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新世纪大学英语视听说教程1听力原文(unit 4)

新世纪大学英语视听说教程1听力原文(unit 4)

Unit 4, Lesson ATrack 1-4-1A.Listen to the conversation. What are Mick and Paula’s New Year’s resolutions? Circle the correct answers.Paula: Wow, another year is over!Mick: I know. Happy New Year, Paula!Paula: Same to you, Mick. So, do you have any New Year’s resolutions?Mick: Yeah. This year, I want to get a new job.Paula: Really?Mick: Yeah. I make good money now, but the hours are long. How about you? What’s your New Year’s resolution?Paula: I’m not sure. This year I want to meet some new people and do something fun. Mick: Like what?Paula: I don’t know. Maybe I need a hobby.Mick: Well, what do you like to do?Paula: I love to dance. I’d like to study modern dance.Mick: You should take a class. Then you can do something fun and meet other people, too. Paula: That’s a good idea.Track 1-4-2B.Listen again. Circle True or False.Track 1-4-3A.Listen to the first part of this radio interview and circle the correct answers. Interviewer: And welcom e back to KPLX radio in Los Angeles. We’re talking this morning with Europe’s hottest singer, Yeliz. Thanks for joining us.Yeliz: Sure! Hello Los Angeles!Interviewer: So, tell us a little about yourself, Yeliz. Where are you from exactly?Yeliz: I was bo rn in Istanbul, but I live in Scotland now. My dad’s Scottish. My mom’s Turkish.Interviewer: You’re only seventeen. What’s it like being successful at your age?Yeliz: It’s pretty exciting. I get to travel, and meet some interesting people.Track 1-4-4B.Listen again. Complete the sentences. Check the correct boxes.Interviewer: And welcome back to KPLX radio in Los Angeles. We’re talking this morning with Europe’s hottest singer, Yeliz. Thanks for joining us.Yeliz: Sure! Hello Los Angeles!Interviewer: So, tell us a little about yourself, Yeliz. Where are you from exactly?Yeliz: I was born in Istanbul, but I live in Scotland now. My dad’s Scottish. My mom’s Turkish.Interviewer: You’re only seventeen. What’s it like being successful at your age?Yeliz: It’s pretty exciting. I get to travel, and meet some interesting people. Interviewer: You’re touring now, but what are you plans for the future?Yeliz: After the tour, I want to take a break. Then later this year, I plan to make a new CD. Interviewer: Do you have any advice for other young artists?Yeliz: Well, I’d say follow your dreams. Work hard, and you can be successful.Track 1-4-5A.Listen to a talk about how to become successful in business. What are the things y ou should do or you shouldn’t do?Complete the sentences.If you want to become a successful businessperson, you should do three things. First, you should think about your goals every day. Make plans for today, tomorrow, and next year. Second, you should join a business club. You can learn a lot from the other members, and they can give you good advice. Third, you shouldn’t work every night and every weekend. Sometimes you should take a break. You get more energy and ideas when you relax. And you need a lot of energy and ideas to make money!Track 1-4-6A.Listen to a talk about realizing dreams.Find your dreamWe all have dreams, but some people actually make their dreams come true. Their secret? They quit dreaming. And they start doing. Even a very big dream starts with small steps, and small goals. Maybe your dream is to become a doctor. Start by thinking about small goals for yourself. Ask, “What can I do today?” You can’t start medical school today, but you can send e-mails and make phone calls to get information about medical schools. Make a list of schools to call, and then call a few of them every day. What do you need for your dream? Tell friends and family members -- many of them can help you. For example, you want to become an artist. You need a lot of cheap paper for drawing. Maybe your friend’s brother throws away a lot of big paper at his office. So, share your dream with the world! Another good idea is talking to people who are doing your dream job. Do you dream about having your own restaurant? Go to your favorite restaurant and ask the owner lots of questions. Most people like to talk about their work.Track 1-4-7B.Listen again and complete each sentence.Track 1-4-8A.Now listen to two young people talking about their dreams.A lifetime dreamEveryone has his or her own dream jobs. Let’s listen to Yi Wang, a 29-year-old young teacher, and Hicham Nassir, who are going to talk about their dream jobs.“At the moment, I’m teaching chemistry at a university in Beijing. It’s a good job, but my dream is to make films. In China, young artists move to Beijing from all over the country. Many of them are painters, writers, and actors. I’d like to make a film about their lives and their work.” Wang is writing the film now with help from her friends, but it isn’t easy. “At the moment, the biggest problem is money,” explains Wang. “We don’t have much.” Butthis isn’t going to stop Wang and her partners. She says, “First, we’re going to make this movie. Th en, we’d like to show it in China and, maybe someday, at film festivals around the world.”16-year-old Hicham Nassir is a soccer player. He’s getting ready for a soccer match with his teammates. Hicham, the team’s star player, is a native of Morocco. He no w lives in London with his family. “My parents want me to go to college, and major in business or law,” he explains. “They want me to become a lawyer or a successful businessman. I understand them, but I want to be a pro soccer player. And my coach thinks I can do it.” And what about his parents? “I hope they change their minds,” says Hicham. “I want to play soccer professionally. It’s my dream.”Track 1-4-9B.Listen again. Then complete each sentence.Track 1-4-12B.Listen to the conversation. What does Zack want from Juan? How does he ask for it?Zack: See you later, Juan. I’m going out for a while.Juan: OK, see you.Zack: Oh no!Juan: What?Zack: I forgot to go to the ATM.Juan: Do you need money?Zack: Yeah, I’d l ike to get a haircut this afternoon. Can I borrow $20?Juan: Sure, here you go.Zack: Thanks a lot.Track 1-4-13D.Listen to the following two dialogues. Pay attention to the expressions for giving advice.A: I have a lot of bills! I’d like to save money. But I can’t! What can I do?B: Well, don’t use your credit cards so much. It’s too easy to spend money, and maybe you should go out less often.A: I’m late for work all the time. I’m always sleeping through my alarm. My boss threatens to fire me!B: Have you tried using two or three alarm clocks? I find this really helps.Unit 4, Lesson BGlobal ViewpointsMaking changesGian: My friend would like to change her life. She’d like to stop smoking and once she stops smoking she’d like to st art going to the gym and working out.Jonathan: I have friend who is unhappy with her work. I think she should go back tocollege and finish her education.Dave: My friend is studying engineering, but he doesn’t really want to be an engineer. I think he should leave engineering and study journalism.Dayanne: My sister wants to find another job. I think she should come and live with me. Woo Sung：I have a friend who works with computers, but he wants to be a rock star. I think he should do it.Goals, plans and dreamsAgnes: my goal right now is to finish my PH.D. dissertation.Gian: my short-term goal is to find a new job.Miyuki: In the next few years I would like to start a career in New York.Dan: I’m going to finish my training as a doctor in the spring a nd in the future I would like to go to California and work in a hospital.Jennifer: I’m going to move to Atlanta and start a new job. In the future I’d like to be president of the company.Catherine: Well I’m actually getting married in about three months to a great guy named Paul. We’d like to go on a honeymoon to the beach or to the ocean and we’re very excited. Julianna: My biggest dream is to own my own business.Dayanne: My main goal is to help poor people in developing countries.Jonathan: I’m not very picky, I just … would like to be happy.City LivingMike needs a changeTakeshi: Uh, Mike?Mike: Yeah?Takeshi: What are you doing?Mike: I’m thinking, I need a change.Roberto: A change?Mike: Yeah. A big change. I’m going to change my style. I’m goin g to get a haircut. Takeshi: Oh, Yeah. That’s a really big change…Mike: Hey, a haircut is just the beginning. I’m going to quit some of my bad habits too. Roberto: Bad habits?Mike: You know, I mean… sometimes I’m a little lazy… I watch too much TV… I eat a lot of junk food… I’m going to stop.Takeshi: Uh-huh. And it’s going to snow in July, too.Mike: I’m not kidding! I really want to change.Roberto: You know, Claudia told me she wants to change her life, too.Mike: Really? Does she have a lot of bad habits too?Roberto: No, but she likes to travel a lot, so she wants to change jobs to have more time to take trips. She’s going to visit her family in Brazil next month.Mike: I’d really like to travel more too! I want to go to Brazil. I’m going to go when I’m rich and famous.Takeshi: You’re going to be rich and famous?Roberto: Oh, that’s right. I remember, you’re going to become a famous movie star…Mike: No. That was last week.Takeshi: you’re going to be a rock and roll star?Mike: No way! I can’t sing. I’m going to write a book that sells a million copies. Roberto: Oh! That sounds great. So what is this terrific book going to about?Mike: I don’t know yet. But I know that it starts with a guy that wants to get a haircut. Takeshi: That’ll sell a million copies… I’m sure of it.Mike: And then maybe he becomes a super cool movie star… or an athlete…or a race car driver…C. WritingMike decides that he needs to change his style. First he’s going to get a haircut. Then he’s going to quit some of his bad habits and travel more. Mike then tells Roberto and Takeshi that he’s going to be rich and famous. They ask if he’s going to become a rock and roll star or maybe a movie star. Mike says “no” and explains that he’s going to write a book that sells a million cop ies. What’s the book about? Mike’s not sure… but it all starts with a haircut!。

新世纪大学英语视听说教程Unit1~Unit5听力原文

新世纪大学英语视听说教程Unit1~Unit5听力原文

Unit 1Track l-1-OL-1A.Emily is at the airport. Listen and check the correct box.Josh: Hello?Emily: Hi,Josh?lt’sEmily.Josh: Hi Em. Are you at the airport with Uncle Tim?Emjly: Yes, I’m here, but I don’t see Uncle Tim. Tell me again – what does he look like?Josh: He’s tall, and he’s in his 30s. He has long brown hair.Emjly: 0K…Josh: Oh, and he wears glasses.Emily: No, I don’t seeTrack l-l-OL-2B, Listen again. Emily is looking for a man. What does he look like? Circle the correct answers.Track l-1-OL-3C. Listen again. Who is the man? Check the correct picture. What is didifferentrent about him now?Josh: Hello?Emily: Hi, Josh? It’s Emily.Josh: Hi Em. Are you at the airport with Uncle Tim?Emily: Yes, I’m here, but I don’t see Uncle Tim. Te ll me again –一what does he Iook like?Josh: He’s tall, and he’s in his 30s. He has long brown hair.Emily: 0K…Josh: Oh, and he wears glasses.Emily: No, I don’t see him …Uncle Tim: Excuse me … are you Emily?Emily: Yes … Uncle Tim?Uncle:le Tim: Hi, Emily. How are you?Emily: Fine! Wow, Unc/e Tim, you look different! Josh,Josh … are you there? Uncle Tim is here. He has short, blond hair now. He looks like Brad Pitt! Track l-l-OL-4A. Listen to the description of a famjly photo. Then drag the names from the box and drop them on the right person.Emiljo is in his fifties. He is tall – about 182 cm. He is average weight. He has brown eyes. He has short, curly, gray hair.Kathy is in her forties. She is short. She is slim. She has blue eyes. She has long, straight, blond hair.Michael is young. He is tall. He is average weight. He has dark, brown eyes. Hehas short, curly, blond hair.Alexis and Ashley are twins. They are young. They are average height. They are slim. Alexis has blue eyes, but Ashley has green eyes. They both have long, curly, red hair.Track l-l-OL-5B.Now listen to these people introducing themselves. Then answer the questionsasked.1. I’m Carrie Brown from New York. I’m an art student and I like listening to musicand playing basketball.2. Hello, everyone. My name is Ann Andrews. I come from Wellington, New Zealand.I’m a teacher and I like shopping and hanging out with friends.3. Hi, I’mjulia Sanchez. I’m a reporter from Lima, Peru. I like surfing and blogging.4. My name is Charles Horton, I Iive in Boston, USA. I’m a chef. In my spare time, Ilike painting and traveling.5. I’m George Simmel from Berlin, Germany. I’m a fashion designer. I Iike watchingfilms and jogging very much.6. My name is Kevin Smith. I come from Sydney, Australia. I like cooking andreading detective stories. I’m a finance manager.Track l-l-OL—6A.Look at the picture and listen to the e-mail message. Then tell which one in thepicture is Mr. Ryder.Dear Mr. Peters,Please meet Mr. James Ryder at the ajrport station at 11:00 tomorrow. His flight is UA238 from Los Angeles. He is a tall man in his sixties with gray hair, and he wears big glasses. His meeting with the Marketing Department is at 4:00.Thank you,Kyra GreeneMarketing DepartmentTrack l-1-OL-7B.Listen to another e-mail message. Then tell which one in the picture is Tom.Gina-HELP! Can you meet my friend Tom at the airport tomorrow? My car has big problems and I can’t drive it. Tom is coming on flight KX661 from Denver at 11:00. He’s average height and kind of thin, with Iong blond hair and a mustache. Thanks a million!ChrisTrack l-l-OL-8A.Now listen to the passage. Do you think Andrew Barn is happy being a celebritydouble?Celebrity doublesA group of teenagers is standing outside a hair salon in Manchester, England. Many of them have cameras and are looking in the salon window. Then want to see soccer player David Beckham. A man in the salon looks like Beckham (he has blond hair and Beckham’s good Iooks). But the man in the salon isn’t the famou s soccer player. He’s Andrew Barn – a twenty-tvvo-year-old hairdresser,Barn isn’t surprised by the teenagers. People often stop him on the street and want to take his picture. Barrrn is a hairdresser, but he also makes money as a Beckham double. Barn travels all over Europe as David Beckham. Newspepapers often ‘take his photo. It’s an exciting Iife for the hairdresser from Manchester.Today, many companies work with celebrity doubles. The most popular celebrity doubles look like famous athletes, pop singers, and actors. The companies pay doubles to go to parties and business meetings. Doubles are also on TV and in newspaper ads.Why do people want to look like a celebrity? An Anna Kournikova double in the U.S. says,“I can make good money. I also make a Iot of people happy.”Track l-1-OL-9B.Listen again. Then circle True or False. If a sentence is false, make it true.Track l-l-OL-IOListen to the story summary. Fill in the blanks with what you hear.Sun-hee makes plans to meet her cousin at the bus station. Then her co-worker calls and asks Sun-hee to teach a a class. Sun-hee agrees to teach the class, She asks Tara to meet her cousin. She tells Tara what her cousin looks like. S. Sun-hee says that he’s in his thirties, He’s average height and heavyset, and he wears glasses. When Sun-hee comes hoiome, she sees that her cousin /ooks very different. Sun-hee asks Tara,“How did you find him?” Tara Iaughs and she shows Sun-hee a sign that says “Sun-hee Park’s cousin.”Unit2Track l-2-OL-IA.Listen to these three conversations. What is each person doing? Circle thecorrect answer.Conversation 1Man: Next, please!Woman: Hi, here’s my ticket.Man: And where are you going today, Ms. Gregory?Woman: Berljn.Man: May I see your passport, please?Woman: Sure, here you-are,Man: And how many suitcases do you have?Woman: Just one.Conversation 2Man: Too bad it’s our last day in New York. There’s a lot to see. Woman: I know. But at least we’re here-at the Statue of Liberty. Isn’t i t beautiful? Man: Yeah, it is. Hey, we need a photo. Excuse me?Man 2：Yes?Man: Can you take our picture, please?Man 2：Sure.Conversation 3Woman: Welcome to the Ritz Carlton, Shanghai.Man: Thank you. My name is Ian Walters. I have a room for myself and my wife.Woman: Okay. Can I see a credit carc and ID, please?Man: Of course. Here’s my card and my passport.Woman: Thank you. Here are your keys, Mr, Walters. Enjoy your stay.Track l_2_OL2B.Listen again. Complete the sentences with the correct city.Track l-2-OL-3A.Listen to some travel tips for Thailand. How many tips are mentioned?Travel tips for ThailandThailand is a nice country in Southeast Asia, with something for every visitor. There is a lot for you to discover there. But before you go, you should make a plan to help you be better prepared. Here are sonme tipsFirstly, the weather in Thailand is hot and humid all year, so you should pack sunglasses, T-shirts, and sandals with you.Secondly, you should buy your plane ticket early. Thailand is a very popular place for a vacation, and the plances are very full. Thirdly, the traffic in this country is very bad and people drive really fast, so you should rent a car. Another tip is that you should drink a lot of water and juice to stay cool. Finally, and this is a very important tip, you shouldn’t take photos outside in the afternoon. It is too sunny and bright. Remember these tips and you will have a great time there. Have fun in Thailand! Track l-2-OL-4B.Listen again and complete the sentences.Track l-2-OL-5A.Listen to the first part of a talk about the weather in some vacation spots, Then fillin the chart with information you hear. For each place, write the best time for a vacation and the reason.Watch the Weather!Most people plan their vacations very careffi]ly. They think a lot about plane tickets, passports, and hotel reservations. But they often forget about one important thing – the weather. You should learn about the right time to visit your vacation spot. Here is some information to help you plan your next vacation.. Italy. The weather is sunny all year, but it’s sometimes cold in winter. April and May are warm and beautiful. From June to September, it’s very hot.. Australia. Summer here is from December to April. It sometimes rains, butweather is usually very good. In winter, it snows a little in some places, but most of Australia isn’t very cold.Track l-2-OL-6B.Now listen to the second part of the talk. Then fill in the rest of the chart＼N协information you hear.Hong Kong, China. The Weather is hot and very humid here a lot of the year. In July and August, it’s sometimes very windy, and there are bad storms. October and November are warm and not so humid, but in December and January, it gets very chilly sometimes.*Germany. From November to April, the weather is cold, cloudy, and snowy. In spring it’s warm, but there’s a Iot of rain.July and August are usually warm and sunny. * India. You shouldn’t travel to fndia from June to September. There is a lot of rain everywhere. From November to April, after the rainy season, the weather is nice and co01. In April and May, it often gets very hot.Track l-2-OL-7A.Study the pictures of these items. Then listen to the passage. How are these fivethings related to each other?In Tokyo, it’s an envelope with $850,000 in cash. At Florida’s Disney World, it’s a glass eye. At a hotel in England, it’s a goat and a false leg. How are all of these things similar? They are unusual things that people Ieave in hotel rooms, in airports, and on city streets. Lrish Martino works in the Lost and Found Center at an airport in a U.S. city. “Sure, we find the usual stuff–cell phones, keys, sunglasses, and wallets,” she says. “But people also forget some weird things at the airport, too.” What does Ms. Martino find? A woman’s false teeth in the bathroom. A mannequin in an airport waiting area.“How do you forget those things?” Martino wonders. Nobuo Hasuda works for the Lost and Found Center in downtown Tokyo. The Center has almost 800,000 items, Three hundred thousand of them are umbrellas! There are also manyother things –jewelry and briefcases, snowshoes and musical instruments. Mr. Hasuda keeps the lost items for six months and two weeks. After this time, the finder can take the item. This is good luck for some people. Remember the money belongs to the finder!Track l-2-OL8B.Listen again. Then complete each sentence with the correct word or number. Rack l-2-OL-9Listen to the story summary. Fill in the blanks with what you hear.Roberto is packing for a trip and Mike is helping him. Mike asks about the souvenirs that Roberto is bringing for his famjly. Roberto explains that the book is for his niece and the small Statue of Liberty belongs to his father. Roberto says that he’s ready to go, but then Mike finds a teddy bear and asks whose it is. Roberto says that it belongs to him and explains that it was a gift from Claudia so he always travels with it. Mike says he thinks the bear makes a cute travel partner for Roberto.Unit 3Track l-3-OL-1A.Listen. What are Ashley and her dad talking about? Check the answer.Dad: Ashley?Ashley: Yeah, Dad! I’m in my room. I’m packing.Dad: Hi, honey. I can’t believe you’re going to college!Ashley: I know.Dad: i: So, what do you want to study?Ashley: Art.Dad: Art?! Come on, Ashley. Be serious.Ashley: I am serious, Dad.Dad: I think you should study business so you can get a good job.Ashley: Business!?Dad: Yes, you’re a smart, organized young woman. It’s perfect for you. Ashley: ; But, Dad … there’s a Iot t can do with an art degree. The business world is very competitive ..,Dad: I don’t know, Ashley …Ashley: Come on Dad. Let’s look at the university website. There’s more information there.Track l-3-OL-2B.Listen again. Complete the sentences.T rack l_3-OL-3A. Listen to a conversation between two interviewers. What are they talking about? Circle the answer.A: I interviewed Sara Foxx. She likes sales, but wants to work part time. Hmm …I spoke with Jason Gray, and he wants to work at home but likes responsibility.A: Does he want to work full time?Yes, he does. How about Sara?Well, she wants to work part time, but she plans to stay at the sales position for at least two years. And she Ioves people,B: What does she plan to do in two years’ time?A: She expects to go to grad school in the future, but she likes thejob.B: Jason likes the job too. He wants to make a good salary and he Ioves to travel. A: Well, Sara hates to fly. It seemsjason would be the person we need. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have any sales eroPetxeTrack l-3-OL-4B Now listen again. Then fill in the chart below about which descriptions are true for Sara and Jason. Check the boxes.Track l-3-OL-5A.Listen to the following famous people talking about the right personality neededfor success. Do you have the right personality for these jobs?I’m Don Pierce. A good actor works very, very hard. People think that actors spend their time at a lot of parties and nightclubs, but that isn’t true. Actors spend hours –many hours –studying their lines for each movie. And you really have to understand people so that you can understand your character in the movie.I’m Janice. I think the most important thing for a good doctor is being a good listener. You have to understand people and their problems. A good doctor likes to solve problems and always wants to help his or her patients. And you can’t be impulsive –you should always be careful. Sometimes the first answer you think of isn’t the right answer. Doctors need a lot of energy, because they are usually hardworking.Hi, I’m Daniel. To be a success in business, you have to work well with groups of people. At the same time, you need to have strong opinions and be ab/e to explain your opinions clearly. Good business-people always like to make new things and try new ideas. They are very organized, and they work very long hours.Track l_3-OL-6B. Now listen again. Then fill in the chart below about which things are important forthe jobs listed. Check the boxes.Track l-3-OL:7C. Listen to a recording and complete the following paragraph. Use words from the box.A good athlete is hardworking. He or she practices for many hours before every game. Athletes should also be competitive. They should always think about their team, and how to win. Good athletes are also independent. They practice alone, even when the coach isn’t there. They are very careful about their health, and they don’t do dangerous things. And they are very serious about their sport – it is the most important thing in their life!Track l-3.OL-8A.Now listen to the passage about four personality types: The Dreamer, The Partner,The Thinker, and The Artist. Which personality type best describe you.The DreamerA dreamer thinks there is a “right” way to do things. This person wants to ljve in the “perfect world.”A Dreamer is often hardworking and organized. Many are good listeners and like to help others. Many Dreamers work as teachers, lavvyers, and in leadership roles.ThePartnerA Partner wants to be in a group. For this person, rules and group harmony are important,丁hese rules lKeep peace in the group. Partners are often serious, careful people. Many do well as teachers, managers, police officers, and politicians. TheThinkerFor Thinkers, understanding things is very important. They like to solve problems and make new things. Thinkers can also be competitive. They Iike to win. They are independent and often have very strong opinions. Many Thinkers work as scientists, inventors: politicians, and engineers.The ArtistArtists want to ‘oe free. They don’t want to follow the rules all the time. Artists like action and are often impulsive. They also like trying new things. Like Thinkers, many Artists have strong opinions. Many artists are creative and do well as musicians, actors, fashion designers, and athlete.Track l- 3-OL-9B. Listen again. C\rcle D for Dreamer, P for Partner, T for Thinker, or A for Artist for each sentence. Sometimes, more than one answer is possible.Track l-3-OL-10Listen to the story summary. Fill in the blanks with what you hear.Claudia and Sun-hee are watching a baseball game and start to talk about sports. Claudia says that she plays baseball five or six times a year. Sun-hee says that she often goes swimming and loves to play tennis. She also says that she’s not very competitive and just wants to have fun. When a baseball player invites them to play, Sun-hee as-ks if the game is serious or for fun. The man says it’s for fun, so Claudia and Sun-hee agree to play. But then while she is telling everyone how athletic she and Sun-hee are, Claudia falls ofF the bench!Unit 4Track l-4-OL-IA. Listen to the first part of this radio interview and circle the correct answers. Interviewer: And welcome back to KPLX radio in Los Angeles. We’re talking this morning with Europe’s hottest singer, Yeliz. Thanks forjoining us.Yeliz: Sure! Hello Los Angeles!Interviewer: So, tell us a Iittle about yourself, Yeliz. Where are you from exactly? Yeliz: I was born in Istanbul, but I live in Scotland now. My dad’s Scottish. My mom’s Turkish.Interviewer: You’re only seventeen. What’s it like being successful at your age? Yeliz: It’s pretty exciting. I get to travel, and meet some interesting people.Track l-4- OIL-2B. Listen again. Complete the sentences. Check the correct boxes.Interviewer: And welcome back to KPLX radio in Los Angeles. We’re talking this morning with Europe’s hottest singer, Yeliz, Thanks for joining us.Yeliz: Sure! Hello Los Angeles!Interviewer: So, tell us a little about yourself, Yeliz. Where are you from exactly? Yeliz: I was born in Istanbul, but I live in Scotland now.’My dad’s Scottish. My mom’s Turkish.Interviewer: You’re only seventeen. What’s it like being successful at your age? Yeliz: It’s pretty exciting. I get to travel, and meet some interesting people. Interviewer: You’re touring now, but what are your plans for the future?Yeliz: After the tour, I want to take a break. Then, later this year, I plan to make a new CD.Interviewer: Do you have any advice for other young artists?Yeliz: Well, I’d say follow your dreams. Work hard, and you can be successful. Trackl-4-OL-3A. Listen to a talk about how to become successful in business. What are the thingsyou should do or you shouldn’t do? Complete the sentences,If you want to become a successful businessperson, you should do three things. First, you should think about your goals every day. Make plans for today, tomorrow, and next year. Second, you should join a business club. You can learn a lot from the other members, and they can give you good advice. Third, you shouldn’t work every night and every weekend, Sometimes you should take a break, You get more energy and ideas when you relax. And you need a Iot of energy and ideas to make money! Track l-4-OL-4Listen to a talk about rea/izing dreams.Find your dreamWe all have dreams, but some people actually make their dreams come true. Their secret? They quit dreaming. And they start doing. Even a very big dream starts with small steps, and small goals. Maybe your dream is to become a doctor. Start by thinking about small goals for yourself. Ask, “What can I do today?” You can’t start medical school today, but you can send e-mails and make phone calls to get information about medical schools. Make a list of schools to call, and then call a few of them every day. What do you need for your dream? Tell friends and family members – many of them can help you. For example, you want to become an artist. You need a Iot of cheap paper for drawing. Maybe your friend’s brother throws away a lot of big paper at his office. So, share your dream with the world! Another good idea is talking to people who are doing your dream job. Do you dream about having your own restaurant? Go to your favorite restaurant and ask the owner lots of questions. Most people like to talk about their work.Track l-4-OL-5B. Listen again and complete each sentence.Track l-4-OL-6A. Now listen to two young people talking about their dreams.A lifetime dreamEveryone has his or her own dream jobs. Let’s listen to Yi Wang, a 29-year-old young teacher, and Hicham Nassir, who are going to talk about their dream jobs.“At the moment, I’m teaching chemrstry at a university in Beijing. It’s a good job, but my dream js to make films. In China, young artists move to Beijing from all over the country. Many of them are painters, writers, and actors. I’d like to make a film about their lives and their work.” Wang is writing the film now with help from her friends. But it isn’t easy. “At the moment, the biggest problem is money,” explains Wang. “We don’t have much.” But this isn’t going to stop Wang and her partners. Shesays,“First, we’re going to make this movie. Then, we’d Iike to show it in Chia and, maybe someday, at film festivals around the world.”16-yearold Hicham Nassir is a soccer player. He’s getting ready for a soccer match with his teammates. Hicham, the team’s star player, is a native of Morocco. He now lives in London with his family. “My parents want me to go to college, and major in business or law,” he explains. “They want me to become a lawyer or a successful businessman. I understand them, but I want to be a pro soccer player. And my coach thinks I can do it.”And what about his parents? “I hope they change their minds,”says Hicham.“1 want to play soccer professionally. It’s my dream”.Track l-4-OL-7B. Ljsten again. Then complete each sentence.Track l-4-OL-8Listen to the story summary. Fill in the blanks with what you hear.Mike decides that he needs to change his style. First he’s going to get a haircut. Then he’s going to quit some of his bad habits and travel more. Mike then tells Roberto and Takeshi that he’s going to be rich and famous. They ask if he’s going to become a rock and roll star or maybe a movie star. Mike says “no” and explains that he’s going to write a book that sells a million copies. What’s the book about? Mike’s not sure … but it all starts with a haircut!Unit 5A. Toshi and Isabel are studying English in London. Listen. Circle the correct city. Toshi: Hi, Isabel. How are you?IsabeV: Okay, Toshi … Well, actually, I’m missing Spain today – especially the food. Toshi: You’re from Madrid, right?Isabel: Not exactly. I go to school in Madrid.Toshi: Oh, where do you live, then?Isabel: Getafe. Lt’s a small suburb near Madrid.Toshi: f don’t know it.Isabel: Well, only about 150,000 people live there. It’s kind of boring. But it’s very affordable.Toshi: That’s good. The city I’m from is very expensive. You’re lucky.Lsabel: Yes, but we have a problem: the traffic. Sometimes I drive to school and the traffic is terrible.Track l_5-OL-2A.Listen again. Which words descri’oe the city Isabel lives in? Check the words. Track l-5-OL3A.Listen to a talk about a great city for a vacation.Singapore is a great city for a vacation. There are a Iot of interesting things to see. You can visit Chinatown and Little India, and go shopping on Orchard Road. Singapore also has many good restaurants. There are some great beaches for swimming near the city, and the parks are really beautiful. The city has very good public transportation – you can take a bus, train, or subway. It’s a safe city, and there isn’t much crime. It’s also a clean city. There isn’t much pollution. The only problem is that Singapore is expensive. The population of Singapore is approximately 4.84 million. With a medley of Chinese, Indian and Malay influences and a tropical climate, tasty foocl, good shopping and a vibrant nightlife scene, this Garden City makes a great stopover or springboard into to the region.Track l-5-OL4B. Listen again and fill in the chart with information you hear.Track l-5-OL-5A.Now listen to a passage about cities to go to for vacation.Choosing a cityIstanbul is a very unusual city – one part is in Europe, and the other part is in Asia. About 9 million people live there. Visitors love Istanbul because it has many beautiful, old buildings, and the food is great. At night, the seafood restaurants are very popular. And everything in lstanbul is very affordable for visitors. Traffic is a problem in the city, because there are too many cars for the old streets. There are also subways, trains, and buses, and some people take ats to go between the European side and the Asian side. The weather is very good in summer, but in winter it’s somttimes very cold.Vancouver is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It’s near the mountains and the sea, and there are many great parkks where you can walk, ride a bicycle, or just relax. The city has good public transportation, with buses and fast trains that go everywhere. There are about 600,000 people in Vancouver, but it’s a very clean city, and there’s not much pollution. Two bad points – prices there are very high, and the weather is not veryjgood. Vancouver is famous for rain! But there are many good museums for those rainy days, and in the evening, the city MS great restaurant nightclubs to visit.Track l-5-OL-6B. Listen again. Complete the chart with information about the cities.Vrack l-5-OL-7A. Now listen to a talk aalk about The Best Cites to LiVe in. Read the sentences. Which city does each sentence describe? Someomes both cities are possible.Two magazines recently listed the best cities to live in. Here are two of the cities listed as “the world’s best.”San Jose, Costa Rica. When people think of Costa Rica, they imagine rain forests, rivers, and beautiful beaches. These things are not in San Jose. But this city is still one of the world’s best. Why? Unlike other cities in Central and South America, San Jose has comfortable weather all year (15 C/60 F to 26 C / 79 F). Housing is affordable in San Jose. Also, many of the city’s older neighborhoods are very beautiful and have small hotels, art galleries and cafes. Beautiful volcanoes and mountains surround the city. You can visit them easily from San Jose. Minuses: There’s good public transportation, but traffic and air pollution are a problem in the city center.Hong Kong, China. Why Iive in Hong Kong? Here are two good reasons. The city: This lively city – once a small fishing village – is today an international business center. It is an interesting mix of East and West, old and new. Modern skyscrapers are next to small temples. Popular nightclubs are close to traditional teahouses. Busy crowds fill the streets at all hours of the day. But outside the city, there are parks for walking or relaxing. The food: Hong Kong is famous for its wonderful native dishes (try the dim sum). There’s also food from Europe, North America, and other parts of Asia. Uses: This small city has a large population. How many people live in Hong Kong? Almost seven million! That’s why housing is often very expensive. Traffc and air pollution are also a problem.Track l_5_OL-8B. Listen again. Do you want to Iive in Hong Kong or San Jose? Why or why not? What is important to you in a place to live? Put these items in order from l (very important) to 4 (not so irnportant). Explain yor reasons.Track l-5-OL-9Listen to the story summary. Fill in the blanks with what you hear.Sun-hee and Tara come home and find a note from Claudia. Claudia wants them to meet her at a restaurant called Giovanni’s. She gives Sun-hee and Tara directions to the restaurant, but Tara forgets Claudia’s note. They ask a man for directions, but they don’t understand them. They finally take a taxi to the restaurant. When they get there, they are surprised. The restaurant is right across the street from the subway station!。

