最新听力教程4-答案-施心远(1—13)

Unit 4欧阳家百（2021.03.07）Section One Tactics for ListeningPart 1PhoneticsStress, Intonation and AccentScriptListen to some short conversations. Has the second speakerfinished talking? Tick the right box.1. A: Excuse me. Could you tell me where the se cretary’s office is, please?B: Yes. It’s up the stairs, then turn left, …↗2. A: Excuse me. Can you tell me where the toilets are?B: Yes, they’re at the top of the stairs. ↘3. A: What did you do after work yesterday?B: Ah, well, I went for a drink in the pub opposite the carpark. ↘4. A: What did you do after work yesterday?B: Oh, I ran into Jane and Tom, …↗5. A: Excuse me, can you tell me how the machine works?B: Certainly. Erm, first of all you adjust the height of the stool, and then put four10pence pieces there, ... ↗6. A: Excuse me, can you tell me how the machine works?B: Yes. You put 30 pence in the slot and take the ticket out here. ↘KeyPart 2 Listening and NoteTakingFrog LegsScriptA.Listen to some sentences and fill in the blanks with the missingwords.1. Many Asian cultures have included frog legs in their diets for centuries.2. By 1977 the French government banned commercial hunting of its own amphibians.3.Indian scientists have described as “disastrous” the rate atwhich frogs aredisappearing from the rice fields andwetlands.4.The United States imported more than 6.5 million poundsof frozen frog meat each year between 1981 and 1984.5. One of the attractions of Indian frogs was the price.B. Listen to a talk about frog legs. Take notes and complete thefollowing summary.People want frogs mostly for food. Many Asian cultures have included frog legsin their diets for centuries —or at least until they have run out of frogs. But themost famous frogeaters, and the people who inspired frogeating in Europe andthe United States are the French. By 1977 the French government, so concernedabout the scarcity of its native frog, banned commercial hunting of its ownamphibians*. So the French turned to India and Bangladesh for frogs.As happened in France, American frogleg fanciers and restaurants also turnedincreasingly to frozen imports. According to figures collected from governmentagencies, the United States imported more than 6.5 million pounds of frozen frogmeat each year between 1981 and 1984.So many frozen frog legs were exported from India to Europe and the UnitedStates. One of the attractions of Indian frogs, apart from the fact that they havebigger legs than French frogs, was the price. In London, a pound of frozen frog’slegs from India cost about £1.75, compared with £3.75 for the French variety.Indian scientists have described as “disastrous” the rate at which frogs aredisappearing from the rice fields and wetlands, where they protect crops bydevouring* damaging insects.Since the India and Bangladesh frogexport bans, Indonesiahas become themajor exporter of frog legs to the United States and Europe. But no matter whatcountry the legs come from, one thing is usually constant: The legs once belong tofrogs that are taken from the wild, not from farms. Frogs are nearly impossible tofarm economically in the countries where frogs are commercially harvested fromthe wild.KeyA.1. Many Asian cultures have included frog legs in their diets forcenturies.2. By 1977 the French government banned commercial hunting of itsown amphibians.3.Indian scientists have described as “disastrous” the rate atwhich frogsare disappearing from the rice fields andwetlands.4. The United States imported more than 6.5 million poundsof frozenfrog meat each year between 1981 and 1984.5. One of the attractions of Indian frogs was the price.B. Frog LegsPeople want frogs mostly for food. Many Asian cultures have includedfrog legs in their diets for centuries. The mostfamous frogeaters,and the people who inspired frogeating inEurope and the United States arethe French. By 1977 theFrench government banned commercial huntingof its ownamphibians. So the French turned to India and Bangladeshforfrogs. And the United States imported more than 6.5 millionpoundsof frozen frog meat each year between 1981 and 1984.One of the attractions ofIndian frogs was the price.Indian scientists have described as “disastrous” the rat e at which frogs aredisappearing from the rice fields and wetlands,where they protect cropsby devouring damaging insects.Since the India and Bangladesh frogexportbans, Indonesia has becomethe major exporter of frog legs to the UnitedStates and Europe. But nomatter what country the legs comefrom, one thing is usually constant: Thelegs once belong tofrogs that are taken from the wild, not from farms.Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart 1 Sentence IdentificationScriptIdentify each sentence as simple (S), compound (CP), complex(CPL) orcompoundcomplex (CC). You will hear each sentence twice.Write the corresponding letter(s) in the space provided.1. I told them what I thought; moreover, I will tell anyone else who wants to know.2.When the timer rang, she was in the living room talking tothe neighbors who had dropped in.3. Downstairs in a flash, she hurriedly dialed 999, and gaveher name and address in clear, concise tones.4. As a minister’s wife, she has more than her fair share of telephone calls.5.That polish makes the floor dangerously slick; we will haveto be careful until itwears down.Key1. CC2. CPL3. S4. S5. CCPart 2 DialoguesDialogue 1 Health ClubScriptA. Listen to the dialogue and complete the following chart.Interviewer: Lorna, you and your husband opened this healthclub here lastsummer. Canyou tell mesomething about the club?Lorna: Yes, well we offer a choice of facilities —gym,sunbed*, sauna* andJacuzzi* —that’s alsofrom Scandinavia —as well as ourregularfitness classe s, that is. And there’s awholefood bar for refreshmentsafterwards.Interviewer: And does it cost a lot? I mean, most people thinkhealth clubs arereally expensive.Lorna: Actually our rates are really quite competitive. Sincewe only startedlast July, we’ve kept themdown to attract customers. It’s only £30a yearto join. Then an hour in the gym costs £2.50—the same ashalf an hour on the sunbed.Sauna and Jacuzzi are both £1.50 forhalf anhour.Interviewer: And is the club doing well?Lorna: Well, so far, yes, it’s doing really well. I had no idea it was going tobe such a success, actually. We’reboth very pleased. The sunbed’s sopopular,especially with the over 65s, that we’re gettinganother onein August.Interviewer: What kind of people join the club?Lorna: We have people of all ages here, from small children to oldagepensioners, though of course themajority, about threequarters ofour members,are in their 20s and 30s. They come in theirlunchhour, to use the gym, mostly, or afterwork, while the youngsterscome when schoolfinishes, around half past three or four.TheJacuzzi’s very popular with the little ones. Interviewer: What about the oldage pensioners?Lorna: They’re usually around in the mornings, when weoffer themspecial reduced rates —for theJacuzzi or sauna, plus sunbed, it’sonly £2,which is half price, actually. It doesn’t affectour profitsreally —only about 5% of ourmembers are retired.B. Listen to an extract from the dialogue and completethefollowing sentences with the missing words.Interviewer: What about the oldage pensioners?Lorna: They’re usually around in the mornings, when weoffer themspecial reduced rates —for theJacuzzi or sauna, plus sunbed, it’sonly £2,which is half price, actually. It doesn’t affectour profitsreally —only about 5% of ourmembers are retired.KeyA.B. Interviewer: What about the oldage pensioners?Lorna: They’re usually around in the mornings, when weoffer themspecial reduced rates —for theJacuzzi or sauna, plus sunbed, it’sonly £2,which is half price, actually. It doesn’t affectour profitsreally —only about 5% of ourmembers are retired.Dialogue 2 SkiingScriptA. Listen to the dialogue and answer the following questionsSimon: This one shows the view from the top of the mountain.Sally: Oh, it’s lovely!Teresa: That’s me with the red bobble hat.Sally: Is it?Teresa: Yet, it looks kind of silly, doesn’t it?Sally: Yes, it does rather.Teresa: Oh, don’t worry. I know it looks ridiculous.Simon:Look. That’s our instructor, Werner.Teresa: Yeah, we were in the beginners’ class.Sally: Well, everyone has to start somewhere.Simon: Ah, now, this is a good one.Sally: What on earth is that?Simon: Can’t you guess?Sally: Well, it looks like a pile of people. You know, sort of on top of eachother.Teresa: It is!Sally: How did that happen?Simon: Well, you see we were all pretty hopeless at first.Every day Werner usedto take us to the nursery slope*to practise, and to get to the top you hadto go up on aski lift*.Teresa: Which wasn’t really very easy.Simon: No, and if you fell off you’d start sliding down theslope, right into all thepeople coming up!Sally: Mmm.Simon: Well, on that day we were all going up on the ski lift, you know, we werejust getting used to it, and, you seethere was this one woman in ourclass who never gotthe hang of* it. She didn’t have any sort of controloverher skis and whenever she started sliding, she wouldsort of stickher ski sticks out in front of her, you know,like swords or something.Teresa: I always tried to avoid her, but on that day I was right behind her onthe ski lift and just as she was getting tothe top, she slipped and startedsliding down the slope.Sally: Did she?Simon: Mmm, with her ski sticks waving around in front of her!Teresa: So of course everyone sort of let go and tried to jump off the ski lift toget out of the way.Simon: And that’s how they all ended up in a pile at the bottom of the slope —it was lucky I had my camerawith me.Sally: I bet that woman was popular!Simon: Oh, yes, everybody’s favourite!B. Listen to the dialogue again andcomplete the followingpassage.C. Listen to some extracts from the dialogue and completethefollowing sentences with the missing words.1. Teresa: That’s me with the red bobble hat.Sally: Is it?Teresa: Y et, it looks kind of silly, doesn’t it?Sally: Yes, it does rather.2. Simon: Mmm, with her ski sticks waving around in front of her!Teresa: So of course everyone sort of let go and triedto jump off the ski lift to get out of the way.Simon: And that’s how they all ended up in a pile atthe bottom of the slope — it was lucky I hadmy camera with me.KeyA. 1. They are looking at some pictures.2. A ski class for beginners.3. Two.B. Everyday the coach took them to a nursery slope. They got tothe top ona ski lift. In their class, there was one woman who could never learn how toski. She couldn’t control her skis and whenever she started sliding, shewould stick her ski sticks out in front of her. People always tried to avoidher.One day as she was getting to the top, she slipped and started sliding down theslope. Everyone tried to jump off the ski lift to get out of the way andthey all slid down the slope and ended up ina pile at the bottom.C. 1. Teresa: That’s me with t he red bobble hat.Sally: Is it?Teresa: Y et, it looks kind of silly, doesn’t it?Sally: Yes, it does rather.2. Simon: Mmm, with her ski sticks waving around in front of her!Teresa: So of course everyone sort of let go and triedto jump off the ski lift to getout of the way.Simon: And that’s how they all ended up in a pile atthe bottom of the slope — it was lucky I hadmy camera with me.Part 3 PassageThe Truth about the French!ScriptB.Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each ofthequestions you will hear.Skiing in France is heaven on Earth for a dedicated skier.There are resortswhere you can access skiing terrain that is larger than all the ski resorts in Utah*and Colorado* combined.The larger resorts have an adequate number of restaurants and discos. It is agood idea to eat a good lunch because the mountain restaurants are normallymuch better than the restaurants in the ski stations.French resorts are mostly government owned and operated.The social systemputs a high percentage of money back into the areas. This provides stateoftheart*lifts, snow making and snow grooming. In general, an intermediate skier whocan read a lift map will easily be able to ski all day avoiding lift lines and crowds,even during the busiest season.The French school systems have a staggered* twoweekwinter vacation period.When the snow is good, nearly all of France migrates to the mountains for thisperiod. The break usually covers the last two weeks of February and the first weekof March. The time to absolutely avoid is the “Paris school holiday week” whichwill always be in the middle period of the vacation time but alternates starting thefirst or second week of the break.No one has a more undeserved* reputation about his or her character thanthe French. The French are not generally arrogant and rude. True, in largetourist centers there are unpleasant people and if you’re looking for or expectingrudeness, you may just provoke* it. Generally the French, especially in thecountryside, are as kind as you wish and you will find warmth and acceptance.The most fractious* Frenchman is easily disarmed by a little sincerity*.When greeting someone or saying goodbye, always shake hands. Don’t usea firm, pumping handshake, but a quick, slight pressure one. When you enter aroom or a shop you should greet everyone there. If you meet a person you knowvery well, use their first name and kiss both cheeks. Men don’t usually kiss unlessthey are relatives. Good topics of conversation include food, sports, hobbies andwhere you come from. Topics to avoid are prices, where items were bought, whatsomeone does for a living,income and age. Questions about personal and familylife are considered private. Expect to find the French wellinformed about thehistory, culture and politics of other countries. To gain their respect, be preparedto show some knowledge of the history and politics of France.France is generally a very safe country to visit. Pickpockets, however, are notunheard of. In large cities particularly, take precautions against theft. Alwayssecure your vehicles, leave nothing of value visible and don’t carry your wallet inyour back pocket. Beware of begging children!Questions:1. How large are the ski resorts in France?2. Why do people prefer to eat lunch at the mountain restaurants?3. How do most of the French resorts operate?4. What kind of vacation do French students usually have?5. What kind of unfair reputation do the French have?6. What is recommended when greeting someone or saying goodbye?7. What are good topics of conversation?8. What is still necessary when visiting France?C. Listen to the passage again and discuss the followingquestions. KeyA. Skiing can be divided into crosscountry skiing and alpineskiing. Crosscountryskiing is a lowimpact, aerobic activity. It is becoming increasinglypopular. It can be enjoyed even if you havea relatively low skill level. It does notrequire exorbitant lift fees,and it has a relatively low injury rate (crosscountryskiing has an injury rate about 10 times less than alpine skiing). Skiing uses moremuscles than running and is less stressful on the legs.Alpine or downhill skiing is a popular family sport shared by people of all agesand athletic abilities. It has less benefits for aerobic fitness than crosscountryskiing because activity is usually in short bursts, but it is good for strengtheningmuscles particularly those in the upper leg. Alpine skiing is also a tough sport,particularly demanding on the legs.B. 1. C 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. C 7. D 8. DC.1. Because there are resorts where you can access skiing terrainthat is larger thanall the ski resorts in Utah and Coloradocombined.2. Because in a French resort an intermediate skier who canread a lift map willeasily be able to ski all day avoiding liftlines and crowds, even during thebusiest season.3. This staggered twoweek winter vacation period usuallycovers the last twoweeks of February and the first week ofMarch.4. The French are not generally arrogant and rude. Generallythey are as kind asyou wish.5. In large cities in France, always secure your vehicles, leavenothing of valuevisible and don’t carry your wallet in yourback pocket. Beware of beggingchildren!D. 1. When the snow is good, nearly all of France migrates to themountains forthis period. The break usually covers thelast two weeks of February and thefirst week of March.2. Generally the French, especially in the countryside, are askind as you wish.The most fractious Frenchman is easilydisarmed by a little sincerity.Part 4 NewsNews item 1India’s Selfie CampaignScriptA. Listen to the news item and answer the followingquestions.Then give a brief summary about the news item.Recently, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a campaign on socialmedia. The campaign is aimed at recognizing and celebrating the lives of girls. Itis part of the Indian government’s “Save Daughter, Teach Daughter” movement, which began earlier this year.The Indian leader used a radio broadcast last Sunday to urge people to publishphotographs taken with their daughters on socialmedia. He expressed hope thatthis could revolutionize the movement to save the country’s girls.Sexual inequality has long been a major problem in India’s highly patriarchal*society. For years, Indian families have wanted boys more than girls. In India,many girls are considered inferior to boys. Some are even killed before they areborn or as newborns because they are thought to be less desirable. For every 1,000boys up to the age of six years, India has 914 girls.It was not just fath ers in India who answered Mr. Modi’s call.Fathers incountries as far away as Sweden also posted pictures with daughters.Social activists hope this campaign will not just be another public relationseffort, but will support India’s push to give its daughters the same positions as its sons.B. Listen to the news item again and complete the followingsentences.KeyA.1. The Prime Minister launched the campaign on social media.2. The movement began earlier this year.3. The Prime Minister urge people to publish photographstaken with theirdaughters on social media.4. Social activists hope the campaign will not just be anotherpublic relationseffort, but will support the appeal for givingthe daughters the same position asthe sons.5. Fathers in countries such as Sweden also posted pictureswith daughters.This news item is about a campaign launched by IndianPrime Minister onrecognizing and celebrating the lives ofgirls.B. 1. Sexual inequality has been a major problem in India’spatriarchal society.2. Many girls are considered inferior to boys in India,therefore some areeven killed before they are born or asnewborns.3. For every 1,000 boys up to the age of six, there are only914 girls inIndia.C. 1. Recently, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched acampaign onsocial media. The campaign is aimed atrecognizing and celebrating thelives of girls.2. It was not just fathers in India who answered Mr. Modi’scall. Fathers incountries as far away as Sweden alsopostedpictures with daughters.3. Social activists hope this campaign will not just be anotherpublic relations effort,but will support India’s push to giveits daughters the same positions asits sons.News item 2100YearOld Japanese Woman’s Swimming RecordScriptA. Listen to the news item and fill out the following chart.Thengive a brief summary about the news item.As we age, we often take longer to recover from injuries.That is, for somepeople.After a Japanese woman suffered a knee injury, she becamea competitiveswimmer — at age 88.Nearing the age of 101 has not slowed down one Japanese woman. In fact, inthe swimming pool — she is only getting faster.Recently, a 100yearold Japanese woman became the world’s first centenarian*to complete a 1,500meter freestyle swimming competition in a 25meter pool.Her name is Mieko Nagaoka. Ms.Nagaoka set a world record for her age groupat a recent Japan Masters Swimming Association event in the western city ofMatsuyama. She swam the race in one hour, 15 minutes and 54 seconds.And Ms. Nagaoka was not competing against others. In fact, Ms. Nagaoka wasthe only competitor in the 100–104 year old category*. Her race was not a race ofspeed but of endurance*, or not giving up.In , at a masters swim meet in New Zealand, Ms. Nagaoka took the bronzemedal in the 50meter backstroke. In , she won three silver medals at anItalian swim meet.B. Listen to the news item again and complete the following sentences.KeyA.This news item is about a 100yearold Japanese woman who sets the swimming record.B.1. Recently, a 100yearold Japanese woman became the world’sfirstcentenarian to complete a 1,500meter freestyleswimming competition.2. Her race was not a race of speed but of endurance, or notgiving up.3. After suffered a knee injury, Ms. Nagaoka became acompetitive swimmer— at age of 88.C.In , at a masters swim meet in New Zealand, Ms. Nagaoka tookthebronze medal in the 50meter backstroke. In , she won three silver medals atan Italian swim meet.Section Three Oral WorkRetellingThe StrandListen to a story and then retell it in your own words. You willhear the story only once. You can write down some key words andphrases.There is a street called “The Strand” in Galveston, where hundreds of thousands oftourists visit today. This street was Mama’s stomping* ground as a kid. Before Mamadied, we took a streetcar around Galveston to see all the lovely, restored homes.What a great day. She knew more than the tour guide. As we sat enjoying the sights,Mama said, “Liz, do you know why my nose is a little crooked*?” (I thought, “Wheredid that come from?”) “No, Mama, you haven’t ever mentioned it,” I replied.“Well,” said mother, “one day I followed my brothers to The Strand, and a streetcarran over me. I put myself flat down between the rails and pushed my face in theground so hard that I broke my nose! It sure caused a lot of chaos*. People screamed,the police came, and I just crawled out, brushed myself off and went home. The onlything I ever noticed different about me was a crooked nose.”I just looked at her noseand looked at Mama in utter disbelief!Section Four Supplementary ExercisesPart 1 PassageBabies and IntelligenceA. Listen to the passage and answer the following questions.Some people thought babies were not able to learn things until they were five orsix months old. Yet doctors in the United States say babies begin learning on theirfirst day of life.Research scientists at the National Institute of Child Health and Developmentnote that babies are strongly influenced by their environment. They say a babywill smile if her mother does something the baby likes. A baby learns to get thebest care possible by smiling to please her mother or other caregiver. This is howbabies learn to connect and communicate with other humans. This ability tolearn exists in a baby even before birth. They say newborn babies can recognizeand understand sounds they heard while they were still developing inside theirmothers.The Finnish researchers used devices to measure the babies’ brain activity.The researchers played recordings of spoken sounds for up to one hour while thebabies slept.The head of the study believes that babies can learn while asleep because thepart of their brains called the cerebral cortex* remains active at night. The cortexis very important for learning. This part of the brain is not active in adults whilethey sleep.Many experts say the first years of a child’s life are important for all laterdevelopment. An American study showshow mothers can strongly influencesocial development and language skills in their children. The study involved morethan 1,200 mothers and children. Researchers studied the children from the age ofone month to three years. They observed the mothers playing with their childrenfour times during this period.The researchers attempted to measure the sensitivity of the mothers. Thewomen were considered sensitive if they supported their children’s activities anddid not interfere unnecessarily. They tested the children for thinking and languagedevelopment when they were three years old.The children of depressed women did not do as well on tests as the children ofwomen who did not suffer from depression. The children of depressed womendid poorly on tests of language skills and understanding what they hear. Thesechildren also were less cooperative and had more problems dealing with otherpeople.Another study suggests that babies who are bigger at birth generally are moreintelligent later in life. It found that the intelligence of a child at seven years of ageis directly linked to his or her weight at birth. Study organizers say this is probablybecause heavier babies received more nutrition* during important periods ofbrain development before they were born.The study involved almost 3,500 children. Researchers in New York City usedtraditional tests to measure intelligence.Brothers and sisters were tested so thatthe effects of birth weight alone could be separated from the effects of diet orother considerations.The researchers found that children with higher birth weights generally didbetter on the intelligence tests. Also, the link between birth weight and intelligencelater in life was stronger for boys than for girls.B. Listen to the passage again and complete the chart.KeyA.1. Some people thought babies were able to learn things whenthey were five orsix months old.2. Doctors think babies begin learning things on their first day of life.3. Babies communicate with other people by smiling.4.They can recognize and understand sounds they heardwhile they were stilldeveloping inside their mothers.5. Babies can learn while asleep.6. They are important for a child’s all later development.B. Study 1Study 2Part 2 VideoHaiti Amputee Soccer TeamScriptWatch the video film and answer the questions.In Haiti there is a soccer team unlike any you have ever seen.It is made up ofplayers who have lost legs and arms, mostly during the earthquake in . Just asthe players are different, so is their field, called a “pitch”. Peopl e live near it. There arepools of water on it. And cows walk by. The players kick with the same leg they standon. Goalies defend with the only arm they have.The team is called Zaryen. Thatis Creole for “tarantula’ —a spider that can live without one of its legs. A balconycollapsed on Judithe Facile during the earthquake. She was near death. Soccer hasbrought her back to life.“Now I feel like I’m alive. Because, before that, after I lost my leg, I didn’t have anyhope for the future, even though I was。

A Listening Course 4施心远主编《听力教程》4 (第2版)答案Unit 3Section One: Tactics for ListeningPart 1: Listening and Translationscore higher than boys in almost every country.几乎在所有国家里，女孩子都比男孩子得分高。

