[00:00.00] Unit 4
[00:02.90]Lesson 13
[00:08.46]Emma
[00:09.74]n.埃玛
[00:11.02]along/on the way
[00:13.60]在途中；在路上不过
[00:16.17]though
[00:17.49]adv. 虽然,可是
[00:18.81]hard
[00:20.14]adv.硬的,坚固的
[00:21.47]storm
[00:22.90] n.猛烈地暴（风）雨
[00:24.32]fine
[00:25.70]adj.晴朗的
[00:27.09]instead of(sb./sth.)
[00:29.52]代替
[00:31.95]exercise 1.Ben's cousin Emma is visiting China.
[00:40.41]Listen to them talking about her trip and answer the questions
[00:46.26]Ben:How do you feel about your trip to Beijing,Emma?
[00:51.23]Emma:I'm very excited but I'm also a little worried.
[00:56.87]Ben:I'm not surprised!
[01:00.21]You and your friends are riding your bicycles from Guangzhou to Beijing,aren't you
[01:06.85]Emma:Oh,no!We're taking buses and trains
[01:12.41]but we're going to stop at several places along the way
[01:17.37]and ride around the countryside.
[01:21.42]I'm not worried about the riding,though.
[01:26.15]I'm worried about the weather.
[01:29.70]Ben:Are you worried about the sun?
[01:33.26]Emma:Not really.I always wear a hat and carry a bottle of water.
[01:39.74]Ben:Well,you needn't worry about snow!
[01:44.28]Emma:(laughs)No.I know it doesn't snow heavily around Beijing.
[01:50.76]And in summer of course,it doesn't snow at all!
[01:55.44]Ben:It's hot,though.The temperature can rach 40 degrees.
[02:01.29]Emma:Yes,it's hot and dry,but dry is better than wet.
[02:07.45]Ben:Oh?Why?
[02:10.90]Emma:Light rain is not a problem but heavy rain can be dangerous.
[02:17.27]When it's raining hard,you can't see the road clearly.
[02:22.60]It's easy to have an accident.
[02:26.44]Ben:What else is dangerous,when you're riding?
[02:30.70]Emma:Strong winds.If it's very windy,you can be blown off your bike.
[02:38.15]I don't like riding into a strong wind,either.It's slow,hard work!
[02:45.41]Ben:So,what's your favourite kind of day?Cloudy with a light wind?
[02:52.98]Emma:A few clouds are nice on a hot day but I like a strong wind.
[02:59.54]Ben:Really?I thought you said...
[03:03.80]Emma:I like a strong wind behind me,blowing me along!
[03:09.36]Lesson 14
[03:14.82]information
[03:16.44]通知，消息
[03:18.06]speed
[03:19.44]速度
[03:20.83]direction
[03:22.29]n.方向，指导
[03:23.76]Lesson 14
[03:26.99]1 Read about students collecting information about the weather
[03:35.14]and match the pictures to the numbered tasks.
[03:39.82]Scientists all over the world study the weather.
[03:44.78]They collect information about rain wind,cloud and air temperature.
[03:52.23]But scientists can't be everywhere,
[03:56.36]so sometimes they use other people,such as students,to help them.
[04:02.52]Students in many countries collect information about the weather.
[04:08.37]They do this to learn more about science.
[04:12.94]Every day,they measure the temperature of the air
[04:18.80](1)and the speed (2) and the direction (3) of the wind.
[04:23.55]They also measure how much cloud (4) there is
[04:27.99]and how many centimetres of rain(5) have fallen.
[04:32.64]When they have finished these tests,
[04:36.61]the students send their information (6) by e-mail to scientists.
[04:42.57]Scientists use this information to understand the world's weather better.
[04:49.83]lesson 14
[04:52.99]exercise 2.Ben and Janet are collecting information about the weather
[05:00.43]listen and fill in the table.
[05:04.27]Ben:Janet,it's 12.30.Let's look at the weather today.
[05:11.04]Janet:OK.Let's start with the wind.Look at the flag.
[05:19.79]What direction is the wind blowing?
[05:28.86]Ben:It's blowing north-west and it's blowing quite strongly.
[05:36.90]Janet:Yes,it looks strong enough to fly a kite today.
[05:43.25]OK.Next,we have to look at the clouds.How cloudy is it today?
[05:51.79]Ben:The clouds are very high and thin but they cover one half of the sky
[05:59.05]Janet:One half of the sky is covered with clouds.
[06:04.12]It's not a bad day for a picnic,is it?
[06:08.67]Let's see,what's next?Oh,yes.Is it wet or dry?
[06:16.24]Ben:It's dry now but it rained last night.
[06:25.31]Janet:OK,I'll write down 'dry'.Have you measured the rain?
[06:32.44]Ben:Wait a minute!I'll look at the bottle.
[06:36.88]OK,it shows we've had two centimetres of rain since yesterday.
[06:44.24]Janet:That's a lot of rain for one night,isn't it?
[06:49.00]Ben:Yes,it is.The trees will be happy.Is there anything else?
[06:55.66]Janet:Yes,the temperature.
[06:59.81]Ben:Of course.How could I forget?
[07:03.76]Let's see,the temperature is now 19 degrees
[07:14.10]Janet:OK,that's everything.
[07:18.07]Time to go to the computer room and send an e-mail.
[07:23.12]Lesson 15
[07:28.89]postman
[07:30.26]n.邮差
[07:31.63]get on (with sb.)
