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 personality 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 represent 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 terrified 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 challenged 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 indoors.
[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 balcony 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 added 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 decided 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 energetic
[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 separate
[11:56.72]v.增加,增长 v.分,分开
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