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America Vespucci is another sailor. He had followed
the same sea route but he proved that the land discovered by Columbus was not India but a new continent . It was called the New World while Europe became as the Old World. Now the new continent is named after him, North America, and South America.
Notes on America
Christopher Columbus is believed to be the
discoverer of America. He was an Italian and was financed by the Spanish Queen to find a sea route to India. In 1492, he sailed west from Spain in search of a sea route directly to India, but he failed to reach his destination and he found America instead. How ever, he believed he had reached India and called the natives on this land Indians.
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Guest Worker Program: it is a program which has been proposed many times in the past and also now by some of the American Presidents, to permit US employers to sponsor non US citizens as laborers for approximately 3 years, then those laborers will have to leave the US if they fail to get the Green Card ( Permanent Residence ).

英语高级视听说答案【篇一：高级英语视听说2参考答案】i 2 populous 3 race 4 origin 5 geographical distprelistening b1 census ribution6 made up of7 comprises8 relatively progressively9 metropolitan densely 10 decreased death rate 11 birth rate increasing 12 life expectancyd 1 a 18.5 mill b 80%c 1/2d 13.4 mille 2: 10f 4%g 1990h 40%i 3/4j 33.1%2 a3 b 1 c 2 d 5 e 4ii first listeningst1 population by race and origin st2 geographicaldistributionst3 age and sexiii postlisteninga 1. people’s republic of china, india2. 281 mill3. hispanics(12.5%)4. texas5. the south and the west6. 20%7. by more than 5 million8. about 6 years9. 2.2 years10. a decreasing birth rate and an expectancychapter 2: immigration: past and present prelisteningb. vocabulary and key concepts immigratednatural disasters/ droughts/ famines persecution settlers/ colonists stageswidespread unemployment scarcityexpanding/ citizensincreasing lifefailure decrease limited quotas steadily trendskills/ unskilledd notetaking preparation dates: teens and tens 1850 1951 the 1840s from 1890 to 1930 between 1750 and 1850 1776 18821329 1860from approximately 1830 to 1930language conventions: countries and nationalitiesthe scandinavian countries are sweden, norway, and denmark. the southern european countries are italy, greece, spain, and portugal. the eastern european countries are russia and poland. listening first listening major subtopicsst1 the great immigrationst2 reasons for the great immigration and why it ended st3immigration situation in the united states todaypostlistening a. accuracy check colonists or settlersdutch, french, german, scotch-irish, blacks the third, 1890-1930southern europe and eastern europe the population doubled,there was widespreadunemployment, and there was a scarcity of farmland free land, plentiful jobs, and freedom from religious andpolitical persecutionthe failure of the potato crop in ireland laws limiting immigration from certain area, the greatdepression, and world war Ⅱ they are largely non-european.【篇二：英语高级视听说unit2the new space race 】an to build the worlds first airport for launching commercial spacecraft in new mexico is the latest development in the new space race, a race among private companies and billionaire entrepreneurs to carry paying passengers into space and tokick-start a new industry, astro tourism.to astronauts, pilots, and aeronautical engineers –basically to anyone who knows anything about aircraft design –burt rutan is a legend, an aeronautical engineer whose latest aircraft is the worlds first private spaceship. as he told when he first met him a little over a year ago, if his idea flies, someday space travel may be cheap enough and safe enough for ordinarypeople to go where only astronauts have gone before. the white knight is a rather unusual looking aircraft, built just forthe purpose of carrying a rocket plane called spaceshipone,the first spacecraft built by private enterprise.white knight andspaceshipone are the latest creations of burt rutan.theyre part of his dream to develop a commercial travel business in space. there will be a new industry. and we are just now in a beginning. i will predict that in 12 or 15 years,there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds ofthousands of people that fly, and see that black sky, says rutan.on june 21, 2004, white knight took off from an airstrip inmojave, calif., carrying rutans spaceship. it took 63 minutes to reach the launch altitude of 47,000 feet. once there, the white knight crew prepared to release the spaceship one. the fierce acceleration slammed mike melvill, the pilot, back in his seat.he put spaceshipone into a near vertical trajectory, until, as planned, the fuel ran out.still climbing like a spent bullet, melvillhoped to gain as much altitude as possible to reach spacebefore the ship began falling back to earth. by the time the spaceship one reached the end of its climb, it was 22 miles off course. but it had, just barely, reached an altitude of just over 62 miles --the internationally recognized boundary of space.it was the news rutan had been waiting for. falling back to earth from an altitude of 62 miles, spaceshipones tilting wing,a revolutionary innovation called the feather, caused the rocket plane to position itself for a relatively benign re-entry and turned the spaceship into a glider.spaceshipone glided to a flawless landing before a crowd of thousands.after that june flight, i felt like i was floating around and just once in a while touching the ground, remembers rutan. we had an operable space plane.rutans operable space plane was built by acompany with only 130 employees at a cost of just $25 million. he believes his success has ended the governments monopoly on space travel, and opened it up to the ordinary citizen.i concluded that for affordable travel to happen, the little guyhad to do it because he had the incentive for a business, says rutan. does rutan view this as a business venture or a technological challenge?its a technological challenge first. and its a dream i had when i was 12, he says. rutan started building model airplanes when he was seven years old, in dyenuba, calif., where he grew up.i was fascinated by putting balsa wood together and see how it would fly, he remembers. and when i started having the capability to do contests and actually win a trophy by making a better model, then i was hooked.hes been hooked ever since. he designed his first airplane in 1968 and flew it four years later.since then his airplanes have become known for their stunning looks, innovative design and technological sophistication.rutan began designing a spaceship nearly a decade ago, after setting up set up his own aeronautical research and design firm. by the year 2000, he had turned his designs into models and was testing them outside his office.when i got to the point that i knew that i could make a safe spaceship that would fly amanned space mission -- when i say, i, not the government,our little team -- i told paul allen, i think we can do this.and he immediately said, go with it. paul allen co-founded microsoft and is one of the richest men in the world. his decision to pump $25 million into rutans company, scaled composites, was the vote of confidence that his engineers needed to proceed. that was a heck of a challenge to put in front of some people like us, where were told, well,【篇三：英语高级视听说 下册 unit15】【篇三：英语高级视听说n new york on tuesday, nov. 1, to begin an eight-day visit, it will be his first official american tour in more than a decade. everyone knows what has happened in the interim. his troubled marriage to the late princess diana, his remarriage to camilla parker bowles, and the youthfulindiscretions of his two sons have been turned to a reality-based soap opera by the tabloid media. but most americans know very little about who the prince of wales is and what he does as heir to the british throne.members of the royal family hardly ever grant interviews, the queen has never given one, and you rarely see them talk. but last month, as his trip to the united states was being planned, prince charles granted 60 minutes correspondent steve kroftan audience, allowing us to follow him around and chat, not about his family, but about being prince of wales, a job and a life like no other.most of us in our lives have to fill out applications listing our profession and occupation. you dont have to do that, kroft said. no. not always, but sometimes, prince charles replied.if you did, what would you put down? kroft asked.i would list it as worrying about this country and its inhabitants. thats my particular duty. and i find myself borninto this particular position. im determined to make the most of it. and to do whatever i can to help. and i hope i leave things behind a little bit better than i found them, the prince said. its hard to say, but i think it is a profession, actually; doing what im doing. because if you tried it for a bit, you might find out how difficult it is, he added, laughing.he is somewhere between a brand and a public institution, a future head of state in waiting —and waiting. he is a symbol of continuity with no real power but tremendous influence that is tied to his position and wealth.the money comes from a 14th century real estate empire called the duchy of cornwall, which