施心远主编《听力教程》第版Unit答案

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施心远主编《听力教程》 4 （第2版）答案

Unit 2

Section One: Tactics for Listening

Part 1: Listening and Translation

score higher than boys in almost every country.

几乎在所有国家里，女孩子都比男孩子得分高。

2.Differences between males and females are a continuing issue of fierce debate.

男女差异一直是激烈争论的焦点。

3.Cultural and economic influences play an important part..

文化和经济影响起着重要的作用。

4.But recent findings suggest that the answer may lie in differences between the male and female brain.

但是最新的发现提示，答案也许在男女大脑的差异。

5.These include differences in learning rates.

这些包括学习速度上的差异。

Section Two Listening Comprehension

Part 1 Dialogue

Exercise: Listen to the dialogue and filling the blanks with the missing information.

Serenading Service was foun dedhree years ago whe n the sin ger realize

that British people were desperate for romanee. He thought there would be a clientele for a hired serenader. The idea came from his studies oRenaissanee music, which is full of serenades. Over the centuries, university students have turned the serenade into an art form for hire . Usually he is hired bymen to sing love songs towomen. Occasi on ally he is asked to si ng tonen.

The service is really a form of in timate alfrescotheatre with love songs. He usually wears awhite tie and tails and sings amorousItalian songs. He will carry chocolate hearts or flowers a nd whe n there is no bale ony available he will sing from trees or fire escapes!

The fee dep ends onwhether a musicia n comes along or not. The basic rate is £ 450 but it can cost a lot more especially if he takesa gondola and a group of musicians along. Some people are so moved that thegurst into tears , but some react badly. They try to find out as much as they can about their clie nts to avoid unpleasant situations . They have to be very careful these days because a serenade can becompletely misinterpreted .

Part 2 P assage

Ex. A. P re-liste ning Questio n

What memory strategies do you know that can help you remember thi ngs

better

1)Brain p rioritizes by meaning, value and releva nee.

2)Your attitude has much to do with whether you remember someth ing or not.

3)Your un dersta nding of new materials depends on what you already know.

4)You can learn and remember better if you can group ideas into some sort of meaningful categories or groups.

5)The brain's quickest and probably the longest-lasting response is to images.

6)Memory is increased when facts to be learned are consciously associated with something familiar to you.

Ex. B: Sentence Dictation

are methods for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult

to recall.

2.Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language.

3.While language is one of the most important aspects of human evolution, it is only one of the many skills and resources available to our minds.

4.Association is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it..

5.Location gives you two things: a coherent context into which you can place information, and a way of separating one mnemonic from another.

Ex. C: Detailed Listening.

1.Mnemonics are tools which can help you to improve your memory.

T. (Memory tools can help you to improve your memory. "Mnemonic" is another word for memory tool.)

2.The fundamental principle of mnemonics is to make full use of the best functions of the brain to store information.

T (The basic principle of mnemonics is to use as many of the best functions of your brain as possible to store information.)

rmation we have to remember is almost always presented in different ways.

F (Unfortunately information we have to remember is almost always presented in only one way--as words printed on a page.)