Part One听辨练习
A. Listen and repeat .
two two books sixty-seven
sixty-seven cents eight eight women
thirty thirty classrooms nineteen
nineteen dollars thirteen thirteen cities
twenty-two twenty pages thirty -three
thirty-three stores forty-eight forty-eight metres
fifty-two fifty-two people sixty-six
sixty-six trees seventy-seven seventy-seven spots
eighty-eight eighty-eight numbers ninety-nine
ninety-nine pictures
B. Listen to these pairs of numbers. The stress of –teen numbers contrasts with that of -ty numbers and circle the number you hear .
thirteen thirty seventeen seventy
fourteen forty eighteen eighty
fifteen fifty nineteen ninety
sixteen sixty
C. Write the numbers you hear .
1. Uncle John is___________ years old.
2. Our house is ___________ years old.
3. There are ___________ teachers in our school.
4. There are ___________ boys in this class.
5. I need ___________ dollars.
6. This pen costs ___________ cents.
7. Did you say Helen was ___________ years old?
8. The river is ___________ miles broad.
9. The lake is ___________ miles around.
10. The mirror is ___________ meters high.
11. He is ___________ years younger than me.
12. He bought the book ___________ days ago.
13. The city is ___________ miles away from Beijing.
14. He is ___________ meters high.
15. The house is ___________ square kilometers.
16. She said she walks ___________ miles every day.
17. I have ___________ color balls.
18. The book costs ___________ dollars.
19. There are ___________ students in our class.
20. About ___________ people attended this demonstration.
D. Form sentences, using numbers about things around you, for example, pages in a book, students in a class, floors in a building, buses in the city, cars in the parking lot, games your team won, and so on. Use about if you don’t know the exact numbers .
Examples:
1. This book has ninety-six pages.
2. There are about ninety-six pages in this book.
3. We have fifty-three students in this class.
4. There are about seventy-nine floors in the building.
5. Take the No. twenty-three bus.
6. You are the 14th of the visitors today.
7. Five of the blue ones are my brother’s.
8. Today is March the tenth.
9. The cost has been reduced by 40 per cent.
10. Its grain output went up 16 percent last year.
11. It is one-third smaller than our country.
12. It is the fourth largest river in the world.
13. This year we will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of our university.
14. Stainless steels contain about 15% of chromium.
15. The output of chemical fibre in our province has increase three and half times in the past three years.
16. Our industrial output value was up 1.9 times during this period.
17. Some of these stars are one hundred million times brighter than the sun.
18. He lives in room 239.
19. My mother has just bought 2 kilos of apples.
20. Three-sevenths of the employees are women.
E. Tell the people’s ages,using full sentences .
　　Example: The king was born in 1210. How old was he in 1260?
　　He was fifty.
　　On your own:
1. Tom was born in 1970. How old is he this year?
2. Mrs. Chung was born in 1949. How old was she in 1979?
3. Robert Todd was born in 1608. How old was he in 1658?
4. The twins were born in 1983. How old will they be in 1999?
5. My sister was born in 1975. How old will she be in 2002?
6. Thomas Hardy was born in 1840. How old was he in 1940?
7. Jane Austin was born in 1775. How old was she in 1835?
8. I was born in 1986. How old was I in 2001?
9. Professor Li was born in 1958. How old will he be in 2038?
10. The People’s Republic of China
　was founded in 1949. How old will it be in 2039?
F. Read the short poems below .
One two tie my shoes
Three four shut the door
Five six pick up sticks
Seven eight eat your cake
Nine ten good-bye and come again
One little two little three little Indians
Four little five little six little Indians
Seven little eight little nine little Indians
Ten little Indian boys.
G. Look through the paragraph quickly and then read it loudly, paying attention to the numbers in the paragraph .
　　BRITISH women have ballooned in size over the past 80 years, a report yesterday revealed. The vital statistics for the average woman have risen from 31-20-32 in the 1920s to 36-26-38 in 2001. Bigger breasts are reflected in the increased sizes. More D-cup bras are now sold in the UK than in any other western country.
　　Modern women actually eat less, consuming 2,000 calories a day compared with 2,500 calories in the 1940s.But today’s diet is far higher in fat. Household appliances and sedentary jobs mean women also take less exercise, says dieting website realslimmers.com. The report said: “In the 1920s, women burned off their calories doing housework by hand. In 2001, an increasing number of women sit in front of computer screens all day.”
1920S AVERAGE STATISTICS: 31-20-32
　　BREAKFAST: Porridge/bread and butter
　　LUNCH: Meat pie with cabbage and potatoes plus apple pie
　　TEA: Pork pie/scrambled eggs SUPPER: Bread and cheese
1940S AVERAGE STATISTICS: 33-21-33
　　BREAKFAST: Powdered scrambled eggs
　　LUNCH: Rissoles and blancmange
　　DINNER: Rabbit stew
1960S AVERAGE STATISTICS: 34-24-35
　　BREAKFAST: Fried bacon and eggs
　　LUNCH: Stew and dumplings, spotted dick
　　DINNER: Egg and chips
1980S AVERAGE STATISTICS: 35-24-37
　　BREAKFAST: Cereal and peanut butter on toast
　　LUNCH: Pizza
　　DINNER: Spaghetti and chocolate cake
2000S AVERAGE STATISTICS: 36-26-38
　　BREAKFAST: Brunch bar
　　LUNCH: Mozzarella sandwich plus crisps
　　DINNER: Ready meal followed by a bar of chocolate and a few
　　glasses of wine
H. Tell this joke to your friends or your classmates .
　　Between the ages of 15 - 18 a woman is like China or Iran, developing at a sizzling rate with a lot of potential but as yet still not free or open.
