新编大学英语自主听力 4Unit 6

[11:39.48]"I would like to hear them say I was a great doctor and a good family man," said the first.
[11:45.92]"I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and that, during my career as a schoolteacher, I made a difference in many lives," said the second fellow.
[11:56.65]"Those both sound terrific," replied the third, "but I'd like to hear them say, "Look! He's moving!"
[12:04.43]Lesson Two Overwhelming Disasters
[12:10.30]Practice One Unsinkable  Ships   Words You Need to Know
[12:19.73]luxury        liner      tragedy       coward      collide
[12:31.00]iceberg       rescue      shipwreck        destination
[12:40.10]the Titanic       the Andrea Doria
[12:45.79]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and report what the passage mainly tells us.
[12:56.74]On the morning of April 10, 1912, the luxury liner the Titanic left England on a voyage to New York.
[13:05.92]Four days later she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. On Wednesday July 18,1956, the ocean liner the Andrea Doria left Italy.
[13:20.10]The Andrea Doria was also traveling to New York. Eight days later this great ship also lay at the bottom of the Atlantic.
[13:30.72]The sinking of these two huge ships, these two very, very large ships, shocked the world.
[13:38.75]Reports of these two tragedies filled the newspapers for days. When the Andrea Doria went down,
[13:46.74]people compared her sinking with the sinking of the Titanic. There were similarities between the two events;
[13:54.52]however, there were also important differences.
[13:58.87]What were some of these similarities? First of all, both ships were transatlantic ocean liners.
[14:08.52]In addition, they were both luxury liners. They carried many of the world's famous and rich people.
[14:16.76]In fact, ten American millionaires lost their lives when the Titanic went down.
[14:23.96]Today millions of dollars worth of gold, silve, and cash may still remain locked inside these two sunken ships.
[14:34.62]Another similarity was that as each ship was sinking, there were acts of heroism and acts of evil.
[14:44.05]Some people acted very bravely, even heroically. Some people even gave up their lives so that others could live.
[14:53.59]There were also some people who acted like cowards. For example, one man on the Titanic dressed up as a woman so that he could get into a lifeboat and save his own life.
[15:07.42]One last similarity was that both of these ships were considered "unsinkable." People believed that they would never sink.
[15:17.86]There are also differences between these great ship disasters. To begin with,
[15:24.98]the Titanic was on her very first voyage across the Atlantic. The Andrea Doria, on the other hand, was on her 101st transatlantic crossing.
[15:37.15]Another difference was that the ships sank for different reasons. The Titanic struck an iceberg while the Andrea Doria collided with another ship.
[15:49.03]Another contrast was that the Andrea Doria had radar to warn of the approach of another ship,
[15:56.48]but the Titanic was not equipped with radar. The Titanic had only a lookout.
[16:03.54]The lookout was able to see the iceberg only moments before the ship struck it.
[16:09.30]But, of course, the greatest difference between these two terrible accidents was the number of lives lost.
[16:17.58]When the Titanic sank, more than 1,500 people died. They were drowned or frozen to death in the icy North Atlantic water.
[16:30.00]Over 700 people survived the sinking. In the Andrea Doria accident 60 people lost their lives, and about 1,650 lives were saved.
[16:43.43]One of the reasons that so many people died on the Titanic was that the ship was considered to be unsinkable and so there were about half the number of necessary lifeboats to rescue all the people aboard the ship.