时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:新视野大学英语:视听说教程 4


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II. Basic Listening Practice

1. Script

W: Did you hear? Helen got modeling jib! She’s going to be sashaying down the catwalk.

M: Wow, that’s great! All that walking practice really paid off. And foe 1 once she won’t be complaining about being so tall.

Q: Why did Helen get modeling job?

2. Script

M: Julia, come and see the Miss America contest on TV. All those beautiful girls are walking around in bathing suits, so the judges can decide who has the best figure.

W: Bah! That’s the worst kind of exploitation. They are treating women like toys for people to enjoy. I would never take part in this kind of contest.

Q: What do the man and the woman think about the beautify contest?

3. Script

W: What shall I do? I’m fat. I want to be slim and beauty, but I’m fat. I’ve tried all the new ideas, high carb and low carb, but nothing works.

M: Those diets are just fads 2, popular for a while and then forgotten. Just follow the usual diet with fruits, vegetables, fish, water, and get plenty of exercise. Before long you’ll see results.

Q: What has the woman tried?

4. Script

W1: I think Lily is really attractive. She’s half Spanish and has this really sultry look about her.

W2: That explains why she tans so well. I’ve always been jealous of her skin color in the summer.

Q: Which of following is true of Lily?

5. Script

M: Trust me, it was tight there on the Internet: “Plastic Surgery Increasing at a Faster Rate Among Men”. Apparently 3 more and more men are trying to improve their appearance.

W: I saw it too on the news. Face-lifts, nose jobs, and box to hide wrinkle are now very popular with men. Men say it’s for business reasons, but we know it’s vanity.

Q: What does the woman think the real reason is that men have plastic surgery?




Keys: 1.B 2.A 3. C 4D 5B



1 foe
n.敌人,仇敌
  • He knew that Karl could be an implacable foe.他明白卡尔可能会成为他的死敌。
  • A friend is a friend;a foe is a foe;one must be clearly distinguished from the other.敌是敌,友是友,必须分清界限。
2 fads
n.一时的流行,一时的风尚( fad的名词复数 )
  • It was one of the many fads that sweep through mathematics regularly. 它是常见的贯穿在数学中的许多流行一时的风尚之一。 来自辞典例句
  • Lady Busshe is nothing without her flights, fads, and fancies. 除浮躁、时髦和幻想外,巴歇夫人一无所有。 来自辞典例句
3 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
学英语单词
absinth(e)
abstentionists
active sweat glands
Arco microknife
autocatalyzes
axial parencyma
banker's blanket bond
basal metabolic rate
bayous
Berestovenka
block comment
blood reconstitution
blue (best linear unbiased estimator)
buffer manager
cannot eat one's cake and have it too
caryomicrosome
cheesers
chubster
cold cock
computer data base
connecting vessel
consumerizing
corkran
croupous sore throat
cubic functions
cycle stand
cypridol
deck container
deoxynucleic
digital data terminal
dimensional stable anode
districtness
docking (dckg)
drainage of coal pits
electro-magnetic force
endarteritis deformans
external request
Feast of Orthodoxy
fierceness
fire and fagot
fishy wishy
float head
halarch sere
hemlock trees
high-head mixed flow water turbine pump
hopcrofts
HRMIN
inner cleat
J. D. Salinger
juvenile hormone (JH)
khellidine
kinnairds
longest operation time heuristic
look someone in the eye
manganous arsenate
maxilla ethmoid crest
measuring sequence
mesoperla crucigera
methyl pyridyl ketone
mitral valves
monitor amplifier
multifaced mirror
noise free receiver
north reading
pair-point
parablennius
Pelmine
phase/frequency distortion
Poisson exponential series
propyl isorhodanate
put ... on to
quadrupedally
railroad lines
replicase (spiegelman & hayashi 1963)
requisition by government
resinous wood
ruthenium disulfate
sardonic expression
scrumpers
sissyish
slab-milling machine
slow addressing
spinach mustard
spirotron
supericonoscope
suspended-solid contact reactor
thinblood
tideless river
translate to
trinucleosomes
turn over in one's grave
twigs of the chaste tree
two dimensional concatenation
voluntary-contributions mechanism
wadmals
weldableness
wer
what are you doing the rest of your life
windsuckers
zalewski
ZhesiFormation
zhuoma