新视野大学英语

视听说教程(第三版)第三册

Listen to the world: Sharing

Further practice in listening: Long conversation and Passage 1 &2

练习答案

 

Unit 6 Histories make men wise

读史使人明智

Sharing(略)

 

Further practice in listening

 

Long conversation (P.127) ACCB

Passage 1 (P.128) ADBB

Passage 2 (P.129)

(1)  estimated

(2)  assassinated

(3)  was intended to

(4)  released from

(5)  made a contract with

(6)  gave away

(7)  ensued

(8)  survived

(9)  victims

(10)  perished

 

Further practice in listening

Long conversation(P.127)

Scripts

W: It is hot outside!

M: Hi Daisy! What is it, 75 degrees Fahrenheit?

W: It’s over 100 Grandpa! You’re just cool because you’ve had the air conditioning on! I’ve been working in the yard all morning. I’m so hot and I feel like I’m melting!

M: At least you can come inside and have a nice cool glass of lemon juice.

W: And I sure need it! I’ve been baking in the Arizona sun for two hours now, and I can’t imagine anything better than standing in the cool air enjoying an ice-cold drink.

M: Back when I was your age, we didn’t have any air conditioning. Willis Carrier didn’t invent air conditioning until 1902, and it wasn’t available in people’s homes until after World War II. W: Wow! What was life like for you?

M: I worked as a farmhand for the neighbors, building fences all day. You should have seen me when I was 13, sunburned and dirty.

W: And you still lived in Arizona back then?

M: No, I was in Texas. We survived the heat by swimming all the time. There was a stream running through the farm, and every few hours, I would leap into the water! Even with my clothes completely soaked with water, the sun would still dry me off in 10 minutes!

W: I know you didn’t have cell phones and computers, but I forget about the little comforts like the air conditioning.

M: Yes, a lot has changed, but not this summer heat!

W: I wonder what scientists will come up with in the next century to keep us cool.

M: I’d like a weather machine to make it rain during these long dry spells.

W: Personally, I hope someone invents a personal ice cream machine! It could follow me around all day making chocolate ice cream!

Q1: What was the girl doing on such a hot morning?

Q2: What do we know about the air conditioning from the conversation?

Q3: What can we learn about the man when he was 13?

Q4: What would the girl like to have in the next century to keep cool?

Key

ACCB

 

Passage 1 (P.128)

Scripts

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in a family having a rich business, political and community service background. From childhood Bill was intelligent and competitive. In school, he had excellent records in mathematics and science. Still he was getting very bored in school and his parents knew it, so they always tried to feed him with more information to keep him busy. Bill’s parents came to know about their son’s intelligence and decided to send him to a private school, known for its serious academic environment. It was a very important decision in Bill’s life, and it was there that he was introduced to a computer. Bill Gates and his friends were very much interested in the world of programming and formed the “Programmers Group” in late 1968. In the next year, they got their first opportunity in Information Sciences Inc. in which they were selected as programmers. Bill and his close friend Allen developed a small computer to measure traffic flow and they earned around $20,000 from this project. In 1973, he left home for Harvard University. He did well there, but he didn’t find it interesting. He spent many long nights in front of the school’s computer and the next day was asleep in class. Bill and his friend Allen remained in close contact even though Allen was away in Washington State University. They would often discuss new ideas for future projects and the possibility of starting a business one day. At the end of Bill’s first year, Allen moved closer to him so that they could follow some of their ideas. Within a year, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard, and then formed Microsoft with Allen.

 

Almost 70 years ago the idea of disabled people doing sports was never heard of. But when the annual games for the disabled were started in England in 1948 by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the situation began to change.

Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who left Germany because of the Nazi persecution of the Jews, was asked by the British government to set up an injuries center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital near London in 1943. His methods for treating injuries included sports for the disabled.

In the first games just two teams of injured soldiers took part. The next year, 1949, five teams took part. From those beginnings, things have developed fast. In 1960 the first Paralympic Games were held in Rome, in the same place as the normal Olympic Games. Since then, the Paralympic Games have taken place in the same year as the Olympic Games. The 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul was a landmark for the Paralympic movement. It was in Seoul that the Summer Paralympic Games were held directly after the Summer Olympic Games, in the same host city and using the same facilities. This set a precedent and was eventually formalized in an agreement between the International Paralympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee in 2001.

The Paralympic Games have been a great success in promoting international friendship and understanding, and in proving that being disabled does not mean you can?t enjoy sports. One small source of disappointment for those who organize and take part in the Paralympic Games, however, has been the unwillingness of the International Olympic Committee to include disabled events in the Olympic Games for the able-bodied. Perhaps a few more years are still needed to convince those fortunate enough not to be disabled that their disabled fellow athletes should not be excluded.

 

Q1: What was Sir Ludwig Guttmann?s greatest contribution to the disabled?

Q2: When were the first Paralympic Games held?

Q3: What was special about the 1988 Seoul Paralympic Games?

Q4: What do we know about the Paralympic Games from the passage?

 

Key

ADBB

 

Passage 2 (P.129)

 

The Sultana was a Mississippi River steamboat destroyed in an explosion on April 27, 1865. An 1) estimated 1,800 of the 2,400 passengers were killed, and the Sultana sank not far from Memphis, Tennessee. This disaster received little public attention, as it took place soon after the President Abraham Lincoln was 2) assassinated.

The wooden steamboat was constructed in 1863 and 3) was intended to be use for the lower Mississippi cotton trade. Registering 1,719 tons, the steamboat was built to carry no more than 376 people. For two years, it ran a regular route between St. Louis and New Orleans. Sometimes it was asked to carry troops.

The Sultana left New Orleans on April 21, 1865. Most of the passengers were Union soldiers who had recently been 4) released from Confederate prison camps. The US government had 5) made a contract with the Sultana to transport these former prisoners of war back to their homes in the north.

At 2 a.m. on April 27, about seven miles north of Memphis, at least one boiler 6) gave away, causing a huge explosion that destroyed the center portion of the boat, throwing sleeping men high into the air before landing in the river. Confusion and chaos 7) ensued as men tried to save themselves and others. Many drowned while others burned to death.

The direct cause of the explosion was later determined to be the leaky and poorly repaired steam boiler. Passengers who 8) survived the initial explosion had to risk their lives in the icy water of the Mississippi or burn with the ship. Many died of drowning or coldness. Bodies of 9) victims continue to be found downriver for months. Many were never recovered. Some of the Sultana’s crew, including the captain, were among those who 10) perished.

Key

(1)  estimated

(2)  assassinated

(3)  was intended to

(4)  released from

(5)  made a contract with

(6)  gave away

(7)  ensued

(8)  survived

(9)  victims

(10)  perished