UNIT 3
Section 1 Tactics For Listening
Part 1 Phonetics
Exercise: Complete the following short dialogue as you listen to the tape. Pay special attention to the weak forms, fink-ups and contractions.
Friend: Hi, Linda. I hear you and John got married (l) last month. Linda: Yeah, we did, (smiling) Three weeks (2) ago.
Friend: Well, congratulations!
Linda: Thank you.
Friend: Did you (3) have a big wedding?
Linda: No, we got (4) married at City Hall. We didn't want to spend very much because (5) we're saving to buy a house. Friend: Where did you (6) have the reception?
Linda: Oh- we (7) didn't have a reception. We just (8) invited a few friends over for drinks afterwards.
Friend: What (9) did you wear?
Linda: Just a skirt and blouse
Friend: Oh!
Linda: And John wore a (1 0) jacket and jeans.
Friend: Where did you (1 1 ) go for your honeymoon?
Linda: We (12) didn't have a honeymoon. We went back to work
the next day Ah, here comes (13) my bus.
Friend: Listen. (14) I'd love to help celebrate. Why don't you two (15) come over for a drink next week'?
Linda: Sure. We'd love to. (16)I’ll talk to John and (17) call you Monday.
Friend: Great. See you (18) next week.
Linda: Bye.
PART 2 Listening and Note-taking
Bob: Look at that Angela. True-Value are going to sell hi-fi's for
72.64 pounds, I'm going to buy one. We can save at least 20
pounds.
Angela: Yes, and look at the washing machines. They're going to sell some washing machines for 98.95 pounds, so we can save 22 pounds. A washing machine is more important than a hi-fi.
Bob: By the way, Angela. Do you know how much money we've got?
About 200 pounds, I hope.
Angela: Here's the bank statement. I didn't want to open it. Oh, dear.
Bob: What's the matter?
Angela: We haven't got 200 pounds, I'm afraid.
Bob: Well, come on. How much have we got?
Angela: Only 150 pounds 16.
A: Bob and Angela are window-shopping. The shop is closed, but they are talking about the sales next week. They are planning to buy a lot of things. Listen to the conversation and take notes on the following items:
Things they want to buy the price money they can save
1. a hi-fi ￡7
2.64 at least ￡20
2. a washing machine ￡98.95 ￡22
B: Complete the following Sentences.
The amount of money they should pay for the things they want to buy: ￡171. 59.
The amount of money they think they can save: 42 pounds. The amount of money they think they can have: 200 pounds.
The amount of money they actually have: 150 pounds 16 . Section 2 Listening Comprehension
PART 1 Dialogues
Dialogues 1 what's he like?
A: Tell me about your new manager. What's he like?
B: Oh, terrific. He's tall, good looking.., well, I think he's good looking, anyway ... and he's about 35 or 36. He's very interested in all kinds of sports — football, basketball... oh,
and tennis. My friend told me he's very good at tennis. He plays at the same tennis club ... the club where she plays ...
you know.
A: Oh, is he friendly? I mean, in the office ...
B: Well, I don't know him very well. He's a bit ... shy, I think. He isn't married; he lives in a flat on his own ... well, just him and his dog.
A: Listen to the conversation and complete the following blanks.
Age: 35 or 36
Appearance: good-looking
Hobbies: sports football basketball and tennis
Marriage status: single / not married
B: Listen to the conversation again and answer the following questions.
1. What is he good at'? How does his friend know that?
(He is good at tennis. His friend knows that because he plays at the same tennis club where she plays.)
2.Does he live alone? Has he got a companion?
(Yes, he lives alone. But he has a companion, his dog.)
Dialogue 2 How Old Are You?
Man 1: All right. Keith. How old are you?
Man 2: Thirty-seven.
Man 1: Thirty-seven, yeah? And, erm you married?
Man 2: Yes.
Man 1: Yeah. Have you got children?
Man 2: Two.
Man 1: Yeah. What are their names?
Man 2: Toby and Lucy.
Man 1: Toby and Lucy. How old are they?
Man 2: One's 11, that's Lucy; and Toby's 13.
Man 1: Yeah. Tell me about your job, Keith.
