新编大学英语视听说教程4听力原文及答案

1. Where does the man want to spend the summer holiday?

2. According to Steve, what is considered important in planning vacation? 3. What does Steve find confusing about traveling abroad? 4. What will help Juliet in her work?

5. What does Juliet think of summer in Britain?

Keys:

1. C 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. B

Listening 3

The game of football may have started in Roman times. It seems that the Romans played a game very much like our modern rugby but with a round ball.

English villagers played football in the 16th century and they often had almost a hundred players on each side. It was a very common game, which was very rough and even dangerous until the early part of the 19th century. In the 18th century a Frenchman who had watched a rough game of football in a village wrote, \believe that those men were playing a game. If this is what Englishmen call playing, I would not like to see them fighting!\

From the mid-19th century, it was played in schools in England and soon spread all over Britain and Europe. Until in 1850, it was not possible to have football matches between one school and another, because each school had different rules! So set rules had to be made. They were not improved though until, in 1863, when those who preferred to play with hands as well as feet formed the Rugby Union while the others started the Football Association (F.A.). It was only in 1863 that the first set of rules for all football clubs was agreed upon.

Nearly 150 years later, football has become by far the most popular sport in the entire world. Would that 18th century Frenchman have believed it possible? Questions:

1. According to the passage, when may the game of football have first started? 2. How many team members were often involved in the game when the English began to play the game?

3. What did the speaker say about the earliest football game in England?

4. Why was it NOT possible to have football matches between two schools until 1850?

5. What happened to football in 1863?

Keys:

1. D 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. C

Listening 4

In one town, there were three longtime friends, Pat, Mike and Bob. Pat and Bob were quite bright, but Mike was rather dull.

One day as Pat and Mike were walking down the sidewalk together, Pat put his hand on a solid brick wall and said, \you can.\

struck a hard blow, but Pat pulled his hand away from the wall just before Mike's fist hit it. Of course, it hurt Mike's hand very much when he hit the wall, but Pat said, \

The following day Mike and Bob were walking in the town square. Mike decided to play the joke on Bob. He looked around, and seeing no solid object, he placed his hand over his face and said, \as he struck a hard blow with his fist, Mike quickly pulled his hand away and was knocked to the ground, unconscious. After a few minutes Mike recovered, and saw Bob worriedly looking down at him. Mike said, \it?\

Questions:

1. Who was NOT clever?

2. What did Pat ask Mike to do? 3. Who was hurt finally?

4. On whom was Mike going to try this joke?

5. Where did Mike put his hand when he asked Bob to hit him?

6. What happened to Mike after Bob struck a hard blow with his fist?

Keys:

1.1 A 2. C 3. A 4.B 5. C 6. B 2. √2 √5

Unit 3 Gender Differences

Part 1 listening one

Three guys are out having a relaxing day fishing. Out of the blue, they catch a mermaid who begs to be set free in return for granting each of them a wish. Now one of the guys just doesn't believe it, and says, \wishes, then double my IQ.\recite flawless Shakespeare followed by a short pause and an extremely insightful analysis of it. The second guy is so amazed that he says to the mermaid, \my IQ.\solutions to problems that have puzzled scientists in all fields.

The last guy is so impressed by the changes in his friends that he says to the mermaid, \my IQ.\The mermaid looks at him and says, \know, I normally don't try to change people's minds when they make a wish, but I really wish you'd reconsider.\

The guy says, \won't set you free.\It'll change your entire view of the universe. Won't you ask for something else? A million dollars or anything?\

But no matter what the mermaid says, the guy insists on having his IQ increased by five times its usual power. So the mermaid sighs and says, \And he becomes a woman.

Keys: 1. F 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. T

2.1. set free in return 2.2 extremely insightful analysis 2.3 pouring out, puzzled, in all fields

2.4 normally, change people’s minds, reconsider 2.5 usual power

Part 1 listening two

(Dr. Herring, author of a book on language and communication, is being interviewed by Bob White, a writer for an academic journal on communication.)

Bob White: Good morning, Dr. Herring! We both know that many communication

specialists believe that gender bias exists in language, culture and society. Do you think this is really so? Dr. Herring: Yes, I certainly do. How we talk and listen can be strongly influenced

by cultural expectations, and these begin during childhood. Children usually play together with other children of the same gender, and this is where our conversational style is learned. Bob White: Can you give some specific examples?

Dr. Herring: Certainly. We find that girls use language mainly to develop closeness

or intimacy as a basis for friendship. Boys, on the contrary, use language mainly to earn status in their group. Bob White: But, in communication through electronic devices like e-mail

discussion groups, there should be no gender distinction if writers' names are not used in the messages. Dr. Herring: One might think so, but in fact, email writing style is more

comparable with spoken language, so basic language styles are still evident. Bob White: I thought e-mail messages were gender neutral!

