听力教程Ⅲ原文---Unit14

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Section One Tactics for Listening

Part1 Spot Dictation

Make Your Child a Winner

Peak

performances

-

moments

when

children

(1)

achieve

the

best

that's

in

them - are the stuff of every parent's (2) dream. And yet most of us have seen a

report

card

or

heard

a

trumpet

solo

that

(3)

falls

short

of

what

our

kids

can

(4)

accomplish.

Why

can

some

boys

and

girls

repeatedly

pull

themselves

to

the

(5)

heights,

while

others

of

equal

or

(6)

superior

ability

cannot

Many

parents

assume

skill is

pretty much determined by (7) natural ability; the student with the highest . will

get

the

best

grades,

or

the

athlete

with

the

most

prowess

will

(8)

surpass

his

teammates.

Genes count in determining performance, but they're not everything. The (9)

edge

comes

from

mental

attitude,

character

and

(10)

strategy.

There

are

some

simple ways for parents to help their youngsters develop those

(11)

traits:

Find something to praise. A child who feels good about himself

(12) succeeds; Assess your child's (13) strengths;

Encourage self-applause;

Knowing how to relax is key to (14) peak performance.

A good report card (15) posted near your daughter's mirror reminds her that

she can do well and (16) reinforces the urge to repeat her success.

There are no (17) shortcuts to bringing your child to do his best. It's a (18) gradual

process of support, encouragement and hard work. And those efforts (19) payoff

not only in peak performance but also in (20) closer. winner relations between

parent and child.

Part2 listening for Gist

Elderly

people

deserve

our

care

and

respect.

Too

many

of

them

are

left

in

homes for the elderly, alone and often forgotten by their families. Or they live with

their families, who then have no time to themselves.

The family placement scheme is currently providing many carers with a

satisfying and important occupation. And more and more grandparents are being

How does the scheme operate

Families

are

interviewed

and

carefully

matched

to

the

elderly

person

or

persons, taking into account such things as suitability of accommodation - special

needs, children and pets, smoking, lifestyle, personality and interests. Matching is,

of course, largely a matter of ensuring that the elderly person and the carer will

enjoy each other's company.

After this the elderly person and the family are prepared for the placement:

An

introductory

visit

is

arranged,

usually

in

the

carer's

home.

This

means

that

when the placement begins the elderly person and family have met each other.

Carers are paid on a weekly basis to cover expenses.

Exercise

Directions: Listen to the passage and write down the gist and the key words that

help you decide.

1.

This passage is about the family placement scheme and how it operates.

The key words are elderly people. care. respect: scheme. adopted. caring families:

interviewed. matched. suitability: matching. ensuring. enjoy company: introductory

visit. caring home: paid.

cover expenses.

Section Two Listening Comprehension

Part 1

Dialogue

Tree Climbers of Pompeii*

Sara:

Urn ... It's

another

one

of

my

adventures

as

a

tourist,

urn ...

finding out

things you really didn't expect to find out when you went to the place! I

went

to

Pompeii

and

of

course

what

you

go

to

Pompeii

for

is

er ...

the

archaeology.

Liz: To see the ruins.

Sara: To see the ruins. And I was actually seeing the ruins but urn ... suddenly

my attention was caught by something else. I was just walking round the

comer of a ruin, into a group of trees, pine trees, and I was just looking at

them, admiring them and suddenly I saw a man halfway up this tree, and I

was looking at him so all I could see was his hands and his feet and he was

about 20 or 30 feet up. I thought,

got a ladder or hasn't he

he had just gone straight up the tree.

Liz: He'd shinned up* the tree.

Sara:

He'd

shinned

up

the

tree.

Like

a

monkey,

more

or less,

except

he

was

a

rather middle-aged monkey ... He was er ... he was all of 50 and (Dh God),

what's going on here Anyway, I walked a bit further and saw other people

either

up

trees

or

preparing

to

go

up

trees,

and

then

I

noticed

a

man

standing

there

directing

them.

