新世纪大学英语视听说教程第四册_答案 .doc

1.摩天大楼tak：man，look at that！In new york there‘s always something being built 。And everything goes up so quickly ……you never know whats going to be around next week Rob：yeah ，but on the other hand ,sometimes i wonder about overcrowding .maybe they need to start building down more . Tak:building down ? Rob:yeah ,its when you build underground instead of above ground . Tak: nah ,thats too much like living in a cave .i love the skyscrapers ! They are the most incredible feats of engineering ! Rob:true .and some of the fast ones were built right here in new york city . Tak:thats right !you know,i wonder what new york looked like before all these buildings popped up . Tak:yeah ,ill bet itll be something fantastic ! Rob:maybe ……what do you think its going to look like ? Tak:i dont know ……but you know what ?im going to remember what it looked like . Rob:uh you are too much .hey ,lets ask this guy what you famous buildings going to be …… 2.两女孩在计算机前 Mrs：well ，i was pretty fast ，but i made some mistakes。Actually ，the typewriters werent that bad ，now，as for the first computer……oh my gosh ！ Tar：what do you mean？ Mrs：the first computers were so unreliable。They used to crash all the time ，and they were not as affordable or as fast as they are now 。 Tar：mines pretty fast ，but not as fast as some of the newer more expensive ones Mrs：i know ！And nowadays ，almost everyone has a computer 。In those days ，nobody had their own computer。We used to use the ones at the university Tar：so？No big deal ……laptops have batteries …… Mrs：yes ，but remember ，in those days we didnt have laptops ，if your computer crashed ，you lost everything Tar：everything ？ Mrs：everything。We used to lose information all the time ，but that time it was terrible ，everybody lost their papers that afternoon ……including me 3.两男孩在餐厅 Tak：so，what are today’s headlines？ Mik：i dont know ，im reading the important stuff like my horoscope and the entertainment section hey ！Look at this ！James Hammond is playing at CBGB‘s tonight！