Dr. Herring: No. While theoretical gender equality exists for the Internet, in reality

women are not given equal opportunity because of different communication and language styles between the sexes. Bob White: How does that happen? Do you have any hard facts to back up this

impression? Dr. Herring: Yes. I've done a research project using randomly selected e-mail

messages from online discussion groups. I found that females use language that is more collaborative and supportive such as \for all your tips on...\\point.\and \this helps!\Men tend to use more aggressive or competitive language such as %understand that?\\should realize that...\\is absurd to

think...\

Bob White: How great are these gender differences?

Dr. Herring: Males write messages using aggressive, competitive language more

than twice as often as females did, while females use collaborative and supportive language three times as often as males did. In this study, it is clear that there is a gender difference in e-mail messages just as in other communication media. Bob White: So the \ Questions:

1. According to Dr. Herring, when is children’s conversational style learned? 2. Which of the following is most similar to e-mail writing in style? 3. Why is there still no equality on the Internet?

4. What comparison did Dr. Herring make in her speech?

Keys: 1. C 2. B 3. A 4. B

2.1. language, culture, society, cultural expectations 2.2 closeness intimacy, earn status

2.3 collaborative supportive, aggressive competitive

Part 1 listening three

John: Cathy, do you think it's appropriate for females to continuously expect guys to

behave in a standard gentlemanly fashion like opening car doors? Cathy: Well, I think it would be nice if men could do such things.

John: My side of the theory is that we all have to admit that we are living in the

world of change. Right? Sometimes the equation changes if the driver is a girl and the passenger is a guy who doesn't drive. So what happens? Should the girl open the door for the guy or should the guy open the door for the girl? Maybe we should just adopt an \

Cathy: Yes, I agree, John. But...sometimes it's just a matter of courtesy. It doesn't

matter who opens the door for whom. Maybe females just should not expect too much. Life isn't a fairy tale after all.

John: It's absolutely true. Sometimes I feel that there isn't any difference in the roles

both genders can perform. Of course I'm not saying that men can give birth. Rather what I meant was except for the physical and natural differences between both sexes, there isn't much difference between them.

Cathy: But honestly, although I don't expect guys to open doors for me, or to pull out

a chair for me, I am usually quite impressed if they do so, as many guys don't do it nowadays. If the guy was walking in front of me and went through the door first, I'd appreciate it if he could hold the door and not let it slam in my face.

John: Well, if I'm the one walking in front, I will open the door and hold it for the

people behind me, be it a girl or a boy. I actually had the door slam right in my face a number of times though, when the person walking closely in front of me

didn't hold the heavy glass door and let it swing back in my face. Of course, I tried to hold the door, but it was too heavy and too late. But I think it was more embarrassing for him than me as everyone was looking at him, while I was rubbing my squashed nose.

Cathy: So being a gentleman does not stop at opening doors. There are many other

aspects I believe.

Keys:1. T T F F T 2. D A B A B

Part 1 listening four

Do you know how you learned to be a woman? Do you know how you learned to be a man? What makes the difference in terms of gender and our roles in society? Even when our physical structures are revealed to be really similar, women and men \Psychology Today, we find a study that reflects how parents of fifteen girl babies and fifteen boy babies differed in their descriptions of their babies. Despite the fact that objective data such as birth length, weight, irritability, etc. did not differ, when the parents were asked to describe their babies, they said that girl babies were softer, littler, more beautiful, prettier, cuter than boy babies. Based on these facts, we could conclude that parents' attitude is influencing their children.

Our parents and later our school, television and the Internet are showing us a whole set of expected behaviors that create our patterns. Thus, a simple cartoon can suggest to children how they are supposed to act. Male cartoon characters are not only more prominent than female characters, but they also portray a broader range of masculine traits. Male characters are powerful, strong, smart and aggressive.

Of course roles have been changing over the past decades. Nowadays, women are not necessarily expected to stay home raising their family and supporting their husbands. In the same way, men are no longer expected to be the only breadwinners like they used to be; now women and men share these responsibilities. But traditional roles still have a big influence. Keys:

2. F F T T F

2.1 reflects descriptions 2.2 parents’ attitudes

2.3 suggest, act 2.4 raising their family, supporting their husbands 2.5 used to be, share these responsibilities

Part 4 Listening 1

\but boys and girls are not born the same.

You throw a little girl a ball, and it will hit her in the nose. You throw a little boy a ball, and he will try to catch it. Then it will hit him in the nose.

A baby girl will pick up a stick and look in wonder at what nature has made. A baby boy will pick up a stick and turn it into a gun.

When girls play with Barbie dolls, they like to dress them up and play house with