大学英语视听说教程一听力原文

大学英语视听说教程一听力原文

英语听力Unit1How's your college life?Listening in--Task1Good morning,everyone.I'd like to welcome you to City University.I'm Betty Russell and I work in the International Students' Office.I have some important information for you.First,you must enroll by August28th.Pick up your ID card at our office.Then,you'll need to pick up a library card so you can borrow books from the library.Show them your ID card in the library and they will do it for you.You may be thinking about the sports facilities at our school.There's no charge for students,but of course you'll have to show your ID card when you go there.Concerning medical assistance,the university has its own health center,and all services are free for enrolled students.Listening in--Task2John:Hi,Lisa.How's life on campus?Lisa:Hi,John.Oh,not so bad.Pretty good in fact.John:ls that what you think?I mean,do you like living on campus? Lisa:Yeah,l enjoy living here because there are so many people around and it's easy to make friends.What about you?Have you ever lived in a dorm before?John:No,this is my first time.Lisa:I think you'll find it quite convenient.The library,labs,sports center and other facilities are right on campus.John:That's true.The atmosphere here is different.But I guess living in town has its advantages too,like being close to the shopping center.You know,our university is so far from downtown.Lisa:But imagine commuting to classes...I mean,you would have to get up so early to get to class on time.And then going home would take so much time.John:Yeah,but what about the food here?It seems like it's the same thing in the cafeteria every day.Lisa:Well,I think the food here is OK,and if you want a change,you can eat out once in a while.John:True.Listening in--Task3There was a student who wanted very much to gain admission to a study course.He was smart enough to get through the written test and appear for the personal interview.Since the boy answered all the questions correctly,the interviewer decided to corner him."Tell me your choice," said the interviewer to the boy."I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult.Which option would you prefer?Think before you make up your mind."The boy thoughtfor a while and said,"My choice is one really difficult question." "Well,you have made your own choice!"said the interviewer."Tell me: Which comes first,day or night?"The boy was jolted first but he thought for a while and said,"It's the day,sir.""Why?"asked the interviewer.He was smiling."Sorry,sir,but you promised me that you would only ask me one difficult question!"Admission to the course was thus secured.Further listening and speaking--Task1University life is a new and different experience for me.First of all,living at the university gives me a sense of responsibility,of being on my own.My parents aren't around to say,"No,you're not going out tonight."I decide everything for myself.Being around lots of friendly people is another aspect of university life that I enjoy.When I arrived on campus for my first day,I was a bit confused about where I was going.An upperclassman noticed me and asked,"Are you a new student?"When he found out I was looking for my dorm,he said,"Oh,just follow me;that's where I'm going."Now,I can really say that I feel comfortable in the dorm becausethere are so many friendly people around to talk with.Finally,I love having Fridays off;I would not be able to deal with five days of classes in a row.How did I do it in high school?I love sleeping in on Fridays.I'm sort of a party animal;it seems like I go out every Thursday night.It alsoseems like I don't get home until early the next day!My head hits the pillow and I don't move until Friday afternoon.Further listening and speaking--Task2Though it makes up50%of everyday communication,listening,it seems,is the least taught subject.Listening is more than just hearing:it requires understanding.In an educational setting,listening effectively is critical.Effective listening helps us do our assignments well,and take better notes.Doing these activities well results in better learning and,most of the time,in good grades.In a professional setting,listening is also critical.When you receive an oral message,your response must be correct.If you fail to listen to customers or clients,you may lose THEIR business,and YOUR job!In a personal setting,listening deepens your relationships.When we listen to someone,we say"You are important" without ever speaking a word.When we fail to listen,not only do we not receive the message,but we send the message that we are just plain dumb.Unit2Do you work out?Listening in--Task1I first saw Yao Ming back in1997.Nike had just signed a contract to sponsor the Shanghai Sharks.We had a little party to introduceourselves and to meet the players.A few of US were there when the team walked in.They looked normal;most of them were about6'4"or so.Then,a thin,baby-faced guy came in.He was about7'5".We were all amazed.We couldn't believe his size.And when he started hitting three-pointers,we were really blown away!Our guys in the U.S.didn't believe that there was a Chinese kid that tall.To convince them,we had to bring him to a Nike camp in Paris that summer.Yao had always played against kids who were older than him.This was the first time he was competing with players his own age.Del Harris,then the Lakers coach,was at the camp.He fell in love with Yao Ming.He was telling everybody,"I got to have a picture with that kid.One day he's going to have a real impact on the NBA."Listening in--Task2More and more people today are realizing the importance of regular physical exercise.Physical exercise can make you strong and healthy.By doing some form of physical exercise every day,your level of energy will increase and you will sleep better at night.There are many different forms of physical exercise that suit the various tastes and needs of different people.Take track and field events,for example.Throwing the javelin can strengthen your arm and upper body.The long jump and high jump can strengthen your legs.Basketball,football and volleyball are alsogood forms of exercise.Be careful when choosing the right type of exercise for yourself.If your heart is weak,for example,you should start with light exercise.If you are overweight,know your limits.Don't overdo it.Listening in--Task3One day,a grandfather went golfing with his grandson.The young man was really good and the grandfather was just giving him tips.They were on Hole8and there was a tree in the way.The grandfather said,"When I was your age,I would hit the ball right over that tree." So,the grandson hit the ball and it bumped againstthe tree and landed close to where it had started."Of course,"added the grandfather,"when I was your age,the tree was only three feet tall."Further listening and speaking--Task1Sports are very important in the U.S.,for both spectators and participants.Many people have jobs where they sit for most of the day,So when they have free time,they like to take part in more physical activities.Both team sports and individual activities are popular.Youth sports are usually played either in local clubs or in schools.Most major league sports recruit their players from college or high school teams.Spectator sports are also a major part of American culture.ManyAmericans watch sports weekly,if not daily.Thousands of people attend professional and college sporting events to cheer on their local lions more choose to watch on TV and root from their own living rooms.On TV,American football,baseball and basketball are the most popular sports.Soccer has a long way to go before it is on the same level as the"big three".Although there is some overlapping,football is played in the fall,basketball in the winter and baseball in the spring and summer.American professional teams are privately owned and generally situated in major cities,so they have a large fan base to draw from.There's no government involvement in these leagues.Further listening and speaking--Task2A businessman entered a hotel and placed his umbrella in the stand.Before going upstairs,he tied a card to his umbrella.The card said:"N.B.-This umbrella belongs to a champion heavyweight boxer.Back in ten minutes."In about20minutes he returned,but the umbrella was gone.The card,however,was still there,and on it someone had written: "P.S.-Umbrella taken by a champion long-distance runner.Won't be back at all."Unit3Tell me about your friends.Listening in--Task1I have a picture that sits on my desk in my bedroom.When I have trouble studying,or I'm worried about an exam,I just take a look at it.It is a picture of my best friends.It was taken years ago when we were in high school.It reminds me of the good times we've shared and the support their friendship still gives me today.Even though our lives have gone in different directions,the bond we created has kept us close.We update each other about what's been going on through text messaging,Facebook,and Twitter.I often get e-mails with a joke for the day,or words of comfort about some problems in my life.My friends have shown up for surprise birthday parties,and one of them even traveled two hours from the other end of town just to watch my first English speech contest.Our friendship has carried me through a lot of difficult experiences,and has enriched the good ones.It is the kind of friendship that outlasts disagreements,changes,and separation.Listening in--Task2As a foreign student,I have a number of problems.The biggest one is meeting people.I feel confident about my ability to cope with problems in my studies,but I'm not comfortable making friends with other students,especially local ones.Perhaps I'm worrying unnecessarily,but I find it difficult to talk to them.The primary reason is the language barrier.My English is quite standard and formal,and although that helpsme with my academic work,I have trouble understanding other students when they are just chatting.It seems I really need informal,colloquial English.Besides,there's the cultural gap.That's why it's so difficult for overseas students and native English-speaking students to really get to know each other.I really want to overcome this difficulty.I guess the best way to begin is to start talking about coursework that we share,and then I could suggest going for a cup of tea or coffee.Over coffee we could get to know each other.Another way would be to join a club on campus,because that immediately gives us something in common with other people there.Further listening and speaking--Task1One day,I saw a kid from my class walking home from school.His name was Robert.It looked like he was carrying all of his books.I thought to myself,"Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday?" Then,I saw a bunch of kids running toward him.They ran at him,knocking all his books out of his arms.His glasses went flying.He looked up and I saw terrible sadness in his eyes.My heart went out to him.As I handed his glasses,there was a big smile on his face.I helped him pick up his books.We talked all the way home,and I carried his books.Monday morning came,and there was Robert with the huge stack of books again.Over thenext four years,we became best friends.On graduation day,Robert gave aspeech on behalf of the class.He said,"I am here to tell you a story."l just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the story of the first day we met.He had planned to kill himself that weekend.He talked of how he was carrying his stuff home."Thankfully,"he said,"my friend saved me from doing the unspeakable."Not until that moment did I realize that sometimes,with one small gesture,you can change a person's life.Further listening and speaking--Task2You may have a lot of friends and expect your friendships to last a lifetime.However,not everybody can make lifelong friendships.Friends sometimes misunderstand each other.For one thing,you may want your friends to be near at hand,but also you need your independence and privacy.For example,when one of your friends comes asking if it is all right to spend the evening at your house,sometimes you just say"no"to him or her because it is not convenient for you.Unfortunately,not all your friends understand this type of independence.Some people believe that friends can ask for any favor and the answer should always be "yes".Also,misunderstanding sometimes occurs when you ask for help.You may expect your friends to help you no matter what the circumstances are.But the fact is,your friends may not always drop everything to satisfy each of your needs.This may make you angry with them and your friendship could fade.The most important thing for youand your friends is to always show understanding and respect for each other.Unit4How's the weather today?Listening in--Task1We all know that people cannot control the weather.However,we can predict important short term changes in the weather.This is called weather forecasting.Many people rely on the weatherperson to provide that information,but one method of weather forecasting is simply to use your eyes and your brain.For example,if you see a rainbow in a rainy evening,it means that the weather will soon be clear and fine.Sometimes distant objects such as hills and tall trees appear very clear and near;this means that there is a lot of water vapor in the air.It is usually a sign of rain.If fog appears around sunrise,then the day will be warm.If the sunset is mostly red,then the following day will be fine.Clear,twinkling stars at night are also a sign of fine weather.Listening in--Task2M:Hey,Jane!Does everyone know what time to meet us this weekend for the picnic?W:Yeah.They'll all be here at11sharp!I've got all the food and drinks for the barbecue,and Tom is bringing the grill.M:OK.I've got that old net;we can use it for beach volleyball.W:Oh,I forgot to tell you.I've invited Class Two and Three as well.We'll be able to have a volleyball match,one class against the other.That'll be great fun.M:Did you check the weather?I hope it's going to stay nice for the weekend.We can't have a picnic in the rain.W:No worries!I watched the weather forecast last night,and the weatherperson said it's going to be fine——maybe a little cloudy,but DEFINITELY no rain!(Next morning)M:What terrible weather!It's raining buckets!W:There's no way we can go out in that.The weatherperson is useless——I hope they had a picnic today,too.M:I don't know what's happened with the weather these days.When I was little,we never had this much rain in the summer.W:l agree.And have you noticed that winter is warmer now as well?We always used to get snow in January.Now winter is more like spring! M:You're telling me.I bet it's all the pollution and the hole in the ozone layer that's changing the weather.W:Oh,global warming and all that.M:I guess we'll have to take a rain check on the picnic.Listening in--Task3A film crew was on location deep in the desert.One day an old man went up to the director and said,"Tomorrow,rain."The next day it rained.A week later,the old man went up to the director and said,"Tomorrow,storm."The next day there was a hailstorm."This old man is incredible,"said the director.He told his secretary to hire the old man to predict the weather.However,after several successful predictions,the man didn't show up for two weeks.Finally the director sent for him."I have to shoot a big scene tomorrow,"said the director,"and I'm depending on you.What will the weather be like?"The old man shrugged his shoulders."Don'tknow,"he said."The radio broke!"Further listening and speaking--Task1You may not believe that our mental energy varies from season to season,but some people think that it does.Research has shown that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities.Scientists have discovered that cool weather helps creative thinking much more than warm weather does.Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking.People seem to be a lot sharper in spring than they are in any other season.One reason may be that in spring,people's mental abilities are affected by the same factors that bringabout great changes in nature.Fall is the next best season,then winter.Summer seems to be the best time to take a long vacation from thinking.This does not mean thatall people are less intelligent in summer than they are during the rest of the year.It does mean,however,that the mental abilities of most people tend to be lowest in summer.Be aware of these facts,and you will make the most of your talents.Further listening and speaking--Task2Although he was a qualified meteorologist,Hopkins ran up a terrible record of forecasting for the TV news program.He became something of a local joke when a newspaper began keeping a record of his predictions and showed that he'd been wrong almost three hundred times in a single year.That kind of notoriety was enough to get him fired.He moved to another part of the country and applied for a similar job.One blank on the job application asked the reason for leaving his previous position.Hopkins wrote,"The climate didn't agree with me.'Unit5What's your favorite food?Listening in--Task1Eating habits in America really get a lot of criticism.But the truthis,it depends on where in America you look.In big cities,people are becoming more health-conscious every day.This is shown by what foods they buy in supermarkets,and what restaurants they eat in.There is now a big push for"green"foods that are grown naturally.In cities like New York and Chicago,restaurants offer new and healthy styles to stay ahead of the competition.However,these habits contrast with those in America's heartland.Here,people tend to eat more traditional and fattier,such as breakfasts of eggs,bacon,sausages,toast and other greasy,but delicious foods.Fast food chain restaurants such as McDonald's and the Olive Garden,which serve cheaper food,draw a lot of customers and are popular in most places.Listening in--Task2W:John,I'm really hungry!M:Just get anything you want;it's on me today.I'm thinking about a hamburger and some chicken McNuggets.W:Thanks.That sounds good.I love the milk shakes here.M:Me,too.McDonald's has a really special formula.W:Right.And no matter where you go in the world,you can always see similar menu items and the same high level of quality in McDonald's. M:It's true.They also do well because of diversity.I mean,they selldifferent products according to people's tastes and preferences in different areas.W:Right.Like the Spicy Chicken Sandwich and Seafood Soup that they sell in China.They could never sell that here!M:But I've heard that McDonald's is really losing market share in the States now,and has closed some restaurants.W:Yeah.It's just so difficult to stay competitive when there are so many fast food chains in the States.I mean there are KFC,Pizza Hut,and A&W, just to name a few.M:It seems that they're doing better overseas,'cause they're really able to sell American culture.W:Yeah.They use all the media they can,and they do a good job.Further listening and speaking--Task1Food is national and international.Many people like their own national dishes and a variety of foreign ones.You can find European and Asian restaurants in most large cities.You can find Italian,French,Chinese,and Mexican restaurants in New York,Washington,San Francisco,and many other cities in the United States.You might also find Greek and Middle Eastern restaurants in some American cities.American hamburgers and hot dogs are popular in Tokyo and Paris.In almost every country you will findrice,potatoes,eggs,bread,soup,meat,vegetables,milk,fruit,and other basic foods.People just cook them differently in different countries.People all over the world also prefer different things to drink.The English drink a lot of tea,and the French drink a lot of wine.Americans prefer coffee,milk or soda.German beer is now completely international.Children are often very conservative about new foods.In the United States they often prefer to eat thesame three or four dishes:hamburgers and French fries,hot dogs,fried chicken,and ice cream.Further listening and speaking--Task2I've always ordered my soft drinks in a simple way.For example,I might say"A Coke,please."Lately,though,this hasn't seemed to work.Servers now often respond,"Regular Coke,Diet Coke or Coke Zero?"Or,they may say:"I'm sorry,we don't have Coke.We have Pepsi,Diet Pepsi,Dr.Pepper,7-Up,Hartridges,Virgin Cola,Sprite,and Red Bull."Exhausted by listening to the long list of soft drinks,I thought I'd make life easier.So one day I simply asked the snack bar staff at a cinema for a"dark,cold,carbonated drink".The young man behind the counter smiled and asked,"Yes,sir,and would you like a long,thin,cylindrical plastic sucking device with that?"Unit6Being healthy felt great!Listening in--Task1lf you're a young lady in your twenties,you may either be on a diet or wondering which diet to follow.Indeed,people are so concerned with their appearance that the word"diet"has lost its original meaning.It now has the same meaning as"weight loss diet".There was a time when women bound their waists to have a nice figure.Then came Twiggy,a British supermodel most famous in the1960s,and since then everyone has wanted to look like a twig.Because of this trend,many diets have become popular.Very often you meet young girls who look weak enough to blow away in thewind,yet they are still talking about diets!However,extreme diets can lead to health problems.Many such dieters may end up with very serious eating disorders.Princess Diana suffered from an excessively strong appetite;Karen Carpenter,a popular singer of the1970s,died of loss of appetite.You should know that looking good is important but not when it comes at the risk of your healthor your life.Better eating habits and proper exercise are all you need to be fit and look good.Listening in--Task2(D=Doctor,male;S=Student,female)D:Hello,I'm Dr.Black.How're you feeling?S:I'm not feeling well,doctor.D:What seems to be the problem?S:I don't know.I just feel tired all the time.I want to sleep all day.I'm not interested in studying or being with people.D:How long has this been going on?S:Almost one month now.D:Are there any other symptoms?S:I'm just tired.D:DO you have many friends?S:I don't really have many here.I'm an international student.D:I imagine that many things in your life here are different from your life at home.S:Yeah,my life's changed a lot.Food,customs,socializing...Even body language and gestures are all different from what I'm used to in my own country.D:How long have you lived here?S:Almost three months now.It seems much longer;it's a struggle for me to get used to the new way of life here.D:Hmm.Well,let's check you over.(a few minutes later)Well,I don't see anything physically wrong with you.Your heart is strong.Your lungs are clear.Your blood pressure is normal.S:Then what do you think is wrong with me,doctor?D:Your problem seems to be culture shock.Sometimes when people move to a new location,especially a new country,they experience culture shock. Sometimes this culture shock can be serious,and people become very depressed.I suggest that you try to spend some time each week with people from your own culture.S:But my teachers tell me to speak English all the time.D:I understand,but right now we need to deal with your symptoms.Follow my advice,and you'll feel better.S:How long does this last?D:Culture shock lasts for a while and then begins to disappear.The length of time varies from person to person.If you aren't feeling better in two or three weeks,please call me again.Further listening and speaking--Task1While every university in America have their own policies and creates their own rules,most provide some type of medical service or health insurance for students,especially large universities.If students have a cold,or other illnesses,they can see a doctor,and they may also seek medical advice on a range of issues.Free testing for STDs such as HIV is a major part of disease prevention——sharing important information about the epidemic is alsoimportant.If students need a major operation or procedure,they must seek outside assistance,but the school may help them to make the arrangements.Smaller universities and colleges are not likely to provide in-depth medical assistance;they usually deal with small problems in housing,and assist students in taking care of major issues off campus.Universities and colleges without student housing do not offer medical services.Further listening and speaking--Task2There's nothing gradual about the flu.It hits you like a hammer.One minute you're feeling fine,and the next you can be shivering,burning up,and then shivering again.In minutes,your legs become weak and your body aches in places that have never hurt before.Influenza can break out so suddenly that people can sometimes say,"It hit me at exactly nine last night."But whether the flu strikes at night or on the bus to school,there's just one thing a victim wants to do:lie down in bed.A healthy person can fight off the flu in three to five days,though coughing and tiredness can last two more weeks.An attack of the flu is often followed by another illness.Doctors recommend that old people,or people of any age with heart or lung problems,get a flu vaccine every year.Because flu viruses change all the time,a new vaccine must be prepared each year to protect against future attacks.Unit7How much does it cost?Listening in--Task1Malls are popular places in the United States.People like malls for many reasons.They feel safe because malls have private security guards and sometimes even police stations.Parking is usually free,and the weather inside is always fine.The newest malls have beautiful rest areas with waterfalls and large green trees.The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America in Minnesota.It covers4.2million square feet.It has350stores,eight nightclubs,and a seven-acre park!There are parking spaces for12,750cars.About750,000people shop there every week.The first indoor mall in the United States was built in1965in Minnesota,but now malls are like town centers where people come to do many things.They shop,eat foods from all over the world,and see movies at theaters.Some people even get their daily exercise from the new sport of"mall walking".Others go to malls to meet friends.In some malls,people can see a doctor or a dentist and even attend church.Basically,people can do just about anything in malls.Listening in--Task2W:Hey,Don,online shopping is so popular nowadays.Where is a good place to buy electronics online?。

新世纪大学英语视听说听力原文

新世纪大学英语视听说听力原文

新世纪大学英语视听说听力原文文档编制序号：[KK8UY-LL9IO69-TTO6M3-MTOL89-FTT688]UNIT1 Our EarthTrack 4-1-1& 4-1-2Blake: What are you working on, Mary?Mary: I'm finishing my paper. It's due tomorrow, Blake. Blake: What's the topic?Mary: It's about Greenland.Blake: Greenland. Hmmm . . . that's part of Canada, right? Mary: I think you need to study your world geography, Blake. Blake: Well, isn't it near Canada?Mary: Yes, it's off the coast of northeast Canada, but it's part of Denmark.Blake: Oh, I didn't know that. Well, what's your paper about exactly?Mary: In my paper, I answer the question "Is Greenland really green"In other words, is Greenland covered by a lot of plants and trees?Blake: Is it?Mary: What do you think?Blake: Let's see . . . Greenland is in the Arctic Circle-way up north. It's cold, . . . so "Is Greenland really green"I'd answer "probably not."Mary: You'd be correct. It's too cold there. In the north, alot of the ground is frozen. The summers are short, so only the surface thaws.Blake: That sounds tough.Mary: It's hard for the construction industry. It's not easy to build in Greenland.Blake: It sounds so harsh. Why would anyone want to go there? Mary: There are big mountain ranges on the coasts. They're great for hiking and outdoor sports. And there are lots of animals there. You can sometimes see whales swimming in the harbors.Blake: That sounds cool! OK,so if it's not really a "green" place, why was it named "Greenland"Mary: The first settlers wanted to attract other people. They gave it an attractive name.Track 4-1-3Bart: So what exactly did you do over the summer?Gustav: We worked as volunteers at Glacier National ParkBart: I've never been there. What's it like?Carolina: It's beautiful. There are mountains and lakes... and, of course, glaciers!Bart: How was the job?Gustav: We had to do a lot of physical work. It was kind of hard.Carolina:That's true, but it was exciting, too! We actually saw bears!Bart:Wow! That does sound exciting. Maybe I should apply. I'll need a job next summer.Carolina: Sorry, Bart, but you can't apply to that program.It's a special program for international students.Track 4-1-41. Mt. Fuji is really beautiful from far away. When you climb it, it's just rocks and dirt ... but it's really beautiful from far away.2. Last year I was in San Francisco and I had a chance to drive across the Golden Gate Bridge. What an amazing feat of engineering. It gives you a chance to look through all of San Francisco and over San Francisco Bay and it's just a wonderful chance to see the city.Track 4-1-OL-1&4-1-OL-2Jay: Come in here, Elise. You should see this show!Elise: What is it?Jay: It's called "The Titanic of the Sky". It's about the Hindenburg, a great engineering feat.Elise: The Hindenburg . . .Jay: You know, that giant zeppelin that crashed in 1934.Thirty-five people died.Elise: Oh yeah, I remember now. It was flying from Germany to the United States. It crashed as it was landing.Jay: Right. It's so funny looking, don't you think It doesn't look anything like the airplanes we have today.Elise: That's true. Why would people ride in a zeppelin anyway It seems so dangerous.Jay: Well, some people called the Hindenburg "man's greatest achievement in flight."They thought it was safe, I guess. Elise: Who rode in it anyway?Jay: Mostly wealthy people. It accommodated between 30 and 40 passengers and crew. One person said it was like a "flying hotel."Elise: It sounds pretty great.Jay: Yeah, and it was fast. That's why people rode it. They wanted to get to their destination faster.Elise: Why didn't they just take a jet plane?Jay: Elise! You know they didn't have jets back then. Look, in 1934 it took five days to travel from Germany to the U.S. by ship. The zeppelin could do it in half that time.It was speedy. Elise: Well, maybe I'll sit down and watch a little bit. Maybe I'll learn something . . .Track 4-1-OL-3Jack: I think we should buy a bigger car. Big cars are safer. Kayla: Yes, but on the other hand, they consume more oil. Jack: They also look really cool.Kayla: That’s true, but there are some SUVs which are not big but also very beautiful.Jack: And I think big cars are more fun to drive.Kayla: But then again, it’s ver y expensive.Jack: Well, let’s get more information about several kinds of cars, okay?Track 4-1-OL-4My country has two very famous buildings called the Petronas Towers. The buildings are made of glass, steel, and concrete. They were designed by an American architect, but he used a Malaysian style. They were finished in 1998, and they were the tallest buildings in the world at that time. Eachtower has 88 floors, and is 452 meters high. I really like the Petronas Towers. They show both the modern and the traditional side of my countryTrack 4-1-OL-5&4-1-OL-6Modern buildings: We love them, We hate themThe world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris is almost 500 years old, and it faced a very modern problem: There simply wasn’t enough space for six million visitors each year. In 1989, American architect I.M. Pei designed a striking glass pyramid in the building’s center to be a visitor entrance and shopping arcade. But he also started an angry debate. Some people felt his glass building was a piece of art, like the ones inside the museum. Others said it was just an ugly, modern mistake.Kyoto, Japan, is the country’s ancient capital, and the heart of its culture. Its railroad station was too small for the millions of visitors. In 1997, the city completed a new station in a huge shopping center, right in the oldest part of the city. Designed by Hiroshi Hara, the building also contains a hotel and department store. Before it was built, critics said that the high, wide, modern building would destroy the cit y’straditional look. On the other hand, supporters said it would bring new life into the city center.Track 4-1-OL-7&4-1-OL-8The future building boom?Interviewer: What do you think is the biggest problem facing our cities?Erika: I think it's overcrowding. Talk to anyone living in a major metropolitan area and they will say the same thing;There's no space. Even the suburbs are getting crowded. Interviewer: Well, in some places there simply isn't any land left for building, right?Erika: Yes, that's true, but you have to think creatively. You can't give up so easily.Interviewer: Think creatively What do you suggestErika: What I'm saying is that we can build more structures underground. We can add parking lots,malls, hotels, and even apartment buildings.There's plenty of space.Interviewer: Isn't it expensive?Erika: Yes, it can be. In the past building underground has been very expensive. However, we have new technology thatwill bring the cost down. It involves using robots. You don't have to pay robots a salary!Interviewer: Isn't "building down" more dangerous than other kind of construction?Erika: Actually, I think it's safer than building skyscrapers, for example. Remember, we already do it. We have subways and underground shopping malls. I'm just suggesting we invest in a variety of bigger projects and that we dig deeper. Interviewer: What would you say to people who doubt your idea?Erika: I can understand their feelings. Whenever there's a new idea, it can cause controversy. But building down" is not some kind of impractical idea. It makes sense. There is so much space underground: It can accommodate a lot of traffic, storage, and people. With the new technology we have, we'd be crazy not to consider the idea --it's the wave of the future! UNIT2Track 4-2-1&4-2-2Situation 1Man: Oh no!Woman: What happened?Man: I can't believe it! I was sending a message and I accidentally clicked on "Reply to All."Woman: So?Man: It was a personal message for my friend, Jerry. I wanted to send it to his e-mail address only.Woman: Oops.Man: Exactly. ... Instead I sent it to everyone on the list.How embarrassing!Situation 2Man: I see you have a new keyboard. That's nice.Woman: Yes, the company bought me a new one.Man: That's good.Woman: Well, actually ... I spilled coffee on my old keyboard,and it stopped working.Man:Oh, I see.Woman: Don't tell anyone. Drinking coffee near the computers is not allowed!Situation 3Woman: Have you finished working on my computer?Man: Yes, I have. I'm afraid I don't have good news for you. Woman: Really?Man: Really. The problem is with your hardware.Woman: Oh. What do you suggest?Man: I think you should probably buy a new computer. This one can't be fixed.Woman: Well, I have had it for five years. It's time to replace it, I guess.Track 4-2-3Lea: I hate writing term papers! It takes forever!Steve: You're lucky, Lea. When I was young...Lea: Oh, I've heard this story before.Steve: Well, when I was young, we didn't have computers. We used to write our papers on typewriters.Lea: Oh, really That sounds difficult!Steve: It was, especially because I made a lot of mistakes. Lea: Did it take a long time?Steve: Yes. Computers are so much faster and easier to use. Track 4-2-41.I like the laptop because it's very, very thin. It's maybe less than one inch and it's about four pounds and I can carry it anywhere I want.2.My favorite feature of my computer is the Instant Messenger. The reason for this is that it's very affordable, fun andconvenient and allows me to chat with my friends from all over the world.Track 4-2-OL-1&4-2-OL-2Pam: Well, Lynn, I must be going. It was great to see you –Lynn: By, Pam.Pam: What’s that?Lynn: Oh … that’s Ollie.Pam: Ollie:I didn’t know you had a dog!Lynn: Well, we don’t … really.Pam: What do you mean?Lynn: Come here.Pam: Oh my goodness. It’s a robot!Lynn: That’s right. It’s a dog robot. They call it a “dogbot.”Pam: How inte resting! … But it’s a little strange, don’t you think?Lynn: Well, I wanted to get an interactive toy for the kids. They love it. So I’m happy.Pam: How much did it cost?Lynn: Don’t ask. It wasn’t very affordable. It’s cheaper than having a real dog, though. We don’t ever have tobuy dog food! And the batteries are rechargeable. Juliana: Hey, Henrik. Look.Henrik: What is it, Juliana?Juliana: What’s that guy doing over there?Henrik: Which guy?Juliana: The one over there. Wearing a suit. H’s pu nching so many buttons on his cell phone.Henrik: Oh, him. He’s probably playing a game.Juliana: Really?Henrik: A lot of people have games on their cell phones.It’s really popular here in Finland. They play themeverywhere.Juliana: Do you play them, too?Henrik: Yes, I do.Juliana: I only use my phone to make telephone calls. I guess I’m old-fashioned.Henrik: I heard that some people play games even at work.They can play quietly during business meetings. No oneknows about it.Juliana: I’d l ike to try it.Henrik: Here, use mine!Track 4-2-OL-3Penny: Hello. Your Computer World sales department.Ted: Hi, Penny. It’s Ted.Penny: Oh, hi, Ted. What’s up?Ted: well, my computer has crashed again.Penny: Oh no!Ted: Oh, yes. That’s why I’m calling. You know, it’s five years old. And I need to speak to Scott about getting anew one.Penny: well, you’ve called at a good time. We have some attractive new models.Ted: Great! I’m looking for something affordable. And I want to get something portable this time.Penny: I’m sure Scott can help you with that… Let’s see, he is in a meeting until 3:30. I’ll ask him to call you.Ted: No, that’s OK. I’ll call him after 3:30. Please give him the message.Track 4-2-OL-4E-mail is my favourite way to communicate. I think it is as fast as a fax machine, and it is as easy as a cell phone. Of course, e-mail has some problems, too. It isn’t as affordableas ordinary mail, because you need a computer and Internet service. And I don’t think it is as reliable as a fax machine. Sometimes e-mail messages get lost. But in my opinion, e-mailis as convenient as a cell phone. I can send a message from my home or office, and my friends can read it when they have time. Track 4-2-OL-5&4-2-OL-6In today’s report, we look at a new technology called pervasive computing.Pervasive computing means putting tiny computers intoeveryday electronic appliances, such as toasters and microwaves. With pervasive computing, appliances can communicate with their users – and with other appliances!Some companies now sell pervasive computing products like a “smart” toaster. It remembers your favourite kind of toast: light or dark. Companies are designing a “smart” coffee maker and a “smart” clock. Th e coffee maker can measure the water and coffee. It can even put milk in your breakfast coffee and make black coffee in the afternoon. The clock will check thetime on other clocks in your house, and give information about other appliances. For example, it can tell you, “Your coffee maker needs more water.”And that’s only the beginning. One company is nowadvertising “Save time –phone your washing machine!” engineers are making a “smart” house. In this house, the lights, heater, and air conditioner change automatically when family members come home. This makes the home comfortable, and it saves a lot of energy. Pervasive computing could change many parts of our daily lives.But do people really want pervasive computing Do they really need technology everywhere One company asked people about their opinions on “smart” appliances. There were surprises. A “smart” refrigerator can buy more food on the internet, but people didn’t want it, because it might make mistakes.“Pervasive computing is as important as a telephone,” says Rebecca Blair, president of InnoTech Corporation. But some of these products are not useful, or even practical. Companies should learn more about the technology that people really want. Track 4-2-OL-7&4-2-OL-8Local girl rescuedShe may have a broken leg, but she can’t be happier. Morgan Bailey, 11, is happy to be alive.Tuesday was like any other day for Morgan. She was at school. It was fourth period, and she was the first student to arrivein the gymnasium for her physical education class.Suddenly there was a loud noise.“There was a sharp cracking noise and then a loud boom.After that, I don’t remember anything,” said Morgan.The roof of the gymnasium had collapsed under the heavy snow. Morgan was trapped underneath. She couldn’t escape.“I woke up and there was a big piece of wood on my leg. I couldn’t move it. I was starting to get cold.”Fortunately, help was nearby. A new program using “rescue robots” was tried for the first time.“We were nervous about using the robot,” said Derrick Sneed, the man in charge of the program. “But in the end, the robot gave us reliable information. It went extremely well.”The rescue robot was able to go into the gym and locate Morgan’s exact position.“We send in robots first because it may not be safe for humans,” said Mr. Sneed. “Human beings are not as useful as robots in some situations. A gas leak, for example, could kill you or me but wouldn’t hurt a robot.”Although it didn’t happen in Morgan’s case, some rescue robots can bring fresh air or water to people who are trapped. Rescue robots go into rough, dangerous places. They work inlife or death situations. They have to be durable.Doctors say that Morgan is doing well. She should be going home in two or three days. What is the first thing she wants to do after she gets out of the hospital?“I want to meet my hero,” laughs Morgan. “That little robot that saved my life!”UNIT3Track 4-3-1&4-3-2Conversation 1Woman 1: What are you watching?Woman 2: Oh, just the news.Woman 1: Can I change the channel?Woman 2: In just a minute. I want to see the end of this report.Woman 1: I didn't know you were interested in the news. Woman 2: Well, it's Christiane Amanpour. She's really great. She usually reports from London -- the city where she was born. Woman 1: I don't know her.Woman 2: She's an international correspondent. She goes to some really dangerous places. When there's a war, she's usually there.Woman 1: Sounds scary.Woman 2: Yeah. And -- get this -- she's a wife and mother, too.Woman 1: That's very impressive!Conversation 2Man 1: That's a strange -- looking book. What is it?Man 2: It's the writings and photos of Dan Eldon. He was a photojournalist.Man 1: A photojournalist?Man 2: Yeah. A photographer and a journalist. He was born in London in 1970. The book tells all about his life and his dangerous adventures.Man 1: Well, the book certainly looks interesting. Has he written anything else?Man 2: He wrote a book when he was younger. Unfortunately, he won't be writing anything else -- he was killed.Man 1: He died?Man 2: Yeah. It's really sad. He was only 22. He was killed while working in Africa.Track 4-3-3Peter: Hello. I'm Peter Daniels. I'm a reporter from the Center City NewsPeggy: It's nice to meet you, Mr. Daniels. My name is Peggy Sims.Peter:Hi, Peggy. I'm looking for the owner of the Golden Pearl Restaurant. Do you know him?Peggy: Yes. He's standing over there.Peter: That tall man in the sweater?Peggy: No, that's an employee. The owner is the man wearing the suit.</QuestionText>Peter: Oh, I see him. Thanks a lotTrack 4-3-41.I usually always get my news online. I use the Internet because I think it's a very useful tool and it's always up to date.2. I don't watch TV or use the Internet, but I read the newspaper starting on the front page and going to the international section.Track4-3-OL-1&4-3-OL-2Joe: What are you reading, Maria?Maria: The Daily News.Joe: The News Ugh! That’s a terrible paper.Maria: Oh, Joe, it’s not so bad.Joe: Not so bad Lo ok at that headline on the front page! It’s so sensational.Maria: Well, they’ve got great comics. I can’t live without my comics.Joe: I know. But the news coverage is so poor, ... especially the international news. It’s a joke, really.Maria: I’m not so interested in the international news. Besides, they have so many other good features.Joe: Like what?Maria: Like… the daily horoscope, for example. I love it. Joe: That’s not a good reason to buy a newspaper … for the horoscope!Maria: Look, the newspaper only costs 50 cents. What so you expect?Joe: Good point.Maria: Besides the horoscope, I also like the entertainment news. I like to read about the stars and their love affairs. Joe: Well, you can keep The Daily News. I’m going to stick with The Times.Track 4-3-OL-3&4-3-OL-4Amy: John, I’ve never notice this old photo of your family before.John: My mother just found it in the attic. She decided to hang it up.Amy: It’s a nice picture of your family.John：I think it’s embarrassing. And I look stupid.Amy: Well, you could‘ve combed your hair … it’s a nice shot, though. Look at how young you are! How old were you in the photo?John: Eight … no wait, I’d just turned nine.Amy: I guess these two people are your parents.John: Yep. They were married when that picture was taken. Now they’re divorced.Amy: Oh. What do they do?John: My father’s retired. Mom works in a hospital.Amy: What are their names?John：Well, my father’s name is Joseph. My mother is Olivia---she was named after a popular actress.Amy: How great! I have an aunt with the same name. I love the name Olivia … Who’s that guy?John: Which one?Amy: The guy standing behind you. Is that your brother, Tom? John: No, that's my Uncle Randy. He’s only two years older than my brother.Amy: He’s cute. I love a guy with a moustache.John: Um, sorry, but he’s married now. His wife just had a baby.Amy: I was just making a comment … So the other young guy must be your brother.John: Yes. That’s Tom.Amy: How old is he in the picture?John: Let’s see… he’s nine years older than me … so he would‘ve been 18 then.Amy: And there’s your little sister, Tina. She’s so cute! John: Yeah. She’s two years younger than me. It’s hard to believe she’s in high school now!Track 4-3-OL -5&4-3-OL-61. A bank robbery in Virginia, USA, was stopped when therobber and the bank teller couldn’t reach an agreement.The robber pushed a holdup note under the window, but the teller looked at it, said,” I can’t read this,” andgave it back. The robber pushed the note through a secondtime. The teller crumpled the note up and threw it at therobber. He picked it up and walked out of the bank.2. A professional ice hockey player will miss the rest ofthis season’s games because he injured himself. NationalHockey League goalie Jean-Louis Blanchard went on theinjured list after he fell and seriously hurt his back. He was walking out of a restaurant in Ottawa, Canada, when he slipped on some ice.3.The first international camel beauty contest was held lastweek in Alxa, in western China. More than 100 dressed-upcamels entered the contest. The judges examined them forshiny hair, tall humps, and beautiful costumes. Unlikehuman beauty contests, though, there were no interviewswith the contestants.4.Police in Sheffield, England, arrested a 41-year-old manfor stealing five cars. Graham Owens went to car dealersand said he wanted to buy a car, and borrowed a car totest-drive. Each time, he drove the car around, thencleaned it inside and washed it outside---before leavingit at the side of the road, and walking home.Track 4-3-OL-7&4-3-OL-81.Nutty newsLulu is a kangaroo. For 10 years she has lived with the Richards family. Lulu was adopted by the family after they found her next to her dead mother.Mr. Ken Richards is a farmer. He was working on his farm when a heavy tree branch suddenly fell on top of him.Lulu stood next to Mr. Richards’ body. She startedbarking and didn’t leave Mr. Richards’ side.I’ve never heard Lulu bark like that---she sounded like a dog. She barked and barked and she didn’t stop, “said Celeste, Mr. Richards’ daughter.After 15 minutes, the Richards family went to investigate.They found Ken on the ground and he was unconscious.“Lulu is a hero, “said Celeste. “She saved my father.”Mr. Middleton, an expert veterinarian, said that Lulu’s story is rare. “I have never seen a kangaroo act likethat. Maybe lulu helped Ken Richards because the Richards family is the only family she has ever known.”Lulu has always followed Ken around the farm. She’s aloyal, friendly, and very intelligent kangaroo. After Ken leaves the hospital, he is planning to go everywhere with Lulu.2.Nutty newsApproximately 175,000 people live in the Republic ofVanuatu, an island chain east of Australia. It is apopular tourist destination be cause there’s a lot to dothere: you can visit waterfalls, go horseback riding, take an aerial tour, or visit a traditional Ni-Vanuatu village.Vanuatu is most famous for its scuba diving and snorkeling.In an effort to draw attention to these popular watersports, Vanuatu has created a world’s “first”: thegovernment has opened an underwater post office. You haveto be a certified scuba driver to work there. The officeis three meters below the surface in an area on theoutskirts of Port Vila, the capital city. So far, the post office has hired four workers. They will work in a roomsurrounded by the beauty of Vanuatu’s underwater world.Customers will buy waterproof postcards on land and thendrive down to the post office to receive a specialwaterproof stamp.Track 4-3-OL-9答案1. cool2. sold out3. realizes4. music reviewer5. apartment building6. get them concert tickets7. goes over8. invites him to go with her9. a date with 10. mind Takeshi going without himUNIT4Track 4-4-1&4-4-2Alice: I work six days a week. My shift is from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. I'm on my feet all day long. It's a very active job. Most of my customers are nice. I try to be friendly to everyone, but it's difficult sometimes. My customers give me good tips.That's nice.Diane: I'm very punctual -- actually, I can't be late! You know what they say, "The show must go on!" I like being on stage. Something always happens, though. During the show last week, the lights went out. I couldn't believe it! Youdefinitely have to be flexible.Mimi: My students are eight years old. I have to be careful about what I say and do. They are always watching me and copying my behavior. I'm like a big sister. The kids have a lot of energy. I need patience in this job, that's for sure!Track 4-4-3见课本p54Track 4-4-4见课本p57Track4-4-OL-1&4-4-OL-2Man: So, I see here that you went to college.Camille: Yes, sir. For two years. I didn’t graduate.Man: Do you speak any languages besides English?Camille: Yes, I speak conversational French.Man: Any other languages?Camille: No, that’s it.Man: Well, that’s great. As you know, we fly to Paris twicea week. We always need people who can speak French. Man: Let’s see… have you worked for an airline before? Camille: No. I have no job experience.Man: So, this would be your first job.Camille: Yes.Man; Well, I only have two more questions. Are you healthy and physically fit Can you lift heavy objectsCamille: Yes, I think so.Man: Well, the emergency window exit on the plane weighs about 50 pounds. And the meal cart is very heavy, too.You need to move those objects sometimes.Camille: I think I can do that.Man: Wonderful. Let me tell you about the next step. We havea six-week training program that takes place in thesumme r. You have to…Track 4-4-OL-3A.Listen to Olivia talking about her future plan and fill inthe blanks with information from the talk.I plan to become a teacher after I finish my studies. Idecided to study at this university because the teachingprogram is very good. We have a lot of practice working with children. I love to work with young kids. I expect tograduate from the university next June, and I hope to find a job in a kindergarten. I’ll try to start working inSeptember.Track 4-4-OL-4B.Listen to the job interview. Check the right item in thetable based on the information from the interview.Mr. Grant: Hello, Ms. Hale. I’m Mr. Grant, the advertising manager for the company. Do you have a resume or curriculumvitae to give to me?Ms. Hale: Yes, Mr. Grant. Here it is.Mr. Grant: Thank you. Now, let me tell you a little bit about the job. We need someone to design brochures on the computer. Do you have up-to-date computer skills?Ms. Hale: Yes, I do. In my present position I use computer graphics all the time. I have experience with animation as well.Mr. Grant: Oh, that’s very good. We hope to launch a new group of animated ads next spring. Can you work with others in a pleasant manner, Ms. Hale?Ms. Hale: My co-workers seem to think so. I can also work independently by myself.Mr. Grant: That’s necessary, too. What about flexibility in working long hours on a project?Ms. Hale: I have a lot of energy and I’m willing to get the job done. The work I did last year won two awards at a national conference.Mr. Grant: Excellent. That’s very impressive. By the way, did I mention that we need someone to start next week?Ms. Hale: No, you didn’t, but it might be possible.Mr. Grant: Good. Thank you for coming today. We’ll be in touch soon.Track4-4-OL-5&4-4-OL-6You’ve never met Melissa Hayes, and you don’t know her name, but you know her voice. Mellissa record information messages for the telephone company. When you hear the number you called has been changed…--that’s Mellissa!。

