M3- Listening& cultural corner
TPO3 listening 听力文本
TPO 03 – Listening PartSection 1ConversationNarratorListen to a conversation between a student and a receptionist at the Registrar’s Office on the first day of the semester.StudentExcuse me, I’m supposed to be having my physics class in the science building, but no one’s in the classroom. Could you tell me where the class is? Physics 403 — has it been moved?ReceptionistWell, there’s a room assignment sheet on the bulletin board outside this office.StudentYeah, I know, but my class isn’t listed there. There must be some kind of mistake or something. Could you look it up, please?ReceptionistHmmm... ok, let me check on the computer. It’s physics, right? Wait, did you say physics 403?StudentYeah.ReceptionistEr…I’m sorry, but it says here that it was cancelled. You should have got note letter from the registrar’s office about this.StudentWhat? I’ve never got it.ReceptionistAre you sure? ‘Cause it says on the computer that the letter was sent out to students a week ago.StudentReally? I should have got it by now. I wonder if I threw it away with all the junk mail by mistake.ReceptionistWell, it does happen. Er… let me check something. What’s your name?StudentWoodhouse, Laura Woodhouse.ReceptionistOk, hmmm…Woodhouse, let me see… ah, it says here we sent it to your apartment on er… Center Street.StudentOh, that’s my old apartment. I moved out of there a little while ago.ReceptionistWell, and I suppose you haven’t changed your mailing address at the adm inistration office. Well that would explain it.StudentYeah, I guess that’s it. But how can they cancel the class after offering it. If I’d known this was going to happen, I would have taken it last semester.ReceptionistI know, it’s really inconvenient for you, I understand that, but er… if we don’t have enough students sign up for the course, the college can’t offer it. You know, it’s a practical issue, like we can’t have an instructor when there’re only a few students in the class. You see what I m ean?StudentI guess, but now I don’t know what course I should take instead.ReceptionistOk, let’s see. Do you have any courses you’re going to take next semester? If you do, you might want to take them now and sign up for physics 403 next semester.StudentYeah, I guess I could do that. I just hope it won't be cancelled again. Do you know how many people have to be enrolled in order to keep a class from being cancelled?ReceptionistWell, it depends on the class, but for that class, you have to h ave er… let’s see, usually it’d be at least ten people, but since it was cancelled this semester, they might even do it with less. But do you know what you should do? Give the physics department a call a couple of weeks before the semester starts. They’ll be able to tell you if they’re planning to go through with it. It's their decision, actually.StudentOh, ok, I will do that. Thanks for the info.ReceptionistNo problem. Sorry about the class. Oh, why aren’t you to go change a mail address now. It lo nely takes a minute.StudentOh, oh, sure, I will do that right way.LectureNarratorListen to part of a lecture in an environmental science class.ProfessorNow, we’ve been talking about the loss of animal habitat from housing developments,uh …, growing cities – small habitat losses. But today I wanna begin talking about what happens when habitat is reduced across a large area. There are, of course, animal species that require large areas of habitat, and some migrate over very long distance s. So what’s the impact of habitat loss on those animals – animals that need large areas of habitat?Well, I’ll use the humming birds as an example. Now you know a humming bird is amazingly small, but even though it’s really tiny, it migrates over very lo ng distances, travels up and down the western hemisphere – the Americas, back and forth between where it breeds in the summer and the warmer climates where it’s spent the winter.So you would say that this whole area over which it migrates is its habitat because on this long- distance journey, it needs to come down to feed and sleep every so often, right? Well, the humming bird beats its wings – get this – about 3 thousand times per minute. So you think, wow, it must need a lot of energy, a lot of food, right?Well, it does. It drinks a lot of nectar from flowers and feeds on some insects, but it’s energy- efficient too. You can’t say it isn’t. I mean, as it flies all the way across the Mexico Gulf, it uses up none of its body fat. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t need to eat. So humming birds have to rely on plants in their natural habitat.And it goes without saying, but the opposite is true as well, plants depend on humming birds too. There are some flowers that can only be pollinated by the humming birds. Without its stoppingto feed and spread pollen from flower to flower, these plants would cease to exist.But the problem, well, as natural habitat along these migration routes is developed by humans for housing or agriculture or cleared for raising cattle, for instance, there is less food available for migrating humming birds. Their nesting sites are affected too, the same by the same sorts of human activities. And all of these activities pose a real threat to the humming bird population.So help them survive, we need to preserve their habitats. And one of the concrete ways people have been doing this is by cleaning up polluted habitat areas and then replanting flowers, um, replanting native flowers that humming birds feed on.Promoting ecological tourism is another way to help save their habitat. As the number of visitors, eco-tourists who come to humming bird habitats to watch the birds, the more the number of visitors grows, the more local businesses’ profit, so ecological tourism can bring financ ial rewards, all the more reason to value these beautiful little creatures in their habitat, right?But to understand more about how to protect them to support the humming birds the best we can,we’ve got to learn more about their breeding, nesting sites and migration routes, and also about the natural habitats we find there. That just helps us determine how to prevent further decline in the population.A good research method, a good way to learn more, is by running a banding study. Banding the birds allo ws us to track them over their lifetime. It’s been a practice that’s been used by researchers for years. In fact, most of what we’ve known about humming birds comes from banding studies, where we capture a humming bird and make sure all the information about it, like its weight and age and length, are all recorded and put into an international