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1、by:Studyplayer00:00.00Step by Step 2000Book 200:09.80Unit 1Education Is a Key00:13.56Part IWarming up00:15.96A Key words:Oxford Cambridgethe University ofSydney00:28.42the Universityof Victoriathe University ofAuckland00:35.59Harvard UniversityColumbia UniversityBoston University00:45.00Vocabulary:c

2、ommitment/undertake/innovation/excel/00:57.68cosmopolitan/stimulating/enrollment01:04.63You are going to hearsome peopleintroducing someuniversities01:09.19in someEnglish-speakingcountries.01:11.31Supply the missinginformation.01:13.861.What kind of student comes to Oxford?01:19.87The answer to this

3、 is,there is no OxfordType.01:24.37Common qualities theylook for arecommitment,01:27.59enthusiasm andmotivation foryour chosen area ofstudy01:32.08backed by a strongacademic record.01:35.932.The University of Cambridge is one of the oldest universities01:43.00in the world,and oneof the largest in th

4、eUnited Kingdom.01:47.09It has a worldwidereputation foroutstanding academicachievement01:51.90and the high qualityof research01:54.18undertaken in a widerange of science andarts subjects.01:59.813.The University of Sydney was the first to be established in Australia and,02:08.61after almost 150 yea

5、rsof proud achievement,still leads ininnovation and quality02:15.80The University excelsin sport and socialactivities,02:20.38debating,drama,musicand much more.02:25.794.Known for excellence in teaching,research and service to the community,02:34.13the University ofVictoria servesapproximately 17,00

6、0students.02:40.08It is favored by itslocation on Canadasspectacular west coast02:45.49in the capital ofBritish Columbia.02:49.345.New Zealands largest university, the University of Auckland,02:57.20was established in1883,03:00.14and has grown into aninternational centerof learning andacademic excel

7、lence.03:05.65The University issituated in the heartof the cosmopolitancity of Auckland03:10.85and provides anexciting andstimulatingenvironment03:14.25for 26,000 students.03:18.006.Founded in 1636Harvard has a 380-acreurban campus witheasy access to Boston.03:30.50It has a totalenrollment of about1

8、8,500 students.03:36.22This universitycomprises manydifferent schools03:39.75such as the Facultyof Arts and Sciences,03:42.97School of BusinessAdministration andSchool of Education.03:48.727.Columbia University is an independent coeducational university,03:56.50which awards masters,doctoral,professi

9、onal,and other advanceddegrees,04:02.27with an enrollment ofabout 20,000 graduateand professionalstudents.04:08.488.Boston University is located along the banks of the Charles River.04:16.64With more than 30.000students from all overthe United States and135 countries,04:24.51it is the thirdlargest i

10、ndependentuniversity in theUnited States.04:31.20B.Key words: online academic degrees social experience04:46.47educational likebetter communication04:53.20Vocabulary:progress04:58.40Listen to a passageabout the onlinehigher education inthe U.S.05:04.40Supply the missingwords.05:06.84American univers

11、itieshave been offeringclass online05:12.72through computers fora number of years.05:16.36Now,some newly createdcolleges are offeringacademic degreesonline.05:23.88One university offersboth bachelorsdegrees and mastersdegrees.05:31.37Officials say they tryto provide students05:35.34with a socialexpe

12、rience as well asan educational one.05:40.58For example,in someprograms,05:43.56groups of the same sixstudents progressthrough all theirclasses together.05:50.13They communicate bycomputer.05:53.65Another online schooluses a problem-solvingmethod of teaching.06:00.27Students attempt tosolve real pro

13、blemsin their classesonline06:05.92instead of readinginformation.06:09.75Students who havetaken online classessay they like them06:15.32because they do nothave to travel to abuilding at a set time06:20.56to listen to aprofessor.06:23.02Professors say theyhave bettercommunication withstudents06:27.78

14、through e-mail notesthan they do in manytraditional classes.06:34.97Part IIEducational systems06:48.54Key words:primary school06:52.65secondary schoolhigh schoolhigher educationcollege university07:06.26Vocabularycomprehensive school/GCSE examination/07:15.80A level/sophomore/provincial/school board

