming a big business. An American marketing expert has shown that music can boost sales or increase factory production by as much as a third. But it has to be the light music. Lively music has no effect at all on sales. Slow music can increase receipts by 34%. This is probably because shoppers slow down and have more opportunity to spot items they would like to buy. Yet, slow music isn't always the answer. The expert found that in restaurants slow music meant customers took longer to eat their meals, which reduced overall sales. So restaurant owners might be well advised to play faster music to keep the customers moving — unless, of course,the resulting indigestion leads to complaints.Questions1. Where was recorded background music first used?2. What was the original purpose of background music?3. What kind of music can have a powerful effect on customers in shops?4. Why doesn't the same kind of music work in restaurants according to the passage?Speaking TasksPair WorkListen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. Then role-play them with your partner.Conversation 1A: Do you like English songs?B: I'm crazy about them.A: What's your favorite song?B: It's hard to say. There are so many beautiful songs.A: Who's your favorite singer then?B: Sarah Brightman, undoubtedly. I do admire her, you know. I love all her songs.A: I like her, too, but not that much.Conversation 2A: Do you care for opera?B: Yes, I do, very much.A: Which do you like better, opera or musical?B: Opera.A: Do you just listen to it or go to performances?B: I prefer going to a performance. It has everything, color and spectacle and great music.A: Why don't we go and see Aida together? It's being performed at the Grand Theater.B: I've seen it already. It's excellent.A: Oh, lucky you!Conversation 3A: Do you enjoy listening to music?B: Yes, very much. I enjoy listening to music more than any other pastime.A: What's your favorite music?B: It depends. When I am in a good mood, I'd prefer something exciting, with a fast rhythm. But if I feel low, I can only listen to something soft and quiet.A: Mm, me too.Now make similar conversations. Use the structures and expressions above where appropriate. Your conversations should include the following points.[ti:Unit 4 Part C]Test Your ListeningListen to the passage three times and supply the missing information.Celine Dion is the youngest of 14 children in a working-class family in Quebec, Canada. Her parents, who both loved music, encouraged her to develop her musical talent. At 12, Celine had composed the song "It Was Only a Dream". Her mother and brother helped her to make a recording of that song and sent it off to an address they found on an album of a popular French singer. The address was that of Rene Angelil, who became her first conquest, but there would be millions more. Celine's rise from a teenage singer to a pop superstar has been steady, but not without difficulties. Record companies were at first less enthusiastic about investing in a teenager than Angelil, who mortgaged his own home to pay for her first album. But her first two albumswon a great success. And by 1983 she became the first Canadian ever to have a gold record in France. In 1990, Celine made her first English language record with Unison but her real breakthrough in America came when she was selected by Disney to sing the theme song of Beauty and the Beast. The song went to No.1 on the chart and won both a Grammy and an Academy award. In 1996 she performed at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and in 1997 she recorded the theme song for Titanic, and her name became synonymous with the enormously successful film. Celine Dion's favorite theme is love. She sings the depth and the power of love in a great many of her hits such as "Love Can Move Mountains", "Because You Loved Me", "The Power of Love" and, of course, the theme song of Titanic, "My Heart Will Go On".Unit 5 HealthPart AListening StrategyIdentifying the Relationship Between the Speakers in a Conversation Identifying the relationship between the speakers in a conversation is an important skill in listening comprehension. Although sometimes the conversation itself does not contain words that say exactly what the relationship is, we can rely on contextual clues to find it out. Such clues include the degree of intimacy (e.g., how intimately the speakers address each other, what endearments are used), the degree of politeness (strangers tend to be more polite towards each other than friends or family members), and the particular situation (at a doctor's consulting room, at a shop, etc.).Listen to the following conversations and choose the right answers to the questions that follow the conversations.1. M: What's the trouble?W: I feel dizzy and my whole body aches.M: How long have you been sick?W: Two or three days now.M: How's your appetite?W: I've got no appetite. The sight of food simply turns my stomach. What's wrong with me?M: You seem to be generally run-down.Q: What is the mnost probable relationship between the two speakers?2. W: What's the matter, Jack? You look pale.M: Oh, I feel terrible.W: Why? What's the matter?M: I have a splitting headache and a sore throat.W: Why didn't you tell me?M: I thought they might go away, but I feel worse this morning. I'm aching all over.W: Hmm. You feel warm, too. You must have got a fever. There's a pretty bad flu going around, you know.Q: What's the most probable relationship between the two speakers?[ti:Unit 5 Part B]Listening TasksA ConversationGoing to See the DoctorExercise 1Listen to the conversation and choose the right answers to complete the statements.D: So what's your trouble?P: Well, doctor, I haven't been feeling well lately. My biggest problem is that I'm having trouble sleeping.D: Have you tried any of the sleeping medications available?P: I've tried one or two, but they don't seem to help.D: How long have you had this problem?P: Three or four months — it's been rather a long time now.D: Are you suffering from an unusual level of stress in your life lately?P: Not more than usual. My biggest worry is the fact I can't sleep.D: Well, some people don't need as much sleep as others.P: But I feel tired all day, so it is a problem for me.D: Have you been experiencing any other symptoms?P: I've also had a lot of indigestion lately.D: Well, you are a little overweight, aren't you?P: Yes. And I've gained about seven kilograms this past year.D: You really should try to lose at least that extra weight. Do you get much exercise?P: No, not very much.D: Physical activity is very important.P: So what do you recommend, doctor?D: I will give you some medications for your insomnia and your indigestion. But I also recommend that you begin a regular exercise program.P: But I have neither the time nor the money to go to a gym.D: You don't need to go to a gym. A simple walking program would be very beneficial for you.I think you'll find that diet and exercise will be very helpful in taking care of your recent complaints.Speaking TasksPair WorkListen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. Then role-play them with your partner.Conversation 1D: What's wrong with you?P: I have a burning stomachache. And I feel like vomiting, too.D: How long has it been like this?P: Since yesterday.D: What did you eat yesterday? Did you eat seafood?P: Yes. I had some crabs at lunch and then I just felt terrible.D: Yours seems to be a minor case of food poisoning.P: What do you think I should do, doctor?D: I'll give you some medications for your stomachache and indigestion. And don't eat any。

全新版大学英语听说教程第三册听力原文Test1

Test 1Part APassage 1:Catherine's mother was an energetic woman full of life and love before she got cancer. It pained Catherine to see her mother suffer and become someone who depends entirely on others. Catherine tried hard to find a way to give her mother something to look forward to. Then one night last August an idea occurred to her. She would write a letter to the local newspaper, telling people how much she loved her mother and asking them to send her their best wishes. The letter was published and within weeks her mother had received about 500 loving caring cards and letters. Catherine was so excited to see that her mother's old spirit returned. Her mother fought against her disease until she died in October. Today the letters have become a treasured memory and a constant source of inspiration for Catherine.Question:What does the passage mainly tell us?Passage 2:The nuclear family generally consists of a husband, a wife and children. However, if there are no children, then the husband and wife are the nuclear family. If you put two or more nuclear families together, then you have an extended family. For the most part, in an extended family a married couple lives with either the husband's parents or the wife's parents. But the couple may also live with aunts, uncles, cousins and others who are not blood relations.The extended family pattern is favored in some countries. For example, as a rule, people choose to live in extended families in Africa and Japan. In other countries, the nuclear family pattern is favored. In these countries, where people can choose the pattern they want, they normally choose to live only with their nuclear family.Question:What can we learn from the passage?Passage 3:In some industrialized countries, the majority of elderly people don't see their children on a regular basis due to the fact that they move so often. Then do you know what percentage of theelderly live in the same household with their children, or live within ten minutes of their children by car? The answer is 60 percent of the elderly do. However, even though they may live close to their children, they do not see their children very often. They do not see their brothers and sisters or other relatives often either because the nuclear family is so strong in these countries. But there are some elderly people who live with their children. They are living with their children because they are sick. Otherwise they would live on their own. Luckily, there are some offices and programs that take care of the elderly for families that no longer care for old people.Question:How does the speaker feel about the life of the elderly people in some industrialized countries?Part BPassage:Imagined for centuries, space exploration began over forty years ago when the former Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik 1, on 4th October 1957 into space. If Sputnik had not been launched, the modern space age might never have begun.Sputnik, which means 'fellow traveler ' in Russian, was as small as a football and was powered by battery. Compared to today's technology, it was very simple. But its effect was earth-shattering. After its launch, things began to happen quickly. Before long the Russians were sending dogs and monkeys into space and then, in April 1961, the first human being was sent into space -- a Russian cosmonaut called Y uri Gagarin.These Russian successes pushed the Americans into action and thus the 'space race' began. In 1961, President Kennedy said that America would begin a program to put a man on the moon. On July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on the surface of the moon. At this historic moment he said: 'This is one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind.'Part CM: I think after all the noise in the city a quiet walk in the woods can be very restful.W: Y ou're right there. I feel the same.M: Look, it's so pretty when the leaves are changing color. I'm glad we decided to come here. W: Changes in nature always make things so beautiful. In the spring, the green grass and leaves make everything seem new. In the autumn when the leaves turn red, yellow and brown, the woods are full of color. No wonder autumn is also called fall. When leaves fall on the ground, they cover it like a blanket.M: Actually tree leaves turn color because in the autumn days are shorter than in the summer, and the number of daylight hours decreases. I'm sure this does not sound very romantic, but it's scientifically accurate.W: Scientifically accurate or not, I just enjoy looking at the trees that can have a dozen different shades of color in the sunlight.Questions 1 and 2 are based on the dialogue you've just heard.1. What are the two speakers mainly talking about?2. Why do tree leaves change color according to the man?Part DPassage 1In the United States many have been told that anyone can become rich and successful if he works hard and has some good luck. When one becomes rich he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he still wants people to think that he is. That's what 'keeping up with the Joneses' is about. The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American named Arthur Momand. Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things to keep up with their neighbors; they try to look as rich and as successful as their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it 'keeping up with the Joneses', because 'Jones' is a very common name in the United States. 'Keeping up with the Joneses' came to mean keeping up with the people around you. Momand's series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. That is one reason why they read the 'right' books, go to the 'right' universities and eat in the 'right' restaurants.Every city has an area where people want to live because others will think better of them if they do. And there are 'Joneses' in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses, because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.1. What does the expression 'Keeping up with the Joneses' mean according to the passage?2. What does the speaker think of the practice of 'keeping up with the Joneses'?Passage 2Ozone is a form of oxygen. It is found in the air we breathe and in the upper atmosphere. Near Earth, ozone in the air is a danger to life. It is a pollutant. But between ten and fifty kilometers up in the atmosphere, ozone protects life on Earth. Ozone forms in the atmosphere through the action of radiation from the sun. Ozone blocks harmful radiation from reaching Earth. Scientists say a decrease in ozone and an increase in the harmful radiation will cause many more cases of skin cancer. And it will harm crops, animals and fish.Ozone problems first became known in 1985. British scientists reported that ozone levels in the Antarctic atmosphere near the South Pole fell sharply each year in October and November. 1987 was the first year that a huge hole developed in the ozone layer above the Antarctic.A recent study of the atmosphere over the Arctic area near the North Pole showed extreme thinning of the ozone. Officials from the American space agency said the latest study is a result of the largest campaign yet to measure ozone amounts and changes in the Arctic area. NASAresearcher Paul Newman said some of the measurements show ozone in the Arctic decreased about sixty per cent between January and the middle of March. These measurements are similar to the ozone losses observed in this area a few years ago.Other studies have shown that man-made chemicals were destroying ozone in the atmosphere. An international agreement halted production of the most harmful chemicals. The new findings support the idea that recovery of the ozone layer may be delayed.1. Where can ozone be found useful to life according to the passage?2. When did ozone problems first become known?3. What is the passage mainly about?重点单词及词组Part Bexploration 探险Sputnik 人造地球卫星historic 历史性的Part Cin nature 实际上，本质上Part Doxygen 氧atmosphere 大气，空气upper 上面的pollutant 污染物质。

全新版大学英语听说教程3听力测试1-2原文

全新版大学英语听说教程3听力测试1-2原文Tapescript of Test 1Part ADirections: You’re going to hear eight short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be read only once. Listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you hear.(8 points)Conversation 1:M: Your son Peter certainly shows a lot of enthusiasm for action movies.I wonder how he can afford the time.W: Me too. I only wish he’d show as much in his stud ies.Q: What can we learn from the conversation?Conversation 2M: You've spent too much time doing coursework, Sally. Don't you think you should go out and get some fresh air? W: Thanks for the advice. But this is how I relieve my stress. I'd rather not get too far behind.Q: What can you infer from the woman's response?Conversation 3:M: I'm having trouble making ends meet. It looks like I have to make another phone call to my parents.W: I don't think it would be a problem if you cut down on the discs you buy.Q: What does the woman mean?Conversation 4:W: I hope you enjoyed the movie last night. I wasn't sure I would.M: I wasn't either, but once it started, I simply got glued to the screen.Q: What can you learn from the conversation?Conversation 5:M: Congratulations! I heard your debating team has reached the final.W: Yes, we're all excited about it. Now we're working hard to get well-prepared.Q: What will the woman's team probably do?Conversation 6:W: Bill is a great guy. He nearly got killed when he tried to rescue an old lady from a fire yesterday.M: Well, I’m not surprised. I know that’s not the first dangerous situation he’s been in.Q: Which of the following adjectives best describes Bill?Conversation 7:M: What kind of father am I? My daughter is sick. She has had a fever for a couple of days. But I didn't even know about it.W: Don't blame yourself too much. You've been too much involved in the company's work to notice it, I guess. You really should take some time off.Q: What do you know about the man from the conversation?Conversation 8:M: Is Mary still in a critical condition?W: I'm afraid so, but we've kept the news from her mother.Q: What do we know about Mary's mother?Part DDirections: You’ll hear two conversations. Each will be read once. Listen carefully and choose the right answers to the questions you hear. (7 points)Conversation 1:W: What are you giving Julie for Valentine’s Day?M: Oh, i s it that time of the year already? I’d completely forgotten about it.W: If you want to keep your wife happy, you should never forget important days like her birthday, your wedding anniversar y, or Valentine’s day.M: It’s so hard for me. Ju lie has never let me forget that I missed our anniversary last month.W: Little things like that mean a lot to women.M: Well, do you have any good ideas for a gift?W: I always like a box of chocolates.M: Julie likes chocolates of course, b ut she is trying to lose some weight. I probably shouldn’t do anyt hing to make it hard for her.W: How about flowers? Tha t’s something everyone likes.M: Yes, flowers are nice. I am wondering if it should be something a little more special to make up for my blunder last month.W: Jewelry is always good.M: I think you’ve got it. I believe Julie has be en hinting that she’d like a string of pearls. Every time we go shopping she stops at the jewelry counter to look at pearls. I think it would make her happy just to see that I have been little observant.W: Well, there’s that problem solved. Try not to wa it until the last minute. It’s easier to shop when you don’t feel pressured.M: Good advice. It’s a really lucky thing to have a friend like you.Questions 9 to 12 ar e based on the conversation you’ve justheard.9. Who is Julie?10. Which of the following is true of the man?11. What will the man’s wife receive for this year’s Valentine’s Day?12. What can you learn from the conversation?Conversation 1:M: Mary, what’s your opinion about opening our own business after transferring from the army? I don’t want to wait for the government to assign me a job.W: What did you say? Are you out of your mind?M: I’m serious. You see, the government is calling on us to create o pportunities for ourselves. Besides, I’ve gained much knowledge and experience being in the army. I’m sure I can run my own business successfully.W: That’s not the way I see it. Opening a business mean that you would no longer have fixed salary. What shall we live on?M: Oh, come on. As the saying goes, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” I’m sure we be able to support ourselves by means of hard work.W: I guess we just can’t see eye to eye on this.M: I guess not.