information database.And then we place an extremely lightweight band on one of its legs, well, what looks like a leg, although technically it’s considered part of the bird’s foot. Anyway, these bands are perfectly safe, and some humming birds have worn them for years with no evidence of any problems. Theband is labeled with tracking number, oh, and there is a phone number on the band for people to call for free, to report a banded bird to be found or recaptured.So when a banded bird is recaptured and reported, we learn about its migration route, its growth, and how long it has been alive, its lifespan. One recaptured bird was banded almost 12 years earlier – she was one of the oldest humming birds on record. Another interesting thing we learned is that some humming birds no longer use a certain route. They travel by a different route to reach their destination.And findings like these have been of interest to biologists and environmental scientists in a number of countries who are trying to understand the complexities of how changes in a habitat affect the species in it.LectureNarratorListen to part of a lecture in a film history class.ProfessorOkay, we’ve been discussing films in the 1920s and 30s, and how back then film categories, as we know them today, had not yet been established. We said that by today’s standards, many of the films of the 20s and 30s would be considered hybrids, that is, a mixt ure of styles that wouldn’t exactly fit into any of today’s categories, and in that context.Today we are going to talk about a film-maker who began making very unique films in the late 1920s. He was French, and his name was Jean Painlevé.Jean Painlevéwas born in 1902. He made his first film in 1928. Now in a way, Painlevé’s films conform to norms of the 20s and 30s, that is, they don’t fit very neatly into the categories we use to classify films today. That said, even by the standards of the 20s and 30s, Painlevé’s films were unique, a hybrid of styles. He had a special way of fusing, or some people might say confusing, science and fiction.His films begin with facts, but then they become more and more fictional. They gradually add more and more fictional elements. In fact, Painlevé was known for saying that science is fiction.Painlevéwas a pioneer in underwater film-making, and a lot of his short films focused on the aquatic animal world. He liked to show small underwater creatures, displaying what seemed like familiar human characteristics – what we think of as unique to humans.He might take a clip of a mollusk going up and down in the water and set it to music. You know, to make it look like the mollusk were dancing to the music like a human being – that sort of thing. But then he suddenly changed the image or narration to remind us how different the animals are, how unlike humans. He confused his audience in the way he portrayed the animals he filmed, mixing up on notions of the categories of humans and animals.The films make us a little uncomfortable at times because we are uncertain about what we are seeing. It gives him films an uncanny feature: the familiar made unfamiliar, the normal madesuspicious. He liked twists, he liked the unusual. In fact, one of his favorite sea animals was the seahorse because with seahorses, it’s the male that carries the eggs, and he thought that was great. His first and most celebrated underwater film is about the seahorse.Susan, you have a question?Student 1But underwater film-making wasn’t that unusual, was it? I mean, weren’t there other people making movies underwater?ProfessorWell, actually, it was pretty rare at that time. I mean, we are talking about the early 1920s Student 1But what about Jacques Cousteau? Was he like an innovator, you know, with underwater photography too?ProfessorAh, Jacques Cousteau. Well, Painlevé and Cousteau did both film underwater, and they were both innovators, so you are right in that sense. But that’s pretty m uch where the similarities end. First of all, Painlevé was about 20 years ahead of Cousteau. And Cousteau’s adventures werehigh-tech, with lots of fancy equipment, whereas Painlevé kind of patched the equipment together as he needed it.Cousteau usually filmed large animals, usually in the open sea, whereas Painlevé generally filmed smaller animals, and he liked to film in shallow water. Uh, what else, oh well, the main difference was that Cousteau simply investigated and presented the facts –he didn’t mix in fiction. He wasa strict documentarist. He set the standard really for the nature documentary. Painlevé, on the other hand, as we said before, mixed in elements of fiction. And his films are much more artistic, incorporating music as an important element.John, you have a question?Student 2Well, maybe I shouldn’t be asking this, but if Painlevé’s films are so special, so good, why haven’t we ever heard of them? I mean, everyone’s heard of Jacques Cousteau.ProfessorWell, that’s a fair question. Uh, the short answer is that Painlevé’s style just never caught on with the public. I mean, it probably goes back at least in part to where we mentioned earlier, that people didn’t know what to make of his films –they were confused by them, whereas Co usteau’s documentaries were very straightforward, met people’s expectations more than Painlevé’s films did. But you are true: film history is about what we know about them. And Painlevé is still highly respected in many circles.Section 2ConversationNarratorListen to a conversation between a student and a professor.StudentHi, Professor Archure, you know how in class last week you said you were looking for students who are interested in volunteering for your archeology project?ProfessorOf course, are you volunteering?StudentYes, I am. It sounds really interesting, but er… do I need to have any experience for these kinds of projects?ProfessorNo, not really. I assume that most students taking the introductory level of class would have little or no experience with the archeological research, but that’s ok.StudentOh, good, that’s a relief. Actually, that’s why I’m volunteering for the project — to get experience. What kind of work is it?ProfessorWell, as you know, we're studying the history of the campus this semester. This used to be an agricultural area and we already know that where the main lecture hall now stands, there once were farm house and barn that were erected in the late 1700s. We are excavating near the lecture hall to see what types of artifacts we find, you know, things people used in the past that got buried when the campus was constructed. We’ve already began to find some very interesting items like old bottles, buttons, pieces