听力教程第三册(施心远)(修订)Unit 2.pptVIP

Unit 2 Listening Course (3) Background Information Lancia 蓝旗亚，或译为蓝西亚 意大利 菲亚特集团 Volvo 沃尔沃Latin 瑞典，又译为富豪 目前世界上最安全的汽车 Citroen （法国） 雪铁龙 * Section One Tactics for Listening Part 1 Spot Dictation My Mother Vocabulary taskmaster: a person who gives other people work to do disciplinarian 严格执行纪律者 clump v. 聚集成群 field hand = farmhand 农场工人 knack (先天或后天的)本领 invaluable: extremely useful keen: very sensitive 灵敏的，敏锐的 hoist v. 吊起，拉高 navigator 区分，拣选 gigantic: extremely large Chrysler 克莱斯勒汽车 transcend v. (formal) 超出，超越（通常的界限） hose 橡皮管，塑料管，水龙带 dandelion 蒲公英 persistence n. 坚持，锲而不舍 woodpile 木柴堆 1. ________ 2. ________ 3. ________ 4. ________ 5. ________ 6. ________ 7. ________ 8. ________ 9. ________ 10. ________ taskmaster on a daily make us field hands chores missions keen eyesight telescope far away knack 11._______ 12. ________ 13. _______ 14. ________ 15. ________ 16. _______ 17. ________ 18. ________ 19. _______ 20. _______ got caught gigantic ability one side imagination allowed believe in valued filled by edge of Part 2 Listening for Gist Vocabulary be fascinated by: 被…深深吸引 hot-air balloon supercede 代替，取代 airship 飞艇，飞船 aeroplane （AmE airplane, also plane） This passage is about ______________________. The key words are: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the early history of flying flying, designs, an Italian artist, fifteenth century; eighteenth century, fly, float, balloons; hot-air balloon, April 1783; airships, September 1852; aeroplane. For hundreds of years man has been fascinated by the idea of flying. One of the first men to produce designs for aircraft was Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian artist who lived in the fifteenth century. However, it was not until the eighteenth century that