大英4听力考试课本5-10单元原文及答案

Unit 1 Shopping and Banking OlinePart I Getting readyB. Keys:1: drop 2: shopping 3: mouse 4: feet 5: retailing 6: street 7: get 8: down 9: third-party 10: online 11:30% 12: malls 13: Britain 14: gift-buying 15:50% 16: net 17: peroidC. Keys:1 : the site2 : merchant, addresses/phone numbers/call up3 : strict safety measuresPart II Net shopping under fireA. Keys:1 : delivery, delivery2 : delivery charges3 : personal information, 87%4 : returning goods, 47%5 : order, 35%, dispatch, 87%6 : money back, twoB. Keys:1 : convenience2 : choice3 : obstacles4 : complete trust5 : build consummers' trust6 : mature7 : payment8 : servicePart III Banking at homeA. Keys:1 : limited opening hours2 : Online banking services3 : getting current information on products4 : e-mailing questions to the bank5 : competing for customers6 : having no computers at homeB. Keys:1 : It is banking through the Internet.2 : 'Online banking' offers convenience which appeals to the kind of customer banks want to keep.3 : Banks most want to keep people who are young, well-educated, and have good incomes.Part IV More about the topic: Secret of Good Customer ServiceB. Keys:English Good Customer Service(Harrods)1 : in a pleasant environment2 : Second to none3 : different customers, take a look at everything, alternatives, come to sales assistants4 : first contact with the customerAmerican Good Customer Service(Saks)1 : human side, family, occasions in life, a partnership2 : repeat business, salesPart V Do you know…?Keys:1 : c2 : a、b、c3 : a、b、c4 : c5 : c6 : bTape scriptPart I Getting readyC.Consumers who want to shop online are suggested to bear the following things in mind:Evaluate the site. Always buy goods from well-known and trustworthy companies. Deal with companies which offer customer service, a complaints procedure and have a refund policy.Talk to merchant. E-mail and wait for reponses. Take down the addresses and phone numbers of those companies and make sure they are real by calling them up before buying any products and services.Ensure secure connection. Since buyers must submit personal information like number and expiry date of the card there are fears over security. Deal with sites that apply strict safety measures that require shoppers to give specific data known only to card holders before making the transaction.Be extra careful at a cybercafe or other public connection.Part II Net shopping under fireThere is an urgent need for e-commerce rules to boost confidence in buying online. Consumers International, a federation of 245 consumer organizations —including the UK's Consumers Association —said its survey showed that there were still obatacles to shopping online with complete trust.The study, funded by the European Union, involved buying more than 150 items from 17 countries. Each consumer organization taking part tried to find one site in its own country and one abroad to buy a selection of items. These included a dictionary, a doll, jeans, a hairdryer, computer software and hardware, chocolates and champagne.The key findings were:Eight of the items ordered took more than a month to reach their destination and at least 11 (eight percent) never arrived.Many sites did not give clear information about delivery charges.Only 13% of the sites promised that they would not sell customers' personal information on to a third party.Only 53% of the companies had a policy on returning goods.Only 65% of the sites provided confirmation of the order and only 13% told customers when their goods had been dispatched.In two cases,customers are still waiting for their money back more than four months after returning their goods.Louis Sylvan, vice-president of Consumers International, said, "This study shows that, although buying items over the Internet can benefit the consumer by offering convenience and choice, there are still many obstacles that need to be overcome before consumers can shop in cyberspace with complete trust."Chris Philips, Marketing Manager at a London based e-commerce security company commented, "This study confirms the difficulties of establishing consumers' trust in the Internet as a shopping experience. With statistics like these and Visa claiming 47% of disputes and fraud cases were Internet-related, it is little wonder that Internet commerce is not producing the profits predicted two or three years ago. Trust takes time to build, and the Internet will not mature as a retail channel until trusted brands, like the banks for example, start to offer ways of supporting trust relationships with guarantees payment and service."In September, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development will hold a meeting to discuss a set of international guidelines for electronic commerce.Part III Banking at homeMany people dislike walking to the bank, standing in long lines, and running out of checks. They are dissatisfied with their bank's limited hours, too. They want to do some banking at night, and on weekends. For such people, their problems may soon be over. Before long, they may be able to do their banking from the comfort of their own home, any hour of the day, any day of the week. Many banks are preparing "online branches," or Internet offices, which means that people will be able to take care of much of their banking business through their home computers. This process is called interactive banking. At these online branches, customers will be able to view all their accounts, move money between their accounts, apply for a loan, and get current information on products such as credit cards. Customers will also be able to pay their bills electronically, and even e-mail questions to the bank.Banks are creating online services for several reasons. One reason is that banks must compete for customers, who will switch to another bank if they are dissatisfied with the service they receive. The convenience of online banking appeals to the kind of customer banks most want to keep —people who are young, well-educated, and have good incomes. Banks also want to take advantage of modern technology as they move into the twenty-first century.Online banking may not be appropriate for everyone. For instance, many people do not have computers at home. Other people prefer to go to the bank and handle their accounts the traditional way. Even though online banking may never completely replace a walk-in bank, it is a service that many customers are going to want to use.Part IV More about the topic: Secret of Good Customer ServiceIn Britain they ask you, "Are you being served?" Whilst in America they tell you to "Have a nice day." But what is the secret of good customer service? From Harrods in London and Saks New York, we're going to find out the dos and don'ts of selling protocol.The reason that Harrods has been so successful over a hundred and fifty years is two fold. First of all they've offered their customers the products they want to buy in a pleasant environment. But secondly and more importantly, the level of customer service that they've given their customers, before sale, during sale and after sale, has been second to none. I think it's fair to say that if you compare the British with our cousins elsewhere in the world that we are actually quite a reserved lot. To a certain extent there are a lot of shrinking violets in this country who would rather just do their own thing. They'd rather wander around and browse and if they do need any help eventually, ask for it. So I think the way that we approach our own U.K. based customers is actually slightly different to the way we know we need to approach. For example, an American customer, or indeed a Japanese customer, or a Middle Eastern customer, who all have different ways of doing things. Well in serving different, I guess, nationalities, you do take very different approaches. With Europeans, for example, you do kind of let them take a look at everything. See what's being on offer and then ask them if they need any help. I think they'd probably much more prefer to come to you, rather than you so much to go to them. The American customer very much expects you to go to them, approach them, show them alternatives. Well I think maybe the more European or British customer can be almost turned off by that if someone is seen to be too aggressive, maybe too anxious to make a sale.It's most important that the first contact, the first initial meeting with the customer is a good and successful one because on that basis, the customer will make up their mind what they want to do next.I quite like the English sales assistants because they definitely have better thing to do than talk to you, which I like. It's very terrifying when you go to America. "Can I help you?" they're like licking you. You're just like, "No, I'm fine. I just want to look." That puts me off. I love the English sales assistant.So where have you experienced the very best in customer service?Umm, probably America. In terms of best as in, they give you so much attention it's almost embarrassing. They treat you, you know, the "have a nice day" thing. They' want to help you. They want you to buy, 'cause they often work on a commission basis. That's if you like best. But I prefer the ... like, being ignored.Tamara:I think England's still way behind in terms of, like America for example. I can call in Americafrom London and they'll track the item down. It's not like, "Sorry madam we don't have that in your size." I just got the Gucci boots, which mine had actually broken. And in England they said, "Sorry" you know, that's it. So this woman in Los Angeles tracked them down and, in fact got them for me. That's because they work on commission. And the sooner we learn that, the better the service will get.So what do the Americans have to say? They may speak with a different accent. But is the sales pitch a foreign language to the rest of the world?I think part of the reason Americans are known as experts is that we tend to focus a lot more in the human side of selling, not the mechanical side, which is the register and knowing about the product. We really want to know about your lifestyle. We want to know about your family. We want to know about your income. We want to know about your occasions in your life. And that's very different outside of the United States. Our consumer actually is comfortable with forming a partnership with a sales associate and giving up that information, very personal information, very personal information. I think that best part about Saks sales associate training that we actually develop customers, five different types of customers and we videotape them and put them up in front of every new sales associate and say, "This is our customers." They're very different. Each one of them is a top customer at Saks but they shop in a very different way. A lot of stores in this industry really measure selling effectiveness by sales and quite frankly that's not what Saks is about. I think the way you measure good quality staff is by repeat business. Obviously if you have someone on your selling floor that has a clientele, that is the measure of a good sales associate. Part V Do you know…?"Everybody loves a bargain, "this is a common American saying. A bargain is something you buy for less than its true vale. It is something you might not buy if it costs more.One person's useless ugly object can be another person's bargain. So many Americans put it outside with a "for sale" sign on it and they have a yard sale.Just about anything can be sold at a yard sale: clothing, cooking equipment, old toys, tools, books and chairs, even objects you think are extremely ugly or useless. You may have an electric light shaped like a fish. You may greatly dislike its looks, but it may be beautiful to someone else. Usually the seller puts a price on each object. But the price can almost always be negotiated. The price of a table, for example, might be marked $10. But the seller may accept 8. If the table has not been sold by the end of the day, the seller probably will take much less.Some people go to yard sales because it is part of their job. They earn their livings by buying old things at low prices then selling them at higher prices. Many others, however, go to yard sales just to have fun. They say it is like going on a treasure hunt. Sometimes they really do find the treasure.Ned Jaudere did. The Boston Globe newspaper says Mr. Jaudere has been collecting native American Indian objects since he was a young man. Last year, he stopped at a yard sale in the northeastern city of Worcester, Massachusertts. He paid $125 for what everyone thought was an old wooden club. Mr. Jaudere thought it was something else. Two days later, he confirmed that the club had been used by the Wampanoag Indian leader known as King Philip. King Philip used it during his war with the white settlers at eastern Massachusetts in 1675. The historic weapon had been stolen from a museum in 1970 and had been missing ever since. Mr. Jardere learnt the war club was valued at about $150 000 but he did not sell it or keep it. Mr. Jaudere returned the club to the museum near Boston Massachusetts from which it was stolen.Questions:1. Which of the following is a common American saying?2. What can be sold at a yard sale?3. Why do people go to a yard sale?4. When was the old wooden club stolen?5. What was the real value of the club?6. Why was the club at a great value?Unit 2 Hotel or B&BPart I Getting readyB. Keys:1 : 35%, 60%2 : 45%, 20%3 : 60%, 80%4 : 30%, 15%5 : 50%, 70%6 : 30%, 20%C. Keys:(1)1 : ￡30/single; ￡60/double, children under 12 2 : ￡29/full board3 : ￡28/double+bath, excluded(2) 1 : hot food, fried egg 2 : coffee, tea, jam, cooked 3 : dinner, bed and breakfast 4 : the room plus all meals 5 : Value Added TaxPart II A touch of homeOutline I : bed and breakfast, 15 000, advantages over big hotels II : meeting different people III : features, 1883, guests IV : B&Bs not suitable for some peoplePart III Renting a carA. Keys: 1 : three 2 : Mon. July 10th 3 : station wagon 4 : $79.95 5 : $59.95 6 : 4 p.m. 7 : 10 a.m.8 : ' free 9 : 12 cents 10 : $10 11 : 8% 12 : '$100B. Keys: a compact car/a station wagon/ automatic transmission/ current models/ pick up/return the car/special weekend rate/regular rate/ unlimited mileage/ insurance/ sales tax/ a full tank of gas/ deposit/ lowest rates.Part IV More about the topic: What Type of Room Do You Want?A. Keys: 1: 5 2: 2 3: 6 4: 4 5: 3 6: 1B. Keys: 1 : ￡40, all grades 2 : ￡55, Sales 3 : ￡150, Managerial, entertaining private guest, the lake 4: ￡220, privacy, country-side, kitchenPart V Do you know…?A. Keys: (France)Italy, (2)3, (3)2, (4)8 (Loudon,UK)Paris,France, (8)4B. Keys: 1 : F 2 : T 3 : F 4 : F 5 : TTape scriptPart I Getting readyB.A: Good morning. I'd like some information about tourist figures, please. First, about accommodation. What proportion of tourists stay in hotels? B: Well, in an average year 60% of tourists stay in hotels, but this year 35% are staying in hotels. A: What proportion of tourists stay in holiday camps? B: Well, in an average year 20% of tourists stay in holiday camps, but this year 45% are staying in holiday camps. A: Now, about places visited. What proportion of tourists visit Europe? B: Well, in an average year 80% of tourists visit Europe, but this year 60% are visiting Europe. A: And what proportion of tourists visit the U.S.A.? B: Well, in an average year 15% of tourists visit the U.S.A., but this year 30% are visiting the U.S.A.. A: Now, about methods of transport. What proportion of tourists go byplane? B: Well,in an average year about 70% of tourists go by plane, but this year about 50% are going by plane. A: What proportion of tourists take their own car? B: Well, in an average year about 20% of tourists take their own car, but this year about 30% are taking their own car. A: Thank you very much for your help.C.C:… so here's a brochure with the hotels in Midford. It gives you all the rates …T:I'm sorry, my English isn't so good. Can you explain this to me?C:Yes, of course. First of all we have the Castle Inn …here …it's the cheapest. It will cost you only ￡12 for a single room and ￡15 for a double. The price includes continental breakfast. If you want a full English breakfast you'll have to pay extra …T:What is this "English breakfast"?C:Oh, you know, hot food: fried egg, fried bacon, porridge … w hereas the continental breakfast is coffee, tea, rolls, jam and honey — nothing cooked, you see.T:I think I would prefer the continental breakfast.C:Well, yes, that's included. And then we have the Dalton Hotel, more expensive, but very nice, a bathroom attached to every room. The Dalton charges ￡30 for a single room and ￡60 for a double. But there is no charge for children under 12 who stay in the same room as their parents.T:I won't have my children with me. But maybe my husband will come a little later …C:Well, the Park Hotel is very reasonably priced. ￡16 per person. Every room has a bath. There's a special rate of ￡25 which includes dinner, bed and breakfast —what we call half board. Or you can have full board, that's the room plus all meals for ￡29 per person per night.T:We would only want breakfast.C:I see. Mm …you could try the fourth hotel here, the Phoenix. It will cost you ￡28 for a double room with bath. Breakfast is ￡5 per person.T:Yes. But what about the extra money, what do you call it in English, the service...C:All these rates include a service charge of 10%. They also include VAT - that's Value Added Tax.T:If we come later in the year will it be cheaper?C:Yes. These are the rates for June to September. You would pay less at other times of the year.T:I'll talk about it with my husband. Thank you for explaining everything to me.C:You're very welcome.Part II A touch of homeBev Rose is a very good hostess. She tells the guests in her home there are sodas in the refrigerator, snacks in the kitchen, and videos next to the TV.But Rose's guests aren't out-of-town family or friends. Her guests are from all over the world. Rose's house is like a small hotel. It is called a bed and breakfast or B&B for short. The name of Rose's B&B is Suits Us.Rose and her husband have joined a growing number of people who are operating B&Bs in their homes. B&Bs offer the charm, comfort, and hospitality that is often missing in big hotels. That's why there are many people who would rather stay at a B&B than a hotel when they travel.There are about 15 000 B&Bs across the U.S. Each year they welcome millions of visitors. And the number is increasing. "I think guests are looking for the personal touch," said Pat Hardy,the director of the American Bed and Breakfast Association. "In a B&B, you don't have a room number. The owner knows who you are and helps you enjoy your trip," Hardy said. Travelers often want more than just a place to sleep. They like B&Bs because the owner takes a personal interest in them.Rose said one of the best things about owning a B&B is meeting all the different people. She loves watching the guests meet each other for the first time at breakfast. "It's really fun to stand in the kitchen and talk with my guests. Even though most of them have just met for the first time, the conversations at the breakfast table are really interesting and lively."Many B&Bs are older homes with interesting histories. Suits Us was built in 1883. The rooms are filled with antiques and 19th-century decorations. The Roses rent three of the upstairs bedrooms to guests. Every room at Suits Us has its own personality. The Roses have named several of the rooms for previous guests. For example, one of the rooms is named the Woodrow Wilson Room because the former U.S. President stayed there. Another room is called the Annie Oakley Room because the famous cowgirl was once a guest there.Bed and breakfasts aren't for everyone. Some people aren't comfortable staying in someone else's home. And other people don't care for the personal interaction. But for a quiet, romantic place to stay, many people are checking into bed and breakfasts instead of hotels. Once people have stayed in a B&B, they often find it hard to go back to hotels.Part III Renting a carA:Good afternoon. U-Drive-It rentals. May I help you?C:Hi, yeah. I'm interested in, uh, renting a car for the weekend, and I'm wondering if you have a special weekend rate?A:Yes, we do. [Mm-hmm.] Uh … what sort of car were you i nterested in?C:Well, we're a family of three and we have camping equipment. Now, I'm used to driving a small car, but I might need something a little larger because of the family and, uh … all the equipment that we have. A:Well, um … I could suggest a compact car for/to you. [Mm-hmm.] Some of our compacts have … have large trunks, [OK.] or, uh … Oh, better yet, why not a small station wagon? [Oh, good.] Um … all our cars are current models and, uh, have automatic transmission.C:Oh, well, I'm used to driving a standard, but I guess there's no problem with automatic transmission.A:No, no. If you can drive a standard you can drive an automatic. [Mh-hmm.] Uh, now, listen, when were you … uh … interested in … in renting this?C:Uh, well, we'll be leaving on a Friday, that's the … let's see, that's Friday, July 7th, and then returning on the Monday. That would be the tenth.A:Mm-hmm. Well, let's see … uh … we have … uh … Oh! We have a Pinto station wagon for those dates. [Mm-hmm. Good.] Um … yeah, I think … I think that's your best bet.C:OK. Uh … well, then when would we have to pick up the car and when would we have to return the car to get that special weekend rate?A:Well, for the weekend rate you have to pick up the car after four o'clock on Friday afternoon [Uh-huh.] and then return it by ten o'clock on Monday morning.C:After four on Friday and returning by ten o'clock on Monday morning. [Mm-hmm.] OK. What … uh … uh, what would be the price for that?A:OK, now, our … our regular rate is seventy-nine ninety-five. [Ooh!] but the special weekend rate w… you can get that for fifty-nine ninety-five. [Oh, Great.] Um … now the first threehundred miles are free, [Mm-hmm…] after that it's twelve cents per mile.C:Oh, so it's twelve cents a mile extra after the first three hundred miles?A:That's right.C:OK. Uh … do you have any … um … rentals with unlimited mileage?A:Well, we do, but you can't get that special weekend rate.C:Uh-huh. OK. Well, then does the fifty-nine ninety-five - that was the rate, right? [Mm-hmm.] —does that include insurance?A:No … um … the insurance is ten dollars more, but I really recommend it.C:Yeah.A:OK, now there's a … there's a sales tax of eight percent, [Mm-hmm…] and … um … you have to return the car with a full tank of gas. [Uh-huh.] Also, we require a deposit of a hundred dollars.C:Oh boy. It sure adds up!A:Well, our rates are still the lowest in town.C:Uh-huh. OK. Well, I tell you what. I'd like to think about it, if that's right, and then I'll call you back…uh…A:Sure, that's fine. Uh, listen, when you … when you do call back, ask for Doug. That's me.C:OK. Well, thanks a lot. Doug. Goodbye.A:Take care.Part IV More about the topic: What Type of Room Do You Want?S: If the terms are favorable, we could come to an arrangement for regular accommodation. Now, I wanted to discuss the types of room with you, and rates for their use.M:Certainly. The rates I’ll quote to you first of all are what we call "rack rates" , that is the normal rates quoted to the public. But obviously we would discuss a discount rate for you. Now, as regards the rooms, they are all of a very high standard. All our rooms have central heating. Most of them are with bathroom, and they all have a washbasin and a toilet.S:That sounds fine. Can you tell me about your single rooms?M:Yes. Our single rooms are very comfortable, and the rates are very reasonable. I think you'd find them suitable for visiting staff of all grades. The rack rate is ￡40 a night.S: ￡40 a night …M:Yes. Or for real economy, let's suppose you have a sales conference. You could double up your sales staff and put them into twin rooms. That would work out very cheaply. The normal rate is ￡55 per twin or double room per night.S: Well, we might consider that possibility. But we also have some quite important visitors sometimes. Have you any really special accommodation we can offer them?M: Well, suppose you have visiting managerial staff. For something more luxurious, we can offer our Delphos Suite. It's delightful, and convenient for entertaining private guests. It has its own private terrace where guests can sit outside and enjoy the view over the lake …S: That sou nds most attractive …M: The normal rate is ￡150 per night …S: ￡150.M: … but for total luxury, the finest accommodation of any hotel in this area, I can recommend our Bella Vista Penthouse. From the balcony, there's a magnificent view over the whole countryside.S: Oh, lovely.M: It has a bedroom connecting to a large sitting room, with a separate study, a bathroom, and a fully-fitted kitchen. It combines total luxury with total privacy. For example, if your Company Director and his wife wanted to stay for a few days it would be ideal.S: And the rate?M: The normal rate would be ￡220 a night.Part V Do you know…?Five U.S. hotels were voted among the world's top ten, with the Halekulani in Honolulu ranking first, a survey of Gourmet magazine readers released last Friday said.Coming in second was the Oriental, in Bangkok, Thailand, followed by Villa d'Este, Cernobbio, Italy; The Regent Hong Kong, and Hotel Ritz, Paris.The Greenbriar, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia ranked No. 8. The 10th-ranked hotel was the Four Seasons Resort Nevis, in Charlestown, Nevis, West Indies.More than 150 hotels, resorts and inns in 27 countries and regions were ranked in general and specific categories that rated such things as dining, bars, pools, workout centers and romantic atmosphere. This is the third year that Gourmet, which has more than 5 million readers, has conducted the survey.Another U.S. hotel, the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas, topped the list for restaurant dining, beating out the Connaught in London, Italy's Villa d'Este and Bangkok's the Oriental. The Four Seasons in Philadelphia was No. 5.In the specific category of best business hotels, the Regent Hong Kong ranked first as it has for the past three years. In other categories, Paris' Hotel Ritz with its Roman thermal baths was voted to have the best pools and The Green- briar in West Virginia was found to have the best workout center, golf and tennis.Unit 3 “Planting” MoneyPart I Getting readyC. Keys:1 : Sincere; Y 2 : Doubtful; N 3 : Sarcastic; N 4 : Doubtful; N 5 : Sincere; Y 6 : Skeptical; N 7 : Surprised; Y 8 : Sincere; Y 9 : Emphatic; Y 10 : Sarcastic; NPart II National teach children to save dayA. Keys: 1 : Thursday, April 17 2 : teaching children how to save money 3 : 2 500 4 : 5 000 presentationsB. Keys:1: 4; 2: 3; 3: 2; 4: 1Part III Credit cardsKeys: 1 : importance 2 : later 3 : The potential disadvantages 4 : lots of purchases 5 : interest 6 : The benefits 7 : emergencies 8 : travelPart IV More about the topic: Gulf Between the Rich and PoorA. Keys: 1 : 3 2 : 1 3 : 2 4 : so much of their income 5 : ever larger houses and cars 6 : social programs or infrastructure repairs 7 : happier 8 : fewer disputes of work 9 : lower levels of stress hormones 10 : less often 11 : at an older ageB. Keys: 1 : vice president 2 : Myths of Rich and Poor 3 : positive side 4 : increased prosperity 5 : better off 6 : 30 years ago 7 : hundreds of gadgets 8 : easier 9 : more pleasurable 10 : cellular and cordless phones 11 : computers 12 : answering machines 13 : microwave ovens 14 : 3/4 15 : washing machines 16 : half 17 : clothes dryers 18 : 97% 19 : color televisions 20 : 3/4 21 : VCRs 22 : 2/3 23 : microwaves and air conditioners 24 : 3/4 25 : automobile 26 : 40% 27: home 28 :。

