1、A Listening Course 4施心远主编 听力教程4 答案Unit 1Part 1: Listening and Translation1. A college education can be very costly in the United States.在美国，大学教育的费用会很贵。2. Rising costs have led more and more families to borrow money to help pay for college.费用的上涨使越来越多的美国家庭通过借钱来支付上大学的费用。3. There are different federal l
2、oans and private loans for students.有各种个样的联邦贷款和私人贷款可供学生挑选。4. Interest rates on some of these loans will go up on July 1st.在这些贷款品种中，有些品种的利率将从 7 月 1 日起上调。5. There are growing concerns that many students graduate with too much debt.人们越来越担心，很多学生将背着沉重的债务从大学毕业。Section Two Listening ComprehensionPart 1 Dia
3、logue Social Grouping1.A 2. C 3. D 4. C 5. B 6. C 7. B 8. APart 2 Passage Community CollegesEx. B: Sentence Dictation1. Great challenges faced the United States in the early 20th century, including global economic competition.2. During the same period, the countrys rapidly growing public high school
4、s were seeking new ways to serve their communities.3. It offered a program of solid academics as well as a variety of students activities.4. A distinctive feature of the institutions was their accessibility to women, attributable to the leading role the colleges played in preparing grammar school te
5、achers.5. The breadth of programming and the variety of students goals make it difficult to accurately quantify community college performance.Ex. C: Detailed Listening. 1. The leaders of the US realized that a skilled workforce was needed in the countrys key economic sectors.F. National and local le
6、aders realized that a more skilled workforce was key to the countrys continued economic strength.)2. Three-quarters of high school graduates could not further their education because there were not enough higher education facilities available in the early 20th century.F. (Yet three-quarters of high
7、school graduates were choosing not to further their education, in part because they were reluctant to leave home for a distant colleg.)3. It was common for public high schools to add a teacher institute, manual learning division or citizenship school to the diploma program in the early 20th century.
8、T. (During the same period,public high schools were seeking new ways to serve their communities. It was common for them to add a teacher institute, manual learning division or citizenship school to the dimploma program.)4. During the same time, small private colleges had formed an effective model of
9、 higher education based on the principles of small classes and close student-faculty relations.T. (Meanwhile, small, private colleges had fashioned an effective model of higher education grounded on the principles of small classes, close student-faculty relations.)5. The typical early community coll
10、ege rarely enrolled over 115 students.F. (The typical early community college was small, rarely enrolling more than 150 students.)6. Community colleges were good places for women to get education needed to be primary school teachers.T. (in such states as Missouri, which did not yet require K-8 teach
11、ers to have a bachelors degree, it was common for more than 60 percent of community college students to be women, virtually all of them preparing to be teachers.)7. Community colleges, which appeared a century ago, make it possible for anyone who wants to learn to get publicly funded higher educatio
12、n close to their homes.T. (More than 100 years ago, this unique, American invention put publicly funded higher education at close-to-home facilities and initiated a practice of welcoming all who desire to learn, regardless of wealth, heritage or previous academic experience.)8. The success of commun
13、ity colleges can be defined as granting students associate degrees or certificates they need to find a job.F. (But success at community colleges must be broadly defined to include not just those who attain associate degrees and those who earn certificates, but also the millions who take noncredit an
14、d workforce training classes.)Ex. D: After-listening Discussion1. How do community colleges benefit their students according to research?education pays.Students with associate degrees and certificates /more likely / higher-status management /professional positions with higher earnings investment / p
15、ay lifelong dividendsstudents who earn associate degrees average lifetime earnings of $250,000 people without degrees. 2. What do you think about higher education in China?Open.Section Three NewsNews Item 1Ex. A: Summarize the newsThis news item is about Chinas latest plans for its ambitious space p
16、rogram.Ex. B: Complete the following outline.Chinas second manned space mission1. Landing spot: In the remote grasslands of Inner Mongolia.2. Significance: A source of national pride and international prestige.Future plan1. The next manned mission.1) Time: 20072) Goal: The astronauts will attempt a
17、space walk.2. Focus of further development:The capability to rendezvous and dock with other spacecraft. 3. Recruitment of astronauts: To recruit female astronauts in the near future.News Item 2Ex. A: Listen to the news and complete the summaryThis news item is about the growth of Chinas economy.Ex.
