施心远主编听力教程4(第2版)Unit3答案

A Liste ning Course 4

施心远主编《听力教程》4 （第2版）答案

Unit 2

Secti on One: Tactics for Liste ning

Part 1: Listening and Translation

1. Girls score higher tha n boys in almost every coun try.

几乎在所有国家里，女孩子都比男孩子得分高。

2. Differences between males and females are a continuing issue of fierce debate.

男女差异一直是激烈争论的焦点。

3. Cultural and econo mic in flue nces play an importa nt part..

文化和经济影响起着重要的作用。

4. But rece nt findings suggest that the an swer may lie in differe nces betwee n the male and female brai n.

但是最新的发现提示，答案也许在男女大脑的差异。

5. These in clude differe nces in lear ning rates.

这些包括学习速度上的差异。

Secti on Two Liste ning Comprehe nsion

Part 1 Dialogue

Exercise: Listen to the dialogue and filling the blanks with

the miss ing in formati on.

Seren adi ng Service was foun ded three years ago whe n the sin ger realize that British people were desperate for roma nee.

He thought there would be a elientele for a hired serenader . The idea came from his studies of Renaissanee music , which is full of serenades. Over the eenturies, university students have turned the sere nade into an art form for hire ______ . Usually he is hired by men to si ng love songs to women Occasi on ally he is asked to sing to men

The service is really a form of in timate alfresco theatre with love songs. Heusually wears a white tie a nd tails a nd sings amorous Italian songs. He will carry chocolate hearts or flowers a nd whe nthere is no bale ony available he will si ng from trees or fire escapes !

The fee depends on whether a musician comes along or not. The basic rate is ￡ 450 but it can cost a lot more especially if he takes a gondola and a group of musicians along. Someoeople are so moved that they burst in to tears , but some react badly. They try to find out as much as they can about their clients to avoid unpleasant situations . They have to be very careful

these days because a serenade can be completely misinterpreted .

Part 2 Passage

Ex. A. Pre-liste ning Questi on What memory strategies do you know that can help you remember things better?

1) Brain prioritizes by meaning, value and relevance.

2) Your attitude has much to do with whether you remember something or not.

3) Your understanding of new materials depends on what you already know.

4) You can learn and rememberbetter if you can group ideas into some sort of meaningful categories or groups.

5) The brain's quickest and probably the longest-lasting response is to images.

6) Memoryis increased whenfacts to be learned are consciously associated with something familiar to you.

Ex. B: Sentence Dictation

1. Mnemonics are methods for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall.

2. Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language.

3. While language is one of the most important aspects of human evolution, it is only one of the many skills and resources

available to our minds.

4. Association is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it..

5. Location gives you two things: a coherent context into which you can place information, and a way of separating one mnemonic from another.

Ex. C: Detailed Listening.

1. Mnemonics are tools which can help you to improve your memory. T. (Memory tools can help you to improve your memory. "Mnemonic" is another word for memory tool.)

2. The fundamental principle of mnemonics is to make full use of the best functions of the brain to store information.

T (The basic principle of mnemonics is to use as manyof the best functions of your brain as possible to store information.)

3. Information we have to remember is almost always presented in different ways.

F (Unfortunately information we have to remember is almost always presented in only one way--as words printed on a page.)

4. We can do four things to form striking images, which will help to make our mnemonics more memorable.

T ( Use positive, pleasant images; use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images; use all your senses to code information or dress up an image; give our image three dimensions, movement and space.)

5. There is one basic principle in the use of mnemonics.

F (There are three fundamental principles underlying the use of mnemonics: imagination, association and location)

6. Association is what we use to create and strengthen imagination.

F (Imagination is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics.)

7. You can choose the imagery in your mnemonics as you like T (The imagery you use in your mnemonicscan be as violent, vivid, or sensual as you like, as long as it help you to remember.)

8. You can create associations by linking things using the same stimuli. T. (You can create associations by linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling.)

Ex. D: After-listening Discussion

1. What is the basic principle of mnemonics? Whycan we improve our memory by following the principle?

To use as manyof the best functions of your brain as possible to store in formatio n.

Evolved to code and in terpret complex stimuli. Use these to

make sophisticated models of the world.

Our memories store all of these effectively.

However, information is presented in only one way. Language is only one of the many skills and resources available to our min ds.

By coding Ianguages and numbers in striking images,/ can reliable code both information and structure of information. Then easily recall these later.

2. Why is a good memory importa nt to us?

Ope n.

Secti on Three News

News Item 1

Ex. A: Summarize the n ews

This news item is about the Somali pirates ' strike .

Ex. B: Liste n to the n ews aga in and an swer the questio ns.

1. Whether this latest attempted hijacking was the promised

revenge for the killing of three Somali pirates by the US

navy isn't clear.

2. No, the pirates haven ' t been deferred.

3. Because the financial rewards for a successful hijacking

remain so great and Somalia remains so lawless.

4. At any one time there are only fifteen to eighteen international

warships in the area to police an expanse of sea covering more than a million square kilometres.

5. It may be because of the relatively small scale of the problem.

Tape script of News Item One:

The piracy problem looks like it's here to stay despite the recent muscular interventions by the French and American navies. Whether this latest attempted hijacking was the promised revenge for the killing of three Somali pirates by the US navy isn't clear. But it does suggest at the very least that the pirates haven't been deterred.

So why does the problem persist? Put simply maritime security analysts say piracy will continue as long as the financial rewards for a successful hijacking remain so great and Somalia remains so lawless. Certainly the international

effort to thwart the problem is relatively limited. At any one time there are only fifteen to eighteen international warships

in the area to police an expa nse of sea coveri ng more tha n a million square kilometres. Although it has been suggested that

raids could be moun ted on the pirates' home tow ns, it seems un likely there'll be any major in crease in the military effort uni ess there's a spectacular hijacki ng inv olvi ng the deaths of