新视野大学英语视听说教程第二版4Unit6答案

Unit 6 The truth can be stranger than fiction.

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Part I

Script

Directions: Listen to the short dialogs, and

then

choose

the correct answers to the

questions. You will hear the recording twice. After the first playing, there will be time for

you to choose the correct answers. Use the second playing to check your answers.

1.

(Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. The woman doesn't believe in any superstitions.

B. The man doesn't believe in any superstitions.

C. The two speakers will probably go out for an outing.

D. The two speakers will probably stay at home.

2. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. To keep evil away.

B. To wish for more money.

C. To show friendliness.

D. To treat a wound.

3. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)

A. Teachers.

B. Lawyers.

C. Sailors.

D. Doctors.

4. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.) A. The man learnt the news of UFO from the newspaper.

B. The woman learnt the news of UFO from the newspaper today.

C. The woman probably mistook an airplane for a UFO.

D. The man doesn't believe in UFO at all.

5. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.) A. It causes a car accident.

B. It causes an injury.

C. It prevents bad luck.

D. It makes plenty of money.

Part II Script

Directions: Listen to the passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time,

listen for the general idea. When the passage is read the second time, fill in the blanks

numbered from (1) to (7) with the exact words you hear. For blanks numbered from (8) to

(10), write down either the exact words you hear or the main points in your own words.

When the passage is read the third time, check your answers.

Easter Island in the southern Pacific Ocean remains a mystery. When the island was (1)discovered, it was almost uninhabited, but there were many statues on it. People are

(2)eager to know who lived there before its discovery, how they lived, and why they

(3)died out. Different theories give different explanations, but none is completely

(4)convicing.

The Easter Islanders had their own system of

(5)writing, different from any other in the

world. No other Pacific Islanders knew how to write. The American (6)Indians did not

know how to write either. Who (7)taught the Easter Islanders how to write, or did they

develop their own system? Remember that writing was first invented in Asia only a few

thousand years BC.

(8).

How did the Easter Islanders get them? Is it possible that a few Easter Islanders traveled 2,300

miles to Chile, got sweet potatoes, and brought them back? But this is unlikely.

(9),

which was only colonized in 1492. Could Easter Island have been colonized by people from

Chile? Yet, DNA taken from graves dug up on Easter Island has shown that these people were

Polynesians, not American Indians. The Polynesians lived on the sea and knew how to travel

thousands of miles in their small canoes. They knew where they were going. The American

Indians did not know how to do that. Yet,

(10).

Also, the seeds could have been brought in the stomachs of birds.

Your answer Correct answer

(1) discovered discovered

(2) eager eager

(3) died died

(4) convicing convincing

(5) writing writing

(6) Indians Indians

(7) taught taught

(8) The Easter Islanders lived on sweet potatoes they farmed. These sweet potatoes came

from the Americas

(9)

Remember that the distances involved were

great, further than the distance from Europe

to the closest place in the Americas

(10) a few American Indians could have reached

Easter Island, because of a storm, and

brought the seeds of sweet potatoes with

them

Part III Script

Directions: Listen to the following recording, and then choose the correct answers to the

questions. You will hear the recording twice. After the first playing, there will be time for

you to choose the correct answers. Use the second playing to check your answers.

1. When did people begin to record animals falling from skies?

A. Hundreds of years ago.

B. Thousands of years ago.

C. In 1877.

D. In 1957.

2. What did Dr. Smith notice? A. An alligator climbing ashore.