现代大学英语听力基础教程 听力文本unit
Task 4
A: what's the matter with you? You look B: It's us.
A: What do you mean "us"?
A: what do you mean? We're talking now, aren't we?
B: yes, but we used to do so much together.
A: We still go to the ,don't we ?
B: Yes, but we used to go for walks together, remember?
A: All I can remember is B: And we used to running through the park.
A: Yes, I remember. I used to catch terrible colds! Honestly ,
you're being B: And we never used to used to think I
,once. Where are you going?
That's something else I used to do before
we were married, remember?
Task 5
Where ’s the book you bought yesterday?
I left it at home. Why?
Is that a novel written in simple English?
Yes, it’s very interesting.
Have you finished it?
No. I’m only half way through. I also saw you reading something the other day. Was it good?
Yes. It was a novel I borrowed from the school library. It is about an honest government official who fights corruption bravely.
Is that the one that has been turned into a movie recently?
Yes, that’s the one. But the book is much more exciting than the movie.
Let ’s exchange when we finish reading our book, shall we? Sure.
Task 7
What are you reading there, Tim?
A book. It’s called an experiment with dreams.
What ’s it about?
It ’s about dreams, of course.
Yes, I know that. But what does it say about dreams?
Well, the writer believes that we can see the future in our dreams.
Really? What makes him think that?
He says that he got the idea because he had one or two strange dreams. First he dreamed about something and afterwards it actually happened. His dream came true!
What sort of things?
Well, for example, he dreamed that his watch had stopped. When he got up, he fetched his watch, it was on the desk- and he found that it really had stopped and at the same time as in his dreams.
That ’s interesting. But perhaps his mind was playing tricks. The mind ’s a funny thing! What else did he dream?
Sometimes he read something in the newspapers-- a report of a an air crash, for example-- and then he remembered that he ’d had a dream about it the night before.
But he probably dreams about air crashes and things like that almost every night. That doesn’t prove anything, really. I’m sure i ’ve never dreamed about the future. Have you?
I don’t think so. But i/m not really sure. You see, we forget most of our dreams when we wake up, don’t we? This book says that we should try to remember our dreams. The writer did an experiment with a small group of people. He told them to write notes about their dreams as soon as they woke up. He says that quite a lot of them dreamed about things that happened later.
Well, i don’t believe it. I don’t think it’s possible to dream about the future. Do you?
I ’m not sure. Sometimes i get a funny feeling. Something happens, and then i feel sure that it ’s happened before-- i ’ve seen it before. Time’s a funny thing, you know!
Task 11
Sometimes I really feel that I can't trust anybody anymore. Why do you say that?
You see, you get cheated almost every day. You buy a chicken, it's filled with sand; you get a bottle of liquor, it's mixed with DDVP; you take some medicine, and it's made of simple flour. These things do happen, but they are exceptions rather than the rule. Most people are honest. Otherwise the society will completely collapse.
Have you been honest all your life,Wang?
Let me be honest with you. No, I haven't. I have lied many times, sometimes harmless white lies, sometimes serious lies I'm ashamed of.
The same here. So when history says that George W ashington can't lie, I find it difficult to believe.
You should listen to Mark Twain. He said, "I'm different from
Washington. I CAN lie, but I WON'T."
Task 12
The lights were red, so the old man stopped his car and waited for them to change to green. While he was waiting, a police car came up behind him, hit his car hard in the back and stopped.
There were two policemen in the police car, ad they very surprised and glad when the old man got out of his car and walked towards them without any trouble after such an accident. He was over 70 years old.
The old man came to the door of the police car, smiled kindly, and said, " Tell me, young men, how do you stop this car when the lights are red and I am not here?"