of clay pottery.StudentButtons and clay pottery? Did the old owners leave in such a hurry that they left their clothes anddishes behind?ProfessorHmmm… that’s just one of the questions we hope to answer with this project.StudentWow, and it’s all right here on campus.ProfessorThat’s right, no traveling involved. I wouldn't expect volunteers to travel to a site, especially in the middle of the semester. We expect to find many more things, but we do need more people to help.StudentSo… how many student volunteers are yo u looking for?ProfessorI’m hoping to get five or six. I’ve asked for volunteers in all of the classes I teach, but no one has responded. You are the first person to express interest.StudentSounds like it could be a lot of work. Is there er… is ther e anyway I can use the experience to get some extra credit in class? I mean, can I write a paper about it?ProfessorI think it’ll depend on what type of work you do in the excavation, but I imagine we can arrange something. Actually I’ve been considering offering extra credit for class because I’ve been having a tough time getting volunteers. Extra credit is always a good incentive for students.StudentAnd how often would you want the volunteers to work?ProfessorWe’re asking for three or four ho urs per week, depending on your schedule. A senior researcher, I think you know John Franklin, my assistant, is on site every day.StudentSure, I know John. By the way, will there be some sort of training?ProfessorYes, er… I want to wait still Friday to see how many students volunteer, and then I’ll schedule the training class next week at a time that’s convenient for everyone.StudentOk. I’ll wait to hear from you. Thanks a lot for accepting me.LectureNarratorListen to part of a lecture in an Art History class. The professor has been discussing the origins of art.ProfessorSome of the world’s oldest preserved art is the cave art of Europe, most of it inSpain and France. And the earliest cave paintings found to date are those of the Chauvet Cave in France discovered in 1994.And you know, I remember when I heard about the results of the dating of the Chauvet paintings, I said to my wife, “Can you believe these paintings are over 30,000 years old?” And my 3-year-old daughter piped up and said, “Is that older than my great-grandmother?” That was the oldest age she knew.And you know, come to think of it. It’s pretty hard for me to really understand how long 30,000 years is too. I mean, we tend to think that people who lived at that time must have been pretty primitive. But I’m gonna show you some slides in a few minutes and I think you will agree with me that this art is anything but primitive. They are masterpieces. And they look so real, so alive that it’s very hard to imagine tha t they are so very old.Now, not everyone agrees on exactly how old. A number of the Chauvet paintings have been dated by a lab to 30,000 or more years ago. That would make them not just older than any other cave art, but about twice as old as the art in the caves at Altamira or Lascaux, which you may have heard of.Some people find it hard to believe Chauvet is so much older than Altamira and Lascaux, and they noted that only one lab did the dating for Chauvet, without independent confirmation from any o ther lab. But be that as it may, whatever the exact date, whether it’s 15,000, 20,000 or30,000 years ago, the Chauvet paintings are from the dawn of art. So they are a good place to start our discussion of cave painting.Now, one thing you’ve got to rem ember is the context of these paintings. Paleolithic humans - that’s the period we are talking about here, the Paleolithic, the early stone age, not too long after humans first arrived in Europe - the climate was significantly colder then and so rock shelters, shallow caves were valued as homes protected from the wind and rain. And in some cases at least, artists drew on the walls of their homes. But many of the truly great cave art sites like Chauvet were never inhabited. These paintings were made deep inside a dark cave, where no natural light can penetrate. There’s no evidence of people ever living here. Cave bears, yes, but not humans. You would have had to make a special trip into the cave to make the paintings, and a special trip to go see it. And each time you’d have to bring along torches to light your way. And people did go see the art. There are charcoal marks from their torches on the cave wallsclearly dating from thousands of years after the paintings were made. So we can tell people went there. They came but they didn’t stay. Deep inside a cave like that is not really a place you’d want to stay, so, why? What inspired the Paleolithic artists to make such beautiful art in such inaccessible places? We’ll never really know of course, though it’s int eresting to speculate.But, um, getting to the paintings themselves, virtually all Paleolithic cave art represents animals, and Chauvet is no exception. The artists were highly skilled at using, or even enhancing, the natural shape of the cave walls to give depth and perspectives to their drawings, the sense of motion and vitality in these animals. Well, wait till I show you the slides. Anyway, most Paleolithic cave art depicts large herbivores. Horses are most common overall with deer and bison pretty common too, probably animals they hunted. But earlier at Chauvet, there is a significant interest in large dangerous animals, lots of rhinoceros, lions, mammoth, bears. Remember that the ranges of many animal species were different back then so all these animals actually lived in the region at that time. But the Chauvet artists didn’t paint people. There is a half-man-half-bison creature and there is outline of human hands but no depiction of a full human.So, why these precise animals? Why not birds, fish, snakes? Was it for their religion, magic or sheer beauty? We don’t know. But whatever it was, it was worth it to them to spend hours deep inside a cave with just a torch between them and utter darkness. So, on that note, let’s dim the lights, so we can see these slides and actually look at the techniques they used.LectureNarratorListen to part of a lecture in an astronomy class.ProfessorNow astronomy didn’t really bloom into the science it is today until the development of spectroscopy.Spectroscopy is basically the study of spectra and spectral lines of light, and specifically for us, the light from stars. It makes it possible to analyze the light emitted from stars. When you analyze this light, you can figure out their distance from the earth, and identify what they are made of, determine their chemical composition.Before we get into