全新版大学英语听说教程答案第4册Unit 1Part BTextExercise 1: 1. b 2. c 3.aExercise 2: 1. F 2. T 3. F 4.F 5. F. 6.F 7.T 8.F 9.T 10.TPart C1. c2. d3. c4. a5. bPart Dgreen: sign of life and of hopeblue: color of the sky and the seaorange: color of health and strengthred: color of danger and bravery; of passion and lovepurple: color of royalty an powerindigo: color of silencerainbow: sign of hope for tomorrowUnit 2Part BTextExercise 1: 1. d 2. b 3. d 4. c 5. d 6. aExercise 2: (omitted)Part CAmericans move about a great deal at parties....as soon as there are more people than chairs in a room...you will see first one and then another make some excuse to get to his feet sitting becomes staticintroduce themselvesdrift around a roomyou are expected to reply by giving your name and introducing the person with you merely nod and smileshe extends itjust nods and greets herPart DIn Japan, you should hold a business with both hands and read the name and the job title carefully. so do not hold the card with one hand and put it into your pocket without reading it.In Mexico, it is usual for men to touch each other in a friendly way and it is considered unfriendly if you move away when you are touched.IN Korea, eye contact means sincerity and respect to the speaker.In China, you should avoid criticizing people, otherwise you will embarrass them.Kate pretended to criticize her Chinese business partner with the intention of amusing him.In China, you should avoid confrontation with people.People in Scotland and Wales will be offended if you call them English. It is because England is not one part of the United Kingdom.Rob doses not like to be touched and stared at.English people tend to look away when talking to each other.全新版大学英语听说教程答案第4册Unit 3Part BTextExercise 1:celebrations/worlda weekly column/Daily Starcan't affordcouple/hundredeighteen/age/accepted/adult/vote/buy wines/drive a carconsidered/mature/boysTurkey, Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal.Exercise 2: 1.F 2.F 3.T 4.F 5.F 6.F 7.F 8.TPart C1.F2.F3.T4.F5.F6.T7.T8.F9.T 10.FPart DThe reasons why boundaries between countries are fading.fading of boundaries of class and caste in societies/relaxation of immigration laws in many counties/freedom for people to convert to other religions/birth of the InternetThey are Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam.21 or more.The adoption and circulation of the single currency, the euro.Unit 4Part BTextExercise 1:put the OHP on the tablepress the buttons in and lift this part up until it snaps into placeturn the OHP round so the head is facing towards the screen or a white wallplug it inplace the transparency on the stagemove the flap up or down to raise or lower the imageturn the wheel to make the image sharpExercise 2:place the OHP about 2 meters from the wall or screena screen works better than a wallleave the OHP switched on when using it and place a piece of paper over the glassPart Cin the address book or contact list"CCs" stands for copies of a message. when you want other people to get copies of the same email message, you send them "CCs".you can copy sentences and paste them in other placesyou can run the spell checkeryou double click the word an type the new word over it.全新版大学英语听说教程答案第4册Unit 5Part BTextExercise 1: 1. D 2. C 3. D 4. CExercise 2:Firstly, it is a fact that some people were born with better memories.Secondly, different things are kept in different parts of the brain. Ideas, words and numbers are stored in the left-hand side and images, sounds and smells in the right-hand side.Thirdly, unusual experiences can produce chemicals such as adrenaline in our body which can boost memory.Fourthly, how well we remember something is also affected by the context in which we learn about it.Finally, the more often you recall a memory, the more likely you are to remember it. If you don't, you lose it.Part CFourBecause Australia is shaped a bit like a dog.Break it into smaller ones and then think of what the numbers remind us of.Try to follow the directions in our mind.Try to build them into a story.Part D1.T2.F3.F4.F5.T6.F7.T8.TUnit 6Part BTextExercise 1: 1. C 2. C 3. B 4. B 5. A 6. BExercise 2:if a man with a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing. Nothing except glittering baggage that must be attended to.the larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.the lust for comfort is a stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.things are in the saddle, and ride mankind.Part CExercise: 1.c 2.d 3.a 4.b 5.bPart DHe is CEO and co-founder of John Paul Mitchell SystemsHair care products.It makes about $200 million in the sales per year.He joined forces with his friends Paul Mitchell, who was one for America's most influential hair designers then, and together they introduced a revolutionary hair setting and styling method.The successful people persist even during the toughest times, but the unsuccessful give up.Because DeJoria believes that fewer people can do more.They have 87 employees worldwide although they probably should hire five or six hundred people.They are paid more than others in the industry but hey have to do more as well.He thinks it his duty to donate to worthwhile projects and causes.Success unshared is a failure.to be continued...应广大网友要求增加TEST1，本人手工录入，很辛苦，谢谢支持。

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新编⼤学英语视听说教程4听⼒原⽂与答案视听说4 听⼒原⽂及答案Unit 1 Leisure activitiesPart 1 listening oneEver wish you could do magic tricks, or introduce yourself as “magician” at a party? Imagine, everybody wants to have fun, but nothings’ really happening, it’s time for you to show one of your ne w tricks. Here, you can learn how, and without any need for special materials or much practice.A trick with a coin, a handkerchief and a friend:Put the coin on your palm. Cover the coin with the handkerchief. Ask several people to put their hands beneath the handkerchief and feel the coin, to make sure that it is still there. Then take the corner of the handkerchief and pull it rapidly off your hand. The coin has gone! How? You must make sure the last friend who feels the coin knows the trick and removes the coin when he seems to be just feeling it. And nobody knows where it has gone!A trick with a piece of paper and a pencil:Tell your friend that you can communicate your thoughts without speaking to other people. Write on the piece of paper the word No. Don't let your friends see what you have written. Say, "Now I will communicate this word into your minds." Pretend to concentrate. Ask them if they know what is written on the paper. They will say, "No!" And you say, "Quite correct! I wrote No on the paper!"A trick with an egg and some salt:Ask your friends to stand the egg upright on the table. They won't manage to do it. Say that you can speak to the chicken inside. Say, "Chicken! Can you hear me? Get ready to balance your egg!"When you first get the egg back from your friends, pretend to kiss the egg at the base. Make the base wet. Then put the base into salt which is in your other hand. The salt will stick to the egg. Then put the egg on the table. Twist the egg around a few times as this will arrange the grains of salt. Then it will stand up. Don't forget to thank the chicken.Questions:1.What does the magician ask people to do in the first trick2.What happens to the coin?3.How does the magician prove that he can communicate histhoughts to the audience in the second trick?4.What is the first step to make the egg stand upright?5.What else is needed to make the egg stand upright?Keys: 1. B 2. C 3. C 4. A 5. DPart 1 listening two(The following is an interview from a weekly sports program.) Presenter: Good morning, listeners. Welcome to our weekly sports programaimed at all those underactive youngsters with time on their hands!Listen to what our two guests have to say about their hobbies andhow their hobbies have made a difference to their lives. Adriennefirst, then, Jonathan.Adrienne: I collect very interesting jewelry. I tend to travel a lot as most of my family do, so whenever I have a holiday, I like to go traveling.Whenever I travel somewhere, I like to pick up something to remindme of the place that I visited. And, the easiest thing to do is to pickup a small piece of jewelry instead of getting a poster or a T-shirtthat won’t last. I like the idea of having something small and also, Ifind whenever I wear jewelry from somew here, it’s a goodconversation piece. Usually people ask you, “Where did you getthis?” I then have a story to tell, and it’s a good way to meet and talkto people. It’s just interesting. I have jewelry that I picked up when Itraveled to Thailand, when I traveled to Africa and when I traveled toEurope.Presenter: Wow! Sounds nice. You’ll have to show your collections to us. Adrienne: I’d love to.Presenter: Thank you, Adrienne. Now Jonathan.Jonathan: I prefer canoeing because you've always got the water there for support. If you're a good swimmer, have a good sense of balanceand strong arms, you'll like canoeing! The main trouble istransporting your canoe to the right places—my father takes it onthe roof of the car—or sometimes I put it on the roof of the club’sLand Rover. What it has taught me most is to be independent. It'sjust you and the canoe against the wind, the weather and the water.It gives you a lot of self-confidence and it can be really exciting aslong as you don't mind getting soaked, of course! It makes you feelclose to nature somehow. Last year, when I was qualified, I began torun my own canoeing center.Presenter: So you are making your hobby work for you.Jonathan: People are usually very skilled at their hobbies. The combination of interest and skills is a very compelling reason to choose a particularcareer.Presenter: Then, Adrienne, do you have a similar plan?Adrienne: Yes, I love making beaded jewelry. I’ve decided to get some formal training. I want to learn how to be a jewelry designer. Questions:1. Who is the target audience in the program?2. What is Adrienne’s hobby?3. What does Adrienne usually buy when she visits a place?4. How does Jonathan benefit from canoeing?5. What should be the major concern in choosing a career according to Jonathan?Keys: 1. A 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. BPart 1 listening threeGerry: I've just been to see Gone with the Wind. It was fantastic. Well worth seeing. Have you ever seen it?Judy : No, but I've read the book. I don't think I would like to see the film really. It would spoil the story for me.Gerry: Really? Oh, give me a film any day. Honestly, if I had to choose between the film of a story and the book of it, I'd go for the film. Judy : Would you?Gerry: Yes. It's much more real. You can get the atmosphere better. You know, the photography and location shots, period costumes, theright accents. Don't you think so?Judy : Not really. I much prefer to use my own imagination. I can imagine how I want it, rather than how someone makes me see it. Anyway, I think you get much more insight into the characters when you read a book. Part of a person's character is lost on film because you never know what they are thinking.Gerry: True, but I don't know. It's much easier going to the cinema. It takes less time. I can get the whole story in two hours but it might take mea week to read the book.Judy : I know, but it's so expensive to go to the cinema nowadays.Gerry: I know, but it's a social event. It's fun. You can go with your friends.When you read a book you have to do it on your own.Judy : All right. Let's agree to differ. I'll get some coffee.Keys:1.1.s poil the story 1.2. and day1.3. Honestly choose the film1.4.Atmosphere photography location period1.5.insight into the characters 1.6. social event1.7. agree to differ2.Films: get the atmosphere better---photography/locationshots/period costumes/right accenteasiertake less time: two hoursan social event: fun, go with friendsBooks: take more time: one weeknot a social event: do it on your ownbooks: use readers’ own imaginationget much more insight into the charactersfilms: spoil the storyexpensivePart 1 listening fourSally Marino gets married. After the wedding, there is a big party—a wedding reception. All the guests eat dinner. There is a band and, after dinner, everyone dances. Sally's mother and father pay for everything. At the end of the reception, Sally andher new husband cut the wedding cake and all the guests get a piece.Pete and Rose buy a new house. After moving in, they invite their friends and family to a party—a housewarming party. Everybody comes to see the new house. They look at the bedrooms, the dining room, even the garage. Pete and Rose serve drinks, sandwiches, and snacks. The party is on a Saturday afternoon.It is Christmas time. Ted and Sarah Robinson want to see many of their friends over the holiday. So they invite their friends to an open house. The hours of the party are from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. The guests arrive and leave whenever they want. The Robinsons serve sandwiches, drinks, and snacks. Some guests stay for just 20 minutes, others stay for 3 hours. About fifty people come to the open house.Mr. and Mrs. Todd ask their neighbors to come to an evening party. They don't serve much food, just snacks—pretzels, chips, peanuts and many types of drinks. No one dances. Conversation is important with people asking questions like "What's new with you?".。

