seats were near the back. The sky looked very black as we took off, and throughout the flight, we kept our seat belts fastened. Twenty minutes later we flew into a terrible storm. The plane rolled and shook in the wind. We were both very frightened. I couldn't remember anything after that until I opened my eyes. I didn't know where I was. Slowly I realized that the plane had crashed. I was in terrible pain and I couldn't move. \hat he wasn't in his seat. I heard groans and I worked out that possibly six other people were still alive. When daylight came, I could see all the bodies around me. Johan was on the other side of the aisle, but I knew that he was dead. After a day or two the other voices stopped and I was alone. But the rescuers didn't come. \ere in a swamp in the middle of a jungle and that the helicopters couldn't fly in the heavy rain. Outside the window the floodwater was going slowly up. But that water saved my life. I managed to stay alive by drinking that dirty water. At night the mosquitoes came. I was out of consciousness because of pain and hunger. Then I heard voices. I pushed my hand out of the window and amazingly someone grabbed it. The rescue team arrived nine days after the crash. Speaking Tasks Pair Work
Listen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. Then role-play them with your partner. Conversation 1
A: Hi, Wu. You don't look happy. What's up?
B: Bad luck! I fell off my bicycle and hurt my leg. A: Did you? That's too bad. How did it happen? B: I was coming to school on my bike yesterday when another one from behind crashed into mine and knocked me over. Fortunately I was not seriously hurt. A: Did the rider apologize to you? B: No. He just picked up his bike and sped away, without so much as looking at me. A: It's unbelievable! How could he behave like that?
B: Well, the world is made up of all sorts. Maybe he was in a hurry. Conversation 2
A: You know, a severe flood has hit Guangdong and Hubei Provinces. B: So I have heard. How terrible! A: Have you ever been in a flood? B: Yes, I have. A: When was that?
B: About two years ago, before I entered this college. My hometown was hit by a serious flood. A: What happened?
B: Well, it rained heavily for about two weeks and the river in our town overflowed. The water was about a meter deep. We had to be evacuated. Conversation 3
A: Do you know a powerful earthquake struck western India on Friday? B: No. Was it a strong quake?
A: Yes. It was measured 7.9 on the Richter scale. B: Were many people hurt?
A: Yes. Over 20,000 people were killed, 33,000 were said to be injured and hundreds of thousands left homeless.
B: That's really horrible.
Now make similar conversations according to the given situations. Use the sentences and structures above in your conversations where appropriate. [ti:Unit 10 Part C] Test Your Listening
Listen to the passage and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.
On the morning of September 11th Jan was in an elevator of the North Tower of the World Trade Center with his window cleaning equipment when the building was hit. There were five other passengers in the elevator. All of a sudden the building shook and the elevator stopped and began
to swing to and fro. Although the men were not aware of it, they had only 100 minutes to get out of the damaged tower before it would crumble to dust. Soon smoke began coming into the elevator. The men realized that something was wrong. They forced the doors open only to find a wall in front of them! The wall had the number 50 on it and they knew they were at the 50th floor. But their elevator normally did not stop there, so there was no opening for them to escape. Jan decided that they would have to make their own. Knowing that the wall was made of a material that could be cut through, Jan grabbed his 18-inch squeegee, and began chopping away at the wall. When he felt tired, others helped. Starting with one small hole, they cut through the three-inch deep wall and then widened it. Then they kicked the wall, two at the same time. The wall cracked apart. They saw before them a 2-by-4 inch metal beam and a tile wall! Refusing to give up, the desperate men bent the beam, knocked a hole through the tiles, then made the opening big enough to squeeze through. Astonished, firefighters took them to the nearest staircase and they ran down flight after flight. By 10:23, when Jan and the others emerged on the street, they had used up 95 of the 100 minutes they had. Five minutes later, the North Tower crumbled. Questions
1. What does the passage mainly tell us? 2. Which of the following is true? 3. What does Jan do? 4. Which of the following can best describe Jan?