2. Differences between males and females are a continuing issue of fierce debate.男女差异一直是激烈争论的焦点。

3. Cultural and economic influences play an important part..文化和经济影响起着重要的作用。

4. But recent findings suggest that the answer may lie in differences between the male and female brain.但是最新的发现提示，答案也许在男女大脑的差异。

5. These include differences in learning rates.这些包括学习速度上的差异。

Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart 1 DialogueExercise: Listen to the dialogue and filling the blanks with the missing information.Serenading Service was founded three years ago when the singerrealize that British people were desperate for romance. He thought there would be a clientele for a hired serenader. The idea came from his studies of Renaissance music, which is full of serenades.Over the centuries, university students have turned the serenade into an art form for hire. Usually he is hired by men to sing love songs to women. Occasionally he is asked to sing to men.The service is really a form of intimate alfresco theatre with love songs. He usually wears a white tie and tails and sings amorous Italian songs. He will carry chocolate hearts or flowers and when there is no balcony available he will sing from trees or fire escapes!The fee depends on whether a musician comes along or not. The basic rate is ￡450but it can cost a lot more especially if he takes a gondola and a group of musicians along. Some people are so moved that they burst into tears, but some react badly. They try to find out as much as they can about their clients to avoid unpleasant situations. They have to be very careful these days because a serenade can be completely misinterpreted.Part 2 PassageEx. A. Pre-listening QuestionWhat memory strategies do you know that can help you remember thingsbetter1) Brain prioritizes by meaning, value and relevance.2) Your attitude has much to do with whether you remember something or not.3) Your understanding of new materials depends on what you already know.4) You can learn and remember better if you can group ideas into some sort of meaningful categories or groups.5) The brain's quickest and probably the longest-lasting response is to images.6) Memory is increased when facts to be learned are consciously associated with something familiar to you.Ex. B: Sentence Dictationare methods for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall.2. Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language.3. While language is one of the most important aspects of human evolution, it is only one of the many skills and resources available to our minds.4. Association is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it..5. Location gives you two things: a coherent context into which you can place information, and a way of separating one mnemonic from another.Ex. C: Detailed Listening.1. Mnemonics are tools which can help you to improve your memory. T. (Memory tools can help you to improve your memory. "Mnemonic" is another word for memory tool.)2. The fundamental principle of mnemonics is to make full use of the best functions of the brain to store information.T (The basic principle of mnemonics is to use as many of the best functions of your brain as possible to store information.)3. Information we have to remember is almost always presented in different ways.F (Unfortunately information we have to remember is almost always presented in only one way--as words printed on a page.)4. We can do four things to form striking images, which will help to make our mnemonics more memorable.T ( Use positive, pleasant images; use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images; use all your senses to code information or dressup an image; give our image three dimensions, movement and space.)5. There is one basic principle in the use of mnemonics.F (There are three fundamental principles underlying the use of mnemonics: imagination, association and location)6. Association is what we use to create and strengthen imagination.F (Imagination is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics.)7. You can choose the imagery in your mnemonics as you likeT (The imagery you use in your mnemonics can be as violent, vivid, or sensual as you like, as long as it help you to remember.)8. You can create associations by linking things using the same stimuli.T. (You can create associations by linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.)Ex. D: After-listening Discussion1. What is the basic principle of mnemonics Why can we improve our memory by following the principleTo use as many of the best functions of your brain as possible to store information.Evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli. Use these to makesophisticated models of the world.Our memories store all of these effectively.However, information is presented in only one way. Language is only one of the many skills and resources available to our minds.By coding languages and numbers in striking images,/ can reliable code both information and structure of information. Then easily recall these later.2. Why is a good memory important to usOpen.Section Three NewsNews Item 1Ex. A: Summarize the newsThis news item is about the Somali pirates’ strike.Ex. B: Listen to the news again and answer the questions.1.Whether this latest attempted hijacking was the promised revengefor the killing of three Somali pirates by the US navy isn't clear.2.No, the pirates haven’t been deferred.3.Because the financial rewards for a successful hijacking remainso great and Somalia remains so lawless.4.At any one time there are only fifteen to eighteen internationalwarships in the area to police an expanse of sea covering more than a million square kilometres.5.It may be because of the relatively small scale of the problem.Tape script of News Item One:The piracy problem looks like it's here to stay despite the recent muscular interventions by the French and American navies. Whether this latest attempted hijacking was the promised revenge for the killing of three Somali pirates by the US navy isn't clear. But it does suggest at the very least that the pirates haven't been deterred.So why does the problem persist Put simply maritime security analysts say piracy will continue as long as the financial rewards for a successful hijacking remain so great and Somalia remains so lawless. Certainly the international effort to thwart the problem is relatively limited. At any one time there are only fifteen to eighteen international warships in the area to police an expanse of sea covering more than a million square kilometres. Although it has been suggested that raids could be mounted on the pirates' home towns, it seems unlikely there'll be any major increase in the military effort unless there's a spectacular hijacking involving the deaths of many crew members.The reluctance to mount a major international naval operation in the area may also be down to the relatively small scale of the problem. Last year, according to figures from the International Maritime Bureau, nearly twenty three thousand ships passed through the Gulf of Aden. Only ninety two were hijacked.Rob Watson, BBC NewsNews Item 2Ex. A: Listen to the news and complete the summaryThis news item is about Obama’s military plan in Afghanistan.Ex. B: True or false.1.The President is considering leaving Afghanistan.F. (The President is making it clear that leaving Afghanistan isnot an option.)2. Obama wouldn’t shrink the number of troops in Afghanistan, neither would he deploy more military troops.T.3. President Obama thought his assessment would be "rigorous and deliberate".T.4. Opinions against Obama are not heard.F. (…some Republicans and me mbers of the President's own party are dubious about committing more resources and military personnel to a conflict where there is no end in sight.)5. The conflict in Afghanistan seems to be over soon.F. (…about committing more resources and military per sonnel to a conflict where there is no end in sight.)6. Afghanistan can be the second Vietnam.T. (The word 'Vietnam' is heard more and more on Capitol Hill.) Script of News Item Two:The President is making it clear that leaving Afghanistan is not an option. It's not on the table. According to one White House source, he told the meeting that he wouldn't shrink the number of troops in Afghanistan or opt for a strategy of merely targeting al-Qaeda leaders. But he wouldn't be drawn on the military request for more troops.There appears to be a frustration that the review of strategy has sometimes been portrayed in black-and-white terms of a massive increase or reduction of troop numbers.President Obama told the group made up of the most senior Republican and Democrat senators and congressmen that his assessment would be "rigorous and deliberate". But it's going ontoo long for some Republicans and members of the President's own party are dubious about committing more resources and military personnel to a conflict where there is no end in sight. The word 'Vietnam' is heard more and more on Capitol Hill.The President was certainly right when he said his final decision wouldn't make everyone in the room, or the country, happy.Mark Mardell, BBC News, WashingtonNews Item 3Ex. A: Listen and summarize the news itemThis news item is about fragile peace that returns to Gaza.Ex. B: Listen again and fill in the blanks.There were traffic jams on the road north, families heading to Gaza City to reunite with friends and relatives. Long lines of cars backed up at the makeshift roadblocks the Israelis have left behind. But the tanks are gone, only the deep tracks remain.There were buildings pitted with Israeli tank rounds; from the holes that have been punched in the walls it was clear there had also been snipers waiting for them. North of Khan Younis we saw some of the Qassam fighters returning home, their rifles slung lazilyaround their shoulders.For three weeks the Israelis pounded the tunnels that run beneath the perimeter wall but last night we met people who insist that some of these tunnels are still open and still some fuel is being pumped from the Egyptian sider. If the border crossings remain close, say the Palestinians, these tunnels are their only link to the outside world.Script of News Item 3There were traffic jams on the road north, families heading to Gaza City to reunite with friends and relatives. Long lines of cars backed up at the makeshift roadblocks the Israelis have left behind. But the tanks are gone, only the deep tracks remain.There were buildings pitted with Israeli tank rounds; from the holes that have been punched in the walls it was clear there had also been snipers waiting for them. North of Khan Younis we saw some of the Qassam fighters returning home, their rifles slung lazily around their shoulders.The destruction we've seen has largely been inflicted on the Hamas infrastructure: police stations, military outposts, government buildings, so far the most extensive damage - that at the border in Rafah where nothing was spared.For three weeks the Israelis pounded the tunnels that runbeneath the perimeter wall but last night we met people who insist that some of these tunnels are still open and still some fuel is being pumped from the Egyptian side; impossible for us to verify independently, but they say they are determined to reopen them and to dig them deeper. If the border crossings remain close, say the Palestinians, these tunnels are their only link to the outside world.Christian Fraser, BBC News, GazaSection FourPart 1 Feature reportExercise A:This news report is about the recreation of the prehistoric world in Liaoning, China, based on the scientific findings on fossils discovered there.Exercise B:1.35 prehistoric animals were created.2.They recreated the extinct beasts through the marriage of science,art and technology.3.The exhibit is not behind the glass or otherwise enclosed, sovisitors are eye to eye with extinct beasts. It is displayed in this way so that visitors will feel as if they’ve stepped intoa Chinese forest 130 million years in the past.4.He says it’s accurate because every single plant, every insect,every organic feature in it actually represents something that has been found as a fossil in northeastern China.5.The only thing scientists had to make up is what color some ofthe animals were.6.According to Michael Novacek, birds are living dinosaurs.7.They study the movements of commonplace turkeys, chickens andostriches to learn how similarly-built dinosaurs would stand or walk.8.By using high-tech imagery, fossils, and the knowledge gainedfrom the biology of barnyard animals, scientists now estimate the giant T-Rex could reach speeds of 16 kilometers per hour, far slower that the more than 70 kilometers per hour previously thought.Script：Dinosaur Discoveries Made Possible through Art, Technology,Modern LivestockThe rolling hills of a province in northeastern China are now terraced for farming, but beneath that farmland are clues to a prehistoric world unlike any seen by human eyes - until this week.Some 130 million years after dinosaurs roamed the Liaoning forest, the world has been painstakingly recreated in New York City's American Museum of Natural History.The sound of the prehistoric forest is one of the few things that has been imagined in this 65 square-meter diorama. The gingko leaves, piney trees and life-sized models of 35 prehistoric animals were created through the marriage of science, art and technology, as every detail, down to the sleeping pose of a dinosaur, is based on scientific findings.The exhibit is not behind glass or otherwise enclosed, so visitors are eye-to-eye with extinct beasts, feeling as if they've stepped into a Chinese forest 130 million years in the past.Mark Norell is a paleontologist who has worked in Liaoning, searching for clues to recreate this prehistoric world."It's accurate because every single plant, every insect, every organic feature in it actually represents something that has been found as a fossil in northeastern China," he explained, "so the only thing that we had to sort of make up a little bit is what color some the animals were. Even though we know some of theme were patterned, but we know definitely that they were patterned, because we can seethat is the soft tissue remains, but we don't know what color they were but we try to be a little conservative in that regard, but nevertheless all the feathers you see, all the weird tail structures you see, is all stuff we found as fossils."Underneath the gingko trees, a feathered bird-like dinosaur chases on two legs after a large winged insect, the dinosaur's beak-like mouth open to reveal rows of jagged teeth. A sleeping dinosaur tucks its head beneath its arm, much as a modern goose tucks its head beneath its wing.The museum's curator of paleontology, Michael Novacek, explains that it is necessary to understand birds in order to better understand extinct creatures."The reason birds are so important to us is really a fact we weren't so aware of 10, 20 years ago is that birds are living dinosaurs. They're not just related to dinosaurs. They are dinosaurs," he stressed. "They're a branch of dinosaurs, so conveniently enough dinosaurs didn't go completely extinct. One group, the birds, survived."Scientists study the movements of commonplace turkeys, chickens and ostriches to learn how similarly built dinosaurs would stand or walk.Researchers even created a computer model of a giant chicken to learn more about the movements of the ever popular Tyrannosaurus Rex. By using high tech imagery, fossils, and the knowledge gained from the biology of barnyard animals, scientists now estimate the giant T-Rex could reach speeds of 16 kilometers per hour, far slower than the more than 70 kilometers per hour previously thought.These scientific findings are passed along to model designers, such as the creator of a six-foot-long mechanical T-Rex, a highlight of the new exhibit. The menacing skeleton's tail sways and its head bobs as the extinct dinosaur shifts its weight, plodding in place - yet another example of the never-before-seen becoming altogether real when science and technology meet art.Part 2 PassageExercise B1.The goal of this study was to determine what type of “gaze” isrequired to have this effect.2.The Queen’s study showed that the total amount of gaze receivedduring a group conversation is more important than when the eye contact occurs.3.The eye contact experiment used computer-generated images formactors who conveyed different levels of attention.4.The researchers concluded that people in group discussions willspeak up more if they receive a greater amount of eye contact from other group members.5.The effect of eye gaze has literally fascinated people throughoutthe ages.6.Exercise C1. A2. D3. A4. D5. A6. C7. B8. BExercise D1.The eye contact experiment used computer-generated images fromactors who conveyed different levels of attention (gazing at the subject, gazing at the other actor, looking away, and looking down). These images were presented to the subjects, who believed they were in an actual three-way video conferencing situation, attempting to solve language puzzles. Two conditions were studied: synchronized (where eye contact is made while the subject is speaking) and random contact, received at any time in the conversation. The researchers concluded that people in group discussions will speak up more if they receive a greater amount of eye contact from other group members and the total amount of gaze received during a group conversation is more important than when the eye contact occurs.2.Open.Script:Eye Contact Shown To Affect Conversation Patterns, GroupProblem-Solving AbilityNoting that the eyes have long been described as mirrors of the soul, a Queen's computer scientist is studying the effect of eye gaze on conversation and the implications for new-age technologies, ranging from video conferencing to speech recognition systems.Dr. Roel Vertegaal, who is presenting a paper on eye gaze at an international conference in New Orleans this week, has found evidence to suggest a strong link between the amount of eye contact people receive and their degree of participation in group communications. Eye contact is known to increase the number of turns a person will take when part of a group conversation. The goal of this study was to determine what type of "gaze" (looking at a person's eyes and face) is required to have this effect.Two conditions were studied: synchronized (where eye contact is made while the subject is speaking) and random contact, received at any time in the conversation. The Queen's study showed that the total amount of gaze received during a group conversation is more important than when the eye contact occurs.The findings have important implications for the design offuture communication devices, including more user-friendly and sensitive video conferencing systems – a technology increasingly chosen in business for economic and time-saving reasons – and Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) which support communication between people and machines. Dr. Vertegaal's group is also implementing these findings to facilitate user interactions with large groups of computers such as personal digital assistants and cellular phones.The eye contact experiment used computer-generated images from actors who conveyed different levels of attention (gazing at the subject, gazing at the other actor, looking away, and looking down). These images were presented to the subjects, who believed they were in an actual three-way video conferencing situation, attempting to solve language puzzles. The researchers concluded that people in group discussions will speak up more if they receive a greater amount of eye contact from other group members. There was no relationship between the impact of the eye contact and when it occurred."The effect of eye gaze has literally fascinated people throughout the ages," says Dr. Vertegaal, whose paper, Explaining Effects of Eye Gaze on Mediated Group Conversations: Amount or Synchronization was presented this week at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer SupportedCooperative Work."Sumerian clay tablets dating back to 3000 BC already tell the story of Ereshkigal, goddess of the underworld, who had the power to kill Inanna, goddess of love, with a deadly eye," says Dr. Vertegaal. "Now that we are attempting to build more sophisticated conversational interfaces that mirror the communicative capabilities of their users, it has become clear we need to learn more about communicative functions of gaze behaviors."。

