现代大学英语听力3原文及答案unit1

Unit 4Task 1答案A.1 They are farms that grow vegetables for city people to eat fresh.2 It’s a farm that grow plants and flowers to sell.3 They protect the plants from the cold in the winter but let them get plenty of light; so the plants can be grown all through the year.B.1 canned; frozen2 flowers; garden plants; home gardens; yards; window boxes3 buildings; furniture; firewood原文Grain; vegetables and fruits are found on most farms. All of them are food for animals and people.Grain can be fed to animals just as it is harvested. But before people use them grains are usually made into flour or breakfast cereal. Bread; macaroni通心粉; and cereals麦片 all come from grain.Tomatoes; beans; potatoes; beets甜菜; lettuce生菜; carrots and onions are field and garden vegetables. Can you think of any others Vegetables are good for people and for some animals such as pigs and rabbits.Farms that grow vegetables for city people to eat fresh are called truck farms. Truck farms are usually close to big cities. Each day hundreds of loads of fresh vegetables are brought to stores on the farmers' trucks. Without the truck farmers people in cities would not eat well. And without city people who eat fresh vegetables; the truck farmers would have no work.There are many kinds of fruit. Apples; pears; peaches; cherries; oranges; grapefruit; and berries are a few kinds. You will be able to think of other kinds that you like. Most fruit is grown on specialized farms. But many general farms have some fruit to use and sell also.Like vegetables; fruit is sold fresh in markets. But a large part of both fruit and vegetable crops is sent to factories to be canned or frozen.In warm parts of our country farmers grow cotton; rice; tobacco; sugar cane甘蔗; and peanuts.Specialized farms raise flowers and garden plants. They are sold to florists花商 and to families for home gardens; or yards; orwindow boxes. A farm that grow plants and flowers to sell is called a nursery苗圃. Most nurseries have glass buildings; called hothouses or greenhouses. The hothouses are heated to protect the plants from cold in the winter but let them get plenty of light; so they can be grown all through the year.Some farms grow only trees. Some of these are Christmas tree farms. Others are large forests where trees are grown for their wood. The wood is used for buildings; furniture and firewood. Some tree farms grow only nut trees.Task 2答案1 The UN agencies report that the market value of pesticides in developing countries last year was about three thousand million dollars.2 The agencies called for worldwide acceptance of Food and Agriculture and World Health Organization pesticide rules. They say this would help guarantee the safe production of and trade in pesticides.原文Two United Nations agencies are expressing concern about the safety of some pesticides used to kill insects. They report that about thirty percent of all pesticides sold in developing countries fail to meet widely accepted rules for quality. They say these products are a serious threat to human health and the environment.The UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the World HealthOrganization gave the warning.In developing countries; pesticides are used mainly for agriculture. Pesticides kill insects and other organisms that threaten crops. Pesticides also are used for public health. They control insects that spread disease; such as mosquitoes that spread malaria.The UN agencies report that the market value of pesticides in developing countries last year was about three thousand million dollars. They say the estimated market value of pesticides worldwide was thirty-two thousand million dollars.Officials say poor quality pesticides often contain harmful chemicals. These chemicals often are banned or restricted in some countries.Possible causes of low quality in pesticides include production problems and failure to use the right chemicals. Officials say the active chemicals in many pesticides are stronger than those permitted by many governments. They also say poor quality pesticides may contain poisonous substances or substances that are not pure.Officials say the quality of pesticide containers and product information on the containers are other concerns. They say information on the containers often fails to explain the active chemicals and how to use the product safely.The WHO says products listing false information have been sold for years in some areas. The agencies say the problem of poor quality pesticides is widespread in parts of Africa south of the Sahara Desert. They called for worldwide acceptance of Food and Agriculture and World Health Organization pesticide rules. They say this would help guarantee the safe production of and trade in pesticides.Officials say the agencies' rules are especially important for developing countries. They say developing countries often lack systems for testing pesticides.Task 3答案A.1 c 2 d 3 bB.That’s because they’re making an investment all the time; but are still not sure whether or not they can make profits.原文Interviewer: Cattle raising and beef in the US is big business; isn't itBob Beck: Yes; it's the largest business—cattle business.Interviewer: It must be a very profitable business then.Bob Beck: Uh; not necessarily.Interviewer: It's not necessarily a profitable businessBob Beck: At times; it's not profitable. Your production costs get...it's a supply and demand market; and if your supply islarger than your demand...Interviewer: So the price is fluctuating all the time...Bob Beck: Right. It fluctuates; and it can get below production costs.Interviewer: But you never know. For instance; next year; you don't know what it'll bring on the market.Bob Beck: No; technically it takes a year and a half from the time you breed the cow; until you get the calf; until the calf'smarketable.Interviewer: Uh-huh.Bob Beck: You've got a year; to a year and a half; tied up there. Interviewer: So; you're making an investment all the time.Bob Beck: Right. So you're not sure.Interviewer: It sounds like it might be a very insecure kind of existence. Wonder why it is that people want to be farmersor ranchers大农场主 then...Bob Beck: I think the majority of it is you like it. It's one thing.It's a breed kindof people. They like it. If you don'tlike what you're doing; why...Interviewer: What is there about it You live essentially in a rural area. Doesn't that feeling of isolation ever bother you Bob Beck: No. It's getting too crowded.Interviewer: Too crowdedBob Beck: Too many peopleInterviewer: I can see that; for instance; in a city; you have restaurants to go to; movie theaters—all kinds ofthings available to people; a lot of conveniences whichyou don't have in the more rural areas. What do peoplewho farm and ranch do for recreation and relaxation; forinstance... erm...Bob Beck: Well; I think a lot of it is if you're a livestock raiser;you'll go check your cows in the evening instead of goingto a movie.Interviewer: Uh-huh.Bob Beck: That's as much recreation as driving through a bunch or cows; and if you like them; you enjoy that.Interviewer: In terms of the way of life; to a lot of people; it would seem that it's a very hard life. It means a lot ofhard work. I mean; you have a schedule—whether you feellike it or not; you have to get out and feed animals; andso forth. Would you regard that as one of the difficultthings about it; or is that...Bob Beck: No.Interviewer: …just sort of... part of itBob Beck: For me; if I had to go to a desk every morning; that'd kill me.Task 4答案A. paid off; fall back on; a security; operating expenses; complete disasterB.1 Some of them cook the meals; clean the house and take care of the kids every day.2 Yes. That is especially so after they've had one or two bad years when they couldn’t make money.3 When their children are small; they were with their parents to go out to work; when they are very small; Sharon didn’t go out as much as she would later.4 She thinks that in this way the children are a lot more self-reliant. They learn to work and they learn responsibility. They learn a lot about life by being continually in life with animals.原文Bob Beck: I think; for a wife; the same as a husband; they like it or they wouldn't marry a farmer or a rancher.Interviewer: Uh-huh.Bob Beck: They'd get out. I think it's not at all wives. Some of them are just like suburban housewives.Interviewer: Uh-huh.Bob Beck: They cook the meals; and they clean the house and that's it... take care of the kids...Interviewer: Have you known some situations like thatBob Beck: Oh; yeah; I know situations like thatInterviewer: Sharon; is there a problem of the feeling of security Sharon Beck: What kind of security are you talking about—financial securityInterviewer: Uh; yeah; financial security. Uh; the thing is up and down. You don't know what the market's going to bring;er... for beef. You work all year; and so forth... Isthere any problem of that sortSharon Beck: Sure; there's the problem of security. Especially; if you've had one or two bad years. You feel awfullyinsecure.Interviewer: Uh-huh.Sharon Beck: If you've borrowed money to buy a farm or to operate;and there's no money coming in; you feel awfullyinsecure.Interviewer: Uh-huh.Sharon Beck: But if you've got a fairly good amount of your ranch paid off; you've got that to fall back on. You can alwaysthink of that as a security. If everything else fails;if you can’t pay for your operating expenses…Interviewer: Uh-huh.Sharon Beck: ...you can always sell your equity in your ranch. So it isn't complete disaster.Interviewer: But it's not something that bothers you terribly. I mean; it's a fact of life. It's sort of...Sharon Beck: Something you live with; yeah...Interviewer:... part of the thing. The role of the wife in this situation is quite different than that of a suburbanhousewife. You don't have much free time; do you Sharon Beck: No.Interviewer: Because; essentially; you work in much the same way that your husband does.Sharon Beck: Yes; I'm usually with him.Interviewer: How do you handle the whole family-life situation—children You're out almost as much as aworking mother in the city; aren't youSharon Beck: Yes. The only difference is we're together. Interviewer: The children too...Sharon Beck: The children too. When they're not in school; when they were small; they were with us. When they were very small;of course; I didn't go out as much.Interviewer: Do you feel that there are advantages in growing up in this waySharon Beck: Yeah; I definitely feel that there're advantages. There are disadvantages too; but I think the advantages faroutweigh the disadvantages.Interviewer: What are some of those advantages you think thechildren haveSharon Beck: The advantagesInterviewer: Uh-huh.Sharon Beck: Well; they're a lot more self-reliant. They learn to work. Erm; they learn responsibility.Interviewer: Uh-huh.Sharon Beck: They learn a lot about life by being continually in life; with animals; and... I think it makes them...erm... They grow up。

Unit 1 Social CustomsTask 1A.1. She wanted to see St. Paul’s Cathedral.2. She was so surprised because she saw so many Englishmen who looked alike.3. They were all wearing dark suits and bowler hats, carrying umbrellas and newspapers.4. Because she had often read about them and seen photographs of them, who alllooked as if they were wearing a uniform.5. No, he didn’t.6. He used the English saying “It takes all kinds to make a world” to prove his opinion.B.If all the seas were one sea, what a great sea it would be! And if all the trees were one tree, what a great tree it would be! And if this tree were to fall in the sea, what a great splash there would be!Task 2A.1. people were much busier2. colder than England, minus thirty degrees, last longer3. much more mountainous, much higher and much more rocky, more beautiful4. tend to be more crowded5. the houses, smallerB．1) T 2) T 3) F 4) F 5) FTask 3A.1) In the US, people usually dance just to enjoy themselves, they don’t invite otherpeople to watch them.2) Usually eight people dance together.3) Because people form a square in dancing with a man and a woman on each sideof the square.4) He usually makes it into a song.5) They wear old-fashioned clothes.B.1) F 2) T 3) F 4) F 5) TC.1) eight people form a square, on each side of the square.2) What they should do, makes it into a song, sings it.3) don’t have much time to think4) old-fashioned clothes, pretty to watch.Task 41) It was a time to celebrate the end of winter and the beginning of spring.2) They burned the picture of their kitchen god to bring good luck.3) The custom s aid the brides must wear “something old, something new, somethingborrowed, and something blue” to bring good luck.4) Because they could not eat meat, eggs or dairy products during Lent, so they triedto use up these things before Lent began.5) It was a straw man made by children in Czech, it was a figure of death.6) People brought their animals to church. And before the animals went into thechurch people dressed them up in flowers and ribbons.Task 5A.1) F 2) T 3) F 4) T 5) F 6) T 7) TTask 6A.1) b 2) a 3) c 4) aB.1) family unit, process, change, used to be, the extended , the nuclear2) job patterns, progressed, agricultural, industrial, forced, jobopportunities, split up3) traditio nal, 缺，family, other living arrangementsC.1) mother, father, children, and some other relatives such as grandparents, living inthe same house or nearby.2) only the parents and the children.3) previously married men and women marry again and combine the children fromformer marriages into a new family.Task 7A.1) c 2) c 3) a 4) b 5) c 6) c 7) cTask 8A.1) a 2) c 3) b 4) c 5) c 6) b 7) c 8) bB.1) T 2) T 3) F 4) F 5) T 6) F 7) F 8) F 9) T 10) FTask 9Social custo ms and ways of behaving change. But they do not necessarily always change for the better. Things which were considered impo lite many years ago are no w acceptable. Just a few years ago, it was considered impo lite behavio ur for a ma n to smoke o n the street. No man who thought o f himself as being a gentleman wo uld make a foo l o f himself by smok ing when a lad y was in the roo m.The important thing to remember about social custo ms is not to do anything that might make other people feel unco mfortab le—especially if they are yo ur guests. There is a story about a rich nob leman who had a very formal dinner party. When the food was served, one of the guests started to eat his peas with a knife. Other guests were amused or shocked, but the nob le man calmly p icked up his knife and began eating in the same way. It wo uld have been bad manners to make his guest feel foolish or unco mfortab le.Unit 2 WeatherTask 11) b 2) a 3) dTask 2A.1) T 2) F 3) FB.1) d 2) c 3) cC.Climate, reputatio n, extraord inary, unreliab le, dry, wet, clear, dull, hot, cold, bad, mildTask 3I. the co untryTrees, grass, lakes and steamsII. A. 1. concrete, iro n, steel2. take in the heat during the day and thro w o f heat into the air at nightB. Warmer wintersCar engines , electrical app lianceIII. A. air pollutio n may stop sunlight fro m reaching the earthB. 1. Ice near the North and South po les to melt2. to be slo wly fo lded and peop le living in these cities to mo ve tohigher land.Task 4A.1) b 2) cB.night, delight, morning, warning, gray, way, red, headC.1) F 2) T 3 )FTask 51) c 2) b 3) d 4) c 5) cTask 6A.1) F 2) T 3) F 4) T 5) F 6) TB.incred ib le, one minute, kilo meter, destroyed, lifted up, carried away, killed, injuredTask 7A.1) b 2) a 3) bB.1) It has been nice weather during the day, but it is going to change at night.2) Fine weather in southern Europe and not so nice in Northern Europe.C.For todaySoutheast England Maximu m temperatures of around 21 degreesSouthern Scotland 26 degrees Celsius b y mid-afternoo n Brighto n 23 degrees Celsius by early afternoo n Mid lands Light showers aro und midday Northwest of Scotland 15 ho urs of lo vely sunshineFor the weekendSpain Clo ud y b ut mainly dry with sunny periods, 23 degrees CelsiusGreece Heavy rain, 17 degrees CelsiusFrance Cloud y with rain, maximu m temperatures o f 22 degreesNorthern Ireland 34 degrees CelsiusMost of England 32 degrees CelsiusTask 9A. 1)ⅹ2)ⅹ3)√ 4)ⅹ5)ⅹ6)√ 7)√B.