北理珠2019英语专业step by step听力入门3000第一册U6听力原文及答案

Unit 6 For the Glory of Sport

Part I Warming up

A．

Key words:the “firsts” Olympic

Vocabulary: hemisphere Melbourne Munich

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Women competed in Olympic events for the first time in Paris in 1900.

In 1924, the first Winter Games were held in Chamonix.

In 1932, the first Olympic village was built to accommodate athletes in Los Angeles. In 1936 in Berlin TV cameras broadcast Olympic events for the first time.

The 1956 Olympics in Melbourne were the first Olympic Games to be held in the southern hemisphere.

Tokyo hosted the first Asian Olympics in 1964.

In 1972 for the first time, over one billion TV viewers watched the Munich Olympic opening ceremony.

B.

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What is the most popular sport in the United States? That may be an impossible question to answer. There are different meanings of the words "most popular."

One way to measure the popularity of a sport is by the number of people who pay to watch it played by professional teams. Experts say the most popular American sport by that measure is baseball. Each professional baseball team plays 162 games every season.

Or the popularity of a sport can be measured by the number of people who watch games on television or listen on the radio. Then the answer might be American football.

And the popularity of a sport could be measured by the number of people who play the sport instead of just watch it. The answer, in this case, is the game people in the United States call soccer. It says more than 18 million people play soccer in the United States.

C.

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Right, everybody. Stand up straight. Now bend forward and down to touch your toes- and up -- and down -- and up. Arms by your sides. Raise your right knee as high as you can. Hold your leg with both hands and pull your knee back against your body. Keep your backs straight. Now lower your leg and do the same with your left knee -- up -- pull towards you -- and down. Move your feet further apart,' bend your elbows, and raise your arms to shoulder level. Squeeze your fists tightly in front of your chest. Now push your elbows back- keep your head up! And relax ... Feet together, and put your hands on your hips. Now bend your knees and stretch your arms out in front of you. Hold that position -- now up. Stretch your arms out to the sides at shoulder height, palms up. Rotate your arm in small circles- that's right -- and now the other way. Now stand with your hands clasped behind your neck and your legs apart. Bend over to the left, slowly, but as far as you can. And slowly up. And down to the right. And up. OK -- if we're all warmed up now, let's begin!

Part II The sporting spirit

A.

Key words: neighbors football match fans trouble large crowds

Vocabulary:affectionate /aggressive /knockout /smash /monster /terrace rugby/Wimbledon

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Section 1

M: I have neighbors who, who are very nice, friendly, warm, affectionate people, and

I live near a football ground, Tottenham, and on Saturday I avoid them, because

they come back from the match about 6 o'clock,7 o'clock drunk, aggressive--they scream, they shout, and...After the World Cup Fi-, after the World Cup when England got knocked out, I was in my local pub and they came in and they started pushing people around and smashing glasses, and I was really frightened and I walked out, and I don't understand, I really don't understand what it is about a football match that can turn ordinary, friendly people into monsters.

Section 2

JE: But do you think that's so of a lot of football fans? I mean, I've heard other people say they've gone to football matches and there's been absolutely no trouble in the terraces at all, and people have been...sat there, you know, quite happily, opposing teams next to each other.

J: Oh but it obviously does happen a lot. I mean, you see it on the news. What happens when British fans go to Europe? There's always trouble, isn't there?