新视野大学英语视听说教程4听力原文和答案

1、新视野大学英语视听说教程-4听力练习录音文本和答案unitln. basic listening practice1. scriptm: i m beside myself with joy. i m so lucky. guess what? i ve won a lit of money in the lottery.w: yeah? we 11, you do know that money is the root of allevil, right?q: what does the woman mean?2. scriptw: mary was furious. her son wre

2、cked up her car.m: he shouldn t have driven a car without a driver s license. he?sstill taking driving lesson.q: what do we know about mary s son?3. scriptm: susan, i hear you re going to marry that guy. somepeople think youll regret it.w: is that so? only time te 11.q: what does the woman imply?4.

3、scriptm: mary, i just want to say how sorry i was to learn ofyour mothers passing.i know how close you two we re?w: thank you. it was so sudden.i ms till in a state of shocki don tknow whatto do.q: which of following is true?5. scriptw: i get furious at work when my opinions aren t considered just b

4、ecause i m a woman.m: you should air your view more emphatically and demandthat your vice be heard.q: what is the woman complaining about?keys: l.c 2.b 3. d4.a5.did. lis tening intask 1: soft answers turn away wrath.mary: dam! you re spilled red wine on me. my new dress isruined.john: im te rrib le

5、sorry! what can i do to help? heres some water to wash itoff.mary: stop splashing water on me! oh, this is so embarrassing! ima mess.john: we 11, you do look a little upset. please dont blow up. dont lose your cool. mary: hmm,youve got the nerve ta ikinglike that! whoshouldnt fly off the handle?this

6、 dress cost a fortune.john: you look re a hy cute when you re mad. i kid you not. somepeople do look attractive when they are in a rage.mary: this is very expensive dress. i saved for months to buy it, and now it s ruined. look at this stain!john: accidents do happen. give me your dress, andl ll tak

7、e it to the cleaners. mary: sure! you want me to take it off right here in public and give it to you?i don cteven know you!john: this might be a really goof time to get acquainted. im john owen.mary: mmm, at least you cre polite. i guess i really shouldnthave flared up.after all, it was an accident.

8、 im mary harvey.john: come on. i 11 take you home. you can change your clothes, and ill getthe dress cleaned for you.mary: now youre taiking. thanks. you re a real gentleman.john: youd better believe it. i m glad to see that you ve cooled down. feel look a bite to eat afterward? im starving.mary: ok

9、. youre pre ttygood. im not nearly as mad. if you can getthis stainout, i bell very happy.john: ill try my best. but if i cant get the stain out, please dont let your happiness turn to wrath.1. which of the following would be the best title for the dialog?2. why does the woman get angry ?3. what doe

10、s the man say to please the woman when she looks angry?4. why does the woman say the man is a real gentleman?5. what is the man s final proposal? keys: 1d2.a3.c 4.b 5.ctask 2: big john is coming!scripta bar owner in the old west has just hii-ed a timid bartender. this (s 1) owner of the establishmen

11、t is giving his new hire some instructions on (s2) running the place. he tells the timid man,if you ever hear that big john is coming to town, (s3) _drop_e very thing and run for the hills ! hes the biggest, nastiest (s4) outlaw whos ever lived! iia few weeks pass (s5) uneventfully. but one afternoo

12、n, a local cowhand comes running through town (s6) yejhug一, big john is coming! run for your (s7) hves! ii whenthe bartender leaves the bar to start running, he is knocked to the ground by seve ral townspeople rushing out of town. (s8)as he 飞 picking himself up,he. seesalmost seven 奥et tall. hesgrow

13、ing ashe approachesthe bar he steps up to the door, orders the poor barkeep inside, and demands,i wanta beernow!llhe strikes his heavyfist on the bar, splitting it in half. (s9)the bartendernervously hands the big man a beer, hands shaking. he takes the beer, bites the top of the bottle off, and dow

