新标准大学英语-视听说教程第一册Listening-in听力原文.docxVIP

Unit 1 Starting out Listening in Passage 1 Interviewer Can you tell me something about the Ivy League? Youre a professor at Harvard, is that right? Professor Thats right, yes. Interviewer Tell me how many universities are there? How many institutions? Professor In total there are eight institutions: Theres Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. Interviewer Ah, OK. And whats the sporting ... I believe theres some link with sports. Professor There certainly is, yes. Originally the Ivy League referred to the sports teams from the univers