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现代大学英语听力1课件

现代大学英语听力1课件
欢迎来到现代大学英语听力1课程！在这个课件中，你将学习与人建立联系的词汇、听力技巧和口语技巧。让我们开始探索吧！
Unit 1: M aking Connections
词汇
学习用于建立联系的词汇和表达方式。
听力技巧
理解对话中的主要观点和细节。
口语技巧
自我介绍、闲聊和社交网络。
Unit 2: Living A broad
文化差异
学习如何处理不同的文化差异。
习俗和文化
谈论习俗和文化，寻求帮助和表达观点。
观点表达
表达观点，讨论好处和缺点，提出改进建议。
Unit 3: Technolog y and Society
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科技和社会
学习有关科技及其对社会的影响的词汇与表达方式。
谈论个人的健康习惯和日常规律，提供建议和讨论健康问题。
U nit 5: Educatio n and Careers
教育与职业
学习与教育和职业发展相关的词汇和表达方式。
准备未来
理解如何为未来的教育和职业目标做准备。
职业规划与建议
讨论教育和职业规划，表达职业目标，并给出建议。
Unit 6: Contem porary Issues
当代问题
学习与当代问题相关的词汇和表达方式。
ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ理解当前事件
理解当前事件和问题。
观点表达与辩论
表达关于社会和政治问题的观点、讨论解决方案和辩论有争议的话题。
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生活中的科技
理解科技如何影响我们的日常生活和关系。
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观点表达
表达对科技的观点，讨论其所带来的好处和缺点，并提出改进建议。
Unit 4: H ealth and W ellness

Unit-1听力教程2第三版PPT优秀课件

you hear.
How to Improve Listening
After listening
• Tip 1 Look up new words in the dictionary. • Tip 2 Retell what you hear in the recording.
How to Improve Listening
Section one
Tactics for Listening
Part 1 Phonetics---Stress, Intonation and Accent
Jumper
无袖连衣裙，套头衫，连衫裤童装，工作夹克
Pullover 套头毛衣 Coach： a vehicle carrying many passengers; used
Overtake Catch up with and surpass 那位司机企图从内车道超车。
The driver behind me tried to overtake on the inside.
Pedestrian 步行者
intonation. • Tip 3 Think about the speaker's attitudes
or feelings. • Tip 4 Listen for key words.
How to Improve Listening
While listening
Tip 5 Notice the phrasal verbs and idioms. Tip 6 Listen for new thoughts. Tip 7 Listen for organization words. Tip 8 Write down new words and phrases

现代大学英语听力2Unit-7(ppt课件)

2) Mankind would have to create a world state.
3) No.
4) Cities were destroyed by bombs dropped from aero planes.
5) Any two of the following: The War in the Air, The First Men in the Moon, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.
advantages and disadvantages 3 Make inferences 4 Summarize main ideas and supporting details
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Task 1 Did you watch The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine?
▪ There we're novels like Kipps, Love and Mr. Lewisham and The History of Mr. Polly. The best of these are now recognized as classics. But in addition, this incredible man somehow found the time and inspiration to write the stories forecasting future events that entitle him to be known as the father of science fiction.
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赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯(Herbert George Wells 1866-1946)，英国著名小说家，尤以科幻小说创作闻名于世。毕业于英国皇家理学院，任教于伦敦大学，曾在赫胥黎的实验室工作，后转入新闻工作，从事科学和文学的研究，是英国费边社的成员和代表人物。1895年出版《时间机器》一举成名，随后又发表了《莫洛博士岛》、《隐身人》、《星际战争》、《当睡着的人醒来时》、《不灭的火焰》等多部科幻小说。他曾于1920年、1930年两次访问苏联，先后会晤过列宁和斯大林，撰写了《基普斯》、《托诺-邦盖》、《波里先生和他的历史》、《勃列林先生看穿了他》、《恩惠》、《预测》、《世界史纲》等大量关注现实，思考未来的作品。

现代大学英语精读 1北外Lesson 4课件

Background information
About the history of the banking business:
Your report
Text Analysis (1/3)
Plot: a man’s interference in a boy’s frustrated attempt to withdraw money form a bank. Setting: in a bank of the West Side of New York at noon one day. Protagonists: a boy, a bank officer, and “I”. Language style: informal, colloquial, short sentences, simple words, exaggerated language, use of slang (shake sb. down), lots of dialogues. Writing technique(s): for later. Text structure: next page. Theme(s): for later.
Assignment
Suppose the story does end here. The author was just getting out of the bank after apologizing to the bank officer when the boy took his parent here. The boy introduces everybody to each other. What would happen now? In groups of four, design a mini-play to end the story. Three groups will be asked to perform your group’s version of ending in front of the class.