[f]→[c]→[a]→[d]→[b]→[e]C.1) F 2) T 3) F 4) FD.1) d 2) bTask 10Undo ubted ly, Tibet is one o f the harshest places for human existence. It is cool in summer but freezing co ld in winter. In Lhasa, the mildest city in Tibet, temperatures may exceed 29 degrees Celsius in summer while plummeting to -16 degrees Celsius in winter! Sun radiatio n is extremely strong in Tibet. The sunlight in Lhasa is so intense that the city is called Sunlight City. The thin air can neither block off nor retain heat so that thereare great temperature extremes o n the same day! The average temperature in northern Tibet is sub zero and winter arrives in October until the fo llo wing May or June. July and August are the best time to visit the area, enjo ying warm temperatures, intense sunshine, beautiful scenery and festive events. May, June and September represent the tourist season in east Tibet. In winter, roads are all blocked by heavy sno w. Landslides and rock falls freq uently occur, which will make travel difficult.Unit 3 Social IssuesTask 1A.1. Stress on the job costs American companies as much as $150 billion a year in lowerproductivity, unnecessary employee sick leave, and higher medical costs.2. The most stressful professions are those that involve danger and extreme pressureand those that carry a lot of responsibilities without much control.3. The best way to deal with stress is through relaxation, but sometimes the onlyanswer is to fight back or walk away.B.1. Three-quarters2. psychologists, doctors3. nervousness, anger, frequent illness, forgetfulness, mental problemsTask 2A.1) give in so easily to hijackers’ demands.a) threaten to blow up a plane, commit some other outrage.b) hold out against this kind of blackmail, always have terrorists, Start executingterrorists automatically.c) be prepared to face the consequences of evil.2) a) It’s the lesser of two evils. Terrorists have proven often enough that they reallymean business.b) Innocent lives, threatening the innocent will achieve its endsB.She implies that if the first speaker was one of the victims of terrorism, she would want the government to give in to the demands so that she wouldn’t die.Task 3A.1) thirty-five, natural lights, a small window, hot, airless, very noisy.2) Mexico3) ought to, shouldn’tB.1) It is located in a narrow street with five-and six-storey buildings eight kilometersfrom downtown Los Angeles.2) This factory makes shirts and jeans.3) She’s already been working for ten hours, but she won’t stop for another two hours.4) She can’t complain about those things because she is an illegal immigrant.Task 4A.social trends1) marked differencesa) one hour more every day, three hours more every week.b) 1%, cleaning and ironing, keep household accounts, do repairs or improvementsc) 30%2) leisure activities, watching television, 20 hours a week, going for walks, Swimming,British womenB.Unlike the other couples, Carla has always kept her own accounts and Adrian has always done his own housework. Neither of them like watching television very much and they both like swimming.Task 5A.How a city in Japan solve the problem of garbage disposal.160 million, every year, 10%, 10%, the rest,public cooperation.1) garbage that can be easily burned, kitchen and garden trash.2) electrical appliances, plastic tools, plastic toys3) are poisonous, cause pollution, batteries4) bottles and glass containers that can be recycled5) mental containers that can be recycled6) furniture and bicycleson different days, on request, fertilizer, to produce electricity, recycled, cleaned, repaired, resold cheaply, given awayB.1) The garbage will be taken to a center that looks like a clean new office building orhospital. Inside the center, special equipment is used to sort and process the garbage.2) Official from cities around the world visit Machida to see whether they can usesome of these ideas and techniques to solve their own garbage disposal problems. Task 61. They were talking about Mrs. Carter.2. She was a tall, handsome woman who used to come into the shop at least twice aweek.3. She lived alone in a large house on an old farm—about three miles from the shop.4. He was absolutely certain, otherwise he would never call the police. His evidencewas this: First, he saw her do it; second, he found the things in her bag; third, she had done it before.5. Because two young people saw her. The shopkeeper believed that if they didn’tpunish her, young people would think that stealing didn’t matter.6. The judge thought that it was a difficult case from a humanitarian point of view.The excuses he found for her were: First, the woman was old and she lived alone—she was lonely. Second, she wasn’t poor—she was well-known for her generosity to charities and she didn’t need to steal. The items were only wor th a pound or two. Third, she pleaded not guilty and said she didn’t know that she had done it.Task 7A.not all modern cities are alike, modern city1) a single high-density centre, skyscraper, motorways, as far as you can see.2) the low-density multi-center city, a large collection of a number of small centres,shopping centres, factories, businesses, skyscrapersB.1) He thinks that the second type (the Los Angeles model) is more sensible.2) He considers it highly likely that the kind of city we know now will completelydisappear.Task 8A.1) He thinks that this country’s problems all come from inflation, which is the resultof the Democrat’s careless spending.2) No, she doesn’t agree with Ned. She believes that the problem is unemployment.If the government cuts spending too much, people will fall into a vicious circle of more unemployment and fewer taxpayers to share the burden.3) She agrees with Barbara. She believes that unemployment is a big problem,especially in the big industrial ci ties. And the government isn’t doing very much to help the big industries out.4) He believes in the free market system rather than government regulation orprotection. He thinks that without a lot of government interference everything will be okay.5) N o, they think it’s bad for the weak, the poor and the unprotected / it’s bad for theunderprivileged.B.More and more money, come from somewhere, higher taxes and high pricesTask 9A.1) The problem is whether or not the inner city—the core of most urban areas—willmanage to survive at all.2) They moved to the suburbs in search of fresh air, elbow room, and privacy.3) As a result, suburbs began to sprawl out across the countryside. Many citiesbegan to fall into disrepair. And many downtown areas existed for business only.4) The result was that urban centers declined even further and the suburbs expandedstill more.5) Because from the decision of the Taylors and many other young couples, we cansee that some people may be tired of spending long hours commuting, and they may have begun to miss the advantages of culture and companionship provided by city life.B.1) F 2) T 3) F 4) F 5) T 6) TC.1) middle-class, tax money, neighborhoods2) Crime, public transportation3) housing construction costs, was allowed to, constructedTask 10A.1) 54, 20, 1980, 70,0002) 30, 19803) a newspaper article, to research the market4) another few months, in April 1981, a 1500 sq. ft5) third, Canada, America, 20%, £1 million6) 20, 70, 3B.1) F 2) T 3) F 4) F 5) TC.1) He was deeply involved in the present job and rather enjoyed himself. He thoughtthe shop was his own little baby and thought it was fun to serve behind the counter. However, he also thought that there was a lot more hard work than he was used to; he was working over the weekend doing his books. He called his old job “boring trips to Manchester to sell vast quantities of PVC”.2) He thought that there was far more job satisfaction, and believed that he wasmaking money, rather than making money for other people.3) He’s about to diversify into commercial distribution of imported and domesticallyproduced wine and wines he’s producing himself.Task 11I could hear the guard blowing his whistle, so I ran on to the platform and up to the train. Luckily, someone saw me coming, a door opened, and I jumped on while the train was moving out of the station. “Phew!” I thought. “That was hard work!” I was sure the other passengers could hear my heart beating; it was so loud, and I was in a cold sweat.After a while, I recovered, and had a look at the other passenger. The compartmentwas full, but I was the only one standing. The people in the carriage turned their eyes away as they noticed me looking at them. All except one, a beautiful woman sitting in the corner. I saw her watching me in the mirror. Automatically, I adjusted my tie. She had seen me running for the train: maybe this was my lucky day after all. I prepared to say hello.She spoke first, however. “Would you like my seat?” she asked. “Y ou look rather ill.” That was the day on which I realized I was getting middle-aged.。

Key to the Exercises Part II VocabularyI Translate1) From English into Chinese(1)学校教职员工(2)政治上的成熟(3)成长过程中的变化(4)认同危机(5)恋爱关系(6)遗传工程(7)学术生活(8)偶然事件(9)民族认同(10)青春期(11)种族偏见(12)每天工作日程(13)伦理道德观念(14)处理日常生活的能力(15)历史背景(16)异性(17)感情上的支持(18)生活方式2) From Chinese into English(1)to pursue an education(2)to acquire knowledge(3)to handle the case(4)to define the word(5)to select one’s major(6)to resent the treatment(7)to establish their identity(8)to frustrate the students(9)to declare war(10)to d rag one’s feet(11)to evaluate the result(12)to process knowledge(13)to perform one’s duty(14)to narrow the gap(15)to expand business(16)to expect better results(17)to assemble cars(18)to present facts2. Give synonyms and antonyms of the following. Give synonyms:(1)objective，purpose，end(2)to happen(3)to increase／to enlarge／to grow／to develop(4)to try／to attempt／to make an effort(5)clear(6)magazine(7)choice(8)to choose／to pick or pick out(9)main／chief／principal／leading(10)belief(11)strong feeling(12)to get／to gain／to obtain Give antonyms:(1)masculine(2)immature(3)independence(4)inferior(5)incompetent(6)minor(7)to narrow(8)innocence(9)to exclude(10)disapproval(11)mistrust／distrust(12)inequality(13)to discourage(14)to grow／to increase／to expand(15)indistinct／unclear／Vague(16)impractical／unpractical／theoretical3. Fill in the blanks with the proper form.1)handle2)occurrence3)handle4)involved5)observant，occurrence6)observation，observed，occur7)involve8)application9)occurred，apply10)observers，handled11)involvement12)observation4. Translate.1)She intends to apply for that academic position．2)He is so devoted to his research that the idea that he will soon have to retirenever occurs to him．3)Many people have observed that，without effective checks，we have a tendency toabuse our power·4)Students must observe carefully how good writers use words.5)Some countries refuse to get involved in this dispute and they resent any foreign interference．6)How do you think we should handle the drug problem?7)According to the agreement，all business policies should apply to everybody withoutany prejudice．8)The control of the sand storms will involve a tremendous amount of work and money．9)You have to take into consideration the local conditions when you apply these technologies．10)All applicants will have to fill out this form and mail in an application feeof 50 dollars．11)Based on his careful observation of childr en’s behavior he came to the conclusionthat learning is a natural pleasure．12)In a country of many nationalities，ethnic harmony requires very careful handling．13)The government is determined to punish all the corrupt officials involved．14)Cheating at exams does not occur very often．But when it does，the school takesa very tough position．5. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word.1) C. 2) A. 3) B. 4) A./D. 5) B. 6) D. 7) D. 8) A.9) B. 10) C. 11) A. 12) C. 13) D. 14) A. 15) B. 16) D. 17) A. 18) D.6. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank.1) (1) object (2) objectives (3) objective (4) objective (5) objects2) (1) requires (2) requires (3) acquire (4) acquire (5) inquire3) (1) entrusted (2) entrusted (3) trust (4) believe (5) trust4) (1) repaid (2) pay, repay (3) place (4) repay (5) placed,replaced5) (1) anxious (2) anxiously (3) eager (4) eager/anxious (5)eager/anxious7. Choose the best word or phrase for each blank fromthe four supplied in brackets.(1) suggested (4) but (7) eventually (10) what (13) derive(2) primarily (5) remained (8) regrets (11) where (14) lacking(3) told (6) consisted (9) pursuing (12) Although (15) droppingPart III Grammar1. Observe these sentences and identify the object ofthe italicized verb or preposition, and find out howit is expressed.1) them: pronoun2) who they are and what their strengths and weaknesses are: two wh-clauses3) to enter the work world: an infinitive phrase4) that there are four distinct aspects to psychological separation from one'sparents: a that-clause5) where they are in the independence/dependence struggle: a wh-clause6) how to give and receive affection in the adult world: a wh-clause7) very little: pronoun8) how they react to new knowledge and new ways of learning, how they process the knowledge presented to them, and how they organize this knowledge: three wh-clauses9) shuddering: a gerund10) drifting down: a gerund phrase11) herself: a reflective pronoun12) how to let loose a plague capable of destroying whole nations: wh-word +to-infinitive13) what to say: wh-word +to-infinitive14) whether it had been storming for three or four days: a noun clause introduced by "whether"15) (need) charity, a noun; (help) themselves: a reflexive pronoun; (told) Millard:a proper noun2. Practice using correct object formsI) Complete the sentences with one appropriate word.(1) what (3) what (5) it (7) why (9) everything(2) yourself (4) whether (6) others (8) which/how (10) much2) Choose the right form, the infinitive or the gerund of the verb in brackets, for the blanks.(1) feeling (4) being; being/to be (7) to stay (10) being recognized(2) to change (5) to go (8) not to see(3) becoming (6) thinking (9) having fallen behind3) Translate these sentences into English.(1) In the negotiations, the two sides found they had little in common.(2) More and more old people are learning how to surf/use the Internet.(3) Don't forget to write down your name on the exam paper.(4) We must bear in mind that there is no shortcut in learning.(5) He never regretted having shifted from business to politics.(6) I'd like to have a chat with you about your term paper sometime this week.(7) Like sports, learning a foreign language requires a lot of practice.(8) They all remember where they were when they heard the shocking news.(9) People learn little from victory, but much more from defeat.(10) Whenever you face a decision you have three choices, do what you please; do what others do; or do what is right.4. Complete these sentences by translating the Chinese in brackets, using the word “way”.1) a poet’s way of telling us2) the only way to learn a foreign language well3) no easy way to say good-bye .,4) the way they all stared at me5) some aspects of the way we speak6) (many) ways to get data into a computer7) The way I judge it ,.-,8) a way of delivering the secret message9) a way to stop the leak10) the way the children responded to their questions5. Put in appropriate determiners where necessary usinga “/” when none is needed.a, his, a, his, the, an, The, the/a, a, the, the, The, the, /, The, his, the, the 6. Complete each of the following sentences with the most likely answer.1) D. 3) A. 5) B. 7) A. 9) D 11) C. 13) A. 15) A.2) C. 4) D. 6) D. 8) B. 10) B 12) B 14) C.(In colloquial English, A is possible for No. 12)-----精心整理，希望对您有所帮助!。

