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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.)
https://www.doczj.com/doc/ac2367326.html,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.)
4.We can do four things to form striking images, which will help to make our mnemonics more memorable.
T ( Use positive, pleasant images; use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images; use all your senses to code information or dress up an image; give our image three dimensions, movement and space.)
5.There is one basic principle in the use of mnemonics.
F (There are three fundamental principles underlying the use of mnemonics: imagination, association and location)
6.Association is what we use to create and strengthen imagination.
F (Imagination is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics.)
7.You can choose the imagery in your mnemonics as you like
T (The imagery you use in your mnemonics can be as violent, vivid, or sensual as you like, as long as it help you to remember.)
8.You can create associations by linking things using the same stimuli.
T. (You can create associations by linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.)
Ex. D: After-liste ning Discussi on
1.What is the basic prin ci pie of mnemon ics Why can we improve our memory by follow ing the principle
To use as many of the best fun cti ons of your brain as p ossible to
store in formatio n.
Evolved to code and in terpret complex stimuli. Use these to make sop histicated models of the world.
Our memories store all of these effectively.
However, i nformatio n is pr ese nted in on ly one way. Lan guage is on ly one of the many skills and resources available to our mi nds.
By codi ng Ian guages and nu mbers in strik ing images,/ can reliable code
both
in formatio n and structure of i nformatio n. The n easily recall these later.
2.Why is a good memory imp orta nt to us
Open.
Secti on Three News
News Item 1
Ex. A: Summarize the n ews
This news item is aboutthe Somali p irates 'trike.
Ex. B: Liste n to the n ews aga in and an swer the questi ons.
1. Whether this latest attempted hijacking was the promised revenge for the
killi ng of three Somali p irates by the US n avy isn't clear.
2. No, the pirates haventbeen deferred.
3. Because the financial rewards for a successful hijacking remain so
great and
Somalia remains so lawless.
4. At any one time there are only fifteen to eighteen international
warships in
the area to police an expanse of sea covering more than a million
square
kilometres
.
5. It may be because of the relatively small scale of the
problem.
Tape script of News Item
One:
The piracy problem looks like it's here to stay despite the recent
muscular
interventions by the French and American navies. Whether this latest attempted
hijacking was the promised revenge for the killing of three Somali pirates by the
US navy isn't clear. But it does suggest at the very least that the
pirates haven't
been deterred.
So why does the problem persist Put simply maritime security analysts say
piracy will continue as long as the financial rewards for a successful hijacking
remain so great and Somalia remains so lawless. Certainly the
international
effort to thwart the problem is relatively limited. At any one time
there are only
fifteen to eighteen international warships in the area to police an expanse of sea
covering more than a million square kilometres. Although it has been suggested
that raids could be mounted on the pirates' home towns, it seems
unlikely
there'll be any major increase in the military effort unless there's a spectacular
hijacking involving the deaths of many crew
members.
The reluctance to mount a major international naval operation in the area
may also be down to the relatively small scale of the problem. Last
year,
accord ing to figures from the In ter nati onal Maritime Bureau, n early twenty three thousa nd shi ps p assed through the Gulf of Ade n. Only
ninety two were hijacked.
Rob Wats on, BBC News
News Item 2
Ex. A: Liste n to the n ews and compi ete the summary
This news item is aboutObama'military pla n in Afgha ni sta n.
Ex. B: True or false.
1. The Preside nt is con sideri ng leav ing Afgha ni sta n.
F. (The Preside nt is maki ng it clear that leav ing Afgha ni sta n is not an op tio n.) 2. Obama would n'shri nk the nu mber of troops in Afgha
ni sta n, n either would he deploy more military troops.
T.
3.Preside nt Obama thought his assessme nt would be "rigorous and deliberate".
T.
4.Opinions aga inst Obama are not heard.
F. “some Rep ublica ns and members of the P reside nt's own party are dubious about committi ng more resources and military personnel to a con
flict where there is no end in sight.)
5.The con flict in Afgha ni sta n seems to be over soon.
F. (?? about committi ng more resources and military personnel to a con flict where there is no end in sight.)
6.Afgha ni sta n can be the sec ond Viet nam.
T. (The word 'Viet nam' is heard more and more on Cap itol Hill.)
Seri pt of News Item Two: