【正文】 ty good dad? I mean, how does he pare with your friends39。t want to pay for things. She wants me to buy my own friends39。s she stricter about?Jora: Chores, junk food, buying me specific things Interviewer: When you say buying you things, do you mean Jora: Like when we go to the store. Interviewer: She doesn39。s seen it. Interviewer: So, your mom39。s not really true. It depends on what it is. My rule with PG13 is either I39。t let me see PG13* or R movies, but my mom does. She, well, she rents Rrated* movies, and lets me watch them and all, but my dad won39。 the stuff that my mom39。s not strict about, my mom39。t win, y39。s, it39。ve made some mistakes. Interviewer: Is ... how would you pare your mom? Is she less strict than your dad? Mmhmm. Well, she39。cos I39。know, that I didn39。know? Interviewer: Yeah. Jora: And there39。s strict and I get angry when he doesn39。s what you39。s Eve. As latenight revelers waited in the cold for a scarce cab, two men unloaded a truck at a bakery on Worker39。s Eve.This did not seem to bother Beijing residents, who say the Lunar New Year is their traditional time to celebrate with fireworks.s show involved more than 5,000 kilograms of explosive devices.Other cities around Asia and the Pacific region celebrated with fireworks, such as Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong.In other places people marked the New Year without fireworks. Millions in Japan prayed at shrines for good fortune in 2010. In Seoul, South Korea, a giant bell was rung.In China39。UNIT9Section OnePart 1Spot DictationCelebrations in Australia, Asia Ring in 2010One of the first major cities to celebrate the beginning of 2010 was Sydney, Australia. More than a million people gathered along the Sydney harbor to watch the city39。s annual fireworks show, set to booming rock music.Hours before midnight people arrived at Harbor Bridge to stake out good seats for the 12minute display. This year39。s capital, signs around Beijing cautioned not to light fireworks within the heart of the city on New Year39。 This year that holiday is in midFebruary.Many young people were at bars and clubs in Beijing until the early hours of the morning. Still others had to work on New Year39。s Stadium Road. One of them said he hoped for good health for his parents in the New Year. His coworker said he hoped to spend the Lunar New Year with family at his home in nearby Shandong province. Part 2Listening for GistUnlike air travel, which is regulated internationally, rail travel is in many cases controlled nationally. The degree of safety of rail travel is therefore highly variable from country to country, depending on the degree of regulation and the quality of regulation in the country concerned. In Britain and the United States rail passenger deaths work out at an average of less than 10 rail passenger deaths per year. Unfortunately, the rail passenger deaths per year statistics in the less developed parts of the world are considerably higher than the rail passenger deaths per year statistics are in the western world. In the UK over the last 25 years, there has been an average of one train accident for every million miles run. Because individual trains carry such a large number of passengers pared with the number of passengers carried in cars, buses and planes, this actually means that the degree of risk is, paratively, one which is almost nonexistent. By far the greatest cause of railway accidents is human error, either in controlling or responding to signals. Recent improvements in the numbers of accidents are in large measure due to the introduction of automatic and puterized signaling equipment. Radio munication systems between drivers and control centers have also proved influential in reducing accidents. With the continuing development of radio munication systems and automatic signaling systems we can look forward to further reductions in what are already impressively low accident rates. Directions: Listen to the passage and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide. 1. This passage is about rail travel safety. 2. The key words are highly variable. degree and quality of regulation: Britain and the United States. Less than 10 rail passenger deaths per year: less developed parts. Higher: UK. Last 25 years. One train accident for every million miles run: cause. Human error: automatic. Computerized signaling. Radio munication systems. Reduce accidents. Section TwoListening ComprehensionPart 1 DialogueAdolescenceInterviewer: So, you say Eric39。d consider pretty strict but pretty fair? So, for example, when he tells you to do Interviewer: something Jora: Well, he39。t want me to do stuff. But afterwards I can almost always see why he said it, y39。s only a couple of incidents where, well, that were totally, y39。t understand at all. Interviewer: Hmm. Not a