现代大学英语听力2听力原文及题目答案unit9.docx

1、现代大学英语听力2听力原文及题目答案unit9Unit 9Task 1【答案】1) the campus hero; the womens track coach2) the class started before I got here3) will develop4) cloudy; the glass is a little dirty5) a symbol of happiness; wear black【原文】1) Man: I had the girls running in circles when I was in college.Woman: I never knew you

2、 were the campus hero. Man: I wasnt. I was the womens track coach.2) Instructor: Mr. Jenkins, why are you late? Student: I guess because the class started before I got here.3) Woman: Doctor, you have to come immediately-my baby swallowed some camera film! Doctor: Just calm yourself, nothing will dev

3、elop.4) Customer: Waiter, this water is cloudy. Waiter: The waters okay, madam. Its just that the glass is a little dirty.5) Woman: The bride wears white on her wedding day as a symbol of happiness, for this is the most joyous day in her entire life. Man: Why does the groom wear black?Task 2【答案】Spea

4、kersPreferencesReasonslst speakerFrenchMelodic; easy on the ear; poetic; a rhythm to the language; rounded; no sharp, jagged edges; pleasing2nd speakerDane speaking EnglishBeautiful, low, sensitive, very soft quality3rd speakerFrench speaking EnglishNice pronunciation of h and th; very nice, steady

5、rhythms; gentle; lyrical4th speakerMediterranean accentsMediterranean culture; gives English life; beautiful mixture of the serious Northern European and the Southern European5th speakerSwedish accentMakes her smile; sing-songy; makes her want to imitate【原文】Catherine: I think firstly I find the Fren

6、ch language, very melodic to listen to. Its very easy on the ear, and it almost sounds poetic. No matter what kind of mood the individual is in, whos talking, or what theyre talking about, there seems to be a rhythm to the language. And its rounded; there are no sharp, jagged edges to the language,

7、so its very pleasing to the ear. Chris: I think the accent I really like is the Dane speaking English. They sound awful when they speak Danish, but when they speak English theres a beautiful, low, sensitive, very soft quality about it.Donald: I like the way they bring their French pronunciation into

8、 English. They cant pronounce hs and they cant pronounce th properly. And I think that actually sounds very nice. Also I like the rhythm: they bring French rhythms into English-nice, steady rhythms and I like that too. Its just it, it. whenever I hear a French person speaking English it sounds more

9、gentle and more lyrical.Lesley: I think the most attractive foreign accents for me are Mediterranean accents because they, if you like, import their own culture into the English accent and give it a lot of life that sometimes, that kind of-the gestures and everything that the English people dont hav

10、e, so you get a beautiful mixture of the serious Northern European and the Southern European together.Susan: I like the Swedish accent because it, it makes me smile and the way its spoken is so sing-songy that you cant help but smile when other people actually speak it. And it always makes you want

11、to try and put the accent on yourself.Task 3【答案】spelling; meaning; history; a slab of ham; a lump of bread; hunk of something to eat; a strong man; a book of maps; the top bone of the neck; Olympians; holding the sky on his head and hands; Sixteenth; on the cover of a book of maps; blessing; I hope

12、you will have a good night; days eye; it has a little golden eye, like a tiny sun; the English daisy closes at night; the English loved their daisies.【原文】The spelling and meaning of words are very interesting. But whats more interesting is the history of a word, or where it came from. Lets examine s

13、ome of the words and see how they got into our language. LUNCH Lunch perhaps comes from an old Spanish word lonje, a slab of ham. We may also get our word from a form of lump, maybe a lump of bread, but whether lunch comes from ham or bread, it meant a hunk of something to eat. ATLAS An atlas is a s

14、trong man, and also a book of maps. The story of this word begins a long time ago in Greece. The ancient Greeks believed that their gods had once been a race of giants called Titans. The Titans fought with another group of gods called Olympians, and the Olympians won. Atlas was a Titan. He was punis

15、hed for fighting by having to stand at the western edge of the world, holding the sky on his head and hands, so that it would not fall on the world and smash anything. After the ancient Greek religion died out, the idea of Atlas changed. From holding up the sky with his head and hands, he came to be