Unit 3 Film and TV《现代大学英语听力3》听力原文及答案Task 1【答案】A. 1) F 2) T 3) T 4) F 5) T 6) TB.1) She takes care of the Jotmsons' children when their mother is sick.2) When they got to the theater, they found that the G movie wasn’t there any more. Th e theater was showing an X-rated movie called GIRLS.3) Since she didn’t know what X meant, she thought a movie about "girls" would be fine for littlegirls.【原文】Jack: Did you hear what happened to Helga? She almost lost her job.Mary: I didn't know she had one.Jack: Well, it's just a part-time job. Helga takes care of the Jotmsons' children when their mother is sick. Mrs. Johnson hasn't been well lately.Mary: What happened? Why did Helga almost lose her job?Jack: Well, there was a children's movie advertised at the neighborhood theater last Saturday. It was one of those G movies, for general audiences.Mary: I suppose Helga took the Johnson children to the movie. Wasn't that all right?Jack: Yes, but here is what happened. When they got to the theater, they found that the G movie wasn't there any more. The theater was showing an X-rated movie called GIRLS.Mary: X-rated movies are really bad, aren't they?Jack: They're even worse than R-rated ones which teenagers aren't supposed to see. But Helga didn't know what X meant, and she thought a movie about "girls" would be fine for little girls. Mary: Did the theater let her in?Jack: No, but Helga tried to make them let her in. The manager had to call Mrs. Johnson. That's how she almost lost her job.Task 2【答案】A. 1) F 2) T 3) T 4) F 5) F 6) FB.Judy watched a bit of TV last night. Before the football came on, she switched over just to protest, for she couldn’t bear football, and thus she saw the end of the film The Graduate. When the football came on, she turned over to a programme on foxes. After the foxes, she turned over back to see who won the football, but only saw the beginning of the News. Then she packed up and went to bed.【原文】Stuart: What did you do last night then? Did you work all night?Judy: Yes, I did some work, but I watched a bit of TV ... Got to relax, you know.Stuart: Did you watch the football?Judy: No, no I didn't. I can't bear football.Stuart: Really?Judy: Yes. I really hate it. Well, actually, just before the football came on, I switched over just to ... just to protest.Stuart: What did you see then?Judy: Well, I saw the programme before ... just the end of a film that was on before the football. It looked quitegood actually. It's a shame I didn't switch on earlier. It was some kind of love story ... with Dustin Hoffman, you know, The erm ...Stuart: The Graduate?Judy: That's it. The Graduate.Stuart: Yes. I know. I've seen that. Yes, good film.Judy: Yes, and nice music. And then, when the football came on I turned over.Stuart: Terrible, terrible!Judy: I hate it! I really can't stand it.Stuart: It was a great game!Judy: Yes? Who was playing?Stuart: England, of course. What did you see then, that was more important than football? Judy: Foxes. Yes, a good programme on foxes. Yes, they spent ages watching these foxes in a house. They werewatching them all night and these little baby foxes. It was tremendous.Stuart: Yes, sounds all right.Judy: Yes, it was good—better than football ... and then, then I turned over, back to the other channel to see whowon the football, but I missed it and I just saw the beginning of the news and packed up and went to bed.Stuart: Well, I'm sorry you missed it. It was a good game.Judy: Who did win?Stuart: England, of course. Who do you think? Six nil. Yes.Judy: Must have been quite good then!Stuart: Yes, it was good, actually. It was very good.Task 3【答案】A. 1) b) 2) c)B. 1) F 2) F 3) FC.Topic: How the movies are producedThesis: There are six basic steps that are normally followed in the production of a full-length film. Steps: First step—finding a property; two types of properties1) An original storye.g. Star Wars, Back to the Future, Rocky2) A property from a novel, play, or musicale.g. The Sound of Music, Tess, The GodfatherSecond step—writing the script; two options1) The original writer takes part in the production of the script2) Directors write the scripts themselves【原文】Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! Let's start this introduction to filmmaking with a simple question: How many of you have seen a movie this week? It doesn't matter if it was at the theater or just on your own TV... Uhhuh, just as I thought, almost all of you have.Of course, most of us love the movies—the magic, the escape that they provide, but most of us rarely stop to think about the process of making a movie. Just what does it take to get that movie from the idea stage to the final product? What are the decisions that must be made? What problems are encountered? Exactly how does a movie studio go about making a movie? These are precisely the topics that we will be exploring today.There are six basic steps that are normally followed in the production of a full-length film. I'll outline them for you.The first step is rather obvious--to make a film you must have an idea.., a story...some topic for the project. The studio must find a property. That's a key word, folks—property, p-r-o-p-e-r-t-y. You all know the common meaning of this word, of course, but in filmmaking the word "property" has a very specific meaning. A property is the story on which the movie will be based. Okay, it's the story on which the movie is based. You are probably wondering why we call it a property. Well, it belongs to someone; it is that person's "property" and must be acquired by the studio, sometimes for quite a large sum of money.There are basically two kinds of properties. The first is an original story that has never appeared anywhere before—never been in a book, or magazine, or another film. In other words, the story is intended from the very beginning to be made into a movie.Star Wars is one good example of this type of property—you do remember that famous science fiction film, don't you? Another example is Back to the Future—oh, and also Rocky. All of these were based on a story written only for the purpose of making a movie.Actually though, the majority of properties, for famous films at least, come from novels, plays, or musicals that are already published. Examples of this type of property include The Sound of Music, which was originally a play, Tess, a famous novel, and The Godfather, which was also first a novel.Okay, that's step number one—finding a property.Well, now we have the property. The next step is to prepare a script from that property. This part of the process can take several months or sometimes even a year or more. It's quite a lengthy and time-consuming process. During this time, the scriptwriter, producer, and director usually work very closely with each other.Recently, there has been a trend to also have the original writer—the original property owner—take part in the production of the script. This means that if the property is taken from a book or play, the original author of the book or play is involved in writing the script. This is a good trend, I think. Who could possibly know the story better or understand it more clearly than its original creator?Another option, however, is for directors to write scripts themselves. This often occurs because scriptwriters are not only responsible for the dialog, but they also must specify what kind of camera shots they want used. For instance, in all scenes, and especially long scenes that don't haveany dialog, the scriptwriter must describe what the camera should focus on, what should be in the center of the shot, what mood the image should present. Directors have much more experience with camera work and often prefer to write the script themselves for this reason.So that's step number two—writing the script.Task 4【答案】A. 1) a) 2) a)B. 1) F 2) F 3) TC.Topic: How movies are producedThesis: There are six basic steps that are normally followed in the production of a full-length film. Steps: Third step—casting the film; two types of casting1) Building the movie around a famous starAdvantages: A famous star is a great asset to the film. It attracts fans automatically. Financial success of the movie depends on how many people come to see it.Disadvantages: Famous star are very expensive. They take attention away from the story itself. They distract the audience.2) Casting movies with unknown actors and actressesAdvantages: Movie centers around the story itself. Make the movie more believable.Fourth step—filming the movie; done in two types of places1) Soundstages—both pictures and dialogs are recorded.2) Partially filmed on location—in a real setting.Note: all the scenes with a big star can done first, or all the scenes shot at the same location can be filmed at the same time.【原文】Okay, now the script is finished and approved, and we are ready for the next step—a very critical step indeed—the casting of the film.The success or failure of a movie can depend on the ability of the actors and actresses to convince us that they really are the characters that they are portraying. The producer and the director must choose the cast very, very carefully. This step of choosing the actors and actresses is called casting. Got it? Casting is choosing the actors and actresses, the cast of the movie.There are, in general, two types of casting. The first and the most common approach is to build the movie around a famous star. It is obvious that having a well-recognized name in the cast is a great asset to the film. Having someone, like Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, or Harrison Ford will automatically attract large numbers of their fans to the movie. And of course, the financial success of the movie depends on how many people come to see it.Now, there is also a second type of casting, and it has worked very well at times. Although it is true that top stars can attract audiences, they are also very, very expensive. With this in mind, some producers and directors cast their movies with unknown actors and actresses, concentrating on who fits the part the best, not who has the biggest name.Actually, this approach, as I said, can work quite well because sometimes a big star can actually take attention away from the story itself. In other words, the stars distract the audience! The audience focuses on the star, not on the story. One example of this second type of casting is themovie E. T., which is, in fact, one of the most popular movies of all time.Unknown child actors and actresses were hired and the movie centered around the story itself. The producer and director probably thought that unknown actors would make the movie more believable. A big star might actually hurt that movie.Well, on to the next step.After the casting has been completed, the fourth step, filming the movie, can begin. Filming any kind of major motion picture usually takes about six to eight months. Now, you might not know this, but filming rarely takes place in the same order as the story. The reason for shooting in a different time order is that all the scenes with a big star can be done first, or all the scenes shot at the same location can be filmed at the same time. So what happens is this: The order scenes are filmed in and the order they appear in the movie are almost always completely different. It would be inconvenient and costs would increase dramatically if scenes were filmed in the order that we see them in the finished movie.The filming itself is done in two types of places. The first is studio buildings called soundstages. They were given this name because both pictures and dialogs are recorded there. These soundstages can be made to appear like almost anything—from a fourteenth-century town to a small hotel room.In addition to soundstages, most movies are partially filmed on location—in a real setting. On location means that the actors, actresses, film crew, and other necessary personnel must travel to a place like, maybe, a South American jungle or downtown Paris, or wherever, for filming certain scenes.This makes the movie more interesting and realistic. Indoor scenes can easily be filmed on a soundstage, but scenes that require extensive use of outdoor scenery or use famous places as backgrounds must be done on location to be realistic.As you can imagine, the costs of filming on location are enormous. People and equipment must be flown to the place, living accommodations must be found, and food has to be provided for a large number of people. There are lots of practical problems like these. The added realism of filming on location adds a lot of expense to a film.Task 5【答案】2) we never fond it difficult to occupy our spare time3) We used to enjoy civilized pleasures4) All our free time is regulated by TV5) It demands and obtains absolute silence and attention6) Whole generations are growing up addicted to it7) It is a universal pacifier8) rubbishy commercials or spectacles of sadism and violence9) vast quantities of creative work10) they can’t keep pace with the demand and maintain high standards as well11) becomes a village, is reduced to preliterate communities, utterly dependent on pictures and the spoken word12) It encourages passive enjoyment13) It cuts us off from the real world14) from communicating with each other15) how totally irrelevant television is to real living【原文】―Yes, but what did we use to do before there was television?