视听说英语第一章 听力原文

视听说英语第一章 听力原文

Uint1III. Listening InScriptM: Tell me your secret. You‘re suddenly getting excellent marks in every subject, and you used to be a bottom-of –class student just like me.W:Simple enough. I read an article in a scientific journal that studying with remembering, based on recent research into the brain.M: Aw, that stuff‘s old hat: study at the same time every day, be sure your clothes are comfortable, and make sure you have enough light, blah-blah-blah.W: Not so fast, wise guy. I‘m talking about principles like ―Mental Visualization‖, creating a picture in your mind of what is to be remembered.M: Ok, that dies sound different. Id ―Association‖a principle—you know, you connect what you want to remember with something you‘re familiar with?W: Right on! ‗Consolidation‖is another. I review my notes right after class and consolidate—or absorb—the new material into what I‘ve already learned.M: You‘re moving ahead fast with those principles. I swear this weekend I‘m going to study sixteen hours a day both Saturday and Sunday.W: Whoa, big guy. That‘s not the way. Follow the principle of ―Distributes Practice‖.Shorter study sessions distributes over several days are better.M: That system is all very well for you; you‘ve got a good memory. But what about me? I‘ve got a memory like a sieve.W: You‘re too modest. There‘s nothing wrong with your memory. But memory is likea muscle; it needs exercise. And don‘t forget it.While the man is wondering why the woman is suddenly getting excellent marks, she says she read an article on studying and remembering. It talks about principles like ―Mental Visualization‖, that is, creating a picture in one‘s mind of what is to be remembered. This reminds the man of the principle of ―Association‖, which means connecting what one wants to remember with something one is familiar with. Then the woman adds the principle of ―Consolidation‖, or reviewing one‘s notes after class and absorbing the new materia l into what one has already learned. When the man promise to study sixteen hours a day, the woman recommends the principle of ―Distributed Practice‖, which favors shorter study sessions distributed over several days. Finally, the woman tells the man that memory is like a muscle, and that it needs exercise.Task 2: You forget my toast!ScriptAn 80-year-old couple was having problems remembering things, so they decide to go to their doctor to see what was wrong with them. They explained to the doctor about the problems they were having with their memory. After checking the couple over, the doctor told them that they were physically okay but might need to start writing things down to help them remember. The couple thanked the doctor and left.Later that night while watching TV, the old woman said to the old man, ―Honey, will you please go to the kitchen and get me a dish of ice cream?‖Before the man left, she added, ―Why don‘t you write that down so you won‘t forget?‖―Nonsense,‖ said the husband, ―I can remember a dish of ice cream!‖―Well,‖ said the wife, ―I‘d like some strawberries on it. You‘d better write that down because I know your memory is failing.‖―Don‘t be silly,‖ replied the husband. ―There‘re only two things: a dish of ice cream and some strawberries. I can surely remember that!‖With that, he rushed into the kitchen. After about twenty minutes he returned from the kitchen and handed her a plate of bacon and eggs.The wife took one look at the plate, glanced up at her husband, and said, ―Hey, you forget the toast!‖Keys: FTFFFTask3: Memory-Improving TechniquesScriptThere are many techniques you can use to improve your memory. Some of them are introduced her.First and foremost, you need to stimulate your memory all the time. To put it simply, you should use your memory as much as possible. It is especially important to try to learn something new. If you work in an office, learn to dance; if you are a dancer, learn to deal with a computer, if you work with sales, and learn to play chess; if you are a programmer, learn to paint. These added activities stimulate the brain so that I t continues to function.Older people need to pay attention to things they are dealing with. Don‘t try to memorize everything that catches your attention; focus on what you consider important. For example, you can take any object such as a pen and concentrate on it. Think on its various characteristics: its material, its function, its color, and so on. Don‘t allow any other thought to occupy your mind while you are concentrating in that pen.Another method that can be used is to relax yourself. It is impossible to remember things if you are tense or nervous.So, try holding your breath for ten seconds, and then release it slowly.Association is also a powerful tool to develop your memory. For example, if you cannot remember a person‘s name, you can think about a special feature of his face and then link it with his mane.1.What‘s seems to be an especially important way to stimulate one‘s memory?2.What seems to be the best way to focus your memory?3.How can you concentrate on a pen?4.How can you relax yourself according to the passage?5.What is the main idea of the passage?Kes: 1A 2.C3. D 4.B 5.D。

视听说1听力原文

视听说1听力原文

Lesson 1Audio studioSteve Jobs is the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. He is the largest individual shareholder in Walt Disney. His name is associated with innovative products like the iPod, iPhone and iTunes. He is a much respected corporate leader whose management style is studied worldwide. His attention to design, function and style has won him millions of fans.Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955. He became interested in computers when he was a teenager. In 1974, he got a job as a technician at the video game maker Atari. He saved enough money to backpack around India and then returned to Atari.Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. Jobs guided Apple to become a major player in the digital revolution. The introduction of the iMac and other cutting-edge products made it a powerful brand with a loyal following. Jobs also enjoyed considerable success at Pixar. He created Oscar-winning movies such as Toy Story and Finding Nemo.In 2004, Jobs was diagnosed with a cancer. In April 2009, he underwent a liver transplant and his prognosis was “excellent.”His advice to aspiring young entrepreneurs is: “Y ou’ve got to find what you love.”Lesson 2Audio studioMaking the transition from high school to college life can be difficult. It is easy to become discouraged, overwhelmed and homesick. Here are a few tips that will make the transition to college life a little easier.Y ou Are in Charge of Y our TimeAlong with your newfound freedom at college comes responsibility. Being responsible involves being able to manage your time. Using a planner to help you stay organized is highly recommended. Y ou should also try to plan your coursework in advance, so you can determine what extracurricular activities you will have time for.It’s Important to Keep an Open MindWhen you first move to college, you’re going to be in a new place, handling new situations. So you need to keep an open mind. College isn’t just about learning facts and theories from textbooks.A large part of college involves learning how to be an adult.Home Is Only a Phone Call or Instant Message AwayIf going away to college is the first time you’ve been away from home for a long period of time, it’s natural to feel homesick. Don’t be pessimistic. And if things get too bad, home is only a phone call or instant message away.Unit 2Lesson 1Audio studioSearching the Internet may help middle-aged and older adults keep their memories sharp, according to a recent study. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, recorded the brain activity of people searching the Web and found that those with experience of the Internet used more of their brain during their searches. This suggests that simply searching the Internet has the effect of training the brain and keeping it active and healthy. Many studies have found that challenging mental activities such as puzzles can help preserve brain function, but few havelooked at what role the Internet might play. According to Dr Gary Small, a UCLA expert on ageing, this is the first time anyone has simulated an Internet search task while scanning the brain. Dr Small’s team studied 24 normal volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76. Half were experienced at searching the Internet and the other half had no Web experience. Both groups were asked to do Internet searches and book reading tasks while their brain activity was monitored. The team found that people who are familiar with the Internet can engage at a much deeper level of brain activity.Lesson 2Audio studioAt the dawn of the digital age, many believed that the Internet, e-mail, blogs and interactive video games would produce a generation of more intellectually sophisticated children. The terms “information superhighway” and “knowledge economy” ente red the dictionary, and it was assumed that teens would use their knowledge and understanding of technology to blaze a trail as the pioneers of this new digital age. That was the promise. But the enlightenment didn’t happen. The technology that was supposed to make young adults more intelligent, diversify their tastes and improve their verbal skills has had the opposite effect. According to recent reports, most young people in the United States do not read literature, visit museums or vote. They cannot explain basic scientific methods, recount basic American history, name their local political representatives or locate Iraq or Israel on a map. The Dumbest Generation, written by Mark Bauerlein, is a startling indictment of the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its consequences for American culture and democracy.Unit 4Lesson 1Audio studioPaying for college in the US is about to get harder. Starting in July 2007, interest rates on new student loans will rise to 6.8 %, from today’s r ate of 4.7 %. And interest rates on new loans that parents take out called PLUS loans will rise to 8. 5%. The bottom line is that getting your degree is becoming even more expensive.On a $20,000 loan, students will be paying about $2,500 more over the life of the loan just in interest payments. And parents will have to put up $3,000 more.This is going to prevent a lot of young adults from living independently once they leave school. Many will be unable to pay off their credit card debt. Parents are also going to feel the pain because they will have to support their children for much longer, with the result that they may have to defer their own retirement.Lesson 2Audio studioThe financial aid package has just arrived in the mail from your dream school but with a slight problem－it’s still not enough. Where are you going to find the extra?One of the most common ways of paying for college is through scholarships and grants. Scholarships are usually awarded to students based on academic achievement or merit, while grants are usually based on other considerations, such as geographical location or financial need. Both are considered “gift aid” and do not have to be paid back after graduation. Another way topay for college is through federal loans, which often come in association with grants, scholarships and other aid that an institution awards potential students for a given academic year. Repayment of these loans does not begin until six months after the student has graduated or left school. If there’s nowhere else to turn, students can contact the college or university’s financial aid office. They will usually then be assigned a specific financial aid counselor to help them with their concerns or to secure additional resources to enable them to finance their college education. A college education should not be put on hold due to funding problems. However reluctant students and their parents may be to get into debt in order to finance higher education, they will surely find that it turns out to be an investment that pays off when the student enters the professional world and starts a career.Unit 5Lesson 1Audio studioAnimation is the art of creating a sequence of drawings, each so slightly different that, when filmed and run through a projector at 24 frames per second, the figures seem to move.Early animations, which started appearing before 1910, consisted of simple drawings photographed one at a time. It was extremely labor intensive as there were literally hundreds of drawings per minute of film.Walt Disney took animation to a new level. He was the first animator to add sound to his movie cartoons with the premiére of Steamboat Willie in 1928. In 1937, he produced the first full length animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.With the introduction of computers, animation took on a whole new dimension. Many feature films of today have had animation incorporated into them for special effects. A film like Star Wars by George Lucas relies heavily on computer animation for many of its special effects. Toy Story, produced by Walt Disney Productions and Pixar Animation Studios, became the first full length feature film animated entirely on computers when it was released in 1995.With the advent of personal computers, it has now also become possible for the average person to create animations.Lesson 2Audio studioThe rapid advance of technology has made computer animation widely available to the masses and turned animation into one of the fastest growing industries in modern times. The demand for animated entertainment has expanded with the increase in broadcasting hours by cable and satellite TV along with the growing popularity of the Internet. In the past, animation series were aimed at children aged nine and below. In recent years, however, TV stations have been producing animation series for teenagers, adults and the whole family. Animation series like The Simpsons and King of the Hill have been successfully aired on prime time TV.Major markets include the United States, Canada, Japan, France, Britain and Germany. Licensing operations for T-shirts, caps and other items have also been a major source of revenue for animation companies. In Japan, several successful computer games such as Pokemon and Detective Conan have been transformed into animated series. More broadly speaking, animation is increasingly used in video games, and movies are also increasingly reliant on animation and computer graphics special effects.Another key trend we are witnessing is the outsourcing of animation to Asia, especially by NorthAmerican film and television program producers. The major factor behind this shift continues to be the availability of powerful computer animation platforms and much lower labor costs compared to North America and Europe. The bulk of the outsourcing is for 2D animation, with some for 3D as well.Unit 7Lesson 1AudioGood communication is the foundation of successful relationships, both personal and professional. But we communicate with much more than words. In fact, research shows thatmost of our communication is nonverbal. Nonverbal communication, or body language, includes facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, posture and even tone of voice. Much of the nonverbal information we receive from people comes from their eyes. This explains why it’s often hard to infer meaning from a telephone call or written words.The ability to understand and use nonverbal communication is a powerful tool that will help you connect with others, express what you really mean, deal with challenging situations and build better relationships at home and at work. When we interact with others, we continuously give and receive countless wordless signals. All our nonverbal behavior — the gestures we make, the way we sit, how fast or how loudly we talk, how close we stand, how much eye contact we make —send strong messages. The ways you listen, look, move, and react tell the other person whether or not you care and how well you’re listening. The nonverbal signals you send either produce a sense of interest, trust and desire to communicate or they generate disinterest, distrust and confusion.Lesson 2Audio studioWhen you remain silent, you may still be communicating. It is true that you may not wish to say anything. But your very silence may reveal a wish to be left alone or to stay uninvolved, which is the message which, consciously or subconsciously, you want to send. So it has rightly been said that, while we speak with our vocal organs, we converse with our whole body. All of us communicate with one another nonverbally as well as with words. Sometimes we know what we’re doing, such as when we give a thumbs-up sign to indicate that we approve. But most of the time we’re not aware of what we’re doing. We gesture with eyebrows or a hand, meet someone else’s eyes and look away, shift uneasily in a chair. We assume that these actions are random and incidental. But researchers have discovered that there is a system to them almost as consistent and comprehensible as language itself. They conclude that there is a whole range of body language, including the ways we move, the gestures we employ, the postures we adopt, the facial expressions we wear, the direction of our gaze, the extent to which we touch and the distance we stand from each other.Unit 8Lesson 1Audio studioEverybody feels down for a day or two. This sadness is a natural part of being human and feeling this way for a few days is normal. But if these feelings last for more than a couple of weeks andyou start noticing that it’s affecting your life in a big way, you may be suffering from an illness called depression.Depression, also known as clinical depression, is a mood disorder that will affect one in eight people at some point in their lives. It changes the way people feel, leaving them with mental and physical symptoms for long periods of time. Depression can be triggered by a life-changing event such as the loss of a job, the end of a relationship or the loss of a loved one, or other life stresses like a major deadline, moving to a new city or having a baby. While depression can affect anyone, at any time, it does seem to strike most often when a person is going through changes — changes like the loss of a loved one, starting university or the onset of an illness. One of the most important things to remember is that people who have it can’t just “snap out of it” or make it go away. It’s a real illness, and the leading cause of suicide.Lesson 2Audio studioMore than 16 million young people attend colleges and universities in the United States. According to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, a fifth of college students experience a mental illness, and more and more students arrive on campus having received mental health services before starting their college careers. Also, increasing numbers of students are seeking help for emotional problems that occur after they arrive at college.College-age adults are especially vulnerable to mental health problems, in part because many mental health issues first emerge in the late teens or early 20s. Overall, an estimated 27 percent of young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 have diagnosable mental health problems.According to a study of college freshmen, their feelings about their physical and emotional health hit record lows in 2001. For example, the percentage of freshmen who reported feeling that there was a very good chance they would seek personal counseling while attending college reached 6.6 percent. More than 35 percent of first-year female students reported feeling frequently overwhelmedby what they had to do, as did nearly 20 percent of first-year male students.。

新世纪大学英语视听说教程1__听力原文

新世纪大学英语视听说教程1__听力原文

Unit 1, Lesson ATrack1-1-1A. listen to three people from the pen pals website. Match the name of the speaker with his or her interest:Fiona: Hi, I’m Fiona. I’m from Sydney, Australia. I’m 19, and a student at the University of Canberra. I’m majoring in computer science. When I’m not studying, I like going to the movies. Miguel: Hi, I’m Miguel. I’m from Mexico City. I’m 28 and I’m a math teacher. In my free time, I like playing soccer with my fiends.Hiromi: Hi, I’m Hiromi, and I’m from Tokyo. I’m 24, and I’m a graphic artist. When I have some free time, I usually work on a comic book I’m creating. The main character’s name is Damen.Track1-1-2B. listen again. Answer the questions about the people. Check the correct box.Track1-1-3B. Mariana and Danny live in the same apartment building. Are they meeting for the first time? Listen to their conversation.Mariana: Hi. My name is Mariana. I’m in apartment 201.Danny: Hi, Mariana. I’m Danny. I’m in 302. It’s nice to meet you.Mariana: Nice to meet you, too.Danny: So, are you a student, Mariana?Mariana: yeah, I study music at NYU.Danny: That’s interesting.Mariana: What do you do, Danny?Danny: I’m a student at Hunter College. I also work in an art gallery.Track1-1-4C. Listen again. Practice the conversation. Then practice with your information.Track 1-1-5C. Listen to Dan describing himself and Dayanne describing her friend. Pay attention to the expressions used for describing people. Then describe yourself to your partner.1. My name is Dan a nd I’m from the United States. I’m 28 years old and work at a hospital. I speak English, and Spanish and Portuguese. I’m pretty tall. I’m about six feet. I have a muscular build and short blonde hair. I have hazel-colored eyes.2. I have a friend who looks like Antonio Banderas. He’s tall, dark hair, brown eyes, but he’s thin and Antonio Banderas is a little more muscular.Track 1-1-OL-1A.Emily is at the airport. Listen and check the correct box.Josh: Hello?Emily: Hi, Josh? It’s Emily.Josh: Hi Em. Are you at the airport with Uncle Tim?Emily: Yes, I’m here, but I don't see Uncle Tim. Tell me again –what does he look like?Josh: He’s tall, and he’s in his 30s. He has long brown hair.Emily: OK…Josh: Oh, and he wears glasses.Emily: No, I don’t see him…Track 1-1-OL-2B.Listen again. Emily is looking for a man. What does he look like? Circle the correct answers.Track 1-1OL-3C.Listen again. Who is the man? Check the correct picture. What is different about him now? Josh: Hello?Emily: Hi, Josh? It’s Emily.Josh: Hi Em. Are you at the airport with Uncle Tim?Emily: Yes, I’m here. But I don’t see Uncle Tim. Tell me again ---what does he look like?Josh: He’s tall, and he’s in his 30s. He has long brown hair.Emily: OK…Josh: Oh, and he wears glasses.Emily: No, I don’t see him…Uncle Tim: Hi, Excuse me … are you Emily?Emily: Yes… Uncle Tim?Uncle Tim: Hi, Emily. How are you?Emily: Fine! Wow, Uncle Tim, you look different! Josh Josh … are you there? Uncle Tim is here. He has short, blond hair now. He looks like Brad Pitt!Track 1-1-OL-4A. Listen to the description of a family photo. Then drag the names from the box and drop them on the right person.Emilio is in his fifties. He is tall –about 182 cm. He is average weight. He has brown eyes. He has short, curly, gray hair.Kathy is in her forties. She is short. She is slim. She has blue eyes. She has long, straight, blond hair.Michael is young. He is tall. He is average weight. He has dark, brown eyes. He has short, curly, blond hair.Alexis and Ashley are twins. They are young. They are average height. They are slim. Alexis has blue eyes, but Ashley has green eyes. They both have long, curly, red hair.Track 1-1-OL5B.Now listen to these people introducing themselves. Then answer the questions asked.1.I’m Carrie Brown from New York. I’m an art student and I like listening to music and playing basketball.2.Hello, everyone. My name is Ann Andrews. I come from Wellington, New Zealand. I’m a teacher and I like shopping and hanging out with friends.3.Hi, I’m Julia Sanchez. I’m a reporter from Lima, Peru. I like surfing and blogging.4.My name is Charles Horton. I live in Boston, USA. I’m a chef. In my spare time, I likepainting and traveling.5.I’m George Simmel from Berlin, Germany. I’m a fashion designer. I like watching films and jogging very much.6.My name is Kevin Smith. I come from Sydney, Australia. I like cooking and reading detective stories. I’m a finance manager.Track 1-1-OL-6A.Look at the picture and listen to the e-mail message. Then tell which one in the picture is Mr. Ryder.Dear Mr. Peters,Please meet Mr. James Ryder at the airport station at 11:00 tomorrow. His flight is UA238 from Los Angeles. He is a tall man in his sixties with gray hair, and he wears big glasses. His meeting with the Marketing Department is at 4:00. Thank you.Kyra GreeneMarketing DepartmentTrack 1-1OL-7B.Listen to another e-mail message. Then tell which one in the picture is Tom.Gina--HELP! Can you meet my friend Tom at the airport tomorrow? My car has big problems and I can’t drive it. Tom is coming on flight KX661 from Denver at 11:00. He’s average height and kind of thin, with long blond hair and a mustache. Thanks a million!ChrisTrack 1-1-OL8A.Now listen to the passage. Do you think Andrew Barn is happy being a celebrity double?Celebrity doublesA group of teenagers is standing outside a hair salon in Manchester, England. Many of them have cameras and are looking in the salon window. Then want to see soccer player David Beckham. A man in the salon looks like Beckham (he has blond hair and Beckham’s good looks). But the man in the salon isn’t the famous soccer player. He’s Andrew Barn-- a twenty-two–year–old hairdresser.Barn isn’t s urprised by the teenagers. People often stop him on the street and want to take his picture. Barn is a hairdresser, but the also makes money as a Beckham double. Barn travels all over Europe as David Beckham. Newspapers often take his photo. It’s an exciti ng life for the hairdresser from Manchester.Today, many companies work with celebrity doubles. The most popular celebrity doubles look like famous athletes, pop singers, and actors. The companies pay doubles to go to parties and business meetings. Doubles are also on TV and in newspaper ads.Why do people want to look like a celebrity? An Anna Kournikova double in the U.S. says, "I can make good money. I also make a lot of people happy.‖Tack 1-1-OL-9B.Listen again. Then circle True or False. If a sentence is false, make it true.Unit 1, Lesson BGlobal ViewpointsNick: My name is Nick Raducanu. I’m 23 years old and I’m from the United States. I speak English and I also speak French.Woo Sung: My name is Woo Sung. I’m from Seoul, Korea. I am 20 years old and I’m a student. I speak English, Korean, and French.Natalie: My name’s Natalie Danglade. I’m 25 years old. I live in the United States and I’m a reporter at a television.Dayanne: My name is Dayanne Leal. I am from Brazil and my first la nguage is Portuguese. I’m not very tall and also I’m not very skinny. I have brown eyes and short brown hair.Dan: My name is Dan and I’m from the United States. I’m 28 years old and I work at a hospital. I speak English, and Spanish and Portuguese. I’m petty tall. I’m about six feet. I have a muscular build and short blonde hair. I have hazel-colored eyes.Kevin: My name is Kevin Truong. I’m 24 years old. I have short black hair, brown eyes, and an athletic build. I have a sister named Sabrina. She is short, muscular, and tan.Dayanne: I have a friend who looks like Antonio Banderas. He’s tall, dark hair, brown eyes, but he’s thin and Antonio Banderas is a little more muscular.Woo Sung: I don’t really look like my parents. They’ re both short and I’m tall. I do look like my sister. She’s tall and thin like me.Natalie: My daughter has curly black hair, she’s short, light-skinned, and she’s really cute.City LivingSun-hee’s favorite cousinSun-hee: Of course I’ll pick you up, Jung-Yoon. You’re my favorite cousin. Great. I’ll see you at the bus station at 3:00. Have a great trip! Bye. (phone rings) Hello?Professor Albee: Sun-hee, it’s Professor Albee at NYU.Sun-hee: Oh, hi Professor Albee. How are you?Professor Albee: Fine, thanks. Ms. Leska is sick today. She has a class from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Can you teach her class?Sun-hee: Oh, sorry. My cousin is visiting this week from Seattle, and he arrives today at 3:00. Professor Albee: Oh, I see. Gee, I don’t know what to do.Sun-hee: Well . . . wait. Listen, my roommate Tara can go to the bus station and meet my cousin. Ms. Leska always helps me.Professor Albee: That’s great! Thanks a lot. See you at 1:30.Sun-hee: Bye.Professor Albee: Bye.Tara: Sure, Sun-hee. I’d love to meet your cous in. So what does he look like?Sun-hee: Well, he’s in his 30s.Tara: OK.Sun-hee: And he’s about average height--5’6‖. And he’s pretty heavy set.Tara: Uh-huh.Sun-hee: And he has really long black hair and brown eyes.Tara: OK. So, does he speak English?Sun-hee: Yes, he does. Oh, and I almost forgot: he wears really big glasses.Tara: Got it.Sun-hee: Thanks so much for doing this for me.Tara: Hey, what are friends for?Sun-hee: Oh wow! I’m really late! I’ll meet you back here at 4:30 with my cousin.Tara: Sure, no problem.Sun-hee: Bye.Sun-hee: Jung-Yoon! Oh my gosh!Jung-Yoon: Sun-hee!Sun-hee: Wow. You look so different. You’re so thin!Jung-Yoon: I eat healthier food now. And I go to the gym every daySun-hee: Good for you! Hey, where are your glasses?Jung-Yoon: Contact lenses.Sun-hee: Oh, and your hair? It’s so short. It looks good on you. You look great!Jung-Yoon: hey, thanks!Sun-hee: (to Tara) How did you find him? He looks so different now.Tara: (holding sign saying ―Sun hee Park’s cousin‖) Ta-dah!Track 1-1-OL-10Listen to the story summary. Fill in the blanks with what you hear.Sun-hee makes plans to meet her cousin at the bus station. Then her co-worker calls and asks Sun-hee to teach a class. Sun-hee agrees to teach the class. She asks Tara to meet her cousin. She tells Tara what her cousin looks like. Sun-hee says that he cousin looks very different. Sun-hee asks Tara. ―How did you find him?‖ Tara laughs and she shows Sun-hee a sign that says ―Sun-hee Park’s cousin.‖Unit 2 Lesson ATrack 1-2-1A.Listen to the three conversations. How’s the weather? Check the correct pictures. Conversation 1Man: Mary, are you ready to go?Woman: Go…go where?Man: To the beach. It’s too hot to be in inside today.Woman: Too la te. A bad thunderstorm is here. Look out the window. It’s raining.Man: Oh, you’re right. Now what do we do?Conversation 2Woman: Hey, Charlie. Are you okay?Man: No, not really. This weather makes me feel down.Woman: Oh, I know. January is a terrible month sometimes. I have an idea. Let’s go for a walk. Man: In the snow? No, thanks.Woman: But it’s not snowing now. It’s freezing, but at least it’s clear and sunny.Man: Oh, OK. Let me get my jacket.Conversation 3Man: Mom, can I use the car?Woman: The car?Man: Yeah, I’m going to the movies.Woman: Why don’t you walk to the theater? It’s close, and it’s a lovely autumn evening.Man: It’s too cold and windy to walk, Mom.Woman: Sorry, dear. Your dad has the car.Man: Oh, Well, maybe I’ll watch a movie on TV instead.Track1-2-2B.Listen again. Do the people go outside or stay inside? Check the boxes.Track 1-2-3B. Read the conversation and listen. What does Juliet suggest taking to San Francisco? Why? Juliet: Are you packing for your trip, Kyle?Kyle: Yes… See? I have T-shirts, shorts, and my sandals.Juliet: For San Francisco?Kyle: Yeah. What’s wrong? It’s July.Juliet: I know, but it’s often foggy and cold there in the summer.Kyle: Really?Juliet: Yeah. You should take some sweaters and long pants, too.Kyle: Oh, okay. There are some in my closet.Track 1-2-4C.Listen to two people giving advice about visiting their countries. Then suggest a trip within China to your partner.1.When visiting Brazil you should bring your bathing suit and your sun lotion and definitely visit the beaches in Brazil because they are beautiful.2.In Argentina, you should visit lguazu Falls and the glaciers in the south of the country. You should also watch a tango performance and in a restaurant you should order Argentine beef. It is delicious!Track 1-2-OL-1A.Listen to these three conversations. What is each person doing? Circle the correct answer. Conversation 1Man: next, please!Woman: Hi, here’s my ticket.Man: And where are you going today, Ms. Gregory?Woman: Berlin.Man: May I see your passport, please?Woman: sure, here your are.Man: And how many suitcases do you have?Woman: Just one.Conversation 2Man: Too bad it’s our last day in New York. There’s a lot to see.Woman: I know. But at least we’re here at the Statue of Liberty. Isn’t it beautiful?Man: Yeah, it is. Hey, we need a photo. Excuse me?Man 2: Yes?Man: Can you take our picture, please?Man 2: Sure.Conversation 3Woman: Welcome to the Ritz Carlton, Shanghai.Man: Thank you. My name is Ian Walters. I have a room for myself and my wife.Woman: Okay. Can I see a credit card and ID, please?Man: Of course. Here’s my card and my passport.Woman: Thank you. Here are your keys, Mr. Walters. Enjoy your stay.Track 1-2-OL-2B. Listen again. Complete the sentences with the correct city.Track 1-2-OL-3A.Listen to some travel tips for Thailand. How many tips are mentioned?Travel tips for ThailandThailand is a nice country in Southeast Asia, with something for every visitor. There is a lot for you to discover there. But before you go, you should make a plan to help you be better prepared. Here are some tips.Firstly, the weather in Thailand is hot and humid all year, so you should pack sunglasses, T-shirts, and sandals with you. Secondly, you should buy your plane ticket early. Thailand is a very popular place for a vacation, and the planes are very full. Thirdly, the traffic in this country is very bad and people drive really fast, so you should rent a car. Another tip is that you should drink a lot of water and juice to stay cool. Finally, and this is a very important tip, you shouldn’t take photos outside in afternoon. It’s too sunny and bright! Remember these tips and you’ll have a great time there. Have fun in Thailand!Track 1-2-OL-5A.Listen to the first part of a talk about the weather in some vacation spots. Then fill in the chart with information you hear. For each place, write the best time for a vacation and the reason. Watch the Weather!Most people plan their vacations very carefully. They think a lot about plane tickets, passports, and hotel reservations. But they often forget about one important thing –the weather. You should learn about the right time to visit your vacation spot. Here is some information to help you plan your next vacation.Italy. The weather is sunny all year, but it’s sometimes cold in winter. April and May are warm and beautiful. From June to September, it’s very hot.Australia. Summer here is from December to April. It sometimes rains, but the weather is usually very good. In winter, it snows a little in some places, but most of Australia isn’t very cold.Track 1-2-OL-6B.Now listen to the second part of the talk. Then fill in the rest of the chart with informationyou hear.Hong Kong, China. The Weather is hot and very humid here a lot of the year. In July and August, it’s sometimes very windy, and there are bad storms. October and November are warm and not so humid, but in December and January, it gets very chilly sometimes.Germ any. From November to April, the weather is cold, cloudy, and snowy. In spring it’s warm, but there’s a lot of rain, July and August are usually warm and sunny.India. You shouldn’t travel to India from June to September. There is a lot of rain everywhere. From November to April, after the rainy season, the weather is nice and cool. In April and May, it often gets very hot.Track 1-2-OL-7A.Study the pictures of these items. Then listen to the passage. How are these five things related to each other?In Tokyo, it’s an envelope with $850,000 in cash. At Florida’s Disney World, it’s a glass eye. At a hotel in England, it’s a goat and a false leg. How are all of these things similar? They are unusual things that people leave in hotel rooms, in airports, and on city streets. Irish Martino works in the Lost and Found Center at an airport in a U.S. city. ―Sure, we find the usual stuff—cell phones, keys, sunglasses and wallets,‖ she says. ―But people also forget some weird things at the airport, too.‖ What does Ms. Martino find? A woman’s false teeth in the bathroom. A mannequin in an airport waiting area. ―How do you forget those things?‖ Martino wonders. Nobuo Hasuda works for the Lost and Found Center in downtown Tokyo. The Center has almost 800,000 items. Three hundred thousand of them are umbrellas! There are also many other things—jewelry and briefcases, snowshoes and musical instruments. Mr. Hasuda keeps the lost items for six months and two weeks. After this time, the finder can take the item. This is good luck for some people. Remember the envelope in Tokyo with $850,000? The owner did not claim it. Now the money belongs to the finder!Track 1-2-OL-8B.Listen again. Then complete each sentence with the correct word or number.Unit 2, Lesson BGlobal ViewpointsThe weatherJennifer: In my hometown it’s usually hot and sunny, but sometimes it rains.Dan: I grew up in central Texas where the weather is very hot. There are a lot of rainstorms, and in the wintertime it gets into the 40s and 50s.Dayanne: In Brazil we basically have two seasons—summer and winter. In the summer it’s very, very hot. But in the winter it’s not so cold. But we do have some rain sometimes.Alyssa : Where I live the weather changes throughout the year. There are four seasons: summer, fall, winter and spring. I don’t like the winter very much because I don’t like to be cold.Daniel: In Jamaica it’s pretty warm year round. There’s a rainy month –September. My favorite season is winter because I like winter sports, which is str ange because I’m from Jamaica.What should I do?Dayanne: When visiting Brazil you should bring your bathing suit and your sun lotion and definitely visit the beaches in Brazil because they are beautiful.Dan: If you come to Texas you should visit San An tonio where the Alamo is located because it’s a historical site.Jennifer: When you visit Florida you should bring a swimming suit, sun block, and a beach towel. You should also bring lots of shorts and T-shirts. And you should visit the Everglades where you can see alligators.Alejandra: In Argentina, you should visit lguazu Falls and the glaciers in the south of the country. You should also watch a tango performance and in a restaurant you should order Argentine beef. It is delicious!City LivingAnother souvenir?Mike: Roberto, why are you bringing a sweater to Mexico City? It’s summer there, so it’s really hot, right?Roberto: It’s usually hot in the day but sometimes at night it gets chilly.Mike: Oh. Well, what about the business suit? Isn’t it a vac ation?Roberto: Yes and no. I have a big meeting on Tuesday, so I’m bringing the suit. But after Tuesday, it’s vacation time!Mike: Who are all the gifts for?Roberto: Oh, my family lives in Mexico City so I’m bringing them some souvenirs from New York.Mi ke: And, who’s the book for?Roberto: It’s for Maria, my niece. She’s ten years old.Mike: Ten? You should get her something more fun—like a video game!Roberto: Maria is young, but she loves books. She’s really smart.Mike: Huh. What about this? Is this hers too?Roberto: Oh that? That belongs to my Dad. It’s a souvenir from his New York visit, but he forgot it. Do you think I should get him another present?Mike: Well, that already belongs to him. Hey you should get him a New York T-shirt or maybe a Yankees cap?Roberto: Good idea. I can get that at the airport. That’s it.Mike: Do you have your plane ticket and passport?Roberto: Yes. And I have my hotel information, my car rental in formation… my camera’s in my briefcase…Mike: (holding stuffed toy) Hey, whose is this? Another souvenir?Roberto: Umm…no… it’s mine.Mike: it’s yours?Roberto: It was a good-luck present from Claudia. I always travel with it.Mike: Ah…don’t be embarrassed, he’s very cute. (laughing) And I’m sure he makes a great travel partner!Track 1-2-OL-9Listen to the story summary. Fill in the blanks with what you hear.Roberto is packing for a trip and Mike is helping him. Mike asks about the souvenirs that Roberto is bringing for his family. Roberto explains that book is for his niece and the small Statue of Liberty belongs to his father. Roberto says that he’s ready to go, but then Mike finds a teddy bear and asks whose it is. Roberto says that it belongs to him and explains that it was a gift from Claudia so he always travels with it. Mike says he thinks the bear makes a cute travel partner for Roberto.Unit 3, Lesson ATrack 1-3-1A.Listen. Circle the correct answer to complete the sentence.Ted: Hey, Mike. Whose trophies are these?Mike: They belong to my parents and my brother and sister.Ted: Really?Mike: Yeah. My family loves sports.Ted: I see. So, who plays basketball?Mike: My brother Tim. He’s great at it.Ted: And your sister?Mike: She’s on the swimming team at school. She’s always training-- even on the weekends. Ted: What about your parents?Mike: My dad plays tennis, and my mom plays golf.Ted: And what about you, Mike? Do you play any sports?Mike: Me? No, not really. I like to surf and ski, but just for fun.Track 1-3-2B.Listen again. Which sports do they play? Check the correct box or boxes.Track 1-3-3B. Listen to the conversation. Underline Gina’s invitation. Circle the words Connie uses to accept Gina’s invitation.Connie: So, Gina, are you planning to join a team or club this semester?Gina: Yeah. I want to work for the school newspaper and maybe join the tennis team.Connie: The tennis team?Gina: Uh-huh. Do you like tennis?Connie: Yes. I love it.Gina: Really? Me too. Do you want to play tennis this afternoon?Connie: Sur e, I’d love to! There are tennis courts near the student union. Let’s play there.Track 1-3-4C.Listen to two people talking about what they like to do. Then tell your partner about what you like to do.1.One of my favorite pastimes is to go to the gym. I like to go to the gym about three or four times a week.2.In my free time I enjoy hanging out with some friends and going to the movies. I go to the movies at least once a week.Track 1-3-OL-1A.Listen. What are Ashley and her dad talking about? Check the answer.Dad: Ashley?Ashley: Yeah, Dad! I’m in my room. I’m packing.Dad: Hi, honey. I can’t believe you’re going to college!Ashley: I know.Dad: So, what do you want to study?Ashley: Art.Dad: Art?! Come on, Ashley. Be serious.Ashley: I am serious, Dad.Dad: I think you should study business wo you can get a good job.Ashley: Business!?Dad: Yes, you’re a smart, organized young woman. It’s perfect for you.Ashley：But, Dad… there’s a lot I can do with an art degree. The business world is verycompetitive…Dad: I don’t know, Ashley..Ashley: Come on Dad. Let’s look at the university website. There’s more in formation there.Track 1-3-OL-2B. Listen again. Complete the sentences.Track 1-3-OL-3A.Listen to a conversation between two interviewers. What are they talking bout? Circle the answer.A: I interviewed Sara Foxx. She likes sales, but wants to work part time.B: Hmm…. I spoke with Jason Gray, and he wants to work at home but likes responsibility.A: Does he want to work full time?B: Yes, he does. How about Sara?A: Well, she wants to work part time, but she plans to stay at the sales position for at least two years. And she loves people.B: What does she plan to do in two years’ time?A: She expects to go to grad school in the future, but she likes the job.B: Jason likes the job too. He wants to make a good salary and he loves to travel.A: Well, Sara hates to fly. It seems Jason would be the person we need.B: Unfortunately, he doesn’t have any sales experience.Track 1-3-OL-4B.Now listen again. Then fill in the chart below about which descriptions are true for Sara and Jason. Check the boxes.Track 1-3-OL-5A.Listen to the following famous people talking about the right personality needed forsuccess. Do you have the right personality for these jobs?I’m Don Pierce. A good actor works very, very hard. People think that actors spend their time at a lot of parties and nightclubs, but that isn’t true. Actors spend hours--many hours-- studying their lines for each movie. And you really have to understand people so that you can understand your character in the movie.I’m Janice. I think the most important t hing for a good doctor is being a good listener. You have to understand people and their problems. A good doctor likes to solve problems and always wants to help his or her patients. And you can’t be impulsive--you should always be careful. Sometimes the f irst answer you think of isn’t the right answer. Doctors need a lot of energy, because they are usually hardworking.He, I’m Daniel. To be a success in business, you have to work well with groups of people. At the same time, you need to have strong opinions and be able to explain your opinions clearly. Good business-people always like to make new things and try new ideas. They are very organized, and they work very long hours.Track 1-3-OL-6B.Now listen again. Then fill in the chart below about which things are important for the jobs listed. Check the boxes.Track 1-3-OL-7C.Listen to a recording and complete the following paragraph. Use words from the box.A good athlete is hardworking. He or she practices for many hours before every game. Athletes should also be competitive. They should always think about their team, and how to win. Good athletes are also independent. They practice alone, even when the coach isn’t there. They are very careful about their health, a nd they don’t do dangerous things. And they are very serious about their sport-- it it’s the most important thing in their life!Track 1-3-OL-8A.Now listen to the passage about four personality types：The Dreamer, The Partner, TheThinker, and The Artist. Which personality type best describes you?The DreamerA dreamer thinks there is a ―right‖ way to do things. This person wants to live in the ―perfect world.‖ A Dreamer is often hardworking and organi zed. Many are good listeners and like to help others. Many Dreamers work as teachers, lawyers, and in leadership roles.The PartnerA Partner wants to be in a group. For this person, rules and group harmony are important. These rules keep peace in the group. Partners are often serious, careful people. Many do well as teachers, managers, police officers, and politicians.For Thinkers, understanding things is very important. They like to solve problems and make new things. Thinkers can also be competitive. They like to win. They are independent and often have very strong opinions. Many Thinkers work as scientists, inventors, politicians, and engineers.The ArtistArtists want to be free. They don’t want to follow the rules all the time. Artists like action a nd are。