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the co nversation you’ve just heard.13. What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers?14. What can we learn from the conversation?15. What can we infer from the conversation?Directions: Listen to the passage three times and fill in the blanks with the missing words. (10 points)Did you know that one out of every ten people in the world are left-handed? And did you also know that in many countries left-handedness is still thought of as being wrong? In India, for example, you shouldn’t eat with your left hand.Even at the beginning of the 20th century left-handedness was considered to be a sign of weakness. 16)Researchers used to try and prove that left-handed people were more likely to commit17)murder, or have reading problems than right-handed people.18)Fortunately, not all cultures think like this. In China both sides are needed for 19)harmony.Left-handedness can in fact be an 20)advantage in sport. Many left-handed 21)boxers and tennis players have achieved outstanding success. This is partly because of the element of surprise the left hand can offer and partly because left-handed people’s 22)brains work quicker.Nevertheless, this is still a right-handed people’s world. Ands this can be clearly seen when you’re buying everyday things like scissors or golf clubs. 23)Even the most ordinary household iterms such as irons or can-openers are designed for right-handed people.But, here’s some good news for all left-handed people. There is a shop in London which sells goods especially for left-handed people. It’s called Anything Left-handed.There 24)you can buy anything from left-handed pocket calculators to knives and coffee mugs. In fact you can even buy watches for the left hand which work anti-clockwise. 25)People who buy things from the shop say it just makes their everyday life much easier.Part DDirections: You’ll hear three passages. Each will be read onlyonce. Choose the right answers to the questions you hear. (10 points)Passage 1Many people suffer from some form of extreme anxiety. Some experience occasional attacks of panic for almost no reason. Others go around in a state of continual uneasiness. How can anxiety be controlled? One way is for patients to take drugs which help manage their anxiety. Patients who take these drugs say that they are able to work, to sleep and to go to places they feared to visit before. But the effects of the drugs on the human body, especially on the nervous system, have not been known for a long time.Scientists have started a series of studies to identify the effects of the drugs on the brain and have gained some insight into the costs and benefits of the anti-anxiety drugs. They are valuable because they can reduce the effects of expected failure, frustration and disappointment. But their value demands a price. Two effects of the drugs are obviously harmful. First, they weaken a person's ability to react to changes; second, they fail to help a person deal with unexpected troubles. It is fairly sure that people will meet with problems they have never expected, so these harmful effects may make the price of anti-anxiety drugs too high.Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you’ve just heard.26. What does the passage mainly tell us?27. What harmful effects can anti-anxiety drugs have on a patient?28. What is the speaker’s attitude toward anti-anxiety drugs?Elizabeth Blackwell was born in 1821 in England. Her family moved to the United States when she was 11. There, several yearslater, a family friend who suffered from cancer suggested to her that she study medicine. The dying friend said that perhaps her sickness would have been better under-stood if she had been treated by a woman. Elizabeth knew that no woman had ever been permitted to study in a medical college, but she began to think about the idea seriously after the friend died.Supported by her family, she began to study medicine privately with a doctor. Later she was accepted by Geneva Medical College in New York State and graduated in 1849 with high honors. She became the first woman in the Western world to have completed medical school training.Dr. Blackwell had many dreams. One was to start a hospital for women and children: another was to build a medical school to train woman doctors. After many years’s struggle against every kind of opposition, she finally succeeded in opening the first medical college for women in New York in 1868, and a second one later in London. In 1871 she founded the British National Health Society.Elizabeth Blackwell believed that the true reponsibility of doctors was to prevent disease. She stated p program in which doctors visited patients in their homes and taught them basic hygiene about house cleaning and food preparation so that sickness could be prevented. And she started the program of disease prevention in her schools. It was the first time the idea of preventing disease was taught at a medical college.Dr. Blackwell died in 1910, at the age of 89. She is remembered for her contribution to the cause of medicine and for showing the way for women to move on.Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you’ve just heard.29. Why did Elizabeth Blackwell want to become a doctor?30. As the first woman doctor, where did she open the first medical college for woman?31. What did Elizabeth Blackwell think was the true responsibility of doctors?32. Which of the following best describes Elizabeth Blackwell?Passage 3:When parents and teachers of youn children talk about the need for good self-esteem, they usually mean that children have “good feelings” about t hemselves. With young children, self-esteem refers to the extent to which they expect to be accepted and valued by the adults and peers who are important to them.Children with a healthy sense of self-esteem feel that the important adults in their lives accept them, care about them, and would go out of their way to ensure that they are safe and well. They feel that those adults would be upset if anything happened to them and would miss them if they are separated. Children with low self-esteem, on the other hand, feel that important adults and peers in their lives do not accept them, do not care about them very much, and would not go out of their way to ensure their safety and well-being.During their early years, youn children’s self-esteem is based largely on their perceptions of how the important adults in their lives judge themn. The extent to which children believe they have the characteristics valued by the important adults and peers in their lives figures greatly in the development of self-esteem. For example, in families and communities that value athletic ability highly, children who excel in athletics are likely to have a high level of self-esteem, whereas children who are less athletic or who are criticized as being physically clumsy are likelyto suffer from low self-esteem.Families, communities and ethnic and cultural groups vary in the criteria on which self-esteem is based. For example, some groups may emphasize physical appearance, and some may evaluate boys and girls differently.Questions 33 t o 35 are based on the passage you’ve just heard.33. Who play a major role in helping children develop a healthy sense of self-esteem?34. What is youn children’s self-esteem mainly based on according to the passage?35. Which of the following is not discussed?Tapescript of Test 2Part ADirections: You’re going to hear eight short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be read only once. Listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you hear.(8 points)Conversation 1.W: Mr. Brown, I tried to memorize the script but I keep forgetting the lines.M: Look, Jane, you'll be fine if you stop putting so much pressure on yourself.Q: What does the man mean?Conversation 2.W: Excuse me, but could you tell me where I can change U.S. dollars into Euros?M: There’s a bank round the corner. But now it’s alreadypast its closing time. You can’t try the one near the hospital.Q: What does the man mean?Conversation 3.W: I can't stand the air pollution in the city any more. It’s getting worse.M: I couldn’t agree more. You see, we’ve never had so many factories before.Q: What does the man mean?Conversation 4.M: I’d like to sign up for some voluntary work. It’s a good way to connect with the community.W: It sure is. But you have to put in a lot of hours. How can you schedule your time?Q: What does the woman mean?Conversation 5.W: Did you see last night’s film on Channel 9?M: Well, I meant to see it, but a friend of mine came to see me. We had a long talk about our business.Q: What did the man do last hight?Conversation 6W: Paul, have you heard that we won’t be laid off after all?M: I know, but I’m fed up with my job here anyway.Q: What’s the man’s reaction to the woman’s news?Conversation 7M: Hey, Lisa, look over there. Is it a man or a woman? I can’t see clearly.W: It’s hard to say, Paul. Nowadays lots of boys and girls wear the same clothes and have long hair.Q: What does the woman mean?Conversation 8M: I know what you mean. That’s why Rosa decided to break up their engagement.Q: What can we learn from the conversation?Part BDirections: You’ll hear two conversations. Each will be read once. Listen carefully and choose the right answers to the questions you hear. (7 points)Conversation 1W: Hi. Can I help you?M: Hi. I’ve, uh, just opened a checking account and I want to withdraw 150 euros. What I want to know is, who do I make the check out to?W: Well, since the money is for yourself, you make it out to cash.M: Ok. W...how do I do that?W: You just write the word "cash" on this line.M: This line here?W: Yes, next to "pay to the order of".M; Ok. C-A-S-H. Now, I want to make this 150 euros. There, how’s this?W: Well, you’ve written the amount in numbers, but you have to write it out in words, too. That goes on the second line, there.M: Oh, yeah.W: By the way, it’s a good idea to draw a line from the end of the amount to the word “euros”so nobody can change the amount.M: Oh, thanks. Well, that should do it. Here you go.W: You forgot to sign your name. There, in the bottom right corner.M: Woops, sorry. Here you go.W: The date.M: W...huh?W: The date—you forgot it. It goes in the top right corner.M: Oh,right. OK, am I done?W: Yes. That’s fifty—a hundred—a hundred and fifty euros.M: Thanks a lot. Have a good day.W: You too.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you’ve just heard.9. What’s the man doing in the bank?10. Where is the man asked to write t he word “cash”?11. What does the woman ask the man to do?Conversation 2W: You look worried, David. Anything wrong?M: Well, to be honest, it's my mother. Sh e’s been behaving strangely lately.W: In what way?M: Well, ever since my father died, she’s be en unhappy.M: But it happened more than three years ago. I never thought she would miss him so much.W: Oh, I see what you mean.M: It wouldn’t be so bad if my mother didn’t live so far away. When my father retired, they moved to the seaside. Then only a year later, my father suddenly had a heart attack and passed away. Now my mother is all alone in a big house, with very few friends and no family near her.W: She must be very lonely.M: Yes, she is ! My wife and I go to see her as often as we can. But it isn’t easy. I phone her at least twice a week and ask her ifshe’ all right or if she needs anything...And there’s something else that worries me a lot.W: What?M: Her memory seems to be going. I have to remind her to do all sorts of things...to pay the gas bill, for instance. She gets annoyed with me. But I know she’ll forget if I don’t.W: Well, don’t worry about it too much. She’s just getting old, that’s all.M: I know! That’s just the problem.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you’ve just heard.12. Why does David’s mother feel unhappy lately?13. What’s wrong with David’s mother?14. Which of the following is true?15. What do you know about David?Part CDirections: Listen to the passage three times and fill in the blanks with the missing words. (10 points)In the 16)course of modernization, our environment is being polluted faster than man’s present efforts can 17)prvent. Advanced 18)technology and modern industries bring our society many 19)benefits, making our life easy and comfortable, but they also lead to greater polution.One form of pollution, in 20)particular, that has received a lot of attention in recent years, is that produced by waster plastic bags and boxes. 21)Due to improper disposal, they lie here and there along the railway tracks. In the rivers, on the hills, on the sea and around 22)communities. On a windy day, 23)they are to be seen flying freely in the sky.Measures must be taken to clean them up. 24)Recyclingshould be put into consideration and more importantly, 25)consumers themselves have to be responsible for the proper disposal of their garbage.Part DDirections: You’ll hear three passages. Each will be read only once. Listen carefully and then choose the right answers to the questions you hear. (10 points)One important cause of the generation gap is the opportunity that young people have to choose their own life-styles.In more traditional societies,when children grow up，they are expected to live in the same area as their parents，to marry people that their parents know and approve of，and often to continue the family occupation. But nowadays, quite a lot of young people like travel great distances for their education，move out of the family home at an early age，marry or live with people whom their parents have never met, and choose occupations different from those of their parents.to make more money and to do all the things that they were unable to do. Often，however，the ambitions that parents have for their children are another cause of the division between them. They may discover that they have very little in common with each other.Finally, the speed at which changes take place in our society is another cause of the gap between the generations. In a traditional culture, elderly people are valued for their wisdom, but in our society the knowledge of a lifetime may become out of date overnight. The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds, separated by different skills and abilitites.Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you’ve justheard.26. What is mainly discussed in the passage?27. Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?27. What is the style of the talk?Passage 2The period of engagement is the time between the marriage proposal and the wedding ceremony. Two people agree to marry when they decide to spend their lives together.The man usually gives the woman a diamond engagement ring.That tradition is said to have started when an Austrian man gave a diamond ring to the woman he wanted to marry. The diamond did not represent loyalty as some people thought. It represented beauty instead. The Austrian man placed it on the third finger of her left hand. He chose that finger because it was thought that a blood vessel or nerve in that finger went directly to the heart. Today, we know that this is not true. Yet the tradition continues. Americans generally are engaged for a period of about one year, if they are planning a wedding ceremony and party. During this time, friends of the bride may hold a party at which woman friends and family members give the bride gifts that she will need as as a wife. Friends of the man who is getting married may have a bachelor party for him. This usually takes place the night before the wedding. Only men are invited to the bachelor party. During the marriage ceremony, the bride and her would-be husband usually exchange gold rings. That represents the idea that their union will continue forever. The wife often wears both the wedding ring and engagement ring on the same finger. The husband wears his wedding ring on the third finger of his left hand.Many people say the purpose of the engagement period isto permit enough time to plan the wedding. But the main purpose is to let enough time pass so the two people are sure they want to marry each other. Either person may decide to break the engagement. If this happens, the woman usually returns the ring to the man. They also return any wedding gifts they have received.Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you’ve just heard.29. What is the passage mainly about?30. What do the bride and bridegroom do during the marriage ceremony?31. Which of the following is true?32. What is the chief advantage of having the engagemnent period?Passage 3My family came to America before I was born. In two weeks I am going to get married, and my fiancee (未婚妻), Rosa and I expect to be very happy. We do not plan to have a honeymoon because we want to spend two weeks setting up our own new business as real estate agents (房地产代理商).My mother, who is very traditional (传统)woman, says that our plan is absurd. She thinks that we should justbusinesses together. Instead, the man went out to work, and the wife stayed home to raise a family.Both Samantha and I want children in the future, and together we plan to raise them. Needless to say, our plans and my mother's views don't agree. I suppose it's hard for my mother and father to understand our point of view. They are used to another way of setting up a marriage and a life.Another thing that worries my parents is the fact that Rosaand I are going to be spending seven days a week on our business until it is running smoothly. As my mother has pointed out to us, such a schedule will leave us little time for socializing.A young couple should enjoy themselves and get to know each other under less hectic circumstances, my mother says.Actually, Rosa and I know each other pretty well. We are both dedicated to our goals, and neither of us minds giving up weekends for a while.Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you’ve just heard.33. Why do the speaker and his fiancee decide not to have a honymoon?34. Which of the following best describes the speaker’s mother?35. What do you know about the young couple?。

