《英语听力教程3》第二版_Unit9_答案

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Part I Getting ready

A.

B. Keys:

1: F 2: T 3: F 4: F

C. Keys:

1: comedy 2: women 3: scenery 4: One 5: American 6: patriotism 7: European

8: 1920s 9: maturity 10: popular 11: 1943 12: plot 13: hit 14: golden age

15: all over the world 16: mainstay 17: music of Broadway 18: classic

Part II Times Square

A. Keys:

1: Because it is the name for the area around where Broadway crosses Forty-Second Street in Manhattan

2: In 1904, it got its name in an area which was then called Long Acre Square.

3: New York Times newspaper, New Year celebrations, Entertainment, Its huge colorful signs

B. Keys:

1: seedy, drug dealers, pornography or cheap knock-off,

2: be widened, declined, upscale, Times Square clothing and accessories

Part III What is a pub?

A. (Outline) Keys:

1: sign 2: name 3: sale of alcoholic drinks 4: 10:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 5: 6 p.m. - 11 p.m. 6: Sundays 7: 7 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. 8: accommodation

B. Keys:

1: That is because they seldom find the word "pub" in the name of a pub. Very often many pubs have names linked to royalty, sports, popular heroes or great occasions.

2: The first thing to look for is a large sign either hanging over the street or placed on a pole outside the building.

3: "Saloon Bar" is more comfortably furnished.

4: That means the pub doesn't buy its drinks from one particular brewery only. It isn't tied to a brewery.

C. Keys:

1: coaches welcomed by appointment 2: bar food - lunchtimes only

3: pub accommodation 4: facilities for the disabled 5: a pub of historic interest

Part IV More about the topic: The Song Yankee Doodle

A. Keys:

1: Colonists in the northeast part of America

2: All Americans 3: American soldiers

B. Keys:

1: little 2: British 3: British 4: foolish 5: colonists 6: words 7: 1770s

8: soldiers 9: music 10: defeated 11: same 12: represents

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Part V Do you know…?

A. Keys:

1：It's Christmas Eve supper.

2：There are 12 traditional dishes on the table.

3：They just break wafers with each other, wishing each other good luck.

4：The children go to the other room, where the big Christmas tree stands. Under the tree there are some Christmas presents.

5：They go to church at midnight.

B. Keys: 1：c 2：a 3：b 4：b 5：c

Tape script

Part I Getting ready

B.

A: Are you ready for the trip to the museum in "The Big Apple"? I can hardly wait.

B: "The Big Apple"? What are you talking about?

A: "The Big Apple" is the nickname for New York City. You are going to New York with us, aren't you?

B: Yes, I'm going. I'm especially looking forward to seeing the Museum of Modern Art. There's a special show of 20th century American painters there. But, tell me, where did the nickname "The Big Apple" come from?

A: The jazz musicians of the 1920's are responsible for the name. When they played a concert in a city, they called that city an apple. Of course New York was the biggest city in the country and best place for a jazz concert. So the musicians called it "The Big Apple".

B: Amazing! New York is such a fascinating place and it even has an interesting nickname, one that it's had for more than 50 years.

C.

Most scholars believe that The Black Crook in 1866 marked the beginning of the musical comedy, integrating music, dance and comedy, with an emphasis on beautiful women and spectacular scenery. But it was during World War One and after, that the musical developed as a uniquely American idiom. Song-and-dance man George M. Cohan exploited Americans’ sense of patriotism, moving away from European influences. In the 1920s, songwriters who included Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, brought the musical to maturity with their meticulous crafting of music and lyrics to create the American popular song.

The modern musical was born in 1943 with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma, which revolutionized the way dance, music and dialogue was used to develop the plot and characters. Other songwriters of the 1940s, 50s and 60s, including Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen and Leonard Bernstein, capitalized on that winning formula to write so many hit musicals, that that era is now referred to as “Broadway’s golden age.” Since then, American musicals have been translated and produced on stages all over the world. The music has become a mainstay among vocalists and jazz musicians, making clear the expression that the music of Broadway is truly “America’s classic music.”

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Part II Times Square

A.

"Times Square is New York." Those are the words of the head of the Times Square Alliance, a coalition of area businesses. The millions of visitors to Times Square each year would probably agree. The area has one of the most recognizable names in the world. But, Times Square is not really a square. It is the name for the area around where Broadway crosses Forty-Second Street in Manhattan. The Times Square area stretches more than ten blocks north to south. The borders to the east and west are uneven. Some people call the shape of the area a bow tie. Times Square gets its name from the New York Times newspaper. In 1904, the newspaper began to build its headquarters in what was then called Long Acre Square. The city's underground train system built a stop under the Times Tower. The city renamed the area Times Square. On December 21st, 1904, the newspaper held a big celebration in Times Square to welcome the New Year. Fireworks lit the sky. Celebrations have taken place every year since then. Now, crowds also watch a big glass ball slide down a pole as the New Year arrives. Hundreds of businesses are in Times Square. The alliance says twenty percent of all hotel rooms in New York City are in Times Square. It says Times Square also has about six and one-half million square meters of office space. And more is being built. Times Square is home to famous Broadway theaters. And several television companies have studios there. MTV is one of them. Times Square is probably most famous for its huge colorful signs. The alliance says Times Square is the only place in New York where businesses are required to use them.

B.

