新编大学实用英语教程第一册-难忘的一件小事
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《现代大学英语听力
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》听力原文及答案
Task
【答案】
A.
1)
S
he wanted to see St. Paul?s Cathedral.
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2)
S
he was so surprised because she saw so many Englishmen who looked alike.
3)
T
hey were all wearing dark suits and bowler hats, carrying umbrellas and
newspapers.
4)
B
ecause she had often read about them and seen photographs of them,
who
all looked as if they were wearing a uniform.
5)
N
o, he didn ?t.
6)
H
e used the English saying
“
It takes all kinds to make a world
”
to prove his
opinion.
B.
If
all the seas were one sea, what a great sea it
would be! And if all
the trees were one
tree, what a great tree it would be! And if this
tree
were to fall in the sea, what a great
splash there would be!
【原文】
Yesterday morning Gretel went to the
City of London. She wanted to see
St.
Paul's Cathedral. She was surprised to see so many
Englishmen who
looked alike. They were
all wearing dark suits and bowler hats. They were
all carrying umbrellas and newspapers.
When she returned home she
asked Mr
clark about these strange creatures.
English
gentlemen,
said.
all look as
if they are wearing a uniform. Does the typical
English
gentleman still
exist?
Mr.
Clark
laughed.
never
thought
about
it,
he
answered.
It's
true
that
many
of
the
men
who
work
in
the
City
of
London
still
wear
bowler hate and I suppose they are
typical Englishmen. But look at
this.
Mr. Clark picked up a magazine and
pointed at a photo of a young man.
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just as typical, perhaps. It seems as
if there is no such thing as a 'typical'
Englishman. Do you know the English
saying 'It takes all kinds to make a
world'? That's true of all countries-
including England.
“
Oh, just like the poem ,If All the Seas Were One Sea ?,
”
Gretel began to
hum happily. If all
the
seas were one sea, what a great sea that would be!
If all the trees
”
were one tree, what a great tree that
would be! And if this tree were to fall
in the sea, w hat a great splash that
would be!
Task 2
【答案】
A.
1)
p
eople were much busier
2)
c
older than England; minus thirty degrees; last longer
3)
m
uch more mountainous; much higher and much more rocky; more beautiful
4)
t
end to be more crowded
5)
t
he houses; smaller
B.
1) T
2) T
3) F
4) F
5) F
【原文】
John is British but has worked in
Japan. Etsuko is Japanese from
Osaka,
but she is studying in Britain. In the following
passage you are
going to hear, they are
comparing life as they see it in
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the two countries. But
before listening to it, think of the two countries
and
try to answer the following pre-
listening questions.
John: I found that living in Japan,
people were busier. They seem to work the whole
day.
Etsuko: Yes, that?s
right. We work from Monday through Saturday, even
in
summer. You know, summer in Japan is
just horrible. It?s very, very
humid and hot ,
and you need to shower three times a day.
John: So you find it cooler in England?
Etsuko: Yes, that?s right.
John: Where I was living in Japan, in
the North, it was much colder
than
England,
especially
in
winter,
minus
thirty
degrees
centigrade.
Does the winter in Osaka last longer
than the winter in England?
Etsuko: No,
I don?t think so. December, January, February,
March.
John: Yes. It?s a little bit
shorter if anything.
Etsuko: Ever since
I came here, I noticed that the countryside here
in England is
very beautiful.
John: It?s much flatter than in Japan.
Etsuko: Yes. Japan is a mountainous
country and our cities are full of
people. There are lots of people in a
limited flat area.
John: Yes, I found
Japan much more mountainous than Britain,
especially
in the north. The mountains
are much higher and much more rocky. I
found it more beautiful than Britain, I
think. Etsuko: Yes, if you like
mountains.
John: And therefore the towns and
villages tend to be more crowded.
Etsuko: Yes, that?s right.
John: Yes. So because the cities are
more crowded, the houses tend to be
smaller, don?t they? Etsuko: Yes, they
are very compact, and we don?t
have a lot of space. In big cities we
have a lot of taller buildings now.
John: Is this a problem because there
are more earthquakes in Japan?
Etsuko:
Yes, that?s right and
【答案】
?
Task 3
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A.
