英语听力教程答案

Unit 1 Shopping and Banking Online

Part 1 Getting ready

B: drop shopping mouse

street get

30%

done

mails Britain

feet

retailing

online

50% net period

third-party

gift-buying

Details C: Major points

1. the site

2. merchant

3.

4.

Addresses/phone number/call up

Strict safety measures

Part 2 Net shopping under fire

A. delivery delivery

87%

delivery charges

personal information

returning goods

order 35%

money back

B． Summary:

convenience choice obstacles complete trust

mature payment

service build consumers’ trust

Part 3 Banking at home

A: Outline

1. C: limited opening hours

2. Online banking services

D: getting current information on products

F: e-mailing questions to the bank

3. A: competing for customers

4. A: having no computer at home

B: 1. It is banking through the Internet.

2. “Online banking” offers convenience which appeals to the kind of

customer banks want to keep.

3. Banks most want to keep people who are young, well-educated, and have

good incomes.

Part 4 More about the topic

47%

dispatch 87%

two

B: English Good Customer Service

Service

1. in a pleasant environment

2. second to none

family/…/occasions in life

3. different customers

Example:

take a look at everything

American Good Customer

1. human side

a.

b. a partnership

alternatives

sales

come to sales assistants

4. first contact with the customer

Part 5. Do you know …

1. c

b

2. b 3. c

3. repeat business

4. c 5. c 6.

Unit 2 Hotel or B&B

Part 1 Getting ready

B:

This year

An average year

60%

20%

80%

15%

70%

20%

35%

45%

60%

30%

50%

30%

C:

hotels

prices

Other

information

related

￡30/single; ￡60/double

￡29/full board

￡28/double+bath

Children under 12

excluded

1. hot food: fried egg

Added Tax

Part 2 A touch of home

Outline

1. B&B

A. bed and breakfast

B. 15000

2. coffee tea jam cooked

5. Value 3. dinner, bed and breakfast 4. the room plus all meals

C. advantages over big hotels

2. A. meeting different people

3. Several features of Suit Us

A. built in 1883

B. …famous guests

4. A. B&B not suitable for some people

Part 3 Renting a car

A. Information about the customer

A family of three + camp equipment

Leaving on Fir., July 7th

Returning on Mon., July 10th

…

Best choice: a Pinto station wagon

Regular rate: $

Special weekend rate: $

Pick up: after 4 p. m. on Fri.

Return: by 10 a. m. on Mon.

Mileage rate: first 300 miles free, then 12 cents per mile

Other costs: Insurance $ 10

Sales tax 8%

Deposit $ 100

B: a compact car/ a station wagon/ automatic transmission/ current models/

pick up/ return the car/ special weekend rate/ regular rate/ unlimited

mileage/ insurance sales tax/ a full tank of gas/ deposit/ lowest rates

Part 4. More about the topic

A: 1. suite: a large room with a partition to separate the bedroom area

from the sitting room area

2. twin room: a room with two single beds for two people

3. Penthouse: a well-furnished and luxurious suite at the top of the

building

4. Lounge or sitting room: a room not used as bedroom, where guests may

read, watch television, etc.

5. single room: a room occupied by one person

6. double room: a room with one large bed for two people

B.

Room type Rack rate

Suitable for Features

￡40

￡55

￡150

￡220

Staff of all

grades

Sales staff

Managerial

stall

entertaining private

guest; the lake

total privacy; … ;

country side; … ;

fully fitted kitchen

Part 4 Do you know…

A:

Names of hotels

Locations

Ranks

category

in general

Cernobbio, France —Italy

2 —

3

3 —

2

4 — 8

London, UK —Paris, France

8 —

4

B： 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. T

Unit 3 “Planting” Money

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Part 2 National teach children to save day

A: Time: Thursday, April 17

Purpose: teaching children how to save money

Way of teaching: 2500 bankers making 5000 presentations

B: 1. Making savings visible and real: building up savings in a piggy bank/

opening children’s own bank savings

account.

2. Encouraging children to save as much as they can: putting 25 cents

away for every dollar the

children earn

3. A first step toward learning to budget: giving children an allowance

and part of it going

into their own savings.

