《现代大学英语听力2》听力原文及答案Unit 1知识讲解
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2》听力原文及答案
Unit 1
《现代大学英语听力2》听力原文及答案Unit 1Unit 1
Task 1
【答案】
A.
1) She wanted to
see St. Paul’s Cathedral.
2) She was so
surprised because she saw so many Englishmen who
looked alike.
3) They were all wearing dark
suits and bowler hats, carrying umbrellas and
newspapers.
4) Because she had often read
about them and seen photographs of them, who all
looked as if they were wearing a uniform.
5) No, he didn’t.
6) He used the English
saying “It takes all kinds to make a world” to
prove his
opinion.
B.
If all the seas
were one sea, what a great sea it would be! And if
all the trees were
one tree, what a great tree
it would be! And if this tree were to fall in the
sea, what a
great splash there would be!
【原文】
Yesterday morning Gretel went to the
City of London. She wanted to see St.
Paul's
Cathedral. She was surprised to see so many
Englishmen who looked alike.
They were all
wearing dark suits and bowler hats. They were all
carrying umbrellas
and newspapers. When she
returned home she asked Mr clark about these
strange
creatures.
about them and seen
photographs of them. They all look as if they are
wearing a
uniform. Does the typical English
gentleman still exist?
Mr. Clark laughed.
many of the men who work in the City of London
still wear bowler hate and I suppose
they are
typical Englishmen. But look at this.
pointed
at a photo of a young man.
no such thing as a
'typical' Englishman. Do you know the English
saying 'It takes all
kinds to make a world'?
That's true of all countries-including
England.
“Oh, just like the poem ‘If All the
Seas Were One Sea’,” Gretel began to hum
happily. If all the seas were one sea, what a
great sea that would be! If all the trees
were
one tree, what a great tree that would be! And if
this tree were to fall in the sea,
what a
great splash that would be!”
Task 2
【答案】
A.
1) people were much busier
2) colder than England; minus thirty
degrees; last longer
3) much more mountainous;
much higher and much more rocky; more beautiful
4) tend to be more crowded
5) the houses;
smaller
B.
1) T 2) T 3) F 4) F 5) F
【原文】
John is British but has worked in
Japan. Etsuko is Japanese from Osaka, but she
is studying in Britain. In the following
passage you are going to hear, they are
comparing life as they see it in the two
countries. But before listening to it, think of
the two countries and try to answer the
following pre-listening questions.
John:
I found that living in Japan, people were busier.
They seem to work the
whole day.
Etsuko:
Yes, that’s right. We work from Monday through
Saturday, 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 the 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, I noticed that the
countryside here in England is
very beautiful.
John: It’s much flatter than in Japan.
Etsuko: Yes. Japan is a mountainous country
and our cities are full of people.
There are
lots of people in a limited flat area.
John:
Yes, I found Japan much more mountainous than
Britain, especially in the
north. The
mountains are much higher and much more rocky. I
found it more
beautiful than Britain, I think.
Etsuko: Yes, if you like mountains.
John:
And therefore the towns and villages tend to be
more crowded.
Etsuko: 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’t 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 3
【答案】
A.
1) In the
US, people usually dance just to enjoy themselves;
they don’t invite other
people to watch them.
2) Usually eight people dance together.
3)
Because people form a square in dancing with a man
and a woman on each side of
the square.
4)
He usually makes it into a song.
5) They wear
old-fashioned clothes.
B.
1) F 2) T 3) F
4) F 5) T
C.
1) eight people form a
square; on each side of the square
2) what
they should do; makes it into a song; sings it
3) don’t have much time to think
4) old-
fashioned clothes
【原文】
Rosa: Why don’t you
have folk dances in the United States? Most
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 themselves. They don’t
invite
other people to watch them.
Rosa: Is there a
folk dancing group here?
Steve: I think so.
There must be. 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.
When 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. He
sings
it while they dance.
Rosa: Oh,
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. That makes
the dances pretty to watch.
Rosa: I’d
like to watch a group dance.
Steve: I’ll
take you sometime.
Task 4
【答案】
1)
It was a time to celebrate the end of winter and
the beginning of spring.
