新视野大学英语视听说 Unit 9-1

II. Listening Skills
Making Calculations¹
1. W: It sounds expensive. Why did they charge you so much for repairing the computer?
M：Well, it’s $25 for labor² to start with. A new modern cost another 50 bucks³. On top of that I needed a new battery, and it cost $17.
Q: How much did the man spend altogether fixing his computer?

2. W: How long are you on the Internet every day?
   M：About three hours a day. I promised Dad to cut that in half, but the Internet is so slow.
Q: How much time has the man promised to spend on the Net every day.

3. W: Where did you get all these e-mails?
   M：I got ten messages from classmates, one about an assignment and one from my brother. Five were spam, the annoying stuff⁴ that comes at all times.
    Q: How many e-mail messages did the woman get altogether?

4. W: It takes twice as long to open my Hotmail now. I need over a minute to see my mail. Is the problem Hotmail or the ISP?
   M：Forget Hotmail. I get e-mail through a local provider in ten seconds. Try it.
   Q: How long did it use to take the man to get his mail?

5. W: Talking about computer, what’s the meaning of Pentium 4 and clock speed?
   M：Imagine the processor of a computer as a bus. The higher the Pentium number, the larger the the bus and the more information it can carry. Clock speed tells how fast data are processed. A clock speed of 100 is half as fast as a speed of 200.
   Q: How much faster is a clock speed of 200 than a clock speed of 100?

   1.D   2. C  3.A  4.B  5.C
 

1 calculations   

n.计算( calculation的名词复数 )；盘算；自私的打算；推断

参考例句：

• We can exclude the possibility of total loss from our calculations. 我们可以在预测中把彻底失败的可能性排除在外。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He scored out both calculations and did them again. 他把两个计算结果都划掉，又把它们计算了一遍。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

3 bucks   

n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
• They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 stuff   

n.原料，材料，东西；vt.填满；吃饱

参考例句：

• We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
• He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。