听力第二册UNIT8.docx

1、听力第二册UNIT8Unit8Section One Tactics for ListeningPart 1 Phonetics-Stress, Intonation and AccentJoanna: Who? Mary? She doesnt go out with anyone, you know.Joanna: No. Well, if you ask me, she doesnt like anybody.Joanna: Oh, a meal. Yes, thatd-be nice. But where? I dont want to eat anywhere.Joanna: Do

2、you think so? Mm - of course, she doesnt approve of anyone.Joanna: Yes. But what d you suggest? She wont enjoy anything, will she .Joanna: No, I asked her. I think she doesnt want to go anywhere.Joanna: I know. Its odd isnt it. Never mind. We dont have to go out with anyone.Joanna: In fact. lets not

3、 go out with anyone.Joanna: OK. Just you and me. Bye!Exercise: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8Not at all Only in special cases Part 2 Listening and Note-takingSleepIts clear that everyone needs to sleep. Most people rarely think about how or why they sleep however. We know that if we sleep well we feel rested. If w

4、e dont sleep enough, we often feel tired and irritable. It seems that there are two purposes of sleep: physical rest and emotional or psychological rest. We need to rest our bodies and our minds. Both are important in order for us to be healthy. Each night we alternate between two kinds of sleep: ac

5、tive sleep and passive sleep. The passive sleep gives our body the rest that is needed and prepares us for active sleep in which dreaming occurs. And we are beginning to understand the importance of the dream stage in our sleep cycles. Lets look at the different hinds of sleep. Theyre quite differen

6、t. In passive sleep, the body is at rest. The heart slows down. The body processes become very slow. We move very little. And the brain becomes very inactive. This stage of sleep is known as slow-wave sleep because the brain waves move in a very slow regular rhythm. If a person continues to sleep, s

7、he or he enters a new stage, a more active stage. The body goes through several changes: the brain temperature rises, the amount of blood in the brain increases, the body becomes very, very still, and the brain goes from being very inactive to being active. And as the brain becomes more active, the

8、eyes begin to move rapidly. When the eyes begin to move, this is a sign of another change - the change is that the person is dreaming. ,Throughout the night, people alternate between passive and active sleep. The brain rests, then it becomes active, then dreaming occurs. The cycle is repeated: the b

9、rain rests, then it becomes active, then dreaming occurs. This cycle is repeated several times throughout the night. During eight hours of sleep people dream for a total of one and a half hours, on the average. All people experience these dream cycles. Many people say they dont dream, or that they r

10、arely dream. Doctors have studied the sleep cycle and have found that everyone dreams - in fact, that everyone needs to dream in order to stay healthy. It appears we need both kinds of sleep. We need passive sleep in order to rest our bodies. We need active sleep in order to dream. And dreaming help

11、s us to rest our minds.Exercise A:1. We are beginning to understand the importance of the dream stage in our sleep cycles.2. This stage of sleep is known as slow-wave sleep because the brain waves move in a very slow regular rhythm.3. When the eyes begin to move, this is a sign of another change - t

12、he change is that the person is dreaming4. During eight hours of sleep people dream for a total of one and a half hours, on the average.5. Doctors have studied the sleep cycle and have found that everyone dreams - in fact, that everyone needs to dream in order to stay healthy.Exercise B:Sleep Everyo

13、ne needs to sleep. It seems that there are two purposes of sleep: physical rest andemotional or psvchological rest. We need to rest our bodies and our minds Each night we alternate between two kinds of sleep: active sleep and passive sleep. In passive sleep, the body is at rest. The heart slows down

14、. The body processes become very slow. This stage of sleep is known as slow-wave sleep because the brain waves move in a very slow reeular rhythm. If a person continues to sleep, she or he enters a new stage, a more active stage. The braintemperature rises, the amount of blood in the brain increases

15、, the body becomes very still, and thebrain goes from being very inactive to being active. And the eyes begin to move rapidly. This is a sign that the person is dreaming. Throughout the night, people alternate between passive and active sleep. This cycle is repeated several times throughout the nigh

16、t. During eight hours of sleep people dream for a total of one and a half hours, on the average.We need passive sleep in order to rest our bodies. We need active sleep in order to dream. And dreaming helps us to rest our minds. Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart 1 DialoguesDialogue 1 Guess What

17、!Jackie: You asked Beth to be here around seven oclock, didnt you? Bill: Yes. What time is it now?Jackie: Its nearly a quarter to eight, i wonder what happened.Bill: Hmm. She might have forgotten the time. Why dont I call and see if shes on her way?(A few minutes later.)Bill: I got her answering mac

