大学体验英语听说教程 第二册12

　　Unit 12 Check this out!

Vocabulary Task

Answers

1. c 2. b 3.a 4.e 5.f 6.d 7.h 8.i 9.g

Script

1. A: Is this your new modem 1?

B: Yes. It lets me hook up to the Internet at 138 kilobytes per second.

2. A: How Much did that laser printer cost?

B: It wasn’t too expensive, and it prints out high-quality copies.

3. A: So this is a zip drive, huh?

B: Yeah. I can store up to 100 megabytes of data with it.

4. A: Wow! Is that your new scanner?

B: Uh-huh. Check out these pictures I scanned for my website.

5. A: What does the mouse do?

B: It lets you move the pointer around the screen and click on things.

6. A: What kind of software do you have?

B: I have a graphics 2 program, a word processing program, and an e-mail program.

7. A: Why do they call it a notebook?

B: Because it’s so small it can fit in your bag.

8. A: What kind of disks can this computer read?

B: It’ll read DVDs and CD-ROMs.

9. A: What size Monitor should I buy?

B: The bigger it is, the more you can see on the screen.

Listening Task

1 First Listening

Answers

1. scanner

2. notebook

3. zip drive

4. computer program CD (CD-ROM)

2 Second Listening

Answers

1. to send pictures to her customers

2. to shop on the Internet

3. to store art work

4. to organize her finances

Script

1. A: What is that? Some kind of printer?

B: No! It’s the newest scanner on the market. See, you open it up here, put your photo or whatever on the glass, then click the scan button on the screen to scan in the picture.

A: What’s it good for?

B: Well, I use it to send pictures of our products to my customers.

2. A: So why did you get a notebook computer instead of a desktop 3 computer?

B: Well, I travel a lot and I need something that I can use when I’m traveling.

A: Does it connect to the internet?

B: You bet. I can shop on the Internet even when I’m in an airport… or at the beach.

3. A: So why did you get that thing there?

B: This? It’s my new zip drive. Each disk can hold up to 100 megabytes of data.

A: That’s a lot. Why do you need so much space?

B: I have very large files of my artwork… so I need lots of storage space.

4. A: Hey, is that a new CD?

B: Yeah, it’s a CD, but it’s not a music Cd. It’s software.

A: Oh, what kind of software?

B: It’s called Money Magic. It’s accounting 4 software.

A: What do you use it for?

B: I use it to organize my home finances. It really helps!

Real World Listening

1 Predict

Answer

Movies on DVD

2 Get the main ideas

Answers

Scanner: scan in graphics for the web page

Headset: talk to customers on the phone

DVD player: check out the DVD movies

Cardboard boxes: for shipping 5 out orders

Script

[Knock on the door]

Leon: Come in! (Andy walks in.) Andy! Hi!\

Andy: Are you ready to go? Pat and Chris are in the car. Let’s go – Hey, what is all this stuff?

Leon: This is my home office.

Andy: Whoa! You’ve gotta lot of stuff in here.

Leon: Yeah, well, I need it all for the different types of things I do for my business.

Andy: You’ve got your own business

Leon: Yep. DivineDVDs.com. I got 50,000hits on my website so far this week.

Andy: Cool. And you need all this stuff?

Leon: Oh, yeah, absolutely! This is my headset so I can talk on the phone to my customers while I type on the keyboard.

Andy: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And what’s this big thing next to your computer?

Leon: That’s my scanner. I scan in graphics and pictures to put on the web page.

Andy: I see. Oh, cool… And what are these things?

Leon: Those are my DVD players. I got four of em. I have to check out the DVDs before I sell them, you know.

Andy: Uh-huh. So you just watch these DVDs all day?

Leon: Well, yeah. I have to be more, um, disciplined, though, you know. It’s easy to want to watch them all day instead of doing my work.

Andy: Yeah. And what are all these boxes for?

Leon: Those cardboard boxes? They’re for shipping out orders.

Andy: Whoa, sounds busy. So are you selling a lot of disks?

Leon: Um, no, not yet. But things are looking better all the time.