was established to provide an income for the heir to the british throne.today it includes 135,000 acres of farmland, forests, waterfront property, london real estate, and even a cricket stadium. it produces $25 million a year in rents and other income that supports the prince, his wife and children and a staff of 130. there are perks such as travel on the royal train. and $7 million from the government to help with official expenses.on a recent trip to the yorkshire countryside to mark the 850th anniversary of the village of richmond, the whole town turned out to greet charles and camilla, his new wife, longtime friend and former mistress, now the duchess of cornwall. they were recently voted the most popular couple in britain, nosing out the queen and prince philip and they seemed comfortable with each other and the crowds.there was clearly a bond between you and the people there. explain that to me, asked kroft.no idea, the prince replied with laugh.you have no idea? kroft asked.no, but i always enjoyed seeing all sorts of people all around the country. i do this over and over again, have done for 30-something years, the prince said.he could pass the time playing polo or do nothing at all if he wanted, a path chosen by most of his predecessors, many of whom were lay-abouts and playboys. but charles chose to invent a job where none existed. he made 29 major speecheslast year, visited 14 countries, and runs the largest group of non-profit organizations in the country called princes charities. he raises more than $200 million a year for those 16organizations, 14 of which he founded.the largest charity is the princes trust which, over 29 years, has helped to provide job training for more than a half a million young people.do you think if you werent doing this stuff, that it would getdone? kroft asked.if i wasnt doing it? no, the prince replied.asked if he felt as if he was making a difference, princecharles said, i dont know. i try. i only hope that when im dead and gone, they might appreciate it a little bit more. do youknow what i mean? sometimes that happens.as he approaches his 57th birthday, he sometimes feels misunderstood and undervalued. he was educated at cambridge, can fly jet planes and helicopters, is extremely knowledgeable about the arts, and has tried to carve out for himself a number of different careers— environmentalist, urban planner, real estate developer, and social critic — deeply committed to a vision of what great britain was and should be. his vision is laid out in bricks and mortar in poundbury, avillage of 2,500 people, which he created on his land near dorchester in the south ofengland. all his ideas on architectural design, class structure, aesthetics and ecology are here. and what he sees as the future looks very much like the past: an 18th century villageadapted for the 21st. prince charles gave kroft a tour of the village. and thats aconvenience store, which im very proud of, which everybody said wouldnt work. thats the pub, which again nobody wanted to touch. but now of course, the values are going up, and upand up.kroft remarked that the buildings looked as if they were builtto last, lacking flimsy materials.well, thats what ive been trying to encourage people to think about. … to break the conventional mold in the way weve been building and designing for the last, well, during the lastcentury really, has all been part of a throw-away society, princecharles said.everything in the village is constructed of native or recycled materials, sustainable development, he calls it, that conservesthe earths resources.single-family homes are mixed with small apartments so there are people of all income levels here living side by side in a community with shops and light industry. the narrow twisty roads discourage automobile traffic, and cars are parked out ofsight in landscaped lots.the whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center, the prince explained. so by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, i think, with more attraction,and interest and character. livability.he believes that the modern world with its cars and computers is slowly eroding our humanity, that we are losingtouch with the world around us.the british tabloids have made an industry out of his travails and love to portray him as an out-of-touch eccentric trying to stop progress, an edwardian hippie with no real-life experience, whos never had to draw his own bath or take out the garbage. hes been constantly ridiculed for what have been called his undergraduate ramblings, including his innocent admissionthat he talks to his plants.are you familiar with any of the plants here? talking to any ofthem? kroft asked.yeah, i know some of them. no, no, no, the prince said, laughing. no, i do all the time. not here. youve gotten more mileage out of that, i think, than almostanything thats … kroftsaid.j ust just shows you cant make a joke. … without them taking it seriously. so, its the same old story, the prince replied. his image is carefully managed by a communications staff ofnine that also handles his umbrella. they made it clear the prince would not answer questions about his wives, past andpresent, his sons or the queen. he mistrusts the media for past abuses, and worries that no one takes him seriously.what is the most difficult part of your job? i mean except fortalking with people like me? kroft asked.yes, exactly, the prince said, laughing. oh, dear. i think, that the most important thing is to be relevant. i mean, it isnt easy,as you can imagine. because if you say anything, people willsay, its all right for you to say that. its very easy to just dismiss anything i say. i mean, its difficult. but what ive tried to do is toput my money where my mouth is as much as i can, byactually creating like here, models on the ground. i mean, if people dont like it, ill go away and do it.you are in many ways a public advocate for the traditional. what are the great parts of great britain that are worth preserving, besides the monarchy? kroft asked.well, theres an awful lot of things that are worth preserving,the prince said with a laugh. the trouble, i think, in todaysworld is we abandon so many things unnecessarily, so often in the name of efficiency. if you make everything over-efficient,you suck out, it seems to me, every last drop of what, up to now, has been known as culture. we are not the technology. it should be our —you know, our slave, the technology. but its rapidly becoming our master in many areas, i think.prince charles says he is not trying to stop progress. im just trying to say that we ought to redefine the way in which progress is seen. is it progress to rush headlong into upsetting the whole balance of nature, which is what, i think, were beginning to do?you know, if you look at the latest figures on climate change and global warming, theyre terrifying, terrifying.as a member of the royal family, he is expected to avoid politically contentious issues. yet he has openly opposed a number of government policies, including the development of genetically-modified crops. hes raised questions about stemcell research and is a strong advocate of alternative medicine.he has expressed those views in speeches, letters andmeetings with government officials, some of whom considerhim to be a royal nuisance.how do you deal with that? how do you walk that line? kroft asked.well, years of practice, perhaps, the prince said.does it get you in a spot of trouble from time to time fromcertain people? kroft asked.oh, inevitably. but it seems to be part and parcel of the thing. imean, if i wasnt, i think, doing these things, id be accused bypeople like you, doing nothing with my life, the prince replied, laughing.asked if anybody ever asks him to tone it down a bit, the prince said, oh yes, of course. but i think the proof is in the pudding. and i think, you know, all the things they try to tell me to tone down over the years, if you look now, though, youll find theyre fairly mainstream.twenty years ago when he announced that he was going to begin farming organically on his estate at highgrove, no one knew what he was talking about and assumed it was another crackpot idea.today its big business in great britain, and prince charles has a line of high-end organic products produced on his estate called duchy originals that includes everything from biscuitsand jams to mineral water, sausage and turkeys.prince charles says the business has been quite successful. and that has grown and now turns over ?40 million ($71 million) a year. and im able to give away over a million pounds each year to my charitable ventures.when he arrives in new york on nov. 1 as great britains most popular ambassador, he will be selling a political, commercial and diplomatic agenda prepared by the foreign office.he will also be introducing the american public to his new wife, who will be making her first official overseas trip and donned a diamond tiara for the first time last week. she is not giving interviews right now, and may never.she is said to be interested in supporting, not overshadowing, her husband, and has no interest in establishing her ownpublic identity.why has it been 20 years since his last official visit to the united states?you dont want to see me all the time. you get bored, the prince said, laughing.is there anything youre looking forward to doing there, anything youre looking。

