高中英语听力突破II Unit 9(一)英语听力

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每小题 1.5分，满分7.5分）请听下面5段对话，选出最佳选项。

1. What are the two speakers going to buy?A. Bread.B. Cheese.C. Eggs.2. How does the woman find the fish?A. Just so-so.B. Bad.C. Quite good.3. What does the woman mean?A. Mark should go on with the game.B. Mark should draw pictures on the computer.C. Mark should review his lessons.4. Where does the conversation take place?A. In the bookstore.B. In the library.C. In the classroom.5. Why doesn’t Jane eat her chocolate cake?A. She doesn’t like chocolate.B. She has trouble with her tooth.C. She has no tooth.第二节（共15小题; 每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）请听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。

请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. In which department can this conversation most probably take place?A. Shoe Department.B. Clothing Department.C. Jewelry Department.7. What could be the reason if the woman does not buy the overcoat?A. The color.B. The size.C. The price.请听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

高中英语听力练习题含答案（一）听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一个小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1．How does Mandy want to go to the cinema?A．On foot. B．By bus.C．By taxi.2．Who got the driver out of the car finally?A．Some firefighters. B．Some doctors.C．Some policemen.3．What time will the train arrive in Shanghai?A．At 6：00 pm. B．At 7：00 pm.C．At 8：00 pm.4．What do we know about the cat?A．It may be sick.B．It's in the pet hospital.C．It ate some fish.5．What does the boy often do now?A．Play basketball. B．Play badminton.C．Play football.第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)听下面5段对话或独白。

每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6．What is the woman going to do?A．Buy a book. B．Repair her shoes.C．Post a letter.7．Where is the store?A．Next to the supermarket.B．In front of the post office.C．Near the bookshop.听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

英语听⼒⼊门第⼀册第九单元Unit 9Visions of the FutureObjective1.listen to some predictions some people have made about the businessworld in the next 20 years or so. Add missing words to the following statements2.Listen to some thirteen-year-old children talking about what theythink life will be like in the future. Add missing words to the statements3.Listen to an interview. Write down the advertages and risks ofworking at home mentioned by Miss Dermott. Now listen again.Answer the questions with key words.4.Do you know what a time capsule is and what it is for? Listen to thefollowing explanation. Fill in the blanks. Now listen to a report abouta time capsule. Supply the missing information. Now listen again.Focus on the objects that will be placed in the Times capsule.5.Short talks on listening skillsPart 1AKey words:BusinessOfficeTransportAdvertisingV ocabularyClerical workerOf or relating to clerks or office workers or their work.办事员的，职员的，⽂书的：职员、办公室⼈员或其⼯作的，或与之相关的clientThe party for which professional services are rendered, as by an attorney. 当事⼈，委托⼈：向⼀⽅其提供专业服务，如通过代理⼈A customer or patron:顾客，客⼈：顾客或主顾：clients of the hotel.饭店的客⼈telexes电传,n.电报, 电传打字机listen to some predictions some people have made about the business world in the next 20 years or so. Add missing words to the following statements1.t elexes / fax and electronic mail2.r obots / production workers3.n ew skills every ten years.4.c lerical workers5.u nemployment6.f ood from home7.t ransport / from home8.a dvertising / the home9.B usiness travel / live video meetings/ the clientTapescriptI – interviewM – ManW – WomanI: What do you think might happen in the business world in the next 20 years or so?W: Um … there’ll be no more telexes, businesses will only use fax and electronic mail.M: Mm …office cleaning will bedone by robots.W: Well, there will be much more unemployment.M: Well, I think, people will have to retrain for new skills every ten years. W: I think robots will replace production workers. W: Computer will replace clerical workers.M: People will buy their food from home.W: There’ll be less need for transport, as people will work from home.M: Most consumer advertising will be delivered directly to the home. W: Well, business travel will be replaced by live video meetings, there won’t be any need to go to see the client any more.B.Key wordsMars⽕星, 战神court法院, 庭院, 朝廷, 宫庭, 球场, 奉承, 求爱, 殷勤PopulationnuclearPhysics Of or relating to atomic nuclei.【物理学】原⼦核的或关于原⼦核的BrainComputersV ocabularyDome: A hemispherical roof or vault.圆屋顶或拱顶A structure or other object resembling such a hemispherical roof or vault. 穹隆结构类似于穹隆或圆屋顶的结构或物体Tower block ⾼层⼤楼tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments塔式⼤楼同义词：high-riseeg. Ann had lived in a cottage ever since she was born, and had no wish to move to a tower block.安从她出⽣以来就⼀直住在农村⼩屋，她不想搬到⾼层⼤楼去住。

