新世纪大学英语听说教程( Book IV )
Optional Listening答案
Unit 1
Optional Listening 1
A Answer: 2
B Answers: 1, 2, 5, 7
Optional Listening 2
A Answer: the picture on the right
B Answers:
1. very famous buildings 2. made of glass, steel, and concrete 3. designed
4. style 5. 1998 6. 452 meters high
7. both the modern and the traditional side of my country
Optional Listening 3
A Answers:
1. world-famous museum, Paris, 500 years, six million
2. ancient capital, big enough, millions of, shopping center
B Answers: Shown on SB page.
Optional Listening 4
B Answer: 3
C Answers: 2, 4, 6, 7
Unit 2
Optional Listening 1
A 1. pet 2. cell phone
B Conversation 1:
a. not very affordable c. interactive d. rechargeable e. strange.
Conversation 2: d. popular
Optional Listening 2
A message on the right
Optional Listening 3
A toaster, microwave, coffee maker, clock, washing machine, lights, heater, air
conditioner, refrigerator, telephone
B 1.T 2.T 3. F; not coffee maker, but clock
4. F; not today live, but in the future will live
5. F; not wanted, but didn’t wanted 6. F; not all
Optional Listening 4
C a.3 b.6 c.4 d.2 e.5 f.7
Unit 3
Optional listening1
A 1. Likes 2 dislikes
B 1. The comics page, the horoscope, the price
2. the news coverage, the headlines
Optional listening2
A Back row, left to right: Tom, Joseph, Olivia, Randy; Front row: Tina
B 1. Olivia 2. Amy 3. Randy 4. Tina
Optional listening 3
A 1. They Couldn’t Communicate 2. A Dangerous Occupation
3. Silent Beauties 4. A Very Busy Thief
B 1. Could not communicate with each other
2. he slipped on ice
3. they were camels
4. he didn’t return it to the car dealer
Optional listening 4
A First story: Kangaroo to the rescue!
Second story: An underwater post office?
B 1. 10 2. Farmer 3. Barking 4. Scuba diving
5. Draw tourists’ attention 6. Three
Optional listening 5
Cool 2. Sold out 3. Realizes 4. Music reviewer
5. Apartment building 6. get them concert tickets
7. Goes over 8. Invites him to go with her
9. a date with 10. Mind Takeshi going without him
Unit 4
Optional Listening 1
A Answer: flight attendant
B Answers: 1. No 2. No 3. No 4. Yes
Optional Listening 2
A Answers:
1. become a teacher 2. the teaching program is very good
3. a lot of practice 4. young kids
5. graduate from the university next June 6. a kindergarten
B Answers:
Position: brochure designer;
Requirements: computer skills; cooperative; flexibility in working hours; available right now
Optional Listening 3
A Answers:
1. information messages 2. warm and friendly
3. three days a week, practice a lot
4. she always screams and she has to avoid hurting her voice
5. by using her voice 6. a computer, a real person
Optional Listening 4
A Answers:
1. Ken 2. Steven 3. Ken 4. Steven
B Answers:
1. interviews 2. introduces 3. famous 4. loves 5. videotape
6. moves 7. drive 8. independent 9. stressful 10. hired
Unit 5
Optional Listening 1
Answers:
1. for mountain climbing
2. for trimming hair
3. for relaxing
4. for opening bottles
5. for slicing food
6. for cleaning tongues
Optional Listening 2
Answers: Shown on SB page.
Optional Listening 3
A Answers:
1. department stores, shopping malls
2. put up their Christmas window displays
3. companies just want them to spend more money
4. we can start thinking about what we really need in life
B Answers:
1. Buy Nothing Day
2. They shouldn’t spend any money for 24 hours.
3. In over 15 countries
4. Canada
5. The start of Christmas shopping season.
6. People are forgetting the real meaning of holidays
7. People’s idea about shopping
Optional Listening 4
A Answers: 1.b 2.d 3.e 4.g 5.f 6. a 7.c 8.h
B Answers: 1.a 2.b
C Answers:
Word-of-mouth Advertising:
It’s free; It’s much more believable; the company doesn’t have to create a complex business plan to advertise products; etc.
Paid Media Advertising:
It can sound insincere or unconvincing; etc.
Optional Listening 5
Answers:
1. shoot 2. president 3.starring 4.founded 5.show off
6. describes 7. lies down on it 8. falls asleep
9. when the phone rings 10. so they have decided to hire
Unit 6
Optional listening 1
A: b
B: 1. D 2. D 3. JC 4. JC 5. D 6. D 7. J 8. J
Optional listening 2
A: 1. a brand new, 20th 2. Joseph’s friend
B: 1. When she was a university student.
2. Not at all. It was an old little redToyota.
3. She worked the whole summer vacation in a restaurant.
4. Yes, she did. She took all her friends driving around every weekend.
5. An accident destroyed the car.
Optional listening 3
A: 1.f 2.d 3.c 4.b 5. e 6. a
B: 1. 60 hours
2. She was working so hard to pay for a big house, expensive furniture, a new car, and all the other “important” things in life.
3. Going out on her old houseboat.
4. She hears ducks and birds.
5. She can go fishing from her living room.
6. On weekends, she goes along the river on her boat, exploring new places.
C: 2 4 6
Optional listening 4
B: 1. They will sell their knowledge about using plants as medicine.
2. They will get jobs and education for their people to save their culture and language.
3. The monks record and sell their music.
4. They use the money for summer camps for teenagers.
C: 1. False 2.False 3. True 4 True 5. False 6. True
Unit 7
Optional listening1
A:1
B:Tyra: S,S Matt: C,S Mercedes: C, C
C:1.Tyra 2.Matt 3.Mercedes 4.Matt 5.Matt
Optional listening2
A:He is complaining about a broken traffic light in his community.
B:1.traffic accident 2.in danger 3.traffic control
4.the Department of Traffic Control TO solve the problem immediately
Optional listening3
A:
John: know our neighbors well
Susan: are not very frequent
B:
John:1.False;neighborhood watch, not patrolling
2.True 3.False;put signs in our windows, not put up notices
Susan:1.True 2.False;in cars, not by bike
3.True 4.False;on foot or on bicycle, not in cars
Optional listening 4
A:1.Yes,because the human population has increased very quickly in the last few decades.
2.Yes,because women should benefit from family planning programs and have more education and job opportunities.
B:1.d 2.c 3.a 4.b
C:1.F 2.T 3.T 4.T 5.F
Optional listening5
1. survey 2. noise pollution 3. what they like best 4. points out
5. affordableapartments 6. rude people 7. disagrees with
8. too much to enjoy 9.arguing about the issues
10. she doesn’t know and adds
Unit 8
Optional listening1
A: A
B: 1. TV, newspaper 2. TV, online
Optional listening 2
(Telling the truth is always the best policy. But it would be too simplistic to say that telling lies is always bad.)Telling a white lie is sometimes acceptable or even necessary.
B: 1. encourage people 2. to comfort people 3. to soothe 4. to children
Optional listening3
A
1. work in the same office 2.moving to another city
2. lying about her work experience
B.
4.with her two co-workers 5.Sally really has done 6.might get a job
Optional listening4
B: 1.P and S 2.P and S 3.D 4.S 5.P
C.
1.The man who got out of the other car was friendly
2.Philippe and Sophie climbed into the car.
3.The man drove Philippe and Sophie to a nearby village.
4.Philippe and Sophie had tea and local delicacies.