新编大学英语听力3 unit9

[00:02.52]Friends and Friendship

[00:06.44]Part Two

[00:09.76]Listening-Centered Activities

[00:14.15]Listening 1

[00:17.75]Exercise 1

[00:21.31]Identifying Pictures

[00:25.16]Directions:

[00:28.62]The following are the pictures of Steve, Susan, Jennifer and Harry 1.

[00:35.68]They are looking for pen pals 2.

[00:39.78]Listen carefully and determine which picture corresponds 3 to which person.

[00:46.44]Put the name under the corresponding 4 picture.

[00:51.37]Steve is very short and rather fat. He likes to wear bright-colored casual 5 clothes.

[00:59.94]Last week, he bought a red shirt and an expensive pair of shiny leather shoes.

[01:07.46]Every week Steve spends his paycheck before he gets another one.

[01:13.84]Steve enjoys being with people.

[01:18.41]He's extremely cheerful all the time and likes to tell jokes.

[01:24.38]People laught at his jokes, but he laughs even louder.

[01:30.25]He loves to go to parties.

[01:34.14]He eats and drinks a lot and is always surrounded by people.

[01:40.87]He likes to dance and to listen to loud music.

[01:46.13]At every party he sings all his favorite songs at the top of his voice

[01:52.79]and dances with all the girls in the room.

[01:57.79]He's the last one to leave a party. Steve is a typicaol extrovert 6.

[02:04.88]Susan is slightly overweight. She doesn't like the color of her hair,which is brown.

[02:14.24]Every months she buys a lot of fashion magazines that show pictures of slim models

[02:21.37]wearing beautiful clothes.

[02:25.37]Susan is so busy reading these magazines and watching her favorite TV shows

[02:33.22]that she often forgets to wash her hair or take care of her clothes.

[02:40.13]While she reads the magazines, she eats chocolate. When Susan is not watching TV,

[02:49.16]she talks for hours on the telephone with her friends.

[02:55.14]Jennifer is the kind of girl who impresses you at first sight.

[03:01.55]She has short hair and likes to dress herself like a "handsome" boy.

[03:09.22]And she looks really "cool" in blue jeans and T-shirt.

[03:16.27]Adventure stories and romantic love stories are her favorite,

[03:22.36]of which she can cover 200 pages in an hour and retell everything in vivid detail!

[03:30.67]As long as Jennifer can get a 60 in physics or computer science

[03:38.09]or any of the other courses she has little interest in, that's all she cares about.

[03:45.22]She will not make any effort to get higher marks.

[03:50.51]Yet, she has never failed in any courses up to now.

[03:56.05]Harry is of medium height and weight. He looks quite serious with his thick glasses.

[04:03.47]He often gets creative ideas and is not easily convinced 7.

[04:09.73]He's a good student and quite diligent 8

[04:14.41]and dreams of getting the first prize this semester 9.

[04:19.16]He is usually quiet but is quite talkative when it comes to chess

[04:25.43]and computer programming and when there are only one or two friends around.

[04:32.48]Once he was heard to say that he would never fall in love with any girl

[04:38.93]until he was a success.

[04:42.31]Exercise 2

[04:46.13]Getting More Information About These People

[04:50.38]Directions:

[04:53.54]Listen twice and complete the table below in note form

[04:59.59]with the information from the tape.

[05:03.66]Then compare your answers with your partner's.

[05:08.41]Listening 2

[05:11.94]Exercise 1

[05:15.65]Directions:

[05:19.10]Listen to an interview between the interviewer and Sheng Mei

[05:24.68]and then answer the questions.

[05:28.39]The following is an interview of a college student, Sheng Mei,

[05:34.37]about friends and friendship.

[05:38.98]I:Do you have many friends?

[05:42.68]S:Yes, I have many friends and acquaintances 10 but only one of them is very close to me

[05:50.42]I:When did you meet this friend and how did your friendship develop?

[05:55.50]S:We met in our first year in senior middle school, about five years ago.

[06:03.35]Xiaoqing and I were both in the same experimental 11 class.

[06:09.47]We had a lot more free time than students in the regular classes

[06:14.87]so we did many interesting things together.

[06:19.69]I:Do you have any close friends at the university?

[06:24.70]S:No, I think friendship takes time to develop.

[06:30.13]That's probably the main reason why I haven't made any more close friends here.

[06:36.54]I'm too busy studying and going to classes.

[06:41.47]I:Why do you think you became close friends with that particular girl,

[06:46.76]rather than other girls in your class?

[06:50.90]S:Well, it was due to a combination 12 of factors. At the beginning,

[06:57.56]we were both chosen to represent our class in a speech contest,

[07:03.14]so we worked closely 13 together.

[07:08.36]Then, I discovered that she was a very honest person

[07:13.30]and I think honesty is a very important aspect of friendship.

[07:19.42]I:Were there any other things that strengthened your friendship?

[07:24.38]S:Yes. We were both on the basketball team, so we spent hours practising together.

[07:32.92]Teamwork and cooperation certainly made us appreciate each other even more.

[07:40.15]We also took part in running races, she helped me a lot.

[07:45.55]She organized a singing contest and I did a lot of things for her.

[07:51.82]I think helping 14 each other is another important aspect of friendship.

[07:57.22]I:Do you still see each other on a daily basis?

[08:02.15]S:No, unfortunately we aren't in the same city now.

[08:08.41]I passed the entrance examination 15, but she failed. We were terribly sad, at first.

[08:16.19]But we are still best friends and that will never change.

[08:21.91]I:How would you summarize 16 the difference between a really close friend

[08:27.02]and other friends?

[08:30.98]S:It's a question of a process, depth, and openness. Like a flower,

[08:38.11]real friendship grows day by day.

[08:42.40]It needs many special ingredients 17 to flourish 18.

[08:47.51]Exercise 2

[08:51.04]Directions:

[08:54.56]Listen to the interview again

[08:58.67]and decide whether the following statements are true or false