致用英语综合教程第二版听力原文unit9摘要：一、引言1.致用英语综合教程第二版听力原文unit9 的背景和重要性2.本文的目的和结构二、unit9 的主要内容1.unit9 的主题和涉及的场景2.unit9 的对话和听力练习3.unit9 的单词和短语三、unit9 的学习方法1.预习和准备2.听力和口语技巧3.复习和巩固四、unit9 在提高英语能力中的应用1.提高听力水平2.增强口语能力3.丰富英语词汇五、总结1.unit9 的学习成果和收获2.对致用英语综合教程的评价和展望正文：一、引言致用英语综合教程第二版听力原文unit9 是这套教材中的一篇重要内容，它旨在帮助学习者提高英语听力水平，增强口语能力。

本文将对unit9 进行详细解读，从内容、学习方法和应用等方面进行分析。

二、unit9 的主要内容1.unit9 的主题和涉及的场景unit9 的主题是“度假和旅游”，涉及了预订酒店、安排行程、观光旅游等场景。

通过这些场景，学习者可以了解到与度假和旅游相关的英语表达和词汇。

2.unit9 的对话和听力练习unit9 包含多个对话，涵盖了旅游中可能遇到的各种情景。

对话内容丰富，语言表达地道，有利于学习者提高听力和口语水平。

此外，unit9 还提供了听力练习，帮助学习者巩固所学知识。

3.unit9 的单词和短语unit9 收录了一定数量的旅游相关词汇和短语，如book a room（预订房间）、check in（办理入住）、sightseeing（观光旅游）等。

这些词汇和短语的学习对于提高学习者的英语水平具有重要意义。

三、unit9 的学习方法1.预习和准备在学习unit9 之前，学习者应先进行预习，了解对话内容，熟悉生词和短语。

此外，可以借助互联网和词典等工具，了解旅游相关的背景知识，为学习做好准备。

2.听力和口语技巧在学习unit9 的过程中，学习者应注重听力和口语的训练。

多次聆听对话，提高对英语语音和语调的敏感度。

高中英语听力训练Unit 9（二）听力理解III. 听长对话，选择正确答案。

读两遍。

听第1段对话，回答1、2题。

1. How long will the man take his holiday in a year?A. For two weeks.B. For three weeks.C. For five weeks.2. Where will the man probably spend his holiday in July?A. Abroad.B. At home.C. In China.听第2段对话，回答3、4题。

3. What did the woman do over the weekend?A. She went fishing.B. She went climbing.C. She went shopping.4. Why did the man have a good time?A. Because he enjoyed the beautiful scenery.B. Because he visited an old friend and had a good meal.C. Because he caught several fish, among which there was a big one.听第3段对话，回答5、6题。

5. What does the man do?A. He is a worker.B. He is a boss.C. He is a student.6. What does the man usually do at weekends?A. Go swimming.B. Go fishing.C. Go shopping.听第4段对话，回答7~9题。

7. Where did she spend the nights in the country?A. In a farmer’s house.B. In the open.C. At a friend’s home.8. What was the weather like in the country?A. It was fine.B. It was OK but rained once.C. It was terrible.9. How long did it take her to come back from the country?A. Half an hour.B. Four hours.C. Nine hours.听第5段对话，回答10、11题。

高中英语听力训练(一)原文Popular Science and Modern Technology现代科学技术【耳听为实】第一节听下面5段对话，每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试题卷的相应位置。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

现在你有5秒钟的时间阅读第1小题的有关内容。

1. Who does the woman think invented the light bulb?A. Edison.B. Einstein.C. Elia.2. What does the man mean? A. For years they’ve been working hard at the research.B. For years they are working hard at the project.C. For years they’ve been studying hard.3. What are they talking about?A. Aids.B. Population.C. Cancer.4. What are they talking about?A. About a friend’s addre ss.B. About the software.C. About how to look for information from the Internet.5. Which function of the following is mentioned in the dialogue?A. Answering a phone.B. Sending short messages.C. Taking photos.第二节听以下3段独白，每段独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试题卷的相应位置。

