新编大学英语自主听力 1Unit 7

[00:00.00]Unit 7:Lesson One  Life  Around Health
[00:06.30]Practice One City or Country? Words You Need to Know
[00:13.32]average     rent
[00:20.23]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
[00:32.80]Gloria is a student in a nursing school in the United States. She's going to graduate next month. She has two job offers. One is in a city hospital, the other is in a country hospital.
[00:50.65]The hospital in the city is large. It's a 600-bed hospital. It's a cancer hospita
[00:59.54]It gives excellent care to its patients. It's in a big city, near museums, theaters, and restaurant
[01:08.72]The salary is high, $25,000 a year, But apartment rents are high, too.
[01:16.75]The hospital in the country is small, a 50-bed hospital. It's a general hospital that takes care of all kinds of patient
[01:29.24]It's in a beautiful area, near lakes, rivers, and mountains. The salary is average$20,000 a year. But apartment rents are low.
[01:43.54]Gloria likes the city and the country. She doesn't know which hospital to choose.  (140 words)
[01:50.88]1)  Gloria is a student in a nursing school.
[01:55.60]2)  The hospital in the city can handle 800 patients.
[02:00.85]3)  The hospital in the city is a general hospital
[02:05.60]4)  The salary in the city hospital is lo
[02:10.36]5)  The hospital in the country takes care of all kinds of patients.
[02:16.55]6)  The hospital in the country is near theaters and museums.
[02:22.45]7)  Apartment rents are high in the city.
[02:27.02]8)  Apartment rents are high in the country, too.
[02:32.03]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the following sentences and write them down.
[02:40.45]1)Gloria has two job offers.
[02:45.13]2)The hospital gives excellent care to its patients.
[02:50.53]3)It's in a big city, near museums.
[02:56.51]4)It's a 50-bed hospital.
[03:00.94]5)It takes care of all kinds of patients.
[03:06.34]6)She doesn't know which hospital to choose.
[03:11.56]Practice Two Husband or Son
[03:15.41]Words You Need to Know
[03:16.92]opposite   blinding flash     retire into     lick    Nigerian
[03:41.26]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
[03:53.35]The lady who was in the bed opposite from where I was a Nigerian lady whose English wasn't good enough, said to me, "How old is your son
[04:05.05]And I said, "He is seven." "Your other son," She said. I said,"He's seven."
[04:13.94]"No, your other son. Your big son." And it came in a blinding flash. She was talking about Mike
[04:24.10]And I said," That's not my son, that's my husband." And instead of retiring into a corner, licking her wounds, thinking
[04:35.80]"Oh, God, I've said the most awful thing," she went on with the subject by saying, "I said to my husband, it was strange. I haven't seen a son being so full of love for his mother as that son is being to her
[04:52.14]But she'd really just got me and, you know, now I can laugh and it's a joke and it's a nice dinner-party story, in a way, but at that time I was completely destroyed. (176 words)
[05:06.65]1)  The woman had two sons.
[05:10.68]2)  The woman's husband was very good to her.
[05:14.68]3)  The Nigerian lady was not very much surprised when she heard the truth.
[05:20.76]4)   What the Nigerian lady said at that time is a nice party story now.
[05:27.78]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and fill in each blank with the information you get from the recording.Please read one the tape and listen again.
[05:43.91]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage for the third time and answer the following questions briefly.
[05:55.10]1)How did the woman look, compared with her husband?
[06:00.18]2)Did the Nigerian lady say anything about the other woman's appearance directly?