听力教程3unit14++兼容版.docx

1、听力教程3unit14+兼容版unitl4Section One Tactics for Listening Parti Spot DictationMake Your Child a WinnerPeak performances - moments when children (1) achieve the best thats in them - are the stuff of every parents (2) dream. And yet most of us have seen a report card or heard a trumpet solo that (3) fall

2、s short of what our kids can (4) accomplish.Why can some boys and girls repeatedly pull themselves to the (5) heights, while others of equal or (6) superior ability cannot? Many parents assume skill is pretty much determined by (7) natural ability; the student with the highest I.Q. will get the best

3、 grades, or the athlete with the most prowess will (8) surpass his teammates.Genes count in determining performance, but theyre not everything. The (9) edge comes from mental attitude, character and (10) strategy. There are some simple ways for parents to help their youngsters develop those (11) tra

4、its:Find something to praise. A child who feels good about himself(12) succeeds; Assess your childs (13) strengths;Encourage self-applause;Knowing how to relax is key to (14) peak performance.A good report card (15) posted near your daughters mirror reminds her that she can do well and (16) reinforc

5、es the urge to repeat her success. There are no (17) shortcuts to bringing your child to do his best. Its a (18) gradual process of support, encouragement and hard work. And those efforts (19) payoff not only in peak performance but also in (20) closei_winner relations between parent and child.Part2

6、 listening for GistElderly people deserve our care and respect. Too many of them are left in homes for the elderly, alone and often forgotten by their families. Or they live with their families, who then have no time to themselves.The family placement scheme is currently providing many carers with a

7、 satisfying and important occupation. And more and more grandparents are being adopted by caring families.How does the scheme operate?Families are interviewed and carefully matched to the elderly person or persons, taking into account such things as suitability of accommodation - special needs, chil

8、dren and pets, smoking, lifestyle, personality and interests. Matching is, of course, largely a matter of ensuring that the elderly person and the carerwill enjoy each others company.After this the elderly person and the family are prepared for the placement: An introductory visit is arranged, usual

9、ly in the carers home. This means that when the placement begins the elderly person and family have met each other. Carers are paid 0n a weekly basis to cover expenses.ExerciseDirections: Listen to the passage and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide.1. This passage is about th

10、e family placement scheme and how it operates.The key words are elderly people, care, respect: scheme, adopted, caring families: interviewed, matched, suitability: matching, ensuring, enjoy company: introductory visit, caring home: paid.cover expenses. Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart 1 Dialo

11、gueTree Climbers of Pompeii*Sara: Urn . Its another one of my adventures as a tourist, urn . finding out things you really didnt expect to find out when you went to the place! 1 went to Pompeii and of course what you go to Pompeii for is er . the archaeology.Liz: To see the ruins.Sara: To see the ru

12、ins. And I was actually seeing the ruins but urn . suddenly my attention was caught by something else. I was just walking round the comer of a ruin, into a group of trees, pine trees, and I was just looking at them, admiring them and suddenly I saw a man halfway up this tree, and I was looking at hi

13、m so all I could see was his hands and his feet and he was about 20 or 30 feet up. I thought, Goodness, whats going on here? Has he got a ladder or hasnt he? So I walked round to see if he had a ladder. No, he had just gone straight up the tree.Liz: Hed shinned up* the tree.Sara: Hed shinned up the

14、tree. Like a monkey, more or less, except he was a rather middle-aged monkey . He was er . he was all of 50 and (Dh God), whats going on here? Anyway, I walked a bit further and saw other people either up trees or preparing to go up trees, and then I noticed a man standing there directing them. A so

15、rt of foreman, and began to wonder what on earth was going on, and then on the ground I saw there were all these polythene* buckets and they were full of pinecones* and of course what they were doing was collecting pine cones, and I thought, Well, how tidy of them to collect pine cones to stop the r

16、uins being urn . made urn . made untidy with all these things. Then I saw there was a lorry . full of pine cones . This was getting ridiculous . They were really collecting them in a big way. So I urn . asked the er . foreman what was going on and he said, Well you know urn . pine nuts are extremely