高中英语听力材料试题及答案第一节（共5小题）听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1.What does the woman want to do?A. To have an X ray.B. To go to the hospital.C. To help the wounded man.2.Where and when will the meeting be held?A. Room 303,3:00 pm.B. Room 303,2:00 pm.C. Room 302,2:00 pm.3.When would Thomas and Lily like to leave?A. Tomorrow.B. Next Monday or Tuesday.C. This Monday.4.What is the man’s choice?A. He prefers train for trip.B. He doesn’t like traveling.C. Not mentioned.5.According to the woman, what should the man do at first?A. He should ask about the flat on the phone.B. He should read the advertisements for flats in the newspaper.C. He should phone and make an appointment.第二节（共15小题）听下面5段对话或独白。

每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

新人教版高中英语选修一Unit2听力材料
(打印版)
Unit2听力材料包括了多组对话和独白，主要涉及到时间管理、研究方法和校园生活等内容。

以下是每一部分的简要描述：
对话一：时间管理
对话中，两个人讨论了如何合理安排时间来完成研究任务和参
加课外活动。

他们提到了一些时间管理的技巧，如做好计划、合理
分配时间以及减少社交媒体的使用等。

最后，他们决定每天制定详
细的研究计划并互相监督。

对话二：研究方法
这组对话中，两个人分享了一些他们在研究中的经验和技巧。

其中包括制定研究目标、使用记忆法和找到适合自己的研究方式等。

他们还强调了练和复的重要性，并鼓励彼此互相研究和交流。

对话三：校园生活
在这个对话中，两个人讨论了校园生活中的一些常见问题，如
参加社团、遇到困难时该如何求助老师等。

他们提到了加入社团能
够帮助拓宽兴趣爱好和锻炼能力，同时也强调了互相帮助和团队合
作的重要性。

独白：自室规则
这段独白介绍了自室的规则和使用注意事项。

其中包括保持安静、合理使用自室设施和材料、不吃零食等。

独白还提到了自室是
一个优秀研究的环境，希望大家能够利用好这个资源。

以上是新人教版高中英语选修一Unit2听力材料的简要描述。

听力材料中涉及到了时间管理、研究方法和校园生活等方面的内容，对于学生们合理安排时间、提高研究效率和适应校园生活都具有一
定的指导意义。

以上。

Unit 1I. 听力。

1. 听录音，填单词。

1. Mr. Chen is the of our company.2. We have bought some new .3. It’s a great to meet you here.4. Please give my regards to your .5. You should not ask people about their and income.6. My father works as an in a factory.7. Thank you for you’ve done for me.8. How is your new going?9. I’m glad that you can come and us.10. We’re going to meet Mr. White at the .11. He met Mr. Chen at a meeting in London last .12. We’re going to see John at the airport.13. We must follow some basic .14. We’re to have Mr. Smith here with us.15. Let me Mr. Green, the engineer from England. 2. 听录音，选择正确答案。

Jennifer: Good morning! 1Li Hong: Good morning, Miss Jennifer.Jennifer: Well, Jennifer is my first name. My last name is Smith.2Li Hong: Thank you, Miss Smith.Jennifer: May I have your name, please? 3Li Hong: Li Hong.Jennifer: OK. Li Hong?Li Hong: I’m nineteen and now I’m a bank clerk. But I want to be a secretary.Jennifer: I see. 4Li Hong: Yes, 5Jennifer: That’s fine. Thank you. We’ll let you know our decision later.J : What are you going to do after leaving school?D: I am thinking about becoming a guide. I would like to explore strange things.J : 1D: Of course, I do. 2J : That’s good. You seem to be good at spoken English. Is that right? D: Just so-so. I’ll try to learn it better. 3J : Maybe I’ll be a P.E. teacher. 4D: 53. 听录音，给下面句子排序。

