现代大学英语听力一Unit3和Unit4听力原文(完整版)

Unit3

1【原文】

My hobby is sky-diving. Do you know what that is? I jump from an aeroplane and fall through the air. I open my parachute only when I?m very close to the ground. Of course it?s rather dangerous. Perhaps that?s why I enjoy it. I think it?s fun. Very few women do it. But we?re just as good at it as men.

I?m very interested in music. In my free time I play and listen to it. I can play the guitar and the flute. I enjoy all kinds of music but my favorite is folk music. Good folk music. I like classical music, too. But I prefer folk music. I?d like to have my own group some day.

I love all kinds of sports but my favorite is tennis. But I don?t enjoy watching it. I only enjoy playing it. And when I play I want to win. That?s very important. I hate losing!

2【原文】

I made my first parachute jump because I had read an article about it and I had always wanted to try it.

Before the jump I went to six training classes. I was taught where to sit in the aeroplane, how to jump out, how to guide the parachute, and how to land on the ground safely.

On the big day I was very nervous. The weather was cloudy, but the pilot thought it was all right, so the two of us (the instructor and I) got into the aeroplane with the pilot, and Helen Gray got into the other. (She wanted to take some parachuting photographs.) We took off and climbed to 1000 metres. I was really very frightened waiting for the big moment! Then the instructor told me to jump. I looked out of the open door and saw the ground below. It was the most terrifying moment of my life! I closed my eyes and jumped.

It was a great relief when the parachute opened! I looked up and saw the orange canopy. Below me was the landing area. It was really beautiful falling peacefully through the air. I landed well and waited for the instructor. Then we picked up our parachutes and went off to have a coffee and talk about the jump.

Parachuting is definitely more exciting than other things I have done before — like mountain climbing and sailing —and it?s more fun, too. I?m going to make my second jump next week.

3【原文】

When I was seven years old, my family grew our first square watermelon. No one had ever seen a square watermelon before, so it became an instant celebrity. People visited our garden to see the unusual fruit, and I even took it to school for show-and-tell.

What?s so great about square watermelons? Well, besides their odd shape, the melons stack nicely, fit in the refrigerator, and won?t roll off the table.

Whenever people ask how they can grow their own square watermelons, my dad tells them to “use square seeds”. Truthfully, though, my dad discovered the key to square fruit by accident.

Every summer we plant a small vegetable garden. To keep the young fruit from rotting on the moist ground, my dad props them on cinder blocks. In 1996, we returned from vacation to find a young melon stuck in the centre of a cinder block. The watermelon had grown inside the block until it was wedged too tightly to remove.

“We didn?t want to kill it, so we just left it there,” my father remembers. “At harvest time

when we broke the cinder block, we found a perfectly healthy melon — but it was also perfectly square.”

Since that summer my family has been growing square watermelons on purpose.

4【原文】

Philip: My special visitor today is Matthew Treharn e, one of this year?s Children of Courage. Good afternoon, Matthew.

Matthew: Good afternoon.

Philip: Where do you come from, Matthew?

Matthew: From Cambridgeshire, in the east of England.

Philip: Now you?ve got a black belt for karate, haven?t you?

Matthew: Yes.

Philip: And you?re the first ten-year-old with a black belt?

Matthew: Yes, that?s right.

Philip: That?s fantastic. When did you start karate?

Matthew: Six years ago. When I was four.

Philip: Only four? Why did you choose karate?

Matthew: Because I liked it. And because I wanted to be strong.

Philip: Weren?t you strong?

Matthew: Oh no. I had a hole in my heart when I was born. So I was very ill. Then I had a big preparation in hospital. But I was still weak and tired all the time. So I started karate. Philip: Was it difficult at first?

Matthew: Well, at the beginning, yes, it was. But my parents always encouraged me to go on.

Philip: When did you get your black belt?

Matthew: I got it this summer.

Philip: What a wonderful fight against a handicap! Now you are strong and a champion! Matthew: Oh, it?s just fun now. I play other sports too.

Philip: Do you play football?

Matthew: Yes, and rugby.

Philip: You give special karate shows, don?t you?

Matthew: Yes, I give local karate shows. Near my home in Cambridgeshire.

Philip: So you are rich too?

Matthew: Oh no. I give the money away.

Philip: Do you?

Matthew: Yes. I gave ￡1,000 to a hospital in Peterborough.

Philip: What did they buy with the money?

Matthew: They bought a heart ventilator —that?s a special machine for people with weak hearts.

Philip: So they can help other people with problems like yours?

Matthew: Yes, and then they can learn karate too!