17、 sought after and valuable in the food industry in Italy.Liz: For food (Yeah). Not fuel! I thought you were going to say they were going to put (bum) them on a fire. Yes.Sara: Well, they might bum the er . cones when theyve finished with them butinside these cones are little white things like nuts a

18、nd er . I realized that theyre used in Italian cooking quite a lot in er . theres a particular sauce that goes with spaghetti em . from Geneva, I think, called pesto* in which these nuts are ground up and of course they they . come in cakes and sweets and things like that.Liz: So jts quite a delicac

19、y.Sara: Its quite a delicacy. And of course Id never thought of how they actually got them cos you cant imagine having a pine nut farm. So what he saidhappens is that private Arms like his buy a licence off the Italian State for the right to go round places like Pompeii - archaeological sites and th

20、ings - and systematically collect all the pine cones that come off the trees and similarly in the . in the forests. Liz: And of course they have to go up the tree because by the time its fallen food isnt any good . Sara: Thats right. Theyre pulling them down and he said they were very good at urn .

21、recognizing which ones were ready and which ones were a bit hard and etc, and each of them had a sort of stick with a hook at the end w hich they were using to pull the pines off. off the trees but clearly it wasnt enough to sit around and wait till they fell down. You . you had to do something abou

22、t it. There they were. So that was er . the end of my looking at the ruins for about half an hour. I was too fascinated by this er ., strange form of er. agriculture.Liz: Well, what you dont intend to see is always the most interesting. Sara: Much more interesting.ExerciseDirections: Listen to the d

23、ialogue and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.l.A 2.B 3.D 4.B 5.C 6. A 7. A 8.DPart 2 PassageWindmills1. Now, windmills are poised to break into a new frontier: the modern city center, often fused into building designs and barely noticeable from a distance.2. Lighter, quieter

24、, and often more efficient than their rural counterparts, they take advantage of the extreme turbulence and rapid shifts in direction that characterize urban wind patterns.3. But so far, the current models are being designed more for public or commercial buildings than for private homes, and the sma

25、llest weigh roughly 200 kilograms.4. The recent liberalization of European energy markets also has allowed customers to choose what kind of sustainable energy they want to purchase, with wind energy among the most popular.In the classrooms down below, theres no palpable sign that a steel windmill up

26、 above is continually feeding kilowatts to the local power grid.The graceful wooden windmills that have broken up the flat Dutch landscape for centuries a national symbol like wooden shoes and tulips - yielded long ago to ungainly metal-pole wind turbines.*Now, windmills are poised to break into a n

27、ew frontier: the modem city center, often fused* into building designs and barely noticeable from a distance.Though still in its teething stages, the urban turbine is a high-tech windmill designed to generate energy from the rooftops of bustling cities.Lighter, quieter, and often more efficient than

28、 their rural counterparts, they take advantage of the extreme turbulence* and rapid shifts in direction that characterize urban wind patterns.Prototypes* have been successfully tested in several Dutch cities, and the city government in the Hague has recently agreed to begin a large-scale deployment

29、in 2003.These very visible projects also improve the public profile of wind power, making energy companies look environmentally correct.Current models cost US$8,000 to US$12,000, and can generate between 3,000 and 7,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year. A typical Dutch household uses 3,500 kil

30、owatt hours per year, while in the United States, this figure jumps to around 10,000 kilowatt hours.But so far, they are being designed more for public or commercial buildings than for private homes. The smallest of the current models weigh roughly 200 kilograms and can be installed on a roof in a f

31、ew hours without using a crane.Germany, Finland and Denmark have also been experimenting with the technology, but the ever-practical Dutch are natural pioneers in urban wind power, mainly because of the lack of space there.The Netherlands, with 16 million people crowded into a country twice the size

32、 of Slovenia, is the most densely populated in Europe.The scarcity of land also is felt in the countryside, forcing traditional wind farms to seek new locations. Offshore wind farms are more common, but remain pricey and difficult to service.Various European initiatives to increase the viability* of sustainable energy also have given the urban turbine a boost, leading to heightened interest in zero-energy buildings that generate their own power.The recent liberalization of Eur