新标准大学英语视听说教程第一册Listeningin听力原文

新标准大学英语视听说教程第一册Listeningin听力原文

Unit 1 Starting outListening inPassage 1Interviewer Can you tell me something about the Ivy League? You're a professor at Harvard, is that right?Professor That's right, yes.Interviewer Tell me how many universities are there? How many institutions?Professor In total there are eight institutions: There's Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania.Interviewer Ah, OK. And what's the sporting ... I believe there's some link with sports.Professor There certainly is, yes. Originally the Ivy League referred to the sports teams from the universities which competed against each other, especially in football, basketball and ice hockey.Now sometimes these universities, institutions, chose their students on the basis of their skills at these particular sports. But in the last 50 years, Ivy League schools have accepted a wider range of students because it wasn't possible to be both world-famous for research and also top class in sport.Interviewer And what about their academic importance? I gather they're academically very, very important, they're very well-known.Professor Absolutely at the top. They're near or at the top of the USA colleges and university rankings.And they're almost always in the top one per cent of the world's academic institutions for financial resources.Interviewer And what does it mean socially to go to an Ivy League university?Professor Certainly if you've been to one of these institutions, you are presumed or assumed to be at the top end of the scale. The Ivy League institutions have a reputation for social elitism, many of the students are rich, intellectual, white Anglo-Saxon, protestants. Not all of them of course, but quitea lot of them.Interviewer And do you know ... why's it called the Ivy League, what's the origin of the name? Professor There are a number of stories, derivations, but possibly it's based on four universities, and IV, the letters IV, that's the Roman numeral for four. Another more likely story is that ivy plants, which are symbolic of the age of the universities, you know, would be grown at the walls of these universities, these institutions, they cover the walls of the buildings. The term was created by a sports journalist, I think in the 1930s.Interviewer Right, OK. And which is the oldest university?Professor The oldest goes back to the 17th century, that's Harvard which was founded in 1636. And the youngest of the institutions is Cornell which was founded in 1865.Interviewer And which has the largest number of undergraduates?Professor Cornell has the largest number, about 13,000, 13,500 undergraduates. The institution with the smallest number is Dartmouth College with a little over 4,000.Interviewer And what about the acceptance rate? Is it hard to get into?Professor That ranges from about seven per cent to 20 per cent.Interviewer And any famous alumni? Famous old boys?Professor Hundreds! Hundreds of them. But I suppose worldwide, the two that would be definitely known all over the world would certainly be George Bush who went to Yale, and John F Kennedy, President Kennedy, who was at Harvard.Interviewer Thank you.Passage2Andy Did you see the film on television last night?Jane No, I was out. What was it?Andy A Beautiful Mind. It's about John Forbes Nash, the mathematician who won the Nobel Prize. Jane I've heard about that film, yes. He's played by Russell Crowe, isn't he? I like Russell Crowe, he's great.Andy That's the one, yes.Jane What's it about?Andy Well, the story begins in the early years of Nash's life at Princeton University as a graduate student.Jane That's one of the Ivy League schools, isn't it?Andy Yes, it's all set in New England, lovely old buildings, beautiful autumn colours. It's lovely to look at. Anyway, Nash meets his roommate Charles, a literature student, who soon becomes his best friend. Nash admits to Charles that he is better with numbers than people, and the main thing he's looking for is a truly original idea for his thesis paper.Jane So he's not interested in having fun?Andy Well, yes, but he's not very good with people or successful with women, that's all. But, you know, it's one of these bad experiences with people which ultimately inspires his brilliant work in mathematics.Jane No good at relationships, so he becomes a genius at maths?Andy That's about right, yes. So when he finishes his studies at Princeton, he accepts a job at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Five years later, he meets Alicia, a student who he falls in love with and eventually marries.Jane Ah! At last, the love interest!Andy Yes, but wait a moment. Nash believes that he's been asked to work by William Parcher for the US Department of Defense on breaking Soviet codes. At one point he's chased by the Russians, and it's after this that he becomes mentally ill.Jane I think I've seen this in the trailer to the film.Andy So when he's put in a psychiatric hospital, he thinks the Soviets have captured him. He's given this painful treatment which affects his relationship with his wife. And his intellectual skills. So he stops taking the medicine.Jane It sounds quite hard to watch.Andy Well, it is, but it's well acted and directed, and so, you know, there's a-bit of distance between the audience and what's happening on film.Jane So what happens next?Andy Well, then his illness returns, so he and his wife decide to try and live with it. It all gets a bit complicated, because we're no longer sure if Charles, you know, his old friend, or even Parcher were real, or if they were just people that existed only in Nash's mind.Jane That sounds awful. He must have been so ill,Andy Actually, I'm kind of giving away the twist in the story. Anyway, later in his life, while he's using the library at Princeton again, he asks his rival Martin Hansen if he can start teaching again. And so the story ends when he goes on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.Jane Well, it sounds like a great film.Andy Yes, you should see it sometime.Unit 3 Learning to thinkListening inPassage 1Interviewer With us today is Martin Downes, a carpenter, who's 51. A year ago, Martin had a stroke. But he's been lucky enough to make a full recovery from it. Can you tell us how it all began, Martin? Martin I'm very happy to - not that I remember much at all. I was at a customer's house, building a cupboard, and the next thing I knew, I woke up in hospital with people in white coats bending over me.Interviewer It must have been very frightening.Martin It was. But what was really frightening was that I couldn't speak. I couldn't say a word. And I couldn't understand much that people said to me.Interviewer How awful!Martin Yeah! I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't had my family. But they were there for me, they really were. I had something called aphasia, where the part of your brain gets damaged that affects your speech and language. But they started treatment for the condition almost immediately. This speech and language therapist came to see me every day for 12 weeks.They made me do all these exercises.Interviewer What kind of exercises?Martin I had to match words and pictures and say their names. You see, I'd also forgotten the names of a lot of things. She had this thing called a word board and I could point to words and phrases on it that I wanted to say. I had to repeat words up to 20 times - boy, it was hard, so hard. Interviewer Could you say anything to begin with?Martin I could say three words. "Hi", "Yes" and "No". That was all. And there were a lot of words I couldn't understand -1 had to learn their meanings all over again.Interviewer It must have been very frustrating.Martin It was, but I was determined to get better. I was in hospital for three and a half months. WhenI got home I got a special computer programme that I worked with every day. And slowly mylanguage came back to me. It was a struggle, a big struggle. I had to learn to read and write again too.Interviewer Why do you think that you were able to recover completely? It's not that common, is it? Martin I was lucky. I was given the right drug at the right time. And I had 12 weeks of therapy, five daysa week. That's very important, apparently.Interviewer And now that you're better how do you feel about your life?Martin What can I say? I'm just grateful to have my life back.Passage 2Interviewer In 1907 an Italian educator called Maria Montessori opened a school in Rome that taught young children using methods that were very different from traditional teaching. Today, the Montessori method, as it's known, is used in nursery schools in countries such as America, Canada, Britain and Germany. Recent research shows that children educated at a Montessori nursery do better later on at school than other children in all subjects. We asked two Montessori teachers,Claudia Rosella and Sarah Harrington, to explain what makes their nursery school different. Sarah... Sarah I think the first thing to say is that a Montessori classroom is very quiet, very clean. Everything stays in the same place. So the children are calm and quiet as a result.Interviewer So they're not encouraged to be noisy.Sarah No, definitely not...Interviewer Claudia?Claudia Yes, the classroom's very important. Another important principle is that children direct their own learning. They choose what they want to do.Interviewer So the teacher doesn't tell the child what to do?Sarah Not at all. While a child is doing an activity we observe them. Then we work with the child for a short time and then leave them to work on their own.Interviewer That sounds excellent. And what about your equipment? It's often made of wood, isn't it? Sarah Yes, and a piece of equipment is often designed for one activity only.Claudia Right. It's so that the child can see if they're getting something right or wrong. Interviewer So they don't need the teacher so much"?Sarah That's right. Another Montessori principle is the importance of physical activity. Children learn by doing, so when they're learning to read, for example, the letters are made of sandpaper so that children can feel the shape of the letter.Interviewer Do you think there are disadvantages with Montessori methods?Claudia Yes, there are. Maria Montessori didn't understand how important it is for children to use their imagination. If she was alive today, she would recognize that. But still, the fact is, her methods are very successful.Unit 4 Person to personListening inPassage 1John Are you packed?Mike Yup. Everything's there.John Sure you've packed your mobile?Mike I'll look again, John ... yes.John Well, we've got another ten minutes before we need to leave, so we might as well relax. You know someone told me an amazing story yesterday about these Australians who got completely lost in some national park.Mike And don't tell me, they used their mobile to get help?John That's right!Mike So what happened?John Well, it was this guy with his son and niece -I think she was about 14 - and they were hiking in this really rugged country and they got completely lost - no idea where they were at all.Mike That's not going to happen to us.John No, it isn't. Anyway, the guy had his mobile and he phoned the emergency services — it wasn't dark yet - and they sent out a search party, but they couldn't find them. And then -this is the interesting bit - the guy sent photos of the place where they were.Mike I'd have thought of that.John Yes, well it's pretty obvious, really. And in the photos there were mountains in the background, and the staff at the emergency service centre were able to identify exactly which mountains they were. And they used the photos to pinpoint their location, you know, to get the exact location. Mike How did they do that?John They used mapping software.Mike Right.John Anyway, by then it had got dark and really freezing. So they slept behind this ridge and covered themselves with leaves. And you know what the young girl said afterwards? She said, "It was quite fun."Mike Really, wasn't she frightened?John I don't think so.Mike So - is there a happy ending?John Yes, well they sent out helicopters as soon as it was daylight and the helicopter hovered over the area, and the man kept talking to them till they were able to pinpoint his location. And when they finally found them they were only 400 metres away from where they'd expected them to be. Mike Amazing!John And that's because they'd moved 400 metres away from where they'd taken their photos because the ground was too rough to sleep on.Mike Incredible!John And the moral of the story is-Mike Always take your mobile phone with you when you go hiking.John And take one that has a camera.Mike Hey, I think we should go, John.John Yes, OK. You think we're going to get lost?Mike No chance, mate!Passage2Social networking - it's the 21st century way of having fun - online. And if you're under 40, you probably use a social networking site - maybe when you should be working. It's well-known that -. office workers spend up to two hours a day on a site, exchanging messages and photos. And do students ever do anything else? Different social networking sites are used by different age groups.For people in their 20s, the most popular site is Facebook, the online phenomenon started by an American student in 2004. It's taken only four years to make Facebook a huge success - and the website's made its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, a very rich man indeed.What's extraordinary about Zuckerburg is that he started Facebook when he was only 18. He was a student at Harvard, one of America's top universities, when he launched the Facebook website, working from his college room. In only two weeks, more than two-thirds of his college had signed up and in a year, thousands of colleges were using it. Today, Facebook has millions of users. More than half of them visit the site at least once a day.So what makes Facebook so special? Like other networking sites, you create a profile with photos, you list your interests, you exchange messages and join groups of friends. But where Facebook is different is that it gives you a privacy that you just don't get on other sites. Unlike other sites, you have a lot of control over what users can see about you. As a result, one-third of Facebook users give out their mobile numbers - they know it's safe to do so.But you still need to be careful about what you think is safe to show people. One reason is that more and more employers are using Facebook to check out potential employees. Is the person you've just interviewed as good as he seems? Facebook can provide the answer. If a 26-year-old man says on Facebook that he's been travelling round the world for the last three years, and in his interview he said he'd been working in an office - well, he probably won't get the job.Unit 5 All you need is loveListening inPassage 1Interviewer So - tell us about how you first met.Amy How we first met... Oh, it wasn't very romantic.David I thought it was very romantic.Interviewer Why don't you begin at the beginning?Amy Good idea. Well, I was 22 and I'd just left uni and I went on holiday to the French Alps with a girlfriend. And someone invited us to go climbing. But my friend got ill so I went without her. There was this group of about eight guys and two girls.David There were four girls.Amy Alright! Well, anyway, no one had told me that the mountain we were going to climb was - vertical - and that we were climbing with ropes! I was terrified, absolutely terrified, I just really hadn't expected it.David She was terrified! I noticed her immediately. She looked so scared -she was wearing this great hat — but she was white as a sheet.Amy Oh, I don't know about that, but I remember I was shaking all over. David came over and started talking to me and telling me how safe it was with the ropes. And he was so sweet, you know I thinkI fell in love with him right then.David Yeah, it was the same with me ... We roped up and I made sure I stayed next to her ... I kept talking to her and encouraging her.Amy It really helped. I think I would have fallen off the mountain if you hadn't done that.David Rubbish! You were perfectly safe. Anyway, we got to the summit — it was a kind of flat area - and Amy just collapsed - she couldn't stand up!Amy It's true, I couldn't. I felt -1 was just - everyone ignored me except David - everyone.David Quite a few people came to talk to you.Amy They didn't!David They did!Amy Well, you talked to me, and that's all that mattered.David Thank you!Amy So -David So we climbed back down the mountain.Amy which was just as bad -David and we headed for the nearest village and we both had huge pizzas.Amy I didn't eat a thing! I was still feeling too sick.David You did, you know.Amy You know, you have a terrible memory sometimes.David So do you! ... To cut a long story short, we got married six months later and went on a three-week honeymoon to Barbados.Amy Two weeks!David And we've lived happily ever after.Passage2Presenter And now let's move on to online dating, a way of meeting a potential partner that's becoming more and more popular. James O'Hanlan and Claire Goodall are two online dating experts who are going to give all you listeners advice about how to use online dating safely and successfully. James ...James OK. The first thing to say is, don't be nervous. A lot of people are and it's very understandable.But there's no need to be, provided you follow the rules, which we're going to tell you right now.Isn't that right, Claire?Claire Absolutely.James So, let's begin at the beginning. When you join an online dating site, the first thing you do is give some basic information about yourself. Now, don't be tempted to lie - about your age, for example. If you want a good relationship, you need to be honest. If you're not, you'll get found out and that could be painful.Claire Another thing - it's a good idea to use a photo, you'll get many more replies than if you don't. James But use a recent photo, not one that was taken ten years ago!Claire Let's move on to the next stage. You've had some responses响应and chosen one or two people you'd like to chat with. Now, the most important advice here is, don't give out any personal information until you're 100 per cent sure you're that happy to do so. That includes your real name, your phone numbers, your workplace address and your email address. Use the email facility设备at the website and only give out your email address when you feel completely safe.James And email for as long as you want, it's a great way of getting to know a person. Then, the next stage is to talk on the phone. Now that's very revealing, because you'll hear the person's voice, and also because people have to be spontaneous on the phone - they can't think about what they're going to say for half a day, unlike emails.Claire Then, if you're feeling really comfortable, agree to meet. But always choose a public place. Don't go to someone's home.James A cafe or bar is the best choice.Claire And don't forget to tell a friend where you're going and what time you expect to be back. That's important.James Another good idea is to ask the same friend to call you during the meeting so that if you want to leave quickly you can say that something urgent's come up and you have to go.Claire That's everything! If you follow this advice you should be perfectly safe. And you may find the man -James ... or woman —Claire ... of your dreams!James & Claire Happy hunting!Unit 6 Shop fill you drop!Listening inPassage 1Speaker 1］Interviewer So, how are you enjoying yourself in St Petersburg? What's it like?Speaker 1 Oh, I think it is a very beautiful place.Interviewer What sort of... Is it good for shopping? What do you buy in St Petersburg?Speaker 1 Yes, there are things you should buy. Of course, vodka is very good here and the other thing very expensive is the caviar. It is beautiful. Then there are the dolls. What have do they say?Matrioshka dolls.Interviewer Matrioshka dolls. Those wooden dolls that go inside each other?Speaker 1 Yes, you take one out and open the top and there is another one. You take off the top and there is another. They get very very small inside. Very small.Interviewer OK.Speaker 1 And of course, the chess. Because they are very famous here in this part of the world to play the chess.Interviewer Yes. And what sort of shops are there? Where's it best to shop?Speaker 1 Oh, here there are very good department stores, where you can buy everything that you like, clothes and everything. And also, lots of small kiosks that are very unique独一无二的, owned by different shopkeepers, you know. And they are all over St Petersburg. Little kiosks and also markets that are very good. And there is a very good museum shop at the museum - at the Hermitage Museum.Interviewer And what are the opening hours?Speaker 1 At the museum?Interviewer Well, all shops, generally. What are the opening hours ... for shopping?Speaker 1 Yes. Usually, they open at around 10 o'clock in the morning and I think they are open to 7 o'clock at night; sometimes even longer, to 8 o'clock.Interviewer And how do you, how do you actually buy things? How do you pay for things? I think, there is a slightly different way of doing this in Russia.Speaker 1 Yes, you point to the thing that you want to buy, which is usually behind the counter or something like that; and then you go to a cash desk to pay. And then you have to go back to the counter and then you take the thing you have bought.Interviewer It sounds as though it's quite a long process.Speaker 1 It is very interesting.Speaker 2Interviewer So, how are you enjoying it in Cairo? What's, what's the shopping like?Speaker 2 Oh, it's fantastic. And the shopping is absolutely great. Um, you can get everything from fantastic little wooden boxes. You can get backgammon boards. You can get all kinds of leather stuff-sandals and so on. Oh, and the thing that they're really famous for here of course, is the water pipes that they call it a sheesha.Interviewer A sheesha. OK. That's the water pipe.Speaker 2 That's right, yes. Yes, they like the smoking here.Interviewer And where are the best places to shop?Speaker 2 Well, I think the best place actually here is to go, if you go to the mediaeval market. It's acommercial centre in the middle of Cairo and - er - they sell lots of fantastic souvenirs there. You can get spices, er, you can get gold and silver, and copper stuff, and - er - they also sell your fruit and veg.Interviewer Uh-huh. When does it open? When are the shops open?Speaker 2 Well, the hours are very good. They open very early in the morning. They stay open till about10 o'clock at night. You do have to remember, of course, that they take a very long lunch break. So,they are closed for this long time in the afternoon but they, you know, re-open and stay open until late. Oh, and the other thing you have to remember is that they - everything is closed on a Friday. Interviewer Right, and how do you pay for things? Do you have to bargain for, for goods? Speaker 2 Well, bargaining is absolutely a sport here. Uh, they, they do prefer cash always. I think some of the tourist shops will take credit cards but only in the tourist shops. When you start the, the bargaining, you've got to be, well, first of all, you've got to be definite and serious about what you're buying. But don't offer anything like the price that they're asking, the original price. You know, go in at about half the price of what they're asking you.Interviewer That's fascinating迷人的. Thanks very much. Thank you.Speaker 2 That's a great place.Speaker 3Interviewer So, how's your visit to Venice? Is it good?Speaker 3 Oh, amazing. What a place. It's so unique!Interviewer Have you done any shopping? Is it a good place to shopping?Speaker 3 Yes, definitely. They're - you must go and see the glass factories on Murano. They're just something else. Quite expensive but you can get little bits of glass, really nice. Sheets of paper are really nice.Interviewer Yeah.Speaker 3 Also, lace is just... exquisite lace.Interviewer Yes.Speaker 3 Carnival masks, also. All hand-painted.Interviewer Yes, Carnival, yes. I've seen this.Speaker 3 Then, the shops are amazing.Interviewer And where's the best place to shop in Venice?Speaker 3 OK, well, the main shopping street is a street from St Mark's Square to the Academmia Bridge. That's the main bit But if you like food, you have to go to the market at the Rialto Bridge.That's just great food. There's not that many department stores.Interviewer No.Speaker 3 There's just not room for them on the island.Interviewer No. And what time do these shops open and close? What are the opening hours9 Speaker 3 Oh, they open in the morning at about 9 or 9.30. And then they close for lunch 12.30 or 1.They'll reopen again - in the winter, 3.30 to 7.30 and in the summer just a bit later - 4 to 8, say. Interviewer Right. And how do you pay? Can you use credit cards or do you have to use cash? Speaker 3 Well, you know, just use cash for the smaller items and they accept credit cards most places for the larger ones, but just make sure you get a receipt.Interviewer Yeah. And are the shops open all week or is there one day when they ...?Speaker 3 Yeah, oh, actually, Monday, they are traditionally closed.Interviewer Yeah, they are closed. Right. Thanks. Well. Sounds very interesting.Passage 2Speaker 1 Have you ever gone down to the local supermarket for some milk or bread and come out with far more than you intended打算to buy? Then you've fallen for the top ten tricks to separate you from your money. Here are the top ten tricks to make you shop.Speaker 2 Number ten. Trolley or basket? Make up your mind.Speaker 1 If you choose a basket, there'll be some heavy goods by the entrance to make you choosea trolley. If you choose a trolley, there's a chance you'll want to fill it up. Make up your mind whatyou want to buy before you go into the store.Speaker 2 Number nine. Watch out, there are vegetables about.Speaker 1 Supermarkets often put vegetables and fruit near the entrance, so that you fill your trolley with natural, healthy produce and feel good. The problem is, then you don't feel so bad about filling your trolley with unhealthy and expensive items.Speaker 2 Number eight. If you can't find it, just ask!Speaker 1 You'll notice that essential items like bread or milk are placed all over the store, so you'll spend more time looking for them. So if you can't find something, ask for help.Speaker 2 Number seven. Take a shopping list and stick to it!Speaker 1 Supermarkets often change shelves around, so that you're tempted to buy new products while you're looking for the things on your list. It's easier to resist temptation if you only put in your trolley what you planned to buy.Speaker 2 Number six. Beware of the checkout!Speaker 1 Supermarkets often place sweets and magazines at the checkout, because customers who are bored with waiting often add them to their basket or trolley.Speaker 2 Number five. Smells good? Don't believe it!Speaker 1 Many supermarkets pump the smell of freshly baked bread into the store through the air conditioning to make you feel hungry. If you eat before you go, you'll be less tempted to add cakes and snacks to your trolley.Speaker 2 Number four. How free is FREE?Speaker 1 "Buy one get one free" is a common way to make people think they're getting a bargain. But this kind of offer may not be as good as it sounds. Sometimes it's a way of getting rid of old stock. Speaker 2 Number three. Look up, look down.Speaker 1 Eye level is buy level, so don't choose the first product you see, because it's usually the most expensive. Look for similar products higher up or lower down the shelves.Speaker 2 Number two. Beware of loss leaders.Speaker 1 Large supermarkets often reduce the price of key items, such as a popular brand of cereals or the latest films on DVD. They're designed to bring people into the shop, because they believe everything will be cheaper.Speaker 2 And our number one top tip for supermarket shoppers. Stay at home and shop online. Speaker 1 Many large supermarkets allow you to shop from the comfort of your own home, and will even deliver it to your door. If you shop online, you'll avoid all those expensive supermarket tricks.And even if there's a delivery charge, it will cost less than going to the supermarket and doing your shopping yourself.。

