听力教程4-U7-施心远

Keys to Unit 7

Section I

1．每年在美国有两百多万对新人结婚。

2．这些婚庆要花去八百多亿美元。

3．这还不包括新人的蜜月旅行。

4．根据一项古老的传统，新娘在结婚那天必须穿戴一样旧的东西，一样新的东西，一样借来的东西和一样蓝色的东西。

5．据说这四样东西可以带来好运。

Section II

Dialogue

raw fish/ hanging/ pick up/ ask for these things/ in quantities/ did with these things

odd/ didn’t have a car/ how much the bus fares were/ what number of bus

listen to it/ shake it/ sell-by date/ listen to/ same result/ nature/ what they eat

great pride/ tailoring/ Chinese community/ garments/ absolutely, perfectly fitting/ Hairdressing/ go in/ sit there for a quick hair wash/ massage your head completely for about 10 minutes

a wonderful experience/ quite hard/ system/ nervous/ experience how people live on a daily basis/ get into the way that the people who live in that

country permanently exist

Passage

1.From the mountains to the sea, the landscape is largely rural, unspoiled

and incredibly scenic.

2.Western Wales runs into the sea at nearby Cardigan Bay, home to some of

the purest links-style golf terrain in the United Kingdom.

3.We had spent our first day at the modern five-star resort, where we were

pampered beyond measure with exceptional accommodations, dining and spa.

4.The layout is a tough collection of blind shots, long holes, canted lies, and

steep rises and drops.

5.Leaving Wales, I knew I had only scratched the surface of golf in this

undiscovered corner of Great Britain.

A B C D D C D B

Section III

Item 1:

A.the decline of this year’s seal hunt in Canada.

B.1 Because of the sharp decline of market price for seal pelts.

2 100 dollars.

3 The depressed value of the Russian rouble and the subsequent erosion of one of

Canada’s largest markets for seal products is partially to blame for the decline in numbers.

4 T he prospect of a European Union ban on seal products and growing international

disdain for the hunt is becoming a major factor in its near collapse.

5 The European Union passed the ban in May.

Item 2:

A.the producer price index and its indications for economy.

B. producer price index/produced or manufactured items/a growth/1990/growth/consumer price index/inflation/January of 1991/worried/raising interest rates/end up/corporate earnings

Item 3: the dispute over the cut of government subsidies the European farmers receive for growing sugar beet.

1.They are arguing that a better deal for sugar farmers in Africa is going

to cost them their livelihoods.

2.To reduce by almost 40%.

3.They argue that their own sugar industries were being adversely

affected by the distortions in the world market caused by European subsidies.

4.The EU plan has unsurprisingly proved very unpopular with Europe’s

sugar beet growers.

5.It said the plan would spoil the ante of 46,000 sugar beet farmers and