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新编大学英语3(浙江大学版)视听说原文

新编大学英语3(浙江大学版)视听说原文
新编大学英语3(浙江大学版)视听说原文

Unit 1

Part Two

Listening I

Interviewer: Angela, you were born in Korea but you've been living in Canada for a long time, haven't you?

Angela: Yes, I was 10 years old when my parents immigrated to Canada and I've been living here for 20 years now.

Interviewer: Do you think that belonging to two different cultures has affected your personality? Angela: Yes, definitely. There are times when I think that I have two personalities. Depending on where I am and who I'm with, I'm Korean or I'm Canadian.

Interviewer: That sounds complicated. Could you explain what you mean?

Angela: Well, growing up in Canada when I was going to high school, for example, I was known as Angela to the outside world, and as Sun-Kyung at home. I would wave hello to my teachers, but bow to my parents' Korean friends when they visited our home.

Interviewer: Do different cultures have different ideas as to what is polite?

Angela: Yes, definitely. In high school, I was expected to look straight in the eyes of my teachers and to talk openly with them. But when Koreans spoke to me, I was expected to look at my feet and to be shy and silent.

Interviewer: Do you think that having two personalities makes you a richer person?

Angela: Yes, but sometimes I don't know who I am.

Exercise 1

1. F

2. F

3. T

4. F

5. T

6. T

Exercise 2

1) outside world 2) at home 3) wave hello 4) bow

5) look straight in the eyes of 6) openly 7) look at my feet

8) shy and silent

Listening II

I am a very sensitive person, and that's good to a point. I feel everyone should be able to feel or understand what others are going through. But when you hurt, cry, or are unhappy for people you don't know, or for a movie that is not real, then I think that's a little too sensitive. That's the way I am.

I am a very independent person. I must do things for myself. I don't like people doing things for me, or helping me, or giving me things. It's not that I don't appreciate it, because I do. I just feel that when someone does something for you, you owe them, and if there is one thing I don't like to feel, it's that I owe anyone anything.

I think I would be a good friend. I would do almost anything for someone I like, and would share or give anything I have. I'm very caring and understanding. People trust me with their secrets, and they're right for doing so because I never tell any secret that is told to me. I'm always there to help in any way that I can. All you have to do is ask.

I enjoy life and people, which makes me feel good. I find fun in almost everything I do (except housework). I like to watch people, talk to them, and be around them. It makes no difference whether I agree or disagree with what they feel, or how they live, or what they look like, or what age they are. I just enjoy learning and being aware of everything and everyone around me.

Exercise 1

1. sensitive/ caring independent / understanding

2. good friend

3. life people

4. learning being aware

Exercise 2

1. B

2. C

3. A

4. D

5. B

Part Three More Listening

Practice One

Tom: Hey, Bill. Do you have any plans for this weekend?

Bill: Yeah, Tom. Cindy and I are going ice-skating on Saturday.

Tom: Oh.

Bill: Why do you ask?

Tom: Well, I thought you might want to come over and study for next week's chemistry test.

Bill: Study?! No way. Hey, what if I try to fix you up with Cindy's sister, Kristi. We could double-date. She's really outgoing, bright, and funny too.

Tom: Hey, I still remember the girl you fixed me up with last time. She was very moody and self-centered. She couldn't stop talking about how great she was. I'm not sure if I can trust you, "Mr. Matchmaker".

Bill: Oh come on. So I made a mistake last time. Cindy's sister is really different.

Tom: Well, what does she look like?

Bill: Ah. Looks aren't important. She has a wonderful personality.

Tom: Right.

Bill: Okay. She has long wavy blond hair and blue eyes. She's of medium height, just a little shorter than you are.

Tom: Go on.

Bill: She has a great figure, a nice complexion, and she has a sexy voice. Oh, and she has a tattoo of an eagle on her arm.

Tom: A what?

Bill: No, just kidding. By the way, she was the runner-up in the Miss California Beauty Pageant two years ago. Well, you're probably not interested.

Tom: No, wait!

Bill: Ah, just forget I ever mentioned it.

Tom: No, I'm interested!

Exercise 1

1. ice-skating

2. chemistry

3. outgoing bright funny

4. moody self-centered

5. wavy blond medium height

6. unner-up

Exercise 2

1. T

2. F

3. T

4. F

5. F 6 T

Practice Two

David: Barbara, before you go, could you tell me about these students that are coming into my class? Barbara: Oh, yes. Now, let me think, well, there's...er...Paul. He's a tall, slim lad with fair hair. Very friendly face, lovely smile... He's particularly good with group activities, and he's a very helpful person to have in the class and very helpful with the other students. He speaks fluently, but does make a lot of mistakes! He doesn't seem to mind making mistakes. He asks a lot of questions...er...he tends to speak first and think later. But he's got lots of interesting ideas.