Philip: What a splendid story! Thank you Matthew. And enjoy your special day in London. Matthew: Thanks. Goodbye.

5原文】

My hobbies are collecting stickers and writing songs. I like collecting stickers because some

are cool and if I collect enough I can fill up my wall with stickers. I also like writing songs, like “Baby,Don?t Leave Me”, because I always think of them in the shower.

My favorite hobby is stargazing, because I think it is a challenge to look for the Big Dipper, Little Dipper, and all those other constellations. I think it is almost like doing a word search because you have to concentrate and look carefully for the constellations.

One of our favorite hobbies is looking for license plates of other states. So far, we have seen 22 different sta tes, and we?ve also seen Guam, a territory of the United States. We enjoy this hobby because we usually see Texas, so it?s fun to see another kind of license plate.

I have many different hobbies. But my favorite hobby is writing. I have dreams of becoming an author, novelist, or journalist. I enjoy writing stories and poems the most. I love writing because there are so many different styles and because writing is the best way for me to express myself and to get my troubles out. I don?t really like to talk in front of a lot of people or about serious matters. So that?s where writing comes in handy.

Dancing is my favorite hobby. I have given three to four stage performances. I have also participated in the inter-school competitions, and I have won first prize for my school. Winning prizes and dancing on stage encourages me to learn more.

6【原文】

David was a young man who worked in an office in a big city. His hobby was fishing, but he didn?t often get a chance to practice it.

Then one summer he decided to have a holiday in a beautiful place in the mountains where there were a lot of streams. “I ought to be able to have some good fishing there, “he said to himself.

The first morning after he arrived, he walked to the nearest stream with his fishing rod. He saw an old man standing beside the water, so he asked him whether it was a private stream. The old man answered it was not, so David then said to him,”Well, then it won?t be a crime if I catch some fish here, will it?”

“Oh, no.” answered the old man. “It won?t be a crime, but it will certainly be a miracle.”

7【原文】

Joe was going to his usual bar before lunch when he saw a poorly dressed man fishing in a small pool of rain-water about five centimeters deep outside it.

Joe stopped and watched the poor man for a few minutes. He saw that most of the people who passed by him believed he was mad.

Joe pitied the man, so after a few minutes he went up to him and said: “Hello. Would you like to come into the bar and have a drink with me?”

The fisherman was delighted to accept his offer and the two men went into the bar together. Joe bought the fisherman a few drinks, and finally said to him, “You?ve been fishing outside here, haven?t you? How many did you manage to catch this morning, if I may ask?”

“You are the eighth,” the fisherman answered merrily.

8【原文】

Journalist: Er… roughly, when did you begin collecting badges?

Simpson: At my primary school, I think. The teachers used to give out badges to pupils who were particularly good at certain things. So I got a little blue badge with the word

“swimming” on it, and then another one I remember — it was green — which had the

word “tidy” on it! Ha!

Journalist: And have you still got those badges in your collection?

Simpson: No… well, I?ve got the swimming badge, but I think I was so untidy that I must have lost the tidy badge years ago!

Journalist: And you started collecting badges, then, from that, the age of about nine? Simpson: Er, yeah, I guess so… eight or nin e or so. That?s right. In those days — we?re talking about the early 50s — there weren?t so many cars around as there are today. So filling

stations didn?t have so many customers. So the petrol companies used to give out

badges. I suppose they thought that kids whose parents had a car would keep asking

them to go to a particular filling station so that they could get another free badge. My

dad bought our first car in 1956 — I think it was a black Ford Popular—and every time

I went out with him in it I used to ask him to go to a different petrol station so that I

could add more to my growing badge collection. Actually, he was a very shy man, my

father, and I?m sure he didn?t like asking for free thingd.

Journalist: So petrol company badges were the first ones in your collection, weren?t they? Simpson: After “swimming” and “tidy”, yeah. But soon all sorts of companies started making badges to advertise their products, even cigarette companies. I?ve got one in my

collection f or Will?s Woodbines — they were the cheapest cigarettes in those days —

and on the badge, at the bottom, it says, “Smoked by Millions”— no health warnings

in those days.

9【原文】

In the United States a university professor is granted a few months of freedom from his duties approximately every seventh year for travel or advanced study. This period of freedom from teaching is called a “sabbatical” leave.

Few sabbatical leaves are interesting enough to be described in national newspapers and magazines. Recently, however, there was an exception. The public learned how Dr. John R. Coleman, president of Haverford College, had spent his sabbatical leave.

