新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 1

[06:17.10]Professional football fans don't have to miss the Sunday afternoon game on TV because of a birthday party. They simply videotape it.
[06:27.54]Then, for them, the Sunday afternoon game occurs on Sunday evening.
[06:33.34]What's more, they save actual time then by pushing buttons on the machine and avoiding all sales ads and commercials and so on.
[06:44.32]One man says he thus can see a 3 -hour game later in 1 hours.   (219 words)
[06:53.10]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
[07:05.38]1)Every American wears a watch and there's a clock in every American room.
[07:12.29]2)The teachers and bosses will be forgiven if they are late.
[07:17.87]3)Americans will feel upset if they have to miss a TV game to attend a party.
[07:25.28]4)It is difficult for Americans to relax and do nothing.
[07:31.37]5)Americans' behavior is often affected by the desire to make every moment count.
[07:39.07]6)Americans like the video cassette recorder because it saves them a lot of time.
[07:47.24]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage for the third time and fill in each blank with the information you get from the recording.
[07:59.92]Practice Three   Father's Day
[08:04.16]Words You Need to Know
[08:06.22]clergy      celebrate       picnic
[08:22.88]Spokane    Sonora     Calvin Coolidge     Douglas     Norman
[08:53.70]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
[09:06.52]Sonora got the idea for Father's Day more than eighty years ago.
[09:12.31]She was listening to a speech about Mother's Day and decided that fathers should be recognized too.
[09:19.15]She especially wanted to honor her own father, who had raised six children alone.
[09:25.63]Sonora asked the clergy in Spokane to prepare speeches to honor fathers on the first Sunday in June,
[09:34.38]her own father's birthday. But they did not give the speeches until two weeks later, the third Sunday in June.
[09:43.56]Fifteen years later, President Calvin Coolidge said Americans should honor the fathers on the third Sunday in June. In 1972, Father's Day became a national holiday in the United States.
[09:59.94]American families celebrate Father's Day by gathering for dinner or a picnic. They may do special things for Father on his special day: prepare his favorite foods or join him in a favorite activity.
[10:15.89]And everyone gives him card and gifts.
[10:19.85]Each year, a private group called the National Father's Day Committee chooses American men to receive its Father of the Year Award.
[10:30.14]The first award was given fifty years ago to General Douglas MacArthur, World War II Commander.
[10:38.32]General Norman Schwarzkopf, former commander of Allied Forces in the Persian Gulf,
[10:44.51]was among the winners. He said that being a father puts things in balance. After giving orders all day to thousands of people and having them obey, he said, there is something very healthy about coming home at night and not being able to get your children to clean their teeth! (253 words)
[11:04.78]1)Mother's Day came into being earlier than Father's Day.
[11:12.37]2)Spokane's father was born in July.
[11:18.06]3)American families get together to celebrate Father's Day.
[11:24.50]4)The National Father's Day Committee awards good fathers once a year.
[11:32.78]5)One will lose his balance if he is a general and a father at the same time.
[11:40.85]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and answer the following questions briefly.
[11:51.00]1)What was Sonora doing when the idea of Father's Day struck her?
[11:57.26]2)Why did she want to honor her own father?
[12:02.63]3)What do Americans do to celebrate Father's Day?
[12:08.32]4)What award do the good fathers receive from the National Father's Day Committee?
[12:16.20]5)Why did General Norman Schwarzkopf say that being a father puts things in balance?