现代大学英语听力Unit

现代大学英语听力U n i t Pleasure Group Office【T985AB-B866SYT-B182C-BS682T-STT18】Unit 6 WorkTask 1Laura usually leaves the offices of Quest Productions at about 5 o'clock, but last Monday she left at 5:30. She wanted to get home by 6:30 and she ran to the bus stop but she couldn't get on a bus. There were too many people and not enough buses. Laura was desperate to get home so she decided to go by tube. In the station she went to one of the automatic ticket machines but she didn't have enough change, so she had to join the queue at the ticket window. She bought her ticket and ran to the escalator. Laura went to the platform and waited for the tube. It arrived and the crowd moved forward. Laura was pushed into the train. It was almost full but she was given a seat by a man with a moustache. Laura thanked him and sat down. She started to read her newspaper. In the tunnel the train stopped suddenly and Laura was thrown to the floor together with the man with the moustache. Somebody screamed. The lights went out. It was quarter past 6 on a cold, wet December evening.KeyA1. d—b---a---e---cB1. aTask 2X was a secret agent. He had rented a furnished room in a provincial town not far from the public park and had been there two weeks. He was standing at the window looking out at the dull beds of geraniums, the park gates and the cold, uninviting statue of Queen Victoria that stood across the street from him. It was raining hard and the few people who passed by looked wet and miserable. X was miserable, too. How, he wondered, could anybody think there was anything interesting about the life of a secret agent He knew it was because people had seen so many television plays about glamorous spies that they thought the life of a secret agent was exciting. They were convinced that every cigarette lighter concealed a secret tape recorder; that a fountain pen held in a certain way would open a locked door, that the touch of a gold ring against the hand of an enemy would make him reveal all his secrets. How wrong they were! He looked round his room. The wallpaper was in the worst possible taste, the pictures horrible, the carpet worn, dirty and faded; and he was cold. This was the third Monday he had come to the window to look out. He prayed it would be the last.As if in answer to his prayer, a certain meeting he had been sent to investigate was about to take place. He took out his camera. Just beneath the statue two women had stopped to speak. He knew one of them, and it was she who pointed in his direction. The other woman looked up towards him and in that brief moment he photographed her.KeyA1. a2. b3. d4. cB1. T2. T3. FCwondered; television plays; exciting; every cigarette lighter; tape recorder; held in a certain way; the touch of a gold ring against the hand of; reveal; How wrong they were!Task 3Harry: Well, Robert, have you made up your mind yet what you want to do when you leave collegeNora: Oh Harry. Surely he's a bit young to decide on his career. He hasn't even got to college yet.Harry: Not at all, Nora. It's wisest to decide in good time. Look at me, for example. I really wanted to be a sailor, but now I spend my days sitting at a desk in an office. Yes, it's silly to train for the wrong job. And after all, Robert will be going to college soon.Nora: Now if I were a man I'd be a farmer. To see the crops growing—that's my idea of a good life.Harry: Yes, and to see the money rolling in is more important still.Robert: Well, that's not the way I look at it, Dad. It's the job I care about, not the money.Harry: Maybe not; but you'll learn to care about the money too, when you've got a family to keep.Nora: And of course Peter—well, he's keen to be a racing driver, or else an explorer Robert: Oh, Peter's not old enough to make up his mind about such things.Harry: You haven't answered my question yet, Robert. What would you like to do Nora: Are you sure you don't want to be a farmer, Robert Or a market gardener Robert: No, I'm sorry Mum, but I don't want to at all. I'd rather be a civil engineer. I want to build roads and bridges.Harry: Not ships Isn't it better to be a shipbuilding engineerRobert: Look here, is it my career we're planning, or yoursHarry: All right, all right, there's no need to lose your temper But you'd better win that scholarship first.KeyAHarry---Sailor Nora---Farmer(if she were a man)Robert---Civil engineer Peter---Racing driver or explorerB1. a2. b3. c . b 5. dTask 4Here are some of the things a young man or woman should not do when he first asks an editor for a job:He should not tell the editor that he wants to be a foreign correspondent or a columnist. Very probably the editor does not need either. He wants a reporter who will go to such places as government offices and police stations and write a true storyof what is happening there Being a foreign correspondent or a columnist will come later.A young person should not tell the editor that newspaper work is only the first step on the way to bigger and better jobs, such as those in government. The editor must take a lot of time and trouble teaching someone to be a good newspaperman or woman. He does not like the idea of teaching people who are soon going to leave him to work for someone else.A young journalist should accept the working hours and free time the editor gives him. As a new journalist, it is very probable that he will work longer hours than others and work on weekends. The editor did the same when he was a young newspaperman with no experience. He expects a journalist to understand how things are on a newspaper. Key1. correspondents; columnist; may not need either; to go to places where events take place and write stories about them2. first; bigger; better; who will soon leave to work for other people3. working hours; free time; work long hours to begin withTask 5Sylvia: We've got a new manager in our department.Larry: Oh You hoped to get that job, didn't youSylvia: Yes, I did.Larry: I'm sorry. That's too bad. Who is it Who got the job, I meanSylvia: Someone called Drexler. Carl Drexler. He's been with the company only two years. I've been here longer. And I know more about the job, too!Larry: Hmm. Why do you think they gave it to him and not to youSylvia: Because I'm the wrong sex, of course!Larry: You mean you didn't get the job because you're a womanSylvia: Yes, that was probably it! It isn't fair.Larry: What sort of clothes does he wearSylvia: A dark suit. White shirt. A tie. WhyLarry: Perhaps that had something to do with it.Sylvia: You mean you think I didn't get the job because I come to work in jeans and a sweaterLarry: It's possible, isn'tSylvia: Do you really think I should wear different clothesLarry: Well...perhaps you should think about it.Sylvia: Why should I wear a skirt Or a dressLarry: I'm not saying you should. I'm saying you should think about it. That's all! Sylvia: Why should I do that I'm good at my job! That's the only important thing! Larry: Hmm. Perhaps it should be the only important thing. But it isn't, not in this company.KeyA1. acd2. abeB1. she is the wrong sex2. she wears the wrong clothesTask 6Al: Is this the right line to file a claimBob: Yeah. It's the same line for everything. You just stand here and wait.Al: Oh. Is there always such a long lineBob: Every week. Sometimes longer. Is this your first time hereAl: Yes.Bob: What happened Your plant closed downAl: No. I'm a car salesman, or, I was a car salesman. But we just aren't selling cars.It's the interest rates. Two years ago, I averaged ten new cars a month. Do you know how many cars I sold last month One. One car to a lady who had the cash. But the interest rates are up again. The boss let three of us go. How about youBob: I worked at a vacuum cleaner plant with about fifty workers. We put in a good day's work. But the machinery was getting old. As a matter of fact, the whole plant was old. So the management decided to build a new plant. You know where In Singapore. The workers here made about seven dollars an hour, a couple of people made eight or nine an hour. You know how much they're paying the workers in Singapore $ an hour! Anyway, all fifty of us got laid off.Al: How long ago was thatBob: They closed down ten months ago.Al: Any luck finding another jobBob: Nothing. I have one, sometimes two, interviews a week. Last week I thought I had something. They liked my experience with machines. But I never heard from them again.Al: At least you know something about machines. All I can do is talk.Bob: Maybe you'll talk yourself into another job. Good luck. I'll see you here next week.Al: I hope not. I hope I'll have something by then.KeyFormer Jobs When Laid-off Why Laid-off1st man Car salesman Recently Low sales, due to the increase of interest rates2nd man Worker at a vacuum 10 months ago Plant moved to Singapore where cleaner plant worker are paid much lessB1st speaker---bcd 2nd speaker---aeC1. F2. FTask 7Interviewer: Do you prefer what you're doing to teachingFirst Man: Yes, one of the things I found a bit frustrating about teaching was rather difficult, especially if you're teaching in England and most of the students know quite a lot of English before they arrive. They learn a lot of English outside the classroom, in pubs or coffee shops or other places, with the families they're living with. It's very difficult to pin down how much they learn from your actual lesson, whereas inmarketing, again there are lots of areas that are grey rather than black or white, but there are quite a few other areas where one can see quite clearly the results of one's efforts.Interviewer: What did you do after you quit your job in advertisingSecond Man: In fact, I became a journalist and I worked as a freelance. I didn't have a full-time job with any newspaper. I just had to contribute things as they came along and I wrote for magazines, and I did quite a lot of broadcasting for the VOA. Well, this was in a way the opposite of advertising because I enjoyed it a lot but I found it very hard to earn enough money to live on.Interviewer: And then you decided to be a teacherSecond Man: Well, and so I thought. Well, I must do something which produces an income that I can be sure of. While I was working as a journalist I had done an article for a magazine about the English language teaching world and in fact I had come to the school where I now teach as a journalist and interviewed a lot of the people. And I thought it seemed a very nice place and I thought that the classes I visited had a very, very nice feeling about them, and so I thought, well, I'll see if they'll have me. Interviewer: Why do you prefer teaching to advertisingSecond Man: Well, partly because in teaching you work regular hours. In advertising you just had to stay at the office until the work was finished [I see.] and it could be three o'clock in the morning. [Oh, dear.] Also you were very often made to work at weekends. Often some job would come up that was very important and they said it had to be finished—it had to go into the newspapers next week.Interviewer: So there was a lot more pressure.Second Man: There was a lot more pressure in advertising. Also, the people I worked with when I was first in advertising were young hopeful people like myself. By the end I was working with a lot of old people who quite honestly were awful. And I kept looking at them and saying, “Am I going to be like that” And I thought if I am I'd better get out, whereas the English language teachers I saw, who were older people I thought, well, they seemed quite nice. And I wouldn't mind being like that myself. KeyA1. F2. F3. T4. F5. T6. FB1. According to the first speaker, it is frustrating because the teacher cannot see clearly the results of his efforts.According to the second speaker, English language teaching is a good job, because it guarantees a stable income and regular working hours and means less pressure. He also likes the way elderly teacher are.Task 8Matthew: Michael, do you go out to workMichael: Not regularly, no. I used to; I used to have a job in a publishing company, but I decided it wasn't really what I wanted to do and that what I wanted to do wouldn't earn me much money, so I gave up working and luckily I had a privateincome from my family to support me and now I do the things I want to do. Some of them get paid like lecturing and teaching, and others don't.Matthew: What are the advantages of not having to go to work from nine till five Michael: Ah... there're two advantages really. One is that if you feel tired you don't have to get up, and the other is that you can spend your time doing things you want