4+1听力口语MP3-语音 68

Part One听辨练习
A. Listen and repeat .
two two books sixty-seven
sixty-seven cents eight eight women
thirty thirty classrooms nineteen
nineteen dollars thirteen thirteen cities
twenty-two twenty pages thirty -three
thirty-three stores forty-eight forty-eight metres
fifty-two fifty-two people sixty-six
sixty-six trees seventy-seven seventy-seven spots
eighty-eight eighty-eight numbers ninety-nine
ninety-nine pictures
B. Listen to these pairs of numbers. The stress of –teen numbers contrasts with that of -ty numbers and circle the number you hear .
thirteen thirty seventeen seventy
fourteen forty eighteen eighty
fifteen fifty nineteen ninety
sixteen sixty
C. Write the numbers you hear .
1. Uncle John is___________ years old.
2. Our house is ___________ years old.
3. There are ___________ teachers in our school.
4. There are ___________ boys in this class.
5. I need ___________ dollars.
6. This pen costs ___________ cents.
7. Did you say Helen was ___________ years old?
8. The river is ___________ miles broad.
9. The lake is ___________ miles around.
10. The mirror is ___________ meters high.
11. He is ___________ years younger than me.
12. He bought the book ___________ days ago.
13. The city is ___________ miles away from Beijing.
14. He is ___________ meters high.
15. The house is ___________ square kilometers.
16. She said she walks ___________ miles every day.
17. I have ___________ color balls.
18. The book costs ___________ dollars.
19. There are ___________ students in our class.
20. About ___________ people attended this demonstration¹.
D. Form sentences, using numbers about things around you, for example, pages in a book, students in a class, floors in a building, buses in the city, cars in the parking lot, games your team won, and so on. Use about if you don’t know the exact numbers .
Examples:
1. This book has ninety-six pages.
2. There are about ninety-six pages in this book.
3. We have fifty-three students in this class.
4. There are about seventy-nine floors in the building.
5. Take the No. twenty-three bus.
6. You are the 14th of the visitors today.
7. Five of the blue ones are my brother’s.
8. Today is March the tenth.
9. The cost has been reduced by 40 per cent.
10. Its grain output went up 16 percent last year.
11. It is one-third smaller than our country.
12. It is the fourth largest river in the world.
13. This year we will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of our university.
14. Stainless² steels contain about 15% of chromium.
15. The output of chemical fibre in our province has increase three and half times in the past three years.
16. Our industrial output value was up 1.9 times during this period.
17. Some of these stars are one hundred million times brighter than the sun.
18. He lives in room 239.
19. My mother has just bought 2 kilos of apples.
20. Three-sevenths of the employees are women.
E. Tell the people’s ages,using full sentences .
　　Example: The king was born in 1210. How old was he in 1260?
　　He was fifty.
　　On your own:
1. Tom was born in 1970. How old is he this year?