1)
In the US, people usually dance just to enjoy themselves; they don?t
invite
other people to watch them.
2)
Usually eight people dance together.
3)
Because people form a square in dancing with a man and a woman on each side
of the square.
4)
H
e usually makes it into a song.
5)
T
hey wear old-fashioned clothes.
B.
1) F
2) T
3) F
4) F
5) T
C.
1)
e
ight people form a square; on each side of the square
2)
w
hat they should do; makes it into a song; sings it
3)
d
on?t have much time to think
4)
o
ld-fashioned clothes
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【原文】
Rosa:
Why
don?t
you
have
folk
dances
in
the
United
States?
Most
countries have special
dances that the people have done for many
years. The dancers wear clothes from
the old days. Everyone likes
to watch them dance.
Steve:
We have folk dances, too. A lot of people belong
to folk dancing
groups. But when they
dance, they usually do it just to enjoy
themselves.
They don?t invite other people to watch them.
Rosa:
Is there a folk dancing group here?
Steve: I think so. There
must be. There?s one in almost every city,
and some big cities have several.
Rosa:
What are the dances like?
Steve: Usually eight people dance
together, four men and four women.
When
they start, they form a square, with a man and a
woman
on each side of the square.
That?s why it?s called square dancing.
Then there?s a man who tells the
dancers what they should do.
He usually
makes it into a song. He sings it while they
dance.
Rosa:
Oh,
that should make the dances easy!
Stev
Yes, but they are very
fast. They don?t have much time to think. I like
to
e:
watch them,
though. The dancers wear
old-fashioned clothes. That makes the dances
Rosa:
pretty to watch.
Stev
I?d like to
watch a group dance.
e:
I?ll take you sometime.
Task 4
【答案】
1)
I
t was a time to celebrate the end of winter and the beginning of spring.
2)
T
hey burned the picture of their kitchen god to bring good luck.
3)
T
he custom said the brides must wear
“
something old, something new,
something borrowed, and something blue
”
to bring good luck.
4)
Because they could not eat meat, eggs or dairy products during Lent,
so they tried to use up these things
before Lent began.
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5)
It was a straw man made by children in Czech; it was a figure of death.
6)
People brought their animals to church. And before the animals went into the
church
people
dressed them up in flowers and
ribbons.
【原文】
1) On
the evening of February 3rd, people in Japanese
families took one
dried bean for each
year of their age and threw the beans on the
floor,
shouting
luck
in!
Evil
spirits
out!
This
was
known
as
spring.
2) Before the Chinese Lunar New Year in
the old days, many Chinese families
burned the picture
of their
kitchen god to bring good luck. When Lunar New
Year's Day came, they
put ancw
picture of the kitchen god on the wall.
3)
W
hen
American
women
got
married,
they
sometimes
followed
an
old
custom
in
choosing
what
to
wear
on
their
wedding
day.
The
custom
said
the
bride
must
wear
old,
something
new,
something
borrowed,
and something blue
4)
B
efore Lent (a time on the Christian calendar), the people of Ponti, Italy
ate an omelet made with 1,000 eggs.
People could not eat meat, eggs or
dairy products during Lent, so they
tried to
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use up these things before Lent began.
5)
W
hen winter ended in Czech, the children made a straw man called
river. After they
destroyed it, they carried flowers home to show
the
arrival of spring.
6)
J
anuary 17th was St. Anthony's Day in Mexico. It was a day when
people brought their animals to church.
But before the animals went
into the
church, the people dressed them up in flowers and
ribbons.
This ceremony was to protect
people's animals.
Tas
5
k
【答案】
A.
1)
F
B.
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
T
F
T
F
T
7) T
Disadvantages
Terrible life for servants
very uncomfortable
clothes
boring
and formal tea
parties
—
being
invited
much more illness
children left with
servants all day
very poor education
no freedom for women
often no men
Advantages
Lots
of servants to do the work
beautiful
clothes to wear
lots of tea parties
life being slower
plenty of
time to talk to each other
【原文】
Man: Well, I
think life used to be much more fun than it is
now. I mean,
look at the Victorians.
They had lots of servants to do all the work;
they never had to do any cooking or
cleaning; they just wore those
beautiful dresses and went to tea
parties.
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