Unit 1
Task I
1. A 5. C
Task II
1.T
Episode 2
1. √
Episode 3
(1) technology always wins (3) advertising supported (5) Ten million people (7) video games (9) typo (11) fig leaf (13) steal Episode 4
2. √
3. √
Global Listening
2. C 6. A
Listen for Details
Pirates of the Internet
3. B 7. D
4. D 8. D
Episode 1
2.F
3.T
4.F
5.T
(2) software (4) radio (6) music
(8) not liable for (10) control (12) facilitating (14) comfortable
1. Following the music industry and begin to sue individuals who download movies;
2. Airing ads about people whose jobs are at risk because of the piracy; 3. Keeping copies of movies from leaking in the first place;
4. Hiring people to hack the hackers / serve up thousands of fake copies of new movies.
Episode 5
1. Downloading off the Internet. 2. 60 million.
3. Embrace it and get paid too. 4. A bunch of crooks. 5. 3 –5 dollars. 6. Stopping piracy.
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Unit 2
Task I
1. A 5. C
Task II
1. F
Episode 2
(1) operable space plane (3) monopoly on (5) business (7) contests
(9) stunning looks
Episode 3
1. Nearly a decade ago.
Global Listening
2. C 6. A
Listen for Details
The New Space Race
3. B 7. D
4. D 8. D
Episode 1
2. T 3. T 4. F 5. F 6. T
(2) at a cost (4) incentive (6) dream (8) a trophy
(10) technological sophistication
2. Turning his designs into models and testing them. 3. He sought investment from Paul Allen. 4. The vote of confidence.
5. Gluing carbon fabric together with epoxy. 6. Flying badminton shuttlecocks. Episode 4
1 —— (J) Episode 5
1. It has proved that the small guys can build a space ship and go to space. 2. The deal is to invest $120 million to build five spaceships for paying customers. Flights are expected to begin in 2008.
3. Yes. According to Virgin Galactic, 38,000 people have put down a deposit for a seat, and 90 people have paid the full price of $200,000.
4. His next goal is affordable travel above low-Earth orbit, i.e., affordable travel to the moon.
2 —— (A) 3 —— (C, F)
4 —— (B,H)
5 —— (D)
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Unit 3 New Orleans is Sinking
Task I
1. B
Global Listening
2. C 6. D
Listen for Details
3. A 7. D
4. C
5. C
Task II
1.F
Episode 1
2.F
3.T
4.F
5.F
6.F
Episode 2
1. √
5. √
6. √
Episode 3
(1) 81 years; Two times. (2) Three generations. (3) It ’ s flat.
(4) Land is all that the Fultons have, yet it is prone to disaster. (5) Several feet off the ground. (6) 80,000; $26,200. Episode 4
(1) bad design (3) fixed (5) withstand (7) doubled
Episode 5
1. They made the assessment on the site and then Wi-Fied the reports to a city hall database,which is linked to aerial images of every single address, both before and after.
2. The total cost of reconstruction will be given to the city authorities. 3. Because his own home was flooded and ruined.
4. It means that there are too few people to pay taxes or keep business going. 5. He is asking the nation to commit billions of dollars and many years to protect the city.
(2) workmanship (4) next summer (6) Category 5 (8) billions
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Unit 4
Task I
1. C 5. A
Task II
1. F
Episode 2
(1) military alliances (3) drug lords (5) allegations (7) small-time
Global Listening
2. D 6. C
Listen for Details
Afghanistan –Addicted to Heroin
3. B 7. C
4. B 8. D
Episode 1
2. T 3. F 4. F 5. F
(2) private armies (4) in high places (6) for drug offenses
Episode 3
1 —— (A, G)
2 —— (E, I) 5 —— (D)
3 —— (F)
4 —— (K) Episode 4
1. To do something about senior officials and governors involved in the drug
business.
2. To remove them from office / from the country. 3. The need to fight terrorism / insurgency. 4. Destroy it.
5. For fear of disrupting the flow of intelligence. Episode 5
1. The number of acres of poppy under cultivation dropped 20 percent this year. 2. They were promised health clinics, schools and roads.
