听力训练

UNIT1

Section One Tactics for Listening

Part1Spot Dictation

Houses in the Future

VOCABULARY

contract['k?n’tr?kt]n.To reduce in size

Directions:Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with what you hear:

Well,i think houses in the future will probably be but i should think they’ll be so that you don’t need so much

and as you do now,so perhaps very economical.Perhaps they will use, although i don’t know,in this country,perhaps we to do that so much.Yes,i think they’ll be full of:things like very advanced televisions,videos,perhaps videos which take up-the screen the whole wall.I should think.Yes,you’ll have things like

which open automatically when you,perhaps electronic which will you when you,when you come to the front door even.Perhaps and designers will be a bit more about how houses are designed and perhaps with the people will think of putting gardens and,and maybe rooms can be and,and depending on what you use them for,so perhaps there’ll be a bit more about that.

Part2Listening for Gist

Listening Strategy

Finding the gist of the listening material involves the students’active participation.The students should be fully motivated while they are listening, not just guessing and ticking the right answer.There are many activities that can help the students find the gist of the passage during the listening stage.One of them is to ask the students to note down the most important words that best describe the passage.

Directions:listen to the dialogue and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide.

1.This dialogue is about

2.The key words are

UNIT2

Section One Tactics for Listening

Part1Spot Dictation

My Mother

VOCABULARY

disciplinarian[,d?s?pl?'ne?r??n]n.one that enforces or between in strict discipline clump[kl?mp]v.to walk or move so as to make a heavy,dull sound

knack[n?k]n.a specific talent for something

hoist[h??st]v.to raise or haul up

gigantic[d?a?'g?nt?k]adj.very large

transcend[tr?n'send]v.to exist above

dandelion['d?nd?la??n]n.蒲公英

Directions:Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with what you hear:

My mother was an efficient who cooked,cleaned and shopped for nine people basis.She was a disciplinarian who would seven kids walk up and down the stairs a hundred times if we clumped like to dinner.She also enlisted us to help her in the day’s.

My mother believed that each of her children had a special

that made him or her invaluable on certain.My brother Mike, for example,was believed to have especially.He was hoisted up as a human whenever she needed to see something.John was the climber when a kite. My own job was navigator for our old Chrysler.

But my mother’s to get work done well was only.She also had an that carried her in different directions,that her to transcend her everyday life. She did not magic as portrayed on a stage,but

instead the sound of a metal bucket being a hose,or the persistence of a dandelion at the a woodpile.

Part2Listening for Gist

Directions:listen to the dialogue and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide.

1.This passage is about

2.The key words are

UNIT3

Section One Tactics for Listening

Part1Spot Dictation

Wildlife

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

World Wildlife Fund(WWF)An international organization formed to raise money for conservation projects,est.1961.It has been responsible for international agreements on conservation and has supported research on endangered species, including the giant panda,its symbol.

Directions:Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with what you hear.

Every ten minutes,one kind of animal,plant or insect for ever.If nothing is done about it,one million species that are alive today will twenty years from now.

The seas are in danger.They are being industrial and nuclear waste,chemical fertilisers and.If nothing is done about it,one day soon nothing will be able to the seas.

The tropical,which are the home of half the earth’s living things are.If nothing is done about it,they will have in twenty years.The effect on the world’s-and on our agriculture and food-will be disastrous.

,somebody is trying to do something about it.In1961, the World Wildlife Fund-a small group of people who wanted to to save animals and plants.Today,the World Wildlife Fund is a large organization.It has raised over for projects,and has created or given support to National Parks in.It has helped

and birds-including the tiger-to.

Part2Listening for Gist

Directions:listen to the dialogue and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide.

1.This dialogue is about

2.The key words are

Unit4

Section One Tactics for Listening

Part1Spot Dictation

Stephen Powelson’s Amazing Memory BACKGROUND INFORMATION

prep school Private schools that focus on academic preparation for college are sometimes called preparatory schools or prep schools.

Iliad The Iliad,the story of Homer’s epic,revolves around the Greek warrior Achites, who has withdrawn from the war against the Trojans because of an insult. VOCABULARY

chide[t?a?d]v.to scold

Directions:Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with what you hear.

When Stephen Powelson was nine,his school organized a

contest in memorizing passages from the Bible.Stephen paid

until he was chided for.The next Sunday he surprised everyone by all the passages for the.

As a teenager in prep school,Stephen took Greek.His teacher

21lines of the Iliad to be memorized.At the end of the hour-though he he paid full attention to the -Stephen knew all21.He went on to memorize the first.

In1978,for the first time,Powelson,now60,had some .To keep his mind active,he reread the Iliad and that he still knew the first100lines.

That someone could memorize so much between ages60and70is to most people,who are that memory

as we grow older.

