[00:04.78]Part 1
[00:07.65]Warming up
[00:10.53]Key words:
[00:15.57]millennium          celebration
[00:20.24]Vocabulary:
[00:25.81]chime                millennium          prospective
[00:32.97]gala                countdown            fanfare
[00:39.52]Kiribati            Vietnam              Hanoi
[00:46.58]Bangkok              Egypt
[00:51.04]The world has entered the 21st century.
[00:55.59]Here are some brief reports of "Happy New Millennium" celebrations.
[01:01.65]Now listen and enjoy.
[01:05.41]Supply the missing words.
[01:09.07]1.The world is greeting the year 2000 with much celebration.
[01:18.84]The first nation to celebrate was Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean.
[01:25.97]2.In China,President Jiang Zemin
[01:32.81]lit a fire to represent thousands of years of Chinese civilization.
[01:40.86]The traditional_____begins in February.
[01:47.02]3.___covering two continents will have the world's longest New Year celebrations.
[01:57.60]4.Former____President Nelson Mandela says
[02:06.07]he is hoping for a safer and more caring world in the next century.
[02:14.43]The former President also said
[02:18.79]science has given the world new ways to meet the needs of wold population.
[02:27.54]5.Welcome from London.Welcome from the BBC World Service to the 21st century.
[02:38.77]The year 2000 has arrived in____when the chimes of London's Big Ben signaled midnight.
[02:45.93]Huge crowds cheered as spectacular fireworks displays
[02:51.10]went along several kilometers of the Thames.
[02:55.83]6.Welcome to the Pacific,welcome to Millennium Island.
[03:03.98]Very shortly we and the tiny Republic of Kiribati
[03:08.94]will take the word's very first step into the year 2000.
[03:14.82]7.____is greeting the new millennium with fire works and parties.
[03:23.28]As the clock struck midnight,
[03:26.94]thousands of people braved rain showers to attend midnight celebration,
[03:32.58]fireworks and concerts.
[03:35.95]8.____a firework display lit up the sky over Sydney's famous harbor
[03:44.78]at the stroke of midnight.
[03:47.81]Earlier,the new century began its 24-hour march around the globe
[03:54.34]in the tiny South Pacific island nation of Kiribati.
[03:59.70]9.Joyous celebrations took place across____to celebrate the turn of the century
[04:08.48]and the start of the new millennium.
[04:12.24]____,tens of thousands of people started the New Year at the race track,
[04:18.30]where a horse race began just after midnight.
[04:23.34]10.More than 3,500 people lined____Orchard Road to cheer the new century
[04:33.01]while hundreds of balloons were released into the sky.
[04:38.36]11.____,hundreds of thousands of people crowded the
[04:45.34]streets of Hanoi and Huzhiming City.
[04:49.28]12.Two thousand couples from around the world gathered in ____ today
[04:56.65]to mark the New Year with a mass wedding.
[05:00.77]The day-long ceremony began in the morning with grooms neeting their prospective
[05:06.73]brides and exchanging gifts in the convention center in the capital of Bangkok.
[05:13.10]13.____President announced the birthof the first South Korean baby of the millennium.
[05:21.57]14.____,millions of people wished for good fortune in the Year of the Dragon.
[05:29.51]In Tokyo's waterfront area,10,000 people enjoyed a gala countdown to the New Year.
[05:37.27]15.People across the world are welcoming the year 2000 with fanfare and celebr
ation.
[05:46.02]The spectacular dusk-to-dawn light show is marking the beginning of the new century
[05:52.50]at the Pyramids in ____.
[05:56.34]16.Just over an hour ago,millions of people in western and central____
四级英语作文模板[06:04.70]welcomed the New Year with fireworks and open air parties.
[06:09.76]Part II
[06:18.02]The time ball
[06:24.29]Key words:
[06:29.54]time ball            drop                  time signals        tradition
[06:38.21]Vocabulary:
[06:43.46]install              observatory          revive              sweep
[06:52.32]viable              hoist                gravity              mechanism
[07:00.57]aluminum            flavor                sponsor
[07:06.92]Greenwich            Miami                Atlanta
[07:13.40]A:Listen to some statements about the time ball.
[07:19.14]Fill in the blanks with what you hear on the tape.
[07:24.11]1.The time ball was originally used as a marine____.