David: Good.

Barbara: Ah...Susan...Susan. Now, she's very lively, quick, and very bright. She talks all the time but not always in English.

David: What? Is she difficult or anything?

Barbara: No...she's quite young but she does behave in quite a grown-up way really for her age. It can be a bit difficult to actually shut her up sometimes and make her listen to you.

David: Ah, right.

Barbara: She's very nice. She has dark hair and dark eyes.

David: Right, well...are there any other girls in the class?

Barbara: Yes, there is Maria. She's Susan's sister.

David: Yes.

Barbara: Actually it's quite difficult to tell them apart although...er... Maria is slightly older. She's a bit plumper and has longer hair than Susan. She's not quite as bright as her sister and I think that makes her feel a bit inferior really. Well, you know, she sulks a bit when she gets things wrong or she misunderstands you. But on the whole, a very sensible girl.

David: OK.

Barbara: And then there's Peter, who's older than the others. He's got a sort of moustache, spectacles and wavy dark brown hair. He usually wears a jacket and sometimes a suit. He's very smart and takes notes all the time. He's also very serious and determined to learn as much as possible. He asks quite difficult questions but he doesn't mean to be nasty.

David: Well, thanks, Barbara. It's all up to me now, isn't it? Have a good holiday, won't you? Barbara: Thanks.

David: Bye.

Exercise 1

1. Four

2. Colleagues

3. Teacher

4. Susan

5. Barbara\

Exercise 2

1) Paul D E J 2) Susan B F 3) Maria C H

4) Peter A G I

Practice Three

1. Pedro sleeps only six hours a night. He goes to school full-time and works part-time in the afternoons. At night he plays soccer or basketball. He's seldom tired and his favorite way to relax is to jog two or three miles.

What kind of person is Pedro?

2. Mr. Miller was teaching his fourth grade class how to divide. The students didn't understand. He had to repeat his lesson and explain the idea more slowly. Over the next few days he explained and explained the lesson until almost the whole class understood and knew how to divide.

What kind of teacher is Mr. Miller?

3. People in the High Street neighborhood don't buy their fruits and vegetables in the supermarket. They buy them from Mr. Smith's truck. You can trust Mr. Smith. He never tries to sell any bad or unripe fruit. His prices are fair.

What kind of person is Mr. Smith?

4. Jake and Charles ran into the classroom. Each one saw the chair he wanted to sit on. Unfortunately, it was the same chair. They both sat down at the same time. Each of them had half a chair. Charles said he was there first and tried to push Jake off the chair. Jake said he was first. Both boys refused to

move.

"All right, boys," said the teacher. "If you won't move, then you can sit like that for the whole period." Jake and Charles sat like that for the whole period until the bell rang. When they stood up they were stiff and sore.

"I don't care," said Jake. "I was there first."

What kind of person is Jake?

5. Room 46A at Travis High School was always the dirtiest room in the school. Many of the students threw paper on the floor. One day, Mrs. Duke had an idea. She fastened a basketball hoop over the wastebasket. Now the students love to practice throwing their paper into the basket. When they miss, they pick the paper up and try again. And that was the end of the problem.

What kind of person is Mrs. Duke?

Exercise 1

1. Pedro energetic

2. Mr. Miller patient

3. Mr. Smith honest

4. Jake stubborn

5. Mrs. Duke creative

Practice Four

A number of visitors to the UK, who had traveled throughout the British Isles, were asked by a newspaper reporter what their impressions of the British people were. Here's a brief summary of what they thought.

There were many different opinions among those interviewed: Some were very flattering, others very critical. The distinction between the English and the British wasn't always understood, but, on the whole, it seemed that the Scots were very popular with visitors. They were thought to be very friendly, even though one Dutch visitor confessed she'd found it hard to understand their English.

A great number found the British generally reserved, particularly the English, although one Australian visitor called the English "the friendliest people in the world and most hospitable". But she did admit that speaking the same language was a great help.

Some Asian businessmen, who had traveled widely throughout England, said quite openly that they found North country people "much nicer" than people in the South. When asked what exactly they meant by "much nicer", one of them said, with a playful smile on his face, "By much nicer I mean much more like us!"

A few continentals praised "English courtesy", but the majority found it dishonest and dull. "You're forever saying 'please' and 'sorry' when you don't feel pleased or sorry," one explained.

