1、大学英语新策略听力原文Unit 5 AgriculturePart I In-class ListeningI. Understanding Basic SkillsListening TaskDirections: You will hear ten long and complicated sentences. Listen carefully and choose the best answers to the following questions.1. Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please? Flight 51
2、25 scheduled to take off at 11:30 will be delayed for 20 minutes. Please check in half an hour prior to departure. Thank you. 2. I have to teach the same course books several times in the summer holiday camp, which is sometimes boring and not well-paid, but by and large Im quite delighted at being w
3、ith young people.3. It is getting much easier to travel nowadays, but increasingly harder to get away from people, and that is perhaps the most difficult thing for holiday makers.4. The elderly woman was planning to take the half-past-five coach. Unfortunately due to poor road conditions, which made
4、 safe driving impossible, it departed at a quarter past eight.5. Statistics show that 300 people are killed in air crashes in the United States every year, but about 50,000 people are killed in car accidents. 6. I have prescribed something for your daughter, Mrs. Johnson. Make sure she takes it thre
5、e times a day after meals. If she is not any better by Tuesday, come to see me again. 7. Whenever I go to the bank near my house, the cashiers are either fooling around or keeping whole queues of people waiting by chatting to the customer at the front about their holiday.8. The moment the windscreen
6、 shatters you should begin to take your foot off the accelerator, not completely off, of course, because you might be in heavy traffic, with another vehicle right behind you.9. Two men who were caught stealing property after it grew dark have appeared before the local magistrates court this morning.
7、 They are expected to be kept in custody for several days. If you dont want to sound impolite, or cause embarrassment or distress of any kind to the person youre talking to, you should learn to use tactful and tentative forms in your English. OK, class is over. II. Understanding NewsListening TaskDi
8、rections: Listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).AGRICULTURE REPORTSome Crops (Like Some People) Do Well as CompanionsCompanion planting is the idea that when some crops are planted together, they help each other grow. These compatible plants gene
9、rally have similar needs for nutrients, soil and moisture. Advice for companion plantings is sometimes based more on tradition than proof. But Fabian Fernandez at the University of Illinois says there is evidence for some combinations. These can lead to better crops, reduce disease and help with pes
10、t control by attracting helpful insects. For example, some kinds of soil bacteria take nitrogen from the air and make a form that plants can use. The plants keep the nitrogen in their roots. Legumes are especially good at this. Any crops sharing the same space can get the nitrogen as the roots decom
11、pose. Crops like beans and potatoes can also share territory well because their roots reach different levels in the soil. Deep-rooted vegetables get nutrients and moisture from lower down, so they do not compete with shallower plants. But some plants placed together may harm each others development.
12、 For example, tomatoes do not like wet soil but watercress does, as the name suggests. So you would probably not want to put them together. Even after harvest, some kinds of produce should be kept apart. Apples, for example, release ethylene gas, a plant hormone. It can cause other foods to ripen to
13、o quickly. Fruits that release a lot of ethylene also include apricots, melons and tomatoes. Vegetables easily affected by ethylene include asparagus, broccoli, cabbage and cucumbers. Markets often separate high ethylene-producing foods from those that are sensitive to the gas. But sometimes you mig
14、ht want them together. For example, if you put an apple in a bag with a green banana, the banana will be ready to eat sooner. Now what about peaches, plums and nectarines that are too firm to eat? Growers in California answer this question at . They say an apple, banana or a riper piece of fruit is
15、not needed. The peaches, plums and nectarines themselves release enough of the gas to ripen successfully. Their advice: Place the fruit in a fruit bowl or in a paper bag with the top folded over. Keep the fruit at room temperature, out of direct sunlight. When the fruit is soft enough to your liking
16、, either use it or place it in a refrigerator to stop further ripening. And thats the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, written by Jerilyn Watson. III. Understanding PassagesListening Task 1Directions: Listen to the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the exact words, phrases or sent