4. Making savings and investing fun: giving children play money to

“invest” in stocks they can track in

local newspapers

Part 3 Credit cards

A: Outline

1. The importance of credit cards

2. Nature

A. “charge” —paying at a later date

B: “limit”

3. The potential disadvantages—expensive

A. easy to make lots of purchases on card

B. likely to pay a tremendous amount of interest

4. The benefits

B. helpful for emergencies

C. good for travel

Part 4 More about the topic

A: Exercise 1

Column A

1.

2

3

Column B

3

1

2

Exercise 2: Answer the following two questions.

1. “Spending priorities” refers to the following situation:

Americans are spending so much of their income on ever larger houses and

cars that they can’t afford to spend on social programs or infrastructure

repairs.

2. By doing so, one would feel happier, would have fewer disputes of work

and lower levels of stress hormones in their blood. One gets sick less often

and dies at an older age.

B: Summary:

Mr. Cox, the vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas,…,

of

Myths of Rich and Poor, sees the positive side to the increased prosperity

of … Americans are better off than they were 30 years ago. Here … :

Technological … created hundreds of gadgets that … both easier and more

pleasurable, for example, cellular and cordless phones, computers, answering

machines, and microwave ovens;

Today … about 3/4 have washing machines, half have clothes dryers, 97%

have color televisions, 3/4 have VCRs, 2/3 have microwaves and air

conditioners, 3/4 own their own automobile, 40% own their own home, half have

stereo systems.

Part 5 Do you know …

A. Tokyo, Osaka, Oslo, Zurich. Hong Kong, Copenhagen, Geneva, Paris,

Reykjavik, London

B. 1. The euro has appreciated against the US dollar.

2. Persistent economic turmoil.

3. Tehran.

4. The Economist team checks prices of a wide range of items—from bread

and milk to cars and utilities—to compile this report.

5. Business clients use it to calculate the amount of allowances granted

to overseas executive and their families.

Unit 7 Fame and Fortune

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Part I Getting ready

A.

B. Keys:

1： magazine 2： newspaper 3： Microsoft Company 4： successful 5： richest6： 3rd 7：

1955 8： Washington 9： computers 10： 13 11： baseball12： football 13： computer

programs 14： perform 15： high16： computer language 17： Basic 18： valuable 19：

office20： home 21： established 22： 1975 23： three 24： computer software25：

established 26： nternational 27： usiness 28： achines 29： 198130： personal computer

31： operating system 32 ： 129 33： computer companies

Part II Bill Gates’ new rules

A. Keys:

1: quailty2: re-engineering3: velocity

B. Keys:

1: communication 2: e-mail3: sales data online 4: insights5: knowledge workers 6: high-level

thinking7: create virtual teams8: paper process 9: digital process10: eliminate single-task

jobs11: digital feedback loop12: route customer complaints13: redefine the boundaries14:

business process 15: just-in-time delivery16: eliminate the middle man17: help customers

solve problems

Part III Great business deals

A. Keys:

1: NATIONAL STEAMSHIP2: 20 000 3: Aristotle Onassis4: 6 000 5: American6: Big Ben 7: 1 000

8: tourist9: Buckingham Palace 10: 2 00011: The White House 12: 100 00013: The Statue of

Liberty 14: 100 000 15: Australian

B. Keys:

1: boom 2: world depression 3: millionaire

4: identified 5: fraud 6: five 7: California 8: luxury

Part IV More about the topic: Walt Disney

1: correspondence course 2: Oswald the Rabbit 3: talking cartoon film

4: Walt Disney himself5: storyteller6: Ub Iwerks7: 35; feature-length cartoon film; 2 000

000; three8: potential9: 55; 17 000 00027: taste; vulgarity; children of all ages

Part V Do you know…

1: $24 worth of kettles, axes and cloth.2: $80 000 000.3: $27 000 000.4: About 12 cents.5:

About 800 000 square miles.6: About 1 600 000 square miles.7: $7 200 000.8: About 5 cents.9:

$750 000 000 worth.10: An estimated 100 000 000 000 tons.