听力教程第三册答案UNIT8

UNIT 8

Section One Tactics for Listening

Part 1 Spot Dictation

Once upon a time, all- or almost all- businesses were (1) greedy and rapacious, sparing a thought for their (2) workers or the environment only in order to (3) work out how to exploit them. Then bosses found their (4) consciences, guided (or sometimes forced) by (5) customers or critics from the (6) non-profit world. They discovered the idea that companies should not exist only to make a profit but to (7) serve society. Thus corporate social responsibility (CSR) got its (8) start as a business fashion, and it is now hard to find a firm that has not (9) come up with an earnest (10) statement about its relations with the wider world. Thanks to this development, everyone, both (11) within and outside the business, will live happily (12) ever after. Or will they? In the past two (13) decades, as CSR has become more and more popular, its (14) virtues have passed more or less (15) unquestioned. That is a pity. Even if it (16) turns out to be a good development for businesses and society alike, it ought to be able to (17) stand a little more rigorous scrutiny. Should company managers be allowed to (18) divert potential profits - money that would otherwise be returned to shareholders - to (19) charities? Should firms refuse to do business in troubled countries? Are (20) recycling efforts, if more expensive and less efficient, worth pursuing?

Part 2 Listening for Gist

Small retailers across the United States are facing the same challenge: competition from shopping malls and chain stores. But, in downtown Dickson, Tennessee, a group of retail merchants have banded together to win back their customers who have been attracted to shopping areas in the neighboring big city.

Dickson is a typical small American city. It has quiet residential areas and a nice little downtown that was once a thriving retail center. But according to David Hamilton, president of Dickson's Chamber of Commerce, highway construction over the past several years changed that. Being just 65 kilometers away from a big city like Nashville, Mr Hamilton says, presents another challenge to Dickson's downtown shopping area. \we're so close to Nashville, and because so many people work in Nashville, when they think about shopping, they think of going to Nashville malls.\

But small business owners in downtown Dickson didn't give up. Instead, they decided to fight back. More than 40 of them founded the Retail Merchants Association of Downtown Dickson. Members of the new association are committed to success; they pay monthly dues and meet periodically to suggest and discuss creative ways of attracting more shoppers to downtown. Mr Williams says one idea is creating events modeled on the annual Christmas parade through the downtown area that attracts a large number of city residents. Free refreshments and giveaways will be part of these regular events. Mr Williams says the group is also planning to beautify the downtown area with

plants and paint.

Though it might seem hard to compete with big chain stores, small retailers have an advantage. They have a personal approach in serving customers. Chamber of Commerce president David Hamilton agrees. He says retailers in his city serve customers well, and customers in return, should support them by shopping in their stores.

The downtown area is the heart of a city. And members of Dickson's new Retail Merchants Association are determined to work together to keep the heart beating - to revitalize downtown Dickson so it is once again a busy, welcoming place for people to come and shop.

Exercise

Directions: Listen to the passage and find its topic sentence.

The topic sentence is \merchants have banded together to win back their customers who have been attracted to shopping areas in the neighboring big city.\

Section Two Listening Comprehension

Part 1 Dialogue

Having Their Babies at Home - What about ... um ... the number of mothers who are now choosing to have their babies at home. Is that a, a growing number in Australia?

- It's still a very very small proportion at the moment and therefore many, um, hospitals are thinking of actually introducing birthing centres, birthing units. We have one at our hospital at the moment, where the, the unit is set up as a bedroom and a kitchen and the woman can actually walk around in comfort and just pretend it's her own home. - So it's like a home in the hospital?

- Yeah, it's like a little maisonette in the hospital and, er, it's so close by to the theatre and delivery suites that if anything should go wrong and did go wrong they could be moved around quite quickly and safely. - Margaret, do you think it's safe to have a baby at home?

- There are risks involved, er, I personally would prefer not to have my baby at home. I mean it would be {well you're a midwife} ... I know it would be quite ideal but the risk of something going wrong and if I was to lose that baby I think that I would be quite devastated.

- Aren't there dangers in hospital because there are more people involved? - There are dangers in hospital, I mean you, you wouldn't want to know that there is a particularly resistant staphylococcal infection running around the hospital and, er, that would be quite a risk. In some countries it's been proven that having the baby at home is as safe as having a baby in hospital. - Does it get a lot of encouragement having, er, a baby at home?

- I don't think so, no, it doesn't. I think ... um ... doctors and ... I think mainly doctors probably, I think they scare the women saying, well this might go wrong

or that might go wrong at home so it's better for you to come into hospital.

Exercise

Directions: Listen to the dialogue and answer the following questions. 1. It's like a little maisonette, a home in the hospital.

2. Because it's still a very small proportion of mothers who are now choosing to have their babies at home at the moment and the birthing unit is set up as a bedroom and a kitchen and the woman can actually walk around in comfort and just pretend it's her own home.

3. Because it's so close by to the theatre and delivery suites that if anything should go wrong and did go wrong they could be moved around quite quickly and safely.

4. Something may go wrong during the delivery and that would be quite devastating.

5. There could be a particularly resistant staphylococcal infection running around the hospital.

Part2 Passage

Bridging Generations 1. Seniors today are better educated, healthier, and more vivacious than at any time in our nation's history.

2. They are active, energetic, and willing and can meet many program needs

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