A Listening Course 4
施心远主编《听力教程》 4 (第 2 版)答案
Unit 5
Section One: Tactics for Listening Part 1: Listening and Translation
1. Stocks, bonds, land--people invest in different things and for different
reasons.
股票、债券、土地 --人们由于不同原因进行不同的投资。 2. But all investors share the same goal. 但是所有的投资者都有一个共同的目标。
3. They want to get more money out of their investment than they put into it.
他们希望通过投资获得比所有投入的资金更多的货币回报。
4. The money they invest today provides capital for future growth in the economy.
他们今天的投资为将来经济的发展提供了资金。
5. Investors have to decide how much risk they are willing to take and for how long.
投资者必须决定自己愿意在多长的时间范围内承受多大的风险。 Section Two Listening Comprehension Part 1 Dialogue The Bank Manager
Exercise: Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to complete
each of the following sentences. 1. D
2. A 3. D 4. B 5. C 6. C 7. A 8. C
Part 2 Passage Stock Market: How it Works Ex. A. Pre-listening Question
What do you know about stock market in China?
The Shanghai Stock Exchange was founded on November 26th, 1990 and in operation on December 19th the same year, and Shenzhen Stock Exchange was established on December 1st, 1990.
Ex. B: Sentence Dictation
1. A wave of selling triggered widespread price declines in stock markets from New York to Australia. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged
508 points in the panicked rush to sell.
2. The stock market is the means through which previously issued corporate stocks, shares of ownership in a corporation, are traded.
3. However, the forces influencing the prices of corporate stocks are quite different from those influencing the prices of goods and services.
4. People and organizations who buy and hold stock do so for the incomes they hope to earn.
5. When Black Monday finally reeled to a close, many a portfolio had lost over a fifth of the value it had the day before.
Ex. C: Detailed Listening.
1. B
2. A
3. D
4. B
5. B
6. D
7. C
8. C
Ex. D: After-listening Discussion 1. What is “ Black Monday
”?
On October 19, 1987, a wave of selling triggered widespread declines in stock markets from New York to Australia. That day is
“ Black Monda
On that day, there were hardly any buy orders, and the markets were flooded with sell orders. Over 600 million shares were traded on the New
York Stock Exchange---more than twice the NYSE’ s average sales volume. The Dow Jones Industrial Average of the prices of 30 stocks of major US companies lost 22.6 percent of its value on that memorable day, plunging 508 points in the panicked rush to sell. When Black Monday finally reeled to a close, many a portfolio had lost over a fifth of the value it had the day before.
2. Do you like to be a broker? Why? Open.
Script of Passage:
Stock Market: How It Works
On Monday, October 19, 1987, a wave of selling triggered widespread price declines in stock markets from New York to Australia.
ON that day, now infamous as
“ Black Monday
” , over 600 million shares
were traded on the New York Stock Exchange---more than twice the NYSE’averages sales volume. The Dow Jones Industrial Average of the