18、B: Fill in the blanks with the missing information.There are still question marks though over the stability of the recovery. The property sector is showing signs of overheating. The government this week announced measures to try to cool it. At the same time officials decided to extend tax subsidies
19、for purchases of small vehicles and appliances suggesting that some here still believe Chinese manufacturers need government support. Growth was strongest in heavy industries such as coal, steel, power generation and automobiles. Consumer prices rose in November for the first time since February. Bu
20、t the rise was small and probably reflected higher food prices caused by early snowstorms which destroyed crops and disrupted transport.News Script Chinas economy has recovered earlier and more strongly than any other. This latest data is further evidence of that trend. The rise in industrial output
21、 confirms what factory owners have been saying for some time now, that customers have been restocking their inventories and confidence is returning. There are still question marks though over the stability of the recovery. The property sector is showing signs of overheating. The government this week
22、 announced measures to try to cool it. At the same time officials decided to extend tax subsidies for purchases of small vehicles and appliances suggesting that some here still believe Chinese manufacturers need government support. Growth was strongest in heavy industries such as coal, steel, power
23、generation and automobiles. Consumer prices rose in November for the first time since February. But the rise was small and probably reflected higher food prices caused by early snowstorms which destroyed crops and disrupted transport .News Item 3Ex. A: Listen and summarize the news itemThis news ite
24、m is about Chinas large and growing trade with and aid to Africa.Ex. B: Listen again answer the following questions.1. How has the main football stadium been built in many African capitals?In many capitals, the main football stadium is likely to have been built with Chinese aid money.2. How much doe
25、s Sino-African trade-and aid-amount to?It is estimated that Sino-African trade-and aid-amounts to as high as 12 billion dollars a year.3. How is the relationship between China and Africa compared with that between Europe and Africa?The links between China and Africa could grow to challenge the post-
26、colonial links between Europe and Africa.4. What did China promise on the meeting in Addis Ababa?China promised to cancel debts, grant duty-free access into China for African products and increase Chinese investments in Africa.Section FourPart 1 Feature ReportA. 1. T 2. F 3. F 4. F 5. TB. 1. It has
27、been established for 11 years.2. It takes place every April.3. Because they glorify violence and foster unhealthy eating habits.4. They should have a wide variety of experiences, such as interacting with other people, playing games, sports, music and reading.5. The Network is lobbying for better reg
28、ulation of the use of television in public spaces.Part 2 PassageScript:Paying the Price for Tuition IncreasesSomething has gone wrong at Wright State University. Just ask David A. Green, a native of Mineral Ridge, Ohio, who graduated from Wright State in June. The son and grandson of factory workers
29、, he was exactly the type of student that Wright State had been established to serve - and the type that it is having more and more trouble serving. Mr. Green says he could not have stayed in his hometown and found work because too many of the local factories have closed and “there are no jobs.“ He
30、saw earning a degree in management-information systems as the key to making a decent living, and he had come to Wright State because it was more affordable than the other colleges that he considered. The problem for many Wright State students is that “affordable“ is becoming a relative term in publi
31、c higher education. As is generally the case in periods of economic stagnation, even the least-expensive public colleges have been hitting their students with one hefty tuition increase after another. Wright State still charges less than 9 of Ohios 13 public universities, and its recent tuition incr
32、eases are in line with those adopted by other public four-year colleges around the nation. But after several consecutive years of double-digit or near-double-digit tuition increases, it costs nearly 50 percent more for in-state undergraduates to enroll here than it did four years ago. Most will pay
33、over $6,000 in tuition for the 2004-5 academic year, which gets under way this week. The easiest choices for policy makers in an economic downturn are often the ones that cause tuition to rise. Lawmakers would much rather reduce state spending than raise taxes to close budget gaps caused by a sour e
34、conomy. And because public colleges have an alternative source of revenue - tuition - it is easier for lawmakers to cut spending on higher education than on most other public services. Meanwhile, many public colleges seem convinced that it is much better to raise tuition than to eliminate academic p
35、rograms, trim salaries, or lay off employees. It takes visiting a fairly typical public college like Wright State to see that relying on such tuition increases to finance such institutions has real costs, extending well beyond the dollar figures that show up on students tuition bills. In an interview here last spring, Mr. Green said he expected to graduate with $25,000 in college-related debt. He was working 30 hours a week on campus just to make ends meet, and his efforts to finance his college education were getting in the way of his efforts to learn. “I Exercise B:
