Unit 1 Starting out
Inside view
Conversation 1
Porter Good afternoon.
Janet Good afternoon.
Porter New student?
Janet Yes.
Porter Welcome to Hertford College.
Janet Thank you.
Porter Can I have your family name, please?
Janet Yes, it's Li.
Porter Er, L-double E?
Janet No, L-I.
Porter And what's your first name, Ms Li?
Janet Janet.
Porter Janet Li... ah yes, there you are. Here are your keys.
Janet Where's my room?
Porter You're in Staircase 6 Room 5.
Janet Who am I sharing with?
Porter Nobody. You have your own room. Er...there's a Ms Santos in the room next to you. Janet Oh. My own room? In China we usually have several people in a dormitory.
Porter Well, here you don't have to share with anyone.
Janet Thank you Sir.
Porter No need to call me sir, Ms Li. Everyone calls me Stewart.
Janet Please call me Janet!
Porter OK, Janet, um, can you just sign for your keys, please?
Conversation 2
Kate Hi, have you just arrived too?
Janet Yes!
Kate I guess we're neighbours. My name's Kate Santos.
Janet I'm Janet Li. Where are you from?
Kate From New York. How about you?
Janet I'm from Anshan in China.
Kate Is Janet your real name?
Janet No, it's my English name. My Chinese name is Li Hui. Is Kate your full name?
Kate No, it's short for Catherine.
Janet So do I call you Catherine or Kate?
Kate Everyone calls me Kate.
Janet Nice to meet you.
Kate OK, Janet. See you later.
Janet Bye!
Conversation 3
Kate Hey! This is awesome! Look at the size of this dining hall.
Janet Is this where we have all our meals?
Kate I guess.
Mark You just arrived?
Girls Yes!
Mark Me too. By the way, I'm Mark. Nice to meet you.
Kate Hi, I'm Kate.
Mark Hi Kate, I guess you're from the States.
Kate Right! How can you tell? You're British, huh?
Mark Yes, I'm from London. And you are ...?
Janet I'm Li Hui. I'm from China. But you can call me Janet.
Mark Hi Janet. Welcome to England. What are you reading? Janet English.
Mark How about you, Kate?
Kate My major is law. And you?
Mark I'm studying PPE.
Kate That's a special Oxford subject, isn't it?
Outside view
Julie My name's Julie Dearden, and I'm the Director of International Programmes here at Hertford College.
Eugene My name's Eugene Berger, I studied here in Oxford for four years er, studying modern languages at Somerville College.
Julie Oh, there are many Oxford traditions. Oxford is a very old university, the oldest English-speaking university in the, in the world. And so there are many traditions which are associated with the colleges, with the times of the year, and with sport, and with eating, for example.
Eugene Each college is very different um, from um, the others, and it has its own character. Some colleges are very conservative, and some are much more
liberal and have a tradition of um, kind of liberal politics. But there are also some specific traditions.
Julie Formal Hall is when we all eat together here in college, the professors and the students. Usually it takes places at seven o'clock in the evening, and the professors sit on high table which is the table over here, and the students sit on common table, which are the tables here. But everybody eats together. It's a
very beautiful evening because there are, there's a special meal and we eat by candlelight.
Eugene I think er, the traditions that make Oxford so unique are firstly the Oxford Union and er, secondly, May Day. The Oxford Union being a debating
society where speakers come from all around the world to address the students and even allow themselves to be questioned by the students, making it a very interesting forum.
Julie My favourite is er, May Day. And May Day is the first day of May, and we have a tradition called May Morning, and on May Morning everybody gets up
very early and the students have a celebration. There is a choir which sings on top of the tower at Magdalen College and all the people of the town and all
the students go to listen to the singing. So it's very nice.
Eugene The tradition that er, was most important to me was probably Summer Eights. I was a rower. And Summer Eights is a rowing competition, held in May
in the summer term. And in this competition, each college is trying to improve its place which it won the previous year and gradually work its way up the
river.
Julie When the students take exams, they must go to a special building and it's called Examination Schools. And also they must wear a special uniform, so they wear .gown like mine, a black gown, and they wear a white shirt, arid the men wear a white tie and black trousers. The women wear a white shirt and a E and they must wear this uniform in order to take their
—black skirt or black trousers. And they must wear this uniform, which has a Latin name - sub fuse
examinations.
I think the Oxford traditions lend character to the place and it's such an old institution, it should have traditions, but they can be very inconvenient. For
Eugene
example, sub fuse. This is the uniform that we are required according to the university rules, to wear.
Julie They also wear flowers in their buttonholes, and those flowers are carnations. And they wear different colours, the students wear different coloured
flowers for different examinations. So when you take your first exam you wear a white flower, and when you take your second exam you wear a pink
flower, and when you take your final examination you wear a red carnation.
Eugene So we have to dress up in a full black suit, starched collar, white bow tie and carry a mortarboard. And to write an exam in the summer heat whilst wearing all that which you're not allowed to take off is um, uncomfortable.
Julie I really like the Oxford traditions, I think it's part of our history, and part of um, being a student or a teacher here at Oxford University.
Listening in
Passage 1
Interviewer Can you tell me something about the Ivy League? You're a professor at Harvard, is that right?
Professor That's right, yes.
Interviewer Tell me how many universities are there? How many institutions?
Professor In total there are eight institutions: There's Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. Interviewer Ah, OK. And what's the sporting ... I believe there's some link with sports.
Professor There certainly is, yes. Originally the Ivy League referred to the sports teams from the universities which competed against each other, especially in football, basketball and ice hockey. Now sometimes these universities, institutions, chose their students on the basis of their skills at these particular sports.
But in the last 50 years, Ivy League schools have accepted a wider range of students because it wasn't possible to be both world-famous for research and
also top class in sport.
Interviewer And what about their academic importance? I gather they're academically very, very important, they're very well-known.
Professor Absolutely at the top. They're near or at the top of the USA colleges and university rankings. And they're almost always in the top one per cent of the world's academic institutions for financial resources.
Interviewer And what does it mean socially to go to an Ivy League university?
Professor Certainly if you've been to one of these institutions, you are presumed or assumed to be at the top end of the scale. The Ivy League institutions have a reputation for social elitism, many of the students are rich, intellectual, white Anglo-Saxon, protestants. Not all of them of course, but quite a lot of them. Interviewer And do you know ... why's it called the Ivy League, what's the origin of the name?
Professor There are a number of stories, derivations, but possibly it's based on four universities, and IV, the letters IV, that's the Roman numeral for four. Another more likely story is that ivy plants, which are symbolic of the age of the universities, you know, would be grown at the walls of these universities,
these institutions, they cover the walls of the buildings. The term was created by a sports journalist, I think in the 1930s.
Interviewer Right, OK. And which is the oldest university?
Professor The oldest goes back to the 17th century, that's Harvard which was founded in 1636. And the youngest of the institutions is Cornell which was founded in 1865.
Interviewer And which has the largest number of undergraduates?
Professor Cornell has the largest number, about 13,000, 13,500 undergraduates. The institution with the smallest number is Dartmouth College with a little over 4,000.
Interviewer And what about the acceptance rate? Is it hard to get into?
Professor That ranges from about seven per cent to 20 per cent.
Interviewer And any famous alumni? Famous old boys?
Professor Hundreds! Hundreds of them. But I suppose worldwide, the two that would be definitely known all over the world would certainly be George Bush who went to Yale, and John F Kennedy, President Kennedy, who was at Harvard.
Interviewer Thank you.
Passage2
Andy Did you see the film on television last night?
Jane No, I was out. What was it?
Andy A Beautiful Mind. It's about John Forbes Nash, the mathematician who won the Nobel Prize.
Jane I've heard about that film, yes. He's played by Russell Crowe, isn't he? I like Russell Crowe, he's great.
Andy That's the one, yes.
Jane What's it about?
Andy Well, the story begins in the early years of Nash's life at Princeton University as a graduate student.
Jane That's one of the Ivy League schools, isn't it?
Andy Yes, it's all set in New England, lovely old buildings, beautiful autumn colours. It's lovely to look at. Anyway, Nash meets his roommate Charles, a literature student, who soon becomes his best friend. Nash admits to Charles that he is better with numbers than people, and the main thing he's looking for
is a truly original idea for his thesis paper.
Jane So he's not interested in having fun?
Andy Well, yes, but he's not very good with people or successful with women, that's all. But, you know, it's one of these bad experiences with people which ultimately inspires his brilliant work in mathematics.
Jane No good at relationships, so he becomes a genius at maths?
Andy That's about right, yes. So when he finishes his studies at Princeton, he accepts a job at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Five years later, he meets Alicia, a student who he falls in love with and eventually marries.
Jane Ah! At last, the love interest!