school and went to work for the National Industrial Conference Board. He eventually earned a PhD from NYU in 1977. In the mid-1950s Greenspan opened an economic consulting company. In 1987 he began to work in the Federal Government. His work as Chief of Federal Reserve Board was much the same as the work he did on Wall Street, trying to understand how the economy worked and what drove it, offering suggestions for improvement. He was, however, making less money. Questions
1. How long has Greenspan been Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board according to the passage?
2. What do you know about his parents? 3. What was young Greenspan fond of?
4. Which of the following does the passage imply?
5. Which of the following describes the speaker's attitude towards Greenspan? Speaking Tasks Pair Work
Listen to the following conversations and repeat after the recording. Then role-play them with your partner. Conversation 1
A: Have you read anything interesting recently? B: Yes, an article about an architect. A: An architect? Who? B: Bei Yuming.
A: Oh, I've heard of him. He is a Chinese American. B: Quite right. He was born in 1917 in Guangzhou.
A: Where did he go to school?
B: He graduated from a middle school in Shanghai, then went to study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA and in 1940 got a BA in architecture. Then in 1946 he earned an MA in architecture from Harvard University. A: I hear he is world-famous.
B: Yes. In many parts of the world, there are buildings designed by him. The Fragrant Hill Hotel in Beijing is one of them. Conversation 2
A: Who's that man in the picture?
B: Don't you know? Well, I'm not going to tell you, but you may ask me five questions to work out
who he was.
A: That sounds fun! You said \？ B: Yes. That's Question 1.
A: OK. What was his nationality？ B: British.
A: When was he born and when did he die？ B: That's two questions. A: Oh，come on. B: All right. He was born in 1940 and died in 1980. Two more questions left. A: What did he do？
B: A singer and songwriter.
A: What were his most famous songs?
B: One of the famous songs he wrote was \t.
A: And I've made it in five questions! B: Good for you.
Now make similar conversations with your partner. Use the structures and expressions above in your conversations where appropriate. Your conversations should include the details given below. [ti:Unit 11 Part C] Test Your Listening
Listen to the passage three times and supply the missing information.
On June 28, 2008, amid cheers and tears 52-year-old Gates said good-bye to his Microsoft employees. The following is his closing remarks during his farewell event in Redmond: \eally is about software and working with incredible people. I love working with smart people. I love working with Steve. I love working with all the incredible people here. Even the times that were the toughest, in some ways those are the ones that bond you the most when IBM decides to attack you, or when some legal ruling isn't quite right. And you have to do a press conference afterwards. \pact the impact on the world of what we do — is incredible. We can always go out and see things that remind us of that. See blind people who, using our accessibility, can browse the Internet. You know, their lives are just totally different because of that. So we can say, wow, this is so impactful. %ually what's made it so easy to want to work hard, to want to always improve things, to face up to whatever it is that needs to be done better. So it's a special group of people who put so much into it. \e that I'm not thinking about Microsoft,and the great things that it's doing, and wanting to help. So thank you for making it the center of my life, and so much fun. Thank you.\Unit 12 The Internet Part A Listening Strategy Finding the Main Idea
Finding the main idea of a conversation is a very important skill in listening comprehension. To acquire this skill, we must cultivate our ability to distinguish between major and minor information. We should learn how to listen for the general sense rather than for the meaning of every word. In fact, it is impossible for us to understand and remember every word uttered by the speaker and it is not necessary to do so. The first step to look for the main idea is to identify the topic the speaker is talking about. The topic is the subject or focus of what is being said and is usually conveyed through the words or phrases the speaker mentions or refers to the most. Then you have to fo
cus your attention on the sentence or sentences that extend the topic to the message
the speaker wants to get across to the listener. You are going to hear three passages about computers and IT education. Listen carefully and complete the answers.
1. Students and teachers at 20 schools in China's poor rural areas had their own computer labs at the end of 2001. The labs were jointly funded by the China Youth Development Foundation and Coca-Cola (China) Beverages Ltd., which planned to establish more computer labs in 1,200 rural schools.
2. China is now using India's rich resources and expertise in IT education to meet its great demand for software professionals. An Indian company has recently signed a deal with China to establish a joint venture company in Beijing. It is the first Indian company to invest in the education of software professionals in China.
