新视野大学英语视听说第四册听力材料.pdf
第一单元Listening Practice1.M:Im beside myself with joy.Im so lucky.Guess what?I*ve won a lot of money in thelottery.W:Yeah?Well,you do know that money is the root of all evil,right?Q:What does the woman mean?2.W:Mary was furious.Her son wrecked up her car.M:He shouldnt have driven a car without a drivers license.He*s still taking driving lessons.Q:What do we know about Marys son?3.M:Susan,I hear youre going to marry that guy.Some people think youll regret it.W:Is that so?Only time will tell.Q:What does the woman imply?4.M:Mary,I just want to say how sorry I was to learn of your mothers passing.I know howclose you two were.W:Thank you.It was so sudden.Tm still in a state of shock.I don*t know what to do.Q:Which of the following is true?5.W:I get furious at work when my opinions arent considered just because Im a woman.M:You should air your views more emphatically and demand that your voice be heard.Q:What is the woman complaining about?Listening InTask 1Mary:Darn!Youve spilled red wine on me.My new dress is ruined.John:Im terribly sorry!What can I do to help?Heres some water to wash it off.Mary:Stop splashing water on me!Oh,this is so embarrassing!Tm a mess.John:Well,you do look a little upset.Please dont blow up.Don,t lose your cool.Mary:Hmm,youve got nerve talking like that!Who wouldnt fly off the handle?This dress costa fortune.John:You look really cute when you*re mad.I kid you not.Some people do look attractive whenthey are in a rage.Mary:This is a very expensive dress.I saved for months to buy it,and now ifs ruined.Look atthis stain!John:Accidents do happen.Give me your dress,and 1 1 1 take it to the cleaners.Mary:Sure!You want me to take it off right here in public and give it to you?I dont even knowyou!John:This might be a really good time to get acquainted.Tm John Owen.Mary:Mmm,at least youre polite.I guess I really shouldnt have flared up.After all,it was anaccident.rr Mary Harvey.John:Come on.HI take you home.You can change your clothes,and Ill get the dress cleanedfor you.Mary:Now youYe talking.Thanks.Youre a real gentleman.John:Youd better believe it.Im glad to see that youve cooled down.Feel like a bite to eatafterward?Im starving.Mary:OK.Youre pretty good.Im not nearly as mad.If you can get this stain out,1 1 1 be veryhappy.John:Ill try my best.But if I cant get the stain out,please dont let your happiness turn towrath.Task 3Dr.Smith has proposed a reasonable,if perhaps somewhat oversimplified,view of happiness.According to his theory,happiness might be described as a state of balance.And when humansor certain animals achieve that balance,they tend to remain in that condition in order to repeatthe happy feeling.To illustrate this,we may study the action of two magnets.When their positive and negativepoles meet,they are comfortably joined,and they remain there.In other words,they haveattained a balance or state of happiness.If on the other hand,one of the poles is reversed,andpositive pole is pressed against positive pole,there is resistance,instability,imbalance or astate of unhappiness.Animals with some degree of intelligence seem to find happiness in reinforcement.Once theyhave gained one or more of their goals such as food,and water,they learn to repeat the actionsthat led to satisfaction of those goals.This repetition or reinforcement produces a state ofbalance or sense of happiness.According to this theory,only animals with a significant capacity to learn should be able toexperience happiness.But in truth learning can take place through surprisingly simpleshort-term actions such as scratching an itch,followed by pleasure,followed by morescratching,and so on.Thus learning can occur with almost no conscious thought.For human beings,blessed with the ability to reason,goals are not limited to the short-termsatisfaction of basic needs.Indeed,there is a strong link between happiness and the fulfillmentof long-term goals.Even if humans strive for goals that are more complex and longer-term thanthe animals*goals,once those goals are gained,happiness is reinforced.第二单元Listening Practice1W:Did you hear?Helen got that modeling job!Shes going to be sashaying down the catwalk.M:Wow,thafs great!All that walking practice really paid off.And for once she wont becomplaining about being so tall.Q:Why did Helen get the modeling job?2.M:Julia,come and see the Miss America contest on TV.All those beautiful girls are walkingaround in bathing suits so the judges can decide who has the best figure.W:Bah!Thats the worst kind of exploitation.They are treating women like toys for people toenjoy.I would never take part in this kind of contest.Q:What do the man and the woman think about the beauty contest?3.W:What shall I do?Im fat.I want to be slim and beautiful,but Im fat.Ive tried all the newdiets,high carb and low carb,but nothing works.M:Those diets are just fads,popular for a while and then forgotten.Just follow the usual dietwith fruits,vegetables,fish,water,and get plenty of exercise.Before long youll see