Unit 4Section One Tactics for ListeningPart 1 Spot DictationStephen Powelson’s Amazing MemoryWhen Stephen Powelson was nine, his school organized a (1) weekly contest in memorizing passages f rom the Bible. Stephen paid (2) no attention until he was chided* for (3) not competing. The next Sunday he surprised everyone by (4) reciting all the passages for the (5) entire year.As a teenager in prep school, Stephen took Greek. His teacher (6) assigned 21 lines of the Iliad* to be memorized (7) in a week. At the end of the hour - though he (8) insisted he paid full attention to the (9) lecture - Stephen knew all 21. He went on to memorize the first (10) 100 lines.In 1978, for the first time (11) since college, Powelson, now 60, had some (12) spare time. To keep his mind active, he reread the Iliad and (13) discovered thathe still knew the first 100 lines (14) by heart.That someone could memorize so much between ages 60 and 70 is (15) astonishing to most people, who are (16) convinced that memory (17) worsens as we grow older.Powelson's method is to (18) read a book into his tape recorder, then read it several more times, making sure he understands (19) each word. "Also," he says, "I attempt to (20) visualize myself as part of the action."Part 2 Listening for GistYou might not know how rarely images are viewed directly through telescopes.The most common way to observe the skies is to photograph them. The processis very simple. First, a photographic plate is coated with a light-sensitive material. The plate is positioned so that the image received by the telescope isrecorded on it. Then the image can be developed, enlarged, and published sothat many people can study it.Because most astronomical objects are very remote, the light we receive fromthem is rather feeble. But by using a telescope as a camera, long time exposures can be made. In this way, objects can be photographed that are ahundred times too faint to be seen by just looking through a telescope.1)This passage is about how to photograph astronomical objects.2)Photograph, coated, light-sensitive material, positioned, received, recorded,developed, enlarged, published, remote, feeble, telescope, camera, longexposuresSection Two Listening ComprehensionPart one DialogueTunisian HolidayVocabularyamphitheatremosaiccoach n. 公共马车，普通旅客车厢resort n. 胜地，常去之地(Someone is enquiring about the Tunisian holiday.)Agent: Hello, Bath Travel.Client: Hello, I'd like to find out more about your Tunisian holiday for amateur archaeologists. I've read about it in the paper, but I'd like to know more aboutwhat is involved.Agent: You mean you'd like to know the itineraryClient: Yes, that's right.Agent: All right. Just briefly, you arrive in Tunis at midday on the first day andgo by coach to La Marsa. Then there is a short briefing by the archaeologist and then the rest of the day you are free to explore.The second day you get up before dawn and go to Carthage to see the sunrise. You have breakfast and a lecture there and then go by coach to Mansoura, where there are beautiful coves(小海湾). After lunch you can walk along the beach, to Kerkouane. The walk takes about four hours. Kerkouane isone of the most recent and most exciting sites. Then by coach to Kelibia, a fishing village, in time for sunset over the harbor.Client: That sounds rather a long walk.Agent: Well, it's an easy walk. Flat all the way, and very pretty. But you can goby coach, if you prefer. The third day you spend in Hammamet on Cap Bon, and the day is free to enjoy the town. It's a lovely old town and resort. And the fourth day you take the coach to the ruin of EI Djem, which is a magnificentamphitheatre*. You have lunch in Sfax and then you take the ferry to the beautiful Kerkennah Islands.Client: Islands, you sayAgent: Yes, they're very peaceful and you spend the fifth day there. The fishermen will take everyone out on their sailing boats and there will be a fishermen's picnic. On the sixth day you visit the Great Mosque of Kairouan and have a picnic lunch. Then take the coach to the lovely port of Bizerte for the last night. And the final day there is a visit to the ancient Roman capital of Utica with its fantastic mosaics* and then a coach to Tunis International Airport.Client: Have you got a full brochure which gives more detailsExerciseDirections: Listen to the dialogue and complete the following itinerary.Tunisian holiday for amateur archaeologistsDay ActivitiesThe first day Arrive in Tunis at midday and go by coach to La Marsa. Thenthere is a short briefing by the archaeologist.The second day Get up before dawn and go to Carthage to see the sunrise. You have breakfast and a lecture there and then go by coach to Mansoura, where there are beautiful coves. After lunch youcan walk along the beach, to Kerkouane, which is one of the most recent and most exciting sites. Then by coach to Kelibia, a fishing village, in time for sunset over the harbor .The third day Spend in Hammamet on Cap Bon to enjoy the town. It's alovely old town and resort.The fourth day and fifth day Take the coach to the ruin of El Djem, which is a magnificent amphitheatre. Have lunch in Sfax and then take the ferry!. to the beautiful Kerkennah Islands. The fishermen will take everyoneout on their sailing boats and there will be a fishermen’s picnic.The sixth day Visit the Great Mosque of Kairouan and have a picnic lunch. Then take the coach to the lovely port of Bizerte for the last night.The final day There is a visit to the ancient Roman capital of Utica with its fantastic mosaics and then a coach to Tunis International Airport.Part 2 PassageMexican Gray WolfExercise A Pre-listening QuestionThe wolf is a large member of the canine(犬科的) family. Most of the adult grey wolves weigh in the vicinity of 75 to 125 pounds (34 to 56 kilograms). Wolves livein family groups called packs. A pack is usually made up of a male parent, a female parent, their pups and a few other adult wolves who are the olderbrothers and sisters. Wolves can run up to 40 miles an hour and can easily cover 50 miles a day.The wolf has developed the capacity to survive in the most inhospitable of climates. The wolves in the high arctic endure several winter months of perpetual darkness. Even in February when the sun returns to the north,C and bitter winds are common. In the wild wolves can live temperatures of -40°up to 13 years or more; in a protected wolf park or a controlled area of land, a wolf can live to be up to 16 years old.1)After more than a century of assault by humans, the wolf population haddwindled to no more than a handful by the 1970s in Mexico and theAmerican southwest.2)The program is now about halfway to meeting its goal of a "wild"population of at least 100 wolves covering more than 12,800 squarekilometers.3)Decisions about mating, movement among the 45 captive-breeding facilitiesand releases into the wild are made by a US-Mexican committee ofscientists, land owners and others.4)A wolf with rare genes - until it has successfully reproduced - will never beof the high mortality rate in the wild.released because·5)The recovery program is gradually moving away from freeingcaptive-born wolves, as the population of pups born free takes off.****Francisco and Sheila were pioneers in a federal program in Eureka, 32 kilometers southwest of S1. Louis, the United States, to restore the endangered Mexican gray wolf, the rarest and most genetically distinct subspecies of gray wolf in North America.After more than a century of assault by humans, the wolf population had dwindled to no more than a handful by the 1970s in Mexico and the American southwest.The research center, popularly known as the Wolf Sanctuary*, was foundedin 1971 by Marlin Perkins, a world-renowned naturalist and former director ofthe St. Louis Zoo, and his wife Carol. Besides the Mexican wolf, the sanctuary works with the endangered red wolf, maned wolf (maned: 有鬃毛的; maned wolf 鬣狼), swift fox and African wild dogs.In the late 1970s, the last seven known wolves were captured in the wild or taken from zoos to begin the breeding program. In 1981, the first captive-bred litter of Mexican gray wolves produced in the federal program was born at the WildCanid (犬科动物) Center, and the first release into the wild took place in 1998.The program is now about halfway to meeting its goal of a "wild" population ofat least 100 wolves covering more than 12,800 square kilometers.Though in captivity themselves, Francisco and Sheila taught their pups so well that many are thriving in the wild. They were ideal parents. They raised 25 babies, taught them good survival skills and sent many of them off to live on their own.Nine of Francisco and Sheila's offspring were among the first 11 captive-born Mexican gray wolves released in 1998. Both parent wolves have since died - Francisco at age 14 in December. Sheila at age 16 in June 2000 - but they lived, as captive wolves often do, roughly twice as long as wolves in the wild. Today the Wild Canid Survival and Research Center in Eureka estimates that98 percent of Mexican wolves released from the federal program are descendants of the prolific* lobo* pair. （lobo=timber wolf）About 250 lobos now live in captivity at 45 US and Mexican facilities. TheWild Canid Center, however, has produced more puppies and housed more Mexican grays than any other facility.The Wild Canid Center is ideated* on 25 isolated hectares(公顷) within Washington University's Tyson Research Center. The wolves live in large outdoor with minimal human contact. They learn to hunt, , live in natural family packs, and to be suspicious of people -all necessary skills for surviving in the wild.Decisions about mating, movement among the 45 and releases into the wild are made by a US-Mexican committee of scientists, land owners and others. They also maintain . A wolf with rare genes - until it has successfully reproduced - will never be released because ofthe in the wild. It's not uncommon for freed wolves to be struck by cars or shot by hunters; in recent weeks, five have died.Despite the losses, released wolves are . The recovery programis gradually moving away from freeing captive-born wolves, as the population of pups born free . Scientists want to let nature decide what's a good wolf and what's not through .The Wild Canid Center is ideated* on 25 isolated hectares(公顷) within Washington University's Tyson Research Center. The wolves live in large outdoor enclosures with minimal human contact. They learn to hunt, raise young, live in natural family packs, and to be suspicious of people - all necessary skillsfor surviving in the wild.Decisions about mating, movement among the 45 captive-breeding facilities and releases into the wild are made by a US-Mexican committee of scientists, land owners and others. They also maintain a genetic database. A wolf with rare genes - until it has successfully reproduced - will never be released because of the high mortality rate in the wild. It's not uncommon for freed wolves to be struckby cars or shot by hunters; in recent weeks, five have died.Despite the losses, released wolves are reproducing. The recovery programis gradually moving away from freeing captive-born wolves, as the population of pups born free takes off. Scientists want to let nature decide what's a good wolf and what's not through natural selection.Exercise B Sentence DictationDirections: Listen to some sentences and write them down. You will hear each sentence three times.Exercise C Detailed Listening1 Directions: Listen to the passage and complete the information about aMexican gray wolf research center.1)The research center's known as: the Wolf Sanctuary2) Location: in Eureka. 32 Kilometers southwest of St. Louis. the United States3) Founding: in 19714) Purpose: to restore the endangered Mexican gray wolf5) Founder: Marlin Perkins. a world-renowned naturalist and formerdirector the St. Louis Zoo. and his wife Carol2. Directions: Fill in the blanks with events connected with the following timeexpressions.1)In the late 1970s: The last seven known wolves were captured in the wild ortaken from zoos to begin the breeding program.2)In 1981: The first captive-bred litter of Mexican gray wolves produced in thefederal program was born at the wild Canid Center.3)In 1998: The first release into the wild took place.Exercise D After-listening DiscussionDirections: Listen to the passage again and discuss the following questions.1)Francisco and Sheila were pioneers in a federal program. Though in captivitythemselves, they taught their pups so well that many are thriving in the wild.They were ideal parents. They raised 25 babies, taught them good survival skills and sent many of them off to live on their own. Nine of Francisco andSheila's offspring were among the first 11 captive-born Mexican gray wolves released in 1998. Both parent wolves have since died - Francisco at age 14 in December. Sheila at age 16 in June 2000 but they lived, as captive wolves often do, roughly twice as long as wolves in the wild.The Wild Canid Center is ideated on 25 isolated hectares within.Washington University's Tyson Research Center. Today the Wild Canid Survival and Research Center estimates that 98 percent of Mexican wolves released from the federal program are descendants of the prolific lobo pair.About 250 lobos now live in captivity at 45 US and Mexican facilities. The Wild Canid Center has produced more puppies and housed more Mexican grays than any other facility. Other large US newspapers were singled out too, including the Wall Street Journal, which won the Pulitzer for breaking news,despite being displaced from its offices at the World Trade Center. The Washington Post received Pulitzers in two categories, investigative and national reporting.(Open)Section Three NewsNews Item1When Astroland opened in 1962 it represented the future of amusement theme parks, boasting state-of-the-art rides(游乐场所供人玩乐的乘坐装置) and attractions operating with an outer-space theme.The park is a fixture on the Coney Island boardwalk, best known for the Cyclone, its wooden roller coaster and the Wonder Wheel, a seaside landmark. Astroland's 22 rides and three game arcades provided jobs for up to 300 people.Astroland has been by far the biggest amusement center on Coney Island, which has been a favorite holiday destination for Americans in the New York area since the 19th Century. It is the birthplace of the hot dog and is known for its kitschy rides, street performers, sand beaches and family-friendly atmosphere.But Astroland's final chapter may be still to come. A few days after the park's announced closure, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said hope is not yet lost, and that city officials are trying to step in and get a one-year renewal of Astroland's lease.A.Astroland’s announced closureB.1. It opened in 1962.2. It represented the future of amusement theme parks, boasting state-of-the-art rides and attractions operating with an outer-space theme.3. It is best known for the Cyclone, its wooden roller coaster and the Wonder Wheel, a seaside landmark.4. Because they enjoy its kitschy rides, street performers, sand beaches and family-friendly atmosphere.5. No. The city officials are trying to step in and get a one-year renewal ofAstroland's lease.News Item 2It's called the "Highline." It's a newly renovated and elevated promenade that was once a railway line for delivering cattle and other food stock. In 1980, the train made its last delivery, bringing frozen turkeys to lower Manhattan. In a densely populated city, the Highline now provides open space for relaxation as it winds through neighborhoods once noted for slaughterhouses.It's an oasis in a sea of concrete. The walkway includes more than 100 species of plants inspired by the wild landscape left after the trains stopped running. New construction is everywhere. Apartments, office towers, restaurants and even a museum have sprouted alongside the promenade.The first section of the Highline was inaugurated in May, after 15 years of planning and political battles. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with benefactors like clothing designer Diane von Furstenberg and her husband, media mogul Barry Diller, cut the ribbon.The first two sections of the Highline cost $152 million. Of that, $44 million was raised by the public. To those who visit, it seems it was well worth the wait and the money.News Item3African American History MuseumAn old Greyhound Bus* terminal sits unused in the heart of downtown Dothan, Alabama. It's hardly noticeable, nestled between two office buildings and surrounded by a chain link fence. There are no written signs that hint of the structure's controversial history. Four decades ago it was a symbol of racial segregation. During the 1960s, bus terminals like other public facilities throughout the American south were divided into white areas and black areas.The building still has the separate entrance and restroom facilities that black customers were legally required to use. Today, those elements have a different social value, and they will become one of the centerpieces of a new African American history museum.The museum will include galleries devoted to the accomplishments of George Washington Garver* and other black scientists and inventors. There will be a gallery depicting black heroes of military and social campaigns.And the city of Dothan is helping. It's providing the museum with some financial support, and it's already promoting the attraction to visitors. The G-W Carver Interpretive Museum should open doors by August and its director Francina Williams hopes to capitalize on Alabama's historic role . the center of America's Civil Rights movement. When visitors come to Birmingham, Selma and Montgomery to learn about the struggles that African Americans have endured, she would like them I make a side trip to Dothan to see what African Americans have contributed to Alabama, America Id the world.Exercise ADirections: Listen to the news item and complete the summary.This news item is about an African American history museum showing the struggles and contributions f African Americans.Exercise BDirection: Listen to the news again and decide whether the following statementsare true (T) or false (F).1.F2. T3. F4.F5.T6. T7. F8.TSection Four supplementary ExercisesPart 1 Feature ReportLamaina grew up listening to her grandfather's stories of Garaguso. Tommaso Lamaina immigrated from Garaguso to Philadelphia in the 1920s in search of work. But he never let his family forget the place where generations of their forefathers had lived.The stories inspired Lamaina’s dream of developing her own relationship with a place she was never able to visit with her grandfather, who died when she was a teenager. So in 2000, with years of experience as a professional photographer behind her, she decided to begin an annual pilgrimage to Garaguso to capture life there on film.Garaguso is a farming village, home to about 1,500 people, in the mountainous region of Basilicata, located in the instep of Italy's boot. It's one of the most remote and least developed zones in the country. After decades o f emigration, it's sparsely populated. One out of seven of thepeople who remain can't read or write.Lamaina's photos show a Garaguso that seems hardly to have changed in centuries, an anachronism compared with a very modern Italy. Taken in black and white, they show the winding cobblestone streets and ancient buildings of the historical centre. There are donkeys, loaded up with kindling for the open fires and stoves, which still warm the houses.There are portraits of men with gnarled faces, wearing black pants and white shirts from a past era. There's the local baker, whose family has been selling bread in the same building since the late 1700s. There are women with white hair and no teeth, dressed in black.Arriving in the village where her family had lived for generations was like a homecoming for Lamaina. She grew up in an inner-city neighborhood of Philadelphia, in the bosom of an immigrant southern Italian community. At home, her relatives spoke the dialect of Garaguso rather than English.But over the years, the reserve has lessened. Lamaina admits, and her work shows, that life in Garaguso is not easy. The locals work from sunup to sundown in the fields, tending their crops and animals. They eat what they produce. Little is imported and nothing goes to waste. But she believes it's rich in the things that matter, like generosity, hospitality and family ties. In this respect, she says, the village has something to teach those who see her work.Lamaina recently held an exhibition of her work in Florence, where she now lives. She's also giving a copy of her images to City Hall in Garaguso.After eight years of recording life there, Susanna Lucia Lamaina's not ready to put away her camera yet. She says she has many more photographs to take and hopes her work will put her family village on the map. Her grandfather, Tommaso Lamaina, would have been proud.A.Susanna Lucia Lamaina’s recording life in Garaguso.B.T,T,T, T,T,F,T,FPart 2 PassageSafari1)A blur of gold was spotted through the high, wind-whipped grasses and off wewalked toward the lion's den.2)He couldn't stop smiling as we crept closer and closer into the glow of theday's last light.3)Just a meter away from the lions a straggling buffalo loped by, but ourappearance seemed to distract them and the buffalo got away.4)Under an open sky we winded our way through cracked sun-baked pathways.Our guides knelt in the sand, pointing out the differences between the various animal tracks.5)Thrashing in the water a mauve-colored hippo grunted, snapped his giantjaws, and lunged forward.We kept our distance behind a log on the banks of the river.A blur of gold was spotted through the high, wind-whipped grasses and offwe walked toward the lion's den*. We glanced at each other nervously, but forged ahead. My friends and I had come to experience the African bush on foot, so, gulping, we fell in shaky step behind our two ranger guides. Their rifles wereat the ready. So were our zoom lenses. Seeing lions was a special treat, even for our veteran guide, and he couldn't stop smiling as we crept closer and closer into the glow of the day's last light.About 150 meters ahead we counted 10 lions sitting in a semicircle in the grass. Their heads poked up through the grass thicket, listening, aware.Just a meter away from the lions a straggling* buffalo loped by. Perhaps the lions' intended dinner But our appearance seemed to distract them and thebuffalo got away.We were in the Kruger National Park*, the largest game park in South Africa, on a guided walking safari.Kruger National Park is the country's main game* reserve. Roughly the sizeof Wales, it stretches for almost 2.5 million hectares across a maze of ecozones from flat scrubby bush, dense shrub-like Mopane tree covered hillsides to lush valleys.For three nights home was a circle of thatched roof two-person huts tucked behind a leafy grove of trees in an enclosed camp that included toilets and hot (mostly) showers.Dinner was served around an open fire, a massive kettle of hot water for teaor coffee steaming on a nearby pile of smoldering coals.The only light after dark were swaths of luminous stars overhead and ourkerosene* lanterns.We joked that we had arrived to the catered version of "Survivor".The first morning we climbed out from beneath mosquito nets to the muffled sounds of an elephant munching on a tree behind our huts, which were separated only by several meters and a wire mesh fence.As if the elephant was not wake-cup call enough, outside each hut a jug of water had been poured into a plastic basin for a quick face wash before hittingthe trails.Under an open sky we winded our way through cracked sun-baked pathways through baobab* and kudu* berry trees. Our guides knelt in the sand, pointing out the differences between the various animal tracks.A line in the sand told a crocodile had recently slipped into a nearby pool.Later we saw a crocodile sunning on a rock not far from where we had been swimming the day before.In the same area we had a sunset sighting of a mauve*-colored hippo* who was not happy to see us.Thrashing in the water he grunted, snapped his giant jaws, and lunged* forward. We kept our distance behind a log on the banks of the river where welater got a glimpse at a family of baboons*.On our last evening streaks of orange made the sky glow as if on tangerine* fire. We were all on a high from our lion sighting.I inhaled the colors, the silhouette* of buffalos grazing near a watering hole, the evening dropped in temperature and squeezed a friend's hand.Exercise A Pre-listening QuestionHere are the top parks for anAfrican safari:The beautiful Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, the world-famous Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, the lush green Okavango Delta and Chobe National Park in Botswana and the Etosha National Park in Namibia.Exercise B Sentence DictationDirections: Listen to some sentences and write them down. You will hear each sentence three times.Exercise C Detailed ListeningDirections: Listen to the passage and answer the following questions.1)They experienced the African bush on foot.2)Seeing lions was a special treat for them.3)They saw 10 lions sitting in a semicircle in the grass.4)Krugge National Park stretches for almost 2.5 million hectares ,roughly thesize of Wales.5)They stayed in a thatched roof two- person huts with toilets and hot showers.6)Dinner was served around an open fire.7)They saw a crocodile sunning on a rock not far from where they had beenswimming the day before.8)They were all on a high from their lion sighting.Exercise D After-listening DiscussionDirections: Listen to the passage again and discuss the following questions1. They saw lions, buffaloes , elephants, crocodiles, hippos, baboons, etc.2.(Open)。

Unit 1Secti‎o n 1Liste‎n ing and Trans‎l atio‎n1. A colle‎g e educa‎t ion can be very costl‎y in the Unite‎d State‎s.2.Risin‎g costs‎have led more and more famil‎i es to borro‎w money‎to help pay for colle‎g e.3.There‎are diffe‎r ent feder‎a l loans‎and priva‎t e loans‎for stude‎n ts.4.Inter‎e st rates‎on some of these‎loans‎will go up on July 1st.5.There‎are growi‎n g conce‎r ns that many stude‎n ts gradu‎a te with too much debt.1.在美国，大学教育的‎费用会很贵‎。

2.费用的上涨‎使越来越多‎的美国家庭‎通过借钱来‎支付上大学‎的费用。

3.有各种各样‎的联邦贷款‎和私人贷款‎可供学生挑‎选。

4.在这些贷款‎品种中，有些品种的‎利率将从7‎月1日起上‎调。

5.人们越来越‎担心，很多学生将‎背负沉重的‎债务从大学‎毕业。

Secti‎o n 2Part 1 Dialo‎g ue1-8 A C D C B C B APart 2 passa‎g e Ex C: 1-8 F F T T F T T FSecti‎o n 3News Item 1China‎'s waste‎d no time inset‎t ing put the lates‎t plans‎for its ambit‎i ous space‎progr‎a m. A senio‎r offic‎i al said the next manne‎d missi‎o n will be in 2007, when the astro‎n auts‎will attem‎p t a space‎walk. After‎that, scien‎t ists‎will focus‎on devel‎o ping‎the capab‎i lity‎to rende‎z vous‎* and dock* with other‎space‎c raft‎. He added‎that China‎also wante‎d to recru‎i t femal‎e astro‎n auts‎in the near futur‎e.The annou‎n ceme‎n t comes‎just hours‎after‎the count‎r y's secon‎d manne‎d space‎missi‎o n touch‎e d down in the remot‎e grass‎l ands‎of Inner‎Mongo‎l ia. The retur‎n ing astro‎n auts‎have been given‎a hero's welco‎m e, ridin‎g in an open car in a natio‎n ally‎telev‎i sed parad‎e. Thous‎a nds of soldi‎e rs and group‎s of schoo‎l chil‎d ren lined‎the route‎, wavin‎g Chine‎s e flags‎. It's a sign of the great‎impor‎t ance‎China‎attac‎h es to its space‎progr‎a m, viewi‎n g it as a sourc‎e of natio‎n al pride‎and inter‎n atio‎n al prest‎i ge.A: …about‎China‎’s‎ambit‎i ous space‎progr‎a m.B:1. Landi‎n g spot: in the remot‎e grass‎l ands‎of Inner‎Mongo‎l ia2. Signi‎f ican‎c e: a sourc‎e of natio‎n al pride‎and inter‎n atio‎n al prest‎i ge (威望)Futur‎e plan1. 1) Time: 20072) Goal: The astro‎n auts‎will attem‎p t a space‎walk.2. Focus‎of furth‎e r devel‎o pmen‎t: the capab‎i lity‎to rende‎z vous‎and dock with other‎space‎c raft‎3. Recru‎i tmen‎t of astro‎n auts‎:to recru‎i t femal‎e astro‎n auts‎in the near futur‎e.News Item 2China‎'s econo‎m y has recov‎e red earli‎e r and more stron‎g ly than any other‎. This lates‎t data is furth‎e r evide‎n ce of that trend‎.The rise in indus‎t rial‎outpu‎t confi‎r ms what facto‎r y owner‎s have been sayin‎g for some time now, that custo‎m ers have been resto‎c king‎*their‎inven‎t orie‎s and confi‎d ence‎is retur‎n ing.There‎are still‎quest‎i on marks‎thoug‎h over the stabi‎l ity of the recov‎e ry. The prope‎r ty* secto‎r* is showi‎n g signs‎of overh‎e atin‎g. The gover‎n ment‎this week annou‎n ced measu‎r es to try to cool it. At the same time offic‎i als decid‎e d to exten‎d tax subsi‎d ies* for purch‎a ses of small‎vehic‎l es and appli‎a nces‎sugge‎s ting‎that some here still‎belie‎v e Chine‎s e manuf‎a ctur‎e rs need gover‎n ment‎suppo‎r t.Growt‎h was stron‎g est in heavy‎indus‎t ries‎such as coal, steel‎,power‎gener‎a tion‎and autom‎o bile‎s. Consu‎m er price‎s rose in Novem‎b er for the first‎time since‎Febru‎a ry. But the rise was small‎and proba‎b ly refle‎c ted highe‎r food price‎s cause‎d by early‎snows‎t orms‎which‎destr‎o yed crops‎and disru‎p ted trans‎p ort.A: …‎about‎the growt‎h of China‎’s‎econo‎m y.News Item 3If you visit‎almos‎t any marke‎t plac‎e in Afric‎a, many of the consu‎m er goods‎on sale, from bucke‎t s to razor‎blade‎s to hurri‎c ane lamps‎, are likel‎y to be Chine‎s e. In a very large‎numbe‎r of Afric‎a n capit‎a ls, the main footb‎a ll stadi‎u m is likel‎y to have been built‎with Chine‎s e aid money‎.Sino-Afric‎a n trade‎, and aid, is large‎and growi‎n g. Some estim‎a tes put it as high as 12 billi‎o n dolla‎r s a year. Altho‎u gh direc‎t compa‎r ison‎s are diffi‎c ult, the links‎betwe‎e n the world‎'s large‎s t devel‎o ping‎count‎r y, China‎, and the world‎'s large‎s t devel‎o ping‎conti‎n ent could‎grow to chall‎e nge the post-colon‎i al links‎betwe‎e n Europ‎e and Afric‎a. The meeti‎n g in Addis‎Ababa‎*had heard‎Chine‎s e promi‎s es to cance‎l debts‎,grant‎duty-free acces‎s into China‎for Afric‎a n produ‎c ts and incre‎a se Chine‎s e inves‎t ment‎s in Afric‎a.A: …‎about‎China‎’s‎large‎and growi‎n g trade‎with and aid to Afric‎a.B：1.In many Afric‎a n capit‎a ls, the main footb‎a ll stadi‎u m is likel‎y to have been built‎with Chine‎s eaid money‎.2.It is estim‎a ted that Sino-Afric‎a n trade‎, and aid, amoun‎t s to as high as 12 billi‎o n dolla‎r s a year.3.The links‎betwe‎e n China‎and Afric‎a could‎grow to chall‎e nge the post-colon‎i al links‎betwe‎e nEurop‎e and Afric‎a.4.On the meeti‎n g in Addis‎Ababa‎, China‎promi‎s ed to cance‎l debts‎, grant‎duty-free acces‎s intoChina‎for Afric‎a n produ‎c ts and incre‎a se Chine‎s e inves‎t ment‎s in Afric‎a.Unit 2Secti‎o n 1Liste‎n ing and Trans‎l atio‎n1.Some peopl‎e fear they do not get enoug‎h vitam‎i ns from the foods‎they eat.2.So they take produ‎c ts with large‎amoun‎t s of vitam‎i ns.3.They think‎these‎vitam‎i n suppl‎e ment‎s will impro‎v e their‎healt‎h and prote‎c t again‎s t disea‎s e.4.Medic‎a l exper‎t s found‎littl‎e evide‎n ce that most suppl‎e ment‎s do anyth‎i ng to prote‎c t or impro‎v ehealt‎h.5.but they noted‎that some do help to preve‎n t disea‎s e.1.有些人担心‎他们并未从‎所吃的食物‎中获取足够‎的维生素。

A Listening Course 4施心远主编《听力教程》4 (第2版)答案Unit 31: Listening and Translation1.Girls score higher than boys in almost every country.几乎在所有国家里，女孩子都比男孩子得分高。

2.Differences between males and females are a continuing issue of fierce debate.男女差异一直是激烈争论的焦点。

3.Cultural and economic influences play an important part.文化和经济影响起着重要的作用。

4. But recent findings suggest that the answer may lie in differences between the male and female brain.但是最新的发现提示，答案也许在男女大脑的差异。

