新策略大学英语听力教程原文第一册(6-12)

1、unit 6 recreation part i in-class listeningi. understanding basic skills listening task directions: in this section, you will hear sentences with tag questions. listen carefully and state the intonation patterns of the tag questions. then write true or false for each statement. 1. jenny has been to

2、ottawa, hasn t she? 2. the best time to go traveling in hawaii is during the cool season, isn t it? 3. sydney is the biggest city in australia, isn t it? 4. xiamen isn t in the north of china, is it? 5. it won t cost too much to go to shanghai by train, will it? 6. people go traveling to increase th

3、eir knowledge, don t they? 7. that clock is slow, isn t it? 8. everyone enjoyed the party, didn t they? 9. mary was successful in her final exams, wasn t she? 10. the greens live in the countryside, don t they? ii. understanding a conversation listening task directions: listen to the conversation an

4、d choose the best answers to the following questions. (darren and scott are having a chat about how to spend scott s three-day holiday.) darren: so, scott, you have three days off. what are you going to do? scott: i don t know. probably im just going to hang around here and relax.darren: watch mtv,

5、huh? scott: no, not just mtv . i will probably rent some movies with sylvia. we ll order some pizzas. just relax. darren: that s pathetic.scott: huh? what do you mean “pathetic”, darren? whats wrong with it ? darren: spending three days like that is a kind of vegetable life. scott: hey, listen. i wo

6、rk hard. if i want to relax on a long weekend, that s my business. darren: of course its your business. but you should have better recreation than tv.scott: yeah? like what? darren: you should get out of the house. go out into nature. or you should learn to play an instrument or something. or learn

7、to draw. but just sitting here and watching tvthat s idiotic. youre wasting your life. when you are older, you will have no memories. your whole life will be all tv. scott: and you, mr righteous, what do you do on the weekends? darren: well, this weekend betty and i are going to a wine tasting on sa

8、turday. and you know i m in an archery club. probably i ll do some practice on sunday. and maybe i ll do some windsurfing with my friend lou on sunday or monday. but the weather might not be good, so i dont know.scott: and you think all that is better than watching tv? darren: of course. for one thi

9、ng, it requires some movement. for another, i do those things with my wife or my friends. there is some activity together. thats what recreation should be. not just sitting in front of a screen. sometimes i think tv is a kind of parasite. it attaches to peoples brains, sucks away their lives. scott:

10、 i don t know. i dont watch much tv during the week. and i think its all right on the weekend. darren: but three days, scott. you have three days here. you should have some better plans. scott: i ll think about it. iii. understanding passages listening task 1 directions: listen to the passage and fi

11、ll in the table according to what you hear. we provide a variety of recreation programs for children and adults with developmental disabilities. our programs are offered to individuals based on age and ability. everyone who is interested in joining our programs for the first time, must go through ou

12、r initial intake process. this includes filling in a participant information form, completion of our medical form and a personal consultation with one of our full time staff to plan for the program. programming is available weekday afternoons, evenings and on saturdays. we offer our programs in a va

13、riety of sports, social activities, weekend away trips and daily outings. our program selection may change from year to year and season to season. since we are community based, we schedule our programs in the twelve communities. some transportation may be provided from one program to the next; howev

14、er, participants must be transported to and from program by their parents and/or guardians. a moderate fee structure exists for most programs. all program fees must be paid in full at the time of registration. when necessary, payment schedules may be arranged and partial scholarships are available o

15、n a limited basis to those participants in the north east district. listening task 2 directions: listen to the passage and choose the best answers to the following questions. shanghai boasts more nightlife than any other mainland chinese city after beijing. its quality and variety have increased so

16、markedly that many veteran foreigners consider it to be the same league as hong kongs.there are many western-style bars open 24 hours, especially in the streets north of huaihai road and south of yananzhong road. most of the places draw a mix of chinese and foreigners. nearly all of the bars serve f

17、ood, drinks and some of them have room for dancing. other places which can offer people a colorful nightlife are cinemas and theatres. for example: the grand theatre, centre on nanjingxi road, hosts concerts, ballet, opera and acrobatics of international standards. the grand stage theatre holds both

18、 western and chinese opera, as well as the occasional magic shows. there are plenty of cinemas in shanghai, and there is, a rapidly growing number of cinemas playing films in english, to satisfy foreigners and local english students alike. of the venues where you can hear classical music, one of the

19、 most pleasant has to be the shanghai concert hall. unit 7 stars part i in-class listeningi. understanding basic skills listening task 1directions: listen to the conversations and decide whether the following statements are true or false. 1. m: i bought a few books at the bookstore. would you like t

20、o have a look at them? w: a few! it looks like you ve bought out the whole bookstore. 2. w: would you like a cup of coffee to help you wake up? m: a cup of coffee? i need three or four. 3. m: what a lovely girl! how old is she? w: he will be two next thursday. his name is bill. 4. w: yesterday? i m

