全新版大学英语视听阅读4Unit3答案.docx

1、全新版大学英语视听阅读4Unit3答案Unit 3This story is set on the Orient Express, a train that travels through seven countries in Europe to go from Paris, France, over the Alps to Istanbul, Turkey.Running from Paris to Istanbul, the Orient Expressis a first-class hotel on wheels. Once a year, travelers can ride the

2、 luxury train across Europe just to enjoy the journey, but its hard work to make the grand train run smoothly. Who is responsible for the trains success What unique difficulties do they faceI.The Orient Express. Read the paragraph. Then match each word or phrase with the correct definition.The legen

3、dary Orient Expressbecame well known in a bygone era as it carried Europes wealthy and royal passengers between France and Turkey. With its luxurious d 闰 or, the Orient Express evokes images of eleganee, romanee, and mystery. While the routes may be different now, passengers aboard this luxury train

4、 can still be pampered with delieious, first-elass euisine and exeellent serviee as they travel through the varied terrain of Europe.1.bygone era_F _A.the natural features of land; the landseape2.royal _G_B.the art and seienee of eooking3.daeor _D_C.bring out a feeling or thought4.evoke _C_D.the dee

5、orative environment of a plaee5.romanee_H_E. spoil; take more eare of than is neeessary6.pamper_E_ F.a period of time in the past7.euisine _B_ G.related to or appropriate for a king or queen8.terrain _AH.a feeling of exeitement, adventure, and happinessII. Working on a Legend. Read the definitions o

6、f the types of jobs found on the Orient Express. Then label the pietures with the eorreet underlined words.1.maitre d 2.bartender3.ehef4.eabin stewardSUMMARYThe Orient Express is a train that has eaptured the hearts and imaginations of people from royalty to writers over the last eentury. The train

7、still makes its historieal journey from Paris to Istanbul onee a year, maintaining the quality of serviee and ambienee of a bygone era. For most travelers, it is a onee- in- a- lifetime dream eome true. For the staff who work on the train, it is an exeiting, ehallenging, and fulfilling job to keep t

8、his five-star hotel on wheels operating smoothly.Warming upTeaehing NOTES1.To introduee the topie, ask students to look at the title and the eover pieture and try to guess the answers to the following questions about the Orient Express:1)Which continents does the train travel ona. Oceania and Asia.b

9、. Europe and America. c. Asia and Europe.2)Approximately how old is the traina. 5 years old. b. 25 years old. c. 100 years old.3)How many times a year does the train make a toura. One. b. Nine. c. Fifteen.2.Ask students to discuss what they think the train s nickname “ the Train of Kingand the King

10、of Trains ” means.3.Ask students whether they have ever heard of the novel Murder on the Orient Express. Introduce Agatha Christie to students. Encourage them to read the novel or watch the movie.The Orient ExpressTo most people, the Orient Express is more of an abstract concept than a tangible real

11、ity. Most people are familiar with its life in works of fiction and movies: Hercule Poirot solved his most famous case on it, Alfred Hitchock s lady disappearfrom it and James Bond rode it from Istanbul to London.Originally, the Orient Expresswas the name of a long-distance passenger train establish

12、ed in 1883 that used various routes. Its first formal journey started on October 4, 1883 when the train set out from Paris to Istanbul, going through six countries. Many journalists traveled aboard to publicly marvel at the train s lu facilities and beautiful environment. Aboard the train, the encha

13、nted passengers felt as though they had entered one of Europe s finest hotels; they admired ttehe elaborawooden paneling, deluxe leather armchairs, soft silk bed sheets and wool blankets.The original Orient Express offered regular international railway service, but because of its passengers, who wer

14、e often diplomats, royalty, or government couriers, and its five-course French meals, the name has become synonymous with intrigue and luxury travel. It became the train of choice for Europe rsich and high-class, and a rolling symbol of the economic contrasts of its age. It came to be called “ the K

15、ing of Trains and the Train of Kings. ”In 1977, having operated for nearly a century, the Orient Express service was terminated. It was immediately replaced by an overnight service from Paris to Vienna that ran for the very last time from Paris on June 8, 2007. Since then, the route, still called th