5.These include differences in learning rates.这些包括学习速度上的差异。

Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart 1 DialogueExercise: Listen to the dialogue and filling the blanks with the missing information.Serenading Service was founded three years ago when the singer realizethat British people were desperate for romance. He thought there would be a clientele for a hired serenader. The idea came from his studies of Renaissance music, which is full of serenades. Over the centuries, university students have turned the serenade into an art form for hire. Usually he is hired by men to sing love songs to women. Occasionally he is asked to sing to men. The service is really a form of intimate alfresco theatre with love songs. He usually wears a white tie and tails and sings amorous Italian songs. He will carry chocolate hearts or flowers and when there is no balcony available he will sing from trees or fire escapes! The fee depends on whether a musician comes along or not. The basic rate is ?450 but it can cost a lot more especially if he takes a gondola and a group of musicians along. Some people are so moved that they burst into tears, but some react badly. They try to find out as much as they can about their clients to avoid unpleasant situations. They have to be very careful these days because a serenade can be completely misinterpreted.Part 2 PassageEx. A. Pre-listening QuestionWhat memory strategies do you know that can help you remember things better?1) Brain prioritizes by meaning, value and relevance.2) Your attitude has much to do with whether you remember something ornot.3) Your understanding of new materials depends on what you already know.4) You can learn and remember better if you can group ideas into some sort of meaningful categories or groups.5) The brain's quickest and probably the longest-lasting response is to images.6) Memory is increased when facts to be learned are consciously associated with something familiar to you.Ex. B: Sentence Dictation1. Mnemonics are methods for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall.2. Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language.3. While language is one of the most important aspects of human evolution, it is only one of the many skills and resources available to our minds.4. Association is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it.5. Location gives you two things: a coherent context into which you canplace information, and a way of separating one mnemonic from another.Ex. C: Detailed Listening.1. Mnemonics are tools which can help you to improve your memory. T. (Memory tools can help you to improve your memory. "Mnemonic" is another word for memory tool.)2. The fundamental principle of mnemonics is to make full use of the best functions of the brain to store information. T (The basic principle of mnemonics is to use as many of the best functions of your brain as possible to store information.)3. Information we have to remember is almost always presented in different ways. F (Unfortunately information we have to remember is almost always presented in only one way--as words printed on a page.)4. We can do four things to form striking images, which will help to make our mnemonics more memorable. T ( Use positive, pleasant images; use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images; use all your senses to code information or dress up an image; give our image three dimensions, movement and space.)5. There is one basic principle in the use of mnemonics. F (There are three fundamental principles underlying the use of mnemonics: imagination, association and location)6. Association is what we use to create and strengthen imagination. F(Imagination is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics.)7. You can choose the imagery in your mnemonics as you like T (The imagery you use in your mnemonics can be as violent, vivid, or sensual as you like, as long as it help you to remember.)8. You can create associations by linking things using the same stimuli. T. (You can create associations by linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.)Ex. D: After-listening Discussion1. What is the basic principle of mnemonics? Why can we improve our memory by following the principle? To use as many of the best functions of your brain as possible to store information. Evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli. sophisticated models of the world. Our memories store all of these effectively. However, information is presented in only one way. Language is only one Use these to make of the many skills and resources available to our minds. By coding languages and numbers in striking images,/ can reliable code both information and structure of information. Then easily recall these later.2. Why is a good memory important to us?Open.Section Three : NewsNews Item 1Ex. A: Summarize the newsThis news item is about the Somali pirates’ strike.Ex. B: Listen to the news again and answer the questions.1. Whether this latest attempted hijacking was the promised revenge for the killing of three Somali pirates by the US navy isn't clear.2. No, the pirates haven’t been deferred.3. Because the financial rewards for a successful hijacking remain so great and Somalia remains so lawless.4. At any one time there are only fifteen to eighteen international warships in the area to police an expanse of sea covering more than a million square kilometres.5. It may be because of the relatively small scale of the problem.Tape script of News Item One: The piracy problem looks like it's here to stay despite the recent muscular interventions by the French and American navies. Whether this latest attempted hijacking was the promised revenge for the killing of three Somali pirates by the US navy isn't clear. But it does suggest at the very least that the pirates haven't been deterred. So why does the problem persist? Put simply maritimesecurity analysts say piracy will continue as long as the financial rewards for a successful hijacking remain so great and Somalia remains so lawless. Certainly the international effort to thwart the problem is relatively limited. At any one time there are only fifteen to eighteen international warships in the area to police an expanse of sea covering more than a million square kilometres. Although it has been suggested that raids could be mounted on the pirates' home towns, it seems unlikely there'll be any major increase in the military effort unless there's a spectacular hijacking involving the deaths of many crew members. The reluctance to mount a major international naval operation in the area may also be down to the relatively small scale of the problem. Last year, according to figures from the International Maritime Bureau, nearly twenty three thousand ships passed through the Gulf of Aden. Only ninety two were hijacked. Rob Watson, BBC NewsNews Item 2Ex. A: Listen to the news and complete the summaryThis news item is about Obama’s military plan i n Afghanistan.Ex. B: True or false.1. The President is considering leaving Afghanistan. F. (The President is making it clear that leaving Afghanistan is not an option.)2. Obama wouldn’t shrink the number of troops in Afghanistan, neither would he deploy more military troops. T.3. President Obama thought his assessment would be "rigorous and deliberate". T.4. Opinions against Obama are not heard. F. (…some Republicans and members of the President's own party are dubious about committing more resources and military personnel to a conflict where there is no end in sight.)5. The conflict in Afghanistan seems to be over soon. F. (…about committing more resources and military personnel to a conflict where there is no end in sight.)6. Afghanistan can be the second Vietnam. T. (The word 'Vietnam' is heard more and more on Capitol Hill.)Script of News Item Two: The President is making it clear that leaving Afghanistan is not an option. It's not on the table. According to one White House source, he told the meeting that he wouldn't shrink the number of troops in Afghanistan or opt for a strategy of merely targeting al-Qaeda leaders. But he wouldn't be drawn on the military request for more troops. There appears to be a frustration that the review of strategy has sometimes been portrayed in black-and-white terms of a massive increase or reduction of troop numbers. President Obama told the group made up of the most senior Republican and Democrat senators and congressmen that his assessment would be "rigorous and deliberate". But it's going ontoo long for some Republicans and members of the President's own party are dubious about committing more resources and military personnel to a conflict where there is no end in sight. The word 'Vietnam' is heard more and more on Capitol Hill. The President was certainly right when he said his final decision wouldn't make everyone in the room, or the country, happy. Mark Mardell, BBC News, WashingtonNews Item 3Ex. A: Listen and summarize the news itemThis news item is about fragile peace that returns to Gaza.Ex. B: Listen again and fill in the blanks.There were traffic jams on the road north, families heading to Gaza City to reunite with friends and relatives. Long lines of cars backed up at the makeshift roadblocks the Israelis have left behind. But the tanks are gone, only the deep tracks remain. There were buildings pitted with Israeli tank rounds; from the holes that have been punched in the walls it was clear there had also been snipers waiting for them. North of Khan Younis we saw some of the Qassam fighters returning home, their rifles slung lazily around their shoulders. For three weeks the Israelis pounded the tunnels that run beneath the perimeter wall but last night we met people who insist that some of these tunnels are still open and still some fuel is beingpumped from the Egyptian sider. If the border crossings remain close, say the Palestinians, these tunnels are their only link to the outside world.Section FourPart 1 Feature reportExercise A: This news report is about the recreation of the prehistoric world in Liaoning, China, based on the scientific findings on fossils discovered there.Exercise B:1. 35 prehistoric animals were created.2. They recreated the extinct beasts through the marriage of science, art and technology.3. The exhibit is not behind the glass or otherwise enclosed, so visitors are eye to eye with extinct beasts. It is displayed in this way so that visitors will feel as if they’ve stepped into a Chinese forest 130 mil lion years in the past.4. He says it’s accurate because every single plant, every insect, every organic feature in it actually represents something that has been found asa fossil in northeastern China.5. The only thing scientists had to make up is what color some of the animals were.6. According to Michael Novacek, birds are living dinosaurs.7. They study the movements of commonplace turkeys, chickens and ostriches to learn how similarly-built dinosaurs would stand or walk.8. By using high-tech imagery, fossils, and the knowledge gained from the biology of barnyard animals, scientists now estimate the giant T-Rex could reach speeds of 16 kilometers per hour, far slower that the more than 70 kilometers per hour previously thought.Script：Dinosaur Discoveries Made Possible through Art, Technology, Modern Livestock The rolling hills of a province in northeastern China are now terraced for farming, but beneath that farmland are clues to a prehistoric world unlike any seen by human eyes - until this week. Some 130 million years after dinosaurs roamed the Liaoning forest, the world has been painstakingly recreated in New York City's American Museum of Natural History. The sound of the prehistoric forest is one of the few things that has been imagined in this 65 square-meter diorama. The gingko leaves, piney trees and life-sized models of 35 prehistoric animals were created through the marriage of science, art and technology, as every detail, down to the sleeping pose of a dinosaur, is based on scientific findings.The exhibit is not behind glass or otherwise enclosed, so visitors areeye-to-eye with extinct beasts, feeling as if they've stepped into a Chinese forest 130 million years in the past. Mark Norell is a paleontologist who has worked in Liaoning, searching for clues to recreate this prehistoric world. "It's accurate because every single plant, every insect, every organic feature in it actually represents something that has been found as a fossil in northeastern China," he explained, "so the only thing that we had to sort of make up a little bit is what color some the animals were. Even though we know some of theme were patterned, but we know definitely that they were patterned, because we can see that is the soft tissue remains, but we don't know what color they were but we try to be a little conservative in that regard, but nevertheless all the feathers you see, all the weird tail structures you see, is all stuff we found as fossils." Underneath the gingko trees, a feathered bird-like dinosaur chases on two legs after a large winged insect, the dinosaur's beak-like mouth open to reveal rows of jagged teeth. A sleeping dinosaur tucks its head beneath its arm, much as a modern goose tucks its head beneath its wing. The museum's curator of paleontology, Michael Novacek, explains that it is necessary to understand birds in order to better understand extinct creatures. "The reason birds are so important to us is really a fact we weren't so aware of 10, 20 years ago is that birds are living dinosaurs. They're not just related to dinosaurs. They are dinosaurs," he stressed. "They're a branch of dinosaurs, so conveniently enough dinosaurs didn'tgo completely extinct. One group, the birds, survived." Scientists study the movements of commonplace turkeys, chickens and ostriches to learn how similarly built dinosaurs would stand or walk. Researchers even created a computer model of a giant chicken to learn more about the movements of the ever popular Tyrannosaurus Rex. By using high tech imagery, fossils, and the knowledge gained from the biology of barnyard animals, scientists now estimate the giant T-Rex could reach speeds of 16 kilometers per hour, far slower than the more than 70 kilometers per hour previously thought. These scientific findings are passed along to model designers, such as the creator of a six-foot-long mechanical T-Rex, a highlight of the new exhibit. The menacing skeleton's tail sways and its head bobs as the extinct dinosaur shifts its weight, plodding in place - yet another example of the never-before-seen becoming altogether real when science and technology meet art.Part 2PassageExercise B1. The goal of this study was to determine what type of “gaze” is required to have this effect.2. The Queen’s study showed that the total amount of gaze received during a group conversation is more important than when the eye contact occurs.3. The eye contact experiment used computer-generated images form actors who conveyed different levels of attention.4. The researchers concluded that people in group discussions will speak up more if they receive a greater amount of eye contact from other group members.5. The effect of eye gaze has literally fascinated people throughout the ages.Exercise C1. A2. D3. A4. D5. A6. C7. B8. BExercise D1. The eye contact experiment used computer-generated images fromactors who conveyed different levels of attention (gazing at the subject, gazing at the other actor, looking away, and looking down). These images were presented to the subjects, who believed they were in an actual three-way video conferencing situation, attempting to solve language puzzles. Two conditions were studied: synchronized (where eye contact is made while the subject is speaking) and random contact, received at any time in the conversation. The researchers concluded that people in group discussions will speak up more if they receive a greater amount of eye contact from other group members and the total amount of gaze received during a group conversation is more important than when the eye contact occurs.2. Open.Script: Eye Contact Shown To Affect Conversation Patterns, Group Problem-Solving Ability Noting that the eyes have long been described as mirrors of the soul, a Queen's computer scientist is studying the effect of eye gaze on conversation and the implications for new-age technologies, ranging from video conferencing to speech recognition systems. Dr. Roel Vertegaal, who is presenting a paper on eye gaze at an international conference in New Orleans this week, has found evidence to suggest astrong link between the amount of eye contact people receive and their degree of participation in group communications. Eye contact is known to increase the number of turns a person will take when part of a group conversation. The goal of this study was to determine what type of "gaze" (looking at a person's eyes and face) is required to have this effect. Two conditions were studied: synchronized (where eye contact is made while the subject is speaking) and random contact, received at any time in the conversation. The Queen's study showed that the total amount of gaze received during a group conversation is more important than when the eye contact occurs. The findings have important implications for the design of future communication devices, including more user-friendly and sensitive video conferencing systems –a technology increasingly chosen in business for economic and time-saving reasons –and Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) which support communication between people and machines. Dr. Vertegaal's group is also implementing these findings to facilitate user interactions with large groups of computers such as personal digital assistants and cellular phones. The eye contact experiment used computer-generated images from actors who conveyed different levels of attention (gazing at the subject, gazing at the other actor, looking away, and looking down). These images were presented to the subjects, who believed they were in an actual three-way video conferencing situation, attempting to solvelanguage puzzles. The researchers concluded that people in group discussions will speak up more if they receive a greater amount of eye contact from other group members. There was no relationship between the impact of the eye contact and when it occurred. "The effect of eye gaze has literally fascinated people throughout the ages," says Dr. Vertegaal, whose paper, Explaining Effects of Eye Gaze on Mediated Group Conversations: Amount or Synchronization? was presented this week at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. "Sumerian clay tablets dating back to 3000 BC already tell the story of Ereshkigal, goddess of the underworld, who had the power to kill Inanna, goddess of love, with a deadly eye," says Dr. Vertegaal. "Now that we are attempting to build more sophisticated conversational interfaces that mirror the communicative capabilities of their users, it has become clear we need to learn more about communicative functions of gaze behaviors."。