Andy Yes, but wait a moment. Nash believes that he's been asked to work by William Parcher for the US Department of Defense on breaking Soviet codes. At one point he's chased by the Russians, and it's after this that he becomes mentally ill.
Jane I think I've seen this in the trailer to the film.
Andy So when he's put in a psychiatric hospital, he thinks the Soviets have captured him. He's given this painful treatment which affects his relationship with his wife. And his intellectual skills. So he stops taking the medicine.
Jane It sounds quite hard to watch.
Andy Well, it is, but it's well acted and directed, and so, you know, there's a-bit of distance between the audience and what's happening on film.
Jane So what happens next?
Andy Well, then his illness returns, so he and his wife decide to try and live with it. It all gets a bit complicated, because we're no longer sure if Charles, you know, his old friend, or even Parcher were real, or if they were just people that existed only in Nash's mind.
Jane That sounds awful. He must have been so ill,
Andy Actually, I'm kind of giving away the twist in the story. Anyway, later in his life, while he's using the library at Princeton again, he asks his rival Martin Hansen if he can start teaching again. And so the story ends when he goes on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Jane Well, it sounds like a great film.
Andy Yes, you should see it sometime.
Unit 2 Food, glorious food!
Inside view
Conversation 1
Kate Oh, this looks nice.
Mark Cool.
Waitress Good afternoon, table for three? Come this way.
Mark Let's have a look at the menu.
Mark Thank you.
Janet Thank you.
Waitress The specials are on the board.
Kate So, what sort of food do you like, Janet?
Janet Well, I like spicy food. And I'm not very fond of raw food! What would you recommend?
Mark Why don't you try the chicken curry? That's nice and spicy.
Janet What's in it?
Mark Chicken cooked in tomatoes and onions with Indian spices.
Janet I'll try it. Do we all choose a selection of dishes to share or only one dish per person?
Mark Usually one dish per person.
Kate Or the moussaka looks good. Janet What's it made with?
Kate It's made with lamb and eggplant. It's a Greek dish.
Janet How is it cooked?
Kate It's baked in the oven.
Janet Mm, that sounds good too.
Kate And as a starter?
Janet What's minestrone soup?
Mark It's an Italian soup with vegetables and pasta. It's delicious!
Janet OK, I'll have that.
Kate Waitress?
Waitress What can I get for you?
Kate Well, for the starter, can we have two minestrone soups, and for the main course, one moussaka and one curry, please. What about you, Mark? Mark I'll have the prawns with garlic and the chilli con carne. And could you bring us some water, please?
Waitress OK. Mark Thank you.
Waitress Thanks.
Janet What's chilli con carne?
Mark It's a spicy Mexican dish with beef and beans. It's very hot!
Conversation2
Janet That was great! Except I don't like cold water. I usually drink hot water.
Kate Hot water? We never drink hot water except with tea. Let's have a dessert. What would you like, Janet?
Janet Any suggestions?
Kate Well, why don't you try the apple strudel? It's an Austrian dish. It's made with apple, pastry and spices.
Janet No, I'm not so keen on pastry. ... What's a chocolate brownie?
Mark It's a kind of chocolate cake.
Janet How is it made?
Kate It's made with flour, eggs and butter ...
Mark And lots of chocolate!
Kate You'll love it.
Janet What kind of ice cream is there?
Kate I'll ask ... Excuse me ... What flavour ice cream do you have?
Waitress Strawberry, vanilla and chocolate.
Janet I'll just have a fruit salad, I think.
Mark And Kate, what are you going to have?
Kate Same for me.
Mark Could you bring us two fruit salads, and a chocolate brownie?
Waitress Sure.
Outside view
Voice-over We were lucky to be invited into the kitchen at the Dooky Chase's Restaurant. Leah has been working in the restaurant for over 50 years. She told
us about her life and she explained how to make a simple dish called shrimp Clemenceau.
Leah This is a very simple dish. First you get some shrimp. You can do this dish with chicken or shrimp, but I like it with the shrimp better. So you just brown
a little thing...
Interviewer And, and what's, what's the actual, what's the cooking in?
Leah Butter.
Interviewer OK.
Leah It just cook, so here you get a little cholesterol, but hey, that's it, a little cholesterol. Then you wanna get the garlic. So you see it works two forces. You
get the cholesterol, and then you get a little garlic, cut out on the cholesterol, you see.
Interviewer OK. And where did you, where did you learn all the cooking?