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全新版大学英语听说教程第四册听力原文TEST1PartAConversation 1:W: Have you got a job, Phil?M: Yeah, I do yard work for the people in the neighborhood, cutting grass, raking fallen leaves, planting trees and pulling out weeds, things like that.Q: What does Phil do?Conversation 2:M: The trees on our campus are really beautiful.W: You're right, and they are useful, too. They cut down on our need for air conditioning, don't you think?Q: What does the woman mean?Conversation 3:W: Professor Webster has a class this afternoon from 2:30 to 4. But he won't be able to make it because he's lost his voice.M: Does he want me to try to find somebody else to take his place?Q: What does the man mean?Conversation 4:M: Can you come to the concert with me this weekend, or do you have to prepare for the exams next week?W: Frankly speaking I still have a lot to do for the exams but maybe a break would do me good.Q: What will the woman probably do?Conversation 5:M: Have you heard the weather report for today?W: Yes. It says that the sandstorm is going to be very bad and we're advised to stay indoors. Q: What is the woman talking about?Part2DialogueW: Hello, University of Sidney. May I help you?M: Yes. I'm looking for information on courses in computer programming.W: Do you want a day or evening course?M: Well, it would have to be an evening course since I work during the day.W: Uh-huh. Have you taken any courses in data processing?M: No.W: Oh, well, data processing is a prerequisite course. You have to take that course before you can take computer programming.M: Oh, I see. Well, when is it given? I hope it's not on Tuesdays.W: There's a class that meets on Monday evenings at seven.M: Just once a week?W: Right. But that's almost three hours -- from seven to nine forty-five p.m.M: Oh. Well, that's all right. I could manage that. How many weeks does the course last?W: Let me see... oh, yes, twelve weeks. You start the first week in September and finish... oh... just before Christmas. December twenty-first.M: And how much is the course?W: That's 300 dollars, and that includes the necessary computer time.M: OK. By the way, is there anything that I should bring with me?W: No. Just your checkbook.M: Thank you so much.W: You're very welcome. Bye.M: Bye.PartCHealth experts have warned for many years that cigarette smoking can lead to heart disease, cancer and other medical problems. But smokers still find it extremely difficult to stop. The American Cancer Society decided to do something to help them kick this bad habit.Every year the group organizes a national non-smoking day in an attempt to get smokers to quit smoking. The organization is asking all smokers to stop smoking at least for 24 hours. They hope this will eventually enable many people to permanently kill the habit.The cancer society officials will give telephone callers advice on how to stop smoking. Smokers also can call a special telephone number to hear recorded messages by doctors.Some businesses will offer their workers candy or chewing gum to help them fight down the crave for smoking. Some companies are offering special gifts and lower prices to people who sign an agreement to stop smoking. And Americans who do not smoke are being asked to help just one person quit smoking during the 24-hour-campaign.PartDPassage 1Office systems are equipment used to create, store, process, or communicate information in a business environment. This information can be manually, electrically, or electronicallyproduced, duplicated, and transmitted.The rapid growth of the service sector of the world economy beginning in the mid-1970s has furnished a new market for sophisticated office automation.Most modern office equipment, including typewriters, dictation equipment, facsimile machines, photocopiers, calculators, and telephone systems as well, contains a microprocessor. With the increasing incorporation of microchips into office equipment, the line between the computer and other equipment has blurred.At the same time, computers, either stand-alone or as part of a network, and specialized software programs are taking over tasks such as facsimile transmission or fax, voice mail, and telecommunications that were once performed by separate pieces of equipment. In fact, the computer has virtually taken the place of typewriters, calculators, and manual accounting techniques and is rapidly taking over graphic design, production scheduling, and engineering design.The use of computers and other modern equipment has enabled links to be established far beyond the walls of a building. Electronic links allow people in a modern office to communicate with workers at home or in satellite offices. This capability has led to a sharp increase in telecommuting. Since the early 1990s workers have worked at least part of the time outside the main office. Managers and professional employees are the major participants in this trend. As they no longer have to spend hours traveling from home to office, their work productivity has increased.As technology advances further, new equipment will be invented and introduced into the modern office, which will result in even greater efficiency in office work.Questions:1.What do office systems refer to according to the passage?2. What has furnished a new market for sophisticated office equipment since the mid-19703. How have electronic links benefited professionals and managers?Passage 2When it comes to leisure activities, Americans aren't quite the fun-seekers they've been supposed to be. For one out of five, weekends and vacations are consumed by such drudgeries as house-cleaning, yard-working and cooking; only one-third of them enjoy the luxury of relaxing in the sun, going camping, playing sports, or simply relaxing.These are among the conclusions reached by a recent poll in which more than 1,120 employed Americans were asked how they occupy themselves on days they are not at work. According to the poll, older people, the rich, and the well-educated are most apt to spend their spare time doing the things they 'want to do' rather than those they 'have to'. Overall, high-salaried people were more active then those with lower incomes -- they reported watching less television and were more likely to engage in social and cultural activities. Furthermore, those with college degrees were about twice as likely as those with no more than a high school education to spend time playing sports (42% compared with 23%). On the subject of vacations, the study found that college graduates were more likely than those with only high school degrees to have vacation plans (80% versus 60%). Of those who did intend to take some time off, 46% planned a sightseeing vacation (34% in the UnitedStates, 12% abroad), 34% expected to visit friends or relatives, 22% headed for the beach or lake, and 12% intended to relax at home.People who are divorced, widowed, or separated, the survey concluded, are the least likely of any group to take a vacation -- and the least likely to attach any importance to it.Questions:1. What is the passage mainly about?2. How do most people in the US spend their vacation according to the passage?3. Which of the following adjectives best describes the passage?4. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?Passage 3A movement to make US hotels smoke-free got a boost on Thursday when Woodfin Suite Hotels, owner of 18 hotels in 11 states, said its six California properties will go smoke-free starting September 1st.The announcement followed a similar move by Howard Johnson International Inc., which said in June that its hotel on Pocahontas Trail in Williamsburg, Va. would become the chain's first smoke-free property. And on August 1, Apple Core Hotels turned its 80-room Comfort Inn Midtown in New York City's Theater District into a no-smoking property.Hotel owners said they hope to make up for any lost business by winning over guests who prefer a smoke-free environment, but most admitted the move is largely experimental and traveler reaction will be closely watched before any major expansion of their programs. Apple Core Chief Operating Officer said his company decided to take the no-smoking plunge for a simple reason: demand."It has nothing to do with public policy," he said. "There's tremendous demand. People are very upset when they've been promised a smoke-free room and they get a smoked-in room instead."The handful of hotel owners who have taken the no-smoking plunge say the move will also help them save money in their housekeeping departments.The process of "de-smoking" a room -- eliminating all the negative effects when a room has been smoked in -- typically costs about $500 per room. Smoking rooms also face higher costs associated with more frequent carpet shampooing, curtain cleaning and minor repairs for such things as cigarette burns in fabrics, according to hotel managers.Furthermore, smoking rooms often take longer to clean than their no-smoking counterparts because they must be deodorized each day.It is also a benefit to the employees who can clean the rooms much faster. And employees who don't smoke won't get the smell. Even smokers complain when they walk in and get the smell of stale smoke.Despite the benefit of going smoke-free, however, many hotels may be reluctant to completely do away with smoking rooms in the near future. It will be more the personalpreference of the owner doing it, whereas the public company has to be more careful because it limits the demand.Questions:1. What does the passage mainly tell us?2. What do we know about Woodfin Suite Hotels?3. What is the main reason why some owners want to ban smoking in their hotels?TEST2PartAConversation 1:M: I have never heard such a fascinating lecture on solar energy. But you don't seem impressed. Don't you like it, Sally?W: Well, I must admit that I dozed off most of the time. I think it's too difficult for me to understand.Q: How did the woman feel about the lecture?Conversation 2:W: Thank goodness! You've finally arrived. The presentation started ten minutes ago. And I was just beginning to panic.M: Sorry I'm late. The traffic was extremely bad.Q: How did the woman feel when she saw the man?Conversation 3:W: I hear that you work part-time at a supermarket. What do you do there?M: I work in the produce section. I also stock shelves. Sometimes when it really gets busy, I help at the checkout counter.Q: What does the man occasionally do at his supermarket?Conversation 4:M: Mary, I've finally decided about my history paper. I'm going to focus on World War II.W: That's good, but you need to concentrate on one particular area. What about looking at thecourse of events in the Pacific?Q: What does the woman think of the man's topic?Conversation 5:M: To get an MA, you'll need thirty-six credit hours. Fifteen must be from the Education Department and fifteen from the Psychology Department. For the remaining six credit hours you have to write a thesis in about two thousand words.W: Hmm, that seems a lot, but I'm sure I'll manage.Q: What are the two speakers talking about?PartBFast ReadingAt 6:45 p.m. on the evening of Thursday 9th October, Miss Allen was returning from work to her home at 79 Winston Avenue. She had left work at 5:30 p.m. and stopped at the Fox and Goose public house in Market Street for a drink with a colleague. Miss Allen and her colleague had left the pub at 6:30 p.m. and Miss Allen had walked to the No.13 bus stop at the end of Market Street. While awaiting the arrival of the bus, she noticed a group of three youths loitering on the corner. The youths started to approach her, and she started to walk in the opposite direction. The footsteps behind her accelerated and a youth of about 19 years of age stopped her and asked her the time. As Miss Allen stopped and looked at her watch the youth seized her wrist, twisted her arm behind her back and forced her at knifepoint to surrender her handbag and her ring and bracelets. The two accomplices were encouraging their friend at this point. After Miss Allen gave the youth her handbag and her ring and bracelets the three quickly disappeared. Miss Allen was very shaken, but decided to walk to her home, a distance of about three miles, where she would alert the police. She arrived home at 7:40 p.m., only to discover that her flat had been hurriedly burgled. Clearly the muggers had found Miss Allen's keys in her handbag and had arrived before her to ransack her flat. Miss Allen later called the police to report the mugging and the burglary. In her handbag, there were 65 pounds in cash, her credit cards and checkbook and her keys. Two necklaces, several pairs of earrings, a camera and a portable CD player were stolen from her flat.PartCFor years almost everyone has believed that people lose some of their mental powers as they age. We have believed that old people have difficulty remembering and they think more slowly. Some even believe that old people have a reduced number of brain cells.Doctors are now saying that the loss of mental powers is not a sign of old age but of diseases. But Warner Shan, an expert on aging, says that some healthy elderly people seem to lose mental powers because they expect to lose some. They accept the idea that old people always lose intelligence, but studies have shown that if a person refuses to accept this idea and remains healthy, active and interested in life, his mental powers will not be affected. In fact, some kinds of intelligence continue to grow.The studies also show that old people who live with their families and have active lives increase in intelligence. People who live alone and withdraw from any kind of social life seem to lose mental ability.PartDPassage 1Lifestyle is the way a person lives; it includes work, leisure time, hobbies, other interests, and personal philosophy. One person's lifestyle may be dominated by work with few social activities. Another's may involve hobbies, recreational activities or personal philosophy. There is little doubt that lifestyles are changing and that these changes will have an impact on the way business operates in the years ahead. Several cases are causing lifestyle changes in some developed countries.First, there is more leisure time than ever before. The workweek is now less than forty hours, as compared with seventy hours a century ago. Some experts believe it will be twenty-five hours or less in a few decades. Several firms have adopted four-day workweeks with more hours per day. Others have cut down on the number of working hours each week. Reduced work schedules mean increased leisure time.Second, families have fewer children than before -- and young couples are postponing childbirth instead of having children early in the marriage. This trend has forced many businesses to modify their competitive strategies. Gerber Products Company used to advertise 'babies are our business -- our only business'. Now Gerber products include infant and toddler clothing, stuffed animals and accessories such as bottles, baby powder and so on. Third, people are better educated and more prosperous now than they were earlier. These advantages bring with them the freedom to question current lifestyles and examine new ones. Inquiries of this nature have sometimes led to personal lifestyle changes. Today's youth, for example, are not only better educated but more independent and individualistic than past generations.The business world is only beginning to realize how people's lifestyles can influence their behavior as employees, consumers and members of society.Questions:1. What does the passage mainly tell us?2. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?3. What does the speaker say about today's youth?Passage 2Mountain climbers around the world dream about going up Mount Qomolangma. It is the highest mountain in the world. But many people who have climbed the mountain had left waste material that is harming the environment. The pollution is affecting populated areasnear the mountain.A team of Americans is planning the largest clean-up effort ever on Mount Qomolangma. They will make the risky trip up the mountain next month. The team of eight Americans will be guided by more than twenty ethnic Sherpas of Nepal. Their goal is to remove all the trash they see and send most of it back to the United States. They will spend two months moving up the mountain gathering oxygen bottles, fuel containers, batteries, drinks cans, human waste and other trash. They are expected to remove at least three tons of trash in large bags. Team leader Robert Hoffman is making his fourth trip up the mountain. He says he hopes to return Mount Qomolangma to the condition it was in before the first successful climb fifty years ago. He says he hopes the effort will influence other people to clean up the environment closer to home.Human waste on Mount Qomolangma is a major concern. So the clean-up team will take along with them newly developed equipment to collect and treat human waste. Over the years, the waste particles have polluted the mountain. In the warm season when the ice melts, the polluted water flows to Nepalese villages below. The problem has gotten worse in recent years because climbing Mount Qomolangma has become more popular.Since 1992 the government of Nepal has required climbers to bring down what they take up. But those rules were never fully carried out. And no one has ever been required to bring back their trash from the highest part of the mountain.Mount Qomolangma is part of the Himalayan mountain range. It is on the border between Nepal and Tibet, China. Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Sherpa Tensing Norgay made the first successful climb in 1953. Since then, more than eight hundred people have successfully climbed the mountain. Some people who reached the top died on their way down. Many other people died before reaching the top, which is almost nine thousand meters high.Questions:1. Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?2. Which of the following is true?3. What's the American team's goal in going up Mount Qomolangma?4. What can be concluded from the passage?Passage 3According to popular belief, eccentrics are wealthy people who can afford to indulge their eccentricities on a grand scale. But nowadays eccentrics are just as likely to work at ordinary jobs. One man, for example, works in a bank from 9 to 5, but in his spare time carries a bow and arrow and thinks of his home as a leafy corner of Sherwood Forest. Another eccentric is a social worker but lives in a cave and does long charity walks wearing pajamas. A third spends all his time in bed and a fourth lives only on potatoes.Dr. David Weeks has found that such oddballs often have certain features in common. They are often the only or eldest child raised in strict homes. Many have strange eating or sleepinghabits. And although they are frequently impatient with other people, they are generally not competitive and hate sports. They are poor conversationalists, but are often highly educated and read far more than ordinary people. They are often creative and inventive, especially in the scientific field. Not surprisingly, eccentrics tend to live alone and they are more likely to be men. They outnumber women by two to one.If you're an eccentric, you'll be encouraged by Dr. Weeks' study. Eccentrics are less likely to be mentally ill than more conventional people are. And, in his view, they provide some harmless, welcome relief from ordinary people.Questions:1. Why does the speaker give three examples of eccentrics at the beginning of his talk?2. What can we learn about eccentrics from Dr. Weeks' study?3. What's Dr. Weeks' attitude toward eccentrics?。