that though, it’s probably a good thing to back up a bit. You all know how when you take a crystal prism and pass a beam of sunlight through it, you get a spectrum, which looks like a continuous band of rainbow colors. The light that we see with our human eyes as a band of rainbow color falls in a range of what’s called visible light. And visible light spectroscopyis probably the most important kind of spectroscopy. Anyone want to take a stab at the scientific term for visible light? And I’m sure all of you know this because you all did the reading for today.StudentOptical radiation. But I thought being exposed to radiation is dangerous.ProfessorYes, and no. If you are talking about radiation, like in the element Uranium, yeah, that’s dangerous. But radiation as a general term actually refers to anything that spreads away from its source. So optical radiation is just visible light energy spreading out. OK, so we’ve got a spectrum of a beam of sunlight and it looks like the colors bleed into each other. There are no interruptions, just a band flowing from violet to green, to yellow, to… you get the idea.Well, what happens if the sunlight’s spectrum is magnified? Maybe you all didn’t do the reading. Well, here’s what you’d see.I want you to know this that this spectrum is interrupted by dark lines called spectral lines. If you really magnify the spectrum of the sunlight, you could identify more than 100,000 of them. They may look like kind of randomly placed, but they actually form many distinct patterns. And if you were looking at the spectrum of some other star, the colors would be the same. But the spectral lines would break it up at different places, making different patterns. Each pattern stands for a distinct chemical element, and so different sets or patterns of spectral lines mean that the star has a different chemical composition.StudentSo how do we know which spectral patterns match up with which elements?ProfessorWell, a kind of spectroscopic library of elements was compiled using flame tests. A known element, say a piece of iron for example, is heated in a pure gas flame. The iron eventually heats to the point that it radiates light. This light is passed through a prism, which breaks it up into a spectrum. And a unique pattern, kind of like a chemical fingerprint of spectral lines for that element appears. This process was repeated over and over again for many different elements, so we can figure out the chemical makeup of another star by comparing the spectral pattern it has to the pattern of the elements in the library.Oh, an interesting story about how one of the elements was discovered through spectroscopy. There was a pretty extensive library of spectral line patterns of elements even by the 1860s. ABritish astronomer was analyzing a spectrograph of sunlight, and he noticed a particular pattern of spectral lines that didn’t match anything in the library. So he put two and two tog ether, and decided there was an element in the sun that hadn’t been discovered here on the earth yet. Any guesses about what that element is? It actually turned out to be pretty common and I’m sure all of you know it.OK. Let’s try something else. Any of you happened to be familiar with the Greek word for “sun”by chance?StudentSomething like “Helius” or something like that. Oh it must be “Helium”. So you are saying that Helium was discovered on the sun first.ProfessorYes, and this is a good example of how important spectroscopy is in astronomy.。
大学英语第三册听说教程上机学习大厅听力单元测试答案Unit11
大学英语第三册听说教程上机学习大厅听力单元测试答案Unit 11 - 12Listening ComprehensionDirections: Listen to the short conversations and choose the correct answers to the questions you hear. The conversations and questions will be read ONLY ONCE.SET 11. A. She thinks the man's joking.B. The man needs to have his paper written at night.C. The man should get some sleep.D. The man is wise to stay up all night.2. A. Inside a library.B. On a university campus.C. Outside an art museum.D. Outside a sports center.3. A. 4:15.B. 4:50.C. 5:50.D. 5:15.4. A. The Statue is made of stone.B. The Statue is very large.C. The Statue is very near.D. The Statue is very popular.5. A. Raising the money will be difficult.B. All the students would like a formal ball.C. The needy will organize the festival.D. The festival will begin the term nicely.Answer:CCACDSET 21. A. Forty.B. Forty-five.C. Fifty-five.D. Eighty.2. A. The man's wife liked the game, but he didn't like it.B. The man's wife didn't want to go.C. The man enjoyed the game because it was excellent.D. The game was unsatisfying.3. A. Charm.B. Personality.C. Education.D. Years.4. A. He believes that George will go to school on time.B. He thinks that George will play truant.C. He believes that George will get up before 10 in the morning.D. He is sure that George is joking.5. A. She's careless.B. She's not concerned with Tony's health.C. She doesn't care what Tony said.D. She likes Tony very much.Answer:Listening ComprehensionDirections: Listen to the conversation and fill in the form below with no more than three words for each blank. Theconversation will be read TWICE.SET 1Walt Disney Originally a(n) (1)Ub Iwerks Disney Studio's (2) in 1928 who developed a new character, "Mickey Mouse"Oswald the Rabbit Disney's first successful (3) in a number of cartoon shorts beginning in (4)Newman Laugh-O-Grams First films Walt Disney made around (5)Plane Crazy First Mickey Mouse cartoon released on (6) 15, 1928Steamboat Willie First released on (7) 29, 1928The Gallopin' Gaucho Released on (8) 2, 1928The 7-minute Steamboat Willie Re-released with sound and first shown at the Colony Theater in (9)Considered Mickey Mouse's screen (10) performance and birth-dateAnswer:1. advertising cartoonist2. chief animator3. animal star4. 19275. 19206. May7. July8. August9. New York 10.debutSET 2BRITISH POUND VS EUROGenerally Joining the euro is about handing (1) of economic policy to a European level.The loss of control would be (2) .Politically Chancellor of the Exchequer would be made (3) .We are heavy (4) in every area of European policy-making.Economically Taxes, (5) and how much we choose to spend on public services would be set at European level.Britain and the other non-euro European countries are the best (6) on the continent.In Denmark, (7) % of businesses have said that the vote against the euro has not damaged them in the least.Past Experience Britain's linking the pound to European currencies 10 years ago in the ERM was a national disaster: 100,000 businesses (8) , unemployment doubled and (9) million people found their homes were worth less thanthey paid.Current Situation We are (10) of the European Union and can trade freely in the European single market.Outside the euro, we can still run our economy in Britain's interests.Answer:1. national control2. permanent3. redundant4. hitters5. mortgages6. performing economies7. 