16、e “ Orient Expresstarte”d f,rom Strasbourg instead and was much shorter.On 14 December 2009, the Orient Express ceased its operation and the famous route disappeared completely from European railway timetables, becoming the victim of high-speed trains and budget airlines.The Queen of CrimeAgatha Chr

17、istie (1890-1976) was an highly popular British author and playwright best known for her murder mystery and detective fiction. She was very prolific, who write an amazing amount of work in her lifetime, has sold over two billion books around the world and has been translated into at least 103 langua

18、ges.She is best remembered for her 80 detective novels. Her works, especially those featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, have earned her the title “ theQueen of Crime ” and establishehder as an significant writer in the development of the genre.Agatha Christie wrote more than 30

19、 novels featuring Poirot. Among the most famous were The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), Murder on the Orient Express (1934), and Death on the Nile (1937). Agatha Christie s last published novel,SleepingMurder, featured her other world-famous detective, the shrewdly inquisitive Miss Jane Marple. Mis

20、s Marple appears in twelve novels, and twenty short stories. Both Poirot and Marple have been widely dramatized in feature films and television series.Murder on the Orient Express(1974), Witness for the Prosecution(1957), And Then There Were None(1945), and Death on the Nile(1978) are some of the su

21、ccessful films based on her fiction.With over one hundred novels and over one hundred translations into foreign languages, Agatha Christie became the best-selling English novelist of all time by the time of her death. Although her novels were in the crime fiction genre, their breadth of themes is qu

22、ite diverse and extraordinary. This makes Agatha Christie one of the best-loved writers of all time.Iron Curtain“ Iron Curtain ” was used to define the boundary that separated the WwarPsactcountries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. It was a symbol of the

23、 military, political and ideological boundary splitting Europe into two separate regions. To the east of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were under the influence of the former Soviet Union. This included part of Germany (East Germany), Czechoslovakia,Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and

24、Albania. The other countries to the west of the Iron Curtain had market economies, and with the exception of some periods of dictatorship in Spain, Portugal and Greece, were ruled by democratic governments.Physically, the Iron Curtain took the shape of border defenses between the countries of Wester

25、n and Eastern Europe, and the Berlin Wall, which was erected by the Soviets in 1961, gave this longtime symbol of the Curtain some physical presence.video SCRIPTNarrator: With its famous boulevards, historic buildings, and elegant atmosphere, Paris is a city that the world often associates with roma

26、nce. But there are also people here looking for something else: romance from another time. They want to return to an age when simply getting somewhere was an adventure, a time when Paris was the departure point for the world s most famous traein:t tEhxepOrersi s.Tourist: “ Good Morning. How are you

27、”Narrator: This tourist is checking in to board the train once known as “ the TrainKings and the King of Trains. ” In every detail, including the beautiful d e cor, tExpress evokes the elegant images of a golden age. When it began operating at the turn of the 20th Century, the train carried members

28、of Europerosyal families and rich business leaders from Paris to Constantinople, or Istanbul, as the Turkish city is now called. These days, this luxurious train makes the journey once a year and it s a six-day journey some wait a lifetime to take.Eli Gershovitch, Orient Express Passenger:“WhatI rea

29、lly wanted to get out of theOrient Express was the feeling of going into a . . . stepping into a time machine. The idea that I could go back to a bygone era, not just any time, but a time before I was even born, and experience what it would have been like. ” Narrator: For most of the 85 passengers o

30、n this run, the pampering and luxury of this famous voyage are a once-in-a-lifetime treat.Bill Hummel, Orient Express Passenger: “ It has many meanings for us. My wife hadher sixtieth birthday in June and our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary was the twentieth of August. ”Narrator: Everyone aboard th

31、e train seems to share a common desire: to somehow recapture a lost age.Karen Prothero, Orient Express Marketing Director: “ There a hsuge fascination for the train, and then of course Agatha Christie wrote that famous book, Murder on the Orient Express, which, thathas also helped so much to make it

32、 such a famous name. ”Narrator: After World War II, airlines and the rise of the Iron Curtain between the East and West, made this type of luxury travel by train impractical. Therefore, the Orient Express suspended its service until 1997, when the route between Paris and Istanbul was restarted. For many people, the attraction of the journey is irresistible.Robert Franklin, Teacher: “ I ve always been a lover of travel, and always in search ofparticular