Man 2: Well, I work at the Oxford University Press. I'm a printer's reader and copy editor.
Man 1: Erin, what sort of hours of work do you have'?
Man 2: Erm, 7.30 in the morning.
Man 1: You start work at 7.30?
Man 2: Yes. I start at 7.30 in the morning and finish at 4.15.
That's with a 45-minute lunch break.
Man 1: Yeah. Do you like it that way? Do you like starting very early?
Man 2: No, I don't. No.
Man 1: How do you go to work?
Man 2: Er, well, I cycle from here to Didcot station, and then catch the train and return journey.
Man 1: Tell me one or two things you like doing, and one or two things you don't like doing. What do you like doing? What
do you do for enjoyment?
Man 2: Well, I'm quite interested in antiques*.
Man 1: Yes.
Man 2: Things I don't like--- I don't like decorating. I'm not awfully keen on gardening.
Man 1: OK. What reading — what sort of— what newspaper do you read?
Man 2: The Times.
Man 1: The Times, yeah.
Man 2: And The Sunday Times.
Man 1: Yeah. And what kind of bonks do you read?
Man 2: Erm— tends to be more along history lines. Not novels, generally, more general history. Local history especially. Man 1: Yeah, OK. Do you smoke, Keith?
Man2 : No.
Man 1: You drink?
Man 2: Occasionally.
Man 1: Yeah. Do you go to church?
Man 2: Not very often, no.
Man 1: Right. Thank you very much indeed.
Listen to the interview and complete the following report. Name of the interviewee: Keith.
Keith is (1) 37 years old. He's got (2) two children. One is (3)11 and the other is (4)13.He is a (5)printer's reader and copy editor at the (6) Oxford University Press. He starts work at (7) 7:30~and finishes at (8) 4.15 with a (9) 45-minute lunch break. He goes to work by (10) bicycle and train.
He is interested in (11) antiques. He dislikes (E2) decorating and is not awfully (13) keen on gardening. He reads quite a lot, (14) newspapers, books, especially (15) books of history.
He doesn't (16) smoke and drinks (17)only occasionally. He doesn't (18) go to the church often.
Part 2 Passage
Passage 1 Informational interviewing
Informational interviews are one of the most beneficial ways through which to learn about a career field; they can also serve as a place to begin networking. Their purpose is to explore a particular field or organization and learn the "ins and outs*" of that field from a practitioner*. Rather than being asked
questions, you are the questioner, gathering information that will help you evaluate* your interest in and suitability for a particular opportunity.
An informational interview is a fine place to raise doubts you might have, explore the compatibility* of your work values with those expressed in the field and ask for advice. An individual whom you interview for information can also critique your resume.
Although you may not specifically find out about a job opening, informational interviewing will often provide leads* as to where to begin a successful job search and will help you choose between fields you are considering. If you are unable to find your former students or parents to meet for an informational interview, try contacting employers or organizations found in one of the closed stack*directories in the CRC* library.
Exercise: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.
1.D
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. A
6. A
7. B
8.D
Part 3 News
This presidential election is creating unusual interest and excitement across America, especially with young people and Democrats.
The Democrats hope to reclaim the White House after eight years of Republican presidency. Yet candidates from both parties are promising change.
There are major issues facing Americans: the weakening economy, the Iraq war. Other concerns include the troubled housing market, high cost s of health care and energy, and the debate over illegal immigration.
But interest in the election is also being driven by the candidates themselves. Democrats Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama would become America's first female or first black president. Republic John McCain would become, at age seventy-two, the oldest president elected to a first term.
A: Listen to the news item again and complete the following summary.
This news item is about the presidential election in the USA. B: Listen to the news item again and complete the following blanks.
1. D
2. B
3. B
4.A
5. D
The space shuttle Discovery landed at Kennedy Space Centre in the state of Florida last month. It was the one hundred twentieth shuttle flight and the twenty-third to the International Space Station.
The United States space agency had two main goals for this flight of Discovery. First, the crew was to move a structure from one side of the space station to the other. And then they were to add a new room to the space station.
