新编大学英语听力16

Listening 2

Exercises 1 Directions: Listen to the passage and answer each of the following questions with no more than 10 words.

A Christmas to Remember

Once there was an old woman who liked to bake cookie

She didn't have anyone to share them wit

so she just gave them away to the children in the neighborhoo

This went on for several years and the cookies became quite famou

especially at Christmas-tim

The parents began to like the cookies as much as the children di

and the old woman's kitchen became very busy, so the children came to help.

Then one Christmas the old woman became il

There were no cookies, and there was no money to pay the docto

[01:03.86]The children were very sa

[01:06.49]Later they had a bright idea, that was to bake cookies from the old woman's recip

[01:15.49]So the children started a cookie stor

[01:19.38]Soon they had a very good cookie busines

[01:23.16]with money to pay the doctor as well as to put in the bank.

[01:28.38]After the woman got wel

[01:30.86]she was asked to become the manager of the stor

[01:35.00]selling special cookies for all the holidays of the yea

[01:39.90]After the old woman died, the children, now grown u

[01:45.44]kept the cookie business alive in her nam

[01:49.19]Maybe life is like a Christmas cooki

[01:52.72]The more you share it with your friends,the more you're likely to enjoy it.

[01:59.30]1) What did the old woman like?

[02:02.47]2) Why did the children come to help the old woman?

[02:07.30]3) What happened to the old woman one Christmas?

[02:11.80]4)How were they able to pay the doctor?

[02:15.68]5) Who continued the business after the old woman died?

[02:21.34]6) What does the author compare life with?

[02:26.56]Exercise 2

[02:28.39]Directions: Listen to the passage again and retell the story.

[02:35.56]Listening 3

[02:37.75]Exercise 1

[02:39.88]Directions: Listen to the passage and answer each of the following questions with no more than 10 words.

[02:50.46]Saint Valentine's Day

[02:52.98]Several different stories are told about the origin of Saint Valentine's Day

[02:59.14]One legend dates as far back as the days of the Roman Empir

[03:04.90]According to the story, Claudius, the Emperor of Rome, wanted to increase the size of his arm

[03:14.11]He knew that it would be easier to get young men who were not married to joi

[03:20.20]Therefore he made a rule that no young man could marry until he had served a certain number of years in the army.

[03:29.77]A priest named Valentine broke the rule and secretly married a great many young peopl

[03:38.48]Finally, Claudius found out about Valentine and put the priest in priso

[03:45.79]where he remained until his death on February 14.

[03:51.12]After his death, Valentine was made a sain

[03:55.66]and the day of his death was named Saint Valentine's Da

[04:00.41]It became the custom for lovers to send each other messages on this da

[04:06.71]Now Saint Valentine's Day is a time for people to give roses or chocolates and to send greetings.

[04:15.67]1) On which day is valentine's Day celebrated?

[04:21.00]2) Where did the story take place?

[04:25.28]3) Why couldn't the young men there marry openly?

[04:31.19]4) Who is the Day named after?

[04:35.18]5) What did Valentine do in favor of the young people there?

[04:41.34]6) How was he punished?

[04:45.34]7) How do people celebrate Valentine's Day now?

[04:50.92]Exercise 2

[04:52.72]Directions: Listen to the passage again and retell the story of the origin of St.Valentine's Day.