新动力 大学英语听力教程Unit 1原文及答案

Unit 1

Part One

Warming-up Activity

1.Kill two birds with one stone.一箭双雕

2. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.一鸟在手胜过双鸟在林

3. A miss is as good as a mile.差这毫厘，失之千里。

4. A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.吃一堑，长一智。

5.Two heads are better than one.三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛亮。

6.Better master one than engage with ten.会十事，不如精一事。

7.It takes three generation to make a gentleman.十年树木，百年树人。

8.To him that does everything in its proper time, one day is worth three.一个和尚挑

水喝，两个和尚抬水喝，三个和尚没水喝。

9.One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.二十岁时起支配作用的

是意愿；三十岁时是机智；四十岁时是判断。

10.At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the

judgment.

Part Two

Statements

1.Mary is the actress who plays the nurse. (B)

2.The quiz is easy for everyone except Tom. (C)

3.As soon as I got home, it started to rain. (D)

4.Jack is a better student than Henry, but not better than Ed. (A)

5.Xi’an cannot compete with Shanghai in population. (C)

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Part Three

Short Conversations

1.M: Did you get home when your daughter did at 8:50 last night?

W: No, I was 15 minutes late because of the heavy traffic.

Q: When did the woman get home? (C)

2.M: Jane must be over twenty now.

W: Yes, when Tony left Paris 10 years ago, Jane was already 15.

Q: How old is Jane? (A)

3.M: This black bag is $2.00 and that blue one is a dollar more.

W: The red one is twice as much as the blue one.

Q: How much are two red bags? (D)

4.M: Is this 415 Fifth Street?

W: No, it’s 514 Fourth Street.

Q: What address is the man looking for? (D)

5.M: The roast beef is $18.00 a kilo now.

W: Yes, it’s exactly a half more than it was two years ago.

Q: What was the price of a kilo roast beef two years ago? (B)

Part Four

Short Passages

Mrs. Jones’s telephone number was 3463, and the number of the cinema in her town was 3464, so people often made a mistake and telephoned her when they wanted the cinema.

One evening the telephone bell rang and Mrs. Jones answered the phone. A tired man said, “At what time does the new film began?”

“I’m sorry”, said Mrs. Jones, “but you have the wrong number. This is not the cinema.”

“Oh, it began twenty minutes ago?” said the man. “I’m sorry about that. Goodbye!”Mrs. Jones was very surprised, so he told her husband. He laughed and said, “The man’s wife wanted to go to the cinema, but he was feeling tired, so he telephoned the cinema. His wife heard him, but she didn’t hear you. Now they will stay at home this evening, and her husband will be happy.”

Questions:

1.What was Mrs. Jone s’s telephone number? (B)

2.Who answered the phone when the bell rang? (C)

3.What did Mrs. Jones say when answering the phone? (B)

4.What could the man’s wife hear? (D)

5.What can we learn from the passage? (D)

Part Five

Spot Dictation

1.support

2.expensive

3.run

4.available

5.reasons

6.because

7.enough

8.qualities

9.programs

10.certain

Part Six

Fun Time

Bin Laden, a Canadian, and President Bush were walking down the street when they saw a golden lamp. They rubbed it and a genie came out and said, “I will grant each one a wish, that’s three together.” The Canadian said, “I am a father and my son will be a farmer, so I want the soil in Canada to be forever fertile.”The genie said the magic words and the wish came true. Bin Laden looked amazed, so he wished for a wall around Afghanistan. The genie said the magic words and again the wish came true. President Bush said “Genie, tell me more about this wall,” the genie said, “It’s 50 feet thick and 500 feet tall, so nothing can get in and nothing can get out.”