1、新视野大学英语第三版教材2听力原文+部分答案Unit ILife is a learning curveListe ning to the worldShari ngScriptsH = Hina; W1 = Woman 1, etc.; M1 = Man 1, etc.Part 1H: I have a full- time job but I like learning new things in my spare time. At the moment, I m studying Spanish. I m enjoyiutg it m finding it quite difficult
2、. Today we re asking peopleabout lear ning new thin gs.Part 2W1: I m learning to speak another Ianguage, actually. I m learning French. I m also learnidrive.W2: I m learning to play golf at the moment. Uh, my husband and my son play golf, and when we go on holiday, I feel that I want to be able to p
3、lay with them.W3: I m learning to speak Spanish.W4: I am lear ning Arabic.M1: Well, I ve been learning to play the guitar for about 50 years now. And it s a constanso still lear ning bits, yes.W5: I m learning yoga at the moment, and I m finding it quite hard.M2: The courses I making are, are traini
4、ng courses for leadership, er, negotiation, (and) evaluati on.M3: I m learning Swahili.W6: At the moment, I m learning to paint and draw in evening classes for adults.W7: I m studying patitme after work.M4: I ve er, just learned how to er, do a lot of kayaking.W8: I am learning how to design a websi
5、te at the moment.W9: I m in a choir so singing, I guess, is pretty much the only thing I m doing at the momeM5: At the moment, I m taking up a new instrument. It s a traditional instrument from Zimbabwe,and it s called the mbira. Er, let me show you.Part 3H: What s the most difficult thing you ve ev
6、er learned?M5: Patie nee, I thi nk.W4: Arabic.M2: Courage.W3: Lear ning a Ian guage is particularly difficult for myself (me), so probably lear ning the Spani sh.W6: The most difficult thing I have ever lear ned is Man dari n Chin ese. I did it in evening classes a few years ago and I found it reall
7、y, really difficult.W5: Probably capoeira, which is a Brazilian dance, martial art, fight thing. It s a combinaof these things. And yes, that was very difficult because there were lots of unusual body moveme nts to lear n.W1: Lear ning to drive was the most difficult thing.M3: Well, I learned some S
8、anskrit, and that s got um, nine cases, two more than Latin. Itdifficult by most sta ndards.M4: I think I found French very hard at school.W2: Um, I learned to play the trumpet at school. That was pretty difficult. Er . and maybe lear ning to drive. I hated lear ning to drive.Liste ningScriptsP = pr
9、esenter; S = SallyP: Hi. You re listeningsik the Expert and in today s program we re talking about Ianguages andhow to lear n a Ian guage. Our expert today is Sally Parker, who is a teacher. Hi Sally.S: Hello.P: Sally, our first question today is from Andy. He says, “ I vEjuststahted learningproblem
10、 is that I rtoo frightened to speak. My grammar is not very good, so I worried about say ing the wrong thing. ” Have you got any advice for An dy?S: OK. Well, the first thing is I think Andy should practice speaking to himself.P: Speaking to himself? I m not sure that s a good idea.S: I know it soun
11、ds silly, but talking to yourself in a foreign Ianguage is a really good way to practice. You don t have to feel embarrassed, because no body can hear you. You can talk to yourself about anything you like - what you had for breakfast, where you rgoing for the weeke nd -anything. And the more you do
12、it, the more you will get used to heari ng your own voice and your pronunciation, so you won t feel so frightened in the classroomoAddy shtry it.P: Hm, I suppose so. Anything else? What about his grammar?S: He has only just started lear ning En glish, so he is going to make lots of mistakes, but tha
13、ta problem. That s how he ll learn. Andy shouldn t worry about making mistakesP: You re right. So Andy, try talking to yourself, and don t worry about making mistakes. Our ne:problem comes from Olivia in Brazil. She is worried about pronunciation. She says, “ The problem is I can t understand native
14、 speakers. They speak scafatt can t understand their pronun ciati on. ” So Sally, any ideas for Olivia?S: Well, first of all it s a good idea for her to practice her listening skills. She should listen toEn glish as much as possible to get used to how it soun ds. Liste n to the n ews, liste n to pod
15、casts,(and) watch En glish televisi on.P: OK -that s a good idea.S: And ano ther thing she should do is to focus on liste ning and read ing at the same time. If youlisten to something on the Internet, you can often read the transcript. If you listen and read atthe same time, it ll help you see what
16、the words sound like and how the words sound when a n ative speaker is talk ing.P: Great. Thank you, Sally. Well, huh, I m afraid that s all we have time for today, but next weekwe ll be Viewi ngScriptsN = Narrator; I = Ian Deary; W1 = Woman 1, etc.; M1 = Man 1, etc.N: Recent research into the histo