Powelson’s method is to his tape recorder,then read it several more times,making sure be understands.“Also,”he says,“i attempt to myself as part of the action.”

Part2Listening for Gist

Directions:listen to the dialogue and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide.

1.This passage is about

2.The key words are

Unit5

Section One Tactics for Listening

Part1Spot Dictation

Wind

VOCABULARY

polynesian[,p?li'ni:zi?n;-?i?n]adj.玻利尼西亚人的

swell[swel]n.a long wave on water that moves continuously without breaking whiteout['hwa?ta?t]n.a weather condition in which the features and horizon of snow covered country are indistinguishable due to uniform light diffusion乳白天空chrome[kr??m]n.铬，铬合金

Directions:Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with what you hear.

In the past we watched the wind closely.knew that game moved the winds,that keeping the wind in was essential to a successful.Farmers knew that changing winds brought.

Polynesian sailors could find islands beyond the by lying on their backs in their and feeling the swells caused by winds islands many miles away Eskimos could in Arctic whiteouts,when fog or snow all landmarks,by following remembered currents of air over the snow and ice.

Today few people can tell where the wind comes from.We live inside walls, chrome and glass,and the winds outside are often

our own making-the wake of,the tunneling of air down narrow city streets.We get our weather,not from the wind behind us.We hear the wind as house sounds:the,the scratching of branches at a window,the moan of a draft under the.These are pop music,not the of the wind,which is the collision of leaf and blade,the

of branches under stress,the of ocean waves.

Part2Listening for Gist

Directions:listen to the dialogue and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide.

1.This passage is about

2.The key words are

Unit6

Section One Tactics for Listening

Part1Spot Dictation

Wind and Spirit

BACKGROUND INFOMRATION

Santa Ana Named after Southern California’s Santa Ana Canyon and a fixture of local legend and Literature,the Santa Ana is a blustery,dry and warm(often hot)wind that blows out of the desert.Santa Anas can cause a great deal of damage.The fast, hot winds cause vegetation to dry out,increasing the danger of wildlife.Once the fires start,the winds fan the flames and hasten their spread.

VOCABULARY

mistral['m?str?l]n.a dry,cold northerly wind that blows in squalls toward the Mediterranean coast of southern France密史脱拉风（地中海北岸的一种干冷北风）foehn[f??n]n.a warm,dry wind coming off the Ice slopes of a mountain range, especially off the northern slopes of the alps.焚风（尤其从阿尔卑斯山脉北坡等山坡上吹下来的干热风）

bise[bi?z]n.a cold north wind of the Swiss alps and nearby regions of France and Italy 干冷的北风（瑞士阿尔卑斯山河法国、意大利附近地区寒冷的北风）

Directions:Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with what you hear.

We do notice the wind when it seems,when the trees turn away from it,and it our hearts.“Certain winds will make men’s,”said George Eliot.In Southern California,the Santa Ana is an increase in depression and domestic.

Scientists have tried to identify physiological reasons for these.Everyone agrees,however,that like the Santa Ana,the mistral in France and the foehn in Germany and Switzerland seem to have on our mental and physical.

On windy days,playground fights,and heart failures are more.In Geneva,traffic accidents when a wind called the bise blows.At the patients,some Swiss and German hospitals during the feohn.

It is human to ask what is.It is easy to personify the

wind as the.The act of taking wind into our lungs is what.The Jews,Arabs,Romans and Greeks all took their word for from the word for wind.

But our day-to-day lives are no longer the winds.We do not identify wind with spirit anymore.

Part2Listening for Gist

Listening Strategy

Finding the topic sentence is another exercise that can help the students get the gist of the passage.The topic sentence may be at the beginning of the passage,or at the end of passage.Sometimes it may also appear in the middle.

Directions:listen to the passage and find its topic sentence.

This topic sentence is“

Unit7

Section One Tactics for Listening

Part1Spot Dictation

Meet Your Chiropractor

VOCABULARY

chiropractic[,ka?r?(?)'pr?kt?k]n.(脊椎)按摩疗法

spine[spa?n]n.脊柱

malfunction[m?l'f??(k)?(?)n]n.to fall to function or to function improperly

referra l[r?'f??r(?)l]n.转诊安排

Directions:Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with what you hear.

The doctor of chiropractic(D.C.)is a member of the health team who the human body as a total functioning and gives special attention to the spine,, nerves,circulatory and skeletal.The chiropractor seeks to Pain.

The procedures utilized are primarily focused on the. The chiropractor is concerned about the spine’s relationship to the ,which controls important body functions.The chiropractor knows that a malfunctioning spinal joint can not only cause or headaches,it can also the nerves leading from the spine,thereby other portions of the body.