2) They burned the
picture of their kitchen god to bring good luck.
3) The custom said the brides must wear
“something old, something new, something
borrowed, and something blue” to bring good
luck.
4) Because they could not eat meat, eggs
or dairy products during Lent, so they tried
to use up these things before Lent began.
5) It was a straw man made by children in
Czech; it was a figure of death.
6) People
brought their animals to church. And before the
animals went into the
church people dressed
them up in flowers and ribbons.
【原文】
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
Evil spirits out!
winter and the
beginning of spring.
2) Before the Chinese
Lunar New Year in the old days, many Chinese
families burned
the picture of their kitchen
god to bring good luck. When Lunar New Year's Day
came, they put ancw picture of the kitchen god
on the wall.
3) When American women got
married, they sometimes followed an old custom in
choosing what to wear on their wedding day.
The custom said the bride must wear
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 eat 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
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.
6) January 17th was St. Anthony's Day
in Mexico. It was a day when people brought
their animals to church. But before the
animals went into the church, the people
dressed them up in flowers and ribbons. This
ceremony was to protect people's
animals.
Task 5
【答案】
A.
1) F 2) T 3) F
4) T 5) F 6) T 7) T
B.
Advantages
Lots of servants to do the work
beautiful
clothes to wear
lots of tea parties
life
being slower
plenty of time to talk to each
other
Disadvantages
Terrible life for
servants
very uncomfortable clothes
boring
and formal tea parties — often no
men being
invited
much more illness
children left
with servants all day
very poor education
【原文】
no freedom for women
Man: Well, I think life used to be much more
fun than it is now. I mean, look at the
Victorians. They had lots of servants to do
all the work; they never had to do
any cooking
or cleaning; they just wore those beautiful
dresses and went to
tea parties.
Woman:
You must be joking! Their clothes were terribly
uncomfortable and their tea
parties were very
formal and boring. They used to wear their hats
and long
gloves even when they were eating
cakes and biscuits. And men were not
usually
invited.
Man: Really? Weren't they?
Woman: And think of the poor servants. What a
terrible life — just cleaning and
cooking for
other people all the time!
Man: But you hate
housework!
Woman: Yes, I know, but there are
lots of machines now to help you with the
housework. People don't need servants.
Man: Maybe they don't, but life then was much
slower than it is now-people
nowadays are
always rushing, and they never have time to stop
and enjoy
themselves.
Woman: Life then was
fine for the rich, but it was dreadful for the
poor. There was
much more illness. They didn't
have the money to pay doctors, and they often
used to die of illnesses that don't exist in
England now.
Man: Maybe. But people used to
talk to each other, play the piano or play cards
together. Nowadays people just sit in front of
the television for hours and
never talk to
each other.
Woman: I agree with you about
television; but what about their children? They
left
their Children with the servants all day.
Children hardly ever saw their
parents! And
the clothes they had to wear! Horrible, tight,
uncomfortable,
grown-up clothes. Children have
a much better life now than they used to,
and
schools and education are much better too.
Man: I hate school.
Woman: And look at
opportunities for women. In those days, women used
to stay at
home, play the piano, change their
clothes several times a day and have tea
parties. What a life! They didn't have any
freedom at all. I'm very happy
living now. I
can work, have a career, do what I want to.
Man: You mean you can work hard all your life like
a Victorian servant.
Woman: Life isn't all tea
parties, you know.
Task 6
【答案】
A.
1) b 2) a 3) c 4) a
B.
1)
family unit; process; change; used to be; the
extended; the nuclear
2) job patterns;
progressed; agricultural; industrial; forced; job
opportunities; split up
3) traditional;
family; expanded; other living arrangements
C.
1) mother, father, children, and some other
relatives, such as grandparents, living in
the
same house or nearby
2) only the parents and
the children
3) previously married men and
women marry again and combine the children from
former marriages into a new family
【原文】
The American family unit is in the process of
change. There used to be mainly
two types of
families: the extended and the nuclear. The
extended family most often included
mother,
father, children, and some 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
family. The nuclear
family became more
prevalent; this consisted of only the parents and
the children.