英语高级视听说Unit1PiratesoftheInternetIt s no secret that online piracy has decimated the music industry as millions of people stopped buying CDs and started stealing their favorite songs by downloading them from the internet. Now the hign-tech thieves are coming after Hollywood. Illegal downloading of full-length feature films is a relatively new phenomenon, but it s becoming easier and easier to do. The people running America s movie studios know that if they don t do something----and fast---they could be in the same boat as the record companies. Correspodent: ?”Chernin: “Well, I think, you know, ultimately, our absolute features.”Peter Chernin runs 20th Century Fox, one of the biggest studios in Hollywood. He knows the pirates of the Internet are gaining on him. Correspont: “Do you know ?”Chernin: .”Correspondent: “And it s only going to grow.”Chernin: “It s only going to grow. Somebody can put a perfect digital copy up on the internet. A perfect digital copy, all right. And with the click of mouse, send out a million copies all over the world, in an instant.”And it s all free. If that takes hold, kiss Hollywood goodbye. Chernin recently organized a “summit”between studio moguls and some high school and college kids---the people most likely to be downloading.Chernin: “And we said, Let s come up with a challenge. Let s give them five movies, and see if they can find them online. And we all sat around and picked five movies, four of which hadn t been released yet. And then we came back half an hour later. They had found all five movies that we gave them. ”Correspondent: “Even the ones that hadn t even been released yet?”Chernin: “Even the ones that hadn t even beenreleased yet.”Correspondent: “Did these kids have any sense that they were stealing?”Chernin: “You know it s…it s a weird dichotomy. I think they know it s stealing, and I don t think they think it s wrong. I think they have an attitude of, It s here. ”The Internet copy of last year s hit Signs, starring Mel Gibson, was stolen even before director M. Night Shyamalan could organize the premiere. Correspondent: “The movie was about to be released. When did the first bootleg copy appear?”6Shyamalan: “Two weeks before it or three weeks b efore it. Before the Internet age, when somebody bootlegged a movie, the only outlet they had was to see it to those vendors on Times Square, where they had the boxes set up outside and they say, Hey, we have Signs---it s not even out yet. And you walk by and you know it s illegal. But now, because it s the digital age, you can see, like, a clean copy. It s no longer the kind of thesleazy guy in Times Square with the box. It s just, oh, it s on this beautiful site, and I have to go, Click. ”Correspondent: “How did those movies get on the Internet? How did that happen?”Chernin: “Through an absolute act of theft. the or circulated among companies that do special effects, or subtitles. Chernin: “The other way that pre-released movies end up (stolen) is that people go to …there are lots of screenings that happen in this industry…on…”Correspondent: “And record it.”This is one of those recorded-off-the-screen copies of Disney s Pirates of the Caribbean. Not great quality, but not awful either. And while it used to take forever to download a movie, anyone with a high-speed Internet connection can now have a full-length film in an hour or two.Saaf: “Well, this is just one of many websites where basically people, hackers if you will, announce their piracy releases.”R andy Saaf runs a company called Media Defender that helps movie studios combat online piracy. Correspondent: “Look at this, all these new movies that I haven t even seen yet, all here.”Saaf: “Yep.”Correspondent: “Secondhand Lions that just came out. Sometimes I feel like I m the only person in this country who has never downloaded anything. But maybe there is a few others of us out there. So I m going to ask you to show us Kazaa, that s the biggest downloading site, right?”Saaf: “Right. This is the Kazaa me dia desktop. Kazaa is the largest peer-to-peer network.”It s called peer-to-peer because computer users are sharing files with each other, with no middleman. All Kazaa does is provide the software to make that sharing possible. When we went online with Randy Saaf, nearly four million other Kazaa users were there with us, sharing every kind of digital file. Saaf: “Audio, documents, images, software, and video. If you wanted a movie, you would click on the video section, and then you would type in a search phrase. And basically what this is doing now, it is asking the people on the peer-to-peer network, Who has Finding Memo ?”Within seconds, 191 computers sent an answer: “We have it.”This is Finding Memo, crisp picture and sound, downloaded free from Kazaa a month before its release for video rental or sale. If you don t want to watch it on a little computerscreen, you don t have to. On the newest computers, you can just “burn”it onto a DVD and watch it on your big-screen TV. And that s a dagger pointed right at the heart of Hollywood. Chernin: “Where movies make the bulk of their money is on DVD and home videos. 50 percent of the revenues for any moviecome out of home video…”Correspondent: “15 percent?”Chernin: “50 percent so that if piracy occurs and it wipes out your home video profits or ultimately your television profits, you are out of business. No movies will get made.”Even if movies did get made, Night Shyamalan says that wouldn t be any good, because profits would be negligible, so budgets would shrink dramatically. Shyamalan: “And slowly it will degrade what s possible in that art form.”Rosso: “Always. You can t shut it down.”Wayne Rosso is Hollywood s enemy. They call him a pirate, but officially he s the president of Grokster, another peer-to-peer ne twork that works just like Kazaa. Correspondent: “Ok, I have e.”Rosso: “Right.”Correspondent: “Ok, did I pay to do that?”Rosso: “No, it s free.”Correspondent: “So who pays you? How do you make money?”“And how many people use Grokster?”Rosso: “Ten million.”Correspondent: “Ten million people have used it.”Rosso: “A month.”Correspondent 9Correspondent: “what else?”Rosso: “I will assume. See, we have no way of knowing what people are downloading.”Correspondent: “That sRosso: “We have no idea what the content is, and whatever it is…”Correspondent: “Well, you may not know the specifics, but you know that s what your site…”Rosso: “And we can t stop it. Correspondent: “But you are there for that purpose, that is why you exist, of course it is.”Rosso: “No, no, no, no, no, no.”Correspondent: “Come on, this is the fig leaf part.”Rosso: “No, no, no, no, no.”Shyamalan:“He is totally conformable with putting on his site a stolen piece of material. Am I wrong in that? If my movie was his site?”Correspondent: “Because I have nothing to do with it.”Shyamalan:“Yeah, right.”Correspondent: “Because I just provided the software.”Shyamalan:“Yeah, right. So,immediately, how can you ever have a conversation with him? Because he s taken a stolen material and he is totally fine with passing it around in his house. All these, all these are illegal activities. So, I m not, it s just my house, I m not doing anything wrong.”But it is Rosso who has the law on his side. A federal judge has ruled that Grokster and other file-swapping networks are Rosso: “So we are completely legal, and unfortunately this is something the entertainment industry refuses to accept. They seem to think the judge s decision was nothingThe studios are appealing that court ruling. And they like the carpenters and painters who work on film sets. At the same time, Hollywood is trying to Chernin: “You will very seldom go to an early screening of a movie right now where, probably you don t notice until you pay attention, someone s not in the front of that auditorium with i nfrared binoculars looking for somebody with a camcorder.”Saaf: “What we re just trying to do is make the actual pirated content difficult to find. And the way we do that is by, you know, serving up fake files.”It s called “spoofing.”but aren t. Correspon dent: “So if I had clicked on any number of those Finding Nemo offerings, I could have clicked on one of yours, or somebody like you. And what would I have found after my hour and a half of downloading?”Saaf: “it might just be a blank screen or something. You know, typically speaking, what we push out is just not the real content.”Correspondent: “What you are trying to do is make this so impossible, so infuriating that people will just throw up their hands and say it s just easier for me to go rent this thi ng, buy the DVD or whatever, it s just easier.”Saaf: “Right.”Correspondent: “That s your goal.”Saaf：：“Right.”Correspondent: “Does that work? Is that a good idea?”Rosso: “No. It doesn t work. I mean I don t blame thembut it doesn t work because what happens is that the community cleanses itself of the spoofs.”He means that downloaders quickly spread the word online about how to tell the fake movie files from the real thing. Correspondent: “It s like an arms race(军备竞赛）, isn t it?”Chernin: “That s exactly wh at it s like. It s like an arms race. There will be, you know, they re gonna get a step ahead. We re gonna try and get that step back.”Rosso: “But I ll tell you one thing: I ll bet on the hackers.”Correspondent: “That they will break whatever…”Rosso: “The studios come up with.”Correspondent: “The companies throw at them.”and that isn t going away. Chernin: “The generally accepted estimate is that Correspondent: “60 million.”Chernin: “At 60 million Americans, that s a mainstream product. That s not a bunch of college kids or, you know, a bunch of computer geeks. That s America.”So, instead of trying to stop it entirelybest way is to negotiate some kinds of licensing deal with him. Rosso: “If the movie industry acts now and starts exploring alternatives and solutions with guys like me, hopefully they won t have a problem.”Correspondent: “What if they try to buy you?”Rosso: “I d sell it in al heartbeat.”Correspondent: “You would sell, Grokster would sell to a movie studio?”Rosso:“Sure, call me.”The idea of ma king deals with appeal to Hollywood. Instead, Fox and other studios have just launched their own uld love the idea that you don t have to go to the video store. You can do this. And that s what we re working the most effective business model in the world can t compete with free.”Not that Peter Chernin is interested, but he won t have the chance to buy Grokster, at least not from Wayne Rosso. A few days ago, Rosso announced that he is leaving Grokster to take over as president of another file-swapping software company,this one based in Spain. Grokster will continue under new management.Key to the exercises Task I Global Listening1. C2. C.3. D .4. D5. A6. B.7. B8. CTask IIEpisode 1 1. T 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T Listen for DetailsEpisode 2 1 2 3Episode 3 (1) technology always wins (2) software (4) radio(3) advertising supported (5) Ten million people(6) music (8) not liable for (10) control (12) facilitating (14) comfortable (7) video games (9) typo (11) fig leaf (13) steal Episode 41. Following the music industry and begin to sue individuals who download movies.2. Airing ads about people whose jobs are at risk because of piracy.3. Keeping copies of movies from leaking in the first place.4. Hiring people to hack the hackers/serve up thousands of fake copies of new movies.Episode 51. Downloading off the Internet.2. 60 million3. Embrace it and get paid too.4. A bunch of crooks.5. 3-5 dolloars.6. Stopping piracy.。