“I wanted to get away from the world of words and politics and parties—the things a president does,” Dr. Coleman later explained to reporters. “As a college president you begin to take yourself very seriously and to think you have power you don?t. You forget things about people. I wanted to relearn things I?d forgotten.”

Telling no one of his plans, Dr. Coleman started his sabbatical leave on a farm in Canada, hundreds of miles from his college. Getting up at 4:30 each morning, working 13 hours a day in fields and barns, he prepared himself physically for his next job, digging ditches, in Atlanta, Georgia. After that, the college president washed dishes in a Boston restaurant. During the last ten days of his leave, he worked as a garbage collector.

This unusual sabbatical leave was conducted in great secrecy. Coleman telephoned his family once a week, “just to let someone know where I was and that I was healthy.”

None of his students or co-workers at Haverford College knew what their president was doing. On each job he avoided letting people know who he was. “When people would ask me about myself, I?d try to turn the conversation back to them,”he explained. “Some co-workers

might have thought I was a little different, a little quiet maybe, but I doubt anyone knew I was a college president.”

There was only one employer who sensed something unusual. “At a restaurant in Boston, I had been on the job exactly one hour — I was washing dishes — when the boss came over and said, …I?m afraid you won?t do.? and handed me two dollars. “

“Immediately I asked him why, but he just said, …It?s not your work. Sorry.?”That was the first time in more than 30 years as a job holder that Coleman had heard such words. It helped him understand how a man of his age might feel when he suddenly realized he had lost his job.

After two months of working with his hands, Coleman returned from his unusual sabbatical leave, convinced that the experience had been worthwhile. He had some good things to say about people who do hard physical work. “A lot of my co-workers would complain when the work was too heavy,” he said, “but they?d complain a lot more when there was nothing to do.”

He found that pride and satisfaction came chiefly in the form of praise from co-workers. Even though pay was important, what brought the greatest satisfaction was knowing that someone had noticed how a job was being done.

Unit 4

1【原文】

A strange thing happened to Henri yesterday. He was on a bus and wanted to get off. So he stood up and rang the bell. To make sure the driver heard him he rang it twice, but the bus didn?t stop, and the conductor came and shouted at him.

The conductor was so annoyed, and spoke so fast, that Henri didn?t understand a word. The bus stopped at the next bus stop and Henri got off. As he got off he heard someone say, “I think he?s a foreigner.”

When Henri got home, he told his landlady about the incident.

“How many times did you ring the bell?” she asked.

“Twice,” said Henri.

“Well, that?s the signal for the driver to go on,” his landlady explained. “Only the conductor is allowed to ring the bell twice. That?s why he got so annoyed.”

Henri nodded. “I see,” he said.

2【原文】

The Taylor family, who live in North London, are planning to spend a day in Norwich. They can?t agree how to get ther e.

Mr. Taylor: I don?t want to drive all that way. Let?s go by train.

Mrs. Taylor: But that?s so expensive. It?s much cheaper for a family to go by car.

Peter: Why not try the coach? It?ll be cheaper than the train, and Daddy won?t have to drive.

Al ison: But I?ll be sick! I hate traveling by coach.

Mrs. Taylor: Which is the quickest way to get there?

Mr. Taylor: Well, it?ll take at least three hours by car.

Peter: No, it won?t. Not if we take the motorway out of London.

Alison: I?m sure there?s a fast train service.

Mrs. Taylor: But we?ll have to get to Liverpool Street first. And then there?s the tube fares at this end, and bus or taxi fares at the other.

Alison: And the coach station is at Victoria, so that?s an extra journey too.

Mr. Taylor: I t hink there are some special family rail fares. Perhaps that?ll be the cheapes t way.

Peter: But it won?t be the most convenient.

Mrs. Taylor: Why don?t we check all the facts and then decide?

Peter: OK.

3【原文】

The United States is full of automobiles. There are still many families without cars, but some families have two or even more. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are a necessary part of life.

Cars are used for business. They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to get to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive in order to carry their products. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies.

Sometimes small children must be driven to school. In some cities school buses are used only when children live more than a mile from the school. When the children are too young to walk that far, their mothers take turns driving them to school. One mother drives on Mondays, taking her own children and the neighbors? children as well. Another mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesdays and so on. This is called forming a car pool. Men also form car pools, with three or four men taking turns driving to the place where they all work.

More car pools should be formed in order to put fewer automobiles on the road and use less gasoline. Parking is a great problem, and so is the traffic in and around cities. Too many cars are being driven. Something will have to be done about the use of cars

4【原文】

Mr. Fine: Can anyone in the class explain some differences between a zip code and an area code?

Mary: Both of them are numbers.