Now besides these two types of
traditional groupings, the word
expanded to
include a variety of other living arrangements.
Today's family can be made up of diverse
combinations. With the divorce rate
nearly one
in two, there is an increase in single parent
homes: a father or mother
living with one or
more children.
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
【答案】
A.
Men
Study subjects like history or
English
Study engineering
√
Go to
university to get good jobs
Look for a good
job because they want a good
husband
Look
for a good job because they want to be
√
successful
Work for a lifetime
√
Women Both
√
√
√
Work up to
ten years
Get married by twenty-seven
Cook
the meals
Look after the children
Go out
for a drink after work
Come home by four
o'clock in the afternoon
B.
1) c 2)
c 3) a 4) b 5) c 6) c 7) c
【原文】
√
√
√
√
√
√
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
classes of thirty or forty students, there may be
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 up to 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 or
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 time 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. But most women find
it
difficult to find a job when they are older.
Task 8
【答案】
A.
1) a 2) c 3) b
4) c 5) c 6) b 7) c 8) b
B.
1) T 2) T
3) F 4) F 5) T 6) F 7) F 8) F 9) T 10) F
【原文】
Matthew: Geth, how do people set
about getting married in England?
Geth: I suppose the most common way is still for
people to go home. For example,
people who
live in London now will go back to their homes in
the provinces
where they'll meet all their
relatives and their parents, and they'll 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 suppose. You sign the form and
that's it.
Matthew: There are many today who
say that marriage is a complete waste of time.
What's your view of marriage in the twentieth
century?
Goth: Well, I live in London as
you know. I think in London, the tendency is to...
for a... boy and girl, man or woman to live
together before marriage and
often to live
together without any prospect of marriage at all.
I think this
probably is... is true of London
and the other big cities than elsewhere,
because after all people in London are living
in a big place where home ties
are obviously
less restrictive. They can do more or less as they
please and I
think this is the pattern.
Matthew: But do you think it helps for people
to live together before taking their
vows?
Geth: I think in a sense the habit of
living together before marriage may, in a strange
sort of way, make marriage stronger, because
after all the people will know
each other
better when they do get married and it might be
suggested that
divorce would be less likely
between such a couple.
Matthew: Sue, you've
been married for two or three years now. How's it
working out?
Sue: I think it's a
successful marriage. It's... I mean, it's
difficult to say why,
because we basically
suit each other very much. We have a good
friendship,
apart from anything else, and, you
know, we just go together very well
because we
respect each other's freedom and individuality,
but on the other
hand we really need each
other, you know, it's...
Matthew: What
about.., have you thought of having children?
Sue: Well, obviously, like most young couples, we
have thought about it, but, you
know, we both
feel rather, sort of, loath to lose our freedom
just yet. I think
we'll probably wait another
few years.
Matthew: Is it easy in England
today to people to get divorced, or is that quite
difficult?
Chris: I think technically
it's probably fairly easy, I think, because I'm
not English
but, I think technically it's
fairly easy to be... to get divorced. But it's not
just
the technicality of it which is the
problem. Divorce is... is a social stigma
which people can probably Cope with to varying
degrees, but it's also a lot
easier for the
man because the woman, after she is divorced is,
in fact,
frowned upon by... by a lot of people
in society. She is... is... at a... a much
more difficult social position in terms of...
of meeting other men, or whatever,
simply
because she is a divorcee.
Task 9
【原文】
Social customs and ways of behaving
change. But they do not necessarily always
change for the better. Things which were
considered impolite many years ago are now
acceptable. Just a few years ago, it was
considered impolite behaviour for a man to
smoke on the street. No man who thought of
himself as being a gentleman would
make a fool
of himself by smoking when a lady was in the room.
The important thing to remember about social
customs is not to do anything that
might make
other people feel uncomfortable — especially if
they are your guests.
There is a story about a
rich nobleman who had a very formal dinner party.
When the
food was served, one of the guests
started to eat his peas with a knife. Other guests
were amused or shocked, but the nobleman
calmly picked up his knife and began
eating in
the same way. It would have been bad manners to
make his guest feel
foolish or uncomfortable.