[07:32.05]2.The Greenwich time ball is said to be the world's first public____.
[07:40.59]3.The ball is automatically raised halfway up the mast at____
[07:49.97]to the top at 12:,and drops at ____.
[07:57.02]4.Around____pubic time balls are known or reported to have been installed
[08:06.48]around the world after that at Greenwich in 1833.
[08:13.45]5.The U.S. Naval Observatory dropped the first time ball in the United States in__
[08:23.59]6.Time balls were used in many cities around the U.S. during____.
[08:33.23]7.At the turn of the 20th century dozens of time balls were being dropped____.
[08:43.08]8.A few time balls are still ceremonially dropped around the world,
[08:51.54]ranging from____to the Old Royal Observatory in____.
[08:58.31]B:Listen to a news report about the lowering of the time ball.
[09:05.07]Answer the questions with key words.
[11:49.75]C:Now listen to a faster presentation of the matenrial.Check your answers.

Part 2
[00:06.79]Word of the millennium
[00:13.74]Key words:
[00:19.30]Internet            new words and phrasesera
[00:27.06]Vocabulary:
[00:32.52]hesitate            era                  lexicographer
[00:39.08]citation            hold one's own
[00:44.43]A:Listen to a report about the word of the millennium.
[00:50.81]List some of the reasons why the word was chosen.Fill in the blanks.
[03:25.79]B:Now listen again.
[03:30.05]Focus on the comparison between the words "telephone" and "Internet".
[03:36.61]Supply the missing information.
[03:40.37]Part IV
[03:48.23]Short talks on listening skills
[03:55.99]Listen to the short talk entitled "Focus on the Main Idea".
[04:01.87]Some important words are taken away from the written passage.
[04:07.33]Supply the missing words.
[04:10.88]Focus on the Main Idea
[04:15.01]Listening and reading require many____in common.
[04:20.86]Finding_____in a paragraph is just one of these skills.
[04:27.23]The purpose of this talk is to discuss____a main idea is
[04:33.89]and how to____the main idea.
[04:38.86]Perhaps the best way to understand the main idea
[04:43.90]is to think of it as the____idea,
[04:48.94]or the most ____ idea which gives the paragraph purpose and ____.
[04:56.10]That is to say,when you are trying to find the main idea,
[05:02.26]you are actually thinking about the ____ of the given paragraph:
[05:08.22]Is it to____you about something,to explain,to narrate?
[05:15.17]Or is it to ____, to argue,to persuade,etc.?
[05:21.44]When you get the right____for yourself,you are likely to have got the main idea.
[05:28.49]The main idea of a paragraph is usually____in what is called____.
[05:36.74]More often than not,the topic sentence is the____sentence of a paragraph.
[05:44.69]It is followed by other sentences,containing supporting____.
[05:51.66]When a____idea is discussed or when the purppose of the paragraph
[05:58.92]is to ___ and convince,
[06:03.36]the topic sentence is sometimes placed at the____of the paragraph.
[06:10.23]If a paragraph has an____main idea,it does not have a stated topic sentence.
[06:19.48]The mian idea is____by the sentences in the paragrap as____.
Part 2
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Life (I)
[00:07.50]Part I
[00:10.24]Warming up
[00:13.01]A:Key words:
[00:20.38]email message        addresses            Queen Elizabeth II
[00:28.63]Jimmy Carter        email accounts      hoax
[00:36.49]Vocabulary:
[00:42.55]crash                coordinate          account              hoax
[00:53.60]Maine
[00:56.16]you're going to hear some important dates in email history.
[01:01.81]Supply the missing dates and words.
[01:06.17]Great Dates in Email History
[01:09.69]Leonard Kleinrock,a UCLA computer science professor,
[01:17.53]sends the ____ to a colleague at Stanford.The computer promptly crashes.
[01:25.19]Ray Tomlinson, author of the first email software,chooses the "@" for____:
[01:37.85]"I got there first,so I got to choose any punctuation I wanted."
[01:44.33]Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first____to send an email message.
[01:56.30]____and Walter Mondale
[02:05.65]use email every day during their campaign to coordinate their travel schedules.
[02:11.81]A single message costs____to send.
[02:17.59]Colby College in waterville,Maine,
[02:26.42]becomes one of the first institutions of higher education
[02:32.27]to assign email____to all its students.