‖ How often we hear statements like this! Television hasn’t been with us all that long, but we are already beginning to forget what the world was like without it. Before we admitted the one-eyed monster into our homes, we never fond it difficult to occupy our spare time. We used to enjoy civilized pleasures. For instance, we used to have hobbies; we used to entertain our friends and be entertained by them; we used to go outside for our amusements to theatres, cinemas, restaurants and sporting events. We even used to read books and listen to music and broadcast talks occasionally. All that belongs to the past. Now all our free time is regulated by the ―goggle box‖. We rush home or gulp down our meals to be in time for this or that programme. We have even given up sitting at table and having a leisurely evening meal, exchanging the news of the day. A sandwich and a glass of beer will do anything, providing it doesn’t interfere with the programme. The monster demands and obtains absolute silence and attention. If any member of the family dares to open his mouth during a programme, he is quickly silenced.Whole generations are growing up addicted to the telly. Food is left uneaten, homework undone and sleep is lost. The telly is a universal pacifier. It is now standard practice for mother to keep the children quiet by putting them in the living-room and turning on the set. It doesn’t matter that the children will watch rubbishy commercials or spectacles of sadism and violence – so long as they are quiet. There is a limit to the amount of creative talent available in the world. Every day, television consumes vast quantities of creative work. That is why most of the programmes are so bad: it is impossible to keep pace with the demand and maintain high standards as well. When millions watch the same programmes, the whole world becomes a village, and society is reduced to the conditions which obtain in preliterate communities. We become utterly dependent on the two most primitive media of communication: pictures and the spoken word.Television encourages passive enjoyment. We become content with second-hand experiences. It is so easy to sit in our armchairs watching others working. Little by little, television cuts us off from the real world. We get so lazy – we choose to spend a fine day in semi-darkness, glued to our sets, rather than go out into the world itself. Television may be s splendid medium of communication, but it prevents us from communicating with each other. We only become aware how totally irrelevant television is to real living when we spend a holiday by the sea or in the mountains, far away from civilization. In quiet, natural surroundings, we quickly discover how little we miss the hypnotic tyranny of King Telly.Task 6【答案】A.1) It came from Alan’s eldest son.2) Because there were lots of children in a film about gangsters in New York.3) They visited ordinary schools and stage schools and Christmas shows all over America, and looked forAmerican children in Britain, too. Alan saw about 100 videos of Christmas shows and auditioned over 10,000children.4) All the clothes had to be in the right style but in small sizes, even the gangster hats.B. 1) c 2) e 3) a 4) b 5) f 6) d【原文】Mike: Welcome to Radio Time, and this month's edition of Film World. I'm very pleased to have Alan Parker with me for today's program. Alan, you made one of the most famous and popular children's films of all time—Bugsy Malone. Tell me, when did you first think of the idea for Bugsy Malone?Alan: Well, I have to say that I didn't think of the idea myself. It came from my eldest son. Mike: Ah, so you knew it was a good idea for a children's film.Alan: Yes. I took the idea and wrote the full story. That was in 1973.Mike: Was it difficult to write?Alan: No, it was more difficult to get the money to make the film. A lot of people thought it was a strange idea—lots of children in a film about gangsters in New York.Mike: Is it a true story?Alan: Not quite. But there were two gangs in New York in 1929, the year of my story.Mike: How did you choose the actors?Alan: That was a lot of work. We visited ordinary schools and stage schools and Christmas shows all over America. And we looked for American children in Britain, too. I saw about 100 videos of Christmas shows, and we auditioned over 10,000 children for the cast.Mike: So there was a lot of competition to get a part?Alan: Oh yes, but there always is.Mike: How long did it take to film Bugsy Malone?Alan: Eleven weeks. The filming was quite quick in fact. But we had to do a lot of work first. We needed 300 costumes, I remember. And all the clothes had to be in the right style but in small sizes, even the gangster hats.Task 7【答案】A.1)T 2)F 3)T 4)T 5)F 6)F 7)F 8)FB.1) a) 2) b) 3) a) 4) c) 5) b) 6) b) 7) b) 8) c)【原文】Matthew: Television is undoubtedly a great invention, but one of the main criticisms of it is that people just aren't selective enough. Lesley, you’v e got a television; how do you pick out the sorts of programmes you want to watch?Lesley: I try and look at the prograxnmes that are on to decide which particular ones interest me, rather than you turning it on a seven o'clock and you leaving it on until half-past eleven when the programmes finish.Matthew: Do you think of television though as a great time-waster?Lesley: Un ...I think it can be a time waster and it depends on how particular people are about…what you know, what they want to see. Um, it can just be a sort of total amusement for someone and totally consuming without really considering what it is they're watching. Matthew: Aha, but how do you prevent it coming into your life and taking over your evenings and at the same time perhaps get…ge t out of the television some of the sort of best things—bestprogrammes that... that undoubtedly are on television?Lesley: Well, I suppose one of the problems is...will depend on what a person's life style is, and that if he has other outside interests which are equally important to him as television, he will then, you know, be more careful about which programmes he wants to watch because he has time which he uses…wants to use for other things.Matthew: Do you think though that... that in…in a sense telev ision has killed people's own er...sort of , creativity or their ability to entertain themselves because…well, if they're bored all they do is just turn on the television?Lesley: Yes, I think that is a danger, and I think that’s…in fact…is what is happening to a lot of people who use it as their...their main field of amusement and... because they don't have other outside interests and even when people come round, they'll leave the television on and not be, you know, particularly interested in talking to them. You know the television will be the main thing in the room.Matthew: Henrietta, would you let your children spend many afternoons and evenings watching television or would you encourage them to go out and play?Henrietta: Well, it’s interesting. This... in fact, we really have had a policy of um... almost total restriction of viewing. I mean, my children are very small, they're four-and-a-half and two-and-a-half, and it's only very recently that we have even got into the habit of watchingPlayschool. I do tend to... um... I do try to... in fact I succeed in restricting their viewing solely to that and a couple ofprogrammes that follow it, but I don't like to see a child sit with an open mouth in front of a television set hour after hour, but I'm not anti-television at all. I myself watch quite a lot; I watch some comedy, I watch um... serials.., um the recent serialization of Jane Eyre was beautifully done and very interesting. I watch the news avidly.Matthew: Peter, have you got a television?Peter: I have, in fact I've got two televisions.Matthew: Do you watch them a lot?Peter: Er...no I...I watch very seldom. In fact, I find that I watch television most when I'm most when I'm working hardest and I need some sort of passive way of relaxing, something which requires nothing of me, then I watch television a lot. When I've got more energy left...um ...in my own private time, in my free time, then I find I do more different things. I do things like um reading, or going out, or working on anything…my ho bbies.Matthew: Do you think though that people can live a perfectly happy life if they haven't got a television?Peter: Oh, yes, I think people who don't have a television or people who don’t watch television can be expected to be happier. You can…if t hey never watch television, you can assume, I think, or you can guess that they are happier people than the people who watch a lot of television, because I think that television goes with the kind of life which leaves you with nothing to spare, nothing left. You have to be given potted, passive entertainment.Matthew: But in that case you ...you seem as though you're completely against television. Is that true?Peter: No, it's not. I...I have a television, in fact I have two as I said, but I...I ...I think there's a dilemma, a difficult situation. Television in itself is very good; a lot of the information and a lot of the programmes are very instructive; they introduce you to things you may never have thought of before or never have heard about before. But in watching, it makes you very passive; you sit forhour after hour and you get very receptive and very unquestioning and it seems to me the important thing in life is to be active, to do things, to think things and to be as creative as possible, and television prevents this.Task 8【答案】 1) d) 2) d) 3) c) 4) b) 5) a)【原文】Michael: I want to do something tonight for a change, let's go out.Brian: All right, let's go to the movies.Jane: In this heat? Are you joking?Brian: We can go to an outdoor movie. Do you think I'd suggest an indoor one in the middle of the summer inSan Diego?Michael: I'd rather go out for a meal.Jane: Yes, that sounds a better idea. The outdoor movies are so uncomfortable.Brian: Why don't we do both at the same time? We could pick up some take-away food and eat it in the movie.Michael: That sounds like fun. What a good idea.Jane: But they never show any good films in the summer. At least not any of the new ones. All you get is the oldclassics.Brian: And what's wrong with them?Jane: Oh nothing, it's just that we've seen them all half a dozen times.Brian: But that's why they're classics. They're worth seeing again and again.Michael: You've got a point there, Brian. My main objection to outdoor movies is that you can never hear properly.You hear all the traffic from outside.Brian: Well, we can find a foreign film with subtitles; then you don't need to hear the sound. Jane: Supposing it's a musical.Brian: Oh, trust you to say that! I think it would be fun to sit watching an old film and eating a meal at the sametime.Jane: Last time I went to an outdoor movie, I bought a bar of chocolate to eat as I went in. It was a horror filmand I was so shocked I just sat there holding my bar of chocolate until the interval when I found it hadmelted in my hand and run all down my dress. That was an expensive evening out.Michael: Well, we won't go and see a horror film, darling, and take-away meals don't melt.Task 9【答案】1) It is taken from a Greek word and a Latin word.2) TV provides jobs for hundreds of thousands who make TV sets and broadcasting equipment. It also provides work for actors, technicians, and others who put on programs.3) Some hospitals use TV to allow medical students to get close-up view of operations.4) By the mid-1960s, 90 percent of the households in the United States had at least one TV set5) Communications satellites televise programs ―live‖ from all over the world.6) By the middle 1960s, the national networks were broadcasting most of their programs in color. 【原文】Television, or TV, the modern wonder of electronics, brings the world into your own home in sight and sound. The name television comes from the Greek word tele, meaning ―far‖, and the Latin wordvidere, meaning ―to see‖. Thus, television means ―seeing far‖. In Great Britain, the popular word for television is ―telly‖.As an industry, TV provides jobs for hundreds of thousands who make TV sets and broadcasting equipment. It also provides work for actors, technicians, and others who put on programs. As an art, television brings the theater and other cultural events into the homes. Its influence on the life of average Americans is calculable: It can influence their thoughts, their likes and dislikes, their speech, and even their dress. It can also add to their store of knowledge. Through advertising television helps businesses and manufacturers sell their products to millions of persons. Television has brought political campaigns closer to the voters than in former days. Educational TV stations offer teaching in various subjects ranging from home nursing to art appreciation. Many large schools and universities have ―closed—circuit‖ television equipment that will telecast lectures and demonstrations to hundreds of students in different classrooms; and the lecture can be put on video tape to be kept for later use. Some hospitals use TV to allow medical students to get close-up view of operations.In 1946, after World War II, TV began to burst upon the American scene with a speed unforeseen even by the most optimistic leaders of the industry. The novelty of seeing TV pictures in the home caught the public’s fancy and began a revolution in the wo rld of entertainment. By 1950, television had grown into a major part of show business. Many film and stage stars began to perform on TV as television audiences increased. Stations that once telecast for only a few hours a day sometimes telecast around the clock in the 1960s.With the development of programming also came the introduction of television in full color. By the middle 1960s, the national networks were broadcasting most of their programs in color. The obvious appeal of television, whether in color or black-and-white, can be documented by the increasing number of TV sets in homes around the country. By the mid-1960s, 90 percent of the households in the United States had at least one TV set, and 12 percent had two or more sets. TV had become a part of the daily life of the adults and children of America.The programs that people watch are not only local and national ones. Since the launching of the first communications satellite, more and more programs are televised ―live‖ from all over the world. Television viewers in San Francisco were able to watch the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo by means of a communication satellite named Syncom. The Olympic Games in Mexico City and in Munich, Germany, were also telecast live as were parts of the historic visit of President Nixon to the People’s Republic of China.It looks as if the uses of television—in education, entertainment, and communication—appear to be endless. Certainly it is one of the major modern wonders of electronics in our changing world.Task 10【原文】。

Unit 1 Higher Educationtask2Now let me give you some idea of what you would see if you were to walk around Cambridge. Let us imagine that I am seeing the signs for the first time. It is a quiet market town and the shopping centre extends for quite a large area, but I notice more bookshops than one normally sees in country towns, and more tailors’shops showing in their windows the black gowns that students must wear--long gowns that hang down to the feet for graduates and shorter ones for undergraduates.In the centre of the town is the market place where several times each week country traders come to sell their produce. Everywhere there are teashops, some in modern and many in old buildings, reached by climbing narrow stairs. There is a great deal of bicycle traffic, mainly undergraduates who race along thoughtless of safety, with long scarves (in various colors to denote their college) wound round their necks.Continuing, I find my way to the river which flows behind the college buildings and curls about the town in the shape of a horseshoe. This narrow river is the Granta, and a little farther on changes its name to the Cam. It flows slowly and calmly. The “Backs;”as this part of the town behind the colleges is called, have been described as the loveliest man-made view in England. It is indeed beautiful. To the left, across the stream, there are no buildings, merely meadows, colleges’ gardens and lines of tall trees. Everything is very green and peaceful. On the river bank are willow trees with their branches bending into the water and, at intervals along the river, stone bridges cross the stream and lead into the colleges which line the right bank. The deep colored brick or stone of the college walls, sometimes red and sometimes grey, is 500 years old. The walls rise out of their own reflection in the water and their color contrasts charmingly with glimpses of the many green lawns.Walking along the river bank, where the only sound is the noise of the gentle wind in the tree tops, I came to my college, K ing’s College. Across a bridge and beyond a vast carpet of green lawn stands King’s College Chapel, the largest and most beautiful building in Cambridge and the most perfect example left of English fiftieth-century architecture.The colleges join one another along the curve of the river. Going through a college gate one finds one is standing in an almost square space of about 70 yards known as a “court”. Looking down into the court on all sides are the buildings where the students live. The colleges are built on a plan common to all. There is a chapel, a library, and a large dining-hall. One court leads to another and each is made beautiful with lawns or a fountain or charming old stone path. The student gets a good impression of all the English architectural styles of the past 600 years ---the bad as well as the good.There are 28 colleges, excluding three for women students. Women students do not play a very active part in university life at Cambridge, but they work harder than men.It is difficult to walk around the quiet courts of the colleges without