NASA calls the new addition to the space station the Harmony connecting modules. It is the first new room added to the space station since 2001. Harmony is about seven meters long and about four meters wide. It will be a passageway between the laboratories and the rest of the space station.
A: Listen to the news item again and complete the following summary.
This news item is about the one hundred twentieth flight of the space shuttle Discovery.
B: Listen to the news item again and complete the following blanks.
Landing time : last month
Landing site: Kennedy Space Centre in the state of Florida
It was the one hundred twentieth shuttle flight and the twenty-third to the International Space Station
Two main goals for this flight:
the crew was to move a structure from one side of the space station to the other.
They were to add a new room-- Harmony--to the space station.
-- it is a connecting module.
-- it is the first new room added to the space station since 2001.
-- it is about seven meters long and about four meters wide.
-- it will be a passageway between the laboratories and the rest of the space station.
News item 3
The World Health Organization is urging countries to follow six policies to prevent millions of tabacco-related deaths. The six policies are known as MPOWER, spelled M-P-O-W-E-R. The M is for monitoring tobacco use and prevention polices.
The P is for pretecting people by establishing smoke-free area s. The O stands for offering service to help people stop smoking. The W is for warning people about the dangers of tobacco. The E is for enforcing bans on tobacco advertising and other forms of marketing. And the R is for raising taxes on tobacco.
The WHO says tobacco now causes more than five million deaths a year. It predicts this number will rise to more than eight million by the year 2030. By the end of the century, it says, tobacco could kill one billion people- ten times as many as in the twentieth century.
A: Listen to the news item and complete the following summary.
This news item is about tobacco risk to a billion lives this century, as predicted by the WHO.
B: Listen to the news item again and choose the best answer to answer each of the following questions.
1. What is the World Health Organization is urging countries to do?
The World Health Organization is urging countries to follow six policies to prevent millions of tobacco-related deaths. 2. The six policies are known as MPOWER, spelled M-P-O-W-E-R.
What does each letter stand for?
The M is for monitoring tobacco use and prevention polices. The P is protecting people by establishing smoke-free areas. The O stands for offering services to help people stop smoking. The W is for warning people about the dangers of tobacco. The E is for enforcing bans on tobacco advertising and other forms of marketing. And the R is for raising taxes on tobacco.
3. How many deaths does tobacco cause now?
The WHO says tobacco now cause more than five million deaths a year.
4. Will this number rise by the year 2030?
Yes, the WHO predicts this number will rise to more than eight million by the year 2030.
5. How many people will be killed by the end of the century? By the end of the century, tobacco could kill one billion people- ten times as many as in the twentieth century Section 3 Oral Work
Mrs White: How did your writing go this morning? Is the book coming along all right?
Mr White: I'm not sure. I think the rest of it will be difficult to write. There are still some problems to solve.
Mrs White: I expect you'll find the answers interesting to work out.
Mr White: If I can work them out. Thank goodness the house is easy to work in. I shall at least be able to think.
Mrs White: You've forgotten something. Peace and quiet will be difficult to guarantee much longer.
Mr White: Good, heavens, yes. The school holidays start in a week, don't they? The house will be impossible to work in while they last.
Mrs White: Well, some extra noise is hard to avoid. But I'll keep them away from the study as much as I can. That'll be all right to work in.
Mr White: What about the garden? It was beautifully peaceful and quiet out there this morning.
Mrs White: Well, you'd better make the most of it while it lasts.
Peace and quiet will be hard to find in the garden pretty soon, I'm afraid.
Exercise: Listen to the dialogue and then answer some questions about it. You will hear the dialogue and the questions only once. Answer each question with a complete sentence after you have heard it.
Questions:
1. What was Mr White doing this morning?
(He was writing his book this morning. )
2. According to Mr White, was the book coming along all right? (No, he thought the rest of the book would be difficult to write.)
3 What did Mrs White expect?
(He expected that Mr White would find the answers interesting to work out.)
4. Why did Mr White think the house was easy to work in? (Because he would at least be able to think)
5. When would the school holidays start?
(They would start in a week.)
6. Was it possible for Mr White to work in the house during the school holidays?
(No, it was impossible for him to work in the house.)