2. Mrs. Chung was born in 1949. How old was she in 1979?

3. Robert Todd was born in 1608. How old was he in 1658?

4. The twins were born in 1983. How old will they be in 1999?

5. My sister was born in 1975. How old will she be in 2002?

6. Thomas Hardy³ was born in 1840. How old was he in 1940?

7. Jane Austin was born in 1775. How old was she in 1835?

8. I was born in 1986. How old was I in 2001?

9. Professor Li was born in 1958. How old will he be in 2038?

10. The People’s Republic of China
　was founded in 1949. How old will it be in 2039?

F. Read the short poems below .
One two tie my shoes
Three four shut the door
Five six pick up sticks
Seven eight eat your cake
Nine ten good-bye and come again
One little two little three little Indians
Four little five little six little Indians
Seven little eight little nine little Indians
Ten little Indian boys.
G. Look through the paragraph quickly and then read it loudly, paying attention to the numbers in the paragraph .
　　BRITISH women have ballooned in size over the past 80 years, a report yesterday revealed. The vital statistics for the average woman have risen from 31-20-32 in the 1920s to 36-26-38 in 2001. Bigger breasts are reflected in the increased sizes. More D-cup bras are now sold in the UK than in any other western country.
　　Modern women actually eat less, consuming 2,000 calories a day compared with 2,500 calories in the 1940s.But today’s diet is far higher in fat. Household appliances and sedentary jobs mean women also take less exercise, says dieting website realslimmers.com. The report said: “In the 1920s, women burned off their calories doing housework by hand. In 2001, an increasing number of women sit in front of computer screens all day.”
1920S AVERAGE STATISTICS: 31-20-32
　　BREAKFAST: Porridge/bread and butter
　　LUNCH: Meat pie with cabbage and potatoes plus apple pie
　　TEA: Pork pie/scrambled⁴ eggs SUPPER: Bread and cheese
1940S AVERAGE STATISTICS: 33-21-33
　　BREAKFAST: Powdered scrambled eggs
　　LUNCH: Rissoles and blancmange
　　DINNER: Rabbit stew⁵
1960S AVERAGE STATISTICS: 34-24-35
　　BREAKFAST: Fried bacon and eggs
　　LUNCH: Stew and dumplings, spotted⁶ dick
　　DINNER: Egg and chips
1980S AVERAGE STATISTICS: 35-24-37
　　BREAKFAST: Cereal and peanut butter on toast
　　LUNCH: Pizza
　　DINNER: Spaghetti and chocolate cake
2000S AVERAGE STATISTICS: 36-26-38
　　BREAKFAST: Brunch⁷ bar
　　LUNCH: Mozzarella sandwich plus crisps
　　DINNER: Ready meal followed by a bar of chocolate and a few
　　glasses of wine
H. Tell this joke to your friends or your classmates .
　　Between the ages of 15 - 18 a woman is like China or Iran, developing at a sizzling rate with a lot of potential but as yet still not free or open.
Between the ages of 18 - 21 a woman is like Africa or Australia. She is half discovered, half wild and naturally beautiful with bush land around the fertile deltas⁸.
Between the ages of 21 - 30 a woman is like America or Japan, completely discovered, very well developed and open to trade especially with countries with cash or cars.?
Between the ages of 30 - 35, a woman is like India or Spain, very hot, relaxed and convinced of its own beauty.?
　　Between the ages of 35 - 40 a woman is like France or Argentina. She may have been half destroyed during the war but can till be a warm and desirable place to visit.?
Between the ages of 40 - 50 she is like Yugoslavia or Iraq. She lost the war and is haunted by past mistakes. Massive reconstruction⁹ is now necessary.?
Between the ages of 50 - 60 she is like Russia or Canada. Very wide, quiet and the borders are practically unpatrolled but he frigid¹⁰ climate keeps people away.
Between the ages of 60 - 70 a woman is like England or Mongolia. With a glorious and all conquering past but alas¹¹ no future.?
After 70, they become like Afghanistan. Everyone knows where it is, no one wants to go there.
　　
　　
　　
Part Two跟读练习
A. Read the following numbers quickly .
One two three four five six seven eight
nine ten eleven welve twenty twenty-one thirty
forty fifty sixty seventy eighty ninety one hundred first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh
eighth ninth tenth eleventh twelfth thirteenth twentieth
twenty-first twenty-second twenty-third twenty-fourth twenty-fifth
twenty-sixth twenty-seventieth twenty-eighth twenty-ninth
thirtieth fortieth fiftieth sixtieth seventieth
eightieth ninetieth hundredth thousandth millionth
B. Read the following numbers .
6 39 102 713 3,096 5,103
6,500 10,395 320,450 33,098 790,666 190,324
398,685 5,096,465 13,465,678 808,000,000 1/3
1/10 3/7 7/11
C. Read the following formulae .
4-2=2 Four minus two is two.
26-8= 18 Twenty-six minus eight is eighteen.
7+5=12 Seven plus five is twelve.
3+7=10 Three plus seven is ten.
5×31=155 Five times thirty-one is one hundred and fifty-five.
3×8=24 Three times eight is twenty-four.
9o÷3=30 Ninety divided by three is thirty.
45÷6=9 Forty-five divided by six is nine.
7×9= 63. Seven times nine is sixty-three.
57+25=82 Fifty-seven plus twenty-five is eighty-two.
D. Read this paragraph loudly and try to remember the numbers in it .
　　The Chinese language usually refers to the standard language and its dialect used by the Han nationality that makes up 93.3% of the total population. Most of the minority nationalities in China have their own languages. Both numerically and in the extent of its distribution, Chinese is the most important language in China and also one of the official working languages of the United Nations. It is also one of the richest and highly developed languages in the world.
　　Chinese is also spoken by many overseas Chinese: it is the common languages of more than 10 million overseas Chinese and persons of Chinese descent in Southeast Asia alone. At present, more than one billion people, approximately 1/5 of the world’s population, speak Chinese as their mother tongue.
　　A written form of the language was developed as early as 6,000 years ago. From the point of view of its origin, it belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family.