Leah Well, my mother, you know. I'm the top of the line of 11 children, so you get to learn how to cook whether you like it or not. Y ou get to cook that way.
Then here you want to add a little mushroom in here, this is just sliced button mushroom. If you like other mushroom, you can do that, we just saute that in
there. Y ou know, at home, when you, you have to cook, everybody had that turn in the kitchen. So this is a dish that is used in several restaurants, but this is
my own version. Some people do it different than this, but I like it this way, because I like the ... Can you smell the garlic in there?
Interviewer Oh, yeah. Leah Alright?
Interviewer That smell is very strong.
Leah Uha, and then you want to add your peas. It's very, very simple.
Interviewer And did you, did your mum run the restaurant as well?
Leah No, no, my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law had this restaurant before I came in. And she started it in 41. I came in in 46. So, and I added many things.
You have to understand in 41. Now here we can add our potatoes. You see our shrimp is all cooked there.-Just add the potato. Y ou can pre-cook your
potatoes. Y ou can boil them, or in this case, we, we blanch them a little bit. In that and just toss together, and you get one, you get just one casserole like
here. And you can put a little pepper on it. Give it a good dash of pepper. A little salt. It's very simple, but it's a good dish. And as I said, you can do it with
chicken breast or shrimp. You see? Toss it and get it there.
Interviewer And what do you, what do you call the dish?
Leah A shrimp Clemenceau. And I, I really don't know how it got that name, but it's popular in this area. But as I said, some people do it a little different. Y ou
can take wine at this point. Y ou can hit a little wine in there if you like it, but I, I just don't like to kill the taste of the butter and the garlic. I like that a lot.
And you can take the parsley, always parsley.
That's parsley, isn't it?
Interviewer
Parsley. Uhm. And I'm gonna show you something that all Creoles keep in their kitchen. You see you get kind of a like a dull look here. But every Creole
Leah has this paprika in their kitchen. And give it all a dash of paprika. And you get a little color there, you see? A little red color there. And it's very, very simple,
great dish to eat. Not hard to make. You see? And you have a good dish.
Listening in Passage 1If it's a formal meal, maybe Thanksgiving or Christmas, or if you're with your boss or someone like that, you are being careful about your table manners.
Ben
So you'd wait until everyone is served before you eat. But most of the time,, if you know each other well you would just go ahead and start. It's more usual
But campsite. at a in the garden or maybe maybe it shows your hospitality. We have a lot of barbecues outside, entertain to them at home because
sometimes if you don't want to cook, you can go to a restaurant.
Oh, well, after dessert you'll have a little talk, then talk some more, have some coffee. Then you'll say, Oh well, it's time for us, we should get going.
And if you don't then you're probably going to be rude and stay too late.
Well, it would be between 8 and 8.30. It is unusual that if somebody is invited for 8 they would be there at 7.30 or 7.45. Probably 8, or 8.30 would be
Michelle
when all the guests would arrive. It's OK to refuse something if you don't like it, but it might be embarrassing. For example, if I'm cooking dinner and I
feel a bit frustrated that I didn't know before. But usually everyone tries everything.
discover one of my guests is a vegetarian, I'llWell, usually the host serves the guests, so you should make sure you tell him or her not to give you too much, because yes, it's quite important to eat
Tom
everything on your plate. It doesn't matter if you leave something, but if you leave a lot, it will look as if you don't like their cooking.
My mother always told me to put my hands on my lap, under the table when I wasn't eating, and I would be in big trouble if I ever put my elbows on the
table. But actually I know that in some countries that's considered rude. So I might rest my hands or my arms on the table, and I suppose it's a bit more
relaxed today than it used to be when I was young.
No, it's the worst thing you can do if you're eating. Any strange noises are absolutely forbidden. I mean you can say mmm, this is good, but nothing
more than that. And even when you drink soup or eat noodles, you have to do it in silence, otherwise it's considered very bad manners.
Passage 2The government announced today that they are going to ban advertisements for junk food during TV programmes for children under the age of 16.
News-reader
The rules will include any foods that are high in fat, salt and sugar. There will be a total ban on ads during children's programmes and on children's channels,
as well as adult programmes watched by a large number of children. But there will not be a total ban on all ads for junk food which are shown on television
before 9 pm. This was thought to be over the top by representatives of the food industry. The new rules will come into effect before the end of December
39 million in revenue for advertising.
this year, and mean that television channels will lose about ￡So why has the government introduced this ban? We asked leading food and nutrition expert, Neil Bennett. Well, we all know that over the last 30 years, what we call junk food, bad food with too much fat and salt, has become easily available and eating habits
Neil have changed.
