listen_to_this2_英语中级听力2答案及原文(9)

Time when she smokes most: Time when she never smokes: Section III

Task 1: Learning to Predict

1. Answer: They‘d be exhausted at the end of each performance.

Reason: ―Otherwise‖ suggests a result of the opposite condition. 2. Answer: I enjoyed it very much.

Reason: ―Apart from that I must say‖ often suggests an opposite statement to earlier comments. 3. Answer: I stayed up late to finish it.

Reason: ―And‖ suggests that the speaker would finish the book at one sit. 4. Answer: the book never really got started at all.

Reason: After an opinion of agreement, the phrase ―in fact‖ suggests a further comment; the

expression ―it‘s only honest to say‖ usually introduces a confession- something which is probably not as good as the one mentioned.

5. Answer: I tend to skip parts that don‘t really hold my interest.

Reason: ―Otherwise‖ suggests a result of the opposite condition. 6. Answer: it was rather long.

Reason: ―I must admit‖ suggests an agreement to the other person‘s opinion. Task 2: Dictation

Books Belong to the Past Sir,

I visited my old school yesterday. It hasn‘t changed in thirty years. The pupils were sitting in the same desks and reading the same books. When are schools going to move into the modern world? Books belong to the past. In our homes radio and television bring us knowledge of the world. We can see and hear the truth for ourselves. If we want entertainment most of us prefer a modern film to a classical novel. In the business world computers store information, so that we no longer need encyclopaedias and dictionaries. But in the schools teachers and pupils still use books. There should be a radio and television set in every classroom, and a library of tapes and records in every school. The children of today will rarely open a book when they leave school. The children of tomorrow won‘t need to read and Write at all.