《现代大学英语听力2》听力原文及答案（2）

Task 7 【 答案 八年级地理上册填图题岩土工程勘察试题省略号的作用及举例应急救援安全知识车间5s试题及答案 】 A. 1) correspondent 2) a Jamaican town 3) the cruise liner 4) an island in the Caribbean 5) the Royal Navy vessel 6) the hurricane B. 1) F 2) F 3) T 4) T 5) T C. Reference: In this exercise, students can use their own imagination and guess what might happen next. D. 1) Yes。 2) They had thought the ship would sink, so they went there for shelter. 3) No. 4) The Royal Navy frigate Steadfast would take them off the island. 5) No. Apart from a few minor injuries there were no casualties. 【原文】 Part One Announcer: ... in Garderers' Question Time at 2 o'clock. And now over to Gordon Chartwell in the newsroom. Newsreader: Here is the news, read by Gordon Chartwell. The cruise liner, Princess of Wales, which ran aground last night off the island of St. Catherine in the Caribbean, is reported to be sinking. Here's a report from our correspondent in Jamaica, Graham Smith. Graham Smith: A weak radio signal was received here in Kingston a few hours ago from the radio operator on the 28,000-ton luxury cruise ship, the Princess of Wales. According to this message, the ship is taking in water and is starting to sink. All the passengers have been ordered into the lifeboats and told to make for the nearby island of St. Catherine, the coast of which is some 20 miles from the scene of the accident. In normal circumstances this would be an easy 3-hour trip, but with Hurricane Zelda approaching fast and blowing away from the island, it's feared that some boats may not make it in time to the safety of the island. Once on the island, it would be possible for passengers and crew to shelter from the wind and await rescue. The Royal Navy frigate Steadfast is heading for St. Catherine at full speed but it may take her up to 24 hours to get there. So things look pretty grim for the 700 passengers and 420 crew at the moment. This is Graham Smith in Kingston, Jamaica. Newsreader: As soon as we have any further news we, will interrupt our programmes to bring it to you. And now the rest of the news. In Liverpool today the Prime Minister said in a speech... Part Two Announcer: We interrupt this programme to take you over to the newsroom for a newsflash. Newsreader: This is Gordon Chartwell in the newsroom with a further report from our correspondent Graham Smith in Jamaica about the stranded liner, Princess of Wales. Graham Smith: A further signal has been picked up from the Princess of Wales within the past few minutes. According to this, the ship is now out of danger. Apparently the damage to the liner is not as serious as was originally thought and she is still completely seaworthy and out of danger. However, before this was realized, 5 of the lifeboats had been launched and about 200 passengers and crew had made their way to the island of St. Catherine where they are reported to be safe. For the time being they are likely to remain on the island. The remaining 920 people are still on board the liner and in no danger. Although Hurricane Zelda has reached the island, the wind seems to have blown itself out to some extent and although there are heavy seas, there is no danger for a ship of the size of the Princess of Wales. The ship is now clear of the rocks. The passengers and crew sheltering on the island will be brought off by the Royal Navy frigate Steadfast, which is now close to the area. Apart from a few minor injuries there are no casualties. This is Graham Smith returning you to the studio. Newsreader: There will be a further report in our main news at one o'clock. And now back to Down Your Way... Task 8 【答案】 A. 1) c 2) c 3) a B. Countries Attitudes Towards the Treaty The US It was one of the first countries that signed the treaty, but has withdrawn from it on the grounds that the treaty would weaken/harm American economy. The EU It strongly supports the treaty, and is also trying to push/persuade other countries to accept it. Japan It wants flexible rules allowing it to plant more trees rather than cut its pollution greatly, and to impose weaker penalties if it fails to fulfill its obligations. Russia It has not made the final decision, but wants firm guarantees of foreign investment in clean technology before ratifying it. 【原文】 News Item 1 The European Union has officially approved the Kyoto Treaty on climate change. Officials from all 15 EU states attended a ceremony Friday at the United Nations in New York. However, the treaty still needs the approval of more countries to come into effect. The treaty limits the release by Industrial countries of gases blamed for trapping heat in the atmosphere. The United States was one of the first countries to sign the Kyoto Treaty, but has since withdrawn. President Bush says the treaty could harm the American economy. News Item 2 Welcome to BBC World News, I'm Nick Gowing. Environment ministers from 180 countries will start trying to rescue the Kyoto Treaty on global warming shortly. They join their officials who have been meeting all week in the German city of Bonn. The 1997 Kyoto agreement commits industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The protocol was undermined in a major way in March when US President George W. Bush said it would weaken America's economy. It's Beethoven who dominates the town square here and it's unlikely that he'll have to give up his place to a monument celebrating a conference which halted global warming. Ministers from over 180 countries have already agreed to global cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases 5 percent below the 1990 levels. But here they must decide how this will be achieved. Since George Bush pulled out of the deal, the argument is between Japan and Europe. The Japanese want flexible rules allowing them to plant more trees in place of steep cuts in pollution and weaker penalties for missing targets. Europe doesn't like it but really wants a deal. News Item 3 A major international conference on climate change is to open in Moscow shortly with Russia coming under renewed pressure to sign the Kyoto Protocol. That's the agreement to limit the industrial pollutants that are believed to contribute to global warming. The Kyoto Protocol of 1997 can only come into force when 55 percent of countries have signed up to it. With United States refusing to sign, ratification by Russia is crucial to the treaty's success. From Moscow our environment correspondent Tim Hersch reports. President Putin himself called this conference in his own capital to discuss the latest signs of climate change and it had been thought he might use the opportunity to announce that his government was finally prepared to sign up to Kyoto, but comments from senior Kremlin officials have played down expectations, saying Russia wanted firm guarantees of foreign investment in clean technology before pressing ahead with ratification. The European Union and UN bodies have been putting pres-sure on Mr. Putin to end the delays so that international action against global warming could finally start six years after the Kyoto agreement was signed. Task 9 【答案】 I. September 19th; three days; child activists; non-government organizations A. actions 2. a good education for all children 3. the chance for all children to become an important part of their communities B. the progress II. seventy-one heads of state and government; a treaty aimed at improving the lives of children around the world; the rights of children III. (former) world leaders; creators A. educating children B. protecting them from war C. fighting AIDS get involved; take action; work for change 【原文】 The United Nations General Assembly will hold a special session on children beginning September Nineteenth. The meeting will bring together