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Task 2

Passage one

       When I was a child there were some people whose ideas I respected. My uncle John, I thought, knew everything about the world; he had traveled and seen all there was to see. I believed anything he told me about places like Japan, Australia and America. When I was 16 years old I got the idea that my parents, while they were very nice people and I loved them, really didn't know very much. I, of course, knew everything. Then, when I was 18, I realized my mother and father had learned a lot in just two years. I now respected their opinions on different subjects. It took two years of growing up for me to realize that they had had these opinions and ideas all the time.

Key：1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 A

Passage Two

      Nine out often parents hit their children according to a report printed today. But many of them also feel that hitting is wrong. The report also says that parents often do not understand their children's bad ways.

     Although about nine out of ten parents use hitting as a punishment, half of them feel shame about using it, while the other half do hit their children and think they are right. It seems most parents we talked to hit their children more than once a week and five percent actually hit their children every day.

     Parents should make more efforts to understand their children; hitting isn't always the best answer if children are bad. If parents tried harder to understand how their children feel and why they act in certain ways, it would be better not to hit them because when a child's acting badly, she/he needs love and attention, not anger and violence.

KEY: 6. D 7. A 8. A 9. D 10. C

Passage three

      When my father died, my mother insisted on living by herself. I wanted her to marry again, but she said she wanted to be free. But she didn't depend only on herself at all, you see, because whenever she had any problems she would bring them to me, and she was the kind of person who always made everything difficult, so it never stopped. Paul began to hate her for it, but I was sorry for her, you see; she was so without help... I couldn't just leave her, could I? Paul said I did far too much for her, and she never said thank you for anything, never showed me the kind of love normal mothers show their children. In fact in the end she was charging me with stealing from her. And when Paul heard that he blew up and said that we would never have a proper marriage unless we got away from her. In fact he warned me he would leave me if I didn't leave her.

KEY: 11. C 12. C 13. D 14 B 15. D

新视野大学英语听说教程第三单元原文和答案

Understanding words

Task1：1. amazed 2. impatient 3. reluctance 4. precisely 5. adjust

6. inwardly 7. punch 8. local 9. occasion 10. stress

Key: 1.(A) 2.(C) 3.(B) 4.(C) 5.(A) 6,(C) 7.(C) 8.(B) 9.(B) 10.(B))

Task2：1.subway 2. impatient 3. reluctance 4. precisely 5. adjust

6. inwardly 7. punch 8. local 9. occasion 10. stress

Understanding sentences

Task1: 1. Jim found it hard to adjust to his father's wife.

2. The plane didn't make it to New York because of the heavy snow.

3. He didn't show any envy of the more fortunate.

4. She was repeatedly subjected to critical comments.

5. She was on leave from school to visit her sick father in hospital.

6. How embarrassing that must have been for you!

7. David was thirty but he hadn't grown up yet.

8. My father worked in an office building on top of a subway station in Manhattan.

9. Please see to it that the patient takes the medicine three times a day.

10. He went to see films on occasion.

Key: 1. (A) 2. (B) 3. (A) 4. (B) 5. (A) 6. (B) 7. (B) 8. (A) 9. (B) 10. (B)

Task2: 1. Mary had a good time staying with her parents over the weekend.

2. He has a good heart and always helps others.

3. A heated discussion broke out in the classroom between the children.

4. She clung to the rail along the edge of the stairs as she walked down the icy steps.

5. He started out for work an hour ago.

6. He held onto the rail to keep his balance.

7. Dan broke his leg during basketball practice; that's why I saw him at the clinic.

8. I'm scared. No kidding, really.

9. It was unworthy of her to ask such a question.

10. It seems as though I've been gone a month, but it's only been a few short days.

Key: 1. (A) 2.(A) 3. (C) 4.(B) 5. (B) 6.(A) 7. (A) 8. (C) 9. (C) 10. (B)

UNDERSTANDING PASSAGES

Listening Task 1

Passage one

      I am a 12-year-old girl. My legs are crippled and I can't walk. When I reached the age for starting school, I saw all the other children going and I wanted to go, too. My parents just shook their heads when I asked them. My grandmother tried to comfort me, but tears fell down her cheeks. A few days later, the headmaster of the school and Mrs. Wen came to our house. They said they would carry me to school every day. Early the next morning Mrs. Wen came and carded me on her back for half a kilometer to school. From then on she carried me to school and home every day. One morning there was a big rainstorm. The rain poured down and the wind was so strong that it nearly blew the trees down. I was just thinking that surely the teacher would not come when the door opened and in came both she and the headmaster. They carried me to school as usual. Last year an article about me appeared in the newspaper. Not long after that I received a letter addressed to me. It was from a doctor who had read about me in the paper. He is an old doctor in his 70s. He wanted to try to cure my illness. He studied my case carefully and decided he knew a medicine that could help me. After taking it for six months, I'm much better. I'm looking forward to walking to school like other children some day.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the passage you have just heard.

