新世纪研究生公共英语教材听说学生用书lesson six听力.doc

SIX Animals PART A 1. W: Why don't we go to see a movie tonight? A good comedy might cheer you up. M: I would. But the reason that I've been so down is all this work I have to do. Q: What can be inferred about the man? A.he doesn't have time to go to a movie 2. W: Did you read the editorial in the paper about the mayor's speech? M: I sure did. But I think they twisted the meaning of what he said. Q: What does the man say of the editorial? C.it didn't accurately represent the mayor's speech 3. M: I just have to type this last page and then I'm through. W: By then I'll be done too. Q: What does the woman mean? 4. W: I wonder where the books I ordered are. I expected to receive the package several days ago. M: Maybe you'd better check it with the company. They could be temporarily out of stock. Q: What does the man suggest the woman do? 5. M: This report is due tomorrow. Would you be able to work on it with me tonight? W: Unfortunately I have another commitment. Q: What does the woman mean? 6. M: What a wonderful performance! The marching band has never sounded better. W: Thanks. I guess all those hours of practice are finally paying off. 7. M: Have you heard that Professor Jones is retiring? W: Yes. The faculty won't find anyone to fill her shoes. 8. W: Would you please tell me where I can find a CD by the Beatles? M: Sure. It will be over there with all the CD's and pop rock. They are arranged alphabetically by group.9. W: On my way up to your office, I found this briefcase in the elevator. What do you think I should do? M: Take it to the receptionist. The lost-and-found box is there. 10. M: What a morning! My train usually takes 45 minutes, but today it took me over an hour to get to campus. M: I saw signs in the station that construction would be going on for the next 3 months. 11. M: I hear your older sister is on the Olympic team and on the honor's list. She must be quite a person. M: She sure is. I've always looked up to her. 12. M: Joe took a taxi home alone 10 minutes ago. W: I wonder why he didn't wait for me to go with him. 13. M: Hi. I see you are walking. Where is your bicycle today? W: Oh, I bent the wheel yesterday. So I had to take it to the shop. 14. W: I didnt think we should have told Tom about the surprise party for Lucy. M: Its all right. He promised not to tell her. 15. W: I didnt come yesterday because I had a temperature. Could you tell me your requirements for my term paper? M: The theme of your paper can be about business management or tourism industry in China and the length of your paper should be no less than 15 pagesPART B the sound of birds The sound of birds can be divided into three types including singing, crying and voiceimitating. Singing is normally a continuous multi-syllable melody uttered by the birds and controlled by sex hormones. Some sorts of singing are quite melodious and pleasant. During the breeding cycle, the changing and pleasant cries of male birds are typical songs. Singing is an important way for a bird to defend its territory, to pronounce it has occupied a place and to warn other birds not to enter the area. The singing variety of birds songs are different and more complicated than their common cries, which mainly happen in the breeding cycle in spring and summer. Cries are not controlled by sex hormones and can be uttered by both male and female birds. Usually bird cries are short and simple. But they can mean a lot. They are used to communicate with one another and to warn one another about dangers. The cries of birds can express calling, warning, surprise and threat. Sometimes it is very difficult to distinguish crying from singing. Generally speaking, cries are not affected by the change of seasons and can be made by all birds. Crying is an important way for birds to communicate with one another. Voice imitating birds imitate the crying or voice of other birds. The biological cause of voice imitating is not clear even now and it is highly probable that it will take a long time for people to discover the mystery.Passage II: fun facts about giant pandas High in dense bamboo forests in the misty, rainy mountains of southwestern China lives one of the world's rarest mammals: the giant panda, also called the panda. Only about 1,000 of these black-and-white relatives of bears survive in the wild. Pandas eat almost nothing but bamboo shoots and leaves. Occasionally they eat other plants, fish, or small animals, but bamboo accounts for 99 percent of their diets. Pandas eat fast, they eat a lot, and they spend about 12 hours a day doing it. The reason is very simple. They digest only about a fifth of what they eat. Moreover, bamboo is not very nutritious. The shoots and leaves are the most valuable parts of the plants, so that's what a well-fed panda concentrates on eating. To stay healthy, they have to eat a lot - up to 15 percent of their body weight within 12 hours - so they eat fast. There are many species of bamboo. Only a few of these grow at the high altitudes where pandas live today. A panda should have at least two. bamboo species where it lives, or it will starve. Giant pandas used to be able to move quite easily from one mountaintop to another in search of food. Now the valleys are mostly inhabited by people. Pandas are shy; they are afraid to go into areas where people live. This confines pandas to very limited areas. As people continue to farm, cut trees, and develop land higher and higher up the mountain slopes, the pandas' habitat continues to become smaller. And sometimes, when all the bamboo in their area dies off naturally, pandas starve because they're unable to move to new areas where other bamboo species thrive. Conservation organizations and Chinese government officials and scientists are continuing to work toward solving the pandas' isolation problems. Maintaining "bamboo corridors" - strips of peaceful Rand through which pandas can travel from mountain to mountain freely - are one of the many ideas that may help save the giant panda. 