to do rather than being forced to do the same thing all the time.Matthew: But surely that's in a sense very self-indulgent and very lucky because most of us have to go out and earn our livings. Do you feel justified in having this privileged positionMichael: Yes, because I think I use it well. I do things which I think are useful to people and the community and which I am enjoying doing.Matthew: Chris, what do you think the value of work isChris: Well, I think in our present-day society, for most people, work has very little value at all. Most of us go out to work for about eight to nine hours of our waking day. We do things which are either totally futile and totally useless or have very little justification whatsoever, and for most of us the only reason for working is that we need to keep ourselves alive, to pay for somewhere to live, to pay to feed our children. Matthew: But surely people wouldn't know what to do if they didn't have to go to workChris: Well, again this raises the sort of two main aspects of work. Should we think of work only as a sort of bread-winning process, and this is very much the role it has in current society, or should we take a much wider perspective on work and think of all the possible sort of activities that human beings could be doing during the day I think the sort of distinction currently is between say, someone who works in a car factory and who produces cars which are just adding to pollution, to over-consumption ofvital resources, who is doing something which is very harmful, both to our environment and to, probably society, to contrast his work with someone perhaps like a doctor, who I think in any society could be justified as doing a very valuable job and one which incidentally is satisfying to the person who is doing it.Matthew: What do you do Is your job just a bread-winning process or do you get some satisfaction out of doing itChris: Well, in the job I do find that most of the satisfaction is a mental one; it's coming to grips with the problems of my subject and with the problems of teaching in the University. Clearly this is the type of satisfaction that most people doing what we call in England "white-collar" jobs. This is quite different from the sort of craftsman, who is either working with his hands or with his skills on a machine, or from people perhaps who are using artistic skills, which are of a quite different character. Certainly it's becoming a phenomenon that people who do "white-collar" jobs during the day, who work with their minds to some extent, people who work on computers, people who are office clerks, bank employees, these people have fairly soul-destroying jobs which nevertheless don't involve much physical effort, that they tend to come home and do "do-it-yourself " activities at home. They make cupboards, paint their houses, repair their cars, which somehow provide the sort of physical job satisfaction thatthey're denied in their working day.KeyThe interview with Michale:1. No.2. The work he used to do was not what interested him and what he likes to do cannot earn him enough money to support himself.3. You do not have to get up it you don’t feel like it. You can spend your time on the things you want to do.4. He believes he does things which are enjoyable for him and useful to people and the community.The interview with Chris:1. Very little value other than supporting oneself and ones family.2. It is a bread-winning process. The activities in it can be valuable to society.3. He thinks it harmful to both the environment and the society, for cars add to pollution and consume the scarce resources.4. He thinks it a valuable job in any society.5. He is perhaps a university teacher.6. He regarded his job a “white collar” job, which he does with his mind and receives mental satisfaction from it.Task 9Are most workers today feeling bored and dissatisfied with their jobs It is often claimed that they are. Yet a study conducted by Parade magazine more than 20 years ago showed that people at that time felt the opposite.Parade asked questions of a representative sampling of adult Americans from coast to coast. The sampling included different sexes, age groups, and occupations.The interviewees were asked to make a choice from one of the following three to describe their feelings towards their work.A. Like their jobs.B. Dislike their jobs.C. Like their jobs in part.Results showed that 91 percent of the male interviewees and 84 percent of the females chose A, while only 5 percent men and 12 percent women interviewed chose B. The rest said that they liked their jobs in part and they comprised a very low percentage. In all the three age groups groups—from 18 to 24, from 25 to 29 and 30 to 39 39—those who liked their jobs made up the majority. 70 percent, 88 percent and 92 percent respectively choose A. Those choosing B accounted for 20 percent, 9 percent and 8 percent of different age groups. And the rest, 6 percent, 3 percent and 0 percent respectively claimed that they only liked their jobs in part.The difference in responses among people with different occupations is small. Among the whitecollar employees, those choosing A, B and C are 87 percent, 8 percent and 4 percent of the total. And for the blue-collar employees, 91 percent, 5 percent and 3 percent choose A, B and C respectively.It is interesting to note that there are few differences in attitude between men and women, professionals and factory workers. In each group, the largest number reported that they liked their jobs.Next, Parade asked, "If there were one thing you could change about your job, what would it be" It was expected that many would wish to make their jobs less boring, but very few gave this reply. No major changes were reported. Some wished for "less paperwork"; many would shorten their working hours, but others would like more hours in order to earn more money. No serious complaints were made.Most people have to work in order to live. But what would happen if someone had enough money to stop working Parade asked, "If you inherited a million dollars, would you go on working—either at your present job or something you liked better—or would you quit work" The answers showed that most adults would prefer to work, even if they didn't have to. This is true especially of the younger adults aged 18—24. Of these, nine out of ten said they would go on working, even if they suddenly became millionaires.KeyAInterviewees Like their jobs Dislike their jobs Like jobs in part(percent) (percent) (percent)Men 91 5 4Women 84 12 4Men/Women 18-24 70 20 6Men/Women 25-29 88 9 3Men/Women 30-39 92 8 0White-collar workers 87 8 4Blue-collar workers 91 5 3B1. No major change. For some---less paperwork. Some---less working hours. Others---earn more money.2. Most adults---would go on working. Esp. young adults (18 to 24)---9 out of 10 would go on working.Task 10Officer: Oh, come in, take a seat. I'm the Careers Officer. You're Cathy, aren't you Mother: That's right. This is Catherine Hunt, and I'm her mother.Officer: How do you do, Mrs. Hunt Hello, Catherine.Cathy: Hello. Pleased to meet you.Officer: And you'd like some advice about choosing a careerMother: Yes, she would. Wouldn't you, CatherineCathy: Yes, please.Officer: Well, just let me ask a few questions to begin with. How old are you, CatherineMother: She's nineteen. Well, she's almost nineteen. She'll be nineteen next month. Officer: And what qualifications have you gotMother: Well, qualifications from school of course. Very good results she got. And she's got certificates for ballet and for playing the piano.Officer: Is that what you're interested in, Catherine, dancing and musicCathy: Well...Mother: Ever since she was a little girl she's been very keen on the music and dancing. She ought to be a music teacher or something. She's quite willing to train for a few more years to get the right job, aren't you, CatherineCathy: Well, if it's a good idea.Mother: There you are, you see. She's a good girl really. A bit lazy and disorganized sometimes, but she's very bright. I'm sure the Careers Officer will have lots of jobs for you.Officer: Well, I'm afraid it's not as easy as that. There are many young people these days who can't find the kind of jobs they want.Mother: I told you so, Catherine. I told you you shouldn't wear that dress. You have to look smart to get a job these days.Officer: I think she looks very nice. Mrs. Hunt, will you come into the other office for a moment and look at some of the information we have there. I'm sure you'd like to see how we can help young people.Mother: Yes, I'd love to. Mind you, I think Catherine would be a very nice teacher. She could work with young children. She's like that. Or she could be a vet. She's always looking after sick animals.Officer: I'm afraid there's a lot of competition. You need very good grade to be a vet. This way, Mrs. Hunt. Just wait a minute, Catherine. (The mother exits.)Officer: There are just one or two more things, Catherine.Cathy: Do call me Cathy.Officer: Okay, Cathy. Are you really interested in being a vetCathy: Not really. Anyway, I'm not bright enough. I'm reasonably intelligent, but I'm not brilliant. I'm afraid my mother is a bit over-optimistic.Officer: Yes, I guessed that. She's a bit overpowering, isn't she, your mumCathy: A bit. But she's very kind.Officer: I'm sure she is. So, you're interested in ballet and music, are youCathy: Not really. My mother sent me to lessons when I was six, so I'm quite good, I suppose. But I don't want to do that for the rest of my life, especially music. It's so lonely.Officer: What do you enjoy doingCathy: Well, I like playing tennis, and swimming. Oh, I went to France with the school choir last year. I really enjoyed that. And I like talking to people. But I suppose you mean real interests—things that would help me to get a jobOfficer: No. I'm more interested in what you really want to do. You like talking to people, do youCathy: Oh yes, I really enjoy meeting new people.Officer: Do you think you would enjoy teachingCathy: No, no, I don't really. I was never very interested in schoolwork, and I'd like to do something different. Anyway, there's a teacher training college very near us. It would be like just going to school again.Officer: So you don't want to go on trainingCathy: Oh, I wouldn't mind at all, not for something useful. I wondered about being a hairdresser—you meet lots of people, and you learn to do something properly—but I don't know. It doesn't seem very worthwhile.Officer: What about nursingCathy: Nursing In a hospital Oh, I couldn't do that. I'm not good enough.Officer: Yes, you are. You've got good qualifications in English and Maths. But it is very hard work.Cathy: Oh, I don't mind that.Officer: And it's not very pleasant sometimes.Cathy: That doesn't worry me either. Mum's right. I do look after sick animals. I looked after our dog when it was run over by a car. My mother was sick, but I didn't mind. I was too worried about the dog. Do you really think I could be a nurse Officer: I think you could be a very good nurse. You'd have to leave home, of course. Cathy: I rather think I should enjoy that.Officer: Well, don't decide all at once. Here's some information about one or two other things, which might suit you. Have a look through it before you make up your mind.KeyAAccording to Mother According to CathyIntelligence very bright reasonably intelligentInterests music and dancing tennis and swimming, talking to peopleCareer inclination teacher or vet hairdresserB1. F2. TC1. b2. aD1. She really enjoyed meeting new people. She had good qualifications in English and Maths. She did not mind hard work, even if it was not always pleasant. She had the experience of looking after sick animals and her mother. She liked living away form home.Task 11I began my career during college, reporting on news stories at a Toronto radio station. The station’s program manager was also a professor who taught one of my classes. I convinced him that she needed a youth reporter because that year was International Youth Year. After graduation, I took a job as a television news reporter and later, news anchor. But sports reporting was something different, so I decided to try it. Figure skating was my first assignment.I had two months until my new job began. It was like waiting an entire summer for school to start. I spent those two months talking to figure skating coaches and judged.I read boring rule books. I drove to the rinks where the skaters trained, and made notes about our conversations. I even took a lesson, which made some of the skaters laugh.。

