大学英语听说第五册答案(上海外语教育出版社版)

[00:23.29]Recently the trend of pop stars wearing less clothing to promote their images has caused quite a stir.
[00:30.70]Will the sexy image help artists gain more popularity or lose existing fans?
[01:13.06]Mothers looked to her as a role model for their daughters.
[01:16.68]As she gained popularity she decided to reinvent herself with every album.
[00:48.77]On the cover of Rolling Stone Spears appears topless, and on the cover of Esquire,
[00:55.64]she's wearing nothing but a suit jacket.
[00:58.17]She is following along the path of other pop stars whose magazine covers
[02:38.78]She says she feels comfortable in her skin.
[02:41.63]She thinks it okay to express oneself, and be the way they want to be.
[02:46.46]Despite the criticisms, some people feel that Spears will be around for years to come.

UNIT 1Strangers1. The stranger looked at me skeptically for a few minutes and then drove away from the parking lot without a word.2. Though she's studied in a foreign language university for several years, she is a stranger French.3. The little boy felt strange amid so many foreign children.4. It seems odd that John could afford a new BMW,for he was laid off from his job a year ago.5. She was very curious about the way he counted the votesafter the election for school president.6. My curiosity as well as anger rose as I watched him flip through the letterson my desk in his nosy way.7. It is quite indifferent to me whether you agree or disagree with the argumentthat men are born evil.8. It's queer indeed that a stranger offered me a cup of teawhen I was thirsty on the train during the journey.9. The new regulations imposed by the police are very unusual and it will take time to get used to them.10. That newspaper is notorious for giving biased accounts.11. The old lady always slept under the bed with her clothes on,and this eccentric habit of hers actually saved her lifewhen an earthquake struck abruptly one night.12. Too many people, especially young people,like to use screen names to chat online.13. Though you can not tell how old your pal(伙伴) in an Internet room is,more often than not you can tell whether the chatter is a male or a female.14. Talkative persons are dangerous, for they have no secrets about themselves and keep no secrets of others.15. I like easy-going people and feel relaxed when talking to them. The monitor, for example, acts and thinks in one and the same way.16. Speech is silver, but silence is gold.17. Facial expressions are very important. We sometimes can tell from the way a stranger talks whether he or she is trustworthy or not.18. Instant Messaging(即时信息), or "IM," is a new phenomenon that has rapidly grown in popularity around the world in just a few years. Some experts now believe that IM may be one of the most popular computer applications ever.19. IRC, or Internet Relay Chatting, has become very popularity on the World Wide Web, for it enables people from different part of the world to talk to each other via the Internet.20. MSN is a collection of Internet sites and services provided by Microsoft.Microsoft used the MSN brand nameto promote numerous popular Web-based services in the late 1990s,most notably Hotmail and Messenger,before reorganizing many of them in 2005 under another brand name, Windows Live.Some of the MSN services affected by the rebranding included MSN Hotmail,which became Windows Live Hotmail;MSN Messenger, which became Windows Live Messenger;MSN Search, which became Live Search, now known as Bing.QQ is a popular instant messaging system that is commonly used in China and the Asia-Pacific. It enables real-time communication between PCs, mobile phones and pagers. Perhaps it is one of the best ways to develop contact in China.21. Tencent QQ, generally referred to as QQ,is the most popular free instant messaging computer program in mainland China.It enables real-time communication between PCs, mobile phones and pagers.The number of simultaneous online QQ users exceeded 100 million on March 5, 2010.It is reported that the number of registered QQ users in China has exceeded 7 million. On February 18th, 2003 alone, the number of QQ users online was 295063.22.Skype is a popular chatting program on the Internet.The Skype communications system is notable for its broad range of features,including free voice and video conferencing,its ability to use peer to peer technology(点对点网络技术) to overcome common firewall(防火墙)and network address translation problems.Mobile QQ is a service that seamlessly allows the customer’s PC-based instant messaging service to become integrated with his or her mobile phone, allowing the customer to stay in touch with PC-or mobile-based contacts from just about anywhere.UNIT 2UFOs1. UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object. Some people also call UFOs flying saucers,because their shapes look like saucers.2. In its broader sense, the UFO includes any object or light, reportedly sighted in the sky, that cannot be immediately explained by the observer.3. I remember as a child, I would save every penny my mother gave me to buy the latest UFO magazines from the grocery store.4. We cannot deny the existence of the UFO phenomenon simply because we have not seen it or cannot explain it.5. Science has its limitations and many mysteries throughout the world have remained unsolved.6. Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times.7. The early cave paintings and ancient scriptures(经文) seem to indicate that we may have had visitors from other worlds or planets in the past.8. In fact, ancient scriptures from many different cultures would give us the impression that we've had visitors from outer space.9. How do you explain ancient tales of chariots(战车) from the sky? And what are the flying ships appearing in science fiction novels before the first plane was ever thought about?10. Even the Bible has been suggested as possible evidence of alien contact,for its numerous accounts of objects in the sky, and other strange events.11. What secrets lie with ancient Egypt, Stonehenge(Salisbury),or possibly even Atlantis ?Have there indeed been more advanced civilizations of man that have somehow been lost?12. Some UFO enthusiasts even claim to have been abducted and taken aboard UFOs.But so far, no one has produced scientifically acceptable proof of these claims.13. Some people believe that UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft,even though no scientifically valid evidence supports that belief.14. Scientists speculate that intelligent life may well exist elsewhere in the universe.15. In addition to many reports and sightings of UFOs,observers have provided photographs or even videos.16. UFOs became widely discussed only after the first widely publicized US sighting in 1947.Many thousands of such observations have since been reported worldwide. 