新视野视听说第三册(第二版) Unit 9听力原文 (Collin 整理于2014.11.22)
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Unit 9 What mode of travel do you prefer?
II Basic listening practice
1 Script
M：would you prefer a window or an aisle
seat，madam?
W：Aisle，please．If there's none
left，then a window seat is OK．But I
don't like
middle seats. Q: what is the order of the woman‘s
preference?
C: aisle-window-middle
2
Script
M：I‘d like to fly economy to Thailand
on October 8th．I want to book t
wo tickets．
W：we have only one seat left in economy，but we
will give you two bu
siness class seats for the
same price as one economy and, one business class
s
eat．
Q：What can the man get?
B: Two
business class tickets at reduced price.
3
Script
M：Excuse me, where do I check in for
British Airways to London? I ca
n‘t find the
right check-in counter．
W：You should go to
Counter 26 on the left-hand side, sir．It's just
next
to Thai Air．You‘d better hurry, though.
There‘s a long queue.
Q：What does the woman
say? ‖
C)The British Airways counter is
Counter26.
4．Script
W：Airport
security checks always make me nervous．I‘m afraid
I‘ll set o
ff the alarm because of the jewelry
I‘m wearing．
M：I know. I‘ll set off the
security alarm. I have a steel plate in my arm
from a rugby injury. Q：Why will the man set of the
alarm?
D)Because he has a metal plate in his
body
5．Script
M：Welcome home! Here，let me
take your suitcase．The car is out in t
he
parking lot．Your plane was two hours late. You
must be exhausted．
W：Yes, we have to check in
three hours before take-off time. The securi
ty
guards take ages searching carry-on stuff, but
they ignore check-in baggag
e．Strange system．
Q：What is the woman NOT complaining about?
A)Security guards search her check-in baggage.
III Listening in
Task 1: The smaller the
airport, the greater the security.
Paul：The
airport security checks sometimes seem very
strange to me．
Sylvia：What do you mean?
Paul：I just completed an international
flight．And with all the threats to
security of
travel today I expected to have my luggage
searched．
Sylvia：that‘s understandable．I mean,
with all the fear that‘s out there ab
out
terrorism, of course they‘re going to check your
baggage—especially your
carry—ons．
Paul：I don‘t mind them checking my
baggage．In fact，I expect it．But
there seems to
be an inverse ratio at work．
Sylvia：What on
earth do you mean? They check everyone‘s
baggage，do
n‘t they?
Paul：Yes，but here‘s
what‘s funny：The smaller the airport，the greater
t
he security．The less likely a plane is to be
hijacked，the more precautions th
ey take．
Sylvia：Are you serious? Why should a small
airport be more aware of se
curity than a large
one? Paul：Here‘s what I‘ve experienced：Once at a
small
airport，they seized a roll of adhesive
tape and argued that it could be used in
hijacking．Then they asked me to remove my digital
camera from its case an
d demonstrate that it
could take pictures．
Sylvia：And is this
different from a large airport?
Paul：According
to my experience，it is．When I flew from Vancouver
to
Paris，they simply ran my bags through the
scanner, and 1 was on my way
Sylvia：If that‘s
the case，the baggage checking system is really
strange．
Keys:
(1) security checks
(2)
searched
(3) fear
(4) carry-ons
(5)
checking
(6) greater
(7) seized
(8) digital camera
(9) take pictures
(10) bags
(11) on his way
(12) strange
Task 2 Ships
Today, I‘d like to introduce
you to different kinds of modern merchant
sh
ips.
First, container ships. There are
cargo ships that carry their entire load in
containers. They are the usual way of moving
commercial freight. Informally k
nown as ―box
boats‖, they carry the majority of the world‘s
cargo. Most co
ntainer ships have crews of
between 10 to 30 people.
The second type I
want to mention are bulk carriers. These ships
transpor
t bulk cargo like coal, ore, rice and
grain. They have big box-like hatches on
deck.
A bulk carrier could be for either dry or wet
cargo. Most lakes are too
small to accommodate
bulk ships, but a large fleet of bulk carriers has
been s
ailing on the Great Lakes of North
America for over a century.
The third kind are
tankers or cargo ships for carrying fluids like
crude oil,
liquefied petroleum gas, liquefied
natural gas, chemicals, vegetable oil, wine
a
nd other food. Tankers make up one-third of
the world‘s tonnage.
Reefer ships are fourth.
They‘re cargo ships that carry perishable goods
li
ke fruits, meat, fish, vegetables, and dairy
products. They provide temperature-c
ontrolled
transportation.
Fifth are roll-on roll-
off ships. They carry wheeled cargo like
automobiles,
trailers or railway carriages.
Roll-on roll-off vessels allow the cargo to be
effi
ciently ―rolled on‖ and ―rolled off‖ the
vessel.
Sixth are cruise ships, the passenger
ships for pleasure trips, where the vo
yage
itself and the ship‘s amenities are essential to
the experiences. Cruising is
a big part of the
tourism industry, with millions of passengers each
year.
Key: A C C D D
Task 3 High-speed
passenger trains
Recently the frequency of
service on the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed
pa
ssenger trains has doubled.
The line
commenced operations last December and carried
about 50,000 p
assengers per day. Starting July
1st, the line increased its carrying capacity to
over 80,000 passengers per day and frequency
to every 10 to 25 minutes.
At a top speed of
350 kilometers per hour, it takes about three
hours to t
ravel the over 1,000 kilometers
between Guangzhou and Wuhan. At present it
is
one of the longest railway lines in the world.