15、/diploma/certificate07:29.92A.You are going to hear07:32.95some people talkingabout the educationalsystem in theircountry.07:37.16Before listening,discuss the pre-listening questionsbelow.07:41.951.How old are children when they begin school in our country?07:48.002.How are the levels of schooling d

16、ivided?07:53.753.What do school children have to take before they enter the university08:00.31B.Now listen to the material.08:04.67While listening,focuson the points in thechart.08:08.61Supply the missinginformation in thechart.08:12.18D:(Well,)in Britain,08:14.17from the ages of fiveto about eleven

17、 youstart off at aprimary school,08:18.45and then from elevento sixteen you go onto a secondary school,08:21.81or a comprehensiveschool and at sixteenyou take GCSEexaminations.08:27.29After this,somechildren take. er.vocational courses oreven start work.08:32.79Others stay on atschool for anothertwo

18、 years to takeA levels.08:35.95And at the age ofeighteen,after Alevels,08:38.45they might finishtheir education orgo on to a course ofhigher education08:42.75at a college oruniversity,and thatsusually for threeyears.08:47.11M:Well,it depends on what state youre in but.08:57.99er. most kidsin the Uni

19、ted Statesstart school at aboutsix09:03.11. er. when they goto elementary school09:05.48and that goes from thefirst grade up to thesixth grade.09:08.50Some kids go to akindergarten the yearbefore that.09:12.14Then they go on tojunior high school,thats about eleven,09:17.30and thats theseventh,eighth

20、and ninthgrades.09:20.32And then they go onto senior high schoolaround age fourteen09:23.95. er . startingin the tenth gradeand finishing in thetwelfth grade usually.09:28.55Some students .er . will leaveschool at sixteen andtheyll start work,09:33.11but . er .most of them stay onto graduate09:36.29

21、. er . from highschool at ageeighteen.09:38.40In the first year athigh school or collegestudents are calledfreshmen,09:42.88in the second theyrecalled sophomores,in the third year09:47.02.er . we call themjuniorsand in thefourth year theyrecalled seniors.09:50.86Now . er . a lotof high schoolgraduat

22、es09:54.08er, then go to collegeor university and theydo a four-year firstdegree course.10:00.07Some of them might goto junior college .er . which is atwo-year course.10:05.26N:Well,in Australia, well in most states anyway,10:16.55children start theirprimary education10:18.51at five after perhapsa b

23、rief time inkindergarten.10:21.86They will stay atprimary school untiltheyre about eleven,10:26.56then theyll eitherstay there or go to anintermediate schoolfor a couple of years.10:31.03Then they start highschool usually twelveor thirteen,10:33.86which you start inthe third form.10:36.11Now,after t

24、hree yearsat high school. um. you sit ageneral exam,10:40.81some states call itSchool Certificate. er .10:43.40and that is a sortof generalqualification.10:45.81After that you canleave school atsixteen10:49.20or you can go on andsit your UniversityEntrance Examination,10:53.52which then gives youent

25、ree into auniversity10:56.59or its another usefulqualification,10:58.90and from then on yougo to various sortsof higher education.11:03.10Education in Canadais a provincialresponsibility,11:15.22but schools areadministered by localschool boards.11:19.59Kindergarten is forchildren who are fouror five

26、 years old.11:24.95Children begin formalfull-day schooling inGrade 1,when they areabout six years old.11:32.77They must stay inschool at least untilthey are sixteen.11:37.22However,most studentscontinue to finishhigh school.11:41.40Some go on to collegeor university.Each year of schoolingrepresents

27、one grade.11:48.95(The school yearextends from thebeginning of Septemberto the end of June.)11:54.90Elementary schoolincludes kindergartento about Grade 8.12:00.10Secondary school(orhigh school)may startin Grade 8,9,or 1012:07.03and it usuallycontinues until Grade12.12:10.89In Canada,students maygo

28、to university or toa community college.12:17.48If they want to learnskills for a specificjob,12:21.45they attend collegefor one to four yearsto get a diploma orcertificate.12:27.82For example,labtechnicians,child-careworkers,and hotelmanagers go to college12:35.77Universities offerdegree programs as