14、nsthe beerin one gulp.as the terrified bartender hides behindthe bar, the big man gets up to leave, doyou want anotherbeer? lithe bartender asks in a trembling voice.一dang it, i don thave time ! lithe big man ye ils, (s 10) i got to get out of town! dontycu hear big john is coming ?lltask3: a view o

15、f happinessscriptdr. smith has proposed a reasonable, if perhaps somewhat oversimplifies, view of happiness. according to his theory, happinessmight be described as a state if balance. and when human or certain animals achieve that balance, they rend to remain in that condition in order to repeatthe

16、 happy feeling.to illustrate this, we may study two magnets. whentheir positive and negativepoles meet, they are comfortably joined, and they remain there. in other words, they have attained a balance or state of happiness. if on the other hand, one of the poles is reversed, and positive pole is pre

17、ssesagainst positive pole, there is re sis tance, instability,imbalancea state of unhappiness.animals with some degree of intelligence seem to find happiness in reinforcement. once they have gained one or more of their goals such as food, and water, they learn to repeat the actions that led to satis

18、faction of those goals. this repetition or reinforcement produces a state of balance or sense of happiness.according to this theory, only animals with a significant capacity to learnshould be able to experience happiness. but intruth learning can take placethrough surprisingly simple short-term acti

19、on such as scratching an itch, followed by pleasure, followed by more scratching, and so on. thus lear ning can occur with almost no conscious thought.for human beings, blessed with the ability to reason, goals are notlimited tothe short-te rm satisfaction of needs. indeed, there is a strong linkbet

20、weenhappiness and the fulfiuinent of long-term goals. even if human strive for goals that are more complex and longer-term than the animals goals, once those goals are gained, happinessis re in forced.1. why does the speaker mentionmagnetsii?2. according to the passage, what may animals do after the

21、y have got food?3. which of the following is true according to the speaker?4. what does the speaker say is special aboutthe goals of human beings?5. which of the following best captures the main idea of the passage?keys: id 2.c3. b4.d5.aiv. speaking outmodel 1 don het it get to you!susan:you look so

22、 angry. what happened?chris: nothing i ld rather not talk about it. just dontask.susan: come on. relax. talk to me.chris: all right. this morning i took my car to the garage to check the air conditioner.they only gave it a quick look, refilled it with somefreon,and charged me 300bucks!susan: no wond

23、er youre livid. i ld be madtoo if someoneripped me off like that.chris: yeah. and they were rude. they said i didn tknow anything about cars, which i don t, butthey didn thave to be blunt !susan: sounds like you got a raw deal!chris: whats worse, as i was leaving, i herd then saying,donttrust thatgu

24、y. he looks broke.iiwhen i heard that, i almost hit the roof.susan: don tie t it get to you. betterignore them.chris: i agree. i did manage to keep my cool.susan:well, the best thing you can do is to file a complaint with the consumec protection agency.chris: sounds like a good idea.model2 im too de

25、pressed.scriptsusan:chris, i hear youve been down in the dumps , so tve come to cheer you up.chris: its not gong o work. cm too depressedsusan: come, on. tell me what s on your mind.chris: everything. my gillfriend left me; my dog ran away; mywallet was stolen.susan: dont wony. ill help you solve th

26、e biggest problem : finding you a new giidfriend.chris: forget it. anyway, i m getting bad grades, and i was told that id have to repeat a lot of couises nextyear. when i heard that, i almost lostit.susan: look, re lax. i ll help you with those courses.chris: yeah, but i also have three weekslaundry

27、 to do., and my room is a pigsty .susan: forgetityquie_oruyourown一一chris: come, on. what are friends for?susan:to keep you in high spirits; not to doyour laundry.model3 you seem to be on top of the world.scriptnora: oh, hey, john!john: hey!nora: yqu se.em tq be. qfi top of theworld tonight. what cs

28、up?john： im nc frnppy i m ahcmt m hursl guess what?nora: you vegot me .john: it might be true that misfortunes never come singly, but you can alsohave adouble blessing ii. and that ls what i had.nora: you mean youve had two happy events in your life ?john: exactly. you know, i was strong in all subj

