新世纪大学英语视听说教程3原文 (unit7)
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Unit 7 Sports and Hobbies
Listening
Audio Track 3-7-1
A: Hi,
what’s your favorite sport?
B: Well, it’s a
relaxing sport.
A: Do you do it alone?
B:
Well, you can do it alone but I do it with other
people. Our college has a special club.
A:
Does it require special skills or training?
B:
No, it doesn’t. That’s one of the things I like
about it. Anyone can do it.
A: Is it popular?
B: Yes, I see many people doing it in the
morning when I am on my way to college. And there
are
lots of people doing it when I visit the
track in the evening.
A: So, is jogging your
favorite sport?
B: Yep.
A: Terrific!
Jogging is also my favorite sport!
Audio
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My favorite hobby
is nature photography. I’ve been taking pictures
outdoors for more than ten
years. In that
time, I’ve traveled to several national parks in
my country. I’ve also visited Mexico
and
Brazil. I like to take pictures of birds and
animals. I’ve gotten some really nice photos, but
sometimes I can’t find my favorite pictures.
That’s because I haven’t put them in albums yet!
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Conversation 1:
Host: Hello,
Spencer. How are you?
Spencer: Fine, thank
you. I’m excited to be here.
Host: Great! I
see a photo in your hand. What is it?
Spencer:
Well, it’s a picture of something that’s famous
worldwide.
Host: Wow! Look at that! Is it
yours?
Spencer: It certainly is. I didn’t buy
it, though. My father gave it to me.
Host:
How did your father get it?
Spencer: He
carried it in the 1984 Olympics. He was one of the
runners. After the Olympics
finished, he
bought the torch and gave it to me.
Host:
You must be athletic, too, right?
Spencer: No,
not at all. I’m terrible at sports.
Host:
Well, what was your father’s event?
Spencer:
He ran the 800 meters. He won his first race, but
lost the second one.
Host:
Fascinating … Well, your father wasn’t only a
strong athlete — he was also a good
collector.
Do you have any idea how much the torch is worth?
Spencer: Not at all.
Host: It’s a good
item to have. It’s probably worth several thousand
dollars.
Spencer: Wow!
Host: What are
you going to do with it?
Spencer: For now. I’m
going to keep it. Someday I’ll give it to a
museum.
Conversation 2:
Host: Hi,
Greta, it’s nice to see you’ve brought us a fun
object.
Greta: Yeah. I really like it.
Host: Did you play with it when you were a
kid?
Greta: A little, but not so much. My
brother played with it all the time. I played with
my teddy
bear collection.
Host: Do you
know anything about this toy?
Greta: I did
some research. I know it was made in Germany by
the Lehmann Company. I’m not
sure of the date.
Host: OK … anything else?
Greta: That’s
about it.
Host: Well, let me tell you a little
bit about the Lehmann Company. Their toys were
very popular
in the first half of the
twentieth century. They’re still making toys
today.
Greta: I didn’t know that.
Host:
How much did you pay for this toy?
Greta:
Nothing. A neighbor gave it to us before he moved
away.
Host: Oh, that’s good news … Because
unfortunately, this toy is not a Lehmann toy.
Greta: It’s not?
Host: Nope. I’m sorry,
but it’s a fake.
Greta: You’re kidding!
Host: No, I’m not. Look at the bottom of the
toy. A Lehmann toy will have the letter “e” marked
on it. Yours doesn’t have that.
Greta: Oh,
how disappointing!
Host: Well, it’s still in
good condition.
Greta: Yes, that’s true. It
may not be worth anything, but I’ll always keep it
for my children.
Audio Track 3-7-7Audio
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Alfredo: Well,
Ivan, now that final exams are finished, what are
you going to do?
Ivan: That’s easy, Alfredo.
Take a break! I’m exhausted. How about you?
Alfredo: Same here. I need to rest for a
couple of days. Then I’m going on a trip next
week.
Ivan: Where are you going?
Alfredo: My wife and I are going to the Vista
View Resort.
Ivan: That sounds relaxing.