However, in recent years many of us have become aware of the importance of keeping fit and eating healthily, and this means people are not going to fast
food restaurants so often. So, the result is that the fast food business has increased the number of ads in order to recover some of the business it's lost.
And how do the fast food restaurants do this?
News-reader
The biggest problem is that they aim their ads at young people. One well-known fast food restaurant chain sells hamburgers which come with a free gift,
Neil
usually a toy which is linked to a new children's film. Other fast food restaurants aim their ads at teenage and college-age men, trying to make their food
trendy and, you know, kind of masculine food.
So a ban on junk food ads will stop the sales of junk food?
News-reader
Almost certainly not, but it might reduce the growth of the fast food industry. Neil
News-reader So you're in favour of the ban?
Neil As a nutritionist, I am. As a father of two young children, I'm not sure.
News-reader Why not?
Neil Because less money from advertising will mean less money for children's TV programmes. So we're likely to see more cheap and violent cartoons, and
fewer programmes produced specially for children.
News-reader So the choice is between junk food and junk television?
Neil Yes, that just about sums it up.
News-reader Neil Bennett, thank you.
Unit 3 Learning to think
Inside view
Conversation 1
Mark Hi, what're you doing?
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Unit 1-Conversation 1**（1）Janet: So this is the Cherwell Boathouse — it's lovely! And look at those people punting! It looks quite easy. Mark: I'm not so sure about that! Janet, there's something Kate and I wanted to discuss with you. Some people in college are organizing charity events this term. We've decided to get involved. Janet: Raising money for charity Right. In China, people raise money for charity but students don't usually do that. Mark: Students often do that here. Anyway, we're thinking of doing sponsored punting. Janet: Sponsored punting! What's that Kate: Sponsoring is when people pay you to do something — like run a long distance. So people would be sponsoring students to punt. Janet: What a great idea! I'd love to join you! Mark: That's why we're telling you about it. So that's decided then. Let's make a list of things we need to do. Kate: I'll do that. One of the first things we should do is choose the charity. Mark: Yes. And choose a day for the event. And we need to design the sponsorship form. I've got one here. Kate: That looks fine, but we must change the wording. Who wants to do that Mark: I'll do that. What have we got so far Kate: Choose a charity. Also a day for the event. Change the wording on the sponsorship form... Um ...
Unit 4-Conversation 1 Kate: So, what did you think of the movie? Mark: It was good but I thought it was too long. Kate: Yes, me too. Kate: Hey, where's my bike? I don't believe it! It's gone! Mark: It was next to mine, you chained it up! Kate: Someone's stolen it! Oh, how could they! Mark: Oh, Kate! Kate: How could someone have done this! The creep! Mark: It's a really mean thing to do, steal a bike. Kate: It was a mountain bike and it cost a fortune —I don't have the money to buy another one. Mark: Listen, I'll go down the street and see if I can see anyone with it. Why don't you go into that shop and see if they've seen anything suspicious? I'll be back in a minute. Kate: OK. Kate: Well? Ma rk: No luck. What did they say in the shop? Kate: I asked the shopkeeper if she'd seen anything — Mark: And? Kate: She said she hadn't. I guess it was a long shot. She advised me to report it to the police. But according to her, bikes get stolen all the time around here.
新视野大学英语视听说教程1听力原文 Unit 1 How's your college life? Lead-in Grammatically, English is not too hard to learn, but learning to speak it fluently is a different story! I think vocabulary is probably the most difficult. There are so many words and phrases for us to learn. I find it takes time and energy to learn it well even though I know "No pains, no gains." Listening Skills 听力原文1: Doris: Good morning. Can I help you? David: Yes. I need to change one of my courses. Doris: I'll see what we can do. What's your name, please? David: My name's David Brown. Doris: Y our first name again? David: David. D-A-V-I-D. 参考答案1: David 听力原文2: Nancy: Excuse me. I want to make sure if I am registered for the new semester of English with Dr. Lang? Doris: Just a minute and I'll check for you. What's your name, please? Nancy: Nancy Leigh. Doris: Is "Lee" your last name? Nancy: No, it's Leigh. L-E-I-G-H. But "Lee" would be easier to spell, wouldn't it? 参考答案2: Leigh 听力原文3: Doris: I'm sorry. But if you need a loan, you'll have to go to the Financial Aid Office before you can register. Nancy: Then who should I see there? Doris: Well, Mrs. Vicky Klein can help you. As a matter of fact, anybody there is very nice. Nancy: Oh, thank you. What is her name again? Doris: Vicky Klein. V-I-C-K-Y, K-L-E-I-N.
