大学英语听说教程 第二册 unit2a

[06:15.56]Grandma:Europe!I thought you went to Mexico.That's not in Europe!
[06:21.15]Jack:That was last summer.This year I went to Europe.
[06:26.85]Grandma:(crabbily)Europe,Mexico--Why are you young people travelling around all the time?
[06:32.93]Sightseeing and taking pictures and flying around in airplanes and who knows what else!
[06:39.75]It's crazy!
[06:42.65]Jack:Well,you know,people travel for all sorts of reasons,not just for pleasure.
[06:50.44]I went to Mexico for a language course,for example,and I was in Europe on business.
[06:57.75]Besides,travel is supposed to broaden the mind.
[07:02.95]Even if people are just sightseeing,you can learn a lot from travelling.
[07:09.74]Grandma(still crabby):My mind is broad enough already,thank you!
[07:14.65]What do you think TV is for?!
[07:18.23]And it doesn't cost a fortune,either,and it's safe.
[07:23.12]Not like flying around in airplanes and you don't have to spend weeks travelling!
[07:29.80]Jack:But Grandma,travelling is a lot safer now,and cheaper too.
[07:36.28]In the old days,I suppose,people didn't travel much because it was so slow and difficult.
[07:44.20]I read that it used to take two weeks to get from New York to Chicago.
[07:50.39]Now you can travel around the world seven times in two weeks!
[07:55.59]Grandma:Seven times!Who wants to go around the world seven times?!
[08:01.88]Jack(dreamily):And it only takes a week to get to the Moon and back!
[08:07.68]Grandma:The moon!You are not going to the Moon!
[08:12.59]Jack(laughing):I'm not planning on it,no.
[08:16.30]But the next generation will take trips to the Moon for granted.
[08:25.08]4.2 Retelling a Story
[08:34.35]2.Listen to the following story twice and,as you listen,
[08:41.14]fill in the blanks with the missing information.
[08:45.92]Tom,a 13-year-old boy,was a student at a junior high school in Ohio.
[08:54.62]He was not a good student,and he didn't behave well at school.
[09:00.50]He talked in class,and he was often late.
[09:05.18]His teachers were always telling him to go to the principal's office.
[09:10.87]Alex Johnson was the principal at Tom's school.
[09:16.07]At first Mr.Johnson tried to talk to Tom in a friendly way.
[09:22.26]But Tom didn't pay any attention;
[09:26.36]two days later he was back in Mr.Johnson's office
[09:31.77]because he'd been flying paper airplanes at the teacher.
[09:36.97]So Mr.Johnson told him he had to stay after school for an hour every day for a week.
[09:45.25]But Tom spent the extra hour writing dirty words on the desk he was sitting at
[09:52.43]Mr.Johnson had no choice.
[09:56.32]He told Tom,"You're suspended from school for three days" This just made Tom happy."
[10:05.20]A three-day vacation!"he thought.
[10:09.52]The first day Tom returned to school after the suspension he made trouble again.
[10:16.91]This time he was caught copying his neighbor's answers to a quiz.
[10:22.99]Mr.Johnson phoned Tom's father,who listened to everything Mr.Johnson had to say,
[10:30.57]and promised to find a solution.
[10:34.46]The next day,Tom's father appeared at the school with his son
[10:40.55] and went with him to every class.
[10:45.04]All the other students stared at them,
[10:49.43]and Tom was so embarrassed that he never behaved badly in school again.
[10:59.54]4.3 Note-Taking
[11:08.42]2.As you listen to the passage,
[11:13.02]put down some notes about the events connected with the following dates.
[11:19.29]Florence Nightingale was born in Florence,a city in Italy,in 1820.
[11:26.68]She was named after the city of her birth.
[11:30.78]As a little girl,Florence liked playing with her dolls and pretending to nurse them.
[11:37.57]She wanted very much to be a nurse.
[11:41.28]But her father was very much against the idea.
[11:46.66]He was a wealthy man and he sent Florence on many trips abroad
[11:52.54] in hope that she would forget about nursing.
[11:57.24]But wherever she went,instead as her father expected,
[12:03.46]she spent all her time visiting hospitals.
[12:07.95]In 1853,she went to Paris to study nursing
[12:14.46]and in the same year she went to London.
[12:18.46]In 1857,she established a hospital for women.
[12:24.44]In 1854,Florence went to Crimea to nurse soldiers wounded in the war.
[12:32.01]Following the end of the Crimean War in 1856,she return to London.
[12:39.59]In 1857,she established the Nightingale Home for the training of nurses.
[12:46.77]Between 1862 and 1890,
[12:51.76]she helped establish many nursing schools in hospitals throughout England.
[12:57.74]In 1907,when she was eighty-seven years old
[13:03.26]she received the order of Merit from the king of England.
[13:08.64]She died in 1910 in London,at the age of ninety.
[13:14.51]Today her name has become a synonym for the nursing profession that she did so much to establish.