Unit-11听力教程4-施心远

Unit 11

Section 1

Listening and Translation

1. The National Assessment of Adult Literacy is the most important test of how well adult Americans can read.

2. Those who took part were tested on how well they could read and understand information used in everyday life.

3. The study found that 11 million adults, or five percent, cannot read English.

4. Researchers say part of the problem is that many young Americans do not read as much for pleasure anymore.

5. The best readers were found to earn up to 28,000 dollars a year more than those who lacked simple reading skills.

1. “国家成人读写能力评估”是检测美国成年人阅读能力的一项主要测试。

2. 该测试检测的是参加者阅读和理解日常生活信息的能力。

3. 这项调查发现有1,100万，即百分之五的成年人看不懂英语。

4. 研究人员说，问题的部分原因在于很多美国年轻人作为消遣所进行的阅读已经不太多了。

5. 人们发现阅读水平高的人比那些不具备基本阅读能力的人的年收入多28,000美元。Section 2

Part 1 Dialogue

Leadership

Outline

The subject is “leadership”

1. Great leaders in history

2. Characteristics all great leaders have in common

For a start, Secondly, The third, the fourth, Finally

Great leaders in history

1. … military chiefs

1) … nati onal heroes；dreaded tyrants

2) …2. … spiritual leaders

Characteristics all great leaders have in common

1. … what they want to achieve

2. … work towards them

what obstacles they may come up against

3. …the end justifies the means

4. … the will of the peop le; improve their lot

5. … be successful

Part 2 Passage

Ex. B:

1. Going to the library or locking yourself in your room with no aim other than reading for a predetermined预先确定的time is likely to lead to boredom.

2. One way round this problem when you encounter it is to set youeself really small and manageable可做到的reading tasks.

3. The task sould be one that is useful towards your final aim of getting your essay or paper or dissertation学位论文written, or revising for为…而复习your exam.

4. In devising设计such tiny but doable可行的tasks for yourself you are using your creativity, making the reading a personal task to you and breaking a large endeavor努力up分解into small and attainable可到达的steps.

5. Often the motivation动力;动机supplied by an assignment作业or essay will help you to focus your reading in helpful ways.

Ex. C: 1-4 T T T F 5-8 T F T F

1. T (Reading for the sake of reading has no value whatever.)

2. T (Unless it is combined with a thoughtful choice of predetermined预定的reading task, or a particularly wise or fortuitous幸运的choice of reading material, going to the library or locking yourself in your room with no aim other than 除了reading for a predetermined time is likely to lead to boredom, so that you end up mindlessly不用心地staring at the text, without engaging运用your brain. )

3. T (On the other hand, setting yourself a particular period in which to accomplish a reading task can be helpful as a way of getting yourself to focus. )

4. F (If you try this tactic方法to help you focus as a reader, don’t be despondent沮丧的if, as may well happen, you get so absorbed 专心致志的that you overrun超过the time you have set yourself. This could well be a positive thing.)

5.T (Sometimes the difficulty with reading, as with many other jobs, is simply how to get started.)

6. F (All are suggested in the passage except the preface序言, 前言.)

7. T (The task should be one that is useful towards youe final aim of getting your essay or paper or dissertation written, or revising for your exam, but small enough for it to be hardly conceivable 可想像的that you could not complete it however tired, depressed, lonely or bored you are.)

8. F (When you are reading at other times—for examle, in an attempt to expand on进一步阐述ideas and information that you have picked up 学会in lectures or seminars—inventing possible essay topics for yourself will often be a good way of structiing your reading.)

Section 3

News Item 1

A: about a fat man’s walk from California to Manhattan.

B: