新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 7

[16:39.50]My father old me this story. It happened at a place called Ibadan, in Nigeria.
[16:48.94]Nowadays Ibadan is a big, important city, but at that time it was still quite small.
[16:55.38]The few Europeans working there lived in houses built close together in a suburb of the town.
[17:02.65]In the evening the Europeans used to meet for a talk or a game of tennis at the club.
[17:09.82]It so happened that during the three or four months before a number of robberies had taken place,
[17:17.09]All the people robbed were white and in each case they told a similar tale.
[17:22.78]They had woken during the night and seen silent, dark figures moving about, but they were unable to move or give the alarm.
[17:31.88]In the morning when they awoke, they found that valuable things had disappeared.
[17:38.08]All kinds of suggestions were put forward, and the most popular theory was that the thieves were using some form of African drug,
[17:47.29]which had the effect of paralyzing the people for some time, so that they were aware of things happening,
[17:54.82]but unable to move or speak. It was thought that this drug was blown into the bedroom through a tube in the form of a fine powder which the sleeper breathed in.
[18:05.15]A young man called Tommy Lucas listened carefully to the conversation.
[18:09.94]He had only recently arrived from England, while my father and some of the older members had been living in Africa for 20 years or more.
[18:19.98]"I'd like to see any African drug paralyze me with magnificent power," boasted Tommy Lucas.
[18:26.93]"I always sleep with a loaded gun on my bedside table and I wouldn't hesitate to use it, I can tell you."
[18:33.66]There was a moment of silence. Everyone looked at him.
[18:38.02]"You haven't been in Africa very long, have you, Tommy?" asked one of the older members, quietly.
[18:45.18]On Saturday evening there was a party at the club and everyone went home rather late.
[18:51.12]So my father was surprised to be woken about 8 o'clock on Sunday morning by a gentle knock at his bedroom door.
[18:59.08]Ade, his African servant, stood there with an amused smile on his face.
[19:06.17]He asked my father to follow him out into the morning sunshine. There, in the middle of the road,
[19:12.97]was Tommy Lucas, fast asleep in his bed. Beside him, on his bedside table, lay his gun. (402 words)
[19:28.13]1)What do we know about the city of Ibadan when the story happened?
[19:34.36]2)What happened in the story?
[19:38.53]3)What was true about the incidents?
[19:43.10]4)What do you know about the young man Tommy Lucas?
[19:48.54]5)Who proved that Tommy Lucas was wrong?
[19:53.58]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
[20:05.71]1)The Africans liked to tell a similar tale.
[20:10.25]2)The Africans disliked the Europeans.
[20:14.14]3)The speaker's father had lived in Africa for at least 20 years.
[20:20.11]4)On that Sunday morning the weather was fine.
[20:24.83]5)Tommy Lucas was carried out of his bedroom.
[20:29.62]6)Ade turned out to be the thief.