feeling a sense of peace and scholarship. And the sense of peace that green lawns always suggest to me is found in the town too, for often one is surprised to meet open stretched of grass in the midst of the streets and houses giving a charmingly cool countryside effect and reminding one of the more graceful days of the eighteenth century .I’ll finish as I began on that note, the feeling one has here of the past in the present, of continuing tradition and firm faith.KEYA. a b a cB.1) They usually wear black gowns. Long gowns that hang down to the feet are forgraduates, and shorter ones for undergraduates.2) Women students do not play a very active part in university life at Cambridge, but theywork harder than men.C. 1) It is indeed beautiful .To the left, across the stream, there are no buildings, merely meadows, colleges’ gardens and lines of tall trees. Everything is very green and peaceful .On the river bank are willow trees with their branches bending into the water and, at intervals along the river, stone bridges cross the stream and lead into the colleges which line the right bank. The deep colored brick or stone of the college walls, sometimes red and sometimes grey, is 500 years old. The walls rise out of their own reflection in the water and their color contrasts charmingly with glimpses of the many green lawns.2) It is difficult to walk around the quiet courts of the colleges without feeling a sense of peace and scholarship. And the sense of peace that green lawns always suggest to me is found in the town too, for often one is surprised to meet open stretched of grass in the midst of the streets and houses giving a charmingly cool countryside effect and reminding one of the more graceful days of the eighteenth centuryTask 3On March 7, US Consul General David Hopper and three other officials from the Visa Section of the American Embassy met with students at Peking University .One of the officials presented “Five Secrets”for getting a student visa.Secret One:Get free, accurate information on applying for a student visa. Visit the US Embassy website. There is no charge for using these resources. Why pay to get the same information from other sources? Secret Two:Be thoroughly prepared .Make sure you bring:Your I-20 form (or IAP-66 form);Your diploma;Your standardized test score reports (TOEFL, GRE, GMA T, LSAT, etc);All letters and emails from the school, especially those that discuss scholarships, assistantships, fellowships and other forms of financial aidEvidence of funding for your studies (bank documents, etc);Your business cards (if you have a job);Any other documents that you think might be importantSecret Three:Answer those questions that are asked. Don’t give the visa officer a prepared speech! Here’s an example of what to avoidVisa officer: Hi, how are you today?Applicant: I’m going to study chemical engineering at X UniversityVisa officer: X University? I’ve been to the campus many times.Applicant: I will surely return to china and find a good job with a major multinationalcompany.Visa officer: So tell me, what color is the sky?Applicant: I was given a teaching assistantship because the school believes my test scores and credentials are excellent.These people are not communicating and the applicant is not advancing his cause!Secret FourTell the truth .If the visa officer thinks you’re lying, you won’t get a visaSecret FiveCome back to china. We mean that in two ways1: Come back to see your family and maintain your ties to China. Keep up your friendships and professional contacts here. Students returning on vacation don’t even need to come in for an interview; they can simply use the drop-box service offered at many CITIC Bank locations.2: Come back to China after you graduate. Use those advanced skills and theories that you learn in the US to make China a better placeKEYA. b cTask 4John: I disagree, Peter. I don’t think it really matters what your educational background is.Anyone who is bright enough is going to do well whatever their educationPeter: But John,…John：In fact, I think some people carry on with their education when they would do a lot better to get out and start building their own careers by learning things in real lifePeter: Yes, but the whole point is, life is getting so much more complicated these days that unless you carry on with your studies you just can’t copeJohn: For certain things, and certain people, okay .but to my mind, the big problem in education is that you specialize too quickly. I mean, in England, you start specializing from the third year in secondary school, when you’re about 14. And it gets steadily narrower until you do your A-level in only two or three subjects. You either do languages, or natural science, or social sciencePeter: But surely these days you have to John –you can’t possibly study everything, because there’s just too muchJohn: Yes, but how many kids at the age of 16 really know what they want to do? How many of them are convinced that the three subjects they’ve chosen, or have been recommended, are the ones that will let them follow the careers they eventually decide on?Peter: Oh, I think most young people who stay on at school have a fair idea of what they want to do.John: I’m not so sure, Peter. And after all ,that’s not the end of it .When they get to university in England ,the subjects they study are so narrow that they are only good for one things; so they are stuck with itPeter: But I don’t really see that there is any alternative if people are going to learn enough to be competent in their subject. They’ve got to specialize early, and I suppose those thatrealize they’ve made a mistake can always swap to something elseJohn: Ah, but that’s just it .You can’t .Suppose you study language at university and then decide that you are not cut out for it and would like to be a doctor .You’ve burnt your bridges.You can’t just change horses in midstream; you’ve got to go right back to the beginning and you lose years .I think the American system is much betterPeter: In what way?John: Well, for your first degree you’ve got to study a fairly wide range of subjects, and you can choose them yourself, within certain limitsPeter: Fine, but doesn’t that mean that American students with a first degree don’t have the depth of knowledge they should have?John: Should have for what?Peter: Well, they often aren’t accepted for postgraduate work in England with just a first degree. John: Maybe not, but I don’t really think that’s important. They come out with a pretty good general knowledge in a wide area .After all, when you think about a lot of the stuff English students have to study, what good is it to them afterwards? I’m sure the majority of British students never use 90 percent of what they studied at universityPeter: That maybe true of some arts subjects, but what about the science?John: Even there, a lot of what they do at university is so academic and abstruse that they will never be able to put it to any practical use. I’m sure they would benefit far more from on-the-job experience. And if they’ve had a broader course of study they’ve got two advantagesPeter: How do you mean?John: First of all, they will have a better understanding of the world in general, so they will be more flexible in their jobs, and then if things do go wrong they will be able to switch jobs more easilyPeter: That all sounds very simple, but I think you're still underestimating the amount of pure learning that you need these days, particularly in technical and scientific areas. I mean even at school these days, children have to learn far more things than we did when we were at schoolJohn: All the more reason why we should not try to concentrate on such a few things at such an early age. Things are changing so rapidly these days that we have to change with them.When we were younger, there was a pretty good chance that we would be able to carry on in the profession we’d chosen until we retired. But these days, people have got to be prepared to change their jobs and learn new skills as technology moves ahead. Take just the area of the office, for example. How many offices…KEYA.1) You are not well suited for it /You do not have the necessary qualities or abilities for it2) You cannot go back to the previous situation/you cannot change your mind3)You can’t change halfway the subjects you choose to studyB. b a c a a bC略Task 5That a record 572,509 foreign students from 180 countries attended colleges and universities in the US in the past academic year is perhaps the most vivid indication that there are important advantages in American higher education.No other country receives even half as many foreign students, yet international students represent only 3 percent of the total enrollment at US colleges and universities .In all ,some 15 million students attend America’s institutions of higher educationThese statistics illustrate four major features of the American higher education system which make it attractive to the domestic and foreign students: size, diversity, flexibility and accessibility.Today there are more than 3,600 institutions of higher education in the United States. Some of the large state university system, such as those in New York, California and Texas, comprise dozens of campuses and hundreds of thousands of enrolled students. Indeed, higher education has become one of the biggest “industries” in the US, employing some 3 million people The range and diversity of institution and program of study in the US are even more impressive. The system encompasses both prestigious private universities such as Harvard and Stanford, which are among the best in the world, and local publicly funded community colleges: both huge state university campuses enrolling 40,000-50,000 students and tiny private institutes with fewer than 100 students.American higher education is diverse in other ways, too. Not only do most colleges and universities enroll foreign students, but foreign faculties and visiting scholars play an important role on many campuses, particularly at the numbers of students and faculty from ethnic minorities, particularly Asian-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have been steadily increasing. As a result, the campus communities of many American universities reflect in microcosm the diversity of larger societyHigher education in the US is also unique in offering an enormous variety of subjects and course options, ranging from Aerospace Engineering to Women’s Studies and from Art to Zoology .Because it is dependent on tuition for funding, higher education in the US is student-centered and consumer-oriented: institutions teach what society as a whole thinks is useful .For example, the large public of different degree programs and have academic catalogues listing thousands of courses.The variety of programs and courses contributes to the flexibility of the American system. Undergraduates usually begin their program taking “general education”,“liberal arts”or “core curriculum” courses--in order that they might become more “well-rounded” students--and only later select their major in many cases, not until their second year.Because they do not specialize from the very beginning, undergraduate students have more options than their counterparts in other countries. Not infrequently, American undergraduates change their mind and decide to take a different major but this does not oblige them to start over, for at least part of their course work can still be applied to the new degreeMost academic programs include “elective course”which students can sometimes take outside their main field of study. This gives them added choice in planning their education, and enables them to broaden their perspective by learning about other subjects. Thus much is left up to the student, who is expected to choose from a bewildering variety of institutions, degree programs and courses, and often must depend on his /her academic advisers for help in planning a program of studyThe size, diversity and flexibility of the American higher education system all contribute to its accessibility. Americans take for granted that everyone, regardless of their origin, should have a right to a higher education, and opportunities do exist for a large percentage of college-age young people to pursue postsecondary studies. It should be remembered that in the US the category “higher education” can encompass vocational, technical, professinal and other specialized training Fundamental to American culture is the high value it places on education. At whatever level, education is considered a form of self-improvement, which can lead to new career opportunities, economic advances and personal betterment, regardless of one’s age. An increasing number of older ,”non-traditional “students are attending colleges and universities in the US, many having gone back including a large number of retires people ,enroll in noncredit college course (in other words, courses not leading to a degree)every yearKEYdomestic ,diversity ,flexibilitymore than 3,600campuses ,enrolled studentsabout 3 millionHarvard, Stanford community collegesstate universitiesfacultiesethnic minoritiessubjects and course optionsstudent consumerflexibilityspecialize elective coursesa higher educationpostsecondarya new careerretired peopleTask 6Part 1We know that something called “education” is a good thing. And all African states therefore spend a large proportion of government revenue on it. But, I suspect that for us in Africa the underlying purpose of education is to turn us into black Europeans, or black Americans, because our education policies make it quite clear that we are really expecting education in Africa to enable us to emulate the material achievements of Europe and America. We have not begun to think seriously about whether such material achievements are possible or desirable The primary purpose of education is the liberation of man .To “liberate” is to “set free”. It implies impediments to freedom having been thrown off. But a man can be physically free from restraint and still be unfree if his mind is restricted by habits and attitudes which limit his humanity.Education is incomplete if it enables man to work out elaborate schemes for universal peace but does not teach him how to provide good food for himself and his family. It is equally incomplete if it teaches man to be an efficient tool user and tool maker, but neglects hispersonality and his relationship with his fellow human beingsThere are professional men who say, “My market value is higher than the salary I am receiving in Tanzania.” But no human being has a market value ---except a slave. When people say such things, in effect they are saying, “This education I have been given has turned me into a marketable commodity, like cotton or sisal,” And they are showing that, instead of liberating their humanity by giving it a greater chance to express itself, the education they have received has degraded their humanity. Their education has converted them into objects----repositories of knowledge like rather special computersWe condemn such people .Yet it is our educational system which is instilling in boys and girls .the idea that their education confers a price tag on them ---which ignores the infinite and priceless value of a liberated human being, who is cooperating with others in building a civilization worthy of creatures made in the image of GodPart2A formal school system devised and operated without reference to the society in which its graduates will live, is of little use as an instrument of liberation for people of Africa. At the same time, learning just by living and doing in the existing society would leave us so backward socially and technologically that human liberation in the foreseeable future is out of the question. Somehow we have to combine the two systems. We have to integrate formal education with the society and use education as a catalyst for change in that societyInevitably it takes time to change. We have not solved the problem of building sufficient self-confidence t refuse what we regard as the world’ best(whatever that may mean), and to choose instead the most appropriate for our conditions. We have not solved the problem of our apparent inability education and life, and education and production. We have not solved the problem of overcoming the belief that academic ability marks out a child or an adult as especially praiseworthy, or as deserving a privileged place in societyThis is not a failure within the formal education system. It is a failure of society as a whole. Indeed, the educationalists have advanced in these matters more than other sections of the community. But our society has not yet accepted that character, cooperativeness and a desire to serve are relevant to a person’s ability to benefit from further trainingKEYA. b a a c bB. little use for the liberation of African peopleTo overcome the social and technological backwardnessformal education societyCatalyst social changeII. the world’s best the most appropriateIntegrate education and life, and education and productionThat we should judge a child or an adult by their academic abilityIII．