18、hine, so I guess she must have left already.Jackie: I hope she didnt have a problem on the road. Her car could have broken down or something.Bill: Of course she may have simply forgotten our invitation and done something else today.Jackie: No, she couldnt have forgotten. I talked to her only yesterd

19、ay. Lets just start without her.Bill: Oh, here comes Beth now.Beth: Hey, guys. Sorry Im late. I had an emergency.Jackie: Oh. Nothing serious, I hope.Beth: Well, kind of. It was Sally.Jackie: Sally, your dog? What happened?Beth: Well, I was just about to leave when she started acting strange. Then sh

20、e just passed out.Jackie: Oh, my gosh.Beth: I panicked. I thought she had died at first. I had to rush her to the vet*.Jackie: But is she OK? Shes so cute. I hope shes all right.Beth: Yeah, shes going to be fine. The vet said it was some kind of virus. So he gave her an injection, and I had to leave

21、 her with him. Ill go by later and pick her up. Oh, but guess what!Jackie: What?Beth: Shes going to have puppies!Bin: Congratulations! Youre going to be a grandmother!Jackie: Very funny. Bill!Beth: Yeah, Bill. Very funny!Exercise A:T 1. They were supposed to meet Beth at seven oclock. (Jackie: You a

22、sked Beth to be here around seven oclock, didnt you? / Bilk Yes.)F 2. It was already passed eight oclock. (Jackie: lts nearly a quarter to eight.)F 3. Bill called Beth but there was no answer. (Bill: ! got her answering machine.)T 4. Beth must have left already.F 5. Beth was delayed by the traffic.

23、(Beth: Hey, guys. Sorry Im late. 1 had an emergency. . / Beth: . It was Sally. / Jackie: Sally, your dog?)T 6. The dog fainted just before Beth was about to leave. (Beth: Well, I was just about to leave when she started acting strange. Then she just passed out.)T 7. The vet gave Sally an injection.T

24、 8. The vet didnt allow Beth to take Sally home. (Beth: . he gave her an injection, and I had to leave her with him.)T 9. Sally was pregnant. (Beth: Shes going to have puppies!)F 10. Beth would have grandchildren soon. (Bill: Congratulations! Youre going to be a grandmother! Bill was joking.)Dialogu

25、e 2 SnakesNow a lot of people will say, Oh dear this is something very significant . her dreaming ofsnakes but its nothing to do with any kind of erm . double meaning that there may be. Itsbecause as a child, I lived in the East and I had many nasty experiences with snakes. Once I wasup on a tree .

26、I was a very little girl and down below a cobra* and a rat snake*, they actuallywere fighting, and they fought to the death and I used to put my arms round the tree and I wasjust stuck there and then after everything was finished, they had to send some people up the treeto prise* my arms open and br

27、ing me down again. And another time we had just moved from oneconvent* which was in a sort of a. fairly civilised part of the city to the outskirts and I reachedout to get what I thought was a belt hanging up and of course it was a wretched snake. (Terrible!)Then we had patched roofs in some of the

28、temporary school buildings and snakes liked to go uponto this roof. And I happened to be standing talking to a nun, and you know how in the courseof conversation you tend to change places (Mm!) and we had just changed places when thiswretched snake fell on my head and I went into hysterics . and I j

29、ust cant seem to get over thisfear and I have this recurring nightmare .- Is it always the same, is it . are you always in the same place and the same snakes and .- No, different places and theyre always so coloufful and they always try to get my neck, round my neck or they try to get my knee and it

30、s .- Whereabouts as a matter of interest, whereabouts was this, when you were a child?- This was in Sri Lanka. (Sri Lanka?) Yes (Good heavens . Extraordinary!) and as a result, I can be offered work if theres anything to do with snakes I will just say no, I cant . you can offer me a million pounds a

31、nd I will not do it. I cant bear to see the picture of a snake on the screen or in a magazine. I can be all alone but I go into hysterics.Exercise:1.C 2. D 3. C 4. DPart 2 PassagesPassage 1 What Is a Black Hole? A black hole* is a region of spacetime from which nothing can escape, even light. To see

32、 why this happens, imagine throwing a tennis ball into the air. The harder you throw the tennis ball, the faster it is travelling when it leaves your hand and the higher the ball will go before turning back. If you throw it hard enough it will never return; the gravitational* attraction will not be able to pull it back down. The velocity* the ball must have to esca