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全新版大学英语听说教程2-test1-2听力原文LtD大学英语〔第二版〕听说教程听力原文Test 1Part ADirections: You are going to hear eight short conversations between two speakers. Each will be read only once. After each conversation, a question will be asked about what you have heard. Listen once and choose the right answer to the question you hear. (8 points)1.M: You like music, don’t you, Sally?W: Yes. Classical and light music. But now what you hear everywhere is only noisy music. I can’t stand it.Q: What does the woman mean?2.W: I think I’ll wear my red blouse to the party tonight.M: Why don’t you wear the blue one? I think you look in better in it.Q: What does the man mean?3.W: How do you like the pie you’ve had?M: Never have I had such a delicious pie.Q: What does the man mean?4.W: Oh, Peter. I’m hungry. I can’t walk any further.M: How about getting something to eat in the restaurant just round the corner by the parking lot?Q: Where are the two speakers?5.W: Nice day, isn’t it? Want to join us for a swim?M: Would you mind waiting for a minute while I get prepared?Q: What does the woman mean?6.W: Hi, Tony. Haven’t seen you for some time. How have you been?M: I have a car accident last week, but only some minor injuries.Q: What happened to Tony?7.W: Maggie, could you forward this mail to Professor Wang?M: Sorry, Phil. My computer has broken down. But I’ll do it as soon as I have it fixed.Q: What does the woman mean?8.W: I’ve been under the weather for quite a few days. I thought mycold was going away. But it seems to get worse now.M: You’ve been complaining too much. Why didn’t you make an appointment with the doctor earlier?Q: What does the man mean?Part BDirections: You’ll hear two conversations. Each will be read once. Listen carefully and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.(7 points)Conversation 1Alan: Are you going to the football game today, Betty?Betty: No, Alan. But I’ll be watching it on television with some friends. Alan: Weren’t you able to get any tickets?Betty: I didn’t try. I really don’t go to games so often.Alan: But don’t you enjoy going? Don’t you find it exciting to be part of the crowd?Betty: Oh, that’s for sure. Nothing beats the atmosphere at a sporting event: the cheering, all that energy. But sometimes it’s just too inconvenient getting into and out of the stadium before and after the game. And if you watch the game with friends, or at a bar or restaurant…Alan: …you’ve basically created your own crowd.Betty: That’s right. Another reason why I like to watch games on television is that I simply find it easier to follow the action on TV.Alan: Yeah, sometimes it is a little difficult to keep track of the ball when you’re sitting in the stands.Betty: Especially when your seats are high up in the grandstand and far from the field.Alan: It’s like you’re watching from an airplane, sometimes. Betty: Also, good sports commentators on television can add to your understanding and enjoyment of the game.Alan: After listening to you, I’m starting to wonder how they are able to sell any tickets to these games!Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you’ve just heard.9.What do you know about the two speakers?10. What are the two speakers talking about?11. Why does Betty prefer to watch games on TV?12. What can you learn from the conversation?Conversation 2W: OK, everyone. Please be quiet. Today we’re so pleased to have Tom Johnson here to talk to us. He is going to share some safety tips with us. OK, Tom, they’re all yours.Tom: Thanks. Good morning everyone! I’m Tom Johnson, and I’m a firefighter at Station 11. Well, we live in California. As we know there are a lot of earthquakes here. Many are small. But, if there’sa strong earthquake, what should we do? Does anyone know?Girl: I know! I know! Get under a strong piece of furniture—like a desk or a table.Tom: That’s right. What else?Boy: Move away from the windows. They are so dangerous because they can break.Tom: Good, good. What about after an earthquake then? What should you do?Boy: Well, we shouldn’t use matches.Tom: Why not?Boy: Because many terrible fires start after an earthquake.Girl: Yeah, and when the shaking stops, don’t go outside.Tom: Exactly. A lot of people run to the stores for food and water after an earthquake. But it’s not safe. It’s better to stay indoors.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you’ve heard.13. What is the speaker talking about?14. Which of the following are the students advised to do if there’sa strong earthquake?15. What are the students advised to do after an earthquake?Part CWhat do twenty million people around the world have in common? The answer is they all use the Internet.In fact from your desk, you can check the weather in Rio, buy stocks in Hong Kong, or see the latest exhibition in the Louvre museum in Paris. Also, specialist users like language teachers can discuss the latest classroom techniques and activities. On a more serious note, doctors in African can get up-to-the-second information on medical research around the world.All you need is a basic computer, a modem and the software to a phone line. With a single key stroke you’re online and you don’t have to wait long for information. Delivery time for e-mail from Europe to the USA is about 10 seconds. But is it expensive？Not really –a typical online monthly charge fee in the US can be as low as$10.What’s really extraordinary about the Internet is the amount andvariety of information available. You can find out about kite flying in Korea, the prices of hotels in Pakistan, and the best plays on Broadway. You can use electronic bulletin boards to join in political debates, get advice about love, or even analyze your favorite sports teams’performance. Services are available that allow you to do your banking, reserve airline tickets, and even shop for a Mother’s Day gift.Part DPassage 1In some countries video games are fast becoming a social problem. They are banned in the Philippines and Indonesia. In Japan, those who are under 15 years old are forbidden to use the public machines at night. City elders across the United States are campaigning to restrict their numbers, while the Hong Kong government is proposing to license their operation. These video games are causing children to waste their money on them. Even adults are lured into spending working hours playing them.In Singapore, the battle of man against the machines takes place in licensed amusement centers, mostly located in shopping centers. According to one estimated, each establishment can make between ＄250 and ＄1,500 a day. The schoolchildren in uniforms there are not allowed into these centers. However, one cannot help noticing that the majority of those who are often found in these places are youngsters. Many of them are schoolchildren who have changed out of their uniforms. Some play for the fun of it, others have turned them into a form of gambling, and some are hopelessly addicted to them.Now kids and adults alike play these games in the privacy of their homes. Video game sets have invaded most homes. The question that must be asked is: Have they any education value？Passage 2Amy Johnson was a pioneer airwoman in Britain. She was born on July 1, 1903, in Yorkshire and lived there until 1923 when she went to Sheffield University to study for a BA. After graduation she took a job as a secretary to a London lawyer. At the same time she became interested in flying. Soon her hobby became a determination, not simply to make a career in aviation, but to succeed in some project which would prove to the world that women could be as competent as men in a male-dominated field in those days.Early in 1930, she chose her objective: to fly to Australia all by herself and to break the previous record of 16 days. Her parents and some of her friends lent her money to buy a used airplane.Amy set off on May 5, 1930. Her route took her over Vienna and Baghdad. She was caught in a sandstorm and had to make an emergency landing in the desert. Six days later she landed in India. After experiencing muchhardship, she finally reached Australia on May 24, completing a flight of 11,000 miles. She was the first woman to fly alone to Australia. In later years, she set several other records in flight history.During World WarⅡ, Amy joined other professional pilots to serve her country. Her flying duties consisted of transporting aircraft from factories to British air bases. It was during one of those flights in 1941 that Amy crashed into a river and was drowned, a tragic and early end to the life of Britain’s most famous women pilot.Passage 3Bargaining customs are very different around the world. Few tourists would go shopping in another country without knowing the exchange rate. However, many travelers do not learn anything about the local shopping customs the place they are visiting before spending money. Understanding when it is OK to bargain can save you a lot of money and make your shopping experience much more enjoyable.In some countries, bargaining is an important of part of the shopping culture. In others, bargaining is not done at all. Here is a bargaining guide for some countries around the world:Morocco: Bargaining is always expected in the shopping markets. Here bargaining is more than just getting the best price. If you go into a shop and agree to the first price a seller offers, the seller may not be happy. For Moroccans, bargaining is a form of entertainment; it is a game of skill, a little bit of acting, and it is a chance to chat about the weather, business, and family. So be sure to have fun and try to get a better price!Switzerland: Bargaining is not the custom here. Shop clerks can almost never give you a lower price. However, some hotels may give you a lower rate during the less popular times of the year. It cannot hurt to ask.Tahiti: Bargaining is not appropriate in the South Pacific. In fact, it is considered disrespectful to ask for a better price. In the food markets, sellers will even take their fruits and vegetables back home with them, rather than give a discount!Test 2Part ADirections: You are going to hear eight short conversations between twospeakers. Each will be read only once. After each conversation, a questionwill be asked about what you have heard. Listen once and choose the rightanswer to the question you hear. (8 points)1.M: Do you feel like jogging with me this afternoon?W: I’d love to, but I have to go to my cousin’s. She’s got theflu and I have to look after her baby.Q: What will the woman do?2.M: What a remarkable performance the young pianist gave inCarnegie Hall!W: I felt the same way.Q: How did the woman think of the performance?3.M: Is it going to be a warm day tomorrow, Bill?W: A warm day? Haven’t you listened to the weather forecast?Q: What does Bill think of the weather tomorrow?4.M: The food in this restaurant is really horrible. I wish we’d goto the school canteen.W: Well, food isn’t everything, is it? It’s so nice to get awayfrom the noise once in a while.Q: What does the woman mean?5.M: Would you like to try some banana pie? It’s very good.W: I’m sorry but I don’t care much for dessert.Q: What does the woman mean?6.M: I can’t figure out why those youngsters are so eager to go afterbrand name clothing. It really doesn’t make sense to spendso much money on it.W: You’re right. Especially nowadays when styles change so quickly.Q: On what do the two speakers agree?7.M: The flowers are so lovely. And I like the music too. Thanking youfor inviting me here.W: It’s a pleasure. Shall we order some soup first?Q: Where does the conversation take place?8.M: You know I’m majoring in business and I really need to take acourse in computer science. But the trouble is I hate thecomputer.It’s so complicated.W: You need to know something about the computer first. You’ll findit very useful once you understand how it works. I can guaranteeyou that.Q: What can you learn from the conversation?Part BDirections: You’ll hear two conversations. Each will be read once.Listen carefully and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.(7 points)Conversation 1W: Ah, Mr. Stone. Do come in and sit down.M: Thank you.W: How are you? Are you still feeling very tired all the time?M: Yes, I am. Occasionally I have a pain in the chest.W: Well, your blood pressure is very high. And if you don’t change your lifestyle, you’re going to have a heart attack sooner or later.M: Oh, dear. What do I have to do?W: Well, there are three things that you ought to do. First, stop smoking.Secondly, you really must lose weight, and you must reduce the amountof fat that you eat. And lastly, you must take more exercise.M: What sort of exercise should I do?W: Walking is best. You should walk about three miles four or five timesa week.M: But I don’t have time. I’m just so busy at work.W: That’s another thing. You mustn’t work so hard. Look, take this information and read it through. Then make an appointment to see ourlifestyle consultant. She will work out a full diet and exerciseprogram for you. And don’t worry. That’s the last thing you shoulddo. I’ll see you again next month.M: OK, Thank you, Doctor. Goodbye.W: Goodbye.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you’ve just heard.9.What cause the man’s problem according to the doctor?10. Which of the following does the doctor tell the man to do?11. What do you know about the man?Conversation 2M: Hi, Marry. Do you like music?W: Yes, very much, especially classical music.M: Do you like rock music?W: No, it’s too noisy. What about you?M: I like it very much. You know rock stars play exciting music and their unusual clothes impress me a lot. I often go to their concerts. W: I don’t understand why rock stars are so famous.M: It’s because of their fans. They go to their concerts, buy their records and wear the same kind of clothes.W: I see. Did you watch TV last night?M: No, I didn’t. What was on?W: Zed Hawks was interviewed on TV.M: Really? He’s one of my favorite stars and he’s world famous. At leastI suppose so. He’s given concerts in 12 countries and sold over 20million records. What did he say in the TV interview?W: He didn’t say anything actually. During the interview the hostess suggested that Zed should behave better because his fans imitate him.Believe it or not. He reacted very angrily. And he walked out. The interview lasted less than two minutes.M: He really behaved badly. I’m so disappointed. Doesn’t he know rock stars need the public? They earn money from the public. So why shouldn’t the public criticize them? They shouldn’t complain when they are criticized. If they do, they’ll lose their fans.W: You said it.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you’ve just heard.12. What do you know about the woman?13. Why are rock stars famous according to the man?14. What did Zed Hawks do during the TV interview?15. Which of the following is true of the man?Part CThe weather changes so frequently that it is difficult to forecast.It is not unusual for people to complain that the weathermen were wrong. Fortunately, as Britain does not experience extreme weather conditions, it is never very cold or very hot. The temperature rarely rises above 32℃ in summer, or falls below—10℃ in winter.Summers are generally cool, but due to global warming they are starting to get drier and hotter. Hot weather causes terrible jams on the roads as Britons rush to the coastal resorts.Winters are generally mild, with the most frequent snowfalls in the Scottish Highlands, where it is possible to go skiing. People enjoy discussing the snow, complaining about the cold and comparing the weather conditions with previous winters.Contrary to the popular opinion, it does not rain all the time. There is certainly steady rainfall throughout most of the year, but the months from September to January are the wettest. Thanks to the rain, Britain has a richly fertile countryside which is famous for its deep green colour.Part DPassage 1People's understanding of health also becomes deeper with the progress in scientific research. Recently the term "health" has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It no longer means just the absence of illness. Today, health means the well-being of your body, your mind and your relationship with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another term-quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a person's life? One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives. Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900. You could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75.Passage 2I often dreamed about what the world would be like one hundred years from now. I’m sure it will have changed a lot. For example, I think many people will be living in space. In fact, I imagine that all the advanced countries will have established space cities by then. On Earth, in my opinion, most people will be communicating in English “online〞 by computers and videophones.As for my country, I think life will have also changed in many ways. First of all, the population will be decreasing. People will have fewer children and everyone will be living in smaller, high-tech communities.In general, cities will have become much smaller. I also think most of the environmental and transportation problems of today’s big cities will have been solved. In fact, I think life in my country will be a lot healthier. If I’m lucky, maybe I’ll still be living.Passage 3Earthquakes are something that most people fear. In the world there are some places that have few or no earthquakes. However, most places in the world have earthquakes regularly. Some places, like Iran and Guatemala, have them frequently. Countries that have a lot of earthquakes are usually quite mountainous.The most talked about earthquake in the United Stated was the one that hit San Francisco in 1906. But the strongest one in North America was in 1964. It happened in Alaska.Strong earthquakes can kill a great many people. In 1755, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded happened in Portugal. Around 20, 000 people died. And in 1923, the great Kanto Earthquake in Japan claimed 142,000 lives.Earthquakes are not the only acts of nature which we fear. Floods, tidal waves and bad storms also cause us to be afraid, as they often claim many lives and do great damage to the environment. But they probably do not worry us as much as earthquakes, especially in modern times. The reason is that we often know they are coming. We have some warning. Someday we may be able to know when an earthquake is coming. However, so far no sure way is known to predict an earthquake. When one comes, it is a surprise. People cannot prepare for it, so hundreds of lives may be lost in earthquakes such as those in China in 1976 and in 2021.。

《全新版大学英语-听说教程第五册》听力原文 College English Listening and Speaking Course 5 - Unit 1