Unit 6-Conversation 1 Janet: What are you reading, Kate Kate:Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. Do you know it Janet: I've heard of it, yes, but I've never read it. It's a 19th century children's story, isn't it K a te: That's right. It's very famous. It's set in Oxford. It starts with this young girl sitting on a river bank. The interesting thing is, the author, Lewis Carroll, he was an Oxford professor and he used to have tea with the girl's family on this river bank. Ja net: Oh, that's fascinating! I'll put it into my diary. Kate: Is that what you're writing I know you've been keeping a diary all the year. Janet: It's been a great year. I've had such a good time — so lucky to have Mark and Kate as friends. Feel I've been doing well with work. Much happier about asking questions in tutorials. Janet: My screen's gone dark. Mark: You're using the battery, remember. It's run out, obviously. Janet: It can't be the battery. It's still charged. Oh no it's still black. Oh dear, I hope it's nothing serious. I haven't backed anything up recently. Kate: That's not like you, Janet. Janet:I know, but I lost my memory stick. I really should have backed things up. How stupid of me not to do that! Supposing I've lost everything! Mark: Let me take a look. The power is still on. And also the operating system still seems to be working ... I think it has to be the graphics card ... But maybe that's not the problem ... Janet: If only I'd backed things up! Kate: Relax, Janet! We'll take it to the computer shop this afternoon. I'm sure it'll be OK. Janet: I hope so. Unit 6-Conversation 2 Janet: Tell me about Alice in Wonderland. Kate: I tell you what, I'll read it to you. Kate: Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and having nothing to do: Once or twice, she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation" So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid) ... Janet: Kate, Mark, where are you going You've got my laptop! Kate: It's all right, Janet, we're taking it to the computer shop. We'll be back soon. Mark: It's not like Janet to forget to back up her work. Kate: She should have been more careful. Janet: It was stupid of me, I know! Stupid, stupid! Janet: Oh! It was a dream! What a relief! Kate: You were talking in your sleep. Janet: What was I saying Kate: "Stupid, stupid." M ark: I've sorted out your computer. Janet: Have you Oh, thank goodness! What was the problem Mark:It was the graphics card, as I predicted ... Janet: Is that what it was! I'm so relieved! Thanks, Mark. Kate: He's great, isn't he Janet: Yes. So are you, Kate. Kate: You're such a good friend. Unit 6-Outside view Computers are a very important part of our lives. They tell us about delays to transport. They drive trains, analyze evidence and control buildings. Did you know that 60 per cent of homes in Britain have got a PC (a personal computer) For many young people, playing computer games is their favorite way of spending spare time. Computers are a very important part of most areas of life in Britain-libraries, the police and in school. But they are becoming more important in our homes as well. They’ll even control the way we live-in “smart homes” or computer-controlled houses. The smart home is now a real possibility. It will become very common. A central computer will adjust the temperature, act as a burglar alarm and switch on lights, ready for you to come back home. And of course you will be able to give new instructions to the computer from your mobile phone. So if your plans change, your home will react to match. Many homes have got lots of televisions and several computers. The smart home will provide TV and Internet sockets in every room, so you’ll be able to do what you want whenever you want. If the temperature outside changes, the smart home will adjust the temperature levels inside. The computer will also close the blinds when it gets dark or to stop so much sun from entering a room. And if you want to eat when you get home, the computer will turn the oven on for you! Are computers taking over our lives In a survey, 44 per cent of young people between 11 and 16 said their PC was a trusted friend. Twenty per cent said they were happier at their computer than spending time with family or friends. Another survey found that people in Britain spend so much time on the phone, texting and reading emails that they no longer have time for conversation. What do you think about that Unit 6-Listening in
New Standard English Book 4 Unit 1 Inside view Conversation 1 2. Janet : go back to China,do my master’s (which means going back to university),live in London,become a teacher,work in publishing,apply for a job at London Time Off,update my CV and look for jobs together. Andy: leave London,go to China,look for jobs together. 3. the true statements are 2 and 8. Conversation 2 5. 1.Joe was a gofer before he became a researcher for Lift Off UK. 2.Andy wants Joe’s job as a producer. 6. 1(d) 2(d) 3(a) 4(c) 7. 1 It’s not always very easy working with 2.How did he end up in London 3.the least experienced person 4.He’s good at his job 5.He’s confident and very competent 6.I get on with him quite well Everyday English 8. 1(b) 2(b) 3(a) 4(a) 5(b) Outside view 2. the true statements Samantha agrees with are:1,2,3 and 4. 4. 1.She needs to improve her interview techniques to help her to get a job 2.She doesn’t know how to answer the questions and give answers that might lead her failure in a job interview. 3.She doesn’t understand what the interviewer is actually looking for. 4.That you need to be well prepared for an interview. It boils down to preparation,presentation and understanding what the interviewer is looking for. 5. 1.professional job coach 2.research on the position and the company 3.having not practised with some of the questions 4.how you present yourself 5.what the interviewer is actually looking for 6.preparation,presentation and understanding 7.in relationship to the job 8.some examples in your life 9.dealing with problems 7. the pieces of advice the speakers give are:1,3,5,7,8,9,10 and 11. Listening in Passage 1
新视界大学英语视听说教程第一册听力原文． Unit 1 A new start Inside view Conversation 1 Porter Good afternoon. Janet Good afternoon. Porter New student?