17. From 1947 to 1969 the US Air Force investigated UFOs as a possible threat to national security.18. The UK Ministry of Defence recorded 634 UFO sightings in 2009,the second highest annual total after 1978, when there were 750,according to UFO expert Dr David Clarke.The UK Ministry of Defence recorded 634 UFO sightings in 2009,the second highest annual total after 1978, when there were 750,according to UFO expert Dr David Clarke.A total of 12618 reports were received ,of which 701 or 5.6 percent were listef as unexplained.19.UFOs have been subject to investigations over the yearsthat vary widely in scope and scientific ernments or independent academics in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom,Japan, France, Belgium, Sweden, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, and the Soviet Unionare known to have investigated UFO reports at various times.UFOs have been subject to investigations over the yearsthat vary widely in scope and scientific ernments or independent academics in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom,Japan, France, Belgium, Sweden, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, and the Soviet Unionare known to have investigated UFO reports at various times.Since 1959 no agence of the us government has had any active program of ufo investigation.20. In 1997 the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) admitted that the US military had deceived the American publicin an effort to hide information about high-altitude spy planes.21. At least 90 percent of UFO sightings can be identified as conventional objects, although time-consuming investigations are often necessary for such identification. 22. The objects most often mistaken for UFOs are bright planets and stars, aircraft, birds, balloons, kites, aerial flares, peculiar clouds, meteors, and satellites.UNIT 3Part A1. We are living in an era of globalization.Overseas study has become popular in many countries.We are living in an era of globalization.2. Each year, over one million students worldwidechoose to study outside their own countries.3. More than 195,000 students from 188 countriesand regions came to study at more than 500 Chinese universities, colleges and research institutes in 2008.This compares with 141,000 students from 179 countries and regions in 2005.4. Meanwhile, the number of American students studying abroadhas more than doubled in the last decade.5. Recent reports by Britain and the US indicatethat China ranks first in the number of studentswho have gained doctorate degrees in the two countries.6. According to a government report,overseas students from China are largely self-funded.7. The number of high school and even primary school students going abroad has been increasing recently.8. Rapid domestic economic growth makes it more affordablefor Chinese students to study abroad.9. The process of application has become easiersince many intermediate agencies were founded to help students.10. In the age of a global economy,your experience abroad distinguishes you from others and becomes an excellent résumé builder.11. The first group of foreign students came from East Europe in 1950. Since then over 60,000 students from 160 countrieshave come to China for further studies.The first group of foreign students came from East Europe in 1950. 12. China is politically stable and economically optimistic,which is the main reason why so many foreign students are attracted.13. People living together in a society share a common culture.For example, almost all people living in the US use the English language, dress in similar styles, eat many of the same foods,and celebrate many of the same holidays.14. Exchange can provide many benefits for all societies.Different societies can exchange ideas,people, manufactured goods, and natural resources.15. International education improves the relations among peoples of different culturesand encourages cross-cultural communication.16. Culture shock is the anxiety and feelings of surprise, disorientation, uncertainty, confusion, etc.felt when people have to operate within a different and unknown culture such as one may encounter in a foreign country.17. Culture shock grows out of the difficulties in assimilating the new culture,causing difficulty in knowing what is appropriate and what is not. This is often combined with a dislike for,or even disgust (moral or aesthetic) with certain aspects of the new ordifferent culture.18. Culture shock is something that many international students experiencein the course of adjusting to a new culture.19. Many things may bring about culture shock —different foods and waysof eating,different learning and teaching methods,the peculiar attitudes of people in a certain place, etc.20. According to the Chinese Ministry of Education,Chinese students are currently studying in more than 100 countries. The top five destinations are the US, Japan, the UK, Canada and Australia. Non-English-speaking countries like Italy,Germany and France are also becoming popular destinations.21. Across the country, a total of 98,510 Chinese graduate and undergraduate studentswere enrolled at US institutions in the 2008-2009 academic year, meaning that roughly 15 percent of international students were from China. These numbers also signify a staggering 60 percent increasefrom the previous academic year in the number of Chinese students studying abroad in the US.22. Official statistics show that from 1978 to the end of 2005, Chinese students studying abroad are over 930,000 and 230,000 of them are employed in China upon return,an evidence that the policy of encouraging studentsand scholars to study abroad is very successful.23. There is a whole emerging middle class of Chinese,well over 300 million, many of them with one-child familieswho are interested in sending their son or daughterabroad for higher educational experience.24. International students and their families contributemore than $15 billion annually to the US economy,according to a separate survey by NAFSA(美国国际教育工作者协会).UNIT 4Laughter: the Best Medicine1. Humour is the tendency of particular cognitive(认知的) experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.2. People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. The majority of people are able to experience humour, i.e., to be amused, to laugh or smile at something funny, and thus they are considered to have a sense of humour.3. Though there are many ways to laugh, from giggles to guffaws(大笑) andfrom chuckles to cackles(咯咯的笑), it turns out that we humans laugh at the strangest things.4. Laughter is rightly called the best medicine as it relieves not only the one who laughs, but all those around him too.5. A healthy sense of humour helps you to laugh at the worst situations and above all at yourself, a very positive sign of a happy life.6. The world is certainly not worth crying over and little jokes show us the funny side of the gravest things.7. A sense of humour makes you more acceptable in society. It makes you welcome everywhere, especially at parties, picnics and social gatherings.8. If you can use humour to bridge the gap between people from different backgrounds, you can learn how to use diversity to enhance business objectives.9. Laugh and make others laugh and get rid of nervousness and depression.A man who always sees the funny side of a situation can never be a pessimist10. If you can learn to relax with a sense of humour you can keep away boredom and fatigue job pressures and domestic worries.11. It is proved that laughter enhances the level of hormones which