大二英语听力教程Unit 3

UNIT 3Listening and Translation 1 Girls score higher than boys in almost every country. 2 Difference between males and females are a continuing issue of fierce debate. 3 Cultural and economic influences play an important part. 4 But recent findings suggest that the answer may lie in difference between the male and female brain. 5 There include differences in learning rates.

1 几乎在所有的国家里，女孩子都比男孩子得分高。 2 男女差异一直是激烈争论的焦点。 3 文化和经济的影响起着重要作用。 4 但是最新的发现提示，答案也许在于男女大脑的差异。 5 这些包括学习速度上的差异。

Placido Domingo

Born: January 21, 1941 - Madrid, Spain The famous Spanish tenor(男高音) and able conductor The three tenors: Carreras卡雷拉 (Spain)- Domingo多明戈(Spain)Pavarotti帕瓦罗蒂(Italy) 。

Part 1 Dialogue—Unusual OccupationExercise1. three years 3. Renaissance music 6. men 8. men 10.love songs 2. desperate for romance 4. serenades 7. women 9. theatre 11. white tie

5. turned the serenade into an art form for hire

12. tails14. chocolate hearts 16. balcony 18. fire escapes 20. ￡450 22. burst into tears 24. completely misinterpreted

13. Italian songs15. flowers 17. trees 19. whether a musician comes along or not 21. a gondola and a group of musicians 23. avoid unpleasant situations

Part 2 Passage—Memory TechniqueExercise B Sentence Dictation 1.Mnemonics are methods for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall. 2. Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. 3. While language is one of the most important aspects of human evolution, it is only one of the many skills and resources available to our minds. 4. Association is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it. 5. Location gives you two things: a coherent context into which you can place information, and s way of separating one mnemonic from another. Exercise C 1.T 2.T 3.F 4.T 5.F 6.F 7. T 8.T

News Item 1Exercise A Asian countries’ reactions to the Japanese Prime Minister’s annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine.

Exercise B1 China and South Korea strongly criticized the Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi again because he visited the controversial war shrine which commemorates the Japanese war dead including some people convicted of war crimes. 2 As the world’s second largest economy, Japan should be a leading voice at the annual meeting of Pacific Rim leaders. 3 The growing isolation of Japan in the region is being highlighted.

4 China has indicated its President Hu Jingtao would not meet Mr. Koizumi and South Korean President says he’ll only greet him out of courtesy as the host of the meeting. 5 Yes. China’s Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said that relations between the two countries were in diffic

ulty and the Japanese were to blame.

News Item 2Exercise A The talks between three European Union countries and Iran to find a basis for resuming negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. Exercise B 1 Britain, France and Germany 2 Iranian representatives

3 resuming negotiations5 high-level talks 7 defusing

4 sensitive nuclear activities6 8 diminished hopes Recent declarations

9the prospects for a compromise

10 enough common grounds

News Item3Exercise A European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, which is expected to give formal approval to the EU’s new mission to monitor the border between Gaza Strip and Egypt.