零起点大学英语基础听说教程文档Unit One 青科大

Unit One . 1. What can I do for you, sir? 2. Can you go and get some coffee, please? 3. Do we need some more tea? 4. I can’t decide which sweater to buy. 5. Which color do you like, blue or red? 6. Hello! Could I speak to Mrs. Green? 7. What a beautiful day! 8. Excuse me, which is the way to the hospital? 9. Thanks a lot! 10. Hi, Kate. Can you go swimming with us? . 1. The important truths: that knowledge is power, that knowledge is safety and that knowledge is happiness. ------Thomos Jefferson 2. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ------Sir Richard Steele 3. Victory won’t come to me unless I go to it. ------ Marianne Moore 4. It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious for? ----Henry David Thoreau 5. Life itself, without the assistance of colleges and universities, is becoming an advanced institution of learning. ------Thomas Alva Edison . One day a man bought his wife a very nice watch for her birthday. When he got home and wanted to show it to his wife, he dropped it on the floor. He began to look for it, but it was too dark inside the room to see it. So he began to look for it outside in the street. Just then his wife met him and asked what he was looking for. He told his wife what had happened. His wife laughed and asked why he did not look for it inside the room. “Because it is so dark that I cannot find it at all,” he said. . M: Hello, Sophia. I’m sorry I’m late. I had to go to my office. W: Oh? Why did you have to go there, John? M: To get the watch I left there yesterday. How long have you been here? W: Only about 20 minutes. Mary and Helen walked here with me. M: When did they leave? W: A few minutes ago. M: Where did they go? W: To the park. M: And what about Mr. and Mrs. Williams? W: Mr. Williams had to go to history. M: Why did he have to go there? W: To have a meeting. M: Where did Mrs. Williams plan to go? W: She hoped to shop again today. M: it’s a good day for shopping, isn’t it? W: Yes, it is a good day for sitting in the park. M: I see. Why don’t we go to the park? W: What a wonderful idea! The following questions are based on the dialog you heard just now. 1. What did John leave in his office? 2. Where did Mary and Helen go? 3. What did Mrs. Williams want to do? 4. What was the weather like? 5. How many people went into the park? Key: 1. B  2. C  3. A  4. B  5. A . Item One About 35 percent of women surveyed by a Shanghai women’s hospital suffer from diseases caused by excessive drinking, China Daily reported last week. The survey defined excessive drinking as  getting drunk at least once a week and drinking at least three or four times a week, with this pattern persisting for at least one year. The hospital surveyed over 10,000 women, ranging in age from 17 to 65. About half of them have a university education. Item Two Seven people including the drivers of both a car and a train were confirmed dead along with another 10 who were seriously injured after the high-speed train hit the car on a level crossing and derailed in southeast England, police said. The train, the First Great Western express, which had left London’s Paddington for Plymouth, collided with the car at an qutomatic barrier crossing at Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, about 65 kilometres west of the capital. Police refused to discuss whether the car driver was attempting suicide, according to a Sky News report. . Passage One Hank lived in a small town. But he found a job in a big city and soon moved there with his wife and his two children. On the first Saturday in the new house, Hank took his red car out of the garage and was washing it when one of his friends came by. The friend stopped and looked at it for a minute. Then Hank turned and saw him. The friend said, “That’s a nice car. Is it yours?” “Sometimes,” Hank answered. The friend was surprised. “Sometimes?” he said. “What do you mean?” “Well,” answered Hank slowly, “when there’s a party in town, my daughter, Jane, use it. When there’s a football game, it comes to my son, Joe. When I wash it, and it looks really nice and clean, my wife uses it. And when it needs gas, it is mine.” The following questions are based on the passage you heard just now.