17、ences you hear.The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. FAO was established on 16 October 1945 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. In 1951 its headquarters were moved from Washington
18、, D.C., United States, to Rome, Italy. The agency is directed by the Conference of Member Nations, which meets every two years to review the work carried out by the organization and to approve a Program of Work and Budget for the next two-year period. The Conference elects a council of 49 member sta
19、tes (serve three-year rotating terms) that acts as an interim governing body, and the Director-General, that heads the agency.Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source
20、of knowledge and information, and helps developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices, ensuring good nutrition and food security for all. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates into English as “let there be bread”. Listening Tas
21、k 2Directions: Listen to the passage and choose the best answers to the questions.New Zealand lies in the South Pacific Ocean. It is made up of two large islands North Island and South Islandand lots of smaller islands. The area of New Zealand is 270,534 sq km. New Zealand has very good conditions f
22、or agriculture. 66% of the land is good for farming. The farming can be on highland or lowland. Grass grows very well in wet climate, so most of the farming is animal farming. You can find sheep everywhere in the country. But farmers in rich lowland very often keep cattle, that is, cows for milk.She
23、ep farms cover a half of all the land in New Zealand. Only the very wet areas and the highest mountains are not good for sheep. The sheep farms are called sheep stations. There are over 30,000 stations in North and South Islands, with sixty million sheep. The native grass of the country is not very
24、rich. So the farmers get better grass seeds from Europe and America and plant good grass. The sheep give good meat and good wool. Most of the meat and wool is exported. Until 1882 only the wool was exported. New Zealand farmers sold the wool to factories in Britain. The sea journey to Britain was ve
25、ry long and slow, so meat couldnt be exported. But in 1882 the refrigerator was invented, and the ship could keep the meat cold. So meat could be exported. Most of the meat exported today is lamb, not mutton. Lamb is the meat of young sheep, while mutton is the meat of fully grown sheep. Unit 5 Agri
26、culturePart II After-class ListeningI. Understanding Basic SkillsListening Task Directions:Listen to the conversations carefully and choose the best answers to the questions you hear. 1. W: I wonder if Mrs. Fisher has any family. Her room is always quiet.M: Actually she is a mother of three. Her chi
27、ldren all live abroad. Thats why the nurses take care of her.Q: What can be inferred from the conversation?2. W: Hush. Mum has just fallen asleep.M: It is so silent here that I can hear my breathing.W: We must be quiet. She hasnt fully recovered from her illness and needs rest.Q: What can be inferre
28、d from the conversation? 3. W: My mother does not approve of my friendship with our neighbor, John.M: Why?W: She says that John often tells lies and worries that I may become dishonest if I make friends with him.Q: What can be inferred from the conversation? 4. M: Im sorry to hear youre not feeling
29、well.W: Oh, its just a cold. Nothing serious. How about your job interview with IBM?M: Terrific. I have got a two-year contract of employment.Q: What does the man mean? 5. W: Eggs are supposed to be one of the healthiest foods.M: Next to potatoes.Q: What does the man mean? 6. W: These clouds look st
30、range, dont they?M: Yes. They look like snakes. I have read that black clouds of this shape are sometimes the sign of an earthquake.Q: What can we learn from the conversation? 7. M: Did you hear that Mr. and Mrs. Brown went to Paris for a vacation last month?W: Yeah. Did they enjoy themselves?M: It
31、is hard to say. When they got there, they couldnt get a room in a good hotel.W: Thats too bad. But they really should have made a reservation for a room earlier.Q: What can be drawn from the conversation? 8. W: You have a telephone call, Mr. Smith.M: Who is it?W: He didnt say.M: Tell him Im out of t
32、he office until next Monday.Q: What can be inferred from the conversation? 9. W: Youre growing a beard, arent you?M: Yeah. I am a free man now.W: Why?M: My wife has been away on a business trip. Im my own boss for the time being.Q: What does the man mean? 10. W: The city is going to put up a new shopping center in the neighborhood.M: Another shopping center? Thats nothing new.Q: What does the man mean? II. Understanding a ConversationListening Task Directions: Lis