A young student from South Africa had no views on the matter. He hadn't met any Englishmen, he said. The country appeared to be full of foreigners like himself.

Statements

1. It was easy to tell the English from the British.

2. Speaking the same language helped one Australian visitor a lot.

3. By "much nicer", one of the visitors meant that the British people were more friendly than people of other countries.

4. The majority of continentals thought highly of English manners.

5. To the young student from South Africa, Britain seemed to have a lot of foreign visitors. Exercise 1

1) F 2) T 3) F 4) F 5) T

Exercise 2

1) flattering 2) critical 3) popular 4) reserved 5) English

Part Four Testing Yourself

Section 1

One day, when Mr. Smith came home from work, he found his wife very upset about something. Mr. Smith always thought that he was more sensible than his wife, so he started to give her a lecture on the importance of always remaining calm.

Finally he said, "It's a waste of your strength to get excited about small things. Train yourself to be patient, like me. Now, look at the fly that has just landed on my nose. Am I getting excited or annoyed? Am I swearing or waving my arms around? No. I'm not. I'm perfectly calm."

Just as he had said this, Mr. Smith started shouting. He jumped up and began to wave his arms around wildly and swear terribly. He couldn't speak for some time, but at last he was able to tell his wife: The thing on his nose was not a fly, but a bee.

1) upset 2) sensible 3) lecture 4) calm 5) strength

6) landed 7) waving 8) perfectly 9) wildly 10) bee

Section II

Tom: Oh, that Mr. Taylor. He is so boring!

Mother: What do you mean?

Tom: His lessons put me to sleep. And he's so quick-tempered, Mum.

Mother: Quick-tempered? Mr. Taylor? Are you sure darling?

Tom: Yes, he gets angry very quickly.

Mother: That doesn't sound like Mr. Taylor at all!

Tom: And do you know, he spends all the time looking at his reflection in the window, admiring himself.

Mother: Really? And why does he do that?

Tom: Because he's vain, that's why! And conceited! He thinks he knows everything.

Mother: Oh, Tom. Be reasonable. I'm sure you're exaggerating. Mr. Taylor seems such a nice, kind man.

Tom: Well, he isn't. He is mean and cruel.

Mother: Cruel? Now how can a history teacher be cruel?

Tom: Because he only gave me two out of ten points in my history test.

Mother: Oh, now I understand. Tom, I think you'd better get on with your homework!

1. B

2. B

3. D

4. B

5. D

6. A

7. C

8. B

Section III

(S1 = the first speaker; S2 = the second speaker; S3 = the third speaker; S4 = the fourth speaker)

S1: In this week's edition of Up with People we went out into the streets and interviewed a number of people. We asked a question they just didn't expect. We asked them to be self-critical...to ask themselves exactly what they thought they lacked or—the other side of the coin—what virtues they had. Here is what we heard.

S2: Well...I...I don't know really...it's not the sort of question you ask yourself directly. I know I'm good at my job... At least my boss considers me hard-working, conscientious, and efficient. I'm a secretary by the way. When I look at myself in a mirror as you sometimes do in the privacy of your own bedroom...or at your reflection in the shop windows as you walk up the street... Well...then I see someone a bit different. Yes...I'm different in my private life. And that's probably my main fault I should say... I suppose I'm not coherent in my behavior. My office is always in order...but my flat!

Well...you'd have to see it to believe it.

S3: Well...I'm retired, you know. Used to be an army officer. And...I think I've kept myself...yes, I've kept myself respectable the whole of my life. I've tried to help those who depend on me. I've done my best. I am quite self-disciplined. Basically I'm a good guy, fond of my wife and family... That's me.

S4: Well...when I was young I was very shy. At times I...I was very unhappy...especially when I was sent to boarding school at age seven. I didn't make close friends till later...till I was about...fifteen. Then I became quite good at being by myself. I had no one to rely on...and no one to ask for advice. That made me independent. My wife and I have two sons. We...we didn't want an only child because I felt...well I felt I'd missed a lot of things.

1) secretary 2) hard-working 3) efficient 4) private

5) army officer 6) help 7) fond 8) independent

9) shy 10) fifteen

Unit 2

Part Two

Listening I

Mart Moody from Tupper Lake used to tell this tale. "I went out one day and there was a big flock of ducks out on Tupper Lake. And I had this good dog. I shot at the ducks, and then I sent the dog out there. She was heavy with pups at the time, and I didn't know whether I should send her out there. It was a cold day in the fall. Well, she took right off and away she went. But she didn't show up when it got dark. I began to worry about her. She was a good dog, a really good retriever. She'd get anything I shot at.

