3册9单元答案和听力原文

Unit 9 Premarital Agreements录音原文Section A11. W: I really feel exhausted after many meetings about quarterly marketing target. Themarketing data makes me sick.M: Why not play badminton or tennis to relax yourself after work?Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?12. W: I’m calling to ask for a leave. My wife will perform an operation this afternoon while herbrother had an accident in the school. I have to take care of them.M: I’m sorry to hear that. But I don’t know how to explain it to my leader.Q: What can we learn from the conversation?13. M: What can I help you? Many new products about body checkup appear in our shelves.W: Thank you still, but I want to purchase a book about health insurance. Could you show me some with discount?Q: What does the woman mean?14. M: You can imagine! We can enjoy the beauty of all scenery in this trip. And the fine foodwould be ready for us in this five-star restaurant.W: That sounds great! I give up fishing with my father.Q: What can we learn about the woman?15. W: The banana pie is charged 2.5dollars every box, two is 4.8 dollars. Would you like to buyone so we can save money?M: I nearly like every pie, but this banana pie looks better than tastes it, I bet.Q: What does the man mean?16. M: Thank you for your book! This is really a good book and I seldom read a book from coverto cover.W: Frankly speaking, I even don’t know what the novel is about.Q: What does the woman mean?17. W: Could you help me, Henry? My mobile phone is flat, and could you help me buy a newcharger?M: Why not repair the old one? The charger is not cheap, is it?Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?18. M: The product is high of quality, and shipment is paid by us. So you will have a real bargain.W: But if you are in charge of loading and unloading, that would be a desirable agreement.Q: What are they doing now?Conversation OneM: Good morning. May I help you?W: I’d like to rent a car, please?M: OK. Full-size, mid-size or compact?W: Full-size, please. What’s the rate?M: 78 dollars a day with unlimited mile.W: How about the mid-size?M: 69 dollars a day with unlimited mile. And how about the insurance?W: This would be fine. And I’d like to have life and accident insurance just in case.M: If you want full coverage insurance, it will be 8 dollars per day. It includes collision damage and personal accident insurance.W: All right. I’ll take it.M: Here is our list of rent cars. Err…mid-size…OK. Please choose a car model in this section. W: How about this red one? Err…This black one is also desirable. Finally, I choose the red one. M: All right. How many days would you like to use it?W: For two days. Oh, no. Sorry, let me check, it’s three days from today.M: I’ll help you register now. May I see your driver’s license and credit card please? It’s essential. W: Yes, it is.M: How would like to pay? If you pay in advance, you can get 1% discount and two-hour-free drive.W: That sounds attractive. I’ll pay in advance.M: Thank you. Please fill in this form. Can you check this box, and put your initials here and again here.W: I’ve done. Thank you for your help. By the way, do you offer repairing service on site?M: It depends where it is. We don’t provide any service on express way or area.W: I see. Bye-bye.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. What are the two speakers talking about?20. Why kind of insurance will be taken by the woman?21. According to the speaker, what essential materials should the woman show to the man?22. Why does the woman decide to pay in advance?Conversation TwoW Can I help you?M Yes. I’d like to borrow the books about economic theory and public administration.W: Just a second. I’ll see if I can find them for you.M: Thanks.W: This is public administration. Here you are. But everything about economic theory was already checked out and I find some about economic principle.M: The economic principle is not what I want. Thank you the same. Could you please help me find new version about economy and law?W: OK. Wait for a few minutes. Is this the book you want?M: No. Not this kind. But I will keep it.W: Don’t account any ounce! I almost find every corner of the library. If you want to borrow some popular book, you have to be here many times. You know, now, fewer books and more students in our college.M: I don’t mean that. Sorry.W: Nothing. You have to return these two books within 30 days.M: OK, I see. But what happens if I’ve not finished reading them within a month, for I need some important information in these books?W: You can come in and renew them unless someone else has reserved them. You can register in the e-library of our school, and you can read every book in the library on-line at any time.M: OK. That’s very convenient, right? Thank you very much.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have heard.23. Which new version of book does the man want?24. Why should one go to the library many times to get a popular book?25. What does the woman suggest the man do?Section BPassage OneA new study shows that India’s leading causes of death now also include obesity-related diseases such as hear disease. India’s current National Family Health Survey shows that more than twenty percent of Indians living in cities are overweight or obese. And in the northwestern state of Punjab, that is true for almost forty percent of women. Why does this happen in India? First, eating is the most important thing in any Indian household and how they show their love and gratitude for a person is through the kind of food they serve him. And the kind of lifestyle that they lead is the main reason why they have every day the number of obese people in India increasing. The second reason is that genetics may play a small part. Researchers say Indians store more body fat per kilogram than Europeans. That means obese Indians are even more at risk for disease related to fat than other people. Doctors say the risk of this disease is crossing social and economic lines. Five years ago, he says, obesity and diabetes were limited to India’s wealthiest people. Now the poorest are also getting heavier. It’s hopeful that the spread of obesity can be slowed. And the schools are giving all Indian children the same instruction on physical activity and diet. The World Health Organization says more and more countries are also moving up in obesity rates, which should be alarmed.Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. How do Indians show their love and thanks to others?27. What is the second reason for overweight of Indians?28. How will the overweight of Indians be reduced?Passage TwoThe expression fireworks get its meaning from the fireworks that people shoot into the sky when they are celebrating a great event. Rockets explode to fill the dark night sky with bright reds and blues, with yellows and greens and whites. People use the expression fireworks throughout the year. But if you live in the United States and want to see real fireworks, the best time of the year is about now. The fourth of July is Independence Day in the United States. Americans traditionally celebrate their nation’s freedom with giant public parties and fireworks at night. In Washington, for example, large crowds gather near the Washington Monument to listen to music and watch a huge fireworks show. In other cities and smaller towns, local people listen to band concerts and watch fireworks explode in a dark sky. In Australia, the city of Sydney begins each new year with a fireworks show at midnight. France also has a great fireworks tradition. A large fireworks show always takes place on Bastille Day which celebrates the beginning of the French Revolution. The French city of Cannes holds an international fireworks competition each year in July and August. In India, people have been using fireworks for more than five hundred years. A great Indian fireworks show takes place during the religious celebration of Diwali, every autumn. Fireworks show are popular around the world and it is traditionally used to celebrate the great events untilnow.Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.29. Why are the fireworks popular when celebrating a great event?30. How do Americans traditionally celebrate their nation’s freedom?31. Why are the fireworks played on Bastille Day?32. What is the passage mainly talking about?Passage ThreeMartin Feldman was a chemistry professor for forty years. He retired from Howard University in Washington, D.C. about five years ago. Mr. Feldman says when he retired he thought he would like to do something he had not done before. Yet, he said, he was not really interested in spending a lot of time as a student in a classroom, writing papers and taking tests. One day Mr. Feldman found a list of classes offered at a college near his home. The college lets people sixty years and older who live in the country take classes. They do not have to pay the normal tuition cost, just the cost of supplies. Mr. Feldman decided to try a sculpture class. It teaches students how to make art out of clay, wood, metal and plastic. And it meets only one day a week. Martin Feldman says he quickly decided he really liked sculpture. So he has continued with the class, experimenting with combining different materials and shapes. Most big universities have continuing education programs that give people who complete them a certificate to prove they have gained new skills. Many smaller colleges offer traditional classes at lower cost and provide other programs for older adults in their area who have different educational needs.Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.33. What can we learn about Martin Feldman?34. What should the old people pay for their colleges when they study there?35. What can we know about traditional classes for older adults?参考答案Part I WritingHow to Deal with Sub-healthWith a sharp growth in the divorce rate, people become more and more concerned about how to avoid the potential risks of their marriages. To make it, some prefer to make premarital agreements before their wedding ceremonies while others still choose to maintain their marriages through their mutual trust. If I were asked to make a choice between the two, however, I would like to attach more weight to the latter than to the former.It is true that the marriage with a prenup (premarital agreement) does ensure a lot of benefits for the family, such as the protection of children from going hungry or the reasonable distribution of financial assets, once divorce is inevitable, but, compared with the marriage based on the mutual trust, it seems less attractive to me. To begin with, the marriage bound up with a prenup throws itself, from the very outset, into an ocean of family worries, thereby leaving little room for the spouses’ enjoyment of happiness their unity brings about. By contrast, the marriage built on the mutual trust always nurtures itself in truth, romance and harmony, thus placing no limit on the spouses’ enjoyment of happiness derived from their intimate exchanges. Besides, the prenup-based marriage l ays bare, in writing or in cold fact, the spouses’ desire or even greed for money, in which context there is no soil in their marriage for warmth to grow on. In contrast tothat, the trust-based marriage always reminds the spouses of the truth that there is something more valuable than money in their marriage, in which case both the husband and the wife would tend to bring forth more love and attraction for each other. And the most striking difference between both lies in their emphases on the post-marriage life. The former couple will focus their life on the material or physical interests whereas the latter couple will center their life around the spiritual or ethical refinements.Part II Reading Comprehension1～7 CBDCABC 8. actual, concrete strategies9. learning about money progressively 10. household’s financial situationPart III Listening Comprehension11～15 DBBDC 16～20 CBACB21～25 ADCCB 26～30 DCAAC31～35 ADCBC36. border 37. candidate 38. territory 39. constantly40. However 41. official 42. proposed 43. disconnected44. Today, it’s economy is tied to a large extent to the oil and natural gas industry45. After the largest oil and gas field in North America was discovered by more and more people46. which directly pumps a billion and a half dollars a year into the state economyPart IV Reading Comprehension47～51 ICJFN 52～56 HGAEK57～61 DCDBC 62～66 CDAADPart V Cloze67～71 CADCD 72～76 AABBA77～81 CBDDA 82～86 ABBCDPart VI Translation87. have maintained close links88. has had disastrous consequences89. sign an agreement before getting married90. stung me bitterly91. was placed firmly on the political agenda。