Part One 听辨练习
A. 词辨音
Listen, circle the corresponding number if you hear front vowels and back vowels in the word.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
B. 短语辨音
Write down the words you hear on the tape, then fill in the blanks below.
1.
1. visit the _______
2. _______the restaurant
3. a rude_______
4. the _______weather
5. _______it already
6. feed the_______
7. green with _______
8. _______ the cook
9. beer and _______
10. _______ the question
C. 句辨音
Listen and repeat. Notice the sound of front vowels and back vowels in the sentences.
There is traffic congestion at this hour.
This is the best program I have ever seen.
He finally got a lot of help from the villagers.
At that time, the army was in great need of this medicine.
Hearing the news, the young man was very glad.
The keys couldn’t open the locks.
He always goes to school on foot.
He successfully gets support from the boss.
We will have a talk on population this Tuesday.
A group of doctors have looked at the case carefully.
D. 附加辨音
谚语： Beauty is but skin deep.
Bitter pills may have wholesome effects.
　　Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
绕口令：He said that he is an iron and steel man from Pittsburgh.
　　Yes, his wife irons and he steals.
　　
　　Nott was shot and Shott was not,
　　So it is better to be Shoot than Nott.
　　Some say Nott was not shot, but Shott swears he shot Nott.
　　Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not, or the shot Shott shot at Nott
　　was not shot.
　　But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott himself,
　　Then Shott would be shot and Nott would not.
　　However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott but Nott.
　　It is not easy to say who was shot and who was not.
　　But we know who was Shott and who was Nott.
　　
Part Two跟读练习
A．Words
词首： ignorant, illustration, image, each, east, easy, excellent, elephant, educate, act,
　　airplane, apple, automatic, ooze, oodles, already, often, auspicious, odd,
　　occupy.
词中： serious, wish, myth, these, esteem, complete, chemical, direct, salary, collapse,
　　back, stood, bullet, put, school, cool, daughter, haughty, constitution,
　　bureaucracy.
词尾: rainy, windy, free, degree, agree, colloquy, commodity, warmly, law, lavatory,
　　forty, poorly, scummy, utility, vacancy, chew, flew, shoe, thaw, withdraw.
B．Phrases
keep to limits meal tickets read a map
the restless mass a mental hospital get sacked
put the food on the table move into the room on top of the book
C．Form sentences, using the following words.
1. came in /ten 2. Ted /Greek 3. each/bed
4. Ann/ bread 5. blue / suit 6. cool/room
D．Dialogue
A: Lily, do you know Lizzy?
B: Lizzy who?
A: Lizzy smith.
B: Of course I do.
A: Then, Do you know her younger sister?
B: You mean Mary?
A: Yes.
B: Sure. I know her elder sister Sue and younger sister Mary.
A: Oh, not bad. Then do you know her mother?
B: Yes, certainly. I know her mother and father, and brother and sisters, too.
A: That sounds terrific.
B: Why do you ask me these questions?
A: I just want to visit the family some day.
E．Paragraph
　　Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603). She was the only child of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. After her mother’s downfall she was temporarily illegitimized, then imprisoned under her half-sister Mary I for suspected implication in Wyatt’s Rebellion. She was well educated in the humanities, and, succeeding to the throne on Mary’s death, she proved an industrious and intelligent monarch. The regime she established with the indispensable aid of William Cecil enjoyed a considerable degree of popular support: the nation achieved stability and prosperity under her rule and enjoyed a ‘golden age’ of achievement in art, music, and literature.
　　She did not please everyone. Her Anglican Church settlement (1559-63) offended Catholics and Puritans alike by its very moderation. Her refusal to marry and ensure the succession irritated certain Members of Parliament, as did her financial demands and her lengthy procrastination over the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. Abroad, meanwhile, her covert aid to the Dutch and French Protestants and her sponsorship of privateering against the Spanish helped to incite Philip II of Spain to open warfare against England. Yet there was no religious warfare under her rule; James I succeeded peacefully when she died; and the navy not only resisted the attempted invasion by the Spanish Armada (1588), but maintained England's advantage in the expensive Anglo-Spanish war which continued until 1604. The problems presented by Puritans, Catholics, and Parliamentary opposition remained to be faced by James I, but by force of character and clever temporizing Elizabeth dominated a remarkably talented array of Englishmen.