现代大学英语听力1课件

course?
Key: Susan Hudson and Intercultural Communication.
2) When and where will the class meet for the first half of the course?
Key: The class will meet in the room they are in now and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:15 to 4:50.
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LISTENING of CONTEMPORARY COLLEGE ENGLISH
Task 3 B. Fill in the blanks with what you hear on the tape.
UUnnddeerrggrraadduuaattee students can check out up to five books for two weeks. Graduate students can check out fifteen books for two months. Books can be renewed up to two times. There is a 50-cents-a-day late fee for overdue books up to a maximum of $$1155. Periodicals and reference books cannot be checked out.
4) When are the office hours?
Key: The office hours are from 1:00 to 2:00 on Wednesdays.
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现代大学英语听力课件

Task 2 A. Answer the following questions. 1) What's the student's problem?
Key“ According to the syllabus, the book he is looking for is in the library, but he couldn‘t find it.
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Task 3 B. Fill in the blanks with what you hear on the tape.
UUnnddeerrggrraadduuaattee students can check out up to five books for two weeks. Graduate students can check out fifteen books for two months. Books can be renewed up to two times. There is a 50-cents-a-day late fee for overdue books up to a maximum of $$1155. Periodicals and reference books cannot be checked out.
2) What's the meaning of "on reserve"?
Key: That means the student cannot find the book on the shelves in its usual place. She/He needs to go to a special room called the reserve room.

现代大学英语(第二版)听力(2)U1-U2

Various customs FLTRP Task
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Britain and Japan
In this task, you will hear a conversation between a British man and a Japanese student comparing life in Britain and Japan. Practice making comparisons and noting differences while listening.
Social Customs Unit 1
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Life in Victorian times and now
In this task, you will hear a discussion about whether life is better today than it was in Victorian England. Make comparisons of the respective advantages and disadvantages with what you hear.
2) Why is it called square dance?
3) How does the caller tell the dancers what they should do?

