全新版大学英第二版语综合教程2听力原文Unit 5
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Unit 5 Unsolved Mysteries
Listening and Speaking
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In the picture on the left, a criminal is breaking a law; he is committing a crime.
In the picture on the right, the detective is catching and arresting the criminal.
In the picture in the center, the detective is questioning the criminal but he is not making a
confession.
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The greatest detective
Sherlock Holmes is probably the greatest detective ever known — well, at least he’s one of the
most famous. But he never actually existed … he’s an imaginary detective who appears in sixty
stories created by the Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Doyle was not always a writer. He started his career as a doctor. Fortunately for us, he did not
have many patients. He needed money and so he started to write stories.
The first Sherlock Holmes story was published in 1887, and was called A Study in Scarlet. Later, a
magazine published The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and readers loved it!
What makes Sherlock Holmes so special? Well, he was very intelligent and successful. He always
arrested the criminal — every single time — with the help of his partner, Dr. Watson.
In the stories, Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street in London, England. Thousands of people visit
that address every year. There’s also a Sherlock Holmes Museum in London.
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Mike: … So, we can look forward to warmer temperatures. It’ll be a good weekend for the beach.
Over to you, Alexa.
Alexa: Thank you for that weather report, Mike. And finally, this story just in. … We have a report
that a local man, Nick Brown, saw some strange lights. He was driving home at about 10 p.m. He
said the lights were bright and they moved across the sky. He stopped at a gas station and talked to
a police officer about the lights. The police officer had seen the lights, too.
Mike: Hmm … that’s a strange story. What happened next?
Alexa: Well, Mr. Brown took some pictures, but there was no film in his camera. Finally, he called
his wife on his cell phone. But by that time, the lights were gone.
Mike: Well, I know that there is a legend around here about mysterious lights … a lot of local
people have seen the lights. It’s starting to seem like those lights really exist. What do you think,
Alexa?
Alexa: I don’t believe it. I think it’s some kind of hoax!
Audio Track 2-5-7/Audio Track 2-5-8 It was raining heavily. I couldn’t see clearly. I drove slowly. Suddenly, I saw a young girl. She was
dressed neatly and standing in the middle of the road. I was surprised! Somehow, I stopped the car
quickly.
“What are you doing?” I asked. She looked at me strangely but didn’t answer. “Are you OK?” I
asked. “I’m fine,” she answered. Then she smiled happily and walked away quietly. Nervously, I
drove to my hotel and checked in. I told the clerk about the little girl. “Do you know her?” I asked.
“Oh yes,” he said calmly.
“That’s Mary Anne. She died five years ago on that road. It was a car accident during a
rainstorm.”
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The Tunguska Mystery
It was early morning. June 30, 1908, in eastern Russia. Suddenly, a terrible explosion rocked the
forest in Tunguska. People fell to the ground, and all the trees for 2000 square kilometers were
knocked down. People heard the explosion 800 kilometers away, and the fire burned for many
weeks.
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What caused this terrible explosion? A century later, scientists are still trying to find the answer.
Here are some possible explanations.
1. An asteroid: Asteroids are very large pieces of rock that go around in space and sometimes hit
the planet. They can cause lots of damage. Some of them weigh as much as 100,000 tons. If an
asteroid hit the earth, it would cause a huge explosion.
2. A comet: Comets are giant balls of gas, ice, and rock with long tails. They travel through space
in a regular pattern. Encke’s Comet was near Earth in 1908, and it’s possible that a part of it broke
off and hit the earth.
3. A UFO accident: Some people believe that a spaceship crashed into the ground in Siberia and its
engine exploded.
4. An extraterrestrial attack: Another idea is that extraterrestrials, that is, people from other planets,
attacked the earth. Extraterrestrials might have wanted to destroy the earth, so they aimed their
weapons at Earth and set fire to the forest.
5. A scientific experiment: Another idea is that scientists made a mistake during an experiment
with electricity. A man named Nikola Tesla tried to build a “supergun” that used electricity. Maybe
it was a test of his gun and it didn’t work correctly.
