英语听力(一)unit 4 原文及答案

Unit 4



Section One Tactics for Listening



Part 1 Phonetics

Exercise: Complete the following short dialogue as you listen to the tape. Pay special attention to the weak forms, link-ups and contractions.

Tapescript

Sam: (1) Who’s that?

Jill: (2) That’s my sister.

Sam: (3) She’s taller than you.

Jill: Yes, and she’s three years younger (4) than me!

Sam: And who’s that?

Jill: That’s my grandmother — my (5) father’s mother.

Sam: What (6) about your other grandparents?

Jill: (7) They’re all dead now.

Sam: You look very much like (8) your mother.

Jill: Yes, I do. Our (9) hair is the same color, (10) but our eyes are different.

Sam: My father (11) and I look alike, too.



Part 2 Listening and Note-Taking

This table shows the number of commuters into central London between 7.00 a.m. and 10.00 a. m. daily. The total number is 1,396,000. Of these, 405,000 travel by underground — that’s 29% of the total, and 28% travel by British Rail — that’s 391,000 people daily. 13%, 181,000 people, use both rail and underground, and 9%, 126,000 people, travel by bus. That means a total of 1,103,000 people, 79%, on public transport. The remainder use private transport. 237,000 come by car and the rest come either by motorbike or bicycle. This means 4% come by motorbike or bicycle, and 17% by car.



Exercise A: Listen to the conversation and take notes. Write down the total number of commuters into central London between 7.00 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. and the number and percentage of people, traveling by means of public transportation.

1,396,000

1,103,000. 79%



Exercise B: Complete the following chart.


Means of transportation (Public)

Number

Percentage


Underground

405,000

29%


British Rail

391,000

28%


Both rail and underground

181,000

13%


Bus

126,000

9%


Total

1,103,000

79%


Means of transportation (Private)

Number

Percentage


Car

237,000

17%


Motorbike

56,000

4%


Total

293,000

23%




Means of transportation (Public)

Number

Percentage


Underground

405,000

29%


British Rail

391,000

28%


Both rail and underground

181,000

13%


Bus

126,000

9%


Total

1,103,000

79%


Means of transportation (Private)

Number

Percentage


Car

237,000

17%


Motorbike

56,000

4%


Total

293,000

23%





Section Two Listening Comprehension



Part 1 Dialogue



Dialogue 1 Phoning about the flat



Woman: Hello, 224 8818.

Man: Hello, I’m phoning about the flat.

Woman: Of course. What would you like to know?

Man: Well, first, can you tell me where it is, please? Is it near some shops, ands the tube?

Woman: Well, the flat is in Islington. We’re only 100 metres from the shops and a five minutes’ walk

from the tube.

Man: And how much does it cost?

Woman: Three hundred and sixty pounds a month. And you have to pay a month’s deposit.

Man : I see, and is it a big flat? How many square metres is it?

Woman: Oh, I don’t know. There are two bedrooms and a very large living room. Would you like to see it?

Man: Yes, when can I come, please?

Woman: Uhm. Can you come this afternoon? About four? It’s No. 2, Canbury Road.

Man: Yes, that’s fine. I’ll see you then. Goodbye.



Exercise : Listen to the dialogue again and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T or F in the space provided. Discuss with your classmates why you think the statement is true or false.

1. F 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. F





Dialogue 2 The Magnificent Town Residence



John: Hi, darling.

Sally: Hello, John. Well, did you see the “magnificent town residence”?

John: Yes.

Sally: So what’s it like?

John: Well, fist of all it’s four miles out of the own centre.

Sally: Oh, no!

John: And it’s not all that big. Three bedrooms: one quite big, one smallish, and one that would be OK for the cat. The luxury bathroom doesn’t have a shower, and the downstairs cloakroom is at the end of the garden — at the end of the jungle, I should say. The sitting and dining room are both pretty small.

Sally: What about the kitchen? Is it big enough to have breakfast in?

John: Oh, yes. Easily. If you sit on the fridge and put your feet out of the window there’s plenty of room.

Sally: The garage?

John: Fine for a bicycle. A bicycle, mind. Not two bicycles. And there’s oil-fired central heating, which doesn’t work. And the walls and roof are in a very bad state. Apart from that, it’s fine.

Sally: Oh, good. Let’s buy it at once!



Exercise: Listen to the dialogue and complete the following chart.