808. went under9. 1.75 10. leading membersListening ComprehensionDirections: Listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are True or False. The passagewill be read ONLY ONCE.SET 11. Researchers use diaries, recordings and tests to study children's language. True False2. Emergence of the skills of speech perception appears in a baby's first year of life. True False3. The speaker will talk about research methods, language learning process and will develop some language skillsof the audience. True False4. The speaker will also review some ways in teaching of reading. True False5. The most neglected area of all is children's written language. True FalseAnswer:1. True2. True3. False4. True5. FalseSET 21. European Roundtable of Industrialists supports the European Monetary Union (EMU). True False2. The headquarters of the Association for the Monetary Union of Europe (AMUE) was in Paris. True False3. GDP per person in the poorest areas of the EU is one fifth that of the richest cities in 1997. True False4. The unemployment rate is higher in Austria and Netherlands than in Spain. True False5. The speaker is optimistic about the future of the European Single Currency. True False1. True2. True3. True4. False5. FalseListening ComprehensionDirections: Listen to the passage and choose the correct answers to the questions. The passage will be readONLY ONCE.SET 11. A. Crime films.B. Gangster films.C. Suspense films.D. All of the above.2. A. The deductive ability of the detective.B. The complexity of the crime.C. The cunning of the criminal.D. Witnesses interrogation.3. A. Detective-mystery films emphasize the detective solving the crime.B. The detective in a detective-mystery film studies the intriguing reasons and events leading to the crime.C. The central character in a detective-mystery film usually explores the unsolved crime, and puts an end to theeffects of the crime.D. The detective in a detective-mystery film is usually an amateur.4. A. Intensity.B. Darkness.C. Anxiety.D. Suspense.5. A. A trap or a rope.B. A knife or a pipe.C. Fists or gun.Answer:DADBCSET 21. A. Liberalization.B. Privatization.C. International competitiveness.D. Unemployment.2. A. The amount of mergers in Europe is smaller in 1997 than in 1998.B. The number of mergers in 1998 across countries is the highest.C. The mergers were strongly influenced by the fierce Single Market competition.D. Now the mergers have created a lot of jobs.3. A. 5 percent.B. 20 percent.C. 1 percent.D. 10 percent.4. A. The increase of sales in Europe.B. The decrease of distribution warehouses.C. The increase of markets.D. The improvement of environment.5. A. Globalization.B. Local markets.C. Currency fluctuation.D. Long-distance transportation of goods.Answer:Listening ComprehensionDirections: Listen to the passage TWICE and fill the blanks with the missing wordsSET 1Samsung has received CES 2004 Design and Engineering Innovations (1) for its 4th generation plasma, the HPP5091, a 50-inch Wide Screen HD Integrated-Wireless Plasma TV, due to its large size, great picture quality andparticularly the innovative (2) with wireless technology.In practical terms, the HPP5091 which offers a wireless media box with a range of 30 feet, with built-in NTSC and ATSC (3) , plus A/V, Component, DVI and HDMI connections, is truly a new (4) home theater concept. The HPP5091 is beauty for the eye inside and out, as it (5) superb picture quality with its (6) brightness and excellentcontrast (7) .Samsung also unveils its next-generation audio or videophile DVD players, the DVD-HD841 and the DVD-HD941. Successors to the 2003 CES Innovations Award-winning DVD-HD931, both players use a fully digital (8) to provide high-definition resolution such as 1080i, 768p, and 720p signals, and host advanced (9) such as DVI and HDMI outputs for uncompressed digital video, as well as Faroudja's DCDiTM video de-interlacing technology. Both new models offer increased audio (10) as well, including Super Audio CD (SACD) and DVD-Audio.Answer:1. honors2. marriage3. tuners4. state-of-the-art5. demonstrates6. superior7. ratio8. process9. features 10.capabilitiesSET 2When the euro was (1) for business use in most of Western Europe in 1999, a flood of cross-border mergers was expected to follow, particularly in the financial (2) . It would be easy for banks to achieve significant (3) by expanding through acquisitions across Europe, the logic went, because combining businesses like bond desks or creditcard (4) that used a single (5) would be largely trouble-free.But the (6) of such deal making has taken a back seat to politics, and not just in the financial industries, as national (7) struggled to retain (8) . This year, for instance, a deal between the French-German drug giant Aventis and Novartis of Switzerland was thwarted by (9) , and Aventis combined instead with a smaller French (10) , Sanofi-Synthélabo.Answer:1. adopted2. arena3. benefits4. operations5. currency6. promise7. governments8. dominance9. politicians 10.rivalListening ComprehensionDirections: Watch the video clip and decide whether the following statements are True or False1. Tina doesn't like the people they are visiting from the very beginning. True False2. The visiting family lives across the street. True False3. Tina is a vegetarian. True False4. According to Tom, if there are more than 3 children in the game, they have to play outside. True False5. According to Tina, Dylan likes rough games. True FalseAnswer:1. True2. True3. True4. False5. FalseSET 21. According to the messenger, Leut is coming by train. True False2. Leut has sent the messenger for a woman named Pearl. True False3. In Jesse's opinion, Leut is a liar. True False4. Leut and Jesse are brothers. True False5. Jesse knows that Leut won't shoot him because he's got no gun. True False Answer:1. False2. True3. True4. True5. False。
M3-4 Listening and Vocabulary, Everyday English
lost touch with I regret to say that I have ______________four or five friends since I’ve been at college . _______________. It’s a pity But I’ve changed and they’ve changed too. We just ___________________. don’t click any more I think the reason why Wang as I said earlier is Chaosu and I are still friends , _______________, similar personalities because we have _____________________, and __________________________ we’re both still crazy about sport. ___________________we’ll always be good friends . I It’s my guess that hope so.
