教你怎么听3 Lesson19（在线收听）

Unit nineteen
[00:04.52]News and Tv
[00:07.68]1.Listen to  each news item.
[00:12.64]What is the topic of each news item?
[00:16.38]Circle your answer;
[00:19.30]1.Fifty-two persons are known dead following Thursday's earthquake in northern Japan.
[00:26.64]Forty-eight others are still missing.
[00:29.99]Rescue workers found five more bodies Sunday on the northeast coast of Honshu Island.
[00:36.75]The earthquake created huge waves along Japan's coast.
[00:42.11]The wave drowned many children and workers who had been at the beach on Thursday.
[00:47.36]2.American and Japanese negotiators
[00:52.72]have agreed on a proposal for balanced trade in modem technology products.
[00:58.57]The proposed agreement calls for increased business competition
[01:03.92]in selling such goods as computers
[01:07.66]and communications equipment.
[01:10.58]The Japanese and  American governments
[01:14.63]must approve the proposal before it can take effect.
[01:18.68]The proposed agreement was reached after four days of talks in Tokyo.
[01:24.43]3.An American news magazine says Asia will become a major economic power in the 1990s.
[01:32.55]It says Asia will become a more important economic power than Europe.
[01:38.19]The magazine, Newsweek,
[01:41.75]said Asia already has replaced Europe as America's major trading partner.
[01:47.68]And it said that Hongkong now is the world's third leading financial market
[01:53.71]behind New York and London.
[01:56.43]4.American doctors have successfully
[02:02.17]placed a mechanical heart in the body of a 61-year-old man.
[02:07.14]The man is reported doing well after doctors removed his diseased heart
[02:13.56]and replaced it with an artificial blood pump.
[02:17.01]Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center
[02:22.03]said the operation had gone better than expected.
[02:26.16]They said the artificial heart is working well.
[02:30.49]The artificial device is made from plastic and aluminum
[02:35.74]and is connected to a machine outside the man's body.
[02:40.76]5.The population count in China has ended.
[02:45.72]Population counters now still spend a few weeks examining the count to make sure it is correct.
[02:53.27]The final count is expected to be announced by the end of August.
[02:59.02]5,000,000 census takers have spent the past ten days talking to members of every family in China.
[03:06.36]They have collected information on age,
[03:10.59]employment,and educational level of every person in China.
[03:15.55]China's population is believed to be 1,000,000,000 people.
[03:21.30]This is about 20% of all the people in the world.
[03:26.03]2.Listen to each news item.
[03:33.19]What type of news is it?
[03:36.53]1.American scientists say they believe trees can warn each other of danger
[03:43.87]by releasing chemicals into the air.
[03:47.11]The theory announced by the National Science Foundation
[03:51.73]is the result of studies carried out by scientists in the states of Washington and New Hampshire.
[03:57.87]The scientists said they found that when trees are under attack by disease or insects,
[04:04.30]nearby trees take the same defensive actions as the trees being attacked.
[04:09.44]And they said it appears that the trees being attacked may produce
[04:14.69]and send out chemicals to warn the other trees.
[04:20.62]2.On the area weather map,
[04:23.34]most stations in Southern Michigan are still reporting sunny skies.
[04:29.27]It's seventy-nine degrees at Detroit,
[04:32.82]seventy-three at Chicago is reporting light showers
[04:37.05]as cloudiness moves in from the southwest.
[04:41.00]3.An early morning fire that started in the kitchen of Chalet Restaurant, 1400 Market Street,
[04:48.65]caused extensive damage to the restaurant and to the adjoining Jones and Jones Jewelry Store.
[04:54.90]Both the restaurant and jewelry store suffered smoke and water damage.
[05:00.15]Fire Chief Bill Howard
[05:03.39]estimated the loss in excess of one hundred thousand dollars on the building alone.
[05:08.35]Owners had not estimated the loss to contents by news time.