"So the next morning I woke up and I thought I'd better go and see if I could find her. And I got down to the shoreline of the lake and I looked out. Suddenly I saw something coming. It was this dog. She came into the shore! She had three ducks in her mouth. And behind her she had seven pups. And each of the pups had a duck in his mouth."

Exercise 1

1. B

2. B

3. A

4. B

5. C

Exercise 2

1. T

2. F

3. T

4. T

5. F

6. T

Listening II

There was an old man who had a daughter. He told his daughter that he had invited a preacher to his house. He said, "Daughter, I'm going down to the train to meet the Reverend, and I've roasted two ducks and left them there for him in the other room. Don't you touch them!" The daughter said, "No, I won't touch them." So her papa went to the train to meet the Reverend, and the girl began to taste the ducks. The ducks tasted so good that she kept on tasting them until she had eaten them all up, every bit of them.

After the old man came back, he didn't even look in the place where he had left the ducks. He went

directly into the other room to sharpen his knife on the oilstone so he could carve the ducks. The preacher was sitting in the room with the girl. She knew that her papa was going to punish her, and she started crying and shedding tears. The preacher asked, "What is the matter with you, girl?" She said, "Papa has this one bad fault: He invites preachers to his house and goes to sharpen his knife to cut off both their ears." And the Reverend asked, "What is that you say, daughter?" The girl said, "Yes, Papa invites preachers here all the time and cuts off both their ears." The preacher said, "Daughter, hand me my hat. Quick!" The girl gave him his hat and he ran out of the door quickly. The daughter called her papa and said, "Papa, the preacher got both the ducks and has gone." The old man ran to the door and yelled to the preacher, "Hey, where are you going in such a hurry? Come back here right now!" But the preacher just kept running and shouted back over his shoulder, "Damned if you'll get either one of these."

Exercise 1

1. A

2. A

3. B

4. C

5. C

Exercise 2

1. T

2. F

3. T

4. T

5. F

6. F

Listening III

Jack Storm was the local barrel maker and blacksmith of Thebes, Illinois. He had a cat that stayed around his shop. The cat was the best mouse catcher in the whole country, Jack said. He kept the shop free of rats and mice. But, one day, the cat got caught in a piece of machinery and got a paw cut off. After that, he began to grow weak and thin and didn't take any interest in anything, because he wasn't getting enough to eat.

So, one day, Jack decided to make a wooden paw for the cat. He made it with his pocket knife and fastened it on the injured leg. After that, the cat began to grow sleek and fat again. Jack decided to stay at the shop one night to see how the cat managed with his wooden paw.

After dark, the cat got down in front of a mouse hole and waited. Pretty soon a mouse peered out cautiously. Quick as a flash the cat seized it with his good paw and knocked it on the head with his wooden one. In no time, that cat had eighteen mice piled up in front of the mouse hole.

Exercise 1

1) stayed around 2) mouse catcher 3) rats and mice

4) got a paw 5) weak and thin 6) make a wooden paw

7) fastened it 8) grow sleek and fat 9) managed

10) peered out cautiously 11) seized it with 12) eighteen mice

Part Three More Listening

Practice One

Ken: Hey, Josh. Where did you get those comic magazines?

Josh: When I went home last weekend, I found these old Superman magazines that my older brother had bought many years ago.

Ken: You don't have time to read old comics. Why did you bring them here?

Josh: In my World Literature class we've been talking about the importance of myths, folk tales, and legends to cultures. We have to write a short paper on which legendary figure we think is the great American hero. I think it's Superman.

Ken: Superman? Why? I think it's someone like Paul Bunyan, the giant woodsman, or Johnny Appleseed, who planted early apple trees in the Midwest. Superman is just a modern comic magazine character.

Josh: When I saw these old comics, I started thinking that Superman represents a combination of cultural traditions and beliefs that have been told throughout our American history.

Ken: How?

Josh: Superman is an orphan who comes by rocket to Earth when his native planet explodes. He lands near a small town and is adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent, who teach him their American middle-class values of honesty, hard work and consideration for others. As an adult, he migrates to a large city and defends Americans against evil.

Ken: What else?

Josh: Well, I was thinking about this and realized that he is a symbol of the American character because he is an immigrant. We Americans have come from somewhere else, too. My great grandparents came from Germany, and I know your grandparents came from Brazil. They all worked hard and succeeded.

Ken: But how does that relate to Superman?