[02:37.44]A widely circulated email hoax appears,
[02:47.18]warning that reading an email entitled "Good Times"
[02:52.64]will____your hard drive and ____ your processor.
[02:57.89]In the movie You're Got Mail,a celebration of email romance,
[03:09.13]Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks recreate The Shop Around the Corner online.
[03:16.88]The original movie,The Shop Around the Corner,was shown in 1937.
[03:23.55]B:Key words:
[03:30.02]information            superhighway          shorthand          abbreviations
[03:40.79]Vocabulary:
[03:46.12]techie                zoom                  decode
[03:52.65]standby                make the rounds
[03:58.60]Listen to a short talk about the abbreviations used one the iInternet.
[04:05.16]What do these abbreviations mean?Write down the full meaning.
[05:57.20]C:Key words:
[06:03.44]Tim Berners-Lee        World Wide Web
[06:09.50]Vocabulary:
[06:14.54]primitive
[06:17.21]you are going to hear some statements.
[06:21.15]Each statement will be followed by a wh-word.
[06:26.72]Write down the relevant segments according to the wh-word.
[06:32.91]For example,if you hear "The boy was looking for his mother"
[06:38.03]"Whom",just write down the words "his mother".
[08:05.98]Part II
[08:14.45]Network
[08:20.61]Key words:
[08:25.86]connection          systems              broadcasting
[08:33.02]television          computers            relations
[08:39.78]Vocabulary:
[08:45.06]costly
[08:48.01]A:Listen to a report about the word "network".
[08:54.96]Supply the explanation for the word.
[12:40.84]B:Now listen again.
[12:45.60]Focus on the original use and modern use of the word "network".
[12:52.44]Supply the missing information.

Part 4
[00:07.08]Online shopping
[00:13.64]Key words:
[00:18.49]shopping            holiday gifts
[00:24.35]Internet            the ease of shopping
[00:29.70]Vocabulary:
[00:35.16]catalogue            click                ban
[00:41.09]Missouri
[00:43.94]A:Listen to some statements taken from a report about online shopping.
[00:51.70]Supply the missing information.Pay special attention to the numbers.
[00:58.67]1.Industry experts say American businesses should have about___in sales during__.
[01:15.21]That would be____higher than the same period last year.
[01:22.29]2.The experts say that sales over the computer Internet system could reach____.
[01:34.35]3.____of people who use the Internet say they expect to buy at least____there.
[01:46.32]4.Experts say that about____of the ____Internet users are women.
[01:58.57]B:Now listen to the report.Answer the questions briefly.
[05:13.47]Part IV
[05:22.53]Short talks on listening skills
[05:28.39]Listen to the short talk entitled "Don't Attempt to Write Too Much."
[05:34.76]Some important words are taken away from the written passage.
[05:40.11]Supply the missing words.
[05:43.67]Don't Attempt to Write Too Much
[05:47.79]Note-taking is a very____skill.
[05:52.05]But it is ___ in listening.
[05:55.40]It helps us ____ facts and retain comcepts for later use.
[06:01.17]Taking good notes requires us to do ____ things quickly.
[06:06.13]First,to recognize the _____;
[06:11.10]and second,to write down the___and supporting examples as we hear and understand.
[06:19.45]In other words,out note-taking should____the speaker's thinking process.
[06:27.00]The general principle for note-taking
[06:31.13]is to___the language by___the words and sentences that we hear.
[06:37.61]It is important to remember that we should____ attempt to write too ____.
[06:43.85]That is to say,we should learn to write the____ to give sufficient meaning.
[06:50.38]And we should also learn to choose___to write the notes quickly and them out___
[06:58.64]Some commonly used Latin___ are often very___in note-taking.
[07:05.48]For example,cf.--compare or compare --that is;
[07:14.--for example;and etc.-- et cetera,and so on.
[07:23.38]one way to take notes of____or conversations
[07:29.33]is to write down different speakers'words in ____ spaces,
[07:35.81]such as separate ___ or lines.
[07:40.36]This will help us ____ each speaker's views and opinions correctly.
[07:46.55]Of course,note-taking is a highly ____ skill.
[07:51.59]So we should make constant efforts to develop good ways of note-taking
[07:57.47]which are most ____and suitable to ____.