新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 10

[00:00.00]Unit 10: Lesson One Surprising Discoveries
[00:05.69]Practice One Buried Alive  Words You Need to Know
[00:12.31]cemetery        coffin        whiskey
[00:23.62]Exercise 1:Directions:You are going to hear five sentences from the passage. Listen carefully and write them down.
[00:34.38]1)For an hour the doctor rubbed whiskey on Max's lips and warmed hid body.
[00:41.29]2)A week later Max was playing with his friends.
[00:46.62]3)Max's parents buried their son in the town cemetery.
[00:53.03]4)Max's parents and a neighbour hurried to the cemetery.
[00:58.97]5)His mother dreamed that Max was moving in his coffin.
[01:04.87]Exercise 2 Directions:Listen to the passage and put the sentences you have written down in Ecercise 1 in the cor_rect order according to the sequence of the events.
[01:19.74]In 1865, in a small town in Germany, a little boy was very sick. His name was Max Hoffman.
[01:29.82]"Will our son die?" Max's parents asked the doctor.
[01:34.43]"Maybe," the doctor said quietly. "Stay with Max. Keep him warm. That's all you can do."
[01:42.60]For three days Max lay in his bed. Then he died. He was only five years old.
[01:51.46]Max's parents buried their son in the town cemetery. That night Max's mother had a terrible dream.
[01:59.52]She dreamed that Max was moving in his coffin. She screamed in her sleep.
[02:05.96]"Sh, sh," her husband said. "It's all right. You had a bad dream."
[02:12.62]The next night Max's mother screamed in her sleep again. She had the same terrible dream.
[02:19.93]On the third night Max's mother had another bad dream. She dreamed that Max was crying.
[02:27.78]She got out of bed and got dressed. "Quick! Get dressed," she told her husband.
[02:33.58]"We're going to the cemetery. I want to see Max. I want to dig up his coffin."
[02:38.69]At four o'clock in the morning Max's parents and a neighbor hurried to the cemetery.
[02:45.60]They dug up Max's coffin and opened it. There was Max. He looked dead. But he wasn't lying on his back.
[02:57.05]He was lying on his side.
[02:59.50]Max's father carried Max home. Then he ran to get the doctor.
[03:04.57]For an hour the doctor rubbed whiskey on Max's lips and warmed his body. Then Max opened his eyes.
[03:13.68]Max was alive! A week later he was playing with his friends.
[03:19.98]Max Hoffman died-really died-in the United States in 1953. He was 93 years old.
[03:30.38]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage again and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
[03:42.48]1)Max Hoffman really died in his nineties.
[03:47.45]2)His mother dreamed Max moved in the coffin.
[03:51.70]3)Max's father took his wife's first dream seriously.
[03:57.20]4)Max remained in the same position in the coffin when it was opened.
[04:02.78]5)Max had stayed in the coffin for five nights.
[04:07.75]Practice Two A Gory Lab Experiment
[04:12.29]Words You Need to Know
[04:14.23]primitive      superstition          rat       inject      mice     Houston
[04:39.90]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and answer the following questions briefly.
[04:49.26]Primitive man would, as the story goes, eat the hearts of animals he killed.
[04:55.88]He would eat the heart of a lion to gain the lion's courage.
[05:00.13]"Superstition," you may say. Well, listen to this from the world of science.
[05:05.93]Dr George Ungar of Baylor University in Houston says that learned information can be passed to other animals from ones who did the learning.
[05:16.94]Dr Ungar trained rats to prefer lighted boxes to dark boxes. How did he do this to rats that usually preferred the dark?
[05:28.36]He shocked any rat who went into a dark area. After five to eight days the rats learned that a more peaceful life could be lived in lighted boxes.
[05:40.31]They got to love the light.