Unit 1 Shopping and Banking OlinePart I Getting readyB. Keys:1: drop 2: shopping 3: mouse 4: feet 5: retailing 6: street 7: get 8: down 9: third-party 10: online 11:30% 12: malls 13: Britain 14: gift-buying 15:50% 16: net 17: peroidC. Keys:1 : the site2 : merchant, addresses/phone numbers/call up3 : strict safety measuresPart II Net shopping under fireA. Keys:1 : delivery, delivery2 : delivery charges3 : personal information, 87%4 : returning goods, 47%5 : order, 35%, dispatch, 87%6 : money back, twoB. Keys:1 : convenience2 : choice3 : obstacles4 : complete trust5 : build consummers' trust6 : mature7 : payment8 : servicePart III Banking at homeA. Keys:1 : limited opening hours2 : Online banking services3 : getting current information on products4 : e-mailing questions to the bank5 : competing for customers6 : having no computersB. Keys:1 : It is banking through the Internet.2 : 'Online banking' offers convenience which appeals to the kind of customer banks want to keep.3 : Banks most want to keep people who are young, well-educated, and have good incomes.Part IV More about the topic: Secret of Good Customer Service B. Keys:English Good Customer Service(Harrods)1 : in a pleasant environment2 : Second to none3 : different customers, take a look at everything, alternatives, come to sales assistants4 : first contact with the customerAmerican Good Customer Service(Saks)1 : human side, family, occasions in life, a partnership2 : repeat business, salesPart V Do you know…?Keys:1 : c2 : a、b、c3 : a、b、c4 : c5 : c6 : bTape scriptPart I Getting ready Unit 2 Hotel or B&B Part I Getting ready1 : 35%, 60%2 : 45%, 20%3 : 60%, 80%4 : 30%, 15%5 : 50%, 70%6 : 30%, 20%C. Keys:(1)1 : ￡30/single; ￡60/double, children under 12 2 : ￡29/full board3 : ￡28/double+bath, excluded(2) 1 : hot food, fried egg 2 : coffee, tea, jam, cooked 3 : dinner, bed and breakfast 4 : the room plus all meals 5 : Value Added TaxPart II A touch of homeOutline I : bed and breakfast, 15 000, advantages over big hotelsII : meeting different people III : features, 1883, guests IV : B&Bs not suitable for some peoplePart III Renting a carA. Keys: 1 : three 2 : Mon. July 10th 3 : station wagon 4 : $79.955 : $59.956 : 4 p.m.7 : 10 a.m.8 : ' free9: 12 cents 10 : $10 11 : 8% 12 : '$100B. Keys: a compact car/a station wagon/ automatic transmission/ current models/ pick up/return the car/special weekend rate/regularrate/ unlimited mileage/ insurance/ sales tax/ a full tank of gas/ deposit/ lowest rates.Part IV More about the topic: What Type of Room Do YouWant?A. Keys: 1: 5 2: 2 3: 6 4: 4 5: 3 6: 1B. Keys: 1 : ￡40, all grades 2 : ￡55, Sales 3 : ￡150, Managerial, entertaining private guest, the lake 4: ￡220, privacy, country-side, kitchenPart V Do you know…?A. Keys: (France)Italy, (2)3, (3)2, (4)8 (Loudon,UK)Paris,France,(8)4B. Keys: 1 : F 2 : T 3 : F 4 : F 5 : TTape scriptPart I Getting readyUnit 3 “Planting” MoneyPart I Getting readyC. Keys:1 : Sincere; Y 2 : Doubtful; N 3 : Sarcastic; N 4 : Doubtful; N 5 : Sincere; Y 6 : Skeptical; N 7 : Surprised; Y 8 : Sincere; Y 9 : Emphatic; Y 10 : Sarcastic; NPart II National teach children to save dayA. Keys: 1 : Thursday, April 17 2 : teaching children how to save money 3 : 2 500 4 : 5 000 presentationsB. Keys:1: 4; 2: 3; 3: 2; 4: 1Part III Credit cardsKeys: 1 : importance 2 : later 3 : The potential disadvantages 4 :lots of purchases 5 : interest 6 : The benefits 7 : emergencies 8 : travelPart IV More about the topic: Gulf Between the Rich and Poor A. Keys: 1 : 3 2 : 1 3 : 2 4 : so much of their income 5 : ever larger houses and cars 6 : social programs or infrastructure repairs 7 : happier 8 : fewer disputes of work 9 : lower levels of stress hormones 10 : less often 11 : at an older ageB. Keys: 1 : vice president 2 : Myths of Rich and Poor 3 : positive side 4 : increased prosperity 5 : better off 6 : 30 years ago 7 : hundreds of gadgets 8 : easier 9 : more pleasurable 10 : cellular and cordless phones 11 : computers 12 : answering machines 13 : microwave ovens 14 : 3/4 15 : washing machines 16 : half 17 : clothes dryers 18 : 97% 19 : color televisions 20 : 3/4 21 : VCRs 22 : 2/3 23 : microwaves and air conditioners 24 : 3/4 25 : automobile 26 : 40% 27: home 28 : half 29 : stereo systemsPart V Do you know…?A. Keys: 1 : Tokyo 2 : Osaka 3 : Oslo 4 : Zurich 5 : Hong Kong6 : Copenhagen7 : Geneva8 :Paris9: Reykjavik 10 : LondonB. Keys: 1 : The Euro has appreciated against the US dollar. 2 : Persistent economic turmoil. 3 : Tehran. 4 : The economistteam checks prices of a wide range of items from bread and milk cars and utilities to compile this report. 5 : Business clients use it to calculate the amount of allowances granted to overseas executives and their families.Tape scriptPart I Getting readyUnit 4 Loans for the DreamPart I Getting readyB. Keys:Items ItemsCharities Theatre and other arts eventsEating out √ Stocks and sharesHobbies (DIY, sailing, etc.) √ Antiques √Food and groceries √ CarsItems Same Up D own FiguresEntertainment √ 2566Depreciation √300Secretarial expenses √——...Motor expenses √2612Audit & accountancy costs √——Telephone & postage √ Half as much as last yearPart II Raising money for buying a carA. Keys: 1 :college 2 :repairing 3 :a hundred pounds 4 : three hundred fifty to four hundred 5 :interest rates 6 :an Ordinary Loan 7 :24 monthsB. Keys: 1 :X 2 :√3 :7% 4 :A day-to-day basis1 :overdraft2 :repay3 :lenders in the short term4 :pay interest on5 :collateral6 :life policy7 :deeds of the house8 :Government Securities9 :certificate 10 :on a day-to-day basisPart III Housing in the U.S.A.A. Keys: 1 :cost of housing 2 :1/4-1/3 3 :size and location4 :mortgage5 :easy to get things repaired6 : mortgage7 :condominiumB. Keys: 1 :borrows, mortgages, shares, mortgage-based securities2 :They control about half the home loans in America.3 :Hiding the changes in the value; Poor supervision; Not carefully reporting its finances.4 :The price of Fannie Mae has dropped.Part IV More about the topic: Consumer RightsA. Keys: 1: a. merchantable quality b. fitting for particular purpose /seller c. as described 2: no/ retailer's responsibility/take to shop 3: item/ too large/ fragile 4: evidence of purchase/ date of purchase 5: go to court/ sue the sellerB. Keys: 1 : F 2 : T 3 : F 4 : FPart V Do you know…?Keys: 1:any federal tax 2:tax on whiskey and other alcoholic drink; farmers refused 3:George Washington;13000 troops; defeated the Whiskey Rebellion. 4:personal income 5: rejected 6:The 16th Amendment 7:income8: taxed at 35%;highest rate 9:10:no income tax 11:7%: income tax on business 12:over 40%: personal income tax 13: 35%: retirement programs 14: below 18%: customsTape scriptPart I Getting readyA.B. Keys:a. 1 : 8000/half 2 : 4000b. 3 : 2000/twice 4 : 4000c. 5 : 2000/double 6 : 4000.d. 7 : 8000/a quarter 8 : 2000e. 9 : 4000/similiar 10 : 4000C. Keys:Dialogue one:1 : $300002 : 24%3 : overdraft4 : sailingDialogue two:1 : A brand new video was stolen.2 : Yes.The speaker paid the premium last week. Dialogue three:1 : mortgage2 : income3 : saving money4 : entertaining5 : pension schemes6 : insurancePart II Briefing on personal taxationA. Keys:1 : Structure2 : rates3 : 25%4 : 40%5 : ￡32956 : ￡50157 : pension8 : 40%9: 7%10 : collection 11 : PAYE 12 : Insurance 13 : 9% 14 : 10%B. Keys:1 : 10%2 : simple and relatively low3 : separate taxation4 : 40%, Pay As You Earn, the employer5 : the employeePart III Should I buy an insurance policy? (I)A. Keys:1 : insurance policy2 : save money3 : buying a houseB. Keys:1 : a fixed objective in mind/how much to pay each month; a fixed objective each month in mind/how much to produce over some years3 : No; regular & systematic/short term/bank/Building SocietyPart IV More about the topic: Should I buy an insurance policy? (II)A. Keys:1 : unmarried2 : dependents3 : no need4 : acumulate capital/expand business/end of term5 : saving to produce a pensionPart V Do you know…?A. Keys:1 : T2 : F3 : F4 : T5 : TB.a.We expected about eight thousand, but it was half of that.b.We estimated about two thousand, but it's twice as much as that.c.Her salary is about two thousand, and his is about double that.d.We thought about eight thousand, but it's not more than a quarter of that.e.We thouht about four thousand, and it's similiar to that.Unit 6 Visions of BusinessPart I Getting readyB. Keys: Scale. 1: Individual proprietorship 2: Two or more people 3: the complex Ownership. 1: property owners 2: all the property 3: Two or more people 4: go into business 5: Investors 6: stock 7: share 8: ownershipResponsibility. 1: proprietor 2: Limited partners 3: full partners 4: A board of directors 5: corporate policies 6: top officers Lifetime. 1: Limited 2: Limited 3: UnlimitedPart II Michael Dell vs. Frederick Smith (I)A. Keys: Michael Dell: 1: Chairman 2: CEO 3: Dell 4: tenured CEO 5: computer industry 6: direct-to-consumer 7: build-to-order 8: Dell Computer 9: middle-manFrederick Smith: 1: Chairman 2: President 3: CEO 4: FedEx 5: transportation 6: overnight delivery 7: just-in-time delivery 8: FedEx 9: FedEx 10: ground deliveryB. Keys: 1: the quality of service 2: the breadth of the network 3: the unique services needed 4: the costPart III Michael Dell vs. Frederick Smith (II)A. Keys: Efficient information system can 1: all the unnecessary; costs; more applicable 2: the distance betweenA great part of economy will work on "supply chain" because 1: afast cycle basis; a world of choice 2: on a computer; customize 3: haveit delivered very rapidlyB. Keys: Michael:Motivation: The opportunity in the industry, in the business Ambitions 1. a leader not only in client computing, but also in the enterprise and servers and storage. 2. business not just inthe United States but all over the world 3. a lot of services that go along with the productsFrederick: Positive attitude towards future: company’s future Positive attitude towards work: going to work every day; compete; innovate; wonderful people; a lot of very exciting business trends.Part IV More about the topic: The Business PlanA. Keys: 1: the most fundamental 2: business plan 3: large 4: small 5: having a business plan 6: a reality 7: essential 8: a map 9: where you’re going to go 10: get started 11: go from “A” to “Z” 12: how much money 13: how many people 14: prediction where the business may go 15: position yourself 16: use the least amount of money 17: morecritical 18: budding entrepreneurs 19: use the limited resourcesPart V Do you know…?A. Keys: 1: 80 2:100 3: oldest 4: largest 5: fastest 6: growing7:1919 8: school 9: hours 10: organized 11: operated 12: forming 13: Local 14: developed 15: shares 16: materials 17: produced 18: profits 19: owned 20: business 21:operate 22: 1974 23: classrooms 24: programs 25:5 26: 18 27: 2700000 28: 85 000 29: 5 30: 11 31: V olunteer 32: main 33: rules34: organized 35: made 36: sold 37: economy38: money39:industry 40: trade 41: families 42: communities43:12 44:14 45: business 46: expert 47: Project 48: economic 49: theories 50: supply demand 51: corporations 52: world trade 53: 12 54:14 55: Economics 56: leaving 57: completing 58: continuing 59: game 60:jobs 61: education 62: money 63: get 64: earn 65: need 66: want 67: high 68:schoolTape scriptPart I Getting readyUnit 7 Fame and FortunePart I Getting readyB. Keys: 1:magazine 2:newspaper 3:Microsoft Company 4:successful 5:richest 6:3rd 7:1955 8:Washington 9: computers 10:13 11:baseball12:football 13:computer programs 14:perform 15:high16:computer language 17:Basic 18:valuable 19:office 20:home21:established 22:1975 23:three 24:computer software 25:established26:nternational 27:usiness 28: achines 29:1981 30:personal computer31:operating system 32 :129 33:computer companies 34:Windows 35: easier 36:officials 37:4000000038:thousands of millions of dollars 39:16 000 40:48 41: 30 42:100Part II Bill Gates’ new rulesA. Keys: 1: quailty 2: re-engineering 3: velocityB. Keys: 1: communication 2: e-mail 3: sales data online 4:insights 5: knowledge workers 6: high-level thinking 7: create virtual teams 8: paper process 9: digital process 10: eliminate single-task jobs 11: digital feedback loop 12: route customer complaints 13: redefine theboundarie 14: business process 15: just-in-time delivery 16: eliminate the middle man 17: help customers solve problemsPart III Great business dealsA. Keys: 1: NATIONAL STEAMSHIP 2: 20 000 3: Aristotle Onassis 4: 6 000 5: American 6: Big Ben 7: 1 000 8: tourist9: Buckingham Palace 10: 2 000 11: The White House 12: 100 000 13: The Statue of Liberty 14: 100 000 15: AustralianB. Keys: 1: boom 2: world depression 3: millionaire 4: identified 5: fraud 6: five 7: California 8: luxuryPart IV More about the topic: Walt Disney1: correspondence course 2: Oswald the Rabbit 3: talking cartoonfilm 4: Walt Disney himself 5: storyteller6: Ub Iwerks 7: 35; feature-length cartoon film; 2 000 000; three 8: potential 9: 55; 17 000 000 27: taste; vulgarity; children of all agesPart V Do you know…?1: $24 worth of kettles, axes and cloth. 2: $80 000 000. 3: $27 000 000. 4: About 12 cents. 5: About 800 000 square miles. 6: About 1 600000 square miles. 7: $7 200 000. 8: About 5 cents. 9: $750 000 000 worth. 10: An estimated 100 000 000 000 tons. Tape scriptPart I Getting readyUnit 8 Business SuccessPart I Getting readyB. Keys: 1: 90-149 pounds 2: 465 pounds 3: 240 pounds 4:46 pounds 5: 835 poundsPart II Witty Ways to SuccessA. Keys:B. Keys: Dos: 1: about 3 2: 1 or 2 pumps 3: be firm but not crushing 4: at waist level 5: down 6: business format 7: e-mail buttons 8: carbon copy 9: praise 10: criticize 11: mind reading 12: return your phone call 13: cop toDon’ts: 1: the limp handshake 2: the bone-crusher 3: the two-handed handshake 4: up 5: sensitive 6: conflict 7: casual 8: smiley face 9: winking 10: capitalizing 11: carbon copy the bossPart III Technology in doing businessA. Keys: 1: technologies; efficiency and sales 2: in the digitalworld 3: computer internet 4: electronic commerce; consumers 5: embrace; dieB. Keys: 1: F 2: T 3: F 4: F 5: TPart IV More about the topic: How to Improve Your Executive Image?A. Keys: 1: d 2: c 3: a 4: b 5: aPart V Do you know…?A. Keys: 1: Ten percent of American workers. 2: Construction, agriculture, communication, retail, manufacturing, engineering and real estate. 3: Her customers' good will and the friendships she has made at her store.4: Because women business owners tend to place more emphasis on nurturing the individual employee's needs. Tape scriptPart I Getting ready。

