现代大学英语听力2 第1单元文本
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Unit one
Task One
A . Answer the following questions.
1)What did Gretel want tp see in the City of London'!
Key: She wanted to see 5t. Paul's Cathedral.
2)Why was she so surprised?
Key: She was so surprised because she saw so many Englishmen who lot
3)What did the Englishmen look like?
Key: They were all wearing dark suits and bowler hats, carrying umbrellas
4)Why did Gretel think they must be typical English gentlemen?
Key: Because she had often read about them and seen photographs of them, who all look
as if they were wearing a uniform.
5)Dlid Mr. Clark also think there is such thing as a "typical" Englishman?
Key: No, he didn't
6)What English saying did use to prove his opinion?
Key: It takes all kinds to make a world.
Task Two
John is British but has worked in 7apan. Etsuko is a Japanese student from Osaka, and she is
studying in Britain. Now they are comparing life in the two countries
John: I found that living in Japan, people were much busier. They seem to work the whole day.
Etsuko:Yes, that's right. We work from Monday through Satursay, even in summer. You know,
summer in Japan is just horrible. It's very, very humid and hot, and you need to shower
three times a day.
John: So you find it cooler in England:'
Etsuko Yes, that's right
John Where I was living in Japan, in the north, it was much colder than England, especially in
winter, minus thirty degrees centigrade. Does the winter in Osaka last longer than winter in England?
Etsuko No, I don't think so, December, January, February, March...
John Yes. It’s a little bit shorter if anything,
Etsuko Ever since I came here, l noticed that tire countryside here in England is reallybeatiful.
It's much flatter than
John: It’s much flatter than in Japan.
Etsuko:Yes. Japan is a mountainous country and our cities are full of people. They are lots of people in a limited area.
John: Yes. I found Japan much more mountainous than Brits, especially in the north.. The mountains are much higher and much more rocky. l found it more beautiful than Britain
Etsuka: Yes , if you like mountains.
John: And therefore the towns and the villages tend to be more crowded.
Etsuka: Yes , that’s right.
John Yes. So because the cities are more crowded, the houses tend to be smaller, don’t they?
Etsuko: Yes, they are very compact, and we don have a lot of space. In big cities we have a lot of
taller buildings now.
John: Is this a problem because there are more earthquakes in Japan?
Etsuko Yes, that's right, and..
Task three
Rosa: :Why don't you have folk dances in the United States? Mast countries have special dances
that the people have done for many years. The dancers wear clothes from the old days.
Everyone likes to watch them dance.
Steve: We have folk dances, too. A lot of people belong to folk dancing groups. But when they
dance, they usually do it just to enjoy t
hemselves. They don't invite other people to watch
them.
Rosa: Is there a folk dancing group here?
Steve :I think so. There's one in almost every city, and some big cities have several.
Rosa: What are the dances like?
Steve: Usually eight people dance together, Four men and Four women. Whey they start, they form a. square, with a man and a woman on each side of the square. That’s why it's called square
Dancing. Then there's a man who tells the dancers what they should do. He usually makes it Into a song, and sings it while they dance.
Rosa: that should make the dances easy!
Steve:Yes. but they are very fast. They don't have much time to think. I like to watch them, though.
The dancers wear old-Fashioned clothes. They makes the dances pretty to watch.
Rosa:1'd like to watch a group dance.
Steve: I' ll take you sometime.
Task four
1) On the evening of February 3rd, people in Japanese Families took one dried bean for each year of their age and threw the beans on the floor, shouting "Good luck in! Evil spitis out. This was
known as“ Setsubun”，a time to celebrate the end of winter and the beginning of spring.
2) Before the Chinese Lunar New Year in the old days, many Chinese families burned the pictures of their kithchen god to bring good luck. When Lunar neww Year's Day came. they put a new picture of the kitchen god on the wall..
3) When American women get married, they sometimes followed an old custom in Choosing what to wear on their wedding day. The custom said the bride must wear something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue". This was to bring good luck.
4) Before Lent (a time on the Christian Calendar) the people of Ponti. Italy ate an omelet made with 1.000 eggs. People Could not cat meat, eggs or dairy products during Lent. so they tried to use up these things before Lent began.
5))When winter ended in Czech, the children made a straw man called Smirt, which was a figure of death. They burned it or threw it in the river. After they destroyed it, they Carried flowers home to show the arrival of spring.
5} January 17th was St. Anthony's Day in Mexico. It was a day when people brought their animals to church. Butbefore the animals enter into the church, the people dressed them up in flowers and ribbons. This ceremony was to protect people's animals
Task six
The American family unit is in the process of change. There used to be mainly two types of families: extended s and the nuclear The extended family most often included mother, father ,children and same other relatives, such as grandparents, living in the same house or nearby. Then as job patterns changed and the economy progressed from agricultural to industrial, people were forced to move to different parts of the country for job opportunities. These moves split up the extended families. The nuclear family became more prevalent: this consisted of only the parents and the children. Now besides these two types of trad
itional groupings, the word "family" is being expanded to include a variety of other living arrangements
Today's family can be made up of diverse cvm6inativns. With the divorce rate nearly one in two, there is an increase in single parent homes: a father yr mother living with one or more children, blended families" occur when previously married men and women marry again and combine the children from former marriages into a new family. On the other hand, some couples are deciding not to have any children at all, so there is an increase in childless Families. There are also more people who live alone: single, widowed, divorced. Now one in five Americans lives alone.
Task 7
In Japan both men and women go to university and both men and women study the arts ,such as history or English. But very few women study science, medicine or engineering. In engineering class, of thirty or forty students, there may 6e only one or two women. Men and women both go to university in order to get good jobs: men want to work for a big company, be successful, earn a lot of money and support a family; women, on the other hand, want to work for a big company because they have a better chance oF meeting a successful man and getting married. This is changing, however, as Japanese women begin to think about their own careers. They have began to take jobs which they like rather than jobs in order to find a husband.
Men work for their whole lives and usually stay with the same company. A woman may work upto ten years, but after that she usually gets married. Most women are married by the age of twenty
seven, then they stay at home and look after the children. A man does not cook or look after the children. When he comes home, his meal must be ready. the woman may go out in the afternoon,
shopping with her friends yr having a chat, but she must go back home by four o’clock to prepare the meal. Then she may have to wait a long tune for her husband to come home. Often he has to go out for a drink after work: if he doesn't he may not rise very high in the company. After her children grow up, a woman can go back to work, but it is not easy. If her former company takes older women back, she might be lucky. Hut most women find it difficult to find a job when they are older.
Task 8
Matthew: Geth, how do people set about getting married in England?
Geth: 1 suppose the most common way is still far people to go home. For example, people who
Live in London now will go back to their homes in the provinces where they will meet all
their relatives and their parents, and they' 1l get married in a church with the bride wearing white, the traditional white. Then they'll go off and have a booze-up with their relatives
and friends and a jolly good time will be had by all. Otherwise you can get married in a
registry office, which means you turn up with your bride-to-be or bridegroom-to-be with
two witnesses only. The ceremony takes about five minutes, I
story about a rich nobleman who had a very formal dinner party. When the hood was served, one of the guests started to eat his peas with a knife. Other guests were amused at shocked, but the nobleman，calmly piched up his knife and began eating in the same way. It would have been bad manners to make his guests to feel foolish or uncomfortable.