新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 10

[23:07.40]left Havana harbor. The last entry in the captain's log book was for September the 26th and it said that the ship was in Havana harbor.
[23:20.11]There were no other entries. A few days later, another ship found the Rubicon drifting with no crew.
[23:29.04]It was like the Rosalie-no people. There was just one hungry dog.
[23:35.56]Possibly the crew got into the life boats, as there was no sign of them.
[23:42.22]But why did they leave the dog? The search found no bodies, no boats, no life jackets, nothing at all to solve the mystery.  (176 words)
[23:53.05]1)The Rosalie and the Rubicon were both French ships.
[23:58.45]2)There was no life on either of the ships when they were found.
[24:03.89]3)People were sure that the crew on the Rubicon must have left the ship safely.
[24:10.80]4)People don't know what happened to both ships since there are not clues on them.
[24:17.93]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and fill in the missing information according to the passage.
[24:27.58]Practice Four Loch Ness Monster
[24:31.43]Words You Need to Know
[24:33.34]monster    mist
[24:40.82]lorry      Loch Ness
[24:48.96]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and answer the following questions briefly.
[24:57.64]I've lived here beside Loch Ness since I retired last year. My house has a good clear view of the loch.
[25:06.35]In fact, it's only about a hundred meters from the lake,
[25:10.56]and there's nothing but the road in between. Now I had never been interested in the Loch Ness monster,you understand.
[25:19.31]Until last Tuesday, I thought it was just a good story to attract tourists.
[25:25.39]But I've had changed my mind after last Tuesday's experience.
[25:30.22]I got up as usual at about seven o'clock and went into my garden. I looked around,
[25:37.85]and something attracted my attention on the Loch. There was almost no mist that morning,
[25:44.69]and I could see that there was something moving quite fast, going north, in the middle of the loch.
[25:52.72]It looked like a giant snake, with its head and parts of its body about water, and it was moving very fast.
[26:01.93]I imagined that it was about thirty meters long. I ran into the house to get my camera,
[26:10.21]but when I got back it had gone.
[26:13.85]I waited for about five minutes and then it appeared again, this time nearer the road and my house,
[26:22.63]so I could see it clearly. I had a good view of it about two minutes and I managed to take several photographs of it.
[26:33.32]The photographs haven't come out very well, unfortunately, but one or two of them show the creature quite clearly.
[26:42.43]At one point it swam straight towards me, but then a lorry passed on the road, and perhaps it heard the noise of the engine because it disappeared again.
[26:55.97]I suppose the whole incident lasted for about fifteen minutes, because I looked at my watch the last time I saw it,
[27:04.25]and it said a quarter past seven. I've never seen anything so strange in my life.  (305 words)
[27:12.17]1)How far is the speaker's house from the lake?
[27:16.78]2)Why had the speaker never been interested in the Loch Ness monster?
[27:22.93]3)How was the weather that morning?
[27:26.93]4)How were the photographs the speaker took?
[27:31.79]5)How long did the whole incident last?
[27:36.83]6)What is this passage mainly about?
[27:41.87]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and tick ( ) the statements containing the information you hear about the monster.
[27:53.75]Exercise 3:Directions:Find out from the passage the words which are similar in meaning to the expressions listed on the left column below.