大学英语听说教程第4册答案Unit 1Part B TextExercise 1: 1. b 2. c 3.aExercise 2: 1. F 2. T 3. F 4.F 5. F. 6.F 7.T 8.F 9.T 10.TPart C 1. c 2. d 3. c 4. a 5. bUnit 2Part B TextExercise 1: 1. d 2. b 3. d 4. c 5. d 6. aExercise 2: (omitted)Part CAmericans move about a great deal at parties....as soon as there are more people than chairs in a room...you will see first one and then another make some excuse to get to his feet sitting becomes staticintroduce themselvesdrift around a roomyou are expected to reply by giving your name and introducing the person with youmerely nod and smileshe extends itjust nods and greets heUnit 3Part B Text Exercise 1:radio/TVcelebrations/worlda weekly column/Daily Starcan't affordcouple/hundredeighteen/age/accepted/adult/vote/buy wines/drive a carconsidered/mature/boysTurkey, Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal.Exercise 2: 1.F 2.F 3.T 4.F 5.F 6.F 7.F 8.TPart C 1.F 2.F 3.T 4.F 5.F 6.T 7.T 8.F 9.T 10.FUnit 4Part B Text Exercise 1:put the OHP on the tablepress the buttons in and lift this part up until it snaps into placeturn the OHP round so the head is facing towards the screen or a white wall plug it inswitch it onplace the transparency on the stagemove the flap up or down to raise or lower the imageturn the wheel to make the image sharpExercise 2:place the OHP about 2 meters from the wall or screena screen works better than a wallleave the OHP switched on when using it and place a piece of paper over the glassPart Cin the address book or contact list"CCs" stands for copies of a message. when you want other people to get copies of the same email message, you send them "CCs".you can copy sentences and paste them in other placesyou can run the spell checkeryou double click the word an type the new word over it.Unit 5 Part B Text Exercise 1: 1. D 2. C 3. D 4. CExercise 2:Firstly, it is a fact that some people were born with better memories. Secondly, different things are kept in different parts of the brain. Ideas, words and numbers are stored in the left-hand side and images, sounds and smells in the right-hand side.Thirdly, unusual experiences can produce chemicals such as adrenaline in our body which can boost memory.Fourthly, how well we remember something is also affected by the context in which we learn about it.Finally, the more often you recall a memory, the more likely you are to remember it. If you don't, you lose it.Part C FourBecause Australia is shaped a bit like a dog.Break it into smaller ones and then think of what the numbers remind us of. Try to follow the directions in our mind.Try to build them into a story.Unit 6Part B TextExercise 1: 1. C 2. C 3. B 4. B 5. A 6. BExercise 2:if a man with a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing. Nothing except glittering baggage that must be attended to.the larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.the lust for comfort is a stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.things are in the saddle, and ride mankind.Part C Exercise: 1.c 2.d 3.a 4.b 5.bUNIT7Excrcise 11.Smoking in public places is being restricted more and more in the U.S.2.The speaker is neutral about it.3.People's homes.4.It was classified as a drug like cocaine in 1996.5.The United States is the country where tobacco originated.Exercise21. Throughout the United States, the number of places where people are allowed to smoke has gradually dwindled .2. In fact, smoking in parks and recreation centers is already banned in California.3. Since January 12002 , all parks in California have become smoke-free to safeguard children from the harmful effects of secondhand tobacco smoke and dangerous tobacco waste.4. Scientists all over the world agree that exposure to secondhand smoke poses a serious health risk and there is no safe level of exposure .5. It is especially dangerous for children because when they are exposed to tobacco smoke, they have much higher rates of lung diseases.。

Unit 1Task 1:【答案】A.Event YearKenny G was born. 1956He toured Europe with his High School band. 1971He made his first solo album. 1982He won released his most successful album. 1993He won the Best Artist Award. 1994He broke the world record for playing a single note. 1997B．1) F2) F3) T【原文】Saxophonist Kenny G is now the world's 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, and he has sold more than 36 million albums worldwide... and he hasn't sung a note!Task 2:【答案】1) c2) d3) c【原文】Senn: Everybody always has this misconception that female policemen don't do the same thing as men do, you know. I've worked..Interviewer: That's not trueSenn: That is not true! I've 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. There's no distinction used if there's a male or female officer on duty. Two men on duty—I'll refer to as two men, ’cause in my field there's no difference between the genders. We're still the same. Okay, if there's two men on duty—just because one's a female, she still gets in on the same type of call. If there's a bar disturbance downtown, then we go too. There's been many times where being the only officer on duty—that's it! It’s just me and whoever else is on duty in the county. They can come back me up if I need assistance. And it does get a little hairy. You go in there, and you have these great big, huge monster-guys, and they're just drunker than skunks, and can't see three feet in front of them. And when they see you, they see fifteen people, and you know... But still, there's enough...Interviewer: That's where the uniform is important, I should imagine.Senn: Sometimes, you know. If so mebody is going to…or has a bad day, and they areout to get a cop, you know, it doesn't matter if you're, you know, boy, girl, infant or anything! When you've got that cop uniform on, they'll still take it out on you.Interviewer: Yeah...Senn: But I think there's one advantage to being a female police officer. And that is the factthat most men still have a little respect, and they won't smack you as easy as they would one of the guys.Interviewer: Uh-huh...Senn: But I'll tell you one thing I’ve learned—I'd rather deal with ten drunk men that one drunk woman any day of the week!Interviewer: Well, why is thatSenn: Because women are so unpredictable. You cannot ever predict what a woman's going to do.Interviewer: Hmm...Senn: Especially, if she's agitated, you know.Interviewer: Emotionally upset.Senn: Yeah. I saw a lady one time just get mad at the guy she was withbecause he wouldn't buy her another drink— take off her high heel and lay his 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. At the 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 isn't really dead. With any luck he isn't even hurt. Why Because the men who fallout 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 are called “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 high 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 profession for “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 h is work rejected at first.4) The British, or at least the English, are embarrassed by it. They’re embarrassed by people who reveal personal feelings, 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 h e 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 a friend, 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. haven't 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". They gradually disappeared.Some people say no. America isn't a melting pot. It's more like a salad bowl. Important differences between groups of people haven't disappeared. Many groups have kept their ownways, their customs, their identities, and this has given America great strength.Melting pot Salad bowl Perhaps there's 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 weren't 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 didn't understand their new one. They didn't really feel a part of it. And the people of the new one didn't 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 didn't learn the new language quickly. Some didn't 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. 1,000B. motion-picture machineC. photographyD. streetcars，electric trainsIV.B. turn off all powerC. the progress of manB.1) F2) F3) T4) T5) F【原文】When Thomas Edison was born in the small town of Milan, Ohio, in 1847, America was just beginning its great industrial development. 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 mothertaught him at home, where his great curiosity and desire to experiment often got him into trouble. When he was ten, Edison built his own chemistry laboratory. He sold sandwiches and newspapers on the local 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 a friend, he built his own telegraph set. He taught himself the Morse telegraphic code and hoped for the chance to become a professional telegraph operator. A stroke of luck and Edison's quick thinking soon provided the opportunity.One day, as young Edison stood waiting for a train to arrive, he saw the station master's sot wander into the track of an approaching train. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to safety. The thankful station master offered to teach Edison railway telegraphy. Afterwards, in 1863, he became tan expert telegraph operator and left home to work in various cities.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. At that time electricity was still in the experimental stages, and Edison hoped to invent new ways to use it for the benefit of people. As he once said: "My philosophy of life is work. I want to bring out the secrets of, nature and apply them for the happiness of man. I know of no better service to render for the short time we are in this world."The same year, when he was only 22 years old, Edison invented an improved ticker-tape machine which could better report the prices on the New York Market. The ticker-tape machine was successful, and Edison decided to leave his job and concentrate wholly on inventing. When the president of the telegraph company asked how much they owed him for his invention, Edison was ready to accept only $3,000. Cautiously he said: "Suppose you make me an offer.""How would $40,000 strike you" the president inquired. Edison almost fainted, but he finally replied that the price was fair.With this money, and now calling himself an electrical engineer, Edison formed his own "invention factory" in Newark, New Jersey. Over the next few years he invented and produced many new items, including the mimeograph machine, wax wrapping paper, and improvements of the telegraph.In 1877 Edison decided he could no longer continue both manufacturing and inventing. He sold his share in the factory and built a new laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was the first laboratory of its kind devoted to organized industrial research. One of the first inventions to come from his new laboratory was an improvement of Alexander Bell's telephone. Edison invented a more powerful mouthpiece which removed the need to shout into the telephone. But his great inventions were still to come.On August 12, 1877, Edison began experimenting with an instrument which he had designed and ordered to be built. It was a cylinder, wrapped in tinfoil and turned by a handle. As it revolved, a needle made a groove in the foil. Turning the handle, Edison began to shout."Mary had a little lambWhose fleece was white as snow!"He stopped and moved the needle back in the starting position. Then, putting his ear close to the needle, he turned the handle again. A voice came out of the machine:"Mary had a little lamb,Whose fleece was white as snow!"Edison had just invented the phonograph, a completely new concept: a talking machine.While he was perfecting his phonograph, Edison also worked on another invention. He called it "an Electric Lamp for Giving Light by Incandescence". Today we call it the light bulb.For years other inventors had experimented with electric lights, but none of the lights had proven economical to produce. Edison, in studying the problem, spent over a year experimenting. He tested 1,600 materials (even hairs from a friend's beard) to see if they would carry electric current and glow. Finally, on October 21, 1879, he tried passing electricity through a carbonized cotton thread in a vacuum glass bulb. In his own words Edison described the experiment: "... before nightfall the carbon was completed and inserted in the lamp. The bulb was exhausted of air and sealed, the current turned on, and the sight we had so long desired to see met our eyes." The lamp gave off a feeble, reddish glow, and it continued to bum for 40 hours. Edison's incredible invention proved that electric lighting would be the future light of the world.Edison was now so famous as an inventor that people thought there was nothing he could not do. They began to call him "the wizard", as if he could