Alfredo: Actually, it’s going to be kind of
busy … in a fun way. They have lots of activities
there … horseback riding, skydiving …
Ivan: Skydiving?! Are you going to do
that?
Alfredo: No, I’m going for the scuba
diving.
Ivan: I didn’t know you were a scuba
diver.
Alfredo: I’m not … yet. We’re going to
take lessons when we get there. By the end of the
trip, I’ll
be ready to try my first real dive.
Ivan: That sounds like fun. I wish I could
go … but my kids are too small. They’re only 10
and
12 years old.
Alfred: You know,
they’re not too young. There’s a “junior” program
to prepare kids for
scuba diving. You should
check it out.
Ivan: I should, but I know my
wife. She’ll never agree to it. She’s afraid of
the water.
Alfredo: Well, here’s a brochure if
you’re interested. Like I said, they have other
activities beside
scuba diving. They also have
a full-service spa. Maybe your wife would enjoy
that.
Ivan: Now that’s an idea!
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Audio Track
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Audio Track 3-7-12
Adventurous
race
It’s a team sport. It includes mountain
climbing, biking, boating, and trail running. It
has lots of
“special mystery events” — like
climbing over a 5-meter wall, and carrying a team
member for 3
kilometers. What is it?
“The
coolest sport I’ve ever done,” says 31-year-old
Bryan Martin. He recently finished the
Hawaii
Adventure Race, with his team, the Outsiders.
“Although everyone on our team bikes and
runs
every day, it was a great challenge.” His team
finished fifth out of more than two hundred
teams in the race.
Adventure racing is a
new sport that started a few years ago. In it,
teams of four people race
non-stop across long
distances in difficult environments, 24 hours a
day. There are men’s,
women’s, and mixed
teams. Some adventure races are just one day, but
others are much longer.
In the Eco-Challenge,
one of the most famous races, teams must travel
500 km in ten days. They
travel by running,
climbing ropes, kayaking, mountain biking, and
horseback riding. Every year,
the Eco-
Challenge is held in a different country and
environment, like the jungles of Malaysia, the
desert of Morocco, or the mountains of Canada.
Speed and stamina are very important for
adventure racers, but there’s one more unusual
thing
about the sport. To win the race, all
team members must finish together. If one person
quits, the
team is out of the race. “You have
to help each other, and you really learn to work
together,” says
Bryan Martin. “I enjoy that
most of all.”
Audio Track 3-7-13
A brief history of the X Games
1995 The
first Extreme Games competition was held in 1995
in Rhode Island, USA. The
athletes competed in
nine events, including windsurfing and mountain
biking.
1996 The Extreme Games were renamed
and became the X Games.
1997 The first
Winter X Games were held in California, USA. The
athletes competed in events
such as
snowboarding and ice climbing.
1998 The
first Asian X Games were held in Phuket, Thailand.
2001 The first European X Games were held in
Barcelona, Spain.
2002 The first Latin
American X Games were held in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
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3-7-15
A star in the X Games
There’s
a new kind of competition happening worldwide. No,
it’s not the World Cup. It’s the X
Games.
In different areas of the world, athletes
train and compete in their own versions of the X
Games.
The best athletes can advance to the
global championship. At the championship, teams
from six
regions (Asia, Australia, Canada,
Europe, South America, and the United States) face
each other.
There are summer sports (in-line
skating, biking, and skateboarding) and winter
ones (skiing and
snowboarding). Most “X
Gamers” are male, but there are a few women. One
woman, in particular,
stands out from the
crowd. Her name is Fabiola da Silva. She’s an in-
line skater and she comes
from Brazil.
There are two different in-line skating
categories: park and vert. In the park event,
skaters compete
on a course that has ledges,
handrails, and other obstacles. In the vert event,
skaters do tricks in a
half pipe. They try to
fly high in the air and spin. Fabiola competes in
both events. She has been
skating for years
and she has always dominated the women’s events.