stimulate the heart and act as natural pain-killers.12. As a Chinese saying goes, "A smile can make you ten years younger." Doctors say laughter removes stress, burns calories and improves one's digestion.13. Laughing at yourself is of immense benefit for your puffed-up pride. If you learn to laugh at yourself it will ease all your tensions and worries.14. Laughter has been known to have cured serious illnesses and helped people get over bad phases in their lives.15. Science has proven that when we're happy, the body recovers more quickly from the biological arousal of upsetting emotions.16. Adults laugh approximately 15 times per day, while children laugh about 400 times a day! When we grow up, somehow we lose a few hundred laughs a day.17. People believe that if they try to be funny and no one laughs, something terrible and embarrassing will happen.18. The problem is that I tell a joke to co-workers and no one laughs. Now every time I see a straight face I have a panic attack.19. We now know that there are two types of stress: good stress and bad stress. Laughter is a form of good stress, or stress in reverse.20. Research on stress has shown that bad stress suppresses your immune system while good stress, or laughter, improves the immune system.21. Being unhappy or very sad can seriously damage your health. So don't worry, be happy and laugh!22. As the highest emotion, laughter is magical. It is an inner human tool that can be used to respond to any situation with power and grace. Cultivate a habit of smiling at the neutral, the tragic, and the horrible. Find laughter in tears. This cultivates not only physical and psychological health, but also a happier and friendlier personality.Unit 5Neighbours1. Good fences make good neighbours. This proverb means that good neighbours respect one another’s property. As long as neighbours mindtheir own business, they will get along fine. Good farmers, for example, maintain their fences in order to keep their livestock from wandering onto neighbouring farms.2. Jack and I have been roommates and friends for four years. We have been through many experiences together, learning and playing together, and there seems to be no border between us.3. Difficult neighbours refer to those who are not easy to get along with, to deal with or to put up with, when a dispute arises.4. The Bible says: “Love thy neighbour.” But in real life situations, loving one’s neighbour as oneself can be very difficult.5. We build fences to keep our dog in our own yard and not in our neighbour’s. Folks well off enough to have a swimming pool build a fence around it to keep outsiders out — and safe.6. But we build too many fences and walls — walls in our personal lives,walls in our churches, walls in our community and nation. So we have walls of hostility, anger, judgment, indifference, and isolation.7. A warm and cordial relationship between neighbours can greatly increase the chances of a peaceful resolution. A warm and cordial relationship between neighbours can greatly increase the chances of a peaceful resolution.8. Some people say that good fences make bad neighbours and others say good lawyers make bad neighbours.9. There might be a time when you share a room with another person. Keep in mind that unfamiliar situations and stress will cause a person to act differently.10. It is true that we all need to be good roommates. Students and residents need to respect each other, in and out of the university.11. Being a good neighbour means working together to win together. Helping your fellow neighbour without expecting something in return is being a good neighbour.12. A 60-year-old woman was arrested last week and charged with attempted murder, for she poisoned a dog of her next-door neighbour.13. A man lived in a house that was separated from a next-door neighbour by a hedge. He allowed the hedge to grow to a towering height, blockingout all the sun in the neighbour’s yard. The neighbour tried to communicateabout the problem, but was met with a wall of silence and quickly closed doors.14. My father is being sued by his neighbour for building up a 6-foot-tall wood fence between his neighbour’s property and his own. There was anexisting 4-foot-tall wood fence, but my father decided to tear that down and put up a new one. The result is: good fences make bad neighbours.15. My housemates and I were fined $70 last month because there was trash in front of our house. The worst part about it is that it wasn’t our trash.16. My next-door neighbour is not only mean but noisy; she often plays her stereos loud enough to wake up the whole community.17. A man known as the “most annoying neighbour” went before a jury for the first time last Tuesday on charges of littering in his home’s yard.Neighbours have complained about the piles of junk and rats in his yard for more than 10 years.18. When some neighbours complained about the loud noise that my classmates made on weekends, the university quickly adopted a new noise policy that restricted some traditional events held on weekends. 19. There are good neighbours and bad neighbours, both students and non-students, that live around the campus. I am not trying to say that our neighbours are bad or mean, just that the university should not always take their side.20. Every year in the US, the Good Neighbour Awards are given to about 2,000 winners who have made extraordinary commitments to improving the quality of life in their communities.21. We hope to show the world the neighbour’s virtues and to inspire peoplearound the country to contribute to their communities.22. Indonesia and Australia are neighbours, whether we like it or not. Between neighbours, there are always ups and downs. Sometimes we have very good and excellent relations and at other times we may have some problems— this is just normal between neighbours.Unit6Find keepers1.“Finders keepers, losers weepers” means a person who finds somethingcan keep it,and the loser has no right to it.Today this proverb is of dubious ethical merit.2. “Finders keepers, losers weepers” is believed to be an old Scottishproverband while it may be common in some places,it is not law.It is folk wisdom.3. According to a legal casebook,the principle that the finder of an object has the propriety right against the true owner goes back to an English case in 1722.4. In most instances,the principle of “Finders keepers”translates into victory for thefinder,simply because no one else can demonstrate true ownership to the satisfaction of a court.5. In a hospital in Taiwan,Mr. Wang, a devout Buddhist, found a wallet on top of a payphone.He promptly took it to the reception desk.When asked why he did that, he simply said:“It is my duty and belief that made me do it.”6. Robert, aged 44, from Glasgow, had no thought of hanging on to the wallet he found,despite living on income support.He said: “I am a miner’s son and was a Sunday school teacher.Honesty is second nature to me.”7. A wallet was spotted by a boy out shopping with his mother and sister in Thailand.The mother quickly stuffed the wallet into her trousers,grabbed both children and hurried to catch a bus.8. Shannon Hill was a student in North Carolina,doing three jobs to pay for her tuition, food and rent.When she found a wallet, her first thought was, I could really use this money.But then she saw a picture of a baby in the wallet and changed her mind. Someone else needed it more, she thought.9. Andrew, 26, a TV production student in Glasgow,had just ￡10 to buy food for the week.Yet when he found a watch in a supermarket, he went to hand it in.He explained: “It might have sentimental value.I lost my watch and never got it back.”10. Mary, a little girl in a pink floral dress,found a wallet on a bench in a Seattle amusement park.She ran to her father, who immediately handed it back to her.