听力教程Ⅲ原文---Unit14

1、听力教程III原文-Unit14-CAL-FENGHAL-(YICAI)-Company One 1unitl4Section One Tactics for ListeningParti Spot DictationMake Your Child a WinnerPeak performances moments when children (1) achieve the best thats in them are the stuff of every parents (2) dream. And yet most of us have seen a report card or hear

2、d a trumpet solo that (3) falls short of what our kids can (4) accomplish.Why can some boys and girls repeatedly pull themselves to the (5) heights, while others of equal or (6) superior ability cannot Many parents assume skill is pretty much determined by (7) natural ability; the student with the h

3、ighest will get the best grades, or the athlete with the most prowess will (8) surpass his teammates.Genes count in determining performance, but theyre not everything. The (9) edge comes from mental attitude, character and (10) strategy. There are some simple ways for parents to help their youngster

4、s develop those (11) traits:Find something to praise. A child who feels good about himself(12) succeeds; Assess your childs (13) strengths;Encourage self-applause;Knowing how to relax is key to (14) pwak performance.A good report card (15) posted near your daughters mirror reminds her that she can d

5、o well and (16) reinforces the urg to repeat her success.There are no (17) shortcuts to bringing your child to do his best. Its a (18) gradual process of support, encouragement and hard work. And those efforts (19) payoff not only in peak performance but also in (20) closerwinner relations between p

6、arent and child.Part2 listening for GistElderly people deserve our care and respect. Too many of them are left in homes for the elderly, alone and often forgotten by their families. Or they live with their families, who then have no time to themselves.The family placement scheme is currently providi

7、ng many carers with a satisfying and important occupation. And more and more grandparents are being adopted11 by caring families.How does the scheme operateFamilies are interviewed and carefully matched to the elderly person or persons, taking into account such things as suitability of accommodation

8、 special needs, children and pets, smoking, lifestyle, personality and interests. Matching is, of course, largely a matter of ensuring that the elderly person and the carer will enjoy each others company.After this the elderly person and the family are prepared for the placement: An introductory vis

9、it is arranged, usually in the carers home. This means thatwhen the placement begins the elderly person and family have met each other. Carers are paid on a weekly basis to cover expenses.ExerciseDirections: Listen to the passage and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide.1. This

10、 passage is about th family placQmQnt scheme and how it operates.The key words are elderly people. car yspact: schQrrw. adopted, caring families: interviewed, matched, suitability: matching, ensuring, enjoy company: introductory visit, caring hom: paid.cover expenses.Section Two Listening Comprehens

11、ionPart 1 DialogueT“q Climbers of Pompeii*Sara: Urn . Its another one of my adventures as a tourist, urn . finding out things you really didnt expect to find out when you went to the place! I went to Pompeii and of course what you go to Pompeii for is er . the archaeology.Liz: To see the ruins.Sara:

12、 To see the ruins. And I was actually seeing the ruins but urn . suddenly my attention was caught by something else. I was just walking round the comer of a ruin, into a group of trees, pine trees, and I was just looking at them, admiring them and suddenly I saw a man halfway up this tree, and I was

13、 looking at him so all I could see was his hands and his feet and he was about 20 or 30 feet up. I thought, Goodness, whats going on here Has he got a ladder or hasnt he So I walked round to see if he had a ladder. No, he had just gone straight up the tree.Liz: Hed shinned up* the tree.Sara: Hed shi

14、nned up the tree. Like a monkey, more or less, except he was a rather middle-aged monkey . He was er . he was all of 50 and (Dh God), whats going on here Anyway, I walked a bit further and saw other people either up trees or preparing to go up trees, and then I noticed a man standing there directing

15、 them. A sort of foreman, and began to wonder what on earth was going on, and then on the ground I saw there were all these polythene* buckets and they were full of pine cones* and of course what they were doing was collecting pine cones, and I thought, Well, how tidy of them to collect pine cones t

16、o stop the ruins being urn . made urn made untidy with all these things.11 Then I saw there was a lorry . full of pine cones . This was getting ridiculous . They were really collecting them in a big way. So I urn . asked the er . foreman what was going on and he said, Well you know urn . pine nuts a

17、re extremely sought after and valuable in the food industry in Italy.Liz: For food (Yeah). Not fuel! I thought you were going to say they were going to put (bum) them on a fire. Yes.Sara: Well, they might bum the er cones when theyve finished with them but inside these conesare little white things l

18、ike nuts and er I realized that theyre used in Italian cooking quite alot in er . theres a particular sauce that goes with spaghetti em . from Geneva, I think, called pesto* in which these nuts are ground up and of course they they . come in cakes and sweets and things like that.Liz: So jts quite a