高级英语视听说一.课程性质与目的本课程是为英语专业学生开设的一门综合语言技能课，是必修课程之一。

该课程是学习英语及其他相关课程的高级基础课程。

该课程的主要目的是培养学生进一步提高语言应用能力，特别是用于语言文学、文化、国际商务的专门用途英语。

该课程突出自主、互动的学习过程，使学生学以致用。

在教学过程中注重实践能力的锻炼。

目的是对学生进行正规的，严格的听说技能训练，有计划地、逐步地提高学生的听说水平，学生通过英语视听说语言要点, 情景实践以及综合技能训练，逐步获得英语交际能力和操作能力。

二、基本要求本课程以视，听，说综合技能训练为主要教学目的，旨在培养学生在各种环境中正确理解并恰当使用英语的能力。

本课程以多样化的输入手段，通过学习有关活动的实用材料，听录音磁带或CD,看录像，使学生获得生动、丰富、效果好的语言形式、语言知识、文化背景知识与信息的输入，熟悉并掌握主要的语言和用法，提高对文化差异的敏感性。

在听力方面要求学生能听懂正常语速为每分钟约140-180个单词的有关活动的谈话，类型涉及电话，采访，讨论，演讲，会议发言等。

要求学生能正确辨认听觉信息，并做出适当判断，并能结合具体语言环境，理解所听内容的深层含义，把握说话者的态度和意图。

在口语方面，通过各种口语活动有效地提高学生的口头输出能力，使他们能够对听觉信息做出恰当的反应，并运用正确，得体的英语讨论各种日常生活的话题，进行电话交谈，客户接待，商业谈判，作简单的会议发言，商务报告，产品演示和介绍。

学生要能够较好地使用专业词汇，表达连贯、内容充实、语篇条理清晰、观点明确和重点突出。

同时注重在活动中培养学生的交际能力，合作能力，提出建议和讨论问题的能力等。

三、教学内容与学时本课程开设一个学期，学时：32学时。

选用教材：《高级英语视听说》，外语教学与研究出版社。

本课程以各种活动为主题，教学内容丰富，包括人际关系沟通，电话会谈，信息交流, 会议，接待客户，演示汇报等活动板块，每个板块中又分出六个主题，学生能更好地掌握各种实际情景沟通惯例，正确并恰当地用英语完成交际活动，并配以大量的真实的英语视听材料，让学生具备基本商业及文化素质，提高跨文化沟通能力。

TASK 2
Episode 2 1- naturally changing climate 2- man’s doing 3- expeditions 4- ice cores 5- fingerprints 6- burning fossil fuels 7- carbon dioxide 8- thousands 9- warm
be held accountable 4- B- Extinction of all arctic species 5- D- Polar bears 6- C- is not ready to tackle 7- B- concerned
Episode 1 1- [ F ] 2- [ T ] 3- [ T ] 4- [ T ] 5- [ T ] 6- [ F ]
Episode 3 1- worse hurricanes in the pacific 2- more cyclones in the pacific 3- heat waves in Europe 4- worse hurricanes in the US. 5- more thunder storms in summer 6- less rainfall in winter 7- high rainfall in coastal regions
பைடு நூலகம்
5- North pole
The North Pole is about (725 km) north of Greenland in the middle of the Arctic Ocean the sea there has a depth of (4087 meters). Most of the time, the sea ice covers the North Pole but recently, water has been sighted at the exact location of the pole.

Howard Schultz:
He is an American businessman who is widely known as chief global strategist and chairman of Starbucks. Schultz was born on July 19th, 1953 in Brooklyn, NYC. In 1975, he became the first of his family to graduate from college. Later, he joined Seattle's Starbucks(1982), which sold only coffee beans at the time. Inspired by Italian espresso bars, he resolved to create a similar experience in the United States.
Starbucks Pastry Recipes and Coffee Desserts:
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《高级英语视听说（一）》课程教学大纲一、课程基本信息1．课程编号：060Y33A2．课程类别：通识公共课3．课程性质：必修4．学时/学分：34/15．先修课程：大学英语口语五二、课程目标及学生应达到的能力2.1课程简介《高级英语视听说（一）》是全英、创新类本科生修读完大学英语五、大学英语口语五的后续必修课，是《高级英语视听说（二）》的先修课程。

该课程旨在进一步提高学生较高水平的口语交际能力，尤其是论述能力和有效的社交话语能力，为参与全英、双语及国际学术交流等学科学习奠定基础。

2.2课程目标总目标：通过多媒体视听的情景化输入，导入情景事件和论题，在激活学生思维语言的同时，培养学生的批判思维；在情景化语言输出的强化训练中，学习者能够做到“有效论述自己的观点”，似新闻述评式的口语交际能力，并能与他人交流和讨论。

知识目标：增量掌握正式口语体的表达语汇，情景化的词汇域和语块。

素质目标：得体的跨文化语言交际素养，客观的跨文化评判意识。

能力目标：依据特定的情景和事件，概要叙述、说明、评析和论证情景事件的相关论题，能主动参与话题互动讨论和交流。

2.3课程目标与毕业要求的支撑关系注：任课教师依据课程情况具体调整目标项及权重三、课程教学内容与学时分配注：教师依据所选教材内容填写教学日历和具体教学内容，基本为2学时一个单元，围绕教材和现实语境资料情况安排教学。

四、课程教学方法借助多媒体信息手段，以视、听情景声、像输入辅助文本教材，设置交际情景，激活学生的情景记忆和交际语言；以学生主题陈述、情景训练、师生交际互动、角色参与、辩论等形式进行实训教学；以媒体的情景化、直观化和形象化，鼓励和引导学生在真实的语境中强化和巩固口语交际技能，尤其是情景事件的口语概述、说明和论说能力。

五、课程的考核环节及课程目标达成度评价方式5.1课程的考核环节实训类课程重在能力、素养和技能的过程训练和学习，因此，过程中的形成性考核占50%，重点考核过程训练中的学勤、课堂参与及表现、课外辅助学习的展示、口语能力与交际行为方式等；终结性考核占50%，采用实践技能测试形式，两位口语测试教师一组，对2到3位同学在给定的情景中陈述、叙事、对话与交流。

英语高级视听说下册课后练习题含答案第一单元Section APart I1.What is the mn idea of the conversation?Answer: The mn idea is that the man is interested in going to the concert.2.What is the mn reason the woman doesn’t want to go to theconcert?Answer: The mn reason is that she wants to watch the game on TV.Part II1.What does the man compliment the woman on?Answer: The man compliments the woman on her presentation skills.2.What is the woman’s goal for the presentation?Answer: The woman’s goal is to persuade her audience to invest in her company.Part III1.What is the speaker’s opinion about the book?Answer: The speaker thinks that the book is well-written and informative.2.What is the speaker’s opinion about the author?Answer: The speaker thinks that the author is knowledgeable and experienced.Section BPart I1.What is the mn topic of the talk?Answer: The mn topic is the benefits of regular exercise.2.What is the speaker’s opinion about dieting?Answer: The speaker thinks that dieting alone is not enough to mntn good health.Part II1.What is the woman’s mn concern?Answer: The woman’s mn concern is that she cannot afford the high rent.2.What is the man’s suggestion?Answer: The man suggests that the woman should consider getting a roommate.Part III1.What is the speaker’s opinion about the company?Answer: The speaker thinks that the company’s products are innovative and high-quality.2.What is the speaker’s opinion about the company’s CEO?Answer: The speaker thinks that the CEO is charismatic and visionary.第二单元Section APart I1.What is the mn idea of the conversation?Answer: The mn idea is that the woman is planning a trip to Europe.2.What is the woman’s mn concern?Answer: The woman’s mn concern is that she doesn’t know how to communicate with the locals.Part II1.What is the mn idea of the lecture?Answer: The mn idea is that the human brn is capable of processing large amounts of information.2.What is the speaker’s opinion about multitasking?Answer: The speaker thinks that multitasking can be harmful to productivity and mental health.Part III1.What is the speaker’s opinion about the movie?Answer: The speaker thinks that the movie is entertning and well-made.2.What is the speaker’s opinion about the director?Answer: The speaker thinks that the director is talented and creative.Section BPart I1.What is the mn topic of the talk?Answer: The mn topic is the importance of time management.2.What does the speaker mean by the。

