超越概念听力第一册第二单元答案

Unit 2 Fitness and Healt h

Section 1 Listening Strategies

Part II Consolidation

Listen and identify the difference between two words in each pair and circle the word you hear.

A. / s / vs. /θ/

1. thing

2. tense

3. think

4. path

5. sick

6. sank

B. /?/ vs. / i:/

1. he’s

2. each

3. sit

4. lead

5. it

6. live

7. seek

8. a pill

9. bit 10.teen

C. /?/ vs. /ɑ/ or /?/

1. hat

2. ad

3. box

4. racket

5. mop

6. pat

7.sock

8. cot

9. black

Section II Listening Comprehension

Part I Dialogues

Dialogue 1

Listening to a financial trader talking about the stress of his job and how he handles stress.Listen to the dialogue and answer the following questions.

1. Stress is generally driven by the feeling of being out of control of a situation and the feeling of a situation controlling you.

2. The feeling of uncertainty, being our of control.

3. Cooking a meal.

4. Watching some TV before going to bed.

5. At least once a week.

Dialogue 2

Now listen to the second half of the same dialogue with the financial trader talking about positive aspects of an element of stress. Listen and answer the following questions.

1. Yes. Because of stress-related factors.

2.It can lead to a change in direction, success, and stimulate you to do

something new.

3. It keeps him on his toes and makes him concentrated and focused.

4. Trading.

5. No. It remains constant.

Dialogue 3

A. Listen to the dialogue once and jot down the key words relating to the main idea.

obesity, diet, less active, more food, lose weight, fad diets

B. Listen again and decide whether each of the following statements is true [T] or false [F].

1.T

2. F

3. T

4. F

5. T

Part II Passages

Passage 1

Listen to the following study once for the main idea. Listen again and decide whether each of the following statements is true [T] or false [F].

1. F (A study found that only four percent of elementary schools provided daily physical education all year for all grades. )

2. T

3. T

4. F (Yet many parents today still have bad memories of being chosen last for teams because teachers favored the good athletes in class. )

5. T

6. F (Some parents like the idea of avoiding competitive sports in P.E. class. Yet others surely dislike that idea.)

Passage 2

Liste n to the passage once for the main idea and don’t look at the following text while listening. Listen again and fill in the blanks with the missing word from the passage.

Our first word is “diet”. It has four letters and four sounds: D-I-E-T. Diet. Diet can be a noun or a verb. There are some important (1) differences in meaning.

Firstly “diet” as a noun. This means the food and drink (2) taken

by a person or group of people.

—Footballers have to eat a good diet in order to stay healthy.

—The Japanese diet is (3) said to be very healthy. People live to an old age.

People often use an adjective before diet. For example you may hear the expression “ a (4) balanced diet”. It means eating a (5) range of all the food types necessary to keep healthy.

Secondly, we can use diet as a (6) countable noun—a diet. It means when someone eats less of certain foods so they can lose weight. It’s used in (7) combination with the words “to go on” or “to be on” a diet.

A: I’m getting really fat. I can’t (8) fit into my trousers!

B: You should go on a diet.

Thirdly, we can use it as a verb—to diet. This is another, less (9) common way of saying “to go on a diet”. It means to eat (10) less in order to lose weight.

—So many people die t these days. I’m not really sure if it’s good for them.

Passage 3

Listen to the people talking about how noise affects their concentration. Listen to them and link what has been said with the speaker’s name by a straight line.

1. Martina e

2. Rachel c

3. Romesh b

4. Mark a

5. John d

Part III News

News 1

Listen to the recording once to get the main ideas. Listen again and take notes to answer the following questions.

1.More than four hundred fifty.

2.The study looked at changes in genes that govern an important

cell-signaling pathway.

3.The animals do not grow as big as others of their kind but they live

longer.

4.Ashkenazi Jews are more genetically similar than most other groups,

so any differences are easier to find.

5.No one had the mutations.

News 2

Listen to the news about vitamin D once to get the main ideas. Listen again and answer the following questions briefly.

1.From sunlight.

2.They worry about getting skin cancer or skin damage.

3.No. They produce more.

4.Oily fish such as salmon, tuna and mackerel, and fish liver oils.

5.Six hundred international units.

News 3

Listen to the news about obesity. Decide whether each of the following statements is true [T] or false [F]

1.T

2.F (At present, according to Professor Philip James, an expert on

nutrition, obese children outnumber the malnourished by two to one.)

3.T

4.F (According to Professor James, there is no point in blaming

individuals for being overweight.)

5.T

6.T

Part IV Dictation

A.Sentences

You will hear each sentences three times. First, listen and try to understand the meaning of the whole sentence. Second, listen and write. Third, listen and check.

1.It sounds like we’re both trying to raise our final grades in this class.

2.You should see if there are any openings so you can enroll in it.

3.The new school year that begins this fall will cost fifty-two thousand

dollars for undergraduates.

4.Students may also need to take SAT subject tests in areas like history.

5.Three million three hundred thirty thousand students are expected to

graduate.

B.Paragraph

You will hear a paragraph three times. First, listen and try to understand the meaning of the whole paragraph. Second, listen and write. Third, listen and check.

Research in the last several years has shown that low levels of vitamin D may increase the risk of heart attacks in men and deaths from some cancers. Other studies have shown that people with rheumatic diseases often have low levels of Vitamin D. More doctors are now having their patients tested for their vitamin D levels. But as research continues, some experts worry that if people take too much vitamin D, it might act as a poison.

Part V Video Clip

Watch and write down the three idioms mentioned in the video and explain each of them.

Section IV Supplementary Listening

Listen to each sentence and write down the words which contain phonemic sound /s/, /θ/, /?/, /i:/, /?/, /ɑ/ or /?/.

1.think, if, watch

2.it, is, really, see

3.what, departure

4.me, family

5.topic, is, not, money, handle, that, have

Section V Story Series

Listen to Chapter 2 of Robinson Crusoe and answer the following questions.

1.At first, he felt seasick because of the rain and the wind, and he

thought it was the punishment form God. But later the storm ended and he slept deeply at night.

2.The second storm made the first storm look like a gentle wind. For

days the storm went on with the terrible waves, lightening and

thunders. Others agreed that they had never seen storms like this.

3.The captain lighted a firework and a boat came and rescued them.