新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 12

[00:00.00]Unit 12:Lesson One Successful People
[00:06.55]Practice One Richard Is Author at 16  Words You Need to Know
[00:14.40]pay off       version      agent       publisher
[00:32.65]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and answer the following questions briefly.
[00:41.54]At weekends and during the holidays,there aren't many who would willingly stay indoors working away on a word processor.
[00:50.36]But that's exactly what 16-year-old Richard Hayes does and it's paid off.
[00:56.30]For his first book The Secret Army has just been published, his second one is coming out in the autumn and he's in the middle of writing  the third.
[01:06.89]Here's how hard Richard, who lives in London, has to work.
[01:11.17]"I try to write for an hour every weekday evening after I've done my homework and had supper and perhaps watched some television,"he says.
[01:19.81]"Then on Sundays I'll try to do about five or six hours and I might produce about 10 to 15 pages of the book from that."
[01:27.95]"I've written The Secret Army at least three times and while I was finishing the final version I was spending about 12 hours a day on it.
[01:36.41]But I really enjoyed it-the book almost wrote itself."
[01:40.80]"I'm studying at the moment at Holland Park School, London, so homework has to come before everything else.
[01:47.57]I'll be glad when the summer holidays come; then I can get on with my third book."
[01:52.68]He always wanted to be an author and also felt very confident about the book.
[01:57.94]"I knew The Secret Army would be published some time. I met a literary agent at a party last summer and he offered to read it.
[02:05.96]Then he told Macmillans publishers about it and they seemed quite keen."
[02:10.75]"But I had to do a fantastic amount of cutting down and editing out words and characters and some rewriting, too."
[02:18.96]"I've lived with the story now for about four years, as I wrote the very first version when I was 12 years old.
[02:25.84]It's a great thrill to see it finally in print." (310 words)
[02:30.08]1)How old is Richard?
[02:33.40]2)What is he busy doing now?
[02:36.89]3)How many books has he published?
[02:40.78]4)Has he been working hard?
[02:44.23]5)How did he feel about his book before it was published?
[02:49.20]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and fill in the following blanks with the information you get from the tape.
[02:59.24]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage for the third time and write down the sentences from the passage that mean the following.
[03:09.97]Practice Two Princess Diana
[03:13.90]Words You Need to Know
[03:15.84]aristocratic       earl      the royal line      compassion
[03:33.88]humanity      hemorrhage       cerebral palsy
[03:48.42]reveal    heir to the throne       charity
[04:02.10]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide which of the sentences can properly describe Diana.
[04:12.79]Put a tick ( ) before each statement.
[04:16.36]Born in 1961, Princess Diana was the Princess of Wales from 1981 when she married Prince Charles,
[04:25.39]heir to the British throne and Prince of Wales, until they were divorced in 1996 and she lost this title of Princess of Wales.
[04:34.79]The 1981 wedding was a heavily publicized ceremony which was televised all over the world.
[04:42.56]She came from a wealthy aristocratic family. Her father was Earl of Spencer, or Earl Spencer.
[04:50.74]The press showed her as a blonde, pretty woman of average intelligence.
[04:55.63]She provided two sons to continue the royal line.
[04:59.38]She was very famous and very popular in Britain. Her clothes, her jewelry and activities were reported every day in the papers and television.
[05:10.39]In some ways she was more like a film or pop star than a traditional royal figure.