新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 12

[05:16.58]Her marriage with Prince Charles lasted 15 years. After divorcing Charles, she became deeply involved in charity work.
[05:26.74]She did a lot of work for AIDS, cerebral palsy, breast cancer and other charities.
[05:34.33]The British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that she touched the lives of so many others with joy and with comfort in Britain and throughout the world.
[05:44.74]She revealed to all of us the depth of her compassion and her humanity to the sick, the dying, children and the needy.
[05:54.02]In August, 1997, she died of chest hemorrhaging after a car accident in Paris when she was only 36.
[06:04.68]The whole country mourned her death.
[06:07.34]Princess Diana would never have become Queen, but she became the Queen in people's hearts.
[06:14.11]After her death, a fund named after her was established to continue her charity work. (255 words)
[06:21.42]1)Diana was the former wife of Charles and had been the Princess of Wales.
[06:28.15]2)She died in London at the age of 35.
[06:33.01]3)Her father was the Earl of Sandwich.
[06:37.26]4)She was also a film and pop star.
[06:41.98]5)She succeeded in winning people's hearts by her devotion to charity work and her compassion and humanity.
[06:51.30]6)She had become the Queen of England before she died.
[06:57.06]7)She will live in people's hearts forever.
[07:01.67]8)Her charity work will be continued through the fund named after her.
[07:08.08]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and complete the three coulumns in note form with the information about Diana.
[07:20.03]Practice Three Connecting the Dots and a Mind Awakens
[07:25.90]Words You Need to Know
[07:27.88]dot     evenhanded       secretary general
[07:41.16]executive    unison      curriculum      copious
[07:58.84]aspect       challenge      Ghana      Yale
[08:14.64]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions:
[08:23.82]In his 35 years with the United Nations system, Kofi Annan came to be known as an evenhanded man with an ability to see the parts and the whole at the same time.
[08:37.54]It is this quality that makes the new secretary general perhaps the most popular executive in the United Nations today.
[08:46.36]He recalls an unforgettable lesson learned in Ghana at age 17:
[08:51.76]One day our headmaster walked into the classroom and put up a broad white sheet of paper with a small black dot in the corner.
[09:01.22]"Boys," he asked, "What do you see?" all of us shouted in unison, "A black dot!"
[09:08.89]Then he said, "So not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet of paper? Don't go through life with that attitude."
[09:19.37]Former Congressman Garry Franks recalls one thing he learned in college that was not on the curriculum:
[09:26.57]I remember taking copious notes and listening to everything the teacher had to say in preparation for my first test at Yale.
[09:35.42]I looked at the exam and saw it was everything I had studied.
[09:39.82]I wrote the answers to the three questions, thinking, Boy, this is easy.
[09:45.32]As we waited to get our tests back, I was positive I'd get an A. Instead my grade was a C.
[09:53.39]Under it, in big red letters, was written, "I know what I said. What do you think?"
[09:59.98]It was a valuable awakening. I realized that Yale did not simply want you to absorb ideas but to think about them and challenge them.
[10:10.13]It forced me to explore things from every possible angle, looking for aspects that might not be obvious at first but were helpful in developing a dialogue on an issue. (292 words)
[10:22.33]1)What kind of man is Kofi Annan known as?
[10:27.37]2)What event changed Kofi Annan's attitude toward going through life at age 17?
[10:35.15]3)How did the Yale professor actually want Garry Franks to answer the questions on the exam?