The formal education system society as a wholeCooperativeness a desire to serveTask 7For beauty and for romance the first place among all the cities of the United Kingdom must be given to Oxford. The impression that Oxford makes upon those who, familiar with herfrom early years, have learnt to know and love her in later life is remarkable. Teeming with much that is ancient, she appears as the embodiment of youth and beauty .Exquisite in line, sparkling with light and color, she seem ever bright and young, while her sons fall into decay and perish. “Alma Mater!”they cry, and love her for her loveliness, till their dim eyes can look on her no moreAnd this is for the reason that the true livableness of Oxford cannot be learnt at once. As her charms have grown from age to age, so their real appreciation is gradual. Not that she cannot catch the eye of one who sees her for the first time, and smiling, hold him captive, This she can do now and then; but even so her new lover has yet to learn her preciousness。

⼤学英语听⼒教程上册unit3原⽂及答案Unit ThreePart One Statement.Complete each of the statements with what you hear and choose A or B that explains the word or phrase in bold.1. Bus Route 23 is no longer in service because the road is under repair. ( A )2. A button was caught in her hair, and she had to ask me to give her a hand. ( B )3. Never have I been more ready to cooperate with you. ( B )4. I decided to teach my younger brother a lesson after I caught him hurting my cat. ( A )5. Here is an update on recently published crime figures. ( A )6. He starred in the commercial TV ad, through which he earned a fortune. ( A )7. Father was out of shape when he took a long hike with the boys. ( A )8. Only one baby survived the terrible car crash. ( A )9. The prisoners will be set free as soon as the fine is paid. ( A )10. I thought you were not coming to the office this afternoon. On weekends you'd better findsomething else to take your mind off the hard work. ( A )Part Two DialoguesDialogue OneA Family PictureW: What a nice photograph, Alex! Who's the woman holding the baby?M: That's my mother. The baby is me.W: Where was it taken?M: At a little cabin in the mountains. My parents used to go there on vacation every summer.W: And the man drinking lemonade on the porch?M: That's my father. And the little girl playing with the dog on the lawn is my sister Meg.W: Do you still go to the cabin?M: Unfortunately not. My parents are retired now, so they're living in Florida--sort of a permanent vacation. Meg's married and has twin kids of her own.I. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear.1. What is the woman in the photograph doing? ( A )2. What did Alex's family use to do? ( C )3. What is Alex's father doing in the picture? ( B )4. Which of the following is true? ( A )5. How many people are there in the picture? ( A )II. Listen to the dialogue again and answer the following questions with Y es or No.1. Is the little cabin located on the beach? ( No )2. Is the picture taken in spring? ( No )3. Is Alex's sister playing with the dog on the porch? ( No )4. Has Meg got any children now? ( Y es )5. Are Alex's parents on vacation now? ( No )Dialogue TwoShe Has Lost Her Family(There is a sound at the door)Robbie: Do you hear something?Daisy: Y es. What was that?Robbie: It sounded like a dog barking.Daisy: It sounded like a dog barking fight here.Robbie: Y eah. (He opens the door.) Look! A dog is standing there. Poor little thing! Let's take her in!Daisy: Poor baby.Robbie: Where did she come from?Daisy: Look! Here is her identification tag. Her name's Gemma, and she belongs to Mr.and Mrs. Levinson. There's a phone number--five five five.., eight four four eight.Robbie, maybe you should call them and tell the Levinsons we have their cute littledog.Robbie: I've always wanted a dog like this. She's so cute. (He goes to the telephone and dials the Levinsons' number. He hangs up the phone.) What a pity! The number isno longer in service.Daisy: (to the dog) Oh, you poor, poor baby. Y ou've lost your family.Robbie: Don't worry, Daisy. We'll find the owner.Daisy: How, Robbie?Robbie: Let's put ads in the newspapers! We once found a cat. She was caught in the branches of our tree. And Dad put photographs in the local newspaper, then wefound the owner. I'm sure it'll also work this time.Daisy: I hope so. I'm so sad to see this little dog without her family.I. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear.1. Which family does the dog belong to? ( B )_2. What is Levinson's phone number? ( B )3. Why did they call the Levinsons? ( A )4. What will be the most probable way for them to find the owner? ( B )5. Why did Robbie's father once put photographs in the newspaper? ( C )ll. Listen to the dialogue again and fill in the blanks with the information you hoar.Robbie opened the door and found a dog standing and barking outside. From her identification tag. Daisy learned that the dog belonged to the Levinsons. Robbie telephoned the family the but the number was no longer in service. And the dog hadlost her family! Robbie and Daisy decided to put ads in newspaper in order to find the owner.Dialogue ThreeAn InterviewTim: Good morning, Josephin. I'm a journalist from Daily Life Newspaper. My name is Tim Black. Just call me Tim. It gives me a great pleasure to have a chance to interview you. Josephin: Hello, Tim. It's a pleasure to be interviewed. I suppose you are interested in how I make friends with animals. I'm quite ready to answer your questions.Tim: It's very kind of you, Josephin, or can I call you Joe?Josephin: Please do.Tim: The first question I want to ask you is, how long have you been living w ith monkeys? Josephin: Apes actually. Well, I've been studying apes for quite a long time, ever since I was in university. But I've only been actually living with them for five years.Tim: Five years in the African jungle, with only monkeys to talk to.Josephin: Apes actually.Tim: Oh, with only apes to talk to. That's fantastic! And I know you're going back to your monkey colony...Josephin: Ape colony actually.Tim: ... to finish your work.Josephin: Oh, yes. I haven't finished it yet. Although I have been recording their behavior and watching their movements very closely, I still haven't finished my work.Tim: Well, I suppose living in the jungle with apes is really a difficult job, isn't it? Josephin: Y es. Actually, I have undergone lots of hardships. But once you get used to it, life is easier. And gradually you will like it.Tim: That's why people call you modem apewoman.I. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear.1. Why is the woman interviewed? ( C )2. How long has she been living with apes? ( A )3. Where did she go to study apes? ( B )4. Why will she go back to her ape colony? ( A )5. What isn't her daily work in the jungle? ( B )II. Listen to the dialogue again and write T for True or F for False for each statement you' hear.1. Tim works for a newspaper. ( T )2. Josephin knows Tim before the interview. ( F )3. Josephin has been studying apes for 5 years. ( F )4. It seems that monkeys and apes are not the same. ( T )5. Josephin will live in the jungle forever. ( F )Part Three PassagesPassage OneT each Them a LessonA certain old gentleman was very unhappy about modern education, and thought that young people nowadays were not being taught the importance of telling the differences between fight and wrong.One day he was taking a walk in the park near his home when he saw some young boys standing around a small cat. The old gentleman went up to the boys and asked them what was happening. One of the boys said to him, "We're having a contest. We're telling lies, and the one who tells the biggest one will get to keep the cat."The old gentleman thought that this was a good opportunity to teach the boys a lesson, so he said to them, "I've never told any lie in my life." All at once there was a great shout from the boys and they said, "Y ou've won! Y ou can take the cat!"I. Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear.1. What's the old gentleman's attitude toward modem education? ( C )2. What's the relationship between the old gentleman and the youngsters? ( B )3. What were the boys doing? ( B )4. Why did the boys shout at his words? ( C )5. What do we learn from the story? ( B )II. Listen to the passage again and complete the following sentences with the information you hear.1. The old gentleman thought that young people nowadays were not being taught theimportance of telling the differences between fight and wrong.2. One day he was taking a walk in the park near his home when he saw some standingaround a small cat.3. The old gentleman went up to the boys and asked them what was happening.4. One of the boys said to him, "We're having a contest. We're telling lies, and the one whotells the biggest one will get to keep the cat."5. The old gentleman thought that this was a good opportunity to teach the boys a lesson, sohe said to them, "I've never told any lie in my life."passage TwoFree Willy UpdateKeiko, the whale that starred in the movie Free Willy, is not free. He still lives in a large fish tank. He is healthier than when he was found in Mexico City Park. When he was found, Keiko was out of shape and sick. Many people wanted to save him. He now lives in Oregon.The keepers of the whale want him to be healthy. Keiko eats up to 200 pounds of fish a day. He also does a lot of activities. They want him to start thinking for himself. Keiko can do a lot of tricks. But they do not want people to watch him. The whale is trying to be stronger, so he can live in the ocean one day. No one is sure if he could survive in the sea.I. Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear.1. What happened to the whale named Keiko? (B)2. Where does Keiko live? ( B )3. Where did people find him? ( B )4. How much fish does Keiko eat? ( A )5. Why does Keiko do a lot of activities every day? ( B )II. Listen to the passage again and answer the following questions.1. How was Keiko when he was found?He was in poor physical condition.2. What does Keiko do to keep fit?He eats a lot and exercises a lot.3. Why does Keiko seldom do tricks in the public?His keepers don't want people to watch him.4. Why is the whale trying to be stronger?Because his keepers want him to be fit for the ocean.5. What's the writer's purpose in writing this passage?To inform his readers of the current situation of the whale.Passage ThreePigeon PeopleEvery morning, two people come to the park. They like feeding the pigeons.John and Margaret used to work in the city. Five years ago, John got very sick. He needed find something to help him relax. His wife looked for something they both could enjoy doing.Margaret learned to love birds when she was living in England. She knew the pigeons needed to be fed. It was a way to be kind to both herself and John. John says it is very relaxing when he is feeding the birds. It takes his mind off everything else. John and Margaret feed the pigeons about 40 loaves of bread, 20 pounds of corn and 125pounds of birdseed every month. They spend about $100 a month on the birds, They do not mine a bit.Margaret says the birds know the couple will never hurt them. They know they will always get help from the couple. Feeding the pigeons has become important to both John and Margaret. John says feeding the birds has taught him to relax. Margaret says they love it so much because everyone wants to useful. She says that makes people feel better all day.I. Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear1. For what reason did John begin to feed the pigeons? ( C )2. When did Margaret learn to care for birds? ( D )3. What may NOT be the proper food for the pigeons? ( C )4. How much money do they spend per month in feeding the birds? ( D )5. Which of the following may not be an advantage of feeding birds? ( B )II. Listen to the passage again and write T for true or F for false for each statement you hear.1. The couple would feed the birds at dusk. ( F )2. They feed the birds on the square. ( F )3. John likes feeding birds because it makes him absent-minded. ( F )4. Though it takes a lot of money to feed the pigeons, they don't care. ( T )5. Both of them take great pleasure in feeding birds. ( T )Part Four Idioms and ProverbsI. In this part, you will be presented with ten sentences. Listen carefully and write them down.1. Do not wear out your welcome.2. Something is better than nothing.3. Rats desert a sinking ship.4. Never too late to repent.5. The more you get, the more you want.6. United we stand, divided we fall.7. There's no fool like an old fool.8. Marriages are made in heaven.9. Christmas comes but once a year.10. There are two sides to every question.II. In this part, you will hear ten sentences. In each sentence, there is one idiom that is given below. Listen and guess its meaning from the context.Script:1. A: Mary and Scott are getting married next week.B: It's about time. They've been dating for years.2. That old guy finally kicked the bucket last week.3. Ryan sometimes goes to the bookstore to kill time between classes.4. Have you decided to come to our meeting next week? Let me know by this Friday.5. I felt like a million dollars in the tuxedo at the President's reception yesterday.6. Their arguments against the government's foreign policy simply don't hold water.7. The teacher asked them a question. The answer was on the tip of his tongue, butanother student raised her hand and said it first.8. He has a very nice car, but he drives once in a blue moon.9. Late last summer, out of the blue,Sue announced she was getting married andleaving her home country soon. We were all shocked to hear that.10. If the government accepts his new proposal, the nation will be jumping out of thefrying-pan into the fire.Keys:1. It should have happened earlier than it actually happened.2. die3. do something that is not very useful to keep yourself busy while you are waiting forsomething to happen4. tell someone some information5. feel very happy; look very attractive6. not seem reasonable or correct7. cannot remember something such as a word or the name of a person although youthink you know it8. rarely; almost never9. suddenly and unexpectedly10. make the situation worsePart Five Exercises for Homework1.Short ConversationsIn this part, you will hear ten short conversations. Each of them is followed by a question.After the question, you are supposed to choose a correct answer from the four choices. 