牛津七年级英语听力UNIT2

[00:07.18]Why don't dogs go to school,Eddie?
[00:12.25]Because we're smarter than people.
[00:16.51]What is school like?
[00:20.17]It's like watching TV,but there are fewer advertisements¹.
[00:27.12]Reading²  A School lives
[00:33.88]Mr Wu tells his students to visit the website³ of an e-friendship club
[00:40.25]called 'Schools Around the World'.
[00:44.20]Two members of the club write about their school lives.
[00:49.55]Read what John and Nancy say about their schools.
[00:54.91]Life in a British school
[00:58.67]Hi everybody
[01:01.83]My name is John.I am in Year 8 at Woodland School near London.
[01:09.09]It is mixed school.Boys and girls have lessons together.
[01:15.65]My favourite subject is Home Economics⁴.
[01:20.40]I like learning⁵ learning how to cook and sew⁶.
[01:25.16]I did not know how to do things for myself before I came to this school.
[01:31.22]Now,I know how to cook healthy and tasty⁷ meals.
[01:37.07]Our school has a reading week every year.
[01:41.80]My classmates and I love it.
[01:45.77]We can read any books from the school library.
[01:50.73]We can even bring in books and magzines from home
[01:56.30]but we have to tell our English teacher what we are reading.
[02:02.46]Near the end of each class we can talk to our friends about our books.
[02:09.54]The reading week is always too short
[02:14.11]because we want to read all our friends'books as well.
[02:19.76]Life in an American school
[02:23.83]Hi guys
[02:26.99]I'm Nancy and I'm 14 years old.
[02:31.95]I'm in 9th grade at Rocky⁸ Mountain Hight School in Denver.
[02:37.52]My brother's name is Jim.He is 17 years old.
[02:43.76]He had driving lessons in school last year.
[02:48.31]Now,he drives me to school every day.
[02:53.45]This is great because it's faster than taking the bus.
[02:58.89]Twice a week,I play softball⁹ after school.
[03:03.85]I love this game and I spend a lot of time practicing.
[03:09.70]Every Monday,I go to a 'buddy¹⁰ club'.
[03:14.17]At the buddy club,older students talk to new students about school life.
[03:21.01]I enjoy this a lot.My buddy is Julie.She is a senior¹¹ in 12th grade.
[03:29.37]She helps me learn all about my new school.
[03:34.02]She helps me with my homework and listens to my problems.
[03:40.19]Julie is my hero.
[03:43.71]During lunchtime,I meet my friends
[03:48.55]and we always have a great time talking to each other.
[03:53.38]Sometimes,we go to shopping malls after school.
[03:58.52]Integrated skills     A Comparing schools
[04:05.50]Daniel is writing an article about the different schools for the school newsletter.
[04:14.75]Sandy is helping¹² him collect information on the Internet.
[04:20.02]Listen to their conversation.Help Daniel complete teh table below.
[05:20.78]B Speak up:talking about different schools
[05:26.64]You are talking to your e-friend on the phone.
[05:32.98]Work in pairs.Use John and Daniel's conversation as a model.
[05:40.24]Replace the underlined¹³ words with your own information.
[05:45.60]How far do you live from your school?
[05:49.86]About four kilometres.
[05:53.62]Do you walk to school?
[05:57.28]No,I usually take the school bus.And you?
[06:03.62]I usually walk to school because I like walking.
[06:09.19]What if it rains or snows?
[06:13.45]It doesn't snow very often here,and I don't mind the rain.
[06:19.79]Pronunciation Showing surprise
[06:26.06]A Amy and Sandy are talking about their classmate Laura.
[06:32.91]Listen to their conversation.
[06:36.56]Laura hurt her leg on Monday.     Oh,really!
[06:41.92]She has to stay in hospital for a month.      A month!
[06:47.98]Yes.She won't be able to play basketball for three months.  Three months!
[06:55.74]B Listen to the sentences.
[07:00.99]Put a rising arrow( )at the end of the sentence if you think the speaker is surprised.
[07:07.26]Put a falling arrow( ) if you think he/she is not.
[07:12.30]1 Look out the window.It's snowing!     Snowing!
[07:19.25]2 Mr Wu is going to be on TV tonight.    Mr Wu [07:26.30]3 Joe wants go get a pet monkey.    A monkey!
[07:32.96]4 I'm hungry.
[07:37.53]Hungry?You just ate four hamburgers.
[07:43.39]5 We'll have cakes for dinner tonight.     Cakes!
[07:49.66]6 Did you hear the news?Liu Mei is going to move to Canada.
[07:56.60]I don't believe it.
[08:00.26]Main task¹⁴ B Ideal¹⁵ school
[08:06.43]B1 Mr Wu asks his students to write to the Schools Around the World Club
[08:15.20]about their ideal schools.
[08:19.46]Here is Daniel's article.Read it with your partner.
[08:25.10]My ideal school
[08:28.97]I like to get up late,so my ideal school starts at 9 a.m.
[08:36.52]It finishes at 3 p.m.
[08:40.88]So we will have a lots of time for after-school activities.
[08:47.44]we have an hour for lunch.There is a big dining hall.
[08:53.92]We can eat lunch and chat there.
[08:58.78]We can also listen to pop music in the hall.
[09:03.63]We eat fruit and vegetables every day.
[09:08.78]We have Maths every day because I think Maths is very interesting.
[09:15.55]I love computers so we have Computer Studies every day before lunch.
[09:22.68]We wear school uniforms,but we do not wear ties.
[09:28.95]The classes are quite small.
[09:32.89]There are about 15 students in each class.
[09:38.66]My ideal school has a park on one side and a shopping mall on the other.
[09:46.92]We have a big library with lots of useful books.
[09:52.88]We also have a tennis court and a swimming pool.
[09:57.92]There are lots of clubs and after-school activities.
[10:03.35]We only have half an hour of homework every day,
[10:08.60]and we do not do homework at weekends.
[10:13.46]Every month,we go on a school trip to a museum or a theatre.
 