results.Q:What has the woman tried?4.W1:I think Lily is really attractive.Shes half Spanish and has this really sultry look about her.W2:That explains why she tans so well.Ive always been jealous of her skin color in thesummer.Q:Which of the following is true of Lily?5.M:Trust me,it was right there on the Internet:Plastic Surgery Increasing at a Faster RateAmong Men*.Apparently more and more men are trying to improve their appearance.W:I saw it too on the news.Face-lifts,nose jobs,and botox to hide wrinkles are now verypopular with men.Men say its for business reasons,but we know its vanity.Q:What does the woman think the real reason is that men have plastic surgery?Listening InTask 1Stylist:Morning,sir.This chair,please.What can I do for you?Nick:A simple haircut:short on the back and sides.Stylist:Very good.I can,of course,do something more fashionable for only$60.Nick:60 dollars!Thafs highway robbery-twice what I ordinarily pay.Stylist:Perhaps,sir.But your haircuts havent been in harmony with your character.Your hair isat war with your soul.Nick:l*ve never heard of such a thing.Stylist:If I may say,Im an expert at matching hairstyles to personalities.Believe me,youresuffering a disjunction.Nick:A disjunction?What the devil is a disjunction?Stylist:Your hair does not match you.Nick:This is utter nonsense.However,Id like to hear how youd solve this so-called problem.Stylist:Your character is artistic,imaginative.But your hair is dull.I can correct that imbalancein seconds.Nick:Okay,let me see what you can do about the.uh.disjunction,as you call it.Stylist:Were going to use scissors to create peaks,which well keep in place with a liberalhelping of geL.This tuft in the back well braid into a pigtail.Now,it*s the new you!Nick:I love it.Its just like me:imaginative and artistic.Now what are you doing?Whafs wrong?Don*t you see harmony in my new hairstyle?Stylist:Somethings preventing your hairstyle from being a true fashion statement.Nick:For heavens sake,tell me whafs missing.Stylist:Streaks.By putting in a few yellow streaks in your hair,it will become a work of art.Streaking will cost you more,but.Nick:Do it.Forget the cost.But,by the way,what is the total getting to be?How much am Ipaying to avoid disjunction?Stylist:Thafs.$135.Sir?Sir,are you all right?Oh,he fainted.Task 3Men are turning to plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures to brighten up their appearances ata faster rate than women,according to a survey released on Wednesday.Mens use of fat injections to soften deep wrinkles leaped 47 percent last year from theprevious year.Womens use of the injections fell 36 percent,according to a survey by theAmerican Academy of Facial and Plastic Reconstructive Surgeons.Mens use of botox injections to eliminate frown lines rose 88 percent,while womens botox usefell 8 percent.And for smoothing skin,the use of laser resurfacing among men rose 13 percent,the surveyshowed.Meanwhile,women*s use of laser resurfacing dropped 38 percent during the sametime period.The number of men getting nose jobs rose 47 percent,while the number of women doing sorose 5 percent.Typically,men and women visiting plastic surgeons for cosmetic reasons were age 40 to 59.The study said 44 percent of men and 57 percent of women tell their doctor that lookingyounger is the reason they are choosing cosmetic surgery.By about 18 percent,men are more likely than women to say they want facial cosmetic surgeryfor work-related reasons.The study was conducted by written questionnaires from January 20 to March 3 among morethan 2,600 members of the association,who focus on treatment of the face,head,and neck.By comparison,in the previous year,womens use of botox rose 60 percent while mens fell 14percent;womens use of laser resurfacing rose 13 percent while mens fell 19 percent;womensuse of fat injections fell 17 percent and men*s fell 54 percent.第三单元Listening Practice1.W:Did you read the paper today?There was an earthquake in Brazil.M:Yes,but it only measured 3.5 on the Richter scale.I don*t think there were any casualties.Q:What is the result of the earthquake of 3.5 on the Richter scale according to the man?2.W:Im a bit worried about Suzie traveling to southern India.Its the rainy season there,andthere may be landslides.M:Suzie can take care of herself;she wont go anywhere too risky.Besides,you can alwayse-mail her if it makes you feel better.Q:What is Suzie doing?3.M:Hi,I thought you were on holiday in Asia!Back already?W:We never got there!Our travel agent cancelled our arrangements because the whole regionis flooded.We were so disappointed;we won*t get another chance to go this year.Q:What is the woman doing?4.M:Our flight to Tokyo was delayed by twelve hours.Can you believe it?A typhoon hit theeast coast and it was chaos.W:I saw it on the news.The flooding and damage were terrible.I dont think anyone was hurtthough.Q:What is the consequence of the typhoon?5.W:Did you see that program last night about volcanoes?It was fascinating!M:Yes,the