3. They elicit tolls, protection money and drugs from traffickers in areas they control.
4. Fighting narcotics is as important as fighting terrorism; It needs to be elevated to a rank that is commensurate with the threat it poses.
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Unit 5 The Global Warning
Task I
1. D
Global Listening
2. A 6. C
3. A 7. B
4. B
5. D
Task II
1. F
Listen for Details
2. T
Episode 1
3. T 4. T 5. T 6. F
Episode 2
(1) naturally
(2) man ’ s doing
(4) ice cores
(6) burning fossil fuels (8) thousand
(3) expeditions
(5) fingerprint
(7) carbon dioxide
(9) warm
Episode 3
2. √
Episode 4
3. √ 4. √
1. Land of the great bear.
2. Polar bears ’ health. 3. A tranquillizer dart.
4. Bear population there is the healthiest.
5. Changes in the bears’ fat, dimensions and teeth. 6. They can only hunt on the ice.
Episode 5
1. They say they ’ re no more reliable than the local weatherman. 2. They made science as precise as it is today.
3. The US can ’ t flip its energy use overnight and its economy might get hurt. 4. His job is to tell the government exactly what he knows scientifically.
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Unit 6
Task I
1. B 5. B
Task II
1.F
Episode 2
1.√
Episode 3
(1) Nazi era (3) apartheid (5) pollutants
7) engine performance (10) twice as much
Episode 4
1. 920,000; One year.
4.√
Global Listening
2. C 6. D
Listen for Details
The Coal Cowboy
3. D 7. A
4. A 8. C
Episode 1
2.T
3.F
4.F
5.F
6.√
(2) coal-based fuels (4) gasifying coal
(6) conventional diesel (8) less than one (11) conventional
2. He has his eye on the national stage.
3. Farmers and ranchers fighting the coal-to-diesel plan. 4. Toxic eyesores. Episode 5
1. Mining companies have gotten around the law in the past.
2. Montana has got all the land there that can be used to produce biofuels. It will be competitive.
3. Biodiesel can only meet 15 percent of the US diesel demands even if all farmland is devoted to this cause.
4. Not yet, because there will be a lot of engineering on the fly and cost overruns for the first plant of this kind.
5. The price of oil will not drop back to $25 or $30 a barrel.
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Unit 7
Global Listening
2. D 6. B
Listen for Details
Can a Video Game Lead to Murder?
Task I
1. A
3. C 7. C
4. A 8. B
5. B
Task II
1. F Episode 2
Episode 1
2. F 3. F 4. T 5. T 6. F
1. E
Episode 3
2. C 3.A4.D5.G 6. B 7. F
(1) Aggression (3) developed
(5) under construction (7) urges
(9) risk factors
(11) turn to violence32
Episode 4
(2) Institute of Health
(4) impulse control center (6) consider consequences (8) heightened (10) upbringing
1. Selling Moore two versions of the game. 2. Millions of law-abiding citizens. 3. It makes the device that runs the game. 4. It ’ s becoming more dangerous. Episode 5
1. When a new medium comes along, it will be the subject of almost a hysterical attack.
2. He can’understand why games targeting police officers were made by the manufacturers.
3. They card teenagers in an effort to keep violent games from underage kids. 4. They are considering laws that would ban the sale of violent games to those under 17.
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Unit 8
The Star of Starbucks
Task I
Global Listening
1. D 2. B 3. B 4. B 5. D
6. D
7. A
8. A
Task II
Listen for Details
Episode 1
1. T
2. T 3. F 4. T 5. F
Episode 2
(1) Coffee masters (2) coined a phrase (3) filling souls
(4) filling bellies (5) human connection (6) humanity
(7) communities
(8) home and work
Episode 3
1√
3√
4√
Episode 4
1. 1971.
2. He felt he was home. 3. Adding an espresso bar.
4. Coffee consumption was down.
5. paper cups; 3 bucks each cup; Italian name Episode 5
1. It ’ s located in Brooklyn. There are bullet holes in the door leading to apartment
7G
2. He was from a poor neighborhood and his father was injured on the job. 3. He was a delivery driver who picked up and delivered cloth diapers. 4. There was no hospitalization, no health insurance, no workman
for his father.