Unit 4Section One Tactics for ListeningPart 1 PhoneticsStress, Intonation and AccentScriptListen to some short conversations. Has the second speaker finished talking? Tick the right box.1. A: Excuse me. Could you tell me where the secretary’s off ice is, please?B: Yes. It’s up the stairs, then turn left, …↗2. A: Excuse me. Can you tell me where the toilets are?B: Yes, they’re at the top of the stairs. ↘3. A: What did you do after work yesterday?B: Ah, well, I went for a drink in the pub opposite the carpark. ↘4. A: What did you do after work yesterday?B: Oh, I ran into Jane and Tom, …↗5. A: Excuse me, can you tell me how the machine works?B: Certainly. Erm, first of all you adjust the height of the stool, and then put four 10-pence pieces there, ... ↗6. A: Excuse me, can you tell me how the machine works?B: Yes. You put 30 pence in the slot and take the ticket out here. ↘KeyPart 2 Listening and Note-TakingFrog LegsScriptA. Listen to some sentences and fill in the blanks with the missing words.1. Many Asian cultures have included frog legs in their diets for centuries.2. By 1977 the French government banned commercial hunting of its own amphibians.3. Indian scientists have describ ed as “disastrous” the rate at which frogs aredisappearing from the rice fields and wetlands.4. The United States imported more than 6.5 million pounds of frozen frog meat eachyear between 1981 and 1984.5. One of the attractions of Indian frogs was the price.B. Listen to a talk about frog legs. Take notes and complete the following summary.People want frogs mostly for food. Many Asian cultures have included frog legs in their diets for centuries —or at least until they have run out of frogs. But the most famous frog-eaters, and the people who inspired frog-eating in Europe and the United States are the French. By 1977 the French government, so concerned about the scarcity of its native frog, banned commercial hunting of its own amphibians*. So the French turned to India and Bangladesh for frogs.As happened in France, American frog-leg fanciers and restaurants also turned increasingly to frozen imports. According to figures collected from government agencies, the United States imported more than 6.5 million pounds of frozen frog meat each year between 1981 and 1984.So many frozen frog legs were exported from India to Europe and the United States.One of the attractions of Indian frogs, apart from the fact that they have bigger legs than French frogs, was the price. In L ondon, a pound of frozen frog’s legs from India cost about £1.75, compared with £3.75 for the French variety.Indian scientists have described as “disastrous” the rate at which frogs are disappearing from the rice fields and wetlands, where they protect crops by devouring* damaging insects.Since the India and Bangladesh frog-export bans, Indonesia has become the major exporter of frog legs to the United States and Europe. But no matter what country the legs come from, one thing is usually constant: The legs once belong to frogs that are taken from the wild, not from farms. Frogs are nearly impossible to farm economically in the countries where frogs are commercially harvested from the wild.KeyA. 1. Many Asian cultures have included frog legs in their diets for centuries.2. By 1977 the French government banned commercial hunting of its own amphibians.3. India n scientists have described as “disastrous” the rate at which frogs aredisappearing from the rice fields and wetlands.4. The United States imported more than 6.5 million pounds of frozen frog meat eachyear between 1981 and 1984.5. One of the attractions of Indian frogs was the price.B. Frog LegsPeople want frogs mostly for food. Many Asian cultures have included frog legs in their diets for centuries.The most famous frog-eaters, and the people who inspiredfrog-eating in Europe and the United States are the French. By 1977 the Frenchgovernment banned commercial hunting of its own amphibians. So the French turned toIndia and Bangladesh for frogs. And the United States imported more than 6.5 millionpounds of frozen frog meat each year between 1981 and 1984. One of the attractions ofIndian frogs was the price.Indian scientists have described as “disastrous” the rate at which frogs are disappearing from the rice fields and wetlands, where they protect crops by devouringdamaging insects.Since the India and Bangladesh frog-export bans, Indonesia has become the major exporter of frog legs to the United States and Europe. But no matter what country thelegs come from, one thing is usually constant: The legs once belong to frogs that aretaken from the wild, not from farms.Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart 1 Sentence IdentificationScriptIdentify each sentence as simple (S), compound (CP), complex (CPL) or compound-complex (C-C). You will hear each sentence twice. Write the corresponding letter(s) in the space provided.1. I told them what I thought; moreover, I will tell anyone else who wants to know.2. When the timer rang, she was in the living room talking to the neighbors who haddropped in.3. Downstairs in a flash, she hurriedly dialed 999, and gave her name and address inclear, concise tones.4. As a minister’s wife, she has more than her fair share of telep hone calls.5. That polish makes the floor dangerously slick; we will have to be careful until itwears down.Key1. C-C2. CPL3. S4. S5. C-CPart 2 DialoguesDialogue 1 Health ClubScriptA. Listen to the dialogue and complete the following chart.Interviewer: Lorna, you and your husband opened this health club here last summer.Can you tell me something about the club?Lorna: Yes, well we offer a choice of facilities —gym, sunbed*, sauna* andJacuzzi* —that’s also from Scandinavia— as well as our regular fitnessclasses, that is. And there’s a wholefood bar for refreshments afterwards.Interviewer: And does it cost a lot? I mean, most people think health clubs are reallyexpensive.Lorna: Actually our rates are really quite competitive. Since we only started lastJuly, we’ve kept them down to attract customers. It’s only £30 a year tojoin. Then an hour in the gym costs £2.50 — the same as half an hour onthe sunbed. Sauna and Jacuzzi are both £1.50 for half an hour.Interviewer: And is the club doing well?Lorna: Well, so far, yes, it’s doing really well. I had no idea it was going to besuch a success, actually. We’re both very pleased. The sunbed’s sopopular, especially with the over 65s, that we’re getting another one inAugust.Interviewer: What kind of people join the club?Lorna: We have people of all ages here, from small children to old-agepensioners, though of course the majority, about three-quarters of ourmembers, are in their 20s and 30s. They come in their lunch hour, to usethe gym, mostly, or after work, while the youngsters come when schoolfinishes, around half past three or four. The Jacuzzi’s very popular withthe little ones.Interviewer: What about the old-age pensioners?Lorna: They’re usually around in the mornings, when we offer them specialreduced rates —for the Jacuzzi or sauna, plus sunbed, it’s only £2, whichis half price, actually. It doesn’t affect our profits really — only about 5%of our members are retired.B. Listen to an extract from the dialogue and complete the following sentences withthe missing words.Interviewer: What about the old-age pensioners?Lorna: T hey’re usually around in the mornings, when we offer them specialreduced rates —for the Jacuzzi or sauna, plus sunbed, i t’s only £2,which is half price, actually. It doesn’t affect our profits really — onlyabout 5% of our members are retired.KeyA.B. Interviewer: What about the old-age pensioners?Lorna: They’re usually around in the mornings, when w e offer them specialreduced rates—for the Jacuzzi or sauna, plus sunbed, it’s only £2,which is half price, actually. It doesn’t affect our profits really — onlyabout 5% of our members are retired.Dialogue 2 SkiingScriptA. Listen to the dialogue and answer the following questionsSimon: This one shows the view from the top of the mountain.Sally: Oh, it’s lovely!Teresa: That’s me with the red bobble hat.Sally: Is it?Teresa: Yet, it looks kind of silly, doesn’t it?Sally: Yes, it does rather.Teresa: Oh, don’t worry. I know it looks ridiculous.Simon: Look. That’s our instructor, Werner.Teresa: Yeah, we were in the beginners’ class.Sally: Well, everyone has to start somewhere.Simon: Ah, now, this is a good one.Sally: What on earth is that?Simon: Can’t you guess?Sally: Well, it looks like a pile of people. You know, sort of on top of each other.Teresa: It is!Sally: How did that happen?Simon: Well, you see we were all pretty hopeless at first. Every day Werner used to take us to the nursery slope* to practise, and to get to the top you had to go upon a ski lift*.Teresa: Which wasn’t really very easy.Simon: No, and if you fell off you’d start sliding down the slope, right into all the people coming up!Sally: Mmm.Simon: Well, on that day we were all going up on the ski lift, you know, we were just getting used to it, and, you see there was this one woman in our class whonever got the hang of* it. She didn’t have any sort of control over her skis andwhenever she started sliding, she would sort of stick her ski sticks out in frontof her, you know, like swords or something.Teresa: I always tried to avoid her, but on that day I was right behind her on the ski lift and just as she was getting to the top, she slipped and started sliding down theslope.Sally: Did she?Simon: Mmm, with her ski sticks waving around in front of her!Teresa: So of course everyone sort of let go and tried to jump off the ski lift to get out of the way.Simon: And that’s how they all ended u p in a pile at the bottom of the slope — it was lucky I had my camera with me.Sally: I bet that woman was popular!Simon: Oh, yes, everybody’s favourite!B. Listen to the dialogue again and complete the following passage.C. Listen to some extracts from the dialogue and complete the following sentenceswith the missing words.1. Teresa: That’s me with the red bobble hat.Sally: Is it?Teresa: Yet, it looks kind of silly, doesn’t it?Sally: Yes, it does rather.2. Simon: Mmm, with her ski sticks waving around in front of her!Teresa: So of course everyone sort of let go and tried to jump off the ski lift toget out of the way.Simon: And that’s how they all ended up in a pile at the bottom of the slope — itwas lucky I had my camera with me.KeyA. 1. They are looking at some pictures.2. A ski class for beginners.3. Two.B. Everyday the coach took them to a nursery slope. They got to the top on a ski lift. Intheir class, there was one woman who could never learn how to ski. She couldn’t control her skis and whenever she started sliding, she would stick her ski sticks out in front of her. People always tried to avoid her.One day as she was getting to the top, she slipped and started sliding down the slope.Everyone tried to jump off the ski lift to get out of the way and they all slid down the slope and ended up in a pile at the bottom.C. 1. Teresa: That’s me with the red bobble hat.Sally: Is it?Teresa: Yet, it looks kind of silly, doesn’t it?Sally: Yes, it does rather.2. Simon: Mmm, with her ski sticks waving around in front of her!Teresa: So of course everyone sort of let go and tried to jump off the ski lift to getout of the way.Simon: And that’s how they all ended up in a pile at the bottom of the slope — itwas lucky I had my camera with me.Part 3 PassageThe Truth about the French!ScriptB. Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions you willhear.Skiing in France is heaven on Earth for a dedicated skier. There are resorts where you can access skiing terrain that is larger than all the ski resorts in Utah* and Colorado* combined.The larger resorts have an adequate number of restaurants and discos. It is a good idea to eat a good lunch because the mountain restaurants are normally much better than the restaurants in the ski stations.French resorts are mostly government owned and operated. The social system puts a high percentage of money back into the areas. This provides state-of-theart* lifts, snow making and snow grooming. In general, an intermediate skier who can read a lift map will easily be able to ski all day avoiding lift lines and crowds, even during the busiest season.The French school systems have a staggered* two-week winter vacation period. When the snow is good, nearly all of France migrates to the mountains for this period. The break usually covers the last two weeks of February and the first week of March. The time to absolutely avoid is the “Paris school holiday week” which will always be in the middle period of the vacation time but alternates starting the first or second week of the break.No one has a more undeserved* reputation about his or her character than the French.The French are not generally arrogant and rude. True, in large tourist centers there are unpleasant people and if you’re looking for or expecting rudeness, you may just provoke* it.Generally the French, especially in the countryside, are as kind as you wish and you will find warmth and acceptance. The most fractious* Frenchman is easily disarmed by a little sincerity*.When greeting someone or saying good-bye, always shake hands. Don’t use a firm, pumping handshake, but a quick, slight pressure one. When you enter a room or a shop you should greet everyone there. If you meet a person you know very well, use their first name and kiss both cheeks. Men don’t usually kiss unless they are relatives. Good topics of conversation include food, sports, hobbies and where you come from. Topics to avoid are prices, where items were bought, what someone does for a living, income and age. Questions about personal and family life are considered private. Expect to find the French well-informed about the history, culture and politics of other countries. To gain their respect, be prepared to show some knowledge of the history and politics of France.France is generally a very safe country to visit. Pickpockets, however, are not unheard of.In large cities particularly, take precautions against theft. Always secure your vehicles, leave nothing of value visible and don’t carry your wallet in your back pocket. Beware of begging children!Questions:1. How large are the ski resorts in France?2. Why do people prefer to eat lunch at the mountain restaurants?3. How do most of the French resorts operate?4. What kind of vacation do French students usually have?5. What kind of unfair reputation do the French have?6. What is recommended when greeting someone or saying good-bye?7. What are good topics of conversation?8. What is still necessary when visiting France?C. Listen to the passage again and discuss the following questions.KeyA. Skiing can be divided into cross-country skiing and alpine skiing. Cross-country skiingis a low-impact, aerobic activity. It is becoming increasingly popular. It can be enjoyed even if you have a relatively low skill level. It does not require exorbitant lift fees, and it has a relatively low injury rate (cross-country skiing has an injury rate about 10 times less than alpine skiing). Skiing uses more muscles than running and is less stressful on the legs.Alpine or downhill skiing is a popular family sport shared by people of all ages and athletic abilities. It has less benefits for aerobic fitness than cross-country skiing because activity is usually in short bursts, but it is good for strengthening muscles particularly those in the upper leg. Alpine skiing is also a tough sport, particularly demanding on the legs.B. 1. C 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. C 7. D 8. DC. 1. Because there are resorts where you can access skiing terrain that is larger than all theski resorts in Utah and Colorado combined.2. Because in a French resort an intermediate skier who can read a lift map will easily beable to ski all day avoiding lift lines and crowds, even during the busiest season.3. This staggered two-week winter vacation period usually covers the last two weeks ofFebruary and the first week of March.4. The French are not generally arrogant and rude. Generally they are as kind as youwish.5. In large cities in France, always secure your vehicles, leave nothing of value visibleand don’t carry your wallet in your back pocket. Beware of begging children!D. 1. When the snow is good, nearly all of France migrates to the mountains for this period.The break usually covers the last two weeks of February and the first week of March.2. Generally the French, especially in the countryside, are as kind as you wish. The mostfractious Frenchman is easily disarmed by a little sincerity.Part 4 NewsNews item 1 India’s Selfie CampaignScriptA. Listen to the news item and answer the following questions. Then give a briefsummary about the news item.Recently, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a campaign on social media.The campaign is aimed at recognizing and celebrating the lives of girls. It is part of the Indian government’s “Save Daughter, Teach Daughter” movement, which began earlier this year.The Indian leader used a radio broadcast last Sunday to urge people to publish photographs taken with their daughters on social media. He expressed hope that this could revolutionize the movement to save the country’s girls.Sexual inequality has long been a major problem in India’s highly patriarchal* society.For years, Indian families have wanted boys more than girls. In India, many girls are considered inferior to boys. Some are even killed before they are born or as newborns because they are thought to be less desirable. For every 1,000 boys up to the age of six years, India has 914 girls.It was not j ust fathers in India who answered Mr. Modi’s call. Fathers in countries as far away as Sweden also posted pictures with daughters.Social activists hope this campaign will not just be another public relations effort, but will support India’s push to give its daughters the same positions as its sons.B. Listen to the news item again and complete the following sentences.KeyA. 1. The Prime Minister launched the campaign on social media.2. The movement began earlier this year.3. The Prime Minister urge people to publish photographs taken with their daughters onsocial media.4. Social activists hope the campaign will not just be another public relations effort, butwill support the appeal for giving the daughters the same position as the sons.5. Fathers in countries such as Sweden also posted pictures with daughters.This news item is about a campaign launched by Indian Prime Minister on recognizingand celebrating the lives of girls.B. 1. Sexual inequality has been a major problem in India’s patriarchal society.2. Many girls are considered inferior to boys in India, therefore some are even killedbefore they are born or as newborns.3. For every 1,000 boys up to the age of six, there are only 914 girls in India.C. 1. Recently, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a campaign on social media.The campaign is aimed at recognizing and celebrating the lives of girls.2. It was not just fathers in India who answered Mr. Modi’s call. Fathers in countries asfar away as Sweden also posted pictures with daughters.3. Social activists hope this campaign will not just be another public relations effort, butwill support India’s push to give its daughters the same positions as its sons.News item 2 100-Year-Old Japanese Woman’s Swimming RecordScriptA. Listen to the news item and fill out the following chart. Then give a brief summaryabout the news item.As we age, we often take longer to recover from injuries. That is, for some people.After a Japanese woman suffered a knee injury, she became a competitive swimmer —at age 88.Nearing the age of 101 has not slowed down one Japanese woman. In fact, in the swimming pool — she is only getting faster.Recently, a 100-year-old Japanese woman became the world’s first centenarian*to complete a 1,500-meter freestyle swimming competition in a 25-meter pool. Her name is Mieko Nagaoka. Ms. Nagaoka set a world record for her age group at a recent Japan Masters Swimming Association event in the western city of Matsuyama. She swam the race in one hour, 15 minutes and 54 seconds.And Ms. Nagaoka was not competing against others. In fact, Ms. Nagaoka was the only competitor in the 100–104 year old category*. Her race was not a race of speed but of endurance*, or not giving up.In 2002, at a masters swim meet in New Zealand, Ms. Nagaoka took the bronze medal in the 50-meter backstroke. In 2004, she won three silver medals at an Italian swim meet.B. Listen to the news item again and complete the following sentences.KeyThis news item is about a 100-year-old Japanese woman who sets the swimming record.B. 1. Recently, a 100-year-old Japanese woman became the world’s first centenarian tocomplete a 1,500-meter freestyle swimming competition.2. Her race was not a race of speed but of endurance, or not giving up.3. After suffered a knee injury, Ms. Nagaoka became a competitive swimmer —at ageof 88.C.In 2002, at a masters swim meet in New Zealand, Ms. Nagaoka took the bronze medal inthe 50-meter backstroke. In 2004, she won three silver medals at an Italian swim meet.Section Three Oral WorkRetellingThe StrandScriptListen to a story and then retell it in your own words. You will hear the story only once. You can write down some key words and phrases.There is a street called “The Strand” in Galveston,where hundreds of thousands of tourists visit today. This street was Mama’s stomping* ground as a kid. Before Mama died, we took a streetcar around Galveston to see all the lovely, restored homes. What a great day.She knew more than the tour guide. As we sat enjoying the sights, Mama said, “Liz, do you know why my nose is a littl e crooked*?” (I thought, “Where did that come from?”) “No, Mama, you haven’t ever mentioned it,” I replied.“Well,” said mother, “one day I followed my brothers to The Strand, and a streetcar ran over me. I put myself flat down between the rails and pushed my face in the ground so hard that I broke my nose! It sure caused a lot of chaos*. People screamed, the police came, and I just crawled out, brushed myself off and went home. The only thing I ever noticed different about me was a crooked nose.”I just looked at her nose and looked at Mama in utter disbelief!Section Four Supplementary ExercisesPart 1 PassageBabies and IntelligenceScriptA. Listen to the passage and answer the following questions.Some people thought babies were not able to learn things until they were five or six months old. Yet doctors in the United States say babies begin learning on their first day of life.Research scientists at the National Institute of Child Health and Development note that babies are strongly influenced by their environment. They say a baby will smile if her mother does something the baby likes. A baby learns to get the best care possible by smiling to please her mother or other caregiver. This is how babies learn to connect and communicate with other humans. This ability to learn exists in a baby even before birth. They say newborn babies can recognize and understand sounds they heard while they were still developing inside their mothers.The Finnish researchers used devices to meas ure the babies’ brain acti vity. The researchers played recordings of spoken sounds for up to one hour while the babies slept.The head of the study believes that babies can learn while asleep because the part of their brains called the cerebral cortex* remains active at night. The cortex is very important for learning. This part of the brain is not active in adults while they sleep.Many experts say the first years of a child’s l ife are important for all later development.An American study shows how mothers can strongly influence social development and language skills in their children. The study involved more than 1,200 mothers and children.Researchers studied the children from the age of one month to three years. They observed the mothers playing with their children four times during this period.The researchers attempted to measure the sensitivity of the mothers. The women were considered sensitive if they supported their children’s activities and did not interfere unnecessarily. They tested the children for thinking and language development when they were three years old.The children of depressed women did not do as well on tests as the children of women who did not suffer from depression. The children of depressed women did poorly on tests of language skills and understanding what they hear. These children also were less cooperative and had more problems dealing with other people.Another study suggests that babies who are bigger at birth generally are more intelligent later in life. It found that the intelligence of a child at seven years of age is directly linked to his or her weight at birth. Study organizers say this is probably because heavier babies received more nutrition* during important periods of brain development before they were born.The study involved almost 3,500 children. Researchers in New York City used traditional tests to measure intelligence. Brothers and sisters were tested so that the effects of birth weight alone could be separated from the effects of diet or other considerations.The researchers found that children with higher birth weights generally did better on the intelligence tests. Also, the link between birth weight and intelligence later in life was stronger for boys than for girls.B. Listen to the passage again and complete the chart.KeyA. 1. Some people thought babies were able to learn things when they were five or sixmonths old.2. Doctors think babies begin learning things on their first day of life.3. Babies communicate with other people by smiling.4. They can recognize and understand sounds they heard while they were stilldeveloping inside their mothers.5. Babies can learn while asleep.6. They are important for a child’s all later development.B.Part 2 VideoHaiti Amputee Soccer TeamScriptWatch the video film and answer the questions.In Haiti there is a soccer team unlike any you have ever seen. It is made up of players who have lost legs and arms, mostly during the earthquake in 2010. Just as the players are different, so is their field, called a “pitch”. People live near it. There are pools of water on it.And cows walk by. The players kick with the same leg they stand on. Goalies defend with the only arm they have. The team is called Zaryen. That is Creole for “tarantula’ — a spider that can live without one of its legs. A balcony collapsed on Judithe Facile during the earthquake.She was near death. Soccer has brought her back to life.“Now I feel like I’m alive. Because, before that, after I lost my leg, I didn’t have any hope for the future, even though I was walking on the crutches.”Cedieu Fortilus says the players have changed the way Haitians think about the disabled.“When I see they are playing like that, I’m so proud. I’m so proud. I think I’m doing a good job. So, I see so many people, even Haitian, if they are crossing the street, they take time to look at them because they are doing something very strange. Something many Haitians have never seen in their life.”Several organizations in the United States give money to the team, and pay for artificial arms and legs for all Haitians who need them.Cindy Orange says: “Soccer has taught me to do a lot of things on one leg that I wasn’t used to doing before. I feel comfortable when I’m playing.”Key1. That’s because this soccer team in Haiti is formed by those p layers who have losttheir legs and arms.2. They kick with the same leg they stand on and the goalkeepers defend with the onlyarm they have.3. That’s because only soccer saved her from depressi on. After she had lost her leg, shedidn’t have any hope for the future, even tho ugh she was able to walk on the crutches.4. That’s because the players are doing something ver y strange. That is to say, they areplaying soccer in their own ways.5. Several organizations in the United States give money to the soccer teams in Haitiand pay for artificial arms and legs for all Haitians who need them.。

