进阶听说lesson5

　　Unit Five Cliamate and Weather
1.B
Listening, Following these instructions and doing these exsercises
1. A: Have you just come from Hawait? Those are beautiful flowers.
B: Thank you. Yes, I've just arrivd from Honolulu.
A: Honolulu! Now that's exciting! Palm¹ trees, and hula danceing. I bet² the weather's nice there now.
B: Oh, it's beautiful right now, It's always nice and hot in June and July, It's best time to vist.
A: So I hear, And it never rains, does it?
B: You'd be surprised! In fact, it rain quite a lot from November to February. So you go there during the winter, you should take a umbrella. I think the hotels keep quiet about the rain, they want to keep it secret.
2. A: Where to?
B: The San Francisco Hilton, please. It's cool,eh?
A: Well, San Francisco is usually cold in the winter, you know in Noverber, December, January. It's often very rainly, and it's sometimes...
B: But it gets very hot in the summer, doesn't it?
A: Not really, It's not really like the rest of California⁴, It gets warm though in July and August. That's best time to vist. Uh,Oh, here comes the rain, just like in England.
B: That is right.
3. A: Where to, Sir?
B: The Egyptian Consulate⁵, Please.
A: OKay, I saw film about Egypt on the TV a couple of weeks ago, It's really hot there, isn't?
B: Not all the time, It's only hot from about March to October, During...
A: Oh yeah, And how about the rest of the year?
B: Well, it's never really very cold, But it gets quite cool between November and February. I prefered Cairo⁶ in the winter myself, It's much more comfortable than in the summer, You should vist Egypt, come for a vacation! Ride around pyramids⁷ on a camel.
A: Mmm, Maybe.
4. A: Are you from Austualia?
B: Yes, I am from Melbourne, I've...
A: So the seasons are all upside⁸ down for you over here!
B: That's right, It's pretty cold and rainy during June and July.
A: Mm!
B: And you can eat christmas dinner in hot sunshine!
A: Yeah!
B: A lot of people go to the beach on Christmas Day for a barbecue!
2.A
Listening, Following these instructions and doing these exsercises
It's pleasant 73 degree here. For those of you traveling tomorrow, Here is quick look at the weather for cities around the world. In Amsterdan it should be clear tomorrow with a high of 82 and a low of 70. Athens⁹ is also expected to be clear with a high of 80 and a low of 70. Bangkok will be cloudy with a high of 90 and a low of 75. We also expect BeiJing to be cloudy with a high of 96 and a low of 64. In Bogota you'll need your raincoats with rain expected and a high of only 56, At night the temperature go down to 48. It'll also rain ih Cairo, But much warm with a high of 93 and a low of 73. Dublin will be cloudy, as it often is at this time of the year, with a high of 75 and a low of 65. Istanbul will be clear with a high of 86 and a low of 70. While in Moscow the weather will be cloudy and on the cool side with temperature only reach a high of 66 and going down to 48 at night. If you don't want to hot weather, stay away from New Delhi where the temperture expect to reach a high of 112 under cloudy skies, and go down to a not very comfortable low of 80. For a beautiful day go to Warsaw where the skies will be clear and the temperature a pleasant 79 degrees going down to 59 in the evening. And that's it for weather around the world.
2.B
Listening, Following these instructions and doing these exsercises
A: And that is Friday night news, Now over to Dave Spellman for the weekend weather forcast. Dave, what do you have story for us this weekend?
B: Well, Linda, it's still raining here in Chicago, and it looks like the rain is going to continue through the weekend. It'll be cloudy tomorrow with scattered¹⁰ showers, and the outlook¹¹ for saturday--more rain and cold, The predicted¹² high for tomorrow is 45 degrees Fahrenheit¹³, But the thermometer¹⁴ is expected to dip to the freezing point tomorrow night, with temperature 32 degrees, I'm afraid cold weather is on its way!
Let's take look now the weather cross the country. Showers expected tomorrow down the West Coast as far South as San Francisco, Fair weather in the low's 70 predicted for the Los Angeles area: fair in San Diego.
There is cool front from Canada moving down throuth the Western states, 38 degrees in Denver, Colorado, with 30-mile-an-hour winds, and it's expected to be cold and windy righ through the weekend. Dallas is expecting unseasonably cold weather-48 degrees.
It's raining as far east as Detroit and Toronto, and that rain is going to contiue through tomorrow, When it may turn to snow, Currently¹⁶ 43 degreess in Detroit, 41 degrees in Toronto. And temperatures dropping.
It's snowing heavily in Montreal, Ladies and Gentlemen, It's first storm of the season, and we expect that snow activity to move down from Ganada into the eastern states, Sometime³ tomorrow, probably reaching the New York area sometime tomorrow night.
Good weather across the south, clear skies in Miami, and they're going to enjoy a sunny 78 degrees in that town this weekend, so if you're thinking about a vacation, Now's time to do it. Back to Chicago. Once again, continuing rain tonight through saturday, Current¹⁵ temperature, 38 degrees. And that winds up our weather report for this evening, This is Dave Spellman, Have a good night, and if you're going out, don't forget you umbrella.

