Unit 6 When was it invented? 听力部分

第一节

   听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳答案。每段对话读两遍。

1. W: I think the mobile phone is the most important invention. What do you think, Jack?

M: I agree with you. It is also my favorite invention.

2. W: Basketball is popular around the world. It must have a long history.

M: I don’t think so. In fact, it is not as old as soccer and tennis.

3. M: Look at the new invention. Do you know what it is used for?

W: Maybe it’s used for planting vegetables in space.

4. W: Did you enjoy Mrs. Cooper’s soup?

M: To be honest, it was terrible. I think she put too much sugar in it.

5. W: Who’s your hero?

M: It’s Fei Junlong! He’s a great astronaut. I think he is calm and brave in carrying out aerospace missions.

第二节

  听下面几段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳答案。每段对话或独白读两遍。

  听下面一段对话，回答第6至第7两个小题。

W: My favorite invention is the car and my sister Jenny’s is the plane. What’s yours, Henry?

M: Mine is the Internet.

W: Oh, I see. By the way, have you ever invented anything?

M: Yeah. In 2012, I invented a kind of machine to cut up meat. At that time, I was only eleven years old.

听下面一段对话，回答第8至第9两个小题。

W: What is the most important invention to you?

M: Oh, it’s difficult to say. There are a lot of useful things around us. They help us a lot.

W: Can you name only one of them?

M: Only one? Well, then I think it is my mobile phone.

W: Why? Can’t you live without it?

M: Well, I think I can’t live without it because I have to communicate with a lot of people every day.

W: If you don’t have it, what will you do?

M: I think I have to sit in the post office and send letters to my friends in other cities.

W: Oh, no. 

听下面一段独白，回答第10至第12三个小题。

M: Whitcomb Judson was a really clever man. In 1893, he invented something like a zipper. It could be used to open and close clothes. It could be used on men’s trousers and on ladies’ dresses. Whitcomb did not call his invention zipper but everybody says that he was the" father of the zipper". Mr. Judson tried to sell his invention but no one wanted it because it did not work very well. An American improved Mr. Judson’s invention and made it better. Then the zipper became popular around 1917.

听下面一段对话，回答第13至第15三个小题。

W: Look, it’s so interesting and strange!

M: Oh, it’s a great invention of ancient China.

W: Really? When was it invented?

M: It was invented in the Han Dynasty.

W: Whom was it invented by?

M: It was invented by the farmers at that time.

W: What was it used for?

M: Guess first!

W: Was it used for harvesting crops?

M: No, it wasn’t. It was used for carrying water from low land to high land.

W: It’s quite special. How does it work?

M: Please read the instructions. And you will know how it works.

W: OK. Thank you.

 第三节

请用所听到的内容填写表格中所缺单词，每空限填一词。短文读两遍。

 W: There is a woman whose name is Sun Li. She is a businesswoman. Her favorite modern invention is the mobile phone. She thinks we can communicate and do business with anybody at any time in any place with the mobile phone. She owns a clothes store in Beijing. She also has a website. Now people from all over the world can buy the clothes on her website from the mobile phones. What’s more, with the mobile phone, she can keep in touch with her friends and customers from all over the world by chatting and sending information on WeChat, QQ and so on. She thinks doing business on the mobile phone is easier than on the computer at home or in the office.