新视野大学英语视听说教程 3 Unit 10-1

 

Basic Listening Practice
1. Script
W: Let me recommend my brother to you. He’s really done well in the stock market over the last few years.
M: The real question is this: How have you dine by taking his advice?
Q: What does the man mean?

2. Script  
M: Many investors¹ jump on IPOs, hoping to get rich by getting into a stock early before it goes up.
W: But isn’t that a bit like buying a book without reading it? I mean, what if it doesn’t go up?
Q: What is the woman’s opinion?

3. Script
W: The Dow was down again today. It’s hard to make money when high fuel prices are killing² the stock market.
M: There’s still money to be made. If you bought oil futures³ three months ago, you’d be smiling right now.
Q: What can we learn from the dialog?

4. Script
M: I can’t wait to get back to my computer. Online share trading has totally changed the stock market and the lives of investors. Hook up to the Internet and be your own broker⁴!
W: In other words you can cut out the middle man now. For about ＄500, you can open an account and begin buying and selling shares from your own home, 24 hours a day.
Q: Which of the following is true if they want to trade shares on the Internet?

5. Script 
M: Hold onto your hat! We’ll be rich. I’m buying shares in a new company.
M: You can’t buy IPO shares unless you have a big active with a broker. The day of dot-com fortunes from IPOs are over.
Q: According to the conversation, what is the condition for buying IPO shares.

1.D  2.C  3.A  4.B  5.C

1 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

2 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

3 futures   

n.期货，期货交易

参考例句：

• He continued his operations in cotton futures.他继续进行棉花期货交易。
• Cotton futures are selling at high prices.棉花期货交易的卖价是很高的。

4 broker   

n.中间人，经纪人；v.作为中间人来安排

参考例句：

• He baited the broker by promises of higher commissions.他答应给更高的佣金来引诱那位经纪人。
• I'm a real estate broker.我是不动产经纪人。