1. 200 kilometers away. 2. Keep in touch. 3 Four or five. 4. Because they changed.lຫໍສະໝຸດ etailed listening:
My best friend since the age of eleven was a girl called Wang Chaosu. We metat __________________. secondary school We’d both just started there. I remember meeting her _______________ .I was walking home from for the first time school and she wethe going _____________. So we same way walked home together and ___________ that we discovered got on We with each other lived very near each other. ______________________ immediately. We’re two of a kind ______________,Wang ChaoSu and I – we’re both shared a lot of the same interests quite lively. We found that we ___________________________. She loved all kinds of sport and so did I. We soon became best friends . We used to go around to each other’s houses all the times. Our parents got on very well too.
人教课标版高一英语unit 3 listening
2. Is the owner really angry at the salesman or does he just pretend to be angry? How do you know?
The owner is pretending to be angry at the salesman. Actually, the owner and all of the salesmen feel a bit foolish. The owner is also trying to save face.
1. Go to the bank to put the money in his account He can use it in smaller amounts and not have to present it to shopkeepers who may not accept it.
2. Go for a meal He has not eaten well for several weeks.
3. Listen to the tape again and answer the questions.
1. Why doesn’t the salesman give Henry his change right away? The salesman is shocked after receiving such a huge sum of money.
shop and offer him many suits to buy. 2). They explain that he need not pay until
it is convenient and they will deliver his suits to his hotel. 3). They offer to arrange his hotel accommodation for him.
大学英语第三册听说教程上机学习大厅听力单元测试答案Unit 15
大学英语第三册听说教程上机学习大厅听力单元测试答案Unit 15 - 16Listening ComprehensionDirections: Listen to the short conversations and choose the correct answers to the questions you hear. The conversations and questions will be read ONLY ONCE.SET 11. A. In a laundry.B. In an elevator.C. In a library.D. In a bakery.2. A. Buy a birthday present.B. Wait too late.C. Pass the time.D. Bring some food to the table.3. A. Join her friend.B. Stay inside.C. Sketch the tree.D. Look for a job.4. A. He wrote it last semester.B. He'll finish it in a few minutes.C. He never does assignment early.D. He isn't going to write it.5. A. They are too heavy and she can't carry them.B. They are too heavy and she can't read them all.C. They are too many.D. She feels too tired to read.Answer:BABCCSET 21. A. At a church.B. At a library.C. In England.D. At a theater.2. A. Every day.B. Frequently.C. Occasionally.D. Very rarely.3. A. Buy some paper.B. Do some typing.C. Change the typewriter.D. Ask the woman to type.4. A. He is not prepared.B. He is well prepared.C. He is almost ready.D. He will soon start.5. A. Next stop is New York.B. He wants to go to New York.C. What time the train gets to New York.D. What time the train gets to Philadelphia.Answer:BCAACListening ComprehensionDirections: Listen to the conversation and fill in the form below with no more than three words for each blank. Theconversation will be read TWICE.SET 1EVER FASHION CATALOG OF PRODUCTSItem Catalog No. Quantity Unit Pricerunning shoes (1) 100 (2) $casual shoes (3) (4) (5) $travel bags TB32 (6) (7) $Notes: 1. (8) % discount for orders exceeding $5,000 in value;2. Prices in the catalog stand for (9) days.3. Delivery in (10) days.Answer:1. RS852. 103. CS274. 1005. 306. 507. 1608. 109. 60 10. 28SET 2TIPS FOR BACK CAREDo's Don'tsKeep weight (1) to prevent distortion in the spine's shape. Don't bend to (2) just your spine and back muscles.Always bend the (3) when bending down. Don't bend just the spine when bending down, especially when (4) andchildren.Measure (5) and worktables before buying and check that they are the correct height. Don't delay in (6) if back painis persistent.Take time to choose the right bed that should be (7) , but not hard. Don't use a (8) chair if you spend a lot of time atdesk.Place a (9) or small cushion in the narrow part of your back to support your spine.Exercise (10) so that they give extra support to the back.Answer:1. evenly distributed2. overuse3. knees and hips4. lifting heavy items5. kitchen units6. consulting your doctor7.firm and supportive 8. curve-backed 9. folded towel 10. your stomach musclesListening ComprehensionDirections: Listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are True or False. The passage willbe read ONLY ONCE.SET 11. Many critics think the current welfare regulations contribute to the problem of family dissolution. True False2. Critics argue that all poor families should receive assistance grants. True False3. Most unhappily married couples choose to separate according to this passage. True False4. The benefits and costs of marriage to a large extent affect the formation of the family. True False5. Family performs certain functions which are important to society. True FalseAnswer:1. True2. False3. False4. True5. TrueSET 21. A woman was seen killed by her neighbors yet only a few of them helped her. True False2. It is very easy to tell that you are faced with a real emergency if you see a middle-aged man fall to the sidewalk.True False3. If a person doesn't feel personally responsible, he won't give help to people in emergency. True False4. 