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Lesson 1Audio studioSteve Jobs is the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. He is the largest individual shareholder in Walt Disney. His name is associated with innovative products like the iPod, iPhone and iTunes. He is a much respected corporate leader whose management style is studied worldwide. His attention to design, function and style has won him millions of fans.Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955. He became interested in computers when he was a teenager. In 1974, he got a job as a technician at the video game maker Atari. He saved enough money to backpack around India and then returned to Atari.Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. Jobs guided Apple to become a major player in the digital revolution. The introduction of the iMac and other cutting-edge products made it a powerful brand with a loyal following. Jobs also enjoyed considerable success at Pixar. He created Oscar-winning movies such as Toy Story and Finding Nemo.In 2004, Jobs was diagnosed with a cancer. In April 2009, he underwent a liver transplant and his prognosis was “excellent.”His advice to aspiring young entrepreneurs is: “Y ou’ve got to find what you love.”Lesson 2Audio studioMaking the transition from high school to college life can be difficult. It is easy to become discouraged, overwhelmed and homesick. Here are a few tips that will make the transition to college life a little easier.Y ou Are in Charge of Y our TimeAlong with your newfound freedom at college comes responsibility. Being responsible involves being able to manage your time. Using a planner to help you stay organized is highly recommended. Y ou should also try to plan your coursework in advance, so you can determine what extracurricular activities you will have time for.It’s Important to Keep an Open MindWhen you first move to college, you’re going to be in a new place, handling new situations. So you need to keep an open mind. College isn’t just about learning facts and theories from textbooks.A large part of college involves learning how to be an adult.Home Is Only a Phone Call or Instant Message AwayIf going away to college is the first time you’ve been away from home for a long period of time, it’s natural to feel homesick. Don’t be pessimistic. And if things get too bad, home is only a phone call or instant message away.Unit 2Lesson 1Audio studioSearching the Internet may help middle-aged and older adults keep their memories sharp, according to a recent study. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, recorded the brain activity of people searching the Web and found that those with experience of the Internet used more of their brain during their searches. This suggests that simply searching the Internet has the effect of training the brain and keeping it active and healthy. Many studies have found that challenging mental activities such as puzzles can help preserve brain function, but few havelooked at what role the Internet might play. According to Dr Gary Small, a UCLA expert on ageing, this is the first time anyone has simulated an Internet search task while scanning the brain. Dr Small’s team studied 24 normal volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76. Half were experienced at searching the Internet and the other half had no Web experience. Both groups were asked to do Internet searches and book reading tasks while their brain activity was monitored. The team found that people who are familiar with the Internet can engage at a much deeper level of brain activity.Lesson 2Audio studioAt the dawn of the digital age, many believed that the Internet, e-mail, blogs and interactive video games would produce a generation of more intellectually sophisticated children. The terms “information superhighway” and “knowledge economy” ente red the dictionary, and it was assumed that teens would use their knowledge and understanding of technology to blaze a trail as the pioneers of this new digital age. That was the promise. But the enlightenment didn’t happen. The technology that was supposed to make young adults more intelligent, diversify their tastes and improve their verbal skills has had the opposite effect. According to recent reports, most young people in the United States do not read literature, visit museums or vote. They cannot explain basic scientific methods, recount basic American history, name their local political representatives or locate Iraq or Israel on a map. The Dumbest Generation, written by Mark Bauerlein, is a startling indictment of the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its consequences for American culture and democracy.Unit 4Lesson 1Audio studioPaying for college in the US is about to get harder. Starting in July 2007, interest rates on new student loans will rise to 6.8 %, from today’s r ate of 4.7 %. And interest rates on new loans that parents take out called PLUS loans will rise to 8. 5%. The bottom line is that getting your degree is becoming even more expensive.On a $20,000 loan, students will be paying about $2,500 more over the life of the loan just in interest payments. And parents will have to put up $3,000 more.This is going to prevent a lot of young adults from living independently once they leave school. Many will be unable to pay off their credit card debt. Parents are also going to feel the pain because they will have to support their children for much longer, with the result that they may have to defer their own retirement.Lesson 2Audio studioThe financial aid package has just arrived in the mail from your dream school but with a slight problem－it’s still not enough. Where are you going to find the extra?One of the most common ways of paying for college is through scholarships and grants. Scholarships are usually awarded to students based on academic achievement or merit, while grants are usually based on other considerations, such as geographical location or financial need. Both are considered “gift aid” and do not have to be paid back after graduation. Another way topay for college is through federal loans, which often come in association with grants, scholarships and other aid that an institution awards potential students for a given academic year. Repayment of these loans does not begin until six months after the student has graduated or left school. If there’s nowhere else to turn, students can contact the college or university’s financial aid office. They will usually then be assigned a specific financial aid counselor to help them with their concerns or to secure additional resources to enable them to finance their college education. A college education should not be put on hold due to funding problems. However reluctant students and their parents may be to get into debt in order to finance higher education, they will surely find that it turns out to be an investment that pays off when the student enters the professional world and starts a career.Unit 5Lesson 1Audio studioAnimation is the art of creating a sequence of drawings, each so slightly different that, when filmed and run through a projector at 24 frames per second, the figures seem to move.Early animations, which started appearing before 1910, consisted of simple drawings photographed one at a time. It was extremely labor intensive as there were literally hundreds of drawings per minute of film.Walt Disney took animation to a new level. He was the first animator to add sound to his movie cartoons with the premiére of Steamboat Willie in 1928. In 1937, he produced the first full length animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.With the introduction of computers, animation took on a whole new dimension. Many feature films of today have had animation incorporated into them for special effects. A film like Star Wars by George Lucas relies heavily on computer animation for many of its special effects. Toy Story, produced by Walt Disney Productions and Pixar Animation Studios, became the first full length feature film animated entirely on computers when it was released in 1995.With the advent of personal computers, it has now also become possible for the average person to create animations.Lesson 2Audio studioThe rapid advance of technology has made computer animation widely available to the masses and turned animation into one of the fastest growing industries in modern times. The demand for animated entertainment has expanded with the increase in broadcasting hours by cable and satellite TV along with the growing popularity of the Internet. In the past, animation series were aimed at children aged nine and below. In recent years, however, TV stations have been producing animation series for teenagers, adults and the whole family. Animation series like The Simpsons and King of the Hill have been successfully aired on prime time TV.Major markets include the United States, Canada, Japan, France, Britain and Germany. Licensing operations for T-shirts, caps and other items have also been a major source of revenue for animation companies. In Japan, several successful computer games such as Pokemon and Detective Conan have been transformed into animated series. More broadly speaking, animation is increasingly used in video games, and movies are also increasingly reliant on animation and computer graphics special effects.Another key trend we are witnessing is the outsourcing of animation to Asia, especially by NorthAmerican film and television program producers. The major factor behind this shift continues to be the availability of powerful computer animation platforms and much lower labor costs compared to North America and Europe. The bulk of the outsourcing is for 2D animation, with some for 3D as well.Unit 7Lesson 1AudioGood communication is the foundation of successful relationships, both personal and professional. But we communicate with much more than words. In fact, research shows thatmost of our communication is nonverbal. Nonverbal communication, or body language, includes facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, posture and even tone of voice. Much of the nonverbal information we receive from people comes from their eyes. This explains why it’s often hard to infer meaning from a telephone call or written words.The ability to understand and use nonverbal communication is a powerful tool that will help you connect with others, express what you really mean, deal with challenging situations and build better relationships at home and at work. When we interact with others, we continuously give and receive countless wordless signals. All our nonverbal behavior — the gestures we make, the way we sit, how fast or how loudly we talk, how close we stand, how much eye contact we make —send strong messages. The ways you listen, look, move, and react tell the other person whether or not you care and how well you’re listening. The nonverbal signals you send either produce a sense of interest, trust and desire to communicate or they generate disinterest, distrust and confusion.Lesson 2Audio studioWhen you remain silent, you may still be communicating. It is true that you may not wish to say anything. But your very silence may reveal a wish to be left alone or to stay uninvolved, which is the message which, consciously or subconsciously, you want to send. So it has rightly been said that, while we speak with our vocal organs, we converse with our whole body. All of us communicate with one another nonverbally as well as with words. Sometimes we know what we’re doing, such as when we give a thumbs-up sign to indicate that we approve. But most of the time we’re not aware of what we’re doing. We gesture with eyebrows or a hand, meet someone else’s eyes and look away, shift uneasily in a chair. We assume that these actions are random and incidental. But researchers have discovered that there is a system to them almost as consistent and comprehensible as language itself. They conclude that there is a whole range of body language, including the ways we move, the gestures we employ, the postures we adopt, the facial expressions we wear, the direction of our gaze, the extent to which we touch and the distance we stand from each other.Unit 8Lesson 1Audio studioEverybody feels down for a day or two. This sadness is a natural part of being human and feeling this way for a few days is normal. But if these feelings last for more than a couple of weeks andyou start noticing that it’s affecting your life in a big way, you may be suffering from an illness called depression.Depression, also known as clinical depression, is a mood disorder that will affect one in eight people at some point in their lives. It changes the way people feel, leaving them with mental and physical symptoms for long periods of time. Depression can be triggered by a life-changing event such as the loss of a job, the end of a relationship or the loss of a loved one, or other life stresses like a major deadline, moving to a new city or having a baby. While depression can affect anyone, at any time, it does seem to strike most often when a person is going through changes — changes like the loss of a loved one, starting university or the onset of an illness. One of the most important things to remember is that people who have it can’t just “snap out of it” or make it go away. It’s a real illness, and the leading cause of suicide.Lesson 2Audio studioMore than 16 million young people attend colleges and universities in the United States. According to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, a fifth of college students experience a mental illness, and more and more students arrive on campus having received mental health services before starting their college careers. Also, increasing numbers of students are seeking help for emotional problems that occur after they arrive at college.College-age adults are especially vulnerable to mental health problems, in part because many mental health issues first emerge in the late teens or early 20s. Overall, an estimated 27 percent of young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 have diagnosable mental health problems.According to a study of college freshmen, their feelings about their physical and emotional health hit record lows in 2001. For example, the percentage of freshmen who reported feeling that there was a very good chance they would seek personal counseling while attending college reached 6.6 percent. More than 35 percent of first-year female students reported feeling frequently overwhelmedby what they had to do, as did nearly 20 percent of first-year male students.。

新世纪大学英语视听说教程(1)-Unit 3听力原文

新世纪大学英语视听说教程(1)-Unit 3听力原文

Unit 3 Lesson ATrack 1-3-6A: I interviewed Sara Foxx. She likes sales, but wants to work part time.B: Hmm…. I spoke with Jason Gray, and he wants to work at home but likes responsibility.A: Does he want to work full time?B: Yes, he does. How about Sara?A: Well, she wants to work part time, but she plans to stay at the sales position for at least two years. And she loves people.B: What does she plan to do in two years’ time?A: She expects to go to grad school in the future, but she likes the job.B: Jason likes the job too. He wants to make a good salary and he loves to travel.A: Well, Sara hates to fly. It seems Jason would be the person we need.B: Unfortunately, he doesn’t have any sales experience.Track 1-3-8I’m Don Pierce. A good actor works very, very hard. People think that actors spend their time at a lot of parties and nightclubs, but that isn’t true. Actors spend hours--many hours-- studying their lines for each movie. And you really have to understand people so that you can understand your character in the movie.I’m Janice. I think the most important thing for a good doctor is being a good listener. You have to understand people and their problems. A good doctor likes to solve problems and always wants to help his or her patients. And you can’t be impulsive--you should always be careful. Sometimes the first answer you think of isn’t the right answer. Doctors need a lot of energy, because they are usually hardworking.He, I’m Daniel. To be a success in business, you have to work well with groups of people. At the same time, you need to have strong opinions and be able to explain your opinions clearly. Good business-people always like to make new things andtry new ideas. They are very organized, and they work very long hours.。

新标准大学英语视听说教程(1)inside_view听力原文

新标准大学英语视听说教程(1)inside_view听力原文

Unit 1Conversation 1Porter: Good afternoon.Janet: Good afternoon.Porter: New student?Janet: Yes.Porter: Welcome to Hertford College.Janet: Thank you.Porter: Can I have your family name, please?Jane t: Yes, it's Li.Porter: Er, L-double E?Janet: No, L-I.Po r te r: And what's your first name, Ms Li?Janet: Janet.Porter: Janet Li ... ah yes, there you are. Here are your keys.Janet: Where's my room?Porter: You're in staircase 6 room 5.Jane t: Who am I sharing with?Porter: Nobody. You have your own room. Er ... there's a Ms Santos in the room next to you.Janet: Oh. My own room? In China we usually have several people in a dormitory. Porter: Well, here you don't have to share with anyone.Janet: Thank you sir.Porter: No need to call me sir, Ms Li. Everyone calls me Stewart.Janet: Please call me Janet!Porter: OK, Janet, um, can you just sign for your keys, please?Conversation 2Kate: Hi, have you just arrived too?Janet: Yes!Kate: I guess we’re neighbors. My name’s Kate Santos.Janet: I’m Janet Li. Where are you from?Kate: From New York. How about you?Janet: I’m from Anshan in China.Kate: Is Janet your real name?Janet: No, it’s my English name. My Chinese name is Li Hui. Is Kate your full name? Kate: No, it’s short for Catherine.Janet: So do I call you Catherine or Kate?Kate: Everyone calls me Kate.Conversation 3Kate Hey! This is awesome! Look at the size of this dining hall.Janet Is this where we have all our meals?Kate I guess.Mark You just arrived?Girls Yes!Mark Me too. By the way, I'm Mark. Nice to meet you.Kate Hi, I'm Kate.Mark Hi Kate, I guess you're from the States.Kate Right! How can you tell? You're British, huh?Mark Yes, I'm from London. And you are ...?J anet I'm Li Hui. I'm from China. But you can call me Janet.Mark Hi Janet. Welcome to England. What are you reading?Janet English.Mark How about you, Kate?Kate My major is law. And you?Mark I'm studying PPE.Kate That's a special Oxford subject, isn't it?Unit 2Conversation 1Kate: Oh, this looks nice.Mark: Cool.Waitress: Good afternoon, table for three? Come this way.Mark: Let's have a look at the menu.Mark: Thank you.Janet: Thank you.Waitress: The specials are on the board.Kate: So, what sorts of food do you like, Janet?Janet: Well, I like spicy food. And I'm not very fond of raw food! What would you recommend?Mark: Why don't you try the chicken curry? That's nice and spicy.Janet: What's in it?Mark: Chicken cooked in tomatoes and onions with Indian spices.Janet: I'll try it. Do we all choose a selection of dishes to share or only one dish per person?Mark: Usually one dish per person.Kate: Or the moussaka looks good.Janet: What's it made with?Kate: It's made with lamb and eggplant. It's a Greek dish.Janet: How is it cooked?Kate: It's baked in the oven.Janet: Mm, that sounds good too.Kate: And as a starter?Janet: What's minestrone soup?Mark: It's an Italian soup with vegetables and pasta. It's delicious!Janet: OK, I'll have that.Kate: Waitress?Waitress: What can I get for you?Kate: Well, for the starter, can we have two minestrone soups, and for the main course, one moussaka and one curry, please. What about you, Mark?Mark: I'll have the prawns with garlic and the chilli con carne. And could you bring us some water, please?Waitress: OK.Mark: Thank you.Waitress: Thanks.Janet: What's chilli con carne?Mark: It's a spicy Mexican dish with beef and beans. It's very hot!Conversation 2Janet: That was great! Except I don't like cold water. I usually drink hot water. Kate: Hot water? We never drink hot water except with tea. Let's have a dessert. What would you like, Janet?Janet: Any suggestions?Kate: Well, why don't you try the apple strudel? It's an Austrian dish. It's made with apple, pastry and spices.Janet: No, I'm not so keen on pastry. ...What's a chocolate brownie?Mark: It's a kind of chocolate cake.Janet: How is it made?Kate: It's made with flour, eggs and butter...Mark: And lots of chocolate!Kate: You'll love it.Janet: What kind of ice cream is there?Kate: I'll ask ... Excuse me ... What flavor ice cream do you have?Waitress: Strawberry, vanilla and chocolate.Janet: I'll just have a fruit salad, I think.Mark: And Kate, what are you going to have?Kate: Same for me.Mark: Could you bring us two fruit salads, and a chocolate brownie?Waitress: Sure.Unit 3Conversation 1Mark: Hi, what're you doing?Janet: Oh, nothing much ... Well, I'm just doing this quiz here in the newspaper. Mark: Let's have a look then.Janet: Here. It's called, "How much do you know about memory?" I've just done it. Do you want to have a go?Mark: OK, might as well. I'm not busy.Janet: Right. Look, I'll read the statements. Then you have to answer "true" or "false". Ready?Mark: Yea.Janet: OK. Physical exercise improves your memory. True or false?Mark: True, I suppose. It sounds like the right answer.Janet: You're right; exercise does improve your memory. Next statement: 30 per cent of people have a visual memory.Mark: That sounds about right. True?Janet: No, wrong, I'm afraid. In fact, 60 per cent of people have a visual memory. Mark: Really? Actually, I've got a pretty good memory.Janet: Have you? OK ... Next one ... When you're tired, it's more difficult to remember things.Mark: That's true, obviously. I can't remember a thing when I'm tired.Janet: Correct! If you do one activity for a long time, your memory will improve. Mark: I'm not sure ... True?Janet: Actually, it's false.Mark: Oh!Janet: Eating fruit and vegetables can improve your memory.Mark: I read something in The Times about that. True.Janet: True, it says here.Mark: Oh, no! I've got a lecture. I'd forgotten. I'd better get going!Janet: Oh, Mark! What a good memory you have!Conversation 2Kate: You're looking a bit down, Janet. What's up?Janet: Well ... I'm finding studying at Oxford quite hard.Kate: You're telling me! There's so much work!Janet: It's not the amount of work, but everything's so different. In China, generally we have large classes, we don't have tutorials. And mostly, our teacher tells us what we should do. So I'm not used to asking questions or discussing things.I find it difficult.Kate: You have to memorize a lot, don't you?Janet: Yes, but I'm good at that.Kate: You're lucky. There's so much to remember studying law! I have difficulty sometimes, I really do.Janet: Yes, well, we've been trained to do that. But we don't have so much training in critical thinking.Kate: What do you mean by critical thinking?Janet: Let me think ... I think it's giving your opinion and then justifying it. Kate: Yes, I suppose that's what our teachers have always encouraged us to do. Janet: I am getting better at it, I suppose.Kate: Hey! How about this? Let's pretend I'm your tutor. I'll make a statement. Your task is to examine it and then ask questions.Janet: OK.Kate: Everyone is capable of learning a second language. Go on, ask a question! Janet: Why do you say that?Kate: That's what the research tells us. Now ask another one.Janet: Can you give an example of some research?Kate: Um ... No! Look, I'm starving and I can't think at all when I'm hungry.Unit 4Conversation 1Kate: Oh, I must make a quick call. ...Jacky: Hello, Jacky Gordon speaking.Kate: Hello, can I speak to Abbie, please?Jacky: I'll see if she's in, can you hold on?Kate: Sure. ...Jacky: Hello? She's out, I'm afraid. Can I give her a message — er ... or I can ask her to call you back?Kate: Could you ask her to call me back?Jacky: Sure. Who's calling?Kate: Kate Santos.Jacky: Kate Santos, OK. Does Abbie have your number?Kate: Yes, she does.Jacky: I'll tell her you called.Kate: Thanks.Janet: Abbie? I know a girl called Abbie. She reads English, doesn't she? Kate: Yes, how do you know her?Janet: She has a tutorial just after me so we chat a bit. We get on really well. Kate: Yes, everyone likes Abbie. I think it's because she's really interested in people — she's a very good listener. She should be, she works for Nightline. Janet: Nightline?Kate: Oh, I haven't told you, I've joined it.Janet: What is it? I've never heard of it.Kate: Look, I've got a leaflet about it.Janet: So...Kate: It's a university helpline for students who are having problems. I'm training to be one of the people they can call to talk to.Janet: You mean, you're a volunteer?Kate: Yes.Janet: Oh, that's great, KateConversation 2Abbie: Hi, Abbie speaking.Kate: Hi, Abbie, it's Kate Santos.Abbie: Hi! I'm sorry not to have called you back. I've got a lot on at the moment. How's things?Kate: Fine. I just wanted to let you know I won't be able to come to the next training session.Abbie: Um ... It's quite an important session. Oh, can you hold on a moment. There'ssomeone at the door. ...Abbie: Hi, I'm sorry, look, can I call you back later?Kate: Sure. What time?Abbie: Is three o'clock OK?Kate: Three's fine.Abbie: OK, I'll call you then. Speak soon.Kate: Bye.Abbie: Bye....Kate: Abbie's my Nightline trainer.Janet: You're saying she's your Nightline trainer! But she's still a student. Kate: Well, experienced students train new students, that's the way it works. Janet: Oh, I see.Kate: It's great! At the moment, she's training us in listening skills. Janet: Listening skills? What do you mean, listening skills?Kate: Um ... The ability to really listen to someone and make them feel you're listening. It's very important.Janet: I've never thought about that before.Kate: Yes, for example, one thing you can do is listen carefully and then repeat what someone says but maybe a little differently.Janet: So what you're saying is, repeat what someone says but maybe not the exact same words.Kate: Yes. You see, when you do that, you check you've understood and you show them you're really listening.Janet: So they know you've really heard them.Kate: Very good, Janet. I can see you've got it already! Hi ... how's it going?Unit 5Conversation 1Kate: Hi, Becky, how's it going?Becky: Good!Mark: Guys, look, can you help me with a problem?Janet: Yes, of course.Mark: The thing is, there's this girl I really like called Jenny Sparks. She's a Fresher, really stunning, reads history. I know her name because someone pointed her out to me, but I've never actually spoken to her. Do either of you know her? Kate: No.Janet: No, I don't know her. Mark, how can you like her if you haven't met her? Kate: It's because she's absolutely gorgeous, Janet.Mark: That's right! I want to ask her out, but first I've got to meet her. Got any suggestions?Becky: Guys! You want to order?Mark: Sorry.Kate: Three cappuccinos?Becky: Sure.Janet: Do you know anyone who knows her? You could ask them to introduce you. Mark: No, I don't, that's the problem.Kate: Are you matchmaking, Janet?Janet: What's matchmaking?Kate: Making introductions between people who might like each other. We don't do that here. How about just walking up to her and saying Hi? Why don't you do that? Mark: No.Kate: Why not?Mark: I'm not usually shy, but — she's so ... you know ...!Janet: Oh, Mark!Kate: Just believe in yourself, Mark. You're a great guy!Janet: I understand Mark completely.Kate: Well, it's the only way he's going to get to talk to her.Mark: OK, I'll give it a try.Becky: Solved the Jenny problem yet?Girls: Thank you.Janet: You'll be fine. Mark. She'll like him, won't she, Becky?Becky: Of course she will!Conversation 2Mark: Hey, guess what, guys, I've got a date with Jenny.Kate: You did it, you asked her out?Janet: When are you seeing her?Mark: Saturday. We're going to The Eagle and Child.Janet: Sounds great.Mark: Yeah! The thing is, I'm a bit nervous.Janet: Are you?Mark: Yes, I'm afraid I'll make a fool of myself. I could do with some more advice. Kate: Any ideas?Janet: Um ... I'm thinking.Kate: Well ... One thing is ... if you're nervous, it's easy to talk too much, so remember not to do that.Mark: Good point. I'll remember that.Janet: You should make her feel special. Show her you're really interested in her. Mark: I am really interested in her.Janet: Well, you should show her you are.Mark: That'll be easy! What else?Kate: It's a good idea to look good.Mark: That's pretty obvious!Kate: I mean clean clothes, Mark!Mark: Oh ... thanks, Kate! Any more advice?Kate: Yes, the most important thing is, just be yourself.Becky: How's it going, Mark?Kate: He's worried this girl won't like him.Becky: She'll love you! Ready to order?Unit 6Conversation 1Janet: So, are you looking for anything in particular?Mark: Maybe a T-shirt or a polo shirt.Janet: We could go into the covered market and have a look at the shops in there. Kate: And what about you?Janet: I need some cosmetics from the Body Shop on Corn market Street.Kate: And I'm looking for something to wear to Jenny's party tonight. But nothing too expensive. Anyway, look, let's go in here.Assistant: Can I help you?Kate: We're just looking.Mark: What do you think of this one?Kate: Hmm, it's OK, but I'm not sure green suits you. Do they have it in other colors? Janet: What size do you take?Mark: Medium, I guess. Oh, here's a nice polo shirt. I like the color. It's a bit small,though.Janet: Do they have it in a larger size?Mark: Yes, here we go. That's great.Janet: How much is it?Mark: Twelve pounds. That's not too bad. I'll buy it.Mark: I'll have this, please.Assistant: That'll be 12 pounds please. ... Thank you. ... And here's your shirt, and here's your receipt.Mark: Thanks.Mark: Look, I've really got to go. I'll see you at the party tonight.Kate: OK.Janet: Bye.Conversation 2Janet: OK, Kate. Now it is time to find something for you. What about this dress? Kate: Hey, that's lovely.Janet: Would you like to try it on?Kate: Yes, OK. Where are the changing rooms?Assistant: Just behind you.Kate: Thank you. ... What do you think?Janet: Well, it really suits you, but ...Kate: ... it's a bit big. Excuse me, do you have this in a smaller size? Assistant: What size do you take?Kate: Size 8, I think.Assistant: No, I'm afraid we don't. That's the last one.Kate: No, it doesn't really fit. OK, I'll leave it.Janet: Actually, I really like it.Kate: Why don't you try it on, then?Janet: OK. ... What do you think?Kate: Perfect. It really suits you.Janet: It's a bit expensive.Kate: Go on! You deserve it!Janet: OK, I'll have it. But I don't have enough cash. ... Can I pay by credit card? Assistant: Sure.Janet: Thank you.Assistant: Please enter your PIN. ... And here's your receipt.Janet: Thank you.Assistant: Thanks a lot.Kate: That was painless, wasn't it? But I still don't have a dress for the party. Let's try somewhere else.Assistant: Bye.Girls: Bye.Unit 7Conversation 1Janet: What time are your parents arriving?Kate: Eleven. Oh no, it's 10.30! I must clean up my room, it's a mess.Janet: Would you like me to give you a hand?Kate: Oh, yes, that would be great! ...Janet: So, what are they like, your parents?Kate: They're great. They're very different. Mum's pretty sociable — she's real funny. Dad isn't as sociable — he's kind of quiet — he reads a lot and he likes spending time alone. He's a lot more chilled than Mum.Janet: They do sound quite different.Kate: Yes. Mum —she tends to worry a lot, whereas Dad's quite ... easygoing. He's good at listening, you can tell him anything. Um ... could you put those over there? Janet: Sure. So who are you most like?Kate: You tell me!Janet: Hmm, you've got a bit of both of them, I think.Kate: Yes, I think so, too. I'm sociable, like Mum —Janet: You're very sociable!Kate: Yes, but I like to spend time alone.Janet: I don't think you worry a lot, do you?Kate: No, I'm like Dad in that way.Kate: Oh, look at the time, I must go. I'm meeting them outside the Lodge.Conversation 2Julia: This is great. It's just like I pictured it. Look at that, isn't it beautiful? Rob: Wow, Kate, honey! I love your school!Kate: No, Dad, I'm not at Law School, I'm at university!Rob: OK, honey. It's Oxford, England — I know! ...Rob: Listen, honey, Granddad had a fall just before we left.Kate: Oh, no!Rob: It's OK. He broke his arm but they don't think it's serious.Julia: I don't know, when old people break something, it can be very serious. Rob: I think he'll be fine!Kate: Tell me all about it. What exactly happened?Rob: He fell down the steps in the backyard.Kate: Oh, poor Granddad! So go on!Rob: He was taken to the hospital by ambulance ... they kept him there for several hours, didn't they, Julia? But they let him go home.Julia: I feel awful that we can't be with him.Rob: Julia, I spoke to Granddad as soon as we landed and he said the doctors aren't worried.Kate: What else did he say?Rob: He said his arm doesn't hurt him.Kate: Oh, good! So he'll be OK, right? There's no real concern?Rob: No, I told you, honey, there's no need to worry. ... Just look at that! What a great place!Kate: Yes, isn't it wonderful?Rob: Come on, let's go and eat. Isn't there a pub nearby? I seem to remember passing one. I'd love to eat in an English pub.Kate: OK, let's do that.Rob: There's no need to worry, honey.Unit 8Conversation 1Assistant: Hi, how can I help you?Mark: I'd like to book a flight and make a hotel reservation.Assistant: Going to ...?Mark: To New York, please.Assistant: Is that a one-way or a return?Mark: A return, please. Out on the 17th of June and coming back on the 10th of September.Assistant: OK, and I guess you want economy not club?Mark: Yes, economy, please. Could I have an aisle seat, not a window seat? Assistant: I'm afraid you'll have to do that at the airport. What about accommodation?Mark: Well, most of the time I'm working in upstate New York, but I need a cheap hotel in New York City and one in Boston for a few nights.Assistant: How many nights will you be staying?Mark: Three nights in Boston and two nights in New York. The 12th to the 15th of August in Boston, leaving on the 15th, so three nights in Boston. Then the 15th tothe 17th in New York, leaving on the 17th. So two nights in New York. Assistant: OK, I can check that out for you. Single or double room?Mark: Single. With a shower, please.Assistant: I can get you rooms in budget hotels and motels for around 75 dollars a night.Mark: Does the price include breakfast?Assistant: Let me see. Yes, I can do that for you.Mark: What time is check-out?Assistant: Usually midday ... Do you have a student card? You'll need it for the cheap flights and the accommodation. Oh, and any travelling within the US? We can get you seats on Greyhound buses, if you want.Mark: Actually, that would be great. Can you get me a seat from New York to Boston, travelling on the 12th of August? And then one from New York to Chicago on the 17th? After Chicago I'm going to DC and then back to New York, but I'll get those tickets when I'm in the States.Assistant: No problem, just give me a few minutes ...Conversation 2Kate: Have you made plans for the summer vacation yet?Mark: Yes, I'm travelling around the States for three months.Janet: Three months! Wow, you're lucky! Whereabouts are you going?Mark: Well, I'm flying to New York City, and then I'm working for eight weeks as a counsellor on a summer camp in upstate New York. And then I'm travelling around for about four weeks, back in time for the start of term.Kate: Where are you staying?Mark: On the campsite in the mountains. It's about an hour away from New York City by bus.Kate: What are you going to do there?Mark: I'll be looking after teenagers, city kids mostly. We're going swimming, rafting and canoeing, and maybe backpacking in the mountains.Janet: That sounds amazing! And after that, what are your plans?Mark: I'll catch the Greyhound bus to Boston, and relax in a hotel for three days. Kate: The museums in Boston are great! You absolutely must visit them.Mark: OK, I'll do that. Then I go back to New York for two days, to watch a baseball game.Kate: The New York Yankees? That's my team!Mark: Then I'm flying to Chicago for six days, to stay with some friends. Kate: And will you fly home from Chicago?Mark: No, then I'll go to DC for six days to do some sightseeing. And then I'll be back a few days before the beginning of term.Janet: It sounds like a dream vacation.Unit 9Conversation 1Kate: Oh, Janet, you don't look too good. What's the matter?Janet: Oh, I'm OK. I am not sleeping very well at the moment, so I'm quite tired.I fell asleep in the lecture just now.Kate: Is anything wrong?Janet: Oh, I don't know. Maybe I'm worried about my end of term exams. And I've got an essay to write.Kate: Are you eating properly? I didn't see you at dinner last night.Janet: No, I've lost my appetite. I can't face any more Western food for a few days. Kate: I think you've lost some weight. Do you feel sick?Janet: Mostly homesick.Kate: Have you talked to your tutor?Janet: No! Why would I do that?Kate: Well, it's part of his job to keep an eye on your health. Why don't you make an appointment to see the doctor?Janet: But I'm all right.Kate: Do you have any other symptoms? Do you have a headache?Janet: Well, I have a headache nearly all the time at the moment. And I feel a bit depressed. But it's nothing. I'll be all right. Please! Don't worry about me. Kate: You poor thing! Why don't you make an appointment to see the doctor? She'll give you a check-up; take your temperature and blood pressure, all the usual tests. Janet: Oh, I don't want to make a fuss. It's nothing.Kate: You're not making a fuss. I am! And I'm coming with you.Conversation 2Doctor: What seems to be the problem?Janet: Well ...Kate: She hasn't been eating or sleeping properly. She fell asleep in the lecture this morning.Doctor: Hmm, and what did the lecturer think of that?Janet: Fortunately, he didn't see me.Doctor: OK, I'm going to ask you a few questions. How's your social life? Janet: It's fine. I've got some really nice friends.Doctor: Have you got a boyfriend?Janet: No. I don't think my parents would like me to have one while I'm at university.Doctor: And are you eating properly?Janet: Yes, I think so.Kate: She says she's a bit fed up with Western food.Doctor: OK, so you'd like some home comfort ... what's your favorite food? Janet: Fried rice!Doctor: Not much fried rice for dinner in college, is there? Um, any worries about your work?Janet: No. Maybe. Yes, I suppose so.Doctor: Do you have an essay crisis?Janet: Yes! I haven't finished all the reading. I don't read as quickly as my friends, so it takes me a long time to write my essays.Doctor: OK, Janet. I want you to try and take a few days off. I'll have a word with your tutor and see if he can wait for your essay.Janet: OK.Doctor: If you're run down or depressed, you're more likely to catch a cold. Can you come back and see me next week? In the meantime, I suggest you try taking some...Unit 10Conversation 1Janet: Hi!Mark: Hi!Kate: How are you?Mark: I'm OK, thanks. How're you guys?Kate: Good.Mark: Good ... Oh, that traffic! It's getting worse and worse!Kate: Tell me about it, it's awful! Don't you worry about your health when you're cycling? All that pollution! Like, what are we breathing in? They really should do something about it!Mark: I think they intend to — or at least they keep talking about it. Janet: Shall we go inside?Mark: Yea....Mark: You know, it sounds crazy, but it might be an idea to ban cars from the centre of the city. I nearly got hit by a crazy driver earlier.Kate: Are you OK?Mark: Yes, I'm fine.Janet: Would they really do that — ban cars?Mark: It's possible. It'd sort out the traffic problems. And it would reduce pollution.Janet: I don't think that would be very popular with drivers.Mark: But it would be safer for cyclists.Kate: Supposing they introduced a congestion charge?Mark: Like in London?Janet: Do you think it would stop people driving into Oxford?Mark: It'd stop some people.Kate: They could always extend the Park and Ride scheme.Janet: It's a good idea.Kate: If people actually use it.Mark: Hey, I haven't told you, I'm going to a meeting of the Environmental Action Group tonight.Kate: You are? Good for you!Mark: Yes, I'm just concerned about the environment. I've decided to get more active, believe it or not.Janet: I guess we all should.Kate: I know, you're right ... Excuse me ...Conversation 2Janet: By the way, Mark, how did your meeting go?Mark: Quite interesting, actually.Janet: So what did they talk about?Mark: Uh, recycling, mostly. They have this plan ... that everyone should write to the Council. Ask them to collect more rubbish. You know, like, all the plastic, which they don't do. I'm going to write a letter this evening.Janet: Really? You know, I think I might go to the next meeting. I've been meaning to do something ... get more active about the environment.Mark: Yes, we all need to. Global warming, ice caps melting, pollution. Doesn't it worry you?Janet: Yes, it's really frightening.Mark: Hey, it would be great if you came to the meeting, Janet. The Action Group really wants to make students more aware of what they can do to help.Janet: You know, I think everyone knows what they should do. But they don't do it — I don't do it.Mark: I'm the same. Actually, there's something we could do right now. Janet: What?Mark: There's this poster they want to put up all over the university. It tells you easy ways of saving energy. I'm looking at it, here, look ...Janet: "Use less hot water ..."Mark: They've asked us to print it out and put it up in college. You want to help me?Janet: Sure! It might be an idea to ask Kate to help.Mark: Yes, let's ask her. But why don't we print it out — right now?Janet: Sure.Conversation2Voice on radio ：The news at one o’clock.Tornadoes have damaged homes in Northern England.There is still no news of missing company director, Alan Marsden.Scientists claim that global warming is accelerating. There are reports coming in of more fightingin …Mark ：Do you mind if I turn it off?Janet ：It’s fine, I wasn’t listening.Mark ：Do you follow the news?Janet ：Yeah, I do. But I don’t ofte n listen to the radio, I mostly get my news online.Kate ：Do you?Janet ：Yes, I read articles from different papers.。