7. Could Mr White work in the garden this morning? (Yes. he could work in the garden this morning.)
Why? (Because it was peaceful and quiet)
8. Why should Mr White make most of it while the garden was peaceful and quiet?
(Because peace: and quiet would hard to find in the garden pretty soon.)
Part 2 Retelling
To the American people, education is very important. The first twelve years of public school are free of charge. As a result, about 93 percent of the teenagers from fourteen to seventeen years old are in high school.
However, 200 years ago, education was not free. American elementary schools were only for rich people. Most young people were not in school.
The first public high school was in 1832. The purpose of the school was to prepare students for college. Its most important subjects were mathematics and foreign languages.
Nowadays, American education is a big business. There are about 45 million students in the nation's elementary schools and high schools. Each year there are about three million high school graduates. The main purpose of high school is still to prepare students for college. There are also job-training programmes in high school and programmes to teach useful skills for everyday life - for example, driver training, first aid, and even cooking.
Section 4 Supplementary Exercises
Part I Listening Comprehension
Passage 1 British postmen and milkmen
British postmen and milkmen have a reputation for being cheerful. As they both arrive very early in the morning, when you are perhaps not feeling very good-tempered, their brisk* knocking and bright whistling may get on your nerves. Of course, there are some gloomy postmen, who make you think that every letter contains tragic news, but the majority are j olly and good-humoured. This is quite surprising, because delivering the mail each morning is a job which is not very well paid and there are a great many problems.
The city postman has to go on foot, not only along streets but also up and down stairs, as many blocks of flats still have no lifts and no downstairs letterbox. If he has a registered letter to deliver, he has to wait for someone to come to the door to sign for it. That person may greet him in a most unfriendly way if he has just been woken from a deep sleep very early in the morning.
In the country, a postman may have a bicycle or a small van, so he does not have to walk so far, but nevertheless he has his problems too. It is very annoying to be compel led* to go all the way to an isolated house simply to deliver a postcard or a circular, when this makes the journey half an hour longer. In winter, weather conditions are bad, but the postman must carry
on in the rain or the snow.
Sometimes it is impossible to use a van or a bicycle in these conditions, and he has to do his round*on foot, like his city colleague. Most country people keep a dog. Although there may be a notice on the gate, "BEWARE OF THE DOG," this is of little help to the postman- He is forced to go in, whether the dog is dangerous or not. So every day the country postman knows that, if the dog is not safely tied up, it may bite him on the leg or tear* the seat* out of his trousers.
Exercise: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.
1. B
2. A
3. C
4. A
5. D
6. A
7. D
8. B
Passage 2 Study in the United States
The latest report from the Institute for International Education gives information from the school year that began in September of last year and ended in May of this year. It says more than 500,000 foreign college students attended American schools during that school year.
New York University in New York City had the largest number of foreign students. Almost 5,000 foreign students attended NYU last year. The University of Southern California
at Los Angeles had the second largest number of students, about 4,500.
The report says the State of California had the most foreign students, with about 66,000 living there last year. New York State was next, with about 55,000 foreign students.
China sent the most foreign students to the United States last year. More than 54,000 Chinese students attended American schools. Japan sent the next highest number of students, almost 47,000. India was next, with about 42,000. And Korea was fourth, sending more than 41,000 students to the United States.
The report says the most popular subjects of study for international students in the United States last year were business and management.Twenty percent of all foreign students were studying those subjects. Fifteen percent studied engineering. Nineteen percent studied mathematics and computer science.
A: Listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T or F in the space provided. Discuss with your classmates why you think the statement is true or false.
F 1. The school year in the United States begins in September
of this year and ends in June of next year. (The school year in the United States begins in September of this year and ends in May of the next year.)
F2. New York University in the State of New York had the largest number of foreign students. (New York University in New York City had the largest number of foreign students.)
T3. The State of California had the most foreign students living there last year. (The report says the State of California had the most foreign students, with about 66,000 living there last year.)
F4. More than 50,000 foreign college students attended American schools during that school year. (More than 500,000 foreign college students attended American schools during that school year.)
F 5. Last year the most popular subject of study for international students in the United States was computer science. (Last year the most popular subject of study for international students in the United States was business and management.)
