新动力 大学英语听力教程Unit 3原文及答案

Unit 3

Part One

Warming-up Activity

1.Two tiny tigers take two taxis to gown.

2.The soldiers shouldered shooters on their shoulders.

3.Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.

4.Never trouble about trouble until trouble troubles you!

5. A snow-white swam swiftly catches a slowly-swimming snake in a lake.

6.Bill’s big brother is building a beautiful building between two big brick blocks.

7.If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.

8.Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper prepared by his parents and put them

in a big paper plate.

9.How many cookies could a good cook cook if a good cook could cook cookies? A

good cook could cook as many cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.

10.I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch

wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.

Part Two

Statements

1.in a boring manner

2.worked 30 years for

3.expensive to attend

4.pay less attention to

5.At about midnight

Part Three

Short Conversations

1.W: Would you tell me how I can get to the railway station?

M: Sure, let me give you a hand.

Q: What’s the man doing? (C)

2.W: Would you give me a life?

M: It’s rather crowded, but you can get in.

Q: What’s the man’s attitude? (C)

3.M: Would you like to go to the concert with me tonight?

W: I’d be grateful, but I have to buy some vegetables and then meet my mother at the airport after I finish writing this letter.

Q: What will the woman do first? (D)

4.M: How about a date to the movie tonight, Mary?

W: Sorry, jack, I can’t. my sister is going to New York to see my mother, and I have to drive her to the station. How about some other time, Jack?

Q: Where will Mary go this evening? (C)

5.W: How about joining us at the party?

M: I’d love to, but I have to go to the bank so I can pay for my ticket to the football match.

Q: What is the man going to do first? (B)

Part Four

Short Passage

Men sometimes say: “We are better and cleverer than women. Women never invent things. We do.” It is sure that men have invented a lot of useful things: the machines, rockets, and guns, too. But scientists now agree that women invented one very important thing. It has changed history.

At the very beginning, men went out every day. Sometimes they killed animals, sometimes animals killed them. Life was difficult and dangerous. Women had to go out everyday, too. They collected roots, fruits and grasses. Then, one day, more than 10,000 years ago, a woman dropped some grass seeds. She dropped then near her home in the Middle East. They grew and the first wheat was born. The idea grew, too. Women planted roots and fruit trees. Then they could stay at home and look after their children and the animals. Women like baby animals. Scientists think that women kept the first domestic animals: dogs, cows, sheep and goats. That idea grew, too. Then their husbands did not have to go hunting for meat. They stayed at home. They built villages and cities. Civilization began. Men began civilization after women invented agriculture.

Questions:

1.Which of the following statements best summarizes the passage? (B)

2.What was women’s invention? (D)

3.What did women do when they went out? (B)

4.When was the first wheat born? (A)

5.According to the passage, who is more important, men or women? (C)

Part Five

True or False Exercises

When you take a walk in any of the cities in the West, you often see a lot of people walking dogs. It is still true that a dog is the most useful and faithful animal in the world, but the reasons why people keep a dog have changed. In the old days, people used to train dogs to protect themselves against attacks by other animals. And later they came to realize that a dog was not only useful for protection but willing to obey this master. For example, when people used dogs for hunting, the dogs would not eat what was caught without permission. But now people in the city need not protect themselves against attacks of animals. Why do they keep dogs, then? Some people keep dogs to protect themselves from robbery. But the most important reason is for companionship. For a child, a dog is his best friend when he has no friends to play with. For young husband and wife, a dog is their child when they have no children. For old couples, a dog is also their child when their real children have grown up. So the main reason why people keep dogs has changed from protection to friendship.

1. F

2. F

3.T

4. T

5. F

Part Six

Fun Time

One night a hotel caught fire, and the people who were staying in it ran out in their night clothes. A young man and an old man stood outside and looked at the fire, “Before I came out,” said the young man, “I ran into some of the rooms and found a lot of money, People don’t think of money when they’re afraid. When anyone leaves paper money in a fire, the fire burns it. So I took all the bills that I could find. No one will be poorer because I took them.”

“You don’t know my work,” said the old man.

“What is your work?”

“I’m a policeman.”

“Oh!”cried the young man. He thought quickly and said, “And do you know my work?”

“No,” said the policeman.

“I’m a writer, I’m always telling stories about things that never happened!”

Right order: 5 2 4 3 1