Fabiola would like to see more women in the X
Games, but she’s not afraid of the guys. Ever
since she received her first pair of skates at
the age of 12, she’s played with boys. Now she
skates
in competitions with them and she beats
many of them.
Fabiola’s mother was a
housekeeper. It was hard, but she saved her money
to buy Fabiola’s skates.
It was a good
investment. Fabiola has traveled abroad for events
and become famous in the
skating world.
Success hasn’t gone to her head, though. She’s
a typical young woman of the world: She has a
boyfriend, likes to listen to rock music, and
prefers healthy foods. She doesn’t seem to care
much
about the attention she gets.
Audio Track 3-7-16
1. board game
2. basketball
3. computer game
Audio Track 3-7-17
1. Sergel is the
national table tennis champion.
2. I found a
tasty recipe in my new cookbook.
3.
How many comic books does he have?
4. Stamp
collecting can be an expensive hobby.
5. I’ve
put the best photos in my photo album.
6.
She’s good at baseball.
Speaking &
Communication
Audio Track 3-7-18
Olivia: Where are you rushing off to?
Roshan: I’ve got cricket practice. It starts
at 5:00.
Olivia: Cricket?
Roshan: Are you
familiar with it? It’s really popular in my
country.
Olivia: Is it a sport?
Roshan:
Yes. It’s played with a ball and bat. There are 11
players on each team.
Olivia: I didn’t know
our university even had a cricket team!
Roshan: They do. We have players from all over
the world.
Olivia: You must really like it.
Roshan: I do. It’s fun. I’ve been playing it
since I was a teenager.
Audio Track
3-7-19
Conversation 1
A: Where are
you rushing off to?
B: I’ve got bridge
practice. It starts at 2:30.
A: Bridge?
B:
Are you familiar with it? It’s really popular in
my college.
A: Is it a sport?
B: Yes and
no. I’d rather see it as a game. It’s a four-
player card game played both socially and in
serious tournament competitions.
A: I
didn’t know your college even had a bridge team!
B: They do. We have players from all over the
country.
A: You must really like it.
B: I
do. It’s fun. I’ve been playing it since I was a
teenager.
Conversation 2
A: Where are you
rushing off to?
B: I’ve got embroidery
practice. It starts at 9:00.
A: Embroidery?
B: Have you ever heard of it? It’s a real
tradition in my hometown.
A: Is it a sport?
B: No. It’s a kind of art or handicraft of
decorating fabric or other materials with designs
stitched
in strands of thread using a
needle.
A: I didn’t know our college even had
an embroidery training course!
B: They do. We
have teachers from all of the best designing
centers.
A: You must really like it.
B: I
do. It’s fun. I’ve been practicing it since I was
a child.
Audio Track 3-7-20
Game
1
A: Do you know the rules of quinientos?
B: Not at all. How do you play it?
A: You
use dominoes to play it.
B: Dominoes?
A:
Dominoes are small rectangular blocks marked with
a group of spots on either side. They are
used
for playing various games.
B: Where is the
game played?
A: It is popular in Puerto Rico.
Game 2
A: Are you familiar with the game
of mancala?
B: Not really. How do you play it?
A: You play it with seeds and a wooden board
with holes.
B: Oh? How?
A: You try to win
the other player’s seeds while transferring them
from hole to hole.
B: Where is the game
played?
A: In Africa. It may be the oldest
game in the world.
Game 3
A: Have you ever
heard of the game of makruk?
B: Not really.
How do you play it?
A: It’s a board game
similar to chess, but some pieces look like
temples.
B: Where is this game played?
A:
In Thailand and Cambodia.
Audio Track
3-7-21
Talk 1
The athlete I choose to
enter the International Sports Hall of Fame is
Lance Armstrong. Lance has
been training since
he was a boy. He was good at three sports,
cycling, swimming, and running. At
the age of
16 he competed in professional triathlons. After
that he focused on cycling. Lance won
many
races until he was diagnosed with cancer in 1996.
But thankfully, he recovered and later
won six
Tour de France bicycle races in a row. What’s
more, he has written two books.