新标准大学英语-视听说教程第一册Listening-in听力原文

新标准大学英语-视听说教程第一册Listening-in听力原文

新标准大学英语-视听说教程第一册Listening-in听力原文新标准大学英语-视听说教程第一册Listening-in 听力原文Unit 1 Starting outListening inPassage 1Interviewer Can you tell me something about the Ivy League? You're a professor at Harvard, is that right?Professor That's right, yes.Interviewer Tell me how many universities are there? How many institutions?Professor In total there are eight institutions: There's Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania.Interviewer Ah, OK. And what's the sporting ... I believe there's some link with sports.Professor There certainly is, yes. Originally the Ivy League referred to the sports teams from the universities which competed against each other, especially in football, basketball and ice hockey. Nowsometimes these universities, institutions, chose their students on the basis of their skills at these particular sports. But in the last 50 years, Ivy League schools have accepted a wider range of students because it wasn't possible to be both world-famous for research and also top class in sport.Interviewer And what about their academic importance? I gather they're academically very, very important, they're very well-known.Professor Absolutely at the top. They're near or at the top ofthe USA colleges and university rankings. And they're almost always in the top one per cent of the world's academic institutions for financial resources.Interviewer And what does it mean socially to go to an Ivy League university?Professor Certainly if you've been to one of these institutions, you are presumed or assumed to be at the top end of the scale. The Ivy League institutions have a reputation for social elitism, many of the students are rich, intellectual, white Anglo-Saxon, protestants. Not all of them of course, but quite a lot of them.Interviewer And do you know ... why's it called the Ivy League, what's the origin of the name?Professor There are a number of stories, derivations, but possibly it's based on four universities, and IV, the letters IV, that's the Roman numeral for four. Another more likely story is that ivy plants, which are symbolic of the age of the universities, you know, would be grown at the walls of these universities, these institutions, they cover the walls of the buildings. The term was created by a sports journalist, I think in the 1930s.Interviewer Right, OK. And which is the oldest university?Professor The oldest goes back to the 17th century, that's Harvard which was founded in 1636. And the youngest of the institutions is Cornell which was founded in 1865.Interviewer And which has the largest number of undergraduates?Professor Cornell has the largest number, about 13,000, 13,500 undergraduates. The institution with the smallest number is Dartmouth College with a little over 4,000.Interviewer And what about the acceptance rate? Is it hard to get into?Professor That ranges from about seven per cent to 20 per cent.Interviewer And any famous alumni? Famous old boys?Professor Hundreds! Hundreds of them. But I suppose worldwide, the two that would be definitely known all over the world would certainly be George Bush who went to Yale, and John F Kennedy, President Kennedy, who was at Harvard.Interviewer Thank you.Passage2Andy Did you see the film on television last night?Jane No, I was out. What was it?Andy A Beautiful Mind. It's about John Forbes Nash, the mathematician who won the Nobel Prize.Jane rve heard about that film, yes. He's played by Russell Crowe, isn't he? I like Russell Crowe, he's great.Andy That's the one, yes.Jane What's it about?Andy Well, the story begins in the early years of Nash's life at Princeton University as a graduate student.Jane That's one of the Ivy League schools, isn't it?Andy Yes, it's all set in New England, lovely old buildings, beautiful autumn colours. It's lovely to look at.Anyway, Nash meets his roommate Charles, a literature student, who soon becomes his best friend.Nash admits to Charles that he is better with numbers than people, and the main thing he's looking for is a truly original idea for his thesis paper.Jane So he's not interested in having fun?Andy Well, yes, but he's not very good with people or successful with women, that's all. But, you know, it's one of thesebad experiences with people which ultimately inspires his brilliant work in mathematics.Jane No good at relationships, so he becomes a genius at maths?Andy That's about right, yes. So when he finishes his studies at Princeton, he accepts a job at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Five years later, he meets Alicia, a student who he falls in love with and eventually marries.Jane Ah! At last, the love interest!Andy Yes, but wait a moment. Nash believes that he's been asked to work by William Parcher for the US Department of Defense on breaking Soviet codes. At one point he's chased by the Russians, and it's after this that he becomes mentally ill.Jane I think I've seen this in the trailer to the film.Andy So when he's put in a psychiatric hospital, he thinks the Soviets have captured him. He's given this painful treatment which affects his relationship with his wife. And his intellectual skills. So he stops taking the medicine. Jane It sounds quite hard to watch.Andy Well, it is, but it's well acted and directed, and so, you know, there's a-bit of distance between the audience and what's happening on film.Jane So what happens next?Andy Well, then his illness returns, so he and his wife decide to try and live with it. It all gets a bit complicated, because we're no longer sure if Charles, you know, his old friend, or even Parcher were real, or if they were just people that existed only in Nash's mind.Jane That sounds awful. He must have been so ill,Andy Actually, I'm kind of giving away the twist in the story.Anyway, later in his life, while he's using the library at Princeton again, he asks his rival Martin Hansen if he can start teaching again. And so the story ends when he goes on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.Jane Well, it sounds like a great film.Andy Yes, you should see it sometime.Unit 3 Learning to thinkListening inPassage 1Interviewer With us today is Martin Downes, a carpenter, who's 51. A year ago, Martin had a stroke. But he's been lucky enough to make a full recovery from it. Can you tell us how it all began, Martin?Martin rm very happy to - not that I remember much at all. I was at a customer's house, building a cupboard, and the next thing I knew, I woke up in hospital with people in white coats bending over me.Interviewer It must have been very frightening.Martin It was. But what was really frightening was that I couldn't speak. I couldn't say a word. And I couldn't understand much that people said to me.Interviewer How awful!Martin Yeah! I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't had my family. But they were there for me, they really were.I had something called aphasia, where the part of your brain gets damaged that affects your speech and language. But they started treatment for the condition almost immediately. This speech and language therapist came to see me every day for 12 weeks. They made me do all these exercises.Interviewer What kind of exercises?Martin I had to match words and pictures and say their names. You see, I'd also forgotten the names of a lot of things. She had this thing called a word board and I could point to words and phrases on it that Iwanted to say. I had to repeat words up to 20 times - boy, it was hard, so hard.Interviewer Could you say anything to begin with?Martin I could say three words. "Hi", "Yes" and "No". That was all. And there were a lot of words I couldn't understand -1 had to learn their meanings all over again.Interviewer It must have been very frustrating.Martin It was, but I was determined to get better. I was in hospital for three and a half months. When I got home I got a special computer programme that I worked with every day. And slowly my language came back to me. It was a struggle, a big struggle. I had to learn to read and write again too.Interviewer Why do you think that you were able to recover completely? It's not that common, is it?Martin I was lucky. I was given the right drug at the right time. And I had 12 weeks of therapy, five days a week. That's very important, apparently.Interviewer And now that you're better how do you feel about your life?Martin What can I say? rm just grateful to have my life back.Passage 2Interviewer In 1907 an Italian educator called Maria Montessori opened a school in Rome that taught young children using methods that were very different from traditional teaching. Today, the Montessori method, as it's known, is used in nurseryschools in countries such as America, Canada, Britain and Germany. Recent research shows that children educated at a Montessori nursery do better later on at school than other children in all subjects. We asked two Montessori teachers, Claudia Rosella and Sarah Harrington, to explain what makes their nursery school different. Sarah...Sarah I think the first thing to say is that a Montessori classroom is very quiet, very clean. Everything stays in the same place. Sothe children are calm and quiet as a result.Interviewer So they're not encouraged to be noisy.Sarah No, definitely not...Interviewer Claudia?Claudia Yes, the classroom's very important. Another important principle is that children direct their own learning. They choose what they want to do.Interviewer So the teacher doesn't tell the child what to do?Sarah Not at all. While a child is doing an activity we observe them. Then we work with the child for a short time and then leave them to work on their own.Interviewer That sounds excellent. And what about your equipment? It's often made of wood, isn't it?Sarah Yes, and a piece of equipment is often designed for one activity only.Claudia Right. It's so that the child can see if they're getting something right or wrong.Interviewer So they don't need the teacher so much"?Sarah That's right. Another Montessori principle is the importance of physical activity. Children learn by doing, so when they're learning to read, for example, the letters are made ofsandpaper so that children can feel the shape of the letter.Interviewer Do you think there are disadvantages with Montessori methods?Claudia Yes, there are. Maria Montessori didn't understand how important it is for children to use their imagination. If she was alive today, she would recognize that. But still, the fact is, her methods are very successful.Unit 4 Person to personListening inPassage 1John Are you packed?Mike Yup. Everything's there.John Sure you've packed your mobile?Mike r II look again, John ... yes.John Well, we've got another ten minutes before we need to leave, so we might as well relax. You know someone told me an amazing story yesterday about these Australians who got completely lost in some national park.Mike And don't tell me, they used their mobile to get help?John That's right!Mike So what happened?John Well, it was this guy with his son and niece -I think she was about 14 - and they were hiking in this really rugged country and they got completely lost - no idea where they were at all.Mike That's not going to happen to us.John No, it isn't. Anyway, the guy had his mobile and he phoned the emergency services —it wasn't dark yet - and they sent out a search party, but they couldn't find them. And then -this is the interesting bit - the guy sent photos of the place where they were.Mike I'd have thought of that.John Yes, well it's pretty obvious, really. And in the photos there were mountains in the background, and the staff at the emergency service centre were able to identify exactly which mountains they were. And they used the photos to pinpoint their location, you know, to get the exact location.Mike How did they do that?John They used mapping software.Mike Right.John Anyway, by then it had got dark and really freezing. So they slept behind this ridge and covered themselves with leaves. Andyou know what the young girl said afterwards? She said, "It was quite fun."Mike Really, wasn't she frightened?John I don't think so.Mike So - is there a happy ending?John Yes, well they sent out helicopters as soon as it was daylight and the helicopter hovered over the area, and the man kept talking to them till they were able to pinpoint his location. And when they finally found them they were only 400 metres away from where they'd expected them to be.Mike Amazing!John And that's because they'd moved 400 metres away from where they'd taken their photos because the ground was too rough to sleep on.Mike Incredible!John And the moral of the story is-Mike Always take your mobile phone with you when you go hiking.John And take one that has a camera.Mike Hey, I think we should go, John.John Yes, OK. You think we're going to get lost?Mike No chance, mate!Passage2Social networking - it's the 21st century way of having fun - online. And if you're under 40, you probably use a social networking site - maybe when you should be working. It's well-known that -. office workers spend up to two hours a day on a site, exchanging messages and photos. And do students ever do anything else? Different social networking sites are used by different age groups.For people in their 20s, the most popular site is Facebook, the online phenomenon started by an American student in 2004. It's taken only four years to make Facebook a huge success - and the website's made its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, a very rich man indeed.What's extraordinary about Zuckerburg is that he started Facebook when he was only 18. He was a student at Harvard, one of America's top universities, when he launched the Facebook website, working from his college room. In only two weeks, more than two-thirds of his college had signed up and in a year, thousands of colleges were using it. T oday, Facebook has millions of users. More than half of them visit the site at least once a day.So what makes Facebook so special? Like other networking sites, you create a profile with photos, you list your interests, you exchange messages and join groups of friends. But where Facebook is different is that it gives you a privacy that you just don't get on other sites. Unlike other sites, you have a lot of control over what users can see about you. As a result, one-thirdof Facebook users give out their mobile numbers - they know it's safe to do so.But you still need to be careful about what you think is safe to show people. One reason is that more and more employers are using Facebook to check out potential employees. Is the person you've just interviewed as good as he seems? Facebook can provide the answer. If a 26-year-old man says on Facebook that he's been travelling round the world for the last three years, and in his interview he said he'd been working in an office - well, he probably won't get the job.Unit 5 All you need is loveListening inPassage 1Interviewer So - tell us about how you first met.Amy How we first met... Oh, it wasn't very romantic.David I thought it was very romantic.Interviewer Why don't you begin at the beginning?Amy Good idea. Well, I was 22 and rd just left uni and I went on holiday to the French Alps with a girlfriend. And someone invited us to go climbing. But my friend got ill so I went without her. There was this group of about eight guys and two girls.David There were four girls.Amy Alright! Well, anyway, no one had told me that the mountain we were going to climb was - vertical - and that we were climbing with ropes! I was terrified, absolutely terrified, I just really hadn't expected it.David She was terrified! I noticed her immediately. She looked so scared -she was wearing this great hat ——but she was white as a sheet.Amy Oh, I don't know about that, but I remember I wasshaking all over. David came over and started talking to me and telling me how safe it was with the ropes. And he was so sweet, you know I think I fell in love with him right then.David Yeah, it was the same with me ... We roped up and I made sure I stayed next to her ... I kept talking to her and encouraging her.Amy It really helped. I think I would have fallen off the mountain if you hadn't done that.David Rubbish! You were perfectly safe. Anyway, we got to the summit —it was a kind of flat area - and Amy just collapsed - she couldn't stand up!Amy It's true, I couldn't. I felt -1 was just - everyone ignored me except David - everyone.David Quite a few people came to talk to you.Amy They didn't!David They did!Amy Well, you talked to me, and that's all that mattered.David Thank you!Amy So-David So we climbed back down the mountain.Amy which was just as bad -David and we headed for the nearest village and we both had huge pizzas.Amy I didn't eat a thing! I was still feeling too sick.David You did, you know.Amy You know, you have a terrible memory sometimes.David So do you! ... To cut a long story short, we got married six months later and went on a three-week honeymoon to Barbados. Amy Two weeks!David And we've lived happily ever after.Passage2Presenter And now let's move on to online dating, a way of meeting a potential partner that's becoming more and more popular.James O'Hanlan and Claire Goodall are two online dating experts who are going to give all you listeners advice about how to use online dating safely and successfully. James ...James OK. The first thing to say is, don't be nervous. A lot of people are and it's very understandable. But there's no need to be, provided you follow the rules, which we're going to tell you right now. Isn't that right, Claire?Claire Absolutely.James So, let's begin at the beginning. When you join an online dating site, the first thing you do is give some basic information about yourself. Now, don't be tempted to lie - about your age, for example. If you want a good relationship, you need to be honest. If you're not, you'll get found out and that could be painful.Claire Another thing - it's a good idea to use a photo, you'll get many more replies than if you don't.James But use a recent photo, not one that was taken ten years ago!Claire Let's move on to the next stage. You've had some responses 响应and chosen one or two people you'd like to chat with.Now, the most important advice here is, don't give out any personal information until you're 100 per cent sure you're that happy to do so. That includes your real name, your phone numbers, your workplace address and your email address. Use the email facility 设备at the website and only give out your emailaddress when you feel completely safe.James And email for as long as you want, it's a great way of getting to know a person. Then, the next stage is to talk on the phone. Now that's very revealing, because you'll hear the person's voice, and also because people have to be spontaneous on the phone - they can't think about what they're going to say for half a day, unlike emails.Claire Then, if you're feeling really comfortable, agree to meet. But always choose a public place. Don't go to someone's home.James A cafe or bar is the best choice.Claire And don't forget to tell a friend where you're going and what time you expect to be back. That's important.James Another good idea is to ask the same friend to call you during the meeting so that if you want to leave quickly you can say that something urgent's come up and you have to go.Claire That's everything! If you follow this advice you should be perfectly safe. And you may find the man -James ... or woman —Claire ... of your dreams!James & Claire Happy hunting!Unit 6 Shop fill you drop!Listening inPassage 1Speaker 1 ]Interviewer So, how are you enjoying yourself in St Petersburg? What's it like?Speaker 1 Oh, I think it is a very beautiful place.Interviewer What sort of... Is it good for shopping? What do you buy in St Petersburg?Speaker 1 Yes, there are things you should buy. Of course, vodka is very good here and the other thing very expensive is the caviar. It is beautiful. Then there are the dolls. What have do they say? Matrioshka dolls.Interviewer Matrioshka dolls. Those wooden dolls that go inside each other?Speaker 1 Yes, you take one out and open the top and there is another one. You take off the top and there is another. They get very very small inside. Very small.Interviewer OK.Speaker 1 And of course, the chess. Because they are very famous here in this part of the world to play the chess.Interviewer Yes. And what sort of shops are there? Where's it best to shop?Speaker 1 Oh, here there are very good department stores, where you can buy everything that you like, clothes and everything.And also, lots of small kiosks that are very unique 独一无二的,owned by different shopkeepers, you know. And they are all over St Petersburg. Little kiosks and also markets that are very good. And there is a very good museum shop at the museum - at the Hermitage Museum.Interviewer And what are the opening hours?Speaker 1 At the museum?Interviewer Well, all shops, generally. What are the opening hours ... for shopping?Speaker 1 Yes. Usually, they open at around 10 o'clock in the morning and I think they are open to 7 o'clock at night; sometimes even longer, to 8 o'clock.Interviewer And how do you, how do you actually buy things?How do you pay for things? I think, there is a slightly different way of。

新编大学英语视听说教程听力原文

新编大学英语视听说教程听力原文

新编大学英语视听说教程听力原文Unit 1: Greetings and IntroductionsDialog 1A: Hello! My name is Emma. What’s your name? B: Hi Emma! Nice to meet you. My name is John. A: How are you doing John?B: I’m doing well, thanks. How about you?A: I’m good, thank you. Where are you from?B: I’m from New York. How about you?A: I’m from London.Dialog 2A: Good morning! Are you a student here?B: Yes, I am. My name is Lisa. What’s your name? A: I’m Mike. Nice to meet you, Lisa.B: Nice to meet you too, Mike. Where are you from?A: I’m from Los Angeles. How about you?B: I’m from Beijing.Unit 2: Making PlansDialog 1A: Hi Sam. What are you doing this weekend?B: I don’t have any plans. What about you?A: I’m thinking of going hiking. Would you like to join me?B: That sounds fun. I’d love to come along.Dialog 2A: Hey Emily, do you have any plans for tomorrow evening?B: Not really. What do you have in mind?A: There’s a new movie showing at the cinema. Would you like to watch it together?B: Sure! I’ve been wanting to see that movie. Let’s go.Unit 3: Asking for HelpDialog 1A: Excuse me. Can you help me find the nearest post office?B: Of course. Go straight down this road, and you’ll see it on your left.A: Thank you so much!B: You’re welcome. Have a nice day!Dialog 2A: Pardon me, do you know where the library is?B: Yes, it’s just around the corner. Walk straight ahead, and you’ll see it on your right.A: Thank you very much!B: No problem. Enjoy your time at the library.Unit 4: Describing PeopleDialog 1A: Do you know T om? He’s a tall guy with short blonde hair.B: Yes, I know him. He’s also got blue eyes.A: That’s correct. He’s quite good-looking.Dialog 2A: Have you met Alice? She’s a woman with long brown hair. B: Yes, I’ve seen her around. She’s always smiling.A: She’s really friendly and easygoing.Unit 5: Ordering FoodDialog 1A: Waiter, can we see the menu please?Waiter: Of course. Here you go.A: Thank you. I’ll have the steak and a glass of red wine. Waiter: Excellent choice.Dialog 2A: Excuse me, can I have the bill please?Waitress: Sure. Here you are.A: Thank you. How much is it?Waitress: It’s 25 dollars.A: Here’s the money. Keep the change.Waitress: Thank you for your generosity.Unit 6: Giving DirectionsDialog 1A: Excuse me, I’m looking for the nearest post office. Can you help me?B: Sure. Go straight ahead until you reach the traffic lights, then turn left. The post office will be on your right.A: Thanks a lot.B: You’re welcome. Have a great day!Dialog 2A: Hi, do you know where the train station is?B: Yes, it’s just a few blocks away. Go down this street, and you’ll find it on your left.A: Thank you so much!B: No problem. Enjoy your journey.以上是新编大学英语视听说教程的一些听力原文对话。

新世纪视听说1听力原文

新世纪视听说1听力原文

Book1-Unit 5Optional Listening 1Toshi: Hi, Isabel. How are you?Isabel: Okay, Toshi… well, actually, I’m missing Spain today-especially the food.Toshi: You’re from Madrid, right?Isabel: Not exactly. I go to school in Madrid.Toshi: Oh, where do you live, then?Isabel: Getafe. It’s small suburb near Madrid.Toshi: I don’t know it.Isabel: Well, only about 150,000 people live there. It’s kind of boring. But it’s very affordable. Toshi: That’s good. The city I’m from is very expensive. You’r e lucky.Isabel: Yes, but we have a problem: the traffic. Sometimes I drive to school and the traffic is terrible.Optional Listening 2Singapore is a great city for a vacation. There are a lot of interesting things to see. You can visit Chinatown and little India, and go shopping on Orchard Road. Singapore also has many good restaurants. There are some great beaches for swimming near the city, and the parks are really beautiful. The city has very good public transportation---- you can take a bus, tr ain, or subway. It’s a safe city, and there isn’t much crime. It’s also a clean city. There isn’t much pollution. The only problem is that Singapore is expensive. The population of Singapore is approximately 4.84 million. With a medley of Chinese, Indian and Malay influences and a tropical climate, tasty food, good shopping and a vibrant nightlife scene, this Garden City makes a great stopover or springboard into the region.Optional Listening 3Choosing a cityIstanbul is a very unusual city—one part is in Europe, and the other part is in Asia. About 9 million people live there. Visitors love Istanbul because it has many beautiful, old buildings, and the food is great. At night, the seafood restaurants are very popular. And everything in Istanbul is very affordable for visitors. Traffic is a problem in the city, because there are too many cars for the old streets. There are also subways, trains, and buses, and some people take boats to go between the Europe side and the Asian side. The weather is very good in summer, but in winter it’s sometimes very cold.Vancouver is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It’s near the mountains and the sea, and there are many great parks where you can walk, ride a bicycle, or just relax. The city has good public transportation, with buses and fast trains that go everywhere. There are about 600,000 people in Vancouver, but it’s a very clean city, and there’s not much pollution. Two bad points--- prices there are very high, and the weather is not very good. Vancouver is famous for rain! But there are many good museums for those rainy day, and in the evening, the city has great restaurants and nightclubs to visit.Optional Listening 4Two magazines recently listed the best cities to live in. Here are two o f the cities listed as “the world best.” San Jose, Costa Rica. When people think of Costa Rica, they imagine rain forests, rivers, and beautiful beaches. These things are not in San Jose. But this city is still one of the world’s best. Why? Unlike other ci ties in Central and South America, San Jose has comfortable weather all year (15oc/60 o F to 26oc/79oF). Housing is affordable in San Jose. Also, many of the city’s older neighborhoods are very beautiful and have small hotels, art galleries and cafes. Beautiful volcanoes and mountains surround the city. You can visit them easily from San Jose. Minuses: There’s good public transportation, but traffic and air pollution are a problem in the city center.Hong Kong, China. Why live in Hong Kong? Here are two good reasons. The city: This lively city---once a small fishing village--- is today an international business center. It is an interesting mix of East and East, old and new. Modern skyscrapers are next to small temples.Popular nightclubs are close to traditional teahouses. Busy crowds fill the streets at all hours of the day. But outside the city, there are parks for walking or relaxing. The food: Hong Kong is famous for its wonderful native dishes (try the dim sum). There’s also food from Europe, North Ame rica,and other parts of Asia. Minuses: This small city has a large population. How many people live in Hong Kong? Almost seven million! That’s why housing is often very expensive. Traffic and air pollution are also a problem.Keys:OL1: A. 1. Getafe; 2. Madrid. B. small city, not very exciting, affordable.OL2: Population: 4.84 million; Weather: Tropical; Cost of living: Expensive; Transportation: Very good public transportation; Nightlife: Vibrant.OL3: B. Istanbul-Population: 9 million; Weather: good in summer, cold in winter; Cost of living: affordable; Transportation: subways, trains, buses, but too many cars; Nightlife: popular seafood restaurants; Vancouver-Population: 600 thousand; Weather: lots of rain; Cost of living: high prices; Transportation: good public, transportation; Nightlife: great restaurants and nightclubs.OL4. 1. San Jose; 2. Hong Kong; 3. San Jose; 4. Hongkong, San Jose. 5. Hong Kong, San Jose; 6. Hong Kong.OL5. 1. note; 2. meet; 3. called; 4. directions; 5. forgets; 6. a sk a man for; 7. don’t understand; 8. take a taxi; 9. they are surprised; 10. right across the street.Unit 6 book1Optional Listening 1A housing problemMr. Jenner: Come in!Graciela: Mr. Jenner?Mr. Jenner: Oh, hi, Graciela. Please, come in.Graciela: Thanks a lot.Mr. Jenner: So, how’re you doing?Graciela: Uh, okay.Mr. Jenner: Really? Are you doing well in your classes?Graciela: Yes, I am.Mr. Jenner: Well … what’s wrong?Graciela: It’s my housing …Mr. Jenner: Uh-huh …Graciela: I like the house, and my host family is very nice. But the house is far from school. It’s a 45-minute bus ride to come here every day. And all my friends live on campus.Mr. Jenner: I understand. Let’s see … there’s a room in the school dormitory.Grac iela: Okay …Mr. Jenner: But you share the room with another student.Graciela: Sounds good!Optional Listening 2Places for rentA. Here is a big house with a big yard. It's for big families. It has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a big livin g room, a great kitchen, and a garage. It’s only $4000 a moth. Call Mrs. Tranh at 456-0987.B. Here is an apartment at a great location! It is a nice new apartment building with a swimming pool and a tennis court. Inside the apartment, you can find a big living room, one bedroom, one bathroom, and a beautiful kitchen. All this for only $1200 a month. Phone 761-0201, and ask for Dana.C. Here is a house you can afford. For only $1200 a month, you get a living room, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a big kitchen, and a great yard for your children. Please call Nathan at 475-2300.D. Here is another apartment for relaxed, elegant living! A big apartment with three bedrooms, a living room, a dining room, a bathroom, and a big garage and no yard work for only $1400 a month. Call Rolando at 533-0202.Optional Listening 3I'm Yaopeng Wong. This is my third month as a student in Denver, Colorado. I'm learning a lot in English class.I’m living with a host family. Patricia, my host mother, is really nice. She’s divorced and has two kids—a seventeen-year-old son, Jason, and a twelve-year-old daughter, Clarissa. We live in a large apartment. I have my own room. It has a bed, a desk, and small closet. We share a bathroom and a computer in the living room. I can also use the kitchen or watch TV in the living room.Living with an American family is interesting. On the first day here, Patricia showed me the house and my room. She said, "Make yourself at home." At first, I didn’t understand, but now I do. The apartment is like my apartment. I usually make breakfast for myself. I do my own laundry. I clean my own room. Patricia is my host mother, but she’s like a friend or a roommate. But, there are rules. It’s OK for my friends to visit, but only on the weekend. Jason’s friends come to the apartment on the weekend. They hang out in his room and listen to music or watch videos. Sometimes my friends from school have dinner with my family.Optional Listening 4The Guitar HouseIn Fayetteville, Georgia, there is a house that is shaped like a guitar. It was built by a song-writer and country music lover, Elvis L. Carden, in the 1970s.It’s right on the road and is brown. It’s not that strange, when you look at it from ground level. You probably would really noti ce it just driving by. In fact, you can’t really tell what it is from the street. But if you stop and look, the roof has a very slight slant, and then you can tell.It’s basically a modified ranch house with a long narrow walkway or hallway leading to th e garage, thus the guitar shape. It has a flat roof with the electrical wires running along the top to mimic guitar strings.The Shoe HouseHellam is a small town in south-central Pennsylvania. In this town, there is a shoe house. The house was built in 1948 by shoe magnate Mahlon N. Haines to advertise his business.The shoe House is a wood-framed house, which is 48 feet long and 17 feet wide at its widest point. It is a replica of high-top work boot. Besides a sole, heel, and toe, this shoe house has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, and a living room.Originally, Haines used Shoes House as a guesthouse. He invented elderly couples to spend the weekend and live like “kings and queens” at his expense. He also let honeymooners stay there for free, as long as they came from a town that they had a Haines shoe store.After Haines passed away, the Shoe House was sold. Now it has been turned into an ice cream parlor and is open to tourists.Keys:OL1: A. housing; B. C C. Because it’s too far from school. /It’s a 45-minute bus ride to school.OL2: A. a dining room: D; a yard: A, C; two bedrooms or more: A, C, D; two bathrooms or more: A, C; a big kitchen: C. B. C is the best.OL3: A. c. B. 1. False; doesn’t share, Not share; 2. False; divorced, Not married; 3. True; 4. False; weekends, Not Mondays or Tuesdays; 5. False; his room, Not the living room.OL4: A. 1. a long narrow walkway or hallway, mimic guitar strings; 2. elderly couples and people on their honeymoon, tourists. B. 1. Elvis L. Carden; 2. he was a song writer and loved country music./He wanted to build a house that would look like a guitar. 4. It looks like a high-top work boot. 5. As a guesthouse. 6. It’s now an ice cream parlor and is open to tourists.OL5: 1. learn; 2. roommates; 3. town; 4. apartment; 5. needs; 6. four rooms; 7. bedroom; 8. a month; 9. that’s cheap; 10. takes the apartment.Book1-Unit 7Optional Listening 1Brian: Lisa, I’m going to the mall. Are you ready to go?Lisa: Yeah. What are you going to buy?Brian: A gift for my grandmother. Her birthday is next week.Lisa: Yeah? How old is she?Brian: She’s going to be ninety-three on Tuesday.Lisa: Wow! Ninety-three. That’s pretty old!Brian: Yeah, but she has a lot of energy, and her memory is really good.Lisa: What’s her secret?Brian: She also takes a walk with her sister everyday. The exercise is good for her.Lisa: I know what you mean.Brian: My grandmother also teaches piano to adults, and she loves to read…Lisa: Yeah. It’s important to exercise your body and your mind.Brian: It’s so true. It’s the secret to a long life.Optional Listening 2Teacher: OK, everyone. Let’s be quiet and give Tom our attention. He’s going to share some tips with us this morning. OK, Tom, they’re all yo urs.Tom: Thanks, and good morning, everyone! I’m Tom Singer, and I’m firefighter at Station 11.Class (in unison)：Hi, Tom!Tom: OK, …we live in California. There are a lot of earthquakes here… Many are small. But, if there’s a strong earthquake, what do you do? Does anyone know?Young female voice: I know! Get under a strong piece of furniture—like a desk.Tom: That’s right. What else?Young female voice: Well, you shouldn’t use matches.Tom: Why not?Young male voice: Many terrible fires start after an earthquake.Young female voice: Yeah, and when the shaking stops, don’t go outside.Tom: Ex actly. A lot of people run to the store for food and water after an earthquake. But it’s not safe. It’s better to stay outside.Optional Listening 3Home RemediesA long ago, when people were sick, they didn’t go to the doctor, and they didn’t buy medi cine from the drugstore. Instead, they used home remedies—medicine made from things from home. Today, many people like to use home remedies because they are cheap and easy to use. Here are some old home remedies from the United States.When you have sleeping problems.·Don’t eat dinner lat at night. Have a small, light dinner early in the evening.·Eat lettuce for dinner. It helps you feel calm.·Eat raw onions to help you sleep.When your ears hurts.·Don’t eat very cold food, like ice cream.·Put some salt in a bag, heat the bag, and put it into the side of your head.·Put warm oil in your ear.When you have a headache.·Don’t eat very cold food, like ice cream.·Lie down and close your eyes. Breathe calmly, and don’t think about anything.·Put a hot cloth on your head, above your eyes.When you have a stomach problem.·Eat a lot of yogurt to help your stomach work better.·Drink tea made from the ginger, peppermint, or chamomile plants.·Reduce alcohol, tea, and coffee.Optional Listening 4Student: I’m an 18-year-old high school student in Seoul. In eight months, I’m going to take the university entrance exam. To prepare, I’m studying six hours a day. I want to do well, but I’m really stressed these days. I can’t sleep. What can I do, Donna?Donna: Your problem is a common one for many students around the world. Here are some tips to help you. First, don’t do too much. Make a study schedule for yourself, but don’t study too much in one day. You remember more by studying one hour each day for six days, than six hours in one day. Also, don’t study late at night, because we often forget information studied then. Second, take breaks and relax. You learn best when you study in two-hour blocks. Every two hours, take a break for 15 to 20 minutes. Go outside and walk. Exercise is a great way to reduce stress. It can also improve memory and help you sleep better t night. Third, eat well. Don’t eat or drink a lot of sugar and caffeine. Eat food high in vitamin B, for example, eggs, yogurt, green vegetables, tofu, and rice. These give you energy and help you think more clearly. Finally, get a study partner. A study partner can help you practice fro the test. When you’re worried about the exam, you can talk to your partner. This can reduce stress, too.Key:OL1: A. 1. She’s energetic; B. 1. She’s energetic; 2. She has a good diet; 3. She exercises every day. 4. She’s a piano teacher.OL2: A. How to survive an earthquake; B. 2, 4, 6OL3: 1. A; 2. C; 3. B; 4. AOL4: A. 1. The student is worried about a test. B. 1. in eight moths; 2. a little each day; 3. forget;4. 2 hours;5. vitamin B;6. Talking.OL5: 1. feel; 2. sore; 3. energy; 4. cold; 5. work too hard; 6. had a lot of things to do; 7. told him to relax; 8. make him feel better; 9. worked;10. in the endBook1- Unit 8Optional Listening 11. Transworld Air needs friendly international flight attendants to join our team! Please speak English and a second language fluently. Pay is $30,000 a year. To learn more, call us at 555-2234.2．Do you like to play computer games? Do you want to work at home, and make $20 per hour? If you said “yes”, call us today at 555-6789. Please have experience using a PC and a Macintesh.3. Sunnyside Elementary School needs a music teacher. Please play piano and guitar, and like working with young children. Pay is $24,000 a year. For more information, visit our website at .Optional Listening 2Sam: So, what do you think, Lisa? Who should get the job---Ally or Carl?Lisa: W ell, they’re both OK… Ally is a hard worker.Sam: And she’s on the swim team at her university. But does she have any experience teaching children?Lisa: No, but she loves kids.Sam: Hmmm… what about Carl? What’s he like?Lisa: He’s friendly… and very serious about swimming.Sam: Oh?Lisa: Yeah, he coaches a swim team at a local high school.Sam: Does he have any experience with little kids?Lisa: No. His experience is mostly with teenagers.Sam: Uh-huhLisa: So, who should we choose?Sam: Hmmm… I don’t know….Optional Listening 3A. Now listen to Marisol’s voice message to her new key-pal through email. What can Marisol do? Check the correct answers in the chartDear Key-pal,Hello! My name is Marisol Torres. I’m from Guadalajara, Mexico. I can speak Spanish, English, and a little French. Can you speak Spanish? I can teach you some words!I love music. I can sing, and I can play the piano. I can also play the guitar and the violin, but not very well. Can you play any instruments?I also li ke sports. I can play soccer and tennis, but I can’t ski. It’s too difficult. Can you ski?Please answer me by voice or writing. I’m waiting for your reply!Your friend,MarisolBDear Marisol,Thanks for your voice mail. I’m your now key-pal. My name is Cho Sun Ah. I live in Pusan, Korea. I’m a student at Pusan National University.In my country, we speak Korean. I study English at the university. I can speak a little French, but I can’t speak Spanish. I love music too! I can’t play any instrument s, but I can sing. I have lots of CDs. Who is your favorite singer?I can ski a little, but I can’t play soccer or tennis. My favorite sport is baseball. I always watch it on TV. Do you like baseball?What do you think of my English? I’d like to further improve my English listening ability so I’m looking forward to your voice reply.Your friend,Sun-AhOptional Listening 4Anthony Price graduated from University of Chicago in May 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies. When at university he was president of the Japanese Club from 2003 to 2004. From 2002 to 2003, he studied Japanese language, history and culture at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Since 2004, he has been working as a part-time translator with WebTrans, a translating company based in Chicago, Illinois. He translates websites from English to Japanese. He also works as a part-time travel writer with One World Travel Magazine, a media company in Boston, Massachusetts. He does research and writes articles about different U.S. cities. He has worked as a volunteer teacher at Chicago Museum of Modern Art since May 2004. He teaches a 30- minute class once a week to visitors at the museum. His lectures feature the art of Japan. Apart from the above work experience, Mr. Price has had other jobs. When he was a freshman, he worked as a cashier at the Pacific Market in Chicago. Mr. Price is a versatile young man. He can speak, read, and write Japanese and English fluently. He is also skilled in Microsoft Word and Excel. He can use both a PC and a Macintosh.Keys:OL1: A. 2,3,1 B. Experience using a PC and Macintosh/$20; Play piano and guitar and like working with; children/$24,000; Speak English and a second language fluently.OL2: A. c B. Ally: is hardworking, is on a swim team, loves kids; Carl is friendly, coaches a swim team, has experience.OL4: c. translatorOL5: 1. interview 2. prepare 3. resumé 4. questions 5. smart and creative 6. gets really excited 7. finds out 8. for a lifeguard 9. cant’ swim 10. looks good in a bathing suit。