29、ects except physics. nowl ve finally passed the testthe one i neededto qualify for a bachelor s degree .nora: congratulations! you*d failed it three times. now wonder you re beaming. whatts the other good news?john: the multinational i was dong my field project at o fie red me a job at a good starin

30、g salary .nora: wow, wonderful, simple wonderful .john:i 鱼el like celebrating.shall we go to a bar?nora: why not?now your turntask 1sample dialoga: you look furious. what happened?b: nothing. i drather not talk about it. just don task.a: comeon. you shouldn tkeep your feeling to yourself. you need t

31、o let off some stream. so, talk tome.b: all right. this morning i went to a shop to buy a digital camera, i onlyneed an ordinary one. it is enough for my tours in the summervacation. buy they persuaded me to buy a professional camera, which cost three times as much.a: but you we re willing to buy fo

32、r it. anyway, it mustwork better.b: you see, i know next to nothing about photography. so they simply tricked me into buying an expensive one.a: no wonder youre livid with rage. i d be mad too if i were robbed like that. what are you going to do?b: i already went back to them and asked to exchange i

33、t for a cheaper one.a: what did they say?b: oh, they we re rude. they insis ted that theyhadntencouraged me to buy aprofessional camera, and that i bought i t myself.a: sounds like you got a raw deal!b: what *s worse, as i was leaving, i heard they say,that guy looks broke. he shouldn *thave bought

34、any camera. iia: dontlet it get to you. betterignore their rude remarks.b: i agree. i did manage to keep my cool.a: well, the best thing you can do is to file a complaint with the consumer protection agency. if they talk to the shop, maybe they will give you a refund.b: sounds too good to be true.v.

35、 let s talkscripthello, everyone. today i invite you to join me in an exploration off the causes of depression. there ate many factors involved, but i belie ve some de serve special attention.heredity certainly plays a role. .the tendency todevelop depressionmay beinherited; there is evidencethat th

36、is disorder may run in families.phys io logy is another factor re la ted to depression. there may bechangesorimbalances in chemicals which transmit information in the brain called neurotransmitters. many modern antidepressant drugs attempt to increaseleveis of certain neurotransmitters so as to incr

37、ease brain communication. while theknown that antidepressant medications dofactors. they include the complex developmentlearned to cope with external environmentalcausal relationship is unclear; it is reliever certain symptoms of depression. researchers also study psychological of ones personality a

38、nd how one hasfactors, such as stress.it is freeqently observed that low self-esteem andself-defeating thinking are connectedwith depression. while it is not clearwhich is the cause and which is the effect, it isknown that sufferers who areable to make coitections to their thinking self-esteem.patte

39、rns can show improved mood andearly experiences. eventsneglect, chronic illness,such as theand severeanother factor causing depression is one s death of a parent, the divorce of the parents,physical abuse can also increase the likelihood of depression later in life.some present experiences may also

40、lead to depression. job loss, financialdifficulties, long periods of unemployment, the loss of a spouse or other family member, or other painful events maytrigger depression. long-term stress at home, work, or school can also be involved.it is worth nothing that those living with someone suffering f

41、rom depression experience increased anxiety which adds to the possibility of their also becoming depressed.depression-causing factorsproblem descriptionsolutionhe redityit is inherited and run in families.phys io logychanges or imbalances in chemicxdscalledne urotra ns mitte rs,whichtransmit informa

42、tion in the brainantidepressant drugs relievecertain- ymptcmnofdepression.psychologicalfactorslowselre&teemandself-defeating thinking are connected with depression.sufferers who make ccrrectiooto theirth in kin g pa tte rn n can show improved jncmd a nd_ssl&csteem.early experiencesevent like the dea

