具体描述
内容提要
本书共由32个单元练习和八套测试题组成。每单元围绕一个
中心题材,分三部分练习,并配有相应的讨论题。书末附有听音材
料文字稿。
本教材选材注重知识性、趣味性和广泛性,内容涉及日常生
活、社会文化、科普等多方面。练习形式多样化,包括选择题、是非
题、填充题、回答问题、记笔记、听写等,以便训练学生既能适应各
种标准化考试,又能提高实际听力水平。本书还注重听说结合,让
学生在听的基础上围绕所听材料各抒己见,进行课堂讨论,从而提
高口头表达能力。
作者简介
目录信息
Lesson One
Smoking
Passage l Who First Started to Smoke?
Passage 2 Smoking Is Dangerous to Health
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Two
Space
Passage l The Moon
Passage 2 Is There Life in Space?
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Three
Environment
Passage l Threats to Environment
Passage 2 Are the Resources of Life Inexhaustible?
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Four
Sleep
Passage l What Happens When You Sleep?
Passage 2 How Much Sleep Do You Need?
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Quiz l
Lesson Five
Crime and Punishment (I)
Passage l Pickpocket
Passage 2 Bank Robbery in Los Angeles
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Six
Crime and Punishment (II)
Passage You Are Well Equipped to Prevent Crime
Dialogue Are the Sentences Ridiculous?
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Seven
Human Body
Passage l Brain
Passage 2 Donation of Body Parts
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Eight
Earthquake
Passage l Study of Earthquake
Passage 2 Major Earthquakes in History
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Quiz 2
Lesson Nine
Unemployment
Passage l Effects of Unemployment
Passage 2 Unemployment Rate
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Ten
Working Mother (Part I )
Passage l What Children Say About Working
Mother (Part I )
Passage 2 What Children Say About Working
Mother (Part II )
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Eleven
Working Mother (Part l )
Passage l A Really Equal Partner
Passage 2 A Study of Working Women and
Housewives
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Twelve
Television
Dialogue Television in Britain
Passage The Impact of Mass Advertising on
Television
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Quiz 3
Lesson Thirteen
Women
Passage l A Woman Astronaut
Passage 2 Women in the Military
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Fourteen
Adult Education
Dialogue l Evening Class
Dialogue 2 An Adult Education Program
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Fifteen
Social Work
Passage l Voluntary Social Work
Passage 2 City as School
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Sixteen
Marriage
Dialogue Should People Marry Young?
Passage Marriage Customs
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Seventeen
Divorce
Passage l Traditional Marriage Is in a Turmoil
Passage 2 Single Parent
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Eighteen
Old Age
Passage Retirement
Dialogue Granny Doesn't Live Here Any More
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Nineteen
Eating Habits
Passage l Food in America
Passage 2 Skip Breakfast
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Twenty
Housing
Passage Housing in Britain
Dialogue Apartment Hunting
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Quiz5
Lesson Twenty One
War and Peace
Passage l History of War
Passage 2 Demonstration Against the Vietnam War
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Twenty Two
Famous Women
Passage l Princess Diana
Passage 2 Madame Curie
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Twenty Three
Money
Passage l Origin of Money in the US
Passage 2 American Money
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Twenty Four
News
l Tokyo
l Port Moresby
B Algiers
IV Melbourne
Fellow-up Exerise
Oral Practice
Quiz 6
Lesson Twenty Five
Energy
Passage l Renewable Energy Sources
Passage 2 How to Save Energy
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Twenty Six
Time
Passage l History of Telling Time
Passage 2 Time Zones
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Twenty Seven
Newspapers
Passage British Newspapers
Dialogue Which Newspaper Do You Prefer?
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Twenty Eight
Entertainment
Passage l A Visit to London
Passage 2 Disneyworld
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Quiz7
Lesson Twenty Nine
Medicine
Passage l Organ Transplant
Passage 2 AlDS Crisis
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Thirty
Personality
Passage l Nonasserters
Passage 2 Self-Disclosure
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Thirty One
Sports
Passage l The Olympic Games
Passage 2 For Love or Money?
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Lesson Thirty Two
Computer
Passage l Will Man Be Controlled by Computers?
Passage 2 Future Computer
Follow-up Exercise
Oral Practice
Quiz 8
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从教学方法的角度来看,这本书的创新性主要体现在它对“主动学习”的强调上。它提供的练习模式不只是简单的听写或选择题,而是融入了大量的批判性思维训练。例如,在某些听力理解任务后,它会引导读者去质疑信息来源的可靠性,或者要求对听到的观点进行反驳或补充论证。这种“输出倒逼输入”的练习模式,迫使学习者在听的过程中就要开始思考,而不是被动地接收信息流。此外,配套资源(如果考虑进去的话)的整合也做得相当完善,它似乎鼓励学习者利用多种工具来辅助学习,比如建议使用速记符号来捕捉关键信息,或者推荐特定的跟读技巧来改善语音模仿。这本书真正做到了“授人以渔”,它提供的不仅仅是一套听力材料,更是一套系统化的、可迁移的学术信息处理流程。
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