现代大学英语听力1 课堂听力Unit 7

现代大学英语听力1课堂听力U n i t7(共7页)-本页仅作为预览文档封面，使用时请删除本页-Unit 7Task 1【答案】1) They are Emma, Mark and Jane.2) Emma wants a joke book; Mark wants a model train, and Jane wants a radio.3) The joke book costs two pounds fifty. The radio costs twenty-seven pounds ninety-nine pence. We don’t know the exact price of the model train, but it must be very expensive.【原文】Jane: What are you doing Emma?Emma: I’m writing to Father Christmas.Mark: Oh —she’s asking for Christmas presents. What do you want Emma?Emma: Well, I can read now. I like books. So, I want a joke book. Jane: Look. Here’s one in this magazine. It costs two pounds fifty. It’s very nice.Emma: Yes, it is. I know, I can ask Father Christmas to bringpresents for you and Mark, too.Mark: Good idea! Well, I like...Jane: Trains! You like trains. We know.Mark: So I want this train. Look. Isn’t it splendid?Jane: Mark, that model train costs...Mark: Yes, Jane, I can see the price, but look at it.Jane: Well, I don’t want a train.Emma: There are some nice dolls.Jane: Oh Emma. I’m fifteen years old. I don’t like dolls. I wanta radio for my bedroom. Then I can listen to all myfavourite songs.Mark: A radio. Here’s one. Look. It costs twenty-seven pounds,ninety-nine pence.Jane: That’s OK. Right Emma. Finish your l etter to Father Christmas. Tell him to put a joke book, a train and aradio in his big sack. And don’t forg et to put the rightaddress on the letter!Task 2【答案】A.1) EmmaShe is going to bed now.2) MarkHe’s having a bath. Now he’s washing his feet and singing a carol.She is putting the last Christmas Cards on the table in the hall.4) Mr. PhillipsHe’s putting all the presents under the tree. He’s thinking abouthis busy day.5) Mrs. PhillipsShe’s preparing all the food for tomorrow’s mealsB.1) d 2) a 3) c【原文】It’s 8 pm on Christmas Eve. Everyone is happy because tomorrowis Christmas Day. But everyone is busy too. There’s a lot of work to do. Here is the Phillips’ family in their home. What are they all doing?Emma is going to bed now. She’s hanging up her empty stockingfor Father Christmas. She’s thinking of the presents under the tree. She wants to open all her presents now, but she can’t. She must open them in the morning.Mark is in the bathroom. He’s going to a party tonight, so he’s having a bath. Now he’s washing his feet and singing a carol.Jane is putting the last Christmas cards on the table in the hall. She can’t put them in the sitting-room or the dining-room because they are full of cards. She’s li stening to the carol-singers.There is no one in the dining-room. It’s empty.Mr. Phillips is in the sitting-room. He’s putting all the presents under the tree. He’s thinking about his busy day. Parents always work hard at Christmas.And where’s Mrs. Phillips She is working in the kitchen. She’s preparing all the food for tomorrow’s meals. The Christmas puddingis ready, and so is the turkey. Now she is decorating the cake.She’s having a glass of sherry because it’s Christmas.There are some carol-singers in the street. They are singingcarols and collecting money for poor people. Now they are knocking on the front door of the Phillips’ house.The church bells are ringing too. Everyone can hear them. And there, in the sky, a. long way away... Who’s thatIt’s Father Christmas. He’s driving through the sky in his sleigh. Tonight’s a busy night for him. He’s thinking about all those black chimneys. And he’s looking at a long list of children’s names and addresses. Is Emma Phillips on his list?Task 3A.read, drew, made, drank, had, flew, went, see, rememberB.1) a, 2) c, 3) b【原文】How much do you remember of the time when you were a child Yougot up early every morning and went to school. You read books at school. You drew pictures and made things out of clay. You drank milk every day and ate things that were good for you. Perhaps you had plaits. Perhaps you flew a kite. Perhaps you went abroad for your holidays. You can see photographs of yourself in the family album. They help you to remember the distant past.I remember the Christmas holidays best. It was always cold. The days were very short. The nights were long and dark. It wasn’t a good time of the year — except for one thing. I always received presents at Christmas. I can remember the bright lights in the streets. I can remember the big shops and the crowds. My mother always took me to London to see the lights. And she always took me to one of the big shops to meet Father Christmas. This was a special event every year. I always met Father Christmas in a big shop. I always asked for lots of presents and he always brought them for me.Two weeks before Christmas one year, I went to London with my mother. I was five years old at the time. I shall never forget the day. It was cold and dark. But the shop windows were very bright. The streets were full of people. There were crowds in the streets and crowds in the shops. My mother held my hand tightly and we both went into a big shop.It was warm and bright in the shop. We both went upstairs to the toy department. The toy department was full of children. There were lovely toys everywhere: cars, bicycles and planes. Then I saw my old friend at one end of the department store: Father Christmas himself!I pulled my mother by the hand. “Please take me to Father Christmas,” I said. There were lots of children near Father Christmas. They were standing in a line. Father Christmas spoke to every one of them. At last it was my turn.“Hello, little boy,” he said to me. “Where do you live”“Don’t you know” I answered. “You came last year.”I can’t remember what Father Christmas answered. But I remember one thing. I was very sad. Father Christmas hadn’t remembered my name. He called me “little boy”. And he hadn’t remembered my address. I got my presents that year, as usu al, but it wasn’t the same. Something had changed.Task 4A. past, future, memories, hopes, fearsB. b【原文】In late October in the northern half of the world, the days grow shorter and the nights grow longer. It is colder and darker. There is mist and fog, and cold winds blow. The leaves fall from the trees, and their black skeletons stand out against the autumn sky. The year is ending and everything is dying. Winter is coming, with its long dark nights. People stay at home in the evenings and at weekends. Old people remember the past and young people think of the future. It is a time of memories, of hopes and fears. It is the time of Halloween.Halloween marks the end of autumn and the start of winter. In the past this festival was a time of fear. People believed in ghosts and witches and they stayed indoors. On October 31st, Halloween, the ghosts of the dead rose from their graves, and all the witches of the world rode through the sky on their broomsticks. Today this ancient festival is a time for fun, for Halloween parties. You can see ghosts and witches, but they are ordinary people in fancy dress. Everyone eats rich autumn food, pumpkin pie or ginger cake. People make lanterns from pumpkins. And they try to tell the future.Task 5【答案】A.1) There were only seven small houses to live in. So everyone had to squeeze in together. You might have had four or five extra people living with your family.2) Your house was dark inside. You couldn’t see anything out of the tiny windows because they were made from oiled cloth, not glass.3) The air was full of smoke from the fish-oil lamps and from the big fireplace, where something was cooking all day long.B.1) F, 2) F【原文】What would it be like if you were there on the first Thanksgiving Day(PartⅠ)What would your house be like?Crowded! There were only seven small houses to live in. So everyone had to squeeze in together. You might have had four or five extra people living with your family.Each house had only one room, called the hall. The hall was your kitchen, bedroom, dining room, and your living room. There was also a loft upstairs, but that was used for storage.The furniture got moved around a lot. When it was time to eat,out came the wooden benches and boards that were used to make a table.At night, the benches and the boards were laced against the walls. Out came the lumpy mattresses, which were laid right on the cold dirt floor.If you were one of the lucky ones, your family might have a real bed. Your parents slept on top and you slept in the “trun dle” bed hidden underneath. It was like a big drawer that was pulled out at bedtime.Your house was dark inside. You couldn’t see anything out of the tiny windows because they were made from oiled cloth, not glass.And it was smelly! The air was full of smoke from the fish-oil lamps and from the big fireplace, where something was cooking all day long.Task 6【答案】A.1) Because most of the water in England was polluted in the early1600s. You could get very sick from it. But beer was safe because it has alcohol in it, and alcohol kills germs. So, that’s what people drank every day.2) Doing the laundry was a really big job in those days. First, the women had to make soap out of animal fat and ashes. That took a long time. Then the children had to carry water from the stream, so it could be boiled in big outdoor pots. After everything was washed, the laundry was hung on bushes to dry.B.1) F, 2) F【原文】What would it be like if you were there on the first Thanksgiving Day (Part II)Did the Pilgrims think drinking beer was wrongNo. The Pilgrims were very religious. They thought it was a sinto get drunk. But they did drink beer. They drank beer because it was safer than water.Most of the water in England was polluted in the early 1600s. You could get very sick from it. But beer was safe because it has alcohol in it, and alcohol kills germs. So, that’s what people drank every day.But their beer was not like the beer today. The women made it at home. There was very little alcohol in it, so you woul dn’t get drunk from drinking it with your food.People had beer for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They thought it was good for you. Children started drinking it as soon as they were able to hold a cup in their hands.Who had to clean the dishes?Nobody! The Pilgrims didn’t clean their dishes with soap and water the way we do today. The women and girls just rinsed thepottery bowls, wooden platters, cups, knives, and spoons and put them back on the shelf.Napkins were washed only once a month. You can imagine how dirty they got! But the Pilgrims weren’t bothered by dirt the way we are. They were used to it. And doing the laundry was a really big job in those days.First, the women had to make soap out of animal fat and ashes. That took a long time. Then the children had to carry water from the stream, so it could be boiled in big outdoor pots. After everything was washed, the laundry was hung on bushes to dry.Task 7Every Saint Patrick’s Day, my whole family has to wear green. If someone does not, then everyone gets to pinch that person! Last year, my grandpa forgot to wear green! He finally found some, so we didn’t pinch him.Every Easter, my Nanny gives my brother and me a small Easter egg with a clue in it. We follow clue after clue until we come to a prize. This is my favourite holiday tradition.My favourite traditional holiday is the Chinese New Year. I like it because my family goes to a Chinese temple in Los Angeles. It is very beautiful and exciting. We get to see Chinese dragons dance on the streets.On the night before Christmas, we go around our town and look at the Christmas decorations on all the houses. While we look at the lights, we eat hot boiled peanuts. When we get home, we read The Polar Express and Christmas story.At our church on Easter, we put a bunch of flowers on a cross out by the road. It turns out very colorful and very beautiful! I love getting my picture taken in front of it. That is my favourite holiday tradition.In India, we have a holiday called Holi. We call our friends, get together, and throw at each other water with paint mixed in it. It is great fun. I love Holi!Task 8In Japan, New Year’s Day is also celebrated on lst January. At midnight on the last day of the old year, the bells in every Buddhist temple are struck one hundred and eight times. As the sound of the bells dies away, the New Year begins and Buddhists think about waysin which they can live better in the year to come.The theme of water, which is used in baptism to wash away thesins of the world, is also linked with a pre-Christian custom — the tradition of Well-dressing. At one time, the fear of summer drought led people to make offerings to the water spirits, who were thought to live in springs and wells. Decorating wells with flowers, shells,moss and other natural objects depicting a religious subject is anart passed on from father to son in English villages.Each year, on the fifth day of May, Japanese boys look forward to Kodomono-hi or Children’s Day. On this day, families with young boys fly colourful streamers and enormous kites, in the shape of carps, from a large pole in the garden. The streamers and carp kites symbolize a family. The first kite represents the father, the second kite, the mother and the third kite, the children. Inside the houses, families display traditional warrior dolls and bathe the children in iris leaves. The main purpose of this festival is to show young boys the importance of qualities such as strength and determination.Task 9A major festival of the Chinese year is the Dragon Boat Festival or Duanwu Jie. This commemorates the death of a national hero, Qu Yuan, who drowned himself in protest against a corrupt government. It is said that dumplings made of rice, meat and other ingredients were thrown into the river to feed the fish so that they would not eat his body and the water was beaten with paddles to scare off other dangerous creatures in the river. Today, boats decorated with dragon heads and tails compete with each other in a race accompanied by a great deal of drum beating and noise. One of the most colourful Dragon Boat Festivals takes place in Hong Kong where an international boat race has been held in the month of June each year since 1976.The Ferragosto on 15 August is the climax of the Italian holiday season. It is a family occasion that takes place each year on Assumption Day, the day on which the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches celebrate the ascent of the Virgin Mary to Heaven.In Mexico, one of the most important festivals of the year is the Festival of the Dead on All Souls Day. This is both a Christian andan early American Indian celebration at which people light candles in memory of the dead.Task 10【答案】At midnight of Christmas Eve or early in the morning on Christmas, Christians go to church for a special service. On Christmas morning, everyone opens their presents and then it’s time to decorate thetable with candles and Christmas crackers. For Christmas dinnerpeople eat roast turkey, roast potatoes, green vegetables and sauces. Then they have Christmas pudding. After dinner they put on paper hats. They read out the jokes from the crackers or play games. At fiveo’clock pm it’s time for tea and Christmas cake.The day after Christmas is Boxing Day. People visit theirrelations or go to parties. Or they just spend a quiet day at home.No one works on Boxing Day, After Christmas everyone needs a holiday!。