“You must take this to someone who can help find the owner,” he said.“You must take this to someone who can help find the owner,” he said.The nine-year-old took her dad’s hand and they went off to find the parkoffice.11. In some countries,if you pick up a wallet containing a handsome amount of money that does not belong to you,and you keep it, you won’t really be prosecuted.But your action is considered by many as a theft.12. A lawyer explains that a person is guilty of theftif he dishonestly takes property belonging to anotherwith the intention of permanently depriving the other of it.13. People argue that if you believe that keeping the money you find is acceptableand other people would do the same, then you are not dishonest.14. A lost and found (American English),or lost property (British English) office,is one in a large public buildingor area where visitors can go to retrieve lost articlesthat may have been found by other visitors.15. Frequently found at museums, amusement parks and schools,a lost and found office will typically be a clearly-marked boxor room in a location near the main entrance.16. Some lost and found offices will try to contact the owners of any lost itemsif there are any personal identifiers available.Practically all will either sell,give or throw away items after a certain period has passed to clear their storage.17. Lost and found offices at large organizations can handle a large and varied collection of articles.Transport for London’s lost property offices (which handle items lost on the city’s tube,buses and taxis) handles over 130,000 items a year,including 24,000 bags and 10,000 mobile phones.18. In China, the law clearly stipulatesthat lost property should be returned to its rightful owner.Those who find a misplaced article should inform the owner or the person who lost it,or hand it in to relevant authorities, within 20 days of the property being found.19. Those who offer a reward for returned property should pay up as agreed. Lost property reverts to the State if nobody claims it.But some people say it goes against the traditional Chinese virtue of“returning to the owner what one has picked up (拾金不昧).”20. Some Chinese finders feel it is their right to keep property of little value.For more valuable property they thinkthey have the right to claim a certain amount as a handling fee,and would expect to receive a reward.21. A young security guard from the countryside, who earned only 300 yuana month,found a wallet containing 80,000 yuan in cash and other valuables whilst on duty,and took the trouble to return the wallet to its owner.The young man refused to accept the 5,000-yuan reward offered by the owner.22. The website is a research tool which allows you to find people,things or information through a system of classifieds.Because of its easy and ambitious principle, allows you to find anyone or anything, anywhere.UNIT 7The Skeptical Mind1. Having a skeptical mind means keeping an open mind and basing your beliefs far as possible, on the total available evidence.2. You believe that everything is “explainable” in principle, and the only difference between a miracle and a natural phenomenon is that you are not able yet to explain the former in natural terms.3. Skepticism is essentially a way of evaluating other people’s beliefs and forming your own.4. Skeptics believe that in matter of the intellect, we ought to follow our reason so far as it is possible.Skepticism does not necessarily preclude belief in God or an afterlife. It may be true that most skeptics are atheists and doubt the possibility of an afterlife.5. It is a mistake to think that we ought to either believe in God or not believe in God because of the psychological benefits of doing so.缺少6789. Being a skeptic means being a mature adult who take responsibility for his or her own life and who makes his or her own judgement.10. Sometime people’s opinion are influenced by the media and by what is said over and over again.There are few filter that separate reliable information from false and misleading data.11. The Internet is quickly growing into the largest and most complex web of information our world has ever known.12. We are presented with piles upon piles of ideas, claims and unusual phenomenawithout a tool kit to help us sort out the good from the bad.13. Skepticism is a primary tool of science, but unbridled disbelief is a threat to the development of science.14. However, it must be admitted that our actual knowledge of natural laws is imperfect and limited, so that the belief in the existence of basic all-embracing laws in Nature also rests on a sort of faith.15. Apollo was the name given to any of a series of manned U.S. spacecraft designed to explore the Moon and surrounding space.16. On July 16,1969, the crew of Apollo 11-Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, and Buzz Aldrin-headed off to attempt the first lunar landing.17. In April 1970 Apollo 13 almost ended tragically when an oxygen tank inside the service module exploded.18. On 19th December 1972 the return of the astronauts aboard Apollo 17 after the 6th successful Moon landing marked the end of the Apollo era.19. Over the past thirty years, many people have been persuaded that the Apollo missions never actually took place and therefore represent the largest hoax in history.20. It would be quite easy for me to state that the people who believe that the Apollo Moon landings were faked are wrong or just mad.21. My present interest in Apollo is historical I love the details of how and why the Apollo spacecraft worked as well as the details of the lunar exploration.22. I watch astronauts carrying out experiments, picking up Moon rocks, taking pictures and so forth, especially during the last few flights to the Moon.23. But it wasn’t until later that I really understood how and why they would pick a particular rock to sample or crater to visit.。

[03:27.08]Questions
[03:28.34]1. What is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology famous for?
[03:38.45]2. Why is MIT difficult to get into?
[03:45.76]3. How many Chinese students are currently studying in MIT?
[00:46.76]MIT has more than 900 professors and nearly 10,000 students.
[00:53.40]It is organized into schools of study.
[00:56.60]One is the School of Architecture and Planning.
[00:34.53]That is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known as MIT.
[00:41.57]It is in the northeast, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Boston.
[01:52.04]China sends the largest number of foreign students to MIT.
[01:56.56]335 Chinese students are studying there.
