全新版大学英语第二版听说教程2答案

Unit 1 Sports Unit 1 Sports Part C Short Conversations You’re going to hear five short conversations. Listen carefully and choose the right answers to the questions you hear. 1. a. Basketball. b. Volleyball. c. Table tennis. d. Tennis. 2. a. Boxing is one of his favorite sports. b. Boxing is the only kind of sport he likes. c. He doesn’t like boxing at all. d. He doesn’t like boxing very much. 3. a. He finds it too long. b. He thinks it could be more exciting. c. He doesn’t like it at all. d. He likes it, but not very much. 4. a. He doesn’t know how to play chess. b. He doesn’t like playing chess very much. c. He can’t play chess well. d. He’s a good chess player. 5. a. He was a good football player in high school. b. He kept track of the football players and games when he was in high school. c. He shows no interest in football now. d. He’s busy playing golf as well as football now. Script: 1. W: I like playing basketball, volleyball and table tennis. What about you? M: Well, tennis is my favorite sport. Q: Which sport does the man like? 2. W: You don’t like boxing very much, do you? M: It’s far from being my kind of sport. Q: What does the man mean? 3. W: I think yesterday’s football game was quite exciting. What about you, John? M: You said it. But it was a bit long. Q: What does the man think about the football game? 4. W: Do you like to play chess? M: I like the game, but I don’t play it often enough. I’m afraid I’m not a very good chess player. Q: What does the man mean? 5. M: I knew the names of all the football players and the dates of all the games in my high school days. But recently I have failed to keep up with football. W: Now you’re busy with your golf games. Q: What do you know about the man from the conversation? Unit 2 Food and Drinks Part C Test Your Listening A Conversation Listen to the conversation and choose the right answers to the questions. 1. What is the relationship between the two speakers? a. Classmates. b. Co-workers. c. Waiter and diner. d. Strangers. 2. Where does the conversation take place? a. At McDonald’s. b. At Kentucky Fried Chicken. c. At an Italian restaurant. d. At Pizza Hut. 3. What will they order? a. Pizza, salad and iced water. b. Soup, hamburger and coffee. c. Sandwich, spaghetti and red wine. d. Spaghetti, salad, coffee, Coke and iced water. Script: A: Well, here we are, not too crowded. B: Great! Let’s order quickly so we can chat a little. A: OK. What are you in the mood for? B: Something light. I had a huge breakfast and I’m still full. A: There are three salads. Or you could have soup and a sandwich. B: What are you having? A hamburger, I suppose. A: No, actually I ate out last night. We had pizza at Pizza Hut, then a late snack at Kentucky Fried Chicken. B: Oh, dear. Well, maybe you should have a salad. A: Yes, I think so. Look, the daily special is spaghetti. That sounds good. B: Oh, the prices are great too. I’ll have that as well. A: Now let’s decide on drinks. B: I’ll just have coffee and a glass of iced water. A: Italian food needs red wine, you know. B: But we have to go back to work. A: OK, a Coke for me then. B: Here comes the waitress. Let me order first. Unit 3 Weather Part C Test Your Listening Short Conversations You’re going to hear five short conversations. Listen carefully and choose the right answers to the questions you hear. 1. a. Snowy and windy. b. Cold and rainy. c. Snowy and icy. d. Windy and rainy. 2. a. It will get warmer soon. b. It may get even colder. c. This is the coldest winter ever. d. The weather has never been so bad before. 3. a. The man is sure the weather will be fine soon. b. According to the forecast the weather will be fine soon. c. If it keeps raining, they will cancel what they have planned to do. d. If it rains hard, they will postpone what they have planned to do. 4. a. It’s cold in New York now. b. It’s very hot in New York now. c. The woman thinks New York and Beijing have similar weather. d. The man is going to visit New York. 5. a. They’d better change their mind about playing tennis tomorrow. b. They shouldn’t change their plan. c. They can play tennis in the morning. d. They won’t play tennis long. Script: 1. W: It’s been freezing for the last few days. M: Yes. And the forecast says there will be more snow next week, accompanied by strong winds. Q: What will the weather be like next week? 2. M: We haven’t had such a severe winter for a long time, have we? W: No, and the forecast says it’s going to get worse before it warms up. Q: What can we learn from the conversation? 3. W: What if it rains hard? What are we going to do? M: I think it will clear up soon. But if it keeps raining, the whole thing will have to be cancelled. Q: What can we learn from the conversation? 4. M: How was the weather when you left New York? W: It was very much like the weather in Beijing. You don’t have to take a lot of clothes. Q: What can we learn from the conversation? 