(6) An election is being held for the European Parliament because _________. a. the previous member, Mr. Harold Friend died b. the previous member, Mr. Harold Friend resigned c. Mr. Harold Friend was defeated by his opponent
(7) Those on strike at Independent Television have begun talks on a formula for _________ in London. a. expanding the strike b. ending the strike c. winning the strike (8) Fighting broke out on a train to Manchester __________. a. between football fans supporting rival teams b. between football players from rival teams c. between football supporters and the police 2. True or False Questions.
(1) The Prime Minister said the date for general election would be set according to the interests of the nation. (2) Both Naples and Rome were affected by the earthquake.
(3) The driver of the security van and his assistant were badly hurt by the masked thieves. (4) The security van was forced to a stop by a car nearby in a narrow street off Piccadilly.
(5) At the last election for the European Parliament Mr Friend had a majority of 70,000 over his nearest opponent. (6) Mr. Albert Tapper was the General Secretary of the Association of Independent Television. (7) Policemen got onto the train after the fight was over just outside Manchester.
(8) The fight might lead to the cancellation of all soccer specials operating from Manchester. 3. Complete the following statements with the information you hear
(1) ________________ several small towns and villages are still cut off by ________ following ________________ during the night.
(2) Three ________ then threatened the driver and his assistant ___________ and forced one of them to ________________.
(3) All 257 people ______________ died when it ________________.
(4) He hoped it would lead to ________________ but he refused to speculate on ________________________ (5) 15 people are to appear ________ in Manchester today following disturbances on a train ___________________________ in London. Task 3: Bearded Lady
New words: razor剃刀 talent scout人才发掘者 chop off砍掉 unnerving使人慌张 gape at张口结舌地看 1. Fill in the blanks to complete the following summary.
Mrs. Clark is a bearded _ woman. When she was young, her parents took her to many ________. They just told her to ________. But when she found she was fighting a________________ she decided to
____________________. At first, being stared at all day, she felt a little ________ . However, she got used to ________________ in the end. Now she feels it's all right to have a 15-foot ________________ — it can keep her husband's_____________ on ______________. 2. True or False Questions.
(1) Mrs. Clark started growing beard at age of 5.
(2) Her father used electric razor to shave her on Sundays. (3) She stopped shaving when she was around fifteen. (4) Her beard grew too fast for her to shave.
(5) Sometimes she has to wrap her beard around her waist in case she should fall over it. (6) She has been in the circus for about thirteen years.
(7) The Ten Food Woman and the Midget are members of the circus. (8) Mrs. Clark's beard is fifty-foot long.
3. Complete the following sentences with what you hear.
(1) You see it was growing at ____________rate, something like________ a day. (2) It was taking so much time _____________________and I was just wasting my
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time________________________
(3) Oh, yes, every week I________________ . Task 4: At a Youth Centre
New words: pub酒馆 compliment恭维 superficial表面的 lethargy冷淡 1. Choose the best answer
(1) This discussion takes place __________. a. at a youth centre b. at a pub c. at a night club (2) It is likely that James is __________. a. a teacher b. a waiter c. a clergyman (3) Most of those involved in the discussion must ____________. a. be of the same generation b. be of two different generations c. be classmates (4) Mr. Finchley is ___________. a. a teacher of English b. a clergyman c. a social worker
(5) According to Finchley and James, most disagreements between the old and the young seem to ___________.
a. be over hair and general appearance b. be superficial c. both a and b
(6) The whole discussion is on __________. a. children b. generation gap c. hair and dress style 2. True and False Questions.
(1) Paul often comes to the Youth Centre to find something to do. (2) It is illegal to sell alcohol to Paul because he is only 16. (3) Mrs. Brent doesn't like the way Paul talks to adults. (4) James thinks that Paul is offensive.
(5) Actually the teenager generation has rejected the values of its parents for a mixture of violence and lethargy. (6) Teenagers' helping others means helping those who are doing washing-up. 3. Complete the following statements with what you hear (1) No barman's ever________________ yet. (2) Don't get me________.
(3) I'm always________________________ his clothes.
(4) I don't mean there's_____________ for you to______________ _________. (5) I like the idea of_____________ a discussion. I'll ___________ that. (6) I wouldn't want to ________________________.
5. Fill in the blanks to complete the following statements. (1) Mrs. Brent refuses to dance because she does not think the _____________________________________________.
(2) Finchley says that the so-called generation gap is only ________. He believes the young people are quite ________________________ and they are not that different from ____________________.
(3) James believes that every generation creates its own ___________ as well as its own ________________ and________.
Task 5 Dictation:
Unit 15
Task 1 Study skills: Recognizing the Main Idea
Listen to these paragraphs. Then decide what topic heading you would use to describe the main idea of each.
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1．______________________________________________________ 2．______________________________________________________ 3．______________________________________________________ 4．______________________________________________________ 5．______________________________________________________ 6．______________________________________________________ Task 2: Capital Punishment
New words: execute处死 capital punishment极刑 death penalty死刑 deterrent威慑 My goodness gracious天哪! rehabilitate恢复良好的状态 1. Choose the best answer
(1) What causes the two women's discussion on capital punishment? a. The execution. b. The report of a murderer. c. The function of judicial system.
