新东方4+1听力口语MP3-语音语调 Unit63
Part One 叠合听辨练习
A. Listen and repeat .
bad desk good day red dress tame monkey
sad dog like candy deep pond grab Bob
take care black coffee book case more rain
part time job at two o’clock hot tea car ride
ripe pear stop playing keep pace sore ribs
big game big garage big gate fall leaves
dig garden some men same machine bus station
hunt Terence
B. Read the following sentence .
My friend did it.
The desk came.
The chief flied to New York yesterday.
He wears a fresh shirt.
She can never finish it by herself.
I did this for the first time.
A big game was played between the two parties.
Please keep peace in the house.
There is a doll lying on the floor.
She took care of the children.
I don’t believe that Ted is a good boy.
He tried hard to persuade Bob not to work too hard.
Just give the tab back to me when you are ready.
When will it rain next?
Grab Bob and have him come here.
How much did the cake cost?
Take care of your mother.
How long is the car ride?
Why do you want to shame me?
Ann Nolan lives over there.
C. Read the dialogue .
Rent Agent: Good morning, sir. Can I help you?
Tony: Good day. I’m looking for a one-bedroom apartment today.
Rent Agent: Certainly. How much rent did you want to pay?
Tony: Well, I didn’t want to pay more than $900 a month.
Rent Agent: $900 a month? We don’t often have apartment as inexpensive as that. We
have one apartment for $ 985 a month today, on Eleventh Avenue. It’s near the municipal buildings.
Tony: Is it furnished?
Rent Agent: No, it’s unfurnished. It has a kitchen, but there are not many cookers.
There’s a garden in the back, but the tenants can’t use it. The landlord
lives downstairs. Friends are forbidden in the apartment after midnight.
No noise and no television after 11…
Tony: No, thank you! I want to take an apartment, not a prison.
Rent Agent: Ok, we would do as your requirement. And we’ll contact with you later!
D. Read the paragraph .
Here, then, is the problem that I present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race or shall mankind renounce war? People will not face this alternative because it is so difficult to abolish war. The abolition of war will demand distasteful limitations of national sovereignty. But what perhaps impedes understanding of the situation more than anything else is that the term ‘mankind’ feels vague and abstract. People scarcely realize in imagination that the danger is to themselves and their children and their grandchildren, and not only to a dimly apprehended humanity. And so they hope that perhaps war may be allowed to continue provided modern weapons are prohibited. I am afraid this hope is illusory. Whatever agreements not to use hydrogen bombs had been reached in time of peace, they would no longer be considered binding in time of war, and both sides would set to work to manufacture hydrogen bombs as soon as war broke out, for if one side manufactured the bombs and the other did not, the side that manufactured them would inevitably be victorious...
As geological time is reckoned, Man has so far existed only for a very short period one million years at the most. What he has achieved, especially during the last 6,000 years, is something utterly new in the history of the Cosmos, so far at least as we are acquainted with it. For countless ages the sun rose and set, the moon waxed and waned, the stars shone in the night, but it was only with the coming of Man that these things were understood. In the great world of astronomy and in the little world of the atom, Man has unveiled secrets which might have been thought undiscoverable. In art and literature and religion, some men have shown a sublimity of feeling which makes the species worth preserving. Is all this to end in trivial horror because so few are able to think of Man rather than of this or that group of men? Is our race so destitute of wisdom, so incapable of impartial love, so blind even to the simplest dictates of self-preservation, that the last proof of its silly cleverness is to be the extermination of all life on our planet? —for it will be not only men who will perish, but also the animals, whom no one can accuse of communism or anticommunism.
I cannot believe that this is to be the end. I would have men forget their quarrels for a moment and reflect that, if they will allow themselves to survive, there is every reason to expect the triumphs of the future to exceed immeasurably the triumphs of the past. There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal, as a human being to human beings: remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, nothing lies before you but universal death.
