Unit 6 The truth can be stranger than fiction.
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Directions: Click on the speaker to the left to start playing the audio recordings Parts I, II and III. They will be played continuously. Once the recording starts playiplease do NOT click on either the speaker icon or the 'Unit Quiz' link in the menu babove. Otherwise, you may lose the chance of hearing the complete recording.
Part I
Script
Directions: Listen to the short dialogs, and then choose the correct answers to the questions. You will hear the recording twice. After the first playing, there will be time for you to choose the correct answers. Use the second playing to check your answers.
1. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. The woman doesn't believe in any superstitions.
B. The man doesn't believe in any superstitions.
C. The two speakers will probably go out for an outing.
D. The two speakers will probably stay at home.
2. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. To keep evil away.
B. To wish for more money.
C. To show friendliness.
D. To treat a wound.
3. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. Teachers.
B. Lawyers.
C. Sailors.
D. Doctors.
4. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. The man learnt the news of UFO from the newspaper.
B. The woman learnt the news of UFO from the newspaper today.
C. The woman probably mistook an airplane for a UFO.
D. The man doesn't believe in UFO at all.
5. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. It causes a car accident.
B. It causes an injury.
C. It prevents bad luck.
D. It makes plenty of money.
Part II Script
Directions: Listen to the passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, listen for the general idea. When the passage is read the second time, fill in the blanks numbered from (1) to (7) with the exact words you hear. For blanks numbered from (8) to (10), write down either the exact words you hear or the main points in your own words. When the passage is read the third time, check your answers.
Easter Island in the southern Pacific Ocean remains a mystery. When the island was (1)discovered, it was almost uninhabited, but there were many statues on it. eagerPeople are (2) to know who lived there before its discovery, how they lived, out. Different theories give different explanations, but convicingand why they (3)diednone is completely (4). writingThe Easter Islanders had their own system of (5)Indians, different from any other
taughtin the world. No other Pacific Islanders knew how to write. The American (6) did not know how to write either. Who (7) the Easter Islanders how to write, or did they develop their own system? Remember that writing was first invented in Asia only a few thousand years BC. (8). How did the Easter Islanders get them? Is it possible that a few Easter Islanders traveled 2,300 miles to Chile, got sweet potatoes, and brought them back? But this is unlikely. (9), which was only colonized in 1492. Could Easter Island have been colonized by people from Chile? Yet, DNA taken from graves dug up on Easter Island has shown that these people were Polynesians, not American Indians. The Polynesians lived on the sea and knew how to travel thousands of miles in their small canoes. They knew where they were going. The American Indians did not know how to do that. Yet, (10)Also, the seeds could have been brought in the stomachs of birds.
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(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
Your answer discovered eager died convicing writing Indians taught
Correct answer discovered eager died convincing writing Indians taught
(8)
The Easter Islanders lived on sweet potatoes they farmed. These sweet potatoes came from the Americas Remember that the distances involved were great, further than the distance from Europe to the closest place in the
Americas a few American Indians could have reached Easter Island, because of a storm, and brought the seeds of sweet
potatoes with them
(9)
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Part III
Script
Directions: Listen to the following recording, and then choose the correct answers to the questions. You will hear the recording twice. After the first playing, there will be time for you to choose the correct answers. Use the second playing to check your answers.
1. When did people begin to record animals falling from skies?
A. Hundreds of years ago. B. Thousands of years ago. C. In 1877. D. In 1957.
2. What did Dr. Smith notice?
A. An alligator climbing ashore.
B. An alligator falling to the ground, seriously wounded. C. An alligator falling to the ground dead.
D. An alligator falling to the ground and crawling towards the tent.
3. How many alligators did Dr. Smith find within 200 yards?
A. Eight.
B. Seven. C. Six. D. Two.
4. How did Mr. and Mrs. Tucker conclude that the alligator dropped from sky?
A. They heard the soft sound of a falling object. B. They heard a groan.
C. They heard both a thump and a groan.
D. They saw a dark object dropping to the ground.
5. How did the airship officer know that the alligator had fallen from the
sky?
A. He saw it falling with his own eyes. B. One of his crew members saw it falling. C. The crew of another airship saw it falling. D. The officer did not take an alligator aboard.
Part IV
Directions: Choose the best answer to each of the following statements. 1. My Uncle gave me this lucky mascot when I was five, and it's been with me ever since. It brought me luck in all my exams. I can't __________ part with it.
A. bring myself to B. get myself
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