29、well as training incertain professions,12:42.61such as law,medicine,and teaching.12:47.13Universities offerthree main levels ofdegrees.12:52.41Students earn abachelors degreeafter three or fouryears of study.12:58.86A masters degree cantake another year ortwo.13:03.26A doctorate may takea further th

30、ree toseven years tocomplete.13:09.81C.Now listen again. Answer the following questions briefly.13:17.00Part IIIRemarks on moderneducation13:27.84Key words:snob value promotiona piece of paperability rejected13:44.15Vocabulary:snob/craftsman/decent/promotion/humble/13:58.45colleague/reject/oblige14:

31、05.46A.Listen to a passage taking about modern education.14:11.26Complete thestatements with theinformation you hearon the tape.14:16.45Education has acquireda kind of snob valuein modern times.14:22.11We are on longercontent to be honestcraftsmen skilled atour work14:26.42through years ofpatient pr

32、actice.14:28.61Nowadays if we wantto get a decent job,we have to have apiece of paper.14:34.13If we want to getpromotion in even ahumblest job,14:37.90we have to obtain acertificate or adiploma first.14:41.90We may know that wewill be better at thejob14:44.99than the man with thepaper qualifications

33、,14:47.50but our experience andpractical skills areregarded as relativelyunimportant.14:54.09Johnson wouldve beena manager by now ifhed taken the troubleto get a degree,14:59.61his colleagues say.15:01.24Hes a clever man,hecouldve done anythingif hed had a propereducation.15:07.32I wonder if,as time

34、goes on,15:10.90we should discoverthat many people whosepractical experienceand ability15:15.10would have beenenormously useful totheir employers15:17.95have been rejected onthe ground that theyare insufficientlyqualified.15:22.31Would it not be betterto allow people tobecome expert in a waymost sui

35、ted to them15:28.28rather than obligethem to follow a setcourse of instruction,15:31.84which may offer noopportunity for them15:33.97to develop skillsin which they wouldvebecome expert if leftto themselves?15:39.68B.Listen again.Check your answers to Exercise A15:46.29and then decide whichof the sta

36、tements inExercise A are majorpoints15:51.45and which aresupporting ideas andfacts.15:54.08Write the statementnumbers in the rightplace.15:57.63Part IVShort talks onlistening skills16:10.14Listen to the shorttalk entitledThinkingAhead of the Speaker-Anticipation Helps.16:17.12Some important wordsare

37、 taken away fromthe written passage.16:21.02Supply the missingwords.16:23.69Thinking Ahead of theSpeaker-AnticipationHelps16:29.00Listening is anextremely complexcommunicativeactivity.16:34.00In his book Principlesand Implications ofCognitive Psychology,16:39.34Neisser defineslistening as atemporall

38、y extendedactivity16:44.65in which the listenercontinuously developsmore or less16:49.00specific readiness forwhat will come next.16:52.72In other words,aneffective listener isconstantly setting uphypothesis in his mind16:59.54and also,he isconstantly testinghis hypothesis17:03.93by matching it with

39、what he has heard inreality.17:07.50If he hears what hehas expected,hereceives theinformation.17:12.43But if what he hearsis totally out of hisexpectation,he failsto get the message.17:19.81The skill toanticipate what iscoming in listeningcomprehension17:24.70depends largely on thelisteners familiar

40、itywith the theme of themessage.17:29.81It also depends on thelisteners knowledgeof the speaker as wellas the setting.17:35.38Obviously,when welisten to somethingthat we already havesome information about17:41.97it is generally a loteasier for us to takein the newinformation.17:47.00Therefore,pre-li

41、steningpreparation seems tohave a big role17:52.13to play in enhancinglisteningcomprehension.17:55.56Before actuallistening,17:57.84we could perhaps firstgive some thought tothe topic,discuss itwith others,18:03.72read some relatedmaterials and do somevocabulary work.18:08.97If we could makeourselve

42、s fullyorientated18:12.50for the forthcomingtalks or lectures,18:15.38we are more likely tobecome effectivelisteners.18:19.29Of course,readinessbeforehand is not atall enough.18:23.86Active thinking musttake place all theway through.18:27.35In fact,we shouldalways try to thinkahead of the speaker.18

