新视野视听说教程4听力文本及答案docx.docx

1、新视野视听说教程4听力文本及答案docxTask 2: Big John is coming!A bar owner in the Old West has just hired a timid bartende匸 This (SI) owner of the establishment is giving his new hire some instructions on (S2) running the place He tells the timid man, “If you ever hear that Big John is coming to town, (S3) drop eve

2、rything and run for the hills! He，s the biggest, nastiest (S4) outlaw whos ever lived!A few weeks pass (S5) uneventfully. But one afternoon, a local cowhand comes running through town (S6) yelling, “Big John is coming! Run for your (S7) lives! When the bartender leaves the bar to start running, he i

3、s knocked to the ground by several townspeople rushing out of town. (S8) As hes picking himself up, he sees a large man, almost seven feet talk Hes muscular, and is growing as he approaches the bar.He steps up to the door, orders the poor barkeep inside, and demands, “I want a beer NOW!，He strikes h

4、is heavy fist on the bar, splitting it in half. (S9) The bartender nervously hands the big man a beer, hands shaking. He takes the beer, bites the top of the bottle off, and downs the beer in one gulp.As the terrified bartender hides behind the bar, the big man gets up to leave, Do you want another

5、beer? the bartender asks in a trembling voiceDang it, I dorTt have time!” the big man yells, (S10) “I got to get out of town! Don，t you hear Big John is coming?Task3: A View of HappinessDr. Smith has proposed a reasonable, if perhaps somewhat oversimplifies, view of happiness According to his theory

6、, happiness might be described as a state of balance. And when human or certain animals achieve that balance, they tend to remain in that condition in order to repeat the happy feeling.To illustrate this, we may study the action of two magnets. When their positive and negative poles meet, they are c

7、omfortably joined, and they remain there. In other words, they have attained a balance or state of happiness. If on the other hand, one of the poles is reversed, and positive pole is presses against positive pole, there is resistance, instability, imbalance a state of unhappinessAnimals with some de

8、gree of intelligence seem to find happiness in reinforcement. Once they have gained one or more of their goals such as food, and water, they learn to repeat the actions that led to satisfaction of those goals. This repetition or reinforcement produces a state of balance or sense of happinessAccordin

9、g to this theory, only animals with a significant capacity to learn should be able to experience happiness. But in truth learning can take place through surprisingly simple short-term action such as scratching an itch, followed by pleasure, followed by more scratching, and so on. Thus learning can o

10、ccur with almost no conscious thought.For human beings, blessed with the ability to reason, goals are not limited to the short-term satisfaction of needs. Indeed, there is a strong link between happiness and the fulfillment of long-term goals. Even if human strive for goals that are morecomplex and

11、longer-term than the animals9 goals, once those goals are gained, happiness is reinforced.Task 2: The Voice LiftAfter the face-lift, the forehead tightened, and the (SI) nose job, something still might be revealing your age: your (S2) voice.For patients who think their trembly, hoarse words dont (S3

12、) match their newly face and figure, there5s a procedure that claims to make them (S4) sound younger too: the voice lift.There are two general kinds of voice lifts. In some cases, implants (S5) inserted through an incision in the (S6) neck bring the vocal cords closer together. Doctors also use inje

13、ctions of (S7) fat or other substances to plump up the cords, so that the voice sounds younge匚(S8) The voice lift is becoming more widely known among an aging population who try to make themselves sound younger.“I speak in a great deal, or I was shouting, on a particular day, at the end of the day,

14、I would feel exhausted,said Robert Brown, 75, (S9) a retired construction engineer who underwent the voice lift several years ag(x “I don，t know if I sound younger, but the hoarseness is gone, which is such a great improvement：(S10) Voice lift can also benefit people like perfomieFS, lawyers, teache

15、rs, and telephone operators who need to have a strong voice and hope to shave years off the sound of their voiceTask3: A View of HappinessMen are turning to plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures to brighten up their appearances at a faster rate than women, according to a survey released on Wednesd

16、a y.Mens use of fat injections to soften deep wrinkles leaped 47 percent last year from the previous year. Womens use of the injections fell 36 percent, according to a survey by the American Academy of Facial and Plastic Reconstructive Surgeons.Mens use of botox injections to eliminate frown lines r