新标准大学英语视听说教程(1)inside_view听力原文

新标准大学英语视听说教程(1)inside_view听力原文

Unit 1Conversation 1Porter: Good afternoon.Janet: Good afternoon.Porter:New student?Janet:Yes.Porter: Welcome to Hertford College.Janet: Thank you.Porter: Can I have your family name, please?Jane t: Yes, it's Li.Porter: Er, L-double E?Janet: No, L-I.Po r te r: And what's your first name, Ms Li?Janet:Janet.Porter: Janet Li ... ah yes, there you are. Here are your keys.Janet: Where's my room?Porter: You're in staircase 6 room 5.Jane t: Who am I sharing with?Porter: Nobody. You have your own room. Er ... there's a Ms Santos in the room next to you. Janet:Oh. My own room? In China we usually have several people in a dormitory. Porter: Well, here you don't have to share with anyone.Janet: Thank you sir.Porter: No need to call me sir, Ms Li. Everyone calls me Stewart.Janet: Please call me Janet!Porter: OK, Janet, um, can you just sign for your keys, please?Conversation 2Kate: Hi, have you just arrived too?Janet: Yes!Kate: I guess we’re neighbors. My name’s Kate Santos.Janet: I’m Janet Li. Where are you from?Kate: From New York. How about you?Janet: I’m from Anshan in China.Kate: Is Janet your real name?Janet: No, it’s my English name. My Chinese name is Li Hui. Is Kate your full name? Kate: No, it’s short for Catherine.Janet: So do I call you Catherine or Kate?Kate: Everyone calls me Kate.Conversation 3Kate Hey! This is awesome! Look at the size of this dining hall.Janet Is this where we have all our meals?Kate I guess.Mark You just arrived?Girls Yes!Mark Me too. By the way, I'm Mark. Nice to meet you.Kate Hi, I'm Kate.Mark Hi Kate, I guess you're from the States.Kate Right! How can you tell? You're British, huh?Mark Yes, I'm from London. And you are ...?J anet I'm Li Hui. I'm from China. But you can call me Janet.Mark Hi Janet. Welcome to England. What are you reading?Janet English.Mark How about you, Kate?Kate My major is law. And you?Mark I'm studying PPE.Kate That's a special Oxford subject, isn't it?Unit 2Conversation 1Kate: Oh, this looks nice.Mark: Cool.Waitress: Good afternoon, table for three? Come this way.Mark: Let's have a look at the menu.Mark: Thank you.Janet: Thank you.Waitress: The specials are on the board.Kate: So, what sorts of food do you like, Janet?Janet: Well, I like spicy food. And I'm not very fond of raw food! What would you recommend? Mark: Why don't you try the chicken curry? That's nice and spicy.Janet: What's in it?Mark: Chicken cooked in tomatoes and onions with Indian spices.Janet: I'll try it. Do we all choose a selection of dishes to share or only one dish per person? Mark: Usually one dish per person.Kate: Or the moussaka looks good.Janet: What's it made with?Kate: It's made with lamb and eggplant. It's a Greek dish.Janet: How is it cooked?Kate: It's baked in the oven.Janet: Mm, that sounds good too.Kate: And as a starter?Janet: What's minestrone soup?Mark: It's an Italian soup with vegetables and pasta. It's delicious!Janet: OK, I'll have that.Kate: Waitress?Waitress: What can I get for you?Kate: Well, for the starter, can we have two minestrone soups, and for the main course, one moussaka and one curry, please. What about you, Mark?Mark: I'll have the prawns with garlic and the chilli con carne. And could you bring us some water, please?Waitress: OK.Mark: Thank you.Waitress: Thanks.Janet: What's chilli con carne?Mark: It's a spicy Mexican dish with beef and beans. It's very hot!Conversation 2Janet: That was great! Except I don't like cold water. I usually drink hot water.Kate: Hot water? We never drink hot water except with tea. Let's have a dessert. What would you like, Janet?Janet: Any suggestions?Kate: Well, why don't you try the apple strudel? It's an Austrian dish. It's made with apple, pastry and spices.Janet: No, I'm not so keen on pastry. ...What's a chocolate brownie?Mark: It's a kind of chocolate cake.Janet: How is it made?Kate: It's made with flour, eggs and butter...Mark: And lots of chocolate!Kate: You'll love it.Janet: What kind of ice cream is there?Kate: I'll ask ... Excuse me ... What flavor ice cream do you have?Waitress: Strawberry, vanilla and chocolate.Janet: I'll just have a fruit salad, I think.Mark: And Kate, what are you going to have?Kate: Same for me.Mark: Could you bring us two fruit salads, and a chocolate brownie?Waitress: Sure.Unit 3Conversation 1Mark: Hi, what're you doing?Janet: Oh, nothing much ... Well, I'm just doing this quiz here in the newspaper.Mark: Let's have a look then.Janet: Here. It's called, "How much do you know about memory?" I've just done it. Do you want to have a go?Mark: OK, might as well. I'm not busy.Janet: Right. Look, I'll read the statements. Then you have to answer "true" or "false". Ready? Mark: Yea.Janet: OK. Physical exercise improves your memory. True or false?Mark: True, I suppose. It sounds like the right answer.Janet: You're right; exercise does improve your memory. Next statement: 30 per cent of peoplehave a visual memory.Mark: That sounds about right. True?Janet: No, wrong, I'm afraid. In fact, 60 per cent of people have a visual memory.Mark: Really? Actually, I've got a pretty good memory.Janet: Have you? OK ... Next one ... When you're tired, it's more difficult to remember things. Mark: That's true, obviously. I can't remember a thing when I'm tired.Janet: Correct! If you do one activity for a long time, your memory will improve.Mark: I'm not sure ... True?Janet: Actually, it's false.Mark: Oh!Janet: Eating fruit and vegetables can improve your memory.Mark: I read something in The Times about that. True.Janet: True, it says here.Mark: Oh, no! I've got a lecture. I'd forgotten. I'd better get going!Janet: Oh, Mark! What a good memory you have!Conversation 2Kate: You're looking a bit down, Janet. What's up?Janet: Well ... I'm finding studying at Oxford quite hard.Kate: You're telling me! There's so much work!Janet: It's not the amount of work, but everything's so different. In China, generally we have large classes, we don't have tutorials. And mostly, our teacher tells us what we should do. So I'm not used to asking questions or discussing things. I find it difficult.Kate: You have to memorize a lot, don't you?Janet: Yes, but I'm good at that.Kate: You're lucky. There's so much to remember studying law! I have difficulty sometimes, I really do.Janet: Yes, well, we've been trained to do that. But we don't have so much training in critical thinking.Kate: What do you mean by critical thinking?Janet: Let me think ... I think it's giving your opinion and then justifying it.Kate: Yes, I suppose that's what our teachers have always encouraged us to do.Janet: I am getting better at it, I suppose.Kate: Hey! How about this? Let's pretend I'm your tutor. I'll make a statement. Your task is to examine it and then ask questions.Janet: OK.Kate: Everyone is capable of learning a second language. Go on, ask a question!Janet: Why do you say that?Kate: That's what the research tells us. Now ask another one.Janet: Can you give an example of some research?Kate: Um ... No! Look, I'm starving and I can't think at all when I'm hungry.Unit 4Conversation 1Kate: Oh, I must make a quick call. ...Jacky: Hello, Jacky Gordon speaking.Kate: Hello, can I speak to Abbie, please?Jacky: I'll see if she's in, can you hold on?Kate: Sure. ...Jacky: Hello? She's out, I'm afraid. Can I give her a message — er ... or I can ask her to call you back?Kate: Could you ask her to call me back?Jacky: Sure. Who's calling?Kate: Kate Santos.Jacky: Kate Santos, OK. Does Abbie have your number?Kate: Yes, she does.Jacky: I'll tell her you called.Kate: Thanks.Janet: Abbie? I know a girl called Abbie. She reads English, doesn't she?Kate: Yes, how do you know her?Janet: She has a tutorial just after me so we chat a bit. We get on really well.Kate: Yes, everyone likes Abbie. I think it's because she's really interested in people — she's a very good listener. She should be, she works for Nightline.Janet: Nightline?Kate: Oh, I haven't told you, I've joined it.Janet: What is it? I've never heard of it.Kate: Look, I've got a leaflet about it.Janet: So...Kate: It's a university helpline for students who are having problems. I'm training to be one of the people they can call to talk to.Janet: You mean, you're a volunteer?Kate: Yes.Janet: Oh, that's great, KateConversation 2Abbie: Hi, Abbie speaking.Kate: Hi, Abbie, it's Kate Santos.Abbie: Hi! I'm sorry not to have called you back. I've got a lot on at the moment. How's things? Kate: Fine. I just wanted to let you know I won't be able to come to the next training session. Abbie: Um ... It's quite an important session. Oh, can you hold on a moment. There's someone at the door. ...Abbie: Hi, I'm sorry, look, can I call you back later?Kate: Sure. What time?Abbie: Is three o'clock OK?Kate: Three's fine.Abbie: OK, I'll call you then. Speak soon.Kate: Bye.Abbie: Bye....Kate: Abbie's my Nightline trainer.Janet: You're saying she's your Nightline trainer! But she's still a student.Kate: Well, experienced students train new students, that's the way it works.Janet: Oh, I see.Kate: It's great! At the moment, she's training us in listening skills.Janet: Listening skills? What do you mean, listening skills?Kate: Um ... The ability to really listen to someone and make them feel you're listening. It's very important.Janet: I've never thought about that before.Kate: Yes, for example, one thing you can do is listen carefully and then repeat what someone says but maybe a little differently.Janet: So what you're saying is, repeat what someone says but maybe not the exact same words. Kate: Yes. You see, when you do that, you check you've understood and you show them you're really listening.Janet: So they know you've really heard them.Kate: Very good, Janet. I can see you've got it already! Hi ... how's it going?Unit 5Conversation 1Kate: Hi, Becky, how's it going?Becky: Good!Mark: Guys, look, can you help me with a problem?Janet: Yes, of course.Mark: The thing is, there's this girl I really like called Jenny Sparks. She's a Fresher, really stunning, reads history. I know her name because someone pointed her out to me, but I've never actually spoken to her. Do either of you know her?Kate: No.Janet: No, I don't know her. Mark, how can you like her if you haven't met her?Kate: It's because she's absolutely gorgeous, Janet.Mark: That's right! I want to ask her out, but first I've got to meet her. Got any suggestions? Becky: Guys! You want to order?Mark: Sorry.Kate: Three cappuccinos?Becky: Sure.Janet: Do you know anyone who knows her? You could ask them to introduce you.Mark: No, I don't, that's the problem.Kate: Are you matchmaking, Janet?Janet: What's matchmaking?Kate: Making introductions between people who might like each other. We don't do that here. How about just walking up to her and saying Hi? Why don't you do that?Mark: No.Kate: Why not?Mark: I'm not usually shy, but — she's so ... you know ...!Janet: Oh, Mark!Kate: Just believe in yourself, Mark. You're a great guy!Janet: I understand Mark completely.Kate: Well, it's the only way he's going to get to talk to her.Mark: OK, I'll give it a try.Becky: Solved the Jenny problem yet?Girls: Thank you.Janet: You'll be fine. Mark. She'll like him, won't she, Becky?Becky: Of course she will!Conversation 2Mark: Hey, guess what, guys, I've got a date with Jenny.Kate: You did it, you asked her out?Janet: When are you seeing her?Mark: Saturday. We're going to The Eagle and Child.Janet: Sounds great.Mark: Yeah! The thing is, I'm a bit nervous.Janet: Are you?Mark: Yes, I'm afraid I'll make a fool of myself. I could do with some more advice.Kate: Any ideas?Janet: Um ... I'm thinking.Kate: Well ... One thing is ... if you're nervous, it's easy to talk too much, so remember not to do that.Mark: Good point. I'll remember that.Janet: You should make her feel special. Show her you're really interested in her.Mark: I am really interested in her.Janet: Well, you should show her you are.Mark: That'll be easy! What else?Kate: It's a good idea to look good.Mark: That's pretty obvious!Kate: I mean clean clothes, Mark!Mark: Oh ... thanks, Kate! Any more advice?Kate: Yes, the most important thing is, just be yourself.Becky: How's it going, Mark?Kate: He's worried this girl won't like him.Becky: She'll love you! Ready to order?Unit 6Conversation 1Janet: So, are you looking for anything in particular?Mark: Maybe a T-shirt or a polo shirt.Janet: We could go into the covered market and have a look at the shops in there.Kate: And what about you?Janet: I need some cosmetics from the Body Shop on Corn market Street.Kate: And I'm looking for something to wear to Jenny's party tonight. But nothing too expensive. Anyway, look, let's go in here.Assistant: Can I help you?Kate: We're just looking.Mark: What do you think of this one?Kate: Hmm, it's OK, but I'm not sure green suits you. Do they have it in other colors?Janet: What size do you take?Mark: Medium, I guess. Oh, here's a nice polo shirt. I like the color. It's a bit small,though.Janet: Do they have it in a larger size?Mark: Yes, here we go. That's great.Janet: How much is it?Mark: Twelve pounds. That's not too bad. I'll buy it.Mark: I'll have this, please.Assistant: That'll be 12 pounds please. ... Thank you. ... And here's your shirt, and here's your receipt.Mark: Thanks.Mark: Look, I've really got to go. I'll see you at the party tonight.Kate: OK.Janet: Bye.Conversation 2Janet: OK, Kate. Now it is time to find something for you. What about this dress?Kate: Hey, that's lovely.Janet: Would you like to try it on?Kate: Yes, OK. Where are the changing rooms?Assistant: Just behind you.Kate: Thank you. ... What do you think?Janet: Well, it really suits you, but ...Kate: ... it's a bit big. Excuse me, do you have this in a smaller size?Assistant: What size do you take?Kate: Size 8, I think.Assistant: No, I'm afraid we don't. That's the last one.Kate: No, it doesn't really fit. OK, I'll leave it.Janet: Actually, I really like it.Kate: Why don't you try it on, then?Janet: OK. ... What do you think?Kate: Perfect. It really suits you.Janet: It's a bit expensive.Kate: Go on! You deserve it!Janet: OK, I'll have it. But I don't have enough cash. ... Can I pay by credit card?Assistant: Sure.Janet: Thank you.Assistant: Please enter your PIN. ... And here's your receipt.Janet: Thank you.Assistant: Thanks a lot.Kate: That was painless, wasn't it? But I still don't have a dress for the party. Let's try somewhere else.Assistant: Bye.Girls: Bye.Unit 7Conversation 1Janet: What time are your parents arriving?Kate: Eleven. Oh no, it's 10.30! I must clean up my room, it's a mess.Janet: Would you like me to give you a hand?Kate: Oh, yes, that would be great! ...Janet: So, what are they like, your parents?Kate: They're great. They're very different. Mum's pretty sociable — she's real funny. Dad isn't as sociable — he's kind of quiet — he reads a lot and he likes spending time alone. He's a lot more chilled than Mum.Janet: They do sound quite different.Kate: Yes. Mum —she tends to worry a lot, whereas Dad's quite ... easygoing. He's good at listening, you can tell him anything. Um ... could you put those over there?Janet: Sure. So who are you most like?Kate: You tell me!Janet: Hmm, you've got a bit of both of them, I think.Kate: Yes, I think so, too. I'm sociable, like Mum —Janet: You're very sociable!Kate: Yes, but I like to spend time alone.Janet: I don't think you worry a lot, do you?Kate: No, I'm like Dad in that way.Kate: Oh, look at the time, I must go. I'm meeting them outside the Lodge.Conversation 2Julia: This is great. It's just like I pictured it. Look at that, isn't it beautiful?Rob: Wow, Kate, honey! I love your school!Kate: No, Dad, I'm not at Law School, I'm at university!Rob: OK, honey. It's Oxford, England — I know! ...Rob: Listen, honey, Granddad had a fall just before we left.Kate: Oh, no!Rob: It's OK. He broke his arm but they don't think it's serious.Julia: I don't know, when old people break something, it can be very serious.Rob: I think he'll be fine!Kate: Tell me all about it. What exactly happened?Rob: He fell down the steps in the backyard.Kate: Oh, poor Granddad! So go on!Rob: He was taken to the hospital by ambulance ... they kept him there for several hours, didn'tthey, Julia? But they let him go home.Julia: I feel awful that we can't be with him.Rob: Julia, I spoke to Granddad as soon as we landed and he said the doctors aren't worried. Kate: What else did he say?Rob: He said his arm doesn't hurt him.Kate: Oh, good! So he'll be OK, right? There's no real concern?Rob: No, I told you, honey, there's no need to worry. ... Just look at that! What a great place! Kate: Yes, isn't it wonderful?Rob: Come on, let's go and eat. Isn't there a pub nearby? I seem to remember passing one. I'd love to eat in an English pub.Kate: OK, let's do that.Rob: There's no need to worry, honey.Unit 8Conversation 1Assistant: Hi, how can I help you?Mark: I'd like to book a flight and make a hotel reservation.Assistant: Going to ...?Mark: To New York, please.Assistant: Is that a one-way or a return?Mark: A return, please. Out on the 17th of June and coming back on the 10th of September. Assistant: OK, and I guess you want economy not club?Mark: Yes, economy, please. Could I have an aisle seat, not a window seat?Assistant: I'm afraid you'll have to do that at the airport. What about accommodation?Mark: Well, most of the time I'm working in upstate New York, but I need a cheap hotel in New York City and one in Boston for a few nights.Assistant: How many nights will you be staying?Mark: Three nights in Boston and two nights in New York. The 12th to the 15th of August in Boston, leaving on the 15th, so three nights in Boston. Then the 15th to the 17th in New York, leaving on the 17th. So two nights in New York.Assistant: OK, I can check that out for you. Single or double room?Mark: Single. With a shower, please.Assistant: I can get you rooms in budget hotels and motels for around 75 dollars a night. Mark: Does the price include breakfast?Assistant: Let me see. Yes, I can do that for you.Mark: What time is check-out?Assistant: Usually midday ... Do you have a student card? You'll need it for the cheap flights and the accommodation. Oh, and any travelling within the US? We can get you seats on Greyhound buses, if you want.Mark: Actually, that would be great. Can you get me a seat from New York to Boston, travelling on the 12th of August? And then one from New York to Chicago on the 17th? After Chicago I'm going to DC and then back to New York, but I'll get those tickets when I'm in the States. Assistant: No problem, just give me a few minutes ...Conversation 2Kate: Have you made plans for the summer vacation yet?Mark: Yes, I'm travelling around the States for three months.Janet: Three months! Wow, you're lucky! Whereabouts are you going?Mark: Well, I'm flying to New York City, and then I'm working for eight weeks as a counsellor on a summer camp in upstate New York. And then I'm travelling around for about four weeks, back in time for the start of term.Kate: Where are you staying?Mark: On the campsite in the mountains. It's about an hour away from New York City by bus. Kate: What are you going to do there?Mark: I'll be looking after teenagers, city kids mostly. We're going swimming, rafting and canoeing, and maybe backpacking in the mountains.Janet: That sounds amazing! And after that, what are your plans?Mark: I'll catch the Greyhound bus to Boston, and relax in a hotel for three days.Kate: The museums in Boston are great! You absolutely must visit them.Mark: OK, I'll do that. Then I go back to New York for two days, to watch a baseball game. Kate: The New York Yankees? That's my team!Mark: Then I'm flying to Chicago for six days, to stay with some friends.Kate: And will you fly home from Chicago?Mark: No, then I'll go to DC for six days to do some sightseeing. And then I'll be back a few days before the beginning of term.Janet: It sounds like a dream vacation.Unit 9Conversation 1Kate: Oh, Janet, you don't look too good. What's the matter?Janet: Oh, I'm OK. I am not sleeping very well at the moment, so I'm quite tired. I fell asleep in the lecture just now.Kate: Is anything wrong?Janet: Oh, I don't know. Maybe I'm worried about my end of term exams. And I've got an essay to write.Kate: Are you eating properly? I didn't see you at dinner last night.Janet: No, I've lost my appetite. I can't face any more Western food for a few days.Kate: I think you've lost some weight. Do you feel sick?Janet: Mostly homesick.Kate: Have you talked to your tutor?Janet: No! Why would I do that?Kate: Well, it's part of his job to keep an eye on your health. Why don't you make an appointment to see the doctor?Janet: But I'm all right.Kate: Do you have any other symptoms? Do you have a headache?Janet: Well, I have a headache nearly all the time at the moment. And I feel a bit depressed. But it's nothing. I'll be all right. Please! Don't worry about me.Kate: You poor thing! Why don't you make an appointment to see the doctor? She'll give you acheck-up; take your temperature and blood pressure, all the usual tests.Janet: Oh, I don't want to make a fuss. It's nothing.Kate: You're not making a fuss. I am! And I'm coming with you.Conversation 2Doctor: What seems to be the problem?Janet: Well ...Kate: She hasn't been eating or sleeping properly. She fell asleep in the lecture this morning. Doctor: Hmm, and what did the lecturer think of that?Janet: Fortunately, he didn't see me.Doctor: OK, I'm going to ask you a few questions. How's your social life?Janet: It's fine. I've got some really nice friends.Doctor: Have you got a boyfriend?Janet: No. I don't think my parents would like me to have one while I'm at university.Doctor: And are you eating properly?Janet: Yes, I think so.Kate: She says she's a bit fed up with Western food.Doctor: OK, so you'd like some home comfort ... what's your favorite food?Janet: Fried rice!Doctor: Not much fried rice for dinner in college, is there? Um, any worries about your work? Janet: No. Maybe. Yes, I suppose so.Doctor: Do you have an essay crisis?Janet: Yes! I haven't finished all the reading. I don't read as quickly as my friends, so it takes me a long time to write my essays.Doctor: OK, Janet. I want you to try and take a few days off. I'll have a word with your tutor and see if he can wait for your essay.Janet: OK.Doctor: If you're run down or depressed, you're more likely to catch a cold. Can you come back and see me next week? In the meantime, I suggest you try taking some...Unit 10Conversation 1Janet: Hi!Mark: Hi!Kate: How are you?Mark: I'm OK, thanks. How're you guys?Kate: Good.Mark: Good ... Oh, that traffic! It's getting worse and worse!Kate: Tell me about it, it's awful! Don't you worry about your health when you're cycling? All that pollution! Like, what are we breathing in? They really should do something about it!Mark: I think they intend to — or at least they keep talking about it.Janet:Shall we go inside?Mark: Yea....Mark: You know, it sounds crazy, but it might be an idea to ban cars from the centre of the city.I nearly got hit by a crazy driver earlier.Kate: Are you OK?Mark: Yes, I'm fine.Janet: Would they really do that — ban cars?Mark: It's possible. It'd sort out the traffic problems. And it would reduce pollution.Janet: I don't think that would be very popular with drivers.Mark: But it would be safer for cyclists.Kate: Supposing they introduced a congestion charge?Mark: Like in London?Janet: Do you think it would stop people driving into Oxford?Mark: It'd stop some people.Kate: They could always extend the Park and Ride scheme.Janet: It's a good idea.Kate: If people actually use it.Mark: Hey, I haven't told you, I'm going to a meeting of the Environmental Action Group tonight.Kate: You are? Good for you!Mark: Yes, I'm just concerned about the environment. I've decided to get more active, believe it or not.Janet: I guess we all should.Kate: I know, you're right ... Excuse me ...Conversation 2Janet: By the way, Mark, how did your meeting go?Mark: Quite interesting, actually.Janet: So what did they talk about?Mark: Uh, recycling, mostly. They have this plan ... that everyone should write to the Council. Ask them to collect more rubbish. You know, like, all the plastic, which they don't do. I'm going to write a letter this evening.Janet: Really? You know, I think I might go to the next meeting. I've been meaning to do something ... get more active about the environment.Mark: Yes, we all need to. Global warming, ice caps melting, pollution. Doesn't it worry you? Janet: Yes, it's really frightening.Mark: Hey, it would be great if you came to the meeting, Janet. The Action Group really wants to make students more aware of what they can do to help.Janet: You know, I think everyone knows what they should do. But they don't do it — I don't do it.Mark: I'm the same. Actually, there's something we could do right now.Janet: What?Mark: There's this poster they want to put up all over the university. It tells you easy ways of saving energy. I'm looking at it, here, look ...Janet: "Use less hot water ..."Mark: They've asked us to print it out and put it up in college. You want to help me?。

新标准大学英语视听说教程(1)inside view听力原文

新标准大学英语视听说教程(1)inside view听力原文

Conversation 1Porter: Good afternoon.Janet: Good afternoon.Porter:New student?Janet:Y es.Porter: Welcome to Hertford College.Janet: Thank you.Porter: Can I have your family name, please?Jane t: Y es, it's Li.Porter: Er, L-double E?Janet: No, L-I.Po r te r: And what's your first name, Ms Li?Janet:Janet.Porter: Janet Li ... ah yes, there you are. Here are your keys.Janet: Where's my room?Porter: Y ou're in staircase 6 room 5.Jane t: Who am I sharing with?Porter: Nobody. Y ou have your own room. Er ... there's a Ms Santos in the room next to you.Janet:Oh. My own room? In China we usually have several people in a dormitory. Porter: Well, here you don't have to share with anyone.Janet: Thank you sir.Porter: No need to call me sir, Ms Li. Everyone calls me Stewart.Janet: Please call me Janet!Porter: OK, Janet, um, can you just sign for your keys, please?Conversation 2Kate: Hi, have you just arrived too?Janet: Y es!Kate: I guess we’re neighbors. My name’s Kate Santos.Janet: I’m Janet Li. Where are you from?Kate: From New Y ork. How about you?Janet: I’m from Anshan in China.Kate: Is Janet your real name?Janet: No, it’s my English name. My Chinese name is Li Hui. Is Kate your full name?Kate: No, it’s short for Catherine.Janet: So do I call you Catherine or Kate?Kate: Everyone calls me Kate.Conversation 3Conversation 1Kate: Oh, this looks nice.Mark: Cool.Waitress: Good afternoon, table for three? Come this way.Mark: Let's have a look at the menu.Mark: Thank you.Janet: Thank you.Waitress: The specials are on the board.Kate: So, what sorts of food do you like, Janet?Janet: Well, I like spicy food. And I'm not very fond of raw food! What would you recommend?Mark: Why don't you try the chicken curry? That's nice and spicy.Janet: What's in it?Mark: Chicken cooked in tomatoes and onions with Indian spices.Janet: I'll try it. Do we all choose a selection of dishes to share or only one dish per person?Mark: Usually one dish per person.Kate: Or the moussaka looks good.Janet: What's it made with?Kate: It's made with lamb and eggplant. It's a Greek dish.Janet: How is it cooked?Kate: It's baked in the oven.Janet: Mm, that sounds good too.Kate: And as a starter?Janet: What's minestrone soup?Mark: It's an Italian soup with vegetables and pasta. It's delicious!Janet: OK, I'll have that.Kate: Waitress?Waitress: What can I get for you?Kate: Well, for the starter, can we have two minestrone soups, and for the main course, one moussaka and one curry, please. What about you, Mark?Mark: I'll have the prawns with garlic and the chilli con carne. And could you bring us some water, please?Waitress: OK.Mark: Thank you.Waitress: Thanks.Janet: What's chilli con carne?Mark: It's a spicy Mexican dish with beef and beans. It's very hot!Conversation 2Janet: That was great! Except I don't like cold water. I usually drink hot water. Kate: Hot water? We never drink hot water except with tea. Let's have a dessert.What would you like, Janet?Janet: Any suggestions?Kate: Well, why don't you try the apple strudel? It's an Austrian dish. It's made with apple, pastry and spices.Janet: No, I'm not so keen on pastry. ...What's a chocolate brownie?Mark: It's a kind of chocolate cake.Janet: How is it made?Kate: It's made with flour, eggs and butter...Mark: And lots of chocolate!Kate: Y ou'll love it.Janet: What kind of ice cream is there?Kate: I'll ask ... Excuse me ... What flavor ice cream do you have?Waitress: Strawberry, vanilla and chocolate.Janet: I'll just have a fruit salad, I think.Mark: And Kate, what are you going to have?Kate: Same for me.Mark: Could you bring us two fruit salads, and a chocolate brownie?Waitress: Sure.Unit 3Conversation 1Mark: Hi, what're you doing?Janet: Oh, nothing much ... Well, I'm just doing this quiz here in the newspaper. Mark: Let's have a look then.Janet: Here. It's called, "How much do you know about memory?" I've just done it. Do you want to have a go?Mark: OK, might as well. I'm not busy.Janet: Right. Look, I'll read the statements. Then you have to answer "true" or "false". Ready?Mark: Y ea.Janet: OK. Physical exercise improves your memory. True or false?Mark: True, I suppose. It sounds like the right answer.Janet: Y ou're right; exercise does improve your memory. Next statement: 30 per cent of people have a visual memory.Mark: That sounds about right. True?Janet: No, wrong, I'm afraid. In fact, 60 per cent of people have a visual memory. Mark: Really? Actually, I've got a pretty good memory.Janet: Have you? OK ... Next one ... When you're tired, it's more difficult to remember things.Mark: That's true, obviously. I can't remember a thing when I'm tired.Janet: Correct! If you do one activity for a long time, your memory will improve. Mark: I'm not sure ... True?Janet: Actually, it's false.Mark: Oh!Janet: Eating fruit and vegetables can improve your memory.Mark: I read something in The Times about that. True.Janet: True, it says here.Mark: Oh, no! I've got a lecture. I'd forgotten. I'd better get going!Janet: Oh, Mark! What a good memory you have!Conversation 2Kate: Y ou're looking a bit down, Janet. What's up?Janet: Well ... I'm finding studying at Oxford quite hard.Kate: Y ou're telling me! There's so much work!Janet: It's not the amount of work, but everything's so different. In China, generally we have large classes, we don't have tutorials. And mostly, our teacher tells us what we should do. So I'm not used to asking questions or discussing things. I find it difficult.Kate: Y ou have to memorize a lot, don't you?Janet: Y es, but I'm good at that.Kate: Y ou're lucky. There's so much to remember studying law! I have difficulty sometimes, I really do.Janet: Y es, well, we've been trained to do that. But we don't have so much training in critical thinking.Kate: What do you mean by critical thinking?Janet: Let me think ... I think it's giving your opinion and then justifying it.Kate: Y es, I suppose that's what our teachers have always encouraged us to do. Janet: I am getting better at it, I suppose.Kate: Hey! How about this? Let's pretend I'm your tutor. I'll make a statement. Y our task is to examine it and then ask questions.Janet: OK.Kate: Everyone is capable of learning a second language. Go on, ask a question! Janet: Why do you say that?Kate: That's what the research tells us. Now ask another one.Janet: Can you give an example of some research?Kate: Um ... No! Look, I'm starving and I can't think at all when I'm hungry.Unit 4Conversation 1Kate: Oh, I must make a quick call. ...Jacky: Hello, Jacky Gordon speaking.Kate: Hello, can I speak to Abbie, please?Jacky: I'll see if she's in, can you hold on?Kate: Sure. ...Jacky: Hello? She's out, I'm afraid. Can I give her a message — er ... or I can ask her to call you back?Kate: Could you ask her to call me back?Jacky: Sure. Who's calling?Kate: Kate Santos.Jacky: Kate Santos, OK. Does Abbie have your number?Kate: Y es, she does.Jacky: I'll tell her you called.Kate: Thanks.Janet: Abbie? I know a girl called Abbie. She reads English, doesn't she?Kate: Y es, how do you know her?Janet: She has a tutorial just after me so we chat a bit. We get on really well. Kate: Y es, everyone likes Abbie. I think it's because she's really interested in people — she's a very good listener. She should be, she works for Nightline.Janet: Nightline?Kate: Oh, I haven't told you, I've joined it.Janet: What is it? I've never heard of it.Kate: Look, I've got a leaflet about it.Janet: So...Kate: It's a university helpline for students who are having problems. I'm training to be one of the people they can call to talk to.Janet: Y ou mean, you're a volunteer?Kate: Y es.Janet: Oh, that's great, KateConversation 2Abbie: Hi, Abbie speaking.Kate: Hi, Abbie, it's Kate Santos.Abbie: Hi! I'm sorry not to have called you back. I've got a lot on at the moment. How's things?Kate: Fine. I just wanted to let you know I won't be able to come to the next training session.Abbie: Um ... It's quite an important session. Oh, can you hold on a moment. There's someone at the door. ...Abbie: Hi, I'm sorry, look, can I call you back later?Kate: Sure. What time?Abbie: Is three o'clock OK?Kate: Three's fine.Abbie: OK, I'll call you then. Speak soon.Kate: Bye.Abbie: Bye....Kate: Abbie's my Nightline trainer.Janet: Y ou're saying she's your Nightline trainer! But she's still a student.Kate: Well, experienced students train new students, that's the way it works. Janet: Oh, I see.Kate: It's great! At the moment, she's training us in listening skills.Janet: Listening skills? What do you mean, listening skills?Kate: Um ... The ability to really listen to someone and make them feel you're listening. It's very important.Janet: I've never thought about that before.Kate: Y es, for example, one thing you can do is listen carefully and then repeat what someone says but maybe a little differently.Janet: So what you're saying is, repeat what someone says but maybe not the exact same words.Kate: Y es. Y ou see, when you do that, you check you've understood and you show them you're really listening.Janet: So they know you've really heard them.Kate: V ery good, Janet. I can see you've got it already! Hi ... how's it going?Unit 5Conversation 1Kate: Hi, Becky, how's it going?Becky: Good!Mark: Guys, look, can you help me with a problem?Janet: Y es, of course.Mark: The thing is, there's this girl I really like called Jenny Sparks. She's a Fresher, really stunning, reads history. I know her name because someone pointed her out to me, but I've never actually spoken to her. Do either of you know her?Kate: No.Janet: No, I don't know her. Mark, how can you like her if you haven't met her? Kate: It's because she's absolutely gorgeous, Janet.Mark: That's right! I want to ask her out, but first I've got to meet her. Got any suggestions?Becky: Guys! Y ou want to order?Mark: Sorry.Kate: Three cappuccinos?Becky: Sure.Janet: Do you know anyone who knows her? Y ou could ask them to introduce you. Mark: No, I don't, that's the problem.Kate: Are you matchmaking, Janet?Janet: What's matchmaking?Kate: Making introductions between people who might like each other. We don't do that here. How about just walking up to her and saying Hi? Why don't you do that? Mark: No.Kate: Why not?Mark: I'm not usually shy, but — she's so ... you know ...!Janet: Oh, Mark!Kate: Just believe in yourself, Mark. Y ou're a great guy!Janet: I understand Mark completely.Kate: Well, it's the only way he's going to get to talk to her.Mark: OK, I'll give it a try.Becky: Solved the Jenny problem yet?Girls: Thank you.Janet: Y ou'll be fine. Mark. She'll like him, won't she, Becky?Becky: Of course she will!Conversation 2Mark: Hey, guess what, guys, I've got a date with Jenny.Kate: Y ou did it, you asked her out?Janet: When are you seeing her?Mark: Saturday. We're going to The Eagle and Child.Janet: Sounds great.Mark: Y eah! The thing is, I'm a bit nervous.Janet: Are you?Mark: Y es, I'm afraid I'll make a fool of myself. I could do with some more advice. Kate: Any ideas?Janet: Um ... I'm thinking.Kate: Well ... One thing is ... if you're nervous, it's easy to talk too much, so remember not to do that.Mark: Good point. I'll remember that.Janet: Y ou should make her feel special. Show her you're really interested in her. Mark: I am really interested in her.Janet: Well, you should show her you are.Mark: That'll be easy! What else?Kate: It's a good idea to look good.Mark: That's pretty obvious!Kate: I mean clean clothes, Mark!Mark: Oh ... thanks, Kate! Any more advice?Kate: Y es, the most important thing is, just be yourself.Becky: How's it going, Mark?Kate: He's worried this girl won't like him.Becky: She'll love you! Ready to order?Unit 6Conversation 1Janet: So, are you looking for anything in particular?Mark: Maybe a T-shirt or a polo shirt.Janet: We could go into the covered market and have a look at the shops in there. Kate: And what about you?Janet: I need some cosmetics from the Body Shop on Corn market Street.Kate: And I'm looking for something to wear to Jenny's party tonight. But nothing too expensive. Anyway, look, let's go in here.Assistant: Can I help you?Kate: We're just looking.Mark: What do you think of this one?Kate: Hmm, it's OK, but I'm not sure green suits you. Do they have it in other colors?Janet: What size do you take?Mark: Medium, I guess. Oh, here's a nice polo shirt. I like the color. It's a bit small, though.Janet: Do they have it in a larger size?Mark: Y es, here we go. That's great.Janet: How much is it?Mark: Twelve pounds. That's not too bad. I'll buy it.Mark: I'll have this, please.Assistant: That'll be 12 pounds please. ... Thank you. ... And here's your shirt, and here's your receipt.Mark: Thanks.Mark: Look, I've really got to go. I'll see you at the party tonight.Kate: OK.Janet:Bye.Conversation 2Janet: OK, Kate. Now it is time to find something for you. What about this dress? Kate: Hey, that's lovely.Janet: Would you like to try it on?Kate: Y es, OK. Where are the changing rooms?Assistant: Just behind you.Kate: Thank you. ... What do you think?Janet: Well, it really suits you, but ...Kate: ... it's a bit big. Excuse me, do you have this in a smaller size?Assistant: What size do you take?Kate: Size 8, I think.Assistant: No, I'm afraid we don't. That's the last one.Kate: No, it doesn't really fit. OK, I'll leave it.Janet: Actually, I really like it.Kate: Why don't you try it on, then?Janet: OK. ... What do you think?Kate: Perfect. It really suits you.Janet: It's a bit expensive.Kate: Go on! Y ou deserve it!Janet: OK, I'll have it. But I don't have enough cash. ... Can I pay by credit card? Assistant: Sure.Janet: Thank you.Assistant: Please enter your PIN. ... And here's your receipt.Janet: Thank you.Assistant: Thanks a lot.Kate: That was painless, wasn't it? But I still don't have a dress for the party. Let's try somewhere else.Assistant: Bye.Girls: Bye.Unit 7Conversation 1Janet: What time are your parents arriving?Kate: Eleven. Oh no, it's 10.30! I must clean up my room, it's a mess.Janet: Would you like me to give you a hand?Kate: Oh, yes, that would be great! ...Janet: So, what are they like, your parents?Kate: They're great. They're very different. Mum's pretty sociable — she's real funny. Dad isn't as sociable — he's kind of quiet — he reads a lot and he likes spending time alone. He's a lot more chilled than Mum.Janet: They do sound quite different.Kate: Y es. Mum — she tends to worry a lot, whereas Dad's quite ... easygoing. He's good at listening, you can tell him anything. Um ... could you put those over there? Janet: Sure. So who are you most like?Kate: Y ou tell me!Janet: Hmm, you've got a bit of both of them, I think.Kate: Y es, I think so, too. I'm sociable, like Mum —Janet: Y ou're very sociable!Kate: Y es, but I like to spend time alone.Janet: I don't think you worry a lot, do you?Kate: No, I'm like Dad in that way.Kate: Oh, look at the time, I must go. I'm meeting them outside the Lodge.Conversation 2Julia: This is great. It's just like I pictured it. Look at that, isn't it beautiful?Rob: Wow, Kate, honey! I love your school!Kate: No, Dad, I'm not at Law School, I'm at university!Rob: OK, honey. It's Oxford, England — I know! ...Rob: Listen, honey, Granddad had a fall just before we left.Kate: Oh, no!Rob: It's OK. He broke his arm but they don't think it's serious.Julia: I don't know, when old people break something, it can be very serious.Rob: I think he'll be fine!Kate: Tell me all about it. What exactly happened?Rob: He fell down the steps in the backyard.Kate: Oh, poor Granddad! So go on!Rob: He was taken to the hospital by ambulance ... they kept him there for several hours, didn't they, Julia? But they let him go home.Julia: I feel awful that we can't be with him.Rob: Julia, I spoke to Granddad as soon as we landed and he said the doctors aren't worried.Kate: What else did he say?Rob: He said his arm doesn't hurt him.Kate: Oh, good! So he'll be OK, right? There's no real concern?Rob: No, I told you, honey, there's no need to worry. ... Just look at that! What a great place!Kate: Y es, isn't it wonderful?Rob: Come on, let's go and eat. Isn't there a pub nearby? I seem to remember passing one. I'd love to eat in an English pub.Kate: OK, let's do that.Rob: There's no need to worry, honey.Unit 8Conversation 1Assistant: Hi, how can I help you?Mark: I'd like to book a flight and make a hotel reservation.Assistant: Going to ...?Mark: To New Y ork, please.Assistant: Is that a one-way or a return?Mark: A return, please. Out on the 17th of June and coming back on the 10th of September.Assistant: OK, and I guess you want economy not club?Mark: Y es, economy, please. Could I have an aisle seat, not a window seat? Assistant: I'm afraid you'll have to do that at the airport. What about accommodation?Mark: Well, most of the time I'm working in upstate New Y ork, but I need a cheap hotel in New Y ork City and one in Boston for a few nights.Assistant: How many nights will you be staying?Mark: Three nights in Boston and two nights in New Y ork. The 12th to the 15th of August in Boston, leaving on the 15th, so three nights in Boston. Then the 15th to the 17th in New Y ork, leaving on the 17th. So two nights in New Y ork.Assistant: OK, I can check that out for you. Single or double room?Mark: Single. With a shower, please.Assistant: I can get you rooms in budget hotels and motels for around 75 dollars a night.Mark: Does the price include breakfast?Assistant: Let me see. Y es, I can do that for you.Mark: What time is check-out?Assistant: Usually midday ... Do you have a student card? Y ou'll need it for the cheap flights and the accommodation. Oh, and any travelling within the US? We can get you seats on Greyhound buses, if you want.Mark: Actually, that would be great. Can you get me a seat from New Y ork to Boston, travelling on the 12th of August? And then one from New Y ork to Chicago on the 17th? After Chicago I'm going to DC and then back to New Y ork, but I'll get those tickets when I'm in the States.Assistant: No problem, just give me a few minutes ...Conversation 2Kate: Have you made plans for the summer vacation yet?Mark: Y es, I'm travelling around the States for three months.Janet: Three months! Wow, you're lucky! Whereabouts are you going?Mark: Well, I'm flying to New Y ork City, and then I'm working for eight weeks as a counsellor on a summer camp in upstate New Y ork. And then I'm travelling around for about four weeks, back in time for the start of term.Kate: Where are you staying?Mark: On the campsite in the mountains. It's about an hour away from New Y ork City by bus.Kate: What are you going to do there?Mark: I'll be looking after teenagers, city kids mostly. We're going swimming, rafting and canoeing, and maybe backpacking in the mountains.Janet: That sounds amazing! And after that, what are your plans?Mark: I'll catch the Greyhound bus to Boston, and relax in a hotel for three days. Kate: The museums in Boston are great! Y ou absolutely must visit them.Mark: OK, I'll do that. Then I go back to New Y ork for two days, to watch a baseball game.Kate: The New Y ork Yankees? That's my team!Mark: Then I'm flying to Chicago for six days, to stay with some friends.Kate: And will you fly home from Chicago?Mark: No, then I'll go to DC for six days to do some sightseeing. And then I'll be back a few days before the beginning of term.Janet: It sounds like a dream vacation.Unit 9Conversation 1Kate: Oh, Janet, you don't look too good. What's the matter?Janet: Oh, I'm OK. I am not sleeping very well at the moment, so I'm quite tired. I fell asleep in the lecture just now.Kate: Is anything wrong?Janet: Oh, I don't know. Maybe I'm worried about my end of term exams. And I've got an essay to write.Kate: Are you eating properly? I didn't see you at dinner last night.Janet: No, I've lost my appetite. I can't face any more Western food for a few days. Kate: I think you've lost some weight. Do you feel sick?Janet: Mostly homesick.Kate: Have you talked to your tutor?Janet: No! Why would I do that?Kate: Well, it's part of his job to keep an eye on your health. Why don't you make an appointment to see the doctor?Janet: But I'm all right.Kate: Do you have any other symptoms? Do you have a headache?Janet: Well, I have a headache nearly all the time at the moment. And I feel a bit depressed. But it's nothing. I'll be all right. Please! Don't worry about me.Kate: Y ou poor thing! Why don't you make an appointment to see the doctor? She'll give you a check-up; take your temperature and blood pressure, all the usual tests. Janet: Oh, I don't want to make a fuss. It's nothing.Kate: Y ou're not making a fuss. I am! And I'm coming with you.Conversation 2Doctor: What seems to be the problem?Janet: Well ...Kate: She hasn't been eating or sleeping properly. She fell asleep in the lecture this morning.Doctor: Hmm, and what did the lecturer think of that?Janet: Fortunately, he didn't see me.Doctor: OK, I'm going to ask you a few questions. How's your social life?Janet: It's fine. I've got some really nice friends.Doctor: Have you got a boyfriend?Janet: No. I don't think my parents would like me to have one while I'm at university.Doctor: And are you eating properly?Janet: Y es, I think so.Kate: She says she's a bit fed up with Western food.Doctor: OK, so you'd like some home comfort ... what's your favorite food? Janet: Fried rice!Doctor: Not much fried rice for dinner in college, is there? Um, any worries about your work?Janet: No. Maybe. Y es, I suppose so.Doctor: Do you have an essay crisis?Janet: Y es! I haven't finished all the reading. I don't read as quickly as my friends, soit takes me a long time to write my essays.Doctor: OK, Janet. I want you to try and take a few days off. I'll have a word with your tutor and see if he can wait for your essay.Janet: OK.Doctor: If you're run down or depressed, you're more likely to catch a cold. Can yo u come back and see me next week? In the meantime, I suggest you try taking some...Unit 10Conversation 1Janet: Hi!Mark: Hi!Kate: How are you?Mark: I'm OK, thanks. How're you guys?Kate: Good.Mark: Good ... Oh, that traffic! It's getting worse and worse!Kate: Tell me about it, it's awful! Don't you worry about your health when you're cycling? All that pollution! Like, what are we breathing in? They really should do something about it!Mark: I think they intend to — or at least they keep talking about it.Janet:Shall we go inside?Mark: Y ea....Mark: Y ou know, it sounds crazy, but it might be an idea to ban cars from the centre of the city. I nearly got hit by a crazy driver earlier.Kate: Are you OK?Mark: Y es, I'm fine.Janet: Would they really do that — ban cars?Mark: It's possible. It'd sort out the traffic problems. And it would reduce pollution. Janet: I don't think that would be very popular with drivers.Mark: But it would be safer for cyclists.Kate: Supposing they introduced a congestion charge?Mark: Like in London?Janet: Do you think it would stop people driving into Oxford?Mark: It'd stop some people.Kate: They could always extend the Park and Ride scheme.Janet: It's a good idea.Kate: If people actually use it.Mark: Hey, I haven't told you, I'm going to a meeting of the Environmental Action Group tonight.Kate: Y ou are? Good for you!Mark: Y es, I'm just concerned about the environment. I've decided to get more active, believe it or not.Janet: I guess we all should.Kate: I know, you're right ... Excuse me ...Conversation 2Janet: By the way, Mark, how did your meeting go?Mark: Quite interesting, actually.Janet: So what did they talk about?Mark: Uh, recycling, mostly. They have this plan ... that everyone should write to the Council. Ask them to collect more rubbish. Y ou know, like, all the plastic, which they don't do. I'm going to write a letter this evening.Janet: Really? Y ou know, I think I might go to the next meeting. I've been meaning to do something ... get more active about the environment.Mark: Y es, we all need to. Global warming, ice caps melting, pollution. Doesn't it worry you?Janet: Y es, it's really frightening.Mark: Hey, it would be great if you came to the meeting, Janet. The Action Group really wants to make students more aware of what they can do to help.Janet: Y ou know, I think everyone knows what they should do. But they don't do it — I don't do it.Mark: I'm the same. Actually, there's something we could do right now.Janet: What?Mark: There's this poster they want to put up all over the university. It tells you easy ways of saving energy. I'm looking at it, here, look ...Janet: "Use less hot water ..."Mark: They've asked us to print it out and put it up in college. Y ou want to help me? Janet: Sure! It might be an idea to ask Kate to help.Mark: Y es, let's ask her. But why don't we print it out — right now?Janet: Sure.。

