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视听说4 听力原文及答案 Unit 1 Leisure activities Part 1 listening one Ever wish you could do magic tricks, or introduce yourself as “magician” at a party? Imagine, everybody wants to have fun, but nothings’ really happening, it’s time for you to show one of your new tricks. Here, you can learn how, and without any need for special materials or much practice. A trick with a coin, a handkerchief and a friend: ???Put the coin on your palm. Cover the coin with the handkerchief. Ask several people to put their hands beneath the handkerchief and feel the coin, to make sure that it is still there. Then take the corner of the handkerchief and pull it rapidly off your hand. The coin has gone! How? You must make sure the last friend who feels the coin knows the trick and removes the coin when he seems to be just feeling it. And nobody knows where it has gone! A trick with a piece of paper and a pencil: ???Tell your friend that you can communicate your thoughts without speaking to other people. Write on the piece of paper the word No. Dont let your friends see what you have written. Say, Now I will communicate this word into your minds. Pretend to concentrate. Ask them if they know what is written on the paper. They will say, No! And you say, Quite correct! I wrote No on the paper! A trick with an egg and some salt: ?????Ask your friends to stand the egg upright on the table. They wont manage to do it. Say that you can speak to the chicken inside. Say, Chicken! Can you hear me? Get ready to balance your egg! When you first get the egg back from your friends, pretend to kiss the egg at the base. Make the base wet. Then put the base into salt which is in your other hand. The salt will stick to the egg. Then put the egg on the table. Twist the egg around a few times as this will arrange the grains of salt. Then it will stand up. Dont forget to thank the chicken. Questions: What does the magician ask people to do in the first trick What happens to the coin? How does the magician prove