A

sort

of

foreman,

and

began

to

wonder

what on earth was going on, and then on the ground I saw there were all

these polythene* buckets and they were full of pine cones* and of course

what they were doing was collecting pine cones, and I thought,

tidy of them to collect pine cones to stop the ruins being urn ... made urn ...

made untidy with all these things.

pine

cones ...

This

was

getting

ridiculous ...

They

were

really

collecting

them in a big way. So I urn ... asked the er ... foreman what was going on

and he said,

and valuable in the food industry in Italy.

Liz: For food (Yeah). Not fuel! I thought you were going to say they were going

to put (bum) them on a fire. Yes.

Sara: Well, they might bum the er ... cones when they've finished with them but

inside these cones

are little white things like nuts and er ... I realized that they're used in Italian

cooking quite a

lot in er ... there's a particular sauce that goes with spaghetti em ... from

Geneva, I think, called

course they they ... come in cakes and sweets and things like that.

Liz: So jt's quite a delicacy.

/

Sara: It's quite a delicacy. And of course I'd never thought of how they actually got

them 'cos you can't imagine having a pine nut farm. So what he said happens

is that private fIrms like his buy a licence off the Italian State for the right to

go

round

places

like

Pompeii

-

archaeological

sites

and

things

-

and

systematically collect all the pine cones that come off the trees and similarly

in the ... in the forests.

Liz: And of course they have to go up the tree because by the time it's fallen food

isn't any good . Sara: That's right. They're Qulling them down and he said they

were very good at urn ... recognizing which ones were ready and which ones were

a bit hard and etc, and each of them had a sort of stick with a hook at the end

which they were using to pull the pines off ... off the trees but clearly it wasn't

enough to sit around and wait till they fell down. You ... you had to do something

about it. There they were. So that was er ... the end of my looking at the ruins for

about half an hour. I was too fascinated by this er .. , strange form of er ...

agriculture.

Liz: Well, what you don't intend to see is always the most

interesting. Sara: Much more interesting.

Exercise

Directions: Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to each of the

following questions.

Part 2

Passage

Windmills

1.

Now, windmills are poised to break into a new frontier: the modern city center,

often fused into building designs and barely noticeable from a distance.

2.

Lighter, quieter, and often more effIcient than their rural counterparts, they

take advantage of the extreme turbulence and rapid shifts in direction that

characterize urban wind patterns.

3.

But so far, the current models are being designed more for public or commercial

buildings than for private homes, and the smallest weigh roughly 200 kilograms.

4.

The

recent

liberalization

of

European

energy

markets

also

has

allowed

customers

to

choose

what

kind

of

sustainable

energy

they

want

to

purchase,

with wind energy among the most popular.

In the classrooms down below, there's no palpable sign that a steel windmill up

above is continually feeding kilowatts to the local power grid.

The graceful wooden windmills that have broken up the flat Dutch landscape

for centuries a national symbol like wooden shoes and tulips - yielded long ago to

ungainly metal-pole wind turbines.*

Now, windmills are poised to break into a new frontier: the modem city

center, often fused* into building designs and barely noticeable from a distance.

Though still in its teething stages, the

designed to generate energy from the rooftops of bustling cities.

Lighter, quieter, and often more efficient than their rural counterparts, they

take advantage of the extreme turbulence* and rapid shifts in direction that

characterize urban wind patterns.

Prototypes* have been successfully tested in several Dutch cities, and the city

government in the Hague has recently agreed to begin a large-scale deployment in

2003.

These very visible projects also improve the public profile of wind power,

making energy companies look environmentally correct.

Current models cost US$$8,000 to US$$12,000, and can generate between 3,000

and

7,000

kilowatt

hours

of

electricity

per

year.

A

typical

Dutch

household

uses

3,500

kilowatt

hours

per

year,

while

in

the

United

States,

this

figure

jumps

to

around 10,000 kilowatt hours.

But

so

far,

they

are

being

designed

more

for

public

or

commercial

buildings

than

for

private

homes.

The

smallest

of

the

current

models

weigh

roughly

200

kilograms and can be installed on a roof in a few hours without using

a

crane.