(2) Why does one of the women thinks that killing a killer is not justified? a. Because the killer doesn't have to be killed. b. Because the crime is not very serious.
c. Because once you're killing a killer, you become a killer as well.
(3) What, according to one of them, is more important than punishment? a. Life. b. Rehabilitation. c. Elimination.
(4) What are the problems that cause people to kill according to one of the women? a. Poverty and drugs. b. Discrimination. c. Both a and b. 2. True or False Questions.
(1) The two speakers agree with each other on everything. (2) Capital punishment has not been used for ten years.
(3) One of the speakers doubts if the person sentenced to death is really guilty. (4) When criminals come out of prison, they never go back to a life of crime. (5) Prisons are very crowded.
3. Give a list of viewpoints that Speakers A and B hold respectively. Speaker A:
a. ________________________________________________ b. ________________________________________________ c. ________________________________________________ d. ________________________________________________ e. ________________________________________________ Speaker B:
a. ________________________________________________ b. ________________________________________________ c. ________________________________________________ d. ________________________________________________ e. ________________________________________________ Task 3: A New Way of Life
New words: croft小田地 nut螺母 bolt螺钉 pannier背篓 1. Fill in the blanks to complete the following statements.
(1) The two interviewees are Michelle Burns and Luke Saunders. They have given up _____________________and ____________to start ___________ _____________.
(2) Michelle and her husband decided to come to live in a _____________ ___________because they had worked ____________and had hardly ______________________. As a result, their marriage was
____________. Now they make a living by ___________________, growing their own ____________; they
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also have _______________.
(3) Mr. Luke has been a 3-year _________________ round the world. Before his journey, he had been working in a ____________on the ________________. He had a bit of money to start with, then he began to do odd jobs like ____________, ____________, etc. Now he's going to start a ______________ _______________________, and he'll be away for about ______ years again. 2. True or False Questions.
(1) Daniel and Michelle Burns gave up their jobs just because they felt underpaid. (2) Daniel used to be a sales manager and Michelle an advertising executive. (3) According to Michelle, a big house and two cars mean everything in life. (4) They found this Scottish croft through advertisement. (5) They raise all sorts of animals for money.
(6) Living a natural life in the country makes them happy.
(7) When he was a factory worker, Luke had to do monotonous work every day. (8) People abroad were uncooperative and Luke had to try hard to solve problems.
(9) Luke had friendly relationship with people abroad. He could communicate with them without knowing their language.
(10) He had to go to hospital once in India. Task 4: The Work of Sigmund Freud
New words: psychoanalysis心理分析 neurose多脉的 sane健全的 slip失误 scope见识 1. Choose the best answer
(1) This radio talk is delivered by ___________. a. a radio announcer b. Sigmund Freud c. Eric Watkis
(2) Sigmund Freud developed his system of ___________, while he was studying cases of ________. a. psychoanalysis; mental illness b. psychoanalysis; memory illness c. psychology; mental illness
(3) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life was published in _______. a. 1940 b. 1914 c. 1904
2. Complete the following statements according to what you hear.
(1) By examining details of the patient's life, he found that the illness could often
______________________some definite ________________________within the person ____________. (2) But he discovered, too, that many of ____________observed in mentally ill patients were also ____________, to a lesser degree, ____________________.
(3) This led him to the realization that ____________between _______________ person is not nearly as ___________ _____________ as was once believed.
(4) We repress ________________________because that memory is ______________________.
(5) Freud demonstrates that there are ____________________many of ___________________ we make. Task 5: Cheese
New words: micro-organism微生物 unpalatable味道差的 bland味道温和的 coagulate凝结 ripened cheese成熟干酪 dissemination分发 enzyme酶 1. Choose the best answer
(1) The passage is about _____________.
a. the history of cheese-making b. cheese-making c. the history of cheese (2) Cheese ________________.
a. was made originally in Europe between 60 BC and 300 AD b. was introduced from South-West Asia 8,000 years ago c. was introduced from France in the nineteenth century
(3) ___________ were great pioneers in the art of cheese-making.
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a. Romans b. South-West Asians c. Frenchmen in the Roquefort caves
(4) In cheese-making, _________ play an essential role. a. biochemicals b. salt and water c. micro-organisms 2. True or False Questions.
(1) Cheese is one of the most popular foods in daily life.
(2) Early cheese was rather delicious and tasty like fresh cheese.
(3) In order to make cheese stronger in taste and more solid in texture, salt is added to the soft fresh cheese and other biochemical processes are allowed to continue.
(4) Romans spread the techniques for producing cheese to the countries they invaded.
(5) If you keep your milk or pre-cheese mixture at a certain temperature or in a certain environment, things will turn out in a certain way.
(6) In the nineteenth century, people still didn't know much about which micro-organisms were involved in the different stages of producing cheese.
(7) The presence of different micro-organisms affect the taste of cheese.
(8) In terms of final taste, human performance still matters much even though cheese-making processes have become industrialized and developed with technology. 3. Fill in the blanks below.
(1) The early cheese was probably ____________________stuff, ___________ and ____________.
(2) \ (3) \allowing ________________________to continue in the course of cheese-making.
(4) The origin of the English word \ (5) In the ________________________people began to realize the role of different ________________________in producing different types of cheese.
(6) Before the discovery of micro-organisms people kept milk at different __________ and in various _________to make cheeses of different _________. Task 6 Dictation:
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