现代大学英语听力基础教程 听力文本unit 5

Task 4

A: what's the matter with you? You look .

B: It's us.

A: What do you mean "us"?

B: well, , remember?

A: what do you mean? W e're talking now, aren't we?

B: yes, but we used to do so much together.

A: We still go to the ,don't we ?

B: Yes, but we used to go for walks together, remember?

A: All I can remember is .

B: And we used to do , like running through the park.

A: Yes, I remember. I used to catch terrible colds! Honestly, you're being .

B: And we never used to . You used to think I was ,once. Where are you going?

A: . That's something else I used to do before we were married, remember?

Task 5

Where’s the book you bought yesterday?

I left it at home. Why?

Is that a novel written in simple English?

Yes, it’s very interesting.

Have you finished it?

No. I’m only half way through. I also saw you reading something the other day. W as it good?

Yes. It was a novel I borrowed from the school library. It is about an honest government official who fights corruption bravely.

Is that the one that has been turned into a movie recently?

Yes, that’s the one. But the book is much more exciting than the movie.

Let’s exchange when we finish reading our book, shall we? Sure.

Task 7

What are you reading there, Tim?

A book. It’s called an experiment with dreams.

What’s it about?

It’s about dreams, of course.

Yes, I know that. But what does it say about dreams?

Well, the writer believes that we can see the future in our dreams.

Really? What makes him think that?

He says that he got the idea because he had one or two strange dreams. First he dreamed about something and afterwards it actually happened. His dream came true!

What sort of things?

Well, for example, he dreamed that his watch had stopped. When he got up, he fetched his watch, it was on the desk- and he found that it really had stopped and at the same time as in his dreams.

That’s interesting. But perhaps his mind was playing tricks. The mind’s a funny thing! What else did he dream?

Sometimes he read something in the newspapers-- a report of a an air crash, for example-- and then he remembered that he’d had a dream about it the night before.

But he probably dreams about air crashes and things like that almost every night. That doesn’t prove anything, really. I’m sure i’ve never dreamed about the future. Have you?

I don’t think so. But i/m not really sure. You see, we forget most of our dreams when we wake up, don’t we? This book says that we should try to remember our dreams. The writer did an experiment with a small group of people. He told them to write notes about their dreams as soon as they woke up. He says that quite a lot of them dreamed about things that happened later.