1 palm   

n.手掌，棕榈，胜利；vt.与…握手，藏…于掌中

参考例句：

• That woman had her husband in the palm of her hand.那女人牢牢地控制住她丈夫。
• Palm trees grow all around the island.岛上到处长着棕榈树。

2 bet   

v.打赌，以(与)...打赌；n.赌注，赌金；打赌

参考例句：

• I bet you can't do this puzzle.我敢说，你解决不了这个难题。
• I offered to bet with him.我提出与他打赌。

3 sometime   

adv.将来某一时候；改天

参考例句：

• He came sometime last month.上个月某个时候他曾经来过。
• It will happen sometime and somewhere.有朝一日这总会在什么地方发生的。

4 California   

n.加利福尼亚(美国)

参考例句：

• He was elected governor of the state of California.他当选为加州州长。
• We were driving on a California freeway.我们正沿着加利福尼亚的一条快车道驾车行驶。

5 consulate   

n.领事馆

参考例句：

• The Spanish consulate is the large white building opposite the bank.西班牙领事馆是银行对面的那栋高大的白色建筑物。
• The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux.美国领事馆是位于波尔多市中心的一座宏伟的大厦。

6 Cairo   

n.开罗(埃及首都)

参考例句：

• They get onto the plane at Cairo.他们在开罗上飞机。
• Cairo is the capital of Egypt.开罗是埃及的首都。

7 Pyramids   

n.金字塔( pyramid的名词复数 )；金字塔形的物体（或一堆东西）；金字塔式的组织（或系统）；棱锥（体）

参考例句：

• One of the seven wonders of the ancient world was the Pyramids. 金字塔是古代世界的七大奇迹之一。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Great Pyramids and the Sphinx are nearby. 雄伟的金字塔和狮身人面像就在附近。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 upside   

n.上侧，上段，上部

参考例句：

• The children hung the picture upside down.小孩把画挂倒了。
• If you turn the envelope upside down, the key will fall out.你如果把信封倒过来，钥匙就会掉出。

9 Athens   

n.(希腊城市名)雅典

参考例句：

• Athens is often called the queen of the Aegean.雅典时常被人称为爱琴海上的皇后。
• China did very well in the last Olympics in Athens.中国在上届雅典奥运会上取得了优异的成绩。

10 scattered   

adj.分散的，稀疏的；散步的；疏疏落落的

参考例句：

• Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。

11 outlook   

n.观点，见解；展望，前景

参考例句：

• The outlook for the economy is bright.经济前景光明。
• Her outlook gradually widens.她的眼光渐渐开阔了。

12 predicted   

预言，预测，预示( predict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He praised the union's aims but predicted its early demise. 他赞扬协会的目标，但预期这一协会很快会消亡。
• She delivered exactly when the doctor predicted she would. 她恰好在医生所说的预产期分娩了。

13 Fahrenheit   

n./adj.华氏温度；华氏温度计(的)

参考例句：

• He was asked for the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit.他被问到水的沸点是华氏多少度。
• The thermometer reads 80 degrees Fahrenheit.寒暑表指出华氏80度。

14 thermometer   

n.温度计，寒暑表

参考例句：

• She put the thermometer in his mouth.她把体温表放入他口中。
• The thermometer fell to zero last night.寒暑表昨夜降至零度。

15 current   

n.涌流，趋势，电流，水流，气流；adj.当前的，通用的，流通的，现在的，草写的，最近的

参考例句：

• Electric current is often powerful enough to kill a man.电流常强得足以致命。
• There is a story about her in the current number.最近一期上有关于她的故事。

16 currently   

adv.通常地，普遍地，当前

参考例句：

• Currently it is not possible to reconcile this conflicting evidence.当前还未有可能去解释这一矛盾的例证。
• Our contracts are currently under review.我们的合同正在复查。