17、ry of IQ tests in Scotla nd suggests your IQ score might predict, to an exte nt at least, your health and even your life expecta ncy.W1: You have 45 minu tes to do the test, OK?M1: OK.N: Bill and Davina are 79 years old. This is the second time they ve done this test. The first timewas in 1932, when
18、 every 11-year- old in Scotland was put through an intelligenee test. It s thonly time this kind of mass testing has ever been done in the UK. The results were rediscovered recen tly in an Edi nburgh baseme nt. If you want to know how our in tellige nee changes as we get older, these results are a p
19、otential goldmine.I: We brought hun dreds of people back and we got them to sit the exact same test that they had sat when they were aged 11. Now, these people are now 79 or 80 years old. We gave the same instructions. We gave the same test. And we gave the same time limit.M2: It was a little sticki
20、er than I thought it would be.M3: I walked through it quite happily, quite hon estly.W2: I felt I must have bee n very bright at 11 if I sat that exam and passed.N: There were some in trigu ing results. Almost every one had a better score at 80 tha n they did at 11.But some had gone from being just
21、averagely in tellige nt to a much higher level.I: Now, that s what really drives our research. We re interested in: Why have those people whogone (people gone) from IQ 100, at age 11, up to 110 or 120? What have they done right?What can be the recipe for successful aging? We refinding that the perso
22、n with more educati on, even though they had the same IQ in childhood, is doing slightly better in old age, on average. The pers on who had a more professi onal job, in old age, is doing slightly better on average than the person who had a manual job, despite the fact that they started at the same l
23、evel. The people who smoked have got slightly less good mental ability than you would expect.N: What s evenore remarkable is that the kids who had higher IQ scores at 11 are the very ones still alive today. So it seems high IQ in childhood is good for survival.Speak ing for com muni cati onRole-play
24、ScriptsA: Ah, OK, so we n eed to think of the best ideas for tak ing tests.B: Yep.A: Er, well, how about this one? It s a good idea to study with friends at the same time each day.B: Mm, in my opinion, this is a really good idea. You can make it a regular part of your daily life.A: You mean like hav
25、ing breakfast at the same time, lunch at the same time, studying at the same time.B: Yes. And also I think it helps whe n you study with frien ds.A: Yeah, I, I think it s more motivating.B: And you can actually talk to some one, not just look at books. I find that if I m only read ing mynotes it eas
26、y to lose concentration. I start thinking about other things. But when you are talk ing to some on e, it really helps you concen trate. So, yes, I agree with this one.A: OK. Ano ther idea is not to eat too much before the exam.B: Oh, really?A: Mm, whe n I eat a lot, I get sleepy.B: Oh, I see. I thi
27、nk it depe nds. Because if you don t eat eno ugh, you start to feel hungry in themiddle of the exam.A: Mm, that s true.B: And then you can t concentrate.A: Yeah, that s true.B: So, I m not sure about this advice, for me. As I said, I think it depends. I always try to eat a good meal before an exam.
28、I m so nervous that I never get sleepy.A: Hm. OK. What other ideas do you have?B: Well, there ne thing I always do before an exam.A: What s that?B: I go to bed early the ni ght before.A: Right.B: I always try to sleep for eight hours the ni ght before the exam.Further practice in liste ningShort con
29、 versati onsScriptsCon versati on 1W: It is the third time my paper has been rejected by journals because of Ianguage problems.M: You know, there is a writing center on campus. I had never got a grade better than C for any of my term papers before they helped me out.Q: What can we lear n from the co
30、n versati on?The woman should seek help from the writing centerCon versati on 2M: You said you would choose Spanish as your sec ond foreig n Ian guage. Why did you fin ally choose French in stead?W: My gra ndfather speaks flue nt French and he says that French is a Ian guage that any truly cultured
31、pers on must know.Q: Why does the woma n choose to lear n Fren ch?She thinks speak ing French is a must for cultured people.Con versati on 3W: You seem to have no problem understanding native speakers now. How about Dr. Brown s speech last ni ght?M: Excellent. But it was still too fast for me to follow, especially when Dr. Brown talked about those abstract theories.Q: What did the man do last night?He atte nded a speech.Con versati on 4M: It s eems to me that Melissa is in a bad mood today. What s wrong with her?W: Melissa forgot to bring her ide ntificati on card yesterday and she was n