19、delicacy.Sara: Its quite a delicacy. And of course Id never thought of how they actually got them cos you cant imagine having a pine nut farm. So what he said happens is that private firms like his buy a licence off the Italian State for the right to go round places like Pompeii archaeological sites

20、 and things and systematically collect all the pine cones that come off the trees and similarly in the . in the forests.Liz: And of course they have to go up the tree because by the time its fallen food isnt any good Sara: Thats right. Theyre Qulling them down and he said they were very good at urn

21、. recognizing which ones were ready and which ones were a bit hard and etc, and each of them had a sort of stick with a hook at the end which they were using to pull the pines off. off the trees but clearly it wasnt enough to sit around and wait till they fell down. You . you had to do something abo

22、ut it. There they were. So that was er . the end of my looking at the ruins for about half an hour. I was too fascinated by this er ，strange form of er agriculture.Liz: Well, what you dont intend to see is always the most interesting. Sara: Much more interesting.ExerciseDirections: Listen to the dia

23、logue and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.Part 2 PassageWindmills1. Now, windmills are poised to break into a new frontier: the modern city center,often fused into building designs and barely noticeable from a distance.2. Lighter, quieter, and often more efficient than thei

24、r rural counterparts, they take advantage of the extreme turbulence and rapid shifts in direction that characterize urban wind patterns.3. But so far, the current models are being designed more for public or commercial buildings than for private homes, and the smallest weigh roughly 200 kilograms.4.

25、 The recent liberalization of European energy markets also has allowed customers to choose what kind of sustainable energy they want to purchase, with wind energy among the most popular.In the classrooms down below, theres no palpable sign that a steel windmill up above is continually feeding kilowa

26、tts to the local power grid.The graceful wooden windmills that have broken up the flat Dutch landscape for centuries a national symbol like wooden shoes and tulips yiQldwd long ago to ungainly metal-pole wind turbines.*Now, windmills are poised to break into a new frontier: the modem city center, of

27、ten fused* into building designs and barely noticeable from a distance.Though still in its teething stages, the urban turbine11 is a high-tech windmill designed to generate energy from the rooftops of bustling cities.Lighter, quieter, and often more efficient than their rural counterparts, they take

28、 advantage of the extreme turbulence* and rapid shifts in direction thatcharacterize urban wind patterns.Prototypes* have been successfully tested in several Dutch cities, and the city government in the Hague has recently agreed to begin a large-scale deployment in 2003.These very visible projects a

29、lso improve the public profile of wind power, making energy companies look environmentally correct.Current models cost US$8,000 to US$12,000, and can generate between 3,000 and 7#000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year. A typical Dutch household uses 3,500 kilowatt hours per year# while in the Un

30、ited States, this figure jumps to around 10,000 kilowatt hours.But so far, they are being designed more for public or commercial buildings than for private homes. The smallest of the current models weigh roughly 200 kilograms and can be installed on a roof in a few hours without using a crane.German

31、y, Finland and Denmark have also been experimenting with the technology, but the ever-practical Dutch are natural pioneers in urban wind power, mainly because of the lack of space there.The Netherlands, with 16 million people crowded into a country twice the size of Slovenia, is the most densely pop

32、ulated in Europe.The scarcity of land also is felt in the countryside, forcing traditional wind farms to seek new locations. Offshore wind farms are more common/ but remain pricey and difficult to service.Various European initiatives to increase the viability* of sustainable energyBut in the classro

33、oms down below, theres no palpable* sign that a steel windmill up above is continually feeding kilowatts to the local power grid. Nor is there the kind of visual blight* often ssociated with modern windmills.also have given the urban turbine a boost, leading to heightened interest in zer energy buil

34、dings that generate their own power.The recent liberalization of European energy markets also has allowed customers to choose what kind of sustainable energy they want to purchase, with wind energy among the most popular.Windmills are usually noisy, though the latest models are considered quiet enou

35、gh to blend into the background noise that already exists in the urban environment.In the Dutch town of Ede, whose old wooden mill now generates more tourism than energy, the new windmill on the roof of the ROVC Technical School hardly makes a whisper as its blades spin in a brisk winter breeze. If

36、the wind is blowing really hard, you can usually hear it a little bit on the roof.But in the classrooms down below, theres no palpable sign that a steel windmill up above is continually feeding kilowatts to the local power grid. Nor is the kind of visual blight often associated with modern windmills

37、.Meanwhile, projects are under way to use the windmills to generate power for lifeboats, streetlights, and portable generators.Exercise A Pre-listening QuestionHolland, I think, is the country noted for windmills. We seldom have the chances to see the real ones, but sometimes we can find them in som

38、e amusement parks. 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 choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.Section Three NEWSNe

