听力教程3 Unit 3

Listening for Comprehension——Passage
The Clyde River was poisoned for by the field byproducts of industry. The Clyde River from Glasgow’s economic success during the Industrial Revolution and beyond. Its native salmon have returned in sizable numbers for the first . The Clyde River Foundation surveyed fish populations last autumn in the Clyde and its tributaries, and found salmon of the major tributaries. Salmon came in healthy numbers . The salmon’s comeback is symbolically important for Glasgow because . The Clyde is important to Glasgow because since 550. Glasgow has become an important center for now.
Keys to A Talk
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Listening for Comprehension——Passage
The Clyde River was poisoned for more than 100 years by the field byproducts of industry.
The Clyde River suffered a lot from Glasgow’s economic success during the Industrial Revolution and beyond. Its native salmon have returned in sizable numbers for the first time since the late 1800s.
Part II Section A——A Talk
Directions: In this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk only once. While listening, you may look at the ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking. You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task. Now listen to the talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to complete your work.
Part I Dictation Plastic We use plastic wrap to protect our foods. / We put our garbage in plastic bags or plastic cans./ We sit down on plastic chairs, play with plastic toys, / drink from plastic cups, and wash our hair with shampoo from plastic bottles. / Plastic does not grow in nature. It is made by mixing certain things together. / Plastic was first made in 1860s. That plastic was soft and burned easily. / The first modern plastic was made in 1930s. / Over the years, hundreds of different plastics have been developed. / There was a plastic for almost every need. Scientists continued to experiment with plastic. / They hope to find even more ways to use them./
Glasgow has become an important center for tourism now.
Part II Section B——Conversations 1. A. He has been extremely down recently. A. He has been depressed for a long time. B. He is not very fond of going to school. D. He is not able to get himself out of bed.
A Listening Course
Unit 3
Foreign Language Department Xin Dou
Unit 3
Tactics for listening
Listening Comprehension
News Item
Section One Every ten minutes, one kind of animal, plant or insect (1) dies out for ever. If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today will(2) have become extinct twenty years from now. The seas are in danger. They are being (3) filled with poison: industrial and nuclear waste, chemical fertilizers and (4) pesticides, sewage. If nothing is done about it, one day soon nothing will be able to (5) live in the seas. The tropical (6) rain forests which are the home of half the earth's living things are (7) being destroyed. If nothing is done about it, they will have (8) nearly disappeared in twenty years. The effect on the world's (9) climate - and on our agriculture and food (10) supplies will be disastrous. (11) Fortunately, somebody is trying to do something about it. In 1961, the World Wildlife Fund (12) was founded - a small group of people who wanted to (13) raise money to save animals and plants (14) from extinction. Today, the World Wildlife Fund is a large (15) international organization. It has raised over (16) £35 million for (17) conservation projects, and has created or given support to the National Parks in (18) five continents. It has helped (19) 30 mammals and birds - including the tiger - to (20) survive.
Tactics for Listening——Gist
Listen to the dialogue and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide.
•This dialogue is about making an inquiry about the laundry .
Listening Comprehension —— Dialogue
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T F T TT FSuzanne was already bilingual when she was very small. She studied other four languages when she was at school. She still remembers her German very well. She was very fluent in six languages before she was 25. She worked as an interpreter in the United Nations when she was 28. She met her present husband in Prague in 1987. “Sabbatical” in the dialogue means “a long break”. She was still a UN employee when she was in Japan. She hopes she will get promoted in the next two or three years. She would love to learn Chinese very much.
The Clyde River Foundation surveyed fish populations last autumn at 69 cities in the Clyde and its tributaries, and found salmon in seven of the major tributaries. Salmon came in healthy numbers only recently. The salmon’s comeback is symbolically important for Glasgow because salmon were once so important to the city’s identity. The Clyde is important to Glasgow because it has been central to its history since 550.