大学英语六级听力练习 009

 

Dictation Instructions

Listen to the following passage or together the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading which will be read in normal speed .Listen and try to understand the meaning . For the second and third readings the passage will be read sentence by sentence or phrase¹ by phrase. with intervals² or 15 seconds. The last reading will be read in normal speed again and during this time you should take your work you will then be given 2 minutes to check your work once more. Please write the whole passage on answer sheet II 

Now listen to the passage.

The Sun 

A long time ago, people thought that the sun went around the earth. In some countries, people even said that the sun was a god . They thought the god drives across the sky each day on a golden³ horse. Now we know the earth goes around the sun . It takes the earth a year to go all the way around the sun . Today men even know how far it is for the earth to go around the sun . They tell us that the earth travels over thousand miles minutes on its journey around the sun. The sun is really a star it is much bigger than the earth and it is very hot. Some people have been to the moon . But we know that no one can ever go to the sun . It is far too hot for people to live anywhere near it. The sun is three hundred thousand times heavier than the earth . And more than a million times larger.

1 phrase   

n.短语，词组；成语，习语

参考例句：

• The phrase was caught on and immediately became popular.这个短语被采用后很快就流行了。
• That's exactly the phrase I was looking for.这就是我一直找的那个短语。

2 intervals   

n.[军事]间隔( interval的名词复数 )；间隔时间；[数学]区间；（戏剧、电影或音乐会的）幕间休息

参考例句：

• The forecast said there would be sunny intervals and showers. 预报间晴，有阵雨。
• Meetings take place at fortnightly intervals. 每两周开一次会。

3 golden   

adj.金的，含金的，可贵的，金色的，贵重的，繁盛的

参考例句：

• My teacher is an Englishman with golden hair.我的老师是一个金黄色头发的英国人。
• It's a balmy evening,the golden time for lovers.这是一个暖和的夜晚，是恋人们的黄金时光。