R e c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a oUnit One Space ExplorationPart A Pre-listening Task (1)Listen to the facts and opinions about Space Exploration twice and fill in the blanks with the words you hear from the recording. Pay attention to the sentence structures that you might find useful in your discussions.Facts and Opinions1. Space exploration is exciting. But it is very costly and risky.2. The achievement of sending astronauts to the lunar surface and backrepresents the summit of human space flight.3. Since ancient times, people have dreamed of leaving our planet andexploring other worlds.4. Rockets were invented in China in about the 11th century.5. China launched its first artificial satellite on April 24, 1970, but it hasn't putpiloted spacecraft into orbit yet.6. The space age began with the launch of the first artificial satellite by theSoviet Union in 1957.7. The ability to take part in space exploration represents the level of a nation'sscientific and economic development.8. Beginning in 1960 weather satellites have sent back television images ofparts of the earth.9. Satellite systems have enabled us to see what is happening around theworld.10. W ithout satellite services, we wouldn't be able to view a live transmission ofthe Olympic Games.11. C hina is one of the nations that have the ability to conduct large-scale spaceexploration.12. S pace exploration has brought about great changes in our lives, such asweather prediction and environmental monitoring.13. T he cameras on a spaceship or satellite can provide a wealth of useful data. 14. I t is reported that another spaceship, named Ariane, exploded in the airthree minutes after its launch.15. I n the near future, our country will be able to send its first piloted spaceshipinto space.16. S oviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in 1961. 17. O n July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong and others aboardApollo 11 made a successful landing on the moon.R e c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a o18. A rmstrong left the first human footprint on another world. His famous wordson the moon were, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."19. I n the future, commercial flights into Earth orbit may become available andtourists can take a spaceship for sightseeing in space.20. W e are concerned that one day a satellite going out of order may crash ontothe earth and hit us.21. A man-made disaster may occur in the event of a malfunctioning (出故障的) spaceship crashing into a densely populated area.22. T o some extent the ability to carry out a space program is a measure of anation's economic strength.23. T he reusable space shuttles are designed to lower the cost of launchingsatellites into Earth orbit.24. I n 1986 the Soviets launched the first space station that consisted of distinctunits, or modules.Part A Pre-listening Task (1)Pair/ Group Work - Additional question for discussion 1. What are the significance/benefits of space exploration? 2. What are the potential dangers that astronauts face?3. Do you think the day will come when tourists can sit in a spaceship to goaround the world or to visit distant planets?4. Do you know any movie that describes the activities of space exploration?Talk about that movie if possible.Sample1. What are the significance/benefits of space exploration?At the end of the 50s of the last century, the United States and the former Soviet Union carried out space competition (注释：centered on lunar exploration), setting off the first space exploration upsurge (高涨). From 1958 to the end of August 1976, the two countries successfully launched 45 lunar probes (探测仪). In July 1969, the American Apollo spaceship realized the first human moon landing, making epoch-making (掀天揭地) achievement in lunar exploration. Through space exploration, esp ecially lunar probing (探索), we have greatly heightening human understanding of the moon, earth and solar systems, propelling (驱使) and bringing about a series of innovations (一系列的创新) and development in basic science, science and technology, forming a large batch (一批) of high-tech industrial groups and producing remarkable social-economic efficiency. 2. What are the potential dangers that astronauts face?There are many potential dangers involved in space ex ploration. Any mistakes or errors made by the spaceship designers and manufacturers would result a catastrophe (大灾难). Remember the explosion of the space shuttle Colombia? JustR e c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a othe tiny piece of metal broke off from the surface of the ship and that caused an explosion of it when re-entering the earth ’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board.Of cause there are other potential for the astronauts, such as weightlessness and harmful solar radiation. We know that long-time exposure to theultraviolet radiationwill lead to development of skin cancer .3. Do you think the day will come when tourists can sit in a spaceship to goaround the world or to visit distant planets?Yes. I think the day will soon come. On April 8, 2004, it was reported that the US government has issued the first license for a manned suborbital (亚轨道) rocket, a step toward opening commercial space flight for private individuals for the first time. The vehicle, named SpaceShipOne, will carry three passengers into space on a test flight. And the fare, I guess, will be less than $10 million. Part BListening Task(A)Work BankDennis Tito (人名)NASA abbr. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (美国) 国家航空和航天局cosmonaut n. 字航员，航天员the International Space Station 国际空间站 cosmodrome n. 人造卫星及宇宙飞船发射场 Kazakstan n. (独联体〉哈萨克斯坦 strike a deal 达成协议 Siberia 西伯利亚the Soyuz spacecraft {前苏联〉联盟号宇宙飞船 coupled with 与……联系/连接aerospace engineering 航天工程学Notes1. Background InformationSpace exploration is our human response to curiosity about the earth, the moon, the planets, the sun and other stars, and the galaxies. Manned and unmanned space vehicles venture far beyond the boundaries of the earth to collect valuable information about the universe. Human beings have visited the moon and have lived in space stations for long periods. Space exploration helps us see the earth in its true relation to the rest of the universe. Such exploration could reveal how the sun, the planets, and theR e c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a ostars were formed and whether life exists beyond our own world.the space age began on Oct. 4, 1957. On that day, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik (later referred to as Sputnik 1), the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. The first manned space flight was made on April 12. 1961. When Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, orbited the earth in the spaceship Vostok (later called Vostok 1).2. ... the Russian space agency launched him and two Russian cosmonauts aboard a rocket …Tito first took the Soyuz spaceship for a journey to the International Space Station and then backed to the earth by landing in Siberia.3. cosmodrome The Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakstan. It was built during the time of the Soviet Union and now is well known as a Russian satellite and spaceship launching siteThe World's First Space Tourist (Part One)On May 6, 2001, Dennis Tito, a 61-year-old California millionaire and former NASA engineer, became the world's first paying space tourist when the Russian space agency launched him and two Russian cosmonauts aboard a rocket for a journey to the International Space Station.Tito and the crew blasted off (发射) from the cosmodrome in Kazakstan on time. Tito appeared calm, wearing a space suit and a smile. The trip by the Russian crew was almost delayed due to concerns expressed by NASA that the space station would get too crowded while an American crew did some necessary computer repairs. Fortunately for Tito, NASA said Friday that it had struck a deal (达成协议) with the Russian Space Agency, allowing him to launch on time without interrupting the American crew's work on the ailing International Space Station.Tito paid the Russian space agency $20 million to fly in space, but Russia's partners in the space station -- especially NASA -- objected, saying his lack of training would require additional safety measures.Tito has been training at the Star City, Russia space center, for a year, learning the details of a Soyuz spacecraft and practicing how to survive a landing in Siberia. Just days before the launch, he proclaimed that he was well prepared. He said, "The training is what counts and I've had a significant amount of training. And that, I think, coupled with my aerospace engineering background, puts me in a very strong position, as far as being able to function in space. "Tito has no duties during the mission. He told reporters: "I'm not a fighter pilot, I'm a businessman, and I want to be able to absorb as much of this experience and relate it to as many people as I can." He said he would take pictures and tell people about the experience upon his return. Tito says his launch aboard a Russian rocket and six-day stay on the International SpaceR e c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a oStation demonstrates that anyone can -- and should -- experience space.Questions 1.:Listen to the recording and write down short answers to the following questions.1. Where was Tito born?He was a 61-year-old American millionaire and former NASA engineer. 2. When did Tito first become fascinated with space travel? On May 6, 2001.3. How many cosmonauts were on board the Russian spaceship? There were altogether three cosmonauts on board.4. What did Tito wear?Tito wore a space suit and smile.5. What was the destination of Tito ’s trip? The International Space Station.6. How much did Tito pay the Russian space agency t fly in space? He paid $20 million for the trip.7. Where did Tito receive his training? At the Star City, a Russian space Center. 8. What was Tito ’s duty the mission?He had no specific duties during the mission. 9. How long would Tito stay in space?He would stay in space for about six days. 10. Where would Tito land? In Siberia.Questions 2:Listen to the recording again and complete the following sentences with the information you obtain.1. Tito and the crew blasted off (发射) from the cosmodrome in Kazakstan on time. Tito appeared calm, wearing a space suit and a smile.2. Fortunately for Tito, NASA said Friday that it had struck a deal with theRussian Space Agency, allowing him to launch on time without interrupting the American crew's work on the ailing International Space Station.3. NASA, Russia's partners in the space station objected, saying his lack oftraining would require additional safety measures.4. Just days before the launch, he proclaimed that he was well prepared. Hesaid, "The training is what counts and I've had a significant amount of training. And that, I think, coupled with my aerospace engineeringR e c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a obackground, puts me in a very strong position, as far as being able to function in space. "5. Tito said he would take pictures and tell people about the experienceupon his return. Tito says his launch aboard a Russian rocket and six-day stay on the International Space Station demonstrates that anyone can -- and should -- experience space.(B)Work Bankseamstress n. 女裁缝Queens, N. Y. 纽约市皇后区Sputnik 人造地球卫星{特指前苏联1957年发射的世界第一颗人造卫星〉 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 喷气机推进实验室 Pasadena (美国城市名)Mariner Mars probe 水手号火星探测器 yearn for 渴望，向往 snapshot n. 快照 trillion num. 万亿manor house n. 庄园大厦 Los Angeles 洛杉矶(美国城市) Suzanne (人名) disposable ð. 可任意使用的 put ... on hold 暂时搁置Mir n. (前苏联)和平号宇宙空间站MirCorp joint venture 和平号合资公司 afloat a. 飘浮的Parachute v. 用降落伞着陆Notes1. Sputnik On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviets launched the world's first artificial satellite, called Sputnik (fellow traveler). Although it was only a simple 58-cm (23-in) aluminum sphere containing a pair of radio transmitters, Sputnik's successful orbits around Earth marked a huge step in technology and ushered in the space age.2. Wilshire Associates Wilshire Associates Incorporated is a global investment advisory film that offers investment products and services, including investment consulting, asset management, mutual fund management and analytical tools, to clients in over 20 countries, representing over 400 organizations with assets totaling more than $2.5 trillion.3. The Russians didn't cut any corners... The Russians didn ’t cut back on any necessary training or lower the requirements for Tito.R e c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a oThe World's First Space Tourist (Part Two)Dennis Tito is the oldest child of working-class Italian immigrants whose ancestors came from the town of Tito in southern Italy. His father was a printer , and his mother was a seamstress (女裁缝). While growing up in Queens, N.Y ., Tito became interested in space travel. He says he dreamed of space flight when he saw Sputnik launch as a teenager in 1957. Yes, it was Sputnik that sparked his teenage imagination.Tito earned bachelor's and master's degrees in aerospace engineering and went to work in 1964 for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. He charted flight paths for NASA's Mariner Mars probes, earning $15,000 a year . But he yearned for more -- more money.Tito founded his own company Wilshire Associates in the early 1970s, using the mathematical intelligence he developed during his NASA career to analyze the stock market instead. His firm produces the Wilshire 500 Total Market Index, which is watched by Federal Reserve officials as an overall snapshot of U.S. stock markets.By age 40, he had made his first million. The millions kept piling up; the investment firm now manages more than $10 billion in assets and advises on $1 trillion in assets. His personal fortune is estimated at $200 million.Tito's passions include opera, sailing and buying fast cars -- but driving them slowly. Most are housed in the eight-car garage of his 30,000-square-footmanor house with ocean views that he built on top of a mountain in Los Angeles. He and his wife, Suzanne, divorced shortly after the house was completed. His three children are in their 20s.With a large disposable income, Tito toyed with the idea of flying to Mir in the early 1990s. The Russians had just sent up a Japanese journalist and a British chemist for cash, and Tito wanted to be the next guest cosmonaut. But the Soviet Union's collapse forced him to put his dream on hold.The space dream came alive again in April 2000, when the MirCorp joint venture called in April 2000, in hopes of keeping Mir afloat.Tito put millions into an account that the Russian space program could access once he was launched to Mir , and went to the cosmonaut headquarters in the Star City, outside Moscow. There, the 5-foot-5, 140-pound, fit-lookingbusinessman threw himself into training. "The Russians didn't cut any corners," he boasted.When Russia decided to sink its 15-year-old space station, officials offered Tito an alternative destination -- the International Space Station, barely 2 years old. Another Soyuz spacecraft was needed at the space station as a fresh lifeboat, and the third, empty seat was offered to him.Tito was thrilled with the change in travel plans. "They're different star hotels," he said of the two space stations.R e c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a oHe took special delight in launching from the same pad where Sputnik took off on Oct. 4, 1957, and where the world's first spaceman, Yuri Gagarin, took off on April 12, 1961.Tito was the third American to be launched aboard a Russian rocket, but the first to land in a Russian spacecraft. The Soyuz capsule parachutes down into remote Kazakstan.All three of Tito's children were at the Baikonur Cosmodrome for his launch. Tito insisted he was not afraid or even nervous about his flight."If you're going to die of natural causes, does it pay to sit at home and be afraid to cross the street?" Tito said. "The main thing is, I'm not crazy." Questions 1 :Listen to the recording and choose the right answers to each questions you hear.1. Where was Tito born? A. In southern Italy B. In the UK . C . In the U.S .D . The passage does not say .正确答案：D . The passage does not say .2. When did Tito first become fascinated with space travel? A . In 1955 when he took his first f1ight to New York. B . I n 1957 when the Soviets l aunched Sputnik .C. In 1964 when he was on his first job in a jet l aboratory .D. In 1959 when the U.S . l aunched its first sate lli te .正确答案：B . I n 1957 when the Soviets l aunched Sputnik .3. What was Tito's major in university? A. Mathematics. B. Finance.C. Electronic engineering.D. Aerospace engineering.正确答案：D. Aerospace engineering.4. Which of the following may NOT be the business of Tito's firm? A. Manufacturing. B. Financial advisory. C. Investment consulting D. Stock market.正确答案：A. Manufacturing.5. Which of the following is NOT true about Tito's hobby?A. He likes singing.B. He loves sailing boats.C. He likes speeding in fast cars.D. He is fond of big houses.正确答案：C. He likes speeding in fast cars.6. What was the main cause of Tito's abandoning his plan to fly to Mir in the early 1990s?A. The U.S. government prohibited him from paying the Russians.B. The Soviet Union broke up.C. The Russians were not interested in Tito's application.D. Tito was busy with his divorce case.正确答案：B. The Soviet Union broke up.7. What can be inferred about Tito's training?A. The Russians gave him a hard time.B. Tito complained a lot about the strict training.C. Tito received strict training from both Russians and NASA.D. Tito's training was no different from that for Russian cosmonauts.正确答案：D. Tito's training was no different from that for Russian cosmonauts. Questions 2:Listen to the recording again and complete the following statements about Tito’s Personal information.R e c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a oSpeaking Task (1)You have just heart a story about the world ’s first space tourist, Dennis Tito. What is your opinion of him and his flight? Exchange views with your partner. Reflections:You may wish to cover the following points in your discussion.1. What is special about the space tourist Dennis Tito?2. What is the significance of Tito's f1ying in space?3. What are the prospects of the space tourism?4. What do you think: of Tito's courage to fly in space?Dennis Tito, an American millionaire from California, flew into space at his own expense and became the first space tourist in the world. He stayed in space for six days and then landed in Siberia.Dennis was born into a poor Italian immigrant family. From childhood, he had a dream of flying into space. He worked hard and accumulated a large fortune. Though he was a very successful businessman and could fly to anywhere in the world, he never abandoned his youthful dream -- flying into space. He managed to fulfill his dream at the age of 61. Of course, he had to pay a lot of money to the Russians and endure the hardship of strict space training.We should not underestimate the importance of Tito's flying in space. His trip marked the beginning of a new era in space exploration. As the technology of space exploration has matured, ordinary people now can fly in spaceships if they wish and commercial space travel will probably become popular in the next 20 or 50 years.But still, space travel at present involves danger. The recent breakup of the space shuttle "Columbia" is an example. Any minor mechanical fault or mistake could end in a disaster. Dennis Tito surely knew this danger but he demonstrated an exceptional courage in facing the difficulty and danger. He set a good example not only to his three children but also to all who are pursuing their teenage dreams. Speaking Task (2)R e c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a oDebatingAs you probably know, china has been conducting research and experiments that are aimed at sending cosmonauts into space. The successful launch and landing of the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou IV has pushed China closer to its goal of manned space flight. Of course, to achieve this goal, China has to spend a huge amount of money estimated at 10 billion Yuan. We all know that China is still a developing country and its education still lags behind that of the developed countries. Many young Chinese are denied chances of receiving higher education because of insufficient educational facilities. So why not use this amount of money to build more universities across the country?Suppose you are the policymakers and you have the right to vote either for the space program or for building more universities, which decision would you make? Give your reasons.Topic: Argument for or against “using our limited resources on the manned space program ” Perspectives:1. From the perspective of supporter of the manned spaceship (for)2. From the perspective of those rejecting the space program (against) DemosFrom the perspective of supporters of the manned spaceship (for)If I were a policy maker, I would definitely support our space program. It ’s significance is manifold(有多种用途的).First, the launch of the unmanned spaceship Shenzhou IV is deemed(认为，相信) a symbol of national prestige(威望). This shows that our country is strong both militarily and economically, and China would become the third nation in the world to achieve manned space flight. The manned spaceship would also inspire Chinese people to love, support and defend our country.Second, the spaceship program requires the development of advanced technology, especially in the manufacturing sector. So it would contribute to the economic growth of our country.Third, the space program is an integrated program. It combines many branches of science, such as medicine, aerospace, genetic engineering, biophysics and