Germany,

Finland

and

Denmark

have

also

been

experimenting

with

the

technology, but the ever-practical Dutch are natural pioneers in urban wind power,

mainly because of the lack of space there.

The Netherlands, with 16 million people crowded into a country twice the size

of Slovenia, is the most densely populated in Europe.

The scarcity of land also is felt in the countryside, forcing traditional wind

farms to seek new locations. Offshore wind farms are more common, but remain

pricey and difficult to service.

Various

European

initiatives

to

increase

the

viability*

of

sustainable

energy

also

have

given

the

urban

turbine

a

boost,

leading

to

heightened

interest

in

The

recent

liberalization

of

European

energy

markets

also

has

allowed

customers to choose what kind of sustainable energy they want to purchase, with

wind energy among the most popular.

Windmills are usually noisy, though the latest models are considered quiet

enough to blend into the background noise that already exists in the urban

But in the classrooms down below, there's no palpable* sign that a steel windmill up

above is continually feeding kilowatts to the local power grid. Nor is there the kind

of visual blight* often ssociated with modern windmills.

environment.

In

the

Dutch

town

of

Ede,

whose

old

wooden

mill

now

generates

more

tourism than energy, the new windmill on the roof of the ROVC Technical School

hardly makes a whisper as its blades spin in a brisk winter breeze. If the wind is

blowing really hard, you can usually hear it a little bit on the roof.

But

in

the

classrooms

down

below,

there

’

s

no

palpable

sign

that

a

steel

windmill up above is continually feeding kilowatts to the local power grid. Nor is

the kind of visual blight often associated with modern windmills.

Meanwhile,

projects

are

under

way

to

use

the

windmills

to

generate

power

for lifeboats, streetlights, and portable generators.

Exercise A Pre-listening Question

Holland, I think, is the country noted for windmills. We seldom have the chances to

see the real ones, but sometimes we can find them in some amusement parks.

Exercise B Sentence Dictation

Directions: Listen to some sentences and write them down. You will hear each

sentence three times.

Exercise C Detailed Listening

Directions: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to complete each of

the following sentences.

Section Three

NEWS

News Item 1

Indonesia-IMF*

Indonesia has made the long-awaited announcement that it is going to leave the

International Monetary Fund* loan program at the end of the year. Tim Johnston

reports from Jakarta. That presents a number of challenges for the government of

President Megawati Sukamoputri *.

Indonesia has been reliant on funding from the IMF since its economy almost

collapsed during the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s.

The country now owes

billion dollars to the IMF, and it has said that it will

repay

the

money

over

six

years.

In

order

to

satisfy

the

fund's

conditions

-

and

reassure* investors - IMF officials will still monitor the country's finances.

Some economists are worried that without the steadying hand of the IMF, the

administration will be less inclined to tackle reforms that are politically sensitive,

but necessary.

Exercise A

Directions: Listen to the news item and complete the summary.

This news item is about an announcement made by Indonesia to leave the

International Monetary Fund loan program at the end of the year.

Exercise B

Directions: Listen to the news again and choose the best answer to complete each

of the following sentences.

News Item 2

US

Economy

Most

analysts

had

expected

the

GDP

number

to

be

one

percentage

point

lower

than

what

was

actually

the

case.

The

Commerce

Department

says

the

economy

moved

ahead

in

large

part

because

of

a

surge*

in

defense

spending,

which was up 44 percent from the same period a year ago. The housing sector was

also

strong

because

of

low

interest

rates,

which

are

at

their

lowest

level

in

45

years.

Drew Matus, an analyst at Lehman Brothers in New York, is encouraged by the

apparent rebound* in capital investment.

A

second

report

also

lifted

stock

prices

as

investors

began

to

think

that

the

long-expected

pickup

in

growth

may

be

actually

occurring.

First-time

claims

for

unemployment

benefits

fell

back

last

week

to

their

lowest

level

in

five

weeks.

Lower first-time claims is a sign that the long depressed US labor market may be

improving.

Exercise A

Directions: Listen to the news item and complete the summary.

This news item is about the faster-than-expected growth of US economy.