B: Listen to the report again and match the number of students with the corresponding country.
54,000 China 47,000 Japan
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U n i t1 1.在美国，大学教育的费用会很贵。 2.费用的上涨使越来越多的美国家庭通过借钱来支付上大学的费用。 3.有各种各样的联邦贷款和私人贷款可供学生挑选。 4.在这些贷款品种中，有些品种的利率将从7月1日起上调。 5.人们越来越担心，很多学生将背负沉重的债务从大学毕业。 News Item 1 A: …about China’s ambitious space program. B: 1. Landing spot: in the remote grasslands of Inner Mongolia 2. Significance: a source of national pride and international prestige (威望) Future plan 1. 1) Time: 2007 2) Goal: The astronauts will attempt a space walk. 2. Focus of further development: the capability to rendezvous and dock with other spacecraft 3. Recruitment of astronauts: to recruit female astronauts in the near future. News Item 2 There are still question marks though over the stability of the recovery. The property* sector* is showing signs of overheating. The government this week announced measures to try to cool it. At the same time officials decided to extend tax subsidies* for purchases of small vehicles and appliances suggesting that some here still believe Chinese manufacturers need government support. Growth was strongest in heavy industries such as coal, steel, power generation and automobiles. Consumer prices rose in November for the first time since February. But the rise was small and probably reflected higher food prices caused by early snowstorms which destroyed crops and disrupted transport. A: … about the growth of China’s economy. News Item 3 A: … about China’s large and growing trade with and aid to Africa. B： 1.In many African capitals, the main football stadium is likely to have been built with Chinese aid money. 2.It is estimated that Sino-African trade, and aid, amounts to as high as 12 billion dollars a year. 3.The links between China and Africa could grow to challenge the post- colonial links between Europe and Africa. 4.On the meeting in Addis Ababa, China promised to cancel debts, grant duty-free access into China for African products and increase Chinese investments in Africa.
Unit 3 Section One Tactics for Listening Part 1 Phonetics-Stress, Intonation and Accent 1. A: Do you want some grapes? B: No, thanks, I don’t like them. 2. A: What do you think of Scotland? B: I’ve never been there. 3. A: My son’s called David. B: How old is she? 4. A: Can I book a table for tonight, please? B: Certainly. How many is it for? A: There’ll be three of them. 5. A: Can you get some cornflakes? B: Do you want a large or small packet? A: A small one. 1. A: a. want b. grapes B: a. like b. them 2. A: a think b. Scotland B: a. been b. there 3. A: a. call b. David B: a. old b. he 4. A: a. book b. tonight B: a. certainly b. many A: a. three b. them 5. A: a. get b. cornflakes B: a. large or small b. packet A: a. small b. one Part 2 Listening and Note-taking A Territory When we talk about a territory, we mean a defended space. Animals have their territories, which they mark out with their personal scent. The scent is their territorial signal. Human beings have other territorial signals. There are three kinds of human territory, marked by different territorial signals. First, there are the Tribal Territories, which in modem terms are known as countries. Countries have a number of territorial signals. The borders are often
A Listening Course 4 施心远主编《听力教程》4 (第2版)答案 Unit 3 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 founded three years ago when the singer
UNIT 6 Section One Tactics for Listening Part 1 Spot Dictation Wind and Spirit We do notice the wind when it seems (1) cruel, when the trees turn away from it, and it (2) cuts into our hearts. "Certain winds will make men's (3) temper bad", said George Eliot. In Southern California, the Santa Ana is (4) associated with an increase in depression and domestic (5) violence. Scientists have tried (6)without success to identify physiological reasons for these (7) reactions. Everyone agrees, however, that (8)dry winds like the Santa Ana, the mistral in France and the foehn* in Germany and Switzerland seem to have (9) negative effects on our mental and physical (10) well-being. On windy days, playground fights, (11) suicides and heart failures are more (12) frequent. In Geneva, traffic accidents (13) increase when a wind called the bise* blows. At the (14) request of patients, some Swiss and German hospitals (15) postpone surgery during the foehn. It is human to ask what is (16) behind the wind. It is easy to personify the wind as the (17) breath of God. The act of taking wind into our lungs is what (18) gives us life. The Jews, Arabs, Romans and Greeks all took their word for (19) spirit from the word for wind. But our day-to-day lives are no longer (20 blown on the winds. We do not
