现代大学英语听力答案【第一册unit12】.doc

Unit 12 Task1 A: 1.She is one of the best shess players in the world,and she is only sixteen-year-old. 2.No.Chess is very difficult for a woman.No one thought she could do well.Her father wanted her to be a secretary. 3.Maybe because she’s always thinking about chess and therefore has few friends. B: 1.For ; through ; along ; by 2.nine ; five ; run ; against ; six ; seven ; half an hour ; 7:45 Task2 “Reserved” means “slow to show feelings or express opinions” . “Extrovert” means “an active,lively,expressive,cheerful and sociable person”.Here the author uses it as an adjective. Englishmen wear bowler hats,pinstripe suits and carry umbrellas;Scotsmen are mean,they hate spending money and drink whisky all day long;Welshmen do nothing but play rugby and sing.And the Irish only exist so that other British people can tell jokes about them! Well,on the whole the speaker does not believe them because there are too many exceptions.However he agrees that it is great fun to generalize and some generalizations may be true. The generalization that “The British don’t like answering questions about the detailes of their lives”,and also the generalization that they usually don’t like officials. Task3 The American Indians in the northwest of America. When a man wanted to shou that he was rich and important,he asked all of his friends to a greast feast.He also invited people from other villages.There were games and competitions,and everyone ate and drank a lot.He gave away things to all of the people at his feast.Sometimes he threw things into the sea,or he made a big fire and burned things in front of everyone. Ofen he had very few things left after the feast,or there was very little food in his house.But he was still rich in the eyes of his people.He was a “big man” now.Everyone looked up to him,because he did not think that valuable things were important. Task4 A: In the morning Local factory workers Papers and cigarettes During the day Housewives All kinds of things:fresh