现代大学英语听力2unit 10 history(课堂PPT)

❖ Words and expressions ❖ 1.eclipse英 [ɪ'klɪps] 美 [ɪ'klɪps] vt. 使黯然失色；形
成蚀 n. 日蚀，月蚀；黯然失色 ❖ 2.monument英 ['mɒnjʊm(ə)nt] 美 ['mɑnjumənt
] n. 纪念碑；历史遗迹；不朽的作品 vt. 为…树碑 ❖ 3.observatory英 [əb'zɜːvət(ə)rɪ] 美 [əb'zɝvətɔri
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Definition: North of the ancient megalithic ruins: the city of Salisbury [sɔ:lzbəri] , England. Array of stones, could be ancient humans set for observing astronomical phenomena [finɔminə] . To promote the development of archaeoastronomy[ɑ:kiəuəst . rɔnəmi]
sun and also an observatory. One interesting theory suggests that
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eclipses of the sun and moon.
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现代大学英语听力1课件教学文案

My office hours are from 1:00 to 2:00 on Wednesdays, and you can set up an appointment to meet with me at other times as well.
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3) Why does the professor put the books " on reserve? "
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2) What's the meaning of "on reserve"?
Key: That means the student cannot find the book on the shelves in its usual place. She/He needs to go to a special room called the reserve room.

现代大学英语听力课件_图文

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Task 3 A. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. 1) Level one houses __C___
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3) Why does the professor put the books " on reserve? "
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现代大学英语听力2Unit 9

