新编大学英语自主听力 1Unit 7

[11:27.10]The head of the Delta Society, Linda Hines, says one reason for the pet therapy is that animals help sick people get bette
[11:37.18]Also, she says the animals have a calming effect on people, because pets can help people forget their own problems. (234 words)
[11:46.43]1)helping the lonely
[11:49.63]2)helping animal research find new drugs
[11:55.18]3)keeping 250 doctors busy
[12:00.94]4)having a healthy effect
[12:04.64]5)helping patients forget their problems
[12:10.12]6)having a calming effect
[12:14.00]7)helping sick people get better
[12:18.61]8)involving snakes and rabbits more often than cats and dogs
[12:25.27]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and answer the following questions briefly.
[12:33.73]1)What are scientists proving?
[12:37.76]2)Where are the people visited by animals?
[12:42.37]3)How many people helped with pet therapy programs?
[12:48.64]4)Who can benefit most from these programs?
[12:53.24]5)What is the Delta Society?
[12:57.35]Happy Minute
[12:58.32]Listen to the poem and underline the adjectives so that you are clearer about the beauty the poem describes.
[13:06.13]The Moon's a Balloon
[13:07.86]Who knows if the moon's a balloon,
[13:10.49]Coming out of a clean city in the sky
[13:13.66]Filled with pretty people.
[13:15.64]And if you and I should get into it,
[13:18.19]If they should take me and take
[13:20.57]you into their balloon,
[13:22.19]Why then, we'd go up high with
[13:25.61]All the pretty people and houses,
[13:28.45]And steeples and clouds,
[13:31.22]Go sailing away and away.
[13:33.85]Sailing into a clean city
[13:36.37]which nobody has ever visited,
[13:38.89]But always it's spring
[13:41.09]and every one's in love,
[13:43.18]And flowers pick themselves.
[13:45.91]Lesson Two Life and Health
[13:48.94]Practice One At the Hospital
[13:52.14]Words You Need to Know
[13:53.47]staffroom      surgery      embarrass
[14:04.13]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the first dialogue and complete the sentences with the best answer in each group.
[14:14.89]This dialogue takes place in the staffroom.
[14:17.99]W:Excuse me.
[14:19.21]M:Yes?
[14:20.00]W:Your coffee cup...
[14:21.44]M:Yes?
[14:22.27]W:It's got a hole in it.
[14:23.89]M:I know.
[14:24.65]W:You know that your coffee cup has got a hole in it?
[14:27.60]M:Yes.
[14:28.25]W:And you still use it?
[14:29.87]M:Yes.
[14:30.59]W:Why?
[14:31.34]M:My doctor says I should drink less coffee. (63 words)
[14:34.94]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the second dialogue and complete the sentences with the best answer in each group.
[14:45.96]This dialogue takes place in a doctor's surgery.
[14:49.56]Patient:Hello, doctor.
[14:50.68]Doctor:Hello. Sit down. What seems to be the trouble?
[14:54.13]Patient:Well, doctor, it's a bit difficult for me to tell you.
[14:58.20]Doctor:Go on, don't worry, I'm a doctor.
[15:01.33]Patient:Well... I get so embarrassed all the time.
[15:05.62]Doctor:Yes?
[15:06.55]Patient:When people speak to me, I go red.
[15:10.62]Doctor:Yes?
[15:11.74]Patient:I never know what to say...
[15:14.94]Doctor:I see.
[15:16.02]Patient:And nobody takes any notice of me.
[15:19.44]Doctor:Yes.
[15:20.38]Patient:What do you think?
[15:21.78]Doctor:Next!  (90 words)
[15:22.86]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the dialogues again and answer the following questions briefly.
[15:31.54]1)Does the man in the first dialogue really like to drink the coffee, using the cup with a hole in it?
[15:42.01]2)Is the doctor very kind to his patient in the second dialogue?
[15:49.21]3)Has the doctor treated the patient in the end? How do you know that?
[15:57.02]Practice Two Days Worth Living For
[16:00.80]Words You Need to Know
[16:02.35]wedding      anniversary
[16:09.95]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide which sentence with in each pair has been mentioned in the passage.
[16:20.96]A study of nearly three and a half million people was carried out between 1992 and 199
[16:29.68]The findings seem to support the view that there is a difference in death dates between men and women.