新编大学英语自主听力 4Unit 7

[23:35.56]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the conversation again and complete the following sentences with the information you get from the recording.
[23:51.22]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage for the third time and answer the following questions briefly.
[24:05.62]Practice Three A Tour of Edinburgh
[24:11.88]Words You Need to Know
[24:14.29]audio-visual     colony     penguin      catering facility
[24:24.98]mansion     gem    heritage     china     costume
[24:36.22]relic   bygone     trail     Edinburgh      Forth Bridges
[24:48.78]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and fill in the table with the information you get from the recording.
[25:03.65]Hello, welcome to Edinburgh. Here are just a few of the many things you can see and do in and around the capital today.
[25:17.18]A major tourist attraction in the city is the Scottish Visitors' Center.
[25:24.10]Here you can see an audio-visual show called The Making of Edinburgh which takes you through Edinburgh's colorful past from its beginnings.
[25:38.75]Also on show is a model of Scotland which covers an entire floor and where you can see over six hundred places of interest at the touch of a button.
[25:53.94]The Center is open daily between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. It is situated at the west end of Princess Street.
[26:08.02]Don't forget to visit Edinburgh Zoo, where you can see the largest collection of wild animals in Scotland and the finest colony of penguins in any Zoo,
[26:23.53]in a beautiful parkland setting with three hundred different species.
[26:31.06]The Zoo is open daily from 9:00 a.m. till 6:00 p.m. and is only fifteen minutes from the city center.
[26:42.36]Buses to and from the Zoo are number 12, 26, 31 and 86.
[26:53.30]There are bars and catering facilities and plenty of car parking space is available.
[27:01.33]Hopetoun House, near South Queensferry, is Scotland's greatest Adam mansion and a unique gem of Europe's architectural heritage,
[27:15.59]set on the shores of the Forth. The famous Forth Bridges can be seen one and a half miles to the east.
[27:27.90]It the mansion there is a museum filled with fascinating china, costumes and other relics of the bygone age.
[27:39.02]To the west of the house there is a nature trail and deer parks.
[27:45.22]Hopetoun House is open to the public daily between 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
[27:55.37]Most of Scotland is on Edinburgh's doorstep. You will be surprised just how much of it you can see in a day.
[28:05.77]To find out more about events, places of interest to visit and entertainment,
[28:13.33]please phone 5572727. We do hope you enjoy your stay in the capital. (329 words)
[28:24.64]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and complete the following outline on the tourist attractions with the information you get from the recording.
[28:40.94]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the whole passage again and answer the following questions briefly.
[28:53.26]Happy Minute
[28:54.77]Enjoy listening to the passage and think of the following question.
[29:00.46]Who got the eatate and the secret?
[29:05.14]Two tax agents were travelling through a rural area when their car broke down.
[29:10.82]They walked to a nearby mansion and knocked on the door.
[29:14.35]A beautiful widow answered and said they were welcome to spend the night while her hired hands worked on the car.
[29:21.55]Months later one of the agents received a package of legal documents.
[29:26.48]After surveying the contents, he quickly called the other agent.
[29:30.59]"When we were up in the country," the first agent asked, "did you slip away in the night and go to that widow's bedroom?"
[29:37.64]"Yes," the second agent admitted.
[29:40.81]"Did you use my name?"
[29:42.50]"Why, yes, but how did you find out?"
[29:45.24]"She died and left me her estate."