听力教程4（第二版） - 答案 - 施心远(1—13) - 图文

into 62 languages. Bloomsbury have raised their profit forecast to 35 million dollars for this year. With merchandising (文化衍生品) and movies, there has been an interesting wider impact on the publishing industry According to Lesley Miles, marketing director of the book chain Waterstones, there has been a 10-fold increase (增加10倍)in children's book publishing across the board (普遍), and that's largely thanks to Potter.

A: … about the success o f Harry Potter series and its impact on the publishing industry. B:

1. Because the Harry Potter fans are waiting for the arrival of the latest book in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

2. They are people from different parts of Britain, including the young and not so young, and some teenagers who have traveled over from the Netherlands.

3. Bloomsbury, the books’ publishers, are also excited about the newest Potter tale. 4. Bloomsbury’s profit forecast is 35 million dollars for this year.

5. The previous five books in the series have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 62 languages.

6. According to Lesley Miles, marketing director of the book chain Waterstones, there has been a 10-fold increase in children’s book publishing across the board, and that’s largely thanks to Potter.

News Item 3

Slumdog Millionaire (平民窟的百万富翁) is based on the popular game show \Be a Millionaire?\and stars several high-profile (引人注目的) Bollywood actors whose performances delighted the judges. The country is now in euphoric* mood and Indians are thrilled with the film's success.

The winners of the Golden Globes (金球奖) are often seen as favorites to win at the Oscars, and Indians now have their hopes pinned on (寄托希望) further success when nominations (提名) for the Oscars are announced on January the 22nd.

But it's the film's composer, AR Rehman, who's the toast* of Bollywood. Even with all his talent, he had never won an international award of such standing before. The film's codirector, Loveleen Tandon, said Mr Rehman had made India proud. Ir-rfan Khan, one of the film's leading actors, told the BBC it had been a long time in coming but that Mr Rehman's Golden Globe had made them very happy.

A: … about Slumdog Millionaire, the winner of the Golden Globe. B: T F F F T T

Supplementary Exercises：

International conglomerates might capture the headlines, but family businesses are on the rise in the United States. Thirty percent of the companies listed on the S8rP 500* are family-owned-and-run, and that number is growing. In fact, so-called \large and small, aren't just on the rise here in the Unit-ed States, they're growing in Europe and Asia as well. But when you trade in the stresses of the invisible corporate boss for your husband or your mom, you might be getting a bigger headache instead.

Jane and Tim Heartfield have been married for almost 35 years. They've been business

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partners for 25 of them. The two own a bakery franchise in Portland, Oregon. Great Harvest Bread Company sits in an old brick building downtown and the Heartfields say the location has really helped business. The breads are popular and lunch sales are brisk*. But like any small business, owning a bakery has its ups and downs.

For these partners, the hardest part of working together is managing employees. They try their best to maintain a unified front even if they disagree. Rule number one: Don't argue in front of the staff. But Jane Heartfield says that just means they argue later at home.

None of this surprises Dr Kathy Marshack. The psychologist has spent years counseling couples with family businesses. She says contrary to common belief, families with strong relationships have the hardest time working together, mainly because what makes a healthy family doesn't necessarily make a successful business.

\family's goal is to take care of each other, to protect people, to love each other, to connect. So if the business needs to move in a direction that isn't compatible with some of the family members, there's a tug*, there's a struggle.\

Like when someone in the family isn't very good at their job, in a normal business setting, they'd be fired. But Dr Marshack points out that families will do any-thing and everything to protect each other. \him in the business, and darn it. He's just not very good at what he does, but they're just going to cover for him any-way But then, customers depend on that person; employees depend on that person…‖

And that can end up ruining the business.

A. This news report is about why working with families can be bad for the business. B. 1. T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. T 6. F 7. T 8. F

Part Two Passage

Gender Gap Widens in US Colleges

1. Last year for the first time, women earned more than half the degrees granted statewide in every category.

2. Just as they might consider race or geographical diversity in building freshman classes, they similarly look for gender parity.

3. Talk of gender is fraught with social, legal and political minefields. For one thing, ' female inequities persist.

4. Most of those tracking the issue agree that getting males into the college pipeline is best addressed in elementary and secondary schools.

