九年级英语课本同步听力材料（人教新目标）

Unit 4  What would you do?
[00:04.78]SECTION A
[00:07.94]1b Listen and number the pictures in the order you hear them.
[00:52.40]2a Why is Larry nervous?Listen and circle the reasons.
[01:51.36]2b Listen again.check the four things Larry's sister says to him.
[02:50.71]SECTION B
[02:56.88]2a Listen.Celia is asking Bill  questions from a personality¹ survey.
[03:05.81]Check the questions Celia asks.
[03:51.05]2b Listen again.Circle Bill's responses.
[04:39.90]2 Read the e-mail from Fran,and write a reply.
[04:51.27]Dear Knowledgable,My best friend,Mei,has a problem.
[04:57.33]There is a really important English speech contest for our whole city next month.
[05:03.80]Our classmates want her to represent² the class in the school contest.
[05:09.66]Everyone is sure she will win.It's probably true.
[05:15.22]Mei is very clever,and can speak English really well.
[05:20.55]In fact,she always comes top in the school exams.
[05:25.80]The problem is that she's very shy.
[05:30.06]She doen't want to let her friends down,
[05:34.03]but she's terrified³ of speaking in front of other people.
[05:39.36]She's my friend,so she can tell me that she's shy.
[05:44.50]But she can't tell everyone that.
[05:48.34]I don't think they would believe her.
[05:51.82]I can't think of any good advice to give her,
[05:55.97]but you always come up with good solutions to people's problems.
[06:02.03]What do you think I should tell Mei?
[06:05.58]What do you think I should tell the rest of the students?
[06:11.33]READ                 The history of basketball
[06:20.29]China is a large country with many different and interesting ways of doing things.
[06:27.37]But people who travel around China
[06:31.42]can always see one thing that is the same everywhere--basketball.
[06:37.69]This much-loved sport is enjoyed by men and women,and by young and old.
[06:44.74]The sport of basketball is little over a hundred years old.
[06:50.51]and it's played by more than 100 million people in 208 countries.
[06:57.67]Since 1949,badketball courts have been seen everywhere,
[07:04.20]in factories,schools and even houses in China.
[07:09.95]Millions of people play the sport for fun and exercise,
[07:15.41]but few people know how basketball started.
[07:20.37]Basketball was invented by a Canadian doctor,James Naismith.
[07:26.75]He was born in 1861.
[07:30.87]When Naismith was a student in college,
[07:35.31]his teacher challenged⁴ the class to invent a new game.
[07:40.36]It was cold in the winter
[07:43.83]and the teacher wanted a game that people could play indoors⁵.
[07:48.98]Naismith thought he could do it.
[07:52.53]But he wanted the game to be a non-contact sport
[07:57.39]because it would be played on hard wooden floors.
[08:01.96]If people touched,they could fall down and get hurt.
[08:06.71]For the basketball hoops,Naismith used two fruit baskets.
[08:12.46]He put them high on the balcony⁶ where people sat looking down at the players.
[08:18.63]Naismith had a class of 18 men.
[08:22.88]He divided them into two teams of nine and taught them how to play his new game.
[08:29.75]On December 21,1891,they played the first basketball game in history.
[08:37.62]Many small changes followed.
[08:41.67]The backboards behind the baskets
[08:46.03]were added⁷ to stop people in the balcony from trying to catch the ball.
[08:51.59]But then N aismith saw that the players used the backboards
[08:56.84]to help put the ball in the basket.
[09:00.50]He decided⁸ it should be part of the game.
[09:05.18]Later,the baskets were replaced by nets.
[09:10.45]In 1936,at the Berlin Olympics,
[09:15.60]basketball became an Olympic event,45 years after it was invented.
[09:23.04]A basketball team from China competed.
[09:27.17]They didn't win,but they used the experience to help develop the game at home.
[09:33.65]For many years,Americans were the most famous basketball players,
[09:39.89]but the sport is now much more international.
[09:44.15]Many top players from around the world earn big money playing in America's NBA
[09:51.41](National Basketball Association).
[09:55.49]Today some of them are from China,and their number is increasing every year.
[10:03.04]Words and Expressions in Each Unit 4
[10:10.59]lottery              million              medical              research
[10:14.61]n.抽奖               n.百万               adj.医学的           n.研究,调查
[10:18.63]tie                  pimple               trouble              energetic⁹
[10:23.57]n.领带               n.小脓疱             n.烦恼               adj.有活力的
[10:28.51]confident            public               in public            permission
[10:32.48]adj.自信的           n.adj.公众(的)       当众,公开的          n.允许
[10:36.45]pretty               social               bother               slight
[10:40.03]adv.相当             adj.社会的           v.打扰               adj.微不足道的
[10:43.60]in the slightest     fairly               plenty               plenty of
[10:47.73]一点也               adv.相当             adj.很多的           很多的,足够的
[10:51.86]get along with       listener             represent
[10:55.19]与...相处            n.听者               v.代表
[10:58.52]let...down           come up with
[11:00.81]使..失望或沮丧       提出,想出
[11:03.09]Reading
[11:05.65]inventor             court                factory              invent
[11:09.53]n.发明者             n.球场               n.工厂               v.发明,发现
[11:13.41]challenge            indoors              hard                 wooden
[11:17.49]v.向...挑战          adv.在室内           adj.硬的,坚硬的      adj.木质的
[11:21.56]touch                fall down            hoop                 basket
[11:25.44]v.接触,碰撞          摔倒,跌倒            n.篮圈               n.篮,篓
[11:29.32]balcony              divide               in history           backboard
[11:33.80]n.看座,看台          v.分,分开            在历史上             n.篮板
[11:38.28]replace              compete              earn                 NBA
[11:44.56]v.替代               v.竞争               v.嫌得               全美篮球协会
[11:50.84]increase             separate¹⁰
[11:56.72]v.增加,增长          v.分,分开
 

