新编大学英语自主听力 4Unit 6

[17:00.13]The Andrea Doria had more than enough lifeboats to rescue every person on the ship;
[17:06.68]however, they were able to use only about half of the lifeboats they had because of a mechanical problem.
[17:15.04]The passengers and crew of the Andrea Doria were very lucky that another ship was able to rescue most of them.
[17:23.57]The passengers on the Titanic were not so fortunate.
[17:28.03]It is interesting that the wreck of the Titanic was only found in September of 1985.  (565 words)
[17:36.49]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and fill in the blanks with the information from the recording.
[17:48.55]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage again and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
[18:04.93]1)The Titanic and the Andrea Doria both sank in the Atlantic Ocean.
[18:15.12]2)A lot of gold, silver and cash have been discovered in these two ships.
[18:25.63]3)A man dressed up as a woman on the Titanic in order to save the lives of other people.
[18:37.40]4)The Titanic had not enough lifeboats because of a mechanical problem.
[18:47.16]5)The wreck of the Titanic wasn't found until the 1980s.
[18:56.77]Practice Two The Tyrone
[19:01.67]Words You Need to Know
[19:04.22]cabin       jolt     leak
[19:10.38]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the whole passage and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
[19:26.90]Mrs Grace Hume is one of the few living survivors of the Tyrone disaster.
[19:35.58]The ship sailed from Liverpool for New York on the 7th of April 1926. 500 passengers were aboard.
[19:48.90]Only 85 of them survived. Mrs Hume described the voyage recently for a BBC radio program.
[20:00.02]"The morning we left Liverpool the weather was very pleasant and we were all sure we were going to have a very pleasant voyage.
[20:10.32]The captain told us it would be warm and calm all the way to New York. I still remember some of the passengers.
[20:21.98]There was an old lady who was going to visit her son in Boston.
[20:27.49]Then there was a man who was going to start a new life in Canada.
[20:32.35]They both went down with the ship. The first and second days were very nice.
[20:39.70]I thought I would soon have a fine suntan. Then, on the second evening,
[20:47.58]the captain told us that the weather the next day was going to be a bit worse than expected but that it wouldn't last long.
[20:57.08]It turned very nasty on the third day. I remember someone saying "Oh, well, it'll soon be over."
[21:07.81]None of us had any idea how bad it was going to get. By the time it was evening, it was really terrible.
[21:19.15]Everybody stayed in their cabins on the fourth day. The storm was impossible to describe by then.
[21:28.84]Suddenly I felt a jolt, then someone started screaming something about a huge leak in the engine room.
[21:40.03]We all ran up on to the deck. I was sure I would never be able to get in one of the lifeboats.
[21:48.49]There were too many people fighting over them. I also knew that I would go down with the ship if I stayed any longer because it was going to sink any minute.
[22:02.17]When I jumped into the water I sank so deep that I was sure I was never going to come up again.
[22:10.16]Somehow I did and there was a lifeboat in the water near me, only half full. Someone pulled me in.
[22:19.38]"During the night I often thought we were going to sink again or at least die of the cold,
[22:26.11]but the next morning the storm died down. Then a ship came into sight and we and some people in another lifeboat were rescued. "   (396 words)
[22:37.60]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and fill in the missing words with the information from the passage.
[22:52.68]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage again and answer the following questions briefly.
[23:04.38]Happy Minute
[23:06.22]Enjoy listening to the passage and consider the following question.
[23:12.30]How do you uderstand the well_meaning sense of humor in the woman's answer?