B: But we have to go back to work. A: OK, a Coke for me then.

B: Here comes the waitress. Let me order first.

Unit 3 Weather

Part C

Test Your Listening

Short Conversations

You’re going to hear five short conversations. Listen carefully and choose the right answers to the questions you hear. 1. a. Snowy and windy. b. Cold and rainy. c. Snowy and icy. d. Windy and rainy. 2. a. It will get warmer soon. b. It may get even colder. c. This is the coldest winter ever.

d. The weather has never been so bad before. 3. a. The man is sure the weather will be fine soon. b. According to the forecast the weather will be fine soon.

c. If it keeps raining, they will cancel what they have planned to do. d. If it rains hard, they will postpone what they have planned to do. 4. a. It’s cold in New York now. b. It’s very hot in New York now.

c. The woman thinks New York and Beijing have similar weather. d. The man is going to visit New York. 5. a. They’d better change their mind about playing tennis tomorrow. b. They shouldn’t change their plan. c. They can play tennis in the morning. d. They won’t play tennis long. Script:

1. W: It’s been freezing for the last few days.

M: Yes. And the forecast says there will be more snow next week,

accompanied by strong winds.

Q: What will the weather be like next week?

2. M: We haven’t had such a severe winter for a long time, have we? W: No, and the forecast says it’s going to get worse before it warms up.

Q: What can we learn from the conversation? 3. W: What if it rains hard? What are we going to do?

M: I think it will clear up soon. But if it keeps raining, the whole

thing will have to be cancelled.

Q: What can we learn from the conversation? 4. M: How was the weather when you left New York?

W: It was very much like the weather in Beijing. You don’t have to take a lot of clothes.

Q: What can we learn from the conversation?

5. W: If it is this hot tomorrow, we may have to give up the idea of

playing tennis in the afternoon.

M: The weather forecast says it will cloud over by noon. Q: What does the man mean?

Unit 4 Music

Part C

Test Your Listening

A Compound Dictation

Listen to the passage three times and supply the missing information.

Celine Dion is the youngest of 14 children in a working-class family in Quebec, Canada. Her parents, who both loved music, 1) encouraged her to develop her musical 2) talent. At 12, Celine had 3) composed the song “It Was Only a Dream”. Her mother and brother helped her to make a recording of that song and sent it off to an address they found on an

album of a popular French singer. The address was that of Rene Angelil, who became her first 4) conquest, but there would be millions more. Celine’s rise from a teenage singer to a pop superstar has been 5) steady, but not without difficulties. Record companies were at first less 6) enthusiastic about 7) investing in a teenager than Angelil, who mortgaged his own home to pay for her first album. But her first two albums won a great success. And by 1983 she became the first Canadian ever to have a gold record in France.

In 1990, Celine made her first English language record with Unison but 8) her real breakthrough in America came when she was selected by Disney to sing the theme song of Beauty and the Beast. The song went to No.1 on the chart and won both a Grammy and an Academy award. 9) In 1996 she performed at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and in 1997 she recorded the theme song for Titanic, and her name became synonymous with the enormously successful film.

Celine Dion’s favorite theme is love.10) She sings the depth and the power of love in a great many of her hits such as “Love Can Move Mountains”, “Because You Loved Me”, “The Power of Love” and, of course, the theme song of Titanic, “My Heart Will Go On”.

Unit 5 Health