even agriculture. Many experiments done on the spaceship would prove the quality of our lives. So the enormous amount of money spent would pay off in the end.From the perspective of those rejecting the space program(against)I don't think it's wise to spend so much money on the space program. There would appear to be no direct link between the unmanned or manned spaceship program and the quality of our daily life. As we all know, China is aR e c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a odeveloping country with a large population. We have so many domesticproblems waiting for us to solve and our economy is relatively weak. We cannot compete with the U.S. in space exploration. Besides, education in China lags behind that of the major developed countries. According to some statistic, only about one fifth of youth can receive higher education in China because of insufficient educational facilities. Poverty is still a serious social problem inChina, especially in the western part, which not only deprives many children of opportunities of going to school, but also slows down the process of applying science to production.So why not spend the limited funds available trying to improve the existing educational facilities and to build more universities? If more young people can receive higher education, China would have a better resource of manpower to compete with the U.S. Only science and education will save our country in the long run.Part C Additional ListeningMir's EndMir was a testament to Russian technology. Built to last five years, operational for 13, it's been called an accident waiting to happen, for the space station has survived fires, decompression and problems ranging from mechanical and computer breakdowns to a collision with an unmanned cargo ship.Since its launch in 1986, Mir has been home to over 25 crews from more than a dozen countries. It's been a base for astronomical observations and scientific experiments as well as giving astronauts invaluable experience of long-duration space flight. But Mir's end, though welcomed by many, could affect the pace of future space exploration.Mir really brings to an end, the end of that space race, uh, really closes off space race now. And I think to a certain extent, we won't see the challenge, that ... that competition to push the technology. So I think, we might see the exploration of the space slowing down from now on.Attempts to extend Mir's life by private and commercial funding have failed. So the current crew which includes a French astronaut from the European Space Agency will return inside the Soyuz spacecraft currently attached to Mir .When the last crew leaves Mir , it will be the end of an era. But one final crucial part of the mission is the decommissioning process. An automatic navigational system is already on board for its final descent into the Pacific Ocean next year .Questions 1:R e c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a oListen to the recording and choose the right answers to each question you hear.1. For how many years of operation was Mir designed to last? A. Five years. B. Eight years. C. Ten years.D. Thirteen years.正确答案：A. Five years.2. What happened to Mir during its flight? A. Some astronauts lost their lives.B. It survived fires, computer breakdowns, etc.C. It ran out of control many times.D. It orbited the earth very smoothly.正确答案：B. It survived fires, computer breakdowns, etc.3. What effect would Mir have if it descended onto the earth? A. It would cause a terrible explosion on the earth. B. It would put the astronauts in danger .C. It would have a bad effect on the pace of future space programs.D. It would explode in the air , affecting many countries.正确答案：C. It would have a bad effect on the pace of future space programs.4. What is the crucial part of Mir's last mission? A. It's about the safety of the last crew.B. It concerns the possible explosion of Mir in a densely populated area.C. It is the final descent into the ocean.D. Efforts are made to save the spaceship.正确答案：C. It is the final descent into the ocean.Part C Leisure Time HumorDogsThere was a man who had two dogs, named "Commonsense" and “Trouble". He always brought his dogs to the park every evening. One day, he only brought Trouble to the park, and left Commonsense at home.While the man was so happy playing Frisbee (飞碟) with his friends, TroubleR e c o r d e r C o l e W i n G a odisappeared. The man quickly became sad and panicky. He looked for his dog everywhere but could not find it.A young lady, wishing to help, asked the man: 'What are you looking for?" The man replied: "I'm looking for Trouble ..." "Pardon ...," said the lady.The man replied in a higher tone, "I am looking for TROUBLE."The lady was annoyed and asked:”Where ’s your COMMONSENSE?” The man, his mind only on his dogs ，answered:”At home ” Part C Additional Listening Movie TimeWatch an excerpt of a film and choose the right answer to each of the following questions.Noteschoose v. 决定 Houston 休斯墩 alloy n. 合金stress n. 应力; 重力 precision n.精确propulsion 提涯，推动 untried a. 未经尝试的 celestial a. 天体的 hazardous a. 危险的elllbark (on) v. 登上{船只等} ，开始For All MankindWe choose to go to the moon.We choose to go to the moon…We choose to go to the moon, in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used … for the progress of all mankind.We shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses。

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[al: 全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程2]Unit 1 SportsPart A]Listening StrategyIdentifying NumbersNumbers appear very often in every kind of listening material. The ability to catch the exact numbers spoken in English is an important but difficult skill for a Chinese learner. A good way is to practice over and over again the pronunciation of the numbers, particularly the different ways to say thirteen and thirty, fourteen and forty, etc. It also helps to practice writing down the numbers you hear quickly in numerical forms, without translating them into Chinese. You're going to hear a passage about Michael Jordan, a retired American professional basketball player. Listen carefully and fill in the blanks with the missing numbers.Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time. He was born on Feb.17, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York. He is 1.98 meters tall and weighs 216 pounds. Jordan joined the Chicago Bulls team for the 1984 season. In the 1986 season he shot 3041 points, the third highest score ever. He was named NBA Slam Dunk Champion（扣篮冠军）in 1987 and won the Most Valuable Player Award in 1988, an honor repeated four times in the next ten years to 1998. Jordan guided his team to win six NBA championships during the 1990s, scoring 45 points during the sixth and last game of the 1998 NBA finals. In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century. Jordan left the NBA at the beginning of the 1993-1994 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball. Since his baseball game wasn't quite as good as his basketball games, he finally gave it up to rejoin the Bulls in 1995. Yet, after playing for five more years, he once again announced his retirement in 1999. But he returned for two more NBA games in 2001 as a member of the Washington Wizards.[ti:Unit 1 Part B] Listening Tasks A Conversation Why Don't You Join Me at the Gym Sometime?Exercise 1Listen to the conversation and choose the right answers to the questions you hear. Peter: Hi Laura. Where are you heading with that big bag?Laura: Hi, Peter. I'm off to the gym. I've got to stay in shape, you know. I try to go three times a week, but I'm busy so I can't always make it.Peter: I know more women who work out than men. What's the main reason you work out? For your health, or to look good?Laura: To be honest, for both. With women, good looks are always a very important consideration. Peter: If they were honest, most men who work out would admit that they also do it to look better, and not merely for health reasons.Laura: How about you? Do you get any regular exercise?Peter: I do a lot of walking, for exercise and enjoyment sometimes ten to twenty kilometers at a time but I never go to the gym like you do.Laura: Well, walking is good exercise. How about sports?Peter: Not since my school days. I used to love playing baseball, but it'simpossible to get enough people together for a game now. Mostly I just watch sports on TV.Laura: I play tennis fairly regularly with my friends, and sometimes go swimming and cycling by myself.Peter: Oh, I forgot about that. I go cycling sometimes too. And I often go swimming on vacation, but only recreational swimming.Laura: Why don't you join me at the gym sometime? I can get you a guest pass. Peter: Well, maybe someday, but I'm pretty lazy about things like that. Questions1.What do you know about Peter?2.Where might the two speakers be having this conversation? Speaking TasksPair WorkListen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. Then role-play them with your partner.Conversation 1A: What's your plan for this evening?B: Well, there's a good game at the stadium but I haven't got a ticket yet.A: I'm going to the gym. Would you like to come along? I can get a guest pass for you.B: That's wonderful. I'd always wanted to work out in the new gym. Thank you very much. Conversation 2A: Hi, Xiao Wang. Fancy meeting you here! How are you doing?B: Can't complain. I'm busy with my experiments in the lab. But after work I often play some sports．A: Like what?B: Like swimming, running and sometimes tennis.A: Tennis? That's my favorite game. Say, what're you doing this weekend?B: Nothing particular. I guess I'll probably just work in the lab.A: Come on. You need to relax. What about a game of tennis?B: OK.Conversation 3A: Are you doing anything special tomorrow, Bob?B: Not really. Why do you ask?A: Some of us are going motorcycling. Would you like to join us?B: Motorcycling? I've never done that. Isn't it a bit dangerous?A: Maybe, but it's really exciting.B: I enjoy jogging. It's more relaxing.A: That's a good form of exercise. It can help you stay in shape.B: Yes, it's also safer.Now make similar conversations according to the given situations. Use the structures and expressions above in your conversations where appropriate[ti:Unit 1 Part C]Test Your ListeningYou're going to hear five short conversations. Listen carefully and choose the rightanswers to the questions you hear.1.W: I like playing basketball, volleyball and table tennis. What about you?M: Well, tennis is my favorite sport.Q: What sport does the man like?2.W: You don't like boxing very much, do you?M: It's far from being my kind of sport.Q: What does the man mean?3.W: I think yesterday's football game was quite exciting.What about you, John?M: You said it. But it was a bit long.Q: What does the man think about the football game?4.W: Do you like to play chess?M: I like the game, but I don't play it often enough. I'm afraid I'm not a very good chess player.Q: What does the man mean?5.M: I knew the names of all the football players and the dates of all the games in my high school days. But recently I have failed to keep up with football.W: Now you are busy with your golf games.Q: What do you know about the man from the conversation?Unit 2 Food and DrinksPart AListening StrategyListening "Between the Lines"People do not always say directly what they mean. Very often, we have to listen "between the lines". The English language offers many ways for people to imply, rather than directly state, their meaning. To find out what a speaker really means, we can rely on such things as the context, the meaning of an idiom, and the intonation used. For example, if someone says "I have an essay to write" in answerto an invitation to go somewhere, we can infer from the context that he cannot accept the invitation. And if someone says "Andrew passed with flying colors" in reply to an inquiry about how Andrew did on a test, we can infer from the meaning of the idiom "to pass with flying colors" that Andrew did very well on the test. Often, intonation also helps to reveal the real meaning of a message. For example, "He is very clever" said with an ironic tone means just the opposite. You are going to hear eight short conversations between two speakers.Listen carefully and write down "Yes" or "No" to each of the following questions. 1.M: Have you ever been to that big restaurant opposite the school gate?W: Yes, many times.Whenever my friends come to visit me, I'll take them there to eat.2.W: Is there something wrong, sir?M: My wife and I have been kept waiting for nearly an hour for our meal.3.W: Where is the cake I made this morning?M: We ate it, mom. Can you make another one for us?4.W: I hear you like chicken very much.M: Next to beef.5.M: Have you tried this wine before?W: No, never. It's my first time, but it's really to my taste.6.W: John, do you want a soda?M: Soda? I think it tastes like medicine.7.W: Why, the fish is left almost untouched.M: Well, it would be good if it were less salty.8.M: Hi, Sue, would you like to eat out tonight?W: Oh, I'd really like to, but my sister may come to visit me this evening..[ti:Unit 2 Part B]Listening TasksA ConversationWhat About Dining Out?Exercise 1Listen to the conversation and complete the following sentences.Peter: Hi, Kate.Kate: Hi, Peter. How have you been?Peter: Oh, OK, I guess. And you?Kate: Not too bad. We haven't seen each other for a while, have we?Peter: No, we haven't. So that makes me ask. Do you have any plan for this Saturday? Kate: No, not yet, I don't think so. Why?Peter: What do you think about getting together and going out to dinner this weekend?Kate: That would be great. Do you have any particular place in mind?Peter: Well, I think I'd like to eat something that's not too heavy. I've been eating a little too much lately.Kate: Me too.Peter: I love Italian food, but maybe we should skip that this time. They always seem to serve so much food in Italian restaurants, and you end up eating more than you wanted to.Kate: Chinese food would be good.Peter: Yes, or maybe some Japanese sushi. That style uses a lot of natural flavors, and not much oil or cream or heavy sauces.Kate: Yes, either of those choices would be good. Let's just meet on Saturday night, and decide then where to eat.Peter: That's fine by me. Speaking TasksPair WorkListen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. Then role-play them with your partner.Conversation 1(At the school canteen)A: What a crowd!B: This is the worst time. The morning classes are just over. Everybody is hungry and rushes here to have lunch.A: That's true. I'm starving and I can't wait. I'd rather not stand in a long line. B: Why don't we have some fried noodles?A: Noodles are sold at No. 2 Box. No queue there, you see.B: That's great.(At No. 2 Box)Counter hand: What can I get you?A: One plate of fried noodles, please.B: Make it two.Counter hand: OK. Two plates of fried noodles. Anything else?A: How much is the tomato soup?Counter hand: It's free. It goes with the noodles.A: I see. (to B) Do you want any soup?B: Yes.A: (to counter hand) Two bowls of soup, please.Conversation 2(At a fast food restaurant)Counter hand: What can I do for you?Customer: I'll have one order of chicken nuggets and a chicken sandwich.Counter hand: Anything to drink?Customer: A small Sprite. No ice, please.Counter hand: Okay. For here or to go?Customer: For here.Conversation 3(At a Chinese restaurant)Waiter: Are you ready to order?A: Do you have any recommendations?Waiter: Yes. The Sichuan style crispy whole fish is very good.It's today's special.A: Mary, would you like to try that? I hear it's very good.B: Why not? And I'd like shrimp in black bean sauce, too. It's my favorite.Waiter: Okay. Anything else?A: What about some vegetables, Mary?B: Yes. How about spinach?A: Spinach is fine with me.Waiter: Anything to drink?A: Yes. I'd like one Bud Light, please. What'll you have, Mary?B: Orange juice, please.Waiter: One Bud Light and one orange juice. Is that right?A: Right.Now make similar conversations according to the given situations. Use the structures and expressions above in your conversations where appropriate[ti:Unit 2 Part C]Test Your ListeningListen to the conversation and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.A: Well, here we are, not too crowded.B: Great! Let's order quickly so we can chat a little.A: OK. What are you in the mood for?B: Something light. I had a huge breakfast and I'm still full.A: There are three salads. Or you could have soup and a sandwich.B: What are you having? A hamburger, I suppose.A: No, actually I ate out last night. We had pizza at Pizza Hut, then a late snack at Kentucky Fried Chicken.B: Oh, dear. Well, maybe you should have a salad.A: Yes, I think so. Look, the daily special is spaghetti. That sounds good.B: Oh, the prices are great too. I'll have that as well.A: Now let's decide on drinks.B: I'll just have coffee and a glass of iced water.A: Italian food needs red wine, you know.B: But we have to go back to work.A: OK, a Coke for me then.B: Here comes the waitress. Let me order first.Questions1.What is the relationship between the two speakers?2.Where does the conversation take place?3.What will they order?Unit 3 WeatherPart AListening StrategyListening for Important DetailsBesides understanding the main idea of a listening text, we often find it necessary to grasp the important details as well. What counts as important details depends on the kind of information we want. Generally speaking, if we are listening to the narration of an event, we need to sharpen our ears not only for what happened, but also when and where, how and why it happened. In listening to a weather report, on the other hand, the important details we should watch out for are the current weather conditions, temperature, and weather outlook. You're going to hear two short passages about weather. While listening, pay attention to such details as the weather conditions, temperature, weather outlook, damage caused by bad weather and so on, and write them down in note form.Then complete the exercises in your book.1.The weather today: a fine day is in store nearly everywhere, with the best of the sunshine in southern and central areas of Britain. A pleasant day, then, with long sunny periods developing. There will be light winds with a maximum temperature of 18 degrees Celsius, 64 degrees Fahrenheit. Look at the outlook for the next few days:it will become mostly cloudy with heavy showers moving in from the west.2.A storm in Changchun, capital of Northeast China's Jilin Province, claimed four lives on Sunday. The storm lasted about three hours from around 8 p.m. The winds reached speeds of over a hundred miles an hour, causing serious damage and awidespread power failure.[ti:Unit 3 Part B]Listening TasksA ConversationDid You Hear the Forecast?Exercise 1Listen to the conversation and choose the right answers to the questions you hear. Alan: Oh, look at the sky, Michelle! It's starting to get cloudy.Michelle: I see it. I hope it doesn't rain. I thought it was going to be a fine day today.Alan: That's certainly what the department was hoping for when they chose today as the date for the annual picnic.Michelle: You can't have a picnic without good weather. You need sunshine for all the eating and games and entertainment.Alan: Yeah, sunshine —but not too much! Do you remember last year?Michelle: I sure do. It was so hot all we did was look for shade, look for ways to escape from the sun.Alan: And no one wanted to participate in any of the planned activities. All we wanted was cold drinks. And then we dozed off.Michelle: If there had just been the tiniest breeze to cool us off.Alan: But there wasn't. Just that burning sun, without a cloud in the sky, and the temperature just seemed to climb higher and higher.Michelle: Well, we don't have that problem this year, apparently. Alan, did you hear the weather forecast? Is it supposed to rain?Alan: I don't know. I didn't catch the weather report. But maybe if it rains, itwill only be a short shower which cools things off a little. That might not be bad. Questions1.What are Alan and Michelle mainly doing?2.What do you know about Alan?3.What can you infer from the conversation?Speaking TasksListen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. Then role-play them with your partner.Conversation 1A: What lovely weather we're having! Nice and cool.B: Yeah, I really like this kind of weather.A: What's the temperature today ？