[07:33.37]赶快
[07:35.11]Lesson 16
[07:40.67]rubbish
[07:42.05]n.垃圾；废物不为他人设想的
[07:43.44]thoughtless
[07:44.90]adj.欠考虑的
[07:46.36]smelly
[07:47.79]adj.臭的；难闻的
[07:49.21]dirt
[07:50.44]v.废物；污物
[07:51.67]Edward Leedskalnin
[07:53.55]爱德华·利兹考尔林
[07:55.43]marry
[07:56.81] v.结婚
[07:58.20]Agnes
[07:59.57] n.阿格尼丝（女名）
[08:00.94]wedding
[08:02.52] n.婚礼
[08:04.10]dream home
[08:05.92]理想居所
[08:07.73]car parts
[08:09.20]汽车零件
[08:10.66]2 Listen to Ben and Shen Zhan talking bout the problems shown in the pictures
[08:23.04]Write Shen Zhan's answers in the boxes.
[08:27.48]Shen Zhan:Hi,Ben.What are you reading?
[08:31.92]Ben:A report about rubbish and other problems.
[08:36.57]This newspaper wants to know how young people feel about these things.
[08:42.81]Let's see what you think.OK?
[08:47.26]Shen Zhan:OK.
[08:49.89]Ben:I'll tell you a problem
[08:53.26]and you tell meif it makes you feel hardly worried at all,
[08:59.43]a little worried,rather worried or very worried.
[09:06.87]Here's the first problem:
[09:11.94]'People who drop rubbish in parks,streets and other places'.
[09:18.39]Shen Zhan:This is bad.
[09:23.15]People who do this don't care about the land or about other people.
[09:29.63]They are thoughtless.Write down'rather worried'.
[09:36.78]Ben:I agree.
[09:39.53]Here's the next one:'People who play music loudly or make a lot of noise,
[09:48.77]for example,with cars and other machines'.
[09:54.42]Shen Zhan:I'm not very worried about this.
[10:00.37]Write down'a little worried'.
[10:04.73]I think these people ought to think more about other people
[10:10.30]but you can put something over your ears.
[10:14.56]Ben:That's true.Now,the third one is'Factories that smell bad'.
[10:23.10]Shen Zhan:Oh,I'm hardly worried at all about smelly factories.
[10:30.86]Of course,no one wants to live next to one,but I don't,so I don't care.
[10:38.80]Ben:Is that so?I'm very surprised.You shouldn't just think about yourself!
[10:46.87]Now,how do you feel about this one:'The food that we eat'?
[10:54.32]Shen Zhan:I'm quite worried about this.
[10:57.97]We buy more and more food from stores instead of growing it ourselves.
[11:04.63]We need to know if any of this food is bad for us.
[11:09.49]Ben:Here's the next one:'The air'.
[11:14.46]Shen Zhan:I'm very worried about the air.
[11:18.22]Cars,factories and so on are putting too much dirt into our air.
[11:24.70]It's very unhealthy.Something must be done about it!
[11:30.34]Ben:OK.That was the last question.Let's send your answers to the newspaper.
[11:37.99]lesson 16
[11:41.23]exercise 4.Read about an unusual house and answer the questions.
[11:49.30]In 1918,Edward Leedskaln in was going to marry a girl named Agnes
[11:57.35]but the night before the wedding,Agnes changed her mind.
[12:02.63]Edward was so sad that he left his country and moved to the USA.
[12:09.16]In his new country,Edward started building a 'dream home'for Agnes.
[12:16.00]He didn't have much money,
[12:19.34]so he build it out of things that other people didn't want rocks.
[12:26.11]Some of the rocks that he used weighed over 25,000 kilos.
[12:32.35]To move and cut them,
[12:35.59]he used only things that people had thrown away such as old car parts.
[12:42.57]It took him 20 years to build the house,
[12:47.01]which he called Rock Gatebut he built it very,very well.
[12:53.56]Inside,there is a table that looks like a heart.
[12:58.92]It weighs more than 2,000 kilos.
[13:03.28]Outside,there is a gate that you can open with one finger,
[13:09.16]ever though it weighs more than 9,000 kilos.
[13:14.20]In 1991,a big storm destroyed all the houses near Rock Gate
[13:21.05]but it didn't hurt Rock Gate itself.
[13:25.12]No one knows how Edward did this work.
[13:29.38]He was a small man,only 1.5 metres tall and weighing 45 kilos.
[13:37.53]No one ever saw him working.
[13:41.29]He worked only at nightor when no one else was around.
[13:46.93]When visitors came to see his househe stopped and talked to them
[13:52.50]but he didn't do any work until they had left.
[13:56.47]In 1951,Edward died.
[14:01.12]He had never married and he had not seen Agnessince the night she had left him
[14:07.46]Thirty years after he died,some people found Agnes
[14:13.11]and asked her if she wanted to see the homethat Edward had built for her.
[14:18.98]She said,'No.I didn't want to marry him then
[14:24.73]and I don't want to know about him now!'
[14:28.68]Unit 4
[14:31.73]Time for a ryme The Storm
[14:37.01]A storm is going to be here soon.It's moving in our direction.
[14:44.27]It should arrive by about noon.Says the weather information.
[14:51.12]Before the sun was shining.And the clouds were thin and high.
[14:57.88]But now the sun is hiding.And black clouds cover the sky.A strong wind is blowing
[15:08.15]And rain has started to fall.This weather is quite exciting.
[15:15.12]It's my favourite of all. |