5. W: If it is this hot tomorrow, we may have to give up the idea of playing tennis in the afternoon. M: The weather forecast says it will cloud over by noon. Q: What does the man mean? Unit 4 Music Part C Test Your Listening A Compound Dictation Listen to the passage three times and supply the missing information. Celine Dion is the youngest of 14 children in a working-class family in Quebec, Canada. Her parents, who both loved music, 1) encouraged her to develop her musical 2) talent. At 12, Celine had 3) composed the song “It Was Only a Dream”. Her mother and brother helped her to make a recording of that song and sent it off to an address they found on an album of a popular French singer. The address was that of Rene Angelil, who became her first 4) conquest, but there would be millions more. Celine’s rise from a teenage singer to a pop superstar has been 5) steady, but not without difficulties. Record companies were at first less 6) enthusiastic about 7) investing in a teenager than Angelil, who mortgaged his own home to pay for her first album. But her first two albums won a great success. And by 1983 she became the first Canadian ever to have a gold record in France. In 1990, Celine made her first English language record with Unison but 8) her real breakthrough in America came when she was selected by Disney to sing the theme song of Beauty and the Beast. The song went to No.1 on the chart and won both a Grammy and an Academy award. 9) In 1996 she performed at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and in 1997 she recorded the theme song for Titanic, and her name became synonymous with the enormously successful film. Celine Dion’s favorite theme is love.10) She sings the depth and the power of love in a great many of her hits such as “Love Can Move Mountains”, “Because You Loved Me”, “The Power of Love” and, of course, the theme song of Titanic, “My Heart Will Go On”. Unit 5 Health Part C Test Your Listening Short Conversations You’re going to hear five short conversations. Listen carefully and choose the right answers to the questions you hear. 1. a. She feels better today. b. She’ll be OK soon. c. She’s going to see the doctor today. d. She’s not well. 2. a. Jack will come back in three weeks. b. Jack is very sick. c. Both the man and the woman miss Jack a lot. d. Both the man and the woman are concerned about Jack’s health. 3. a. Eating dinner at very late hours. b. Eating wrong kinds of food. c. Eating too much. d. Eating too little. 4. a. He will go to school in a couple of days. b. He is quite all right today. c. He is being treated in hospital. d. He has been ill for a couple of days. 5. a. He had an operation last week. b. He needs further treatment in hospital. c. He has had a checkup recently. d. He is going to see the doctor again. Script: 1. W: Jane kept coughing and couldn’t go to sleep all night. M: She must be sick. I hope she’s better today. Q: What do you know about Jane? 2. M: I haven’t seen Jack for ages. W: Neither have I. But I heard he had been in hospital for three weeks. Q: What do you learn from the conversation? 3. W: Doctor, I’ve been suffering from a stomachache for quite a long time. M: Tell me what you usually eat. You know eating properly is very important for health. Q: What does the doctor say about the possible cause of the woman’s illness? 4. M: How is your son Peter feeling today? W: Much better than yesterday. But he still needs to rest for a couple of days before going to school. Q: What does the woman say about Peter? 5. M: How is your husband after the operation? W: He’s getting better. But he still needs to go to the hospital for a checkup in a week. Q: What does the woman say about her husband? Unit 6 Business Part C Test Your Listening A Passage Listen to the story and choose the right answers to the questions. 1. What did Mr. Stevenson’s store sell? a. Family furniture. b. Sports apparatus. c. General appliances. d. Things for newly-weds. 2. Why did many newly-weds usually walk away at the end of their inquiry? a. They knew they could buy better-quality appliances elsewhere. b. They were bored with the owner’s long speech. c. They wanted to compare prices at other stores. d. They didn’t think the store could meet their needs. 3. Which of the following best describes Mr. Stevenson’s attitude towards his customers? a. Polite and patient. b. Polite but inflexible. c. Generous and kind. d. Snobbish and rude. 4. What was Mr. Stevenson’s response to the young couple’s refusal? a. He was not disappointed at all because he was accustomed to it. b. He couldn’t hide his disappointment. c. He felt disappointed but smiled and then moved aside. d. He didn’t show his disappointment and tried his best to win their trust. 