高中英语（人教版）选修九 同步课件 u2p4 listening exercise

1、Listening Unit 2 Sailing the oceansUsing LanguageListen to the text.NAVIGATIONAL SECRETSWang Ming (WM) has come to the Maritime Museum in Greenwich to talk to the naval historian Dr Smith (DS).Listen again and fill in the blanks.WM: Thank you so much for _ to me. Please can you tell me how sailors _

2、 before navigational instruments or satellites were _?DS: Of course. At first if there was no land _ the seamen used the sky to find their way. They looked talkingmanagedinventednearbyat the clouds in the daytime and the stars at night. But very soon they began to _ local maps. About 5,000 years ago

3、 sailors from Phoenicia in North Africa used simple maps to _ their ships around the Mediterranean Sea. They were the _ traders of their day.developguidebestWM: Really? _ _! Did everybody use simple maps?DS: No. Im afraid not. It was difficult to have a map for sailing _ open sea then. We know the V

4、ikings from Norway had no _ maps when they sailed across the North Sea.How cleveracrosswrittenWM: The Vikings? Didnt they sail around and _ people and towns from their ships?DS: Sometimes. But were not _ _ that, only in their superior sailing ability.WM: I see! So what did they do?DS: Well, one of t

5、he things they did was _ _ watchingattackinterested inconcentrate onbirds. Theres the story of a Viking called Raven-Floki. He used to keep birds on his ships but he didnt _ them. Then when he thought land was near hed let the birds go and if they flew straight to land, all he had to do was to _ the

6、m!feedfollowWM: Did he find any new lands to _ _?DS: Well, he did find a good way of sailing from the Faroe Islands to Iceland _ his ravens. Its said that he took three birds on his ship with him. When hed been _ _ a day or two towards Iceland he let the first bird go. live onusingsailing forIt _ ba

7、ck to the Faroe Islands. A day after this he let the second bird go. This flew out of sight but _ _ to rest on the ship. Sometime after that, he let the third bird go. It _ straight for Iceland so Raven-Floki followed it and arrived there _. flewcame backheadedsafelyWM: That _ clever! Ive heard too

8、about the Polynesians in the Pacific Ocean. They did some _ _ without any navigational instruments to help them at all. How did they do that?DS: Nobodys really quite _.soundsamazing voyagessure But _ _ _ they studied the _ in the water, the colour of the sea and the different kinds of waves.WM: Do P

9、olynesian sailors still do that?DS: Not nowadays Im afraid.WM: Have we _ this skill?it seems thatcurrentslostDS: Yes, Im _ we have. Ancient Polynesians made maps of leaves and shells which others were able to follow. If only we could read them we would _ _ _ understand more of their navigational ski

10、lls. The sailors from Phoenicia, Norway and Polynesia could certainly _ us a lot. afraidbe able toteachWorkbook-ListeningListen to the text.WHO WAS ZHENG HE? (Li Huaying = LH, Celia Main = CM)Listen again and fill in the blanks.LH: The most _ Chinese navigator was Zheng He. He _ _ 1371 to 1433 and m

11、ade seven _ around the South China Sea, across to India and even _ _ _ the eastern coast of Africa. It was the 600th anniversary of these voyages in 2005.famouslived fromvoyagesas far asCM: Are there other famous Chinese navigators or is he the only one?LH: He is the only one weve got _ for.CM: So t

12、here may have been others?LH: We dont know. Thats because a later _ may have destroyed a lot of evidence of other voyages. CM: I see. Where did Zheng He go? evidenceEmperorLH: The documents _ us that he was born in Yunnan. He _ a pillar to record his _. It states that he made seven voyages and visit

13、ed _ _ thirty countries. He said that the Emperor _ him to show the strength of Chinese _ and _ “foreigners from beyond the seas”. So he went to unknown places and _ _ trade. tellbuiltachievementsmore thanorderedpowermeetset upCM: Tell me about his Voyages.LH: Well, on his first voyage he visited Ca

14、licut in India. The people there were very _ and a little _ when they saw so many large ships. So the ruler _ decided to make friends with these strangers. He gave Zheng He many scarves made of gold and decorated with jewels. Then he _ him and his men with music and songs.impressedfrightenedwiselyen

15、tertainedCM: Did he go to other places?LH: Yes, on other voyages he visited Champa, and Sumatra near China, Hormuz, and Aden in the Persian Gulf and Mogadishu in Africa. Zheng He _ diplomatic relations with them and gave them _.CM: What did Chinese _ as gifts?openedpresentsofferLH: Zheng He found th

16、at foreign kings particularly _ Chinese porcelain and silk. So thats why his ships _ _ _ those things.CM: I see. Is that why they say his ships were so large?LH: Yes, I suppose so. When he _ _ India he brought a giraffe for the Emperor as a present. So his ships must have been large. admiredwere fil

17、led withreturned fromCM: Some writers say that the ships could carry as many as _ people _.LH: And other writers say Zheng He was eight feet tall! We shouldnt believe everything writers tell us. _ they wanted to show 20,000altogetherObviously how important Zheng He was. _ the ships were large - but

18、perhaps not that large! CM: I see. That _ _. Well, thank you for telling me about Zheng He. He sounds a _ man. Undoubtedlymakes sensefascinatingListen to the text.Workbook-Listening TaskSINDBADS FIRST ADVENTUREListen again and fill in the blanks. Once there _ a rich merchant _ Sindbad. One evening a

19、s they were eating dinner, his friends asked him how he had become so rich. Sindbad _. listen, he said, and Ill tell you my _. This is the first one.livedcalledsmiledadventures My father was rich but I spent his money _ and was soon _ with nothing. At last I decided to _ in foreign lands. So I bough

20、t some goods and _ _. We sailed many days from island to island. I sold goods and bought others. Then, at last we came to a beautiful island and decided to _ it. unwiselylefttradeset outvisit The passengers began to make a fire to cook dinner. We ate and drank happily. Then I went to _ the island. I

21、 had not gone far when I heard the captain calling us back to the ship. Come quickly. This isnt an island but a _ whale! It has been floating so _ on the sea that sand has _ on its back and trees have grown there. The fire _ it up and soon it will sink under the waves and youll drown!exploregiantlon

22、gsettledwoke Everyone _ _ the ship leaving everything behind. Some reached it safely but not all. Suddenly the island shook _ our feet and sank under the water. I was thrown into the sea, but I _ to grab a piece of wood. _ the captain _ _, leaving me alone. I thought I would die!rushed tobeneathmana

23、gedMeanwhileset sail I drifted on the sea _ I came to another island. I was safe! But my troubles werent _, for I was suddenly _ by five men. They dragged me into bushes and held me there. Then I _ that nearby was a horse tied to a tree. We waited until it grew dark. Then out of the sea came some enormous seahorses. They _ the real horse cautiously while the men rushed