【正文】 in summer, his bottom was hurting from long sitting. Finally, he finished all the required courses for high school students and some college courses. Up to now he has been working, heart and soul, as a personal teacher for over 13 years. KEY: 11 C 12 D 13 A 14 B 15 C 新視野大學(xué)英語(yǔ)聽說(shuō)教程第四單元原文和答案 Understanding words Task1： 1. relax ,2. humor 3. absorb 4. contact 5. entertain 6. depressed 7. conscious 8. consistent 9. audience 10. reaction Key: 1.(B) 2.(A) 3.(C) 4.(A) 5.(A) 6.(A) 7.(A) 8.(C) 9.(A) 10.(B) Task2： 2. presentation 3. successful 4. straight 5. express 6. addressing 7. attitudes 8. appear 9. humor 10. audience Understanding sentences Task1: 1. When you are talking to others, try to make eye contact. 2. That tone of his nearly drove me crazy. 3. The president spoke far longer than he ever did before. 4. She was depressed to learn of his illness. 5. The lady was totally absorbed in what she was doing. 6. Bill39。t move his legs any more. The local doctor sent Ma Wenzhong to a large city for further medical examination. What he got there was very shocking: all his muscles, from limbs to internal body parts, would waste away, and he was dying! But Ma Wenzhong didn39。t pay much attention to it. He thought something must be wrong with his legs and it would pass soon. Ma Wenzhong didn39。ve been looking for a really wonderful present for my sister. How much money do you have? asked Peter. From the pocket of her coat, she took her hand full of pennies and put them on the table top. This is all I have. Peter looked at the little girl with that yellow hair and blue eyes. Something made him feel once again the pain of his old sadness. Several years ago, he had loved a girl whose hair was as yellow as the shining sun and whose eyes were as blue as the sea. But one night when it was raining, she was struck by a car and died. What the little girl did made him remember again all that he had lost and at the same time brought him out of that world of selfpity. So Peter quickly removed the price card on the piece so that she could not see it. Then he wrapped it in pretty Christmas paper and tied it with green ribbon. Here you are, he said, Don39。t find jobs even after four years of college, should have bee nurses. KEY: 1. A 2 A 3 C 4 A 5 B Passage two Peter Richards, the owner of a jewelry store which was left to him by his grandfather after his death, was the loneliest man in town. One winter afternoon before Christmas, a little girl, after carefully studying each piece of jewelry in the window, went into the shop. Please would you wrap up that beautiful piece in pretty paper for me? she said to Peter. Are you buying it for someone? Peter asked. It39。s future? Key: 11. F 12. F 13. F 14. F 15. T Listening Task 2 Passage one Beginning in the 1960s American women started entering jobs and work positions that had been taken over almost pletely by men. In the ! 970s, another pattern appeared in work choices: men began entering jobs and work positions held before by women. When John Smith started in nursing school nine years ago, his father took it hard. Here is my father, a steelworker, hearing about other steel workers39。t Tom believe he was attacked by cancer? 12. How did Tom39。s because he39。t the Smiths give up hope to find help for their son? 10. What did the Smiths do to pull John into the real world? Key: 6. F 7. T 8. F 9. T 10. T Passage three At first Tom leaned toward not believing it. He felt fine. After a few months he suffered what appeared to be a stroke. He lost the use of his right hand. Little by little his case was getting worse and worse. Today he can move his mouth and his lips and he can talk, although much more slowly than when he was well. In every other way, he is pletely not able to help himself. He has to be fed, to be moved in a wheelchair and he cannot sit up for very long. Most of the time he spends in bed with the continuous attending of his wife, who has managed so far to care for him at home. His care is her sole and continual concern. Both she and Tom have given way to the disease unwillingly, an inch at a time. Tom has been forced to have experimental drags as well as blood removed and replaced, a job that took five days in the hospital. He remains in good spirits. Both he and his wife openly discuss the future. His doctor has given him about three months more, butas his wife says, They said that a year ago, and he39。s illness? 5. How is the speaker after having taken the medicine for six months? Key: 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. F Passage two It was not until John was almost a year old that Karen and David Smith began to suppose that something might be wrong. The Smiths took their son to a doctor to find an answer. This began a journey to doctors, special medical doctors, hospitals and clinics that lasted for over a year. Finally John was found to be suffering from developmental disorder. The doctors pronounced that John would probably never speak. The struggle to discover John39。m looking forward to walking to school like other children some day. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the passage you have just heard. 1. What did her parents do when the speaker reached the age for starting school? 2. How did the speaker manage to go to school after all? 3. How far is it from the speaker39。t walk. When I reached the age for starting school, I saw all the other children going and I wanted to go, too. My parents just shook their heads when I asked them. My grandmother tried to fort me, but tears fell down her cheeks. A few days later, the headmaster of the school and Mrs. Wen came to our house. They said they would carry me to school every day. Early the next morning Mrs. Wen came and carded me on her back for half a kilometer to school. From then on she carried me to school and home every day. One mo