【正文】 Inclass Listening Materials（ 14） Unit 1 Man and Animals Part I Inclass Listening I. Understanding Basic Skills Listening Task Directions: Listen to the following short conversations and choose the best answers to the questions you hear. 1. W: How long do you intend to stay, Mr. Williams? M: I’m not sure. It all depends. Probably I’ll leave as soon as I find another hotel. Q: Where does the man probably stay now? 2. W: Tom’s mother told me that Tom was in hospital. M: He left the hospital yesterday and he’ll go to class tomorrow. Q: Where is Tom probably now? 3. W: How do you like your new job, Jim? M: Fine. This week I have been reading the financial reports and studying the books. Next week I will probably start to handle some of the accounts. Q: What does the man do for a living? 4. W: Your glasses are fine, if you don’t like the frames, perhaps we could change them. M: Actually I was thinking of trying some contact lenses, if you think that I would be able to wear them. Q: To whom is the woman speaking? 5. W: Do you believe Jack’s story about being late because his alarm clock had stopped? M: I think he made it up. Q: What does the man mean? 6. W: Tom, you really must take school more seriously. If you don’t pass your exam, you’ll have to go out and work. M: I don’t see that it makes much difference. If I have a job, I have to do boring work every day。 but if I’m at school, I must listen to boring teachers every day. Q: Which does Tom prefer, work or studying at school? 7. W: You still have a social science requirement to fulfill, Jim. You can take history, psychology, anthropology, or sociology. Which do you think you’d like? M: Well, I’ve always been fascinated by the conscious and unconscious reasons people have for acting as they do, and I’d like to learn more about how memory works. Q: Which course will the man probably take? 8. W: What time does the library close? M: On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, it closes at five . On Tuesday and Thursday, it’s open till nine. It stays open until six on Saturday, but on Sunday it’s closed all day. Q: Which evenings is the library open? 9. W: The election will be very close, according to the polls. M: Remember what happened in 1948? At first we all thought that Dewey would win, but, when all the votes were counted, it was Truman instead. Q: What is being discussed? 10. W: I never thought I’d see your name on a book cover. M: To tell you the truth, neither did I. I didn’t even get good grades in English. Q: What is the man’s probable profession? II. Understanding a Conversation Listening Task Directions: Listen to the conversation and plete the following sentences. Tim: Today someone said I was a pig. I got angry at first, but then I was told that he was talking about my Chinese Zodiac symbol. I was a pig because I was born in the year of the pig. Zhao Lin: Ha ha, we do have this tradition. I am one year younger than you, so I am a mouse. In China, every year is represented by an animal. There are a total of twelve animals so the zodiac follows a twelveyear cycle. Tim: Those animals are … Zhao Lin: They are the mouse, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. Tim: Interesting, but why these 12 animals instead of others? Zhao Lin: According to the legend, during a Chinese new year celebration, Buddha invited all the animals to his kingdom, but unfortunately, for reasons only known to the animals, a total of 12 turned up. The mouse came first, followed by the ox, the tiger, the rabbit and so on and finally the pig. Out of gratitude, Buddha decided to name the year after each of the animals in their order of arrival, and people born of that year would inherit the traits of that particular animal. Some Chinese consider this superstitious, but many truly believe that the signs reveal the hidden secrets of a person’s character. Some people are very careful about the zodiac when choosing their spouse. Tim: Really? If their zodiacs don’t match, will they break up? Zhao Lin: In fact, people all know that a zodiac match cannot be the deciding factor. But there are still many sayings like, sheep and rabbits are ideal partners for pigs, but monkeys and snakes are bad for pigs. III. Understanding Passages Listening Task 1 Directions: Listen to the following passage and choose the best answers to the questions you hear. Jo Shoesmith from Maryland, says the hardest part of her divorce was figuring out what to do with Misha, Nike, Shay, Violet, Momma Kitty and Cotton— the three dogs and three cats she and her exhusband had cared for during their married years. “The leadup 導(dǎo)致物 to the breakup was very rough, especially for Nike, who became so nervous, she would tremble發(fā)抖 and pace踱步 ,” Shoesmith told The Christian Science Monitor 基督教科學(xué)箴言報(bào) . “We did not want to put them through any more unnecessary stress.” At the time of the couple’s separation, Shoesmith got sole custody子女單親監(jiān)護(hù)協(xié)議 of the cats, with her ex前夫 , Martin Stephens from West Virginia, paying “cat support”. The former couple has joint custody共同監(jiān) 護(hù) of the dogs. This means that Shoesmith and Stephens travel back and forth between their two homes every other week just to spend time with their pets. The couple separated in 1997, when pet custody 監(jiān)護(hù)撫養(yǎng)權(quán) was unusual. Today, however, many top law schools, including Harvard, Geetown and Yale, offer animal law courses on pet custody. The Animal Legal Defense Fund has handled several divorce cases with pet owners, and two law firms in California have partners who specialize in專門研究 pet custody. “Certainly there is a giggle factor,” says lawyer David Wolfson, “but this area of the law needed to change to reflect that people do form special bonds with their pets.”