英语高级视听说上册课后练习题含答案本文将提供英语高级视听说上册课后练习题及其答案，旨在帮助读者巩固所学知识，提升英语水平。

Unit 1Listening Comprehension1.Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks withthe words you hear.(1)The party boss was unhappy with the slow______ of the local government.(2)The program is designed to help peoplefrom low-income families to gn ______ to education.(3)Every time we had a ______, the bosswould come up with an amazing idea.(4)The government is taking urgent action toaddress the problem of climate ______.(5)Although the workers were dissatisfiedwith their pay, they didn’t dare to ______ theiremployer.Answers:(1)pace(2)access(3)brnstorm(4)change(5)confront2.Listen to the conversation and answer the followingquestions.(1)What is the woman’s name?(2)What does the man want to drink?(3)How much is the coffee?Answers:(1)The woman’s name is Karen.(2)The man wants to have a cappuccino.(3)The coffee costs three dollars and fiftycents.Speaking Practice1.Work in prs and discuss the following questions.(1)What do you think are the advantages ofliving in a city?(2)What are the disadvantages of living in a city?(3)Do you prefer to live in a city or in a rural area? Why?Sample answer:(1)Some advantages of living in a city include access to a wider range of job opportunities, cultural events, and entertnment options. Cities also tend to have better public transportation and more shopping options.(2)One major disadvantage of living in acity is the high cost of living. Cities are also often crowded and noisy, and there can be higher levels of pollution. Crime rates may also be higher in some cities.(3)Personally, I prefer to live in a city. I enjoy being able to walk to restaurants and activities, and I appreciate the convenience of having a range of services close by. However, I also appreciate the tranquility of rural areas and enjoy taking trips to the countryside from time to time.Unit 2Listening Comprehension1.Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks withthe words you hear.(1)The ______ between the two countriesescalated into a full-blown war.(2)The company promises to provide ______service to its customers.(3)The CEO is known for his ______ to detl.(4)The documentary tells the story of agroup of adventurers who set out to explore the______.(5)The company is facing a ______ crisis dueto its flure to manage its finances properly.Answers:(1)conflict(2)quality(3)attention(4)jungle(5)financial2.Listen to the conversation and answer the followingquestions.(1)What does the woman think of the movie?(2)Why does the man like the movie?(3)What is the man going to do after themovie?Answers:(1)The woman thinks the movie is terrible.(2)The man likes the movie because of thespecial effects.(3)The man is going to have dinner with hisfriends after the movie.Speaking Practice1.Work in prs and discuss the following questions.(1)What do you think are the qualities of agood leader?(2)Can people learn to be good leaders, orare they born with leadership abilities?(3)Who is a leader you admire, and why?Sample answer:(1)In my opinion, a good leader should be able to inspire and motivate others, communicate clearly, and make good decisions. They should also be honest, trustworthy, and lead by example.(2)I think that people can learn to be good leaders, but some people may have a naturalaptitude for leadership. It’s important to develop the skills and qualities that make a good leader, such as communication and decision-making, through trning and practice.(3)One leader I admire is Nelson Mandela. He was able to unite a divided country and lead a peaceful transition to democracy in South Africa. Mandela also demonstrated forgiveness and reconciliation, even after spending 27 years in prison. He was a leader who truly embodied the qualities of integrity and humility.。

《高级英语视听说（第二版）》教师用书第二版说明《高级英语视听说》为专业英语课程教材，供高等院校英语专业高年级本科生使用；同时也为高等院校非英语专业高年级本科生使用。

近些年，大学英语及专门用途英语教学改革成果显著，非英语专业学生的英语水平提高很大，有些甚至好于英语专业的学生。

教师和学生都感到特别需要更高要求、更深程度内容的英语教材满足这部分学生的智力和情感需求。

这套教材既是很好的选择。

本教材还可以供研究生英语课程使用，供有同等英语水平的自学者和工作者使用。

本套教材于2008年荣获北京市精品教材奖。

目前已经重印十余次，受到教师和学生的广泛欢迎。

第二版教材去掉五部旧片，换上五部新片，其中三部电影，一部纪录片，以跟进时代。

它们分别是《黑天鹅》、《帮助》、《朗读者》和《精神病人》。

这些片子已在北外的课堂使用过，深受学生们喜爱。

单元安排根据学生的兴趣、影片的新旧、影片的难易重新做了调整，现在的安排给人一种全新的感受。

教师也可以按照自己的考虑、学生的水平重新安排一学期的课程顺序。

第二版教材建议每周学习一部片子，所用学时两小时。

网络的发展以及各学校音视频的建设使学生随时可以看到新片，这样使一周完成学生课前的准备及课上的讨论成为了可能。

我们衷心希望第二版能够受到更多教师和学生的喜爱。

在内容带给我们更多挑战的同时，也希望带给我们更多思考的快乐。

主编：王镇平2013年4月23日编写理念21世纪是一个以经济全球化和信息化为显著特征的时代，我们的人才培养目标要适应这个时代，我们的教材则要适应这个新的培养目标。

英语专业培养的人才应该是具有扎实的英语语言基础和广博的英语文化知识，并能在不同的工作和研究领域熟练运用英语的复合型人才，要同时兼具组织能力、实践能力和创新能力。

这套教材就是在这样的需求中应运而生的。

根据2000年《高等院校英语专业英语教学大纲》（以下简称《大纲》）的要求，21世纪外语专业教材应具有以下几个特征：教材内容和语言能够反映快速变化的时代；教材能处理好专业知识、语言训练和相关学科知识之间的关系；教材不仅仅着眼于知识的传授，还有助于学生的鉴赏批判能力、思维能力和创新能力的培养；教学内容有较强的实用性和针对性；注意充分利用计算机、多媒体、网络等现代化的技术手段。

Unit 15 5.1 who are in charge of managing…A communications staff of nine is in charge of managing the Prince’s image; The staff also handles his umbrella..5.2what led to the Prince’s mistrust…For past abuses; He worries that no one takes him seriously.5.3According to the Prince, what have we…We've abandoned so many things in the in the interest of efficiency; If we make everything over-efficient, every last drop of culture is sucked out.5.4what comments does the Prince…He says that technology should be our slave, but it’s rapidly becoming our master in many areas.5.5 What’s the Prince’s view on progress?…He is not against progress，but he believes that progress should not rush headlong into upsetting the whole balance of nature.Unit 14 5.1 What did Graner do when Darby…He gave Darby a stone cold evil stare the entire time Darby was on the stand. He didn’t take his eyes off Darby once.5.2 What has Darby been ordered…He has been under a gag order until the trials ended.5.3How will the sandal affect…The unit will carry a bad name because of what seven individuals did.5.4 What did Gen. George say…He said that Graner and his gang took the vast majority of the pictures for their own sadistic amusement, but that in a few cases, military intelligence officers had asked the gang to soften up a prisoner.5.5 What happened contrary…The pictures were leaked to the media and became sensational.Unit 13 4.1 How would the seismic error and other…It will slip seven years to 2018. 4.2 What caused the tank problem…Bechtel gave the wrong design specs to themanufacturer.4.3 What was the flaw in …The tanks had weld defects.4.4 What did Bechtel do…They went ahead and installed it with defects.4.5 What did Bechtel say about…It was not a bonus; rather, it was a fee.4.6 Who discovered new deficiency?…Independent inspectors for Washington State.5.1 What does the “wrong specs”…The incident seems to suggest that the Department of Energy is not managing the situation very well.5.2 What does Anderson say…In defense of Department, Anderson says that the issues have been indentified and corrected. Moreover, a large percentage of equipment has been purchased correctly with the right specs.5.3 What does the “déjà vu” …A similar mistake on the part of the Department of Energy in 2001 and similar remarks the Department has made in its defense.5.4 According to Anderson, how is the…The Department has taken steps to provide increased oversight and to reach out for increased external reviews.5.5 What does Governor Gregoire…She says that 67 leakers, groundwater contamination, have been confirmed and that contaminated groundwater is moving towards the Columbia River, which is the lifeline of Pacific Northwest.Unit 12 4.1 What’s the concern of…The kids, who have access to the Internet, often without parental supervision, can run up a huge debt on their parents’ credit card.4.2 Why can’t a minor…Through the information obtained from the payer, which is relative to his/her bank account and personal details, Payne’s site can be 99 percent sure that a minor doesn’t even get through its front door.4.3What did Alex do after…He tried two other sites and was approved on his third try. Infive minutes, he was playing roulette; Ten minutes later, he was $100 in the hole\in debt. 4.4 What Payne’s argument…If the US legalized I-gaming, all of the problems associated with gambling could be better controlled.4.5 What’s Payne’s solution to…Payne’s company keeps a record of every gambler. If an addicted gambler is found playing too quickly, his site can stop him.5.1 What have 64…Licensing online casinos.5.2 What has Britain allowed…Take bets from American citizens.5.3 What would have happened…It would have earned $1.2 billion in tax.5.4 Whom does Lanni count…An enlightened president with an enlightened attorney general.5.5 What will the I-gaming…It will be times bigger than it is today.Unit 11 4.1 What did Mackey…He persuaded them to send him to another school so he could play.4.2 What did he do after dropping…He opened a health food store in Austin called “Safer Way” with his then girlfriend.4.3 What did Machey say to…He told his competitor that he was going to open a 10,000-square-foot store one mile from his competitor’s store and that it would be a lot more funto join forces together rather than compete.4.4 What does the merger story…The merger story shows that somewheredeep inside Mackey, he has a lot of drive and that he is a fierce competitor.4.5 How did Mackey gradually…He gradually expanded the business by acquiring smaller health food stores and tapping into a burgeoning movementthat advocated organic food.5.1 What is Boggy Creek…Small family-run farms.5.2 What can’t be used on…Pesticides or synthetic fertilizers.5.3 How much salad does…22 million servings of salad; In refrigerated trucks.5.4 When did Mackey first hear…When he opened his second store back in 1982.5.5 What will Whole Foods…Corporations cannot be as caring and responsible as small businesses.Unit 10 5.1 What does the images…They show a mysterious bomber planting two sophisticated explosive devices late at night outside a company that makes vaccines in northern California.5.2 How many bombs were…Two bombs; The second bomb was set to go off an hour after the first to kill firemen and police who would show up on the scene.5.3 What can be learned about…The suspected bomber is Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 27-year-old animal rights activist from San Rafael, California. He is now a fugitive after he slipped an FBI surveillance team.5.4 What message did the bomber…The message reads: “we will now be doubling the size of every device we make.”It was posted on a Web site sympathetic to the Animal Liberation Front.5.5 What’s Dr Vlasak’s view…He thinks that ALF needs to needs to look at thebig picture and look at what works.Unit 4 5.1 What does “a performing seal”…Ii probably means performing his math wizardry for a big audience in a show.5.2 What does Daniel…He volunteers for scientists who want to understand his amazing brain, though he has refused most offers to cash in on his remarkable skills.。