B: The high is 26 and the low is 20. The weather forecast says the good weather is likely to last, too.A: I hope so. Conversation 2A: It seems to be clearing up. All the dark clouds are gone and the sun is coming out.B: Yes. Let's just hope it stays this way. I hate rainy days.A: I think it will continue to be fine for the next few days. Anyhow, that's whatthe weatherman says.B: That's great. Let's go for a walk, shall we ？A: All right.Conversation 3A: It's hot and humid, isn't it? I can hardly breathe.B: Yeah. I feel suffocating too.A: Are summers always this hot here? It's almost like in the desert.B: Yes, especially in July and August.A: Well, what did the weatherman say?B: He said another heat wave is on the way.A: Oh no! I hope not.B: How about going out to the beach to cool off ？A: Good idea. Maybe it's the only place for this sort of weather.Now make similar conversations according to the given situations. Use the structures and expressions above in your conversations where appropriate..[ti:Unit 3 Part CTest Your ListeningYou're going to hear five short conversations. Listen carefully and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.1.W: It's been freezing for the last few days.M: Yes. And the forecast says there will be more snow next week, accompanied by strong winds.Q: What will the weather be like next week?2.M: We haven't had such a severe winter for a long time, have we?W: No, and the forecast says it's going to get worse before it warms up.Q: What can we learn from the conversation?3.W: What if it rains hard? What are we going to do?M: I think it will clear up soon. But if it keeps raining, the whole thing will have to be cancelled.Q: What can we learn from the conversation?4.M: How was the weather when you left New York?W: It was very much like the weather in Beijing. You don't have to take a lot of clothes.Q: What can we learn from the conversation?5.W: If it is this hot tomorrow, we may have to give up the idea of playing tennis in the afternoon.M: The weather forecast says it will cloud over by noon.Q: What does the man mean?Unit 4 MusicPart AListening StrategyListening for Signal WordsThe ability to identify signal words can help us follow the thread of the speaker'sthought. People often use signal words or phrases like "but", "therefore" and "as a result" to add a comment that contrasts with what has just been said or to signal what they are about to say is the result or cause of their previous remarks. Similarly, words and phrases like "for example", "most importantly", "first", "second", "finally" and "then" usually signal that the speaker is going to provide an illustration or emphasize a certain point or discuss several aspects of a certain topic. So we should pay attention to signal words in listening as they will prepare us for what is going to be said. You're going to hear four short passages.Listen carefully and write down the signal word(s) in each passage. Then choose a, b, c or d to indicate the function of the signal word(s) used in each of the passages.1.Most people like music. In fact, we are surrounded by it. It's on the radio and television and can be heard in stores and restaurants. However, not everyone likes the same kind of music.2.The manager of the music shop was called Brian Epstein. Because so many people had asked for a record by the Sun, Epstein decided to go and listen to the group himself.3.Firstly I would like to talk about classical music and its representative composers, then I will move on to jazz music, and finally I will focus on pop music in the last century.4.We listen to exciting music and our hearts beat faster, our blood pressure rises, and our blood flows more quickly. In short, we're stimulated.[ti:Unit 4 Part B] Listening Tasks A PassageBackground MusicExercise 1Listen to the passage. As you listen, read the signal words in your book and put a tick () in the brackets after the ones you have heard.Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful effect on those who hear it. Recorded background music first found its way into factories, shops and restaurants in the USA. Very soon it spread to other parts of the world. Now it is becoming difficult to go shopping or eat a meal without listening to music. To begin with, background music was intended simply to create a soothing atmosphere. Recently, however, it's becoming a big business. An American marketing expert has shown that music can boost sales or increase factory production by as much as a third. But it has to be the light music. Lively music has no effect at all on sales. Slow music can increase receipts by 34%. This is probably because shoppers slow down and have more opportunity to spot items they would like to buy. Yet, slow musicisn't always the answer. The expert found that in restaurants slow music meant customers took longer to eat their meals, which reduced overall sales. So restaurant owners might be well advised to play faster music to keep the customers moving —unless, of course,the resulting indigestion leads to complaints. Questions1. Where was recorded background music first used?2. What was the original purpose of background music?3.What kind of music can have a powerful effect on customers in shops?4.Why doesn't the same kind of music work in restaurants according to the passage? Speaking Tasks Pair WorkListen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. Then role-play them with your partner.Conversation 1A: Do you like English songs?B: I'm crazy about them.A: What's your favorite song?B: It's hard to say. There are so many beautiful songs.A: Who's your favorite singer then?B: Sarah Brightman, undoubtedly. I do admire her, you know. I love all her songs. A: I like her, too, but not that much.Conversation 2A: Do you care for opera?B: Yes, I do, very much.A: Which do you like better, opera or musical?B: Opera.A: Do you just listen to it or go to performances?B: I prefer going to a performance. It has everything, color and spectacle and great music. A: Why don't we go and see Aida together? It's being performed at the Grand Theater. B: I've seen it already. It's excellent.A: Oh, lucky you! Conversation 3 A: Do you enjoy listening to music?B: Yes, very much. I enjoy listening to music more than any other pastime.A: What's your favorite music?B: It depends. When I am in a good mood, I'd prefer something exciting, with a fast rhythm. But if I feel low, I can only listen to something soft and quiet.A: Mm, me too.Now make similar conversations. Use the structures and expressions above where appropriate. Your conversations should include the following points.[ti:Unit 4 Part C] Test Your Listening Listen to the passage three times and supply the missing information.Celine Dion is the youngest of 14 children in a working-class family in Quebec, Canada. Her parents, who both loved music, encouraged her to develop her musical talent. At 12, Celine had composed the song "It Was Only a Dream". Her mother and brother helped her to make a recording of that song and sent it off to an address they found on an album of a popular French singer. The address was that of Rene Angelil, who became her first conquest, but there would be millions more. Celine's rise from a teenage singer to a pop superstar has been steady, but not without difficulties. Record companies were at first less enthusiastic about investing in a teenager than Angelil, who mortgaged his own home to pay for her first album. But her first two albums won a great success. And by 1983 she became the first Canadian ever to have a gold record in France. In 1990, Celine made her first English language record with Unison but her real breakthrough in America came when she was selected by Disney to sing the theme song of Beauty and the Beast. The song went toNo.1 on the chart and won both a Grammy and an Academy award. In 1996 she performed at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and in 1997 she recorded the theme song for Titanic, and her name became synonymous with the enormously successful film. Celine Dion's favorite theme is love. She sings the depth and the power of love in a great many of her hits such as "Love Can Move Mountains", "Because You Loved Me", "The Power of Love" and, of course, the theme song of Titanic, "My Heart Will Go On".Unit 5 Health Part A Listening StrategyIdentifying the Relationship Between the Speakers in a Conversation Identifying the relationship between the speakers in a conversation is an important skill in listening comprehension. Although sometimes the conversationitself does not contain words that say exactly what the relationship is, we can rely on contextual clues to find it out. Such clues include the degree of intimacy (e.g., how intimately the speakers address each other, what endearments are used), the degree of politeness (strangers tend to be more polite towards each other than friends or family members), and the particular situation (at a doctor's consulting room, at a shop, etc.).Listen to the following conversations and choose the right answers to the questions that follow the conversations.1.M: What's the trouble?W: I feel dizzy and my whole body aches.M: How long have you been sick?W: Two or three days now.M: How's your appetite?W: I've got no appetite. The sight of food simply turns my stomach. What's wrong with me?M: You seem to be generally run-down.Q: What is the mnost probable relationship between the two speakers?2.W: What's the matter, Jack? You look pale.M: Oh, I feel terrible.W: Why? What's the matter?M: I have a splitting headache and a sore throat.W: Why didn't you tell me?M: I thought they might go away, but I feel worse this morning. I'm aching all over. W: Hmm. You feel warm, too. You must have got a fever. There's a pretty bad flu going around, you know.Q: What's the most probable relationship between the two speakers? [ti:Unit 5 Part B]Listening TasksA ConversationGoing to See the DoctorExercise 1Listen to the conversation and choose the right answers to complete the statements. D: So what's your trouble?P: Well, doctor, I haven't been feeling well lately. My biggest problem is that I'm having trouble sleeping.D: Have you tried any of the sleeping medications available?P: I've tried one or two, but they don't seem to help.D: How long have you had this problem?P: Three or four months —it's been rather a long time now.D: Are you suffering from an unusual level of stress in your life lately?P: Not more than usual. My biggest worry is the fact I can't sleep.D: Well, some people don't need as much sleep as others.P: But I feel tired all day, so it is a problem for me.D: Have you been experiencing any other symptoms?P: I've also had a lot of indigestion lately.D: Well, you are a little overweight, aren't you?P: Yes. And I've gained about seven kilograms this past year.D: You really should try to lose at least that extra weight. Do you get much exercise? P: No, not very much.D: Physical activity is very important.P: So what do you recommend, doctor?D: I will give you some medications for your insomnia and your indigestion. But I also recommend that you begin a regular exercise program.P: But I have neither the time nor the money to go to a gym.D: You don't need to go to a gym. A simple walking program would be very beneficial for you.I think you'll find that diet and exercise will be very helpful in taking care of your recent complaints.Speaking TasksPair WorkListen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. Then role-play them with your partner.Conversation 1D: What's wrong with you?P: I have a burning stomachache. And I feel like vomiting, too.D: How long has it been like this?P: Since yesterday.D: What did you eat yesterday? Did you eat seafood?P: Yes. I had some crabs at lunch and then I just felt terrible.D: Yours seems to be a minor case of food poisoning.P: What do you think I should do, doctor?D: I'll give you some medications for your stomachache and indigestion. And don't eat any seafood for the next week or so.P: I won't, doctor. Thank you.Conversation 2D: What seems to be the problem?P: I hurt my left foot yesterday. I missed one step while coming down the stairs.。

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Unit 1 Part BText 1Dating with My Mother (Part One)After 22 years of marriage, I have discovered the secret to keep love alive in my relationship with my wife, Peggy. I started dating with another woman.It was Peggy's idea. One day she said to me, 'Life is too short, you need to spend time with the people you love. You probably won't believe me, but I know you love her and I think that if the two of you spend more time together, it will make us closer.'The 'other' woman my wife was encouraging me to date is my mother, a 72-year-old widow who has lived alone since my father died 20 years ago. Right after his death, I moved 2,500 miles away to California and started my own life and career. When I moved back near my hometown six years ago, I promised myself that I would spend more time with mom. But with the demands of my job and three kids, I never got around to seeing her much beyond family get-togethers and holidays.Mom was surprised and suspicious when I called and suggested the two of us go out to dinner and a movie.'What's wrong?' she asked.'I thought it would be nice to spend some time with you,' I said. 'Just the two of us.''I would like that a lot,' she said.When I pulled into her driveway, she was waiting by the door with her coat on. Her hair was curled, and she was smiling. 'I told my lady friends I was going out with my son, and they were all impressed. They can't wait to hear about our evening,' Mother said.Questions:1. What would make the speaker closer to his wife, Peggy?2. What do you know about the speaker's mother?3. Which of the following adjectives best describes Peggy?Text 2Dating with My Mother (Part Two)We didn't go anywhere fancy, just a neighborhood place where we could talk. Since her eyes now see only large shapes and shadows, I had to read the menu for both of us.'I used to be the reader when you were little,' she said.'Then it is time for you to relax and let me return the favor,' I said.We had a nice talk over dinner, just catching up on each other's lives. We talked for so long that we missed the movie.'I'll go out with you again,' my mother said as I dropped her off, 'but only if you let me buy dinner next time.'I agreed.'How was your date?' my wife asked when I got home that evening.'Nice...nicer than I thought it would be,' I said.Mom and I get out for dinner a couple of times a month. Sometimes we take in a movie, but mostly we talk. I tell her about my trails at work and brag about the kids and Peggy. Mom fills me in on family gossip and tells me about her past. Now I know what it was like for her to work in afactory during the Second World War. I know how she met my father there, and know how they went through the difficult times. I can't get enough of these stories. They are important to me, a part of my history. We also talk about the future. Because of health problems, my mother worries about the days ahead.Spending time with my mom has taught me the importance of slowing down. Peggy was right. Dating another woman has helped my marriage.Questions:1. What does the story mainly tell us?2. Which of the following is true?3. What can you learn from the story?Part CConversation 1:W: You know, many American parents are now wondering why they can't keep their teenage children from drinking.M: I'm aware of that. To my mind, it's the permissive attitude of the parents that is to blame.Q: What can you learn from the man's response?Conversation 2:M: Don't you think it's good to give our children a monthly allowance?W: I think so. It can teach them the value of money. With a monthly allowance they can learn to budget their expenses wisely.Q: What are they talking about?Conversation 3:M: Mom, I've got a part-time job at a supermarket. Three hours a day weekdays and all day Saturday.W: Congratulations, Tom. But are you sure you can handle it? What about your homework and your piano lessons?Q: How does the mother feel about Tom's part-time job at the supermarket?Conversation 4:M: Hey, Mary. You look so upset. What happened?W: My father had an accident the other day. He is now in hospital and will have an operation tomorrow. You see, his heart is rather weak. I really don't know whether he can survive it.Q: What's the woman worried about?Conversation 5:W : Mother's Day is coming soon. Could you tell me what sons and daughters do in your countryon that day?M: Well, they send their mothers flowers and cards to celebrate the occasion. Besides, it is a common practice for them to wear pink carnations on that day.Q: Which of the following is true of the customs of Mother's Day in the man's country?Part DMy First JobMy parents ran a small restaurant. It was open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. My first job was shining shoes for customers when I was six years old. My duties increased as I grew older. By age ten I was clearing tables and washing plates. My father made it clear that I had to meet certain standards. I had to be on time, hard-working and polite to the customers. I was never paid for any work I did. One day I made the mistake of telling Dad I thought he should give me ten pounds a week. He said, "OK, then how about you paying me for the three meals a day when you eat here and for the times you bring your friends here for free drinks?" He figured I owed him about 40 pounds a week. This taught me quite a lot.Statements:1. The speaker had more than one responsibility at his parents' restaurant.2. The speaker's parents kept their business open around the clock.3. It can be inferred that the speaker's family lived in the United States.4. It seems that the speaker's father was very strict with him but quite kind to his friends.5. The father finally agreed to pay his child for his work but would deduct the cost of his meals.6. This story shows that the speaker has very unhappy memories of his childhood.