【正文】 , madam. You39。m phoning from Room 504. It39。re leaving early tomorrow morning. Reception: Just a moment, madam. I39。s shirts and three of my blouses. But they39。s (9) climate and on our agriculture and food (10) supplies will be disastrous. (11) Fortunately, somebody is trying to do something about it. In 1961, the (12) World Wildlife Fund was founded a small group of people who wanted to (13) raise money to save animals and plants (14) from extinction. Today, the World Wildlife Fund is a large (15) international organization. It has raised over (16) 163。Unit 3 Section One Tactics for listening Part 1 Spot DictationWildlifeEvery ten minutes, one kind of animal, plant or insect (1) dies out for ever. If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today will have bee (2) extinct twenty years from now. The seas are in danger. They are being filled with (3) poison: industrial and nuclear waste, chemical fertilizers and (4) pesticides, sewage. If nothing is done about it, one day soon nothing will be able to (5) live in the seas. The tropical rain (6) forests which are the home of half the earth39。s living things are (7) being destroyed. If nothing is done about it, they will have (8) nearly disappeared in twenty years. The effect on the world39。35 million for (17) conservation projects, and has created or given support to the National Parks in (18) five continents. It has helped 30 (19) mammals and birds including the tiger to (20) survive. Part 2 Listening for GistMrs. Bates: Hullo. Is that Reception? .Reception: Yes, madamMrs. Bates: This is Mrs. Bates. Room 504. I sent some clothes to the laundry this morning, two of my husband39。re not back yet. You see, we39。ll put you through to the housekeeper.Housekeeper: Hullo. Housekeeper. Mrs. Bates: Oh, hullo. This is ... I39。s about some clothes I sent to the laundry this morning. They39。ll find them in your wardrobe. They39。t look in the wardrobe. Thank you very much. Sorry to trouble you. Housekeeper: That39。 my father was SwissFrench Swiss and my mother was American, so, of course, we spoke both languages at home and I grew up bilingual. Then, of course, I learnt German at school in Switzerland that39。s ... one, two, three, four you had learnt four languages by the time you left school? How fluent were you? Suzanne: Urn, I was native speaker standard in French and English, but I39。t perfect, but I had a boyfriend from Uruguay* while I was there, so my Spanish also became pretty good! Interviewer: And then what did you do? Suzanne: When I was 25 I came back to Switzerland, went to an interpreters39。ve been there ever since? Suzanne: Not quite. In the first few months I met Jan, a Czech interpreter, who became my husband. We went to live in Prague in 1987 and that was where I learnt Czech. Interviewer: And the eighth language? Suzanne: Well, unfortunately the marriage didn39。 I was very upset and I decided to take a long break. I went to Japan on holiday, got a job and stayed for two years, which was when I learnt Japanese. Interviewer: That39。re back at the United Nations? Suzanne: Yes. Well, I never really left. I carried on doing work for them when I was in Prague some in Prague, some in Austria and Switzerland, and I took a sabbatical* to work in Japan. They need people who can understand Japanese. But, yes, I39。m going to learn more Oriental languages. It was such a challenge learning Japanese it39。ll spend another two or three years here with the UN fulltime, during which time I hope to get a substantial promotion, then I think I39。d love to learn Thai. And then, perhaps an Indian language. Whatever, I want to be fluent in another three or four languages before 45. Exercise Directions: Listen to the dialogue and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). 9. T 10. F Part 2 Passage The Clyde River Running through one of Britain39。s economic success during the Industrial Revolution and beyond, as pollution and chemicals destroyed its fish and wildlife populations and brewed smells whose memory still makes residents wince*. Now, with heavy industry gone and Glasgow reconceived as a center for culture and tourism, the Clyde is ing back to life. For the first time since the late 1800s, its native salmon have returned in sizable numbers, reflecting the new cleanliness of a river that was once one of Britain39。s survey was the first to show they39。s return is symbolically important for Glasgow, where salmon were once so important to the city39。s eback is also a sign of big improvements to water quality. Like sea trout, which have also reappeared in the Clyde system in recent years, salmon are very sensitive to environmental conditions and require cool, welloxygenated* water to thrive. The decline of Glasgow39。s fish lovers. Since the area that is now Glasgow was first settled around the year 550, the Clyde has been central to its history. The river39。s great manufa