Unit 4Section One Tactics for ListeningPart 1 PhoneticsStress, Intonation and AccentScriptListen to some short conversations. Has the second speaker finished talking? Tick the right box.1. A: Excuse me. Could you tell me where the secretary’s off ice is, please?B: Yes. It’s up the stairs, then turn left, …↗2. A: Excuse me. Can you tell me where the toilets are?B: Yes, they’re at the top of the stairs. ↘3. A: What did you do after work yesterday?B: Ah, well, I went for a drink in the pub opposite the carpark. ↘4. A: What did you do after work yesterday?B: Oh, I ran into Jane and Tom, …↗5. A: Excuse me, can you tell me how the machine works?B: Certainly. Erm, first of all you adjust the height of the stool, and then put four 10-pence pieces there, ... ↗6. A: Excuse me, can you tell me how the machine works?B: Yes. You put 30 pence in the slot and take the ticket out here. ↘KeyPart 2 Listening and Note-TakingFrog LegsScriptA. Listen to some sentences and fill in the blanks with the missing words.1. Many Asian cultures have included frog legs in their diets for centuries.2. By 1977 the French government banned commercial hunting of its own amphibians.3. Indian scientists have described as “disastrous” the rate at which frogs aredisappearing from the rice fields and wetlands.4. The United States imported more than 6.5 million pounds of frozen frog meat eachyear between 1981 and 1984.5. One of the attractions of Indian frogs was the price.B. Listen to a talk about frog legs. Take notes and complete the following summary.People want frogs mostly for food. Many Asian cultures have included frog legs in their diets for centuries —or at least until they have run out of frogs. But the most famous frog-eaters, and the people who inspired frog-eating in Europe and the United States are the French. By 1977 the French government, so concerned about the scarcity of its native frog, banned commercial hunting of its own amphibians*. So the French turned to India and Bangladesh for frogs.As happened in France, American frog-leg fanciers and restaurants also turned increasingly to frozen imports. According to figures collected from government agencies, the United States imported more than 6.5 million pounds of frozen frog meat each year between 1981 and 1984.So many frozen frog legs were exported from India to Europe and the United States.One of the attractions of Indian frogs, apart from the fact that they have bigger legs than French frogs, was the price. In London, a pound of frozen frog’s legs from India cost about £1.75, compared with £3.75 for the French variety.Indian scientists have described as “disastrous” the rate at whic h frogs are disappearing from the rice fields and wetlands, where they protect crops by devouring* damaging insects.Since the India and Bangladesh frog-export bans, Indonesia has become the major exporter of frog legs to the United States and Europe. But no matter what country the legs come from, one thing is usually constant: The legs once belong to frogs that are taken from the wild, not from farms. Frogs are nearly impossible to farm economically in the countries where frogs are commercially harvested from the wild.KeyA. 1. Many Asian cultures have included frog legs in their diets for centuries.2. By 1977 the French government banned commercial hunting of its own amphibians.3. Indian scientists have described as “disastrous” the rate at which frogs aredisappearing from the rice fields and wetlands.4. The United States imported more than 6.5 million pounds of frozen frog meat eachyear between 1981 and 1984.5. One of the attractions of Indian frogs was the price.B. Frog LegsPeople want frogs mostly for food. Many Asian cultures have included frog legs in their diets for centuries.The most famous frog-eaters, and the people who inspiredfrog-eating in Europe and the United States are the French. By 1977 the Frenchgovernment banned commercial hunting of its own amphibians. So the French turned toIndia and Bangladesh for frogs. And the United States imported more than 6.5 millionpounds of frozen frog meat each year between 1981 and 1984. One of the attractions ofIndian frogs was the price.In dian scientists have described as “disastrous” the rate at which frogs are disappearing from the rice fields and wetlands, where they protect crops by devouringdamaging insects.Since the India and Bangladesh frog-export bans, Indonesia has become the major exporter of frog legs to the United States and Europe. But no matter what country thelegs come from, one thing is usually constant: The legs once belong to frogs that aretaken from the wild, not from farms.Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart 1 Sentence IdentificationScriptIdentify each sentence as simple (S), compound (CP), complex (CPL) or compound-complex (C-C). You will hear each sentence twice. Write the corresponding letter(s) in the space provided.1. I told them what I thought; moreover, I will tell anyone else who wants to know.2. When the timer rang, she was in the living room talking to the neighbors who haddropped in.3. Downstairs in a flash, she hurriedly dialed 999, and gave her name and address inclear, concise tones.4. As a minister’s wife, she has more than her fair share of telephone calls.5. That polish makes the floor dangerously slick; we will have to be careful until itwears down.Key1. C-C2. CPL3. S4. S5. C-CPart 2 DialoguesDialogue 1 Health ClubScriptA. Listen to the dialogue and complete the following chart.Interviewer: Lorna, you and your husband opened this health club here last summer.Can you tell me something about the club?Lorna: Yes, well we offer a choice of facilities —gym, sunbed*, sauna* andJacuzzi* —that’s also from Scandinavia — as well as our regular fitnessclasses, that is. And there’s a wholefood bar for refreshments afterwards.Interviewer: And does it cost a lot? I mean, most people think health clubs are reallyexpensive.Lorna: Actually our rates are really quite competitive. Since we only started lastJuly, we’ve kept them down to attract customers. It’s only £30 a year tojoin. Then an hour in the gym costs £2.50 — the same as half an hour onthe sunbed. Sauna and Jacuzzi are both £1.50 for half an hour.Interviewer: And is the club doing well?Lorna: Well, so far, yes, it’s doing really well. I had no idea it was going to besuch a success, actually. We’re both very pleased. The sunbed’s sopopular, espe cially with the over 65s, that we’re getting another one inAugust.Interviewer: What kind of people join the club?Lorna: We have people of all ages here, from small children to old-agepensioners, though of course the majority, about three-quarters of ourmembers, are in their 20s and 30s. They come in their lunch hour, to usethe gym, mostly, or after work, while the youngsters come when schoolfinishes, around half past three or four. The Jacuzzi’s very popular withthe little ones.Interviewer: What about the old-age pensioners?Lorna: They’re usually around in the mornings, when we offer them specialreduced rates —for the Jacuzzi or sauna, plus sunbed, it’s only £2, whichis half price, actually. It doesn’t affect our profits really — only about 5%of our members are retired.B. Listen to an extract from the dialogue and complete the following sentences withthe missing words.Interviewer: What about the old-age pensioners?Lorna: T hey’re usually around in the mornings, when we offer them specialreduced rates —for the Jacuzzi or sauna, plus sunbed, it’s only £2,which is half price, actually. It doesn’t affect our profits really — onlyabout 5% of our members are retired.KeyA.B. Interviewer: What about the old-age pensioners?Lorna: They’re usually around in the mornings, when we offer them specialreduced rates—for the Jacuzzi or sauna, plus sunbed, it’s only £2,which is half price,actually. It doesn’t affect our profits really — onlyabout 5% of our members are retired.Dialogue 2 SkiingScriptA. Listen to the dialogue and answer the following questionsSimon: This one shows the view from the top of the mountain.Sally: Oh, it’s lovely!Teresa: That’s me with the red bobble hat.Sally: Is it?Teresa: Yet, i t looks kind of silly, doesn’t it?Sally: Yes, it does rather.Teresa: Oh, don’t worry. I know it looks ridiculous.Simon: Look. That’s our instructor, Werner.Teresa: Yeah, we were in the beginners’ class.Sally: Well, everyone has to start somewhere.Simon: Ah, now, this is a good one.Sally: What on earth is that?Simon: Can’t you guess?Sally: Well, it looks like a pile of people. You know, sort of on top of each other.Teresa: It is!Sally: How did that happen?Simon: Well, you see we were all pretty hopeless at first. Every day Werner used to take us to the nursery slope* to practise, and to get to the top you had to go upon a ski lift*.Teresa: Which wasn’t really very easy.Simon: No, and if you fell off you’d start sliding down the sl ope, right into all the people coming up!Sally: Mmm.Simon: Well, on that day we were all going up on the ski lift, you know, we were just getting used to it, and, you see there was this one woman in our class whonever got the hang of* it. She didn’t h ave any sort of control over her skis andwhenever she started sliding, she would sort of stick her ski sticks out in frontof her, you know, like swords or something.Teresa: I always tried to avoid her, but on that day I was right behind her on the ski lift and just as she was getting to the top, she slipped and started sliding down theslope.Sally: Did she?Simon: Mmm, with her ski sticks waving around in front of her!Teresa: So of course everyone sort of let go and tried to jump off the ski lift to get out of the way.Simon: And that’s how they all ended up in a pile at the bottom of the slope — it was lucky I had my camera with me.Sally: I bet that woman was popular!Simon: Oh, yes, everybody’s favourite!B. Listen to the dialogue again and complete the following passage.C. Listen to some extracts from the dialogue and complete the following sentenceswith the missing words.1. Teresa: That’s me with the red bobble hat.Sally: Is it?Teresa: Yet, it looks kind of silly, doesn’t it?Sally: Yes, it does rather.2. Simon: Mmm, with her ski sticks waving around in front of her!Teresa: So of course everyone sort of let go and tried to jump off the ski lift toget out of the way.Simon: And that’s how they all ended up in a pile at the bottom of the slope — itwas lucky I had my camera with me.KeyA. 1. They are looking at some pictures.2. A ski class for beginners.3. Two.B. Everyday the coach took them to a nursery slope. They got to the top on a ski lift. Intheir class, there was one woman who could never learn how to ski. She couldn’t control her skis and whenever she started sliding, she would stick her ski sticks out in front of her. People always tried to avoid her.One day as she was getting to the top, she slipped and started sliding down the slope.Everyone tried to jump off the ski lift to get out of the way and they all slid down the slope and ended up in a pile at the bottom.C. 1. Teresa: That’s me with the red bobble hat.Sally: Is it?Teresa: Yet, it looks kind of silly, doesn’t it?Sally: Yes, it does rather.2. Simon: Mmm, with her ski sticks waving around in front of her!Teresa: So of course everyone sort of let go and tried to jump off the ski lift to getout of the way.Simon: And that’s how they all ended up in a pile at the bottom of the slope — itwas lucky I had my camera with me.Part 3 PassageThe Truth about the French!ScriptB. Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions you willhear.Skiing in France is heaven on Earth for a dedicated skier. There are resorts where you can access skiing terrain that is larger than all the ski resorts in Utah* and Colorado* combined.The larger resorts have an adequate number of restaurants and discos. It is a good idea to eat a good lunch because the mountain restaurants are normally much better than the restaurants in the ski stations.French resorts are mostly government owned and operated. The social system puts a high percentage of money back into the areas. This provides state-of-theart* lifts, snow making and snow grooming. In general, an intermediate skier who can read a lift map will easily be able to ski all day avoiding lift lines and crowds, even during the busiest season.The French school systems have a staggered* two-week winter vacation period. When the snow is good, nearly all of France migrates to the mountains for this period. The break usually covers the last two weeks of February and the first week of March. The time to absolutely avoi d is the “Paris school holiday week” which will always be in the middle period of the vacation time but alternates starting the first or second week of the break.No one has a more undeserved* reputation about his or her character than the French.The French are not generally arrogant and rude. True, in large tourist centers there are unpleasant people and if you’re looking for or expecting rudeness, you may just provoke* it.Generally the French, especially in the countryside, are as kind as you wish and you will find warmth and acceptance. The most fractious* Frenchman is easily disarmed by a little sincerity*.When greeting someone or saying good-bye, always shake hands. Don’t use a firm, pumping handshake, but a quick, slight pressure one. When you enter a room or a shop you should greet everyone there. If you meet a person you know very well, use their first name and kiss both cheeks. Men don’t usually kiss unless they are relatives. Good topics of conversation include food, sports, hobbies and where you come from. Topics to avoid are prices, where items were bought, what someone does for a living, income and age. Questions about personal and family life are considered private. Expect to find the French well-informed about the history, culture and politics of other countries. To gain their respect, be prepared to show some knowledge of the history and politics of France.France is generally a very safe country to visit. Pickpockets, however, are not unheard of.In large cities particularly, take precautions against theft. Always secure your vehicles, leave nothing of value visible and don’t carry your wallet in your back pocket. Beware of begging children!Questions:1. How large are the ski resorts in France?2. Why do people prefer to eat lunch at the mountain restaurants?3. How do most of the French resorts operate?4. What kind of vacation do French students usually have?5. What kind of unfair reputation do the French have?6. What is recommended when greeting someone or saying good-bye?7. What are good topics of conversation?8. What is still necessary when visiting France?C. Listen to the passage again and discuss the following questions.KeyA. Skiing can be divided into cross-country skiing and alpine skiing. Cross-country skiingis a low-impact, aerobic activity. It is becoming increasingly popular. It can be enjoyed even if you have a relatively low skill level. It does not require exorbitant lift fees, and it has a relatively low injury rate (cross-country skiing has an injury rate about 10 times less than alpine skiing). Skiing uses more muscles than running and is less stressful on the legs.Alpine or downhill skiing is a popular family sport shared by people of all ages and athletic abilities. It has less benefits for aerobic fitness than cross-country skiing because activity is usually in short bursts, but it is good for strengthening muscles particularly those in the upper leg. Alpine skiing is also a tough sport, particularly demanding on the legs.B. 1. C 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. C 7. D 8. DC. 1. Because there are resorts where you can access skiing terrain that is larger than all theski resorts in Utah and Colorado combined.2. Because in a French resort an intermediate skier who can read a lift map will easily beable to ski all day avoiding lift lines and crowds, even during the busiest season.3. This staggered two-week winter vacation period usually covers the last two weeks ofFebruary and the first week of March.4. The French are not generally arrogant and rude. Generally they are as kind as youwish.5. In large cities in France, always secure your vehicles, leave nothing of value visibleand don’t carry your wallet in your back pocket. Beware of begging children!D. 1. When the snow is good, nearly all of France migrates to the mountains for this period.The break usually covers the last two weeks of February and the first week of March.2. Generally the French, especially in the countryside, are as kind as you wish. The mostfractious Frenchman is easily disarmed by a little sincerity.Part 4 NewsNews item 1 India’s Selfie CampaignScriptA. Listen to the news item and answer the following questions. Then give a briefsummary about the news item.Recently, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a campaign on social media.The campaign is aimed at recognizing and celebrating the lives of girls. It is part of the Indian government’s “Save Daughter, Teach Daughter” movement, which began earlier this year.The Indian leader used a radio broadcast last Sunday to urge people to publish photographs taken with their daughters on social media. He expressed hope that this could revolutionize the movement to save the country’s girls.Sexual inequality has long been a major problem in India’s highly patria rchal* society.For years, Indian families have wanted boys more than girls. In India, many girls are considered inferior to boys. Some are even killed before they are born or as newborns because they are thought to be less desirable. For every 1,000 boys up to the age of six years, India has 914 girls.It was not just fathers in India who answered Mr. Modi’s call. Fathers in countries as far away as Sweden also posted pictures with daughters.Social activists hope this campaign will not just be another public relations effort, but will support India’s push to give its daughters the same positions as it s sons.B. Listen to the news item again and complete the following sentences.KeyA. 1. The Prime Minister launched the campaign on social media.2. The movement began earlier this year.3. The Prime Minister urge people to publish photographs taken with their daughters onsocial media.4. Social activists hope the campaign will not just be another public relations effort, butwill support the appeal for giving the daughters the same position as the sons.5. Fathers in countries such as Sweden also posted pictures with daughters.This news item is about a campaign launched by Indian Prime Minister on recognizingand celebrating the lives of girls.B. 1. Sexual inequality has been a major problem in India’s patriarchal society.2. Many girls are considered inferior to boys in India, therefore some are even killedbefore they are born or as newborns.3. For every 1,000 boys up to the age of six, there are only 914 girls in India.C. 1. Recently, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a campaign on social media.The campaign is aimed at recognizing and celebrating the lives of girls.2. It was not just fathers in India who answered Mr. Modi’s c all. Fathers in countries asfar away as Sweden also posted pictures with daughters.3. Social activists hope this campaign will not just be another public relations effort, butwill support India’s push to give its daughters the same positions as its sons.News item 2 100-Year-Old Japanese Woman’s Swimming RecordScriptA. Listen to the news item and fill out the following chart. Then give a brief summaryabout the news item.As we age, we often take longer to recover from injuries. That is, for some people.After a Japanese woman suffered a knee injury, she became a competitive swimmer —at age 88.Nearing the age of 101 has not slowed down one Japanese woman. In fact, in the swimming pool — she is only getting faster.Recently, a 100-year-old Japanese w oman became the world’s first centenarian*to complete a 1,500-meter freestyle swimming competition in a 25-meter pool. Her name is Mieko Nagaoka. Ms. Nagaoka set a world record for her age group at a recent Japan Masters Swimming Association event in the western city of Matsuyama. She swam the race in one hour, 15 minutes and 54 seconds.And Ms. Nagaoka was not competing against others. In fact, Ms. Nagaoka was the only competitor in the 100–104 year old category*. Her race was not a race of speed but of endurance*, or not giving up.In 2002, at a masters swim meet in New Zealand, Ms. Nagaoka took the bronze medal in the 50-meter backstroke. In 2004, she won three silver medals at an Italian swim meet.B. Listen to the news item again and complete the following sentences.KeyThis news item is about a 100-year-old Japanese woman who sets the swimming record.B. 1. Recently, a 100-year-old Japanese woman became the world’s first centenarian tocomplete a 1,500-meter freestyle swimming competition.2. Her race was not a race of speed but of endurance, or not giving up.3. After suffered a knee injury, Ms. Nagaoka became a competitive swimmer —at ageof 88.C.In 2002, at a masters swim meet in New Zealand, Ms. Nagaoka took the bronze medal inthe 50-meter backstroke. In 2004, she won three silver medals at an Italian swim meet.Section Three Oral WorkRetellingThe StrandScriptListen to a story and then retell it in your own words. You will hear the story only once. You can write down some key words and phrases.There is a street called “The Strand” in Galveston, where hundred s of thousands of tourists visit today. This street was Mama’s stomping* ground as a kid. Before Mama died, we took a streetcar around Galveston to see all the lovely, restored homes. What a great day.She knew more than the tour guide. As we sat enjoying the sights, Mama said, “Liz, do you know why my nose is a little crooked*?” (I thought, “Where did that come from?”) “No, Mama, you haven’t ever mentioned it,” I replied.“Well,” said mother, “one day I followed my brothers to The Strand, and a streetcar ran over me. I put myself flat down between the rails and pushed my face in the ground so hard that I broke my nose! It sure caused a lot of chaos*. People screamed, the police came, and I just crawled out, brushed myself off and went home. The only thing I ever noticed different about me was a crooked nose.”I just looked at her nose and looked at Mama in utter disbelief!Section Four Supplementary ExercisesPart 1 PassageBabies and IntelligenceScriptA. Listen to the passage and answer the following questions.Some people thought babies were not able to learn things until they were five or six months old. Yet doctors in the United States say babies begin learning on their first day of life.Research scientists at the National Institute of Child Health and Development note that babies are strongly influenced by their environment. They say a baby will smile if her mother does something the baby likes. A baby learns to get the best care possible by smiling to please her mother or other caregiver. This is how babies learn to connect and communicate with other humans. This ability to learn exists in a baby even before birth. They say newborn babies can recognize and understand sounds they heard while they were still developing inside their mothers.The Finni sh researchers used devices to measure the babies’ brain activity.The researchers played recordings of spoken sounds for up to one hour while the babies slept.The head of the study believes that babies can learn while asleep because the part of their brains called the cerebral cortex* remains active at night. The cortex is very important for learning. This part of the brain is not active in adults while they sleep.Many experts say the first years of a child’s life are important for all later development.An American study shows how mothers can strongly influence social development and language skills in their children. The study involved more than 1,200 mothers and children.Researchers studied the children from the age of one month to three years. They observed the mothers playing with their children four times during this period.The researchers attempted to measure the sensitivity of the mothers. The women were considered sensitive if they supported their children’s activities and did not interfere unnecessarily. They tested the children for thinking and language development when they were three years old.The children of depressed women did not do as well on tests as the children of women who did not suffer from depression. The children of depressed women did poorly on tests of language skills and understanding what they hear. These children also were less cooperative and had more problems dealing with other people.Another study suggests that babies who are bigger at birth generally are more intelligent later in life. It found that the intelligence of a child at seven years of age is directly linked to his or her weight at birth. Study organizers say this is probably because heavier babies received more nutrition* during important periods of brain development before they were born.The study involved almost 3,500 children. Researchers in New York City used traditional tests to measure intelligence. Brothers and sisters were tested so that the effects of birth weight alone could be separated from the effects of diet or other considerations.The researchers found that children with higher birth weights generally did better on the intelligence tests. Also, the link between birth weight and intelligence later in life was stronger for boys than for girls.B. Listen to the passage again and complete the chart.KeyA. 1. Some people thought babies were able to learn things when they were five or sixmonths old.2. Doctors think babies begin learning things on their first day of life.3. Babies communicate with other people by smiling.4. They can recognize and understand sounds they heard while they were stilldeveloping inside their mothers.5. Babies can learn while asleep.6. They are important for a child’s all later development.B.Part 2 VideoHaiti Amputee Soccer TeamScriptWatch the video film and answer the questions.In Haiti there is a soccer team unlike any you have ever seen. It is made up of players who have lost legs and arms, mostly during the earthquake in 2010. Just as the players are different, so is their field, called a “pitch”. People live near it. There are pools of water on it.And cows walk by. The players kick with the same leg they stand on. Goalies defend with the only arm they have. The team is called Zaryen. That is Creole for “tarantula’ — a spider that can live without one of its legs. A balcony collapsed on Judithe Facile during the earthquake.She was near death. Soccer has brought her back to life.“Now I feel like I’m alive. Because, before that, after I lost my leg, I didn’t have any hope for the future, even t hough I was walking on the crutches.”Cedieu Fortilus says the players have changed the way Haitians think about the disabled.“When I see they are playing like that, I’m so proud. I’m so proud. I think I’m doing a good job. So, I see so many people, even Haitian, if they are crossing the street, they take time to look at them because they are doing something very strange. Something many Haitians have never seen in their life.”Several organizations in the United States give money to the team, and pay for artificial arms and legs for all Haitians who need them.Cindy Orange says: “Soccer has taught me to do a lot of things on one leg that I wasn’t used to doing before. I feel comfortable when I’m playing.”Key1. That’s because this soccer team in Haiti is formed by those players who have losttheir legs and arms.2. They kick with the same leg they stand on and the goalkeepers defend with the onlyarm they have.3. That’s because only soccer saved her from depression. After she had lost her leg, shedidn’t have any hope for the future, even though she was able to walk on the crutches.4. That’s because the players are doing something very strange. That is to say, they areplaying soccer in their own ways.5. Several organizations in the United States give money to the soccer teams in Haitiand pay for artificial arms and legs for all Haitians who need them.。