Josh: He goes to the city, just as many immigrants did, works as a newspaper reporter. But his adopted parents' values of honesty, hard work and helpfulness are a part of him. He uses his super abilities to fight dishonesty and to help the victims of crime and injustice, meanwhile working hard at his newspaper job.

Ken: I understand. As an orphan, Superman becomes a new person in a new land, just as our ancestors did, and succeeds. He also represents our values. Your paper should be interesting. I'd like to read it when it's finished.

Josh: OK.

Exercise 1

1. B

2. A

3. A

4. C

5. D

Exercise 2

1. F

2.T

3. T

4. F

5.T 6 F 7. F 8.T

Practice Two

At one time animals and people lived together in peace and talked with each other. But when mankind began to multiply rapidly, the animals were crowded into forests and deserts.

Man began to destroy many animals for their skins and furs instead of only for food. Animals became angry at this treatment by man and decided that mankind must be punished.

The animals held a meeting, but they could not decide how to punish mankind. Finally the animals agreed that because deer were the animals most often killed by man, deer should decide how man should be punished.

Deer decided that any Indian hunters who killed deer without asking pardon in a suitable manner would be made to suffer with painful stiffness in their bodies. After this decision was made, the leader of the deer sent a message to the nearest people, the Cherokee Indians. "From now on, your hunters must first offer a prayer to the deer before killing him. You must ask his pardon, telling the deer you are forced to kill him only because your people are hungry and need meat. Otherwise, a terrible disease will come to you."

The spirits of the deer would run to the place where a deer had been killed and these spirits would ask the dead deer, "Did you hear the hunter's prayer for pardon?" If the answer was "yes", the spirits would be satisfied. But, if the answer was "no", then the deer spirits would track down the hunter to his house and strike him with the terrible disease of stiffness in his body, making him crippled so that he could not hunt deer again.

Soon all of the animals agreed that this was a fair and just punishment. Each type of animal decided that they would also cause a disease in people who mistreated them.

When the friendly plants of the world heard what the animals had decided as punishment for mankind, the plants decided that this punishment was too harsh. They had a meeting of their own. Finally they decided that each type of plant should provide a cure for one of the diseases which animals had caused for mankind.

This was the beginning of plant medicines from nature among the Cherokee Indians a long, long time ago.

Exercise 1

1. C D J

2. A E G H

3. B F I

Exercise 2

1. A 2 .B 3. D 4.C 5. B 6. D

Practice Three

Every March, a flock of buzzards returns to the town of Hinkley, Ohio. No one really knows how long this event has taken place, but according to local legend the annual buzzard migration began nearly 200 years ago with a massacre.

"The first legend of buzzards in Hinkley, Ohio, goes back to the Great Hinkley Hunt on December 24, Christmas Eve, in 1818. The local settlers deciding that the township needed to be made safe for their livestock, gathered together about 400 men and boys, with guns and clubs and completely surrounded the township of Hinkley."

As the story goes, the townsfolk began marching toward the center of town, driving all the game in front of them, and killing virtually every wild animal they encountered.

"The settlers took some of the deer and the wild turkeys for the holiday dinners, but left all of the other dead animals out in the snow. When spring came, the remaining dead animals attracted many buzzards, and since 1819 they've been coming back here in March."

Hinkley locals have come to appreciate the buzzards' annual return. In mid-March, on Buzzard Sunday, they celebrate the birds' arrival with costumes, exhibits and songs.

Exercise 1

1. B

2. D

3. C

4. D

5. A

Exercise 2

1. F

2. T

3. F

4. F

5.F

6. T

Practice Four

Almost seven centuries ago, in Central Asia, there lived a great king called Tamerlane. He was a mighty, powerful, conquering soldier, and his greatest ambition was that one day he would rule a massive empire stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. He made his imperial capital in the oasis city of Samarkand, which he planned to make the most beautiful city on earth. Many magnificent mosques were built and they were decorated with exquisite blue ceramic tiles on the outside, and with pure gold on the inside.

Tamerlane, like the great oriental king that he was, had many wives, including a Chinese girl called Bibi Khanym. Now Bibi Khanym was the most beautiful of all Tamerlane's wives, and she was also the youngest. She was his favorite wife and was deeply in love with him.

In order to demonstrate her great love of Tamerlane, she decided to build a magnificent mosque to honor him, while he was away fighting in a distant war. She engaged the best architect, who designed for her the most magnificent mosque you could imagine. And then she found the best master builder,

who began work immediately. But as the weeks and months passed by, the master builder began to fall in love with Bibi Khanym. She resisted all his advances, but at last he threatened to leave the mosque unfinished unless she allowed him to kiss her just once. Bibi Khanym wanted the beautiful mosque finished more than anything else. She was expecting Tamerlane to return any day. So at last she agreed to let the master builder kiss her, just once.