17、ose 88 percent, while womerfs botox use fell 8 percent.And for smoothing skin, the use of laser resurfacing among men rose 13percent, the survey showed. Meanwhile, womerfs use of laser resurfacing dropped 38 percent during the same time periodThe number of men getting nose jobs rose 47 percent, whil

18、e the number of women doing so rose 5 percentTypically, men and women visiting plastic surgeons for cosmetic reasons were age 40 to 59.The study said 44 percent of men and 57 percent of women tell their doctor that looking younger is the reason they are choosing cosmetic surgery.By about 18 percent,

19、 men are more likely than women to say they want facial cosmetic surgery for work-related reasons.The study was conducted by written questionnaires from January 20 to March 3 among more than 2,600 members of the association, who focus on treatment of the face, head, and neck.By comparison, in the pr

20、evious year, womens use of botox rose 60 percent while men，s fell 14 percent; womens use of laser resurfacing rose 13 percent while mens fell 19 percent; womens use of fat injections fell 17 percent and mens fell 54 percent.Task 2: Flooding in Haiti and the Dominican RepublicThe death too continues

21、to (SI) climb from last weeks flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic The U.S. Agency for International Development (S2) reports that at least 1,068 people are dead, 1,600 are (S3) missing, and 25,000 are in need of emergency food and other forms of (S4)assistance. In Dominican Republic, 414 ar

22、e dead and 274 are missing, all from the town of Jimani.A key(S5) factor in the widespread destruction is the extensive deforestation and the (S6) presence of settlements along the floodplains of rivers.The flooding was driven by intense rainfall. A low-pressure system (S7) originating in Central Am

23、erica brought exceptionally heavy rain and thunderstorms to Haiti and the Dominican Republic from May 18 t o25. (S8) Rainfall exceeded 500 mm (of 19.7 inches) along the border areas of Haiti and the Dominican Republic during that period. At the town of Jimani, Dominican Republic, 250mm (or 10 inches

24、) of rain fell in just 24 hours, causing the Solie River to overflow its banks from May24 to 25.The heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding and extensive debris flowed over the entire region. Swollen rivers and debris cut off many of the roads traversing the area along the base of the mountains. (

25、S9) This made it difficult for humanitarian relief worker to rescue stranded people and deliver badly.Now people want to know: How often do floods and related landmass movement alsocaused landsides in a few places. (SlO)Analysis of the past date shows that major floods in the Dominican Republic and

26、Haiti are now a neaoannual event. Since 1986, twelve lethal events have occurred on the island.Task3: A BlizzardA blizzard is a sever weather condition characterized by low temperatures and strong winds, greater than 15 miles per hour, bearing a great amount of snow.Because the factors for classifyi

27、ng winter storms are complex, there are many different definitions of what a blizzard truly is. But it is generally agreed that in order to be classified as a blizzard, as opposed to merely a winter storm, the weather must meet several conditions The storm must decrease visibility to a quarter of a

28、mile for three hours running. Include snow or ice as precipitation, and have wind speed of at least 32 miles per hour, which means Force 7 or more on the Wind ScaleAnother standard, according to Environment Canada, is that the winter storm must have winds of 40 kilometers per hour or mi=ore, plenty

29、of snow, visibility less than 1 kilometer, a temperature of less than 25 degrees Celsius, and all of these conditions must last for 4 hours or more, before the storm can properly be called a blizzard.When all these conditions continue after snow has stopped falling, the storm is referred t o as a gr

30、ound blizzardAn extensive form of blizzard is a whiteout, when the downdrafts, together with snowfall, become so sever that it is impossible to distinguish the ground from the air. People caught in a whiteout can quickly become disoriented, losing their sense of up and down as well as their sense of

31、 direction. Severe blizzard can also occur along witharctic cyclones.Task 2: SOHOThe modern concept of small office and home office, or small and home office, often (SI) shorted to SOHO, is concerned with business that employ from one to ten workers Also (S2) known as a virtual business, the SOHO ha

32、s not evolved beyond the idea of an (S3) independent business person who has a few support stall members.Business (S4) enterprises that are large are often called Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.Before the 19th century and the (S5) spread of the industrial revolution around the globe, (S6) nearly all offices were small offices or home offices, with only a few exceptions. Most businesses were small, and (S7) so was the amount of paperwork that went with their business activitiesAt the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, the term Small or