5. He offers his employees heath care and stock options. He also pays farmers higher than market rate for beans.
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’ s compensati
Unit 9
Task I
1. C 5. D
Task II
1. F
Episode 2
(1) here
(3) November 1 (5) relatively (7) ski masks (9) beheading (11) dragged
Episode 3
2.√
Episode 4
1. No.
3.√
Global Listening
2. C 6. A
Listen for Details
Rescuing Roy Hallums
3. D 7. B
4. B 8. D
Episode 1
2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. F
(2) like a dream (4) contractor (6) working at (8) abducting (10) videotape (12) constantly
6.√ 8.√
2. That Susan tried to call the kidnappers. 3. Two years ago.
4. Because they remain best friends.
5. For fear that it would endanger somebody else. 6. $40,000; $12 million. Episode 5
1. He was happy for them. But on the other hand, he felt sorry for himself because nothing was happening for him.
2. He pulled the mask off and hugged the soldier. 3. They thought the US military wasn
’ t doing anything to find Roy.
4. The unit is still looking for three more kidnapped Americans.
5. He is back home catching up with his two daughters, his granddaughter and his ex-wife.
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Unit 10
Task I
1. B 5. B
Task II
1. T
Episode 2
(1) special unit (3) condition (5) Mexican (7) rationally
Global Listening
2. C 6. C
Listen for Details
Dying to Get in
3. D 7. A
4. A 8. D
Episode 1
2. F 3. F 4. F 5. T
(2) distress call (4) hovered (6) wandering (8) 17 years (10) morgue
(9) refrigerator truck
Episode 3
2√
Episode 4
1. About six million.
3√
4√ 7√
2. Illegal migrants in meatpacking industry.
3. Over 3,500 migrants fled Nebraska within 30 days. 4. Leave the state (before ruining its economy). 5. A good story rather than a secure border. Episode 5
1. It ’ s a $14 million pilotless drone that scans the desert for intruders and potential terrorists.
2. They did so for fear of terrorism.
3. No, terrorists don ’ t need to come in that way because they can purchase the best forged document in the world and enter with valid visas.
4. Their everyday job is to make arrests and drop migrants off on the Mexican side
of the border.
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Unit 11
Task I
1. C 5. B
Task II
1. T
Episode 2
(1) kid
(3) 7,000 miles (5) scene (7) sank (9) 12
(11) 50 miles inside
Episode 3
Global Listening
2. D 6. B
Listen for Details
Searching for Jacob
3. B 7. A
4. D 8. B
Episode 1
2. T 3. T 4. F 5. F
(2) 16
(4) bush plane (6) raining season (8) axles
(10) government troops (12) intensified
1. F
Episode 4
1. 20,000.
2. C 3. E 4.B5.D 6. A
2. She died in just a few hours.
3. They carved them up and threw them in drinking water. 4. No.
5. Telling the same sad story. Episode 5
1. He signed a US-brokered peace agreement which never took hold.
2. The deal is to give little tidbits of information about terrorist suspects around the world to blunt US outrage over what
’ s happening in Darfur.
3. He was the architect of the counter-insurgency strategy in Darfur; Last year,
the US sent a private jet to bring him to CIA headquarters.
4. It ’ s really a heinous arrangement and one that history will judge very harshly. 5. It has been pressing for peacekeepers;It ’keepings refugees alive with half a billion dollars of relief a year.
