英语二 学术综合英语听力答案

Unit 1 text 1

Road Building

Task 1.

1.the relationship between road building and economic development

2.grain and cotton

3.grew grain grew cotton

4.fast and convenient

5.to transport grain and cotton

Task 1.

1. A booming trade in grain and cotton.

2.Because of the rapidly growing population and the large number of immigrants

from Europe.

3.The farmers got laborers from Africa.

4.Because it was easy and cheap to transport goods from on place to another.

5.They built roads and collected fees.

Text 2 The Mississippi River in America

Task 1

ke Itasca in Minnesota

2.about 4, 000 kms.

3.flooding in summer

4.floodways, dams, levees and reservoirs

5.holding water and generating electricity

Task 2.

1.21 US states.

2.It flows from the North to the Gulf of Mexico

3.They are empty channels. When the Mississippi is too high, the floodways are

opened and some of the water can flow into the floodways.

4.They are earthen walls built alongside a river, holding the water and keeping it

from overflowing.

5.Sine the 20th century.

Unit 2 Text 1 An eyewitness to changes in China

Task 1

1. a foreigner’s perception of China’s reform and development.

2.working to build bridges between Chinese people and American people

3.1) it had established extremely close and unbreakable relations with the people

2) its soldiers had a shared vision of a bright future

4. 1) study Chinese reality

2) develop a set of strategies, a common vision and a set of core values.

5.1) make people feel that it represents their interests.

2)do more in terms of the emancipation of the mind.

Task 2

1.Y es. Because he thinks that what he’s doing today is more effective than what he

was able to do in the past.

2.They believed that they were fighting for their land, for their family to have their

own farmland, and for a fair government that would listen to the people and do what they needed.

3. A practical, down-to-earth, realistic vision that everyone shares.

4.Equally important to the development of the market economy, the emancipation

fo the mind hasn’t gone far enough. There’s still the shadow of the old feudalistic habits of governments and individuals in their thinking and in their relationships.

5.The eights lines can serve as core values for the Chinese people to have a new

common vision.

Text 2 Talk with “Harry Potter”

Task 1

1.Harry Potter films

2.the film set, his tutors and his friends

3.kindly, warmly and generously

4.the two Harry Potter director

5.live a normal life

Text 2

1.Four

2.He feels that he lives a busy, efficient and normal life.

3.Not yet. Because he cannot afford the time.

4.He is satisfied and pleased with it.

5.He usually spends most of his spare time learning the bass guitar and watching

movies.

Unit 3 Text 1 Driving while on a cell phone worse than driving while drunk

Task 1

1.This news report is about driving while talking on a cell phone.

2.Because the research finds that those talking on a phone are more sluggish and

slower in reacting.

3.The researchers at the University of Utah, USA.

4.In the summer of 2006.

ing a driving simulator, the researchers compared 40 people’s driving abilities

in three groups: on the phone, drunk, and with no distractions.

Task 2

1.It will increase the likelihood of an accident five-fold.

2.Drunk drivers are aggressive, while those talking on the phone are more sluggish.

3.It will reduce the driver’s reaction time by 9 percent in breaking and 19 percent in