新实用标准大学英语视听说教程3 Units 1-10问题详解

New Standard College English (Book 3) Unit 1

Inside View

Conversation 1

Exercise 1

1 Janet is a Chinese student in England.

2 She studies at the University of Oxford.

3 She is in London.

4 Probably she is visiting her friends or doing a tour around London.

5 I can see Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament.

6 She is talking to her friends.

Exercise 2

1 Janet is not going back home to China. (Because she wants to work in London during the long summer holiday and find out what it’s like to live in this busy and lively city.)

2 It is in the middle of summer.

3 Janet is going to work for London Time Off, a website about London.

4 Joe is Janet’s boss.

5 Janet doesn’t know what she is going to do.(Because it is her first day working there.)

6 Joe and Andy do not agree that New York is the greatest city. (Andy thinks London is.)

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

1 Janet wants to find out what the busy and lively city of London is like.

2 Today.

3 Joe doesn’t agree with Andy. (But they argue in a joking way.)

4 It is not as great a city as London.

5 She thinks London is probably the greatest city in the world. Conversation 2

Exercise 5

5-6-2-3-8-7-4-1

Exercise 6

1 don’t mind my asking

2 He drives me crazy

3 What do you mean by

4 It’s the last thing

5 we check out new events

6 the musicians or the actors

7 Can I ask you something else

8 we’ve got an interview to do

9 supposed to be on his way

Everyday English

1 (b)

2 (b)

3 (b)

4 (a)

5 (a)

6 (b)

Outside View

Exercise 2

4-5-1-3-2

Exercise 3

1 (b)

2 (c)

3 (c)

4 (a)

5 (a)

Exercise 5

1 Bjoern (b), (d), (f)

2 Wolfgang (a), (e)

3 Pascal (g)

4 Yosma (c)

Exercise 6

1 So that they can learn something about themselves

2 It can lead to a higher self-consciousness.

3 It can lead to happiness.

4 A strengthening of the personality.

5 “Who am I as a person? Am I really happy?”

6 He thinks students can get indications of happiness from teachers.

7 Happiness scientists.

8 They don’t write definitions on the board.

Listening in

Exercise 2

1 (c)

2 (d)

3 (a)

4 (b)

Exercise 3

1 tolerant; rounded

2 close to; stand up

3 beauty; generosity

4 an opportunity; beyond the one

5 behaved; selfish

6 pretend; see through

7 arrived in; had to help

8 difficult time; a huge amount of

Exercise 6

1 Joan is an academic counselor at Manchester University.

2 She is talking to a presenter and callers for a radio program.

3 It is important, because their choices of subject are likely to have an impact on their future careers.

4 He wants to work in IT.

5 Not at all. (In Britain each university has a different mixture of courses; some courses can only be found in a few universities.)

Exercise 7

1 strengths; weaknesses; personality; like; subjects; organized; confident; outgoing; a team; working alone

2 future careers; into a particular area of work; chosen field; related industries; leading

3 vocational; graduates; high-flyers; career; practical; transferable; recruitment Unit 2

Inside View

Conversation 1

Exercise 2

The true statements are: 2, 3 and 5.

1 Andy mentions the names of two bridges, not one.

4 Andy saw it go up when he was a child.

6 It is one of the cleanest city rivers today, although it was very polluted in the past.

Exercise 3

1 In Southwark, which is part of London

2 About 120 years old

3 It used to be raised three or four times a day

4 not so often

5 In the late 1980s and 1990s

6 In the 1960s

Exercise 4

1 She’s really impressed.

2 Because they couldn’t go under London Bridge.

3 Just on this side of London Bridge.

4 He remembers that many buildings were damaged from the war.

5 They used to take you to the hospital because the water was so polluted.

6 It is one of the cleanest city rivers in the world.