Unit 6 When was it invented? 听力部分

A)请听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话读两遍。

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.

B)请听下面4段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话读两遍。

请听第1段对话，回答第6、7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.

请听第2段对话，回答第8、9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. 

请听第3段对话，回答第10至第12小题。

W: Adam, I hear you have already had several inventions.

M: Yes, that’s true. Inventing things is interesting, isn’t it?

W: But I think it is difficult for me. Well, what was your first invention?

M: It was a machine used for cutting grass. My grandpa was a farmer and I invented it for him.

W: How long did it take you to invent it?

M: About three years. My grandpa was satisfied with it. He said the farming work would be much easier with it.

W: You’re so smart!

请听第4段对话，回答第13至第15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.

C)请听下面一段独白，根据独白内容完成下列句子，每个空格不超过3个单词。独白读两遍。

 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.