Unit 4Section One Tactics for ListeningPart 1 PhoneticsStress, Intonation and AccentScriptListen to some short conversations. Has the second speakerfinished talking? Tick the right box.1. A: Excuse me. Could you tell me where the secretary’s office is, please?B: Yes. It’s up the stairs, then turn left, …↗2. A: Excuse me. Can you tell me where the toilets are?B: Yes, they’re at the top of the stairs. ↘3. A: What did you do after work yesterday?B: Ah, well, I went for a drink in the pub opposite the carpark. ↘4. A: What did you do after work yesterday?B: Oh, I ran into Jane and Tom, …↗5. A: Excuse me, can you tell me how the machine works?B: Certainly. Erm, first of all you adjust the height of the stool, and then put four10-pence pieces there, ... ↗6. A: Excuse me, can you tell me how the machine works?B: Yes. You put 30 pence in the slot and take the ticket out here. ↘KeyPart 2 Listening and Note-TakingFrog LegsScriptA.Listen to some sentences and fill in the blanks with the missingwords.1. Many Asian cultures have included frog legs in their diets for centuries.2. By 1977 the French government banned commercial hunting of its own amphibians.3.Indian scientists have described as “disastrous” the rate at which frogs aredisappearingfrom the rice fields and wetlands.4.The United States imported more than 6.5 million pounds of frozen frog meat eachyear between 1981 and 1984.5. One of the attractions of Indian frogs was the price.B. Listen to a talk about frog legs. Take notes and complete thefollowing summary.People want frogs mostly for food. Many Asian cultures have included frog legsin their diets for centuries —or at least until they have run out of frogs. But themost famous frog-eaters, and the people who inspired frog-eating in Europe andthe United States are the French. By 1977 the French government, so concernedabout the scarcity of its native frog, banned commercial hunting of its ownamphibians*. So the French turned to India and Bangladesh for frogs.As happened in France, American frog-leg fanciers and restaurants also turnedincreasingly to frozen imports. According to figures collected from governmentagencies, the United States imported more than 6.5 million pounds of frozen frogmeat each year between 1981 and 1984.So many frozen frog legs were exported from India to Europe and the UnitedStates. One of the attractions of Indian frogs, apart from the fact that they havebigger legs than French frogs, was the price. In L ondon, a pound of frozen frog’s legs from India cost about £1.75, compared with £3.75 for the French variety.Indian scientists have described as “disastrous” the rate at which frogs are disappearing from the rice fields and wetlands, where they protect crops bydevouring* damaging insects.Since the India and Bangladesh frog-export bans, Indonesia has become themajor exporter of frog legs to the United States and Europe. But no matter whatcountry the legs come from, one thing is usually constant: The legs once belong tofrogs that are taken from the wild, not from farms. Frogs are nearly impossible tofarm economically in the countries where frogs are commercially harvested fromthe wild.KeyA.1. Many Asian cultures have included frog legs in their diets forcenturies.2. By 1977 the French government banned commercial hunting of itsown amphibians.3.India n scientists have described as “disastrous” the rate at which frogsaredisappearing from the rice fields and wetlands.4. The United States imported more than 6.5 million pounds of frozenfrog meat eachyear between 1981 and 1984.5. One of the attractions of Indian frogs was the price.B. Frog LegsPeople want frogs mostly for food. Many Asian cultures have included frog legs in their diets for centuries.The most famous frog-eaters,and the people who inspiredfrog-eating in Europe and the United States arethe French. By 1977 the Frenchgovernment banned commercial hunting of its own amphibians. So the French turned toIndia and Bangladesh for frogs. And the United States imported more than 6.5 millionpoundsof frozen frog meat each year between 1981 and 1984. One of the attractionsofIndian frogs was the price.Indian scientists have described as “disastrous” the rate at which frogs aredisappearing from the rice fields and wetlands, where they protect cropsby devouringdamaging insects.Since the India and Bangladesh frog-export bans, Indonesia has becomethe major exporter of frog legs to the United States and Europe. But nomatter what country thelegs come from, one thing is usually constant: Thelegs once belong to frogs that aretaken from the wild, not from farms.Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart 1 Sentence IdentificationScriptIdentify each sentence as simple (S), compound (CP), complex(CPL) orcompound-complex (C-C). You will hear each sentence twice.Write the corresponding letter(s) in the space provided.1. I told them what I thought; moreover, I will tell anyone else who wants to know.2.When the timer rang, she was in the living room talking to the neighbors who haddropped in.3. Downstairs in a flash, she hurriedly dialed 999, and gave her name and address inclear, concise tones.4. As a minister’s wife, she has more than her fair share of telephone calls.5.That polish makes the floor dangerously slick; we will have to be careful until itwearsdown.Key1. C-C2. CPL3. S4. S5. C-CPart 2 DialoguesDialogue 1 Health ClubScriptA. Listen to the dialogue and complete the following chart.Interviewer: Lorna, you and your husband opened this health club here lastsummer.Canyou tell me something about the club?Lorna: Yes, well we offer a choice of facilities — gym, sunbed*, sauna* andJacuzzi* —that’s also from Scandinavia — as well as our regularfitness classes, thatis. And there’s a wholefood bar for refreshmentsafterwards.Interviewer: And does it cost a lot? I mean, most people think health clubs arereallyexpensive.Lorna: Actually our rates are really quite competitive. Since we only startedlast July,we’ve kept them down to attract customers. It’s only £30a year to join.Then an hour in the gym costs £2.50 — the same ashalf an hour on thesunbed. Sauna and Jacuzzi are both £1.50 forhalf an hour.Interviewer: And is the club doing well?Lorna: Well, so far, yes, it’s doing really well. I had no idea it was going tobe such asuccess, actually. We’re both very pleased. The sunbed’s sopopular,especially with the over 65s, that we’re getting another onein August.Interviewer: What kind of people join the club?Lorna: We have people of all ages here, from small children to old-agepensioners,though of course the majority, about three-quarters ofour members, are intheir 20s and 30s. They come in their lunchhour, to use the gym, mostly,or after work, while the youngsterscome when school finishes, aroundhalf past three or four. The Jacuzzi’s very popular with the little ones.Interviewer: What about the old-age pensioners?Lorna: They’re usually around in the mornings, when we offer themspecial reducedrates —for the Jacuzzi or sauna, plus sunbed, it’sonly £2, which is halfprice, actually. It doesn’t affect our profits really — only about 5% of ourmembers are retired.B. Listen to an extract from the dialogue and complete thefollowing sentences with themissing words.Interviewer: What about the old-age pensioners?Lorna: They’re usually around in the mornings, when we offer themspecial reducedrates —for the Jacuzzi or sauna, plus sunbed, it’sonly £2, which is halfprice, actually. It doesn’t affect ou r profitsreally — only about 5% of ourmembers are retired.KeyA.B. Interviewer: What about the old-age pensioners?Lorna: They’re usually around in the mornings, when we offer themspecial reducedrates— for the Jacuzzi or sauna, plus s unbed, it’sonly £2, which is halfprice, actually. It doesn’t affect our profits really — only about 5% of ourmembers are retired.Dialogue 2 SkiingScriptA. Listen to the dialogue and answer the following questionsSimon: This one shows the view from the top of the mountain.Sally: Oh, it’s lovely!Teresa: That’s me with the red bobble hat.Sally: Is it?Teresa: Yet, it looks kind of silly, doesn’t it?Sally: Yes, it does rather.Teresa: Oh, don’t worry. I know it looks ridiculous.Simon:Look. That’s ou r instructor, Werner.Teresa: Yeah, we were in the beginners’ class.Sally: Well, everyone has to start somewhere.Simon: Ah, now, this is a good one.Sally: What on earth is that?Simon: Can’t you guess?Sally: Well, it looks like a pile of people. You know, sort of on top of eachother.Teresa: It is!Sally: How did that happen?Simon: Well, you see we were all pretty hopeless at first. Every day Werner usedto take us to the nursery slope* to practise, and to get to the top you hadto go up on aski lift*.Teresa: Which wasn’t really very easy.Simon: No, and if you fell off you’d start sliding down the slope, right into all thepeople coming up!Sally: Mmm.Simon: Well, on that day we were all going up on the ski lift, you know, we werejust getting used to it, and, you see there was this one woman in ourclass whonever got the hang of* it. She didn’t have any sort of control over her skis andwhenever she started sliding, she would sort of stickher ski sticks out in frontof her, you know, like swords or something.Teresa: I always tried to avoid her, but on that day I was right behind her onthe ski lift and just as she was getting to the top, she slipped and startedsliding down theslope.Sally: Did she?Simon: Mmm, with her ski sticks waving around in front of her!Teresa: So of course everyone sort of let go and tried to jump off the ski lift toget out of the way.Simon: And that’s how they all ended up in a pile at the bottom of the slope —it was lucky I had my camera with me.Sally: I bet that woman was popular!Simon: Oh, yes, everybody’s favourite!B. Listen to the dialogue again andcomplete the followingpassage.C. Listen to some extracts from the dialogue and complete thefollowing sentences withthe missing words.1. Teresa: That’s me with the r ed bobble hat.Sally: Is it?Teresa: Yet, it looks kind of silly, doesn’t it?Sally: Yes, it does rather.2. Simon: Mmm, with her ski sticks waving around in front of her!Teresa: So of course everyone sort of let go and tried to jump off the ski lift toget out of the way.Simon: And that’s how they all ended up in a pile at the bottom of the slope — itwas lucky I had my camera with me.KeyA. 1. They are looking at some pictures.2. A ski class for beginners.3. Two.B. Everyday the coach took them to a nursery slope. They got to the top ona ski lift. In theirclass, there was one woman who could never learn how toski. She couldn’t control her skis and whenever she started sliding, shewould stick her ski sticks out in front of her. People always tried to avoidher.One day as she was getting to the top, she slipped and started sliding down theslope.Everyone tried to jump off the ski lift to get out of the way andthey all slid down the slope and ended up in a pile at the bottom.C. 1. Teresa: That’s me with the red bobble hat.Sally: Is it?Teresa: Yet, it looks kind of silly, doesn’t it?Sally: Yes, it does rather.2. Simon: Mmm, with her ski sticks waving around in front of her!Teresa: So of course everyone sort of let go and tried to jump off the ski lift togetout of the way.Simon: And that’s how they all ended up in a pile at the bottom of the slope — itwas lucky I had my camera with me.Part 3 PassageThe Truth about the French!ScriptB.Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each ofthe questions you will hear.Skiing in France is heaven on Earth for a dedicated skier. There are resortswhere you can access skiing terrain that is larger than all the ski resorts in Utah*and Colorado* combined.The larger resorts have an adequate number of restaurants and discos. It is agood idea toeat a good lunch because the mountain restaurants are normallymuch better than the restaurants in the ski stations.French resorts are mostly government owned and operated. The social systemputs a high percentage of money back into the areas. This provides state-of-theart*lifts, snow making and snow grooming. In general, an intermediate skier whocan read a lift map will easily be able to ski all day avoiding lift lines and crowds,even during the busiest season.The French school systems have a staggered* two-week winter vacation period.When the snow is good, nearly all of France migrates to the mountains for thisperiod. The break usually covers the last two weeks of February and the first weekof March. The time to absolutely avoid is the “Paris school holiday week” which will always be in the middle period of the vacation time but alternates starting thefirst or second week of the break.No one has a more undeserved* reputation about his or her character thanthe French.The French are not generally arrogant and rude. True, in largetourist centers there are unpleasant people and if you’re looking for or expecting rudeness, you may just provoke* it.Generally the French, especially in thecountryside, are as kind as you wish and you will find warmth and acceptance.The most fractious* Frenchman is easily disarmed by a little sincerity*.When greeting someone or saying good-bye, always shake hands. Don’t use a firm, pumping handshake, but a quick, slight pressure one. When you enter aroom or a shop you should greet everyone there. If you meet a person you knowvery well, use their first name and kiss both cheeks. Men don’t usually kiss unless they are relatives. Good topics of conversation include food, sports, hobbies andwhere you come from. Topics to avoid are prices, where items were bought, whatsomeone does for a living, income and age. Questions about personal and familylife are considered private. Expect to find the French well-informed about thehistory, culture and politics of other countries. To gain their respect, be preparedto show some knowledge of the history and politics of France.France is generally a very safe country to visit. Pickpockets, however, are notunheard of.In large cities particularly, take precautions against theft. Alwayssecure your vehicles, leave nothing of value visible and don’t carry your wallet in your back pocket. Beware of begging children!Questions:1. How large are the ski resorts in France?2. Why do people prefer to eat lunch at the mountain restaurants?3. How do most of the French resorts operate?4. What kind of vacation do French students usually have?5. What kind of unfair reputation do the French have?6. What is recommended when greeting someone or saying good-bye?7. What are good topics of conversation?8. What is still necessary when visiting France?C. Listen to the passage again and discuss the followingquestions.KeyA. Skiing can be divided into cross-country skiing and alpine skiing. Cross-countryskiing is alow-impact, aerobic activity. It is becoming increasinglypopular. It can be enjoyed even if you have a relatively low skill level. It does notrequire exorbitant lift fees, and it has a relatively low injury rate (cross-countryskiing has an injury rate about 10 times less than alpine skiing). Skiing uses moremuscles than running and is less stressful on the legs.Alpine or downhill skiing is a popular family sport shared by people of all agesand athletic abilities. It has less benefits for aerobic fitness than cross-countryskiing because activity is usually in short bursts, but it is good for strengtheningmuscles particularly those in the upper leg. Alpine skiing is also a tough sport,particularly demanding on the legs.B. 1. C 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. C 7. D 8. DC.1. Because there are resorts where you can access skiing terrain that is larger thanall the skiresorts in Utah and Colorado combined.2. Because in a French resort an intermediate skier who can read a lift map willeasily beable to ski all day avoiding lift lines and crowds, even during thebusiest season.3. This staggered two-week winter vacation period usually covers the last twoweeks ofFebruary and the first week of March.4. The French are not generally arrogant and rude. Generally they are as kind asyouwish.5. In large cities in France, always secure your vehicles, leave nothing of valuevisibleand don’t carry your wallet in your back pocket. Beware of beggingchildren!D. 1. When the snow is good, nearly all of France migrates to the mountains forthis period. Thebreak usually covers the last two weeks of February and thefirst week of March.2. Generally the French, especially in the countryside, are as kind as you wish.The mostfractious Frenchman is easily disarmed by a little sincerity.Part 4 NewsNews item 1India’s Selfie CampaignScriptA. Listen to the news item and answer the following questions.Then give a briefsummary about the news item.Recently, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a campaign on socialmedia.The campaign is aimed at recognizing and celebrating the lives of girls. Itis part of the Indian government’s “Save Daughter, Teach Daughter” movement, which began earlier this year.The Indian leader used a radio broadcast last Sunday to urge people to publishphotographs taken with their daughters on social media. He expressed hope thatthis could revolutionize the movement to save the country’s girls.Sexual inequality has long been a major problem in India’s highly patriarchal*society.For years, Indian families have wanted boys more than girls. In India,many girls are considered inferior to boys. Some are even killed before they areborn or as newborns because they are thought to be less desirable. For every 1,000boys up to the age of six years, India has 914 girls.It was not just fathers in India who answered Mr. Modi’s call. Fathers incountries as far away as Sweden also posted pictures with daughters.Social activists hope this campaign will not just be another public relationseffort, but will support India’s push to give its daug hters the same positions as its sons.B. Listen to the news item again and complete the followingsentences.KeyA.1. The Prime Minister launched the campaign on social media.2. The movement began earlier this year.3. The Prime Minister urge people to publish photographs taken with theirdaughters onsocial media.4. Social activists hope the campaign will not just be another public relationseffort, butwill support the appeal for giving the daughters the same position asthe sons.5. Fathers in countries such as Sweden also posted pictures with daughters.This news item is about a campaign launched by Indian Prime Minister onrecognizingand celebrating the lives of girls.B. 1. Sexual inequality has been a majo r problem in India’s patriarchal society.2. Many girls are considered inferior to boys in India, therefore some areeven killedbefore they are born or as newborns.3. For every 1,000 boys up to the age of six, there are only 914 girls inIndia.C. 1. Recently, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a campaign onsocial media.The campaign is aimed at recognizing and celebrating thelives of girls.2. It was not just fathers in India who answered Mr. Modi’s call. Fathers incountries asfar away as Sweden also posted pictures with daughters.3. Social activists hope this campaign will not just be another public relations effort,butwill support India’s push to give its daughters the same positions asits sons.News item 2100-Year-Old Japanese Woman’s Swimming RecordScriptA. Listen to the news item and fill out the following chart. Thengive a brief summaryabout the news item.As we age, we often take longer to recover from injuries. That is, for somepeople.After a Japanese woman suffered a knee injury, she became a competitiveswimmer — at age 88.Nearing the age of 101 has not slowed down one Japanese woman. In fact, inthe swimming pool — she is only getting faster.Recently, a 100-year-old Japanese woman became the world’s first centenarian*to complete a 1,500-meter freestyle swimming competition in a 25-meter pool.Her name is Mieko Nagaoka. Ms. Nagaoka set a world record for her age groupat a recent Japan Masters Swimming Association event in the western city ofMatsuyama. She swam the race in onehour, 15 minutes and 54 seconds.And Ms. Nagaoka was not competing against others. In fact, Ms. Nagaoka wasthe only competitor in the 100–104 year old category*. Her race was not a race ofspeed but of endurance*, or not giving up.In 2002, at a masters swim meet in New Zealand, Ms. Nagaoka took the bronzemedal in the 50-meter backstroke. In 2004, she won three silver medals at anItalian swim meet.B. Listen to the news item again and complete the following sentences.KeyThis news item is about a 100-year-old Japanese woman who sets the swimming record.B.1. Recently, a 100-year-old Japanese woman became the world’s firstcentenarian tocomplete a 1,500-meter freestyle swimming competition.2. Her race was not a race of speed but of endurance, or not giving up.3. After suffered a knee injury, Ms. Nagaoka became a competitive swimmer—at ageof 88.C.In 2002, at a masters swim meet in New Zealand, Ms. Nagaoka took thebronze medal in the50-meter backstroke. In 2004, she won three silver medals atan Italian swim meet.Section Three Oral WorkRetellingThe StrandScriptListen to a story and then retell it in your own words. You willhear the story only once. You can write down some key words andphrases.There is a street called “The Strand” in Galveston,where hundreds of thousands of tourists visit today. This street was Mama’s stompin g* ground as a kid. Before Mamadied, we took a streetcar around Galveston to see all the lovely, restored homes.What a great day.She knew more than the tour guide. As we sat enjoying the sights,Mama said, “Liz, do youknow why my nose is a littl e crooked*?” (I thought,“Wheredid that come from?”) “No, Mama, you haven’t ever mentioned it,” I replied.“Well,” said mother, “one day I followed my brothers to The Strand, and a streetcarran over me. I put myself flat down between the rails and pushed my face in theground so hard that I broke my nose! It sure caused a lot of chaos*. People screamed,the police came, and I just crawled out, brushed myself off and went home. The onlything I ever noticed different about me was a crooked nose.”I just looked at her noseand looked at Mama in utter disbelief!Section Four Supplementary ExercisesPart 1 PassageBabies and IntelligenceScriptA. Listen to the passage and answer the following questions.Some people thought babies were not able to learn things until they were five orsix months old. Yet doctors in the United States say babies begin learning on theirfirst day of life.Research scientists at the National Institute of Child Health and Developmentnote that babies are strongly influenced by their environment. They say a babywill smile if her mother does something the baby likes. A baby learns to get thebest care possible by smiling to please her mother or other caregiver. This is howbabies learn to connect and communicate with other humans. This ability tolearn exists in a baby even before birth. They say newborn babies can recognizeand understand sounds they heard while they were still developing inside theirmothers.The Finnish researchers used devices to meas ure the babies’ brain activity.The researchers played recordings of spoken sounds for up to one hour while thebabies slept.The head of the study believes that babies can learn while asleep because thepart of their brains called the cerebral cortex* remains active at night. The cortexis very important for learning. This part of the brain is not active in adults whilethey sleep.Many experts say the first years of a child’s l ife are important for all laterdevelopment.An American study shows how mothers can strongly influencesocial development and language skills in their children. The study involved morethan 1,200 mothers and children.Researchers studied the children from the age ofone month to three years. They observed the mothers playing with their childrenfour times during this period.The researchers attempted to measure the sensitivity of the mothers. Thewomen were considered sensitive if they supported their children’s activities and did not interfere unnecessarily. They tested the children for thinking and languagedevelopment when they were three years old.The children of depressed women did not do as well on tests as the children ofwomen who did not suffer from depression. The children of depressed womendid poorly on tests of language skills and understanding what they hear. Thesechildren also were less cooperative and had more problems dealing with otherpeople.Another study suggests that babies who are bigger at birth generally are moreintelligent later in life. It found that the intelligence of a child at seven years of ageis directly linked tohis or her weight at birth. Study organizers say this is probablybecause heavier babies received more nutrition* during important periods ofbrain development before they were born.The study involved almost 3,500 children. Researchers in New York City usedtraditional tests to measure intelligence. Brothers and sisters were tested so thatthe effects of birth weight alone could be separated from the effects of diet orother considerations.The researchers found that children with higher birth weights generally didbetter on the intelligence tests. Also, the link between birth weight and intelligencelater in life was stronger for boys than for girls.B. Listen to the passage again and complete the chart.KeyA.1. Some people thought babies were able to learn things when they were five orsix monthsold.2. Doctors think babies begin learning things on their first day of life.3. Babies communicate with other people by smiling.4.They can recognize and understand sounds they heard while they were stilldevelopinginside their mothers.5. Babies can learn while asleep.6. They are important for a child’s all later development.B.Study 2Part 2 VideoHaiti Amputee Soccer TeamScriptWatch the video film and answer the questions.In Haiti there is a soccer team unlike any you have ever seen. It is made up ofplayers who have lost legs and arms, mostly during the earthquake in 2010. Just asthe players are different, so is their field, called a “pitch”. People live near it. There arepools of water on it.And cows walk by. The players kick with the same leg they standon. Goalies defend with the only arm they have. The team is called Zaryen. That is Creole for “tarantula’ — a spider that can live without one of its legs. A balconycollapsed on Judithe Facile during the earthquake.She was near death. Soccer hasbrought her back to life.“Now I feel like I’m alive. Because, before that, after I lost my leg, I didn’t have anyhope for the future, even though I was walking on the crutches.”Cedieu Fortilus says the players have changed the way Haitians think about thedisabled.“When I see they are playing like that, I’m so proud. I’m so proud. I think I’m doinga good job. So, I see so many people, even Haitian, if they are crossing the street, theytake time to look at them because they are doing something very strange. Somethingmany Haitians have never seen in t heir life.”Several organizations in the United States give money to the team, and pay forartificial arms and legs for all Haitians who need them.Cindy Orange says: “Soccer has taught me to do a lot of things on one leg that Iwasn’t used to doing before. I feel comfortable when I’m playing.”Key1. That’s because this soccer team in Haiti is formed by those p layers who have losttheirlegs and arms.2. They kick with the same leg they stand on and the goalkeepers defend with theonlyarm they have.3. That’s because only soccer saved her from depression. After she had lost her leg,shedidn’t have any hope for the future, even tho ugh she was able to walk on thecrutches.4. That’s because the players are doing something ver y strange. That is to say, theyareplaying soccer in their own ways.5. Several organizations in the United States give money to the soccer teams in Haitiandpay for artificial arms and legs for all Haitians who need them.。

（完整word版）《听⼒教程》4Unit3答案A Listening Course 4施⼼远主编《听⼒教程》4 (第2版)答案Unit 31: Listening and Translation1.Girls score higher than boys in almost every country.⼏乎在所有国家⾥，⼥孩⼦都⽐男孩⼦得分⾼。

2.Differences between males and females are a continuing issue of fierce debate.男⼥差异⼀直是激烈争论的焦点。

3.Cultural and economic influences play an important part.⽂化和经济影响起着重要的作⽤。

4. But recent findings suggest that the answer may lie in differences between the male and female brain.但是最新的发现提⽰，答案也许在男⼥⼤脑的差异。

5.These include differences in learning rates.这些包括学习速度上的差异。

Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart 1 DialogueExercise: Listen to the dialogue and filling the blanks with the missing information.Serenading Service was founded three years ago when the singer realizethat British people were desperate for romance. He thought there would be a clientele for a hired serenader. The idea came from his studies of Renaissance music, which is full of serenades. Over the centuries, university students have turned the serenade into an art form for hire. Usually he is hired by men to sing love songs to women. Occasionally he is asked to sing to men. The service is really a form of intimate alfresco theatre with love songs. He usually wears a white tie and tails and sings amorous Italian songs. He will carry chocolate hearts or flowers and when there is no balcony available he will sing from trees or fire escapes! The fee depends on whether a musician comes along or not. The basic rate is ?450 but it can cost a lot more especially if he takes a gondola and a group of musicians along. Some people are so moved that they burst into tears, but some react badly. They try to find out as much as they can about their clients to avoid unpleasant situations. They have to be very careful these days because a serenade can be completely misinterpreted.Part 2 PassageEx. A. Pre-listening QuestionWhat memory strategies do you know that can help you remember things better?1) Brain prioritizes by meaning, value and relevance.2) Your attitude has much to do with whether you remember something ornot.3) Your understanding of new materials depends on what you already know.4) You can learn and remember better if you can group ideas into some sort of meaningful categories or groups.5) The brain's quickest and probably the longest-lasting response is to images.6) Memory is increased when facts to be learned are consciously associated with something familiar to you.Ex. B: Sentence Dictation1. Mnemonics are methods for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall.2. Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language.3. While language is one of the most important aspects of human evolution, it is only one of the many skills and resources available to our minds.4. Association is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it.5. Location gives you two things: a coherent context into which you canplace information, and a way of separating one mnemonic from another.Ex. C: Detailed Listening.1. Mnemonics are tools which can help you to improve your memory. T. (Memory tools can help you to improve your memory. "Mnemonic" is another word for memory tool.)2. The fundamental principle of mnemonics is to make full use of the best functions of the brain to store information. T (The basic principle of mnemonics is to use as many of the best functions of your brain as possible to store information.)3. Information we have to remember is almost always presented in different ways. F (Unfortunately information we have to remember is almost always presented in only one way--as words printed on a page.)4. We can do four things to form striking images, which will help to make our mnemonics more memorable. T ( Use positive, pleasant images; use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images; use all your senses to code information or dress up an image; give our image three dimensions, movement and space.)5. There is one basic principle in the use of mnemonics. F (There are three fundamental principles underlying the use of mnemonics: imagination, association and location)6. Association is what we use to create and strengthen imagination. F(Imagination is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics.)7. You can choose the imagery in your mnemonics as you like T (The imagery you use in your mnemonics can be as violent, vivid, or sensual as you like, as long as it help you to remember.)8. You can create associations by linking things using the same stimuli. T. (You can create associations by linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.)Ex. D: After-listening Discussion1. What is the basic principle of mnemonics? Why can we improve our memory by following the principle? To use as many of the best functions of your brain as possible to store information. Evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli. sophisticated models of the world. Our memories store all of these effectively. However, information is presented in only one way. Language is only one Use these to make of the many skills and resources available to our minds. By coding languages and numbers in striking images,/ can reliable code both information and structure of information. Then easily recall these later.2. Why is a good memory important to us?Open.Section Three : NewsNews Item 1Ex. A: Summarize the newsThis news item is about the Somali pirates’ strike.Ex. B: Listen to the news again and answer the questions.1. Whether this latest attempted hijacking was the promised revenge for the killing of three Somali pirates by the US navy isn't clear.2. No, the pirates haven’t been deferred.3. Because the financial rewards for a successful hijacking remain so great and Somalia remains so lawless.4. At any one time there are only fifteen to eighteen international warships in the area to police an expanse of sea covering more than a million square kilometres.5. It may be because of the relatively small scale of the problem.Tape script of News Item One: The piracy problem looks like it's here to stay despite the recent muscular interventions by the French and American navies. Whether this latest attempted hijacking was the promised revenge for the killing of three Somali pirates by the US navy isn't clear. But it does suggest at the very least that the pirates haven't been deterred. So why does the problem persist? Put simply maritimesecurity analysts say piracy will continue as long as the financial rewards for a successful hijacking remain so great and Somalia remains so lawless. Certainly the international effort to thwart the problem is relatively limited. At any one time there are only fifteen to eighteen international warships in the area to police an expanse of sea covering more than a million square kilometres. Although it has been suggested that raids could be mounted on the pirates' home towns, it seems unlikely there'll be any major increase in the military effort unless there's a spectacular hijacking involving the deaths of many crew members. The reluctance to mount a major international naval operation in the area may also be down to the relatively small scale of the problem. Last year, according to figures from the International Maritime Bureau, nearly twenty three thousand ships passed through the Gulf of Aden. Only ninety two were hijacked. Rob Watson, BBC NewsNews Item 2Ex. A: Listen to the news and complete the summaryThis news item is about Obama’s military plan i n Afghanistan.Ex. B: True or false.1. The President is considering leaving Afghanistan. F. (The President is making it clear that leaving Afghanistan is not an option.)2. Obama wouldn’t shrink the number of troops in Afghanistan, neither would he deploy more military troops. T.3. President Obama thought his assessment would be "rigorous and deliberate". T.4. Opinions against Obama are not heard. F. (…some Republicans and members of the President's own party are dubious about committing more resources and military personnel to a conflict where there is no end in sight.)5. The conflict in Afghanistan seems to be over soon. F. (…about committing more resources and military personnel to a conflict where there is no end in sight.)6. Afghanistan can be the second Vietnam. T. (The word 'Vietnam' is heard more and more on Capitol Hill.)Script of News Item Two: The President is making it clear that leaving Afghanistan is not an option. It's not on the table. According to one White House source, he told the meeting that he wouldn't shrink the number of troops in Afghanistan or opt for a strategy of merely targeting al-Qaeda leaders. But he wouldn't be drawn on the military request for more troops. There appears to be a frustration that the review of strategy has sometimes been portrayed in black-and-white terms of a massive increase or reduction of troop numbers. President Obama told the group made up of the most senior Republican and Democrat senators and congressmen that his assessment would be "rigorous and deliberate". But it's going ontoo long for some Republicans and members of the President's own party are dubious about committing more resources and military personnel to a conflict where there is no end in sight. The word 'Vietnam' is heard more and more on Capitol Hill. The President was certainly right when he said his final decision wouldn't make everyone in the room, or the country, happy. Mark Mardell, BBC News, WashingtonNews Item 3Ex. A: Listen and summarize the news itemThis news item is about fragile peace that returns to Gaza.Ex. B: Listen again and fill in the blanks.There were traffic jams on the road north, families heading to Gaza City to reunite with friends and relatives. Long lines ofcars backed up at the makeshift roadblocks the Israelis have left behind. But the tanks are gone, only the deep tracks remain. There were buildings pitted with Israeli tank rounds; from the holes that have been punched in the walls it was clear there had also been snipers waiting for them. North of Khan Younis we saw some of the Qassam fighters returning home, their rifles slung lazily around their shoulders. For three weeks the Israelis pounded the tunnels that run beneath the perimeter wall but last night we met people who insist that some of these tunnels are still open and still some fuel is beingpumped from the Egyptian sider. If the border crossings remain close, say the Palestinians, these tunnels are their only link to the outside world.Section FourPart 1 Feature reportExercise A: This news report is about the recreation of the prehistoric world in Liaoning, China, based on the scientific findings on fossils discovered there.Exercise B:1. 35 prehistoric animals were created.2. They recreated the extinct beasts through the marriage of science, art and technology.3. The exhibit is not behind the glass or otherwise enclosed, so visitors are eye to eye with extinct beasts. It is displayed in this way so that visitors will feel as if they’ve stepped into a Chinese forest 130 mil lion years in the past.4. He says it’s accurate because every single plant, every insect, every organic feature in it actually represents something that has been found asa fossil in northeastern China.5. The only thing scientists had to make up is what color some of the animals were.6. According to Michael Novacek, birds are living dinosaurs.7. They study the movements of commonplace turkeys, chickens and ostriches to learn how similarly-built dinosaurs would stand or walk.8. By using high-tech imagery, fossils, and the knowledge gained from the biology of barnyard animals, scientists now estimate the giant T-Rex could reach speeds of 16 kilometers per hour, far slower that the more than 70 kilometers per hour previously thought.Script：Dinosaur Discoveries Made Possible through Art, Technology, Modern Livestock The rolling hills of a province in northeastern China are now terraced for farming, but beneath that farmland are clues to a prehistoric world unlike any seen by human eyes - until this week. Some 130 million years after dinosaurs roamed the Liaoning forest, the world has been painstakingly recreated in New York City's American Museum of Natural History. The sound of the prehistoric forest is one of the few things that has been imagined in this 65 square-meter diorama. The gingko leaves, piney trees and life-sized models of 35 prehistoric animals were created through the marriage of science, art and technology, as every detail, down to the sleeping pose of a dinosaur, is based on scientific findings.The exhibit is not behind glass or otherwise enclosed, so visitors areeye-to-eye with extinct beasts, feeling as if they've stepped into a Chinese forest 130 million years in the past. Mark Norell is a paleontologist who has worked in Liaoning, searching for clues to recreate this prehistoric world. "It's accurate because every single plant, every insect, every organic feature in it actually represents something that has been found as a fossil in northeastern China," he explained, "so the only thing that we had to sort of make up a little bit is what color some the animals were. Even though we know some of theme were patterned, but we know definitely that they were patterned, because we can see that is the soft tissue remains, but we don't know what color they were but we try to be a little conservative in that regard, but nevertheless all the feathers you see, all the weird tail structures you see, is all stuff we found as fossils." Underneath the gingko trees, a feathered bird-like dinosaur chases on two legs after a large winged insect, the dinosaur's beak-like mouth open to reveal rows of jagged teeth. A sleeping dinosaur tucks its head beneath its arm, much as a modern goose tucks its head beneath its wing. The museum's curator of paleontology, Michael Novacek, explains that it is necessary to understand birds in order to better understand extinct creatures. "The reason birds are so important to us is really a fact we weren't so aware of 10, 20 years ago is that birds are living dinosaurs. They're not just related to dinosaurs. They are dinosaurs," he stressed. "They're a branch of dinosaurs, so conveniently enough dinosaurs didn'tgo completely extinct. One group, the birds, survived." Scientists study the movements of commonplace turkeys, chickensand ostriches to learn how similarly built dinosaurs would stand or walk. Researchers even created a computer model of a giant chicken to learn more about the movements of the ever popular Tyrannosaurus Rex. By using high tech imagery, fossils, and the knowledge gained from the biology of barnyard animals, scientists now estimate the giant T-Rex could reach speeds of 16 kilometers per hour, far slower than the more than 70 kilometers per hour previously thought. These scientific findings are passed along to model designers, such as the creator of a six-foot-long mechanical T-Rex, a highlight of the new exhibit. The menacing skeleton's tail sways and its head bobs as the extinct dinosaur shifts its weight, plodding in place - yet another example of the never-before-seen becoming altogether real when science and technology meet art.Part 2PassageExercise B1. The goal of this study was to determine what type of “gaze” is required to have this effect.2. The Queen’s study showed that the total amount of gaze received during a group conversation is more important than when the eye contactoccurs.3. The eye contact experiment used computer-generated images form actors who conveyed different levels of attention.4. The researchers concluded that people in group discussions will speak up more if they receive a greater amount of eye contact from other group members.5. The effect of eye gaze has literally fascinated people throughout the ages.Exercise C1. A2. D3. A4. D5. A6. C7. B8. BExercise D1. The eye contact experiment used computer-generated images from actors who conveyed different levels of attention (gazing at the subject, gazing at the other actor, looking away, and looking down). These images were presented to the subjects, who believed they were in an actual three-way video conferencing situation, attempting to solve language puzzles. Two conditions were studied: synchronized (where eye contact is made while the subject is speaking) and random contact, received at any time in the conversation. The researchers concluded that people in group discussions will speak up more if they receive a greater amount of eyecontact from other group members and the total amount of gaze received during a group conversation is more important than when the eye contact occurs.2. Open.Script: Eye Contact Shown To Affect Conversation Patterns, Group Problem-Solving Ability Noting that the eyes have long been described as mirrors of the soul, a Queen's computer scientist is studying the effect of eye gaze on conversation and the implications for new-age technologies, ranging from video conferencing to speech recognition systems. Dr. Roel Vertegaal, who is presenting a paper on eye gaze at an international conference in New Orleans this week, has found evidence to suggest a strong link between the amount of eye contact people receive and their degree of participation in group communications. Eye contact is known to increase the number of turns a person will take when part of a group conversation. The goal of this study was to determine what type of "gaze" (looking at a person's eyes and face) is required tohave this effect. Two conditions were studied: synchronized (where eye contact is made while the subject is speaking) and random contact, received at any time in the conversation. The Queen's study showed that the total amount of gaze received during a group conversation is more important than when the eye contact occurs. The findings have important implications for thedesign of future communication devices, including more user-friendly and sensitive video conferencing systems –a technology increasingly chosen in business for economic and time-saving reasons –and Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) which support communication between people and machines. Dr. Vertegaal's group is also implementing these findings to facilitate user interactions with large groups of computers such as personal digital assistants and cellular phones. The eye contact experiment used computer-generated images from actors who conveyed different levels of attention (gazing at the subject, gazing at the other actor, looking away, and looking down). These images were presented to the subjects, who believed they were in an actual three-way video conferencing situation, attempting to solve language puzzles. The researchers concluded that people in group discussions will speak up more if they receive a greater amount of eye contact from other group members. There was no relationship between the impact of the eye contact and when it occurred. "The effect of eye gaze has literally fascinated people throughout the ages," says Dr. Vertegaal, whose paper, Explaining Effects of Eye Gaze on Mediated Group Conversations: Amount or Synchronization? was presented this week at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. "Sumerian clay tablets dating back to 3000 BC already tell the story of Ereshkigal, goddess of theunderworld, who had the power to kill Inanna, goddess of love, with a deadly eye," says Dr. Vertegaal. "Now that we are attempting to build more sophisticated conversational interfaces that mirror the communicative capabilities of their users, it has become clear we need to learn more about communicative functions of gaze behaviors."。