[05:13.70]4.Little League baseball Friday night featured games in both the lower and upper divisions.
[05:21.83]In the lower division, the Pirates lost to the Tigers by only one mn.
[05:27.58]The final score on the game was seven-six.
[05:31.91]5. On February 28th, 1972, Chinese and American leaders issued the Shanghai Communique,
[05:41.45]which ended decades of hostility between the two countries
[05:45.78]and ushered in a new era of Sino-US relations.
[05:50.22]Today, the communique remains important as a guideline for the healthy
[05:55.37]and stable  developement of Sino-US relations.
[05:59.60]3.Read each news topic.
[06:04.46]Then listne tho the news story.
[06:07.91]Aftere you list ekn,ansser the questions.
[06:12.53]1.A car bomb exploded today in Rome, injuring 12 people.
[06:19.59]The bomb was planted in a baby carriage outside a busy fruit-market.
[06:24.94]It exploded at approximately 5 p, m., after most of the crowds had left the area.
[06:31.18]Police say it was fortunate that no one was killed in the blast.
[06:36.33]No one has claimed responsibility for setting the bomb,
[06:40.77]but Italian officials
[06:43.10]suspect that it was planted by the radical group soldiers of New Freedom.
[06:48.45]2.Senator Paul Johnson was admitted to hospital today
[06:54.20]for emergency tests after he collapsed during a committee meeting.
[06:59.63]Preliminary reports from the Washington hospital
[07:03.86]where Mr. Johnson was admitted say that the Senator has had trouble with high blood pressure
[07:10.39]and they fear that he suffered a stroke during the committee meeting.
[07:16.04]3.Fifteen people today were arrested at a football game in New York
[07:22.07]for fighting during the tense struggle between the New York Jets and the Atlanta Falcons.
[07:28.00]Stadium police have been ordered to make arrests in order to curb the amount of violence
[07:34.03]that has been taking place at recent sports contests.
[07:38.27]4.Read th following programmes
[07:43.23]and listen to the descriptions of different types of TV programmes.
[07:48.48]What kinds of programd are they?
[07:52.03]Match them like this.
[07:55.27]1 Boxing from the Albert Hall and racing from  NewYork.
[08:04.00]2 A new production of Shakespeare's Richard Ⅲat the Lyric Theatre, london.
[08:12.72]3 Cagney and Lacey as the American cops.
[08:19.77]In this week's episode they're chasing heroin dealers.
[08:23.72]4 Geoff Hamilton is in the garden, telling us what to do at this time of year.
[08:31.95]5 This week's top twenty, with disc jockey Mike Reid.
[08:39.29]6 A laugh a minute as the northern comedian Les Dawson entertains.
[08:46.73]7 More adventures from Disneyland with Donald Duck.
[08:53.94]8 Superb filming in this programme about the disappearing forests of South America.
[09:01.49]Will the world continue to have oxygen?
[09:05.33]9 More families try to answer the questions and win fabulous prizes,
[09:13.17]with host kesley Crowther.
[09:16.09]10 Terry Wogan's guests tonight belong to the sporting, theatrical, and business worlds.
[09:25.05]11 Tomorrow's weather.
[09:30.02]12 The Magnificent Seven.
[09:34.98]1960 classic western starring Yul Bryneer, Steve McQueen, and Charles Bronson.
[09:42.53]5.Two friends are talking about televsion.
[09:51.54]Put a check in the box tho indicate
[09:55.38]which programme Nancy watched alnd which programmed Dave watched.
[10:00.53]Write the name of the programme and channel number.
[10:05.05]If yo don't hear the channel number,write"not mentioned."
[10:10.80]Narrator: "Unit 1l-Talking about television."
[10:16.33]Two friends are talking about television.
[10:20.56]Put a check in the appropriate box to indicate which programms Dave watched
[10:26.31]and which programmes Nancy watched.
[10:29.66]Write the name of the programme and the channel number under each picture.