5. Why did the young couple finally decide to place an order? a. They were touched by the owner’s hospitality. b. They wanted to help the owner with his family business. c. They thought the owner was honest and sincere. d. They realized how important after-sales services were. Script: Mr. Stevenson was the owner of a general appliance store. He had seen many newly-weds coming into his store to shop for their first refrigerator, washer and dryer, and air-conditioner. Pen and pencil in hand, they would ask him a lot of questions about price, features and after-sales services, but they would usually walk away at the end of their inquiry. The other day a young couple came into his store. They asked him all the usual questions and he answered all of them patiently. But when he suggested an order at the end, they replied firmly, “We’ll have to look around places first.” Although feeling a bit disappointed, Mr. Stevenson did not show it. Instead, he smiled, moved closer and said, “I know you will go to Discount Dan to look at the price tags. That’s perfectly understandable. I do the same. In fact, they sell the same stuff as we do. But if you buy things there, there is something you will not get, and that is me. I come with everything I sell. I’ve been in the business for thirty years and in a few years’ time I’m going to give my store to my daughter and son-in-law. I hope they will carry on the family business. I stand behind everything I sell and I will make sure that you will never regret buying things from me.” After this short speech Mr. Stevenson offered the young couple some ice cream to thank them for their interest. Impressed by his honesty and sincerity, the young couple decided to place an order. Unit 7 Fashion Part C Test Your Listening A Compound Dictation Listen to the passage three times and supply the missing information. Vera Wang has become a 1) significant figure in the American fashion industry in a 2) relatively short period of time. She has no formal design training because her father wouldn’t let her go to art school and wanted her to 3) concentrate on more “practical subjects”. After earning a degree in 4) liberal arts, Vera worked as an 5) editor at Vogue for 17 years and as a design director of Ralph Lauren for two years. In 1990 she opened her first boutique on Madison Avenue in New York, in a less expensive line of 6) ready-to-wear bridal and evening dresses. She chose bridal wear for she wanted to build a fashion company starting with one market and then 7) expand into others. She became a household name in 1994 when she designed stylish costumes for figure skater Nancy Kerrigan to wear in the Winter Olympics. 8) Vera Wang herself is a very good skater and she had Olympic dreams too. But that dream was crushed when she did not win at the National Figure Skating Championships in 1968. 9) However her love for the sport never ceased. “I wanted to make an artistic contribution to the sport,” she said. 10) “I don’t know if designing costumes for Nancy has been good in terms of actual sales, but it has been tremendous for name recognition.” Unit 8 Society Part C Test Your Listening A Passage Listen to the story and choose the right answers to the questions. 1. When and where was a newborn baby found? a. In a deserted park yesterday. b. In a rock garden early yesterday morning. c. On a rock in Central Park early yesterday morning. d. In lower Manhattan before dawn yesterday. 2. How did the police feel when they found the baby? a. Sorry. b. Surprised. c. Unhappy. d. Relieved. 3. Who might be the woman that had abandoned her baby? a. A young homeless woman who called the head of Hope Foundation. b. A woman who called a fire station early yesterday. c. A homeless woman who called a hospital hotline. d. A homeless woman who called a baby rescue hotline early yesterday. 4. Which of the following can be learned from the passage? a. The Hope Foundation couldn’t help the woman. b. The police are determined to find the mother. c. The mother gave up her baby because she was homeless. d. The mother was eager to hide her identity. Script: A healthy newborn girl was discovered in Central Park yesterday morning. The baby was abandoned on the top of a rock shortly before dawn after the mother gave birth to her there. The police said that the baby was healthy and weighed 7 pounds. Now they were searching for the mother. A policeman said that they had never had anything like this before. They really didn’t get babies left in the park. But they were just happy the baby was all right. The police rushed the baby to a nearby hospital. Fortunately she was OK. The police believed the baby was born less than half an hour before she was discovered. They also believed, judging from the amount of blood found on the rock, that the mother might have given birth there. It was 70 degrees when the baby was found. Detectives were investigating whether the mother was a homeless woman who called a baby rescue hotline early yesterday. The head of Hope Foundation said that his hotline received a call about 5:30 a.m. from a young homeless woman in Manhattan. The caller asked, “How do I get rid of my baby?” She was apparently in labor. Then she was told to go to either a hospital or a fire station. But the woman was afraid she would be recognized there. The head also said that the woman wouldn’t even tell him where he could possibly meet her since they had two teams that could help with the delivery, if necessary. Unit 9 Dreams and Ambitions Part C Test Your Listening A Passage Listen to the passage and choose the right answers to the questions. 