1. What did her parents do when the speaker reached the age for starting school?

2. How did the speaker manage to go to school after all?

3. How far is it from the speaker's house to school?

4. What is one of the reasons that the old doctor offered to cure the speaker's illness?

5. How is the speaker after having taken the medicine for six months?

Key: 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. F

Passage two

      It was not until John was almost a year old that Karen and David Smith began to suppose that something might be wrong. The Smiths took their son to a doctor to find an answer. This began a journey to doctors, special medical doctors, hospitals and clinics that lasted for over a year. Finally John was found to be suffering from developmental disorder. The doctors pronounced that John would probably never speak. The struggle to discover John's problem was only the beginning. Now the Smiths were faced with the task of trying to find help for John-- a search that offered little hope. Encouraged by one book titled "Let Me Hear Your Voice", and another book "Me Book", they developed a special helping program, a method of one-on-one help for 36 hours a week. This began the journey to pull John into the real world.

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the passage you have just heard.

6. What did the Smiths think about their son when he was about a year old?

7. What did John suffer from according to the doctors?

8. Why did it take doctors such a long time to make their decision?

9. Why didn't the Smiths give up hope to find help for their son?

10. What did the Smiths do to pull John into the real world?

Key: 6. F 7. T 8. F 9. T 10. T

Passage three

      At first Tom leaned toward not believing it. He felt fine. After a few months he suffered what appeared to be a stroke. He lost the use of his right hand. Little by little his case was getting worse and worse. Today he can move his mouth and his lips and he can talk, although much more slowly than when he was well. In every other way, he is completely not able to help himself. He has to be fed, to be moved in a wheelchair and he cannot sit up for very long. Most of the time he spends in bed with the continuous attending of his wife, who has managed so far to care for him at home. His care is her sole and continual concern. Both she and Tom have given way to the disease unwillingly, an inch at a time. Tom has been forced to have experimental drags as well as blood removed and replaced, a job that took five days in the hospital. He remains in good spirits. Both he and his wife openly discuss the future. His doctor has given him about three months more, butas his wife says, "They said that a year ago, and he's still here. That's because he's a fighter."

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.

1 l. Why didn't Tom believe he was attacked by cancer?

12. How did Tom's wife look after him?

13. Why do Tom and his wife openly discuss his future?

14. What does Tom do every day according to the story?

15. What does the speaker suggest about Tom's future?

Key: 11. F 12. F 13. F 14. F 15. T

Listening Task 2

Passage one

      Beginning in the 1960s American women started entering jobs and work positions that had been taken over almost completely by men. In the ! 970s, another pattern appeared in work choices: men began entering jobs and work positions held before by women. When John Smith started in nursing school nine years ago, his father took it hard. "Here is my father, a steelworker, hearing about other steel workers' sons who were becoming soldiers and miners, or getting baseball money to pay for school costs," Mr. Smith remembers. The thought of his son becoming a nurse was too much. Today, Mr. Smith, an official nurse, earns about $30,000 a year at the New Town Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. His father, he says, has changed his mind. Now he tells the fellows he works with that their sons, who can't find jobs even after four years of college, should have become nurses.

KEY: 1. A 2 A 3 C 4 A 5 B

Passage two

       Peter Richards, the owner of a jewelry store which was left to him by his grandfather after his death, was the loneliest man in town. One winter afternoon before Christmas, a little girl, after carefully studying each piece of jewelry in the window, went into the shop. "Please would you wrap up that beautiful piece in pretty paper for me?" she said to Peter. "Are you buying it for someone?" Peter asked. "It's for my big sister who takes good care of me. You see, this will be the first Christmas since our mother died. I've been looking for a really wonderful present for my sister." "How much money do you have?" asked Peter. From the pocket of her coat, she took her hand full of pennies and put them on the table top. "This is all I have." Peter looked at the little girl with that yellow hair and blue eyes. Something made him feel once again the pain of his old sadness. Several years ago, he had loved a girl whose hair was as yellow as the shining sun and whose eyes were as blue as the sea. But one night when it was raining, she was struck by a car and died. What the little girl did made him remember again all that he had lost and at the same time brought him out of that world of self-pity. So Peter quickly removed the price card on the piece so that she could not see it. Then he wrapped it in pretty Christmas paper and tied it with green ribbon. "Here you are," he said, "Don't lose it on the way home."

KEY: 6 C 7 A 8 B 9 C 10 D

Passage three