[10:35.09]If you don't hear the channel number, write "not mentioned."
[10:40.44]Nancy: Hi, Dave.
[10:43.08]Dave:  Hey, Nancy.
[10:45.51]Nancy: Hey, how was your weekend?
[10:47.94]Dave:  It was good. It was good. Worked hard. It was good. How about yours?
[10:55.28]Nancy: Oh, it was pretty good, Hey....did you watch the game yesterday?
[11:02.20]Dave:  Uh ... no,I was working in the yard most of the day.......
[11:06.93]Nancy: Aw, too bad! You missed a good one.
[11:11.06]Dave..  Oh yeah? Who won?
[11:14.22]Nancy: Michigan won.
[11:16.26]Dave:  Great!
[11:18.50]Nancy: Ah!It was tied in the fourth quarter,
[11:22.14]and then Michigan  went out for a pass and ran forty yards to score a touchdown!
[11:27.88]Oh! The crowd just went wild!
[11:31.12]Dave:Sounds like a good game. You know I.I I wanted to catch the end of it myself but ...
[11:38.96]uh ...I came in, Maria's watching a movie on Channel 5,
[11:44.71]so I sat down and watched that with her.
[11:48.44]You know Maria. She can't stand football.
[11:52.07]Nancy: I know.Well, anyway, what movie was it??
[11:55.62]Dave:  Bride of Frankenstein. Nancy: Oh no!
[11:59.07]Dave: Did you ever see it?
[12:01.61]Nancy: Uh-uh. Oh, is that the movie with Elsa Lanehester,where her hair sticks straight out??
[12:06.75]Dave:  That's it!Yeah
[12:09.68]Nancy: Oh! Yes,I think I have seen...uh... parts of it on late-night TV. How was it??
[12:15.92]Dave:  You know,it was good.I really liked it. It was really funny. Yeah,
[12:23.13]Nancy: Huh.  Have to see it sometime. Later on I watched "Dallas" on Channel 2.
[12:28.15]Dave:  "Dallas"?
[12:30.68]Nancy: Have you ever watched that show?
[12:32.93]Dave:  No. You know, I read about that thing all the time in the magazines.
[12:38.47]Isn't that some kind of soap opera that takes place in Texas?
[12:45.52]Nancy: That's fight. It's about a...a family that owns an oil company.
[12:50.48]Someone's always getting into trouble.Boy,I really like it, though.
[12:55.63]Dave:  Really?? Nancy: Mm-hmm.
[12:58.34]Dave:  It always sounded kind of boring to me.
[13:02.08]Nancy: No! I especially like watching the guy who plays J.R.
[13:06.42]He is really mean and nasty. Ugh!
[13:10.05]Dave:  Well, I got to tell you, Nancy,
[13:13.39]I...I really don't care for that kind of show most of the time.
[13:17.73]Nancy: Oh, you don't know what you're missing!
[13:21.46]Dave:  We watched the news on channel 7,and then turned off the tube ...
[13:27.21]uh...You know,I can only take so much TV, and then...
[13:31.73]Nancy: Oh-ho,not me! I can't live without it.
[13:36.25]Oh, by the way, you know that "Johnny Carson's Anniversary Special" is on tonight?
[13:41.79]Dave:  Oh, it is! That's right!
[13:45.03]Nancy: You want to see it? Why don't you and Maria come over for dinner and watch it with me?
[13:49.88]Dave:  What time's it on?
[13:52.60]Nancy: Think it's on at nine. We could eat about seven-thirty.
[13:57.46]Dave:  Well, great. I'll call Maria and...uh...see if that's OK with her.
[14:03.00]Nancy: Good! Great!Well, better get back to work.
[14:06.94]Dave:  Yeah. Me too.
[14:09.48]Nancy: OK. rll talk to you later,then,all right?
[14:13.60]Dave:  Thanks, Nancy.
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