Mr. Fine: That?s how they are alike. But how are they different?

Mary: A zip code is for mailing letters. An area code is for making phone calls,

Mr. Fine: What kind of phone calls?

Mary: Long distance calls.

Mr. Fine: All right. And what is a zip code?

Mary: When I write a letter to my friends in New York City, I write 10027 on the envelope.

That?s their zip code. I have some other friends in New York City, but their zip code is

10003.

Mr. Fine: In a big city there are different zip codes for different parts of the city. What about area codes?

Mary: Sometimes a whole small city has the same area code.

Mr. Fine: That?s right. And sometimes a whole state has the same area code if it doesn?t have many telephones. For example, the area code for the whole state of Arizona is 802. Mary: But New York State has millions of telephones, so it has more than one area code.

5【原文】

James wrote a play for television about an immigrant family who came to England from Pakistan, and the problems they had settled down in England. The play was surprisingly successful, and it was bought by an American TV company.

James was invited to go to New York to help with the production. He lived in Dulwich,

which is an hour?s journey away from Heathrow. The flight was due to leave at 8:30 am, so he had to be at the airport about 7:30 in the morning. He ordered a mini-cab for 6:30, set his alarm for 5:45, and went to sleep. Unfortunately he forgot to wind the clock, and it stopped shortly after midnight. Also the driver of the mini-cab had to work very late that night and overslept.

James woke with that awful feeling that something was wrong. He looked at his alarm clock. It stood there silently, with the hands pointing to 12:10. He turned on the radio and discovered that it was, in fact, ten to nine. He swore quietly and switched on the electric kettle.

He was just pouring the boiling water into the teapot when the nine o?clock pips sounded on the radio. The announcer began to read the news, “... reports are coming in of a crash near Heathrow Airport. A Boeing 707 bound for New York crashed shortly after taking off this morning. Flight number 2234...” James turned pale.

6【原文】

According to the American Automobile Association, since 1964 all cars sold in the United States have been equipped with seat belts. (These are also called safety belts.) Many studies of automobile accidents have shown that safety belts can save lives. One study showed that 40 percent of those killed in auto accidents could have been saved if they had been wearing seat belts.

Unfortunately belts are worn only by a small percentage of drivers and passengers — about 15 percent in cities, and only 9 percent in small towns. And safety belts cannot protect people who do not wear them.

In order to find out what kinds of people do wear seat belts a study was made in seven cities in the United States. The following facts were learned about those who use their safety belt:

1. They do not smoke while driving.

2. They have had more education than non-users.

3. They know someone who was injured (but not killed) in an automobile accident.

Advertisements based on these facts have been printed in newspapers and magazines in order to teach people the importance of using seat belts. But these advertisements have not helped much. Some people believe there should be a law requiring drivers and passengers to use safety belts. In Australia, where there is such a law, deaths in auto accidents have decreased 24 percent.

7【原文】

PartⅠ

(Telephone ringing constantly. Sound of key turning in lock, door opening.)

Miss Brown: (answering telephone) Good morning. Blue Star Travel Agency. Can I help you? Mr. Phillips: Is that you, Miss Brown? I?ve been ringing the office for 10 minutes. Where have you been?

Miss Brown: Sorry, Mr. Phillips. I?ve just arrived. The traffic was terrible this morning.

Mr. Phillips: The traffic is still terrible. I’ve been in a traffic jam for more than an hour. Look after the office until I get there. It may take a long time.

Miss Brown: certainly, Mr. Phillips. Good luck.

(Sound of hanging up.)

(to herself) Thank goodness the boss is late too! The first thing I?m going to do is

take my coat off. Then I?m going to sit down and have a cup of coffee. I think I?ll

switch the radio on too.

PartⅡ

(Radio being switched on.)

Radio: Here is a message for all motorists. Most major roads leading in and out of London are congested. Motorists should use alternative routes wherever possible. The time is

now 9:30. Here is the local traffic news.

Announcer: Heavy rain during the night has flooded parts of the South Circular Road. An articulated lorry has broken down on the M1. Traffic is now only 2 lane and moving

very slowly. Strong winds during the night have blown down a number of trees on the

M6 and many sections are not in use. That is the end of the local traffic news. For

more news listen again at 10 o?clock.

(Sound of radio being switched off and door opening.)

Betty: (breathless) Hello, Carol. Sorry, but I couldn?t get here earlier.

Miss Brown: Never mind, Betty. Have a cup of coffee and relax.

Part III

(Door open and slammed. Background of typing.)