E. Read the following passage .
　　The United States is a land of great differences—differences in climate; In landscape; in altitude. The continental¹² United States, the country’s territory on the North American continent, stretches about 4,500 kilometers from the eastern coast, that is, the Atlantic Coast, to the Pacific Ocean on the West; and it extends 2,557 kilometers from the northern boundary to the southern tip of Texas. The country borders Canada on the north and goes down south to Mexico and the Gulf¹³ of Mexico. Including the States of Alaska and Hawaii, the United States covers an area of nine million square kilometers, or, to be more exact, 9,191,843 sq. km., a little less than the area of the People’s Republic of China, which is 9,600,000 sq. km.
　　There are altogether 50 states in the United States, the largest of which is Alaska (1,518,807 sq. km.). It was well known as Russian American until purchased by the Untied¹⁴ States from Russia in1867. It was linked to the United States by the Alaska Highway in 1942, and became the 49th state of the U.S.A. in 1959.
　　Texas is second in size (692,563 sq. km.), which is larger than France, but is only a little less than half of the area of China’s Xing Jiang Uighur Autonomous¹⁵ Region.
　　Hawaii lies in the tropical zone of the Pacific, 3,200 km. away from the North American Continent. It is a group of islands, which became the 50th state of the United States in 1959. Hawaii was made very famous by the Japanese attack, on December 7,1941, on one of its islands—Pearl Harbor which is situated¹⁶ near Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii.
　　A jet plane can fly over the continental United States from the east coast to the Pacific Ocean on the west in about five hours; it will take a little more than two days to travel by train from Los Angeles on the west to New York City on the east coast. And I think that is about the same, or a little more than the time required to travel from China’s Beijing to Quangdong. Of course the actual distance of the former is much greater, since the train travels almost 100 km. an hour in the United States while your train here, I believe, normally travels no more than 70 km. an hour.

1 demonstration   

n.表明，示范，论证，示威

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。

2 stainless   

adj.无瑕疵的，不锈的

参考例句：

• I have a set of stainless knives and forks.我有一套不锈钢刀叉。
• Before the recent political scandal,her reputation had been stainless.在最近的政治丑闻之前，她的名声是无懈可击的。

3 hardy   

adj.勇敢的，果断的，吃苦的；耐寒的

参考例句：

• The kind of plant is a hardy annual.这种植物是耐寒的一年生植物。
• He is a hardy person.他是一个能吃苦耐劳的人。

4 scrambled   

v.快速爬行( scramble的过去式和过去分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞

参考例句：

• Each scrambled for the football at the football ground. 足球场上你争我夺。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He scrambled awkwardly to his feet. 他笨拙地爬起身来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 stew   

n.炖汤，焖，烦恼；v.炖汤，焖，忧虑

参考例句：

• The stew must be boiled up before serving.炖肉必须煮熟才能上桌。
• There's no need to get in a stew.没有必要烦恼。

6 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。

7 brunch   

n.早午餐

参考例句：

• They eat much the same thing for brunch every day.每天早午餐他们总是吃同样的东西。
• What did you have for your brunch?你早午饭都吃些什么？

8 deltas   

希腊字母表中第四个字母( delta的名词复数 )； （河口的）三角洲

参考例句：

• Tidal channels, deltas, and washover fans are characteristically associated with offshore bars. 潮汐水道、三角洲和冲刷扇典型地与滨外砂洲伴生在一起。
• I know many of the early civilizations prospered on deltas. 我知道很多古老的文明都是在三角洲上蓬勃发展起来的。

9 reconstruction   

n.重建，再现，复原

参考例句：

• The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后，该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
• In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期，技术决定一切。

10 frigid   

adj.寒冷的，凛冽的；冷淡的；拘禁的

参考例句：

• The water was too frigid to allow him to remain submerged for long.水冰冷彻骨，他在下面呆不了太长时间。
• She returned his smile with a frigid glance.对他的微笑她报以冷冷的一瞥。

11 alas   

int.唉(表示悲伤、忧愁、恐惧等)

参考例句：

• Alas!The window is broken!哎呀！窗子破了！
• Alas,the truth is less romantic.然而，真理很少带有浪漫色彩。

12 continental   

adj.大陆的，大陆性的，欧洲大陆的

参考例句：

• A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
• The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。

13 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

14 untied   

松开，解开( untie的过去式和过去分词 )； 解除，使自由； 解决

参考例句：

• Once untied, we common people are able to conquer nature, too. 只要团结起来，我们老百姓也能移山倒海。
• He untied the ropes. 他解开了绳子。

15 autonomous   

adj.自治的；独立的

参考例句：

• They proudly declared themselves part of a new autonomous province.他们自豪地宣布成为新自治省的一部分。
• This is a matter that comes within the jurisdiction of the autonomous region.这件事是属于自治区权限以内的事务。

16 situated   

adj.坐落在...的，处于某种境地的

参考例句：

• The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
• She is awkwardly situated.她的处境困难。