新世纪大学英语听说教程( Book III )
Optional Listening答案
Unit 1 Let’s Go Somewhere
Optional Listening1 ALong Weekend
A Answers: flew, four, three
B Answers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 8
Optional Listening 2 Before you go
A Answers: 1. I haven’t finished 2. I’ve canceled 3. I’ve picked up
4. I haven’t taken 5. Have you washed 6. I haven’t cleaned
7. I’ve watered 8. I’ve given 9. Have you packed
B Answers:
1. No, he didn’t.
2. She confirmed all the flights.
3. They wanted him to come in and water the plants for them.
4. Because the dog always looks scared.
5. They want to use it again on their next vacation.
Optional Listening 3 Tips for better packing
A Answers: 1. pre-trip planning 2. tagging luggage 3. saving space
4. your carry-on bag 5. other ideas
B Answers: 1. bad 2. good 3. bad 4. good 5. good 6. bad 7. good 8. good 9. bad 10. good
Optional Listening 4 Traveling alone
A Answers: 1. the advantages of traveling alone
B Answers: 3. study vacations 4. using your vacation to learn a sport
5. options for solo travelers
C Answers: 1. vacation college / research team volunteer
2. golf / mountain climbing / scuba diving / ride a horse
3. tours for: women only / people over 60 / singles looking for romance / fine riding
Unit 2 Indoors and Outdoors
Optional Listening 1 By car or by subway?
A Answer: City Zoo
B Answers: 1. car 2. easy 3. Church 4. park 5. three 6. two
Optional Listening 2 City life
A Answer: picture 1
B Answers: 1. transportation, too much traffic on the streets, not enough places for safe cycling and walking, dirty parks, no nightlife
2. improve transportation, build lanes for cyclists and walkers, clean the parks, build a theater
Optional Listening 3 Take back your streets!
A Answers: 1. To make it safer for pedestrians to cross the streets.
2. Kids played there, and neighbors stopped there to talk.
3. To get away from the noise and dangerous traffic.
4. They put old couches, tables and planters in the street.
5. The speaker means that streets belong to everybody in the neighborhood. They should become their outdoor living room, and safe places for their children again.
B Answers: 1. bad idea 2. good idea 3. bad idea 4. good idea 5. good idea
Optional Listening 4 The father of American landscape architecture
A Answer: a
B Answers: 1. F 2.F 3. T 4. T 5.T 6. T
C Answers: 2. beautiful, beautification 3. designed
4. industrialize 5. natural 6. opposition
UNIT 3 Life is All about Change
Optional Listening 1
A: Answers: 1. countries 2. war 3. 17 million
B: Answers: 1, 3, 4, 5, 8
Optional Listening 2
A: Answers: 23:return and get a job 30:become a father 50:retire
B: Answers: 1.on Friday at 2 p.m. 2.by taxi 3.have dinner at a restaurant
4.go to the beach and swim 5.sunny and beautiful
Optional Listening 3
B: Answers: shown on SB page.
Optional Listening 4
C: Answers:
Tina Vego: Family moved to another town/last year/Lonely/Smile at everyone
Frederick Cho: Lost his job/Three weeks ago/Upset/Exercise every day
Hazel Greene: Death of a loved one/Five years ago/Depressed/Stay active and positive
UNIT 4 Health
Optional Listening 1
A: Answers: c B: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8
Optional Listening 2
A: Answer: picture B
B: Answers: 1.drinking coffee 2.sleep at night 3.break that habit 4.wake up
5.advice 6.suddenly 7.get a headache 8.the amount of coffee
9.herbal tea 10.in the morning 11.do exercises 12.feel tired
Optional Listening 3
A: Answers: 1.d 2.e 3.f 4.a 5.c 6.b
B: Answers: 1.- 2.* 3.+ 4.- 5.+ 6.- 7.- 8.+ 9.* 10.+
Optional Listening 4
A : Answers: 1.CHAOS 2.information fatigue syndrome 3.hurry sickness
4.underload syndrome 5.phone neck
B: Answers:
2. information fatigue syndrome ;There is so much information, people become paralyzed and can’t think clearly.
