1.PART 3-1
叶酸的作用与功效Video Appreciation
1 Watch a video clip about the study on immortality and decide whether
the following statements are true (T) or fal (F).
______1 People of all generations are eking ways to achieve immortality.
______2 Scientists cracked the crets of aging by the end of the 20th century.
______3 Scientists now know exactly how to postpone the process of aging.
______4 It is possible for scientists to rejuvenate people by 20 years and with that 20 years scientists can come up with solutions to some of the health problems humans face.
______5 Immortality is difficult to achieve becau aging is not the only cau of death.
______6 In theory humans can expect a lifespan of veral thousand years once the aging
process can be postponed.
______7 Everybody would like to drink from the elixir of life so as to achieve immortality.
世界知识产权日
______8 People will feel their mortality once they reach the age of 70 according tot he video.
正确答案:
(1)
T
(2)
F
(3)
F
(4)
T
(5)
T
(6)
T
(7)
F
(8)
T
2.
PART 3-2
Video Appreciation
2 Watch the video clip again and complete the following paragraphs with the words and expressions from the box. Change the form if necessary.
A. rejuvenate people B.die from things such as C. catch up with us
D. postpone aging E.stay almost the same F. promi to be removed
G. crack the crets H.arch for the elixir I.develop the elixir
J. cure aging
To make the dream of immortality come true, human beings,from nearly all cultures and all periods of history, have been 1) ______ of life, or the fountain of youth. Now, finally, in the new century, this arch for more time might be over, as scientists are beginning to 2) ______ of aging. The limit on our life expectancy 3) ______ very soon.
To 4) ______ indefinitely, it is expected that scientists are able to 5) ______ aged 55 or 60 back to 40. So it’s going to take them another 20 years or maybe a little longer before they get back to being biologically 60. In that 20 years, scientists would try to fix problems they couldn’t fix now before the problems 6) ______. However, despite the prospect of living to around a thousand or maybe thousands of years, we are warned that people are still going to 7) ______ traffic accidents, or homicides or whatever and there’s not going to be immortality in the biblical n. On average, the risk of dying from tho caus will 8) ______ as it is now.
正确答案:
(1)
arching for the elixir
(2)
crack the crets
(3)
promis to be removed
(4)
postpone aging
(5)
rejuvenate people
团结就是力量英语
(6)
catch up with us
四川创业(7)
die from things such as
(8) 养蝎子怎么养
stay almost the same
3.
PART 4
Further Listening
Listening I-1
1 Listen to a poem by Henson Towne and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or fal(F).
______1 I had a friend faraway from me in a big city.
______2 We haven’t en each other for many years but we kept in touch by telephone calls.
______3 I tried my best to be famous and I was happy to tell my friend my ambition.
同舟共济近义词
多彩的生活
______4 I postponed my visit to my friend becau I was too busy to think of him.
______5 My friend died before I found time to visit him.
______6 Life is short and we may regret not having expresd our love in time.
______7 Expressing love to your friends will make a difference between your day and theirs.
______8 It’s our friends and family who help to make us the person we are today.
正确答案:
(1)
F
(2)
F
(3)
F
(4)
F
(5)
T
(6)
河流简笔画
T
(7)
F
(8)
T
4.Further Listening
Listening I-2
2 Listen to the poem again and complete it with the information you get.
Around the Corner
Around the corner I have a 1) ______,
In this great city that has no 2) ______.
Yet the days go by and 3) ______ rush on,
And before I 4) ______ it, a year is gone.
And I never e my old friend’s face,
For life is a swift and 5) ______ race,
He knows I like him just as well,
As in the days when I 6) ______ his bell,
And he rang mine.
If we were 7) ______ then,
And now we are busy,8) ______ men.
Tired of playing a foolish 9) ______,
Tired of trying to 10) ______ a name.
“Tomorrow,” I say, “I will call on Jim
Just to 11) ______ that I’m 12) ______ of him.”
But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,
And 13) ______ between us grows and grows.
