《大学英语视听说教程》第2册(2016)Unit10答案

PART ONE WARMING UP

Key:

Suggested answers: littering, spitting, snatching bus seats, queue-jumping, taking off shoes and socks in public, speaking loudly, bad temper and cursing, smoking in non-smoking/smoke-free areas

PART TWO LISTENING

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The generation that’s remaking China

Task 1: Watch the 1st part of a TED talk entitled“The generation that’s remaking China” and complete the notes. The speaker talks about young people through the platform of 1. social media. GuoMeimei • Showed off her 2. expensive bags, clothes and car on her microblog, which is the Chinese 3. version of Twitter; • Claimed to be the general manager of Red Cross at the Chamber of Commerce; • Aroused questioning against the 4. credibility of Red Cross, which had to open a press 5. conference to clarify the issue; • The public’s attitude toward Guo and Red Cross reveals a mistrust of government-related 6. institutions and shows the power of microblog. Traditional media vs. social media • Microblog boomed in 7. 2010; • Sina.com has over 8. 140 million microbloggers; Tecent has 9. 200 million; • Traditional media is heavily controlled by 10. the government, so social media offers 11. an openingfor the public. Task 2: Watch the 2nd part of the talk and link the items to “Chinese youth”which were used to describe this group of people.

Chinese (a) One Child policy (d) balanced gender distribution youth (b) low illiteracy rate (c) high income

(e) facing an ageing society (f) tribe of ants 1

Task 3: Watch the last part of the talk and answer the following questions. Key:

1. Because they consume luxury brands in an unreasonable manner. They are taking those bags

and clothes as a sense of identity and social status.

2. It does not mean they will wear nothing in the wedding, but it shows that these young

couples are ready to get married without a house, without a car, without a diamond ring and without a wedding banquet, to show their commitment to true love.

3. Two examples have been mentioned. One is that people rescued 500 dogs through social

media. The other is that people are helping to find missing children through social media.

Text 2

Task 1: Watch a movie clip and choose the right answer to each of the following questions.

1. The girls were __________ in the room.

A. having a party

B. listening to an art lecture

C. reproducing a work by van Gogh D. waiting for a newly-married girl

2. The painter van Gogh was __________.

A. treated unfairly by other painters B. misunderstood by all his friends

C. poor yet admired for his honesty in his lifetime

D. regarded as one of the greatest painters in the world

3. __________ made van Gogh’s works available to the masses.

A. An easy way of reproduction technique B. A special kind of modern art C. A new printing technique D. A special kind of brushes

4. What did the teacher think of marriage on campus?

A. Marriage should not affect one’s school work. B. Students should not be allowed to get married. C. Married students should respect their teachers. D. Pre-marriage education is necessary to students.

Task 2: Listen to the following sentences, and fill the gaps.

1. He painted what he felt, not what he saw. People didn’t understand. They may think it

childlike and crude.

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2. With the ability to reproduce art, it is available to the masses. No one needs to own a van Gogh original. 3. They can paint their own van Gogh in a box, ladies. The newest form of mass-distributed art:

paint by numbers.

4. Look at what we have done to the man who refused to conform his ideals to popular taste, who refused to compromise his integrity. 5. Well, thank God I didn’t miss the paint-by-numbers lecture. I was on my honeymoon and then I had to set up house.

6. Then why not get married as freshmen? That way you could graduate without actually ever

stepping foot on campus. 7. -- Don’t disregard our traditions just because you’re subversive.

-- Don’t disrespect this class just because you’re married. 8. If you fail me, there will be consequences. 9. -- Are you threatening me?

-- I’m educating you.

PART THREE SPEAKING

Task 1: Watch a news report on bad behavior of tourists and briefly answer the questions. Key:

1. Chinese tourists’ indecent use of the toilet/bad behavior in the toilet.

2. He was so disgusted by the mess that the next day tourists from China were forbidden to

enter the White Temple.

3. Taking photos in the Temple of Angkor, naked; camping next to the Great Wall regardless of

the signs; relieving yourself in inappropriate places; damaging historical relics.

PART FOUR WORD STRESS BOX

Task 2: The following words are similar but have different stress patterns. Read them aloud and find out if there are some rules.

’equal e’quality ’equalize ,equali’zation ’final fi’nality ’finalize ,finali’zation ’neutral neu’trality ’neutralize ,neutrali’zation

Task 3: Work in pairs. Student A reads a statement from the following list. Student B responds. Pay special attention to the stress of multi-syllable words.

