时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:新视野大学英语:视听说教程 4


英语课

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II. Basic Listening Practice

1. Script

W: Many Chinese students are too shy to say anything in a classroom.

M: I think they don’t speak because their culture values modesty 1, and they don’t want to appear to be showing off. Goes back to Confucius.

Q: Why don’t Chinese students say anything in classroom according to the man?

2. Script

W: The government is doing something at last about sex discrimination in the workplace. Women deserve the same pay as men for the same work.

M: Yeah. In the United States, women earn only 70 percent of what men do for the same job. It’s a situation that has to be changed.

Q: What does the man say about women?

3. Script

W: I admire Michael Dell. He had a dream to be the world’s largest manufacturer of personal computers, and he has realized that dream.

M: And he dropped out of university to become a success. I wonder if there is a lesson in that.

Q: What do we learn about Dell from the conversation?

4. Script

M: Successful entrepreneurs are often self-made people who have a vision and know where they are going.

W: But do they enjoy life like you and me, or is money their only concern?

Q: What are the two speakers’ attitudes toward successful entrepreneurs?

5. Script

W: Do you agree that equal opportunity for all in an educational system is important?

M: Yes, but we have to recognize that all of us are not of equal ability.

Q: What does the man imply?

Keys: 1.C   2.A   3. D   4.B   5.A



1 modesty
n.谦逊,虚心,端庄,稳重,羞怯,朴素
  • Industry and modesty are the chief factors of his success.勤奋和谦虚是他成功的主要因素。
  • As conceit makes one lag behind,so modesty helps one make progress.骄傲使人落后,谦虚使人进步。
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A-mast
AHSS
allegorising
Allydione
amniote
angle gain sine-cosine function operation
antiredepositions
Appleseed
approval documents
attempted burglary
avicular
beccabunga
Bihpuriagaon
bions
brigues
ceres workstation oberon system
chain bar spreader
cif landed terms
coal harbour
coalition of modern universities (cmu)
condensing coil
contentus
cover material
crickey
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diminuendoed
disrupture force
dissepulchred
dockside fender
donut city
dried goods
duamycin
early recognition
egtons
eighth
embryonic center
enemony
ethnic comparative jurisprudence
extraperiosteally
fasciatum
ferment oil
forchure
freon refrigeration and brine system
funicular ornament
helicoidal groove
huwasi
hygrophyte
ICIPE
Iris barbatula
irradiation sterilization
isanakatabaric chart
isoureas
itoe
katakana
lamalera
made herself at home
maturity period
multibarrel gun
nicotinoids
non-constant
nuclear quadrupole moment resonance
one tail table
ossa suturae
parsel
perimeter blasting
phrenoblabia
primitive band
product gas purifying device
production mine survey
profilit
pseudoxanthomas
qaedas
radicin(radixin)
redlys
Rubia edgeworthii
ruby-throat
S.I.
SCBP
Schiffli machine
schoolmiss
secondary hyperaldosteronism
Seleucia Pieria
semistarvation
Shanghailander
sirah
sodium lauryl sulfate
spoils
suggestology
sweeping receivers
sweet-gale
time drafts
time ratio
trade protectionism
undreamt-of
universal solvents
unleaves
unstationed
Vaganova method
VOA
water-jet machining
Welshy
whirling speed