Central York

Magnificent Town Residence



Three bedrooms, luxury bathroom,

downstairs cloakroom,

sitting room, dining room, a small kitchen,

garage, garden,

ol-fired central heating



￡90,000





Part 2 Passages



Passage 1 Hide-and –Seek



My neighbour’s children love playing hide-and-seek as all children do, but no one expected that a game they played last week would be reported in the local newspaper. One afternoon, they were playing in the street just outside the post office. Young Ian, who is only five years old, found the perfect place to hide. His sister, Janet, had shut her eyes and counting up to ten when Ian noticed that the small metal door of the letter box had been left open. The postman had just taken all the letters out and had gone into the post office to see if there were any parcels, Ian climbed into the letter box and pulled the door from the inside so hard that it locked. Soon realizing what he had done, he became very frightened and started crying. Meanwhile, Janet was looking for him everywhere but

could not find him. It was lucky she happened to stop outside the letter box and heard her brother’s cries. She immediately ran to tell the postman who hurried out to unlock the metal door. Ian was now free, but he had had such a bad fright that he could not stop crying. The postman, however, soon found a way of making him laugh again. He told him that next time he wanted to hide in a letter box, he should remember to stick a stamp on himself!



Exercise: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.

1. C 2. A 3. B 4. C 5. D 6. A 7. B 8. D



Passage 2 My Nephew



This year I decided to do something to regain my reputation as a kindly uncle. My nephew, Tony, had never forgiven me for the dictionary I had bought him as a birthday present last year. His parents had no reason to be grateful to me either, because the year before, I had presented their dear son with a pot of paste and some funny pictures. Instead of sticking them into a book, Tony had naturally covered every wall in the house with them. This year, therefore, I decided to let him choose for himself.

We went into a big toy shop but Tony was highly critical of everything he saw. In vain did I show him toy after toy; he was not to be tempted. Then I saw his eyes light up: he had discovered something he really did approve of: a large tin drum. I was quite pleased, too, until I thought what Tony’s mother would say when she saw it. Nobody would get any sleep for weeks! I led Tony away quickly, saying that the drum was too expensive. If that was how I felt, Tony replied jokingly, then I could buy him the big model railway in the shop window. Now that was really expensive, so I quickly changed the subject.

Tony asked for permission to go off on his own and I made the most of my opportunity to sit down and rest my aching feet. Fifteen minutes passed but there was still no sign of Tony. I began to get worried and got up to look for him. I asked a young lady if she had seen a little boy in a grey suit. She looked about her helplessly and pointed out that there were so many little boys in grey suits. I was just beginning to despair, when I saw a strange figure dressed in peculiar purple clothes. The figure was wearing a false beard and had a cave man’s axe in one hand, and a space gun in the other. It was, of course, Tony, who informed me at once that he was the first cave man to fly into space.



Exercise: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions:

1. D 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. B 6. C 7. B 8. C





Part 3 News



News Item 1



French officials in the town of Frejus are questioning more than 900 Kurds. The Iraqi Kurds were rescued after their ship hit the southern French coast and sank. The government expects the Kurds to seek asylum. However a government official warns that those who fail to defend their asylm requests will be expelled

. Some French political leaders want all the Kurds sent back to Iraq immediately. They say this will send a message to others who are considering such a trip. French border police says a Turkish and Iraqi criminal group is responsible. Officials are still searching for the ship’s commander and crew members. They reportedly fled after the ship struck land.



Exercise A: Listen to the news item and complete the following summary.

This news item is about the questioning of more than 900 kurds who entered France illegally by the French authorities.



Exercise B: Listen to the interview and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T or F in the space provided. Discuss with your classmates why you think the statement is true or false.

1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. F



News Item 2



Britain has listed (1) 21 groups as terrorist organizations under a new (2) anti-terrorism law. That law is meant to stop (3) money and support from being given to militant groups based in Britain. (4) On the list are the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, who are based (5) in London. Also included is a group (6) led by exiled Saudi descendant Osama bin Laden. An Iranian (7) opposition group is on the list as well as Algerian, Palestinian and Egyptian groups. (8) The new British law makes it a crime to be (9) a member of any of the groups or to give them (10) money or other supports.



Exercise A: Listen to the news item and complete the following summary.

This news item is about the release of a list of 21 groups considered as terrorist organizations under a new anti-terrorism law in Britain.



News Item 3



NATO officials say the Alliance is not ready to reduce the security area along the Kosovo border with Serbia. NATO Secretary General George Robertson says the Serbian Government’s plan to reduce the security area does not include enough security measures needed to do so. NATO says Serbian officials must first explain how their new plan would end violence in Southern Serbia. On Tuesday Alliance foreign ministers had said they were ready to reduce the security area. NATO officials say they want to ease the conflict between Serbian security forces and armed ethnic Albanians. Both sides use the security area for safety. Earlier Serbian officials reported new clashes in the area. At least one police officer was injured.



Exercise A: Listen to the news item and complete the following summary.

This news item is about the reduce of the security area along the Kosovo border with Serbia.



Exercise B: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions:1. A 2. B 3. D 4. D 5. A