80% of the students taking the test alone acted to help. True False5. Americans in a group often provide help. True FalseAnswer:1. False2. False3. True4. True5. FalseListening ComprehensionDirections: Listen to the passage and choose the correct answers to the questions. The passage will be readONLY ONCE.SET 11. A. Many parents have realized that too much stimulation may do harm to the baby.B. Babies are more sensitive than adults to the outside world.C. Psychologists encourage parents to train their babies right from the beginning.D. Many parents have a misunderstanding of the role stimulation plays in the development of a baby.2. A. Too much stimulation can have a negative effect on the intellectual development of babies.B. The more early stimulation we provide, the better effect we may achieve.C. Babies cry or become angry because they are overcrowded with new sensations.D. Babies will always respond actively to the outside stimulation in one way or another.3. A. Shout "enough already! My nervous system isn't quite ready for that stuff."B. Avoid the irritating stimulus.C. Show no interest and fall into sleep.D. Become angry.4. A. Too much stimulation.B. Irritating stimulus.C. Activity that is to exercise the baby's senses.D. Activity to enrich the baby's daily life.5. A. To explain the reason why parents are encouraged to train their babies in their early years.B. To criticize the idea that the more stimulation a baby gets, the better.C. To demonstrate that the less stimulation a baby gets, the better.D. To put forward an idea that too much stimulation can be very upsetting to the baby.Answer:DAACDSET 21. A. Because the boat did not really belong to him.B. Because he should have locked his boat to a tree.C. Because he wasted a good fishing night.D. Both B and C2. A. Because the boat really belonged to the hospital.B. Because he had used the night well.C. Because he had asked for permission to use the boat.D. Both A and B3. A. All the fish should go to the patient.B. The fish should go to the owner of the boat.C. The fish should be destroyed.D. Every part involved should get a third of the fish.4. A. In America.B. In Africa.C. In Asia.D. It's not mentioned.5. A. On a moonlit night.B. On a dark night.C. On a morning.D. On an afternoon.Answer:DBDBCListening ComprehensionDirections: Listen to the passage TWICE and fill the blanks with the missing wordsSET 1A mixed state secondary school has banned skirts because its girls have been wearing them too short.The new uniform regulations at Keswick High School, near Ipswich, require girls to wear trousers to school tostop them turning up for lessons in (1) .The decision was made after (2) with parents, pupils and teachers. The new rules will come into effect inSeptember.Margaret Young, the chairman of the school (3) , said: "Two years ago we sent out a letter to parents asking them to make sure skirts were regulation (4) , which is just above the (5) . The (6) was short lived and it wasn't longbefore skirts were very short again."George Thomas, the school's head teacher, said the ban was necessary because some girls' skirts wereimpractical as well as (7) .Mrs. Young, whose three grandchildren go to the school, said that the school was simply trying to (8) a uniformcode.She said: "Parents might see their daughter go to school in one skirt but they change to another, shorter one, at school or they (9) up the top to make them look shorter. Some are practically pelmets."Teachers waste a lot of time talking to pupils about uniform."Most parents have welcomed the uniform change. "Some have said they were (10) about the safety of theirchildren walking home," said Mrs. Young.Answer:1. miniskirts2. consultations3. governors4. length5. knee6. impact7. immodest8. enforce9. roll 10. concernedSET 2Water problems in the future will become more intense and more complex. Our increasing population will(1) increase urban wastes, primarily sewage. Rapidly expanding industries which involve more and more complex chemical processes will produce larger (2) of liquid wastes, and many of these will contain chemicals which are (3) . To(4) our rapidly expanding population, agriculture will have to be (5) . This will involve ever increasing quantities ofagricultural chemicals. From this, it is apparent that intense steps must be taken immediately to develop correctivemeasures for the pollution problem.There are two ways by which this pollution problem can be (6) . The first relates to the treatment of wastes to decrease their pollution (7) . This involves the processing of solid wastes (8) to disposal and the treatment of liquid wastes, or effluents, to permit the reuse of the water or minimize pollution upon final disposal.The second approach is to develop an economic use for all or a part of the wastes. Farm (9) is spread in fields as a nutrient or organic supplement. Effluents from sewage disposal plants are used in some areas both for (10) and forthe nutrients contained.Answer:1. tremendously2. volumes3. noxious4. feed5. intensified6. lessened7. hazard8. prior9. manure 10. irrigationListening ComprehensionDirections: Watch the video clip and decide whether the following statements are True or FalseSET 11. Nick checked the meat and signed it. It's fresh. True False2. Nikki is supposed to be here to pull Aunt Voula's hair straight. True False3. If nagging were an Olympic sport, Aunt Voula could be a champion. True False4. Uncle Taki didn't wait for Aunt Voula because he was hungry. True False5. Toula's father wants to send her to Greece to find a husband, but she doesn't want to go. True FalseAnswer:1. False2. False3. True4. False5. True。
标准大学英语第四册第三单元Listening
Discriminative Listening
Comprehension
Listening
Critical Listening ️
Identifying sounds,
Understanding the main
spoken messages,
educational stories.
DifferentSources of English Listening
M aterials: Audio, Video, and enline
tesources
Audio Resources
Listen to podcasts, audiobooks, and recordings to develop your listening skills and eSpand
Daily Practice
Auditory Exposure
Audiobooks and Podcasts
Set aside dedicated time
Watch movies, TV shows, or
each day to listen to English
documentaries in English to
insights.
qost-ListeningActivities: teflection,
Evaluation, andFeedback
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teflection ✨
Take a moment to think about what
Evaluation ⚖️
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set goals for future practice.