It is another typical morning in Times Square: Taxi cabs blare their horns, 15-meter-tall billboards look down over throngs of people hurrying by, and in the middle of it all, members of a smash Broadway musical climb up on a stage to dance and sing for the tourists. The entertainment is being organized by the Times Square Business Improvement District, the people responsible for making the area as welcoming to tourists as possible. Right now, the square is crowded and business is booming. So much so, in fact, that several sidewalks had to be widened recently to cope with the increase in visitors. And some New Yorkers are even pushing for the entire area to be off limits to traffic: modeling Times Square after a European plaza. It has not always been this way. Until a decade or so ago, Times Square had the well-deserved reputation of a seedy neighborhood teeming with prostitutes and drug dealers. A sizeable part of the area's economy came from stores selling pornography or cheap knock-off goods. The city government neglected the area, spending little of its tourism budget on improvements. But today, theaters, restaurants and upscale stores have replaced the sex shops. A thriving partnership between City Hall and private businesses, such as Disney Company, has revitalized Times Square. The current mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, has made it a priority to clean up the area. Crime rates have declined and visitors feel a lot safer on the square. Part of that effort has involved the Times Square Business Improvement District and its President, Brendan Sexton. Mr. Sexton and his colleagues are launching a new line of Times Square clothing and accessories which, they hope, will compete with everything else on offer to visitors to New York. Instead of just passing through Times Square and stopping only to take a picture of all the flashing lights and neon signs, Mr. Sexton hopes tourists will stop and shop, and bring a little piece of the revitalized Times Square home with them.

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Part III What is a pub?

A. B.

There are visitors who come to England and leave thinking they have never been inside a pub. They don't realize that the words "pub" or "public house" are rarely included in the title of the place. So how do you know whether a building is a pub and what does a pub offer the visitor? The first thing to look for is a large sign either hanging over the street or placed on a pole outside the building. This sign may have a name like The Kings Arms, The Black Rabbit or The Duke of Kendal or an appropriate picture. Many pubs have names linked to royalty, popular heroes, sports or great occasions. There is a pub called The Concorde after the new airliner.

On the doors of a pub you may see the words "Saloon Bar" or "Public Bar". The "Saloon Bar" is more comfortably furnished. Occasionally the words "Free House" can be seen beside the name of the pub. This doesn't mean they serve free food and drink; it refers to the fact that the pub doesn't buy its drinks from one particular brewery only. It isn't a "tied house" — tied to a brewery.

The services a pub offers vary around the country. The basic service is the sale of alcoholic drinks at certain times of the day. Opening times, as these periods are often called, are usually from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays. On Sundays the opening times are 12 noon until 2 p.m. and 7 - 10:30 p.m. although these times can vary slightly according to the region. Pubs can also offer food and accommodation. To help visitors, an experimental system of symbols has been tried out in Southern England and East Anglia. These symbols indicate just what is available from a particular pub.

C.

The picture with a bed in it tells you that the pub provides accommodation. Do you find the picture with a person on the wheelchair? That means it has facilities for the disabled. Next try to find the picture with a very cozy village house. This is a pub of historic interest. How about that picture with a coach? You may already have guessed the meaning out: coaches welcomed by appointment. Could you figure out the meaning of the last one? Why does it have the word "Lunch" below the word "Bar"? Well, that means bar food is only served at lunchtimes.

Part IV More about the topic: The Song Yankee Doodle

Our question this week asks about the song "Yankee Doodle". To explain, we must go back more than 200 years. The American colonies had not yet won independence from England. The British used the word "Yankee" to describe colonists in the northeast part of America. That area was known as New England. After the War for Independence, the British used the word to mean all Americans. And during both World Wars American soldiers were known as Yankees or just Yanks. That was the song "Yankee Doodle". History experts do not know exactly when it was written. Some research shows the date may have been during the 1750's. Many stories say a British army doctor wrote the song when England was fighting the French and the Indians in North America. There is little confirmation of these stories. We do know, however, that "Yankee Doodle" was sung by the British to make the colonial people of North America look foolish. And we know the song became popular among the colonists themselves. Many knew at least some of the words. The British continued to use the song to make Yankees look foolish until the early days of the War for Independence in the 1770's. Stories say, British soldiers marching out of the city of Boston stepped in time to the music of "Yankee Doodle". Those same soldiers were defeated by colonial

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troops at the town of Concord singing the same song. Since then, "Yankee Doodle" has been a song that represents the United States.

Part V Do you know…?

A.

People tend to spend Christmas with your closest relatives, and the most important point of Christmas is Christmas Eve supper. And the whole family just gathers around the table, and there are twelve traditional dishes on the table, and you are supposed to taste them all, because if you don't try any of them you may face some misfortune in the following year. Well, before everybody sits down to eat the supper, we just break wafers with each other, wishing each other good luck. When the supper is over the children go to the other room, where the big Christmas tree stands, and they find some Christmas presents under the Christmas tree. And after the supper, the whole family just sit around the table singing Christmas carols, and waiting for midnight, when they go to church.

B.

Building castles in the air has been a custom in the Spanish region of Catalunya for 200 years — human castles. There are now about 10 000 members of 58 clubs, and the sport has been booming since it began to be televised several years ago. The idea is to raise a human tower as high as possible in a town square, then dismount it without it collapsing. Back in 1852 the first nine-level castle was raised. Many clubs have equaled that record, but none had managed a 10 until Nov.15, 1998, when a club from the town Vilafranca did the impossible. The top person — usually a small boy or girl — raised one arm to show the tower was complete. Then it collapsed.

A week later, this group in Terrassa raised and lowered a tower of 10 levels. Castles require

strength, agility, patience and as many as 700 people, most of them in the base or ready to catch those who fall.