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[Listen to part of a lecture in a dramatics class © 2m
1 In what city was the Globe Theater built?
B® Greece
® London
» Delphi Rome
2 Why was it important to have the amphitheater be round in shape?
) To help hamess the sound
® To allow the audience to enter and leave quickly
© To help cut the cost of admission D> To keep the weather from interfering
3 How does the professor organize the information about theaters?
‘@ From humorous to informative
® Not seriously
© From complex to simple
In chronological order
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4 Listen to the lecture, and fil in the bianks to complete the lecture notes
Complete the following summary with the words given below
m _ and Westem drama were first developed by the 2:
“The Greeks constructed what were known as 7t These were in shape with high wooden seats built into the #! so that an audience could better see and hear a performance Two of the earliest and most famous Greek theaters were the theater at Delphi, known as the Attic Theater, and the Theater of Dionysus in”
‘The Greeks used very few for their dramas, and the plays were always performed in the '' By Elizabethan times, however, theater architecture had
evolved Shakespeare's Globe Theater, for instance, was ®, in shape with three- story-high walls and an elevated stage The °' ‘was for standing room only
‘Some of the developments featured such things as °' ‘on the stage floor and rigging in the wings WB Geers eb Tho ‘but, during the mid 1990s,
an exact replica was made in the city of
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Bo Listen to part of a lecture in a literature class ©
What novel by Pearl S Buck was made into a motion picture?
®@ The Patriot
® The Child Who Never Grew
© Chinese Cutture
DD The Good Earth
2 According to the professor, where did Pearl S Buck spend the better part of the first forty years of her lite?
3 Listen again to part of the lecture Then answer the question
‘What did Pearl S Buck likely mean when she said this? (>)
® She was not retigious
‘© She did not trust her fellow human beings
© She thought that humans were naturally greedy
© She had experienced many bad relationships in her life
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4 Listen to the lecture, and fill in the blanks to complete the lecture notes
5 Complete the following summary with the words given below
Pearl S Buck was 2 great American literary figure who was born in West Virginia to two
f after her birth, Pear's family moved to
- Pearl grew up speaking both !° ‘and Chinese, and in the
— she enrolled at Randolph-Macon Women’s College in ®
1917, Peasl married John Lossing Buck, and the two of them settled in”, - China, where Peart worked asa _ and aleo acled as an interpreter for her husband
Pearl and John had two children: Carol, their first child, was bom with considerable birth detects, and their second daughter, Janice, ®' since Pearl underwent a hysterectomy after the birth of Carol Pearl and John's marriage did not last, and in the year 1935, she divorced her husband and married her‘, Richard Walsh, They moved back to the United States in the year 1931, she wrote her most famous novel, The Good Earth, which sold nearly
‘wo million copies and eamed her the 0") - Peart continued writing until her death in 1973 During her life, she wrote over eighty works of literature and even won the Nobel Prize
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[Listen to part of a lecture in a Latin class QD
1 What two consonants can sometimes be used as vowels?
(Ψ) AandC
DandT XandW
‘Why does the letter I have a long sound in the word pine?
® There is no letter S in the word
CE) The P is silent
Ê) There is an E at the end of the word
©) | always makes a long sound
3 What is the Etruscan alphabet?
@® Itis.a complicated alphabet with 38 characters,
® tis another name for the Roman alphabet
tis an early form of the Latin alphabet with 23 characters
ttis the most widely used alphabet in the word
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4, Listen to the lecture, and fil in the blanks to complete the lecture notes
5 Complete the following summary with the words given below
‘The Latin alphabet, also known as the 0) initially contained only
= letters but later developed into the modem alphabet, which has '”
letters Each letter in the alphabet represents a phoneme, the 9 of sound within a language The modem alphabet is made up of © vowels and twenty-one consonants, although the letters Y and W can sometimes © - Each of the vowels,
‘can exhibit ether a ‘sound, depending on how the word is spelled or if the
word ends with an E Consonants can exhibit different sounds as wall, depending on which letters precede and follow them in a word
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1 What is another name for swarmer white ants?
@® Workers
© Termites
@D Nymphs
2 Why must worker white ants feed all the other white ants?
2 The worker ants have the largest appetite
Soldier white ants do not have time to eat
> The worker white ants have special bacteria in their stomach
® The king white ant forces the worker white ants to feed him
3 What can be inferred from the lecture?
All white ants should be exterminated, even in the wildemess
White ants are better than carpenter ants
> Soldier white ants are more important than queen white ants
: © White ants are highly organized insects that can be very destructive,
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4 Listen to the lecture, and fillin the blanks to complete the lecture notes
Complete the following summary with the words given below
White ants are a form of Pì that are mainly found in Australia and feed on
@ „ which causes them to lve either underground or ® _ They ive
in a highly organized colony with each different type of white ant serving @ particular function within the nest The king and queen white ant are responsible only for the “`
Or nymphs, as they are called Soldier white ants are responsible for protecting the colony from intruders Worker white ants have many tasks, from bullding and maintaining the colony to all the termites tis the worker white ants’ responsibilty
to feed all the others because they are the only white ants to have special
in their stomach Finally, the swarmers, or alates, are the future kings and queens
of other colonies, as they have reproductive capabilities White ants cause considerable
Ú to buildings and homes in Australia The best way to deal with white ants is to steer clear of them in the wild and to call an ® it they are in a home oF office
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© Integrated Listening & Speaking
[Listen toa different version of the previous lecture, and say the answers out loud (SE
41 Why do white ants cause so much destruction to homes and buildings?
2 How would you describe the physical characteristics of a white ant?
5, What is @ responsibility of the soldier white ants?
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1 What is an advantage of having round and octagonal-shaped theaters?
3 Inancient Greece, where did the audience sit when they were watching a performance?