Unit Two Section 1 Tactics for Listening Part 1 Phonetics Exercise: Complete the following short dialogue as you listen to the tape~ Pay special attention to the weak forms, link-ups and contractions. Woman: Good evening. Man: Good evening. Can you ( 1 ) make up this prescription, please? Woman: Certainly. (2) Would you like to wait? Man: How long (3) will it take? Woman: (4)It'll be ready in twenty minutes. Man: Oh, (5) I'll come back later. Woman: All right, sir, Man: (6) Shall I pay now or later? Woman: (7) Later'll be all right. Part 2 Listening and Note-taking Exercise A: Listen to the conversation and take notes. Exercise B: Use the information from your notes to mark the places and streets mentioned in the conversation on the sketch map. Man: Excuse me. How can I get to the station please? Woman: The station, the station, the station ...let me see. Ah, yes. You can go down ... no. Go straight on until you come to a cinema. Let's see now-- that's the second turn on your right. The cinema's on the corner. Turn right at the cinema and you'll be in Bridge Street. I think it's Bridge Street. Go along Bridge Street for a few minutes and then take the second -- no, not the second, the first, that's fight, the first turning. On your left. The station is straight ahead, right in front of you. Man: So that's second right and first left. Thank you very much. That's very kind of you. Woman: Don't mention it. go up vs. go down Go up上坡，往北，从小地方往大地方（如城市，尤其是首都） Go down下坡，往南，从大地方往小地方（如农村） Go up: 1) go up to a place: go to college, go to the town/capital . He will go up to Cambridge next term. 2) go up to sb.向。。。走去/靠近
施心远主编《听力教程》4 (第2版) 答案 UNIT 1 Section One Part 1 Spot Dictation Houses in the Future Well, I think houses in the future will probably be (1) quite small but I should think they'll be (2) well-insulated so that you don't need so much (3) heating and (4) cooling as you do now, so perhaps very economical (5) to run. Perhaps they will use (6) solar heating, although I don't know, in this country, perhaps we (7) won't be able to do that so much. Yes, I think they'll be full of (8) electronic gadgets: things like very advanced televisions, videos, perhaps videos which take up ... the screen (9) takes up the whole wall. I should think. Yes, you'll have things like (10) garage doors which open automatically when you (11) drive up, perhaps electronic (12) sensors which will (13) recognize you when you, when you come to the front door even. Perhaps (14) architects and designers will be a bit more (15) imaginative about how houses are designed and perhaps with the (16) shortage of space people will think of putting gardens (17) on the roof and, and maybe rooms can be (18) expanded and, and (19) contracted* depending on what you use them for, so perhaps there'll be a bit more (20) flexibility about that. Part 2 Listening for Gist Dialogue：I Want to See Dr Milton
Keys to Unit 11 Section I 1.“国家成人读写能力评估”是检测美国成年人阅读能力的一项主要测试。 2.该测试检测的是参加者阅读和理解日常生活信息的能力 3.这项调查发现有1,100万，即百分之五的成年人看不懂英语。 4.研究人员说，问题的部分原因在于很多美国年轻人作为消遣所进行的阅读已经不 太多了。 5.人们发现阅读水平高的人比那些不具备阅读能力的人的年收入多28,000美元。Section II Dialogue Great leaders in history: military chiefs/ national heroes/ dreaded tyrants see these so-called great leaders in the same light spiritual leaders Characteristics: what they want to achieve lose sight of their objectives/ work towards them/ what obstacles they may come up against the end justifies the means the will of the people/ improve their lot be successful Passage 1.Going to the library or locking yourself in your room with no aim other than reading for a predetermined time is likely to lead to boredom. 2.One way round this problem when you encounter it is to set yourself really small and manageable reading tasks. 3.The task should be one that is useful towards your final aim of getting your essay or paper or dissertation written, or revising for your exam. 4.In devising such tiny but “do-able”tasks for yourself you are using your creativity, making the reading a personal task to you and breaking a large endeavor up into small and attainable steps. 5.Often the motivation supplied by an assignment or essay will help you to focus your reading in helpful ways. T T T F T F T F Ex.2 1) We can set ourselves a particular period of time in which to assess the relevance of a number of books or articles for our purposes, to understand an important but difficult argument and to locate material in and take notes about a source that we have good reasons to believe can help us to answer a particular question. 2)To get started with reading should not be difficult. And once you have made a beginning, the next day or the next time you come to this piece of reading, you will