新目标视听说3unit4in the community答案
新目标视听说3unit4in the community答案UNIT 3 Love your neighbor3-2 SharingPractice 1参考：The people in the podcast mainly talk about how well they know their neighborsand what makes a good or bad ncighbor. Thcy also talk about the best or worst ncighbor they've ever had.Practice 21. block2. a few of3. similar4. quite a lot5. wellPractice 3B DPracticeAGI 4BCFJPractice 51. exist as well2. loud music3. respecting privacy4. participating5. needs help6. considerate7. property8. friendlyPractice 6B A A3-3 ListeningUse the skills 11. l) News site2)Travel site3) Social networking site4) Dating site5) Rating site6) Corporate website7) Blog8) Wiki9) Search enginc10) Photo/ Vidco sharing website2. The websites I use regularly include search engines, news sites, blogs. Wiki aad social rctworking sites. I use these websites almostevery day to get information I need and share things about myself.As to the types of websites such as photo sharing websites and travel sites, I only tisit them occasionally. The websites I never use include rating sites,dating sites, and corporate websites. Use the skills 21. She and her husband started an artists' colony on the Internct.2. She says that it's a very creative kind of community and she and her husband love it.3. Because it's a community of bloggers and no one knows one another personally.4. They have "a following",who are loyal readers.5. She puts up pictures of her and her family and she writes messages.6. At le3-4 ViewingGet a clueHe learns about the tribe's traditions and how they survive. View it 1 E A F B D CView it 2A AB C3-5 Role-PlayingNote them down 1D C B ANote them down 2A B A B ANote them down 3A AB A B A AA B A3-6 PresentingGet ideas 1B AGet ideas 2A B B A B AOrganize ideas参考：1. The people in the Maldives will have to move to a new place to live in, because the place where they are living now will be under water in the future due to global warming.2. Sample presentation will be given in the "Present ideas" section.3-7 Public speakingPractice the skills 11. B: Compared with Sentence A. Sentence B is more specific since it states the name of the position that the speaker is running for.2. A: Sentence A is more vivid than Sentence B because of the use of parallelism. It contains three similar structures. all starting with a question word (i.c. "why", "what", and "how").This makes the sentence more powerful and persuasive.3. B: The language in Sentence B is simpler and more concrete (e.g."set up","sports and reading programs". and "elementary school pupils").4. A: Sentence A has shorter and simpler sentence structures than Sentence B.and hence it expresses the speaker's meaning more clearly. Practice the skills 2参考：1. Repetition. The speake "you want to make sure ..."twice.2. Paraliclism. in this sentence, the three noun phrases after "become" are parallel. with a structure of "article +adjective + noun + prepositional phrasc".3. Metaphor. Metaphor is used in the beginning part of the sentence.i.e."our community is our home"1. illegal2. taking family vacations3. acquaintances4. throwing a party5. verbal6. tolerant7. intervenc8. splits the difference9. resolve10. talk it outNews 1A DNews 2D B3-10 UNIT test短对话D刀He has sotmeone else to take care of his plants. Ensure that nobody puts anything harmful into your drink.3) Her bicycles.引幻The water was running.In the country.长对话句刀89 B. In a classroom at school.B. The man’s brother.D. She thinks he is good looking.A. His brother has a kind and loving heart.10) C. He thinks it's a bad idea,because she'd ruin his brother.短文理解11) C. They have been victims of cyber-bullying.12) B. Receiving lots of junk mail.13) D. Privatc information being shared.14) D. 22%.15) D. A few clicks of the mouse.复合式听写16. winter17. literally18. community19. wider20.siblings21.woods22. explore23.catching24. would run25. golf coursc。
M3 vocabulary and listening and speaking
What should we pay attention when we write a summary?
Activity 1 read the summaries and complete sentences with the correct words ah.
comedy cartoon
2.Children often enjoy
watching this type of film.
3.This will probably frighten
you. horror
Which type of film do you like best? Can you give some examples ( name of the films)? 4.This type of film usually takes place in the future. Science fiction 5.Love is the subject in this type of film. 6.The film describes historical events which are full of adventure. historical adventure romantic
3.______________________ is about a British Master and Commander sailor.
Monsoon Wedding 4.______________________ is a comedy?
The Emperor and the Assassin has a good 5._________________________ review in the film guide.
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Cultural Corner
The Maglev– the Fastest Train in the World
Cultural corner – 1. Extensive Reading
What do you know about the
maglev?
What are the main differences between a
Everyday English – 1.Recalling Recall the conversation and fill in expressions. I: M: I: M: __________, Mary, where were you born? Tell me I was born in London. Really _________? And when did you go to America? In 1934, when I was 19 years old, I went to New York. Is that right I: _____________? Did you travel by plane? of course not M: By plane? No, _____________! We traveled by ship! I: ___________! Goodness
Listening – 1. Main idea Listen to the interview twice and answer the questions in Part 1. Answers: 1. In 1934. 2. 19. 3. By ship 4. She met a lot of people and she went to some parties. 5. By train. 6. Chicago. 7. It was too hot.
How old was she?
How did she get there? What did she do in New York?
How did she get from New York to California?
Where did she stop on the way? What did she think of Los Angeles?
Job
In the 1930s
silent movie actress
make films in America
Pre-listening – 2. Prediction II Try to predict the answers to the following questions.
When did she first go to America?
Everyday English – 3. Filling Use phrases learnt to complete the conversation. I=Interviewer M=Miss O’Dell
I: Miss, _________ ask you some questions? could I M: Oh yes ________ what you want to know about me. _______! Tell me I:Would you mind telling us your favorite sport? _________________ Not at all M: ____________. It’s jogging. I jog anywhere I can. I: ___, _____. Perhaps you think it’s good for your health? Oh, I see M: ____________! Absolutely I: Would you mind if I ask something about your __________________ boyfriend? M: I’m very sorry but I don’t think I’d talk about it. ___________________ I: Never mind! _________________ know where you live? Could I possibly M: Of course. I am now living in London.
Everyday Englise interviewer use these expressions? Is it possible for her to do the interview without them? 2. What do Mary Lennon’s expressions tell you? Can you recall more expressions from the conversation? Interviewer Tell me… Is that right? Oh, I see. Goodness! Mary Lennon Oh yes! Not at all! Absolutely! Definitely!
Listen to the tape and try to put the pictures in the correct order.
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Pre-listening – 1. Prediction I Look at the information form of Mary Lennon. If you are going to have an interview with her, what questions will you ask her? Name Age Birth place Mary Lennon 90 years old England
magnetically levitated train and an ordinary train?
What are the advantages and
disadvantages of the Maglev – the fastest train in the world?