全新版大学英语听说5听力材料unit3

?[al:全新版大学英语（第二版）听说教程5]
[ti:Unit3 PartB]
[ar:上海外语教育出版社]
[by:上海外语教育出版社]
[00:00.00]Part B
[00:02.97]Listening Tasks
[00:05.14]Text
[00:06.73]A Letter from Sunderland
[00:10.30]Exercise 1
[00:12.47]Listen to the recording and choose the best answer to each question you hear.
[00:19.47]As I exited from the Sunderland train station, fear began to set in.
[00:23.85]I had just finished a six-hour plane journey followed by more than four hours on a train,
[00:29.87]and now I was supposed to find my way to my residence hall with a heavy suitcase.
[00:34.88]I was alone in a strange country and getting a little scared.
[00:39.62]At the moment, a cab miraculously appeared before my eyes.
[00:44.46]The driver swiftly put my luggage in the trunk and asked where I was going.
[00:49.21]I somehow managed to mumble the address I had been given
[00:52.74]and we were quickly on our way.
[00:55.40]I think he asked me where I was from,
[00:57.70]but his accent was thick and hard to understand.
[01:00.91]I could have told him that my name was "The United States."
[01:04.62]Soon my uneasiness subsided and I realized where I was, England.
[01:10.00]Before now, it had seemed a distant dream.
[01:13.47]Back in the US, the University of Maine had offered me a scholarship
[01:18.27]and I had made the decision to spend a semester in the United Kingdom last year
[01:22.78]and the University of Sunderland was my school of choice.
[01:26.40]Not only did they have a journalism program,
[01:28.79]but they would accept my scholarship, making it affordable for me to go.
[01:33.90]Although I was psyched to leave,
[01:35.62]I hadn't prepared myself mentally for it when I actually got here.
[01:40.00]England is a great place.
[01:42.92]So far everyone has been really friendly and helpful,
[01:46.13]and there are so many things to do and see here.
[01:49.53]Although some things are similar to the US, there are some interesting cultural differences.
[01:55.48]Little things that the locals take for granted seem so strange and foreign to me.
[02:01.24]It was a few days before I got used to looking right
[02:04.28]before crossing the street or saying football instead of soccer.
[02:08.48]Prompts for me to "get in the queue" were met with a blank stare
[02:13.21]before I realized I was being told to get in line.
[02:16.74]As fate would have it, I was put into a residence hall.
[02:20.62]There were also some students in the hall from Canada, Norway and Denmark.
[02:25.41]We bonded quickly and soon held a party together.
[02:29.05]The first week here was a whirlwind of trying to complete necessary administrative details
[02:35.02]like registering with the university,
[02:37.77]getting a library card and finding the nearest pub.
[02:41.43]Good news, there's one right around the corner!
[02:44.24]Classes start on Monday, and I'm ready for them to begin.
[02:48.16]My only apprehens

ion is that the professors or lecturers will have such thick accents
[02:53.63]that I won't be able to understand them.
[02:56.11]The accents here have very thick Scottish influences to them,
[03:00.81]so some of the locals are a bit hard to understand.
[03:03.97]One of the things I am most excited about
[03:07.41]while being here is traveling to other parts of the United Kingdom and Europe.
[03:12.15]The student center offers many day trips for international students.
[03:16.49]Unlike the US, it's fairly easy to travel in England.
[03:20.74]The rail system can take you pretty much anywhere you want to go.
[03:24.80]I can already tell that being here is going to be the experience of a lifetime.
[03:29.86]Although the decision to go so far away wasn't an easy one,
[03:34.20]I'm glad to be here and can't wait for the semester ahead.
[03:39.21]Questions
[03:41.43]1. How did the speaker travel to the University of Sunderland?
[03:52.15]2. What would the speaker become after graduation?
[04:01.44]3. Which of the following is NOT true?
[04:10.34]4. Why did the speaker choose the University of Sunderland as her place of study?
[04:20.95]5. What was the speaker's feeling at the end of the story?
[04:31.65]Exercise 2
[04:33.10]Listen to the recording again and complete the following sentences with what you hear.
[04:41.18]As I exited from the Sunderland train station, fear began to set in.
[04:45.52]I had just finished a six-hour plane journey followed by more than four hours on a train,
[04:51.44]and now I was supposed to find my way to my residence hall with a heavy suitcase.
[04:56.63]I was alone in a strange country and getting a little scared.
[05:01.45]At the moment, a cab miraculously appeared before my eyes.
[05:06.28]The driver swiftly put my luggage in the trunk and asked where I was going.
[05:10.88]I somehow managed to mumble the address I had been given
[05:14.42]and we were quickly on our way.
[05:16.76]I think he asked me where I was from,
[05:19.29]but his accent was thick and hard to understand.
[05:22.67]I could have told him that my name was "The United States."
[05:26.39]Soon my uneasiness subsided and I realized where I was, England.
[05:31.84]Before now, it had seemed a distant dream.
[05:35.03]Back in the US, the University of Maine had offered me a scholarship
[05:39.73]and I had made the decision to spend a semester in the United Kingdom last year
[05:44.48]and the University of Sunderland was my school of choice.
[05:48.08]Not only did they have a journalism program,
[05:50.71]but they would accept my scholarship, making it affordable for me to go.
[05:55.17]Although I was psyched to leave,
[05:57.35]I hadn't prepared myself mentally for it when I actually got here.
[06:01.51]England is a great place.
[06:04.35]So far everyone has been really friendly and helpful,
[06:07.70]and there are so many things to do and see here.
[06:11.21]Although some things are similar to the US, there are so

me interesting cultural differences.
[06:17.08]Little things that the locals take for granted seem so strange and foreign to me.
[06:22.92]It was a few days before I got used to looking right
[06:25.93]before crossing the street or saying football instead of soccer.
[06:30.48]Prompts for me to "get in the queue" were met with a blank stare
[06:34.77]before I realized I was being told to get in line.
[06:38.54]As fate would have it, I was put into a residence hall.
[06:42.39]There were also some students in the hall from Canada, Norway and Denmark.
[06:47.17]We bonded quickly and soon held a party together.
[06:50.78]The first week here was a whirlwind of trying to complete necessary administrative details
[06:56.92]like registering with the university,
[06:59.09]getting a library card and finding the nearest pub.
[07:02.89]Good news, there's one right around the corner!
[07:05.87]Classes start on Monday, and I'm ready for them to begin.
[07:09.93]My only apprehension is that the professors or lecturers will have such thick accents
[07:15.39]that I won't be able to understand them.
[07:17.93]The accents here have very thick Scottish influences to them,
[07:22.53]so some of the locals are a bit hard to understand.
[07:25.96]One of the things I am most excited about
[07:28.54]while being here is traveling to other parts of the United Kingdom and Europe.
[07:32.99]The student center offers many day trips for international students.
[07:38.27]Unlike the US, it's fairly easy to travel in England.
[07:42.38]The rail system can take you pretty much anywhere you want to go.
[07:46.17]I can already tell that being here is going to be the experience of a lifetime.
[07:51.37]Although the decision to go so far away wasn't an easy one,
[07:55.62]I'm glad to be here and can't wait for the semester ahead.