Unit 9Task 1【答案】1) the campus hero; the women’s track coach2) the class started before I got here3) will develop4) cloudy; the glass is a little dirty5) a symbol of happiness; wear black【原文】1) Man: I had the girls running in circles when I was in college.Woman: I never knew you were the campus hero.Man: I wasn't. I was the women's track coach.2) Instructor: Mr. Jenkins, why are you late?Student: I guess because the class started before I got here.3) Woman: Doctor, you have to come immediately--my baby swallowed some camera film!Doctor: Just calm yourself, nothing will develop.4) Customer: Waiter, this water is cloudy.Waiter: The water's okay, madam. It's just that the glass is a little dirty.5) Woman: The bride wears white on her wedding day as a symbol of happiness, for this is themost joyous day in her entire life.Man: Why does the groom wear black?Task 2【答案】【原文】Catherine: I think firstly I find the French language, very melodic to listen to. It's very easy on the ear, and it almost sounds poetic. No matter what kind of mood the individual is in,who's talking, or what they're talking about, there seems to be a rhythm to the language.And it's rounded; there are no sharp, jagged edges to the language, so it's very pleasingto the ear.Chris: I think the accent I really like is the Dane speaking English. They sound awful when they speak Danish, but when they speak English there's a beautiful, low, sensitive, verysoft quality about it.Donald: I like the way they bring their French pronunciation into English. They can't pronounce "h"s and they can't pronounce "th" properly. And I think that actually sounds very nice.Also I like the rhythm: they bring French rhythms into English--nice, steady rhythmsand I like that too. It's just it, it... whenever I hear a French person speaking English itsounds more gentle and more lyrical.Lesley: I think the most attractive foreign accents for me are Mediterranean accents because they, if you like, import their own culture into the English accent and give it a lot of life that sometimes, that kind of--the gestures and everything that the English people don't have, so you get a beautiful mixture of the serious Northern European and the Southern European together.Susan: I like the Swedish accent because it, it makes me smile and the way it's spoken is so sing-songy that you can't help but smile when other people actually speak it. And it always makes you want to try and put the accent on yourself.Task 3【答案】spelling; meaning; history; a slab of ham; a lump of bread; hunk of something to eat; a strong man;a book of maps; the top bone of the neck; Olympians; holding the sky on his head and hands; Sixteenth; on the cover of a book of maps; blessing; I hope you will have a good night; day’s eye; it has a little golden eye, like a tiny sun; the English daisy closes at night; the English loved their daisies.【原文】The spelling and meaning of words are very interesting. But what's more interesting is the history of a word, or where it came from. Let's examine some of the words and see how they got into our language.LUNCH Lunch perhaps comes from an old Spanish word lonje, a slab of ham. We may also get our word from a form of lump, maybe a lump of bread, but whether lunch comes from ham or bread, it meant a hunk of something to eat.ATLAS An atlas is a strong man, and also a book of maps. The story of this word begins a long time ago in Greece. The ancient Greeks believed that their gods had once been a race of giants called Titans. The Titans fought with another group of gods called Olympians, and the Olympians won. Atlas was a Titan. He was punished for fighting by having to stand at the western edge of the world, holding the sky on his head and hands, so that it would not fall on the world and smash anything.After the ancient Greek religion died out, the idea of Atlas changed. From holding up the sky with his head and hands, he came to be thought of as holding the world on his shoulders. Mercator, a mapmaker of the sixteenth century, used a picture of Atlas on the cover of a book of maps, so a book of maps came to be called an atlas.The word has still another meaning. The top bone of the neck is called atlas because it supports the head.GOOD-BYE Good-bye is a blessing; originally it was God be with ye, and in the course of time it became one word. Many of our greetings are good wishes, but we say them with so little thought that we forget this. When we say good morning, good evening, good night, and so on, what we are really saying is, "I hope you will have a good morning (or evening, or night)."DAISY The daisy has a little golden eye, like a tiny sun. Perhaps this is the reason the English people named it day's eye, or perhaps they chose the name because the English daisy closes at night. The English loved their daisies, which were pink and red, as well as white. Six hundred years or so ago, the English poet Chaucer said:The daisy, or else the eye of the day,The queen, and prettiest flower of all.Task 4【答案】A.1) T2) T3) F4) T5) FB.1) b2) c3) a4) c5) c6) b【原文】MATTHEW: Chris, why is it that there are so many different languages , and that in Europe certainly if you travel more than a hundred miles , you're likely to find peoplespeaking a completely different language to your own?CHRIS: Well, it's true to say that there are er ... hundreds and hundreds of different languages.It's perhaps um . . . however , more interesting and more informative to say that thereare several different