Millions of Americans are chiropractic patients for a wide variety of .They depend on their chiropractor as their to help them maintain their health through proper,treatment,and referral when.

A minimum of six years of college study including internships

the making of a chiropractic physician.Many doctors of chiropractic choose to

to certain specialties,such as,nutrition, orthopedics or radiology.

As a member of the healing arts,the doctor of chiropractic must pass a state board examination in order to practice.

Part2Listening for Gist

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

“Surviving the Iron Age”In September2000seventeen people from a wide range of background attempted so go back in time to the Iron Age at Castell Henllys Iron Age Fort in Pembrokeshire west wales.They were challenged to do so by the BBC,who firmed their attempt to“Surviving the Iron Age”

Directions:listen to the passage and find its topic sentence.

This topic sentence is“

Unit8

Section One Tactics for Listening

Part1Spot Dictation

Corporate Social Responsibility VOCABULARY

rapacious[r?'pe???s]adj.taking by force,plundering

Directions:Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with what you hear.

Once upon a time,all-or almost all-business were and rapacious,sparing a thought for their or the environment only in order to how to exploit them.Then bosses found their ,guided(or sometimes forced)by or critics from the world.They discovered the idea that companies should not exist only to make a profit but to.Thus corporate social responsibility(CSR)got its as a business fashion,and it is now hard to find a firm that has not and earnest about its relations with the wider world.

CSR is closely linked with the principles of““in proposing that enterprises should make decisions based not only on the financial factors but also on the social and environmental of their activities.Issues like environmental damage,improper treatment of workers,and leading to customers inconvenience or danger,.

Some investors and investment fund managers have begun to

a corporation’s CSR policy in making.Some consumers have become increasingly sensitive to the CSR performance of the companies

they buy their goods and services.These trends

the pressure on companies to an economically,socially and environmentally sustainable way.

Part2Listening for Gist

Directions:listen to the passage and find its topic sentence. This topic sentence is“

UNIT9

Section One Tactics for Listening

Part1Spot Dictation

Celebrations in Australia,Asia Ring in2010 VOCABULARY

Stake out to make an area with stakes so as to claim ownership of it

Shrine[?ra?n]n.A place where worship is offered or devotions are paid to a saint or deity

Reveler['rev?l?]n.People who are enjoying themselves in a noisy way,often while they are drunk

Directions:Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with what you hear.

One of the first major cities to celebrate the was Sydney, Australia.More than people gathered along the Sydney harbor to watch the city’s fireworks show,set to booming rock music.

Hours before midnight people Harbor Bridge to stake out for the12-minute display.This year’s show involved more than of explosive devices.

Other cities around Asia and the Pacific region fireworks, such as Kuala Lampur and Hong Kong.

In other places people the New Year without fireworks.

Millions in Japan prayed at shrines for good fortune in2010.In Seoul,South Korea,a was rung.

In China’s capital,signs around Beijing cautioned fireworks within the heart of the city on New Year’s Eve.

This did not seem to Beijing residents,who say the Lunar New Year is their to celebrate with fireworks.This year that holiday is in.

Many young people were and clubs in Beijing until the

of the morning.Still others had to on New Year’s Eve.As late-night revelers waited in the cold for a,two

men unloaded a truck at a on Worker’s Stadium Road.One of them said he good health for his parents in the New Year.His coworker said he hoped to spend the Lunar New Year at his home in nearby Shandong province.

Part2Listening for Gist

Directions:listen to the passage and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide.

1.This passage is about

2.The key words are

UNIT10

Section One Tactics for Listening

Part1Spot Dictation

Do You Risk Enough to Succeed? VOCABULARY

crestfallen['krestf??l(?)n]adj.depressed and dejected

pull in one’s horns to restrain oneself,to draw back

Directions:Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with what you hear.

During the semifinals of the1990Wimbledon,Monica Seles faced Zina Garrison.As the match,it became clear that Seles’s most formidable was not Garrison but herself.

“The match was so close,”said a crestfallen Seles afterward.“I was going for the shorts.Even on Zina’s second serve I was

to hit the ball for winners.”

When things get,conventional wisdom tells us to ,to pull in your horns,Consequently,rather than performing to

,we concentrate on minimizing our losses.The results can be

.

If you find yourself shying away from risks,these five tips will help you the adventurous spirit buried in us all.

1.Take seriously.

2.Take it in little steps.When starting something new,a

first step and make it one you are reasonably sure of.

3.Don’t say“don’t“.The don’ts,a form of setting,can

be self-fulfilling because your mind to picture.

4.Make your own.

5.Lean from your mistakes.

By,you will accomplish more than you you could.In the process you will your life into an exciting adventure that will constantly challenge,reward and you.

Part2Listening for Gist

Directions:listen to the passage and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide.

1.This passage is about

2.The key words are