Janet Yes. Porter Welcome to Hertford College. Janet Thank you. Porter Can I have your family name, please? Janet Yes, it's Li. Porter Er, L-double E? Janet No, L-I. Porter And what's your first name, Ms Li? Janet Janet. Porter Janet Li... ah yes, there you are. Here are your keys. Janet Where's my room? Porter You're in Staircase 6 Room 5. Janet Who am I sharing with? Porter Nobody. You have your own room. Er...there's a Ms Santos in the room next to you. Janet Oh. My own room? In China we usually have several people in a dormitory. Porter Well, here you don't have to share with anyone.
Directions: In this section, you will hear several conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. A: How are you getting along, Julie B: After the vacation Much refreshed. A．It is interesting. B．It is tiring. C．It is exciting. D．It is refreshing. A: Why are you so cheerful while I'm so stressed all day B: Well, you should work off your stress. A．work not so hard B．work on easier problems C．eat healthy D．get rid of her stress I see you laughing all the time. B: Oh Eric. I'm ... reading a comic book. A: Comic book I didn't know you are interested in it. B: Well, it's a recent interest. When I was low in spirit three months ago, a friend gave me a comic book to read. And I became instantly addicted to such books. You know ... the pictures are so funny ... now I feel much better. A: I didn't know that. No wonder you are always in good spirits these days. B: Yes, and maybe you should read them, too, Eric. A: I ... I don't know. I'm just too busy with my thesis. It's for my master's degree and time is running out ... Ah, pretty much stress on me. B: Now you see Eric That's why you need to give yourself a break to read something amusing. It helps, I promise. A: Really Can reading comic books reduce your stress B: Of course. I'm a living example. Actually I'm having stress too ... you know, the tests, the job, things like that. But when reading the fun stuff, I just forgot all my worries. Later I find myself more powerful to deal with the issues in my life. A: That sounds magical. I'd like to try. Er ... what are you reading now B: Garfields, the cat. It's good. There's another one and you can borrow it. A: Oh, thank you, Penny. You're very helpful. Questions 3 to 5 are based on the conversation you have just heard. months ago, a friend gave Penny _____ when she was in low spirits. （岭师分享群4发布） A．a flower B．a comic book C．a comic DVD
新标准大学英语视听说教程3答案 Unit 1 Outside view: Activity 1 Correct order: 3, 5, 4, 1, 2 Unit 1 Outside view: Activity 2 Question 1 Key: b Question 2 Key: c Question 3 Key: c Question 4 Key: a Question 5 Key: a Unit 1 Outside view: Activity 3 Row 1: 2 Row 2: 1 Row 3: 4 Row 4: 1 Row 5: 2 Row 6: 1 Row 7: 3 Unit 1 Outside view: Activity 4 Correct order: h, c, b, f, d, a, e, g Unit 1 Listening in: Passage 1 Activity 1 Question 1 Key: c Question 2 Key: d Question 3 Key: a Question 4 Key: b Unit 1 Listening in: Passage 1 Activity 2 Question 1 Key(s): (1) tolerant (2) rounded Question 2 Key(s): (1) close to (2) stand up Question 3 Key(s): (1) beauty (2) generosity Question 4 Key(s): (1) an opportunity (2) beyond the one Question 5 Key(s): (1) behaved (2) selfish Question 6 Key(s): (1) pretend (2) see through Question 7 Key(s): (1) arrived in (2) had to help Ques Key((1) time (2) amou Unit 1 Listening in: Passage 2 Activity 1
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新编大学英语（第三版）视听说第二册答案+原文 Unit One Love Part 1 Listening, Understanding and Speaking Listening I Exercise 1 1)gaze 2)sighs 3)touch 4)hugs 5)such 6)words 7)praises 8)understands 9)lends 10)holds Scripts: A Mother's Love You can see it in her eyes— in her gaze and in her sighs. It is a mother's love. You can feel it in her touch— in her tender hugs and such. It is a mother's love. You can hear it in her words— in her praises and bywords. It is a mother's love. She cares. She understands. She lends an ear and holds our hands. She gives us a mother's love. Listening II Exercise 1 1)B 2)B 3)A 4)D 5)C Exercise 2 a lot of garbage; came up all over the city; raw sewage and it smelled; became suburban sprawl with very little planning; the NRDC; Board of Trustees; New England; join the cause of protecting the environment Scripts: For more than four decades, John Adams has fought to defend the environment and empowered individuals in the U.S. and around the world to join the cause. Adams is cofounder of the National Resources Defense Council, the NRDC, the nation’s first law firm for the environment. “Defending the environment,” John Adams says, “is personal.” “When you care about something, like the environment, it does become a passion,”he says. “It becomes your life. I grew up on a small-town farm in the Catskill Mountains of New York. It was a wonderful place to grow up. I loved it.”