重点单词及词组Part Brelationship 关系encouraging 奖励的widow 寡妇demands of 要求curled 卷曲的suspicious 可疑的driveway 车道got around to 抽出时间（做某事）Part CWondering 显出惊奇teenage 年青的be aware of 知道attitude 态度permissive 许可的to one’s mind 根据某人的意见allowance 津贴，零用钱budget 预算handle 处理，操作survive 幸存occasion 时机，机会carnation 康乃馨Part Drestaurant 饭馆standard 标准shining 光亮的，华丽的Unit 2Part BText1What a Coincidence! (Part One)Andrew had always wanted to be a doctor. But the tuition for a medical school in 1984 was 15,000 dollars a year, which was more than his family could afford. To help him realize his dream, his father, Mr. Stewart, a real estate agent, began searching the house-for-sale ads in newspapers in order to find extra business. One advertisement that he noted down was for the sale of a house in a nearby town. Mr. Stewart called the owner, trying to persuade him to let him be his agent. Somehow he succeeded and the owner promised that he would come to him if he failed to get a good deal with his present agent. Then they made an appointment to meet and discuss the thing.As good things are never easy to acquire, the time for the appointment had to be changed almost ten times. On the day when they were supposed to meet at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Stewart received another call from the owner. His heart sank as he feared there would be another change of time. And so it was. The owner told him that he couldn't make it at three but if he would come right then, they could talk it over. Mr. Stewart was overjoyed. Leaving everything aside, he immediately set out to drive to the house.As he approached the area, he had a strange feeling of having been there before. The streets, the trees, the neighborhood, all looked familiar to him. And when he finally reached the house, something clicked in his mind. It used to be the house of his father-in-law! The old man had died fifteen years ago but when he was alive, he had often visited him with his wife and children. He remembered that, like his son Andrew, his father-in-law had also wanted to study medicine and, failing to do so, had always hoped that one of his two daughters or his grandchildren could someday become a doctor.Questions:1. Who are the two main characters in the story you have just heard?2. How did Mr. Stewart get to know the owner of the house?3. What problem did Mr. Stewart have?4. What is the coincidence in the story you have just heard?Text2What a Coincidence! (Part Two)When he entered the house, Mr. Stewart was even more amazed to find that the house was decorated exactly as he had remembered it. He told the owner about this and the latter became intrigued too. However, they were in for even greater surprises. It so happened that in the middle of their discussion, a postman came to deliver a letter. And the letter was addressed to Mr. Stewart's father-in-law! Were it not for Mr. Stewart's presence there and then, the letter would be returned as no person of that name lived in the house any longer. As the postman demanded a signature on the receipt slip, Mr. Stewart signed for his long-deceased father-in-law. Mystified, the owner urged Mr. Stewart to open the letter and see what it contained. The letter was from a bank. When he opened it, two words immediately met his eye -- 'For education'. It was a bank statement of an amount his father-in-law had put in years ago for his grandchildren's education needs. With the interest it had earned over the years, the standing value of the amount came to a little over $15,000, just enough money to cover the tuition of Andrew's first year at a medical college!Another thing that is worth mentioning is about the postman. The original postman, who had worked in this neighborhood, called in sick that day. So the postman, who was new to the area, came to deliver mail in his place. Had it been the old postman, the letter would undoubtedly be returned to the sender as he knew full well that no person bearing that name lived in that house any longer.The miracle was a blessing for Andrew. With the money given to him by his grandfather he was able to study medicine. Now he is a doctor in Illinois.Statements:1. Several coincidences happened in the story.2. The coincidences made it possible for the owner to sell his house at a good price.3. No one actually benefited from the coincidences.4. It can be inferred that Mr. Stewart did not have to seek extra work from then on.5. With the extra money Mr. Stewart had earned, Andrew's dream finally came true.Part CDad Stops for Gas, Finds Lost SonNueng Garcia was the son of an American serviceman stationed in Thailand in 1969. But his father went back to the States when Nueng was only three months old. When he grew up Nueng immigrated to the United States and worked as a gas station clerk in Pueblo, Colorado. His dream was to find his father John Garcia. Year after year, he tried in vain to search for information about the whereabouts of his father.It was a fine day in Pueblo. There was not a cloud in the blue sky. But for him, it was just another day on the job. Suddenly he noticed the name of one customer who paid with a check. The man, who was in his fifties, had the same surname as his own. Nueng raised his head from the check and looked at the man. Could this be his father?"Are you John Garcia?" he asked."Yes," came the answer."Were you ever in the Air Force?""Yes.""Were you ever in Thailand?""What's that to do with you?" answered the man, who became suspicious by then."Were you or were you not?" Nueng persisted."Yes.""Did you ever have a son?"At this truth dawned on the man. They stared at each other and realized at the same moment that they were father and son who were separated 27 years ago and half a world away.John Garcia hadn't seen his son since 1969. He lost touch with Nueng's mother when she started seeing another man. He moved to Pueblo nine years ago. He said he never went to that gas station, wasn't even low on gas that day and hardly ever paid with a check.Statements:1. Nueng's parents divorced when he was only 3 months old.2. After moving to the U.S.A., Nueng worked at a gas station in Colorado.3. Nueng never gave up his efforts to find his father, but John Garcia had never looked for his son.4. One day while at work Nueng's eyes fell on the photo of a customer's driver's license, and the man in the photo looked like his father.5. John Garcia was once in the U.S. Air Force stationed in Thailand.6. John Garcia and his son didn't meet each other again until 1996.7. Nueng's father said he often went to that gas station but never paid with a check.8.It was by coincidence that John Garcia and his son were reunited after many years of separation.Part DUnexplained ParallelsOne of the best-known collections of parallels is between the careers of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Both were shot on a Friday, in the presence of their wives; both were succeeded by a Southerner named Johnson; both their killers were themselves killed before they could be brought to justice. Lincoln had a secretary called Kennedy; Kennedy a secretary called Lincoln. Lincoln was killed in the Ford Theater; Kennedy met his death while riding in a Lincoln convertible made by the Ford Motor Company -- and so on.Similar coincidences often occur between twins. A news story from Finland reported of two 70-year-old twin brothers dying two hours apart in separate accidents, with both being hit by trucks while crossing the same road on bicycles. According to the police, the second victim could not have known about his brother's death, as officers had only managed to identify the first victim minutes before the second accident.Connections are also found between identical twins who have been separated at birth. Dorothy Lowe and Bridget Harrison were separated in 1945, and did not meet until 1979, when they were flown over from Britain for an investigation by a psychologist at the University of Minnesota. They found that when they met they were both wearing seven rings on their hands, two bracelets on one wrist, a watch and a bracelet on the other. They married on the same day, had worn identical wedding dresses and carried the same flowers. Dorothy had named her son Richard Andrew and her daughter Catherine Louise; Bridget had named her son Andrew Richard and her daughter Karen Louise. In fact, she had wanted to call her Catherine. Both had a cat called Tiger. They also had a string of similar mannerisms when they were nervous.How can we explain the above similarities?Statements:1. Both Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were killed by a Southerner.2. John F. Kennedy's secretary was named after Abraham Lincoln.3. The news story told about the traffic accidents that killed two twin brothers.4. It can be inferred from the passage that more parallel phenomena are studied in the United States than in any other country.5. Coincidences occurring in three nations are described in the passage.6. Some psychologists' interest is the research on coincidences between twins.7. According to the speaker, coincidences occur much more often between twins than betweenpeople who are not related.8. The speaker does not mention his/her own opinion on whether these parallels can be explained.重点单词及词组Part Bcoincidence 一致，巧合tuition 学费real estate 房地产persuade 劝说appointment 约会acquire 获得，学会be supposed to 应该，被指望decorate 装饰intrigue 激起…的兴趣signature 签名receipt slip 收款便条mystified 迷惑tuition 学费Part Cimmigrate 移来，移居whereabouts 下落，行踪lost touch with 和某人失去联系Part Dunexplained 不清楚的parallels 导轨in the presence of 在面前justice 正义，合理convertible 可改变的victim 受害人，牺牲者identify 识别，鉴别investigation 调查，研究psychologist 心理学者bracelet 手镯string 一串，一行mannerism 特殊习惯，怪僻Unit 3Part BText 1A Marriage Agreement (Part One)(Tom and Linda have signed a marriage agreement. Both agree not to break the rules outlined in the agreement. John, a reporter, is talking to them about the agreement.)John: Tom, Linda, first I'd like to ask you why you decided to write this unusual agreement. Tom: We found that many problems are caused when a person has different expectations from his or her spouse. We wanted to talk about everything openly and honestly before we started living together.Linda: Also we both know how important it is to respect each other's pet peeves. Like, I can get very annoyed if others leave stuff -- clothing, papers, everything! -- lying around on the floor. It really bugged me, so we put that in the agreement.John: This is mentioned in Article 1: Cleaning Up, isn't it? It says, "Nothing will be left on the floor overnight. Everything must be cleaned up and put away before going to bed."Tom: Then I'll know clearly what Linda's expectations are.John: I see. What about Article 2: Sleeping? It says, "We will go to bed at 11 p.m. and get up at 6:30 a.m. except on weekends." I'm sure some people hearing this will think that this agreement isn't very romantic.Tom: Well, we disagree. We think it's very romantic. This agreement shows that we sat down and talked, and really tried to understand the other person. A lot of problems occur in a marriage when people don't talk about what they want.Linda: That's right. When we disagreed about something, we worked out a solution that was good for both of us. I would much rather have Tom really listen to me and understand my needs than give me a bunch of flowers or a box of candy.Questions:1. Which statement best summarizes the marriage agreement between Tom and Linda?2. According to Tom, what will give rise to problems in a marriage?3. What can be inferred about Linda from the conversation?Text 2A Marriage Agreement (Part Two)John: Linda, do you spend a lot of time checking to see if the other person is following the rules? Arguing?Linda: No, not at all.Tom: A lot of couples argue because they don't understand each other's expectations. I think we spend less time arguing than most couples because we both know what the other person expects.John: What happens if one of you breaks a rule?Tom: Well, that's in Article 13 of our agreement.John: Is it? Oh yes, Article 13: Breaking Rules. "If you break a rule, you must apologize and do something nice for the other person to make it up."Linda: Yeah, like last time Tom broke the rule of driving.John: What's the rule?Linda: The rule is we must ask for directions if we are driving and get lost for more than five minutes.John: What happened?Tom: We were driving to a friend's wedding, and we got lost. Linda wanted to stop at a gas station to ask for directions, but I thought I could figure it out.Linda: Then we drove forty miles in the wrong direction and ended up being late for the wedding. Tom: So I took her out to dinner. I knew what I should do to apologize.John: That's very important, I think, knowing how to apologize. By the way, do you plan to update your agreement at all? What if things change in your life and a rule doesn't work anymore? Linda: We've thought about that too. Article 14 states that we must review this agreement once a year and make necessary changes.John: Well, it was really nice talking to you both. Thank you very much for your time.Tom & Linda: Thank you.Statements:1. Tom and Linda never argue because they both know what the other person expects.2. Once Tom broke Article 14 and apologized to Linda by taking her out to dinner.3. If some of the rules in the marriage agreement become outdated, changes will be made toupdate them.4. It seems that both Tom and Linda are satisfied with their marriage agreement.Part CA Perfect MatchAre you looking for a good relationship with someone special? What type of person is the best person for you? Is it the person with the highest IQ? Is it the most beautiful or most handsome person? How about the richest person or the most ambitious? Is your ideal partner the most traditional or the most modern person? Is he or she the person most like you, or most unlike you?The answer, psychologists say, is none of the above. Why? Because they are all extremes. In a number of research studies, psychologists asked couples these questions. The answers were clear. Most people are happy with moderation -- with partners who are not the most or the best (or the least or the worst). People are more comfortable with partners who are not so special.The research showed several other important things. In a love relationship, two things can cause trouble. First, trouble happens when both people get angry quickly. This is not surprising. Second, trouble happens when people don't expect to change themselves in a relationship. Do you stay calm when you disagree with someone? Are you ready to change yourself? If you can tolerate disagreement and are willing to change, maybe you are ready for a serious relationship.Statements:1. The passage implies that the perfect match for you is a person who is most unlike you.2. The author argues that the most beautiful or most handsome person may not be your perfectpartner.3. Moderate person, that is, the partners who are not the most or the best can be your perfectmatch.4. The research showed that an extreme love relationship between the two can cause trouble.5. The passage states that the anger is one of the causes that lead to the breakup of a loverelationship.6. The perfect match lies in the people's attitudes to tolerate disagreement and be willing to change in a relationship.Part DHusbands and Wives Don't See Things AlikeLet's face it -- husbands and wives just don't see things alike. Take TV remote controls, for example. I'm a channel-grazer. When I watch the news, I flip back and forth through four different networks."It drives me crazy when you do that," my wife complains. I don't understand why she has no interest in other channels. After all, she is a woman who wants to know everything going on in the neighborhood and among all the relatives. Just one button away might be an interesting program on How to Lose Fifty Pounds by Eating Chocolate Sundaes or How to Understand Weird Husbands. But, no, she won't change channels, not even if she dislikes the program she's watching."This talk show host makes me so angry!" she cried one evening."Then why don't you change the channel?" I asked."Because I can't stand people who are always changing channels."Differences. No right or wrong, just differences."The first law of civilization," said an old philosopher, "is to let people be different."I don't need to convert my wife to my ways, and she doesn't try to make me be like her. We simply take turns monitoring the remote control.Statements:1. The major difference between the speaker and his wife is their TV viewing habits.2. According to the speaker, he is more interested in talk shows while his wife is more interested in news programs.3. The wife seems to be more weird than the husband is.4. The speaker and his wife usually take turns working the remote control when they watch television.5. It can be inferred that women are generally more tolerant than men of their spouse's differences.6. The speaker and his wife maintain peace not by changing each other but by tolerance.重点单词及词组Part Bexpectation 期望，期待bug 打扰peeve 麻烦的事物spouse 配偶solution 解决办法 a bunch of 一捆candy 糖果expectation 期望apologize 道歉end up 最终以…为结局Part Cpsychologist 心理学者ambitious 有雄心的moderation 适度tolerate 忍受Part Dcomplain 抱civilization 文明，文化philosopher 哲学家monitor 监控convert 使转换Unit 4Part BText 1Being a Police Officer Is a Stressful JobInterviewer: Welcome to our program, Sam.Sam: Thank you.Interviewer: Sam, how long have you been a police officer?Sam: I've been a police officer for thirty years.Interviewer: Thirty years. And you've had different types of assignments on the police force, I guess.Sam: Yeah, I've done everything from patrol to undercover work to detective work, and now I'm supervising investigations.Interviewer: Sam, I think most people would say that being a police officer is a very stressful job.Would you agree?Sam: Yes, it's definitely a stressful job. But it depends on your assignment.Interviewer: So, what's probably the most stressful assignment you can have?Sam: I'd say patrol is the most stressful assignment.Interviewer: That's interesting! In what way?Sam: Well, I guess the biggest part of the stress is the fear factor -- the fear of the unknown. Interviewer: What do you mean, Sam?Sam: Well, in patrol work, you don't know from moment to moment who you are talking to or what their reaction is going to be to justify your presence. Let's say, for example, a patrol officer stops someone for a traffic violation. It seems as though that would be a very low-stress situation.Interviewer: Yes, it is a very low-stress situation.Sam: But the truth is, there are more police officers injured during a routine stop.Interviewer: Really?Sam: Really! That's why all police officers are taught from the very beginning to be aware of their surroundings. People back over policemen, people shoot policemen, people jump out at policemen -- different kinds of things. So that's probably the most stressful time. Interviewer: I see. Let's take a break and then we'll move on to our next topic.Sam: All right.Questions:1. What's the relationship between the two speakers?2. What does Sam mainly talk about?3. What do you know about Sam?Text 2Stress ReducersInterviewer: Sam, you've talked about the police officers' stressful time. Now let's move on to the next topic. So far as I know, there's a connection between stress and illness. Do youthink that there's a higher percentage of illness among police officers than in thegeneral population? I mean, do they get more colds or anything? Is this really true? Sam: Yes, it is, and the stress level not only manifests itself in daily health -- whether or not you've feeling well on any given day. It also manifests itself in things like ulcers, heart disease -- police officers tend to have a higher rate of heart disease and ulcers than people in other professions.Interviewer: Really? That's documented?Sam: Yes, it's documented. And also the divorce rate among police officers is much higher. Interviewer: Is there something that the police department does to help you deal with this stress? Sam: Yes, there are several programs that most police departments have in place. One is an exercise program where some part of your day is spent on some type of physical exercise.They've found that's a great stress reducer. Besides, there's also a psychological program with counseling for officers to help them reduce their stress. And there are several discussion groups as well. They've found that sometimes just sitting around and talking about the stress with other officers helps to reduce it. So, those things are available. Interviewer: And what do you do, personally, to help you deal with the stress of your job, Sam? Sam: Well, during the baseball season, I'm the biggest baseball fanatic, and I will either be reading。