1. W: Aren't we supposed to have a science test this afternoon?M: It was postponed because the teacher had to attend a conference.Q: What conclusion can we draw from the man's reply? ( C )2. M: Has George been preparing for his comprehensive exams?W: He's been moving at a turtle's pace.Q: What does the women say about George? ( B )3. W: What time is it now? My watch says eight past ten.M: Oh, you are eight minutes fast.Q: What time is it now? ( D )4. M: Could you tell me when the next bus leaves for New Y ork?W: The next bus leaves in three minutes. If you run you might catch it.Q: What will the man probably do? ( B )5. W: Do you think that Bob is serious about Sally?M: Well, I know this. I've never seen him go out so often with the same person.Q: What does the man mean? ( C )6. W: This cake is delicious. Where did you buy it?M: It's my own creation. It's something like.my mother's chocolate cake.Q: Who made the cake? ( A )7. M: How about my food? I've been sitting here for almost half an hour.W: I'm sorry, sir. It must be ready by now.Q: Where does the conversation take place? ( A )8. M: Have you seen Lee recently?W: He must be home by now. I saw him leave on his bike half an hour ago.Q: Where does the woman think Lee is? ( C )9. W: Is the movie as good as you expected?M: It was a waste of time and money. We should have stayed at home.Q: How does the man feel about the movie? ( A )10. M: I haven't taken the introductory course, but I've decided to take the advanced courseanyway.W: I think you are putting the cart before the horse.Q: What does the woman mean? ( C )II. PassagesPassage OneAn AccidentIt was a rainy and windy morning. The sky was gloomy, the temperature was low, and the street was nearly deserted. I was on my way back to school. A little schoolboy came out of a house, and slammed the door. He walked hurriedly along. When he passed me, I heard him reciting the multiplication tables. He was still reciting when he started to cross the street. He was too preoccupied with his study to look before he crossed. Suddenly, a speeding car came round the comer. I was terrified. I shouted at him to stop. But it was too late. The car ran straight towards him. Bang! He was knocked down. I stepped towards the boy, crying help. The boy was still bleeding when the police with their ambulance, who had been informed by a passer-by, arrived. When I picked up the evening newspaper, my eyes were caught by one of the headlines --Schoolboy Killed in Car Accident. These words sent me into a sorrowful mood, and have since remained in my memory after all these years. Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions you hear.1. What was the weather like when the car accident happened? ( C )2. What was the little boy doing when he started to cross the street? ( A )3. Why did the boy fall down? ( A )4. How did the writer feel when he knew the boy died? ( C )5. From where did the writer learn about the boy's death? ( B )Passage T woThe Clever DogGeorge is a young man. He does not have a wife, but he has a very small dog. Last Monday he played tennis for an hour at his club, and then he ran out and jumped into a car. His dog came after him, but it didn't jump into the same car, it jumped into the next one."Come on, silly dog !" George shouted at it, but the dog stayed in the other car.George put his key into the lock of the car, but the key did not turn. Then he looked at the car again. It was not his! He was in the wrong car. And the dog was in the fight one! "He is sitting and laughing at me !" George said angrily. But then he smiled and got into his car with the dog.Listen to the passage and answer the following questions.1. With whom does George live?He lives with a dog.2. What did George do last Monday?He played tennis and came back.3. What did the dog do when George got into a car?The dog refused to get into the same car with George.4. Why couldn't George start the car?Because he was in a wrong car.5. What do we learn from the passage?Sometimes a dog has a keener sense than a human.Passage ThreeFree Willy DebateKeiko the whale is in an aquarium. He was in the movie "Free Willy". He has been in the aquarium for almost two years.People do not know whether he is healthy or not.People at the aquarium think Keiko might be sick. He had an infection. He also had worms inside him.The people who own Keiko say he is healthy. They say he has been checked. They say he has no infection. The government wants Keiko to have another medical checkup.Keiko's owners would like to set him free. But they are not sure. Can he see well? Can he talk with other whales? Will he be able to hunt?Right now Keiko does not seem ready. He cannot hunt. He eats frozen fish. He spends 15 hours a day with humans. Some people think that Keiko cannot be set free. He has not been in the ocean by himself. He needs humans too much. Gangs of young whales might attack him. Keiko's owners say they will not force him to be free if he is not ready.Listen to the passage and complete the following sentences with the information you hear.1. He had a(n) infection. He also had worms inside him.2. The government wants Keiko to have another medical checkup.3. Keiko's owners would like to set him free.4. He has not been in the ocean by himself.5. Gangs of young whales might attack him.III. A Story for RetellingHere is a funny story. Listen and retell it.Because I Push Him InJohnny was nine years old, and he was a very bad boy, but his mother always hoped that he would become a good boy. Then one day, after he had come home from school, Johnny's teacher called his mother on the telephone and said, "Did you know, Mrs. Perkins, that Johnny saved another boy when he fell into the fiver while we were out for a walk this morning?" Mrs. Perkins was very happy when she heard this. She thought, "Johnny is becoming a good boy." Then she turned to him and said, "That was your teacher. Y ou saved one of your friends when he fell into the fiver this morning. Why didn't you tell me, Johnny?"But Johnny did not look very happy when he heard this. His face became very red, and he said, "Well, I really had to pull him out because I pushed him in."。

现代大学英语听力3答案【篇一：现代大学英语听力4 全册答案及原文】k 1:【答案】a.eventkenny g was born. he toured europe with his high school band. he made his first solo album. he won released his most successful album.he won the best artist award. he broke the world record for playing asingle note. year 1956 1971 1982 1993 1994 1997b．1) f2) f3) t【原文】saxophonist kenny g is now the worlds most successful jazz musician. he was born in 1956 as kenny gorelick in seattle, usa, and he learned to play the saxophone at an early age. when he was just 15 years old, he toured europe with his high school band. after studying at washington university he started his career as a musician. in 1982 he signed for arista records and made his first solo album kenny g.success came slowly at first, but during the 1990s kenny became well-known on the international scene. he released breathless, his most successful album so far in 1993, and in 1994 won the best artist award at the 21st american music awards held in los angeles.as well as making records, he also found time to play in front of another famous saxophone player—us president bill clinton—at the gala for the president concert in washington, and to break the world record for playing a single note (45 minutes and 47 seconds!) at the j r music world store in new york in 1997.during the last 20 years, kenny g has played with superstars like aretha franklin, michael bolton and whitney houston, andhe has sold more than 36 million albums worldwide... and he hasnt sung a note!task 2:【答案】1) c2) d3) c【原文】senn: everybody always has this misconception that female policemen dont do the samething as men do, you know. ive worked..interviewer: thats not true?senn: that is not true! ive worked my share of graveyard shifts, and, you know, splitshifts, and double-back and no days off, and...interviewer: uh-huh...senn: ...as much as the next guy. theres no distinction used if theres a male or femaleofficer on duty. two men on duty—ill refer to as two men,‘cause in myfield theres no difference between the genders. were still the same. okay, if therestwo men on duty—just because ones a female, she still gets in on the same type ofcall. if theres a bar disturbance downtown, then we go too. theres been manytimes where being the only officer on duty—thats it! it‘s just me and whoeverelse is on duty in the county. they can come back me up if i need assistance. and itdoes get a little hairy. you go in there, and you have these great big, hugemonster-guys, and theyre just drunker than skunks, and cant see three feet in frontof them. and when they see you, they see fifteen people, and you know... but still,theres enough...interviewer: thats where the uniform is important, i should imagine.senn: sometimes, you know. if somebody is going to…or has a bad day, and they areout to get a cop, you know, it doesnt matter if youre, you know, boy, girl,infant or anything! when youve got that cop uniform on, theyll still take it out onyou.interviewer: yeah...senn: but i think theres one advantage to being a female police officer. and that is the factthat most men still have a little respect, and they wont smack you as easy as theywould one of the guys.interviewer: uh-huh...senn: but ill tell you one thing i‘ve learned—id rather deal with ten drunk men that onedrunk woman any day of the week!interviewer: well, why is that?senn: because women are so unpredictable. you cannot ever predict what a womansgoing to do.interviewer: hmm...senn: especially, if shes agitated, you know.interviewer: emotionally upset.senn: yeah. i saw a lady one time just get mad at the guy she was withbecause he wouldnt buy her another drink— take off her high heel and layhis head wide open. yuch! oh, they can be so vicious, you know.task 3:【答案】1) d2) b3) b4) b【原文】you are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. they hit one another hard. atthe start they only fight with their fists. but soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. and so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window—and falls thirty feet to the ground below. he is dead！of course he isnt really dead. with any luck he isnt even hurt. why? because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast-moving trains, who crash cars of even catch fire, are professionals. they do this for a living. these men arecalled ―stunt men‖. that is to say, they perform ―tricks‖.there are two sides to their work. they actually do most of the things you see on the screen. for example, they fall from a high building. however, they do not fall on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress. again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar!but although their work depends on trick of this sort, it also requires a hig h degree of skill and training. often a stunt man‘s success depends on careful timing. for example, when he is blown up in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.naturally stuntmen are well-paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. they often get seriously injured, and sometimes killed. a norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff a thousand feet high. his parachute failed to open—and he was killed.in spite of all the risks, this is no longer a professionfor ―men only‖. men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. for nowadays there are ―stunt girls‖ too！task 4:【答案】1) he started writing poetry when he was about 14 or 15.2) he has published four books.3) his first book came out when he was about 26. it wasn‘t easy. he got a lot of his work rejected at first.4) the british, or at least the english, are embarrassed by it. they‘re embarrassed by people who reveal personal feel ings, emotions, thoughts and wishes.【原文】when thomas edison was born in the small town of milan, ohio, in 1847, america was just beginning its great industrial development. in his lifetime of eighty-four years, edison shared in the excitement of america‘s growth into a modern nation.the time in which he lived was an age of invention, filled with human and scientific adventures, and edison became the hero of that age.as a boy, edison was not a good student. his parents took him out of school and his mother taught him at home, where his great curiosity and desire to experiment often got him into trouble. when he was six, he set fire to his father‘s barn ―to see what would happen.‖ the barn burned down.when he was ten, edison built his own chemistry laboratory.he sold sandwiches and newspapers on the trains in order to earn money to buy supplies for his laboratory. his parents became accustomed, more or less, to his experiments and the explosions which sometimes shook the house.edison‘s work as a sales boy with the railroad introduced him to the telegraph and, with afriend, he built his own telegraph set.six years later, in 1869, edison arrived in new york city, poor and in debt. he went to work with a telegraph company. it was there that he became interested in the uses of electricity. task 5:【答案】1815， 1914， 35millioni.a. villages，seaportb. danger，long ocean voyagec. a new land，a new languaged. finding a place to liveii.a better life，opportunity，freedomiii.a. england, germany, russia, hungaryb. roman catholic, jewishc. customs，languagesiv.a. americanized，disappeared.b. havent disappeared，customs，identitiesv.a. were cheated，prejudice，mistreatedb. hardest，least-paid，dirtiest，most overcrowdedd. rejected，old-fashioned，ashamedovercome【原文】thousands of people came to american cities before blacks and puerto ricans did. between 1815 and 1914, more than 35 million europeans crossed the ocean to find new homes in the united states.most of these immigrants were ordinary people. few were famous when they arrived. few became famous afterward. most had lived in small villages. few had ever been far outside them. most of them faced the same kinds of problems getting to america: the hardship of going from their villages to a seaport, the unpleasantness—even danger—of the long ocean voyage, the strangeness of a new land, and of a new language, the problem of finding a place to live, of finding work in a new, strange country.every immigrant had his own reasons for coming to america. but nearly all shared one reason: they hoped for a better life. they considered america a special place, a land of opportunity, a land of freedom.immigrants came from many different countries: england, germany, denmark, finland[, russia, italy, hungary and many others.they came with many different religions: roman catholic, jewish, quaker, greek orthodox. they brought many different customs and many languages.some people have called the united states a melting pot. after immigrants were here awhile—in the melting pot—they became americanized. differences were melted down. theygradually disappeared.some people say no. america isnt a melting pot. its more like a salad bowl. important differences between groups of people havent disappeared. many groups have kept their own ways,their customs, their identities, and this has given america great strength.melting pot? salad bowl? perhaps theres some troth to both ideas.in any case, life in america was hard for most immigrants—especially at first. often they were cheated. often they met with prejudice. they were often laughed at, even mistreated, by people who themselves had been immigrants.most of them soon found that the streets of america werent paved with gold. they usually got the hardest jobs, and those that paid the least, the dirtiest places to live in, the most overcrowded tenements.they came to be citizens of a new country; but often they felt like people without a country. they had given up their own, but they didnt understand their new one. they didnt really feel a part of it. and the people of the new one didnt always welcome them.they came for the sake of their children, but in america their children often rejected them. to the children, their parents seemed old-fashioned. they didnt learn the new language quickly. some didnt learn it at all. their parents customs made children ashamed.gradually, however, problems were overcome. for most immigrants, life in america was better. it certainly was better for their children and for their grandchildren.task 6:【答案】a.the life story of thomas edisonohio，1847，industrial development, 1931, a modern nationi.a. curiosity，desireb. 