But that was her terrible mistake, for so powerful was the master builder's love for Bibi Khanym that when he kissed her he left a permanent mark on her face.

King Tamerlane returned and saw the guilty mark on his wife's face. The master builder was executed immediately, and then, thinking that a woman's beauty can be a dangerous thing, Tamerlane ordered that from that day on all the women in the kingdom should never be seen in public without a veil to cover their face.

Exercise 1

1. B 2 . C 3. B 4. A 5. D 6. A

Exercise 2

1. F

2. F

3. T

4. T

5.F

Part Four Testing Yourself

Section 1

Long long ago, there was a pretty girl named "Red Riding Hood" because she was always wearing a red hood. One day her mother asked her to take some snacks to her grandmother because her grandmother was ill. Her mother told her, "Don't hang around on your way. Don't leave the main road."

On her way, she saw a wolf. The wolf asked her where she was going and she told him that she was going to her grandmother's house. The wolf thought to himself how delicious she would taste. Red Riding Hood danced in the woods, picking flowers for her grandmother and forgetting what her mother had said to her.

The wolf went to the grandmother's house and ate up the poor lady. Then he waited in the bed for Red Riding Hood.

As Red Riding Hood came into the grandmother's house, she found her grandmother looked rather strange with very large ears, eyes, hands and mouth. And suddenly the wolf jumped out of the bed and devoured the little girl.

At that time, a hunter passed the house and heard loud snores made by the wolf. He went in and carefully cut the wolf's stomach open because he thought the wolf had probably eaten the grandmother. Then both little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother escaped from the wolf's stomach. After that, Red Riding Hood remembered the importance of her mother's words and never left the main road again.

Questions:

1. Why was the girl called "Red Riding Hood"?

2. What was she asked to take to her grandmother?

3. What did her mother tell her NOT to do on the way?

4. How did the wolf think Red Riding Hood would taste?

5. What did the wolf do to both the girl and her grandmother?

6. Who rescued Red Riding Hood and her grandmother?

1. C 2 . B 3. C 4. B 5. A 6. C

Section II

Moon was sad. She had spent many years looking at the people on Earth and she saw that they were afraid. They were afraid of dying. To make them feel better she decided to call on her friend Spider to take a message to them.

"Spider," she said. "The people on Earth are afraid of dying and that makes me very sad. Please tell them that they will all die sooner or later but it is nothing to be scared of."

So Spider slowly made his way to Earth, carefully picking his way down on moonbeams and sunbeams. On his way he met Hare.

"Where are you going, Spider?" asked Hare.

"I am going to give the people of Earth a message from Moon," he said.

"Oh, you'll be far too long. Tell me the message and I'll take it there for you," replied Hare.

"OK! Moon wants the people of Earth to know that they will all die..." Spider started.

"Right! Tell the people of Earth that they will all die," said Hare. And with that, Hare disappeared off to Earth.

Spider gloomily made his way back to Moon and told her what had happened. Moon was very angry with Hare when she heard what he had said to the people, and hit him on the nose! That is why, to this day, Hare has a split lip.

"You should have taken the message yourself," said Moon to Spider.

And to this day, Spider is still carefully carrying Moon's message and spinning the web in the corner of our rooms—but how many of us listen?

1. T

2. F

3. F

4. F

5.T

6. F

7. T

8. T

Section III

We don't often know how a word or a legend associated with that word started; however, in the case of the American "cowboy" we do. The cowboy legend began in 1867 when the first transcontinental railroad was being built across the American West.

A branch line of the new railroad went to Abilene, Kansas. In Abilene, a 29-year-old cattle merchant, Joseph McCoy, had a plan that made him a millionaire and put his name in dictionaries. His plan was simple. He knew that in the high grasslands of southern Texas there were large herds of cattle. If these cattle could be brought to Abilene, they could be put on trains and shipped to cities in the North and East, where they would bring good prices. He bought a lot of land close to the railroad in Abilene, where cattle could be kept before being shipped, and put his plan into action.

McCoy advertised for ranchers and cow-handlers to bring their herds of cattle to his new railway cattle yard in Abilene. He offered $40 for each of the cattle, ten times more than anyone else did. One hundred days after his offer was made, the first herds arrived from the South. Each herd had two or three thousand cattle in it. In the next four years, McCoy shipped more than two million cattle to the North and East. He soon became a millionaire.