Treatment: NM
3. hurry sickness; Always rushing, get headaches a lot.
Treatment: Take aspirin.
4. underload syndrome; Caused by having little or nothing to do at the office.
Treatment: NM
5. phone neck; Pain in the neck, caused by holding the phone between your neck and your ear for a long time.
Treatment: Message.
Unit 5 Student Life
Optional Listening 1 After you graduate
A Answer: What are you going to do
B Answers:
Muzuki: art, chill out/ relax
Robert: law, take a long trip
Optional Listening 2 They are going to …
A Answers:
Eduardo: live at home, study business, work part-time
Jill: join a sorority, do volunteer work;
Max and Sara: study together, work part-time
B Answers:
1. to keep learning all their lives
2. further her education
3. she needs to save money for her studies abroad
4. interests and personalities
5. To witness her children’s growth
Optional Listening 3 New graduates talk about future
B Answers:
Jameela:
Job: day care center
Dreams: become a doctor
Plans: start medical school, travel and do volunteer work inWest Africa
Jennie:
College Life: major: business
Hobby: cooking
Dreams: start her own business related to food
Shane:
College Life: major: computer science
Hobby: play music
Dreams: play music
Plans: interview with three software companies, get a job with a software company
Optional Listening 4 How I plan to spend my summer vacation
C Answers:
1.Europe 2. reporter, website 3. digital camera, salary 4. energy
Unit 6 Telecommunications
Optional Listening 1
A Answers: 1. No 2. Yes
B Answers: 1. 2143 2. 4213
Optional Listening 2
B Answers: 1.T 2. F 3. T 4.T 5. F 6. F
Optional Listening 3
B Answers: 1. Company 2. Budget 3. Voice dialing 4. Risky 5. Private
Optional Listening 4
C Answers: 1.F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. T
Unit7 Sports and Hobbies
Optional listening1 Atrip to theVistaView Resort
A Answers: a, c, d
B Answers : 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. F
Optional listening 2 My favorite hobby
B Answers:
1. nature photography 2. several national parks 3.MexicoandBrazil
4. birds and animals 5. I haven’t put them in albums yet.
Optional listening 3 Adventure Race
A Answers: 1.T 2. F 3. F 4. F 5. T 6. T 7. F 8. F
B Answers :
1. T
2. F; There were more than two hundred teams in the Hawaii Adventure Race
3. F; adventure racing started a few years ago.
4. F; In it ,people race non-stop, 24 hours a day
5. T;
6. T;
7. F; It is held every year in a different country and environment
8. F; In the race, all team members must finish togrther
Optional listening4 AStar in the X Games
B Answers :
1.Rhode Island,California, Phuker,Rio de Janeiro
2. Asia,Canada. Europe, south America, theUnited States
3. biking, skateboarding 4. skiing 5. vert
C Answers :
2. Most “X Gamers” are male, but there are a few women
3. She’s not afraid of the guys
4. She has a boyfriend
5. Fabiola has become famous in the skating world
6. She comes fromBrazil
7. She has been skating for years
Unit 8 Men and Women
Optional Listening 1
A. Answers: 1. friends 2. classmates 3. teammates
B. Answers: 1.T 2. NM 3.NM 4. T 5. NM
Optional Listening 2
A: Answers:1. False; many, not three 2. True
3. False; unfavorable, not favorable 4. False; unattractive, not attractive
B: Answers:
1. appeal to, pose risks to 2. it may lower their chances of getting the job
3. tattoos are permanent
4. no matter what the reasons there might be for getting a tattoo
Optional Listening 3
B: Answers: 1. Face to face 2. looks, personality, sincereity
3. all of their great qualities, the bad points
4. at uour job 5. a relaxed way, no pressure
Optional Listening 4
A: Answers:
going out with friends, a peraonal introduction, a matchmaking party, Internet dating, speed dating
B: Answers:
1.F; not matched with two, didn’t match with any 2.T
3. F; notMaxicoCity, a small town 4. T 5. T
6. F; not has already, hasn’t 7.T 8. F; not practical, romantic