施心远主编《听力教程》3-(第2版)Unit-9答案
UNIT9
Section One
Part 1
Spot Dictation
Celebrations in Australia, Asia Ring in 2010
One of the first major cities to celebrate the beginning of 2010 was Sydney,
Australia. More than a million people gathered along the Sydney harbor to
watch the city's annual fireworks show, set to booming rock music.
Hours before midnight people arrived at Harbor Bridge to stake out good
seats for the 12-minute display. This year's show involved more than 5,000
kilograms of explosive devices.
Other cities around Asia and the Pacific region celebrated with fireworks,
such as Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong.
In other places people marked the New Year without fireworks.
Millions in Japan prayed at shrines for good fortune in 2010.
In Seoul, South Korea, a giant bell was rung.
In China's capital, signs around Beijing cautioned not to light fireworks
within the heart of the city on New Year's Eve.
This did not seem to bother Beijing residents, who say the Lunar New Year is
their traditional time to celebrate with fireworks. This year that holiday is in
mid-February.
Many young people were at bars and clubs in Beijing until the early hours of
the morning. Still others had to work on New Year's Eve. As late-night revelers
waited in the cold for a scarce cab, two men unloaded a truck at a bakery on
Worker's Stadium Road. One of them said he hoped for good health for his
parents in the New Year. His coworker said he hoped to spend the Lunar New
Year with family at his home in nearby Shandong province.
Part 2
Listening for Gist
Unlike air travel, which is regulated internationally, rail travel is in many
cases controlled nationally. The degree of safety of rail travel is therefore highly
variable from country to country, depending on the degree of regulation and the
quality of regulation in the country concerned. In Britain and the United States
rail passenger deaths work out at an average of less than 10 rail passenger
deaths per year. Unfortunately, the rail passenger deaths per year statistics in
the less developed parts of the world are considerably higher than the rail
passenger deaths per year statistics are in the western world.
In the UK over the last 25 years, there has been an average of one train
accident for every million miles run. Because individual trains carry such a large
number of passengers compared with the number of passengers carried in cars,
buses and planes, this actually means that the degree of risk is, comparatively,
one which is almost non-existent.
By far the greatest cause of railway accidents is human error, either in
controlling or responding to signals. Recent improvements in the numbers of
accidents are in large measure due to the introduction of automatic and
computerized signaling equipment. Radio communication systems between
drivers and control centers have also proved influential in reducing accidents.
With the continuing development of radio communication systems and
automatic signaling systems we can look forward to further reductions in what
are already impressively low accident rates.
Directions: Listen to the passage and write down the gist and the key
words that help you decide.
1. This passage is about rail travel safety.
2. The key words are highly variable. degree and quality of regulation:
Britain and the United States. Less than 10 rail passenger deaths per year: less
developed parts. Higher: UK. Last 25 years. One train accident for every million
miles run: cause. Human error: automatic. Computerized signaling. Radio
communication systems. Reduce accidents.
Section Two
Listening Comprehension
Part 1 Dialogue
Adolescence
Interviewer: So, you say Eric's what you'd consider pretty strict but pretty fair?
So, for example, when he tells you to do Interviewer: something
Jora: Well, he's strict and I get angry when he doesn't want me to do stuff. But
afterwards I can almost always see why he said it, y'know?
Interviewer: Yeah.
Jora: And there's only a couple of incidents where, well, that were totally,
y'know, that I didn't understand at all.
Interviewer: Hmm. Not a bad record.
Eric: No. Vh, 'cos I'm sure I've made some mistakes.
Interviewer: Is ... how would you compare your mom? Is she less strict than your
dad? Mm-hmm. Well, she's less strict, but it's, it's like I can't win, y'know? The
stuff that my dad's not strict about, my mom's strict about, and· the stuff that
my mom's not strict about, my dad is. And, well, like my dad doesn't let me see
PG-13* or R movies, but my mom does. She, well, she rents R-rated* movies,
and lets me watch them and all, but my dad won't even let me see PG-13.
Eric: Well, uh, that's not really true. It depends on what it is. My rule with
PG-13 is either I've had to have seen it first or, you know, talked to someone who
I trust ... who's seen it.
Interviewer: So, your mom's looser about movies. Uh, what's she stricter about?
Jora: Chores, junk food, buying me specific things -
Interviewer: When you say buying you things, do you mean-
Jora: Like when we go to the store.
Interviewer: She doesn't want to pay for them?
Jora: She doesn't want to pay for things. She wants me to buy my own friends'
presents, you know, stuff like that