weird thing is the molten lava looks so beautiful,yet it*s so destructive.And Icouldnt believe how far the ash can travel.Tm glad we dont have any volcanoes here!Q:What does the man think the volcano is?Listening InTask 1Son:Hi,mom,what are we having for dinner tonight?Mom:I havent started yet.Why,have you any requests?Son:How about tsunami for a change-I dont know what it is,but I heard some Japanesepeople using the word on the bus the other day.Sounds like a food.Maybe ifs similar to sushi.Mom:Nonsense.Tsunami comes from Japanese words meaning harbor and wave.If we had atsunami,it would be the other way around,young man.Son:Why?What is it?Mom:I mean it could swallow you up.A tsunami is an enormous series of very powerful waves.Son:Could you surf on them?That could be cool!Mom:Theyre not cool:they are very destructive.When they pound the shores of populatedareas,they cause tremendous damage.They destroy everything in their path.Son:What causes them?Mom:I think they are caused by some sort of shock,like an earthquake,volcano,or landslide,that starts a chain reaction in the ocean.Son:Do the waves get so big that they crush buildings?Mom:Easily.They can be dozens of meters high.They toss cars and houses around as thoughthey were childrens toys.Son:Can you see them coming?Mom:You can see them at quite a distance.But theres not much you can do.In the openocean they move at up to 800 km per hour,but when it reaches the shore,the system slowsdown and the waves get bigger.Son:How big?Mom:They can reach 30 meters.Big enough to finish you off in one gulp.Task 3A blizzard is a severe weather condition characterized by low temperatures and strong winds,greater than 35 miles per hour,bearing a great amount of snow.Because the factors for classifying winter storms are complex,there are many differentdefinitions of what a blizzard truly is.But it is generally agreed that in order to be classified as ablizzard,as opposed to merely a winter storm,the weather must meet several conditions.Thestorm must decrease visibility to a quarter of a mile for three hours running,include snow or iceas precipitation,and have wind speeds of at least 32 miles per hour,which means Force 7 ormore on the Wind Scale.Another standard,according to Environment Canada,is that the winter storm must have windsof 40 kilometers per hour or more,plenty of snow,visibility less than 1 kilometer,atemperature of less than-25 degrees Celsius,and all of these conditions must last for 4 hoursor more,before the storm can properly be called a blizzard.When all of these conditions continue after snow has stopped falling,the storm is referred to asa ground blizzard.An extreme form of blizzard is a whiteout,when the downdrafts,together with snowfall,become so severe that it is impossible to distinguish the ground from the air.People caught ina whiteout can quickly become disoriented,losing their sense of up and down as well as theirsense of direction.Severe blizzards can also occur along with arctic cyclones.第四单元Listening Practice1.M:Do you see yourself as a leader or more of a team player?W:Well,it depends on the circumstances.I usually enjoy working as part of a team and helpingeveryone work together.But if the leadership is weak,Im not afraid to take over in order toachieve the goal at hand.Q:What does the woman want to be?2.W:Good morning,I have an appointment with Mr.Davies at 11 oclock.M:Yes,he left a message for you saying he,s terribly sorry but hes stuck in traffic and isrunning 15 minutes late.Please take a seat and hell be here as soon as possible.Would youlike tea or coffee?Q:Where is the conversation probably taking place?3.W:You dont look happy.Did you get that promotion?M:No,they brought in some new guy.Im not going to hang around for much longer,I canassure you.Q:Why is the man unhappy?4.W:Mr.Jones is a self-made millionaire,and Im honored to have worked for him for the pastthirty years as his accountant.M:He must be pleased to have a loyal and faithful employee such as yourself.Q:What is true of the woman?5.M:Jane,were considering you for the new office managers position.Weve been verypleased with your work.W:Thank you very much.Ive always enjoyed working here,and I would welcome anopportunity for more responsibility.Q:Which of the following is true?Listening InTask 1Joan:Come in,come in.Have a seat.Ah.uh.I want you to know this is going to hurt memore than it will hurt you.Carl:Yes,maam.But Im not quite sure what you*re talking about.Joan:Youre fired.Thats what Im talking about.Carl:I find that surprising,Miss Jackson.After all,I sold twenty-five percent more of ourproducts than any other salesperson.Joan:Look,Im not here to argue.Youre fired.Understand?Carl:I understand perfectly.I just wonder whats going to happen to the contract Ive beenarranging.It would be a shame to lose it;it could mean a lot to our company.And Im the onlyone who knows the details.Joan:No one is indispensable.Just clear out your desk,and thats the end of it.Do I makemyself clear,Mr.West
