《新编大学英语》第三册PART C 答案
Unit 1 Parents Unit 2 Coincidence
A Compound Dictation
Listen to the passage three times and supply the missing information.
One of the best-known 1) collections of parallels is between the careers of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Both were 2) shot on a Friday, in the 3) presence of their wives; both were succeeded by a Southerner named Johnson; both their killers were themselves killed before they could be brought to 4) justice. Lincoln had a secretary called Kennedy; Kennedy a secretary called Lincoln. Lincoln was killed in the Ford 5) Theater; Kennedy met his death while riding in a Lincoln convertible made by the Ford Motor Company — and so on. Similar coincidences often 6) occur between twins. A news story from Finland reported of two 70-year-old twin brothers dying two hours apart in separate accidents, with both being hit by trucks while crossing the same road on bicycles. According to the police, the second 7) victim could not have known about his brother’s death, as 8) officers had only managed to identify the first victim minutes before the second accident. Connections are also found between identical twins who have been separated at birth. Dorothy Lowe and Bridget Harrison were separated in 1945, and did not meet until 1979, when they were flown over from Britain for an investigation by a psychologist at the University of Minnesota. They found that when they met they were both wearing seven rings on their hands, two bracelets on one wrist, a watch and a bracelet on the other. 9) They married on the same day, had worn identical wedding dresses and carried the same flowers. Dorothy had named her son Richard Andrew and her daughter Catherine Louise; Bridget had named her son Andrew Richard and her daughter Karen Louise. In fact, she had wanted to call her Catherine. Both had a cat called Tiger. They also had a string of similar mannerisms (习惯性的举止) when they were nervous. 10) How can we explain the above similarities? 1-5 BCBDD
Unit 3 Courage Unit 4 Marriage Unit 5 Youth Unit 6 Stress
1-4 ABDD 1-3 ADB 1-4 ACDC 1-5 DDDBC 1-4 DBDB
Unit 7 The Business World Unit 8 The Environment
1-4 CBDD
Unit 9 The Single Currency
A Compound Dictation
Listen to the passage three times and supply the missing information.
For a century much attached to national 1) symbols, France took the imminent death of the franc calmly. It was as if an 2) ancient great-great uncle were about to pass away: a time for nostalgia and regret, rather than 3) grief. Unlike the German mark, the franc had never been a symbol of national 4) rebirth or glory. Its recent history was relatively 5) stable but it had to be revalued as recently as 1960. In the 1950s, its value and 6) reputation were so weak that French politicians considered 7) abolishing it and replacing it with something else, based on the value of the pound.
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But money is money after all. It is with us every day. It was surprising that 8) such a conservative people did not express greater sorrow for the loss of their familiar francs. It was also surprising they did not feel a greater sense of aesthetic loss for the franc had always been one of the world’s most beautiful currencies.
9) The name franc was first used in 1360, to celebrate and help to pay for the release of the King of France, King Jean II, who was captured by the still poundless English. He created the “franc” or “free” to celebrate the occasion. Over the next 400 years the name came and went but was finally restored by the Revolution in 1795. 10) On February 17th, 2002, the French franc disappeared completely from the financial scene. Unit 10 The Cinema
1-4 BBCD
Unit 11 Left-handedness
A Compound Dictation
Listen to the passage three times and supply the missing information.
Approximately 90% of people in the world are 1) naturally right-handed. Why is this so, and are we 2) born one way or the other? The answer to this question is rather 3) complicated. In babies and young children, no 4) single side becomes 5) dominant until around the age of eight. At 12 weeks, babies usually use both hands 6) equally, but by 16 weeks, they mostly use the left hand for 7) touching. By 24 weeks, they have changed again and start using both hands. Then at 28 weeks, they become one-handed again, although this time it is the right hand that is used more. At 32 weeks, they start using both hands again. 8) When they reach the age of 36 weeks, there is another change, with most babies now preferring to use the left hand. Between 40 and 44 weeks, the right hand is once again more used. At 48 weeks, babies switch to using their left hands again, and then between 52 and 56 weeks, the right hand takes over.
There are further changes still. 9) At 80 weeks, the right hand loses control, and both are used again equally. When the young child reaches the age of two, the right hand takes over again, but between two and a half and three years, both hands are used equally. 10) Things finally become stable at around four years and stay the same until, by the age of eight, one hand is strongly dominant over the other.
Unit 12 Biodiversity Unit 13 Inventions
1-3 BAD
A Compound Dictation
Nowadays in the United States, there are 1) 200,000 miles of pipeline, 170,000 gas stations and 243 million vehicles using petroleum fuels.
Guy Nègre, the 2) founder and CEO of Motor Development International, is hoping to change all that. He has invented a compressed air 3) technology for cars. The new invention is the AirPod. The AirPod is a small four-wheel 4) mini-car that uses compressed air to move pistons. It uses a small motor to compress (压缩) outside air to keep the tank 5) full.
The small motor can not only operate on gasoline, diesel, vegetable oil, but also be 6) plugged into an electrical outlet for 7) recharging.
8) With the demand for inexpensive, user-friendly, high-mileage vehicles that will not cause global warming, the AirPod is getting a lot of attention. Air France and KLM airlines will be using AirPods to transport passengers between arrival and departure gates at airports in Paris and Amsterdam beginning in 2009. Zero Pollution Motors 9) has purchased the rights for the U.S. market and expects to manufacture 8,000 vehicles a year in the United States beginning in 2011. Automaker, Tata Motors has purchased the manufacturing rights for India.
10) Licensing arrangements for other countries are currently in progress. Unit 14 Women
1-4 DACA
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