government leaders, child activists, non-government organizations and many young people. The three-day gathering will give officials a valuable chance to change how the world thinks about children. Eleven years ago, the U-N held a similar meeting called the World Summit for Children. During that conference, seventy-one heads of state and government signed a treaty aimed at improving the lives of children around the world. Efforts to reach the goals established in that treaty have made the rights of children an important issue. The UN agency for children, UNICEF, is supporting the special session. Officials are expected to produce a plan of action to guarantee that three important goals are reached. The goals are the best possible start in life for all children, a good education for all children and the chance for all children to become an important part of their communities. The session will also examine progress made since the Nineteen-Ninety World Summit for Children. Former South African President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela is working toward these goals. He is joined by his wife Graca Machel who is an activist for children. They are calling on community, business and government leaders to form an international movement aimed at improving the world for young people. The movement is hoping to build international support for a public campaign to help children. Several world leaders have joined the movement. They include South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung and Queen Rania of Jordan. Movie stars, professional sports teams, and the creators of children's television programs and books also have joined the movement. The group's public campaign lists ten ways to improve the lives of young people. These include educating children, protecting them from war and fighting the disease AIDS. UNICEF officials say the goal of the movement is for people around the world to get involved, take action and work for change. They say that for every child who comes into the world, the hopes and dreams of the human race are reborn. Task 10 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says hunger kills millions of people each year — especially children . The UN organization says millions more people will die unless more money is invested to fight against hunger. This is based on the result of a new UN study called “The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2002”. It found that more than nine million people die each year from hunger. Six million of them are children younger than age five. Researchers also found that the number of starving people is growing in some parts of the world. The report says that about eight hundred and forty million people around the world are getting enough food to eat. Ninety-five percent of these people are in developing countries. Unit 9 Task 1 【答案】 1) the campus hero; the women’s track coach 2) the class started before I got here 3) will develop 4) cloudy; the glass is a little dirty 5) 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 were the campus hero. Man: I wasn't. I was the women's 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 develop. 4) Customer: Waiter, this water is cloudy. Waiter: The water's okay, madam. It's 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】 Speakers Preferences Reasons lst speaker French Melodic; easy on the ear; poetic; a rhythm to the language; rounded; no sharp, jagged edges; pleasing 2nd speaker Dane speaking English Beautiful, low, sensitive, very soft quality 3rd speaker French speaking English Nice pronunciation of "h" and "th"; very nice, steady rhythms; gentle; lyrical 4th speaker Mediterranean accents Mediterranean culture; gives English life; beautiful mixture of the serious Northern European and the Southern European 5th speaker Swedish accent Makes her smile; sing-songy; makes her want to imitate 【原文】 Catherine: I think firstly I find the French language, very melodic to listen to. It's very easy on the ear, and it almost sounds poetic. No matter what kind of mood the individual is in, who's talking, or what they're talking about, there seems to be a rhythm to the language. And it's rounded; there are no sharp, jagged edges to the language, so it's 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 there's a beautiful, low, sensitive, very soft quality about it. Donald: I like the way they bring their French pronunciation into English. They can't pronounce "h"s and they can't 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. It's just it, it... whenever I hear a French person speaking English it sounds more 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 don't have, 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 it's spoken is so sing-songy that you can't help but smile when other people actually speak it. And it always makes you want 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 you will have a good night; day’s 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 what's more interesting is the history of a word, or where it came from. Let's examine some 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 strong 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 punished 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 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 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 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 day's eye, or perhaps they chose the name because the English daisy closes at night. The English loved their daisies, 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) T 2) T 3) F 4) T 5) F B. 1) b 2) c 3) a 4) c 5) c 6) b 【原文】 MATTHEW:   Chris, why is it that there are so many different languages , and  that in Europe certainly if you travel more than a hundred miles ,  you're likely to find people speaking a completely different language  to your own? CHRIS:   Well, it's true to say that there are er ... hundreds and hundreds of different languages. It's perhaps um . . . however , more interesting 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, I'm not very sure myself of the . . . the actual 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 er . . . 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. MATTHEW:   Do you see any chance for a universal language like Esperanto? CHRIS:   Not for an artificial er ... language, no ... I suppose the Roman Catholic Church used Latin. but Latin had a ... a particular religious basis and this is probably why it was therefore chosen. I don't see very much chance for Esperanto; I think it's an awfully good idea but I don't 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 be the language of the future er . . . My bet's 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 it's very difficult to stimulate any interest among school children. But when you actually go to the country and spend say a month in . . . in an exchange visit when you're a schoolgirl, or a schoolboy um ... then you suddenly become more interested because you ... you want to communicate with poeple when you're actually abroad, and it's not safe to rely on the 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 find that you need to speak the language and'it's very unnerving to be in a situation where you can't 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 Geneva  for two years, and I learnt French at school but I . . . I really didn't speak it at all. I knew it theoretically but I wasn't able to communicate with people. But I was in a situation where if I didn't    speak French , then I would not have been able to do my shopping and buy food ,and so I picked the language up and I made friends with French people ... Swiss Fren