[02:00.49]More than 180 students are from India,
[07:57.16]Heroes live forever, yeah, heroes live forever

大学英语5听力上海外语教育出版社Lesson 1Part AProblems facing foreign studentsToday I'd like to talk about some of the problems that students face when they follow a course of study through the medium of English--if English is not their mother tongue.The problems can be divided into three broad categories: psychological, cultural and linguistic. The first two categories mainly affect those who come to study in Britain from Asia and Africa. I’ll come to comment only briefly on these two categories and then spend most of the time looking at linguistic difficulties which apply to everyone. Some of the common psychological problems really involve fear of unknown: for example, whether one's academic studies will be too difficult. Looking at the cultural problems, we can see that some of them are very practical nature, for example, arranging satisfactory accommodation. Others are less easy to define.The largest category seems to be linguistic. Let’s look at this in some details. Most students, in their own countries, will have little opportunity to practice using English. Where foreign learners first have the opportunity to speak to an English-speaking person then may have a shock “they often have great difficulty in understanding! I'll just mention three of the possible reasons for this.First, it seems to students that English people speak very quickly. Second, they speak with a variety of accents. Third, different styles of speech are used. For all of these reasons students will have difficulty, mainly because they lack everyday practice in listening to English people speaking English.What can a student do then to overcome these difficulties? Obviously, attend English class and, if a language laboratory is available, use it as much as possible. He should also listen to programs in English on the radio and TV. Perhaps most important of all, he should take every opportunity to meet and speak with native English-speaking people.In addition, the student probably has difficulty in speaking English fluently. The advice here will seem difficult to follow but it's necessary. Firstly, he must simplify what he wants to say so that he can express himself reasonably clearly. Secondly, he must try to think in English, not translate from his mother tongue. This will begin to take place only when his use of English becomes automatic. Using a language laboratory and listening to English as mush as possible will help.I: question:1. What does the lecture mainly discuss? [d]2. What kind of students is the speaker referring to? [b]3. Why do students have difficulties in understanding English speech?[a]4. How, according to the speaker, can foreign students learn to speak English fluently?[b]5. Which of the following statements can be infers from the passage? [c]Part CAt the age of 64 and having only a 1937 diploma from an apprentice training school, I decided to enroll in an new weekend college program at Findley College in Ohio-now the University of Findley. The result is I was granted dual B.A.diploma in 1985 at the age of 69.My degrees are in business administration and information systems analysis, which means computers.My 'excuse' for going to college at that age was to find what I did right in business for 33 years. The second reason was to prove to myself that I was an 'A' student-which I accomplished by making the dean's list the second semester.Because the dean of the college knew that I expected to be treated like any other student. We both laughed about the professor who rushed into the dean's office and explained, 'I have a trustee of the college in my class! what do I do?' when the dean told me about it, my response was, 'I hope you told him to fail me if I didn't do the work.' the dean replied, ‘that is exactly what I told him.'the dean's list : 学院院长公布的优秀学生名单trustee:董事Question: 1. when did the speaker receive his diplomas? [A]2. The speaker received two B.A.degrees after a five-year study at a college. What subjects are these degrees in? [d]3. What was one of the reasons why the speaker went to college? [c]4. Why did the professor feel so nervous when he found the speaker sitting in his class as one of his students? [b]5. What is the main lesson to be drawn from the passage? [b]Lesson2PART AAmerican Marriage CustomsPeople in the U.S., when they attain legal age and meet certain medical requirements, are free to choose their own mates. Once a couple has decided to get married, the man customarily gives the girl a diamond ring. The use of ring comes from the ancient custom of using a ring to settle an important agreement. When the wedding day is decided upon, the girl sends out wedding announcements or friends and relatives. The then sends wedding gifts to the girl’s home.On the wedding day it is supposed to be bad luck for the bride and groom to see each other before the wedding. Another ole custom that people believe will bring good luck to the marriage is for the bride to wear’ something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue’.Before the wedding day the groom always chooses a ‘best man’, a good friend to help him and stand beside him during the wedding ceremony. The custom of having a ’best man’ is thought to have come from ancent times when a strong friend helped the groom escape from the bride’s father.When a couple marries, the groom gives his bride a wedding ring. Many marriages are double ring ceremonies ---that is, the bride and the groom exchange rings. The wedding ring is customarily a simple plain gold band. The roundness of the ring symbolizes eternity and announces that the couple is united for life. The wedding ring is worn on the third finger of the left hand. People believe that a vein from the third finger runs directly to the heart.Near the end of the recepition, which is offered by the br ide’s the parents, the bride throws her bouquet flowers to the unwed bridemaids. The luckily girl who catches it is supposed to be the next in the group to the married. As the bride and the groom leave for their honeymoon, the guests all throw confetti on them. This is a symbol of joy and happiness.I答案1-5c b a c c II 答案“FFFFTPART CIn many homes, divorce is caused by the ‘battle between the sexes’. To understand the problem, one must remember the modern American woman is freed. During childhood and adolescence, the American girl is given freedom and education which is equal to a boy’s. After completing school, she is able to get a job and support herself. She doesn’t have to marry for financial security. She considers herself an independent, self-sufficient person. She wants a husband whom she can respect, but she doesn’t want to be dominated by him. She wants a democratic household in which she has a voice in making decisions. When a husband and wife are able to share decision making, their marriage is probably closer, stronger, and more satisfying. Otherwise, the couple is likely to wind up in the divorce court.When a couple gets divorced, the court usually requires the man to pay his former wife a monthly sum of money. If the couple has children, they usually remain with the mother, and the father is expected to pay for their support.Although divorced is quite common in the United States, 80 percent of those who get divorced remarry. The remarriages allow thousands of people, especially children, to enjoy family life again, but at the same time many troubles have arisen. A well-known American joke tells of a wife calling to her second husband, ‘Quick, John! Come here and help me! Your children and my children are beating up our children!’