Unit 2 Section One Tactics for Listening Part 1 Phonetics--Stress, Intonation and Accent 1. Did you want tea without milk? With milk, please. (f) 2. See you at ten past one. At five past one. (c) 3. Where’s the newspaper? It’s on top of the bookcase . (e) 4. Did you want tea with lemon? With milk, please. (b) 5. I thought I put the newspaper on the bookcase. It’s on top of the bookcase. (a) 6. See you at five to one. At five past one. (d) Part 2 Listening and Note-taking Ralph Nader Ralph Nader is a man of few possessions. He owns very little and lives in a small apartment. He doesn’t have a car or a TV set. He doesn’t have many clothes and he doesn’t care about money when he makes a lot of money, he gives it away. He doesn’t smoke and he works from six in the morning until late at night, seven days a week: he is paying back to America his debt as a citizen. When he went to parties as a young man, people complained that all he talked about was the dangers of cars, and how bad car design caused the deaths of so many people each year. After he graduated from Harvard, he published an article entitled “Unsafe at Any Speed,” which was about a car called Corvair. Later, he made a big attack on the car industry and showed how many deaths in car accidents were because of badly-made cars. He said new laws were needed to make cars safer. In 1966, because of Nader’s work, a law was passed to make car safer. After this success, Nader became interested in something very different. This was the quality of meat and the amount of meat that is put into foods like sausages and hamburgers. A year later, in 1967, again because of Nader’s work, a law was passed to ensure that products like sausages and hamburgers contained the right amount of meat. In 1968, three more laws were passed because of Nader’s efforts. The first was to
A Liste ning Course 4 施心远主编《听力教程》4 （第2版）答案 Unit 2 Secti on One: Tactics for Liste ning Part 1: Listening and Translation 1. Girls score higher tha n boys in almost every coun try. 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 econo mic in flue nces play an importa nt part.. 文化和经济影响起着重要的作用。 4. But rece nt findings suggest that the an swer may lie in differe nces betwee n the male and female brai n. 但是最新的发现提示，答案也许在男女大脑的差异。 5. These in clude differe nces in lear ning rates. 这些包括学习速度上的差异。 Secti on Two Liste ning Comprehe nsion Part 1 Dialogue
Exercise: Listen to the dialogue and filling the blanks with the miss ing in formati on. Seren adi ng Service was foun ded three years ago whe n the sin ger realize that British people were desperate for roma nee. He thought there would be a elientele for a hired serenader . The idea came from his studies of Renaissanee music , which is full of serenades. Over the eenturies, university students have turned the sere nade into an art form for hire ______ . Usually he is hired by men to si ng love songs to women Occasi on ally he is asked to sing to men The service is really a form of in timate alfresco theatre with love songs. Heusually wears a white tie a nd tails a nd sings amorous Italian songs. He will carry chocolate hearts or flowers a nd whe nthere is no bale ony available he will si ng from trees or fire escapes ! The fee depends on whether a musician comes along or not. The basic rate is ￡ 450 but it can cost a lot more especially if he takes a gondola and a group of musicians along. Someoeople are so moved that they burst in to tears , but some react badly. They try to find out as much as they can about their clients to avoid unpleasant situations . They have to be very careful
