新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 10

[05:42.68]Then he killed the rats. He injected part of their trained brains into 638 mice.
[05:51.22]These mice had shown they liked the dark. He put parts of the brains of untrained rats into 132 other mice.
[06:01.08]These mice also liked the dark.
[06:03.71]Result? Animals that got the trained brains spent an average of 63 seconds in the dark.
[06:11.95]Animals that got the untrained brains averaged 118 seconds in the dark.
[06:18.40]The figures are very important. Normally only one mouse out of 5,000 would choose the light by chance.
[06:28.08]Maybe eating the heart of a lion might not be a bad idea! (221 words)
[06:32.62]1)Why would primitive man eat the heart of a lion he killed?
[06:39.17]2)What do rats naturally prefer?
[06:43.85]3)How long do rats take to learn to choose a more peaceful life in Dr Ungar's experiment?
[06:52.09]4)What is the proportion of mice that would prefer the light by chance?
[06:59.54]5)What can be passed to other animals from the ones who did the learning, according to Dr Ungar?
[07:08.04]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and fill in the table with what you get from the recording.
[07:18.70]Practice Three "I Killed a Newborn Baby"
[07:23.66]Words You Need to Know
[07:25.43]confession      euthanasia       inquiry
[07:39.14]conscience     deform      illegitimate
[07:52.82]morphine     David Maclay    Glasgow    Birmingham
[08:12.70]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide which choice is the best answer to each of the questions.
[08:23.24]Thousands of people heard this dramatic confession in a radio broadcats on euthanasia.
[08:30.23]Last night, as the police began inquiries, Dr David Maclay told of the killing he kept secret for 40 years.
[08:39.62]"My conscience is clear," he said.
[08:43.04]The baby, born in Glasgow, was badly deformed.
[08:47.51]Dr Maclay said the mother had five illegitimate children. She was in no state to be consulted.
[08:55.28]"A colleague and I both felt the same way," he said.
[08:59.28]"I don't know if we said anything to each other. But we asked the sister for a gram of morphine, and injected it there and then."
[09:08.68]"I would prefer to call it 'freeing someone from a living death.'”
[09:13.61]"After all these years, I still believe it was the right thing to do," he said.
[09:19.19]"I don't think we even told the mother what had happened."
[09:23.08]Dr Maclay, now 66, practices part-time at Birmingham's children's clinics.  (156 words)
[09:30.85]1)How long had the killing been kept a secret?
[09:35.53]2)What did Dr Maclay do before killing the baby?
[09:40.68]3)Why did the doctor kill the baby?
[09:44.75]4)Where did he probably make the confession to the public?
[09:50.80]5)How did Dr Maclay feel about the killing?
[09:55.15]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and complete Dr Maclay's confession with what you get from the recording.
[10:07.72]Practice Four A Dangerous Joke
[10:11.42]Words You Need to Know
[10:13.87]registration        destination
[10:23.56]Exercise 1:You are going to hear five sentences from the passage.
[10:31.30]Listen carefully and write them down.
[10:34.97]1)Two men jumped into the cab and asked me to drive.
[10:40.55]2)The policeman and the two men apologized to me.
[10:45.62]3)The taxi driver tood the two men and me to the destinations.
[10:51.20]4)The taxi driver was drinking some coffee at a nearby coffee shop.
[10:57.14]5)I went to the taxi stand and found only one taxi with on driver in it.
[11:04.34]Exercise 2 Directions:Listen to the passage and put the sentences you have written down in Exercise 1 in the cor_rect order according to the seqrence of the events.
[11:18.49]One day last week, I needed a taxi. I went to the taxi stand, but there was only one taxi with no driver in it.
[11:27.56]I looked around and saw the taxi driver drinking some coffee at a nearby coffee shop.