1 advertisements   

n.出公告，做广告( advertisement的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The advertisements of costume in Paris broadened his outlook. 巴黎的服装广告使他大开眼界。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He glanced his eyes down the classified advertisements. 他浏览了一下分类广告。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 reading   

n.阅读，知识，读物，表演，对法律条文的解释；adj.阅读的

参考例句：

• Children learn reading and writing at school.孩子们在学校学习阅读和写作。
• He finds pleasure in reading.他从阅读中得到乐趣。

3 website   

n.（互联网的）站点；网址

参考例句：

• Do you have the address of our website?你有我们的网址吗？
• A strange website turns up.出现了一个奇怪的网站。

4 economics   

n.经济学，经济情况

参考例句：

• He is studying economics,which subject is very important.他正在学习经济学，该学科是很重要的。
• One can't separate politics from economics.不能把政治与经济割裂开来。

5 learning   

n.学问，学识，学习；动词learn的现在分词

参考例句：

• When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时，常会从车上掉下来。
• Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。

6 sew   

vi.缝纫；vt.缝制，缝补

参考例句：

• Would you sew up this hole in my coat?把我上衣上的这个洞缝补一下好吗？
• Button holes are very hard to sew.要缝钮扣洞非常难。

7 tasty   

adj.好吃的，可口的

参考例句：

• What a tasty pie!多好吃的派啊！
• This fish is very tasty.这种鱼很好吃。

8 rocky   

adj.岩石的，像岩石的；多岩石的

参考例句：

• She drives carefully up the rocky lane.她驾车小心地从这条很多石头的小路上驶过去。
• There is only one port along this rocky coast.这个多岩石的海岸只有一个港口。

9 softball   

n.垒球(与棒球相似，但球场较小，球大而软)

参考例句：

• The softball is solid.垒球是实心的。
• I love sports like volleyball and softball.我喜欢体育运动比如排球和垒球。

10 buddy   

n.（美口）密友，伙伴

参考例句：

• Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气，老兄。有什么麻烦吗？
• Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了，你这家伙！

11 senior   

adj.年长的；资格较老的，地位较高的；n.年长者，前辈；大学高年级学生

参考例句：

• My brother is senior to me by two years.我哥哥比我年长两岁。
• They are senior students.他们是高年级学生。

12 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

13 underlined   

v.在…下面画线( underline的过去式和过去分词 )；加强，强调

参考例句：

• She underlined her disapproval of the proceedings by walking out. 她退席以表示不赞成这些做法。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• In his speech he underlined several points. 他在讲话中强调了几点。 来自《简明英汉词典》

14 task   

n.任务，工作，作业

参考例句：

• Our task is to supply vegetables all the year round.我们的任务是全年供应蔬菜。
• I repeat that we cannot undertake the task.我再说一遍，我们不能承担这项任务。

15 ideal   

adj.理想的，完美的；空想的，观念的；n.理想

参考例句：

• The weather at the seaside was ideal—bright and breezy.海边的天气最宜人，风和日丽的。
• They promised to be faithful to their ideal for ever. 他们保证永远忠于自己的理想。