1 personality   

n.个性，人格，名人

参考例句：

• Einstein was a great personality.爱因斯坦是个伟大的人物。
• She has a powerful personality.她有坚强的个性。

2 represent   

vt.表现，表示；描绘，讲述；代表，象征；回忆；再赠送，再上演；vi.提出异议

参考例句：

• I'll represent to him the risk he is running.我要向他指出他所面临的险境。
• We selected her to represent us.我们选她作为我们的代表。

3 terrified   

adj.很害怕的，极度惊慌的，吓坏了的v.使恐怖，使惊吓，恐吓( terrify的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• the crying of terrified children 小孩受了惊吓的哭声
• I'm terrified of flying. 我十分害怕坐飞机。

4 challenged   

adj.残疾的，有伤的；有缺陷的或缺少的；受到挑战的v.“challenge”的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• a competition for physically challenged athletes 残疾运动员的比赛
• His claim to that piece of property is being challenged. 有人就他对那份财产的声明提出异议。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 indoors   

adv.(在)室内，(在)户内

参考例句：

• Because of the coldness of the weather we stayed indoors.我们因天气寒冷呆在家里。
• It is very cold outside,you'd better come indoors across the board.外面很冷，你们所有人最好都进屋。

6 balcony   

n.阳台

参考例句：

• You can see the sea from our balcony.你从我们的阳台上就能看见大海。
• The balcony was closed with bars.阳台用铁条封上了。

7 added   

adj.更多的，附加的，额外的

参考例句：

• They have added a new scene at the beginning.在开头他们又增加了一场戏。
• The pop music added to our enjoyment of the film.片中的流行音乐使我们对这部电影更加喜爱。

8 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

9 energetic   

adj.充满活力的，精力充沛的

参考例句：

• The elderly man is quite energetic.这位上了年纪的老人仍精力充沛。
• Her mother was a resourceful and energetic woman.她母亲是一个足智多谋、精力充沛的女人。

10 separate   

n.分开，抽印本；adj.分开的，各自的，单独的；v.分开，隔开，分居

参考例句：

• Are they joined together or separate?它们是合在一起还是分开的？
• Separate the white clothes from the dark clothes before laundering.洗衣前应当把浅色衣服和深色衣服分开。