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Unit 12
Task I
1. A
Global Listening
2. B
6. C
Working 24 / 7
3. D 7. B
4. C 8. C
5. B
Task II Listen for Details
Episode 1
1. F
Episode 2
2. F
3. T
4. F 5. F
6. T
1.B,E
Episode 3
2.C,I 3.D,J 4.G,K 5. A
(1) high stress
(3) working mothers (5) in-house counsel (7) six months (9) overlapping (11) 75 percent (13) on call
Episode 4
1. No; Number 5
(2) share a job
(4) wives and children (6) referred (8) three days (10) 40 (12) off
(14) sucking
2. Yes.
3. She can ’ t have substantiveversationscon with her husband. 4. They are matter-of-fact about their lack of communication. 5. They both reach for her favorite toy, the BlackBerry. Episode 5
1. He is such a workaholic that he has wired his house with Internet, telephone and television in every single room.
2. He loses some days of his kids family.
3. He is always connected to the Internet. In order to relax, it actually takes a little bit of effort.
4. He watches the business news, checks his e-mails and answers the phone; To make this happen, he wired his shower.
5. They are waterproof but not foolproof.
’ lives and some of those tender moments with
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Unit 13
Task I
1. D
Global Listening
2. A
6. C
Swimming with Sharks
3. C 7. B
4. C 8. A
5. B
Task II Listen for Details
Episode 1
1. T
Episode 2
2. F 3. F 4. F 5. T
(1) inhabitant (3) concerned (5) associate (7) forearms
(9) in his mouth (11) 70 yards
Episode 3
1.√ Episode 4
1. Jaws.
2. Nine; 791.
(2) surfer
(4) Three years
(6) clamed down hard (8) out to sea (10) children (12) some use
3.√ 6.√
3. Because we are on the meal list of sharks. 4. being murdered, mugged or killed in a war. 5. We may feel what ’ s gonna happen to us.
Episode 5
1. Sharks have far more to fear from humans because our industrial fishing fleets bring in 100 million sharks a year.
2. Sharks fin soup is regarded as an expensive status symbol in China; Chefs in the emperor ’ s court were once beheaded if they prepared it incorrectly.
3. Its fin would be cut off and then it would be thrown overboard alive to sink to the bottom and drown.
4. It is hard to police because most of the sharks are caught in international waters where there is no law against finning.
5. Authorities there raided several processing plants wined by Hong Kong Chinese. Seven tons of fins were confiscated.
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Unit 14
Task I
1. B 5. D
Task II
1. T
Episode 2
(1) starred (3) died young (5) work (7) her wit
’ s end
(9) harried (11) parallels
Episode 3
Global Listening
2. C 6. C
Listen for Details
2. T
Felicity Huffman
3. A 7. B
4. B 8. C
Episode 1
3. T 4. F 5. T 6. T
(2) TV shows (4) cursed (6) character
(8) touched a nerve (10) authenticity (12) vindication
1. Everybody assumes all the time that the girls I the play will get in a catfight. 2. The catfight thought crept in her mind too.
3. Those days they all shoot together were the funniest days on set; The group was wonderful because they were all grateful professionals who work hard.
4. She was loud and obnoxious; Her mother threatened to send her to an acting camp.
Episode 4
3. √
Episode 5
5. √ 6. √
1. Two (girls).
2. No, she resents the question. 3. It ’ s the best thing in my whole life. 4. She doesn ’ t know if she is a good mother. 5. A more exclusive club of big actors.
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Unit 15
Task I
1. A 5. A
Global Listening
2. B 6. B
Living Large
3. B 7. D
4. B 8. C
Task II Listen for Details
Episode 1
1. T
Episode 2
2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F
(1) temporary moratorium (4) combined (7) triple
(10) when and how
(2) $726,000 (5) 3,000 (8) freedom
(11) their life savings
(3) 1,100 square feet (6) on both floors (9) legislate taste (12) jealousy
(13) haves and have-nots
Episode 3
1.C2.I,J
Episode 4
3.B4.F 5. E
1. The sheer magnitude of the demand for ever-large living space. 2. Robin, her husband and son, a dog named Coco and her cat. 3. The old world style.
4. Houston; 6,800 square feet; Yes. 5. No; Six. Episode 5
1. The house has a huge entranceway somewhere between the US Capitol and a good-sized mosque.
2. They ’ re amazedtheby dome more than anything else.
3. There is a touch of old world charm for the billiard room, co-TV room, co-dry aquarium.
4. It ’ s a big bedroom with bathroom and closet the size of almost two New York studio apartment.
5. The wife would like to enlarge the family eating area while the husband wishes he could have a little bit bigger gathering room for parties.
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