McCoy referred to the men bringing the cows to Abilene as "cowboys". Soon there were at least 5,000 cowboys bringing cattle up to Kansas from Texas. Because the camera had recently been developed, many photos were taken of the cowboys and their long trips with the cattle. These photos were published in eastern newspapers and the cowboy became an American folk hero. Soon writers, such as Zane Gray, were writing books about the cowboys and their adventures. Thus the legend of the cowboy grew and developed into the 20th century.

1.1867

2. shipped ( If these cattle could be brought to Abilene, they could be put on trains and shipped to cities in the North and East.)

3. millionaire

4. land

5. cattle

6. million

7. cowboys 8. camera 9. hero 10. adventures

Unit 3

Part Two

Listening I

In August 1975, three men were on their way to rob the Royal Bank of Scotland at Rothesay when they got stuck in the revolving doors. They had to be helped free by the staff and, after thanking everyone, sheepishly left the building. A few minutes later, they returned and announced their intention of robbing the bank, but none of the staff believed them. When, at first, they demanded £5,000, the head cashier laughed at them, convinced that it was a practical joke.

Considerably disheartened by this, the gang leader reduced his demand fi rst to £500 then to £50 and ultimately to 50 pence. By this stage the cashier could barely control herself for laughter.

Then one of the men jumped over the counter and fell awkwardly on the floor, clutching his ankle. The other two made their getaway, but got trapped in the revolving doors for a second time, desperately pushing the wrong way.

Exercise 1

1. B

2. C

3. D

4. A

Exercise 2

1. F

2. T

3. F

4. T

5. F

6. T

Listening II

Man: Yes, I'd like to report a theft.

Police Officer: Okay. Can you tell me exactly what happened?

Man: Well, I was walking home from work two days ago, enjoying the nature all around me...the birds, the frogs, the flowing stream...[Okay, Okay] when this woman knocked me right off my feet, grabbed my stuff, and ran off through the trees. [Hmm]. I was so surprised by the ordeal that I didn't chase her.

Police Officer: Yeah. Can you describe the woman for me?

Man: Yeah. She was about 190 centimeters tall...

Police Officer: Wait. You said a woman robbed you.

Man: Well, I'm not really sure. [Hmm]. You see, the person was wearing a white and black polka-dot dress, a light red sweater over it, and she...or he...was wearing a pair of basketball shoes.

Police Officer: Hmm. What else can you tell me?

Man: Okay. Like I said, the person was about 190 centimeters tall, heavily built, with long wavy hair. She...or he...was probably about in her or his late 30s. I didn't get a good look at the person's face, but well...uh...

Police Officer: What? Was there something else?

Man: Well, the person...had a beard.

Police Officer: Ah! What was, uh, taken...exactly?

Man: Well, just my left shoe. Crazy, isn't it?

Police Officer: Ah hah! The "bearded woman" has struck again!

Man: The "bearded woman"?

Police Officer: Yeah. It's this man who dresses up like a woman and, for some unknown reason, removes the left shoe from his victims. He's really quite harmless, though, and he usually returns the shoe to the crime scene a couple of days later.

Man: Hey, he can keep my shoe, and I'll just take off my left shoe every time I walk through the park. Exercise 1

1. B

2. D

3. A

4. D

Exercise 2

1. 30s

2. male

3. 1.90

4. long wavy

5. heavily built

6. light red sweater

7. beard

Listening III

Melissa Luzzi, a Dallas resident who owns an embroidery business, thought her home was secure. But in broad daylight a thief got in by smashing through a floor-to-ceiling window in the back of her house. Incredibly, no neighbors heard the disturbance—and her home was robbed of everything of value.

One thing common to every neighborhood I visited: empty streets for much of the day. Many of us are working, and the kids are in school. But there's usually someone home in the neighborhood.

I've found that, nationwide, police respond much faster to 911 calls than to alarms. So keep an eye on your neighbors' property, and ask them to do the same for you. Call the police if you hear breaking glass, or see someone lurking about or notice anything suspicious.

You also might consider joining a community crime-watch group. "Criminals know which neighborhoods have watch groups," says Dallas Sgt. Tony Takats. "They avoid them like the plague." "The little old lady who's home all day?" adds Steve Bell, a 31-year veteran of the Dallas police force. "She's the best security you've got."