1. How many pandas are still living in the wild? A.about 1000 2. Which of the following statements is NOT true? A.pandas eat slowly but a lot 3. Which of the following is the reason that pandas get starved? A.only a few species of bamboo can grow in their habitat 4. How much does a panda eat per day? B.15% of their body weigh 5. Which of the following has caused the shrinking of pandas' habitat? D.all of above 1) dense bamboo forests 2) bamboo shoots and leaves 3) fast and a lot about 4) 12 hours 5) shy 6) are afraid, 7) where people live 8) by people. 9) bamboo corridors 10) pandas can travel PART D 1) 37th 2) shape the history, 3) the national interest 4) the nation 5) persevere 6) however 7) justify 8) conclusion 9) for the future l0) prolonged 11)to the finish 12)considerations 13)necessary 14)instinct 15)home and abroad 16)personal 17)focus 18)prosperity 19)Presidency 20)sworn Editor's note: Judson Jones is a meteorologist, journalist and photographer. He has freelanced with CNN for four years, covering severe weather from tornadoes to typhoons. Follow him on Twitter: jnjonesjr (CNN) - I will always wonder what it was like to huddle around a shortwave radio and through the crackling static from space hear the faint beeps of the world's first satellite - Sputnik. I also missed watching Neil Armstrong step foot on the moon and the first space shuttle take off for the stars. Those events were way before my time.As a kid, I was fascinated with what goes on in the sky, and when NASA pulled the plug on the shuttle program I was heartbroken. Yet the privatized space race has renewed my childhood dreams to reach for the stars.As a meteorologist, I've still seen many important weather and space events, but right now, if you were sitting next to me, you'd hear my foot tapping rapidly under my desk. I'm anxious for the next one: a space capsule hanging from a crane in the New Mexico desert.It's like the set for a George Lucas movie floating to the edge of space.You and I will have the chance to watch a man take a leap into an unimaginable free fall from the edge of space - live.The (lack of) air up there 待添加的隐藏文字内容3Watch man jump from 96,000 feet Tuesday, I sat at work glued to the live stream of the Red Bull Stratos Mission. I watched the balloons positioned at different altitudes in the sky to test the winds, knowing that if they would just line up in a vertical straight line "we" would be go for launch.I feel this mission was created for me because I am also a journalist and a photographer, but above all I live for taking a leap of faith - the feeling of pushing the envelope into uncharted territory.The guy who is going to do this, Felix Baumgartner, must have that same feeling, at a level I will never reach. However, it did not stop me from feeling his pain when a gust of swirling wind kicked up and twisted the partially filled balloon that would take him to the upper end of our atmosphere. As soon as the 40-acre balloon, with skin no thicker than a dry cleaning bag, scraped the ground I knew it was over.How claustrophobia almost grounded supersonic skydiverWith each twist, you could see the wrinkles of disappointment on the face of the current record holder and "capcom" (capsule communications), Col. Joe Kittinger. He hung his head low in mission control as he told Baumgartner the disappointing news: Mission aborted.The supersonic descent could happen as early as Sunday.The weather plays an important role in this mission. Starting at the ground, conditions have to be very calm - winds less than 2 mph, with no precipitation or humidity and limited cloud cover. The balloon, with capsule attached, will move through the lower level of the atmosphere (the troposphere) where our day-to-day weather lives. It will climb higher than the tip of Mount Everest (5.5 miles/8.85 kilometers), drifting even higher than the cruising altitude of commercial airliners (5.6 miles/9.17 kilometers) and into the stratosphere. As he crosses the boundary layer (called the tropopause), he can expect a lot of turbulence.The balloon will slowly drift to the edge of space at 120,000 feet (22.7 miles/36.53 kilometers). Here, "Fearless Felix" will unclip. He will roll back the door.Then, I would assume, he will slowly step out onto something resembling an Olympic diving platform.Below, the Earth becomes the concrete bottom of a swimming pool that he wants to land on, but not too hard. Still, he'll be traveling fast, so despite the distance, it will not be like diving into the deep end of a pool. It will be like he is diving into the shallow end.Skydiver preps for the big jumpWhen he jumps, he is expected to reach the speed of sound - 690 mph (1,110 kph) - in less than 40 seconds. Like hitting the top of the water, he will begin to slow as he approaches the more dense air closer to Earth. But this will not be enough to stop him completely.If he goes too fast or spins out of control, he has a stabilization parachute that can be deployed to slow him down. His team hopes it's not needed. Instead, he plans to deploy his 270-square-foot (25-square-meter) main chute at an altitude of around 5,000 feet (1,524 meters).In order to deploy this chute successfully, he will have to slow to 172 mph (277 kph). He will have a reserve parachute that will open automatically if he loses consciousness at mach speeds.Even if everything goes as planned, it won't. Baumgartner still will free fall at a speed that would cause you and me to pass out, and no parachute is guaranteed to work higher than 25,000 feet (7,620 meters).It might not be the moon, but Kittinger free fell from 102,800 feet in 1960 - at the dawn of an infamous space race that captured the hearts of many. Baumgartner will attempt to break that record, a feat that boggles the mind. This is one of those monumental moments I will always remember, because there is no way I'd miss this.