施心远主编《听力教程》3_(第2版)Unit_14答案

Unit14

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 I.Q. 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

.

2. 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,

ladder or hasn't he?

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,

collect pine cones to stop the ruins being urn ... made urn ... made untidy with

all these things.

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,

you

know

urn ... pine nuts are extremely sought after 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

ground up and of course they they ... come in cakes and sweets and things like

that.

Liz: So it’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 license 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 pulling 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.

1.A

2.B

3.D

4.B

5.C

6.A

7.A

8.D

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.

5.

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

buildings that generate their own power.

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

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 there the kind

of visual blight* often associated with modern windmills.

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.

A: Pre-listening Question

Have you ever seen the windmill? And which country is noted for its windmills?

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.

B: Sentence Dictation

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

sentence three times.

C: Detailed Listening

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

the following sentences.

1.D

2.C

3.A

4.A

5.D

6.C

7.A

8.B

D: After-listening Discussion

Directions: listen to the passage again and discuss the following questions.

1. 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. These

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

companies look environmentally correct. Various European initiatives to increase the

viability* of sustainable energy also have given the urban turbine a boost, leading to

heightened interest in

2.

(open)

Section Three

NEWS

News Item 1

News

of

Michael

Jackson's

sudden

death

spread

quickly.

In

his

hometown

of

Gary, Indiana fans held a candlelight vigil and created a makeshift shrine outside his

childhood home.

In other communities around the U.S., people gathered in groups to sing Jackson

songs, dance and recount the pop icon's high-profile life. Images of Michael Jackson

singing and dancing were broadcast around the world. Newspapers also covered their

front pages with headlines of the singer's death.

In Japan, where the pop star was hugely popular, fans were looking forward to