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新视野大学英语视听说教程第二册 听力练习录音文本和答案 UNIT1 II. Listening Skills 1.B 2.B 3.D 4.C 5.A III. Listening In Task 1: Encore! 1.F 2.T 3.F 4.T 5.F Task 2: The Carpenters Task 3: Mozart Task 2: When was music first sent down a telephone line? So you think downloading music from the Internet through a phone line is a really cool modern thing? Not so. In 1896, Thaddeus Cahill Filed a patent on the instrument for transmitting music electronically, and until 1914 he sent music signals down telephone lines with this instrument. And he wasn’t even the first. Elisha Gray transmitted music over a telephone line in 1876, which was the same year the telephone was invented. Gray invented the first electronic music instrument in 1874, calling it the “Musical Telegraph”. Alexander Graham Bell also designed an experimental “Electric Harp” for speech to be transmitted over a telephone line using technology similar to Gray’s. Bell was a speech teacher for the deaf. In 1879 he created an instrument to measure hearing loss. That is why the degrees of loudness came to be measured in bels or decibels. 5-4-2-1-3 UNIT2 II. Listening Skills 1. W: From what I can remember, the director asked us to rehearse this a hundred 1. A 2.D 3.B 4.C 5.B III. Listening In Task 1: Waiting for the New Harry Potter Movie Task 2: A Great Actor There was once a great actor who could no longer remember his lines. After several years of searching, he finally found a theater that was willing to give him a try. The director said, “This is the most important part, and it has only one line. At the opening you walk onto stage carrying a rose. You hold the rose to your nose with just one finger and thumb, smell it deeply and then say the line on praise of the rose: ‘Ah, the sweet smell of my love.’” The actor was excited. All day long before the play he practiced his line over and over again. Finally, the time came. The curtain went up, the actor walked onto the stage, looked at the audience, and wit