英语高级视听说unit-4Unit 4 Brain ManAlmost 25 years ago, 60 Minutes introduced viewers to George Finn, whose talent was immortalized in the movie "Rain Man." George has a condition known as savant syndrome, a mysterious disorder of the brain where someone h as a spectacular skill, even genius, in a mind that is otherwise extremely limited.Morley Safer met another savant, Daniel Tammet, who is called "Brain Man" in Britain. But unlike most savants, he has no obvious mental disability, and most important to scientists, he can describe his own thought process. He may very well be a scientificRosetta stone, a key to understanding thebrain.________________________________________Back in 1983, George Finn, blessed or obsessed with calendar calculation, couldgive you the day if you gave him the date."What day of the week w as August 13th, 1911?" Safer quizzed Finn."A Sunday," Finn replied."What day of the week was May 20th, 1921?" Safer asked."Friday," Finn answered.George Finn is a savant. In more politically incorrect times he would have been called an "idiot savant" - a mentally handicapped orautistic person whose brain somehow possesses an island of brilliance.Asked if he knew how he does it, Finn toldSafer, "I don't know, but it's just that,that's fantastic I can do that."If this all seems f amiliar, there?s a reason: five years after the 60 Minutes broadcast,Dustin Hoffman immortalized savants like George in the movie "Rain Man."Which brings us to that other savant we mentioned: Daniel Tammet. He is an Englishman, who is a 27-year-old math and memory wizard."I was born November 8th, 1931," Safer remarks."Uh-huh. That's a prime number. 1931. Andyou were born on a Sunday. And this year,your birthday will be on a Wednesday. Andyou'll be 75," Tammet tells Safer.It is estimated there are only 50 true savants living in the world today, and yetnone are like Daniel. He is articulate, self-sufficient, blessed with all of thespectacular ability of a savant, but withvery little of the disability. Take his math skill, for example.Asked to multiply 31 by 31 by 31 by 31, Tammet quickly - and accurately - responded with"923,521."And it?s not just calculating. His gift ofmemory i s stunning. Briefly show him a long numerical sequence and he?ll recite it right back to you. And he can do it backwards, toboot.That feat is just a warm-up for Daniel Tammet. He first made headlines at Oxford, when he publicly recited the endless sequence of numbers embodied by the Greek letter "Pi."Pi, the numbers we use to calculate the dimensions of a circle, are usually rounded off to 3.14. But its numbers actually go onto infinity.Daniel studied the sequence - a thousand numbers to a page."And I would sit and I would gorge on them.And I would just absorb hundreds and hundreds at a time," he tells Safer.It took him several weeks to prepare and then Daniel headed to Oxford, where with number crunchers checking every digit, he openedthe floodgates of his extraordinary memory.Tammet says he was able to recite, in a proper order, 22,514 numbers. It took himover five hours and he did it without a single mistake.Scientists say a memory feat like this istruly extraordinary. Dr. V.S. Ramachandranand his team at the California Center forBrain Study tested Daniel extensively after his Pi achievement.What did he make of him?"I was surprised at how articulate and intelligent he was, and was able to interact socially and introspect on his own-abilities," says Dr. Ramachandran.And while that introspection is extremelyrare among savants, Daniel?s ability to describe how his mind works could be invaluable to scientists studying the brain, our least understood organ."Even how you and I do 17 minus nine is a big mystery. You know, how are these little wisps of jelly in your brain doing that computation? We don't know that," Dr. Ramachandran explains.It may seem to defy logic, but Ramachandran believes that a savant?s genius could actually result from brain injury. "One possibility is that many other parts of the brain are functioning abnormally or sub-normally. And this allows the patient to allocate all his attentional resources tothe one remaining part," he explains. "Andthere's a lot of clinical evidence for this. Some patients have a stroke and suddenly,their artistic skills improve."That theory fits well with Daniel. At the age of four, he suffered a massive epilepticseizure. He believes that seizure contributed to his condition. Numbers wereno longer simply numbers and he had developed a rare crossing of the senses known as synesthesia."I see numbers in my head as colors and shapes and textures. So when I see a longsequence, the sequence forms landscapes inmy mind," Tammet e xplains. "Every number up to 10,000, I can visualize in this way, hasit's own color, has it's own shape, has it's own texture."For example, when Daniel says he sees Pi, he does those instant computations, he is not calculating, but says the answer simply appears to him as a landscape of colorful shapes."The shapes aren't static. They're full ofcolor. They're full of texture. In a sense, they're full of life," he says.Asked if they?re beautiful, Tammet says, "Not all of them. Some o f them are ugly. 289 is an ugly number. I don't like it very much. Whereas 333, for example, is beautiful to me. It's round. It's?.""Chubby," Safer remarks.'It's-yes. It's chubby,' Tammet agrees.Yet even with the development of these extraordinary abilities as a child, nobodysensed that Daniel was a prodigy, including his mother, Jennifer. But he was different."He was constantly counting things," Jennifer remembers. "I think, what first attracted him to books, was the actual numbers on each page. And he just loved counting."Asked if she thinks there?s a connection between his epilepsy and his rare talent,she tells Safer, "He was always differentfrom-when he was really a few weeks old, I noticed he was different. So I'm not surethat it's entirely that, but I think it might have escalated it."Daniel was also diagnosed with Asperger?s Syndrome-a mild form of autism. It made f or a painful childhood."I would flap my hands sometimes when I was excited, or pull at my fingers, and pull atmy lips," Tammet r emembers. "And of course, the children saw these things and would repeat them back to me, and tease me about them. And I would put my fingers in my earsand count very quickly in powers of two. Two, four, eight, 16, 32, 64.""Numbers were my friends. And they never changed. So, they were reliable. I couldtrust them," he says.And yet, Daniel did not retreat fully intothat mysterious prison of autism, as many savants do. He b elieves his large family may have actually forced him to adapt."Because my parents, having nine children,had so much to do, so much to cope with, I realized I had to do for myself," he says.He now runs his own online educational business. He a nd his partner Neil try to keep a low profile, despite his growing fame.Yet the limits of his autism are always there. "I find it difficult to walk in the streetsometimes if there are lots of people around me. If there's lots of noise, I put my fingers in my e ars to block it out,' he says.That anxiety keeps him close to home. Hecan?t drive, rarely goes shopping, and finds the beach a difficult place because of his compulsion to count the grains of sand. And it manifests itself in other ways, like making a very precise measurement of hiscereal each morning: it must be exactly 45grams of porridge, no more, no less.Daniel was recently profiled in a British documentary called ?Brainman.? The producers posed a challenge that he couldnot pass up: Learn a foreign language in aweek -and not just any foreign language, but Icelandic, considered to be one of the most difficult languages to learn.In Iceland, he studied and practiced with a tutor. When the moment of truth came and he appeared on TV live with a host, the hostsaid, "I was amazed. He w as responding to our questions. He did understand them very well and I thought that his grammar w as very good. We are very proud of our language and that someone is able to speak it after only one week, that?s just great.""Do you think that Daniel, in a certain way, represents a real pathway to furtherunderstanding the brain?" Safer asks Dr. Ramachandran."I think one could say that time and againin science, something that looks like a curiosity initially often leads to a completely new direction of research," Ramachandran replies. "Sometimes, they provide the golden key. Doesn't always happen. Sometimes it's just mumbo-jumbo. But that may well be true with savants."Daniel continues to volunteer for scientists who want to understand his amazing brain. But he is reluctant to become what he calls ?a performing seal? and has refused most offers to cash in on his remarkable skills."People all the time asking me to choose numbers for the lottery. Or to invent a time machine. Or to come up with some greatdiscovery," he explains. "But my abilitiesare not those that mean that I can do at everything."But he has written a book about his experiences, entitled "Born on a Blue Day."He also does motivational speeches for parents of autistic children-yet one moregift of his remarkable brain.But at the end of the day-genius or not-that brain does work a little differently."One hour after we leave today, and I willnot remember what you look like. And I willfind it difficult to recognize you, if I see you again. I will remember y our handkerchief. And I will remember you have four buttons on your sleeve. And I'll remember the type oftie you're wearing. It's the details that I remember," Tammet tells Safer.And it?s the details that make us all so different. One man may see numbers as a tedious necessity of modern life, anothersees them as the essence of life."Pi is one of the most beautiful things inall the world and if I can share that joy in numbers, if I can share that in some small measure with the world through my writingand through my speaking, then I feel that Iwill have done something useful," he says.。

