新编大学英语自主听力 4Unit 6

[00:00.00]Unit 6:Lesson One Misfortune and Mystery
[00:07.63]Practice one A Disastrous Honeymoon  Words You Need to Know
[00:17.50]swell      allergic     platinum
[00:24.41]duty-free   burgle
[00:28.58]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the interview and follow the instructions.
[00:38.99]Interviewer:So, tell us about this disastrous honeymoon. I gather it all started with the ring?
[00:48.13]Dave:Yes?
[00:49.28]Sandy:Yeah, that's right. My finger swelled up so much I had to rip the ring off!
[00:55.19]Dave:Mm, I wish we'd known you were allergic to gold. I would've bought you a platinum one.
[01:00.84]Interviewer:And then what?
[01:02.53]Dave:Well, then it was the Bank Holiday weekend and we couldn't cash our traveler's checks.
[01:08.98]Sandy:Yeah, we were stupid, weren't we, to have forgotten that?
[01:13.08]Dave:Oh yeah, then of course, it was the car...
[01:16.72]Interviewer:The car?
[01:18.01]Sandy:New one! What we'd always dreamt of...
[01:21.86]Dave:Yeah, first it broke down, and the same night it was stolen.
[01:27.08]Interviewer:Oh dear!
[01:28.52]Dave:I suppose we should have left it at home, really, but you see we'd only just got it.
[01:34.39]Sandy:Yeah, so anyway, we hired another car. It cost a lot of money to stay in a hotel.
[01:41.81]And then, because it was the weekend and we didn't have any money left, we had to drive for how long?
[01:49.87]Sixteen? Yeah sixteen hours back into France, Oh we should never have forgotten ten the banks again.
[01:58.04]Dave:Yeah, we must have been cray to have driven all that way, so you were ill then.
[02:03.77]Sandy:Oh yeah, well, it wasn't just that, it was the sun, and the food too.
[02:11.36]Dave:Suppose so.
[02:13.06]Interviewer:So you came home then, did you?
[02:16.04]Sandy:Oh yeah, but at the port someone stle my purse!
[02:20.98]Interviewer:Oh!
[02:22.31]Dave:I wish we'd spent that money on duty-free shops. And then to cap it all when we got home we found our shop had been burgled...
[02:31.74]Sandy:Oh we found that... yeah... yeah!
[02:34.66]Interviewer:Why on earth didn't you tell the police you were away?
[02:38.87]Dave:Erm... I suppose it slipped our minds...
[02:43.04]Sandy:Erm I didn't think... (312 words)
[02:45.46]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the interview again and fill in the table with the information you get from the recording.
[02:56.94]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage again and answer the following questions briefly.
[03:07.27]Practice Two Change and Eng
[03:12.78]Words You Need to Know
[03:14.76]Siam     Siamese       tissue      emigrate
[03:23.69]circus       descendant    deteriorate       bronchitis
[03:32.90]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and answer the following question.
[03:43.45]Chang and Eng were the original Siamese twins, born in Siam in 1811.
[03:50.11]The King of Siam ordered them to be killed but their mother managed to keep them alive and bring them up as normal as possible.
[03:59.11]They were not very tall and were connected by a band of tissue 4.5 inches long, but they were very intelligent.
[04:09.62]They emigrated to America, became famous as circus actors and by the time they were thirty they had made a lot of money.
[04:18.66]Then they got married. They married sisters and between them had twenty-two children.
[04:25.14]Chang and Eng now have more than 1000 descendants. For some years they all lived in the twins' original house;
[04:34.10]but when the families grew they built separate homes, Chang and Eng spending three days in one and the next three in the other.
[04:43.03]In their later years, Chang's health deteriorated because he drank too much.
[04:48.40]Eng became so worried that he tried to get separated, but no doctor would do the operation.
[04:55.13]The end of their lives was painful. On January 12th, 1874, Chang took to his bed with bronchitis in his own house.