21、terribly sorry. i thought it was today, but i ll play tennis with you tomorrow. promise! m: promise! that s what you said last time. 5. m: let s see if the basketball game has started yet. w: started? it must be clear who is winning by now. listening task 2 directions: listen to the conversation and

22、 underline the sentences that are stressed.w: hi, francis. how is it going? m: pretty good. how about you? how have you been doing? w: same as ever. say, what are you going to do tonight? do you want to come over and join a party? m: sounds like fun. who is going?w: bob and jane and a bunch of my st

23、reet buddies. m: cool. count me inall right, see you tonight.w: talk to you later. ii. understanding a conversation listening task directions: listen to the conversation and fill in the table according to what you hear.w: eric, i m going to write something for the college newspaper. could you help m

24、e with that? m: what about? w: an excellent golf player called tiger woods. have you heard of him? m: sure. i m his biggest fan, i suppose. w: oh, really? then tell me something you know about him. m: all right. i think tiger woods is the most wonderful person in the world. he s the greatest golfer

25、of all time. i have a blog all about him and i write about him nearly every day. w: really? then what do you like most about him? m: he plays golf perfectly and he is very young. in fact, he s the youngest player to win four major golf tournaments in one year. w: is he? how old is he? m: he was born

26、 on december 30th, 1975. i ve lots of his pictures from his childhood till now. and i put them all around the house, so that i can see him wherever i go into the house. w: wow. how nice! i ve ever seen one of his pictures. he is a little dark. is he a black? m: well, tiger was born in california, th

27、e usa, of mixed heritage: he describes himself as a quarter black, a quarter thai, a quarter chinese, an eighth white and an eighth american indian. and he is named after a friend of his father who saved his father s life in the vietnam war. w: interesting! since he plays golf so well, he surely has

28、 a good coach, right? m: he does! when he started to play golf, he was only nine months old and he first played his first game at one and a half years old. his father was his first teacher. w: are you kidding? so young? m: that s true. at the age of eight, he won a tournament and five more before he

29、 was sixteen. on april 8th, 2001, he made golfing history. he became the first golfer to win all four majorsthe most important tournaments within the same year. w: he is a genius! m: absolutely. now he is helping to make golf more popular with all ages and levels. certainly, he is already one of the

30、 richest. he earns more than $50 million a year and has a $100 million deal with nike. w: so he must live like a typical superstar, doesn t he? m: no, i m afraid he doesn t. he s quite different from other superstars. he likes staying at home, playing computer games and table tennis and eating his f

31、avorite food. w: what s his favorite food? m: pizza or cheeseburger and strawberry milkshake. i like the same things. w: that s good. so much information about him. thanks a lot. m: you re welcome. i ve more about him on my blog. come to visit it if you like. w: i will. iii. understanding passages l

32、istening task 1 directions: listen to the passage and fill in the blanks according to what you hear. during the 1980s, the television adaptation of the chinese classic novel dream of red mansion (hong lou meng) was a hit throughout china. in the original series, the main character of lin daiyu, the

33、well-educated and intelligent young woman, was portrayed in a highly sympathetic light by the actress chen xiaoxu. many people once thought chen xiaoxu, herself, was a dream girl. she acted in a total of two series during her brief acting career: dream of red mansion and a tv series adapted from a f

34、amous chinese novel, family, spring, autumn. but it was dream of red mansion that brought her her success and put her at the pinnacle of her acting career. chen said that at the time, her personality was similar to lin daiyus: physically fragile, keen on reading and absorbed in art. once she heard t

35、hat dream of red mansion was to be cast, she arranged an audition with the director. despite the directors initial uncertainty, she firmly and boldly persuaded him, saying, “i am indeed lin daiyu. if i dont play this character, the audience wont like the series.”later, dream of red mansion became on

36、e of the most popular tv series in chinas history. this helped her to be cast for her second series. however, no matter how hard she tried in acting, she could not change her former image and she was typecast as lin daiyu. she clearly understood the challenges before her. she admits that her success

37、 in dream of red mansion was mostly because of the similarity between her and the protagonist rather than her acting skills or experience. even so, she feels lucky that she was able to act in such an outstanding role the very first time, and she was quite satisfied. thus, she retired from acting and

38、 began struggling with her own personal development. she tried different things and encountered numerous obstacles during the following years. it wasnt until 1991 that she finally fell into the business world by chance. listening task 2 directions: listen to the passage and match hank s films in col

39、umn a with the information in column b, then write down the years of the movie debuts and its chinese equivalents according to the model. thomas j. hanks was born on july 9th, 1956, in concord, california. he is a direct descendant of an uncle of nancy hanks, the mother of abraham lincoln. his paren

40、ts split when he was five. his father left his mother and took the kids with him. hanks lived in at least ten towns as a child, and had two stepmothers and three stepfathers. he claimed that he can t remember the names of some of the 11 step-siblings he had along the way. however, experience didn t