Additionally,
his Lance Armstrong Foundation helps cancer
patients and their families.
Talk 2
I would choose Yao Ming to enter the
International Sports Hall of Fame. As an
international icon
and basketball star, Yao
Ming has topped many Chinese surveys about
favorite athletes. He beat
international
soccer superstars David Beckham and Ronaldo.
Actually, he has become a household
name all
around the world. He worked hard in the NBA, and
won the respect of many other
sporting giants.
Not just a basketball player, he has also acted as
a Special Olympics Global
Ambassador and has
donated a lot of money to charity. His success has
influenced and encouraged
many young Chinese
people to work hard and to be good competitors.
Talk 3
Liu Xiang is not just my favorite
athlete of all time, he is my idol. So if I have
to choose one
athlete to enter the
International Sports Hall of Fame, my choice would
naturally be Liu Xiang. He
was the first
Chinese, and the first Asian, to win the men’s 110
meters hurdles race at the Olympic
Games. That
was in Athens in 2004. When Liu Xiang crossed the
finishing line far ahead of the
other
hurdlers, in a world record 12.91 seconds, he
created history. I’ll certainly remember that
moment forever. I felt such joy, excitement,
and exhilaration. I sang out loud, cheered, and I
might
even have shed a tear. I certainly was
not alone, I’m positive the whole of China was
behaving in
exactly the same way. It was Liu
Xiang’s first Olympics and he won the gold medal!
It really was
a momentous event in sporting
history.
Video Course
Video
Track 3-7-1
Natalie: Some of my favorite
activities are going to the movies, hanging with
my friends, playing
with my daughter. I also
like to do arts and crafts.
Jonathan: I like
skiing, snowboarding, surfing the Net, and playing
video games.
Catherine: I’ve been making
jewelry for about five years. Ever since I was
little I always was
interested in jewelry. I
always looked at other people’s jewelry and drew
designs on it. but I just
started about five
years ago. I like to give the jewelry to my
friends as presents.
Calum: I’ve been drawing
for the last three years. And I like drawing
because it lets me … puts
my mind at ease and
lets me think about other things, as opposed to
what’s going on in the news
and the troubles
that I might be having.
Video Track 3-7-2
Catherine: I’ve been making jewelry for
about five years. Ever since I was little I always
was
interested in jewelry. I always looked at
other people’s jewelry and drew designs on it. but
I just
started about five years ago. I like to
give the jewelry to my friends as presents.
Calum: I’ve been drawing for the last three
years. And I like drawing because it lets me …
puts
my mind at ease and lets me think about
other things, as opposed to what’s going on in the
news
and the troubles that I might be having.
Video Track 3-7-3
Alejandra: Sports have always been an
important part of my life. I have been horseback
riding
since I was a kid. I go skiing quite
often and I learned how to scuba dive when I was
eight years
old.
Gian: My favorite
activity is in-line skating. I’ve been doing it
for about fifteen years, and I love
to skate
because it gives you a sense of freedom and it
uses all of your muscles.
Martin: My favorite
sport is tae kwon do, which I’ve been studying for
nine years and teaching for
one.
Dan: I
like practicing kung fu because it’s good
exercise, it’s vigorous, it helps me to clear my
mind, and it can also be used for self-
defense.
Miyuki: I don’t play sports very
often. I like to go to games, because it’s a lot
more fun to be at the
game and enjoy the
atmosphere, but otherwise I don’t play sports.
Video Track 3-7-4
Dan: I like
practicing kung fu because it’s good exercise,
it’s vigorous, it helps me to clear my
mind,
and it can also be used for self-defense.
Miyuki: I don’t play sports very often. I like
to go to games, because it’s a lot more fun to be
at the
game and enjoy the atmosphere, but
otherwise I don’t play sports.
Video
Track 3-7-5
Claudia: (listening to
Roberto play guitar) That’s beautiful! Oh, I hope
I get that good someday.
Roberto: You will, if
you stick with it.
Claudia: How long have you
been playing the guitar?
