大学英语听说第三版 Book 3. Unit 5

Unit 5 Sports

Part A Micro-listening

Exercise 1 You are going to hear five short conversations. After each conversation a question will be asked about what you’ve heard. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to the question you hear.

1. a. He turned out be the slowest runner.

b. He ran much faster than the other runners at the beginning.

c. He fell down and couldn’t catch up.

d. He didn’t win the race.

2. a. He won’t join the woman.

b. He’ll play table tennis with Paul.

c. He’d rather play table tennis than go swimming.

d. He promised he’d go swimming with Paul some other day.

3. a. His coach didn’t help him enough.

b. His coach was too hard on him.

c. He didn’t follow his coach’s instructions.

d. He had no chance to win the match.

4. a. They should do both activities.

b. They should choose one of the activities only.

c. It doesn’t matter which activity they do.

d. Both activities are good even though they’re different kinds of sports.

5. a. He used to be sick.

b. He’s getting better now.

c. He hasn’t been to the gym before.

d. He has benefited from working out in the gym.

Exercise 2 Listen to the recording three times and fill in the blanks with the missing words.

A great many people in the world consider 1)_____________________________

_________________________________.They like to spend time, effort and money

on sports because they want to 2)_____________________and 3) _______________ ________________________________________ ; 4）________________________ ____________________________________________________ and 5) ___________ ___________________________________________________________________.

Part B Macro-listening

hear.

1. a. 35 b. 30. c. 15. d. 12.

2. a. In the east of the city’s downtown area, near a commercial district.