新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 3

[00:00.00]Unit 3:Lesson One Students and Studies
[00:06.19]Practice One  A lesson Learned    Words You Need to Know
[00:13.90]drastic       hug      allowance       whipping
[00:36.32]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the story and match the events in the following two columns.
[00:47.34]The events in Colomn A always happened before those in Column B.
[00:53.89]My parents were always telling me to raise my grades,
[00:57.89]but they would never tell me how.
[01:00.91]After getting one bad report card after another, I knew I had to do something drastic.
[01:07.57]When my December card arrived with three Cs, two Ds, and an F, I was afraid to show it to my mother.
[01:16.36]That's when I camp up with the brilliant idea of changing the F to an A.
[01:22.73]It was really quite simple just to give the F another leg.
[01:27.23]When I showed the card to my mother, she was very excited to see the one good grade.
[01:33.31]She gave me a hug and a kiss and, most important of all, a bigger allowance.
[01:39.32]Everyone was happy in my house until two nights later when the phone rang. My mother answered it, listened, and then looked at me with blood in her eyes.
[01:52.64]She told me that there were some things much worse than failing, and that cheating was one of them.
[01:59.88]I tried to argue. I said she was the one who had told me to change my grades.
[02:06.14]That made her really angry, and she said that I knew that's not what she had meant.
[02:11.90]Then she gave me a whipping and took away my allowance for a month.
[02:16.58]Since then I have learned to make the grade, not change it on the card.  (229 words)
[02:22.74]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the story again and answer each of the following questions in no more than ten words.
[02:35.12]1)According to the speaker, what did his parents fail to do?
[02:41.89]2)What scores did the speaker have on his December card?
[02:48.01]3)What did he do to the card?
[02:51.79]4)What was the speaker's argument when his mother looked at him with an angry look?
[02:59.10]5)What was the lesson learned after his trick had been exposed?
[03:05.76]6)Who do you think called the speaker's mother?
[03:10.66]Practice Two Talking About College Days
[03:15.48]Words You Need to Know
[03:17.86]waist     air-conditioned        demonstration
[03:36.68]scary     arrest     ceremony       skip
[03:58.93]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the conversation and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
[04:12.18]The following is a conversation between one woman, Grace and two men, Martin and Curtis.
[04:19.92]Grace:Martin, what do you remember most about our college days?
[04:23.84]Martin:Oh, I remember most?
[04:25.64]Grace:Curtis's hair... down to his waist.
[04:29.10]Curtis: I remember how Grace looked. (Wha...) She always had a flower painted on her face, remember that?
[04:35.22]Martin:Oh, yes.
[04:36.77]Grace:Now wait. Let's not forget about Martin and his air-conditioned blue jeans.
[04:42.85]I never saw anybody with more holes in their jeans than Martin.
[04:46.85]Martin:They're a classic. I still have those blue jeans!
[04:50.70]Grace: Still have them? I don't believe it. That's incredible!
[04:55.02]Martin:And I still wear them, too.
[04:57.47]Curtis:You know, I was just thinking about the most important thing that happened in college.
[05:02.62]Martin:The most important thing? You mean, the time we got arrested?
[05:07.04]Curtis:Umm.
[05:08.02]Grace:Yeah.You know,that's my best memory.The peace demonstration.(Yeah)
[05:13.24]You know, somehow getting arrested for something you believe in isn't... isn't scary at all.
[05:19.72]Curtis:No, it isn't at all. But it did help that there were five hundred other students getting arrested along with us.
[05:26.16]Martin:That's true.