UNIT 2 Section One Tactics for listening Part 1 Sport Dictation My Mother My mother was an efficient (1) taskmaster who cooked, cleaned and shopped for nine people (2) on a daily basis. She was a disciplinarian* who would (3) make us seven kids walk up and down the stairs a hundred times if we clumped like (4)field hands to-dinner. She also enlisted us to help her in the day's (5) chores. My mother believed that each of her children had a special (6)knack that made him or her invaluable on certain (7)missions.My brother Mike, for example, was believed to have especially (8) keen eyesight. He was hoisted up as a human (9)telescope whenever she needed to see something (10) far away. John was the climber when a kite (11) got caught. My own job was navigator for our (12) gigantic old Chrysler. But my mother's (13) ability to get work done well was only (14) one side. She also had an (15) imagination that carried her in different directions. That (16) allowed her to transcend her everyday life. She did not (17) believe in magic as portrayed on a stage, but (18) valued instead the sound of a metal bucket being (19) filled by a hose, or the persistence of a dandelion at the (20) edge of a woodpile. Part 2 Listening for Gist For hundreds of years man has been fascinated by the idea of flying. One of the first men to produce designs for aircraft was Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian artist who lived in the fifteenth century. However, it was not until the eighteenth century that people began to fly, or perhaps it would be better to say float, across the countryside in balloons. The first hot-air balloon was made in April 1783 by the Montgolfier brothers in France. In the following years many flights were made by balloon. Some of the flights were for pleasure and others were for delivering mail and for military purposes, such as observation and even bombing. However, in the late nineteenth century, airship s superseded balloons as a form of transport. Airships came after balloons. The first powered and manned flight was made by a Frenchman, Giffard, in September 1852. His airship, powered by steam, traveled twenty-seven kilometers from Paris to Trappes at a speed of eight kilometers per hour. However the days of the airship were numbered as the aero- plane became increasingly safe and popular. Exercise Directions: Listen to the passage and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide. 1.This passage is about the early history of flying.
施心远主编《听力教程》1-(第2版)Unit-12听力原文和答案
Unit 12 Section One Tactics for Listening Part 1 Phonetics Exercise: Complete the following short dialogue as you listen to the tape. Pay special attention to the weak forms, link-ups and contractions. [Sound of busy street] Jeff: Hi, Carl, (I) What’s up? Carl: Hey, Jeff. We're (2) on our way to see that new comedy Running From the Mob. Want to (3) go with us? Jeff: I (4) hear it's really funny. Carl: Yeah, it's got a lot of good (5) people in it. Should be great. Let's go. Jeff: Ah, I (6) wish I could, but I've got to study. Carl: Well, maybe next time. You're (7) missing a good thing. Jeff: I know. (8) Got to go. See you. Carl: Bye. Part 2 Listening and Note-Taking TAPESCRIPT Exercise: Complete the passages as you listen to it. The (1) first thing I do at the office is to (2) open all the boss’s letters,
【最新整理，下载后即可编辑】 UNIT 1 Section One Part 1 Spot Dictation Houses in the Future Well, I think houses in the future will probably be (1) quite small but I should think they'll be (2) well-insulated so that you don't need so much (3) heating and (4) cooling as you do now, so perhaps very economical (5) to run. Perhaps they will use (6) solar heating, although I don't know, in this country, perhaps we (7) won't be able to do that so much. Yes, I think they'll be full of (8) electronic gadgets: things like very advanced televisions, videos, perhaps videos which take up ... the screen (9) takes up the whole wall. I should think. Yes, you'll have things like (10) garage doors which open automatically when you (11) drive up,
Unit 12 Section One T actics for Listening Part 1 Phonetics Exercise: Complete the following short dialogue as you listen to the tape. Pay special attention to the weak forms, link-ups and contractions. [Sound of busy street] Jeff: Hi, Carl, (I) What’s up? Carl: Hey, Jeff. We're (2) on our way to see that new comedy Running From the Mob. Want to (3) go with us? Jeff: I (4) hear it's really funny. Carl: Y eah, it's got a lot of good (5) people in it. Should be great. Let's go. Jeff: Ah, I (6) wish I could, but I've got to study. Carl: Well, maybe next time. Y ou're (7) missing a good thing. Jeff: I know. (8) Got to go. See you. Carl: Bye. Part 2 Listening and Note-Taking TAPESCRIPT Exercise: Complete the passages as you listen to it. The (1) first thing I do at the office is to (2) open all the boss?s letters, I (3) answer the easy ones and I (4) leave the difficult ones on the (5)