高二上学期英语听力原文 unit4

　　LISTENING TEXT to Unit Four (for Students’ book):

　　A Dialogue between a librarian and a student

　　S: Hello. Could you help me， please? I want to read some poems.

　　L: Have you read any poetry before?

　　S: Yes， we read some at school， but I didn’t like it very much. I want to find something nice.

　　L: There are different ways to choose a poem. If you have a favourite writer， you can choose a book with his or her poems， but if you don’t know any names， you’d better start with books that are collections of poems. In such books you usually find poems by different writers. You see here’s a book called A Garden of Poems， or this one， 1001 Songs and Poems in English.

　　S: Should I read all those poems?

　　L: No， don’t worry. What most people do is to go through them until you see a poem that you like. Maybe you like the title， or the topic， or you might like the first or last lines of the poem.

　　S: I see. What else have you got?

　　L: Some books bring together the work of writers from a certain period of time. You see， English Poems of the Early Seventeenth Century or Poetry between the World Wars. Other books have poems about a certain topic. The topic can be human feelings， such as humour or love. There is also poetry about nature， you can look for poems about flowers， trees and plants or， about the sea or the countryside. So， what would you like to read?

　　S: I don’t know. Shakespeare， maybe?

　　L: I think Shakespeare is a little bit difficult for you. It’ll be easier if you choose something modern. What kind of topic would you like?

　　S: I like reading about nature.

　　L: Have a look at this book. It’s called The Earth is Painted Green. If you have any more questions. you can come and ask me.

　　S: Yes， I’ll do that. Thank you very much for your help.

　　LISTENING TEXT to Unit Four (for Workbook):

　　People invented poetry as a help to remember things. Before the invention of writing there was no other way to remember important things. People early discovered that rhyme and rhythm were very helpful when they were trying to remember things. So， they made poems to help them remember all the things they needed to know and sass on from generation to generation. For example. to remember their history they recited great stories about their ancestors and the wars that were fought. But people

　　also needed to remember practical things such as where to find good caves to sleep， where to find water that could be drunk or when to plant crops.

　　We no longer need poetry to remember things. But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t or couldn’t use it to help us remember and learn things better. In fact， there are a number of quite famous short poems that can help us with things that are difficult to remember.

　　We can learn and remember important dates in history using rhyme. The most famous of these is: ‘In fourteen-ninety-two， Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” To remember that it was in 1492 that Columbus discovered the Americas. There are also short rhymes to remember how many days each month has.

　　30 days has September，

　　April， June， and November.

　　All the rest have 31. Fine!

　　February 28 except when 29.

　　We can even learn how to spell English words from a short poem. The word “receive” sounds like “believe”， but the spelling is not the same. Listen to the following short poem. It is very useful to help students learn and remember how to spell some difficult words in English and it always works.

　　I before e except after c

　　or when sounding like a

　　as in neighbour and weigh.