【正文】 Unit14 Section One Tactics for ListeningPart1 Spot Dictation Make Your Child a Winner Peak performances moments when children (1) achieve the best that39。s in them are the stuff of every parent39。s (2) dream. And yet most of us have seen a report card or heard a trumpet solo that (3) falls short of what our kids can (4) acplish. Why can some boys and girls repeatedly pull themselves to the (5) heights, while others of equal or (6) superior ability cannot? Many parents assume skill is pretty much determined by (7) natural ability。 the student with the highest . will get the best grades, or the athlete with the most prowess will (8) surpass his teammates. Genes count in determining performance, but they39。re not everything. The (9) edge es from mental attitude, character and (10) strategy. There are some simple ways for parents to help their youngsters develop those (11) traits: Find something to praise. A child who feels good about himself (12) succeeds. Assess your child39。s (13) strengths. Encourage selfapplause. Knowing how to relax is key to (14) peak performance. A good report card (15) posted near your daughter39。s mirror reminds her that she can do well and (16) reinforces the urge to repeat her success. There are no (17) shortcuts to bringing your child to do his best. It39。s a (18) gradual process of support, encouragement and hard work. And those efforts (19) payoff not only in peak performance but also in (20) closer. winner relations between parent and child. Part2 Listening for GistElderly people deserve our care and respect. Too many of them are left in homes for the elderly, alone and often forgotten by their families. Or they live with their families, who then have no time to themselves. The family placement scheme is currently providing many carers with a satisfying and important occupation. And more and more grandparents are being adopted by caring families. How does the scheme operate? Families are interviewed and carefully matched to the elderly person or persons, taking into account such things as suitability of acmodation special needs, children and pets, smoking, lifestyle, personality and interests. Matching is, of course, largely a matter of ensuring that the elderly person and the carer will enjoy each other39。s pany. After this the elderly person and the family are prepared for the placement: An introductory visit is arranged, usually in the carer39。s home. This means that when the placement begins the elderly person and family have met each other. Carers are paid on a weekly basis to cover expenses. Exercise Directions: Listen to the passage and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide. 1. This passage is about the family placement scheme and how it operates. 2. The key words are elderly people, care, respect, scheme, adopted, caring families, interviewed, matched, suitability, matching, ensuring, enjoy pany, introductory visit, caring home, paid, cover expenses. Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart 1 DialogueTree Climbers of Pompeii*Sara: Urn ... It39。s another one of my adventures as a tourist, urn ... finding out things you really didn39。t expect to find out when you went to the place! I went to Pompeii and of course what you go to Pompeii for is er ... the archaeology. Liz: To see the ruins. Sara: To see the ruins. And I was actually seeing the ruins but urn ... suddenly my attention was caught by something else. I was just walking round the er of a ruin, into a group of trees, pine trees, and I was just looking at them, admiring them and suddenly I saw a man halfway up this tree, and I was looking at him so all I could see was his hands and his feet and he was about 20 or 30 feet up. I thought, Goodness, what39。s going on here? Has he got a ladder or hasn39。t he? So I walked round to see if he had a ladder. No, he had just gone straight up the tree. Liz: He39。d shinned up* the tree. Sara: He39。d shinned up the tree. Like a monkey, more or less, except he was a rather middleaged monkey ... He was er ... he was all of 50 and (Dh God), what39。s going on here? Anyway, I walked a bit further and saw other people either up trees or preparing to go up trees, and then I noticed a man standing there directing them. A sort of foreman, and began to wonder what on earth was going on, and then on the ground I saw there were all these polythene* buckets and they were full of pine cones* and of course what they were doing was collecting pine cones, and I thought, Well, how tidy of them to collect pine cones to stop the ruins being urn ... made urn ... made untidy with all these things. Then I saw there was a lorry ... full of pinecones ... This was getting ridiculous ... They were really collecting them in a big way. So I urn ... asked the er ... foreman what was going on and he said, Well you know urn ... pine nuts are extremely sought after and valuable in the food industry in Italy. Liz: For food (Yeah). Not fuel! I thought you were going to say they were going to put (bum) them on a fire. Yes. Sara: Well, they might bum the er ... cones when they39。ve finished with them but inside these cones are little white things like nuts and er ... I realized that they39。re used in Italian cooking quite a lot in er ... there39。s a particular sauce that goes with spaghetti em ... from Geneva, I think, called pesto* in which these nuts are ground up and of course they they ... e in cakes and