At this high speed, the Wuhan-Guangzhou line
has served the local popul
ation well at prices
that are not unreasonably high. One indication of
this is th
at the high-speed train service has
forced the cost of air travel along the line
t
o fall below the cost of a second-class train
ticket, meaning that the high spee
d train
service has already become more competitive than
the service offered b
y the airlines. With the
doubling of frequency of service, getting aboard
the hi
gh-speed train in Guangzhou to go to
cities hundreds of miles away in Hunan
and
Hubei provinces is as convenient as taking a local
train or a subway in t
he Pearl River Delta
region. The large saving of time, even compared
with tra
veling by air, is a great benefit to
travelers and their business, whether
person
al, corporate or public. Obviously, the
regional economy will benefit a great d
eal.
Key: A B D D A
VI Further listening
and speaking
Task 1 Advantages and
disadvantages of flying
Before I conclude my
talk, I'd like to summarize what we have covered.
Air travel has its inherent advantages.
Airplanes fly fast, and they are no
w flying
faster than before. Now supersonic passenger
planes can fly across th
e Atlantic Ocean in
just a couple of hours. It is reported that new
models are
being designed. In the future they
may carry people from New York to Lond
on in
less than an hour.
In the past not many people
traveled by air because of the high fares. No
w
owing to the market competition, the fare has
dropped a great deal, so mor
e people are
traveling by air. In the 1990s, the United States
witnessed an exp
losive growth in demand for
air travel. Many millions who had never, or
rarel
y flown before, became regular
passengers. They even joined frequent flyer
loy
alty programs, receiving free flights and
other such benefits.
Flying has become
increasing convenient. The introduction of new
services
and more frequent flights has meant
that business flyers can fly to another cit
y,
do business, and return on the same day. This
applies to almost any two p
oints in the
country.
Some passengers worry about safety in
flying. In a crash there are usually
no
survivors. However, to prevent tragic accidents
and serious financial loss,
airlines are
especially cautious in checking the conditions of
aircraft to reduce
the possibility of
accidents to the minimum. It is sometimes claimed
that flyin
g involves fewer accidents than any
other modes of travel.
Airplanes do have their
disadvantages. For example, they are incapable of
transporting large quantities of cargo.
Also, an airport can be quite far away
from the city center. But the adva
ntages of
flying outweigh these small drawbacks, and flying
remains an efficie
nt kind of transportation.
That's the end of my lecture. Now may I take
your questions if you have
any?
Key:
Pros and Cons of Flying
Pro 1 An airplane
flies fast
(1) Supersonic passenger planes can
fly across the Atlantic Ocean in just
a couple
of hours;
(2) In future they may carry people
from Now York to London in less th
an an hour.
Pro 2 The fare has dropped a great deal, so
more people are traveling by
air: Many
millions became regular passengers, and even
joined frequent flyer
loyalty programs.
Pro 3 Flying has become increasingly
convenient: Business fliers can fly t
o another
city, do business, and return on the same day.
Pro 4 Airlines are cautious about checking the
conditions of aircraft to re
duce the
possibility of accidents to the minimum
Con 1
The plane is incapable of transporting large
quantities of cargo.
Con 2 An airport can be
quite far away from the city center.
Task 2:
An Overview of Airlines
Script
An
airline is an organization which provides aviation
services for passenge
rs and cargo. It owns or
leases airliners to supply these services and may
for
m partnerships or alliances with other
airlines for reasons of mutual benefits.
The
scale and scope of airline companies range from
those with a single
airplane carrying mail or
cargo, to full-service international airlines
operating m
any hundreds of airplanes of
various types. Airline services can be
categorized
as intercontinental, intra-
continental, regional or domestic and may be
operated
as scheduled services or charters.
These variations in the types of airline
com
panies, their operating scope, and the
routes they serve, make analysis of the
a
irline industry complex. But one thing is
certain: The industry is heavily influe
nced by
the market now. In the past 50 years or so, the
general trend of own
ership has gone from
government-owned or government-supported to
independe
nt, for-profit companies. This is a
result of the government permit greater
free
dom. This trend is not yet consistent
across all airlines in all regions. The de
mand
for air travel services depends on other things:
needs for cargo transport
ation, business
passenger demand, leisure passenger demand, which
are all influ
enced by macroeconomic activity
in the market. These trends are highly
season
al, and often depend on day-of-week, or
time-of-day. The industry is cyclical.
Four or
five years of poor performance are followed by
five or six years of g
radual improvement in
performance.
1.D 2 C 3.D 4.A 5.B
Task 3:
Funny Flight Announcements
Script:
Occasionally, airline crews try to make their
announcements entertaining.
Here are some
examples that have been reported. One pilot
delivered this welc
ome message: are pleased to
have some of the best flight attendants in t
he
industry. Unfortunately none of them are on this
flight.
One pilot said, we have reached our
cruising altitude now, so I'm
going to switch
the seatbelt sign off. Feel free to move about as
you wish, b
ut please stay inside the
plane till we land. It's a bit cold outside, and
if you
walk on the wings, it affects the
flight pattern.
A Southwest Airlines employee
said, the event of a sudden loss of ca
bin
pressure, oxygen masks will descend from the
ceiling. Stop screaming, gra
b the mask, and
pull it over your face. If
you have small
children traveling with you, secure your mask
before assis
ting with theirs. If you are
traveling with two small children, decide now
whic
h one you love more.
Another flight
attendant's comment on a less than perfect landing
goes lik
e this: ask you to please remain
seated as Captain Kangaroo bounces us
to the
terminal.
Still another attendant said, ―As you
exit the plane, please be sure to gat
her all
of your belongings. Anything left behind will be
distributed evenly amo
ng the flight
attendants. Please do not leave children or
spouses. Last one off
the plane must clean
it.‖
Key:
(1) best; none of them
(2)
land; wings
(3) small children; before
(4)
smoothly
(5) distributed evenly; clean it