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5. The disparities on campuses worry some admissions officers, particularly at liberal arts colleges where gaps are widest.

In May, the Minnesota Office of Higher Education posted the inevitable culmination of a trend: Last year for the first time, women earned more than half the degrees granted statewide in every category, be it associate, bachelor, master, doctoral or professional.

As women march forward, more boys seem to be falling by the wayside. Not only do national statistics forecast a continued decline in the percentage of males on college campuses, but the drops are seen in all races, income groups and fields of study. The imbalances do trouble some admissions officers.

So just as they might consider race or geographical diversity in building fresh-man classes, they similarly look for gender parity*.

There are more men than women ages 18-24 in the USA - 15 million vs.

14.2 million, according to a Census Bureau estimate last year. Nationally, the male/ female ratio on campus today is 43/57, a reversal from the late 1960s and well be-yond the nearly even splits of the mid 1970s.

The trends have developed in plain view - not ignored exactly, but typically accompanied by some version of the question: Isn't this a sign of women's progress?

Today, though, the blue-collar jobs that once attracted male high school graduates are drying up. More boys are dropping out of high school and out of college.

And as the gender gap widens, concern about the educational aspirations of young men appears to be gaining traction, albeit* cautiously.

Talk of gender is fraught with social, legal and political minefields. Witness the outcry after Harvard President Lawrence Summers remarked in January that women might be underrepresented in sciences because of innate differences in abilities. For one thing, female inequities persist. There's still a pay gap. According to the Census Bureau, women on average earned 77 cents to each dollar paid to male counterparts in 2004. \

So it's perhaps no surprise that most educators exploring the issue have an eye toward equilibrium. Most of those tracking the issue agree that getting males into the college pipe-line is best addressed in elementary and secondary schools.

Even so, the disparities*.on campuses worry some admissions officers, particularly at liberal arts colleges where gaps are widest.

A study this year of admissions processes at 13 liberal arts schools, most with a predominantly female applicant pool, found that gender was \a significant determinant\in admissions decisions. When a gender preference for men emerged, it occurred at historically female campuses where the share of female applicants had reached 55% or more.

Preliminary results show that on campuses that were predominantly female, both men and women got higher grades. Predominantly female campuses also led to a \increase\in men's commitment to promoting racial understanding and led males to more liberal views on abortion, homosexuality* and other social is-sues.

One reason colleges may fail to attract more men is precisely because they are more geared to female learning styles and interests. Colleges that want to compete for the dwindling pool of men should emphasize male interests, such as sports, and offer more male role models.

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C. Detailed Listening

1. T 2. F 3. T 4..T 5. F 6. T 7. T 8. F

Unit 9 Section 1

Listening and Translation

1. Supermarkets are big stores that provide a wide choice of foods and other products.

2. Since 2000, Americans have bought more organic food from supermarkets than from any other kind of store.

3. In the United States, traditional supermarkets are facing competition from even bigger stores. 4. They are also facing competition from stores with more choices of fresh, natural foods.

5. New competitors are winning business because they are even larger than supermarkets and they have lower prices.

1. 超市是那些能够提供大量可供选择的食品和其他商品的大型商场。

2. 自从2000年以来，美国人从超市里购买的有机食品比从其他类型的商场里购买的要多。 3. 在美国，传统的超市正面临着来自更大的商场的竞争。

4. 它们还面临这来自那些能提供更多新鲜、天然的食品品种商店的竞争。 5. 新的竞争对手正在经营中取胜，因为它们比超市更大，价格更便宜。

Section 2

Part 1 Dialogue Name: David Jones Department: Accounts Nature of business: To attend a one-day course on Computer Programming Place: The Technical College in Westhampton (西安普敦) Date: 9th-10th May

1. 9th train from London to Westhampton ￡18.5 2. the Park Hotel (bed and breakfast) ￡36 3. dinner at the Park Hotel ￡12

4. 10th lunch at the Tech ￡2.5 5. the ―Crown‖ hotel (bed and breakfast) ￡15 6. dinner at the ―Crown‖ hotel ￡4.5 Total ￡88.5

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cheap day returns trade fair full with people from overseas

longer do some work on the computer

give me a lift home broke down walk back about two miles to a village

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