新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 12

[15:35.46]2)Which sentences in the passage show that Ms Costabile hurried to tell the woman the good news?
[15:43.63]3)What did Ms Costabile say that shows she was honest?
[15:49.90]Exercise 4:Directions:Listen to the definitions of the words and phrases listed below and match them.
[15:59.36]All of them are related to money. The first items has been done for you.
[16:05.27]1)Money which is made of paper.
[16:09.01]2)Money which is made of metal.
[16:12.90]3)What you get if a shirt costs $17.99 and you give the shop assistant $20.
[16:22.44]4)A printed piece of paper which you write on. You can buy things with this.
[16:30.04]You can also get money for it at a bank.
[16:33.24]5)A plastic card you can use to buy things. You pay the money for what you bought after one or two months.
[16:42.38]6)Coins and paper money.
[16:46.38]7)A numbered ticket for raising money for the state or a charity.
[16:52.93]You may win prizes by buying a winning ticket and win nothing by buying a losing ticket.
[16:59.95]8)The amount of money which the company has through selling shares to people.
[17:06.40]You can buy it as an inverstment.
[17:09.13]Practice Two I Ran for Everybody
[17:13.45]Words You Need to Know
[17:15.54]artificial        disabled
[17:24.58]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are tru (T) or false (F).
[17:36.71]Jeff Keith has only one leg. When he was twelve years old, Jeff had cancer.
[17:46.86]Doctors had to cut off most of Jeff's right leg.
[17:51.47]Every day Jeff puts on an artificial leg. The leg is plastic.
[17:58.38]With the plastic leg Jeff can ski, ride a bicycle, swim, and play soccer. He can also run.
[18:09.32]Jeff often ran with some young men. They had plastic legs, too. They wore special T-shirts.
[18:19.48]The shirts said, "Run, Jeff, Run. Jeff Keith's Run Across America."
[18:27.65]In the summer of 1984 Jeff Keith began to run across the United States.
[18:35.03]He started running in Boston, Massachusetts. He stopped running in Los Angeles, California in February, 1985.
[18:46.55]He ran 32,000 miles in seven months. That's about 16 miles each day.
[18:55.94]Jeff wore out 36 pairs of running shoes and five plastic legs.
[19:03.40]Jeff stopped in cities on the way to Los Angeles. In every city people gave Jeff money.
[19:12.79]The money is not for Jeff. It is for the American Cancer Society.
[19:19.81]The American Cancer Society will use the money to learn about cancer.
[19:26.08]On the way to Los Angeles Jeff talked to people about cancer.
[19:32.16]He also talked about being disabled. Jeff is disabled, but he can do many things.
[19:41.52]He finished college and is studying to be a lawyer. Jeff says, "People can do anything they want to do. I want people to know that I ran not only for disabled people. I ran for everybody."  (251 words)
[20:01.82]1)Jeff was 12 years old when he had cancer.
[20:07.15]2)His left leg had to be cut off.
[20:11.44]3)He walked with an artificial leg.
[20:16.01]4)He ran across the United States from the West to the East.
[20:23.03]5)People gave Jeff money for treating his leg.
[20:28.25]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and complete the table about the remarkable things that Jeff did.
[20:39.41]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage for the third time and answer the following questions briefly.
[20:49.63]1)Why were the T-shirts Jeff and his friends wore special?
[20:55.39]2)Why did Jeff run to raise money?
[21:00.04]3)What did Jeff want to prove to people by his running?
[21:05.83]Practice Three Thanks a Million
[21:10.66]Words You Need to Know
[21:12.74]column     hearing aid
[21:21.64]Exercise 1:Directions:A student wrote these notes while she was listening to the tape.
[21:31.03]Unfortunately, she made a few mistakes. Listen to the passage and underline her mistakes.
[21:38.56]Do you need money? Write a letter to Mr Percy Ross. Maybe he will give you some money.
[21:46.55]Mr Ross is a rich man, and he likes to give people money. He has a newspaper column.