《英语高级视听说》《英语高级视听说》教学大纲课程编码：3011104课程性质：专业教育必修课教学时数：96学时学分数：6学分开课学期：第五、六、七学期授课单位：英语系视听说教研室授课对象：英语专业本科学生一、课程概述1.性质与地位英语高级视听说课程是为英语专业本科学生在专业学习提高阶段开设的专业教育必修课程。

该课程以外语教学理论为指导，广泛应用多媒体教学，融课堂教学与自主学习为一体，以真实语境下的常速语料为基本教学材料，紧扣时代脉搏，是全面提升学生听说能力、使学生的目标语听力理解能力与口语产出能力满足高层次语言应用要求的重要课程。

2.基本理念英语高级视听说课程以素质教育、创新教育思想为理论指导，以双主模式及Anderson的“听前－听时－听后”理论为理论支撑，着力发展学生的目标语高级实时应用能力。

课程在实施过程中，一方面坚持以人为本，关注学生的情感，另一方面注重营造自主学习的气氛，创造自主学习的条件和环境，培养学生的可持续自我发展能力。

本课程摒弃接受式、填鸭式的学习方式和教学方式，坚持以学生为中心，以方法为主导，强调启发式、引导式教学，同时利用该课程材料均以多媒体形式呈现于课堂、内容时效性强等独特优势，激发学生的学习兴趣与积极性，培养和增强学生探索知识的能力和欲望。

利用校园网、互联网等信息渠道，开展多媒体课堂教学与课后自主学习，着力提高教学效率与教学质量，同时努力提升听与说在认知学习中的地位，贯彻“听为学”、“说为学”的理念，使学生认识到视听是与阅读同等重要的语言输入途径，也是同样有效的认知途径。

3.设计思路本课程教学以解放军外国语学院生长干部学历教育本科人才培养方案（英语）为依据，参照《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》（以下简称《大纲》）的要求实施。

教学安排在3个学期内完成，第八学期举行3次有关英语区域变体的讲座，第五、六、七学期每学期32学时，第八学期6学时，总时数为102学时。

教学实施分为课堂教学与自主学习，教学内容分为音频和视频两部分：音频教材方面主要包括《英语专业三年级听力教程》、《英语中级听力》、《英语专业四年级听力教程》，以及带前方记者报道的最新VOA、BBC、NPR新闻等；视频教材包括《高级英语视听说教程》、《英语高级视听说》、片长10分钟左右的多主题短片，BBC/CNN 视频新闻以及部分精选的记录片、影视剧片段等。