A L i s t e n i n g C o u r s e4施心远主编《听力教程》 4 (第2 版)答案Unit 2Section One: Tactics for ListeningPart 1: Listening and Translation1.Girls score higher than boys in almost every country.几乎在全部国家里，女孩子都比男孩子得分高；2. Differences betweenmales andfemales are acontinuing issueof fierce debate.男女差异始终是猛烈争辩的焦点；3. Cultural and economic influences play an important part..文化和经济影响起着重要的作用；4. But recent findings suggest that the answer may lie in differences between the male and female brain.但是最新的发觉提示，答案或许在男女大脑的差异；5. These include differences in learning rates.这些包括学习速度上的差异；Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart 1 DialogueExercise: Listen to the dialogue and filling the blanks with the missing information.Serenading Service was founde t h d ree year s ago when the singer realizethat British people weredesperate for romanc.eHe thought there would be a clientele for a hired The idea came from his studies of Renaissance mu s,i c which is full of serenade s O. ver the centuries,university students haveturned the serenade into an art form for hire . Usually he is hired by men to sing love songs towomen. Occasionally he is asked to sing to men.The service is really a form of intimate alfres c t o heatre with love song.s He usually wears a white tie and tails and sings amorou s Italian song s.He will carry chocolate hear t o s r flowers and when there is no balcon y available he will sing from trees or fire escape.sThe fee depends on whether a musician comes along or n T o h t e.basic rate is￡45b0ut it can cost a lot more especially if he tak e a s gondola and a group of musicians along. Some people are so moved that they burst into tears, but some react badly. They try to find out as much as they can about their clients to avoid unpleasan t s ituation s. They have to be very careful these days because a serenade can c o b m e pletely misinterprete.dPart 2 PassageEx. A. Pre-listening QuestionWhat memory strategies do you know that can help you remember things better.1) Brain prioritizes by meaning, value and relevance.2) Your attitude has much to do with whether you remember something or not.3) Your understanding of new materials depends on what you already know.4) You can learn and remember better if you can group ideas into some sort of meaningful categories or groups.5) The brain's quickest and probably the longest-lasting responseis to images.6) Memory is increased when facts to be learned are consciously associated with something familiar to you.Ex. B: Sentence Dictation1.Mnemonicsare methods f or rememberinginformation that is otherwise quite difficult to recall.2. Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, t ouch, positions, emotions and language.3. While language is one of the most important aspects of human evolution, it is only one of the many skills and resources available to our minds.4. Association is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered toa way of remembering it..5. Location gives you two things: a coherent context into which you can place information, and a way of separating one mnemonic from another.Ex. C: Detailed Listening.1. Mnemonics are tools which can help you to improve your memory.T. (Memory tools can help you to improve your memory. "Mnemonic"is another word for memory tool.)2. The fundamental principle of mnemonics is to make full use of the best functions of the brain to store information.T (The basic principle of mnemonics is to use as many of the best functions of your brain as possible to store information.)3. Information we have to remember is almost always presented in different ways.F (Unfortunately information we have to remember is almost always presented in only one way--as words printed on a page.)4. We can do four things to form striking images, which will help to makeour mnemonics more memorable.T ( Use positive, pleasant images; use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images; use all your senses to code information or dress up an image; give our image three dimensions, movement and space.)5. There is one basic principle in the use of mnemonics.F (There are three fundamental principles underlying the use of mnemonics: imagination, association and location)6. Association is what we use to create and strengthen imagination.F (Imagination is what you use to createand strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics.)7. You can choose the imagery in your mnemonics as you likeT (The imagery you use in your mnemonics can be as violent, vivid, or sensual as you like, as long as it help you to remember.)8. You can create associations by linking things using the same stimuli.T. (You can create associations by linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.)Ex. D: After-listening Discussion1. What is the basic principle of mnemonics. Why can we improve our memory by following the principle.To use as many of the best functions of your brain as possible to store information.Evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli. Use these to make sophisticated models of the world.Our memories store all of these effectively.However, information is presented in only one way. Language is only one of the many skills and resources available to our minds.By coding languagesand numbers in striking images,/ can reliable code both information and structure of information. Then easily recall theselater.2. Why is a good memory important to us.Open.Section Three NewsNews Item 1Ex. A: Summarize the newsThis news item is abou t he Somali pirate’s strike.Ex. B: Listen to the news again and answer the questions.1. Whether this latest attempted hijacking was the promised revenge for thekilling of three Somali pirates by the US navy isn't clear.No, the pirates haven’t been deferred.2.3. Because the financial rewards for a successful hijacking remain so greatand Somalia remains so lawless.4. At any one time there are only fifteen to eighteen international warshipsin the area to police an expanseof seacovering more than a million square kilometres.5. It may be because of the relatively small scale of the problem.Tape script of News Item One:The piracy problem looks like it's here to stay despite the recentmuscular interventions by the French and American navies. Whether this latest attempted hijacking was the promised revenge for the killing of three Somali pirates by the US navy isn't clear. But it does suggest at the very least that the pirates haven't been deterred.So why does the problem persist. Put simply maritime security analysts say piracy will continue as long as the financial rewardsfor a successful hijacking remain so great and Somaliaremains theinternational effort to thwart the problem is relatively limited. At any one time there are only fifteen to eighteen international warships in the area to police an expanseof seacovering more than a million squarekilometres. Although it has been suggested that raids could be mounted on the pirates' home towns, it seems unlikely there'll be any major increase in the military effort unlessthere's a spectacularhijacking involving the deaths of many crew members.The reluctance to mount a major international naval operation in the area may also be down to the relatively small scale of the problem. Last year, according to figures from the International Maritime Bureau, nearly twenty three thousandships passedthrough the Gulf of Aden. Only ninety two were hijacked.Rob Watson, BBC NewsNews Item 2Ex. A: Listen to the news and complete the summaryThis news item is abou O t bama’s military plan in Afghanistan.Ex. B: True or false.1. The President is considering leaving Afghanistan.F. (The Presidentis making it clear that leaving Afghanistan is not anoption.)2. Obama wouldn’t shrink the number of troops in Afghanistan, neither would he deploy more military troops.T.3. President Obama thought his assessmentwould be "rigorous and deliberate".T.4. Opinions against Obama are not heard.F. ( some Republicans and members of the President's own party are dubious about committing more resourcesand military personnel to a conflict where there is no end in sight.)5. The conflict in Afghanistan seems to be over soon.F. ( about committing more resourcesand military personnelto a conflict where there is no end in sight.)6. Afghanistan can be the second Vietnam.T. (The word 'Vietnam' is heard more and more on Capitol Hill.)Script of News Item Two:The President is making it clear that leaving Afghanistan is not an option. It's not on the table. According to one White House source, he told the meeting that he wouldn't shrink the number of troops in Afghanistan or opt for a strategy of merely targeting al-Qaeda leaders. But he wouldn't be drawn on the military request for more troops.There appearsto be a frustration that the review of strategy has sometimes been portrayed in black-and-white terms of a massive increase or reduction of troop numbers.President Obama told the group made up of the most senior Republican and Democrat senatorsand congressmenthat his assessment would be "rigorous and deliberate".But it's going on too long for some Republicans and members of the President's own party are dubious about committing more resources and military personnel to a conflict where there is no end in sight. The word 'Vietnam' is heard more and more on Capitol Hill.The President was certainly right when he said his final decision wouldn't make everyone in the room, or the country, happy.Mark Mardell, BBC News, WashingtonNews Item 3Ex. A: Listen and summarize the news itemThis news item is abou f t ragile peace that returns to Gaza .Ex. B: Listen again and fill in the blanks.There were traffic jams on the road north, families headingto GazaCity to reunite with friends and relative.sLong lines of cars backed up at the makeshift roadblocks the Israelis have left behind. But the tanks are gone, only thedeep tracksremain.There were buildings pitted with Israeli tank rounds; from the holesthat have been punched in the walls it was clear there had also been snipers waiting for them. North of Khan Younis we saw some of the Qassam fightersreturning home, their rifles slung lazily around their shoulders.For three weeks the Israelis pounded th e tunnels that run beneath the perimeter wall but last night we met people who insist that some of these tunnels are stillopen and still somefuel is being pumped from the Egyptian sider. If the border crossings remain close, say the Palestinians, these tunnels are theironly link to the outside world.Script of News Item 3There were traffic jams on the road north, families heading to GazaCity to reunite with friends and relatives. Long lines of cars backed up at the makeshift roadblocks the Israelis have left behind. But the tanks are gone,only the deep tracks remain.There were buildings pitted with Israeli tank rounds; from the holes that have been punched in the walls it was clear there had also been snipers waiting for them. North of Khan Younis we saw some of the Qassam fighters returning home, their rifles slung lazily around their shoulders.The destruction we've seenhas largely been inflicted on the Hamas infrastructure: police stations, military outposts, government buildings, sofar the most extensive damage - that at the border in Rafah where nothing was spared.For three weeks the Israelis pounded the tunnels that run beneath the perimeter wall but last night we met people who insist that some of these tunnels are still open and still some fuel is being pumped from the Egyptian side; impossible for us to verify independently, but they say they are determined to reopen them and to dig them deeper. If the border crossings remain close, saythe Palestinians,thesetunnels are their only link to the outside world.Christian Fraser, BBC News, GazaSection FourPart 1 Feature reportExercise A:This news report is aboutthe recreation of the prehistoric world in Liaoning,China, based on the scientific findings on fossils discoveredExercise B:1. 35 prehistoric animals were created.2. They recreated the extinct beasts through the marriage of science, art andtechnology.3. The exhibit is not behind the glass or otherwise enclosed, so visitors areeye to eye with extinct beasts. It is displayed in this way so that visitors will feel as if they’ve stepped into a Chinese forest 130 million years in the past.He saysit ’s a ccurate becauseevery single plant,every insect, every4.organic feature in it actually represents something that has been found asa fossil in northeastern China.5. The only thing scientistshad to make up is what color some of theanimals were.6. According to Michael Novacek, birds are living dinosaurs.7. They study the movements of commonplace turkeys, chickens andostriches to learn how similarly-built dinosaurs would stand or walk.8. By using high-tech imagery, fossils, and the knowledge gained from thebiology of barnyard animals, scientists now estimate the giant T-Rexcould reach speeds of 16 kilometers per hour, far slower that the more than 70 kilometers per hour previously thought.Script：Dinosaur Discoveries Made Possible through Art, Technology,Modern LivestockThe rolling hills of a province in northeastern China are now terraced for farming, but beneath that farmland are clues to a prehistoric world unlikeany seenby human eyes - until this week. Some 130 million years after dinosaurs roamed the Liaoning forest, the world has been painstakingly recreated in New York City's American Museum of Natural History.The sound of the prehistoric forest is one of the few things that has been imagined in this 65 square-meterdiorama. The gingko leaves,piney treesand life-sized models of 35 prehistoric animals were created through the marriage of science, art and technology, as every detail, down to the sleeping pose of a dinosaur, is based on scientific findings.The exhibit is not behind glass or otherwise enclosed, so visitors areeye-to-eyewith extinct beasts,feeling as if they've steppedinto a Chinese forest 130 million years in the past.Mark Norell is a paleontologist who has worked in Liaoning, searching for clues to recreate this prehistoric world."It's accurate because every single plant, every insect, every organic feature in it actually represents something that has been found as a fossil innortheastern China," he explained, "so the only thing that we had to sort of make up a little bit is what color some the animals were. Even though we know some of theme were patterned, but we know definitely that they were patterned, because we can see that is the soft tissue remains, but we don't know what color they were but we try to be a little conservativein that regard, but nevertheless all the feathers you see, all the weird tail structures you see, is all stuff we found as fossils."Underneath the gingko trees, a feathered bird-like dinosaur chases on two legs after a large winged insect, the dinosaur's beak-like mouth open to reveal rows of jagged teeth. A sleeping dinosaur tucks its head beneath its arm, much as a modern goose tucks its head beneath its wing.The museum's curator of paleontology, Michael Novacek, explains that it is necessaryto understand birds in order to better understand extinct creatures."The reason birds are so important to us is really a fact we weren't so aware of 10, 20 years ago is that birds are living dinosaurs. They're not just related to dinosaurs. They are dinosaurs," he stressed. "They're a branch of dinosaurs,so convenientlyenough dinosaursdidn't go completely extinct. One group, the birds, survived."Scientists study the movements of commonplace turkeys, chickens and ostriches to learn how similarly built dinosaurs would stand or walk. Researchers even created a computer model of a giant chicken to learn more about the movements of the ever popular Tyrannosaurus Rex.By using high tech imagery,fossils, and the knowledge gainedfrom the biology of barnyard animals, scientists now estimate the giant T-Rex could reach speeds of 16 kilometers per hour, far slower than the more than 70 kilometers per hour previously thought.Thesescientific findings are passed alongto model designers,such as t he creator of a six-foot-long mechanical T-Rex, a highlight of the new exhibit. The menacing skeleton's tail sways and its head bobs as the extinct dinosaur shifts its weight, plodding in place - yet another example of the never-before-seenbecoming altogether real when scienceand technology meet art.Part 2 PassageExercise Bthis study was to determine what type of “gaze ”is1. The goal ofrequired to have this effect.2. The Queen’ sstudy showed that the total amount of gaze receivedduring a group conversation is more important than when the eyecontact occurs.3. The eye contact experiment used computer-generatedimages formactors who conveyed different levels of attention.4. The researchers concluded that people in group discussions will speak upmore if they receive a greater amount of eye contact from other group members.5. The effect of eye gaze has literally fascinated people throughout the ages.6. Exercise C1. A2. D3. A4. D5. A6. C7. B8. BExercise D1. The eye contact experiment used computer-generatedimages fromactors who conveyed different levels of attention (gazing at the subject, gazing at the other actor, looking away, and looking down). These images were presentedto the subjects, who believed they were in an actualthree-way video conferencing situation, attempting to solve language puzzles. Two conditions were studied: synchronized (where eye contact is made while the subject is speaking) and random contact, received at any time in the conversation. The researchers concluded that people in group discussions will speak up more if they receive a greater amount of eye contact from other group membersand the total amount of gaze received during a group conversation is more important than when the eye contact occurs.2. Open.Script:Eye Contact Shown To Affect Conversation Patterns, GroupProblem-Solving AbilityNoting that the eyes have long been described as mirrors of the soul, a Queen's computer scientist is studying the effect of eye gaze on conversationand the implications for new-agetechnologies,ranging from video conferencing to speech recognition systems.Dr. Roel Vertegaal,who is presenting a paper on eye gaze at an international conference in New Orleans this week, has found evidence to suggest a strong link between the amount of eye contact people receive and their degree of participation in group communications. Eye contact is known to increase the number of turns a person will take when part of a group conversation. The goal of this study was to determine what type of "gaze" (looking at a person's eyes and face) is required to have this effect.Two conditions were studied: synchronized (where eye contact is made while the subject is speaking) and random contact, received at any timienthe conversation. The Queen's study showed that the total amount of gaze received during a group conversation is more important than when the eye contact occurs.The findings have important implications for the design of future communication devices, including more user-friendly and sensitivevideoconferencing systems–a technology increasinglychosen in businessforreasons –economic and time-saving and Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) which support communication between people and machines. Dr. Vertegaal'sgroup is also implementing these findings to facilitate user interactions with large groups of computers such as personal digital assistants and cellular phones.The eye contact experiment used computer-generatedimages f rom actors who conveyed different levels of attention (gazing at the subject, gazing at the other actor, looking away, and looking down). These images were presented to the subjects, who believed they were in an actual three-way video conferencing situation, attempting to solve language puzzles. The researchersconcluded that people in group discussionswill speakup more if they receive a greater amount of eye contact from other group members. There was no relationship between the impact of the eye contact and when it occurred."The effect of eye gaze has literally fascinated people throughout the ages," says Dr. Vertegaal, whose paper, Explaining Effects of Eye Gaze on Mediated Group Conversations: Amount or Synchronization. was presentedthis week at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work."Sumerian clay tablets dating back to 3000 BC already tell the story of Ereshkigal, goddess of the underworld, who had the power to kill Inanna,goddess of love, with a deadly eye," says Dr. Vertegaal. "Now that we are attempting to build more sophisticated conversational interfaces that mirror the communicative capabilities of their users, it has become clear we need to learn more about communicative functions of gaze behaviors."。