【正文】 全新版大學(xué)英語聽說教程第二冊(cè)聽力原文21AStatement 1: Hello, wele to This Week39。s Sports. The big news this week is the basketball championship. It started on Friday. Los Angeles Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 108 to 96. Lakers won.Statement 2: Utah Jazz played Miami Heat. Jazz lost the game. They lost by just one point. The score was 111 to 110.Statement 3: Detroit Pistons beat Indiana Pacers. The score was 135 to 130. Pistons won.Statement 4: And in the last game Houston Rockets played New York Knicks. Knicks won, 75 to 69. That39。s it for basketball action. Thank you. 21BWhy Don39。t You Join Me at the Gym Sometime?Peter: Hi, Laura. Where are you heading with that big bag?Laura: Hi, Peter. I39。m off to the gym. I39。ve got to stay in shape, you known. I try to go three times a week, but I39。m busy so I can39。t always make it.Peter: I know more women who work out than men. What39。s the main reason you work out? For your health, or to look good?Laura: To be honest, for both. With women, good looks are always a very important consideration.Peter: If they were honest, most men who work out would admit that they also do it to look better, and not merely for health reasons.Laura: How about you? Do you get any regular exercise?Peter: I do a lot of walking, for exercise and enjoyment sometimes ten to twenty kilometers at a time but I never go to the gym like you do.Laura: Well, walking is good exercise. How about sports?Peter: Not since my school days. I used to love playing baseball, but it39。s impossible to get enough people together for a game now. Mostly I just watch sports on TV.Laura: I play tennis fairly regularly with my friends, and sometimes go swimming and cycling by myself.Peter: Oh, I forgot about that. I go cycling sometimes too. And I often go swimming on vacation, but only recreational swimming.Laura: Why don39。t you join me at the gym sometime? I can get you a guest pass. Peter: Well, maybe someday, but I39。m pretty lazy about things like that.21C Watching a GameAlan: Going to the football game today, Betty?Betty: No, but I39。ll be watching it on television with some friends.Alan: Weren39。t you able to get any tickets?Betty: I didn39。t try. I really don39。t go to games so often.Alan: But don39。t you enjoy going? Don39。t you find it exciting to be part of the crowd?Betty: Oh sure, nothing beats the atmosphere at a sporting event: the cheering, all that energy. But sometimes it39。s just too inconvenient getting into and out of the stadium before and after the game. And if you watch the game with friends, or at a bar or restaurant ...Alan: ... you39。ve basically created your own crowd.Betty: That39。s right. Another reason why I like to watch sports on television is that I simply find it easier to follow the action on TV.Alan: Yeah, sometimes it is a little difficult to keep track of the ball when you39。re sitting in the stands.Betty: Especially when your seats are high up in the grandstand, and far from the field.Alan: It39。s like you39。re watching from an airplane, sometimes.Betty: Also good sports mentators on television can add to your understanding and enjoyment of the game.Alan: After listening to you I39。m starting to wonder how they are able to sell any tickets to these games!22A 1. The weather today: a fine day is in store nearly everywhere, with the best of the sunshine in southern and central areas of Britain. A pleasant day, then, with long sunny periods developing. Light winds. There will be light winds with a maximum temperature of 18 degrees Celsius, 64 degrees Fahrenheit. Looking at the outlook for the next few days, it will bee mostly cloudy with heavy showers moving in from the west. 2. A storm in Changchun, capital of Northeast China39。s Jilin Province, claimed four lives on Sunday. The storm lasted about three minutes from around 8 . The winds reached speeds of over a hundred miles an hour, causing serious damage and a widespread power failure. 22BDid You Hear the Weather Forecast? Alan: Oh, look at the sky, Michelle! It39。s starting to get cloudy.Michelle: I see it. I hope it doesn39。t rain. I thought it was going to be a fine day today.Alan: That39。s certainly what the department was hoping for when they chose today as the date for the annual piic.Michelle: You can39。t have a piic without good weather. You need sunshine for all the eating and games and entertainment.Alan: Yeah, sunshine but not too much! Do you remember last year?Michelle: I sure do. It was so hot all we did was look for shade, look for ways to escape from the sun.Alan: And no one wanted to participate in any of the planned activities. All we wanted was cold drinks. And then dozed off.Michelle: If there had just been the tiniest breeze to cool us off...Alan: But there wasn39。t. Just that burning sun, without a cloud in the sky, and the temperature just seemed to climb higher and higher.Michelle Well, we don39。t have that problem this year, apparently. Alan, did you hear the weather forecast? Is it supposed to rain?Alan: I don39。t know. I didn39。t catch the weather report. But maybe if it rains, it will only be a short shower which cools things off a little. That might not be bad.22C A ThunderstormLili: Look, Betty, the sky has turned pletely black!Betty: Oh, wow. A big thunderstorm is ing. But I guess it won39。t last long. Lili: Yeah, maybe for about twenty minutes or so it39。s going to seem like it39。s the end of the world. And then the sun will e out again.Betty: I like storms like this. Summer is dramatic. What do you think, Lili?Lili: Yes, these storms do e quite suddenly in the summer. I often seem to get caught without an umbrella.Betty: But it39。s not so terribly getting caught in the rain occasionally in the summer. Now if you got all wet during a cold, d