新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 9

[00:00.00]Unit 9:Lesson One Sport and Games
[00:05.36]Practice One If I Have Time on My Hands   Words You Need to Know
[00:13.07]adore      pony      canoe      soak      pursuit
[00:35.14]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and answer the question on the tape.
[00:43.45]The following is an interview from a weekly sports program.
[00:47.45]Presenter:Good morning, listeners. Welcome to our weekly sports programme aimed at all those underactive youngsters with time on their hands!
[00:56.27]Listen to what our two guests have to say about their own sporting pursuits and how sport made a difference to their lives.
[01:03.76]Debbie first, then, Jonathan.
[01:06.67]Debbie:I'm keen on doing something that gets you out into the countryside.
[01:10.96]So I'm for horse-riding whenever I can! It's quite an expensive hobby,
[01:16.54]though:you have to pay for the instruction and the hire of equipment-and there is quite a lot of that-but I think it's a great sport because you're out of doors and working with animals.
[01:26.44]I used to be actually scared of horses until I took up riding; now I adore them!
[01:32.56]When I've saved up enough money I'm determined to buy a pony of my own.
[01:37.56]Another advantage of riding is that disabled people can enjoy it too.
[01:42.74]It's great fun teaching them to ride; it makes you feel you're doing something really worthwhile.
[01:49.30]It's made me more aware of other people's problems and now I don't worry about my own so much.
[01:55.42]Presenter:Thank you, Debbie. Now Jonathan.
[01:58.66]Jonathan:The trouble with riding is that you can injure yourself if you fail!
[02:02.62]I don't fancy that at all ! I prefer canoeing because you've always got the water there for support.
[02:10.10]If you're a good swimmer, have a good sense of balance and strong arms, you'll like canoeing!
[02:16.58]The main trouble is transporting your canoe to the right places-my father takes it on the roof of the car-or sometimes I put it on the roof of the Club Land Rover.
[02:27.71]What it's taught me most is to be independent, though.
[02:32.24]It's just you and the canoe against the wind, the weather and the water.
[02:37.64]It gives you a lot of self-confidence and it can get really exciting as long as you don't mind getting soaked,
[02:44.41]of course! It makes you feel close to nature somehow.
[02:48.59]I hope to run my own canoeing center when I'm qualified. (345 words)
[02:53.34]What are the two sports events mentioned in this interview?
[02:57.88]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and complete the following sentences.
[03:06.62]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage for the third time and try to summarize the information in the following table.
[03:17.86]Practice Two A Little History of Football
[03:22.50]Words You Need to Know
[03:24.37]association      rugby
[03:34.81]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide which choice is the best answer to each of the questions.
[03:44.82]The game of football may have started in Roman times.
[03:49.07]It seems that the Romans played a game very much like our modern rugby with a round ball.
[03:55.80]English villagers played football in the 16th century and they often had almost a hundred players on each side.
[04:04.12]It was a very common game, which was very rough and even dangerous until the early part of the 19th century.
[04:12.00]In the 18th century a Frenchman who had watched a rough game of football in a village wrote:
[04:18.62]"I could not believe that those men were playing a game.
[04:22.84]If this is what Englishmen call playing, I would not like to see them fighting!"
[04:28.81]It was then played in schools in England and soon spread all over Britain and Europe.
[04:34.72]Until 1850, it was not possible to have football matches between one school and another,
[04:41.09]because each school had different rules! So rules had to be made.