Task 11) Man: I had the girls running in circles when I was in college.Woman: I never knew you were the campus hero.Man: I wasn't. I was the women's track coach.2) Instructor: Mr. Jenkins, why are you late?Student: I guess because the class started before I got here.3) Woman: Doctor, you have to come immediately—my baby swallowed some camera film! Doctor: Just calm yourself, nothing will develop.4) Customer: Waiter, this water is cloudy.Waiter: The water's okay, madam. It's just that the glass is a little dirty.5) Woman: The bride wears white on her wedding day as a symbol of happiness, for this is the most joyous day in her entire life.Man: Why does the groom wear black?Task 2Catherine: I think firstly I find the French language, very melodic to listen to. It's very easy on the ear, and it almost sounds poetic. No matter what kind of mood the individual is in, who's talking, or what they're talking about, there seems to be a rhythm to the language. And it's rounded; there are no sharp, jagged edges to the language, so it's very pleasing to the ear.Chris: I think the accent I really like is the Dane speaking English. They sound awful when they speak Danish, but when they speak English there's a beautiful, low, sensitive, very soft quality about it.Donald: I like the way they bring their French pronunciation into English. They can't pronounce "h"s and they can't pronounce "th" properly. And I think that actually sounds very nice. Also I like the rhythm they bring French rhythms into English—nice, steady rhythms and I like that too. It's just it, it... whenever I hear a French person speaking English it sounds more gentle and more lyrical.Lesley: I think the most attractive foreign accents for me are Mediterranean accents because they, if you like, import their own culture into the English accent and give it a lot of life that sometimes, that kind of—the gestures and everything that the English people don't have, so you get a beautiful mixture of the serious Northern European and the Southern European together. Susan: I like the Swedish accent because it, it makes me smile and the way it's spoken is so sing-songy that you can't help but smile when other people actually speak it. And it always makes you want to try and put the accent on yourself.Task 3The spelling and meaning of words are very interesting. But what's more interesting is the history of a word, or where it came from. Let's examine some of the words and see how they got into our language.LUNCH Lunch perhaps comes from an old Spanish word lonje, a slab of ham. We may also get our word from a form of lump, maybe a lump of bread, but whether lunch comes from ham or bread, it meant a hunk of something to eat.ATLAS An atlas is a strong man, and also a book of maps. The story of this word begins a long time ago in Greece. The ancient Greeks believed that their gods had once been a race of giants called Titans. The Titans fought with another group of gods called Olympians, and the Olympians won. Atlas was a Titan. He was punished for fighting by having to stand at the western edge of the world, holding the sky on his head and hands, so that it would not fall on the world and smash anything.After the ancient Greek religion died out, the idea of Atlas changed. From holding up the sky with his head and hands, he came to be thought of as holding the world on his shoulders. Mercator, a mapmaker of the sixteenth century, used a picture of Atlas on the cover of a book of maps, so a book of maps came to be called an atlas.The word has still another meaning. The top bone of the neck is called atlas because it supports the head.GOOD-BYE Good-bye is a blessing; originally it was God be with ye, and in the course of time it became one word. Many of our greetings are good wishes, but we say them with so little thought that we forget this. When we say good morning, good evening, good night, and so on, what we are really saying is, "I hope you will have a good morning (or evening, or night)."DAISY The daisy has a little golden eye, like a tiny sun. Perhaps this is the reason the English people named it day's eye, or perhaps they chose the name because the English daisy closes at night. The English loved their daisies, which were pink and red, as well as white. Six hundred years or so ago, the English poet Chaucer said:The daisy, or else the eye of the day,The queen, and prettiest flower of all.Task 4Mathew: Chris, why is it that there are so many different languages, and that in Europe certainly if you travel more than a hundred miles, you're likely to find people speaking a completely different language to your own.Chris: Well, it's true to say that there are hundreds and hundreds of different languages. It's perhaps... however, more interesting and more informative to say that there are several different groups of languages. Most European languages, with the exception of I think Finnish and Basque and Hungarian, I believe, belong to the Indo-European group of languages. I'm not so very sure myself of the actual details of the history of these languages, but you can be very sure that most of these languages, say, Latin and Greek and our own language and German and French and all the others, are connected. The reason why you can travel from one village to another in Switzerland and from one area to another in England and find different dialects, if not different languages spoken, is that several hundred years ago communication was by word of mouth. Word of mouth meant that people had to move; if people were to move they needed roads and therewere no roads.Mathew: Do you see any chance for a universal language like Esperanto?Chris: Not for an artificial language, no. I suppose the Roman Catholic Church used Latin, but Latin had a particular religious basis and this is probably why it was therefore chosen. I don't see very much chance for Esperanto; I think it's an awfully good idea but I don't believe that language works like that. I think people will probably work towards the most convenient language to use. They will not set out to learn a new language. It seems to me that we, either English, Russian or Chinese, perhaps Japanese, will be the languages of the future. My bet's on English.Mathew: Maggie, why do you think it is that so few English people speak a second language? Maggie: I think when you learn a language at school, it tends to be rather a dead occupation, and it's very difficult to stimulate any interest among school children. But when you actually go to the country and you spend, say a month when in an exchange visit when you're a schoolgirl, or a schoolboy, then you suddenly become more interested because you want to communicate with people when you're actually abroad, and it's not safe to rely on the fact that most people speak English when in foreign countries. I think English people traditionally thought that foreigners always spoke English, and a lot of foreigners do, but there are people that you meet in the street or you want to take a bus somewhere, then you find that you need to speak the language and it's very unnerving to be in a situation where you can't communicate with people when you do want to travel around.Mathew: Have you ever gone abroad and learnt a language in the country?Maggie: Yes, well when I was a secretary I went and lived in Geneva for two years. And I learnt French at school but I really didn't speak it at all. I knew it theoretically but I wasn't able to communicate with people. But I was in a situation where if I didn't speak French, then I would not have been able to do my shopping and buy food, and so I picked the language up and I made friends with French people—Swiss French people, and I found that if I wanted to communicate with all the people that I met, then I had to learn French, and I think it's the best method of learning because you're in the situation. It's very hard at times—you can sit through dinner parties and not understand what... what's going on and you think everybody thinks you're stupid because you can't communicate with them, but it's the hard way but I think it's the best way to learn.Mathew: Elfriede, you come from Austria and yet you've been living in England now for the last three years. Has having to learn and speak another language created great problems? Elfriede: At the beginning yes, it was rather difficult for me to get the right job. After you've lived here for one or two years you get to know the system and then that's quite good. You know how to use libraries and you get to know where to call in emergencies. You get to know...trying to get a radio and understand the radio and all the programmes they have and when they're on and the little stories.Mathew: What about English humour on the radio?Elfriede: I think that takes a very, very long time to understand and, I'm sorry to say that I haven't managed yet to understand it completely, but I find it very interesting to speak other languages because English people have different... have a different mentality, and have a very different character and a different temperament and it is fascinating for me to talk to them, and also for myself to be able to express myself in a different language and to communicate with them.Task 5Number 1Fiona: Okay, Deek, I'm off now. [Okay.] Everything's okay, is it?Deek: Yes, I think so. The only thing is... is she likely to wake up?Fiona: No, I don't think so. She doesn't usually, but...Deek: What if she does?Fiona: Well, yes. Don't worry about it. Her dummy's by the bed, so if you just pick her up, give her the dummy, give her a little bit of a cuddle; [Yes.] sing to her if you like.Deek: Shall I read her a story or something?Fiona: Yes, anything like that. [Yes.] Then she should just go back to sleep again quite happily. Deek: Okay.Fiona: Oh! And I've left stuff for you in the fridge. There's some salad and cold chicken and some beer as well. Okay then?Deek: Right then. Bye.Fiona: Bye-bye.Number 2Lesley: Ah... it's such a lovely day. It reminds me of last week, doesn't it, dear?Fiona: Oh don't! I mean that was just so fantastic, that holiday!Lesley: I love that city, you know.Fiona: I do too. Really, it's got something about it, a certain sort of charm...Lesley: Mm, and all that wine and good food.Fiona: And so cheap. Right, I mean, compared to here...Lesley: Yes, although the shops are expensive.Fiona: Mm, yes.Lesley: I mean, really I bought nothing at all. I just ate and ate and drank and drank.Fiona: I know. Wasn't that lovely?Lesley: Yes. I like listening to the people talking and sitting outside drinking wine and...Fiona: Yes. Could you understand what they were saying? When they were speaking quickly, I mean.Lesley: Well, it is difficult, of course. And then I liked that tower, too.Fiona: You liked that tower? I'm not sure about it, really. [No!] It's very unusual, right in the centre of the city.Lesley: True, but there’s a lovely view from the top.Fiona: Oh, you went right up, didn't you? [Mm, yes.] I know I didn't.Lesley: Of course you didn't.Fiona: I remember that day. We weren't together.Lesley: No, that's right. [Mm.] You went down by the river, didn't you?Fiona: Right. Oh, walking along the river and all the couples [Yes.] and it's so romantic... [Is it true?] and the paintings too...Lesley: They do have artists down by the river, do they? [Yes.] Oh, how lovely!Fiona: Oh, it really is super.Lesley: Yes. Oh, I think we ought to go back there again next year, don't you?Fiona: I do, yes. [Mm.] If only just to sample some more of the wine.Lesley: It'd be lovely, wouldn't it?Fiona: Yes.Number 3Mary: I'm so pleased. What about you then?Jane: Well, he said he wanted to have another look at it.Mary: Yes. What are they doing about it?Jane: Well, I don't think they're going to do anything really. It just sometimes goes away [Well, can't...] something like that.Mary: Well, can't they give you anything for it?Jane: Well, no, they didn't say they could. [Really?] No, just got to be patient and wait for it to go away.Mary: Well, that seems a bit stupid, doesn't it?Jane: Yes, it does.Mary: You'd have thought... you'd have thought they'd have thought of something.Jane: Yes. Ooh it's your turn.Mary: Yes. Certainly.Jane: Good luck!Mary: Thank you!Task 6Learning to SpeakIt is, everyone agrees, a colossal task that the child performs when he learns to speak, and the fact that he does so in so short a period of time challenges explanation.Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking. Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word "obey" is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out as particularly indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so on. But since these cannot be said to show the baby's intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new sounds to their repertoire. This self-imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.It is a problem we need not get our teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation; and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world. Thus the use, at say seven months, of"mama" as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes.Playful and apparently meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself. I doubt, however, whether anything is gained when parents cash in on this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds.Task 7Let's talk about body language. You already "speak" it and "read" it. Body language is all of the small facial expressions, hand gestures and body movements that we make. We may not realize it, but each movement and expression says something about our feelings.In fact, we might say that body language is the clearest and most common way of communicating our feelings directly to others. We all know the more obvious body "statements": We wave our hands in greeting, we shake hands, pat each other on the back, we hug friends and kiss loved ones. We smile, we laugh, we wink and we frown, and sometimes we cry. All of these gestures are called non-verbal communication (non-verbal means we do not use words to "say" what we feel.)Normally, we don't think very much about our body language. Our facial expressions and gestures are automatic and unconscious most of the time. But researchers tell us we might learn to understand each other a little better if we paid conscious attention to the hidden messages in body language. Let's consider a few of the more obvious facial, hand and body gestures.The human face is wonderfully rich in its ability to express feelings. The eyes, the eyebrows, the lips and the facial muscles are all capable of "saying" things.For example, we speak of "wide-eyed wonder". If the eyes open wide, that may mean surprise, wonder, excitement or sometimes fear. And that is an important thing to remember about body language—one element alone does not tell us everything. We have to see gestures in combination. So wide eyes alone would not tell us whether the person was surprised, pleased or scared, but when we see wide eyes, a little smile and a slight tilt of the head, we understand that the person is "wonderfully pleased"."Squinty" eyes, tight lips, and the head pushed forward probably suggest anger or hostility.Half-closed eyes may suggest fatigue, boredom or indifference. But add a lowered tilt of the head, a fluttering of the eyelids and a slight smile, and we get a coy and flirtatious message.Strangely enough, one of the eye features over which we have very little control—the size of our pupils—says something about our interest in a subject. If we like something, our pupils get larger. Studies show that most men think a woman with large pupils is more "attractive" than the same woman with small pupils. But the men aren't really conscious of the pupils. They just know theylike the "looks" better in the samples with large pupils. No wonder eye make-up is so popular.Eyebrows are almost like signal flags: one brow up, one down suggests doubt, disbelief or uncertainty. Both up means surprise or mistrust. Squeeze them together and we get a frown or scowl.The lips shape non-verbal as well as verbal messages. The smile is the most obvious, but try baring the teeth just on one side or pull the lips tightly across the teeth and the smile becomes a snarl and a threat. In this, and in many of our other body gestures, we are close to the animals.The lower lip by itself can say little things. The "pout" is a fat lower lip pushed way out. It means "I'm not happy because I'm not getting what I want." But if we tuck the lower lip into our mouth and bite it, we are conveying anxiety and fear. Licking the lips is a "dry mouth" gesture which usually means stress or anxiety.There are whole books written on hand gestures, and, in fact, hand or sign language has often been highly developed, especially as an aid to the deaf. But the routine hand language, such as pointing with the index finger to accuse someone, or the clenched fist beating in the air to threaten someone, are familiar to us all. But a clenched fist held close to the body usually means tension or anxiety while the open hands, palms up may mean "I'm innocent" or "give me" or "forgive me".Both hands raised up and facing the audience means "I give up" or "I surrender". But tilt the hands and palm down and extend the arm and it means "I bless" or "I give". The "pat on the head" is a kind of blessing or gesture of love and giving. We clap hands to indicate approval or in some cases to call someone or get attention.When the hands get very busy we say that someone "talks with his hands" and among certain individuals and cultures it is almost impossible to talk without a wild display of hand motions.If we are slightly puzzled by something, we may bring our finger to our lips. If it's a real puzzler, we scratch or rub our heads. If we do something wrong, we slap our heads. To start allover something, we often begin by taking our head in both hands to sort of clear our minds and "set our head on straight".These are only a sampling of the many types of body language. There are books which discuss everything from the way we pull an ear to the way we cross our legs. From the looks of things, the only people who don't communicate with body language are the writers. Readers never get to see how often the writer frowns, scratches his chin, slaps his head, purses his lips, stares at the ceiling and throws up his arms.Task 8In contemporary English, there are many reported differences in the talk of males and females. In same gender pairs having conversations, women generally discuss their personal feelings morethan men. Men appear to prefer non-personal topics such as sport and news. Men tend to respond to an expression of feelings or problems by giving advice or solutions, while women are more likely to mention personal experiences that match or connect with the other woman's. There is a pattern documented in the American English social context of women cooperating and seeking connection via language, whereas men are more competitive and concerned with power via language. In mixed-gender pairs having conversations, the rate of men interrupting women is substantially greater than the reverse. Women are reported to use more expressions associated with tentativeness, such as "hedges" (sort of, kind of) and "tags" (isn't it?, don't you?), when expressing an opinion: Well, erm, I think that golf is kind of boring, don't you?。