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第一部分：完形填空【1】A host family is an American family that picks up.......1,christians 2,major anizations 4.scholars 5.is done for free6.start making friends7.for some holiday celebrations【2】Because no single library can contain the information sought by ........1.(categories)2.(faculty)3.(advanced)4.(agencies)5.(develops)6.(satisfy)7.(131000)8.(1600 pubic libraries)9.(of all types generally form networks with other libraries)10.(a library’s users can obtain needed information quickly)【3】Chain stores are two or more retail stores dealing in the1(operated) 2(retailer) 3(marketing) 4(located) 5(familiar) 6(standards) 7(hamburger) 8(find things pretty much the same) 9（the same quality and service）10（deal with general merchandish）【4】Students who live away from home during their college.....1training 2.opportunity 3.freedom 4.responsibilities 5.conduct6.experience some degree of loneliness7.have formed new friendships判断：1.(F)In America,”hello”and”how do you do”are ......(T)In America (F)V ery informal (F) According to (T) It takes time (T) According to2.(T)According to the passage ,the word “hello”is probably.....(F)The word (F)When two (F)It can (T)The language (T)The great(F)In real communications (T) According to3.(F)According to the passage(F)When Americans have (T)It can be inferred (F)According to the passage4.(F)Bill didn’t feel very well that day(F)Xin didn’t (F)Mr.Brokaw was a (T)Mr.Brokaw was on (F)Bill thanks(T)Xin couldn’t (F)when other (T)It can be (T)Except (T)It can be inferred5.(T)According to Xin, Chinese people’s food habits are closely......(T)According to Bill (F)In Bill’s (F)From the dialog (F)Bill thinks (T)It can be(F)It is obvious (F)It can be...that (T)Although Bill (T)It can be inferred单选第一个1)Which of following statements is true about extracurricular activities in the US.....B. They are provided by universities and colleges2) Which of following statements is true D. They provide intercollegiate3)Which of the following can be B.Intercollegiate sporting4)What can we learn about A.They give students more opportunity5)Which of the following is not D.Serving in voluntary organizations.6)Which of the following statements C.It serves as a bridge7)Which of the following is NOT mentioned A.Providing information8)What do student governments B.The provide a certain第二个1.Which of the the following statements can be the concluded from the passage?(D) Americans began to care about2.Which of the the following (A)people’s eating3.Which o f the following (C) The complexity第三个1. which of the following can best descrilbe...(D)because he can have2. What did GD see first when he swam... (B)a big barracuda3. What is the length of the barracuda ...(A)six feet4. Which of the following can be inferred..(B)to Xin,GD第四个1)which is the following is the reason for the emergence ….C.many Americans choose to live in the suburbs.2)what can we learn about B.it is an isolated3)what can we know about A．it is said to be the largest4)what surprises Xin about D.different kinds of5)Which of the following statements (B)people can get6)What can we learn about (D)prices are set and there第五个1)What can we learn from the passage about colleges and universities in the US and..A.They may refer to a variety of institutions.2)Which of the following is NOT mentioned C.It offers a variety3)Which of the following statements C.It offers programs in4)What is the primary mission of B.To provide undergraduate5)Which of the following statements A.They only offer two-year6）What are American universities B.V arious colleges and professional 7）What programs do universities D.Undergraduate ,graduateWhich of the following statements C.The can be either public1.What is author’s opinion about libraries in the past?(D)They were just places for storing books.2.What is happening (C)They are undergoing3.Which of the following (B) Media center4.What can we know (A)Books appropriate5.What is another change (C)Different libraries6.How can one borrow (B)Special requests7.What can we learn (A)They need to be8.What has the modern (C)The learning center第七个1.What can we learn about the modern…(B)They had a profound effect2.How did people obtain information…(B)Through written media3.What was the disadvantage of the flow…(D)It was slow and not available4.What effect did the invention of the phonograph (A)It made a musica l5.In what sense did mass…(C)They made it possible6.Which of the following is true…(D)They have everything7.What effect will technology developments…(C)Communication will第八个1.what can we learn from the...and overuse...(A)It is in very good condition2.What kinds of outdoor activities are....(B)Hunting and fishing3. What was Xin surprise to learn on... .(D)American tastes about fish4.What is another surprise to Xin.......(C)The great number of wild animais5.Which of the following wild animals..(C)deer6.What has Xin learned when she sees..(D)many accidents have been7. What has impressed Xin most in America..( A)Some animals that she only8. What has Xin seen many times when she..(B)Wild geese9.What bird did Xin once see across a lake..(A)A swan10. Why was Xin surprised to see many seagulls..(B)Because she saw them flying第九个1.Why do different types of libraries...(C)To satisfy different needs of all potential users2.How many basic (B) Six3.Which of the following (A)V arious organizations4.According to the passage (D)School libraries5.According to the passage (A) US-16000 Canada-37006.Why do libraries of (C)To share resources7.How can users of a library (D)They can quickly1.Why do some people often leave...(B)They are used to leaving2.Which of the following is not…(A)Reading books3.What is the attitude of some…(B)Negative4.Which of the following accounts for…(D)Doing things with the TV5.What does Bill think of TV programs…(C)Most of them shown on TV6.What does Bill try to make clear…(A)What shown on TV and in movies7.How can a person form a judgment about…(B)By watching TV and movies8.Which of the following statements can…(C)The visual media has写句子1.In days gone past,a library....(a place where books were housed) (select one for reading) (libraries today are undergoing changes)2.Step into a modern library to do....(far more than books) (audiotapes Internet access period cars) (use the term media center rather than library)3.Library today in the US often have reading...(youngsters are invited to come with their parents) (reads age appropriate books to them) (tax preparation) (a host of community meetings)4.Another change that has happened in the modern...(multiple libraries are linked together) (One library card can be used to take out materials in each member library) (that are even outside your own country library system)5.Library personnel need to be highly......(clerks that put books back on the shelves no longer simple) (be familiar with the library computer system) (about the materials in the library)6.In a word the modern library has become in many......(the learning center for the community)(a hub for finding that information)1.The United States is a (rich and productive) land that has provided Americans with many (food resources) for a (healthy diet).2.American food also grew more (similar) around the country as (mails) and (fast food) outlets tended to (standardize eating patterns) throughout the nation,especially among(young people).3.At the same time, American food has become more(complex) as it draws from the (diverse cuisine) that (immigrants have brought) with them.4.The cuisine of the United States has developed its own (recognizable) Much of it(evolved from foods and preparations) brought of the United States by immigrants, while other dishes are(distinctly) American.1）Because so many Americans choose to (live in the suburbs,a distinctly American phenomenon)which is called(the shopping mall)2) The shopping mall has increasingly(replaced the old-fashioned urban downtown stores),where(locial shops,restaurants,and cultural attractions)3)The shopping mall,filled with(department stores,speciality shops,fast-food)franchises,and(movie theaters)has come to(dominate the ,market,makingsuburb an areas)4)In malls,Americans purchase(food,clothing,and entertainment)in an(isolated environment).The mall of the American is said to be(the biggest shopping mall in the United states)5)Shopping in the American(holds some surprises for Xin),(everything seems so far apart)6)In China she could go to a(clothing store,the university,or a small grocery one easy bike ride).She could always find many small (convenience shops).But (it’s not the case)in American.7)need a car because (stores are of different kinds)and are often(spread so far apart)8)Another thing is that(even the smallest shops here set prices).There(never is any bargaining over the prices of something).9)And in(grocery stores)all the meat is already(cut,packaged)and(wrapped)in cellophane.If you want(four chicken wings)and they come in(packages of eight),then you must buy eight.1.People really…but occasionally their eye catches something of interest and they listen fora moment2.Some educated…things because they feel it is impolite to ward company and distractsfrom real thought3.Bill dose not…feel that what is offered on TV and in most movies is not really very goodto watch4.In recent years these visual forms of media have sunk to new lows in their choices of whatthey think is entertainment5.Bill talked…clear that what she sees on TV and what sees in the movies does not representnormal American life..Many people take their view of America from watching6.Without having…some time, one cannot make a judgment about the people or how theylive from such sources. Xin sees a very different kind of person in Bill than she sees represented on TV1.The 20th century…such as the phonograph the movie camera movie projector radio andtelevision , had a profound effect on nearly every culture of the world2.Prior to 1900…limited to written media and the telegraph. It was slow and not available tomost people. But with…people were exposed to a much large world3.For example, prior to the invention if the phonograph the only way to be exposed to a musicperformances was to witness it in person. If you lived in a remote area this was impractical.Only residents of larger cities could enjoy fine music performances4.But the phonograph changed all that. Anyone with access to one could listen to a musicalperformance at anytime in any place. Movies, radio and television also had the effect of making all sorts of entertainment assessable5.Mass…could be repeated, any moving pictures were associated with these performances,the public…performers and give them special status6.They became stars…adored as gods have been in past years. Today,…and power that couldnot even be dreamed about a few centuries ago7.Where is this headed?...technology will make communication even more instantaneous.The development…, will allow even more access by even more people8.Pop artist and…future everyone in the world would have fifteen minutes of fame. Perhapstechnology will some day make that prediction come true !1. Americans like sports and they like fun and adventure(all three together they are overjoyed) (excitement in GD’s eyes and in his voice)2. After I was....with fins,goggles and...I back-rolled off the boat into the water...(stuited up) (scuba air tanks) (six-foot) (teeth like a tiger)3. As we slowly descended to...a school of snappers swam by.Then...(twenty-five feet) (swam down into the opening of)4. Deeper and deeper we went,and darker and darker it became.The bright...(became dark then green blue then purple)5. At one hundred and thirty feet down...like the mouth of some gigantic sea....(the dark opening of a care came into view) (swam six big sharks) (ancient under water secret)6. As they swam by,one...fome the group and swam...toward me,then...at the last...(broke away) (directly) (turned aside) (be eaten alive)7. Xin...that she would call this a “fun adventure” like GD did,when it...Americans. (doubted) (gave her further in sights into）1. America’s forests,mountains,lakes and streams have been pretty well...and streams (protected form pollution and overuse) (.hunting fishing and camping. Dear pneasant and duck hunting) (fishing attracts thousands more)2. Bill likes to fish and invites Xin...one afternoon.She was surprise to learn American.....(on a fishing adventure) (tastes about fish) (ocean fish much more than river fish) (hated by Americans)3. Another surprise to Xin is the...in America.In China,she had seen....But in Minnesota.... (abundance of wild animals) (dear only in zoo) (driving down the highway)4. In fact...the countryside,Xin sees signs along the road that say,”watch out for deer”...(on almost every drive out into) (deer cause frequent accidents) (at night in front of cars) 5. What has impressed Xin the most is that she has seen some...on a visit to yellowstone park... (wild animals that she never expected to see outside of a zoo) (wild in the forests and meadows)6. Many times when she has...the Mississippi River,Xin has seen...which at first she thought... (taken a quiet walk along) (dozens of Canadian geese) (big ducks) (shaped for nations)7. Until coming to Minnesota she had only read about these...once she saw...near her..... (fascinating birds in Chinese stories and poems) (swan swimming across)(sea gulls in the down town area) (wild experiences)。

《高级英语视听说（第二版）》教师用书第二版说明《高级英语视听说》为专业英语课程教材，供高等院校英语专业高年级本科生使用；同时也为高等院校非英语专业高年级本科生使用。

近些年，大学英语及专门用途英语教学改革成果显著，非英语专业学生的英语水平提高很大，有些甚至好于英语专业的学生。

教师和学生都感到特别需要更高要求、更深程度内容的英语教材满足这部分学生的智力和情感需求。

这套教材既是很好的选择。

本教材还可以供研究生英语课程使用，供有同等英语水平的自学者和工作者使用。

本套教材于2008年荣获北京市精品教材奖。

目前已经重印十余次，受到教师和学生的广泛欢迎。

第二版教材去掉五部旧片，换上五部新片，其中三部电影，一部纪录片，以跟进时代。

它们分别是《黑天鹅》、《帮助》、《朗读者》和《精神病人》。

这些片子已在北外的课堂使用过，深受学生们喜爱。

单元安排根据学生的兴趣、影片的新旧、影片的难易重新做了调整，现在的安排给人一种全新的感受。

教师也可以按照自己的考虑、学生的水平重新安排一学期的课程顺序。

第二版教材建议每周学习一部片子，所用学时两小时。

网络的发展以及各学校音视频的建设使学生随时可以看到新片，这样使一周完成学生课前的准备及课上的讨论成为了可能。

我们衷心希望第二版能够受到更多教师和学生的喜爱。

在内容带给我们更多挑战的同时，也希望带给我们更多思考的快乐。

主编：王镇平2013年4月23日编写理念21世纪是一个以经济全球化和信息化为显著特征的时代，我们的人才培养目标要适应这个时代，我们的教材则要适应这个新的培养目标。

英语专业培养的人才应该是具有扎实的英语语言基础和广博的英语文化知识，并能在不同的工作和研究领域熟练运用英语的复合型人才，要同时兼具组织能力、实践能力和创新能力。

这套教材就是在这样的需求中应运而生的。

根据2000年《高等院校英语专业英语教学大纲》（以下简称《大纲》）的要求，21世纪外语专业教材应具有以下几个特征：教材内容和语言能够反映快速变化的时代；教材能处理好专业知识、语言训练和相关学科知识之间的关系；教材不仅仅着眼于知识的传授，还有助于学生的鉴赏批判能力、思维能力和创新能力的培养；教学内容有较强的实用性和针对性；注意充分利用计算机、多媒体、网络等现代化的技术手段。