• The Aura satellite was to have been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 3:01 a.m. Sunday.
• An inspector spotted an apparent problem with the satellite's fairing* during a standard walkdown* Friday. The fairing is a shield that surrounds the satellite during liftoff. Aura, which cost $785 million to develop, carries instruments to study the composition of Earth's atmosphere.
April 14th, 1941
Town and Country of Birth
India
Part 2 Prediction and Inference
Listen to some sentences or short conversations and predict what the speaker is going to say. Fill in the blanks with the possible answers.
forensic [fə'rensik]: used in courts of law 关于法庭的 alibi ['æli.bai; 'ælə.bai]: an excuse, esp. to avoid blame 不
在场证明或辩解，托辞
Passage Murder
A: Pre-listening question
Passage Murder
B: Listen and choose the best answer. 1. ___A__ 2. ____D__ 3. ____D___ 4. ___B___ 5. __D___ 6. ____A__ 7. ____A___ 8. ___B___
Passage Murder
Because an elderly woman was attacked in her own house at night. 3. What did Detective Sergeant Bob Reid find on the scene of the crime? He found footprints in the fresh snow at the back of the house, some very small fibres from clothes, and a window broken.
Dialogue 2 A Pension Scheme
Notes
tax relief: the easing of tax 税收减免
life insurance pension insurance
Dialogue 2 A Pension Scheme
Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to each of the following questions. 1. _B__ 2. _B__ 3. _D__ 4. _C__ 5. _C__ 6. _C__ 7. _A__ 8. __B_
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News Item 1
A. Listen to the news item and complete the following summary. This news item is about a delay in the launch of an atmospheric studies satellite.
B: Listen to the news item again and complete the following chart.
Discovery of a Planet Name: HD 37605b Volume a gas giant at least 2.8 times the mass of Jupiter Place: a planet orbiting a star in the constellation Orion Distance: about 140 light-years or roughly 800 trillion miles away
C: Discuss the following questions. 1. Where was Detective Sergeant Bob Reid called to go?
He was called to go to the police. 2. Why was Detective Sergeant Bob Reid called to go there?
Passage Murder
4. Why did Detective Sergeant Bob Reid not catch up with anything? Because every possible suspect had an alibi.
5. How did Detective Sergeant Bob Reid find out the murderer? Detective Sergeant Bob Reid interviewed a young man suspected of attacking two young girls,and then sent clothes and snow boots from this man's house to the forensic science lab, and finally this young man was proved that he was the very man who had attacked the elderly woman six months before.
1. .... want to come. too? 2. .... is not very good. 3. ..... I never read them. 4. ...Let's go. 5. ...That's two blocks from here.
Section Two Listening Comprehension
Can you guess what a man's first reaction to being attacked might be? Some people may be shocked, some may scream and others may defend themselves. Anyhow, it all depends on the situations.
B. Listen to the news item again and choose the best answer.
1. D 2. B 3. C 4. D
• NASA officials on Saturday ordered a 48-hour delay in the launch of an atmospheric studies satellite after engineers discovered that a shield* was not aligned* properly.
Registration Form
Surname First name
SHARMA Krishna Lal
Address
Time of Arrival Doctor
73 Greenham Park, London W5
December 9th last year
Dr Jones
Date of Birth
Part 3 News Items
News Item 1 Notes
shield: a protective covering or structure 护罩 align [ə'lain]： place in a line or arrange so as to be
parallel or straight 使成一行 fairing ['fɛəriŋ; 'feriŋ]： 整流罩 walkdown：最后的测试，检查 deplete [di'pli:t]： to use up stratospheric [.strætəu'sferik; .strætə'sferik]: 同温
Dialogue 1 A Footballer Listen to the dialogue and decide whether the following statements are true or false.
T 1. Frank is exhausted. T 2. Frank has just finished road running. F 3. They are all players. T 4. Frank is probably a new comer. T 5. Frank has sprained his ankle. F 6. Frank should go to see the doctor immediately. T 7. The training center probably looks shabby. T 8. Probably there will be a match at the weekend.
Dialogue 1
A Footballቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱr
Notes
shatter ['ʃæ tə]: damage or destroy 粉碎，毁坏 work-out: the activity of exerting your muscles in various