39、ws Item 1Indonesia-IMF*Indonesia has made the long-awaited announcement that it is going to leave the International Monetary Fund* loan program at the end of the year. Tim Johnston reports from Jakarta. That presents a number of challenges for the government ofPresident Megawati Sukarnoputri *.Indon

40、esia has been reliant on funding from the IMF since its economy almost collapsed during the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s.The country now owes billion dollars to the IMF, and it has said that it will repay the money over six years. In order to satisfy the funds conditions and reassure* in

41、vestors - IMF officials will still monitor the countrys finances.Some economists are worried that without the steadying hand of the IMF, the administration will be less inclined to tackle reforms that are politically sensitive, but necessary.Exercise ADirections: Listen to the news item and complete

42、 the summary.This news item is about an announcement mad by Indonesia to leave the International Montarv Fund loan program at the end of theExercise BDirections: Listen to the news again and choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.News Item 2US EcononwMost analysts had exp

43、ected the GDP number to be one percentage point lower than what was actually the case. The Commerce Department says the economy moved ahead in large part because of a surge* in defense spending, which was up 44 percent from the same period a year ago. The housing sector was also strong because of lo

44、w interest rates, which are at their lowest level in 45 years.Drew Matus, an analyst at Lehman Brothers in New York, is encouraged by the apparent rebound* in capital investment.A second report also lifted stock prices as investors began to think that the long-expected pickup in growth may be actual

45、ly occurring. First-time claims for unemployment benefits fell back last week to their lowest level in five weeks. Lower first-time claims is a sign that the long depressed US labor market may be improving.Exercise ADirections: Listen to the news item and complete the summary. This news item is abou

46、t the fasterthan-expected growth of US Qconomv.Exercise BDirections: Listen to the news again and answer the following questions.1. Most analysts had expected the GDP number to be one percentage point lowerthan what was actually the case.2. The Commerce Department says the economy moved ahead in lar

47、ge part because of a surge in defense spending, which was up 44 percent from the same period a year ago.3. The housing sector was also strong because of low interest rates, which are at their lowest level in 45 years.4. Unemployment benefits fell back last week to their lowest level in five weeks. T

48、he long depressed US labor market may be improving.News Item 3US Economic RgcoveryEconomic growth is expected to be slow in the corning months. The Conference Board predicts US Gross Domestic Product will rise only about percent this year.But Board economist Ken Goldstein says the worst of the reces

49、sion is probably over. The US job market is stabilizing; American consumers are showing new strength and, generally, the stage is set for a major turnaround* in corporate* profits.So theres a process here in terms of easing out of the profit squeeze, of easing out of the consumer decline, and slowly

50、, we are not there yet, of moving out of the global slowdown, that is helping domestically to build up this head of steam toward a new expansion, that could be under way by Spring.Consumers hold the key to a rebound, accounting for about two-thirds of the US economy.Confidence slipped last year. Spe

51、nding was down. But the Conference Board believes that is all in the past.Exercise A Directions: Listen to the news item and complete the summary.This news item is about a prediction of_the US economic prospect. Exercise BDirections: Listen to the news again and complete the following passage.The Co

52、nference Board predicts US Gross Domestic Product will rise only about percent this year, but the worst of the recession is probably over. The US job market is stabilizing; American consumers are showing nww strength. Consumers hold the key to a rebound. Confidence slipped last year. Spending was do

53、wn. But the Conference Board believes that is all in the past.Section Four Supplemmentary ExercisesPart 1 Feature ReportUN Business ConferancQUN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said many times that the world organization will remain relevant only if it involves other institutions universities, non-

54、governmental groups and private businesses in its mission. The two-day conference on business titled Aid and Trade features four major seminars and more than 150 exhibits sponsored by both nations and private companies.Significantly, the conference is not being held at a UN facility but at New Yorks

55、 Javits Convention Center, the scene of numerous business and trade fairs.While some of the more than 500 attendees from business and government listened to speeches, others mingled with* representatives of the various businesses and countries that had set up booths*.Reinhart Helmke, Director of the

56、 UN Office for Project Services and chief organizer of the conference, says the main purpose of the event is to demonstrate that globalization is for everyone.Globalization is probably the best opportunity that has been given to mankind in a very long period of time. Let us make the best out of it t

57、hat we can. Let us use the free flow of information and the potential of large-based participation to carry this out in a cooperative fashion which must include all segments of civil society, obviously including the business sector that has not been much included in the past.Mr Helmke says the partn

58、erships can involve direct UN participation or private sector investmentin countries. One outstanding UN project, he says, is the world organizations partnership withEricsson, the Swedish telecommunications company. The company maintains an emergency response team that provides telecommunications capabilities at the scenes of natural disasters such as the recent flooding in Mozambique.One of the conference participants is Michael Storey, head of Inmarsat, a British-based voice and data transmissio