3. Code Red II, the world's most vicious cyber worm, is all about to start another attack. Unlike its former peer, \twork. Anti-bug experts are calling for greater online security. [ti:Unit 12 Part B] Listening Tasks A Passage Nathen Dees Exercise 1
You are going to hear a story that happened on the Internet. Listen carefully and choose the right answers to the questions you hear. On a wet Sunday morning in Sydney last year, 13-year-old Nathen Dees switched on his computer. He was surfing the Net, looking for someone to talk to, when he saw a message on his screen from a girl named Steffi who was online: \e matter?\asked Nathen, rather annoyed. \ir,\working on a history project alone in her house in Heilbronn, Germany. While surfing the Net for information, she felt a sudden pain in her legs. She tried to get out of her chair, but she couldn't move. As the pain moved to her chest and made breathing almost impossible, she typed her cry for help. \s 000?\p with an Australian, and Nathen hadn't realized till then that he was talking to someone outside Australia. \eilbronn, Germany.\ far away needed his help. \ome address, Steffi?\hen quickly rang up the international operator and asked to be put through to Germany. He explained the situation to the operator there and gave her Steffi's address. Then he typed back, \on, Steffi. Help is now on the way.\mbulance crew got the emergency call and sped towards the address with two police officers. Once at Steffi's house, they broke down the door and found her in great pain over the keyboard. She was able, however, to write one more thing to her Australian rescuer. The message Nathen had been waiting for finally flashed onto the screen. \e, thanks to a young boy on the other side of the world. A: Why?
B: You see, the professor's act moved the thief to tears. If what I do can awaken a criminal's consc
ience, I'd be only too happy. A: That's a reward in itself, isn't it? B: Yes. And more valuable than money. Conversation 2
A: I saw on TV last night that an old lady was knocked over by a vehicle. B: Was she seriously injured?
A: I think so. But she had been lying there helplessly for some time before the police arrived at the scene. The driver drove off and passers-by pretended not to see her. B: That's unbelievable. How could they be so cold-hearted? A: Horrible, isn't it? Some people are so mean. B: Suppose you had been one of the passers-by, what would you have done?
A: I would have rushed her to a hospital and notified her family as soon as possible. B: So would I. It's only right to offer a helping hand to those in need. Don't you think so? A: Absolutely. I wish everyone in our society would be more caring.
Now make similar conversations with your partner according to the given situations. Use the structures and expressions above in your conversations where appropriate. [ti:Unit 13 Part C] Test Your Listening
Listen to the passage and choose the right answers to the questions you hear.
On a trip to Kenya, with her family, 17-year-old Christina spent four days with the Samburu tribe people. Two years of drought had killed their cattle and left the tribe with nothing to eat. Christina wants to help them. For fun, she taught the children how to paint and the children came up with amazing drawings of animals. Christina decided to turn the paintings into cards and sell them back home. She paid the children $200 of her own money for the pictures. \and a half weeks,\rafts, which she'd sell in local stores. Her goal was to raise enough money to buy a cow for each family and to dam the nearby springs so the tribe would never be troubled by droughts again. Obtaining a loan from her parents, she started the Samburu Project. Now the men and women there are making beaded blacelets and other ornaments. And the children are painting giraffes and zebras. Christina sets aside every penny of profit for the tribe. Sales during last year's Christmas season yielded $10,000 in profit. She was able to collect enough money to buy the cows, build the dam and even pay the medical bills of a girl who had a brain tumor and a boy badly burnt in a fire. Christina's enthusiasm is catching. When her friends learned about this, they also wanted to buy a cow. That gave her another idea: people could donate $50 to purchase a cow for the Samburu people. By now 67 people have done so. Christina adds what she can to the kitty. \I would spend on CDs or a soda and throw it into a jar for the Samburu.\1. Which of the following is true of Christina?
2. What did Christina do to help the Samburu tribe people?
3. What did she do with the profit money from sales during the last Christmas season? 4. What can we learn from the story? Unit 14 Culture Part A Listening Strategy
Finding the Sequence of Events in a Narrative
When we listen to a narrative, it is important to follow the sequence of events so that we do not lose track of how a story or an event begins, develops and ends. A useful way is to pay attention to time expressions, such as \r a few years\of time and dates or years like \
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