新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 11

[10:48.50]Practice One John Lennon   Words You Need to Know
[10:54.19]nightclub      sensitive      band     Liverpool
[11:09.20]the Beatles      John Lennon
[11:17.84]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) according to the passage.
[11:30.44]Some people called John Lennon the "thinking man's" Beatle. He was serious and creative,
[11:38.44]and many young people of the 1960's and 1970's thought he spoke for them.
[11:45.13]Lenon was born on October 9,1940, in Liverpool, England. During his childhood he listened to the music of rock' n' roll singers like Elvis Presley,
[11:59.10]Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard. At 15, when he was in an art school, Lennon started his first band,
[12:09.54]the Quarrymen. The band included Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Pete Best, a drummer.
[12:20.12]The Quarrymen later changed their name to the Silver Beatles and then the Beatles.
[12:26.75]Ringo Starr replaced Pete Best as drummer. Between 1958 and 1962 the group played in nightclubs in Liverpool and Hamburg,West Germany.
[12:40.79]Then the Beatles made a record called "I Wanna Hold Your Hand " and changed the history of rock 'n' roll.
[12:51.01]Many people think that Lennon was the most important singer and songwrite for the Beatles.
[12:57.10]In general, his songs are sensitive and intelligent, and they still influence today's popular musicians.
[13:06.92]On December 9,1980, a confused young man shot John Lennon outside his apartment building in New York City.
[13:17.76]A few days later, thousands of people gathered in New York's Central Park to remember him. For them, and for many other people in the world, he was someone very special. (222 words)
[13:37.96]1)When he was still in school, Lennon set up his first band and called it the Quarrymen.
[13:46.38]2)The Beatles started in London, England.
[13:51.74]3)Lennon went to music school and got special training in music.
[13:57.97]4)Lennon wrote many of the Beatles' songs.
[14:02.80]5)The Beatles opened the history of rock 'n' roll.
[14:08.16]6)Lennon was killed in New York in 1980.
[14:13.78]7)Today's popular musicians can still learn from Lennon.
[14:19.43]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and fill in the missing words with the information you get from the passage.
[14:30.12]Practice Two Mark Twin as a Lecturer
[14:34.91]Work You Need to Know
[14:37.14]anecdote    guarantee     repertoire      exhausted
[14:55.79]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the story and try to understand it by imagining the truth Mark Twain's friend told him.
[15:07.34]Then answer the following question.
[15:09.94]There is an anecdote about Mark Twain, which goes as follows:In addition to being very famous as a writer,
[15:22.07]Mark Twain was also very famous in his day as a lecturer and a teller of funny stories.
[15:29.88]He frequently went from town to town giving lectures with a series of funny stories.
[15:37.66]One day he was walking down the street of a small town where he was going to deliver a lecture that evening.
[15:46.58]He met a young man who told him that he had an old unce who never laughed and never smiled.
[15:54.54]Mark Twain told the young man to bring his uncle to his lecture that evening.
[16:00.01]He said he would guarantee to make him laugh.
[16:03.79]That evening the young man and his uncle sat in the first row. Mark Twain spoke directly to them.
[16:13.19]He told some rather funny stories, but the old man never even smiled.
[16:18.91]Then he told the funniest stories in his repertoire, but the old man's face still remained blank.
[16:26.94]Mark Twain left the platform almost exhausted.
[16:31.55]Later Mark Twain was telling a friend about the incident.
[16:36.84]"Oh!" said the friend. "You could have saved yourself all your trouble."(212 words)
[16:49.55]Why did Mark Twain fail to amuse the old man?