大学英语听力第三册 lesson 16

Accidents and disasters 2

Part A Micro-listening

Sentence structure

Comparative¹

Drill 1 You'll hear 10sentences, listen carefully, and choose the answer which is closest the meaningto each sentence here you hear.

1. More people attend theshow than we had expected.

2. I spent less time thanusual to finish my homework.

3. I can't go higher than200 dollars a month.

4. I've never read anovel as good as this one.

5. Nothing is moreenjoyable than watching TV.

6. I can es nothing worsethan laziness.

7. Jim runs the fastestof all.

8. There are fewer busesthan bicycle in the street.

9. I spent more time onchemistry assignments than on physics assignments.

10. It’s easier said thandone.

 

PartB Micro-listening

Dialogue

How did the accidenthappen?

Exercise 1 Listen to thedialogue, and choose the best answer to each question you hear.

George had an accident atwork and was taken to the hospital. His wife Maggy phoned Mac to tell him aboutthe accident. Mac hurried to the hospital soon after work and found Georgelooking better than he had expected.

"How are you feelingnow?"

"Not too well yet. Myribs still hurt every time I breathe."

"What about yourleg?"

"Actually, that doesn’thurt too much any more."

"Well, I'm glad youare OK. How did it happen anyway?"

"Oh, I was checkingsome work on the second storey and... Well, somehow I slipped and fell. Thenext thing, I was in the hospital."

"You're luck you weren'tkilled."

"Yeah, I know.But..."

"Have you talked to Momand daddy yet?"

"Maggy called themlast night. I only talked to them for a couple of minutes."

"What did theysay?"

"Well, they didn't seemtoo upset. They said I should have been more careful."

"That's forsure."

"Then I shouldn’t goto work too soon. I told them they didn’t need to worry about that, not the wayI’m feeling"

"I can imagine.Well, how long do you think you have to stay in the hospital?"

"I don't know yet.Not too long I hope. But I'm sure I will be on crutches² for a while. The doctorsaid I’ll have to work cast for at least eight weeks. Anyway, what's the news withyou?"

Question No. 1 Whathappened to George?

Question No. 2 How wasGeorge feeling now?

Question No. 3 What isGeorge's trouble now?

Question No. 4 Who was Mac?

Question No. 5 How longwill George have to stay away from work?

Exercise 2 Listen to thedialogue again and use the information you get to reconstruct the story.

Passage

The two drivers

Exercise 1 Listen to thestory, and choose the best answer to each question you hear.

I am going to tell you astory about two drivers who wanted to park their cars in the same parkingspace.

The man who arrived atthe parking space first was rather old with gray hair. He was driving a largeRolls-Royce. The beautiful car stopped just in front of parking space. Then thedriver turned his head and very slowly began to reverse³ his car into the space.

Just he was doing this. Ayoung man in a Mini came up from behind. He noticed the space and drovestraight in. No first. The old driver in the Rolls-Royce stopped his carsuddenly. He was very angry and red in the face. He wound down his window andlooked at the young man. But the young wasn't sorry. He had got out of his carnow and he was laughing. "You have to be young to do that." He saidto the older driver and pointed⁴ at the Mini and at the space he just taken.

The old man said nothing.He just began to reverse the Rolls-Royce again and crashed into the Mini car veryhard. There wasn't much of Mini left when the older driver had finished. The youngman watched what was happening and couldn't believe his eyes. He was angry andvery red in the face. The older driver looked out of the window and smiled."You had to be rich to do that." He said.

Question No. 1 What isthe story about?

Question No. 2 What doyou know about the two drivers?

Question No. 3 What didthe older driver mean when he said: "you have to be rich to do that"?

Question No. 4 Which ofthe following statements about younger driver can not be inferred⁵?

Question No. 5 Which ofthe following proverbs is not appropriate to the script⁶ of the story?

Exercise 2 Listen to thestory again, and fill in the blanks with information you get from the tape tocomplete the following.

1 comparative   

adj.比较的；相比较而言的；相对的

参考例句：

• After many hardships,he now lives in comparative ease.经过许多困难之后，他现在的生活相对舒适。
• Let's make a comparative study of the two languages.让我们将这两种语言作一下比较研究。

2 crutches   

n.拐杖, 支柱 v.支撑

参考例句：

• After the accident I spent six months on crutches . 事故后我用了六个月的腋杖。
• When he broke his leg he had to walk on crutches. 他腿摔断了以后，不得不靠拐杖走路。

3 reverse   

v.推翻，颠倒，反向；n.反面，逆境；adj.反向的

参考例句：

• His answer was just the reverse of what I expected.他的回答正好与我期望的相反。
• Please reverse the positions of two pictures.请把两张图片的位置倒转过来。

4 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

5 inferred   

v.推断( infer的过去式和过去分词 )；间接地提出；暗示；意指

参考例句：

• Much of the meaning must be inferred from the context. 大部分含意必须从上下文中推断。
• I inferred this fact from the evidence I have gathered. 我根据收集到的证据推论出这件事实。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 script   

n.剧本，广播稿；文字体系；笔迹，手迹

参考例句：

• It's easy to identify his script.他的笔迹容易辨认。
• The script is massaged into final form.这篇稿子经过修改已定稿。