groups of languages er . .. Most European languages,with theexception of I think Finnish and er .. . Basque and . . . Hungarian I believe,belong tothe Indo-European group of languages, I'm not very sure myself of the . . . the actualdetails of the history of these languages, but you can be very sure that er ... most ofthese languages , say Latin and Greek nd our own language a and er . . . German ander ... French and ... all the others, are connected. The reason why you can travel fromone Willage to another in Switzerland and er . . . from one area to another in Englandand find different dialects, if not different languages spoken, is that um ... severalhundred years ago communication was by word of mouth. Word of mouth meant thatpeople had to move ; if people were to move they needed roads and there were noroads.MATTHEW: Do you see any chance for a universal language like Esperanto?CHRIS: Not for an artificial er ... language, no ... I suppose the Roman Catholic Church usedLatin. but Latin had a ... a particular religious basis and this is probably why it wastherefore chosen. I don't see very much chance for Esperanto; I think it's an awfullygood idea but I don't believe that language works like that.I think people willprobably er .. . work towards the most convenient language to use.They will not setout to learn a new language. It seems to me that er ... either English,. Russian orChinese, perhaps Japanese, will be the language of the future er . . . My bet's onEnglish.MATTHEW: Maggie, why do you think it is that so few English people speak a second language? MAGGIE: I think when you learn a language at school ...it tends to be rather a dead occupation, and it's very difficult to stimulate any interest among school children. But when youactually go to the country and spend say a month in . . . in an exchange visit whenyou're a schoolgirl, or a schoolboy um ... then you suddenly become more interestedbecause you ... you want to communicate with poeple when you're actually abroad,and it's not safe to rely on the fact that most people speak English when um . . . inforeign countries. Mm . . . I think English people traditionally thought that . . . thatforeigners always spoke English, and a lot of foreigners do, but there are people thatyou meet in the street or you want to take a bus somewhere, then you find that youneed to speak the language and'it's very unnerving to be in a situation where you can'tcommunicate with people when you do want to travel around.MATTHEW: Have you ever been abroad and learnt er ... a language in the country? MAGGIE: Yes , well when I was a secretary I er... went and lived in Geneva for two years, andI learnt French at school but I . . . I really didn't speak it at all. I knew it theoreticallybut I wasn't able to communicate with people. But I was in a situation where if I didn'tspeak French , then I would not have been able to do my shopping and buyfood ,and so I picked the language up and I made friends with French people ... SwissFrench people, and I found that if I wanted to communicate with all . . . all the peoplethat I met , then I had to learn French, and I think it's the best method of learningbecause you're in the situation. It's very hard at times —you can sit through dinnerparties and not understand what ... what's going on and you think everybody thinksyou're stupid because you can't communicate with them, but it's ... it's the hard waybut I think it's the best way to learn.MATTHEW: Elfriede, you come from Austria and yet you've been living in England now for the last three years. Has having to learn and speak another language created greatproblems?ELFRIEDE: Um ... At the beginning, yes, it was rather difficult for me to get the right job . . .um. after you've lived here for one or two years you get to know the system and thenthat's quite good. You know how to use libraries and oh .. . you get to know where toum... call in emergencies; um ... you get to know ... er ...trying to get a radio andunderstand the radio and all the . . . programmes they have . . . um and when they'reon and the little stories.MATTHEW: What about English humour on the radio?ELFRIEDE: Um . . . I think that takes a very very long time to understand and I'm sorry to say that I haven't managed yet to understand it completely, but er... I find it veryinteresting to speak other languages um ... because English people have differenter ...have a different mentality, and have a very different character and a differenttemperament and it is fascinating for me to talk to them um... and also for myself tobe able to express myself in a different language and to communicate with them.Task 5【答案】1) A mother is leaving instructions with her babysitter before going out.2) Wake up; give her the dummy; give her a cuddle; sing to her; read her a story; go back to sleep.3) Two friends are taking about their holiday together.4) It reminds.., of... holiday; city; wine; good food; tower; view; walking along the river; paintings;I love...; I like...; I remember...5) Two women are meeting at a doctor’s waiting room.6) It's diagnosed; have another look; do something about...; go away; give.., for...; it's your turn. 