1. When did Zaslow start writing stories? a. In 1988. b. In his childhood. c. At Carnegie Mellon University. d. At the Chicago Sun-Times. 2. How old was Zaslow when his column became popular with readers in Chicago? a. 33. b. 31. c. 28. d. 41. 3. What is the major benefit Zaslow has got from his years in the advice business? a. He has realized his dream of becoming a writer. b. He has greater faith in his fellow men. c. He earns a good salary. d. He has made many friends. 4. What can be inferred from the passage? a. People playing the roles of cartoon figures at Disney World had a hard life. b. Zaslow did not like his job at the Wall Street Journal. c. Jeffrey Zaslow was a better advice columnist than Ann Landers. d. To be an advice columnist has always been Zaslow’s dream. Script: Jeffrey Zaslow, the advice columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, grew up in suburban Philadelphia. His biggest ambition in life was to be a writer. “I never wanted to be anything else,” he says. “I was ten or eleven when I saw Gone with the Wind and I wrote my own Civil War story.” After earning a degree in creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University, he got a job at a newspaper in Orlando, Florida. He made his mark with his article on the rough working conditions endured by the people inside the Mickey and Minnie costumes at Walt Disney World. Later he became a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal. In 1988, when the famous advice columnist, Ann Landers, quit her job at the Chicago Sun-Times, the paper launched a nationwide contest to find her replacement. Jeffrey Zaslow applied. Among the 12,000 contestants, women outnumbered men nine to one, and most of them had seen a lot more of life than Zaslow, who was 28 and not married. When he reached the semifinals, his editors at the Journal ran a headline: “Why He’ll Never Make It.” But Jeffrey did make it in the finals. Today, thirteen years later, his column, “All That Zazz,” is read by thousands of readers in the Chicago area. His years in the advice business left him with a deep appreciation for people and their problems. He is also greatly moved by the generosity, sincerity and good nature of his readers. “Wonderful people,” he says, “do outnumber terrible people in this world. I have much more faith in my fellow men than I had before. And I’ve read plenty of letters to back that up.” Unit 10 Disasters Part C Test Your Listening A Passage Listen to the passage and choose the right answers to the questions. 1. What does the passage mainly tell us? a. How Jan and five others were helped out of an elevator by firefighters. b. How Jan rescued five passengers in an elevator. c. How Jan saved himself and five others. d. How Jan escaped death with his courage and wisdom. 2. Which of the following is true? a. Jan and the five others had only one hour to escape from the damaged building. b. After they kicked the wall apart they found themselves in the corridor of the 50th floor of the building. c. The North Tower collapsed at 10:23 a.m. that day. d. It took Jan 95 minutes to escape death. 3. What does Jan do? a. He’s a window cleaner. b. He’s an elevator operator. c. He’s an elevator cleaner. d. He’s an office worker. 4. Which of the following can best describe Jan? a. Kind-hearted. b. Strong-willed. c. Calm. d. Brave. Script: On the morning of September 11th Jan was in an elevator of the North Tower of the World Trade Center with his window cleaning equipment when the building was hit. There were five other passengers in the elevator. All of a sudden the building shook and the elevator stopped and began to swing to and fro. Although the men were not aware of it, they had only 100 minutes to get out of the damaged tower before it would crumble to dust. Soon smoke began coming into the elevator. The men realized that something was wrong. They forced the doors open only to find a wall in front of them! The wall had the number 50 on it and they knew they were at the 50th floor. But their elevator normally did not stop there, so there was no opening for them to escape. Jan decided that they would have to make their own. Knowing that the wall was made of a material that could be cut through, Jan grabbed his 18-inch squeegee, and began chopping away at the wall. When he felt tired, others helped. Starting with one small hole, they cut through the three-inch deep wall and then widened it. Then they kicked the wall, two at the same time. The wall cracked apart. They saw before them a 2-by-4 inch metal beam and a tile wall! Refusing to give up, the desperate men bent the beam, knocked a hole through the tiles, then made the opening big enough to squeeze through. Astonishe