Roberto: I’ve been
playing since I was a teenager, but I’ve only
really been studying it seriously
for about a
year. How long did you say you’ve been playing the
flute?
Claudia: Like I said, I took lessons
when I was a kid, but I hated it. I started
playing about two
months ago and I’m really
enjoying it this time. But like I told you — I’m
not very good yet.
Roberto: Well, have you
been practicing? “Practice makes perfect.”
Claudia: I practice sometimes, but I have
trouble doing it at home. Tara and
Sun-hee
have both been studying a lot lately, and they
keep telling me they need peace and quiet.
So
there’s nowhere for me to practice.
Roberto:
Well, don’t worry. That’s what we’re going to do
today, and remember — you can
always come and
play here.
Claudia: Thanks!
Roberto: Ready
to try one?
Claudia: Sure!
Roberto: Ah …
let’s see … How about this one?
Claudia: Uh …
that looks a little difficult.
Roberto:
OK. Let’s see … Have you ever played this one?
Claudia: Uh … nope, I’ve never played it … and
probably never will. It looks a little tough.
Roberto: Hmm … Do you know this one?
Claudia: That one?
Roberto: Yeah.
Claudia: Yeah, I know it … but can I play it?
(shakes head “no”) Hey! I do have one I’ve been
practicing lately. (opens sheet music)
Roberto: This one? OK. I haven’t played it in
years. It was one of my favorites.
Claudia: Ah
…
Roberto: Shall we?
Claudia: A one, a
two, a three … (they begin to play “Twinkle,
Twinkle Little Star”)
Video Track 3-7-6
Claudia: (listening to Robert play
guitar) That’s beautiful! Oh, I hope I get that
good someday.
Roberto: You will, if you stick
with it.
Claudia: How long have you been
playing the guitar?
Roberto: I’ve been playing
since I was a teenager, but I’ve only really been
studying it seriously
for about a year. How
long did you say you’ve been playing the flute?
Claudia: Like I said, I took lessons when I
was a kid, but I hated it. I started playing about
two
months ago and I’m really enjoying it this
time. But like I told you — I’m not very good yet.
Video Track 3-7-7
Roberto: Well,
have you been practicing? “Practice makes
perfect.”
Claudia: I practice sometimes, but I
have trouble doing it at home. Tara and Sun-hee
have both
been studying a lot lately, and they
keep telling me they need peace and quiet. So
there’s nowhere
for me to practice.
Roberto: Well, don’t worry. That’s what we’re
going to do today, and remember — you can
always come and play here.
Claudia:
Thanks!
Roberto: Ready to try one?
Claudia: Sure!
Video Track 3-7-8
Roberto: Ah … let’s see … How about this one?
Claudia: Uh … that looks a little difficult.
Roberto: OK. Let’s see … Have you ever played
this one?
Claudia: Uh … nope, I’ve never
played it … and probably never will. It looks a
little tough.
Roberto: Hmm … Do you know this
one?
Claudia: That one?
Roberto:
Yeah.
Claudia: Yeah, I know it… but can I play
it? (shakes head “no”) Hey! I do have one I’ve
been
practicing lately. (opens sheet music)
Roberto: This one? OK. I haven’t played it in
years. It was one of my favorites.
Claudia:
Ah…
Roberto: Shall we?
Claudia: A one, a
two, a three … (they begin to play “Twinkle,
Twinkle Little Star”)
Audio Track 3-7-22
Claudia was at Roberto’s to practice
playing the flute. As Roberto was playing his
guitar, Claudia
said that she hoped she would
be that good someday. Roberto told Claudia that he
had been
playing since he was a teenager and
reminded her that, “Practice makes perfect!”
Claudia
explained that she had trouble
practicing at home because Tara and Sun-hee had
been studying a
lot lately. Roberto told her
not to worry because they could practice together.
Roberto suggested
three different songs to
play, but Claudia hadn’t played any of them.
Finally, she suggested a song
she had been
practicing lately. Roberto said he hadn’t played
it for a long time, but it was one of
his
favorites — “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star!”