43、:31.42The ability toanticipate helps usin logical andintelligent guesswork.18:36.70It does not onlyenable us to knowgenerally18:39.90what a person isgoing to talk aboutin a certain situation18:43.13but also,interestinglyenough,18:45.70sometimes even exactlywhat a persons nextutterance is going tobe

44、in a discussion!18:52.08Unit 2Language-A Vehiclein Communication19:08.82Part IWarming up19:11.26A.Key words:19:15.06languagesdialectsofficial language19:22.59Vocabulary:discSomalia19:30.29Youre going to hearsome statements aboutlanguage facts.19:34.18Supply the missinginformation.19:36.541.There are

45、 more than 2,700 languages in the world.19:42.31In addition,there aremore than 7,000dialects.19:45.68A dialect is aregional variety ofa language19:48.66that has a differentpronunciation,vocabulary,or meaning.19:52.862.The language in which a government conducts business19:57.13is the officiallanguag

46、e of thatcountry.19:59.883.One billion people speak English.Thats 20 percent of the worlds population.20:08.014.Four hundred million people speak English as their first language.20:13.22For the other 600million its eithera second language ora foreign language.20:18.455.There are more than 500,000 wo

47、rds in the Oxford dictionary.20:24.02Eighty percent of allEnglish vocabularycomes from otherlanguages.20:28.956.Eighty percent of all information in the worlds computers is in English.20:35.707.Somalia is the only African country20:40.06in which the entirepopulation speaks thesame language,Somali.20

48、:44.478.More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.20:51.119.When the Americanspaceship Voyage beganits journey in 1977,itcarried a gold disc.20:59.22On the disc,there weremessages in 55languages.21:02.56Before all of them,there was a message21:04.73from the SecretaryG

49、eneral of theUnited Nations inEnglish.21:09.10B.Key words: learning style senses hearing learners21:21.31 visual learners tactile learners21:27.79Vocabulary:visual/tactile21:35.65You are going to heara short talk aboutlearning styles.21:39.61Complete the followingexplanations.21:42.74Different peopl

50、e havedifferent ways oflearning.21:46.88We call this yourlearning style,andits based on yoursenses.21:52.93To learn,you need touse your differentsenses-hearing,seeing,touching,etc.,22:00.82to bring informationto your brain.22:03.43Now,most people useone of their sensesmore than the others.22:08.46So

51、me people learn bestby listening.They are calledhearing learners.22:14.35And others learn bestby reading or lookingat pictures.22:19.46They are called visuallearners.22:22.45And some learn bestby touching and doingthings.22:26.82They are calledtactile learners.22:30.34Now,scientists dontknow why peo

52、ple useone sense more thanthe others.22:37.11Maybe the sense theyuse most just worksbest for them.22:42.74C.Key words: language learning styles communicative22:52.88analyticalauthority-orientedconcrete23:01.20Vocabulary:identify/analytical/oriented/concrete23:13.10Now listen to anothertalk about lan

53、guagelearning styles.23:17.35Focus on the fourbasic learnertypes.23:20.37Match Column A,thelearner types,withColumn B,ways oflearning languages.23:26.89All right,class.23:28.79Today were going tobe looking atdifferent languagelearning styles.23:33.00You may be surprisedto find that23:35.34there are

54、differentways of going aboutlearning languages,23:38.95none of which isnecessarily betterthan the others.23:42.72Researchers haveidentified four basiclearner:types-thecommunicative learner,23:50.18the analytical learnerthe authority-orientedlearner andthe concrete learner.23:56.95Communicative learn

55、erslike to learn bywatching and listeningto native speakers.24:03.02At home,they like tolearn by watching TVand videos,24:07.86They like to learn newwords by hearing them.24:11.06In class,they like tolearn by havingconversations.24:15.39Now,concrete learnerslike to learn byplaying games,24:19.95by looking at picturesand videos in class,by talking in pairs,24:25.75and by listening tocassettes at homeand school.24:29.34Now,authority-orientedlearners,on the otherhand,like the teacherto explain everything.24:36.08