produce an invention like magic. Few people realized how hard Edison worked, often 20 hours a day, and that most of his inventions were the results of hundreds of experiments.For 60 years Edison was the world's leading inventor. He patented over 1,000 inventions which changed our way of living. He was one of the earliest inventors of the motion-picture machine. His invention of the phonograph was joined with photography to produce talking pictures. He also perfected the electric motor which made streetcars and electric trains possible.It is no wonder that Edison received many honors during his life for contributions to the progress of mankind. The United States gave him its highest award, a special Congressional Medal of Honor. Yet, in spite of all his fame, Edison remained a modest man. He preferred to continue his work, rather than rest on his achievements. His motto was: "I find what the world needs; then I go ahead and try to invent it." He never considered himself a brilliant man and once remarked that genius was "2 percent inspiration and 98 percent perspiration".When Edison died in 1931, it was proposed that the American people mm off all power in their homes, streets, and factories for several minutes in honor of this great man. Of course, it was quickly realized that such an honor would be impossible. Its impossibility was indeed the real tribute to Edison's achievements. Electric power had become so important and vital a part of America's life that a complete shut-down for even a few seconds would have created chaos. As "one of the great heroes of invention", Edison rightfully belongs among America's and the world's great contributors to the progress of man.Task 7:【答案】A.1) c2) a3) d4) c5) c6) aB.1) That’s because the explosion robs the fire of oxygen.2) Once the fire is out, the well still needs to be covered, or capped, to stop the flow of oil. This is the most dangerous part of the process. Any new heat or fire could cause the leaking well and the surrounding area to explode.3) In March of 1991, Red Adair went to Kuwait. He and his crews were called in to help put out oil well fires.4) He has spent his 76th birthday in Kuwait working side by side with his crew.5) At his funeral, many family members and friends honored him by wearing red clothes.【原文】Paul Neal Adair was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen fifteen. He was one of five sons of a metal worker. He also had three sisters. While growing up, he became known as Red Adair because his hair was bright red. The color became a trademark for Adair. He wore red clothes and red boots. He drove a red car, and his crew members used red trucks and red equipment.During World War Two, Adair served on a trained army team that removed and destroyed bombs. After the war, he returned to Houston and took a job with Myron Kinley. At the time, Kinley was the leader in putting out fires in oil wells. Red Adair worked with Myron Kinley for fourteen years. But in nineteen fifty-nine, Adair started his own company.During his thirty-six years in business, Red Adair and his crews battled more than two thousand fires all over the world. Some were on land. Others were on ocean oil-drilling structures. Some fires were in burning oil wells. Others were in natural gas wells.Red Adair was a leader in a specialized and extremely dangerous profession. Putting out oil well fires can be difficult. This is because oil well fires are extinguished, or put out, at the wellhead just above ground. Normally, explosives are used to stop the fire from burning. The explosion robs the fire of oxygen. But, once the fire is out, the well still needs to be covered, or capped, to stop the flow of oil. This is the most dangerous part of the process. Any new heat or fire could cause the leaking well and the surrounding area to explode.Red Adair developed modern methods to extinguish and cover burning oil wells.They became known in the industry as Wild Well Control techniques. In addition to explosives, the techniques involved large amounts of water and dirt. Adair also developed special equipment made of bronze metal to help extinguish oil well fires. The modern tools and his Wild Well Control techniques earned Red Adair and his crews the honor of being called the "best in the business."Red Adair was known for not being afraid. He was also known for his sense of calm and safety. None of his workers were ever killed while putting out oil well or gas fires. He described his workthis way: “It scares you—all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everyone's face, when you are finished and packing, it is the best smile in the world; and there is nobody hurt, and the well is under control.”One of Red Adair's most important projects was in nineteen sixty-two. He and his crew put out a natural gas fire in the Sahara Desert in Algeria. The fire had been burning for six months. This famous fire was called the "Devil's Cigarette Lighter." Fire from the natural gas well shot about one hundred forty meters into the air. The fire was so big that American astronaut John Glenn could see it from space as he orbited desert sand around the well had melted into glass from the extreme heat. News reports said Adair used about three hundred forty kilograms of nitroglycerine explosive material to pull the oxygen out of the fire.Adair's success with the "Devil's Cigarette Lighter" and earlier well fires captured the imagination of the American film industry. In nineteen sixty-eight, Hollywood made an action film called Hellfighters. It was loosely based on events in Red Adair's life. Actor John Wayne played an oil well firefighter from Houston, Texas whose life was similar to Adair's. Adair served as an advisor to Wayne while the film was being made. The two men became close friends. Adair said one of the best honors in the world was to have John Wayne play him in a movie.In nineteen eighty-eight, Adair fought what was possibly the world's worst off-shore accident. It was at the Piper Alpha drilling structure in the North Sea. Occidental Petroleum operated the structure off the coast of Scotland. The structure produced oil and gas from twenty-four wells. One hundred sixty-seven men were killed when the structure exploded after a gas leak. Red Adair had to stop the fires and cap the wells. He faced winds blowing more than one hundred twenty kilometers an hour, and ocean waves at least twenty meters high.In March of nineteen ninety-one, Red Adair went to Kuwait following the Persian Gulf War. He and his crews were called in to help put out fires set by the Iraqi army.The Red Adair Company capped more than one hundred wells. His crews were among twenty-seven teams from sixteen countries called in to fight the fires. The crews' efforts put out about seven hundred Kuwaiti fires. Their efforts saved millions of barrels of oil. Some experts say the operation also helped prevent an environmental tragedy. The job had been expected to take three to five years. However, it was completed in just eight months.Red Adair had spent his seventy-sixth birthday in Kuwait working side by side with his crew. When asked when he might retire, he told reporters: "Retire I do not know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work, and he is productive out there and he feels good—keep at it."Still, Red Adair finally did retire in nineteen ninety-four. At that time, he joked about where he would end up when he died. He said he hoped to be in Heaven. But he said this about Hell: "I have made a deal with the devil. He said he is going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there—if I go there—so I won't put all the fires out."Red Adair died in two thousand four. He was eighty-nine years old. At his funeral, many family members and friends honored him by wearing red clothes. Many Americans remember Red Adair for his bravery. He lived his life on the edge of danger. He was known for his willingness to risk his own life to save others.Task 8:【答案】A.1) She was born in New York City in 1884.2) After she finished school, Eleanor began teaching children to read in one of the poorest areas of New York City. She investigated factories where workers were said to be badly treated. She became involved with other women who shared the same ideas about improving social conditions.3) She decided she would no longer play the part of a politician's wife. Instead, she began to builda life with interests of her own.4) Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932. His new economic program was called the New Deal.5) She was different from the wives of earlier presidents in that she was the first to become active in political and social issues.6) She publicly resigned her membership to protest the action of the group.7) She spent the last years of her life visiting foreign countries. She became America's unofficial ambassador. She called on Americans to help the people in developing countries.B.1) F2) T3) T【原文】Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of America's thirty-second president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She helped her husband in many ways during his long political life. She also became one of the most influential people in America. She fought for equal rights for all people -- workers, women, poor people, black people. And she sought peace among nations.Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City in eighteen eighty-four. Eleanor's family had great wealth and influence. When she was eight years old, her mother died. Two years later, her father died. It was Eleanor's grandmother who raised the Roosevelt children.After she finished school, Eleanor began teaching children to read in one of the poorest areas of New York City, called "Hell's Kitchen." She investigated factories where workers were said to be badly treated. She saw little children of four and five years old working until they dropped to the floor. She became involved with other women who shared the same ideas about improving social conditions.Franklin Roosevelt began visiting Eleanor. Franklin belonged to another part of the Roosevelt family. Franklin and Eleanor were married in nineteen-oh-five. In the next eleven years, they had six children.Franklin Roosevelt began his life in politics in New York. He was elected to be a state legislator. Later, President Woodrow Wilson appointed him to be assistant secretary of the Navy. The Roosevelts moved to Washington in nineteen thirteen. It was there, after thirteen years of marriage, that Eleanor Roosevelt went through one of the hardest periods of her life. She discovered that her husband had fallen in love with another woman. She wanted to end the marriage. But her husband urged her to remain his wife.She did. Yet her relationship with her husband changed. She decided she would no longer play the part of a politician's wife. Instead, she began to build a life with interests of her own. Eleanor Roosevelt learned about politics and became involved in issues and groups that。

现代大学英语听力4答案及原文(总12页)--本页仅作为文档封面，使用时请直接删除即可----内页可以根据需求调整合适字体及大小--Unit 1Task 1:【答案】A.Event YearKenny G was born. 1956He toured Europe with his High School band. 1971He made his first solo album. 1982He won released his most successful album. 1993He won the Best Artist Award. 1994He broke the world record for playing a single note. 1997B．1) F2) F3) T【原文】Saxophonist Kenny G is now the world's 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, and he has sold more than 36 million albums worldwide... and he hasn't sung a note!Task 2:【答案】1) c2) d3) c【原文】Senn: Everybody always has this misconception that female policemen don't do the same thing as men do, you know. I've worked..Interviewer: That's not true?Senn: That is not true! I've 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. There's no distinction used if there's a male or female officer on duty. Two men on duty—I'll refer to as two men, ’cause in m y field there's no difference between the genders. We're still the same. Okay, if there's two men on duty—just because one's a female, she still gets in on the same type of call. If there's a bar disturbance downtown, then we go too. There's been many times where being the only officer on duty—that's it! It’s just me and whoever else is on duty in the county. They can come back me up if I need assistance. And it does get a little hairy. You go in there, and you have these great big, huge monster-guys, and they're just drunker than skunks, and can't see three feet in front of them. And when they see you, they see fifteen people, and you know... But still, there's enough...Interviewer: That's where the uniform is important, I should imagine. Sen n: Sometimes, you know. If somebody is going to…or has a bad day, and they areout to get a cop, you know, it doesn't matter if you're, you know, boy, girl, infant or anything! When you've got that cop uniform on, they'll still take it out on you.Interviewer: Yeah...Senn: But I think there's one advantage to being a female police officer. And that is the factthat most men still have a little respect, and they won't smack you as easy as they would one of the guys.Interviewer: Uh-huh...Senn: But I'll tell you one thing I’ve learned—I'd rather dealwith ten drunk men that one drunk woman any day of the week!Interviewer: Well, why is that?Senn: Because women are so unpredictable. You cannot ever predict what a woman'sgoing to do.Interviewer: Hmm...Senn: Especially, if she's agitated, you know.Interviewer: Emotionally upset.Senn: Yeah. I saw a lady one time just get mad at the guy she was withbecause he wouldn't buy her another drink— take off her high heel and lay his 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. At the start they only fight with their fists. But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. Andso it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window—andfalls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead！Of course he isn't really dead. With any luck he isn't 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 are called “stunt men”. That is to say, they perform “tricks”.There are two sides to their work. They actually do most of thethings 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 high 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 explosionjust 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 profession for “men only”. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have toperform 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 feelings, 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 livedwas 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 a friend, he built his own telegraph set.Six years later, in 1869, Edison arrived in New York City, poor andin 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. haven't 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". They gradually disappeared.Some people say no. America isn't a melting pot. It's more like a salad bowl. Important differences between groups of people haven't disappeared. Many groups have kept their own ways, their customs, their identities, and this has given America great strength.Melting pot Salad bowl Perhaps there's 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 weren't pavedwith 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 theydidn't understand their new one. They didn't really feel a part of it. And the people of the new one didn't always welcome them.They came for the sake of their children, but in America theirchildren often rejected them. To the children, their parents seemedold-fashioned. They didn't learn the new language quickly. Somedidn't 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. 1,000B. motion-picture machineC. photographyD. streetcars，electric trainsIV.B. turn off all powerC. the progress of manB.1) F2) F3) T4) T5) F【原文】When Thomas Edison was born in the small town of Milan, Ohio, in 1847, America was justbeginning its great industrial development. The time in which helived 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 mothertaught him at home, where his great curiosity and desire toexperiment often got him into trouble. When he was ten, Edison built his own chemistry laboratory. He sold sandwiches and newspapers onthe local 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 himto the telegraph and with a friend, he built his own telegraph set.He taught himself the Morse telegraphic code and hoped for the chance to become a professional telegraph operator. A stroke of luck and Edison's quick thinking soon provided the opportunity.One day, as young Edison stood waiting for a train to arrive, he saw the station master's sot wander into the track of an approaching train. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to safety. The thankful station master offered to teach Edison railway telegraphy. Afterwards, in 1863, he became tan expert telegraph operator and left home towork in various cities.Six years later, in 1869, Edison arrived in New York City, poor andin debt. He went to work with a telegraph company. It was there that he became interested in the uses of electricity. At that time electricity was still in the experimental stages, and Edison hoped to invent new ways to use it for the benefit of people. As he once said: "My philosophy of life is work. I want to bring out the secrets of, nature and apply them for the happiness of man. I know of no better service to render for the short time we are in this world."The same year, when he was only 22 years old, Edison invented an improved ticker-tape machine which could better report the prices on the New York Market. The ticker-tape machine was successful, and Edison decided to leave his job and concentrate wholly on inventing. When the president of the telegraph company asked how much they owed him for his invention, Edison was ready to accept only $3,000. Cautiously he said: "Suppose you make me an offer.""How would $40,000 strike you" the president inquired. Edison almost fainted, but he finally replied that the price was fair.With this money, and now calling himself an electrical engineer, Edison formed his own "invention factory" in Newark, New Jersey. Over the next few years he invented and produced many new items, including the mimeograph machine, wax wrapping paper, and improvements of the telegraph.In 1877 Edison decided he could no longer continue both manufacturing and inventing. He sold his share in the factory and built a new laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was the first laboratory of its kind devoted to organized industrial research. One of the first inventions to come from his new laboratory was an improvement of Alexander Bell's telephone. Edison invented a more powerful mouthpiece which removed the need to shout into the telephone. Buthis great inventions were still to come.On August 12, 1877, Edison began experimenting with an instrument which he had designed and ordered to be built. It was a cylinder, wrapped in tinfoil and turned by a handle. As it revolved, a needle made a groove in the foil. Turning the handle, Edison began to shout. "Mary had a little lambWhose fleece was white as snow!"He stopped and moved the needle back in the starting position. Then, putting his ear close to the needle, he turned the handle again. A voice came out of the machine:"Mary had a little lamb,Whose fleece was white as snow!"Edison had just invented the phonograph, a completely new concept: a talking machine.While he was perfecting his phonograph, Edison also worked on another invention. He called it "an Electric Lamp for Giving Light by Incandescence". Today we call it the light bulb.For years other inventors had experimented with electric lights, but none of the lights had proven economical to produce. Edison, in studying the problem, spent over a year experimenting. He tested1,600 materials (even hairs from a friend's beard) to see if they would carry electric current and glow. Finally, on October 21, 1879, he tried passing electricity through a carbonized cotton thread in a vacuum glass bulb. In his own words Edison described the experiment: "... before nightfall the carbon was completed and inserted in the lamp. The bulb was exhausted of air and sealed, the current turned on, and the sight we had so long desired to see met our eyes." The lamp gave off a feeble, reddish glow, and it continued to bum for 40 hours. Edison's incredible invention proved that electric lighting would be the future light of the world.Edison was now so famous as an inventor that people thought there was nothing he could not do. They began to call him "the wizard", as ifhe could produce an invention like magic. Few people realized howhard Edison worked, often 20 hours a day, and that most of his inventions were the results of hundreds of experiments.For 60 years Edison was the world's leading inventor. He patentedover 1,000 inventions which changed our way of living. He was one ofthe earliest inventors of the motion-picture machine. His invention of the phonograph was joined with photography to produce talking pictures. He also perfected the electric motor which made streetcars and electric trains possible.It is no wonder that Edison received many honors during his life for contributions to the progress of mankind. The United States gave him its highest award, a special Congressional Medal of Honor. Yet, in spite of all his fame, Edison remained a modest man. He preferred to continue his work, rather than rest on his achievements. His motto was: "I find what the world needs; then I go ahead and try to invent it." He never considered himself a brilliant man and once remarked that genius was "2 percent inspiration and 98 percent perspiration". When Edison died in 1931, it was proposed that the American people mm off all power in their homes, streets, and factories for several minutes in honor of this great man. Of course, it was quicklyrealized that such an honor would be impossible. Its impossibility was indeed the real tribute to Edison's achievements. Electric power had become so important and vital a part of America's life that a complete shut-down for even a few seconds would have created chaos. As "one of the great heroes of invention", Edison rightfully belongs among America's and the world's great contributors to the progress of man.Task 7:【答案】A.1) c2) a3) d4) c5) c6) aB.1) That’s because the explosion robs the fire of oxygen.2) Once the fire is out, the well still needs to be covered, or capped, to stop the flow of oil. This is the most dangerous part of the process. Any new heat or fire could cause the leaking well and the surrounding area to explode.3) In March of 1991, Red Adair went to Kuwait. He and his crews were called in to help put out oil well fires.4) He has spent his 76th birthday in Kuwait working side by side with his crew.5) At his funeral, many family members and friends honored him by wearing red clothes.【原文】Paul Neal Adair was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen fifteen. He was one of five sons of a metal worker. He also had three sisters. While growing up, he became known as Red Adair because his hair was bright red. The color became a trademark for Adair. He wore red clothes and red boots. He drove a red car, and his crew members used red trucks and red equipment.During World War Two, Adair served on a trained army team that removed and destroyed bombs. After the war, he returned to Houston and took a job with Myron Kinley. At the time, Kinley was the leader in putting out fires in oil wells. Red Adair worked with Myron Kinley for fourteen years. But in nineteen fifty-nine, Adair started his own company.During his thirty-six years in business, Red Adair and his crews battled more than two thousand fires all over the world. Some were on land. Others were on ocean oil-drilling structures. Some fires werein burning oil wells. Others were in natural gas wells.Red Adair was a leader in a specialized and extremely dangerous profession. Putting out oil well fires can be difficult. This is because oil well fires are extinguished, or put out, at the wellhead just above ground. Normally, explosives are used to stop the fire from burning. The explosion robs the fire of oxygen. But, once the fire is out, the well still needs to be covered, or capped, to stop the flow of oil. This is the most dangerous part of the process. Any new heat or fire could cause the leaking well and the surrounding area to explode.Red Adair developed modern methods to extinguish and cover burningoil wells.They became known in the industry as Wild Well Control techniques. In addition to explosives, the techniques involved large amounts of water and dirt. Adair also developed special equipment made of bronze metal to help extinguish oil well fires. The modern tools and his Wild Well Control techniques earned Red Adair and his crews the honor of being called the "best in the business."Red Adair was known for not being afraid. He was also known for his sense of calm and safety. None of his workers were ever killed while putting out oil well or gas fires. He described his work this way: “It scares you—all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everyone's face, when you are finished and packing, it is the best smile in the world; and there is nobody hurt, and the well is under control.”One of Red Adair's most important projects was in nineteen sixty-two. He and his crew put out a natural gas fire in the Sahara Desert inAlgeria. The fire had been burning for six months. This famous fire was called the "Devil's Cigarette Lighter." Fire from the natural gas well shot about one hundred forty meters into the air. The fire wasso big that American astronaut John Glenn could see it from space as he orbited desert sand around the well had melted into glass fromthe extreme heat. News reports said Adair used about three hundred forty kilograms of nitroglycerine explosive material to pull the oxygen out of the fire.Adair's success with the "Devil's Cigarette Lighter" and earlier well fires captured the imagination of the American film industry. In nineteen sixty-eight, Hollywood made an action film called Hellfighters. It was loosely based on events in Red Adair's life. Actor John Wayne played an oil well firefighter from Houston, Texas whose life was similar to Adair's. Adair served as an advisor to Wayne while the film was being made. The two men became close friends. Adair said one of the best honors in the world was to have John Wayne play him in a movie.In nineteen eighty-eight, Adair fought what was possibly the world's worst off-shore accident. It was at the Piper Alpha drillingstructure in the North Sea. Occidental Petroleum operated thestructure off the coast of Scotland. The structure produced oil and gas from twenty-four wells.One hundred sixty-seven men were killed when the structure exploded after a gas leak. Red Adair had to stop the fires and cap the wells. He faced winds blowing more than one hundred twenty kilometers an hour, and ocean waves at least twenty meters high.In March of nineteen ninety-one, Red Adair went to Kuwait following the Persian Gulf War. He and his crews were called in to help put out fires set by the Iraqi army.The Red Adair Company capped more than one hundred wells. His crews were among twenty-seven teams from sixteen countries called in tofight the fires. The crews' efforts