43、th of a parent,the -divorce- ofparents, neglect,chronicillness, and severe physical abuse can increasethelikelihood of depression.presentexperiencesjobloss,jnancialdifficulties , long periods of unemployment, the loss of a spouse or otherfamilymember, or long-termstressmay trigger depression.livingw

44、ithsomebodywithdepressionthiscausesincreasedanxiety , which adds to the possibility of theiralsobecoming depressed.vi further listening and speakingtaskl: reason and emotionscriptemotion is sometimes regardedas the opposite of reason; s is suggested by phrase such asii appealto emotions rather than

45、reason hand dont let your emotions take over ii. emotional re actions some times produce consequences or thoughts which people may later regret or disagree with; but during an emotional state, they could not control their actions. thus, it is genera lly believed that one of the most distinctive fact

46、s about human beings is acontradiction between emotion and reason.howe ver, recent empirical studies do not suggest there is a clear dis tinction between reason and emotion. indeed, anger or fear can often be thought of as an instinctive response to observed fact. the humanmind possesses manypossibl

47、e reactions to the external world. thosereactionscan lie on a continuum, withsomeof them involving theextreme of pure intellectual logic, which is oftencalled cold ii,and others involving the extremes of pure emotion not related to logical agreement, which is calledtheheat of passionii.the relation

48、logic andemotion merits careful study. passion, emotion, or feeling canreinforce anargument, eventone based primarily on reason. this is especially true in religion or ideology, which frequently demandsan all-or-nothing rejection or acceptance.in such areas of thought, humanbeings have to adopt a co

49、mprehensive view partly backed by empwical argument and partly by feeling and passion. moreover, several researchers have suggested that typically there is no pure lldecision or thought; that is, no thought is based purely iilion intellectual logic or purely ii on emotionmost decisions are founded o

50、n a mixture of both.1. what results does the speaker may some from emotional reactions?2. what is the popular belief about reason and emotion?3. what does the speaker mean by cold?4. according to the passage, what should people do in religious matters?5. what is the speaker s conclusion?keys: 1.a2.b

51、 3.c 4.c 5.dtask 2: depressionscriptpat: you look depressed. are you feeling blue? i ve come to cheer you up.ted: but there s nothing that can cheer me up. i m down in the dumps. life s miserablepat: you have to try to get your mind off things.ted: but i can t. i just feel theres too much pressure o

52、n me sometimes !pat: you cant let things get you down. learn to re lax and stop wonying all thetime. whats your problem?ted: i failed my last exam, and another exam is coming, i get bored.long time, ii.i get bored.pat: if i were you, i d start working hard. if you work hard for a you re bound to get

53、 better grades. you see,no pain, no gainted: its easiersaid than done ! if i read for fifteen minutes,pat: you have to learn some self-discipline.but how can i stay cheerful all the time?ted: worse than that! if i read for half an hour, i get a headache. then i start to won*y about passing the next

54、exam.pat: its all in your mind. if you stay cheerful like me, everything will soonbe ok.ted: but how can i stay cheerful all the time?pat: try to look on the bright side of things.ted: but what if there isn cta bright side?pat: you know the saying: every cloud has a s ilve r lining. it means there a

55、lways re tow sides to everything both the dark and the bright sides. so, try to identify your strengthsand bring then into full play.ted: oh, no! your corny old sayings are making me even more depressed.keys: tfftftask3: angerscriptanger is an emotion that can be hard to control. despite this, we sh

56、ould learn how to manageanger in a constructive manner. in the most intense momentsof anger, weusually have two choices: to fight or to run. somechoose the option of violence, which is a negative reaction to anger; and others choose to run. somemay think running means you are a coward. but the optio

57、n of waiking away and claiming down is the more productive method of handling anger. it is difficult to walk away, especially when your heart is racing,and your anger is boiling over.there are constructive ways of handling anger in any situation. first, you have to stop for a brief momentand think before you act. take that moment and calm down id you feel yourself being pushed.at that momentyou shouldadmit you are angry. if you refuse to admit you re angry or hurt, or if you make it appe