1857，station master‘s sonc. 1863ii.a. new york city，electricity，report the pricesb. new jersey，invented，producedc. organized industrial researchd. 1877e. 1879iii.a. b. motion-picture machinec. photographyd. streetcars，electric trainsiv.b. turn off all powerc. the progress of manb.【篇二：现代大学英语听力答案【第一册unit 11】】. because the weather is fine and he needs some exercise.2. because the razor blades are on sale. you buy one and get one for free.3.$2.83 .b: paperback books ；buying a lipstick ; by the newspaper stand ; mind; surface appearance task2things anna wants to buy department locationa skirt, a top to go with itseparates over there, on the right(a pair of) tennis shorts leisurewearon the first floorcostume jewelryaccessorieson the second floortask3d; c; d; ctask41. he was allowed to keep only enough money to buy his lunch in the office.2. he won ten thousand pounds on the lottery.3. she was delighted at first.4. then she became angry and demanded to know how her husband could afford the lotteryticket.task51. because the vegetables were fresher and the store had various things shecouldn’t get elsewhere.2. very well.3. the two teenage boys were both wearing long,old-fashioned overcoats andthey looked rather ridiculous in them because the coats were too big.4. she saw one of the boys pick up a tin of food and drop it into the inside pocketof his overcoat and later another boy did the same.5. because he was checking through his list at the cash till.6. they had both buttoned their coats and fastened them with their belts,but mr.patel didn’t seem suspicious at all.task61.no doesn’t like the style (stripe s)2. yes3. no not a famous brand/never heard of the company that made it4. no no bigger size5. yes6. no no notebooks with more pagestask7a: hugo abbs~senior consultant~discuss plans and suggest alternativesanne springer~applications programmer~design softwarebill andrews~senior engineer ~supply and install equipmentb: 1.only for word-processing.2.to do accounting.3.it’s flexible.it can be adapted to the needs of the company with some small modifications.a: t;t;f;f;fb: big and small customers; five days a week from 9:00 am to 5:30pm; suppliers of software; special training courses ; free demonstrationstask9gt ; ￡11,869 ; handle ; slide back ; engine noise ; open ; leg room ; wing mirrors ; small scratches ; badly finished paintwork ; the silver plastic strip ; quite a lot of irritating faults in an expensive cartask101. it’s described as “buy now,pay later”.2. selling their products and services.3. for centuries.4. one type is issued directly by a store to a customer;the other kindis issued by a credit company.5. the store credit card can be used to make purchases only at aparticular store,whereas credit cards from credit companies can beused to buy things almost anywhere.6. because most credit companies are connected to large banks.7. once a month.8. a)the customer can buy what he wants when he wantsit.there is noneed to save up money in advance.b) having a credit card protects the owner.the ow ner doesn’t have to worry aboutlosing the card.c) credit cards can be used when something unexpected happens.this is importantwhen you don’t have any cash with you.9.customers tend to overspend.task11unproductive ; stopped ; mass markets ; cheap ; sell goods ; inform ; household goods ; read ; hardly possible ; witty ; revenue ; small ads ; community task12略【篇三：现代大学英语听力1原文及答案】k 1【答案】a.1) susan hudson and intercultural communication2) the class will meet in the room they are in now and on tuesday and thursday from 3:15 to4:50.3) they can purchase the textbook at the bookstore the day after tomorrow.4) the office hours are from 1:00 to 2:00 on wednesdays.b.1) the first half, the research lab, thursday, 405, the last two months2) outline, performance, quizzes, project, participation【原文】okay, okay, let‘s begin. hello, everyone. my name‘s susan hudson and i‘ll be your teacherfor this class, intercultural communication.uh, to begin with, please take a look at the syllabus(教学大纲）in front of you. as you allshould know by now, this class meets on tuesdays from 3:15 to 4:50. we will be meeting in thisroom for the first half of the course, but we will be using the research lab every other week onthursday in room 405 during the last two months of the class. uh, this is the text for the class, beyond language. unfortunately, the books haven‘t come inyet, but i was told that you should be able to purchase（购买）them at the bookstore the day aftertomorrow. again, as you see on your course outline, grading is determined by your performanceon a midterm and final test, periodic（周期的、定期的）quizzes（问答比赛）, uh, a researchproject, and classroom participation（参加、参与）.my office hours are from 1:00 to 2:00 on wednesdays, and you can set up an appointment tomeet with me at other times as well.task 2【答案】a.1) according to the syllabus, the book he is looking for is in the library, but he couldn‘t find it.2) that means the student cannot find the book on the shelves in its usual place. she/he needs togo to a special room called the reserve room.3) the professor wants everyone in the class to read the chapter. if one student removes the bookfrom the library, it is likely that none of the other students will have the opportunity to read it. so,your professor has insured that all students have the opportunity to read it by placing it on reserve.b.1) f, 2) t, 3) f【原文】librarian: can i help you?student: yes. i am a bit confused. my sociology class is supposed to read a chapter（章、回） ina book called sociology and the modern age. according to the syllabus, the book is inthe library, but i haven‘t been able to find it.librarian: do you have your syllabus with you? may i see it?student: yes, uh...i put it in the front of my sociology notebook. yes, here it is.librarian: let me see. oh yes. your professor has placed this book on reserve. that means youcannot find it on the shelves in its usual place. you need to go to a special room calledthe reserve room. it‘s down the hall and to the right.student: i‘m sorry —i still don‘t understand what you mean by on reserve.librarian: you see, your professor wants everyone in the class to read the chapter. if one studentremoves the book from the library, it is likely that none of the other students will havethe opportunity to read it. so, your professor has insured that all students have theopportunity to read it by placing it on reserve.student: so, will i be able to find this book?librarian: yes, when a book is on reserve, a student can go to the reserve room and ask the reservelibrarian for the book. the student can have the book for a few hours, and he or shemust read it in the library during that time. that way, the book stays in the library,and all students have a chance to read it.student: ok. thank you. i understand now.librarian: will there be anything else?student: no! i am on my way to the reserve room. thanks again! task 3【答案】a.1) c, 2) cb.undergraduate, five, two, graduate, fifteen, two, 50, overdue, 15, cannot8:00 am, 10:00 pm, 9:00 am, 8:30 pm, sundays【原文】hello and welcome to the university library. this taped tour will introduce you to our libraryfacilities（设备） and operating（操作的、运营的） hours.first of all, the library‘s collection of books, reference（参考、参考书，涉及提及） materials,and other resources are found on levels one to four of this building. level one houses ourhumanities and map collections. on level two, you will find our circulation（循环） desk, current（现在的、最近的、流行的）periodicals and journals, and our copy facilities. our science andengineering sections（部分、节、部门） can be found on level three. you can also find back issuesof periodicals and journals older than six months on this level. finally, group study rooms, ourmicrofilm（缩微胶卷）collection, and the multimedia（多媒体、多媒体的） center are locatedon level four.undergraduate students can check out up to five books fortwo weeks. graduate students cancheck out fifteen books for two months. books can berenewed up to two times. there is a50-cents-a-day late fee for overdue books up to a maximum of $15. periodicals and referencebooks cannot be checked out.the library is open weekdays, 8:00 am to 10:00 pm, and on saturdays from 9:00 am to 8:30pm. the library is closed on sundays.task 4【答案】a.b. 1) because now they have someone from the international center coming to speak to the studentson extracurricular activities.2) they want to show students around the university, including the union building, the library andthe student services building.c.1) up to their ears, hard pressed2) jot, grab, off3) finding a needle in a haystack4) bottom line, running【原文】randall: hi faith. do you have a minute?faith: sure. what‘s up?randall: well, i just wanted to go over the schedule for wednesday‘s orientation（方向、定位）meeting to make sure everything is ready.faith: okay. here‘s a copy of the tentative（试验性的、不确定的）schedule. [okay.] now, theregistration starts at 8:30 and goes until 9:15. [all right.] then, the orientation meetingwill commence at 9:30.randall: okay. now, we had planned originally for the meetingto go until 10:30, but now wehave someone from the international center coming to speakto the students onextracurricular（学校课程以外的） activities, so how about ending the meeting around11?faith: fine. and, uh, then students will take the placement tests from 11:15 until noon [ok.],followed by 20-minute break before lunch. [ok.] and, immediately after lunch, we havereserved a campus shuttle to give students a 45-minute tour starting at 1:30. [oh. ok.]we want to show students around the university, including the union building, the library,and the student services building.randall: great. now, how about the oral interviews?faith: well, we‘re planning to start them at 2:15.randall: uh, well, teachers are going to be up to their ears in preparations, and they‘ll be hardpressed to start then.faith: ok, let‘s get things rolling around 2:45.randall: ok, here, let me jot that down. uh, could you grab a pen off my desk?faith: right. finding anything on your desk is like finding a needle in a haystack. [oh, it‘s notthat bad.] here, use mine.randall: ok. and we‘ll need 150 copies of this program guide by then.faith: hey. that‘s a tall order on such short notice! how about lending me a hand to put thingstogether [ok.] by this afternoon so we don‘t have to worry about them?randall: ok. and i think the manager has given the green light to go ahead and use the moreexpensive paper and binding for the guides this time.faith: ok. so the interviews will go from 2:45 until, let‘s say, 4:30. [ok.] i hope we can wrapthings up by 5.randall: great. i think the bottom line is to keep things running smoothly throughout the day.faith: i agree. i‘ll pass this schedule by the director for a final look.task 5【答案】1) the student wants to have some information about the courses at swan school.2) each course lasts for three weeks.3) it‘s about 23 hours a week. usually four an d a half days each week.4) the first course begins on the 3rd of july and lasts until the 20th of july and the second courseis from the 24th of july until the 10th of august.5) each course costs ￡150 plus vat, which is 15 percent, anda ￡5 registration fee.6) for each course the deposit is ￡20.7) a lady arranges the accommodation for the students with oxford families.8) they can choose to have bed and breakfast only which is ￡20 a week, or bed, breakfast anddinner which is about ￡27 a week.【原文】receptionist: good morning. can i help you?student: yes, please. i would want to have some information about the…erm…thecourses at swan school.receptionist: is that a summer course you‘re interested in?student: yes. yes, please.receptionist: yes. fine. ok. well, we have…erm…short intensive full-time courses duringthe summer.student: mm-mm. i would want to know the length of one course.receptionist: yes. each course lasts for three weeks.student: how many hours per week, please?recep tionist: well, it‘s about 23 hours a week. usually four and a half days each week.student: you must have a lot of students in the class, haven‘t you?receptionist: we have a lot of students in the school but in the classes only about between 12and 14 students.student: 12 and 14. could you please give me the dates of the first and the second course?receptionist: yes, certainly. the first course begins on the 3rd of july and lasts until the 20thof july and the second course is from the 24th of july until the 10th of august.student: what about the fees per course?receptionist: yes, each…each course costs ￡150 plus vat, which is 15 percent, and a ￡5registration（登记、注册） fee.student: and deposit, please?receptionist: yes. for each course we need a deposit（储蓄、存款、保证金） of ￡20 and the ￡5registration fee.student: oh thank you. do we have to find our…our own accommodation?receptionist: no, we can do that for you. we have a lady who arranges the accommodationfor you with oxford families.student: how much does it cost?receptionist: well, you can choose to have bed and break fast only which is ￡20 a week, or bed,breakfast and dinner which is about ￡27 a week.student: ￡27. thank you very much.receptionist: you‘re welcome.task 6【答案】a.1) f, 2) t, 3) fb.1) most universities will not accept students without this test. it is also used to decide how much financial aid should be given to each student.2) they must score between 1,430 and 1600.3) american universities also look at a student‘s subject grades, what they do outside of school, and theirteachers‘ recommendations.4) the sat ii is the one-hour exam that can be taken in any subject, for example chemistry or french.【原文】every year, high school juniors and seniors from across the us take the scholastic aptitude test (sat 1).the sat 1 is a three-hour exam that tests students‘ math and verbal（语言的、口头的） skills. most universities will not accept students without this test. it is also used to help decide how much financial aid should be given to each student.scores range from 200 to 800 for each part. there is a total of 1,600 points. the test is held every year from october to june. but seniors must take it before december in order to include their scores in their university applications. the average total score for an american high school student is around 1,000.a poor sat score can prevent a student from going to a good university. students who want to go to one of america‘s bestuniversities, such as harvard or yale, must score between1,430 and 1,600.the test can be taken over and over again, but all the scores will appear on the students‘ records. however, unlike chinese universities, the score is not the only thing needed. american universities also look at a student‘s subject grades, what they do outside of school, and their teachers‘ recommendations.in addition to the sat 1, some universities require high school students to take at least three sat iis. these one-hour exams can be taken in any subject, for example chemistry or french. task 7【答案】a.1) a, 2) c, 3) d, 4)cb.1) many students attend special preparation schools besides their regular classes, in order to pass the exam for the best universities such as the national university of tokyo.。