【原文】Number 1Fiona: Okay, Deek, I'm off now. [Okay.] Everything's okay, is it?Deek: Yes, I think so. The only thing is... is she likely to wake up?Fiona: No, I don't think so. She doesn't usually, but...Deek: What if she does?Fiona: Well, yes. Don't. worry about it. Her dummy's by the bed, so if you just pick her up, give her the dummy, give her a little bit of a cuddle; [Yes.] sing to her if you like.Deek: Shall I read her a story or something?Fiona: Yes, anything like that. [Yes.] Then she should just go back to sleep again quite happily. Deek: Okay.Fiona: Oh! And I've left stuff for you in the fridge. There's some salad and cold chicken and some beer as well. Okay then?Deek: Right then. Bye.Fiona: Bye-bye.Number 2Lesley: Ah ... it's such a lovely day. It reminds me of last week, doesn't it you?Fiona: Oh don't! I mean that was just so fantastic, that holiday!Lesley: I love that city, you know.Fiona: I do too. Really, it's got something about it, a certain sort of charm ...Lesley: Mm, and all that wine and good food ...Fiona: And so cheap. Right, I mean, compared to here ...Lesley: Yes, although the shops are expensive.Fiona: Mm, yes.Lesley: I mean, really I bought nothing at all. I just ate and ate and drank and drank.Fiona: I know. Wasn't that lovely?Lesley: Yes, and I, I go there. I like listening to the people talking, sitting outside drinking wine. Fiona: Yes. Could you understand what they were saying? When they were speaking quickly, I mean.Lesley: Well, it is difficult, of course. And then I liked that tower, too.Fiona: You liked that tower? I'm not sure about it, really. (No) It's very unusual, right in the centre of the city.Lesley: True, but there's a lovely view from the top.Fiona: Oh, you went right up, didn't you? (Mm, yes) Oh no, I didn't.Lesley: Of course you didn't.Fiona: I remember that day. We weren't together.Lesley: No, that's right. (Mm) You went down by the river, didn't you?Fiona: That's it. Oh, walking along the river and all the couples (Yes) and it's so romantic ... (Is it true) and the paintings too ...Lesley: They do have artists down by the river, do they? (Yes) Oh, how lovely!Fiona: Oh, it really is super.Lesley: Yes. Oh, I think we ought to go back there again next year, don't you?Fiona: I do, yes. (Mm) If only just to sample some more of the wine.Lesley: It'd be lovely, wouldn't it?Fiona: Yes.Number 3Mary: I'm so pleased. What about you then?Jane: Well, he said he wanted to have another look at it.Mary: Yes. What are they doing about it?Jane: Well, I don't think they're going to do anything really. It just sometimes goes away [Well, can't...] something like that.Mary: Well, can't they give you anything for it?Jane: Well, no, they didn't say the9 could. [Really?] No, just got to be patient and wait for it to go away.Mary: Well, that seems a bit stupid, doesn't it?Jane: Yes, it does.Mary: You'd have thought.., you'd have thought they'd have thought of something.Jane: Yes. Ooh it's your mm.Mary: Yes. Certainly.Jane: Good luck!Mary: Thank you!Task 6【答案】A.1) c2) a3) b4) cB.1) T2) F3) F4) T5) F6) T【原文】Learning to SpeakIt is, everyone agrees, a huge task that the child performs when he learns to speak, and the fact that he does so in so short a period of time challenges explanation.Language learning begins with listening. Individual children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and late starters are often long listeners. Most children will “obe y〞spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though they word obey is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves out as particularly indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so on. But since these cannot be said to show the baby’s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new sounds to their voices. This self imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.It is a problem we need not get our teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation; and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world. Thus the use, at say seven months, of "mama" as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply Because he also uses it at other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes.Playful and apparently meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself. I doubt, however, whether anything is gained when parents cash in on this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds.Task 7【答案】Topic: Body language1. Brief introduction"statements"; non-verbal communication; small facial expressions, hand gestures and body movements that we make to express our feelings2.Detailed introductionour facial expressions and gestures are automatic and unconscious most of the time; we paid conscious attention to the hidden messages in body language; facial; body2.1 facial expressionsEyes, eyebrows, lips and facial muscles: capable of “saying〞things.2.2 Hand and body gesturesHand or sign language: highly developed, especially by the deaf.bring our finger to our lips; scratch or rub our heads; slap our heads; take our head in both hands to sort of clear our minds3. ConclusionA sampling of; we pull an ear; we cross our legs; who don't communicate with body language; writers; frowns, scratches his chin, slaps his head, purses his lips, stares at the ceiling and throws up his arms.