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[00:02.00]Part III
[00:07.29]Life here and there
[00:14.05]Key words:
[00:19.91]busy summer winter
[00:27.17]mountainous crowded
[00:32.63]Vocabulary:
[00:38.40]humid compact Osaka
[00:46.55]A:John is British but has worked in Japan.
[00:52.90]Etsuko is Japanese from Osaka but she is studying in Britain.
[00:59.66]In the following passage you are going to hear,
[01:04.34]they are comparing life as they see it in the two countries.
[01:09.80]But before listening to it,think of the two countries
[01:15.68]and try to answer the following pre-listening questions.
[03:06.93]B.Now listen to the passage and make notes about the features they mention
[03:14.80]and the comparisons they make between the two countries.
[03:19.78]Then fill in the gaps in the chart below with key words.
[03:25.71]Part IV Short talks on listening skills
[03:40.47]Listen to the short talk entitled "Be Careful with Numbers."
[03:48.02]Some important words are taken away from the written passage.
[03:54.37]Supply the missing words.
[03:58.34]Be Careful with Numbers
[04:02.78]Quick and accurate response to numbers is very important in_____.
[04:10.54]Telephone numbers,addresses,prices,temperatures,
[04:17.20]time and dates are all closely linked with the use of numbers.
[04:23.55]Besides,numbers also play a very important part in____such as scientific stories,
[04:34.21]statistics update,and reports about ongoing events of various kinds.
[04:41.57]Although identification of numbers___ is usually easy,
[04:48.05]number identification through____ proves to be a big problem for many people.
[04:55.81]In actual listening,
[04:59.36]we are often required to get the numbers immediately after we hear them.
[05:06.31]And ___ to get a correct number,sometimes a mere mistake in ____,
[05:13.97]can seriously affect the understanding of the whole story
[05:19.71]and therefore cause severe____.
[05:24.68]The differences between million and billion,
[05:29.82]"-teen's" and "-ty's" are so great that no one can simply afford to_____them.
[05:37.40]Numbers are sometimes ___ in different ways.
[05:43.14]For example,
[05:46.91]"seventeen point five million" or "seventeen million five hundred thousand"
[05:55.58]can also be read as "seventeen and one half million."
[06:02.03]____in numbers can help us get familiar with these different
[06:08.98]yet still ___ ways of number presentations.
[06:14.26]For easy reading and writing,
[06:19.51]numbers of more than four digits are often separated by____
[06:25.99]into groups of three digits each.
[06:30.84]For example,1,234,567 is one million,two hundred and thirty-four thousand,
[06:44.40]and five hundred and sixty-seven.
[06:48.66]Saying numbers over to yourselves after you hear them can increase our ___ .
[06:57.12]Numbers are all around us,
[07:00.96]Let us practice with numbers and learn to be good at numbers.