九年级英语课本同步听力材料（人教新目标）

Unit 4  What would you do?

[00:04.78]SECTION A

[00:07.94]1b Listen and number the pictures in the order you hear them.

[00:52.40]2a Why is Larry nervous?Listen and circle the reasons.

[01:51.36]2b Listen again.check the four things Larry's sister says to him.

[02:50.71]SECTION B

[02:56.88]2a Listen.Celia is asking Bill  questions from a personality 1 survey.

[03:05.81]Check the questions Celia asks.

[03:51.05]2b Listen again.Circle Bill's responses.

[04:39.90]2 Read the e-mail from Fran,and write a reply.

[04:51.27]Dear Knowledgable,My best friend,Mei,has a problem.

[04:57.33]There is a really important English speech contest for our whole city next month.

[05:03.80]Our classmates want her to represent 2 the class in the school contest.

[05:09.66]Everyone is sure she will win.It's probably true.

[05:15.22]Mei is very clever,and can speak English really well.

[05:20.55]In fact,she always comes top in the school exams.

[05:25.80]The problem is that she's very shy.

[05:30.06]She doen't want to let her friends down,

[05:34.03]but she's terrified 3 of speaking in front of other people.

[05:39.36]She's my friend,so she can tell me that she's shy.

[05:44.50]But she can't tell everyone that.

[05:48.34]I don't think they would believe her.

[05:51.82]I can't think of any good advice to give her,

[05:55.97]but you always come up with good solutions to people's problems.

[06:02.03]What do you think I should tell Mei?

[06:05.58]What do you think I should tell the rest of the students?

[06:11.33]READ                 The history of basketball

[06:20.29]China is a large country with many different and interesting ways of doing things.

[06:27.37]But people who travel around China

[06:31.42]can always see one thing that is the same everywhere--basketball.

[06:37.69]This much-loved sport is enjoyed by men and women,and by young and old.

[06:44.74]The sport of basketball is little over a hundred years old.

[06:50.51]and it's played by more than 100 million people in 208 countries.

[06:57.67]Since 1949,badketball courts have been seen everywhere,

[07:04.20]in factories,schools and even houses in China.

[07:09.95]Millions of people play the sport for fun and exercise,

[07:15.41]but few people know how basketball started.

[07:20.37]Basketball was invented by a Canadian doctor,James Naismith.

[07:26.75]He was born in 1861.

[07:30.87]When Naismith was a student in college,

[07:35.31]his teacher challenged 4 the class to invent a new game.

[07:40.36]It was cold in the winter

[07:43.83]and the teacher wanted a game that people could play indoors 5.

[07:48.98]Naismith thought he could do it.

[07:52.53]But he wanted the game to be a non-contact sport

[07:57.39]because it would be played on hard wooden floors.

[08:01.96]If people touched,they could fall down and get hurt.

[08:06.71]For the basketball hoops,Naismith used two fruit baskets.

[08:12.46]He put them high on the balcony 6 where people sat looking down at the players.

[08:18.63]Naismith had a class of 18 men.

[08:22.88]He divided them into two teams of nine and taught them how to play his new game.

[08:29.75]On December 21,1891,they played the first basketball game in history.

[08:37.62]Many small changes followed.

[08:41.67]The backboards behind the baskets

[08:46.03]were added 7 to stop people in the balcony from trying to catch the ball.

[08:51.59]But then N aismith saw that the players used the backboards

[08:56.84]to help put the ball in the basket.

[09:00.50]He decided 8 it should be part of the game.

[09:05.18]Later,the baskets were replaced by nets.

[09:10.45]In 1936,at the Berlin Olympics,

[09:15.60]basketball became an Olympic event,45 years after it was invented.

[09:23.04]A basketball team from China competed.

[09:27.17]They didn't win,but they used the experience to help develop the game at home.

[09:33.65]For many years,Americans were the most famous basketball players,

[09:39.89]but the sport is now much more international.

[09:44.15]Many top players from around the world earn big money playing in America's NBA

[09:51.41](National Basketball Association).

[09:55.49]Today some of them are from China,and their number is increasing every year.

[10:03.04]Words and Expressions in Each Unit 4

[10:10.59]lottery              million              medical              research

[10:14.61]n.抽奖               n.百万               adj.医学的           n.研究,调查

[10:18.63]tie                  pimple               trouble              energetic 9

[10:23.57]n.领带               n.小脓疱             n.烦恼               adj.有活力的

[10:28.51]confident            public               in public            permission

[10:32.48]adj.自信的           n.adj.公众(的)       当众,公开的          n.允许

[10:36.45]pretty               social               bother               slight

[10:40.03]adv.相当             adj.社会的           v.打扰               adj.微不足道的

[10:43.60]in the slightest     fairly               plenty               plenty of

[10:47.73]一点也               adv.相当             adj.很多的           很多的,足够的

[10:51.86]get along with       listener             represent

[10:55.19]与...相处            n.听者               v.代表

[10:58.52]let...down           come up with

[11:00.81]使..失望或沮丧       提出,想出

[11:03.09]Reading

[11:05.65]inventor             court                factory              invent

[11:09.53]n.发明者             n.球场               n.工厂               v.发明,发现

[11:13.41]challenge            indoors              hard                 wooden

[11:17.49]v.向...挑战          adv.在室内           adj.硬的,坚硬的      adj.木质的

[11:21.56]touch                fall down            hoop                 basket

[11:25.44]v.接触,碰撞          摔倒,跌倒            n.篮圈               n.篮,篓

[11:29.32]balcony              divide               in history           backboard

[11:33.80]n.看座,看台          v.分,分开            在历史上             n.篮板

[11:38.28]replace              compete              earn                 NBA

[11:44.56]v.替代               v.竞争               v.嫌得               全美篮球协会

[11:50.84]increase             separate 10

[11:56.72]v.增加,增长          v.分,分开