Part Two失去爆破听辨练习
A. Listen and repeat .
lap dog mad John pet lion truck stop
big shoes hot day a suitcase sit down
put it down red chair round table good teacher
black gate cheap box a bad cold good tea
bad boy work hard look good a blackboard
a handbag bad news just great could be
a great pity keep secret late for the flight leave the team
sweet lips read the map a mad rat a vast grassland
the last bark a fat cat a pop shop told him not to shout
patent right feed the goat a red flag
B. Read the following sentences.
1. I have read the book.
2. Put the book on the desk.
3. The rich and the poor have great differences.
4. Let’s have a good talk.
5. He has made the right choice.
6. It’s a very rude joke.
7. That’s a very bad thought.
8. I would like to have one.
9. Let me have a look at it.
10. Good morning, sir.
11. They are mostly teenagers.
12. Football’s my worst sport.
13. Jim kept studying for his exam.
14. Do you live on the west side or the east side of town?
15. We kept strong for our children.
16. I hope you haven’t lost trust.
17. Where’s the grand stand?
18. This is our last trip.
19. You need to wash your hands.
20. I know exactly what you mean.
C. Read the dialogue.
Sally: Hello.
Paul: Hello, Sally? This is Paul.
Sally: Oh, hi, Paul.
Paul: What happened yesterday? You didn’t come. You forger the date we made,
didn’t you?
Sally: Well, it rained hard all day and I had a bad cold, so I decided to stay at home
and have a rest.
Paul: You did? But I tried to call you at least 40 times and nobody answered.
Sally: Oh, the telephone lines were damaged by the storm. They repaired them today.
Paul: What did Bob do yesterday? Did he and his classmate go dancing?
Sally: No, they stayed at home and played cards with other children.
Paul: And what did you do? Did you play cards, too?
Sally: No. I listened to records and studied. What did you do yesterday, Paul?
Paul: I just told you, Sally. I tried to call you 40 times!
D. Enjoy the small joke .
Teacher: What’s an abstract noun, Ann?
Ann: I don’t know, madam.
Teacher: What? You don’t know! Well, It’s the name of a thing which you can think of
but cannot touch. Now give me an example.
Ann: A red-hot poker, madam.
E. Read the paragraph correctly .
Almost 60 percent of overweight women in Britain say they would not allow their partner to see them naked, a body image survey showed last Thursday.
Despite the current craze for curvy figures, too much body fat has a devastating impact on every aspect of a woman’s life, Slimming Magazine said. The magazine’s annual survey of 2,000 women, all of whom regarded themselves as overweight, revealed that more than 80 percent believed their excess weight was damaging their health, ruining their sex lives and holding back their careers.
“Overweight women don’t want to be stick insects, they just want to fall within an average weight range and feel healthier, sexier and more confident,” said Alison Hall, the magazine’s editor.
”What the media is talking about at the moment is that curves are back. People want to be more like Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jennifer Lopez, and that’s great. But we’re into making sure women are at a good weight for their height.”
The survey showed 76 percent of women believed overweight people were seen as being less intelligent than slim people are. Some 80 percent thought it was easier for slim women to climb the career ladder.
Government statistics show that more than half the British population is now overweight, but 81 percent of women received no guidance from their general practitioners, the survey said.
National Health Service spokeswoman Gail Robinson said the government did not record information about dieters seeking advice from their doctors.
Part Three跟读练习
A.Listen and repeat the phrases .
a drug store be drunk with joy a job transfer
solicit trade drink like a fish fight for freedom
find fault with great pleasure in the deep valley
in cold blood break ranks bright colors
radiant with read magazine bank service
cheat the journey the youngest child ask yourself
get the cheese feed the duck get his goat
eat hot dogs get the better of hold the bag
keep the key lock the door the first class
leap forward the front yard of the house behind the back of
B. Form sentences with the following phrases .
visit the city hit him on the head a stupid men
eat too much keep fit help them
a bad suggestion forget the plan get sacked
get settled passed the examination cost much money
in a great hurry a first-class university in short supply
date the girl like making cakes hate city life
get the payment lead the team
C. Read the following sentences .
1. He’s a bad boy.
2. I like lollipops.
3. She’s my favorite daughter.
4. I gave Margaret some books.
5. Monica has big feet.
6. Kirk looked at the photo carefully.
7. I can help Greg with his homework.
8. Grab my coat and we’ll go.
9. Please keep your words you said.
10. The cub scouts of Canada are a great group.
11. It’s a big problem if cars do not stop at a stop sign.
12. You look tired tonight.
13. I felt sick last night.
14. Children must look carefully when crossing the road.
15. When the student finished his job training he offered a position with good
job benefits.