Exercise 1

1. B

2. C

3. D

4. A

Exercise 2

1. 4. 5.7

Part Three More Listening

Practice One

I took a trip recently into the heart of the Amazon Basin where one of the big issues facing our planet stands out: the balance between economic development and the conservation of natural resources. There is strong pressure in the country to harvest natural riches for short-term financial gains. Then there is intense international concern about the control of such development. The problem, of course, is that this is a one-way street. Rapid development, and wholesale harvesting of timber, oil, and the like, will soon lead to the Amazon desert, which would mean the extinction of half our planet's animal and plant species and the depletion of much of the oxygen we breathe. This clearly impacts every one of us.

The local people of the Amazon understand the delicate balance of nature. They've survived for thousands of years by making good use of it, not abusing it—something we can all learn from. And now tourism is playing a positive role in the equation. Travelers from more developed countries are

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Exercise 1

1. natural riches

2.) desert 3) extinction 4) species

5) oxygen 6) economic 7) conservation 8) valuable income

9) awareness 10) slow down

Exercise 2

1. T

2. F

3. F

4. T

Practice Two

It isn't strictly true that one half of the world is rich and the other half is poor. It is one-third that is very rich and two-thirds that are very poor. People in the rich third don't realize the enormous difference between them and the other two-thirds. A very simple example is that a dog or a cat in North America eats better than a child in many of the poorer countries. A fisherman in South America may be catching fish which are processed into pet food and yet his own children are not getting enough protein for their bodies to develop properly. Although a lot of the world's natural resources come from these poorer countries, people in the richer countries are probably using much more of these resources than people in Asia or Africa. The richer countries are in a position to dictate to suppliers what kind of prices they are prepared to pay for these natural resources. In some cases the prices have gone down. In others they have remained steady. But the prices the richer countries get for their own exports have continued to rise. So, they are getting richer and richer, and the poorer countries are getting poorer and poorer.

Exercise 1

1. F

2. F

3. T

4. T

Exercise 2

1. South America / pet food / enough protein/ develop

2. much more/ Asia /Africa

3. position / natural resources /gone down/steady

4. continued to rise

5. getting richer and richer

Practice Three

The news report that night was about a famine in Ethiopia. From the first few seconds it was clear that this was a really monumental catastrophe. The pictures were of people who were so thin that they looked like beings from another planet. The camera focused on one man so that he looked directly at me, sitting in my comfortable living room. All around was the sound of death.

It was clear that somehow the world had not noticed this tragedy until now. You could hear the despair, grief and disgust in the voice of the reporter, Michael Buerk. At the end of the report he was silent. My wife, Paula, started crying, then rushed upstairs to check our baby, Fifi, who was sleeping peacefully.

I kept seeing the news pictures in my mind. What could I do? I was only a pop singer—and by now not a very successful pop singer. All I could do was make records which no one bought. But I would do that, I would give all the profits of the next Rats record to Oxfam. What good would that do? It would only be a little money but it was more than I could give just from my bank account. Maybe some people would buy it because the profits were for Oxfam. And I would be protesting about this

disaster. But that was not enough.

Exercise 1

1. the first few seconds

2. so thin

3. beings from another planet

4. focused on

5. looked directly at

6. All around

7. until now

8. despair, grief and disgust 9. started crying

10. who was sleeping peacefully

Exercise 2

1. 2. 3.5.8

Practice Four

Marsha and Ed Gibson are sitting at the kitchen table. Ed is nervous and upset, and he's smoking. Marsha's eyes are red. She looks tired. Their children, two boys, eight and ten, are sitting with them. Tony and George know that their parents are having problems. Now, their parents are telling the boys that they're going to get a divorce.

Their mother is talking first. She's telling them that she loves them and their father loves them, too. But she and their father are having problems. They aren't going to live together as a family anymore. It has nothing to do with the boys. The boys are going to live with her. They're going to stay in the same house, go to the same school, and be with all their friends.

Now, their father is talking. He's going to leave the house this weekend. He's not going to move far away; he's going to be in the next town. Two weekends a month, the boys are going to stay with him. And, they're going to be with him one month in the summertime. He'll take his vacation then and they'll go to the beach. The boys can call him anytime. He's going to be nearby. It'll be better this way. Tony and George don't really understand what's happening. On the one hand, they know that their parents aren't happy. On the other hand, they want everyone to stay together.

Questions:

1. How does the couple feel about their divorce?

2. Why does the couple decide to get a divorce?

3. Where will the husband go after the divorce?

4. What is the children's response to their parents' divorce?

Exercise 1

1. B 2 . C 3. A 4. C

Exercise 2

1) love 2) together 3) mother 4) house 5) school

6) friends 7) father 8) month 9) beach 10) call

Part Four Testing Yourself

Section 1

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