Between the ages of 18 - 21 a woman is like Africa or Australia. She is half discovered, half wild and naturally beautiful with bush land around the fertile deltas.
Between the ages of 21 - 30 a woman is like America or Japan, completely discovered, very well developed and open to trade especially with countries with cash or cars.?
Between the ages of 30 - 35, a woman is like India or Spain, very hot, relaxed and convinced of its own beauty.?
　　Between the ages of 35 - 40 a woman is like France or Argentina. She may have been half destroyed during the war but can till be a warm and desirable place to visit.?
Between the ages of 40 - 50 she is like Yugoslavia or Iraq. She lost the war and is haunted by past mistakes. Massive reconstruction is now necessary.?
Between the ages of 50 - 60 she is like Russia or Canada. Very wide, quiet and the borders are practically unpatrolled but he frigid climate keeps people away.
Between the ages of 60 - 70 a woman is like England or Mongolia. With a glorious and all conquering past but alas no future.?
After 70, they become like Afghanistan. Everyone knows where it is, no one wants to go there.
　　
　　
　　
Part Two跟读练习
A. Read the following numbers quickly .
One two three four five six seven eight
nine ten eleven welve twenty twenty-one thirty
forty fifty sixty seventy eighty ninety one hundred first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh
eighth ninth tenth eleventh twelfth thirteenth twentieth
twenty-first twenty-second twenty-third twenty-fourth twenty-fifth
twenty-sixth twenty-seventieth twenty-eighth twenty-ninth
thirtieth fortieth fiftieth sixtieth seventieth
eightieth ninetieth hundredth thousandth millionth
B. Read the following numbers .
6 39 102 713 3,096 5,103
6,500 10,395 320,450 33,098 790,666 190,324
398,685 5,096,465 13,465,678 808,000,000 1/3
1/10 3/7 7/11
C. Read the following formulae .
4-2=2 Four minus two is two.
26-8= 18 Twenty-six minus eight is eighteen.
7+5=12 Seven plus five is twelve.
3+7=10 Three plus seven is ten.
5×31=155 Five times thirty-one is one hundred and fifty-five.
3×8=24 Three times eight is twenty-four.
9o÷3=30 Ninety divided by three is thirty.
45÷6=9 Forty-five divided by six is nine.
7×9= 63. Seven times nine is sixty-three.
57+25=82 Fifty-seven plus twenty-five is eighty-two.
D. Read this paragraph loudly and try to remember the numbers in it .
　　The Chinese language usually refers to the standard language and its dialect used by the Han nationality that makes up 93.3% of the total population. Most of the minority nationalities in China have their own languages. Both numerically and in the extent of its distribution, Chinese is the most important language in China and also one of the official working languages of the United Nations. It is also one of the richest and highly developed languages in the world.
　　Chinese is also spoken by many overseas Chinese: it is the common languages of more than 10 million overseas Chinese and persons of Chinese descent in Southeast Asia alone. At present, more than one billion people, approximately 1/5 of the world’s population, speak Chinese as their mother tongue.
　　A written form of the language was developed as early as 6,000 years ago. From the point of view of its origin, it belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family.

E. Read the following passage .
　　The United States is a land of great differences—differences in climate; In landscape; in altitude. The continental United States, the country’s territory on the North American continent, stretches about 4,500 kilometers from the eastern coast, that is, the Atlantic Coast, to the Pacific Ocean on the West; and it extends 2,557 kilometers from the northern boundary to the southern tip of Texas. The country borders Canada on the north and goes down south to Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico. Including the States of Alaska and Hawaii, the United States covers an area of nine million square kilometers, or, to be more exact, 9,191,843 sq. km., a little less than the area of the People’s Republic of China, which is 9,600,000 sq. km.
　　There are altogether 50 states in the United States, the largest of which is Alaska (1,518,807 sq. km.). It was well known as Russian American until purchased by the Untied States from Russia in1867. It was linked to the United States by the Alaska Highway in 1942, and became the 49th state of the U.S.A. in 1959.
　　Texas is second in size (692,563 sq. km.), which is larger than France, but is only a little less than half of the area of China’s Xing Jiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
　　Hawaii lies in the tropical zone of the Pacific, 3,200 km. away from the North American Continent. It is a group of islands, which became the 50th state of the United States in 1959. Hawaii was made very famous by the Japanese attack, on December 7,1941, on one of its islands—Pearl Harbor which is situated near Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii.
　　A jet plane can fly over the continental United States from the east coast to the Pacific Ocean on the west in about five hours; it will take a little more than two days to travel by train from Los Angeles on the west to New York City on the east coast. And I think that is about the same, or a little more than the time required to travel from China’s Beijing to Quangdong. Of course the actual distance of the former is much greater, since the train travels almost 100 km. an hour in the United States while your train here, I believe, normally travels no more than 70 km. an hour.