Miss Brown: Oh, it?s you Mr. Phillips. We?ve been worried about you. Are you all right? Would you like a cup of coffee?

Mr. Phillips: I?m going straight to my office. Are my letters waiting for me? Yes, I would. And some biscuits.

(Door slams.)

Mi ss White: Phew. What?s the matter with him? Why is he in such a bad mood?

Miss Brown: Let?s make a cup of coffee for him and find out. If you make the coffee, I?ll sp eak to Mr. Phillips.

(Polite knock at door, door opening.)

Miss Brown: We?re making some coffee Mr. Phillips. Would you like to have it with us? You could tell us about your awful journey.

(Background sound of cups.)

Miss White: Was the traffic bad, Mr. Phillips?

Mr. Phillips: Was the traffic bad? We were in traffic jams for three hours. I left home at the usual time and decided to use a new route. For the first time, I used the M4. Never again.

That was because of the storms last night. Then the traffic lights were out of order.

After that there was a breakdown and.., finally, I ran out of petrol.

(Giggles from Miss W. and Miss B. Footsteps. Door slams.)

8【原文】

Calgary is an oil town. It is home for more than half a million Canadians, and this population may well be much closer to three quarters of a million or more by the end of the century. Downtown Calgary is famous: the tall office buildings in the center of the city were in the “Superman” mov ies. But Calgary is also the home of a very modern transport system, and the Light Rail Transit (LRT) is part of it.

The rail system was chosen because the cost of energy is not so great as with a bus system, because it is much easier to carry a greater number of passengers by train than by bus or car, and because the noise and pollution is not so great as with buses and cars.

But what is the LRT? It is a 12.5-kilometre route, above and below ground. The light train cars are made in Germany and Canada. In Germany they are made by Siemens in Dusseldorf, and then taken to Canada where final assembly is done in Calgary. Each car is just over 24 metres long,

and each train is operated by only one man — the driver. The driver is in a separate cabin, and he can?t talk to passengers.

The trains stop for about 30 seconds at each station, and passengers who want to get in or out must open the doors themselves.

Automatic ticket machines are placed on the platforms. Passengers can buy a ticket from these, or they can buy special monthly tickets called zipcards. However, if passengers are caught without a ticket they may get a $25 fine.

9【原文】

There are far too many road accidents in this country: too many deaths and too many people injured. One wonders who are most to blame: drivers or pedestrians. Some people say that the blame cannot be put fairly without considering the state of the roads and the whole transport system. In crowded cities like London, Birmingham or Manchester, road conditions are so chaotic that both driver and pedestrian often endanger lives through no fault of their own. Such deficiencies as too many road signs, faulty traffic lights, sudden narrowing of a street, congested parking are all a sure indication of bad road conditions.

On the other hand, many experts are convinced that the larger part of the blame for the death toll must be put on persons and persons alone: drivers who drive too fast and without any consideration for others, drivers who think they are safe at the wheel even though they have drunk too much alcohol, drivers who, out of some curious sense of power, are incapable of understanding that their car is a lethal weapon if improperly used. Pedestrians, likewise, must share the guilt: stepping off the pavement without first looking to the left or right, crossing roads when the traffic lights are against them, jumping off a moving bus. To be fair, pedestrians, drivers and road conditions are all to blame.

One looks forward to the day when the motor car has been replaced by some less dangerous means of transport.

10【原文】

It?s a holiday weekend. The police officers were sitting in a hot room receiving instructions from their captain. One of these officers was Ed Williams. He and ten other officers were on special duty. This weekend alone, over 400 people are going to die from accidents caused by drunk drivers. Over 4,000 people are going to receive serious injuries, all caused by drunk drivers. The officers are going to try to prevent these accidents before they happen．

Meanwhile, Joe Forest is enjoying himself at a family party. It?s getting late and he?s telling his sister that he?s going to leave. She?s asking him to stay and wait a few hours before he drives. “Don?t worry. I?m going to be fine. I?m going to drive slowly. I only had a few drinks.”

Officer Williams is at a toll booth, watching cars enter the area. A green Ford is approaching, weaving from left to right. Officer Williams stops the car and tells Joe to get out. He asks Joe to walk along the white line. Joe can?t do it. Joe also fails the breath test. Officer Williams is telling Joe that he?s going to issue him a summons. And he can?t drive his car home. Joe calls his sister. She?s going to come and drive him home.

This was Joe?s first offense. He?s going to appear in court next week. He is going to receive a $400 fine. The judge is also going to suspend his license for 60 days. This first time, other drivers were lucky. Joe didn?t kill them. But what about the future, is Joe going to stop drinking and driving?

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