16. The school held a big meeting to help people understand problems.
17. Last year bad drivers caused deaths on the road.
18. Do farmers still use windmills?
19. Your kindness will be repaid some day.
20. She stopped to listen to the music.
D. Complete the following sentences .
1. It’s a pity that… 6. It so happened that…
2. It’s too bad that… 7. It is not known that…
3. It’s strange that… 8. It is a good thing that…
4. It’s possible that… 9. It seemed that…
5. It was surprising that … 10. It looked that…
E. Read the following answers, and then put forward a question according to the answers. And pay attention to the pronunciation between consonants and consonants .
Example: She washed the dishes and put them away.
What did she do all day?
What did she do today?
What did she do?
1. She broke all the dishes and threw them away.
2. He opened the window and looked out of it.
3. My sister is studying in her room.
4. We looked up the word in the dictionary.
5. The boy wrote a letter to his friend and then posted it.
6. They went to the swimming pool this morning.
7. Mary washed all of her dirty clothes today.
8. He gave a lecture on this topic this afternoon.
9. We visit the Great Wall yesterday.
10. They have been rehearsing all day.
F, Read the dialogue .
Mrs. Herbert: Would you like some cream in your coffee, Mr. Fred?
Mrs. Fred: No, thank you. But I’d like some milk, please.
Mrs. Herbert: Would you like some chocolate cookies?
Mrs. Fred: Mm, yes. Thank you. Did you bake these yourself?
Mrs. Herbert: Yes. It’s a cuckoo clock. I bought it in Paris.
Mrs. Fred: Is it wooden?
Mrs. Herbert: Oh, no. It’s oak. It was quite an expensive clock. It’s automatic.
Mrs. Fred: Well, it’s exactly 7 now, and it’s very quiet. Doesn’t it say cuckoo?
Mrs. Herbert: Of course. Look!
Clock: Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
Mrs. Fred: Well, what a cute clock!
G. Appreciate the English song .
Forever Young (Joan Baez)
May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true.
May you already do for others,
And let others do for you.
May you build a ladder to the stars.
And climb on every rung.
And may you stay…forever young.
May you grow up to be righteous?
May you grow up to be true.
May you always know the truth,
And see the light surrounding you.
May you always be courageous,
Stand upright and be strong.
May you stay…forever young.
Forever young, forever young.
May you stay forever young.
May your hands always be busy,
May you feet always be swift.
May you have a strong foundation,
When the wind changes shift.
May your heart always be joyful,
May your songs always be sung.
And may you stay… forever young.
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.
H. Read the passage, using the way you have learned in this class .
Oceanography has been defined as “ the application of all sciences to the study of the sea.”
Before the nineteenth century, scientists with an interest in the sea were few and far between. Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in his writings, but he was reluctant to go to sea to further his work.
For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travelers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface. The first time that the question “ What is at the bottom of the oceans?’ had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed. The engineers had to know the depth profile of the route to estimate the length of cable that had to be manufactured.
It was to Maury of the US Navy that the Atlantic Telegraph Company turned, in 1853, for information on this matter. In the 1840s, Maury had been responsible for encouraging voyages during which sounding were taken to investigate the depths of the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Later, some of his findings aroused much popular interest in his book The Physical Geography of the Sea.
The cable was laid, but not until 1866 was the connection made permanent and reliable. At the early attempts, the cable failed and when it was taken out for repairs it was found to be covered in living growths, a fact which defied contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of the sea.
Within a few years oceanography was under way. In 1872 Thomson led a scientific expedition, which lasted for four years and brought home thousands of samples from the sea. Their classification and analysis occupied scientists for years and led to a five-volume report, the last volume being published in 1895.
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