Unit 6
Pre-listening
Open questions
Build the vocabulary
1. 1) populations
2) accidental
3) mutation
4) mortality
5) disease
6) gene
While listening
2. Paragraph 1: accidents
Paragraph 2: reactor; population
Paragraph 3: nuclear
Paragraph 4: mutations; shaped
3. 1) 1986
2) 150,000
3) 20%
4. A, B, C
5. C
6. 1) F
2) T
3) T
7. Open question
Post listening
8. 1) defect
【解析】骨髓异常增长综合征患者的骨髓有缺陷，不能正常合成血细胞。
2) nuclear
【解析】一些发展国家有安全，可靠，高效的核能。
3) termination
【解析】终止妊娠完全违背了她的意愿。
4) mortality
【解析】发展中国家的产妇死亡率大大降低了。
5) radioactive
【解析】人们猜测福岛将11，500 吨的放射性废水排到了海洋里。
Grammar
1. repairing
2. consists of
3. mentioning
4. feels
5. is to blame
6. shuts
7. monitoring
8. tastes
CEE Integrated
1. 1) C
2) B
W: Did you know James went out of business?
M: Really? When was that?
W: Last month.
M: That's too bad! He had owned that business for 15 years. What happened?
W: I don't know. But life must be pretty tough for his family now. His sons are still so
young. One is 13 and the other is 10.
M: Well, maybe things are not as bad as they seem to be.
W: I hope so.
2. 1) A
2) C
3) C
W: Guess what? My mother's decided to go back to school.
M: Why?
W: Well, she always loved art, but learned business admistration at college, because
her parents thought it was difficult for an artist to find a job.
M: So she wants to study art now?
W: Yeah, oil painting. It's been her dream for a long time.
M: It's nice to return to learn what she loves. But, Kate, I still think old age should be
about peace and relaxation. Hurrying to school every day and having to pass exams
sounds a bit too much for her.
W: You know, she retired last year and I'm leaving for the university soon. She needs
to find something interesting to do.
M: Well, maybe, if it's what she wants.
3. 1) B
2) A
3) C
M: Dear listeners, for today's show, I have with me, my colleague, Mary Lenny. She
has been a radio TV reporter for many years. Mary, welcome to our show!
W: It's a pleasure to be here.
M: Would you please tell our listeners who most influenced your decision to become
a reporter?
W: Both my parents had a great influence on my choice of work, instead of trying to
pick out a job for me, they helped me learn those things that led me to it.
M: How did they do that?
W: My father always told me that an education was one of the greatest advantages I
could have, one that would always stay with me. He used to tell me that readers were
leaders, and encouraged me to read all I could. As a result, I've always kept up with
the newspapers, faithfully read news magazines and learned to really enjoy books, all
of which have been a valuable help to me in radio and television reporting.
M: What about your mother?
W: Well, my mother helped me in a much different way.
4. 1) A
2) B
3) A
4) C
M: We all know that exercise is good for us, but sometimes it seems too hard to leave
the sofa.
W: I can see that. You seldom do exercise.
M: Plus, having the doctor tell us to get two and a half hours' exercise a week doesn't
really help our motivation much.
W: Don't be discouraged. Now a new study suggests getting benefits from exercise
doesn't have to be that demanding. Jacob Sattelmair from Harvard University has
done a study into how much exercise is needed to lower the risk of heart attacks.
M: Emm…, interesting!
W: The study showed that people who put in 300 minutes a week of exercise had a
20% lower risk of death due to heart disease. Still, the people who exercise 115
minutes a week did pretty well, too, lowering their death risk by 14%.
M: And what about the people who exercise half as much as that, like what I probably
do? Does that help?
W: Of course, even 15 minutes would help.
5. 1) B
2) A
3) C
Here is a piece of news for bird lovers. Scientists have painted a long road, red, yellow
and white. They help to discourage the sea birds from wandering onto the highway. The
area is home to large crowds of birds that come to stay for the season. Young birds are
often attracted to the warm roads' surface and get killed by the traffic. Biology student,
Hannah tells the broadcaster. The youngster's feathers are brown in color. The dark-
colored road surface makes the youngster hard to be noticed. As the number of tourists
has grown, so has the amount of traffic on the roads. Biologist Christen says the plan is
to see how the birds respond to the multi-colored road this summer, and if it works, the
idea could spread to other parts of the country.