Unit 1 Starting out Outside view Julie My name's Julie Dearden, and I'm the Director of International Programmes here at Hertford College. Eugene My name's Eugene Berger, I studied here in Oxford for four years er, studying modern languages at Somerville College. Julie Oh, there are many Oxford traditions. Oxford is a very old university, the oldest English-speaking university in the, in the world. And so there are many traditions which are associated with the colleges, with the times of the year, and with sport, and with eating, for example. Eugene Each college is very different um, from um, the others, and it has its own character. Some colleges are very conservative, and some are much more liberal and have a tradition of um, kind of liberal politics. But there are also some specific traditions. Julie Formal Hall is when we all eat together here in college, the professors and the students. Usually it takes places at seven o'clock in the evening, and the professors sit on high table which is the table over here, and the students sit on common table, which are the tables here. But everybody eats together. It's a very beautiful evening because there are, there's a special meal and we eat by candlelight. Eugene I think er, the traditions that make Oxford so unique are firstly the Oxford Union and er, secondly, May Day. The Oxford Union being a debating society where speakers come from all around the world to address the students and even allow themselves to be questioned by the students, making it a very interesting forum. Julie My favourite is er, May Day. And May Day is the first day of May, and we have a tradition called May Morning, and on May Morning everybody gets up very early and the students have a celebration. There is a choir which sings on top of the tower at Magdalen College and all the people of the town and all the students go to listen to the singing. So it's very nice. Eugene The tradition that er, was most important to me was probably Summer Eights. I was a rower. And Summer Eights is a rowing competition, held in May in the summer term. And in this competition, each college is trying to improve its place which it won the previous year and gradually work its way up the river. Julie When the students take exams, they must go to a special building and it's called Examination Schools. And also they must wear a special uniform, so they wear E.gown like mine, a black gown, and they wear a white shirt, arid the men wear a white tie and black trousers. The women wear a white shirt and a black skirt or black trousers. And they must wear this uniform, which has a Latin name - sub fuse — and they must wear this uniform in order to take their examinations. Eugene I think the Oxford traditions lend character to the place and it's such an old institution, it should have traditions, but they can be very inconvenient. For example, sub fuse. This is the uniform that we are required according to the university rules, to wear. Julie They also wear flowers in their buttonholes, and those flowers are carnations. And they wear different colours, the students wear different coloured flowers for different examinations. So when you take your first exam you wear a white flower, and when you take your second exam you wear a pink flower, and when you take your final examination you wear a red carnation. Eugene So we have to dress up in a full black suit, starched collar, white bow tie and carry a mortarboard. And to write an exam in the summer heat whilst wearing all that which you're not allowed to take off is um, uncomfortable. Julie I really like the Oxford traditions, I think it's part of our history, and part of um, being a student or a teacher here at Oxford University. Listening in Passage 1 Interviewer Can you tell me something about the Ivy League? You're a professor at Harvard, is that right?