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Unit 5 Agriculture Part I In-class Listening I. Understanding Basic Skills Listening Task Directions: You will hear ten long and complicated sentences. Listen carefully and choose the best answers to the following questions. 1. Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please? Flight 5125 scheduled to take off at 11:30 will be delayed for 20 minutes. Please check in half an hour prior to departure. Thank you. 2. I have to teach the same course books several times in the summer holiday camp, which is sometimes boring and not well-paid, but by and large I’m quite delighted at being with young people. 3. It is getting much easier to travel nowadays, but increasingly harder to get away from people, and that is perhaps the most difficult thing for holiday makers. 4. The elderly woman was planning to take the half-past-five coach. Unfortunately due to poor road conditions, which made safe driving impossible, it departed at a quarter past eight. 5. Statistics show that 300 people are killed in air crashes in the United States every year, but about 50,000 people are killed in car accidents. 6. I have prescribed something for your daughter, Mrs. Johnson. Make sure she takes it three times a day after meals. If she is not any better by Tuesday, come to see me again. 7. Whenever I go to the bank near my house, the cashiers are either fooling around or keeping whole queues of people waiting by chatting to the customer at the front about their holiday. 8. The moment the windscreen shatters you should begin to take your foot off the accelerator, not completely off, of course, because you might be in heavy traffic, with another vehicle right behind you. 9. Two men who were caught stealing property after it grew dark have appeared before the local magistrate’s court this morning. They are expected to be kept in custody for several days. ? If you don’t want to sound impolite, or cause embarrassment or distress of any kind to the person you’re talking to, you should learn