时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:最新版英语听力教程


英语课

  [00:03.50]Section I Listening Comprehension 1

[00:08.25]Part A  Directions:

[00:12.23]For Questions1-5,you will hear an interview about

[00:17.37]the history of postal 2 transport in Britain.

[00:22.10]While you listen,

[00:24.97]fill out the table with the information you've heard.

[00:29.44]Some of the information has been given to you in the table.

[00:34.69]Write only 1 word or number in each numbered box.

[00:39.84]You now have 25 seconds to read the table below.

[00:45.61]W:Mr.Gibbon,the other day you kindly 3 told me something about your hobby

[00:53.94]stamp collecting

[00:57.18]I wonder if you could

[01:00.06]tell me now something about the development or history of postal transport

[01:06.93]...the way letters are carried?

[01:10.87]M:Of course.I'll be pleased to.

[01:15.23]To start with,you should remember that there were developments in two directions:

[01:21.40]in the way that letters were carried and delivered inside Britain...

[01:27.04]and in methods that were used in carrying letters abroad to other countries.

[01:33.31]W:Perhaps you could begin by describing the methods used inside Britain?

[01:39.47]M:Right..from the earliest times messages were carried on foot

[01:45.85]by messengers 4 for kings and other important people.

[01:50.71]Then in the 13th century there was the first development...

[01:56.48]horses were used to carry letters for the king.

[02:01.23]It wasn't until much later that ordinary people,the public,

[02:06.59]also used horses to carry their letters.

[02:11.63]While this was happening inside the country,

[02:15.99]sailing 5 ships were being used in the 17th century

[02:21.04]to carry letters from Britain to European countries.

[02:26.21]The next development in carrying letters abroad wasn't until 1819

[02:33.26]when steam ships were used instead of sailing ships.

[02:38.41]W:You mentioned that horses were used in Britain...I remember reading

[02:44.18]somewhere that coaches and horses were used as well.

[02:49.33]M:Yes...that was the next bit of progress.That started in 1784.

[02:56.46]Four horses were used to pull the coach...and the postman sat on the top.

[03:02.62]It was certainly a much faster method than using just one horse.

[03:07.90]But then,in 1830,

[03:11.35]there was something faster still--railways.

[03:16.00]It was in that year that steam trains were used for the

[03:20.99]first time to carry the Royal Mail.

[03:25.04]Trains were used between towns for carrying letters and parcels 6.

[03:30.81]Later,in the country districts,bicycles were experimented with

[03:36.97]the first ones were used in 1880,

[03:41.36]and they helped postmen who had a long way to walk.

[03:45.80]W:So far,everything you've said took place before 1900.

[03:51.37]Thanks a lot.That's most interesting.



1 comprehension
n.理解,理解力;领悟
  • The teacher set the class a comprehension test.老师对全班同学进行了一次理解力测验。
  • The problem is above my comprehension.这个问题超出我的理解力。
2 postal
adj.邮政的,邮局的
  • A postal network now covers the whole country.邮路遍及全国。
  • Remember to use postal code.勿忘使用邮政编码。
3 kindly
adj.和蔼的,温和的,爽快的;adv.温和地,亲切地
  • Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
  • A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。
4 messengers
n.信使,信差,送信人( messenger的名词复数 )
  • Messengers will relay your letters. 邮递员将接转你的信件。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • To this monarch also (in 628) came messengers from Muhammad. 穆罕默德的使者也来找过这位君主(628年)。 来自英汉非文学 - 历史
5 sailing
n.航行,航海术,启航
  • Experienced seamen will advise you about sailing in this weather.有经验的海员会告诉你在这种天气下的航行情况。
  • The operation was plain sailing.手术进行得顺利。
6 parcels
n.包裹( parcel的名词复数 );一块地
  • the registration of letters and parcels 信件和包裹的挂号
  • She was burdened with a large quantity of parcels. 她吃力地捧着一大堆包裹。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
a costume ball on board ship
aborded
aecidium paederiae
Akkeshi-wan
aluminothermy
antiparkinsons
automatic photogrammetric system
autopalatine
be born in a barn
beertails
bimetallic effect
bras bas
breakdown of negotiation
Brilliant Indo-cyanine 6B
Chiconcuac
Chingis
Cholegrafin
chromium polish
chromolithographic
cicatricosus
codhydrine
conflates
constancia dos baetas
constipate
constitutional system
control push-button
converging shock tube
Ctimene
dead reckoning equipment
Director of Investigation and Research
driving hole
energy, solar
faddist
fire walkings
First Monday in October
fulchers
gastrointestinal absorption
gate side pack
gold coin standard system
Gordon,Charles George
hit stick
Hopeh
income and expenditure statement
insect-powder
jamaica bay
keep-alive relaxation
keramovitrons
learn to say before you sing
light alkylate
mechanics of flow through porous medium
micropoint
microprocess
monnie
Moorman
multivariate t-distribution
myxedema coma
output time
paraurethral duct
pars epididymica
Pavlivka
peartree
photo Joe
Plitvička Jezera(Plitvice Lakes)
Plumeria rubra var. acutifolia
primary overlay description language
process step
pseudo-potential vorticity equation
pustular acrodermatitis
radial ladle
radio meteorology
range sensing
RBAF
renal calices
resistance to rubbing
Saccharomyces mesentericus
Sakouna
satellite operation program
shunt-trip attachment
ST_time_until-a-particular-moment
stability under no-load condition
starch works
sterone
streetlives
stupid-heads
syzygium jambos aeston rose-apple
telemeteorography
thread per inch
tide lock
tilery
time clock circuit
to rub elbows
too to
two-factor cross
under-horsing
universal relieving lathe
unusual equipment
viral-hepatitis
virginia spring beauties
well-ribbed
wissing
worm-pipe
xuanhua