[00:33.59]UNIT 1
[00:37.25]How long have you been collecting shells?
[00:41.01]SECTION A
[00:43.39]1b Listen. A reporter is talking to the participants in a skating marathon. Fill in the chart below.
[01:43.24]2a Listen to the interview with the skating marathon winner and check (P) the questions you hear.
[02:34.38]2b Listen again. Draw lines to match the questions with answers in activity 2a.
[03:22.92]3a Read the passage and them complete the table.
[03:29.29]I’m talking to you from the Hilltop School skating Marathon.
[03:35.25]Here, students are skating to raise money for charity.
[03:39.79]For every hour they skate, each student raises ten Yuan for charity.
[03:45.85]The skating marathon has been going for five hours now, and several skaters are still skating.
[03:53.59]Alison was the first one to star, and has been skating for the whole five hours.
[04:00.43]Next is Sam, and he has been skating for four hours.
[04:05.79]Lu Ning has been skating for four hours too, and Li Chen just started an hour ago.
[04:14.04]SECTION B
[04:21.59]2a Listen. What do Bob, Marcia, and Liam collect? Fill in the chart under “what”.
[05:48.34]2b Listen again. How long have they been collecting these things?How many do they have? Fill in the chart under “How long” and “How many”.
[07:19.90]3a Read the following message. Then draw lines to match the snow globes with their descriptions.
[07:30.04]Dear Jack,
[07:32.47]Thanks for sending me the snow globe of the monster I love it.
[07:37.61]It fact I think it’s probably my favorite.
[07:40.77]I’ve been collecting snow globes for seven years, and now I have 226 of them.
[07:47.25]My mom says I have to stop, because we’ve run out of room to store them.
[07:52.11]hey’re all around our apartment.
[07:54.57]I even them in boxes under my bed.
[07:57.52]The first one I ever got was a birthday cake snow globe on my seventh birthday.
[08:03.58]I particularly love globes with animals.
[08:06.92]I have a big one with bears in it, and another one with penguins.
[08:11.68]If you know anyone else who collects them, please tell me.
[08:15.93]I’ll like to start a snow globe collectors’ club.
[08:19.57]By the way, what’s your hobby？
[08:22.02]Love,Ellen
[08:25.26]While
[08:32.34]I've been studying history in China.
[08:36.18]My name is Leo.
[08:39.00]I'm from Australia, and I've been teaching in China for two years.
[08:44.62]I teach in harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province.
[08:48.85]This is really an intersting city with a very colorful history.
[08:54.10]There is some European influence in the city, and some of the old build-ings in harbin are in russian style.
[09:02.28]Since I came to China, I've been learning a lot about my family history.
[09:08.13]Although I'm Australian, my family is jewish.
[09:12.46]SO it was very interesting for me to learn that a lot of jews came to live in Harbin many years ago.
[09:19.10]My parents were so surprised when I told them about this in China.
[09:23.83]In fact, the first Jews probably came to kaifeng more than a thousand years ago, and were welcomed by the Song Emperor.
[09:32.60]When I lived in Australia, I studied history at school, but we usually studied Australian or western history.
[09:40.96]However, when I heard that I was going to work in China I started studying Chinese history.
[09:47.73]I've been studying for over two years now
[09:51.54]My friends in Australia said that Chinese history was very hard to undertand, but I don't really agree.
[09:59.12]I think if you study hard, you'll be able to understand and culture.
[10:03.77]for a for-eigner like me, the more I learn about Chinese history, the more I enjoy living in China.
[10:11.00]I really enjoy my time .
[10:13.96]Although I live quite far from Beijing, I'm certain I will be here for the Olympic Games in 2008! |