答案：1-5dbcbdLesson 3PART A Telephone message for Mr. Dawson9:00Amanda Mr. Dawson's office.Jenny oh, it's Jenny. Can you give Mr. Dawson a message? I won't be in till Friday. I've got the flu. I saw the doctor this morning.Amanda OK, jenny. I'll pass the massage on. I hope you'll feel better soon,9:40Amanda Mr. Dawson's office. Can I help you?Mr. Watkins May I speak to Mr. Dawson’s, please?Amanda I'm afraid he's away in business. He’ll be back tomorrow. Can I take a message?Mr. Watkins Please. It’s Tom Datkins here. Look. I can't make the meeting on Tuesday afternoon. Something important's come up. I’ll ring Peter on Wednesday.11:30Amanda hello, godfrey. What can I do for you?Godfrey Mr. Dawson isn't here, is he?Amanda No, not till tomorrow.Godfrey Ah ... it's just that I want Friday off. You see. My grandmother died yesterday. I’ll have to go to the funeral.Amanda Oh, I am sorry. How old was she?Godfrey 92.12:15Amanda Mr. Dawson's office.Salesman can you put me to through to Mr. Dawson?Amanda I'm afraid he isn't here today. Would you like to leave a message?Salesman Oh, right, Wadley’s garage here. It’s about his new car. It isn't ready yet. There’s a strike at he factory today.2:10Amanda Good afternoon. Mr. Dawson's office.Miss Dobson Good afternoon. This is Juliet Dobson from western Video Systems. Mr. Dawson's at the trade fair in Lyon, isn't he?Amanda yes. That’s right. He should be here tomorrow.Miss Dobson well, cam you give him this message first thing in the morning? I'm afraid we must cancel our last order. The customers have changed their minds again!3:20Amanda Good afternoon. Mr. Dawson's office.Mr. Gonzalez hello, this is Miguel Gonzalez speaking. Is Peter there?Amanda No, I’m afraid he's away on business today. Can I pass on a message .Senor Gonzalez?Mr. Gonzalez yes, I may be in London from 21st to 25th. I want to see Peter then, if possible. it's about the agency in Mexico.4:35Amanda Mr. Dawson's office.Mrs. Ellis My name's Samantha Ellis. Can you get Mr. Dawson to phone me as soon as he gets back from Lyon? It really is very urgent.4:55Amanda Mr. Dawson's office.Mr. Berry Ah, Miss Hayward. This is Charles Berry.Amanda Oh, good afternoon, sir.Mr. Berry I've got an important message for Mr. Dawson. Give it to him the minute he comes in. just say, 'Don't supply Mason and Company until further notice'. I'll explain later.(It’s Tuesday morning. Peter Dawson has returned to the office after his business trip to Lyon.)Peter Good morning, Amanda. Could you come in for a minute, please?Amanda Good morning, Mr. Dawson. Did you have a good trip?Peter Yes, thank you. Were there any messages for me yesterday?Amanda yes, quite a few. Shall i just run through them?Peter please.Amanda Jenny phoned. She said she would be in till Friday.Peter Oh, why's that?Amanda she said she had the flu. She’d seen the doctor.Peter Right, go on.Amanda Then Mr. Watkins called, he said he couldn't make the meeting this afternoon but would ring you on Wednesday.Peter OK.Amanda Godfrey came in looking for you. he said he wanted Friday off.Peter Did him?Amanda yes, he told me his grandmother had died and he'd have to go to the funeral.Peter Oh, dear. I'd better see him later.Amanda And Wadley's Garage called. They said you new car wasn't ready.Peter Oh,no... Why on earth not?Amanda they said there was a strike at the factory yesterday.Peter Again!Amanda After lunch Miss Dobson phoned. She said that Western Video Systems had to cancel their last order because their customers had changed their minds.Peter Pity!Amanda Mr. Gonzalez called from Mexico to say he might be in London from 21st to 25th. He said he wanted to see you then.Peter Oh, good. I hope he can make it.Amanda then a lady phoned, Samantha, Ellis. She asked you to phone her as soon as possible. She said it was urgent.Peter Ah, Samantha. I wonder what she wants.Amanda Oh and just before five. Mr. Berry phoned. He told us not to supply Mason&Co.until further notice. He said it was important and that he would explain later.Peter Anything else?Amanda No, that's it. Coffee?Peter Please, that would be nice.答案1-5 c b c c dPART CThe United States is a telephone land. Almost everyone uses the telephone to make or break social engagements, to say their 'thank yours, to do their shopping and ordering (even from food and drug stores), and to obtain all kinds of information. Telephones are save you feet and endless amounts of time----not to mention multiple bus or subway fares!Different countries put their telephones in different places. in the U.S they are so widespread that you will find them in buses and air terminals, railroad stations, stores, hotels, the lobbies of many office buildings, restaurants and in small booths along streets and highways.It is simple and quick to have a private phone installed. you just call the telephone company and they will come to install it on a special dayby appointment, when it is convenient for you. You fill out a form and pay a deposit of some 40 dollarsfor the phone and, if you are formally employed, you may even be freed from this fee.答案：1-5 d b b a cLESSON4PART A Dr Coleman's Sabbatical LeaveIn the United States a university professor is granted a few months of freedom from his duties approximately every seventh year for travel or advanced study. This period of freedom from teaching is called a 'sabbatical leave'.Few sabbatical leaves are interesting enough to be described in national newspapers and magazines. Recently, however, there was an exception. The public learned how Dr JohnR.Coleman, president of Haverford College. Had spent his sabbatical leave.At the age of 51 Dr Coleman was determined to escape from university life for a few months and to get a variety of experiences in the world of work. He especially wanted to learn about people. People who do hard physical labor were particularly interesting to him.Telling no one of his plans. Dr Coleman started his sabbatical leave on a farm in Canada, hundreds of miles from his college. Getting up at 4:30 each morning, working thirteen hours a day in fields and barns, he prepared himself physically for his next job, digging ditches, in Atlanta, Georgia, after that, the college president washed dishes in a Boston restaurant, during the last ten days of his leave, and he worked as a garbage collector.This unusual sabbatical leave was conducted in great secrecy. Coleman telephoned his family once a week, ‘just to let some know where I was and that I was healthy.' none of his students or co-workers at Haverford College knew what their president was doing. On each job he avoided letting people know who he was. 