16、 thought of as holding the world on his shoulders. Mercator, a mapmaker of the sixteenth century, used a picture of Atlas on the cover of a book of maps, so a book of maps came to be called an atlas. The word has still another meaning. The top bone of the neck is called atlas because it supports the

17、 head. GOOD-BYE Good-bye is a blessing; originally it was God be with ye, and in the course of time it became one word. Many of our greetings are good wishes, but we say them with so little thought that we forget this. When we say good morning, good evening, good night, and so on, what we are really

18、 saying is, I hope you will have a good morning (or evening, or night). DAISY The daisy has a little golden eye, like a tiny sun. Perhaps this is the reason the English people named it days eye, or perhaps they chose the name because the English daisy closes at night. The English loved their daisies

19、, which were pink and red, as well as white. Six hundred years or so ago, the English poet Chaucer said: The daisy, or else the eye of the day, The queen, and prettiest flower of all.Task 4【答案】A.1) T2) T3) F4) T5) FB.1) b2) c3) a4) c5) c6) b【原文】MATTHEW: Chris, why is it that there are so many differ

20、ent languages , andthat in Europe certainly if you travel more than a hundred miles ,youre likely to find people speaking a completely different language to your own?CHRIS: Well, its true to say that there are er . hundreds and hundreds of different languages. Its perhaps um . . . however , more int

21、eresting and more informative to say that there are several different groups of languages er . . Most European languages,with the exception of I think Finnish and er . . Basque and . . . Hungarian I believe,belong to the Indo-European group of languages, Im not very sure myself of the . . . the actu

22、al details of the history of these languages, but you can be very sure that er . most of these languages , say Latin and Greek nd our own language a and er . . . German and er . French and . all the others, are connected. The reason why you can travel from one Willage to another in Switzerland and e

23、r . . . from one area to another in England and find different dialects, if not different languages spoken, is that um . several hundred years ago communication was by word of mouth. Word of mouth meant that people had to move ; if people were to move they needed roads and there were no roads.MATTHE

24、W: Do you see any chance for a universal language like Esperanto?CHRIS: Not for an artificial er . language, no . I suppose the RomanCatholic Church used Latin. but Latin had a . a particular religious basis and this is probably why it was therefore chosen. I dont see very much chance for Esperanto;

25、 I think its an awfully good idea but I dont believe that language works like that.I think people will probably er . . work towards the most convenient language to use.They will not set out to learn a new language. It seems to me that er . either English,. Russian or Chinese, perhaps Japanese, will

26、be the language of the future er . . . My bets on English.MATTHEW: Maggie, why do you think it is that so few English people speak a second language?MAGGIE: I think when you learn a language at school .it tends to be rather a dead occupation, and its very difficult to stimulate any interest among sc

27、hool children. But when you actually go to the country and spend say a month in . . . in an exchange visit when youre a schoolgirl, or a schoolboy um . then you suddenly become more interested because you . you want to communicate with poeple when youre actually abroad, and its not safe to rely on t

28、he fact that most people speak English when um . . . in foreign countries. Mm . . . I think English people traditionally thought that . . . that foreigners always spoke English, and a lot of foreigners do, but there are people that you meet in the street or you want to take a bus somewhere, then you

29、 find that you need to speak the language andits very unnerving to be in a situation where you cant communicate with people when you do want to travel around.MATTHEW: Have you ever been abroad and learnt er . a language in the country?MAGGIE: Yes , well when I was a secretary I er. went and lived in

30、 Genevafor two years, and I learnt French at school but I . . . I really didnt speak it at all. I knew it theoretically but I wasnt able to communicate with people. But I was in a situation where if I didnt speak French , then I would not have been able to do my shopping and buy food ,and so I picke

31、d the language up and I made friends with French people . Swiss French people, and I found that if I wanted to communicate with all . . . all the people that I met , then I had to learn French, and I think its the best method of learning because youre in the situation. Its very hard at times you can

32、 sit through dinner parties and not understand what . whats going on and you think everybody thinks youre stupid because you cant communicate with them, but its . its the hard way but I think its the best way to learn.MATTHEW: Elfriede, you come from Austria and yet youve been living in England now for the last three years. Has having to learn and speak another language created great pr