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Unit 1, Lesson ATrack1-1-1A. listen to three people from the pen pals website. Match the name of the speaker with his or her interest:Fiona: Hi, I’m Fiona. I’m from Sydney, Australia. I’m 19, and a student at the University of Canberra. I’m majoring in computer science. When I’m not studying, I like going to the movies.Miguel: Hi, I’m Miguel. I’m from Mexico City. I’m 28 and I’m a math teacher. In my free time, I like playing soccer with my fiends.Hiromi: Hi, I’m Hiromi, and I’m from Tokyo. I’m 24, and I’m a graphic artist. When I have some free time, I usually work on a comic book I’m creating. The main character’s name is Damen.Track1-1-2B. listen again. Answer the questions about the people. Check the correct box.Track1-1-3B. Mariana and Danny live in the same apartment building. Are they meeting for the first time? Listen to their conversation.Mariana: Hi. My name is Mariana. I’m in apartment 201.Danny: Hi, Mariana. I’m Danny. I’m in 302. It’s nice to meet you.Mariana: Nice to meet you, too.Danny: So, are you a student, Mariana?Mariana: yeah, I study music at NYU.Danny: That’s interesting.Mariana: What do you do, Danny?Danny: I’m a student at Hunter College. I also work in an art gallery.Track1-1-4C. Listen again. Practice the conversation. Then practice with your information.Track 1-1-5C. Listen to Dan describing himself and Dayanne describing her friend. Pay attention to the expressions used for describing people. Then describe yourself to your partner.1. My name is Dan a nd I’m from the United States. I’m 28 years old and work at a hospital.I speak English, and Spanish and Portuguese. I’m pretty tall. I’m about six feet. I have a muscular build and short blonde hair. I have hazel-colored eyes.2. I have a friend who looks like Antonio Banderas. He’s tall, dark hair, brown eyes, but he’s thin and Antonio Banderas is a little more muscular.Track 1-1-OL-1A.Emily is at the airport. Listen and check the correct box.Josh: Hello?Emily: Hi, Josh? It’s Emily.Josh: Hi Em. Are you at the airport with Uncle Tim?Emily: Yes, I’m here, but I don't see Uncle Tim. Tell me again –what does he look like? Josh: He’s tall, and he’s in his 30s. He has long brown hair.Emily: OK…Josh: Oh, and he wears glasses.Emily: No, I don’t see him…Track 1-1-OL-2B.Listen again. Emily is looking for a man. What does he look like? Circle the correct answers.Track 1-1OL-3C.Listen again. Who is the man? Check the correct picture. What is different about him now?Josh: Hello?Emily: Hi, Josh? It’s Emily.Josh: Hi Em. Are you at the airport with Uncle Tim?Emily: Yes, I’m here. But I don’t see Uncle Tim. Tell me again ---what does he look like? Josh: He’s tall, and he’s in his 30s. He has long brown hair.Emily: OK…Josh: Oh, and he wears glasses.Emily: No, I don’t see him…Uncle Tim: Hi, Excuse me … are you Emily?Emily: Yes… Uncle Tim?Uncle Tim: Hi, Emily. How are you?Emily: Fine! Wow, Uncle Tim, you look different! Josh Josh … are you there? Uncle Tim is here. He has short, blond hair now. He looks like Brad Pitt!Track 1-1-OL-4A. Listen to the description of a family photo. Then drag the names from the box and drop them on the right person.Emilio is in his fifties. He is tall –about 182 cm. He is average weight. He has brown eyes. He has short, curly, gray hair.Kathy is in her forties. She is short. She is slim. She has blue eyes. She has long, straight, blond hair.Michael is young. He is tall. He is average weight. He has dark, brown eyes. He has short, curly, blond hair.Alexis and Ashley are twins. They are young. They are average height. They are slim. Alexis has blue eyes, but Ashley has green eyes. They both have long, curly, red hair. Track 1-1-OL5B.Now listen to these people introducing themselves. Then answer the questions asked.1.I’m Carrie Brown from New York. I’m an art student and I like listening to music and playing basketball.2.Hello, everyone. My name is Ann Andrews. I come from Wellington, New Zealand. I’ma teacher and I like shopping and hanging out with friends.3.Hi, I’m Julia Sanchez. I’m a reporter from Lima, Peru. I like surfing and blogging.4.My name is Charles Horton. I live in Boston, USA. I’m a chef. In my spare time, I like painting and traveling.5.I’m George Simmel from Berlin, Germany. I’m a fashion designer. I like watching films and jogging very much.6.My name is Kevin Smith. I come from Sydney, Australia. I like cooking and reading detective stories. I’m a finance manager.Track 1-1-OL-6A.Look at the picture and listen to the e-mail message. Then tell which one in the picture is Mr. Ryder.Dear Mr. Peters,Please meet Mr. James Ryder at the airport station at 11:00 tomorrow. His flight is UA238 from Los Angeles. He is a tall man in his sixties with gray hair, and he wears big glasses. His meeting with the Marketing Department is at 4:00. Thank you.Kyra GreeneMarketing DepartmentTrack 1-1OL-7B.Listen to another e-mail message. Then tell which one in the picture is Tom.Gina--HELP! Can you meet my friend Tom at the airport tomorrow? My car has big problems and I can’t drive it. Tom is coming on flight KX661 from Denver at 11:00. He’s average height and kind of thin, with long blond hair and a mustache. Thanks a million!ChrisTrack 1-1-OL8A.Now listen to the passage. Do you think Andrew Barn is happy being a celebrity double?Celebrity doublesA group of teenagers is standing outside a hair salon in Manchester, England. Many of them have cameras and are looking in the salon window. Then want to see soccer player David Beckham. A man in the salon looks like Beckham (he has blond hair and Beckham’s good looks). But the man in the salon isn’t the famous soccer player. He’s Andrew Barn-- a twenty-two–year–old hairdresser.Barn isn’t s urprised by the teenagers. People often stop him on the street and want to take his picture. Barn is a hairdresser, but the also makes money as a Beckham double. Barn travels all over Europe as David Beckham. Newspapers often take his photo. It’s an exciti ng life for the hairdresser from Manchester.Today, many companies work with celebrity doubles. The most popular celebrity doubles look like famous athletes, pop singers, and actors. The companies pay doubles to go toparties and business meetings. Doubles are also on TV and in newspaper ads.Why do people want to look like a celebrity? An Anna Kournikova double in the U.S. says, "I can make good money. I also make a lot of people happy.”Tack 1-1-OL-9B.Listen again. Then circle True or False. If a sentence is false, make it true.Unit 1, Lesson BGlobal ViewpointsNick: My name is Nick Raducanu. I’m 23 years old and I’m from the United States. I speak English and I also speak French.Woo Sung: My name is Woo Sung. I’m from Seoul, Korea. I am 20 years old and I’m a student. I speak English, Korean, and French.Natalie: My name’s Natalie Danglade. I’m 25 years old. I live in the United States and I’m a reporter at a television.Dayanne: My name is Dayanne Leal. I am from Brazil and my first language is Portuguese. I’m not very tall and also I’m not very skinny. I have brown eyes and short brown hair. Dan: My name is Dan and I’m from the United States. I’m 28 years old and I work at a hospital. I speak English, and Spanish and Portuguese. I’m petty tall. I’m about six feet.I have a muscular build and short blonde hair. I have hazel-colored eyes.Kevin: My name is Kevin Truong. I’m 24 years old. I have short black hair, brown eyes, and an athletic build. I have a sister named Sabrina. She is short, muscular, and tan. Dayanne: I have a friend who looks like Antonio Banderas. He’s tall, dark hair, brown eyes, but he’s thin and Antonio Banderas is a little more muscular.Woo Sung: I don’t really look like my parents. They’ re both short and I’m tall. I do look like my sister. She’s tall and thin like me.Natalie: My daughter has curly black hair, she’s short, light-skinned, and she’s really cute. City LivingSun-hee’s favorite cousinSun-hee: Of course I’ll pick you up, Jung-Yoon. You’re my favorite cousin. Great. I’ll see you at the bus station at 3:00. Have a great trip! Bye. (phone rings) Hello?Professor Albee: Sun-hee, it’s Professor Albee at NYU.Sun-hee: Oh, hi Professor Albee. How are you?Professor Albee: Fine, thanks. Ms. Leska is sick today. She has a class from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Can you teach her class?Sun-hee: Oh, sorry. My cousin is visiting this week from Seattle, and he arrives today at 3:00.Professor Albee: Oh, I see. Gee, I don’t know what to do.Sun-hee: Well . . . wait. Listen, my roommate Tara can go to the bus station and meet my cousin. Ms. Leska always helps me.Professor Albee: That’s great! Thanks a lot. See you at 1:30.Sun-hee: Bye.Professor Albee: Bye.Tara: Sure, Sun-hee. I’d love to meet your cous in. So what does he look like?Sun-hee: Well, he’s in his 30s.Tara: OK.Sun-hee: And he’s about average height--5’6”. And he’s pretty heavy set.Tara: Uh-huh.Sun-hee: And he has really long black hair and brown eyes.Tara: OK. So, does he speak English?Sun-hee: Yes, he does. Oh, and I almost forgot: he wears really big glasses.Tara: Got it.Sun-hee: Thanks so much for doing this for me.Tara: Hey, what are friends for?Sun-hee: Oh wow! I’m really late! I’ll meet you back here at 4:30 with my cousin. Tara: Sure, no problem.Sun-hee: Bye.Sun-hee: Jung-Yoon! Oh my gosh!Jung-Yoon: Sun-hee!Sun-hee: Wow. You look so different. You’re so thin!Jung-Yoon: I eat healthier food now. And I go to the gym every daySun-hee: Good for you! Hey, where are your glasses?Jung-Yoon: Contact lenses.Sun-hee: Oh, and your hair? It’s so short. It looks good on you. You look great!Jung-Yoon: hey, thanks!Sun-hee: (to Tara) How did you find him? He looks so different now.Tara: (holding sign saying “Sun hee Park’s cousin”) T a-dah!Track 1-1-OL-10Listen to the story summary. Fill in the blanks with what you hear.Sun-hee makes plans to meet her cousin at the bus station. Then her co-worker calls and asks Sun-hee to teach a class. Sun-hee agrees to teach the class. She asks Tara to meet her cousin. She tells Tara what her cousin looks like. Sun-hee says that he cousin looks very different. Sun-hee asks Tara. “How did you find him?” Tara laughs and she shows Sun-hee a sign that says “Sun-hee Park’s cousin.”Unit 2 Lesson ATrack 1-2-1A.Listen to the three conversations. How’s the weather? Check the correct pictures. Conversation 1Man: Mary, are you ready to go?Woman: Go…go where?Man: To the beach. It’s too hot to be in inside today.Woman: Too la te. A bad thunderstorm is here. Look out the window. It’s raining.Man: Oh, you’re right. Now what do we do?Conversation 2Woman: Hey, Charlie. Are you okay?Man: No, not really. This weather makes me feel down.Woman: Oh, I know. January is a terrible month sometimes. I have an idea. Let’s go for a walk.Man: In the snow? No, thanks.Woman: But it’s not snowing now. It’s freezing, but at least it’s clear and sunny.Man: Oh, OK. Let me get my jacket.Conversation 3Man: Mom, can I use the car?Woman: The car?Man: Yeah, I’m going to the movies.Woman: Why don’t you walk to the theater? It’s close, and it’s a lovely autumn evening. Man: It’s too cold and windy to walk, Mom.Woman: Sorry, dear. Your dad has the car.Man: Oh, Well, maybe I’ll watch a movie on TV instead.Track1-2-2B.Listen again. Do the people go outside or stay inside? Check the boxes.Track 1-2-3B. Read the conversation and listen. What does Juliet suggest taking to San Francisco? Why?Juliet: Are you packing for your trip, Kyle?Kyle: Yes… See? I have T-shirts, shorts, and my sandals.Juliet: For San Francisco?Kyle: Yeah. What’s wrong? It’s July.Juliet: I know, but it’s often foggy and cold there in the summer.Kyle: Really?Juliet: Yeah. You should take some sweaters and long pants, too.Kyle: Oh, okay. There are some in my closet.Track 1-2-4C.Listen to two people giving advice about visiting their countries. Then suggest a trip within China to your partner.1.When visiting Brazil you should bring your bathing suit and your sun lotion and definitely visit the beaches in Brazil because they are beautiful.2.In Argentina, you should visit lguazu Falls and the glaciers in the south of the country. You should also watch a tango performance and in a restaurant you should order Argentine beef. It is delicious!Track 1-2-OL-1A.Listen to these three conversations. What is each person doing? Circle the correct answer.Conversation 1Man: next, please!Woman: Hi, here’s my ticket.Man: And where are you going today, Ms. Gregory?Woman: Berlin.Man: May I see your passport, please?Woman: sure, here your are.Man: And how many suitcases do you have?Woman: Just one.Conversation 2Man: Too bad it’s our last day in New York. There’s a lot to see.Woman: I know. But at least we’re here at the Statue of Liberty. Isn’t it beautiful?Man: Yeah, it is. Hey, we need a photo. Excuse me?Man 2: Yes?Man: Can you take our picture, please?Man 2: Sure.Conversation 3Woman: Welcome to the Ritz Carlton, Shanghai.Man: Thank you. My name is Ian Walters. I have a room for myself and my wife. Woman: Okay. Can I see a credit card and ID, please?Man: Of course. Here’s my card and my passport.Woman: Thank you. Here are your keys, Mr. Walters. Enjoy your stay.Track 1-2-OL-2B. Listen again. Complete the sentences with the correct city.Track 1-2-OL-3A.Listen to some travel tips for Thailand. How many tips are mentioned?Travel tips for ThailandThailand is a nice country in Southeast Asia, with something for every visitor. There is a lot for you to discover there. But before you go, you should make a plan to help you be better prepared. Here are some tips.Firstly, the weather in Thailand is hot and humid all year, so you should pack sunglasses, T-shirts, and sandals with you. Secondly, you should buy your plane ticket early. Thailand is a very popular place for a vacation, and the planes are very full. Thirdly, the traffic in this country is very bad and people drive really fast, so you should rent a car. Another tip is that you should drink a lot of water and juice to stay cool. Finally, and this is a very important tip, you shouldn’t take photos outside in afternoon. It’s too sunny and bright! Remember these tips and you’ll have a great time there. Have fun in Thailand!Track 1-2-OL-5A.Listen to the first part of a talk about the weather in some vacation spots. Then fill in the chart with information you hear. For each place, write the best time for a vacation and the reason.Watch the Weather!Most people plan their vacations very carefully. They think a lot about plane tickets,passports, and hotel reservations. But they often forget about one important thing –the weather. You should learn about the right time to visit your vacation spot. Here is some information to help you plan your next vacation.Italy. The weather is sunny all year, but it’s sometimes cold in winter. April and May are warm and beautiful. From June to September, it’s very hot.Australia. Summer here is from December to April. It sometimes rains, but the weather is usually very good. In winter, it snows a little in some places, but most of Australia isn’t very cold.Track 1-2-OL-6B.Now listen to the second part of the talk. Then fill in the rest of the chart with information you hear.Hong Kong, China. The Weather is hot and very humid here a lot of the year. In July and August, it’s sometimes very windy, and there are bad storms. October and November are warm and not so humid, but in December and January, it gets very chilly sometimes. Germ any. From November to April, the weather is cold, cloudy, and snowy. In spring it’s warm, but there’s a lot of rain, July and August are usually warm and sunny.India. You shouldn’t travel to India from June to September. There is a lot of rain everywhere. From November to April, after the rainy season, the weather is nice and cool. In April and May, it often gets very hot.Track 1-2-OL-7A.Study the pictures of these items. Then listen to the passage. How are these five things related to each other?In Tokyo, it’s an envelope with $850,000 in cash. At Florida’s Disney World, it’s a glass eye. At a hotel in England, it’s a goat and a false leg. How are all of these things similar? They are unusual things that people leave in hotel rooms, in airports, and on city streets. Irish Martino works in the Lost and Found Center at an airport in a U.S. city. “Sure, we find the usual stuff—cell phones, keys, sunglasses and wallets,” she says. “But people also forget some weird things at the airport, too.” What does Ms. Martino find? A woman’s false teeth in the bathroom. A mannequin in an airport waiting area. “How do you forget those things?” Martino wonders. Nobuo Hasuda works for the Lost and Found Center in downtown Tokyo. The Center has almost 800,000 items. Three hundred thousand of them are umbrellas! There are also many other things—jewelry and briefcases, snowshoes and musical instruments. Mr. Hasuda keeps the lost items for six months and two weeks. After this time, the finder can take the item. This is good luck for some people. Remember the envelope in Tokyo with $850,000? The owner did not claim it. Now the money belongs to the finder!Track 1-2-OL-8B.Listen again. Then complete each sentence with the correct word or number.Unit 2, Lesson BGlobal ViewpointsThe weatherJennifer: In my hometown it’s usually hot and sunny, but sometimes it rains.Dan: I grew up in central Texas where the weather is very hot. There are a lot of rainstorms, and in the wintertime it gets into the 40s and 50s.Dayanne: In Brazil we basically have two seasons—summer and winter. In the summer it’s very, very hot. But in the winter it’s not so cold. But we do have some rain sometimes. Alyssa : Where I live the weather changes throughout the year. There are four seasons: summer, fall, winter and spring. I don’t like the winter very much because I don’t like to be cold.Daniel: In Jamaica it’s pretty warm year round. There’s a rainy month –September. My favorite season is winter because I like winter sports, which is str ange because I’m from Jamaica.What should I do?Dayanne: When visiting Brazil you should bring your bathing suit and your sun lotion and definitely visit the beaches in Brazil because they are beautiful.Dan: If you come to Texas you should visit San Antonio where the Alamo is located because it’s a historical site.Jennifer: When you visit Florida you should bring a swimming suit, sun block, and a beach towel. You should also bring lots of shorts and T-shirts. And you should visit the Everglades where you can see alligators.Alejandra: In Argentina, you should visit lguazu Falls and the glaciers in the south of the country. You should also watch a tango performance and in a restaurant you should order Argentine beef. It is delicious!City LivingAnother souvenir?Mike: Roberto, why are you bringing a sweater to Mexico City? It’s summer there, so it’s really hot, right?Roberto: It’s usually hot in the day but sometimes at night it gets chilly.Mike: Oh. Well, what about the business suit? Isn’t it a vac ation?Roberto: Yes and no. I have a big meeting on Tuesday, so I’m bringing the suit. But after Tuesday, it’s vacation time!Mike: Who are all the gifts for?Roberto: Oh, my family lives in Mexico City so I’m bringing them some souvenirs from New York.Mi ke: And, who’s the book for?Roberto: It’s for Maria, my niece. She’s ten years old.Mike: Ten? You should get her something more fun—like a video game!Roberto: Maria is young, but she loves books. She’s really smart.Mike: Huh. What about this? Is this hers too?Roberto: Oh that? That belongs to my Dad. It’s a souvenir from his New York visit, but he forgot it. Do you think I should get him another present?Mike: Well, that already belongs to him. Hey you should get him a New York T-shirt ormaybe a Yankees cap?Roberto: Good idea. I can get that at the airport. That’s it.Mike: Do you have your plane ticket and passport?Roberto: Yes. And I have my hotel information, my car rental in formation… my camera’s in my briefcase…Mike: (holding stuffed toy) Hey, whose is this? Another souvenir?Roberto: Umm…no… it’s mine.Mike: it’s yours?Roberto: It was a good-luck present from Claudia. I always travel with it.Mike: Ah…don’t be embarrassed, he’s very cute. (laughing) And I’m sure he makes a great travel partner!Track 1-2-OL-9Listen to the story summary. Fill in the blanks with what you hear.Roberto is packing for a trip and Mike is helping him. Mike asks about the souvenirs that Roberto is bringing for his family. Roberto explains that book is for his niece and the small Statue of Liberty belongs to his father. Roberto says that he’s ready to go, but then Mike finds a teddy bear and asks whose it is. Roberto says that it belongs to him and explains that it was a gift from Claudia so he always travels with it. Mike says he thinks the bear makes a cute travel partner for Roberto.Unit 3, Lesson ATrack 1-3-1A.Listen. Circle the correct answer to complete the sentence.Ted: Hey, Mike. Whose trophies are these?Mike: They belong to my parents and my brother and sister.Ted: Really?Mike: Yeah. My family loves sports.Ted: I see. So, who plays basketball?Mike: My brother Tim. He’s great at it.Ted: And your sister?Mike: She’s on the swimming team at school. She’s always training-- even on the weekends.Ted: What about your parents?Mike: My dad plays tennis, and my mom plays golf.Ted: And what about you, Mike? Do you play any sports?Mike: Me? No, not really. I like to surf and ski, but just for fun.Track 1-3-2B.Listen again. Which sports do they play? Check the correct box or boxes.Track 1-3-3B. Listen to the conversation. Underline Gina’s invitation. Circle the words Connie uses to accept Gina’s invitation.Connie: So, Gina, are you planning to join a team or club this semester?Gina: Yeah. I want to work for the school newspaper and maybe join the tennis team. Connie: The tennis team?Gina: Uh-huh. Do you like tennis?Connie: Yes. I love it.Gina: Really? Me too. Do you want to play tennis this afternoon?Connie: Sur e, I’d love to! There are tennis courts near the student union. Let’s play there. Track 1-3-4C.Listen to two people talking about what they like to do. Then tell your partner about what you like to do.1.One of my favorite pastimes is to go to the gym. I like to go to the gym about three or four times a week.2.In my free time I enjoy hanging out with some friends and going to the movies. I go to the movies at least once a week.Track 1-3-OL-1A.Listen. What are Ashley and her dad talking about? Check the answer.Dad: Ashley?Ashley: Yeah, Dad! I’m in my room. I’m packing.Dad: Hi, honey. I can’t believe you’re going to college!Ashley: I know.Dad: So, what do you want to study?Ashley: Art.Dad: Art?! Come on, Ashley. Be serious.Ashley: I am serious, Dad.Dad: I think you should study business wo you can get a good job.Ashley: Business!?Dad: Yes, you’re a smart, organized young woman. It’s perfect for you.Ashley：But, Dad… there’s a lot I can do with an art degree. The business world is very competitive…Dad: I don’t know, Ashley..Ashley: Come on Dad. Let’s look at the university website. There’s more in formation there. Track 1-3-OL-2B. Listen again. Complete the sentences.Track 1-3-OL-3A.Listen to a conversation between two interviewers. What are they talking bout? Circle the answer.A: I interviewed Sara Foxx. She likes sales, but wants to work part time.B: Hmm…. I spoke with Jason Gray, and he wants to work at home but likes responsibility. A: Does he want to work full time?B: Yes, he does. How about Sara?A: Well, she wants to work part time, but she plans to stay at the sales position for at least two years. And she loves people.B: What does she p lan to do in two years’ time?A: She expects to go to grad school in the future, but she likes the job.B: Jason likes the job too. He wants to make a good salary and he loves to travel.A: Well, Sara hates to fly. It seems Jason would be the person we need.B: Unfortunately, he doesn’t have any sales experience.Track 1-3-OL-4B.Now listen again. Then fill in the chart below about which descriptions are true for Sara and Jason. Check the boxes.Track 1-3-OL-5A.Listen to the following famous people talking about the right personality needed for success. Do you have the right personality for these jobs?I’m Don Pierce. A good actor works very, very hard. People think that actors spend their time at a lot of parties and nightclubs, but that isn’t true. Actors spend hours--many hours-- studying their lines for each movie. And you really have to understand people so that you can understand your character in the movie.I’m Janice. I think the most important thing for a good doctor is being a good listener. You have to understand people and their problems. A good doctor likes to solve problems and always wants to help his or her patients. And you can’t be impulsive--you should always be careful. Sometimes the first answer you think of isn’t the right answer. Doctors need a lot of energy, because they are usually hardworking.He, I’m Daniel. To be a success in business, you have to work well with groups of people. At the same time, you need to have strong opinions and be able to explain your opinions clearly. Good business-people always like to make new things and try new ideas. They are very organized, and they work very long hours.Track 1-3-OL-6B.Now listen again. Then fill in the chart below about which things are important for the jobs listed. Check the boxes.Track 1-3-OL-7C.Listen to a recording and complete the following paragraph. Use words from the box.A good athlete is hardworking. He or she practices for many hours before every game. Athletes should also be competitive. They should always think about their team, and how to win. Good athletes are also independent. They practice alone, even when the coach isn’t there. They are very careful about their health, and they don’t d o dangerous things. And they are very serious about their sport-- it it’s the most important thing in their life! Track 1-3-OL-8A.Now listen to the passage about four personality types：The Dreamer, The Partner,The Thinker, and The Artist. Which personality type best describes you?The DreamerA dreamer thinks there is a “right” way to do things. This person wants to live in the “perfect world.” A Dreamer is often hardworking and organized. Many are good listeners and like to help others. Many Dreamers work as teachers, lawyers, and in leadership roles. The PartnerA Partner wants to be in a group. For this person, rules and group harmony are important. These rules keep peace in the group. Partners are often serious, careful people. Many do well as teachers, managers, police officers, and politicians.For Thinkers, understanding things is very important. They like to solve problems and make new things. Thinkers can also be competitive. They like to win. They are independent and often have very strong opinions. Many Thinkers work as scientists, inventors, politicians, and engineers.The ArtistArtists want to be free. They don’t want to follow the rules all the time. Artists like action and are often impulsive. They also like trying new things. Like Thinkers, many Artists have strong opinions. Many Artists are creative and do well as musicians, actors, fashion designers, and athletes.Track 1-3-OL-9B.Listen again. Circle D for Dreamer, P for Partner, T for Thinker, or A for Artist for each sentence. Sometimes, more than one answer is possible.Unit 3, Lesson BGlobal viewpointsSports and pastimesDan: One of my favorite pastimes is to go to the gym. I like to go to the gym about three or four times a week.Dayanne：In my free time I enjoy hanging out with some friends and going to the movies.I go to the movies at least once a month.Jonathan: My favorite pastime is playing drums because it helps clear my mind and I try to play as often as I can.Miyuki: One of my favorite pastimes is going to a coffee shop to hang out with friends. And some of my roommates like to run or go to the gym.Daniel: I like snowboarding a lot. I go snowboarding every two weeks except on vacation I go snowboarding every day.Agnes：My favorite pastime is swimming. I go to the pool twice a week with a friend of mine. And, I just like the water so for me it’s the best sport to do.Alyssa：I like to play the piano, I like to go see concerts and when it’s nice outside I like to go hiking.Woo Sung: I like to play basketball, tennis, and football. I play basketball twice a week. I play tennis three times a month and football once a month.Gian: I love to play basketball. I’m very competitive and very hardworking. When I play, I play really strong defense.。

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