Section One Tactics for Listening
Listening and Translation
Directions: Listen to some sentences and translate them into Chinese. You will hear each sentence only once.
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有些人担心他们并未从所吃的食物中获取足够的维生素。
2. 因此他们服用大剂量维生素制剂。
3. 他们认为这些维生素制剂能够增进健康、预防疾病。
4. 医学专家没有发现多少能证明这些制剂中的绝大多数能保障或增进健康的证据。
5. 但是他们注意到其中一些确实有助于预防疾病。
Section Two Listening Comprehension
Part 1 Dialogue
Psychology and Psychiatry
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
International Classification of Diseases The International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (commonly known by the abbreviation ICD) is a detailed description of known diseases and injuries. It is designed to promote inter-， national comparability in the collection, processing, classification and presentation of morbidity and mortality statistics.
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VOCABULARY psychiatry /saɪ'kaɪətrɪ/ n.精神病学 psychosis /saɪ'kəʊsɪs/ n. (pl. - ses /- si:z/)精神病 neurosis /njʊə'rəʊsɪs/ n. (pl. -ses/-si:z/)［医］神经官能症 schizophrenia /skɪdzəʊfri:nɪə/ n.精神分裂症，人格分裂 insanity /in'sænɪtɪ/ n.精神错乱 lunacy /'lju:nəsɪ/ n.精神失常 psychotic /psaɪ'kɒtɪk/ adj.精神病的 prone /prəʊn/ adj. likely to suffer (usually something undesirable) etiology /etɪ'ɒləʒɪ/ n. (the study of) the cause of disease |
Directions: Listen to the dialogue and complete the following forms.
1.Psychology and psychiatry
Psychology and psychologist | Psychiatry and psychologist |
1)Psychology is really the study of 2)A psychologist will have degree in | 1)Psychiatry is the study essentially of 2)A psychiatrist is always a |
2.Classification of mental illness
Mental illness |
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3.Schizophrenia
Definition | Symptom | Treatment |
A severe psychotic illness | 1) 2)Having firm but | 1) 2) |
4.Mental illness
Situation | Cause | Solution |
1)Mental illness is very 2) 3) 4) | 1)There are often or most usually 2)The person may be genetically more 3) 4) | 1)That's a really 2)Prevention has to be tackled from |
Part 2 Passage
I Couldn't Stop dieting
VOCABULARY emaciated /ɪ'meɪʃɪeɪtɪd/ adj. extremely thin, especially from hunger or illness anorexia /ænə'reksɪə/ n. a serious illness often resulting in dangerous weight loss, in which a person, especially a girl or woman, loses the desire for food and refuses to eat promiscuity /prɒmɪ'skju:ətɪ/ n. behavior characterized by casual and indiscriminate sexual intercourse, often with many people gaunt /gɔ:nt/ adj. thin, as if ill or hungry wedge /wedʒ/ n. something that intrudes and causes division or disruption |
A : Pre-listening Question
What do you think about the relationship between family and health?
B : Sentence Dictation
Directions: Listen to some sentences and write them down. You will hear each sentence three times.
1. After five years of marriage, Stan would leave me. I'd be alone with my scale, my exercise, and my calorie-counting.
2. Several months after our wedding, as I was striving to be the “wife”, the anorexia reemerged.
3. As much as I wanted to please my husband by maintaining a healthy weight, exercise and food restriction had become my sole means of coping with stress.
4. Slowly, I became convinced that only I myself had the power to transform my heart and life.
5. Transparent honesty was the first step, and I 've learned that I 'll be accepted for who I am by my husband.
C: Detailed Listening
Directions: Listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). Discuss with your classmates why you think the statement is true or false.
1. T The narrator thought she was responsible for the destruction of her marriage.
2. T The narrator and Stan taught at the same Christian high school 10 years ago.
3. F Stan liked the narrator's emaciated appearance in their early friendship.
4. F By the time of their marriage, the narrator still needed some kind of therapy.
5. T The narrator's anorexia reemerged several months after the wedding possibly because of the stress she was experiencing.
6. T The narrator thought food restriction could help her have a better control over her life.
7. T The narrator would increase the time of her daily workout, or skip a meal when she and Stan would have a quarrel.
8. T After a year of counseling sessions, the narrator gradually learned to see her anorexia in a different way.
D : After-listening Discussion
Directions: Listen to the passage again and discuss the following questions.
1. What was the result after a year's counseling?
After a year 's counseling, the narrator gradually learned to see her anorexia in a new light—as the scar from a painful childhood that led to the fear she'd never be loved for who she was. Slowly, she became convinced that only she herself had the power to transform her heart and life. She was no longer deceptive about anorexia, and stopped hiding her past.
2. If you got anorexia, what would you do?
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Section Three News
News Item 1
A : Directions: Listen to the news and complete the summary.
This news item is about a meeting in Hong Kong trying to reach a new agreement on global trade
B : Directions: Listen to the news again and answer the following questions.
1. What are the representatives of nearly 150 countries meeting in Hong Kong still trying to do?
Representatives of nearly 150 countries meeting in Hong Kong are still trying to reach a new agreement on global trade.
2. What is the biggest prize many countries realistically hoped for?
For many countries the biggest prize they realistically hoped for was a date for ending the European Union subsidies to help farmers sell their produce on world markets.
3. According to an EU senior official, what will EU do during the meeting?
An EU senior official says they are prepared to name the date as part of a wider deal.
4. When will be the earliest possible date? If an agreement is not reached on this meeting, when will be the latest date?
The earliest possible date will be 2010, and 2013 will be the latest date if an agreement is not reached on this meeting.
5. What will the United States do if the date is not what it expects?
The United States trade representative Rob Portman says he is trying to be accommodating, which means the United States will possibly accept the new date.