'When people would ask me about myself, I’d try to turn the conversation back to them,' he explained. 'Some co-workers might have thought I was a little different, a little quiet maybe, but I doubt anyone knew I was a college president.'There was only one employer who sensed something unusual. 'at a restaurant in Boston, I had been on the job exactly one hour-- I was washing dishes--when the boss came over and said, ‘I’m afraid you won't do.' and handed me two dollars. Immediately I asked him why, but he just said,' it's mot your work. Sorry.'That was the first time in more than thirty years as a job holder that Coleman had heard such words. It helped him understand how a man of his age might feel when he suddenly realized he had lost his job.After two months of working with his hands, Coleman returned from his unusual sabbatical leave, convinced that the experience had been worthwhile. He had some good things to say about people who do hard physical work. ‘a lot of my co-workers would complain when the was too heavy,' he said, 'but they'd complain a lot more when there was nothing to do.'He found that pride and satisfaction came chiefly in the form of praise from co-workers. Even though pay was important, what brought the greatest satisfaction was knowing that someone hadnoticed how a job was being done.At the end of the sabbatical leave Dr Coleman felt that his time had been well spent. He now believes that every young person should be required to spend at least half a year in the world of work before starting university studies.1.what do professors usually do during their sabbatical leave?[c]2.which of the following jobs hadn't Dr Coleman taken during his sabbatical leave?[a]3.how did he feel when the restaurant owner gave him two dollars?[d]4.which of the following is not true about Dr Coleman?[b]5.what can you infer from the passage?[c]PART CI arrived in the United States on February 6, 1991, but I remember my first day here very clearly. My friend Tom was waiting for me when my plane landed at Kennedy Airport at twoo'clock in the afternoon. It was freezing that day but I was too excited to mind. From the airport. Tom drove me to the hotel. On the way, I saw the skyline of Manttan for the first time and I stared in astonishment at the famous skyscrapers and their man made beauty. Tom helped me unpack at the hotel and then left me because he had to go back to work. He promised to return the next day.Shortly after Tom left. I went to a restaurant near the hotel to get something to eat. Because I couldn't speak a word of English. I couldn't tell the waiter what I wanted. I was very upset and started to make some gestures. But the waiter failed to understand me. I was really at a loss what to do. Finally, I ordered the same thing the man at the next table was eating. After dinner, I started to walk along Broadway until I came to Times Square with its movie theaters. Neon lights and huge crowds of people. I didn't feel tired so I continued to walk around the city. I wanted to see everything on my first day. i knew it was impossible. But I wanted to try.When I returned to the hotel. I was exhausted, but I couldn't sleep because I kept hearing the noise and police sirens during the night, I lay awake and thought about New York. It was really a very big and fascinating city with so many tall buildings and big cars, and full of noise and busy people. I also decided right then that I would learn to speak English.1.when did the speaker arrive in New York?[d]2.what impressed the speaker most on her way to the hotel?[d]3.what did the speaker do immediately after her friend left?[b]4.what do we know about the speaker?[c]5.what can we infer from the passage?[a]Lesson 5PART A Sleeping HabitsWoman good morning, sir.Man Er, good morning.Woman I wonder if you'd like to answer a few questions.Man well er...Woman we're doing a market survey.Man that depends, what sorts of questions are they, eh?Woman well, it's questions about your sleeping habits.Man sleeping habits?Woman Mm.Man well, i suppose that's all right. Yes, well, what do you want to know?Woman right, um, what would you do if you heard a strange noise in the middle of the night?Man I’d wonder what it was, er, I suppose, and then I’d um, see if it happened again.Woman Mm.Man I would lie awake a little while. Waiting to see if it happened again, and if it did ----I suppose I’d get up...Woman Mm.Man and go and see what it was.Woman very courageous. um, if you, if you can't get to sleep at night, er, what do you, what do you do? Have you a special method?Man well, I generally go to sleep straight away. I don't have any trouble getting to sleep.Woman Mm.Man well. If I do have... occasionally, happens about once every six months, I suppose, that I can't go to sleep and then I, er, I lie awake and I, um, think about things.Woman Mm, Mm. think about things. And, er, what about before going to bed? What do you do before you go to bed?Man well. I, it all depends, er. If I've been out I, I, don't do anything. I just come home and go straight to bed. i clean my teeth, ha , ha.Woman Mm, good, good.Man that's one thing i do before i go to bed. Um, well, i occasionally read a bit but if i read i go, i tend to go straight to sleep. i , i, can usually read about a page and then i go to straight off.Woman Mm, yes, me too. yeah, and, um, when you dream, what do you dream about?Man Aah! Now that's a very interesting question.Woman Mm.Man yes, I have been dreaming a great deal recently as it happens.Woman Have you?Man Mm.Woman Have you?Man Um, I’ve had dream every single...all, all the way through my holidays. I’ve just come back from my holiday and I've been dreaming every single night. Quite worrying dreams, very worrying dreams. For example, I had a dream about parrots the other night.Woman parrots?Man yes, green parrots. i mean, they shouldn't have been there because we weren't in any tropical country or anything.Woman er, no. no.Man it was a flock of parrots.Woman A flock?Man a flock. A whole flock of parrots.Woman that's funny.Man and there I was climbing up this stream bed...Woman Yes, Um.Man with these parrots flying around. Ha, most extraordinary.Woman Really. Yes, would you describe that as a nightmare?Man well, it’s rather worrying, don't you think?Woman very--well, um, another question, sir, how much time do you spend making you bed every day?Man I don't spend any time at all. I just get out and then I get back in, in the evening.Woman I see. So no time at all. And, um yes, the last question, um, have you had any people complaining about your sleeping habits?Man complaining?Woman yes, that's to say...Man what would they complain of?Woman do you, perhaps you snore at night?Man no, I don't snore.Woman perhaps you talk in your sleep.Man no, I, I tend to take up rather a lot of room, though.Woman yes, I can see that.Man yes, yes, I do tend to use up more than my fair share of the bed, yes.Woman but you...Man roll around a bit.Woman but you've had no complaints?Man well, i occasionally get complaints but i don't take much notice of them, what can you do?Woman yes. Quite so. Well um, thank you very much indeed, sir, you've been very cooperative and helpful.Man yes, well. Thank you. Yes, it was quite interesting speaking to you actually. Ha, ha.Woman good-bye.Man bye, bye.