大学英语听说教程 第二册 unit5a

[06:43.83]Sometimes I think I'm learning more at work.
[06:48.32]than I am from some of my classes!
[06:52.71]Part IV
[07:04.80]Listening and Speaking
[07:08.30]4.1.Understanding a Conversation
[07:13.82]Now listen to the conversation twice,and as you listen
[07:19.90]decide whether the following statements are true(T) or false(F)
[07:26.30]Paul:Hello everybody and thank you for joining us
[07:30.80]Our topic for today is smoking.
[07:35.58]Cigarettes were once fashionable.But now people like you,
[07:41.27]Diana Wilson,are suggesting that smoking is anti-social
[07:47.64]Could you tell us why?
[07:50.73]Diana:Look at the facts
[07:53.52]Smoking causes heart disease and cancer this is a proven fact.
[08:00.71]The costs of medical care for diseases related to smoking are enormous
[08:07.31]And smokers are hurting not only themselves,
[08:11.81]but others as well.
[08:15.41]They force us to inhale the poison they blow into the air
[08:21.00]This is more than anti-social
[08:24.82]It should be considered a crime.
[08:29.41]Paul:Well,what do you suggest ought to be done?
[08:34.19]Diana:Treat cigarettes drugs and smokers as drug addicts.
[08:40.49]Smoking should not be allowed anywhere,especially not in public places
[08:47.39]Paul:Hm,thank you,Diana! Now,Mr.Roger Clark,
[08:54.07]what's your reaction to this?
[08:57.57]Roger:I think Diana's exaggerating
[09:01.68]After all,smoking has its benefits that's why people smoke
[09:07.89]Its been proven that nicotine produces a calming effect
[09:13.38]as well as helping you think more clearly in complex situations
[09:19.57]Besides,the tax on cigarettes increases the country's revenues.
[09:26.05]Diana:Revenues!?
[09:28.84]How can you talk about increasing revenues?!
[09:33.23]Smoking is such a harmful habit!
[09:37.54]Roger:Lots of other habits can be harmful too.
[09:42.53]Eating sweets,for example
[09:46.24]Diana:Oh,I just can't accept a comparison between the two habits
[09:51.83]Roger:Perhaps you'd let me finish.
[09:55.33]Plenty of people including small children are addicted to sugar
[10:01.13]Not only does it cause things like tooth decay,
[10:05.62]it makes people overweight as well,
[10:09.59]and as a result they have heart attacks.
[10:13.98]But no one is campaigning to make eating sugar a crime
[10:19.28]Diana:All right,you've made your points.
[10:23.07]Of course too much sugar is bad.But it only harms the person eating it
[10:30.18]Besides, sugar at least tastes good.
[10:34.67]Roger:Ah,but so does a cigarette!
[10:38.75]4.2 Retelling a Story
[10:50.74]2)Listen to the following passage twice and,as you listen,
[10:57.63]fill in the blanks with the missing information.
[11:02.44]One day, Jenny and Simon received a letter.
[11:07.64]"Dear Jenny and simon,"the letter said.
[11:12.13]"I've decided to spend the rest of my life
[11:16.52]visiting my nephews and nieces.
[11:20.91]I will stay with each of you in turn.
[11:25.30]I'm looking forward to visiting you very soon I will,of course
[11:32.17]remember your kindness and generosity in my will.
[11:37.76]As you know,my late husband made a lot of money and I'm a wealthy woman
[11:45.54]Love,Aunt Ethel.
[11:49.43]Jenny and Simon hadn't been married very long and they were poor.
[11:56.12]"We must make the old woman welcome,"Simon said.
[12:01.53]"Then she'll leave us a lot of money."
[12:05.63]"I agree,"Jenny said "Let's hope she dies while she's with us.
[12:12.53]Then we'll get most of her money."
[12:16.23]When Aunt Ethel arrived,Jenny and Simon made her very welcome
[12:22.92]They gave her the best room in the house and cooked delicious meals for her
[12:29.92]Unfortunately,Aunt Ethel wasn't easy to please.
[12:35.54]In fact,she was a bad-tempered,selfish woman.
[12:41.83]She made Jenny and Simon very unhappy.
[12:47.03]Everything they did was wrong,
[12:50.93]and she was always complaining
[12:54.92]"I don't know how long I can live like this,"Jenny said one day.
[13:01.53]"I'm working like a slave for that old woman.
[13:06.23]I cook her food,wash and mend her clothes clean her room
[13:13.63]do her shopping for her I have no time for myself at all."