News Item 2
VOCABULARY tenfold /'tenfəʊld/ adj. ten times as great or as numerous curb /kɜːb/ n. a check or restraint on something oversight /'əʊvsaɪt/ n. an unintentional failure to notice or do something hedge fund /hedʒfʌnd/ a risk-taking investment company consensus /kən'sensəs/ n. an agreement between all of the participants |
A: Directions: Listen to the news and complete the summary.
This news item is about a new consensus reached by the G20 in tackling global problems .
B: Directions: Listen to the news again and complete the outline.
A package of plans | |
Total amount |
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Resources available to the International Monetary Fund for lending | to treble to
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Special drawing rights increase | a |
Regulations on financial firms |
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News Item 3
VOCABULARY accredited /ə'kredɪtɪd/ adj. officially recognized or approved unprecedented /ʌn'presɪdəntɪd/ adj. like never before, having no previous example |
A: Directions: Listen to the news and complete the summary.
This news item is about the opening of Copenhagei(哥本哈根）climate summit .
B: Directions: Listen to the news again and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
1. F The conference opened to applause fourteen minutes late.
2. F It began with an environmental paper from Danish children.
3. T Those delegates' decisions over the next two weeks may help shape the lives the next generation lead.
4. T A deal is expected to be done to lower emissions and poor countries need more money to adapt to climate change and obtain clean energy.
5. F That agreement will be strong enough to meet the expectations of those children of the future.
Section Four Supplementary
P art 1 Feature Report
P ediatric Telemedicine Program
VOCABUULARY E.R. abbr. emergency room hands-on relating to or providing direct practical experience in the operation of something |
A: Directions: Listen to the news report and complete the summary.
This news item is about the pediatric telemedicine program, which offers an efficient way for children to see a doctor. .
B: Directions: Listen to the news report again. Take notes and fill in the blanks with the missing information.
1. When a child in Rochester doesn't feel well, he or she can have a visit with a doctor via the Internet.
2. For parents, each telemedicine visit can save them four and a half hours of missed work ; for children, it can reduce health-related absences .
3. According to Dr Neil Herendeen the new service saves insurance companies a great deal of money as it keeps people away from using hospital emergency rooms for treatment .
4. Some pediatricians think the high-tech medical visits are no substitute for hands-on care .
5. Doctors at the University of Rochester Medical Center say remote visits are just as effective as face to face visits .
P art 2 Passage
L abor of Love
VOCABULARY craving /'kreivnj/ n. a strong desire for something co-ed /'keu'ed/ n. a female student in a coeducational institution knockwurst /'nɒkwɜːst/ n. a type of short, fat, highly-seasoned German sausage frank /fræŋk/ n. (short for frankfurter /'fræŋkˌfɜːtə/) a small reddish smoked sausage, used especially in hot dogs 法兰克福香肠 celery salt /'seləri sɔːlt/ 香芹盐(芹菜籽和盐磨成的调料) gratuitous /ɡrə'tjuːɪtəs/ adj. unnecessary render /'rendər/ v. cause to be; provide char /tʃɑː/ v. burn the surface of |
A: Pre-listening Question
What do you know about the types of sausages and the basic steps to make sausages?
B: Sentence Dictation
Directions: Listen to some sentences and write them down. You will hear each sentence three times.
1. Cooking should be a labor of love and feeding others brings you joy and satisfaction.
2. Although hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill may be standard summer fares for many, for New Yorkers it is a genuine delicacy and our gracious host knew it.
3. Elaborate and somewhat formal for a university setting, these dinners cultivated Sarah's love of entertaining for her friends and family.
4. For years my dear friend Carol has been preparing her spectacular knockwurst for me and my family.
5. The killer accent to her knockwurst is celery salt, an influence from her Midwestern upbringing and Chicago family.
C : Detailed Listening
Directions： Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
1. What does the narrator want to share with us by the passage? B
A. Some special recipes.
B. Some stories related to food.
C Some cooking methods.
D. The nature of labor.
2. What surprised the narrator most at the BBQ dinner last week? D
A. Hamburgers.
B. Hot dogs.
C. The grill.
D. The desert.
3. Who prepared the ice-cream pie? D
A. Sarah.
B. Carol.
C. Connie.
D. Kelley.
4. What does the narrator think of cauliflower? B
A. It's easy to prepare.
B. It's not so easy to prepare.
C. It takes time to prepare.
D. It needs a lot of ingredients.
5. What happens when Sarah sets down the cauliflower cakes? D
A. There is a dead silence.
B. We are surprised at the tastiness of the cake.
C. We hesitate for a while and then begin to eat.
D. We can't wait to take the first warm, savory bite.
6. Why did Sarah frequently consult her best friend's mother for recipes when she was in college? C
A. Because she wanted to entertain me.
B. Because she wanted to entertain her roommates.
C. Because she wanted to entertain her friends at their weekly parties.
D. Because she loved cooking.
7. What is special about Carol's spectacular knockwurst? A
A. The seasoning.
B. The ingredients.
C. The coloring.
D. The grill.
8. Where did Carol spend her childhood? B
A. In the South.
B. In the Midwest.
C. In the East.
D. In the West.
D: After-listening Discussion
Directions: Listen to the passage again and discuss the following questions.
1. What is the cooking method of the knockwurst?
The franks are double cooked, first in boiling water, then on the grill. This may seem gratuitous, but it is the secret to a masterpiece. Carol runs a knife around each knockwurst, making a spiral cut top to bottom around the body, before bringing them to a boil. When they cook in the water, the spirals open up, releasing some of the fat and rendering the meat more tender. Then the knockwursts are grilled to perfection, charred and crisp, yet tender as can be.
2. Do you like cooking? Why?
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