答案：1-5 c a b c dPART CCats are creatures of habits. They like to fall to sleep about the same time everyday and for a certain length of time. They seem to have a national clock inside them that tells them when to sleep.Cats supplement their regular sleep with occasional cat naps. Some experts feel that humans could also benefit from this habit. Cat naps help to build up energy in the body. They are also a good way to overcome boredom. Since cats have moods similar to those of humans, some experts believe that people can improve their moods and attitudes by catnapping. People might become happier;A number of famous people have copied cats by taking cat naps during the day. The naps would usually last from 15 to 30 minutes. Winston Churchill took cat naps. So did President Harry Truman. John Kennedy and so on. There famous people were known for their energy. They were also able to work long hours. Often late into the night. And napping was their secret. Perhaps more people could learn from cats and take naps to feel better and live longer.答案1-5dcabcLesson 11Part AThe Invention of SpectaclesWho is the inventor of spectacles? It said the inventor probably lived in the town of Pisa, Italy,around 1286, and he was almost certainly a craftsman working in glass. But nobody know thismuch about the inventor because on a Wednesday morning in February 1306 when Friar Giordano gave a sermon at a church in Florence, he said, ‘It is not yet twenty years since there was found the art of making eye-glasses which make for good vision.’ He also said,‘I have seen the man whofirst invented and created it, and I have talked to him.’ We know Friar said this because admirers copied his sermons down as he gave them.The inventor of spectacles kept the method of making them to himself. But the idea soon got around. As early as 1300, craftsmen in Venice were only shaped for far-sighted people. The lenses for short-sighted people were not developed until the late 15th century.Spectacles allowed people to go on reading and studying long after bad eyesight would normally have forced them to give up. They were like a new pair of eyes. Everyone thought the inventor of such a valuable thing should be honored. But for centuries no one had any idea who the inventor really was. So all kinds of candidates were put forward: Dutch, English, German, and Italian. A fake memorial was erected last spectacles—but he never even existed!It is only recently that the researchers have dug back through the records, pushed away all the stories and legends, and they have found the man whose name they do not know and to whom Friar talked, probably lived in Pisa, nearly seven hundred years ago. One researcher wrote, ‘The world has found lenses on its nose without knowing whom to thank.’ Can you believe it?Direction 11. How did the world get to know about the inventor of spectacles?2. What did the speaker think of the invention of spectacles?3. For whom were the first spectacles designed?4. What event took place in a church in Florence last century?5. What can be concluded from the passage?c b bd aDirection 21) probably Italian2) probably lived in Pisa, Italy3) almost certainly a craftsman working in glass4) most likely around 12865) nearly 700 years after he made the inventionPART B1. What country has a good appetite? (Hungary)2. What country is popular on Thanksgiving Day? (Turkey)3. What star is not seen in the sky? (A film star)4. What part of a watch is always old? (The second hand)5. What kind of table has no legs? (A timetable)6. What is the worst weather for rats and mice? (When it rains cats and dogs)PART CA new kind of contact lenses has recently been invented in America. Disposable contacts, as they come to be called, have hit the market after extended-wear contact lenses. Disposable contacts can be worn without being removed, then thrown away and replaced by a fresh pair. Dr Jack Hartstein, eye specialist at the Washington University, says: ‘If disposable lenses are worn properly, they are safer and more convenient than extended-wear lenses.’ He also says: ‘Many eye specialists are increasingly reluctant to prescribe extended-wear lenses.’ To allow oxygen to reach the cornea, the transparent out coat of the eyeball, extended-wear lenses contain up to 70 percent water. But the water also absorbs bacteria, irritants and protein which can result in cloudy vision, infection and cornea ulcers.Disposable lenses cost about $365 for the first year and $280 there-after, but competition will drive the price down. Extended-wear lenses range from approximately $150 to more than $400, but need replacing once or twice a year. Dr Hartstein estimates that users of disposable lenses will save at least $100 a year on cleansing solutions. And there is no need for insurance to cover lost or damaged lenses.1. What has recently been invented in the U.S.?2. Why are many specialists increasingly reluctant to prescribe extended-wear lenses?3. How much can users of disposable contact lenses save compared with those of extended-wear contact lenses?4. What kinds of lenses does the speaker recommend in the passage?5. What can you infer from the passage?c b ca bLesson 12Part AA Nation of ImmigrantsThe United States has been called a ‘nation of immigrants’. Indeed, aside from the American Indians, all Americans are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. All have come from other places within the last 400 years.Americans came from different parts of the earth and for different reasons. Some came to escape persecution, religious or political; others to find a better life for themselves and their children. Still others were looking for adventure or for wealth. As for the blacks, they were forcibly brought here as slaves.Immigrants usually came in ‘waves’. The early settles came mainly on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, mostly from the British Isles. In the middle decades of the nineteen century a much larger wave of immigrants arrived, chiefly from Ireland and Germany. But the really huge wave reached the United States between 1880 and 1920. Over twenty-three million people came during that period, more than twice as many as had come in all the years before. Unlike their predecessors, who were mostly from northwestern Europe, the later arrivals were mainly from eastern and southern Europe and from various parts of Asia. This meant that they were quite different from the old-time Americans in language, appearance, customs, attitudes, and in other respects.All these immigrants as well as the later ones had to adjust to the unfamiliar conditions they found in the new place and all had to work very hard to survive. Consequently, newcomers tend to stay together, forming close-knit communicates and clinging to their old customs and language. They。