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Section Ⅰ Listening and Speaking &
Listening and Talking
[对应学生用书P93]
Ⅰ.发音规律
重读和非重读
英语句子一般由多个单词构成,这些单词的重读一般遵循以下规律:名词、形容词、数词、动词、副词、特殊疑问词和表达强烈思想感情的感叹词需要重读;人称代词、连词、冠词、介词以及少数系动词和助动词等主要起语法作用的单词一般不重读。如:
上面句子中为重读音节,为非重读音节。
Ⅱ.听力策略
听数字
数字类问题通常与时间、电话号码、地址、价格、重量、距离等有关。听数字时,需要特别注意与数字连用的量词以及读音相似的数字,比如thirteen和thirty,fourteen和forty等。
Ⅲ.听力文本
Interviewer:Today we are very pleased to chat with Mr Yang Liwei,the first Chinese astronaut.Welcome to the show,Mr Yang.
Mr Yang:Thank you.
Interviewer:Mr Yang,our audience is very curious about how you succeeded in becoming 1.China's first astronaut.It must have been a very difficult thing to achieve.Did you always want to be an astronaut?
Mr Yang:Yes,I dreamt of it when I was young,but I never thought my wish would come true.It took a long time.First,I got my college degree when I was 22,and then I worked as a fighter pilot for around 10 years.I finally became China's first astronaut when I was 2.38 years old.
Interviewer:Oh,so you must be a really experienced pilot.Do you think that was one of the reasons why you were chosen for the space programme?
Mr Yang:Sure,I had 3.1,350 hours of flight experience,which I think really helped me.
Interviewer:So how difficult was it to join the space programme?
Mr Yang:There was a lot of competition.Altogether,4.14 of us were chosen from among 1,500 pilots to train for space flights.
Interviewer:That sounds really difficult.Did you also have to be a certain size and weight?
Mr Yang:Yes,at the time,you had to be shorter than 172 centimetres in height and weigh less than 70 kilograms.You also had to be in perfect health and perfect shape.
Interviewer:So you were the perfect choice!As we all know,an astronaut needs to be 5.healthy and calm in order to work in space.But you also had to study a lot,too,right?
Mr Yang:Yes,I had to learn English,science,and astronomy.I also had to practise using space equipment,and do a lot of mental and physical training.It was very tiring,but I was so proud to have the opp