【原文】Let's talk about body language. You already "speak" it and "read" it. Body language is all of the small facial expressions, hand gestures and body movements that we make. We may not realize it,but each movement and expression says something about our feelings.In fact, we might say that body language is the clearest and most common way Of communicating our feelings directly to others. We all know the most obvious body "statements": We wave our hands in greeting, we shake hands, pat each other on the back, we hug friends and kiss loved ones. We smile, we laugh, we wink and we frown, and sometimes we cry. All of these gestures are called non-verbal communication (non-verbal means we do not use words to "say" what we feel.)Normally, we don't think very much about our body language. Our facial expressions and gestures are automatic and unconscious most of the time. But researchers tell us we might learn to under-stand each other a little better if we paid conscious attention to the hidden messages in body language. Let's consider a few of the more obvious facial, hand and body gestures.The human face is wonderfully rich in its ability to express feelings. The eyes, the eyebrows, the lips and the facial muscles are all capable of "saying" things.For example, we speak of "wide-eyed wonder". If the eyes open wide, that may mean surprise, wonder, excitement or sometimes fear. And that is an important thing to remember about body language--one element alone does not tell us everything. We have to see gestures in Combination. So wide eyes alone would not tell us whether the person was surprised, pleased or scared, but when we see wide eyes, a little smile and a slight tilt of the head, we understand that the person is "wonderfully pleased"."Squinty" eyes, tight lips, and the head pushed forward probably suggest anger or hostility.Half-closed eyes may suggest fatigue, boredom or indifference. But add a lowered tilt of the head, a fluttering of the eyelids and a slight smile, and we get a coy and flirtatious message.Strangely enough, one of the eye features over which we have very little control--the size of our pupils--says something about our interest in a subject. If we like something, our pupils get larger. Studies show that most men think a woman with large pupils is more "attractive" than the same woman with small pupils. But the men aren't really conscious of the pupils. They just know they like the "looks" better in the samples with large pupils. No wonder eye make-up is so popular.Eyebrows are almost like signal flags: one brow up, one down suggests doubt, disbelief or uncertainty. Both up means surprise or mistrust. Squeeze them together and we get a frown or scowl.The lips shape non-verbal as well as verbal messages. The smile is the most obvious, but try baring the teeth just on one side or pull the lips tightly across the teeth and the smile becomes a snarl and a threat. In this, and in many of our other body gestures, we are close to the animals.The lower lip by itself can say little things. The "pout" is a fat lower lip pushed way out. It means "I'm not happy because I'm not getting what I want." But if we tuck the lower lip into our mouth and bite it, we are conveying anxiety and fear. Licking the lips is a "dry mouth" gesture which usually means stress or anxiety.There are whole books written on hand gestures, and, in fact, hand or sign language has often been highly developed, especially as an aid to the deaf. But the routine hand language, such as pointing with the index finger to accuse someone, or the clenched fist beating in the air to threaten someone, is familiar to us all. But a clenched fist held close to the body usually means tension or anxiety while the open hands, palms up may mean "I'm innocent" or "give me" or "forgive me".Both hands raised up and facing the audience means "I give up" or "I surrender". But tilt thehands and palm down and extend the arm and it means "I bless" or "I give". The "pat on the head" is a kind of blessing or gesture of love and giving. We clap hands to indicate approval or in some cases to call someone or get attention.When the hands get very busy we say that someone "talks with his hands" and among certain individuals and cultures it is almost impossible to talk without a wild display of hand motions.If we are slightly puzzled by something, we may bring our finger to our lips. If it's a real puzzler, we scratch or rub our heads. If we do something wrong, we slap our heads. To start allover something, we often begin by taking our head in both hands to sort of clear our minds and "set our head on straight".These are only a sampling of the many types of body language. There are books which discuss everything from the way we pull an ear to the way we cross our legs. From the looks of things, the only people who don't communicate with body language are the writers. Readers never get to see how often the writer frowns, scratches his chin, slaps his head, purses his lips, stares at the ceiling and throws up his arms.Task 8In contemporary English, there are many reported differences in the talk of males and females . In same gender pairs having conversations, women generally discuss their personal feelings more than men . Men appear to prefer non-personal topics such as sport and news . Men tend to respond to mention personal experiences that match or connect with the other woman’s . There is a pattern documented in the American English social context of women cooperating and seeking connection via language, whereas men are more competitive and concerned with power via language . In mixed-gender pairs having conversations, the rate of men interrupting women is substantially greater than he reverse. Women are reported to use more expressions associated with tentativeness , such as “hedges〞(sort of , kind of ) and “tags〞(isn’t it ? , don’t you ?) , when expressing an opinion : Well ,erm , I think that golf is kind of boring , don’t you ?。