Example: Student A: I do magic. What am I? Student B: You’re a magician. 1. I play music.

(musician) 6. I make people beautiful.

(beautician)

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2. I study history. 3. I do technical work. 4. I work in a library. 5. I work in politics.

(historian) 7. I fix electrical appliances. (technician) 8 . I take photographs. (librarian) 9. I only eat vegetables. (politician) 1 0.I study grammar.

(electrician) (photographer) (vegetarian) (grammarian)

PART FIVE HOMEWORK

Task 1: In this part, you are going to hear people talking about behaviors in a different culture.

Listen carefully and do the exercises.

People in the States are so (1) connected to their cars. They are so (2) concerned whether their cars look good, and they talk about their cars (3) a lot. I think that cars (4) isolate people. Public transportation (5) brings people together… and it’s better for the (6) environment. Americans (7) live in their cars. This is one thing about the living here that I just (8) can’t get used to. II

Listen and decide whether the following statements are true or false.

(T) 1. People in Tokyo feel surprised to see the speaker eat with chopsticks. (F) 2. The speaker thinks of himself as some kind of genius.

(F) 3. According to the speaker, it is something unusual for Japanese people to speak English.

Listen again and fill in the blanks with the words you’ve heard.

People in Tokyo (1) overreact when I can use chopsticks or speak the language. I’ve been living here for three years –of course I can eat with chopsticks and say some things in their language. They act as if I were some kind of (2) genius who had (3) broken a secret code, or as if I had just done them (4) a really big favor. I don’t (5) congratulate them when they speak English to me. I don’t get (6) what the big deal is.

Task 2: In this part, you are going to hear people talking onthe subject of friendship.

Listen and decide if the following statements are true or false.

(F) 1. Martin always turns to his friends for help when he’s in trouble. (T) 2. Jean thinks nothing is more important than friendship. (T) 3. Robert has lived in many places.

(F) 4. Robert likes to contact his friends by letters though he doesn’t write good letters.

(T) 5. Jean believes that friendship can still be there although friends no longer live in the same

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area.

Listen again and complete the sentences below.

How important are friends to you?

Martin thinks family is more important than friends because he comes from a big family and he can get help from his family when he needs help.

Jean thinks friendship is more important than love because love may lead to a lot of hurt feelings and bitterness, while a good friend is a friend for life. What exactly do you mean by a friend?

Jean thinks a friend is someone who you can count on, who will help you if you need help, who will listen to you when you talk about your problems.

Robert thinks a friend is someone who likes the same things that you do, who you can argue with and not lose your temper even if you don’t always agree about things, whoyou don’t have to talk with all the time but can be silent withperhaps.

Task 3: Watch a TED talk “Which country does the most good for the world”. Good countries:

No. 1 Ireland No. 2 Finland No. 3Switzerland

The speaker’s criteria:

This is a country which simply gives more to humanity/the world than any other country.

Step 3: Listen to the talk and complete the sentences. 1. First of all I want to tell you precisely what I mean when I say a good country. 2. According to the data here, no country on Earth, per head of population, per dollar of GDP, contributes more to the world that we live in than Ireland. 3. This means that as we go to sleep at night, all of us in the last 15 seconds before we drift

off to sleep, our final thought should be, God dammit, I’m glad that Ireland exists. 4. In the depths of a very severe economic recession, I think that there’s a really important

lesson there, that if you can remember your international obligations whilst you are trying to rebuild your own economy, that’s really something. 5. This depressed me, because one of the things that I did not want to discover with this index is that it’s purely the province of rich countries to help poor countries. 6. And indeed, if you look further down the list, I don’t have the slide here, you will see

something that made me very happy indeed, that Kenya is in the top 30, and that demonstrates one very, very important thing. 7. This is about attitude. 8. This is about culture. 9. Countries like China and Russia and India, which is down in the same part of the index,

well, in some way, it’s not surprising.

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They’ve spent a great deal of time over the last decades building their own economy, building their own society and their own polity.

11. But it is to be hoped that the second phase of their growth will be somewhat more

outward-looking than the first phase that has been so far.

12. You can look right down to the level of the individual datasets.

13. It’s something that you might find easy to do and you might even find enjoyable and

even helpful to do, and that’s simply to start using the word “good” in this context. 14. Ultimately, that, I think, is what will make the change.

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