put out about seven hundred Kuwaiti fires. Their efforts saved millions of barrels of oil. Some experts say the operation also helped prevent an environmental tragedy. The job had been expected to take three to five years. However, it was completed in just eight months.Red Adair had spent his seventy-sixth birthday in Kuwait working side by side with his crew. When asked when he might retire, he told reporters: "Retire I do not know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work, and he is productive out there and he feels good—keep at it."Still, Red Adair finally did retire in nineteen ninety-four. At that time, he joked about where he would end up when he died. He said he hoped to be in Heaven. But he said this about Hell: "I have made adeal with the devil. He said he is going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there—if I go there—so I won't put all the fires out."Red Adair died in two thousand four. He was eighty-nine years old. At his funeral, many family members and friends honored him by wearing red clothes. Many Americans remember Red Adair for his bravery. He lived his life on the edge of danger. He was known for hiswillingness to risk his own life to save others.Task 8:【答案】A.1) She was born in New York City in 1884.2) After she finished school, Eleanor began teaching children to read in one of the poorest areas of New York City. She investigated factories where workers were said to be badly treated. She became involved with other women who shared the same ideas about improving social conditions.3) She decided she would no longer play the part of a politician's wife. Instead, she began to build a life with interests of her own. 4) Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932. His new economic program was called the New Deal.5) She was different from the wives of earlier presidents in that she was the first to become active in political and social issues.6) She publicly resigned her membership to protest the action of the group.7) She spent the last years of her life visiting foreign countries. She became America's unofficial ambassador. She called on Americans to help the people in developing countries.B.1) F2) T3) T【原文】Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of America's thirty-second president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She helped her husband in many ways during his long political life. She also became one of the most influential people in America. She fought for equal rights for all people -- workers, women, poor people, black people. And she sought peace among nations.Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City in eighteen eighty-four. Eleanor's family had great wealth and influence. When she was eight years old, her mother died. Two years later, her father died.It was Eleanor's grandmother who raised the Roosevelt children.After she finished school, Eleanor began teaching children to read in one of the poorest areas of New York City, called "Hell's Kitchen." She investigated factories where workers were said to be badly treated. She saw little children of four and five years old working until they dropped to the floor. She became involved with other women who shared the same ideas about improving social conditions.Franklin Roosevelt began visiting Eleanor. Franklin belonged to another part of the Roosevelt family. Franklin and Eleanor were married in nineteen-oh-five. In the next eleven years, they had six children.Franklin Roosevelt began his life in politics in New York. He was elected to be a state legislator. Later, President Woodrow Wilson appointed him to be assistant secretary of the Navy. The Roosevelts moved to Washington in nineteen thirteen. It was there, afterthirteen years of marriage, that Eleanor Roosevelt went through oneof the hardest periods of her life. She discovered that her husband had fallen in love with another woman. She wanted to end the marriage. But her husband urged her to remain his wife.She did. Yet her relationship with her husband changed. She decided she would no longer play the part of a politician's wife. Instead,she began to build a life with interests of her own.Eleanor Roosevelt learned about politics and became involved inissues and groups that interested her. In nineteen twenty-two, she became part of the Women's Trade Union League. She also joined the debate about ways to stop war. In those years after World War One,she argued that America must be involved in the world to prevent another war. "Peace is the question of the hour," she once told a group of women. "Women must work for peace to keep from losing their loved ones."The question of war and peace was forgotten as the United States entered a severe economic depression in nineteen twenty-nine. Prices suddenly dropped on the New York stock market. Banks lost their money. People lost their jobs.Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in nineteen thirty-two. He promised to end the Depression and put Americans back to work. Mrs. Roosevelt helped her husband by spreading information about his new economic program. It was called the New Deal. She traveled around the country giving speeches and visiting areas that needed economic aid. Eleanor Roosevelt was different from the wives of earlier presidents. She was the first to become active in political and social issues. While her husband was president, Missus Roosevelt held more thanthree hundred news conferences for female reporters. She wrote adaily newspaper commentary. She wrote for many magazines. These。

Unit 1 (1)Task 2: (3)Unit 2 (26)Unit 3 (49)Unit 4 (79)Unit 5 (102)Unit 6 (125)Unit 7 (144)Unit 8 (159)Unit 9 (184)Unit 10 (204)Unit 11 (232)Unit 12 (254)Unit 13 (276)Unit 14 (296)Unit 15 (321)Unit 1Task 1:【答案】A.Event YearKenny G was born.1956He toured Europe with his High School1971band.He made his first solo album.1982He won released his most successful album.1993He won the Best Artist Award.19941997He broke the world record for playing asingle note.B．1) F2) F3) T【原文】Saxophonist Kenny G is now the world's 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 and47 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, and he has sold more than 36 million albums worldwide... and he hasn't sung a note!Task 2:【答案】1) c2) d3) c【原文】Senn: Everybody always has this misconception that female policemen don't do the same thing as men do, you know. I've worked..Interviewer: That's not true?Senn: That is not true! I've 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. There's no distinction used if there's a male or female officer on duty. Two men on duty—I'll refer to as twomen, ’cause in my field there's no difference between the genders. We'restill the same. Okay, if there's two men on duty—just because one's afemale, she still gets in on the same type of call. If there's a bar disturbancedowntown, then we go too. There's been many times where being theonly officer on duty—that's it! It’s just me and who ever else is on dutyin the county. They can come back me up if I need assistance. And it doesget a little hairy. You go in there, and you have these great big, hugemonster-guys, and they're just drunker than skunks, and can't see threefeet in front of them. And when they see you, they see fifteen people, andyou know... But still, there's enough...Interviewer: That's 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 doesn't matter if you're, you know, boy,girl, infant or anything! When you've got that cop uniform on, they'll still takeit out on you.Interviewer: Yeah...Senn: But I think there's one advantage to being a female police officer. And that is the factthat most men still have a little respect, and they won't smack you as easy asthey would one of the guys.Interviewer: Uh-huh...Senn: But I'll tell you one thing I’ve learned—I'd rather deal with ten drunk men that one drunk woman any day of the week!Interviewer: Well, why is that?Senn: Because women are so unpredictable. You cannot ever predict what a woman'sgoing to do.Interviewer: Hmm...Senn: Especially, if she's agitated, you know.Interviewer: Emotionally upset.Senn: Yeah. I saw a lady one time just get mad at the guy she was with because he wouldn't buy her another drink— take off her high heel andlay his 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. At the 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 awindow—and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead！Of course he isn't really dead. With any luck he isn't 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 are called “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 high 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 profession for “men only”. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays t here 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 feelings, 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 a friend, 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. haven't 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, GreekOrthodox.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". They gradually disappeared.Some people say no. America isn't a melting pot. It's more like a salad bowl. Important differences between groups of people haven't disappeared. Many groups have kept their own ways, their customs, their identities, and this has given America great strength.Melting pot? Salad bowl? Perhaps there's 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 weren't 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 didn't understand their new one. They didn't really feel a part of it. And the people of the new one didn't 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 didn't learn the new language quickly. Some didn't learn it at all. Their parents' customs made children。

大学英语听说教程第4册答案Unit 1Part B TextExercise 1: 1. b 2. c 3.aExercise 2: 1. F 2. T 3. F 4.F 5. F. 6.F 7.T 8.F 9.T 10.TPart C 1. c 2. d 3. c 4. a 5. bUnit 2Part B TextExercise 1: 1. d 2. b 3. d 4. c 5. d 6. aExercise 2: (omitted)Part CAmericans move about a great deal at parties....as soon as there are more people than chairs in a room...you will see first one and then another make some excuse to get to his feet sitting becomes staticintroduce themselvesdrift around a roomyou are expected to reply by giving your name and introducing the person with youmerely nod and smileshe extends itjust nods and greets heUnit 3Part B Text Exercise 1:radio/TVcelebrations/worlda weekly column/Daily Starcan't affordcouple/hundredeighteen/age/accepted/adult/vote/buy wines/drive a carconsidered/mature/boysTurkey, Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal.Exercise 2: 1.F 2.F 3.T 4.F 5.F 6.F 7.F 8.TPart C 1.F 2.F 3.T 4.F 5.F 6.T 7.T 8.F 9.T 10.FUnit 4Part B Text Exercise 1:put the OHP on the tablepress the buttons in and lift this part up until it snaps into placeturn the OHP round so the head is facing towards the screen or a white wall plug it inswitch it onplace the transparency on the stagemove the flap up or down to raise or lower the imageturn the wheel to make the image sharpExercise 2:place the OHP about 2 meters from the wall or screena screen works better than a wallleave the OHP switched on when using it and place a piece of paper over the glassPart Cin the address book or contact list"CCs" stands for copies of a message. when you want other people to get copies of the same email message, you send them "CCs".you can copy sentences and paste them in other placesyou can run the spell checkeryou double click the word an type the new word over it.Unit 5 Part B Text Exercise 1: 1. D 2. C 3. D 4. CExercise 2:Firstly, it is a fact that some people were born with better memories. Secondly, different things are kept in different parts of the brain. Ideas, words and numbers are stored in the left-hand side and images, sounds and smells in the right-hand side.Thirdly, unusual experiences can produce chemicals such as adrenaline in our body which can boost memory.Fourthly, how well we remember something is also affected by the context in which we learn about it.Finally, the more often you recall a memory, the more likely you are to remember it. If you don't, you lose it.Part C FourBecause Australia is shaped a bit like a dog.Break it into smaller ones and then think of what the numbers remind us of. Try to follow the directions in our mind.Try to build them into a story.Unit 6Part B TextExercise 1: 1. C 2. C 3. B 4. B 5. A 6. BExercise 2:if a man with a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing. Nothing except glittering baggage that must be attended to.the larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.the lust for comfort is a stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.things are in the saddle, and ride mankind.Part C Exercise: 1.c 2.d 3.a 4.b 5.bUNIT7Excrcise 11.Smoking in public places is being restricted more and more in the U.S.2.The speaker is neutral about it.3.People's homes.4.It was classified as a drug like cocaine in 1996.5.The United States is the country where tobacco originated.Exercise21. Throughout the United States, the number of places where people are allowed to smoke has gradually dwindled .2. In fact, smoking in parks and recreation centers is already banned in California.3. Since January 12002 , all parks in California have become smoke-free to safeguard children from the harmful effects of secondhand tobacco smoke and dangerous tobacco waste.4. Scientists all over the world agree that exposure to secondhand smoke poses a serious health risk and there is no safe level of exposure .5. It is especially dangerous for children because when they are exposed to tobacco smoke, they have much higher rates of lung diseases.。