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LISTENING of CONTEMPORARY COLLEGE ENGLISH
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Task 1 A. Answer the following questions. 1) What are the name of the teacher and the name of the
4) WKey: The office hours are from 1:00 to 2:00 on Wednesdays.
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Task 1 B. Complete the following sentences with what you hear on the tape. 1) We will be meeting in this room for the first half of
Task 2 A. Answer the following questions. 1) What's the student's problem?
Key“ According to the syllabus, the book he is looking for is in the library, but he couldn‘t find it.
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3) Where can the students get the textbooks?
Key: They can purchase the textbooks at the bookstore the day after tomorrow.
course?
Key: Susan Hudson and Intercultural Communication.
2) When and where will the class meet for the first half of the course?
Key: The class will meet in the room they are in now and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:15 to 4:50.
the course, but we will be using the rreesseeaarrcchhlalabb every other week on TThhuurrssddaayy in Room 405 during the last two months of the class.
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Uh, this is the text for the class, Beyond Language. Unfortunately, the books haven't come in yet, but I was told that you should be able to purchase them at the bookstore the day after tomorrow. Again, as you see on your course outline, grading is determined by your performance on a midterm and final test, periodic quizzes, uh, a research project, and classroom participation.
Uh, to begin with, please take a look at the syllabus in front of you. As you all should know by now, this class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:15 to 4:50. We will be meeting in this room for the first half of the course, but we will be using the research lab every other week on Thursday in Room 405 during the last two months of the class.
2) What's the meaning of "on reserve"?
Key: That means the student cannot find the book on the shelves in its usual place. She/He needs to go to a special room called the reserve room.
My office hours are from 1:00 to 2:00 on Wednesdays, and you can set up an appointment to meet with me at other times as well.
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Task 1 Script
Okay, Okay, let's begin. Hello, everyone. My name's Susan Hudson, and I'll be your teacher for this class, Intercultural Communication.

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