41、prevent the young hanks from realizing his dreams. he started acting in high school when it became clear that he wasn t good at sports. it was to pursue acting that he moved to california state university at sacramento. there he met with samantha lewes, a girl who later became his first wife. the fu

42、lly formed tom hanks, the everyman superstar with the rambling, over-emotional oscar speeches, dates from 1993. that was the year he combined the romantic comedy success of sleepless in seattle with philadelphia, his first big drama, for which he won an oscar. in 1994, hanks starred in the academy a

43、ward winning film forrest gump, which made him one of the most popular movie stars in hollywood. forrest gump, who was unfortunately born with a lower iq and the muscle problem, was considered unsuccessful in doing anything. however, this unlucky man achieved lots of incredible success. he was once

44、a football star, a war hero, and later a millionaire! actually, hanks is far from stupid despite his ridiculous character in forrest gump. everyone who meets him insists that hanks is brighter than the characters he plays, which is quite rare for an actor. in 1998, he co-starred with meg ryan in the

45、 romantic comedy you ve got mail, a tale of email romance. he was then taken as a timid man due to his vivid performance in the movie. but the idea that hanks was timid was blown away in 2000 by the story of the making of his another film, cast away. to play the federal express employee stranded on

46、a pacific island, he managed to lose 40 pounds, not to mention surviving a dangerous leg infection. in cast away hanks is alone on screen for 75 minutes, something of an attempt by the actor to stretch himself. audiences seek reassurance that there is goodness in the world from him. hanks, as steven

47、 spielberg has said, is “ the most moral man i have ever known. ”unit 8 moneypart i in-class listeningi. understanding basic skills listening task directions: listen to the conversations and choose the best answers to the questions.1. w: jeff played so much video games and failed the cet-4 test. m:

48、serve him right. q: what is the man s attitude towards jeff s action? 2. m: why don t we stop for some pizza after the movie? w: i d love to, if i were not on a diet. q: what did the man ask the woman to do? 3. m: tim seemed to think mariah carey s concert last night was disappointing. w: that s his

49、 opinion. had i been to the concert, i would think differently. q: what does the woman mean? 4. w: is the digital camera you bought as good as the advertisement says? m: it is far from the truth. q: what can we learn from the conversation? 5. w: they decided not to hold the art exhibition because of

50、 the fund shortage. m: you mean it s been cancelled? q: what had the man assumed? 6. w: how did you like the movie last night? m: never have i been so moved. q: what does the man mean? 7. m: it s been the tenth of the month! i d better pay my gas bill. w: shouldn t you pay your rent and electricity

51、bill, too? q: what does the woman suggest the man do? 8. w: the newspaper says celion dion is giving a concert on october 23rd. want to go? m: i d really love to. but my aunt is giving a house-warming party that day and i don t think i can escape it. q: what is the man going to do on october 23rd? 9

52、. m: i think it s going to snow. w: going to snow? the grounds are already white. q: what does the woman mean? 10. w: i am crazy about every film starred by brad pitt. m: lady, you should pay for the plot, not the actor. q: what can we conclude from the conversation? ii. understanding a conversation

53、 listening task directions: listen to the conversation and choose the best answers to the following questions.w: welcome to our studio, mr baker. and good evening, everyone. mr baker is an economist on consumption. oh, mr baker, how do you view american s way of spending nowadays? m: well, nowadays

54、most americans prefer to spend before saving. they do start using credit cards for everyday purchases. besides this, they have to burden the bigger mortgage for their cars, houses with several bedrooms because the interest rates are getting higher and higher. w: how do you characterize their spendin

55、g? m: we are transforming into a credit card nation. our motto used to be “ save for a rainy day,” now it s “ borrow today, pay back whenever. ”w: but people just see it differently; perhaps they are pure optimistic. m: yes, pure optimistic. the interest rates are rising. look at the table on the sc

56、reen; we can see the drastic rise in recent years. that is not just a problem for the cardholders. we worry it could be a strain on spending nationwide. w: really? could you tell the audience why? m: many card companies encourage the consumers to spend, sometimes just beyond their means to pay back.

57、 so the consumers have to reduce their standard of living, which is bad news for the economy. they have to worry about their mortgage, auto loans, etc. w: what would happen if the consumers cannot return the money on time? m: that depends on the amount of the money you spend. also your credit score

58、could be used to determine what rate you pay on your credit card. with one exception, you will receive penalties. w: so it s hard to imagine. m: it s little known that almost half of the profits of the credit card companies comes from the penalties and fees, though they claim that 0% on purchase, 0%

59、 on balance transfer. iii. understanding passages listening task 1 directions: listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are true or false.a student credit card? is it right for me, and can it help me pay for expenses online such as online courses, music, language-learning ma

60、terials, or even a degree? actually, the answer might be yes or no, depending on your circumstances. of course, probably the best advice is to save up and then make purchases with cash. unfortunately, different online services often require a credit card. here are some ideas to getting a credit card